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THE ELVIN EDITION

I S S U E T W O

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Current Affairs

3 | Sleep Paralysis: Scientific Explanation, or DEMONS at Work?

Lourdita Remedios writes about causes of sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming

4 | #Blacklivesmatter

Recent strings of police brutality in America prompt questions of democracy and change.

5 | Trouble in Peshawar

Massacres in Pakistani schools.

Comments

12 | No Daylight Permitted: An Essay On Prisoner Enfranchisement

Should prisoners be allowed to vote?

Culture

10 | Book Reviews

Malcolm X’s Autobiography

6 - 7 | School Events | The Leadership Effect

The Action Day seminar highlighted the purposes and elements of leadership, but what does Paul Amuzie really think? page 10 by Sebastian Atkinstall

8 | School Events | Suffrage Succotash!

Politics Week’s ‘Rock Enrol’ workshop sees student’s registered and discussing Democracy by Sebastian

Atkinstall

F E A T U R E S C O N T E N T S |

15 | Submissions | PHOTOGRAPHS AND

POEMS BY

BY SEBASTIAN ATKINSTALL

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C U R R E N T A F F A I R S

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MAGINE OPENING YOUR EYES TO confront raven black darkness. Your eyes trail

leisurely down the floorboards when all of a sudden you notice a set of fingers the colour of mould grasping the ends of your mattress; its bony, crumbled flesh baring no fingernails starts thudding on your bed exposing its narrow shoulders covered in musky grime. You feel your eyes bulging open, your breathing increasing, you try to open your mouth to scream-BUT nothing comes out; unexpectedly another hand pummels on your mattress, this time the force jarring. You notice a figure slowly rising from the floorboard until it faces you for a deep five seconds; you notice the figure’s face is hidden, covered by its long raven coloured hair, the strands of its hair dangling chaotically from its head. With the force of your hand you try to pull yourself up but you feel a great force kneeling on your chest restricting your every move. The disturbing figure begins crawling towards you. The sound of shuffling footsteps echoing in your ears. You realise you

can’t speak, scream or even move a MUSCLE. Your constant attempt to strain repeatedly diminishes until the point where you give up and close your eyes only to awaken and realise it was all a dream.

THIS WEIRD PHENOMENON IS CALLED SLEEP paralysis - a state in which your muscles contract in order to prevent you from acting out your dreams. On occasion some individual will experience sleep paralysis at least once or twice in their life, while others experience it habitually four-to-five times a night. This paralysis can last from a few seconds to

several minutes and occurs during REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep where your body is temporarily paralysed until you regain conscience.

ALTHOUGH SLEEP PARALYSIS does not cause you any harm,

not being able to move for a certain period of time can be very confusing and in most case extremely frightening. Sleep paralysis may accompany other sleep disorders such as narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is an

by a problem with the brain’s ability to regulate sleep. This common condition is often noticed first in teenage years. But men and women of any age can get it. It may run genetically in the family but other factors linked to sleep paralysis include: the lack of sleep, mental health conditions such as stress or bipolar disorder, sleeping on your back, use of certain medication and also substance abuse.

A LUCID DREAMER EXPERIENCES SLEEP paralysis quite regularly and as a result suffers false memories. When we are asleep we are consolidating memories subconsciously. When you have a lucid dream you are conscious it is no longer a dream. It’s a memory. You’re having an active memory. For instance you’re actively walking in your dream and you recognise all the objects around you- it’s now a memory and at the same time you’re consolidating memories so the false memory you have are actually dreams. So in this instance when your conscience and you come across the same scenario as your dream you say “Ah, I’m having dejavu.” Even though you have never encountered it in reality. Lucid dreamers are conscious in their dreams. All the dream you have mixed with the consolidation process result in you having memory that are dreams being consolidated into actual memory.

by LOURDITA REMEDIOS

S L E E PC U R R E N T A F F A I R S |

SLEEP

PARALYSIS

Scientific Explanation, or

DEMONS at Work?

