| About Heather | "Hello my name is Heather I am a second year Public Relations student at Leeds Metropolitan Univeristy. "Originally from Preston I am never far from home. I took a year off to travel round the world after college and after a freshers year full of meeting new friends and the shock of going back into full time education, I am now settling in properly into my second year to being a Leeds student!! "The hard work is becoming a reality now and I'm having to start looking forward to and start planning a year out placement next year. Is it just me or is everything happening so fast? "I have taken a few new things on this year such as a job (novel I know!) and I have started a foundation course in Spanish to expand my knowledge in languages." |
...until last Wednesday at the Varsity Finale Rugby Union Match. We arrived at the stadium quite early and being the girls we are just wanted to get a good seat near the front but away from the rain. Slowly the stands started to get busier, beer bottles started to clang and the lads started to get rowdier. The Leeds Met rugby team ran on to the pitch we whooped, shouted at the players we knew, general cheers. As the Leeds Uni team ran out, the noise was a great deal louder and it quickly dawned on me, we were surrounded by Leeds Uni supporters! Throughout the first half the chanting got more abusive, insulting the way the Leeds met girls look compared to Leeds Uni girls (which I took great offence to!), insinuating students at Leeds Met were poor, lacking intelligence, inbred, wouldn't get jobs after University amongst other things, obviously through offensive language. In the second half we decided to move to the more Met populated stand so we didn't have to suffer the abuse again! And the abuse between the two universities seemed to carry on long after the match in text wars at various nightclubs across the city! I cannot help wondering why those Leeds Uni students have come to these assumptions regarding the Met student's intelligence and job potential.
 | | Student diarist Heather Kenny |
Leeds Met offers courses that Leeds Uni doesn't and the Met is a more vocational university so there is no comparison and the Met also has one of the highest numbers of graduates entering full time employment. So really Leeds Uni didn't have a viable point! I am proud to be a student at Leeds Metropolitan University and will not let anyone sway me otherwise, yes it used to be a poly but it has recently been shortlisted for University of the year. I feel there should be mutual respect between the two universities and their specialisms, not jealousy and hatred. If the Leeds Uni kids had spent more time training than making up abusive songs to shout on the stands then maybe they would have won more than five sports compared to the Met's 15 wins at the Varsity! | 
