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The student newspaper of Imperial College

Issue 1047 FELIX January 26th 1996 Biomedical plans delayed again

BY RACHEL WALTERS would be considered at Tuesday's Charing Cross and Westminster material at all.' Architects Norman Fosters' plan- planning officers' meeting and he medical schools have met Chris St Mary's President Sarah ning application for the Basic admitted that 'we're obviously Edwards, Dean of the new med- Edwards said that all the con- Medical Science (BMS) building getting somewhat concerned.' ical school, and Ronald Oxburgh, stituent colleges of Imperial were has again failed to be considered But he insisted that the building IC Rector to discuss future facil- working together to lobby for by Kensington and Chelsea coun- would still be on target if plan- ities on campus. They have improvement of student facilities cil. IC will now have to wait until ning was granted at the meeting agreed to set up a committee to across the campus. She has next month before their planning next month. The BMS centre is consider students' social space. entirely dismissed suggestions application can be considered. due to be completed by Easter ICU President Sarah White said that an attempt at blocking the Ian Caldwell, IC Estates 1998. that she was 'very pleased', planning application was being Director said that he 'was under The Students Union although she acknowledged that considered. the impression' that the proposal Presidents of St Mary's and 'they didn't promise us anything Letter, page 21

IC wins in funds competition

BY NAT BARB cuts. The press release announc- A new Government funding pro- ing the initiative lists alternative ject for the purchase of equip- sources as industry, charities and ment will put science researchers government departments. It is under even more pressure to find clear, however, that the majority funding from private industry. of funds will come from indus- The Government has launched try. Those institutions which can an £18m fund for research exploit their relationship with equipment, but money will only industry will receive double be granted to applicants who money, those that cannot will have been able to secure an equal have no access to the funds. —< amount of funding from alterna- The new scheme increases tive sources. the already high pressure on ^11 This places research institu- research institutes and universi- PHOTO: WILLIAM LORENZ tions in a double jeopardy situa- ties to find funding from private The Chemical Engineering Society held their annual revue comedy tion from which Imperial is like- industry. Investors are unlikely night on monday, presenting sketches, songs and some liquid ly to benefit. But other universi- to be keen to provide money for refreshment for the department's students. The Head of ties less close to industry will suf- new equipment just to make Department, Bill Wakeham, is pictured here in a striped rugby shirt fer at yet another step by the good a shortfall in Government joining in on one of the sketches, proving that even chemical engi- Government to reduce research funding. Those who are most neers have talent. funding as a result of budget Continued on page 3

Security praise students i Aldwych attacks fees Holloway revenge

The new Deputy Head of The Aldwych group of top uni- The Royal Holloway student Security, Kenneth Weir, has versities is stepping up its oppo- newspaper Orbital has admitted praised the vigilance of South- sition to November's higher edu- that last term's theft of the ICU side students. A suspect is await- cation budget cuts. The group doormat was an act of revenge ing charge after last Thursdays are particularly concerned about after IC students stole the un- attempted burgaries. page 4 threatened 'top-up' fees, page 3 ion's cuddly toy mascot, page 2 TWO . FELIX FRIDAY JANUARY 26TH 1996 News in brief

BY ANDY SINHARAY approached for help, as well as ICU. "Tim Townend was repeat- BMS site in safety edly asked and has done noth- waste fear ing," he said. Ian Gillett, head of the College Austin said that they had Safety Unit, has been quelling lost the five parking spaces that fears over the possible discovery the club once used. He felt that of dangerous waste at the site of college "don't care about the the new BMS building, currently Motor Club" saying that they under construction next to the seemed to think "it's not their Chemistry Department. "As far problem." Neither Tim Townend as the building's concerned, nor Estates were available for there's been no toxic waste," he comment as Felix was going to said. He added that other routine press. waste, such as mercury and asbestos, was present at the site Rug in RH picture but was being dealt with safely. ICU's front doormat, pinched by IC's contractors, Schal, have Royal Holloway students in a brought in analysts to locate raid last term, was the subject of these substances so that they an article in Orbital, their college could be removed successfully. newspaper. The piece, accompa- He stressed the importance nied by a photo of the rug, of dealing with toxic substances offered some insight into the correctly: "If there is anything motives for the attack. One stu- there, I'd love to know about it." dent claimed that it could have Earlier this week, STOIC, been taken as a revenge attack IC's TV station, were asked to after IC students stole Royal PHOTO: WILLIAM LORENZ leave the site after attempting to Holloway "union's cuddly toy Students' chocolate cravings had to be resisted for a few days when film work on the project. mascot Collossus, burnt it and the newly installed snack machine promptly broke down on its first Kenneth Weir, the Deputy Head later returned its ashes as a prac- day at ICU. It was repaired on Wednesday, but broke again later of Security, said this was likely to tical joke". that evening. have been due to the safety The rug itself has been aspects of their presence. returned, though it is unclear Permission to photograph the how ICU responded to the stu- Mary's HIV prisoner development now has to be dent's suggestion that "We obtained from College's Estates should chop it up and send it freed from chains Department. back a piece at a time."

BY DIPAK GHOSH Sunday, has triggered condemna- C&G's Hovercraft Finance Society A drug addict on remand at tion from health workers and In a separate development, the Penniless Holloway prison who was kept women's and human rights City & Guilds Union (C&GU) Felix has learned that IC's chained whilst receiving treat- groups. The 'cuffing and chain- Hoverclub were able to reclaim Finance Society has become ment at St Mary's Hospital has ing' policy failed to discriminate their hovercraft after it had been 'financially embarrassed'. On had her chains removed. She had between those who posed a secu- left in storage in a garage in the account of the poor state of their been kept handcuffed for nine rity risk and those who did not. chemistry building due to be balance book, they are no longer days while a patient at the spe- The decision to remove the demolished. According to a fore- permitted to incur any more cialist HIV unit. chains was reached after negotia- man at the site, Planning Officer debts until the situation The 34 year-old woman tions between St Mary's Hospital Brian Dennis arranged for the improves. patient, known only as 'Jane', is and Prison Service officials. vehicle to be moved to behind seriously ill with HIV related 'Jane' was said to delighted. She the RCS1 building on Rag Chair Apology complications. A massive public had been chained even when she Wednesday. Last week's Felix (1046) inaccu- outcry, instigated by the national went to the lavatory and when However, the students say rately reported that Rag Chair press, led to the chains being she slept. they are unhappy with the way Jon Lambert had "blamed the removed. The campaign forced Her lawyers are considering they have been treated. Austin weather" for the drop in Rag's ministers to soften the contro- whether to sue the Home Office Jones, Honorary Secretary of the takings from the beer festival this versial 'cuffing and chaining' pol- for damages. They are also con- C&GU Motor Club, said that year. In fact he had really blamed icy at Holloway, especially where sidering a judicial review of the they had been unable to move the fact that the sports teams pregnant or sick women were policy, which they claim breach- the hovercraft earlier because were playing away that day. Felix involved. es the Government's obligations they had no alternative storage would like to apologise to Jon Jane's case, which was high- under the Convention on Human space for it. He added that the Lambert for the misunderstand- lighted by the Independent on Rights. Estates Department had been ing. NEWS FELIX FRIDAY JANUARY 26TH 1996 . THREE Aldwych Group replies to budget

