ELIX The Student Newspaper of Imperial College Not 029 19MAY95 Imperial Stands Firm Against NUS
BY RACHEL WALTERS campaign which was run," Dan Look, Deputy president (Finance The campaign to reinstate and Services) said. Imperial to the National Union Sarah Thomas, who master- of Students was overwhelmingly minded the anti-NUS campaign, defeated in last week's referen- said that she was surprised and dum. With a markedly larger delighted with the result. Saying ballot than many had predicted, that the election had 'turned into 965 students voted to stay out of a farce' she was 'just relieved that the NUS while 696 wanted to it was all over, to be honest.' rejoin. Lucy Chothia, Imperial The decisive result has been College Union president, was seen as a vindication of Imperial also 'very delighted'. She said College Union. Criticism of both that the referendum, which had a the pro-NUS campaign and the Union Funding Council budget Union Exec's management had of £1000, was an essential dogged the referendum. assessment of student opinion A barrage of complaints after the seventeen year period concerning discrepancies in cam- since ICU left the NUS. paigning led to a heated debate Interestingly, results from The annual staff/student art exhibition returned to the Sherfield Ante-room in an emergency executive the St Mary's side of campus this week, writes Owain Bennallack. Visitors are treated to a wide range meeting held just before showed that over 80% of the themes and mediums with paintings, photography and sculpture all featuring counting started. Karl Drage led medics actually wanted to rejoin prominently. The exhibition, which is free, has been co-ordinated by the calls for the referendum to be the national body. Explaining Leonardo Fine Arts society, who run a variety of courses for both staff and declared void, but the motion their voting, one St Mary's students throughout the year. Speaking at the exhibition's opening, Vice was defeated. "It would have student speculated that they may President Ola Al-deeb commented: "It's wonderful to see that there is been a great shame if the NUS have thought that they would get chance to see art at IC". So if you want to see art at IC get along to the had won in the light of the lower beer prices by joining. exhibition: it runs until June 16th. Some of the works are also for sale. Imperial College Goes To Press BY OWAIN BENNALLACK WSP, and also of IC alumni, said relatively common among top long to arrive. that the press would publish universities - as well as the The Rector, Sir Ronald Imperial entered the world of books and journals in both Oxford and Cambridge concerns, Oxburgh, expressed similar publishing last Monday with the printed and electronic formats in both Edinburgh and Manchester sentiments. "It's high time that launch of Imperial College Press a number of different languages. University have presses. an institution of the stature of (ICP). The venture is a collabor- "We hope to develop Imperial Recently the latter had to close Imperial College had its own ation between College and the College Press so that it is as good its scientific publishing wing as press," he said. "We are excited Singapore-based World Scientific as Cambridge University Press or the effort to manage both science by this venture, which will Publishing (WSP), which has a Oxford University Press - or and arts interests became too further strengthen our inter- 51 per cent share in the initiative. better," he said. great. Given this, it seems almost national network, particularly in Dr K K Phua, chairman of Publishing operations are surprising that ICP has taken so (continued overleaf)
news one&two&three editorial&credlts three incoming five s-files: picking up on radio seven features: a moving experience part 2 and information superhighway eight backchat: with computer chess master Richard Lang nine xtra curricular: soaring eleven standby: lo-fi thrills twelve&thirteen eight day guide fourteen&fifteen sport: airborne sixteen Q News
(ICP continues from page one) the Asia Pacific region." World AGM Angst and Antics Scientific Publishing is the only sizeable publishing group based BY THE NEWS TEAM It is not clear whether in fact students to vote in the recent in that area of the world. the nominee is a 'joke candidate', NUS referendum. ICP's Editorial Advisory The success of today's Annual as by Wednesday night he had Today's gathering is to elect Board is chaired by Lord George General Meeting (AGM) of only managed to find four eight new Union officers and to Porter, Nobel Laureate and Imperial College Union, which seconders. The validity of the ratify the election of next year's Professor at Imperial College's will be held this lunchtime in the whole meeting is being ques- sabbaticals. In addition, this Department of Chemistry. It is Ents Lounge, is in doubt. tioned as two hundred people are year's officers are likely to be suggested that they will A candidate for one of the needed for the AGM elections to questioned over their annual approach past students and Union posts has forged a be legitimate. reports. academics first, but will also look seconder's signature. FELIX has The meeting, which is The only contest in the to publish works from outside learnt that the supposed seconder scheduled for today at 1pm in the elections is likely to be that for the College. World Scientific has not even heard of the pro- Union Lounge, has further the powerful job of Council will lend sales, marking and posed candidate. The impers- suffered from a lack of publicity. Chair. As FELIX went to press distribution skills, as well as onated engineering student has Last week's advertisement in the only declared candidate was actually producing the books and suggested that the candidate FELIX gave neither a date nor a Vinnie Fernandez, Royal School journals. must have been "smoking too time and posters did not appear of Mines Union President, but Speaking to FELIX, Tony much dope, maybe off his head." around college until yesterday sources insist that Charlie Bell, Moore of ICP suggested that the He further added that this sort of morning. This has been cont- Royal College of Science Union extra impetus to launch a activity "makes a mockery of the rasted with the wide publicity President, had previously publishing concern might be due whole election." given by the Union to encourage planned to stand. to Imperial's emerging status as a medical institution. It is thought that Imperial College Press will publish extensively in Rector Talks Top-up Fees this field, as well as in science and technology. RACHEL WALTERS Mr Moore stressed the importance the emergence of x electronic formats, saying: "it is Sir Ronald Oxburgh, Rector of u c Imperial College, has predicted a recognised that is the way that IC will soon be forced to 3 science publishing will move - it b charge undergraduates. o is a matter of sooner or later." Speaking at a lecture last Monday on the role of Imperial in the future of Higher Loweth Education, the Rector refused to give an exact time-scale, but suggested that top-up fees could be introduced by the turn of the to Go century. "It will not be in the immediate future, and we will BY THE NEWS TEAM not be alone," he said. As a member of the Russell Group of The main Imperial College top universities, which includes repair and maintenance contrac- Oxford, Cambridge and the LSE, tors, Loweth and Company, look Sir Ronald is believed to have 'dramatic changes' which are recent expansion in student set to lose their IC work. Their previously considered the intro- happening to higher education. numbers. He was particularly agreement comes up for review duction of top-up fees to boost He was critical of much of the enthusiastic about the idea of this July. Last year the company their falling budgets. present university environment, continuing education. This was reappointed after an annual He emphasised the import- describing the highly influential would encourage graduates to assessment, but with their ance of College developing a Higher Education Funding return to university during their quality of work being questio- more flexible approach to Council for England as being 'at working careers for retraining ned, the contract is once again teaching, as well as finding a way times hostile and threatening'. increasing interaction between going out to tender. to be more economical. High- The Committee of Vice higher education and industry. Ron Jeeves, College's lighting the need for the College Chancellors and Principles The Rector highlighted the Operations Manager, has said to vigorously defend its approach (CVCP), which attempts to striking changes seen in the level that it is 'likely that we will not to undergraduate teaching, he represent all higher education of student finance, showing employ them' after the current said that "if we plan without heads, had 'shifted away from the figures which indicate that by the tendering procedure. While recognising that our position in kind of things we do and the end of the century funding per emphasising that the re- the world has changed, we could kind of values we cherish'. student will have halved from tendering is 'part of the natural make some very bad decisions." The wide ranging talk 1980 levels. Sir Ronald is process' he later admitted that 'it Sir Ronald expressed discussed the changing relation- believed to personally prefer the is almost certain' that another concern that the older, elite ships between teaching, research option of graduate tax over top- company will take over the universities, will lose out in the and industry in the light of the up fees. contract.