I

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REYVON MARTIN; February

26th 2012. He was shot in

the front yard of

neighbourhood watch volunteer

George Zimmerman for allegedly

trespassing, and the latter almost

got away with second degree

murder on the basis of him ‘standing

his ground’. Eric Garner; July 17th

2014. He was approached on the

suspicion of selling un-taxed

cigarettes, and later gasped, eleven

times, about how he couldn’t

breathe after being put in a

grappling hold. He died shortly

afterward. Tamir Rice; November

22nd 2014. One of the two police

officers fired two shots within two

seconds of arriving to subdue Rice

under the false pretence of him

possessing a gun. Guess what? It was

a fake, harmless airsoft gun, so the

reason for murder is technically

invalid. Lastly Michael Brown –

August 9th 2014. Ferguson officer

Darren Wilson fired eight ‘warning

shots’ into Brown’s back which lead

to his death. Witness reports

differed as to whether and when

Brown had his hands raised, and

whether he was moving toward

Wilson when the final shots were

fired.

YOU SHOULD ALREADY have an idea of what these four victims have in common; if not, it’s as simple as the skin they’re wearing on their backs. But, this article isn’t to advocate hate against the police, but to raise awareness about the injustice the black demographic face in the USA. Put it in perspective: if the federal department commit these evils to these innocent black people, imagine what they’ll do to the entirety of their population when they’re through. Darren Wilson hasn’t been indicted (which means he isn’t going to court for his crime), and it’s unquestionable that he be trialled for what he did.

PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ON YOUR preferred social networks to search ‘#blacklivesmatter’ – the more you’re informed about police brutality, the better, because every single person, no matter what race, matters. Thank you.

by JOSEPH YAMBASU

#BLACKLIVESMATTER A testimony to the black lives taken by the US

Police Force.

T

Protesters in New York demanding justice.

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HE PAKISTANI CITY OF Peshawar

is burying its dead after a

Taliban attack at a school.

At least 132 children and nine staff

were killed. One instance of the

massacre involves the Taliban

terrorist group burning a teacher

alive and made the students watch

during their attack on a Pakistan

school, before executing all 132 of

them by beheading, and mass

execution-style murder.

THIS IS THE DEADLIEST TERRORIST ATTACK to

ever happen in Pakistan. This

surpasses the Karachi bombings of

2007, which was a controlled

explosion on a motorcade in a failed

attempt to murder the former Prime

Minister Benazir Bhutto. She was

unharmed. However, this wasn’t left

without any casualties, with over

139 deaths and 450 injuries

sustained, a majority of the dead

TROUBLE IN PESHAWAR

Terrorist attacks in Pakistani

schools leaves 148 dead.

T

P A K I S T A NC U R R E N T A F F A I R S |

“My son was

my dream. My

dream has been

killed.”

being members of the Pakistan

People’s Party.

“MY SON WAS IN UNIFORM THIS

morning. He’s in a casket now,”

wailed one parent, Tahir Ali, as

he came to the hospital to

collect the body of his 14-year-

old son Abdullah. “My son was

my dream. My dream has been

killed.”

PRIME MINISTER NAWAZ SHARIF

declared three days of mourning

over the massacre, which has

sparked national outrage. He

also announced an end to the

moratorium on the death

penalty for terrorism cases,

which correspondents say is a

move aimed at countering a

view held by many Pakistanis

that many terror suspects end

up evading justice.

by JOSEPH YAMBASU

Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's

prime minister, announced

Pakistan would be bringing

back the death penalty for

terrorists following the

attacks.

Pakistan's teenage Nobel

Peace laureate Malala

Yousafzai – herself a survivor

of a Taliban shooting – said

she was "heartbroken" by the

bloodshed.

UNREST IN

PAKISTAN

A candlelight vigil in London for the victims

The bloody

aftermath in one

of the

classrooms.

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WHAT do you like to see

young people doing in their

community?

I LIKE TO SEE YOUNG PEOPLE, FIRSTLY, ON a

very basic,

practical level,

speaking out. I

like to see young

people using

their energy and

zest and, quite

frankly, their

oration for the

things they care

about.

On a more

specific level, I

like to see

young people

that are, maybe,

irritated about things

and passionate about things, and

issues in their community, and are

willing to actually do something

about it… yeah, everybody’s busy,

some people have got jobs –

students have exams – but in that

spare time, if you really care about

the place you come from, and the

things around you, you’ll be willing

to make time to do something

about it.

WHAT do you think stunts or

hinders someone from

becoming a leader?

