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The Newspaper of Imperial College Union twice, moving each name up one place on the 'ladder'; removing the name at the top and putting Chain your name at number twelve, you then sell your lists to two CHELSEA TO BE people for £20 each, recovering Letters the money that you have spent. The theory is that after a Hit IC further twelve stages of the operation, there will be 212 lists PENSIONED OFF? An outbreak of chain letters is with your name at the top, and sweeping through Imperial from each of these you will College. As many as five hundred receive £20—a total of £80,780. students are believed to have The system breaks down Professor Randolph Quirk, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London taken part; some claim to have because the money has to come has been attending a series of meetings at Chelsea this week with the made up to £1,000 but most may from somewhere. After twenty aim of writing a draft proposal of intent to merge the college in expect to lose out on the deal. steps, about a million people accordance with the SARC Report. This is a plan to concentrate the The letters, which are believed have lists, and have to sell them science departments of the University on five sites: Imperial, University to have originated in Dorset and on what is now a saturated College, Kings/QEC, Queen Mary College and the recently merged come into the College through market. A further step merely Bedford/Royal Holloway College. the Geology Department, pro- doubles the number of people In a Union General Meeting will not fall, they are skeptical as mise a return of up to £164,000 trying to sell the lists. The 'Gold yesterday, Chelsea students their staff/student ratio is being for a short-term loan of £40 and Circle' system has certainly been voted unanimously to oppose all cut. operate within a system known through that many steps already, mergers and cuts, but they have Following Wednesday's dem- as the 'Gold Circle'. The pro- and a letter has been received been told that if they do not onstration in the Kings Road in cedure is as follows: you buy a from the University of London merge, their grant allocation support of the NUS grants list of twelve names from a Union advising people not to from the University of London campaign, during which a road friend for £20. You then (in the buy the letters. will be cut further still. Already, was blocked, Chelsea Union presence of your trusted friend) The covering letter provided they have been forced to close Executive is confident that it has post £20 to the person whose with the chain letter is remark- their two non-scientific depart- enough activists to make their name and address is at the top of ably insidious, in that it encour- ments (Humanities and Social opposition heard. the list, and copy the list out continued on back page Studies) and they have been instructed to cut academic staff by a third before next year. The proposed merger follows A Load only months after Kings and QEC merged—this time last year, moves were afoot to join Of Bull QEC with Imperial—and is the third such scheme since the At last Thursday's UGM the SARC reports. Chelsea is in RCS were proudly able to much the same position as present 'Velish', the fearsome Bedford College, which had to head of an Aberdeen Angus bull. close its internationally recog- This fine specimen was, as nised classics department and reported last week, the mascot form a split-site college with removed from the School of Royal Holloway thirty miles Slavonic and East European away in Egham. Studies (SSEES) with no greater Chelsea Students Union opposition than the cries of a representatives have said that marauding tea lady. even if they are forced to merge, In return for the return of they will refuse to operate a their mascot, the SSEES have split-site system like that agreed to provide sufficient operating at QEC, where stu- enthusiastic volunteers to be dents travel from Notting Hill to able to raise a minimum of £50 the Strand four times per week for the RCS Rag collection on Two RCSU Officials with the stuffed bull's head. The stuffed head is in by bus. Although they have been Saturday. the middle. assured that academic standards No. 6281 I Friday, November 19, 19821 I Free! Free Concert Consort Chamber Orchestra Hoist St Paul's Suite Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 Helen Cass Violin Jonathan Heitler Flute Damian Wisniewski Harpsichord DISCOUNT ON ALL SERVICES BY OUR HIGHLY TRAINED STAFF 1:00pm • ON PROD&CTION OF STUDENTS UNION CARD Wednesday 24 November 68 GLOUCESTER ROAD, LONDON SW7 Telephone: 