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News In Brief with a new scheme called 'Pub The Head of the Humanities FELIX, PC Clive Coleman said Watch'. At present an anomaly Department dismissed the that over 50% of crimes in the Exam Traumas exists whereby students banned paper's announcement that 'the Belgravia sector, which includes Second and Third Year from one establishment, for Imperial scheme may be for the Knightsbridge, occurred at Mathematics students were instance the Union Bar, can still chop'. Financing for the prog- Imperial. Recent incidents disrupted during their exams last drink in either the Holland Club ramme has been guaranteed for include a break in at Dr Tuesday as a fire broke out in the or Southside. the next five years. Learner's flat in Princes Gardens, basement of the Huxley building. Security Control in Sherfield after which a man was chased by Dr David Herbert, the will coordinate a programme Top Gear Stalled College Security but lost in department's Senior Tutor, has whereby descriptions of banned Last Friday's Top Gear feature - Exhibition Road. insisted that students were only students will be posted in each due to show Imperial engineers out of the exam rooms for 'two bar. PC Clive Coleman suggests in a kit car building race - was Input Rejected or three minutes.' The small fire that as offensive activity in any of cancelled at the last minute. The Imperial College Estates look set was put out by Maths' Safety the campus bars would force presenter booked to do the to go ahead with their Strategy Officer, Geoff Reason, and students to drink outside college voiceover wasn't available. BBC Review without encouraging students were given an extra 15 (and hence pay higher prices) sources have suggested that the students to comment upon the minutes at the end of the exam to student behaviour should event's screening has been post- proposals. Leading up to the make up for the distraction. improve. The 'Queens Arms' is poned until next autumn's series publication of a final strategy in Vernon McLure, the involved in the scheme and Clive of the popular programme. June, the review was issued to Academic Registrar, has sug- hopes that other local hostelries college staff in March. It gested that the Board of could soon also be included in Briley's Rogues Gallery discusses the development of Examiners will be advised to the initiative. Terry Briley, Deputy Head of student accommodation and the make allowance for students Even people who look Security, is planning to set up a future of the whole of IC's estate. losing train of thought during suspicious could be included, as 'rogue's gallery' of Imperial Whilst the College claims to the interruption. He discounted PC Coleman points out that criminals. Armed with a new have a policy of openness, Mr Ian suggestions that the examination licensees do not actually need a Polaroid camera, he intends to Caldwell, Director of Estates, has would have to be rerun saying reason to bar prospective record suspicious incidents and declined to give FELIX a copy that unless there had been a drinkers. The police hope to have college intruders so that repeat of the report. It is suggested that major breach of rules the the scheme 'up and running offenders can be easily identified. he would prefer that students majority would "rather get on pretty soon'. Mr Briley also intends to extend commented on the final strategy and get over with it". the plan to include cooperation rather than misinterpreted the Pimlico Safe with other London Colleges. initial document. In the light of Pub Watching! Questions over the future of the "People make a living out of this decision, college staff will be The rising number of drunken Pimlico Connection tutoring doing over Universities," he said. able to influence the plans but incidents (FELIX 1005-1028) scheme, raised in the Times The plan is part of the students will not be able to affecting Imperial College is Higher Educational Supplement continuing security clampdown discuss the proposals, only being tackled by local police and earlier this month, have been on the ever-growing college merely reflect upon the final con- college drinking establishments quashed by Dr Sinclair Goodlad. crime problem. Speaking to clusions.
