Billy Bulletin

The Lighter Side of Cricket

Thursday 16 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.
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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.

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.

Secret Cupid Service

Murray Edwards Medical Society is organising a Secret Cupid Service to celebrate Valentines 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!

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.

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.

5 minute survey of Oxbridge students: 500 prize

Wed like to hear about your plans for after university, even if youre in your first year or havent made up your mind yet. http://kwiksurveys.com?s=OCNEIL_3d4a 251.

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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, although other submissions not conforming to the themes are still welcome. Submissions of prose, poetry or visual art should be sent to mays@varsity.co.uk. 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.

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 alora@cambridgesife.org.uk or drop in between 2-6pm to find out more. This Valentines 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 to our annual concert for 2012, Eastern Rhapsody. 8pm, Friday 17th Feb. Book tickets at www.cucos.co.uk/booking2012.php or contact Thomas Ng at cltn@cam.ac.uk.

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 charitys 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 as2190@cam.ac.uk 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.