A woman who has not yet been officially named was struck at 7.10am on Tuesday morning.

She was taken by ambulance to Morriston Hospital, but later died of her injuries.

South Wales Police are appealing for witnesses of the incident to come forward.

A force spokesperson said: “The collision happened on the southbound carriageway of Sketty Lane in the general direction of Mumbles Road when a female pedestrian was in collision with a silver coloured Seat Leon.”

“The driver of the car has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and is currently helping police with their enquiries.”

There will be music, speeches, and poems from the African Caribbean society at the front of Fulton House starting around 1.40pm on Monday.

The chaplaincy is also expected to read a short prayer as well.

Mandela was the first black president of South Africa and was a key activist in the anti-apartheid movement, spending over a quarter of a century in prison, most of which was in spent in the notorious Robben Island prison.

Tony Blair, former UK Prime Minister said Mandela was a “great man” who had made racism “not just immoral but stupid”.

Barack Obama commented that he was “a man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe towards justice”.

Prof Nigel Piercy (pictured) says the reforms brought in by himself and his deputy (and son), Prof Niall Piercy, will improve results and help grow the reputation of the school.

But teaching staff say the changes have been made without any consultation and that the atmosphere in the school is now “toxic”. Seven staff have handed in their notice since the changes were introduced.

In an interview with The Waterfront, Prof Nigel Piercy said there had been “a few tantrums along the way” but that the reforms were necessary because the school had “a lot of catching up to do”.

“We are not doing what we should do to be part of the global scholarly community, either in terms of teaching and global research,” he said.

“We need a situation where a graduate sits in front of a potential employer and the employer has heard of the school and knows what it stands for. We want our graduates to stand out from the crowd.
“So what we’ve done is we’ve put in seminars and tutorials on all programmes without option, as they have largely disappeared. There is a much bigger emphasis this year on small group teaching and more contact hours.
“There is a guarantee that these seminars will be taught by Swansea staff, not by PHD students, that’s a promise to the students.”

But some students are unhappy, complaining that they weren’t consulted on the changes made over the summer.

Economics students claim that the changes have devalued their degree with the shortening of the dissertation to a few thousand word essay.

One economics student, who wanted to remain anonymous, said: “On this dissertation module, they’ve kind of told us funding had been cut for it, so we don’t have a dissertation tutor anymore. There’s just someone who we see as a group of 20 every five weeks at most? Doesn’t really give us much of a chance to get anything from it.
“Also, I went to the open day economics talk with my cousin, and they’ve cut down the economics courses offered. There used to be financial economics, economics BSc, economics BA etc and now they’ve just got economics BSc and PPE.
“People are quite concerned whether they are trying to push economics out of the department; which would be odd considering economics is one of the things the university isn’t actually too bad at.”

Mr Piercy said: “There was a fair amount of discussion mainly at an informal level with student groups. When you read the things people have said, it is chilling. And many of the things we have done hone in very specifically on those comments.”

“About waiting three months for the return of a piece of coursework. The guarantee now is the maximum of three weeks,” said Prof Piercy.

Staff have also been up in arms, especially over the dean’s proposals to move some staff to teaching-only roles.

A University and Colleges Union spokesman said: “At UCU meetings, staff described management style as ‘autocratic’. Many colleagues were visibly distressed and upset during these meetings. Among the many adjectives used to describe the atmosphere in the school was ‘toxic’.
“Members have complained of having to teach modules beyond their area of expertise and significantly increased teaching for some staff.
“UCU has expressed its concern to university management about the lack of consultation, about quality assurance with respect to programme changes, and about the system being used to determine staff workloads.
“UCU intervention has resulted in the removal of an explicit workload policy which favoured REF-submitted staff.
“We are disturbed to have learned that, over the last month, seven members of staff from the School of Management have handed in their resignations.
“We also understand that a number of other staff are considering leaving. Whilst anyone’s reason for leaving employment is confidential, we believe that it is no coincidence that these resignations come at this time.”

In fact the department is currently recruiting for almost a dozen senior lecturing positions.

When asked about staff who were disgruntled about the changes, Prof Piercy said: “If you see you don’t like what’s happening the honest thing to do is to say move on. No problem whatever with that.
“At a human level I’m very sympathetic… you get organisations where people get settled in their ways, then someone comes along and changes the rules.
“I know exactly what it feels like, but when we start to achieve the things we want, the improved status, better reputation. The experience is things settle down, especially when people start seeing the benefits.”

A Swansea University spokesman said: “The new dean, Professor Nigel Piercy, is implementing a programme of change at Swansea University School of Management, as part of the university’s strategic aim to be a top 30 UK university by 2017.
“We are also determined to drive forward our ambition to grow the School of Management, ready for its move to the new Bay Campus.”