and hear. The first three things that it is so difficult to determine that spring to my mind if I think whether crime is actually on the Credits of the US are the OJ Simpson increase. Detection rates, changes Editor Owain Bennallack A friend returned from a jealousy trial, the recent Oklahoma in the definition of laws, changes Printer Andy Thompson provoking trip to South, and bombing and a trashy story about in those you consider covered by Assistant Printer Jeremy Thomson Tim Bavister then North, America earlier this a chat show involving a woman the law (it's only in the last Business Manager Advertising Manager Wei Lee week. Whilst she portrays who slept with 251 men in ten hundred years that people have rainforests in the 'get there hours - filmed, the video is really expected the poor to be Editorial Team before they're gone' manner I'd available for purchase. One's anything other than criminal: Art & Literature Jon Jordan have expected, her reaction to the initial thought is that this is just witness the illegality of poverty Cinema Wei Lee tabloid sensationalism but with in centuries past). All can States is more of a surprise. She Clubs, Societies & Union Piers Daniell describes dead suburban towns years of repeated doses, hypo- confuse the picture. Columns Marcus Alexander crawling with Beavis and chondria gives way to disease. The growing power of the Features Kate Cox Butthead stereotypes and of the Recently there has been media as the only voice of Layout and Design Mark Baker fear of walking at night - and much debate over arming the 'authority' has also, I'm sure, Music Vik Bansal these were college towns! police. Too often America is contributed to this perspect- News Rachel & Co. Although this is an almost brought up as an example of a iveless 'bloodbath'. Even here we Photography Ivan Chan & Diana Harrison cliched view of America, for me tough police force - even though suffer Crimewatch UK and a Puzzles Tim St Clair S-Flles Rebecca Mileham it gained an added poignancy everybody knows about the barrage of lurid news reports. So Eight Day Guide Jeremy Thomson thanks to her delivery. She is murder counts and gun law. it surprises people that the most Sport Juliette Decock and Mark Baker usually unbearably optimistic gruesome killing of Police Maybe we're subconsciously Standby Jon Jordan about places and people, and in motivated by the comforting Officers happened in the sixties. America only the madness of thought of Cagney and Lacey The media has a fundamental Editorial Assistance New York seemed to her real. pulling a gun on the streets of desire to show the world as a bad Collating Last Week J.Jordan, Paul Dias, I mention it because I find it London, maybe scared of place, in order to sell product. Razza Walters fascinating that there is a country seemingly increasing crime we'd The scary thing about Typing Rebecca Walters behind the gore-bytes we read like to feel safer. The problem is America is it seems to be true! Helpfulness Simon Govier
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Wot no Frater?... Questionnaire Plug... The Sex War on Wheels Edited this week by Owain students think of us now, and what to visit my female French women expose their natural Prater's Fan they'd like us to do in the future. exchange, he asked whether she endowments they are more often Basically, if we know what you was my girlfriend. I thought this than not regarded as cheapening Dear Felix, want, we might be able to do just a little bit forward. I think that themselves- which is what the I am distressed to see that our something about it. unless you feel very comfortable Oxford girl has done particularly good Frater, no doubt lost in So, if you've got an opinion, with the idea of homosexuality it is by posing for the Sun. It's hard meditation and removed from pick up a questionnaire from: The not a question generally asked. enough for women to get taken concerns of the temporal realms Union Office, Bookstore, STA However you never can tell, so I seriously in higher education has ceased to offer words of Student Travel or Da Vinci's and decided not to comment. Further establishments and professions as Wisdom and Comfort to his then return it to us. Oh, and to mild astonishment ensued when it is and unfair as it is. After all we followers. encourage you, STA travel have he asked whether I thought my don't see a male page three! Nor Thus I am bidding him given us £150 work of travel French exchange was pretty!! have the three Southside continue, for a slightly deranged vouchers to give to the person who Thirdly he explained the meanings participants jeopardised PG student is finding it increasingly fills in the first questionnaire we of some less than polite French themselves. difficult to find solace from pull out of the hat on June 16th. words, which in my opinion would meetings with the Supervisor, not have happened had he known Finally, perhaps the difference without Frater Fiam's weekly poetic Your opinion matters, so tell us the truth! Other gestures followed! discourse. what you think. in reactions is slightly related to Accustomed as I was (and am) to Best wishes, the two terms macho and girlie. Yours etc. being a girl it was not until Mark, The former though intellectually Dimitris Fatouros journey's end that I realised what Events and Publicity Manager rejected (it is after all not in 2nd Year PhD must have occurred. I decided not Centre for Quantitative Finance to embarrass the poor man with harmony with the new man enlightenment and grabbed my image!) is still I suspect secretly My recollection of the Frater's last Sex Change back pack off the front seat with thought complimentary. Being article was that it was very much a what I thought was a manly show called a "girlie" by anyone, male Dear Felix, farewell piece. He has hung up his of strengthl So that's how one guy or female is never complimentary. I decided to write this piece as a hat in recognition of the futility of behaves when he meets another. result of a culmination of thoughts Yours Sincerely, his original question, not to Interesting! (or was the whole over a series of events. For a start, Ida Lister mention the infinite and reflexive thing done on purpose and really I I am female. I state this because Biochemistry UG1 nature of the answer he sought. Or was the one who was fooled?) maybe he died, suffering horribly in for 2 hours of sitting next to a We're planning an issue in just a car crash. Something like that. Frenchman on a bus I was This brings me to the second mistaken for a male despite event, the much publicised three weeks time tackling the conversation being continuous Southside Incident and the even differences between men and though maybe a little one sided- more publicised Oxford University women and looking for much input! Sort out ICTJ he did most of it. Various gestures bridge jumper and the difference All contributions on the subject forced me to this conclusion. Firstly in attitude to males and female received by Friday, June 2nd will be Dear Owain, he nudge- nudge wink winked at exposure. Many people regarded deemed excellent. Get battling! I know most of our students must two girls sitting next to Us, who the former as a good laugh though be sick of answering questions at Letters may be commented tittered and glanced slyly sideways. there was outrage and pity as well. the moment, but this is a quick on by a guest editor, whose "Strangely" enough I failed to Would the reaction have been the reminder about the ICU opinions