ISSUE 1663 ... the divestment eurovissue FRIDAY 12 MAY 2017 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON elix Divestment f campaign hits Imperial PAGE 5 News The case for divestment PAGE 9 Comment Fuck me it’s Eurovision Finalists | History| Hall of Fame| Scandals | Drinking Game Pull-out plus Centrefold Angels in America PAGE 30 Culture Let’s talk about abortion PAGE 34 Millennials 2 felixonline.co.uk [email protected] Friday 12 May 2017 3 felixonline.co.uk [email protected] Friday 12 May 2017 felix EDITORIAL felix EDITORIAL NEWS felix Divest this Letters to the editor s Imperial morally bankrupt? I first asked myself The struggle to divest lies at the border between the In response to Are millennials too entitled or do In response to us being this question in 2011 when I started my Biology dark and the light sides of science. We know fossil fuel undergraduate. My department had just sacked use is unsustainable. Every step of the production line we just desreve better? which appeared in issue great, apparently most, if not all of its plant scientists. There was no in the fossil fuel industry ravages the environment and money in the field. Have I come close to an answer detriments our health. Yet our civilization relies on it 1662 since? Maybe. Sometimes I’ve looked at Imperial still. Iand higher education in the UK in general and I’ve I understand the energy crisis humanity is facing at felt disgusted by it. The way research is determined by the moment is a challenging one. But unfortunately it’s Dear Lef, themselves are unlikely to be entitled, Dear felix, corporate giants, whether that’s Big Oil or Pharma, or one we have to overcome, there is no alternative. We with little hope of owning their own whether it’s weapons, or it’s banks. The way academics change or we go down with the ship. She’s ok isn’t I enjoyed Tessa’s article on millennials property unless their parents happen to I just wanted to say that I really love some are pressured to publish, to bring in the money, to And here is where it gets complicated. As much as she? and entitlement in the May 5 edition. As be rich, who therefore suffer a transfer of of the articles you guys put together, ignore things that in any other workplace would be I might badmouth it (and I do a lot), I don’t believe a lecturer who was an undergraduate wealth from themselves to older wealthier especially the Editor's note on the 2nd Aww! uncompromisable. The way students are seen as cash Imperial to be morally bankrupt. But I do think that as Seriously tho at Imperial in the early 90s I’ve seen the landlords enjoying rising property values page. I love how you guys are so truthful cows, cheap labour, endless in supply, desperate. a science institution we get trapped in the numbers and you look so issue from both sides I guess. Teaching and cheap mortgages. Millennials will about your feelings and opinions. I wish Actually Other times I look around me and I can’t help but facts and logistics and practicalities and complexities young, how always seemed low on the priority list in retire at an older age than people like me I could express myself as freely and elo- chocked up be in awe. Of the people I’m surrounded by; some of the situation. And maybe it’s time to take a step do you do it? my days in EE yet when the teaching was and will inherit from their predecessors quently. I don't know how many student of my generation’s brightest minds. Of the ideas that back from the science and think about the ethics of our good it was brilliant. Eric Yeatman, Chris the uncertainties of climate change, the readers actually write to felix and con- Literally zero are constantly being exchanged, lighting up the eyes actions, our investments. Just rubbing Toumazou and others I’m looking at you. resulting refugee disaster, the decision to gratulate for your hard work. I just hope lol *cries* of students and staff. Of the tenacity with which some It’s time to make a decision based on our heart and it in now leave Europe and a volatile geopolitical that this email will serve as a tiny encour- people can hunt for ideals, knowledge, dreams. invest in our dreams instead. But what about the wider question of scene. Dear fee-paying student, the least agement! Sadly, I am graduating soon You’re the whether today’s young people are enti- I can do in return is give you decent feed- and won't be getting felix free copies any- Just when we bomb dot tled or obliged? Back in my day, the gov back on your coursework. more, but I hope that you guys, and I am found a fan! com Gareth. paid for my first degree and there was confident you will, continue to write more Editor-in-Chief | Lef Apostolakis || Deputy Editor | Mattin Mir-Tahmasebi || News Editor | Matt Johnston, Joanna Wormald || Comment Thanks for even some drinking money left over in my Gareth Mitchell and entertain or educate students here! :) THE Editors | Vivien Hadlow, Tessa Davey || Culture Ringmaster | Fred Fyles || Culture Editors | Indira Mallik, Meryl Anil, Anurag Deshpande, finding time grant cheque. 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It Albert Hall in November, book- paper with their first- tutorials and more. available again shortly. In made the Union of ing a ticket now wouldn’t cost year bioengineering When students got back response to enquiries Martyn ton of dough. The you less than £30. And these students. home, they found out that the Boutelle, Director of Courses largest graduation are just the essentials. LThe unfortunate gaffe entire exam they’d be taking for Bioengineering said that “a Rceremony to date which saw We’re not even going to talk occurred during a revision the following week was online. replacement exam paper was a record of 9,400 guests about pictures, wax figurines lecture for Molecules, Cells “Yeah naturally we realised fairly straightforward to write attend, brought Union shops and engraved rings. and Processes. pretty quickly what her mistake as we did not need to devise and outlets a total of £34,715. From ticket sales to the grad- During the lecture, a student was,” said a student that new problem-based questions That’s about 13 grand more uates’ family and friends, had a question that was not prefers to remain anonymous. that need a lot of testing. The than last year and eight grand College is estimated to have covered in the section of the Following the realisation questions were then reviewed more than the record year of made about £328,000. revision session. of the mistake by the internally and by an External 2015. When asked about profits In order to locate the Bioengineering department, Examiner, following our Postgrad Graduation Day a College spokesperson said relevant material, the lecturer the Panopto recording of the normal procedures. The whole saw over 3,284 graduates that Imperial “endeavours to opened up the exam on the revision session was taken process followed in response receiving their diplomas. That keep the cost of Graduation desktop after having taken down and an email was sent to this issue was also approved means that proud families day as low as possible and out the HDMI connecting the out apologising for the fuck- by an External Examiner.” spent a tenner on average on we do not charge students computer to the projector. up. Boutelle added that on their graduates. That’s on top for their attendance [Aw how Unfortunately the lecture “Several students had Wednesday’s revision class of the £51-58 that gown hire sweet]. The income received was recorded via Panopto, viewed the recording by the “all seemed well” and that costs and a hat purchase (you from guest tickets only covers a College ICT service that time we found out, and so the students seemed satisfied can’t hire them) which will set part of the cost to the College allows the recording of a paper and its questions can following their exam on you back another £30. Proud – no surplus funds whatsoever computer screen as well as therefore not be used as this Thursday.