Meanwhile, UCU is continuing to discuss the situation with university management: “We have received assurances that in the future there will be consultation with both staff and UCU on changes affecting teaching, and on other significant changes having an impact on members in the school.”

Students have already voted to reduce the number of full-time officers’ roles from seven to five.

The new officer roles will be decided through an independent report from the NUS. A survey by NUS gathered responses from Swansea University students in a short online poll and the results and recommendations were to be brought to the forum for the student vote.

A preliminary report from NUS was due to be discussed at the student forum on Friday 6th December, but the debate has been postponed until the January student forum.

The notice of polls, which is a requirement and the first step in the students’ union election process could be posted before the first student forum of 2014, to be held on Thursday 30th January.

This means that students may not have a chance to debate or vote on the five officer roles before they have been decided.
This week’s student forum will now discuss the QAA review, which is described as the “Ofsted for Universities” by students’ union president Zahid Raja.

There are fears that forum will be poorly attended, however, because of the time and place. The venue has been changed and the meeting will now take place in the council chambers at the abbey.

The day is also different, from the regular Tuesday or Thursday slot to a Friday evening.

The monthly student forums have been held in the refectory this year and mid-week to promote student engagement.

In addition, the promotion of the event has been criticised by students.

Josh Hale, MSc Psychological Research Methods student, said: “Although they’ve put a list of dates up for the year, I’ve seen no other advertising. I didn’t even know they moved it and as an active committee member of three societies I’d have expected to have found out or heard about it. It’s a nice venue and professional but can be intimidating to students who haven’t been there before.”

Some students have confirmed they won’t be attending the forum because Friday nights have work or social commitments.

The forum, which starts at 6pm, is on the same night as the most popular students’ union society event, the Hogwarts Yule Ball.
“I will be getting ready for the Yule Ball in the refectory that evening!” said Leigh Moss, president of the Hogwarts Society.
Suggestions for moving the forum to the Hive, the students’ union space for meetings and talks, were dismissed by students’ union president Zahid Raja.

Raja said: “The dates for student forums are set in the diary at the start of the year – this year, in the spirit of openness and transparency, I made a decision to publish these on the website at the start of the year. We haven’t changed the date or time for any of these meetings since their publication. The Hogwarts society required the Refectory and Cafe West for their Yule Ball. I saw fit to move the forum to another flat-floored space in the university.

“Currently, the only time students visit the abbey building is if they are facing an appeal / disciplinary / if they are attending a senior university meeting. Exposing this part of the university to students as somewhere where we can hold open public meetings and events will reduce the overwhelming feeling that student attending appeals / senior meetings / disciplinary often feel. I won’t make an apology for trying to open up more areas of the university to students.”

The event, which took place from November 25th to November 29th, was organised by part-time disability officer, Tori Evans.

She said: “Invisible illness Week is important to me because so many people suffer in silence. A lot of people don’t look for help because they are embarrassed or don’t think they deserve it.

“The whole point of the week is to get people talking about invisible illnesses and to remember and acknowledge what we so often ignore.

“Not only will it help people share their stories and end stigma but will also encourage those who need to look for help and to know that they deserve it just as much as anyone else does.

“I’ve already had an overwhelming response from students and feel like the week has achieved loads of things that I wanted to, which is amazing.”

Previous welfare policies stated that students could start looking and signing contracts for private housing with SAS after 1 January.

Charlotte Britton, former welfare officer of the students’ union enforced this policy to stop students from rushing in to settling on a house early in the year.

Becky Grimes, current students’ union welfare officer explains the change:

“Historically we have run campaigns encouraging students not to sign until after Christmas, and we do still stand by this.

“However, there are groups of students who want to sign before Christmas, and will go to other agencies if they can’t go with SAS.

“Bringing forward the dates is simply giving students the option to view and sign for houses if they really wish to and we now offer a cooling off period up until the 31st January.”

Introduced this year, the cooling period allows groups that have major disputes, meeting certain criteria, to cancel the contract up until 31 January 2014 with no expenses made to the students.

This policy will be beneficial to students who find themselves in unfortunate situations with future housemates after signing the agreement.

“This cooling off period is something that no other letting agency or private landlord offers in Swansea, and makes sure that there are still options available for students who wish to sign earlier than January,” says Becky.

“There are plenty of houses in Swansea though, so there is no rush to sign!

“Make sure you get your contract checked over by the Advice Centre if you do go private, and if you’re being rushed into signing for somewhere, there’s usually a reason why!”

SAS, located on the lower floor, Fulton House offers housing from one to eight bed for Swansea University students.