are not necessarily respond I Secondly since it same had the three participants questionnaire. those of the editor, and cut emerged during the course of the been girls. From the reaction to the due to space restrictions. As a Student Union, it is conversation that I had just been Oxford girl, I doubt it. When Deadline: Monday 6.00pm. important for us to know what Crossword by Nyami Nyami Across: many scored (7) 1. Secured and accepted job (8) 3. Curved path of plane over smelly 8. Brutes save gas, in a way (7) city (9) 9. Perfect partner for tails? (1,3,3) 4. Measure attempt at breakthrough 10. Unhappy uncle & tart are running (5) wild (9) 5. Fruit and 25A returned to villain on 11. Help burn it before end of day (7) first of October (7) 13. Note is made following recent 6. Relatives, for example, gain cat by increase (3) mistake (7) 14. Opened blockage we hear of in 7. I break thermos and heat line (9) the post. (8) 8. Sally organised a little bubbly after 16. Trophy for man (5) dessert (8) 19. Monarch in hoax? Get away! (5) 12. Thanks to Jamaican leader for cap 22. Stand-ins have no time for (3) medicine - they're not up to speed! (8) 15. Attacked as it floated (8) 25. Duck museum - contains eggs? (3) 17. It's rough on bird - I leave a 26. Support the Spanish before second replacement! (9) pushes (7) 18. Funny looking, I gas 'im at riot! (8) 27. Italian biscuit (9) 20. Greets Roman leader and stirs up 28. Flower is drooping - give it oxygen, bad feelings (7) quiet and love! (7) 21. Bomb explodes in German capital 29. Sang on as ten died and his heart and crowding ensues! (7) broke! (7) 23. Master will rise up and drop 30. One in charge of a lake, perhaps sweetheart(3) (8) 24. College head plays lovesick music! (7) Down: 26. Edge back to French way of 2. The man had bad end after not preparing food (5)
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One hundred years ago this year, a twenty-one year old Italian j S-files spoke to Dave Cohen, invented the first practical wireless telegraph set. The following year | IC Radio Station manager 1992-93: Guglielmo Marconi patented his invention in England - the Italian "The Radio station was set up in about authorities having rejected his proposal - and radio was born. |1975, but it didn't get its first broadcast Ten years elapsed before the first transmission of speech, and in \ licence until March of 1976. It's still the the same month that the BBC began broadcasting, King George V | only broadcasting student radio station in London. delivered his Christmas Day message by radio, addressing "men and women so cut off by the snows and the deserts that only voices out of the air can reach them". i. Today, the BBC World Service reaches 130 million listeners world wide. I One of the first songs they played was Elton John's Radio saturates the airwaves: what's the next step? This week in the S-files, we I Crocodile Rock and so the crocodile became the station's ponder two developments. In last Monday's Guardian newspaper, Kevin Kelly i mascot. I think the actual crocodile got thrown away, but (Editor of Wired magazine and acclaimed, yet not over-exposed, guru) compared Uohn Allen, the first Station manager (who is now j controller of LBC) returns every year for the Croc Club society's resistance to early radio with current resistance to the Internet: "Early I dinner when old members get together. radio was too hard to use, and there was nothing to listen to, just radio enthusiasts talking to each other. In the beginning it wasn't thought of as a communications device at all. These things It's true that we're still broadcasting on leaky coaxial aren't always obvious." cable, 19 years after opening. To go FM would mean we But the Internet is leading would have to contend with other local stations like radio in a different area. The Capital FM, though. We might be able to get a temporary huge amount of information on FM licence, but they cost a lot of money, and we'd need a transmitter which would also be expensive. the Internet means that an If IC Radio was run by a sabbatical, more time could automatic scanning programme be spent on broadening the listenership by increasing which selects items of interest and ignores the rest has already been developed. Nicholas fundraising efforts to pay for things like transmitters, and Negroponte of MIT saw the devoting more time to organising shows and training Same development ahead for Happy to be the only student radio station in London people. radio when interviewed on The Network, a BBC Radio 4 programme: "The bigI The problem is that the listenership is restricted to | difference is that information can now be processed at the receiving end. I think Southside and so advertisers aren't interested. But until j funds are raised, we can't increase the audience. If one that radio in fact will be where most of the innovation takes place. It can listen to 5 | year the distribution was increased, by laying landlines - 10,000 hours or radio on your behalf and record little chunks for you. It's already \ over to the Union bars, the college common rooms and all much more digital than the video world; eventually I think that car radios and I the halls of residence, or better still by obtaining a wide home radios won't have an on-off switch any more." [area broadcast licence, a large part of the problem would |be solved. After that the Station Manager could On the right, hear what Dave Cohen, former IC Radio Station manager has to I concentrate on programming. say about our very own 20-year-old station. And below, check out the emerging overlap between Radio and the Net. Bizarre! S-files
Student radio sites At the moment IC Radio is very important because it Nottingham Uni: http://unicom.nott.ac.uk/~ppyjdnmb/urn.html provides a unique opportunity for students to have a go at | radio broadcasting, not to mention being excellent fun. Its Oxford Uni: http://info.ox.ac.uk/~osr/ f significance would further increase as a college-wide Other sites 1 source of information and entertainment if its profile was BBC Web Resources: http://www.bbcnc.org.uk:80/bbctv/ bbc web raised and these changes took place." resources Radio 1 Interactive: http://www.bbcnc.org.uk:80/online/radiointeract/index.html IT. .3"T3 Radio 1 Fanzine: http://www.bbcnc.org.uk:80/online/radio1/izine.html < jr oo go n o Ji . OS Bellingham Early Radio Museum: http://www.pacificrim.net/~radio/site.html CD < CO n Q. Airwaves Radio Journal: http://radio.aiss.uiuc.edu/~rrb/help ~i'-..4: TV & Radio opportunities in the US http://web.bu.edu/COM/html/radiotv.html y o 8