I GUESS THREE THINGS,” HE SAYS HOLDING

up three fingers, “and I’ll put them

down to, one: general

circumstances. If you’re a student,

you’ve got exams, you’ve got a lot of

work to do, you’ve got universities to

research… And I think, what it means

is, you’re in a trajectory where

people say you’ve get to concentrate

on a very basic level. And it shows

that people are very much distracted

from any extracurricular activities

that might be able to develop you as

a leader. So I think that, coupled with

people who don’t know they can

actually develop leadership, or show

leadership through the things they

are already doing ; how they can take

leadership roles, or how they can

develop a leadership skill through the

hobbies or extracurricular work that

they’re doing. So I think there’s a lack

of knowledge there, and a lack of

opportunities sometimes. And lastly,

Paul reads an anecdote about Athenian integrity.

“You’re in a

trajectory…

where people

say you’ve

got to

concentrate

on a very

basic level.

And it shows

that people

are very

much

distracted...”

I N T E R V I E WS C H O O L |

THE LEADERSHIP EFFECT An interview with PAUL AMUZIE

from the North London

Citizenship group (NLC)

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there’s also an apathy to leadership

in general; how it connects to one’s

self-interests. So, if your self-interest

as a student is to get into university

or to get a job, sometimes your have

to connect the benefits of leadership

or showing

leadership to

help you

achieve these

goals.

I think things

are a lot better

now… and it’s a

very general

thing that I’m

saying, but

those are things

that can stop

people to have a

leadership so, you know, the

circumstances that they face and the

places that they’re doing things

already; they’re not able to see those

opportunities to developed

themselves. And also, there’s a

general apathy to leadership.

Because it doesn’t really connect

with their interests.

WHAT would you suggest to

someone who is or has been

a leader, but finds that

certain drive waning?

I THINK THERE ARE IMPORTANT FACETS TO

becoming a leader, and you say

someone who’s been a leader

before... well, maybe they haven’t

been a leader before, and that’s why

it’s waning. Being a leader is not

about being given a role, it’s about

finding something that drives you –

that passion you have – something

you really care about… and fighting

for it.

by SEBASTIAN ATKINSTALL

N MONDAY 17TH

November, The House of

Parliament held one of the last in

a set of three events for Politics

Week. The name of the event

was ‘Rock Enrolled’, a hip

seminar with encouraging da

yoof to vote in mind. With the

next election coming up, and

Labour’s pledge to introduce

voting to 16 year olds, the

seminar may unload the weight

of getting apathetic

teens to get

politically involved.

The theme on

Monday was

Democracy. The

young members

were asked to

share their thoughts

on what democracy

means to them.

Some opinions

ranged from

‘freedom’ to ‘equality’, while the

more radically oriented believed

it was a ‘broken system’ or the

chance for ‘REVOLUTION’. The

rest of the event involved a series

of activities, the first of which

were a set of questions for the

students to vote on. The room

would be divided into thirds –

Left wall, No, Right wall, Yes,

Middle, unsure. They asked

questions such as whether we

should reintroduce capital

punishment, and even whether

the questioner’s jumper looked

cool (to which I stayed

indecisively in the middle). Voting

makes changes, was conclusively

the message. If those questions

were raised in a genuine election,

the students who hadn’t

registered could do

little more than

complain. Then

students were

divided into their

individual

schools and

asked to pretend

they were a country

with a budget of £100.

They had to

decide, in which

sectors (e.g.

Health) they would spend the

most on and why. Later, students

from the sixth form took a tour

around parliament, which most

found either mediocre or

mundane.

by SEBASTIAN ATKINSTALL

“Being a

leader is

not about

being given

a role, it’s

about

finding

something

that drives

you...”

T R I PS C H O O L |

SUFFRAGE SUCCOTASH!

Find out what you missed on the

‘Rock Enrol’ Parliament trip.

Ayman Zeidan and Mohamed Salih make their way to the House of Parliament.

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T IS WINTER, AND THE DULL WIND

makes leafless boughs of a

wuthering Birch. Their

multi-coloured leaves fall until,

everywhere, the gutters fill with –

orange, gold, russet brown, olive

green, magenta. Soon the whirling

sirens sing in the distant traffic. Soon

the sound erupts into a deepening

clamour, and the pavements turn

from red to blue to red… The wheels

roll past, and the rains of night

continue. The rotten leaves are

eaten by the sewers.