01-584 7193 Great Hall & 01-584 0858 HAIRDRESSING FOR WOMEN AND MEN IC Dancing Club is holding their London Ball tomorrow in the JCR at Alternative Prospectus: If you want to The RCA Refectory is 7:00. If you haven't bought a ticket yet, tell sixth formersaboutthejoys of being available to students of some will be available on the door. a student at IC, the pleasures of living in Competitions, spot prizes, general London or any other excitement, you Small Ads have experienced than write them Imperial College at the dancing, demonstration couple. All this for only £1.50. down as an article for the Alternative following times: after Norman's coming, Sunday, Beit Arch Prospectus. Articles will be considered Flatshare: male person required for 1:00pm at lunchtimes and 10:00am. if delivered to the FELIX Office before February 1 1983. For further details shared double room in seven person Ents 4 Dobbers XI 3 The word has after 6:00pm in the eve- contact Hugh Southey. Chem Eng 1. mixed flat at Hamlet Gdns, rent been spoken and the power begins to £17pw. Please contact Graham nings. I would be grateful move. Crossley Mech Eng 3 or Adrian Haines if students would keep Physics Wanderers scraped a 10;0 Life Sci 2. victory against a determined, well Anne, you probably can do a lot of • Room (shared), Commonwealth these times. organised Wood Green side. PW rule hideous things, Butley. • IC Water Polo Club, There's no Hall, Cartwright Gardens, near West Thank you North London. End, squash courts and snooker • Physics Wanderers do it again! Fosters in the Sahara. Just camels. tables, 2 meals weekdays, 3 meals at Stephen Goulder (7/11/82) We came from behind to Love ZZZZZ weekends, £33.70pw. Chris Sroka, thrash Selkirk 5-3. PW rule IC Halls. Python of Linstead 127: Thank you EE1. ICU President • B-Landing strikes again—who's for coming so quickly—from Paris Would the person who stole my with love X. VAWVWVWVVvWrVVW next? burgundy coloured bag (containing Large room available immediately Life Sci Drifters (LSD) 5 Zoo staff 1. my lecture notes, and textbook on Gary Elec Eng 3 I love your fluores- for 2/3rd year or PG at More House, Any challengers, contact A Slater Genetic Engineering, and all my pens) cent balls—Marion, Chem Eng 1. 53 Cromwell Rd (opp Nat Hist (Zoo 2). from the girls changing rooms in Beit Flat to let: Self-contained basement Museum), £35pw inc breakfast and Robert Benyon— 2nd year from on Fri Nov 12 between 12:30 and studio flat, large, suits single or supper. Contact The Warden or Castellon. Please contact Chris Scott 1:15pm, please return it to where you couple, in Bayswater area. Available Miranda MacSwiney, 589-8433. (CE3)—Lisa wants to see you. got it from or to the Biochemistry from mid-December, rent £150pcm. Who in Guilds is standing for ICU Department. Thank you. H Measures, Tel int 4581, 4529 or 723-2910 (eves). Butley: Universities used to be President 1983/4 and why is Hissing serious once. Edna. Bioohem 3. Fiat 124, N reg, 1200cc, white, only Sid so anxious to help? Who is Hissing Lost at Carnival: Grey nylon C&A 32,500 miles, with stereo cassette (4 Sid? skiwear jacket, black strips down1 speakers), new exhaust system, Ritual burning of Mismoids by well arms, substantial reward for finder batterye, tax till Feb 1983 and MoT till established AVFC Appreciation mob. who returns it promptly. Contact Dave Oct 1983, £400. Telephone int 4581, Contact M Smith, BE3. Chaplin, Chem Eng 3. 4529 or 723-2910 (eves). RENETLY Lost: Red address book from Physics • Peter Howarth (EE1): So you Level B. S'pose it's worth a pint. Dave sssssssssssssssssssss couldn't quite make it on Saturday 154a Cromwell Road Gahan, Physics 2. Lost Property: Security have several then? With love, the Lads (and Nora). Lost: One Charing Cross student Next to British Airways Collectors required for RCSU 24hr items of unclaimed property handed nurse, situation desperate, please Rag street collection tomorrow, turn in since the start of term still awaiting Discount contact Alfie. up at RCSU Office from 11:00pm owners. Items include: camera, For students and staff today for cans and licences. calculators (2), m/cycle flares, • Did Sharon really have evening Joey, what marks you out as a umbrellas (3), radio, books (2), duty? Answers on a postcard please. Cuts: first visit £3, second and repressed as well as practising jumpers (several), jackets (3), watches Prize very short weekend in two lain after £2.50; Shampoo, cut and pervert, sentimentality towards (2), address book, rings, etc. Callers to USA. AF blow dry: first visit £4.20, second children, Butley.

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