igmflV95 FELIX HH Features Moving Experiences II by Owain lthough I have stressed that Paul is a leave him to recover the bare essentials of his I must admit that I was carried away competent individual, I should make agency business. But he was a plucky man: he with the whole romance of it. Plus, I knew clear that he shared some of our welcomed us and dived beneath the that I would be living on the streets in a collective traits. We left him to look for a thousands of pieces of paper littering his desk couple of days and that lit up the future house and he, competently, decided to pay to find one with 'Paul - not Indian' written apartment with a rosy, super long-life glow. someone else to do it. The agent's name was across the top. At that point I believed we would actually be Bob. He didn't like Indians very much, he The poor mentally retarded immigrant visiting the flat before buying it - indeed the told Paul, and he hoped that none of our party who he employed in the office (due I presume assistant had phoned the landlord minutes were of this or any other Bob-deigned to the unwavering goodness he had already before. Most of their conversation had undesirable class. He'd had a lot of trouble displayed) stood in the corner and repeated centred on money rather than a prospective with Jews and the Irish were difficult to everything Bob told us with a 'Bob is very visit, but we had faith in Bob. manage too. It seemed a weird sort of inverted good' tagged on to the end. Bob explained the We couldn't unfortunately enter the flat racism (Bob himself was dark-skinned) that details of the wonderful three bedroomed on arrival, due to a lack of keys on the agents led him to categorise his wards purely on apartment we would be moving into. part, but it certainly looked as if it was genetic background: I have no doubt at all Principally it was halfway up the building and undergoing the promised 'renovations'. To be that when approaching landlords he got in Bob felt that properties always improved as honest it looked as though it would have been 'they're white' before 'they're non-smokers'. one ascended skyward. (Only later did I watch falling down without them. I was too busy at He didn't further his case as an a cockroach struggling to escape up the work to worry much - and after all, my impressive and assured agent when we arrived bathroom wall and realise his reasoning). It request had just been for a roof over my head. at his office, with a cheery Paul telling us that was close to college - true. The landlord was The others moved our possessions together they had found the perfect place. I very nice (more very polite, I later found out, across whilst I languished in the office all day, have a generous spirit, and when I saw that like the villains in James Bond). His main as recounted in an early editorial. But the his office had been ransacked, his filing recommendation was that he had turned away fateful moment couldn't be delayed. At about cabinets emptied onto every available surface most of Imperial's students that very 2.00am we unlocked the door. The light and the office stripped bare of any modern, afternoon because he had promised the flat to didn't work but dawn's glow eventually came. post-sixties office equipment I felt we should Paul. We'd be fools to miss out. I went into denial. Information SuperGxhibiton
mmm A new exhibition at the Science Museum aims to give the public a better idea of what the Information Superhighway could do for them. Mark Baker logs on... The Information Superhighway (ISH) does not The language used is deliberately non- exist. So says the Science Museum in a new mini- technical but without too much skimping on exhibition. But why have an exhibition about information or simplifying of issues. As well as something that doesn't even exist yet? (and might several interactive 'simulations' of using the never exist, the exhibit goes on to tell you). Internet and ISH, there are eight PCs ready to use The simple answer is that the press in a special 'Surf City' section. With these PCs SCIENCE coverage of the Internet / ISH has increased by you can browse the World Wide Web and get a MUSEUH over 1000 times in the last two years, and most of taster of the kind of information and services the public is probably still wondering what all the available on the Internet today. Very friendly and LONDON fuss is about. This exhibition is a great helpful boffins are on-hand to enable even the opportunity to find out more about the current most computer-illiterate of museum-goers to try technology and what the future may hold. You out the system. When I went I saw a young girl can even have a go 'live' on the Internet, with looking up Hockey teams, next to her dad who 'Lifeguards' standing by to help you out (should was looking for travel information. This is the you fall off your digital surfboard). best part of the whole exhibit, and is popular with The exhibition itself is very small, and is visitors. "One lad sat there for four hours, and located on the first floor of the museum. To find even worked out how to use email." a 'Lifeguard' it, go through the barriers, straight ahead, first said. steps, it's right in front of you. It's fairly gaudy to I was expecting to be patronised, but look at, but presentation aside, the content is very instead was informed. This is an exhibition that good. As an example, here is their definition of is well worth seeing, even if - like myself - you the ISH: already know something (or a lot) about the "The information superhighway will allow Internet, and even more so if you don't. people to send and receive words, sound and The exhibition runs until 3 September, moving pictures, anywhere in the world, over when it goes on tour. Entrance is free to ICU card computer networks." holders or £5 adults, £2.60 concession. Q
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For hundreds of years the game of before going freelance a few years chess has been thought of as one later. of the defining marks of human Chess Genius 2 burst onto intelligence. Its grandmasters the scene last year during the may not have been viewed as very Intel Chess Grand Prix. This useful by the general public, but tournament, sponsored by the in some abstract sense we were makers of the ill-fated Pentium always glad they existed. Now chip, pitted the best micro-chess however, the shadow of the programmes against some of the computer looms large over the world's top grandmasters. world of chess. "When we heard that we On one level sit the big were drawn against Kasparov [the number crunching mainframes, world chess champion] in the with names like Deep Thought very first round, we thought we'd and Deep Blue; these are the be knocked out and go straight dedicated chess machines which home", recalled Lang. "It would play the 'full' game. Scurrying have been no disgrace to lose. I below such behemoths are the was absolutely amazed when we micro-computer based pro- won." grammes; the rapidly developing Of course for the purist, kings of'speed chess'. Perhaps the speed chess competitions are most famous of these are the Chess viewed as artificial events with Genius series of Richard Lang. each player only having a total of In a similar way to many of twenty five minutes to make their of those who have since come to moves. However, the fact that it prominence in the computing was Kasparov that had lost, field, Richard just started off resulted in a media explosion. messing around at home. He also "As soon as we'd won, I studied Physics at Imperial. "I knew it was a really big event, a worked a bit too hard and didn't mile stone in computer chess", play hard enough" he joked when Lang told me. "Kasparov looked I spoke to him over the phone absolutely devastated when the from his home on Dorset. After game was over and he went graduating in 1977, he got his backstage and disappeared from first job doing safety research for the tournament." As another Danish Grandmaster. Kasparov your game too". British Gas. grandmaster commented at the losing to a micro was seen as a With Chess Genius 3 selling "It was about the same time time, "he [Kasparov] wanted to different matter. around 10,000 copies a year, that I got a home micro and just crush the computer, not just beat Kasparov's hostility to Richard says "it's an on-going played around with it, as a it". computers beating him at chess is work". There are about four hobby", Richard explained. At Of course