Felix Issue 1223, 2002
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The Student Newspaper of Imperial College Issue 1250 Four pages of music for Snowdon. Certainly REFERENCE your delectation. Ooh, more appealing than you'rirnn'ren s«*on onnilspoilft Croydon. COLLECTION Page 18 Page 4 Imperial College and Science Museum Libraries Lecturers Get Their Grades During the final weeks of term, the old winter the reasons for the failure in security. This has chestnut of Lecturer Evaluation will rear its prompted the Union to carefully examine its role head once again. While the theory is the same, in the proceedings this year, since a second year the process has now been named SOLE - of failure would perhaps reflect worse on the Student On-Line Evaluation, in an attempt to Union itself rather than College. After lengthy shake off the negative image that LEQs consideration on the subject of security, Andrew (Lecturer Evaluation Questionnaires) managed Smith (Deputy President of Education & to gain during their final round last year. Welfare) and Sen Ganesh (President) decided For those of you who are unaware, the that they were not confident that a repeat per- LEQ/SOLE is a system that allows the students formance of last year would not happen again. to evaluate how their lecturer is doing. The idea Speaking to Felix, Mr. Ganesh said, "We is that any problems with the teaching are then value the importance of student feedback on brought to light in a secure system, which can- the matter of teaching, but do not feel that there not be traced back to the student. has been enough testing for us to put a guaran- While this is, in principle, a good idea, the tee on the system's success." organisation of such a system has always Artist's Impression of our SOLE This will certainly be seen as a 'bad thing' by proved controversial, and last year this came to all those within both the Union and College a head when the system became electronic. which ensured a dramatic drop in confidence responsible for quality of education, but Felix Within hours of the system coming online, it within the student body. believes changing the name will not dispel the was shown to be highly insecure by a group of Last year's failed attempt at a joint system memories of last year's fiasco. Several success- student hackers within College. This had poor between the Union and College led to many ful years will probably be required before confi- implications for the anonymity of the system, accusations of a rushed job which were cited as dence is once again restored. Will DramSoc Disciplined Business promises to get inter- At a meeting earlier this week, They plan to appeal the deci- esting. You have been warned. DramSoc - the society responsible sion, as it is claimed that they for almost all of the lighting, were not given notice that action Ironically, if you were a psy- pyrotechnics and well, just about would be taken were the sub- chopath, you wouldn't worry everything exciting that goes on in stances in question to be about it. American Psycho in the union building - were given an removed. Mr Ganesh claims to Books. official warning, and fined under have made this clear to them on a Union disciplinary regulations. number of occasions, though Simon has been released from The exact details of the offense apparently no formal warning, as his prison, and sets about were not available at the time of such, was ever issued. watching Japanese kids die... going to press, but it is believed This is the latest in a line of that they removed a number of events that seem to be separating Less sports reports than maybe banned and/or hazardous sub- DramSoc and the Union, between Artist's Impression of a Disaster you're used to, but that's stances from the Union building, whom a rift has been forming for becuase you're not writing any! in Beit Quad, without proper pre- a number of months after the We will keep you updated as 29th November 2002 cautions being taken. change in Ents management. the story progresses. Alex "This'll teach him for being ill..." http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/felix/ * [email protected] 02 NEWS FELIX News In Brief FELIX Rebranding Back Under Way Issue 1250 Since the calling off of the Editor Will Dugdale Merger, College has begun get- Deputy Editor Alisdair Wren ting back to what it was doing Music Sajini Wijetilleka when the whole thing blew up in Nightlife Dom Farrell the first place. The rebranding Tim Jackson has now once again become the Web Jenny Lewis first priority in the Sherfield Books Roz Bulleid Building, and in case you had all International Ed Henley forgotten during the excitement Sports Alex Coby of us becoming 'Imperial College Coffee Break Mike 'n' Jim University College London' Film Simon North (ICUCL) the original plan had Liz Biggs been for us to rebrand to Science Rosie Chandler 'Imperial College London', which Business Jack Hon shortens to 'Imperial' Arts Emily Yeomans The powers that be have decided that IC was not a strik- Felix, Beit Quadrangle, Prince ing enough brand name, and Mikee B. Well, he's one of them... Consort Road, London that the full name of Imperial SW7 2BB College of Science, Technology Mikee B. plays Imperial This is part of the new ents and Medicine was too much of a drive to make the Union more Tel: 020 7594 8072 mouthful. Felix has exclusively learned that accessible, and more of a venue E-mail: [email protected] Evidence of this new brand top DJ Mikee B, from Radio than just somewhere to go for a should be hitting College over One's Dreem Teem will be play- cheap drink. If you would like to Felix is a registered the next few weeks, and will ing a set at the Christmas have your opinion heard, please newspaper: really get under way towards the Carnival which will be on at the contact the ents team on ISSN 1040-0711 beginning of next term. end of this term. [email protected] Will Copyright © Felix 2002 [email protected] We're still looking for departmental and halls correspondents Printed by Witherbys, EC1 TH€ R€TURN OF TH€ 40% DISCOUNT II Subway Restaurants is the world's largest submarine sanduuich franchise, with more than 17,000 locations in 72 countries. * Due to the popularity of our recent "Freshers" promotion for I.C. students. 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But a large the hedge, we'll never know, but quality of TV programmes these 3.00pm Changing Tombs strawberry-flavoured platypus at least the family will always be days. Looking at the channels on Historical gameshow in which sprinkles a fine white powder able to remember what he used satellite or cable, it seems you two contestants redesign the last over the little town of Pirtdica, to look like, and the side-splitting can set up your own TV station resting places of the Pharaohs of making everybody really really consequences of that slippery for about fifty pence. With a few Egypt in order to give them a hungry. dog poo! out-of-work actors, I gave it a go. more modern feel. Here's what's on today, peppered 5.00pm Strange Hill 6.00pm Holiday: You Say Where with adverts for Ocean Finance: 4.00pm DOC WON NUT Drama set in a tough inner-city Special version of the holiday Letter-rearranging gameshow comprehensive school that deals programme where viewers tell 11.00am Teleshopping presented by RIDE WHIRLY with the issues relevant to most presenters where to go. In this Could you possibly live without a CHEAT and CRAVE LARD, children today. In this episode, episode, presenter Jamie device for steam-cleaning your MORON. Chubby and Fat Wanker get Theakston visits a minefield in pet rodent? Do you dream that Afghanistan. one day you'll own a telescopic whisky bottle holder? Do you 7.00pm The 1980s House yearn for something to take the TV! The series that transports a mod- stress out of opening packets of ern family back in time contin- crisps? If the answer to any of ues. In this episode, teenager these questions is "no", you must 4.30pm Little Silly Denzil caught by Mrs Dappy having anal Becky is fed up of listening to be completely mad - in which Surreal children's programme sex in the playground, Kris has Bros, while Stuart gets to grips case, you'll definitely want to made in 1967.