BY MIKE INGRAM tern "should be... the mechanism tion by over 31%. The Russell to have one of the highest levels Attacks on the Government's we would like to have in place, group of top universities, which of student funding in the coun- policy on the funding of higher not rushed in because of a short- includes Imperial College, con- try, and the College will have dif- education have been stepped up term crisis." They predict that vened an emergency meeting in ficulty absorbing cuts of over £2 this week. The Aldwych group of attempting to combat inadequate December to discuss the cuts, million a year. student unions has sent an open funding with top-up fees would after it was revealed that Student opposition to top-up letter to the Committee of Vice fundamentally undermine the Manchester University was being fees is becoming more vocal. Last Chancellors and Principals quality and accessibility of higher forced to consider top-up fees to week, the president of Durham (CVCP) restating its opposition education, and worsen the achieve a sufficient level of fund- University's SU called for "a to students being charged top-up already increasing rates of acade- ing. national campaign to get the fees. mic failure and dropping out. Imperial College has indicat- recent budget cuts into the The letter was written at last The letter follows recent ed that it is opposed to the idea, news", and scheduled the 29th of Thursday's meeting of the group, speculation that Universities may preferring to look to fees from February as a national student which is concerned mainly with be forced to impose levies on stu- overseas students to make up the action day [Felix 1046). higher education funding. The dents to make up for cuts in gov- difference. In the long term, However, this zeal is by no meeting was attended by the ernment funding. The cuts, however, it may have no choice means universal. It has been ICU President Sarah White. An announced in last November's but to charge students. Univers- noted in some quarters that the accompanying article intended budget, reduce the total amount ity league tables published in NUS have been uncharacteristi- for publication in the next edi- of money spent on higher educa- recent years have shown Imperial cally lost for words. There have tion of the Times Higher been suggestions that this is con- Education Supplement is also Europe-wide funding crisis looms nected to the fact that the nomi- being prepared. This is intended nation stage of the body's to make the position of student The rising tide of protest against cuts in higher education from both National Executive elections unions clear before the next universities and students is not confined to Britain alone. Education reaches its climax this week. meeting of the CVCP on ministers from all over the European Union have been meeting Sarah White described its silence February 2nd. recently to discuss funding strategies for higher education across the as "surprising", adding "if I were They describe top-up fees as community. Many governments are under pressure to trim public in the NUS, I would expect them "a short term option", likely to spending on universities, leading to widespread protests in Germany to campaign". A spokesperson for "legitimise future reductions in and political disagreements within the French authorities them- the NUS replied "[we have been] public spending by the selves. With funding schemes based on commercial involvement meeting [recently] with the Government". The group points proving unpopular among universities, it is becoming more impor- CVCP" and "very much com- out that any altered funding sys- tant for a viable strategy to be found. plaining about these cuts."

St Mary's

Double whammy for IC in bed cemtinued from front page expensive equipment for the new were expected to describe their likely to benefit from the new medical school. efforts and successes at building shortage fund are those who already have The initiative was formulat- collaborative links with industry. close relationships with industry. ed after the budget, but the The results of the competition BY DIPAK GHOSH This view is upheld by a Government denies that it is due will be announced soon this year. St Mary's Hospital has spokesperson for the CVCP who to the spending cuts. It will be The two winners (one for science turned away 41 children with said that "if they [private invest- run as two competitions, com- the other for engineering) stand meningitis to other hospitals in ors] provide money for equip- petiton A with funds of £5m will to receive a first prize of £35,000 the past year. Two of them died ment, they will want it to be used cover bids for equipment worth each, the two runners up will in December after the hospital only lor research projects they're up to £250,000; competition B receive £15,000. could not find beds for them. already funding." with £13 million will cover bids While this initiative is good According to a newspaper study, This attitude is certainly true for items worth over £250,000. news for IC departments with there is a nationwide bed and in the case of Imperial College, This formula won't apply in clear industrial links, as Govern- staffing crisis in paedratic inten- which is in a very strong position Wales where there will be just ment funding for science sive care units. to do well out of this initiative. one competition, and although research shrinks further, money The study revealed that Dr David Thomas, Pro Rector for the competition has been for areas of research that are other top hospitals not able to Research Contracts says that IC announced, entry details and unpopular with private industry cope with demand for beds, will certainly be taking part, guidelines have not yet been will have to be found elsewhere. included the Great Ormond "Imperial is well plugged into made known. Researchers' time will be taken Street Hospital for Sick industry, we will go hard at this This is not the first funding up applying for elusive grants Children. and should succeed quite well." competition run by the instead of carrying out the re- The British Medical Dr Thomas feels confident that Government; in 1995 there was a search that they hope to pursue, Association have called for this will help Imperial to secure competition for Industry- thus making that research less immediate action to resolve the the funds necessary to buy Academia collaboration. Entrants efficient and more expensive. crisis. FOUR . FELIX FRIDAY JANUARY 26TH 1995 NEWS AUT resist pay freeze and seek rise

Lecturers express concern over their future

BY DIPAK GHOSH 80% of the College's money is ingly getting heavy. We are very deleterious to IC's reputation as a The President of Imperial spent on staff salaries, so the keen to maintain the quality of leading teaching and research College branch of the Association tempation is there to limit this by teaching and research here... but institution. of University Teachers, Brian a pay freeze and staff cuts. He at the same time the numbers of "There is also an increasing Wilson, has pledged to resist the went onto say "the college should back up staff... are increasingly trend in universities to use tem- 7% cuts in higher education fund- be able to retain all staff and pay reduced." porary lecturers and researchers ing which have been imposed on them fair salaries from turnover... On the matter of top-up because universities are not as the sector. The drop in funding is such as research contracts." fees, Mr Wilson said that "the secure as they used to be." When equivalent to £300m in real Noting that academic staff AUT is against any sort of stu- asked to expand on this, he said terms. are paid comparatively less than dent fees in whatever guise. that the government used to pro- Speaking to Felix, he also other professions, and that they Basically in present form, this vide funding on a 5-yearly basis said that the AUT will strive to recieved smaller increases in pay, top-up fee is an ad hoc way of and every university knew how protect their members. The he stressed that academic staff recovering the funding cuts, much it had so it could plan AUT's view is that there should deserve more for their work. "We without proper understanding ahead, whereas now universities not be any cuts in staff and if are expected to cope with especially in big cities. The whole are less certain about how much need be then cuts should be increasing student numbers with thing has to reviewed." funding they will receive. made in other areas. Adequate less and less staff" he said. Mr Wilson also expressed The AUT is now formulating and quality staff are essential in "University lecturers are also concerns relating to increasing a document to submit to the order for a university to run prop- expected to spend at least 50% of 'casualisataion' of academic staff: CVCP, in which they demand a erly. their time on research. We also "Temporary staff are increasingly modest increase in salaries and a With the cuts in funding, have the duty of handling more being employed in many universi- readjustment of the salary scale there are fears over lecturer's pay and more students. Organizing ties. IC have tried to avoid on behalf of their members. This and top-up fees. Brian Wilson [teaching] also takes a lot of time employing short-term staff motion will then be sent to the commented that approximately and effort and this... is increas- because it has realized that it is government.

Praise for students reaction to burglar

BY ALEX FEAKES ing a dark blue jersey and jeans. Students of the Southside halls Within thirty minutes, a man fit- of residence came in for praise ting that description had been over their role in the apprehen- apprehended on the upper gallery sion of a suspected burglar last by security officers. When he Thursday. The alarm was raised failed to provide a satisfactory by students when a computer reason for his presence, he was and a stereo hi-fi were discovered taken to the security lodge and in a bathroom (Stop Press, Felix held there until the police 1046). arrived. At the time of going to Kenneth Weir, the new press, the suspect's name has not Deputy Head of Security, was been released, and a link between particulary impressed with those the misappropriated property residents who stopped and chal- and the intruder has not yet been firmly established. lenged the intruder, and subse- PHOTO: WILLIAM LORENZ quently reported him to the Speculating on how the bur- housekeeper. A number of sight- glar might have gained entry to The new Deputy Head of Security, Kenneth Weir, and his secretary. ings of a man behaving suspi- the hall, Mr Weir said that the ciously were reported, and after most likely way was for him to Weeks Hall thief gets four months the missing electrical equipment have followed another student was found, security were noti- when they entered the hall. He The burglar who was caught after plaguing Week's Hall last fied. did concede, however, that there term has been sentenced to four month's imprisonment by The security response to the was a security weak point where Horseferry Road Magistrate's court. intruder was to monitor the exits contractors working in Southside The thief, named as Mr Alex Jefferies, was arrested by the to the building, and then to have access to the building, police on the 22nd November last year for attempted burglary and search the building for the man, though it was being covered in a was remanded into custody until his court appearance on January said to be young, Asian and wear- current security review. 5th. At the trial, 13 other convictions were taken into account. FEATURE FELIX FRIDAY 26TH JANUARY 1996 . FIVE