The parody videos, uploaded onto YouTube, have received thousands of views and have even been praised by the show’s own, Binky Felstead.

Using the hashtag #MIScene, the lads plan to make the series go viral. Gemma Parry spoke to Tom Cullimore, Alex Lee Josh Allard and John Roberts (pictured below) about their inspiration behind the series, their favourite character roles and on-set chemistry.

So far four videos have featured on YouTube and have had around 2,000 views overall.

GEMMA: Why did you decide to do it?
TOM: We love the show. We all watch it together every week. It was just a bit of an impulse thing.
ALEX: There was an episode with a big scene at the end which we all reacted to in fits. We couldn’t believe what had happened.
TOM: Yeah, we were all screaming at the TV and shaking our fists. And it was in that moment that we all turned and looked at each other and thought, “Why not recreate it?”
ALEX: It was John’s idea. He came up with is and he created it and we’ve never looked back. He’s not just a pretty face.

GEMMA: Who is your favourite character in the show?
ALEX: I think the character we can get the most material from is Spencer.
TOM: He’s just always causing havoc – he’s the wrecking ball of Chelsea. We get a lot of our material from Spence just being an idiot really. His lack of human empathy is something we can really draw on.
ALEX: The most controversial character is definitely Spencer but my favourite character has to be Jamie.
JOSH: To be honest, I’ve ever performed as Andy, but my favourite character has to be Proudlock. He’s just too cool.
JOHN: For me, it’s got to be Mark Francis. He’s incredibly entertaining.
TOM: Francis Boulle. He’s just something else in the whole series. He doesn’t take it all too seriously – it just goes over his head and he takes it all in his stride.

GEMMA: How is seeking international fame going?
TOM: We’ve had a tweet from Alexandra Felstead who plays Binky in Made in Chelsea and she said that she loves our
parody. So it’s going pretty well.
JOHN: When we first started posting the videos on Facebook, the reaction was great. The feedback we get every week while the show is going on is fantastic. We get tweets saying: “We can’t really watch the show without thinking about what scene you’re going to be performing.” So, we’ve decided to make the transition to YouTube, using Facebook and Twitter to promote them, and it’s gone brilliantly. We’ve got over one thousand views for our series so far.
JOSH: In terms of filming, we have our own cameraman, Akash Chibber. It’s really the team behind us and the chemistry we share that makes it work so well. I don’t think that we realised what it would become when we started. But I’ve always said, a good idea is a good idea forever.

• To watch Swansea Men’s Football Club’s videos, visit their YouTube page.

Hosted in Divas, the Psychology Society offered students the chance to sell their unwanted textbooks.

Joshua Hale, vice-president of the society, said: “One student bought the recommended book bundle for £70 under retail price and another student bought three books for the price of one text book.

“We raised £426.50 on behalf of students. £150 for Discovery and about £50 for the society. We had a very generous donation of 17 brand new textbooks from Rodger Wood and the psychology department was very supportive of the whole event.

“We hope to hold another one in the New Year due to the success of this one.”

The men’s senior rowing team threw away their kit for the photograph shoot at Swansea Marina.

“Despite the chilly conditions, we had fun shooting on a cold November morning and we hope to raise a lot of money from it,” says senior men’s captain, Matt Meyer.

“This is the first year Sports Swansea has really tried to back us financially, which has helped us grow and support taking on new members to the club.

“Having said that, we’re a developing club in a rich sport, so little fundraisers like this are always useful and help to raise the club’s profile both in the local community and hopefully on a wider scale.”

In the New Year, the rowing club plan to do additional fundraising for the club and charity causes.

To place your orders and check the cheeky outtakes from the shoot, search ‘Swansea University Rowing Club Naked Calendar 2014 on Facebook or catch them outside Fulton House towards the end of this week to get your hands on the exclusive calendar.

A STUDY commissioned by The Waterfront has shown that almost a third of students believe they have been spiked on nights out.

The online survey, filled in by 135 students, revealed an alarmingly high number of suspected spiking in Swansea, with 31% claiming it had happened to them.

Two thirds of those who thought they had been spiked were women.

Of those interviewed, 36 per cent of women believed they had been spiked and 25 per cent of men thought they had been.

Four people said they had been spiked in Oceana, twelve in Sin City, as well as 28 people believing they had been spiked in a venue on Wind Street.

The main number of respondents were third years, but a good balance of all year groups took part in the survey hosted by Survey Monkey.

Most respondents commented that they had only been spiked once, although five said that they had been spiked twice.

Two other survey respondents said they had been spiked more than five times.

Asked to share their experience, one respondent said: “No memory of the event, however friends have said my pupils were dilated, I had no control over my body but I was talking sense, followed by projectile vomiting. Friends took me home.