PERHAPS YOU’LL HEAR THOSE SAME SIRENS

tonight. Do they make you feel

afraid? Or worried? Cynical? Or safe

because, eventually, the hooded

man with a suspicious gaze is always

caught, or because the fires are

often extinguished before they reach

you? But they aren’t always, are

they? Every corner has it’s shaded

figure, it’s gang of evils. Somewhere

our humanity was cut from the

branches, and the nightfall made it

harder to retrieve. And yet, the

question of universal suffrage still

persists. It is a question of rare

magnitude – to most, the thought is

hardly ever considered, usually since

the answer seems, to them, so

obvious. But, when someone asks

“should prisoners be allowed to

vote?”, the cause of one’s

bewilderment is like a matchstick

tossed in gasoline: small,

destructive, and, when the burning

cools, charred beyond any

recognition. Of course, everyone

should get the right to vote, but

what do the boys gripping knives

beneath their hoodies, the men with

slit and stony eyes, the deliverers of

pain and suffering have to do with…

politics?

OFTEN, IT’S A QUESTION BOTH

contemptible and strange, and sure

to be met with crinkled eyebrows,

and the upturned nose of scorn. Yes,

that one. To others, it suggests

something different. To others, it

marks a shift in the political tide.

THE MIRROR ON THE WALL OF PAST BELIEFS

is rarely asked “Are we still the

fairest of them all?” – for most it

means the possibility of

disillusionment, the chance that

stronger evidence should support

our judgment, and, perhaps, the

need to fashion new perspectives.

Mostly, though, it brews a crucible

for sceptical dispute and, for better

or worse, the realignment of our

place within a democratic society.

We wipe the fog from our moral

spectacles – sometimes we see

clearer, other times we simply

rearrange the dust.

NO DAYLIGHT PERMITTED: An essay on Prisoner

Enfranchisement

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"Whenever people feel safe, we feel

indifferent" - human beings have this

remarkable capacity to extinguish

care when threats are not

immediate. We aren't impelled to

empathise unless we've experienced

the same thing, and I think everyone

that spouts the "they should have

known better" mantra are a little

callous, and a little simplistic in their

thought. We want a peaceful world -

okay, grand. But it's only speculation

when the actions we endorse are

closer to "an eye for an eye" and the

tallying of transgressions. We make

peace through understanding,

through our better angels - fairness,

compassion, magnanimity - not

through revenge. Revenge is too

easy, and nothing easy is ever worth

doing if the fate of many souls are

left within question.

YOU DO SOMETHING WRONG, AND YOU

want forgiveness, you want

someone to ask "Why did you do

that?", "What tortures you?" and

not to say "you're evil". We don't do

wrong not feeling justified, in fact

we seldom think at all. I know many

will say I'm sentimental, but I'd like

anyone who says so to tell that to

any child who is forgiven, and who

isn't told he is a sinner, or is blamed

and called incorrigible, who is heard

because he has a voice. Tell him

chance is not beauty, and he'll scoff

and walk away. To take away that

voice is to take away his humanity,

and the hope of penitence and

redemption, the very goal of

imprisonment (according to Rule 3 of

the Prison Rules 1999 which says the

purpose of the training and

treatment of convicted prisoners

shall be to encourage and assist

them to lead a good and useful life.

Prison is there to assist not debase a

citizen.)

TO TAKE AWAY THE VOTE FROM A criminal,

who's suffered through the throes

and agonies of negligence, abuse, of

poverty, of ill education throughout

their lives (and the statistics

between poverty, abuse, and

inadequate education and crime

have always had an obvious

correlation), is to pillage the morsels

of acceptance that anyone who feels

the world has robbed the most from

them deserves. It's no question why

Oscar Wilde said "what are called

criminals nowadays are not criminals

at all. Starvation, and not sin, is the

parent of modern crime....

[criminals] are merely what ordinary,

respectable, commonplace people

would be if they had not got enough

to eat."