In a week when we'll see the second double rollover in a Are we going lotto crazy? row, we ask: The queues stretching for miles from the kiosk There are also the charities and so-called at Sainsbury's can only mean one thing - it's good causes to which some of every pound Saturday afternoon, and the nation is once goes. After the fiasco at the beginning, the again possessed by the maniacal desire to get charities are at last receiving their money. The rich quick. And with the second opportunity to arts council and the sports council are contin- win £40M coming up, the queues this week uing to receive very large grants for their pro- will be even longer. It wes estimated that in jects, but smaller charities seem to be some- the last double-rollover week, 80% of the pop- what less successful. ulation succumbed to temptation and parted :?»„. Titen of course, there are the priprize-wirtz - with at least one ticket in the quest to become ners. jrely gain fror lottery. So a: multi-millionaire. eiot arranges Tinancial advi- Virginia Bottomley claimed that our Lottery rsfor the winners! After all, is 'more successful' than most others in idual do with £40M? Build Europe. But how can you measure the suc- >nal motorway, perhaps? Or cess of something like a National Lottery? If srhaps a hospital for the Welcome... This week, I have it's measured by the amount of headline news- :or the many victims of the consulted the runes of it makes, then ours is definitely the most suc- ten I come to think about it, Bottomley to make my predic- cessful. The £42 million jackpot even made with £40M. But I am also tions. The crystal ball is clear- headline news on, German television. The ing, and I seeee that if you have near-miss of two planes at a German airport lots of money already, yooou (the worst air-traffic control mistake in recent will not be playing the lottery. A I walk straight past the queues at the kiosk history) was the second news item that day. If? in Sainsbury's every week. 1 walked past them cleaning team will be lucky this this is a measure of success, then we are weeeek. A generous maaan in the last double roll-over jackpot, and I shall: doing very well indeed. with a ginger hair and a virgin buy a copy of the Big Issue instead. It costs interest will not be pleased. But who really stands to gain from this? 30p less than a lottery ticket, it's entertain- Black cats and four leaf clovers Our government certainly receives substantial ment value lasts for longer, and it benefits the will also be lucky. The numbers amounts through it. Perhaps this is Virginia people who really need it. And, perhaps best 5, 31 and 42,000,000 will be Bottomley's definition of success. Or it could fif all - it doesn't involve watching Anthea significant this weeek. If you be the profits made by Camelot Group, who Turner or Mystic Meg on T.V. like cheese, yooou could be run the lottery. These would probably indicate lucky todaaaay. If you truly success for the lottery. Marcia Symonds & Mark Baker believe that you willll win this weeeek, then you are crazier than meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Flying the flag for charities: Number Q The National Lottery Charities Board So now to the most impor- C tant question: how to pick 3 The National Lottery Charities Board exists to own fundraising. those six numbers? The make grants to organisations which are estab- The Board has decided that the best way majority of the population „ lished for charitable, benevolent or philan- to deal with the huge amount of applications seem to go for birthdays, 3 thropic purposes. for grants (over 14,000 totalling £2 billion) is 'lucky' numbers or numbers Eligible organisations include tenants' and to allocate grants in themed blocks. The that have come up in draw themes are as follows; before. I myself favour drawing residents' associations, Housing associations little matchstick men with the and some self-help groups. Individuals, profit- Communities, families and individuals boxes, but I've never won so I making companies and health authorities are disadvantaged by low income for the first can't recommend that method. not eligible for grants, and the Board has indi- round. If you're really stuck then you cated that it will not fund activities that are the Health, Disability and Care this spring. can buy a lotto pen or even a responsibility of the Government. So far the New Opportunities and Choices this sum- mini version of Ihe machines. board has approved over 1200 grants totalling mer. Just remember that whatever £160 million. An organisation can apply for Improving People's Living Environment numbers you choose you have any amount from £500 upwards, and does the same chance, and anyone this winter. who says otherwise is wrong. not have to 'match' part of the grant with their Community Involvement in spring 1997. Imperial College Operatic Society Presents The Boyfriend

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6th - 10th February 1996 at 7.30pm

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A Musical Play by Sandy Wilson By kind permission of Samuel French Ltd FEATURE FELIX FRIDAY 26TH JANUARY 1996 . SEVEN Stakeholding: Blair's new baby examined

Was Mr. Blair, in a past life, employed to make the rewards they receive, then they will want to the F.A Cup draw? I ask only because the manner know how big that stake is. The necessity to in which he brings forth his election slogans is quantify how much each person holds will be similar to the way in which Graham Kelly and unavoidable and several implications follow from friends drew their own load of balls from from a this. smooth velvety bag. The latest offering to ooze If Mr. Blair is proposing real equality through from the pores Labour's Doctor of Spinology, Mr. stakeholding, then he can't achieve it without Peter Mandelson, is the 'stakeholder economy'. monstrous legislation. More than would be An idea which has won the Labour leader an away required if the UK were to accept the Social win in Singapore, but as everyone knows, it's the Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty. The appeal of home form that counts. Mr. Blair's choice of city stakeholding to Mr. Blair is clear, but it is a clever to launch his latest idea illustrates the cautious paradox which (unintentionally) displays the true nature of the Labour leader, and his incisive party colours that have been changed more often thinking: if the people of Derby (not so much a than The Manchester United strip: in order to give city as a perpetual lottery queue) can understand people greater power and a bigger say in their lives, his message, then the intellectual masses to whom it is in fact the Government that would end up he is really appealing will have no difficulty. dictating the terms of our lives. Lord alone knows From the reception his latest toy received at how long a Parliamentary session would be needed Derby, it seems he will have difficulty in selling to ensure that the legislation was passed giving all this one. If, as Mr. Blair affirms, "the stakeholder sorts of rights and imposing inefficient practices on economy is at the heart of the political battle business. The return to Centralist authority would today", then the only people fighting it are those entail all the traditional punitive tax measures and on the Left searching for a definition of an inefficient bureaucratic regime to rubber stamp 'stakeholder'. The unions think that the existence all decisions. This is on top of the new department of stakeholders will return their lost power. that would be charged with measuring our stakes. Managers believe that non-institutional New Labour would dismiss such a scenario as shareholders will have greater power and Mr. Blair fantastical, but they seriously need to ask (I think) is promoting people power. Significantly, themselves exactly what this future Government equal power. will do. The next election is approaching and could In fact, the term is borrowed from business even be called in November of this year. Thus far and modern management (hence the Singapore there has not been the semblance of a policy idea connection). In the corporate world, a stakeholder or a commitment of any resources to any purpose. is any group or individual who has an interest in the At least nothing more than the predictable way the company is run and can, by their actions, opposition set pieces of better health care, better affect the decisions of the company. The most schools, safer streets and less tax. clear example of stakeholders wielding power is in Instead of opting for a common sense approach the relationship between big business and the to policy making, Mr. Blair seems determined to environment. Many companies recognise that utilise the methods of management gurus and ignoring the pleas of environmental lobbyists can apply them to UK Pic; in aping the behaviour of be detrimental to the company in the long term. these self styled Corporate Healers, he should be There is no assumption in management, that aware that whilst they may inspire and create different groups (such as customers, shareholders, enthusiasm through exposing what is essentially environmental groups etc.) have an equal stake. common sense, they also manage to avoid Rather, it is accepted that some peoples' stake will prescribing detailed solutions to specific problems. be bigger than others. The stakeholder concept is The guru doesn't actually 'do' anything. Mr. Blair simply a recognition that there is a population can't do that with the Country. His policies need outside the customer who are affected by the substance - the discerning voter is unlikely to find activities of a company. The quandary that the much joy in any of Mr. Blair's current dishes, Labour leader will find himself in if he attempts to especially his stakes. apply such a concept to the nation, is that if people are told that their 'stake' in the nation determines Nooman Haque SUPPORTED BY STA TRAVEL IMPERIAL COLLEGE TEL 0171 SSI 8882 friends of imperial college consort gallery, sherfield buHding, until 14 february. three french painters: ffancine clauzel-baker, gilbert conan and luce geas exhibit a variety of oil and watercolours. ouleursclauzel-[-baker t ; above: le beguinage below: patricia's tulips

