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 Port and Cheese Event Monday 13 th February at the Union, 8pm, CUCA is hosting the quintessential Cambridge Port and Cheese Event. We will be joined by Liz Truss- MP for South West Norfolk, and arguably the most independent-minded of the 2010 intake. Dress code is Lounge suits for gentlemen and cocktail dresses for ladies. To reserve your place please send your cheque, payable to CUCA , to Nick Crawford at Gonville and Caius College or pay online at www.cuca.org.uk/termcard. The event is £7 for members and £9 for non-members. B B B i i i l l l l l l y y B B B u u l l l l l l e e t t i i n n  Secret Cupid Service Murray Edwards Medical Society is organising a Secret Cupid Service to celebrate Valentine s Day for the hill colleges, so students in these colleges can receive roses and messages sent by others. For more info, visit: www.facebook.com/events/129522127169478. Order TODAY! The Lighter Side of Cricket  Thursday 16 th February, Queens Auditorium, Emmanuel College, £2 for CU India Society members, £3 for non-members. Former Indian wicketkeeper batsman Farokh Engineer will entertain us with anecdotes and stories from his cricketing career, spanning over 40 test matches for Indian and several seasons for Lancashire. The talk will be followed by a Q&A and cricket bat signing. Visit: www.facebook.com/#!/events/133176360132806 . PTO for more news! 5 minute survey of Oxbridge students: £500 prize We d like to hear about your plans for after university, even if you re in your first year or haven t made up your mind yet. http://kwiksurveys.com?s=OCNEIL_3d4a 251. Eco-House Initiative We hope to show that engineers could be more usefully trained to look at producing simpler, cheaper solutions to improve the lives of the majority, not the minority. Take a peek at our video by following the link below to see how we and the biggest NGO in Latin America plan to achieve this! By viewing you are supporting us in the RBS ESSA student society competition for lots of funding! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLQDUcSU3vg . Cambridge Post-It Cambridge Post is a project encouraging Cambridge students to write handwritten post-it notes on the web. Try it out at  http://cambridgepost.it. Get £10,000 for our student union Ernst & Young are running a facebook prize tagging competition where the university with the most entries will receive £10,000 for their student union. The number of entries needed to win is low at the moment so take the time to play, you can even win other prizes for yourself too. www.facebook.com/EYUKcareers. 

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Port and Cheese Event 

Monday 13th

February at the Union, 8pm, CUCA is

hosting the quintessential Cambridge Port and

Cheese Event. We will be joined by Liz Truss- MP for

South West Norfolk, and arguably the most

independent-minded of the 2010 intake. Dress

code is Lounge suits for gentlemen and cocktail

dresses for ladies. To reserve your place please

send your cheque, payable to ‘CUCA’, to Nick

Crawford at Gonville and Caius College or pay

online at www.cuca.org.uk/termcard. The event is

£7 for members and £9 for non-members.

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Secret Cupid Service

Murray Edwards Medical Society is organising a

Secret Cupid Service to celebrate Valentine’s Day

for the hill colleges, so students in these colleges

can receive roses and messages sent by others. For

more info, visit:

www.facebook.com/events/129522127169478. 

Order TODAY!

’The Lighter Side of Cricket ’ 

Thursday 16th

February, Queens Auditorium,

Emmanuel College, £2 for CU India Society

members, £3 for non-members. Former Indian

wicketkeeper batsman Farokh Engineer will

entertain us with anecdotes and stories from his

cricketing career, spanning over 40 test matches for

Indian and several seasons for Lancashire. The talk

will be followed by a Q&A and cricket bat signing.Visit:

www.facebook.com/#!/events/133176360132806. 

PTO for more news!

5 minute survey of Oxbridge

students: £500 prize

We’d like to hear about your plans for

after university, even if you’re in your

first year or haven’t made up your mind

yet.

http://kwiksurveys.com?s=OCNEIL_3d4a

251. 

Eco-House Initiative

We hope to show that engineers could be moreusefully trained to look at producing simpler,

cheaper solutions to improve the lives of the

majority, not the minority. Take a peek at our

video by following the link below to see how we

and the biggest NGO in Latin America plan to

achieve this! By viewing you are supporting us in

the RBS ESSA student society competition for lots

of funding!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLQDUcSU3vg. 

Cambridge Post-It 

Cambridge Post is a project encouraging Cambridge

students to write handwritten post-it notes on the

web. Try it out at http://cambridgepost.it. 

Get £10,000 for our student union

Ernst & Young are running a facebook ‘prize

tagging’ competition where the university with the

most entries will receive £10,000 for their student

union. The number of entries needed to win is low

at the moment so take the time to play, you can

even win other prizes for yourself too.

www.facebook.com/EYUKcareers. 

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CUE to present the £1K award ceremony of 

2011-2012 competition

Wednesday 22nd

February, 6.30-9.30, Wolfson Lecture

Theatre, Dept of Chemistry. Register at

http://cue1kaward2012.eventbrite.com. Up to 10 £1K

prizes will be given out during the evening, with a

banquet of fresh and exhilarating business ideas,

including pitches and poster presentations from all

entrants of the competition. Come along, even if you

have not thought of entrepreneurship before! There will

be free food, drinks and the chance to network with the

CEOs and representatives from ARM, RedGate, Horizon

Discovery Ltd, Carpe Diem, EPSRC, Cambridge Angels,

Cambridge Enterprise, venture capitalists and CUE

mentors.

 Alora

The next fitting event for the perfect ethical Alora dress is

on 18th

February at the Varsity Hotel.

www.facebook.com/events/171594912951125. Book an

appointment by emailing [email protected] or

drop in between 2-6pm to find out more.

This Valentine’s day, there will be stalls at Sidgwick,

Downing and New Museums Sites selling homemade

chocolate truffles (thanks to the CU Jewish Society). All

profits will go straight to helping the women in Vietnam

who Alora support.

Eastern Rhapsody- A night of 

relaxing a poetic Chinese

music at the West Road

Concert Hall

The Cambridge University Chinese

Orchestra Society warmly invites you toour annual concert for 2012, ‘Eastern

Rhapsody’. 8pm, Friday 17th

Feb. Book

tickets at

www.cucos.co.uk/booking2012.php or

contact Thomas Ng at [email protected]

Exciting Committee Opportunity

Become a member of the Students Supporting Street Kids charity committee at Cambridge, The charity has

branches at universities across the UK and members of the committee will be offered the opportunity to

attend the charity’s annual general meeting in London next year. As well as the chance to network with

trustees of the charity, many of whom hold humanitarian development roles in the public sector, this is an

opportunity to take on a leadership role within a Cambridge committee. Ideally we are looking for 1 or 2

representatives from each college, so email [email protected] if you are interested with your name,

college and few sentences outlining your interest in becoming part of our team. For more info, visit

www.sssk.co.uk. 

The Oxbridge Mays Anthology

The Mays XX, an anthology of the best new

writing and artwork coming out of Oxbridge

has started accepting submissions. The

theme this year is strangeness, althoughother submissions not conforming to the

themes are still welcome. Submissions of 

prose, poetry or visual art should be sent to

[email protected]. The Mays encourages

those submitting material to review what

the anthology has published in its most

recent back issues, available for purchase

at mays.varsity.co.uk or via college

libraries.