IF YOU WANT TO MAKE THE SAVAGE, THE

barbaric and uncultured, simply tell

a man he cannot speak. If he cannot

speak, the scars of unfairness cannot

heal, and there will always be much

to be sorry for. When Jesus was

nailed on the cross, he didn't say

"father, burn them all", he said

forgive them because they do not

understand. Tell him he can speak,

and he can be understood. If we see

in him the potential grace of human

kind, then so too will he see it in us

and himself. It's the reason why

violence in the world has declined

since the prominence of the printing

press and since the enlightenment -

if people can say how they feel

through literature and journalism,

then we can grow empathy for

others, through reading them,

through temporarily adopting

another consciousness. We create a

cosmopolitanism where everyone

feels there place is in HUMANITY, not

in their tribes or particular islands.

AN "EYE FOR AN EYE" IS THE OPPOSITE OF

what Jesus said - Jesus said listen

and forgive – if that be decadent

prostitute or otherwise. , he did not

condemn or take away from others

what they stole from someone else.

If an eye for an eye means justice,

then I'd rather be unjust - if it means

giving up the discontent you feel

when you haven't 'hit back hard

enough', but rather donning the

apparel of forgiveness, the clothes of

understanding.

WHAT A MAN HAS DONE WILL NEVER

change, but what he IS can always

change, and if you place him

somewhere where he isn't treated

as a human being, he cannot

progress as a human being. Susan

Sontag said once, "There is simply

too much injustice in the world, and

too much remembering (of ancient

grievances Serbs, Irish) embitters. To

make peace is to forget.” I don’t

think it takes much scepticism to see

that most supporters of

disenfranchisement think precisely

the same thing – they’re barbaric,

they’re cruel, they will not

understand, how does it concern

them? But… isn’t that what we used

to say about women? Or black men

in Americas? Or Latino men and

women, of men below the age of

35? Prisoners are some of the most

unpopular people in the world. But if

we base our justification on why

someone should not have the same

right as us because “I just don’t like

them”, then we stray away from

justice, and lean towards bigotry..

The same bigotry if the 50’s, of the

20’s of the 18th century. If people are

deciding limits on someone else’s

liberty, then that's not democracy.

That's authoritarianism.

BUT THIS IS THE FINAL HURDLE. WE MUST

retire our darkest feelings of disgust,

and awaken our sense of humanity…

where – like the whirling lights of

blue and red – daylight is permitted

on all sides.

by SEBASTIAN ATKINSTALL

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HE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF

Malcolm X captured my

attention from the very

first page and kept me

till the last. The

depiction of the

Klansmen and

their brutality

towards his

family on the

first chapter

started the

book off with the

haunting memory

that affect the rest of

Malcolm’s life.

Being a

teenager, the

first handful of

chapters was

understandably the most

entertaining to

read. From

then, I drew out

the learning

processes, the

experiences,

and the

obstacles that

Malcolm

inevitably had

to overcome in

his transition

from childhood

to early

adulthood – something everybody

can relate to on their own road to

maturity. From these chapters, A

greater understanding of the

Afro-American lifestyle

in the mid-20th

century is easily

found, and a better-

informed picture of

American society

from a teenagers

perspective.

THESE CHAPTERS HAD

excitement,

suspense, and a

great deal of reality.

They followed

Malcolm's

encounters with crime and violence

and were presented with a

straightforward truth, unmarred by

exaggerations. Every word was to be

believed, every word could have

been believed, and everything

should have been believed. And I

truly believed Malcolm when he said

that he believed in The Honourable

Elijah Muhammad, the spiritual

leader of The Nation of Islam, more

than he believed in himself. From

that point on, the world was now

seen and described through the eyes

of an adult with perspective. I read

with excitement as Malcolm

depicted his every step in building

up the Nation of Islam into a

lifesaving

organization for

the black

demographic in

America. I shared

his joy when he

made the

pilgrimage to

Mecca and made

acquaintances

with world leaders and people of

importance. I believed he made the

best judgment of his life when he

reshaped his beliefs in racial status

and racial discrimination, becoming

less ruthless and more

compassionate for all races as his life

aged. As I neared the end he was in

the unimaginable position of facing

his assassination, as history retells.

Great fame coupled by his celebrity

status had caused tremendous hate

and jealousy in the organization.

THE LAST FEW CHAPTERS REALLY TAUGHT

me something about human nature.

