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In the studio today, The Pulse team were joined by Karni reps, Sammo, the Karni director and Simon (also known as 'Smurf'!) the treasurer!

To all Freshers who are unsure of who Karni are, we got them to tell us exactly what they do and what they have planned for this year...

For any more info on Karni and to get involved, log on to their website at www.karni.co.uk

Also on the show we had Activities Officer Douggie. Earlier in the week he joined us on the Lowdown to tell us about Fresher's Fair, Week One and how to get involved and here he is to tell us how it all went...

On today's show we became all about sports! As throughout the week we have been introducing you to all the important people around campus, today we wanted to introduce you to all the important sporty people around campus...

We spoke to Hannah Webber, the Disability Sports Officer for the Uni to find out aboout her role and what facilities are in place around the various campuses:

We also spoke to Dave Heads the AU officer and he explained to us that to get involved with the Athletics Union you do not always have to be the best of the sporting bunch!

Today we spoke to more of your Students Union representatives to find out who else there is to support you during your time at uni.

Firstly we spoke to Women's Officer Rosie Tressler who told us all about her plans for the Women's Network and how you can get involved.

To get involved with her new show on URN check out the 'Get Involved' section of our website or email Rosie at [email protected]

Next we spoke to Michael De Vletter, the arts faculty co-ordinator, who has lots of advice if you are struggling with your course.

Thanks to Rosie and Michael for coming in!

Today, on another packed episode of The Pulse, we reported on the study by the University of Leicester suggesting that even if fees do increase, many students won't be discouraged from going to Uni.

The study showed that the high demand for university places is going to continue, with 90% of potential applicants willing to pay fees of around £10,000.

In the studio we agreed that it was encouraging to see so many people continue to want to study, but it is also a worry that shows while red brick uni's would not lose applications, former polytechnics and newer universities would notice a big difference and could cause Uni's to be seen as elitist

Yesterday Will Vickers spoke to us about how the Uni would react to fee increases and cuts in Uni spending:

Now it wasn't all worrying news on The Pulse today - we also spoke to Ollie Margolis, the Finance and Services Manager on the SU Exec and George Wright, the Democracy and Communications Officer and they were both very pleased with how Week One had been going so far! Ollie followed in Will's footsteps as he reassured us that even if university cuts affect the SU, the Student Run Services, such as NUTs, Impact and of course URN, will not be largely affected as funding would be brought in from other sources...phew!

Week One Final Party Co-ordinator, Bryher, came into the studio this morning to announce the Final Party acts. And they're bigger than ever!

Get your tickets from your Week One reps before they run out!