09 The award-winning student newspaper of Imperial College . 10 Guardian Student Newspaper of the Year . Issue 1,439 09 ffelixelix felixonline.co.uk This week.... Noah & The Whale Freshers move into Eastside for the fi rst time @ KOKO LLiveive rreview,eview, page19page19 News, Page 3 What’s in a chilli? All is explained Food, Page 29 How has tourism changed in 30 years? Travel, Pages 30 & 31 How was your Freshers’ Fresher mugged Week? Student attacked after leaving The Mingle. See page 3 Catnip, Page 34 2 felix FRIDAY 09 OCTOBER 2009 NNewsews EEditorditor KKadhimadhim ShubberShubber NEWS [email protected] Freshers’ Fair soggy yet again Felix, ICRadio and Live! nominated for national awards SSinaina AAtaheriantaherian & News in the peer-recognition calendar. nominations sets a precedent at the RRichich WaldieWaldie Reporters Congratulations also go to Dylan SRA Awards. But in any case, 3 nomi- Lowe, who has been nominated for nations is certainly mighty impressive his newspaper is once again Travel Writer of the Year. The number and ICRadio have expressed their ex- proud to announce another of awards for individual sections of the treme pride at the nominations. T nomination for the most paper has steadily grown over the years The man himself could be seen in prestigious student media and there are now thirteen different a state somewhere between ‘over the award in the country. As Guardian categories. Dylan is the latest in a long moon’ and ‘I just won the lottery’ to- Student Newspaper of the Year in 2006 and growing list of felix writers whose wards the end of the night and will be and 2008, felix is now aiming for a hat- work has been recognised at a national no doubt hoping to receive some of the trick in 2009. level by the Guardian. These included honours in at least one of the catego- City & Guilds College Union-run two Overall Journalists of the Year over ries when the winners are announced news website Live! has once again been the past three years including 2007-08 on the 5th of November. nominated for Website of the Year. Editor-in-Chief Tom Roberts. IC Radio will putting on its glad rags On Wednesday IC Radio also picked IC Radio saw off competition from and hoping to pick up its first award up its first nominations for the an- about 500 entries from over 30 stations since 2002 at the glamorous/drunken nual Student Radio Association (SRA) to pick up SRA nominations for Best ceremony which takes place at Lon- awards since 2006. Student radio types Male, for Roushan Alam, Best Enter- don’s swanky IndigO2. Live! and felix from all across the south came togeth- tainment Show for The Roushan Alam will find out what the judge’s final deci- er in a basement at Westminster Uni to Show and Best Interview for one done sions are on the 25th of November. find out if they had been lucky enough with Derren Brown. Done by, surprise Well done to all who have worked to get one of the 6 places on the short- surprise, Roushan Alam. hard to get this recognition of Imperial lists for 13 categories. It has been suggesed that the three College’s excellence in student media. felix is nominated on the back of 2008’s triumphant victory as Student Newspaper of the Year. Last year’s Editor-in-Chief Jovan Nedic is said to be pleasantly suprised with the nomination. Live! were winners of Website of the Year two years ago under the editor- ship of now Union President, Ashley Brown. The NUS started an annual student journalism competition in 1947. From 1978, the Guardian has been involved and since 1999 the newspaper has been running its own separate Awards. The Awards are today the most highly prized by the UK’s university news- paper writers. The nomination brings substantial kudos to felix, improving its ability to provide first-rate news coverage even further. Sky News and Photos by Tom Roberts NME magazine are now also involved in the Awards, making it a major event Channel four is clearly commited to using only the most respectable sources 09 Felix, Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BB. Tel: 020 7594 8072. Fax: 020 7594 8065. Printed by The Harmsworth Printing Ltd, 17 Brest Road, 10 Derriford, Plymouth. Registered newspaper ISSN 1040-0711. 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Editor-in-Chief Dan Wan reports wo years after the demoli- that lived in Southside had brought sion of Linstead Hall, the up the issue of using their communal T new Halls of Residences kitchens, typically shared between 16- have finally opened in its 24 people, on their own. They felt the place. With the Southside Halls kitchens were unwelcoming and cold completed two years ago, the East- when cooking and eating alone. The side development now completes Southside Halls have been previously Imperial’s Princes’ Gardens restora- criticised by residents for being “un- tion project. homely” and “too clinical”. Last Saturday saw Eastside’s Wilkin- In response to this negative feedback, son, Gabor and Linstead Halls receive Jackman explained the implementa- their first intake of Freshers for the tion of a double-kitchen feature for new year. Eastside Bar and Essentials the larger floors in the three Eastside shop, the two outlets available to stu- Halls. Kitchens have been scaled down dents on the ground floor, also began from the typical Southside dimen- the academic year in full swing having sions very slightly, but still retain sev- opened a week previously. eral communal eating and preparation Though the design mirrors the areas. However, a secondary smaller Southside complex, there have been kitchenette now lies around the cor- several major alterations to the living ner from the large one. This second- spaces. ary kitchenette has been designed to The new intake can count them- mimic a typical home kitchen in size selves extremely lucky to be living in and utility. To further counteract the such pristine and luxurious accommo- clinical feel in Southside, countertops dation, and both students and parents are a faux-granite pattern instead of From shop shelf to home oven: Essentials convenience store (left) and a first floor ‘kitchenette’ in Wilkinson Hall were impressed alike. Prince’s Gardens stainless steel. this week is in stark contrast to pre- Alongside two differently- sized wi- 2005 before the project to transform descreen televisions, the double-kitch- sizes when it first opened two years ago, halls are priced at £130.83. Deputy time promotions took place through- what College has dubbed the Prince’s ens feature shared cupboards, fridges despite all residents paying rent from a President (Welfare) John James stated out the week. The bar-cum-restaurant Gardens ‘residential village’. and freezers; they have no designated corresponding single price-band. Sin- that he was pleased with Eastside and replaces Harringtons, Southside’s The felix team inspected out the compartments installed. Hall Senior gle occupancy rooms have been clearly its rental rates. original bar, which closed down when new halls last weekend as the Freshers Carlotta Ridolfi is already seeing the categorised into three bands: standard, “Eastside isn’t cheap but it is good the original Southside complex was moved into their new homes. benefits of these alterations. premium and deluxe. Premium and de- value. The rooms are luxurious, there’s demolished in 2005. Each Hall houses around 150 stu- “The kitchens are lot more com- luxe rooms have extra space compared ample social space and the facilities Eastside bar serves drinks at prices dents, whom are mostly living in sin- munal which promote an element of to standard, and are fitting with a larger on the door step are superb. Eastside slightly dearer than the Union’s Da gle occupancy rooms. The students trust and sharing amongst us. We’re bed and armchair. is second to none and that is reflected Vinci’s bar. A pint of Fosters’ lager are accommodated throughout nine learning to live with each other with Despite these luxuries, there has in the price, although efforts such as costs £2.50 compared to the Union’s floors, with Ground and Basement a lot more respect for other people’s been debate from several Union offi- a creating a relatively high percentage cheap-as-chips £2.00.