Imagine going to sleep at night while

knowing the assassins hired to kill

you were one of your own! Then,

imagine if they were the same

faithful students you preached to get

B O O K R E V I E WC U L T U R E |

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X

Malcom X praying in a mosque in Cairo

“...The single

most

influential

literary piece

of work I

have ever

encountered.”

“We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.” - Malcom X

“Every word

was to be

believed,

every word

could have

been

believed, and

everything

should have

been

believed..”

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them back on their feet in society! It

was almost inconceivable. Malcolm

nevertheless spent his numbered

days preaching and speaking to the

Afro-American population, and

spreading black pride to every

corner of the world. He was

murdered February 21, 1965 at

three o'clock in the afternoon while

making his last speech in New York,

with his family present. As someone

who feels like I’ve grown up with

him I was heartbroken, but at the

same time relieved that he died

fighting for the rights of his own

people.

THIS HAS BEEN THE SINGLE MOST

influential literary piece of work I

have ever encountered. I never

could have guessed that one man’s

life would influence me so much,

and ultimately change the way I

perceive.

by JOSEPH YAMBASU

S E N D ~ S U B M I S S I O N S ~

TO [email protected]

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S U B M I S S I O N S

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CRAPPY PHOTOS ‘ND POEMS BY SOME SEB GUY

F A L L I N G S H E E P

I saw the sheep of milk upon the

heath

that flew down below the amber-

light

and shadows far beneath,

That touched the rictus of the

morning rays

and pause not for time to

wonder

nor for time to graze

But continue ever downward

enveloped in the haze.

THESE ARE A FEW PORTRAITS

I took with my cousin last month. It was especially fun doing this because I got to wake her up at 3.00am (she promised to help earlier in the day). You can feel the

contempt in her eyes…

A M O R N I N G

The stark, serious flexing of that starlight gleam

that rolls it’s shoulders in the darkness, yawns and shivers

in the wind. Slowly now. Slowly, her face nuzzling that

Prevalent, unrestful climb of reddened indigo. That easing,

Soaring wingbeat of the sun, who’s afterglow knows

no final ceiling, no wall to break or balk it’s outstretched

arms; that wrap tenderly, wearily around her. And like

the droplets of a candle’s waxen cheek,

that dowse the wooden chest beside a cradle,

the starlight sets within the pressing, orange tide

Sets and moulds into the rising colours, and seems to

Disappear in its embrace.

8 4 1 3

9 2 4

2 6 1 9

4 7 1 6

5 7 4 1

6 8 3 5

4 6 9 3

1 2 3

3 1 6 8

9 4 5 7

3 1

2 7 6

8 1

1 2 4 6

3 7

6 4 2

5 1

8 6 9 5

6 3 5 8 7

8 4 3 7

2 1

2 8 3

5 7 1 6 4

7 2 8

1 2

5 2 4 6

5 6 7 9

S O D O K U Each row, column and 3x3 block must contain the numbers 1-9

3 2 5

8 7 2

1 9

3 6 9 2

7 4

6 2 4 8

3 4

1 5 9

5 7 3

GRADE: hard

GRADE: easy GRADE: medium

GRADE: insane

FOUR FANTASTIC

FACTS

Ketchup was

sold in the 1830s

as medicine.

Spirited Away

was created

without a script.

A professor

from Syracuse

University made

a tree that bears

40 different

types of fruit

In 1971, James

Irwin left a piece

of lava from

Devil's Lake,

Oregon on the

moon.

We hope you’ve enjoyed the second issue of THE ELVIN EDITION!

Remember to submit art/stories/poems, or anything you think is interesting to – [email protected]. If you’d like to join the team, or simply to submit your own written comments, speak to our members – Joseph Yambasu, Lourdita Remedios, Sebastian Atkinstall or Peter Edwards.

Thank you all, and have a Happy New Year 🎅🎄🎁🎆

E V E N T S New Events: Every issue; every other weekend.

The Judiciary, the Courts and Justice Date: Tuesday 13 January 2015 5-6.30pm Location: Alumni Theatre, New Academic Building Speaker: Professor Conor Gearty

LSE PUBLIC SEMINAR : (MORE INFO @ http://goo.gl/qHxDg0 )

THE ELVIN

EDITION

JOSEPH YAMBASU | LOURDITA REMEDIOS | SEBASTIAN ATKINSTALL


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