the inexorable not merely an intellectual similar programmes on the first he toyed with simple rise of computers in chess has reaction, though. As the top market, and they're highly programmes for noughts and been on the cards for a long time. player in the world he makes competitive. Next week Richard crosses and the odd video game, It is said that Napoleon was around £1 million a year. As takes his latest development to but 'the first proper game pro- fooled into believing that he had many have commented, who'll Hong Kong for the World gramme' he wrote was a chess been beaten by a mechanical want to watch people play chess Computer Chess Championships. playing programme. "I started off chess playing machine. In actual when they can buy superior There's also a revenge match playing chess at school", he said fact there was a midget secreted software for £100? against Kasparov in Germany. "I "and I did play at the college club, inside the mechanism, or so the It's not something that think he'll take computers much but only for a term". This hobby story goes. particularly concerns Richard. "I more seriously in the future", said grew until one of this pro- By the late eighties only the think computers add to the game" Lang. grammes won a European micro- top thousand chess players were he said, "A car can 'run' faster And the in future? "Well computer chess competition. capable of beating the best than a human and it doesn't stop maybe in ten years I'll get round After that he was offered a job computers. Then in 1989 the people running. You can play to the Chinese game of Go! I've with a small software house, mainframe, Deep Thought, beat a against a computer to improve heard it's quite interesting". Q I9U1AV95 FELIX DH CITY S University BUSINESS SCHOOL Your passport to a new, high-flying career
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who-is-it but it is also a whodunit. Wednesday - Club Spanque, Football D jjj If you are thinking about cheating in Providing that length isn't everything, the your exams then come along on Sunday at ever shrinking sensation that is Club Union Job Offers 8pm to see how the professionals do it. Quiz Spanque. Music from 8pm to 11.30pm, but Keys: Council, Represent, Chair Show, a film directed by Robert Redford, is it's still great value for money because it's concerned with the scandal of the 1950's free. Also, the European Cup Final will be live The following posts are up for election at the American programme twenty-one in which on the big screen at 7.30pm. Annual General Meeting at the Union. the contestants (Ralph Fiennes et al) get Thursday - Cocktail Night given the answers, which surprisingly enough We can't guarantee a screaming orgasm every Rag Chair: Chairs the Rag committee to seems to make things a tad easier. week (well, not in cocktail terms any way), organise all the Rag Events, from The last film of the week (Wednesday at but we have got the best value Cocktail Night collections to Tiddlywinks. Rag raises 8pm) is one for which Quentin Tarantino was in South Ken, 5pm until 11pm. thousands of pounds every year. Can you executive producer, Killing Zoe. Eric Stoltz Friday, 26 May - Shaft improve on this? stars in a Roger Avary film about a bank job Leave your Gaultier at home, forget being Welfare Officer: Represents the students in Paris. With the way my grant's going cool and get your spangliest dancing trousers needs on the College welfare committee. (quickly) I may have to consider a similar on for a night in Disco Heaven. Yes, for those It is also the Welfare Officer's job to alert idea. who believe in the Boogie Wonderland, and the students to welfare issues of all types the power of pop, the return of Shaft. Classic and, in collaboration with the Union records from the days before remixes, when Welfare Committee, to run the Union's Bate House was where you lived and Texaco was Welfare week. the only Garage that mattered. Thrill to the Women's Officer: Represents women More Revision Killers likes of ABBA, Odyssey, The Jacksons, Duran Duran, Wham and a cast of thousands. students at Imperial College and is Keys: Comedy, Music, Football responsible for running the Union Dress up and there's T-Shirts and C.D.'s to minibus service. So, here I am, basking in the reflected success be won. FREE before 9pm, £1 after. ICCAG Chair: Imperial College Community of Harry Hill and ready to go with another Action Group Chair organises the week of'12 points' style fun. And here it is... community action. The major effort is, at ®Q8(H0[D£) present, put into maintaining a regular Friday - Comedy Awards Record Breakers soup run for the homeless in London. The triumphant return of the Bust-a-Gut Transport Officer: Looks after the Union's Comedy Club, after last week's sell out show. Keys: Fastest, Youngest fleet of minibuses. For our final show of the year we are proud to Accommodation Officer: Works to improve present the Semi-finals of the National Only a few months after the purchase of our the living standards of IC students both Comedy Network Open Mic Awards. The new competition class glider, Pete Masson in and out of halls. They also Chair show features 5 top new acts, as well as (Biochem 2) broke 2 UK gliding records on regular meetings between the Hall Boothby Graffoe. The winner of the show Good Friday. He became the youngest person representatives and members of the based on audience reaction and the opinion ever to accomplish this feat. College staff. of the expert panel will go on to perform at the He achieved the fastest flight ever in this Postgraduate Group Chair: Responsible for Edinburgh Festival. So, you could be country over a distance of 500km in both the running the Postgraduate network. The witnessing a star in the making. Tickets are 15-metre and standard classes. The flight was network provides entertainment and just £2, there's a free bottle of Newcastle from Lasham (near Basingstoke) to Tickhill meetings for Postgraduate students. Brown Ale to the first 50 in, and the doors (near Doncaster) and back again. He did this Equal Opportunities Officer: Alerts students open at 8.30pm. Then you can dance the rest in a time of around 5 V2 hours at a speed of to the needs of minority groups within of the night away 'til 2pm at Atmosphere. Free 85kph beating the previous record of 75kph the college and works with the welfare if you go to the comedy or are there before which stood for the past 5 years. and women's officer to run the Union's 9pm, £1 otherwise. The glider was purchased thanks to Welfare week. Saturday - Man U 7 - Everton 0 money from the Union and the Harlington Almost as good as being there... the FA Cup Trust. The ASW-24 single seater glider was Final between Everton & Man U live on the recently on show on the Queen's Lawn BIG screen in Da Vinci's. Come and see during which time the Rector came and whether United bite off more than they can wished the club every success for the future. Forthcoming Attractions chew against the toffees (that's my fantastic The total number of glider pilots who Keys: Killing, Porter, Quiz football cliche for the day - just see how have flown 500km is very low as a flight of many times it gets used on match day). The this length is only possible on a couple of Another famous ICU cinema late show takes bar opens at 1pm to set the atmosphere, and days each year. Pete's background in gliding place this Saturday at 11pm with everybody's Heineken is £1 a pint (while stocks last), so commenced when he was 16 as a Lasham favourite