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album: saint etienne daho - reserection«,utbreath album: galactic cowboys - machine fish theatre: glass menagerie - tennessee williamscilair e samtiel I film: sabrina.agp.e0 film: angels & insects™^ # r~ book: an anthropologist Grateful Dead fan who lost much of his mind. At the same time, the studies are darkly on mars - oliver sadcs^,™*™* humorous: the Grateful Dead fan referred to by an anthropologist on mars bv 'Adaptation follows Sacks had effectively had a frontal lobotomy - a a different path in process misguidedly carried out on other unfor- pap'ib.K.k this week by each person". So tunates by a Nobel Award winner in the 1930s Picador, price £6.99 states Oliver Sacks according to the following procedure: in the preface to this "Knock them out with a shock... thrust an ice book of neurology pick up between the eyeball and the eyelid case studies. Sacks is through the roof of the orbital actually into the a Professor of frontal lobe of the brain and making the lateral Neurology in New cut by swinging the thing from side to side... [the York and has writ- only side effects have been] a very black eye in ten numerous other one case [I] There may be trouble later on but it works including seemed fairly easy, although definitely a dis- "The Man Who agreeable thing to watch." Mr Sacks is quick to Mistook His Wife comment on the horror of this operation but for a Hat". goes on to say that is was used until the 50s, In the studies of his when drugs to 'shut the patient up' came into personal patients presented here , a sense of care vogue. does shine through, even when the subject Oliver Sack's writing has been described as seems at their most perplexing. Cases are pre- "wonderfully iUuminating" by other newspapers, sented in a digestible thirty-odd page format and but I found the book dry and technical; there are it is quite possible to dip into this book from time an awful lot of footnotes which often just dis- to time - indeed a continuous read could prove tract from the case study. I thought this book heavy going. Amongst others there is the story of would be of interest to amateur psychologists, the painter who went colour blind, painting an but it seems more appropriate for the neurolo- entirely new perspective of the world, and a gists, or at least the biologists, among us.

simon baker jacked up enormously, as As some our finest sages and much as 30-40%, but the philosophers have pointed out, quality remained about the it's a funny old world. The same. This term I have Duchess of York, facing die noticed that standards have threat of bankruptcy, starts cut- clipped very noticeably. There ting costs by flying to New York is now no way that their price on Concorde. The Maxwell can be justified at a time when Brothers, who everyone allegedly thought were inflation is low and wage claims are fairly mod- as guilty as puppies sitting next to piles of poo, est. This appalling situation, where very success- are acquitted. The ICU Rag Chair allegedly ful ventures such as Southside Bar and QT are blames the poor Rag week total on 'the weath- used to bail out the laughably unprofitable er.' To raise a mere 20°/) of last year's total from MDH is unacceptable. These separate business- broadly the same range of events must surely es should be split and the main catering put out imply that something more serious is to blame. to tender. The current management are clearly He goes on suggest the problems concerning the not up to the task, using their effective monop- Rag chair (sounds like a piece of MFI furniture) oly position to stick two fingers up at the long- are responsible as well. Does he seriously believe suffering customers by raising prices, rather than that half the beer was left undrunk because peo- fighting to keep costs down and quality up. ple were concerned by the actions of Richard Enough is enough. Willis, a man who very generously dished out I'm sure that I was not alone in shedding a free vodka? I thought that I had got this off my tear on hearing of the divorce of Michael Jackson chest last term, and apologise for banging on and Lisa Marie Presley. A partnership hadn't about it (doing a Trev Addenbrooke as we call it seemed so perfect since Liz Taylor and... thingy. in the trade), but Rag has now made the transi- Hopefully this marks the beginning of the end of tion from joke to embarrassment and is failing Whacko, who seems capable of absolutely any- miserably in its sole task. thing to suppress allegations of child abuse. Those of you, God bless ya, who are regular Marriage contract has never been such an appro- readers of this column will remember my rant priate term. Most people make do with a couple on College Catering early last term, in which I of bridesmaids, but these two spent more on said 'the sandwiches in the JCR are fairly good, lawyers than OJ Simpson to stitch together a and I challenge anyone to find a better pint at deal to keep him free and, judging from the pic- such a price as Southside provides.' While the tures, her miserable. The chances of those two n latter is as true now as it was then, the comment finding love were about as good as finding on sandwiches has haunted me ever since. I did amusement in a Rag mag. Oh bugger, I'm at it not realise at the time that the prices had been again! zin *ght° Magnets to Heal our Hearts and Minds Michael Faraday would almost certainly have liked it. It seems magnetic fields can now be used to treat patients with weak hearts, neurological diseases and even mental illness.

ctually, it has been known for a long time that you can use magnets to induce electric currents in living tis- A sue. The principle is very simple. Faraday came up with it in the 1860s. The idea is this: you have a magnetic field and you make the strength of this field vary with time. Then, when you put this 'wiggly' magnetic field near something that conducts electricity, you will gen- erate a wiggly current (radios, motors, and dynamos all rely on this phenomenon).

The human body's has its own circuitry - the nervous system. Electrical signals in the nerves cause chemical changes and also make our mus- cles work. This means a magnetic field can be used to artificially stimulate muscles and nerves. Last May, a company from Wales called Magstim and a research team at the Department Left: Silvanus P. Thompson tries to magnetically stimulate his brain, (london 1910.) Right: A patient receives treatment for depression with a clinical magnetic nerve stimulator. Sdentopical of Physiology at Liverpool University started shoulder muscle for a couple of hours each day clinical trials on sheep to test a prototype 'mag- before the operation." When the muscle is trans- r~nhe Government has again refused to set up | netic stimulator' device. ferred to the heart it will be more effective. The JL a commission to oversee all areas of activi tests on sheep will determine how much stimu- ty in the field of genetics. This "complacence Shoulder Transplant lation is needed. has been slammed by MPs who are concerned Magstim is looking at how their stimulator can that lack of controls could lead to serious abus< help people who suffer from a particular heart Therapy for Depression in areas such as gene patenting, genetic screen condition where the heart muscle is too weak to It sounds unlikely, but by just placing a magnetic ing and detection of genetic disorders. function properly. The obvious solution is a nerve stimulator near the head it is possible to transplant but unfortunately new hearts aren't cure depression. Mark George's research at the easy to come by. Instead surgeons use a tech- National Institute of Mental Health in the nique called cardiomyoplasty. A muscle is Washington had a lot of success with this treat- 'the stripped from the patient's shoulder and ment last year. And now Magstim are looking at wrapped around their heart to strengthen it. using their stimulator on the brain for some ther- The problem with this procedure is the new apeutic effects. The tiny currents generated by muscle gets very tired - shoulder muscles are the stimulator cause the brain to produce enzymes and other chemicals. Psychiatrists think ocu- tliis problem is being drafted that these play a key role in certain types of men- tal illness.

from the Jupiter space probe Galileo Although this research is very promising, Dr Jalinous remains aware that there are problems associated with magnetic stimulation. "During stimulation of the brain, if you are not careful with the frequency, the patient can suffer a 3 by seizure. Currently doctors use the unpopular fter electrical stimulator which can cause short term A magic wand for healing the brain? memory loss... However, the low powered, just not designed to contract thousands of times more focal magnetic stimulator may avoid this a day. But Magstim hope to solve this problem. side effect. Of course, anyone with a pacemak- Dr Jalinous of Magstim says, "The idea is to er, a metal corset or a metal implant wouldn't be reduce the time taken for the patient to recover a suitable candidate for from the operation by stimulating the patient's magnetic stimulation." Katharine Lewis gig: cast + china drum + — IMiMXM - more the look of a group who know that things mansun + placebo*™, are going their way. The bulk of their set comes Ambient dance music that I Placebo sound like a three-piece, anti-Britpop from their debut album, All Change'. Highlights can't get enough of. Brilliant band in the making. 'Bruise Pristine' and 'Come include 'Alright', which gets everyone pogo-ing, Home' shine out amongst a set full of teeth-grind- and the psychedelic jam, 'History'. Alas, all good ing, guitar noise churned out at a helter-skelter things come to an end, and we are left to despair sterling - lucy is fine pace. as a powerful performance of near epic propor- 1 suppose you would call this Next band on, Mansun, have a lead singer tions comes to an end. of distortion that covers up who sports an attractive, Reni-style hat. They any melody that may be here. begin with recent single, "lake It Easy Chicken'. Unfortunately, it seems that they only have one song, and this lack of originality offsets the stage presence that they do possess. Never mind.