“Woke up very confused and still not 100%, went to hospital to be checked where they confirmed GHB in my system. Felt very low for weeks afterwards.”

Another participant who was spiked in a Wind Street club, said: “I became disorientated, and lost control of my legs. Luckily my male housemates carried me home, and sat with me all night. I couldn’t ask for help, as I couldn’t even talk.”

Another who was drinking with her spiker, unknown to her, said: “He bought me a drink and dared me to down it, after a while I realised there was something wrong and he told me that he had put MDMA in my drink.

“It was awful, I couldn’t move, the bouncers then were going to ring an ambulance but my friend came to pick me up, when I got home I passed out on my landing and my mum found me in the morning.”

Another reported: “Went home supported by my girlfriend. Feeling terribly drunk and nauseous having only had one beer.”

A further respondent said: “I felt out of control and could no longer hear properly. My friend took me home and looked after me. “

Very few cases of spiking are reported to the police and spiking is
difficult to prove as drugs like Rohypnol leave no trace once they have been eliminated from the bloodstream.

Students are being urged to report suspected cases of spiking immediately.

Research by Kent University in 2009 showed that students were likely to claim they had been spiked when they were unwilling to admit that they had drunk excessive amounts of alcohol.

The students’ union was unavailable for comment at the time of publication.
A campaign headed by Swansea University Students’ Union and Trinity St David University to help combat drink spiking is expected to be launched in January.

Welfare officer Grimes says more can be done to combat spiking:

SPIKING is an issue facing every single one of us when we go out for a drink. Even in your local pub, you are still at risk.

Spiking occurs when a substance, such as drugs or alcohol, is added to your drink without you knowing about it. This may affect how you act around people.

The way you may feel will depend on the drug; you may feel drowsy or confused. You may also find it difficult to speak or move.

But spiking is a crime which is rarely reported to the police.

Rebecca Grimes, Swansea University’s Welfare Officer, said: “We are currently in the process of working out the best way to get the message out in respect of the risk of drinks being spiked.

“I recently had a meeting with the police and the Welfare Officer of Swansea Trinity St David and we are in the process of working out a strategy to increase awareness of how to keep yourself safe on nights out, a particular aspect of which is spiking of drinks.”

Statistics show that spiking is on the rise.

A spokesperson from South Wales Police said they were interested in raising awareness around spiking, but “have not had any reported incidents of drinking spiking in either the university campus or Swansea city centre.”

The process of getting a positive spiking result is difficult, with a report and tests having to be done in time for the drugs to still be present in the body.

Miss Grimes went on to say that more needs to be done: “I absolutely think more can be done. What I would say is that if you suspect you have been spiked, get in contact with the police as soon as possible, so statistics can start to be noted down about your experiences.

“We have ‘spikeys’ freely available from the full-time officers’ offices (drink stoppers which protect your bottled drinks from being spiked).
“If anyone is concerned about their safety on nights out, myself and the women’s officer (as well as every other FTO), are more than happy to discuss things with you and how we can make our union nights safer.”

How to identify spiking and prevent it happening to you:

DRINK spiking is the name given when a substance, usually drugs or alcohol, is added to your drink without you knowing.

It tends to affect the way you act around other people, and can lead to serious situations such as personal injury, physical or sexual assault, theft, or even rape.

It doesn’t just happen in pubs and clubs, but can occur in any public place, and even in your home, for example, at a party or barbeque.

There are numerous drugs that can be administered such as GBH and Rohypnol.

They are often clear, odourless and tasteless and can come in liquid, tablet, capsule or powder form.

The effects tend to make you feel nauseous, drowsy, intoxicated, or can even lead to unconsciousness.

They kick in very quickly and can last up to eight hours.

Whilst a large number of victims are women, men are just as much at risk of being spiked.

According to the Roofie Foundation, women aged from 30 – 50+ are most at risk from having their drink spiked.

It is unlikely you will be able to tell if your drink has been spiked until after the effects kick in, so students are urged to take the following steps:
•Never leave your drink unattended
•Never accept a drink from anyone you don’t trust
•Keep an eye on your friends’ drinks
•Do not drink leftover drinks
•Keep hold of your drink rather than leaving it on the side
•Consider sticking to bottles and hold your thumb over the opening when not drinking it
•Remember that if you’ve already been drinking, you may be less aware of any dangers
If you suspect someone has been spiked, it is always important to tell someone such as a friend or member of security.

Drink spiking is also a criminal offence, regardless of whether or not an attack was carried out, so it is vital you report it to the police.

For further information please visit wwww.nhs.uk/Conditions/Drink-spiking/Pages/Introduction.aspx