transvestite film, The Rocky don't be anywhere else. cadet and he has recently been awarded an air Horror Picture Show. The film before this Monday - Monday Madness league flying scholarship to enable him to (at 8pm) is the much talked about catwalk There might not be any more footie, but gain his PPL. He joins Afandi Darlington film, Pret-A-Porter. Robert Altman's satirical we've still got Monday Madness. As usual, (Aero 4) as only the second ICGC student to film has so many cameo roles that it is hard one beer will be £1 a pint while stocks last. have ever flown 500km. to pick out an overall star. Julia Roberts, Tim Tuesday - Bar Trivia If you are interested, come to our weekly club Robbins, Sophia Loren, Kim Basinger and Put your mind to gainful pursuits with a meeting in Aero, room 266 on Thursday at lpm. Tracy Ullman seem to get top billing but this special Bar Trivia night. There's £50 cash, or You could also contact Wendy Yates (Captain) is just the tip of the iceberg - blink and you'll crates of beer to be won and entry is free. on [email protected] or Pete Masson (Vice miss a stunning supermodel. There is a Questions start at 8.30pm in Da Vinci's, and Captain) on [email protected]. murder involved so not only is the film a there won't be an invigilator in sight. I9H1AV95 FELIX MM Standby
(BDddlers Q rotation THE menu A full and frantic week is in progress. Tintin waxes and buffs "There is no art in these songs, they lo-fi heroes pavement, Matt finds a drooping salad, drive themselves, become exacty D.C.Dick rises from his slumber for the sake of kingmaker, thier limits and possibilities" scrawl Vik reviews francis dunnery (again) and Helen Louise rounds pavement (sans dictionary) inside off with those african peakers, sidi bou said. their new album, wowee zowee. Which is what we've come to Time to tug feltlock as the lord of the manor deigns to visit the expect from the kings of diy stinking hovel that is our humble rotation - Hello Owain. american music; something that There's a bit of run on Mr Depp this week folks. Magpie initially seems so throwaway and caught Johnny as the pneumatic lover in don juan de stupid, that on reflection actually marcos and then the watcher passed him lady's underwear encapsulates some deep seated in ed wood. A thankful Magpie finally saw the depp-less rob truth. Remember 'cut your hair' roy. 'Haggis' he cried. from their last album, crooked rain, crooked rain'?; "music scene's 'Summertime, and the living is easy' so the song goes. But crazy, bands start up each and every letters t it's not the case for dedicated followers of fashion says day. I saw another one just the Likeabl Fiona. Attention to detail is the order of the season. other day, a special new band". It's tongue-i all there; the inane, the vain and the glorious sides of life. And in the same way, Pavement are probably the only band in the world who could label an album 'wowee zowee, whilst keeping their smiles akimbo and turning out songs as . Fajs«2t:>: ' great and meaningful as 'rattled by this overpraised FELIX the rush' and 'fight this generation'. "Teenage angst has paid off well and now I'm bored and old" were the first words growled by Kurt After looking at the track listing whilst it's easy to pick on their 'A' (proceeds to put the kettle on.) Self- on his last studio album. "There is I suspected that this might not be a level politics (some of Loz's lyrics effacing humour: "I used to sit on no castration feai" chimes back fantastic album. Although salad still fall wide of the mark), on the Sunset Boulevard stone drunk Stephen J. MalkmujrWrf^H||Br 'we have released two very good songs whole 'in the best possible taste' is watching the rock dudes go past. dance'. Maybe it's supposed to be in 'drink the elixir' and the current an accomplished album, with more Then one day I woke up and significant but more probably single, 'motorbike to heaven', good than average. realised that I was one of them." placing them as the first two tracks s Pavement are just out baiting the Produced by Stephen Street (of Musical expertise: pay homage on their new album, drink me, open mouths of the press legions Morrissey fame) the end result is a to the king of unpretentious guitar suggested that the rest might be again. After the fun they've had fuller and not so 'much in your face' dexterity on the likes of 'Heartache lacking a little. bad-breathing the Smashing compared to their earlier Reborn'. Genuinely emotive songs: Pumpkins and Stc|JBT||riple Pilots Sadly my preconceptions were iHCordings. Whilst the single, 'you in the past, wh i them the not challenged by the additional is possibly the most twelve titles which, apart from being opportunity. Still it would be more ,k on the album, 'hey ',' ;: <. ."!.-.'; .. . ',. ' : -ciii o^efcah than a shame if tWOBw of rumpus considerably shorter than the frustrated gano; overshadowed iiance of released songs, seem icient tore reflective rs say' (about adultery), the cynical in in originality to ny of 'wowee zowee'. s most satisfying jaunt's clothing of 'american life in Whereas, 'crooked roin, crook- the tracks had a dii side . ssible tasti the summertime' or Ihe It Bites' tour feel to them and in the ed rain', was to I for some, hat far, but .'*<' ' ',,; : ' ' > >: :. ". '-: : this new selection of eighteen tracks style that Salad h nought see Pavertr .ssing Some song very sg past their § voice shouting, "Yc're a f*in' :'" and ive to 'slanted and enchanted Yet the strength ot wowee zowee' is thai it' the car Many tended towards an If you're a regular reader of the sprawi is far tighter then before Elastica like sound, which was hallowed music page then you'll sidi bou said, which is a shame cos Their trick is that although disappointing as it veered from the know already what I think of after hearing their new album, songs like 'best friends arm' and slightly creepy, haunting tones so francis dunnery, ex-singer and bodies, I want to check out then- 'brinx job' veer close together, they successfully produced up to now. A guitarist with late '80s rock previous stuff I could bandy about remain distinct. Partly it's because maestros It Bites. If you're a words like 'indie', 'rock,, goth' and Pavement ignore the traditional ' box' obvi< stranger then shame on you but 'punk' but none would even come niceties of verse-chorus-verse and but the song wasn't read on and all will be forgiven. close - influences merge and come so they can crash out, kick in just became banal. together with no hint of pretention overdrive guitars or even the odd Overall this isn't a terrible musieffrwpertise and genuinely harmonica to redirect the melody album but I d only buy it if I was a emotive songs ore hard to come by sound effects and slightly twisted wherever they change their mind. big fan. It would probably be better in these days of floppy fringes and vocals merge to form the most Partly it's the simple fact that - their last two singles. (6) vacuous, pseudo-intellectual original thing I've heard since the Pavement are one of the best bands proverbs. All of these are necessary last Wildhearts' album. Song titles playing around today But whatever So kingmaker are back with components of the live acoustic Ip, like 'ode to drink' and sicky vomit the reasoning behind it, all you in the best possible taste, their fourth one night in sauchiehall street. Wit: don't do justice to the delicacy of need are the ears to hear it. album, and they've even had a hit "Robert Plant said to me, 'Frankie, the introspective, often sexual, Pavement ore inane, vain, glorious, single to boot. This, despite being at you'll never do anything new in rock lyrics. And for onco I totally forgot and we're proud of it (9J the end of more than one waspish 'n'roll'. Well I ain't ever seen Planty that they're an all-girl band I am tongue from the hack pack. And make a cup of tea on stage." impressed, way above average (9)©