On come Geordie rockers, China Drum, W$MSBBB^Wk h;^J::9i&: whose fast and furious melody-shredding thrash sends the crowd into a frenzy. Between songs there is some abuse shouted about Northerners which the band join in with until some unpleasant the inbntls - any sense ol comments are made about the lead singer's widening girth. As a result, die Dmrnrnies decide The Manic Street Preachers. to culminate their fine set by leaving in style: they The b-sides aren't bad either. stage-dive on to the crowd. John Power and company have been busy over the last few months since the release of their y #sc ix ^BMUSMB 'Sx : first single, 'Finetime'. They have played numer- I don't know what to sav ous shows and their experience is beginning to yilMSPr :.BA;ABXS9&> show. They look relaxed and confident on stage, larly get you going In a neither but they don't have the arrogant swagger of Oasis CUSf Qmnised? So am I... album: spectre - original son - mcnxlswings in 007 films (g'duh) and tried to instil the essence Boring soul-reggae fusion. the missing two weeksi™ of Vincent Price or Telly Savalas. It sounds cheesy, especially with the '70s wah-wah guitar and ham- new and it's done much bet- There is no doubt about it - dub is undergoing mond organ sounds, but it's all very subde. l.Th\ ittJu-n something of a renaissance at the moment and Consequentiy, this is an excellent post-club this work of art could well be a Da Vinci, even if soundtrack, and provides something to unwind to speech - like marvin gaye he has been on the ganj... and watching too much at 7 a.m. on Saturday mornings, or indeed at any James Bond. This rebirth has been helped by peo- other time that you're feeling mellow. ple like Spectre investing in some state of the art This is possibly the first post-modernist take equipment and putting some interesting new on dub, but far from being wallpaper music, Development. Moody and sounds on top of the ageing dub framework. It has instead it contains walls which have eyes that fol- also been helped by an increased interest in music low you around the room. This is well worth for chilling out to. checking out by dub afficionados and chill-out This could be Nirvana. It's Spectre have taken their name from bad guys merchants anywhere. (9) your classic c|tiiet start with crashing heaviness in the middle album: deep purple - unteered to take this album. Sure enough, Deep purpendiculariuca Purple are not th emost credible band. But that lhiM'ifiMh tl it'ir Ksi suti didn't bother me -1 was merely interested to hear so l.ir l.iink's VIM* For a moment, forget all the connotations associ- how they had evolved. his age, but that's no bad ated with Deep Purple - perpetrators of the awful With the "Classic Mark 2 line-up" minus thing. Hie slide mix of Tret's 'Smoke on Water' - and their image as a real-life Blackmore and plus Steve Morse, they trawl fj AH GoTbgether' is worth a Spinal Tap widiout even the merest hint of irony. through regions that lie between soft and hard They had two (and only two, mind) good songs. rock, playing (just as I had expected) smug, self- Ritchie Blackmore, riffmeister horribilis, later to congratulatory muso-rubbish. This isn't necessari- be associated with the emetic 'Since You've Been ly bad, but judging by their press release, they Gone' (with Rainbow) showed surprising sensi- obviously take themselves really seriously, and tivity and emotive guitar artiuclation with the that is baaad. For example, Roger Glover cathartic 'When A Blind Man Cries', while on the describes the recording sessions as 'magic somewhat funky 'Emeretta', strains of Hendrix moments'. Any fool who listens to this album can can be heard to good effect (without being obvi- see that is about as magic as watching your wash- ously derivative). ing machine do the laundry. And what kind of tide Now in their 27th year, Deep Purple are is 'Purpendicular? Oh, pur-lease (er, sorry - releasing their 26th album. Cries of, "Oh dear" please), what a bad pun. were heard from my fellow reviewers when I vol- This is definitely best avoided. (1) listings: -album: galactic cowboys - are neither preach-y nor teach-y 'Psychotic Companion bemoans the unwarranted credence machine fishik given to fortune-tellers and astrologers, while 26 \in - astona - £7.50 There's only one possible reason why you should- 'Stress and'Fear Not are positive but honest sto- n't buy this album: you've never heard of the ries of personal struggle. band. Thankfully we can deal with that faster Thirdly, they are one of the most original than it takes the Southside Shop to sell something bands on the planet. Heavy guitar riffs collide .. ' ...... . with a 100% profit mar- with angelic harmonies, gin. After all, you d never and although the quirks heard of Portishead, of old have mainly been (l-ii)Hiuiiii' + ktvLili |iini!> 4* hfak twang - 27 jan - Oasis or Metallica once dispensed with, there's upon a time had you? more musical talent and On the other hand, I great songs than you'll 'My ™11 can think of numerous find in the average per- reasons why you ought son's record collection. dawsoa -27 pa- wahham- to buy this album. Firstly, Fourthly, the Galactic stow assembly hall - fcring the Galactic Cowboys Cowboys, far from are plain funny. Not content with having a second being macho metal-heads, are sensitive and are album called 'Space In Your Face', they have now not afraid to show it. Listen to 'Easy To Love' and released an album that pokes fun at the fact that Arrow' and check that you end up brushing back foetus - 28 tan - garage - £8 so many bands these days seem to use the words the tears. If you don't cry then find a sledgeham- 'Machine' (Rage Against The Macbine, Machine mer and take it to your ice-cold heart. bottierline - £5 Head, etc.) and 'Fish' (Fish, Fishbone, Phish, In summary, the Galactic Cowboys have a sill + bennct + sparklehorse Jellyfish etc.) in their monickers. sense of humour, are innovative not derivative, jan *dublm tattle 5 3 *>< Secondly, they sing about serious matters but and play music that scales the heights of sublim- their sense of fun pervades throughout and they inity. Buy or remain forever unfulfilled. (9)

: : :i -mini-album: saint etienne 'iPCi;--r )!5|; pleasant, with Daho's and Sarah Cracknell's close, bilingual harmonics rising over a hypnotic, wah- (iOh. dolls + uitaionia - 30 daho - reserectiontroutface wah inspired groove. The fun stops there and it is with a heavy dr. robert - 3i jan -gatsge - This is strange indeed. For a start, it's mosdy in French. This is because 'Reserection' is the result heart that I must condemn this record to rot in sparklehorsK * 31 jan - hor- of a collaboration between Saint Etienne and the bargain bin at Woolies. The final tunes (X some French bloke, Mr. Daho, who raps a bit. Amours', Accident' and 'Le Baiser Francais') do Hence, the snappy name... not raise any hopes. Saint Etienne Daho were We kick off with the tide track. Fifty-five sec- obviously hoping for a Portishead-style trip-rock firm 3 ieb - shep bush onds of that French bloke talking French. Great. effort with some kind of mysterious, Gallic twist. emj ! We move on to 'Jungle Pulse'. This is surprisingly Instead, they ended up sounding awful. (4) .'..

gig: marc almond than McAlmont's had songs, but it doesn't make them interesting. Imagine two geography teachers + difford & tilbrook armed with guitars, and you're virtually there. ~T" mCalmOntiittlejackhome-y Messrs. Dull-but-Eamest.

