RAG Week Launches

So we’ve been hearing the cries of some people asking us why we haven’t spared a word for RAG Week. Have no fear, coverage is here!

In case you hadn’t noticed the near-catatonic Dan Dolan drooling across his sound mixing board in the Quad, PuLSE has begun their Rag-a-thon broadcast, carrying on 24/7 throughout the length of RAG week with a combination of music, appeals for donations, games and general blather. If you want to take a look, you’ll be able to see what they’re on about and catch glimpses of the elusive PuLSE crew sitting up there on that stage where the perennial ‘last day’ poster sale is usually going on.

The events range from a game of ‘Assassin’ (one can only imagine the mayhem that would ensue if contestants burst into this week’s rehash of the highly controversial Motion on Apartheid/Israel Divestment vote and began plugging various members of either side of the debate with water balloons) to a version of Hands on a Hard Body where contestants vie for a plasma screen tv by outlasting the others in an endurance game and the inevitable food contests (this Observer is highly tempted to join in the biryani eating contest tomorrow, but don’t count on it) and of course Hack Idol, where the various SU officers will humble themselves before the student body through various depreciating acts, all in the name of charity, culminating in the ‘gunking’ of the sabb officer chosen by the most donations made into tins bearing their mugs. Now that’s something this Observer can support!

If you’re looking for the most comprehensive schedule of events for RAG Week, take a look here, and don’t forget to give generously. At the very least, why not donate your library fees to RAG?