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There he stands claiming to be Don Don Juan's tales are certainly juggling his personal life and in This season's key idea is Juan and only forty feet from death, tall, like hiding in an arabian harem particular his secret passion for refreshing simplicity, with extreme don juan de marco (Johnny with 1,500 women, but as the film dressing in women's clothing. The attention to detail. So, whilst the Depp), the world's greatest lover progresses you end up wanting to film also deals with Wood's sleeveless shift remains an and seducer of more than one believe in this fantasy world to friendship with the washed-up, essential it's becomes slightly thousand women, looks over the escape from the dreariness of the morphine addicted former movie more structured than before; team window ledge, suicidal with the loss everyday life. It's becomes a star Bela Lugosi (brilliantly played it up with chic headgear, sophis- of his only one true love. Dr Mickler question Dr Mickler has to face; is by Oscar winner, Martin Landau). ticated sunglasses, well cut hair, (Mar/on Brando) is called by the the reality of his life more desirable Opening with one of the most perfect nails and pedicured feet in police to talk the jumper down and than this fantasy world? innovative and original opening startlingly high stilettoes. there he finds the young man The film's passion is addictive sequences for a long time, the film Underwear has to uphold the dressed in a cape, a Zorro mask and this is what makes it so is shot in black and white which unhindered line and create the and wielding a sword. enjoyable. It's feelings of love, allows Tim Burton to recreate his 50's ultimate hourglass form. To Don Juan, now in a mental passion and romance will linger typical gothic, brooding visual style. do this, M&S have new seamless institution, starts to retell his life's long after the tale is ended. With an often very amusing script, satin underwear and Gossard story of love and romance. With the film moves along at a fairly have produced a waist clinching, each session Dr Mickler becomes Having passed up directing sedate pace and although it runs cleavage producing basque. more engrossed by the young Batman Forever, Tim Burton slightly longer than needed, Before we 90's women frown, man's stories and slowly begins to concentrates his unique macabre nevertheless it never ceases to be remember that as Jill Tweedie believe he really is Don Juan De visual and directing styles on the engaging. says, "You don't have to signal a Marco. Don Juan's influence is story of Edward D. Wood Jnr. This Perhaps it's true to say that it social conscience by looking like a evident and his love of love rubs off infamous cross-dressing director does tend to concentrate more on frump - lace knickers won't hasten on the doctor who starts to rekindle was recently voted 'worst director of Ed Wood's film making, treating the the Holocaust". the flame with his own wife Marilyn all time' thanks to such Z-grade transvestism as a side-line which is According to Vogue, the (Faye Dunaway). However with only movies as Bride of the Atom and never really explored. And it is the essential basic wardrobe for this ten days to decide whether or not Plan 9 from Outer Space. films that Wood 'makes' which are season comprises of the dress, the Don Juan should be institutionalised ed wood focuses on Wood's the driving force of the movie. twinset (buy one size too small), a permanently, Dr Mickler has to (Johnny Depp) struggle in Always struggling to raise the waisted linen suit, a pencil skirt persuade him to 'drop this facade'. Hollywood to make his films whilst money and sometimes shooting as and skinny top. Pencil knee-length many as thirty scenes a day, what skirts can't really be carried by Wood lacked in talent he made up anything other than heels - as for in drive. He wasn't bothered high and thin as you can stand up about the quality of the films so in. The hottest, indeed the only, long as his vision wasn't footwear of the year comes in compromised. In a particularly white patent; whether 3" tall or effective scene Orson Welles tells loafers. For those with a life to him to shoot his vision and nobody lead that involves walking more else's. than three paces in a day, the fun alternative is those childhood As winter approaches in 18th favourites - jelly shoes (Ware- Century Scotland, highlands' clan house £9.99). chief Rob Roy MacGregor (L/am Warehouse is also currently Neeson) enters a business venture stocking a fabulous range of with the Marquis of Montrose (John skinny, lycra based tops - in the Hurt). The Marquis' tax collector very best of 50s' styles, and even and English social parasite, better, 90's prices. Sticking with Cunningham (Tim Roth), however the childhood-revisited theme, for conspire to steal the clan's money those who like to have a startling and thus they risk losing their land effect on passers-by, the new to the Marquis. palette influence is citrus, with Whenever Hollywood gets its tangerine sheen, lime and glowing hands on a historical icon, it hashes yellow. Best buys in this range are out a story involving a great deal from Kangol, Oasis and Jeffrey more passion, drama and action Rogers. The latter also stock an than what really happened. There's excellent pair of three quarter- nothing wrong with that but when length gingham capri pants for the casting is mismatched (Robin only £16.99. Hood aka Kevin Costner) it is hard Returning to attention to to trust the story. detail, the latest acclaimed rob roy follows a similar accessory is the perfectly groomed pattern; Liam Neeson being Irish man. Personally I prefer the old fails to convince the audience he a idea of a lap dog - as Ms Carelli Scot and so Rob Roy fails to hit the so elegantly expresses it "I never all important culture button. The married because there was no film throws you between Rob Roy's need. I have three pets at home love of his wife, Mary, and the theft which answer the same purpose of the money. Rob Roy tries to mix as a man. I have a dog which the two stories but in the end the growls every morning, a parrot film just becomes a big mess.0 which swears all the afternoon and a cat which comes home late at night."© don juan de marco FELIX IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AY Guide & MEDICINE HUMANITIES PROGRAMME wm Places SG Southside Gym TtlURSDflY SL Southside Lounge TOIMY UDH Union Dining Hall Union Concert Hail Cocktail Night 5-11pm Shaft UCH 70s & 80s pop disco. EL Ents Lounge £1.70. Weekly specials. £1 after 9pm. Prizes for GH Great Hall TTR Table tennis room LT CAPffRS OPEN DAY Aerobics Class ? 2.30pm Labour Club 12.30 Legs, turns & bums. SG . .jper.v,--.': . Conservative Soc 1 phi Islamic Society I pm Meeting, SL. Friday Prayers. SG. Gliding Club 1pm ICU Rag 1.10pm : \ C-^-.^r;; .-if;:,- Meeting. Aero 266. Rag Meeting. EL. -" - " '«r*. WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 1995 Jazz Dance 5-6.30pm Aerobics Class 5.30pm Co careers after finals Union Dining Hall. Advanced Step level IV. SG. 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