: T Tf* This is not an accusation you could level at I had serious misgivings about this gig. The devil Marc Almond, the ultimate diva. As the song says, on my shoulder was asking tricky little questions he's still here. The trouble is that he's brought the like, "Why does it always come down to 'pop band with him. The words "delicate touch" do stars' to do benefits for things a responsible not enter this band's vocabulary, but what can you Government should be funding?" and, "Why expect when they contain an ex-member of Sigue does such a big issue always seem so ghetto-ised. Sigue Sputnik? We get some Soft Cell songs and Another hospice benefit with a predominantly a few new things, and though Marc seems gen- gay line up, playing to a predominandy gay crowd? uinely happy to be on stage, I don't believe in him Where are the Take Thats of this world when you anymore. It's all one dimensional, and it careers need them?" Still, I was here to review the music. once too often towards Gary Glitter for comfort. This bit of the review could write itself - I remember how he used to make your jaw drop McAlmont had a point to prove, namely that he with his nerve, with the things he tried on stage, was the new diva in town. He was everything a with the quality of the material. Tonight he was true pop star should be - sassy, flamboyant and a okay, but for someone who really has meant flirt - he just needs another song that gets within something, okay isn't enough. snogging distance of 'Yes' and he could be winning Ah well, I didn't have high expectations, and hearts and minds. they were matched. At least money was raised for Difford & Ttlbrook seem to concentrate on the Trinity Hospice, and at the end of the day I minds, and their place on the bill seems a strange guess that's what really matters, not the bitter one. Yes, they've written more classic numbers whingeing of someone who should know better. theatre: the glass menagerie comedy theatre claire samuel kept, affluent home but with the backdrop of 0171369 mi the American metal fire escape which encircles pauton street: piccadilly circus Set in St Louis during the 1930's, just before the the auditorium, is a constant reminder of the Great Depression, this is the story of an over- conflict of fading hopes and reality. This delight- bearing mother, Amanda Wingfield (Zoe ful and powerful play with its themes of need, Wanamaker), brought up on the affluent Deep self expression and personal responsibility has I Sundays), South plantations, and her children, Tom and the been well received by the critics with five nomi- crippled Laura. Amanda awaits daily a stream of nations in the forthcoming Oliver awards (Best : .777 'gentlemen callers' to court her daughter but Actress: Wanamaker, Supporting Performance: unlike in her own youth, they never arrive. The Chaplin and Skinner, Direction and Set Design) constant reminder of the mother's hopes and and each one is thoroughly deserved. ! 7 plans for her children has made them 'different'. 01 HI 743 3388 Laura escapes her deformity and pressure of golhawk road/shepherds marriage by doting on her collection of delicate goldhauk road by simon glass animals, her menagerie. Tom, however, finds the excitement and romance he craves musing directed by pad away form the mundane warehouse job he has miller, mon- sat Spin. taken to support his family since his father left, £9-SO, £6 concs> plus 50p and escapes the frequent family rows by writing poetry and going to the movies. 7:;|;": : Zoe Wanamaker portrays excellently a domi- neering mother who is determined her children should make something of their lives and not make the mistakes that she made, but in her wprn^mn ^m7 pursuit is blinded to the situations and desires of her clildren. Ben Walden as Tom Wingfield won- Mstabk rnoT.-tiiurs ~ -l^pm, nv i derfully expresses the frustration and repression £"",tu ^:i^t* I'n'lj jfnpun Z4ir. of Iris circumstances drat is contrasted with the silent introspection of his sister (Claire Skinner). The set, Simple and atmospheric with its blue/grey lighting, has the appearance of a well -film: sabrina™agpi e between Elizabeth's father's company and the Larrabee family business (confused yet?). | 7 . Replace Humphrey Bogart with Harrison Ford, David's older brother, Linus (Ford), who runs Audrey Hepburn with Julia Ormond and keep the family business, then intervenes to prevent : >.3%

the name of the film almost the same and you the merger from going sour. have a remake of 1954's Sabrina Fair. Like cover Sabrina is a love story but also a fairy tale, so versions of old top ten songs, Sabrina has been any hope of a serious study of a love triangle, refurbished and rewritten to go with a 90's social where money is a motivation for love, goes out melody. Sabrina Fairchild (Ormond) is the of the window in the first few minutes. This film 20,9.45-4.::; daughter of the Larrabee's chauffeur, her girl- is nothing if not sickly sweet, its romance hood spent watching a particular member of the adapted well to today's attitudes. However it is Larrabee family, David (Greg Kinnear), who's easy to see the 1950's influence seeping round . y-;< charm and love of parties had captivated her the edges; in a formal dinner party and a scene in heart. This voyeurism ends when the slightly an arboretum. awkward and shy Sabrina is shipped off to Paris This film is very easy to watch and requires to work for Vogue magazine. Two years later she no effort at all, and this is probably where the returns and the Parisian atmosphere has rubbed film falters as it is extremely easy to forget. off on her; gone are the goofy glasses and in place Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond are a mis- is mature sophistication. matched couple for this film, but I suppose this I Sabrina's return causes a flutter with David is why fairy tales exist. Sabrina's cast and reliable which in turn rocks the rest of the Larrabee fam- story line prevents this film from being seven 6.25,9.15 ily. David's impending marriage to Elizabeth mediocre. Despite being a rehash of a golden .| ill 11- \ Tyson is put at risk, and this endangers a merger oldie this is undeniably romantically satisfying.

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"film: angels and insects ndals and the story is far from closed. His new brother- This film may not be what you would expect in-law can barely hold at bay his antagonism for from your standard historical drama. Granted, this lower class usurper. His wife's love for him it has the sumptuous costumes, the incidental swings by great degrees, and this seems to be chamber music and the somewhat formalised expressed only physically. The only intellectual 1.30 speech. However, there is no glorification of this companionship he can find is that of the chil- 4.1 K> past, and it is into its own future that it is look- drens' governess. Obviously this is not a stable carrington 6.30 ing. state of affairs. The story centres around a young explorer As mentioned above, the raison d'etre of the jfls scientist, recendy returned from a period in the film is not to wallow sumptuously in a glorified rockv horror fi 6, cones £3] Amazon and now residing in a stately home. His past. Instead it contains two things. One is a 11.00- stay in the household rests on the charity of his wonder of nature. Together with the governess . patron for whom he is cataloguing a large biolog- and her charges they observe and record the nat- £2 all seats ical collection. Although highly intelligent his low ural life of the grounds around the house, partic- class makes him wary of expounding his new ularly the yearly cycle of a colony of ants. The fangled Darwinian views. To complicate matters, second is a sense of relief that the depicted class the young man also falls for the physical charms structures of the past are, if not extinct, very of his patron's daughter, far above his realistic much marginalised. Instead, intelligence and class aspirations. Surprisingly she agrees to marry hard work have their rewards, monetary and him. otherwise, and it is the 'otherwise' part that However, this was not the crux of the film, counts when it comes to happiness. SIXTEEN FELIX FRIDAY JANUARY 26TH 1996 DIARY

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1pm. Southside Gym. Friday Prayers (R) Fitness Club French Society 2pm. Southside gym. Intermediate aerobics. Pakistan Society (R) 3 - 5pm. Basketball practice in the union Monday night films: gym. Bring trainers! Contact Kashif, Aero II, January 29th: Jeunet et Carot's Delicatessen Ents [email protected]. (R) February 5th: Betty Blue (Original name 2.30pm Davinci's. Standing Room Only - Fitness Club 37°2 le Matin) Live FA Cup 4th round match, featuring February 12th: La Double Vie de Veronique Sheffield United against AstonVilla. 5.30pm. Advanced Step Aerobics (R) The only place for big screen sport. All at 6.00pm in Chem Eng LT 3. Ents Free for members. Sunday It is time to get funky! The Shaft! crew get into disco mode, drag out some of their fave old 70's and 80's records and get ready to ignite a disco inferno. So if you love anything Karting Club from Abba to Adam Ant, Wham to Duran Duran then this is a chance to relive some of Karting. What is it? Basically if you have the locations: Rye House in Hertfordshire, and the best sounds of the last 20 years. inclination to reach great velocities, and Tilbury, two entirely different places with And, for tip-top kitsch sounds, the Sundays are usually boring - this is the thing two entirely different types of circuit. Cheesy Wotsits Easy Listening Lounge to do. Some of you have no doubt been Pro- The Motor Club also has in its possession wrestles the chill-out room from the grasps Karting - it is definitely not the same thing at a 125cc kart, with top speeds in excess of of dub and trip hop, and delivers a blow for all. Top speeds are (if you're lucky) 45mph - 130mph, doing 0-60 in 3.5s! This kart has six soundtracks, easy listening, and charity shop the TKM's of the C&G Motor Club will gears, and is fully clutched. For use by drivers chic in the UDH - plus a Cocktail Bar. reach 90mph. with big balls only, believe me! If you make an effort and get out your The Motor Club Kart Section Leader, This year, the Motor Club and its Kart most excessive threads, then it's FREE! Tom Bradley (a Miner, as it happens... Section provide a great opportunity to get Otherwise, it's a quid and remember, be Odd...) spends endless amounts of time 'hands-on' involvement with everything early! keeping the TKMs in excellent working motor mechanical - anyone interested in friday order, even with a limited budget. driving souped-up lawn mowers? The City and Guilds Motor Club, To get involved, turn up at Mech Eng particularly the Kart Section, has been more 340, post a note in the C&GU pigeon hole in Dramsoc active this year than it has for a long time, and the Union office or send an e-mail to eagerly welcomes new students. Membership [email protected] Dramsoc will be holding auditions for their is £5, with a further £5 Kart Section fee. [The Kart Section apologise for any 'Showcase of Plays' tomorrow, Saturday Trips happen most Sundays (keep an eye inconvenience caused by recent engine trials - 27th, at 2.00pm in the SCR (Union on the Felix diary section) to nearby a new garage would, of course, help greatly]. Building). Plenty of parts are available in four short plays. More information and details in Plinge, our newsletter, or from [email protected]. DIARY FELIX FRIDAY JANUARY 26TH 1996 . SEVENTEEN

monday tuesday Wednesday 30 31 j anuary January j anuary Student Industrial Society Cathsoc 12 - 2pm. Table Tennis room, upstairs in 12.00 pm. Sir Leon Bagritt Centre. IC Sailing Club Level 1 Mech Eng. (R) Union. (R) 12.15pm. Meet outside Southside, go sailing. (R) Fitness Club Afro-Carib Soc Skate Society 12.30pm. Beginners body toning (45 mins) 12.30 - 1.30pm. Room G02, Materials dept, 12.15pm. Southside Lounge. Contact Alex 5.30pm. Beginners aerobics RSM. All welcome. (R) [email protected], 0171 352 9111 for 6.30pm. Intermediate aerobics. (R) details. (R) IC Sailing Club ConSoc 12.45 - 1.45pm. Southside Lounge. (R) Fitness Club 1.15pm. Room 542 Mech Eng. 'Speak your 5 - 6pm. Southside Gym. Intermediate/Ad- mind' Youth Hostelling Association vanced step class. (R) 1.00pm. Southside Lounge. 'Take a walk on Jewish Society the wild side' (R) Squash Club 12.20pm. Senior Common Room. Bagel 3.20 - 5.20pm. Sports centre. 'Club Night' lunch. For more iniormation, contact AudioSoc (R) [email protected]. 1.00pm, Southside Lounge. Want to buy cheap CDs? Interested in borrowing high- IC Symphony Orchestra Ski Club end HiFi? We have it all... (R) 7 - 10pm. Great Hall. (R) 12.30 - 1.15 pm. Southside Upper Lounge. (R) Photo Soc ConSoc 1.00pm. Southside Lounge. (R) 7.30pm Trip to English National Opera: ArtSoc Mozart's Magic Flute. Cost £5.00. 12.30 - 1.30pm. Union Dining Hall. Come Circus Skills and sign up for our many trips to Musicals. 5 - 8pm. Come along and learn to juggle! Ents (R] Union Lounge. 9 - lam. If it's Wednesday, it must be Frolik! More info : [email protected] (R) Bar 'til midnight. Concert Band 5.15pm. Great Hall, Sherfield. Any ability. Fitness Club Wednesday 5.30pm. Advanced aerobics. (R) (R) French Soc IC Bridge Club 6.00pm Chem Eng LT 3. Jeunet et Carot's 6pm in the Clubs Committee Room. (R) next diary Delicatessen . Free for members. icsf - Science Fiction 7pm in STOIC Studios. deadline: Cross Country http://www.ph.ic.ac.uk/moontg/ (R) 5.00pm. Circuit training. Union gym. (R) ConSoc noon, Squash Club Night 7.30pm Beer/Thai Cultural Evening. 8 - 10pm. Sports Centre. (R) Churchill Arms (Kensington High Street)

IC 2nd Orchestra IQ January 7.30pm. Further Info: pink- 7 - 9pm. Great Hall. All welcome. (R) [email protected] or 29 th http://pink.doc.ic.ac.uk/IC/ (R) Ents 8pm Davinci's. Standing Room Only - More Canoe Club FA Cup Football: Queens Park Rangers v 7pm. Beit Quad. All levels welcome, and Chelsea. free instruction. (R) monday OpSoc Rehearsal 7.30pm. Sandy Wilson's The BoyFriend. Special Guest UCH. (R) ICCAG 8.15pm. Weeks Hall basement. Soup run for Lecture the homeless. (R)

Wednesday February 7th at 1.00 pm in Ents Physics (Blackett Laboratory) LT 1. 8pm. Davinci's. Dan & his Bar Trivia - £50 Professor Sir Michael Atiyah, OM. PRS. or a crate of beer could be yours!

"The Mathematics & Physics of After Dark Knots" 8 - 11.30pm Ents Lounge. Admission is £1 for a night of swing, hip-hop and jungle with Professor Atiyah is from Trinity College, the African Caribbean society. Cambridge and is President of the Royal Society. tuesday EIGHTEEN FELIX FRIDAY JANUARY 26TH 1996 DIARY

thursday friday Opsoc IT'S ALMOST VALENTINE'S DAY FOR 1 2 'THE BOYFRIEND' Attention! Attention! Yes, it's that time of february february year again, when Opsoc performs yet Yacht Club Meeting Rag Meeting another spectacle of music, dancing and fun. 12.30pm. Lecture Theatre 2, Physics. (R) The forthcoming show is "The Boyfriend" by I. 10pm Ents Lounge. (R) Sandy Wilson. Performance nights are 6th - Fitness Club 10th February and the ticket prices are 12.30pm. Die Hard circuit training Islamic Society fabulous value at £4 (students and 5.30pm. Beginners aerobics. (R) concessions.) lpm. Southside Gym. Friday Prayers (R) "The Boyfriend" was first performed in ConSoc and IQ 1954 in the West End at the Wyndham's 1.00pm Huxley 140. Debate: 'Homophobia Pakistan Society theatre. It is set in the mid-twenties at a in IC.' 3 - 5pm. Basketball practice, union gym. famous finishing school in the south of E-mail Kashif at [email protected]. (R) France (oo la la!). The girls are preparing Gliding Club Fitness Club themselves for a carnival ball, all except lpm. Aero 266. (R) young Polly who has no partner to 5.30pm. Advanced Step Aerobics (R) accompany her. Until, that is, she meets Mountaineering Club Tony. But he is not all he seems (now stop 7pm. Social, Southside Upper Lounge. (R) Ents that! This is a family show!). As with all good old-fashioned love stories... boy meets Strap up your ribs for the "Bust-A-Gut" girl, boy loses girl and... well, there's a Yoga Soc Comedy Club: this week's acts are Matt surprise at the end! So you'll have to bring 6.15 - 7.45pm ICU, table tennis room. Welcome, Ross Noble, plus Open Mic spot. all your friends with you to find out what Beginners' Kunalini yoga class. More All this for just £2.50, or £2 with Ents card, happens. information from [email protected], ex and if you're one of the first twenty in, we'll 48237. (R) throw in a free T-shirt. If you're familiar with our previous Then indulge in some serious winter shows [Cabaret, Chicago, Grease) Christian Union Hedonizm, a night of top club sounds. £1 or you'll already know about our spectacular 6.30 - 7.45pm. SCR in the Union. free with Ents cards, or if you're in before sound, superb singing, admirable acting and (Right above the bar). (R) 9pm. Plus, the chill-out room will be open, colourful costumes, not to mention the toe- so you can just relax in a dub friendly world. tapping tunes. Much effort and hard work ICCAG friday has gone in to producing the show, and your 8.15pm. Weeks Hall basement. Soup run for support would be very much appreciated. the homeless. (R) So, for a Valentine's Day treat, bring Jewish Society your boyfriend, bring your girlfriend (bring Skate Soc Hello and welcome back to a new term here both!) and enjoy a wonderful evening. Look Night Skate - everyone welcome. For more at ICJS. There are loads of events planned: out for some of the characters around the information phone Alex on 0171 352 9111 here at IC, in London and nationwide. To Union shortly before first night. or email [email protected] (R) add to our weekly bagel lunches, which have Tickets are available from Laurie started again (in case you hadn't noticed) in Tweedale or John Savery and at ICU RCS Ents the SCR at 12.20 on Mondays, next reception. 9pm - 12am. Ents lounge. Jazz and Funk Tuesday (30th January) is a JSoc Band night night, live band & DJ. £1 (R) at the Rock Garden in Covent Garden. Tickets are £3.50 and can be bought on the stoic Ents door. On Wednesday 31st January, there 5 - 1 lpm. Can you handle the style overload will be a JSoc stall in the JCR for SCC week. 12noonTHE REPORT that is the ICU Cocktail Night? It's a hotbed On Monday 5th February Dr. Gary Sagiv is A round up of the latest news and views of sophistication. coming to the bagel lunch. He is an from the College and the Capital. Plus news international lawyer and will be talking of the latest cinema releases, a preview of thursday about the implications for Middle East peace new UFO videos and and views on the after the Palestinian elections. paranormal from our resident psychic, Jean Our main event for the term is on Foster. Tuesday 6th February. The Holocaust Education centre in Nottingham is putting 12.30 LEVEL3 on a one-day exhibition in the Ents Lounge, Anarchic entertainment show featuring ground floor of the Union Building. At 5pm, games and quizzes as they used to be in the in the Ents Lounge, Gena Turgel is talking golden days of television. about her book, entitled "I Never Saw Another Butterfly". She was held in Belsen YOUR HELP NEEDED death camp, towards the end of World War Have you ever been the victim of 'RAGE'? II. Her husband was one of the British You may have encountered rage on the liberators in 1945 and they met, fell in love roads, in your workplace or on the and married at the camp. At 7pm Tony sportsfield. Have you ever been driven to Robson, a researcher with Searchlight rage yourself by a person or set of magazine will be talking about his work in circumstances? A researcher at our station is anti-racism in the SCR. Finally, details will producing a feature about 'RAGE' and be out soon about the date and location of would like to talk to anyone who has views Spring Seminar, the nationwide education on, or has experienced at first hand, this event. type of behaviour. See you at the bagel lunch! For more You can contact us on 0171 59(48104) details, email us at [email protected], or drop a or e-mail [email protected]. note in our Union pigeonhole. Membership Our studio is situated on Level 3 of the of ICJS is £3.50 for the year. Union Building. SCC WEEK DIARY SPECIAL FELIX FRIDAY JANUARY 26TH 1996 . NINETEEN

SCC Week is the annual event, publicising the clubs and societies stalls in the junior common room diary of ICU's Social Clubs Committee. monday Bag Society Conservative Society The Social Clubs Committee Labour Club Finance Society encompasses both of the union's Sikh Society Socrates Society political societies, several religious societies and various Wednesday ArtSoc Catholic Society miscellaneous societies siLch as Jewish Society Industrial Society ArtSoc, Science Fiction and Third World First Pimlico Connection Imperial Queers. SCC Week is designed to thursday European Youth International Tamil give these these societies an extra Islamic Society Methodist Society chance to promote themselves by Science Fiction Welsh Society holding stalls in the JCR, and by holding other special events dur- Stalls will be open from at least 12pm to 2pm. ing the week aimed at a more general audience than their usual events. other events All events are free, unless stated otherwise. tuesday 30 jan conservative society: "Speak Your Mind" 1:15 pm, room 542, mechanical engineering ConSoc have organised this event as part of a commitment to improving In next week's Felix public presentation skills. We invite people to stand up and talk about lit- Imperial Queers' main contribu- erally anything, whether it be politics or Bet Gilroy! tion to SCC Week is the publica- more information: e-mail [email protected] tion of Out Here. This special insert into next week's Felix will thursday 1 feb imperial queers / consoc: "Homophobia debate" give everyone at IC a chance to 1:00 pm, southside upper lounge get to grips with a range ol issues: This meeting has been arranged by ConSoc and Imperial Queers to discuss from coming out on campus to how homophobia can be eliminated within Imperial College, labels and stereotypes. more information: e-mail [email protected]. Speaking about Out Here, IQ's president Ashley Lumsden friday 2 feb labour club: tony banks explained, "The bad old days Labour Club have invited Tony Banks as their guest speaker. At the time when people considered Imperial of going to press the location and timing has not yet been confirmed. For 'a difficult place to be gay' are more details e-mail [email protected], or look at the SCC Week Web truly coming to an end. IQ was page. formed with this aim and Owf Here is the latest event in our on- sunday 4 feb science fiction: "Picocon 23" going programme of events that all day, union building is making IC a more open and ICSF present their annual science fiction convention with guests of honour relaxed place for all staff and stu- Robert Holdstock, Christopher Priest and Steven Baxter. Admission is £2 dents whichever minority they for icsf members, £4 for non-icsf students and £8 for non-students. may be in." For more information see the Picocon 13 Web page at: IQ - Imperial Queers - is http://www.ph.ic.ac.uk/moontg/PICOCONli/index.html the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Society of Imperial College. tuesday 6 feb Jewish society Producing Out Here for SCC all day, various locations Week is the latest in a number of Jewish society have invited the holocaust centre to put on a whole day of events designed to raise the level events. The afternoon will see a holocaust exhibition in the Ents lounge of awareness at IC. from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Later on there will be a talk from a holocaust Out Here will be the centre survivor followed by a discussion in the Senior Common Room. For full pages of next week's Felix, details see the feature in next week's Felix, or look at the SCC Week Web available on Friday 2 February, page. and you can contact IQ on [email protected], or For more information on any of these events, take a look at the SCC Week WWW Page on http://pink.doc.ic.ac.uk/IC/ h ttp:// www. su.ic. ac. uk/ sccweek.html TWENTY . FELIX FRIDAY 26TH JANUARY 1996 CROSSWORD AND SMALLS

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Stop Smoking Careers Information Royal Brompton Hospital and National Heart and Lung Institute, South Kensington The stop smoking group starts "Test practice - preparing for on 22nd February at 12.15. The psychometric tests" is a short group will meet weekly for five course for all on Wednesday 31 weeks, and each session is one January in Huxley Room 343 Do you suffer from hour. There's no need to change from 2-4 pm. Sign up in the your habits before you come. Careers Office. Contact Margaret Reddoch at the health centre, ex 49393 for Milkround Closing Date Five is Asthma? more information. on Monday 29 January. Hand in your applications on the day by 4pm. Details of interviews are Large Reward put up on the notice board We are currently looking for volunteers to outside the Careers Office a few help us in our research into this disease. If A very poor student lost a 3 zone days before the interview date. travel card on Wednesday, you are interested, please contact the somewhere in college. Please Summer Vacation Training ASTHMA LAB. at The Royal Brompton hand in to the Sherfield security opportunities are now available Hospital on:- office and collect reward. on the database in the Careers Office. Apply to UROP for 0171 351 8051 research opportunities. (24 hours with answerphone) or Room to Rent For more information and 0171 351 8053 A room in a student flat in careers advice come to the Bayswater is available at £70 per Careers Office, Room 310 Expenses will be paid for any inconvenience. week. Sherfield Building, which is All our research trials are approved by the Royal Brompton Contact Adam on 01883 743 open between 10am and Ethics Committee. 720 for more infomation. 5.15pm Monday to Friday. EDITORIAL FELIX FRIDAY JANUARY 26TH 1996 . TWENTY-ONE

Letters to Felix:

With reference to Felix of Estates, insists the provision FELIX (issue 1046 January 19th 1995), for student space within the BMS FOUNDED 1949 the BMS Action Group wish to was agreed with ICU during the PRODUCED FOR AND ON BEHALF OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE UNION state wish to state that St. Mary's summer of 1995, Sarah White PUBLICATIONS BOARD Hospital Union have never called says this was never the case. PRINTED BY THE IMPERIAL COLLEGE UNION PRINT UNIT on ICU to make representation At the council meeting last BEIT QUAD PRINCE CONSORT ROAD LONDON SW7 2BB to Kensington and Chelsea bor- week, there was a vote to accept TELEPHONE/FAX 0171 594 8072 ough council to try to block plan- a motion, proposed by Sarah EDITOR: RACHEL WALTERS ning permission for the new Basic White, that ICU, and not just PRINTERS: ANDY THOMPSON AND JEREMY Medical Science building. medics, adopt a policy of BUSINESS MANAGER: JULIETTE DECOCK The BMS Action Group, demanding adequate social and COPYRIGHT FELIX 1996. formed last year to address such recreational facilities of the high- ISSN 1040-0711 matters, is made up of Sarah est quality at IC both now and in White, ICU President, and the future. scary another 24 medics from both SMHMS and The BMS Action Group con- CXWMS. It continues to raise sidered this was far more con- I had just about got over the hours... objections over the small alloca- structive than trying to hold up fear and trembling that resulted tion of student social space in the planning permission which would after my last trip to the cinema We tireless individuals at BMS - eg. the provision of a 48 only have served to be detrimen- (in the sense that I could just the Print Unit are beginning to seater restaurant facility for a tal to all IC students. The issue of about bear to count to the num- feel that we're operating some building with a potental occupan- inadequate student social space is ber seven) when I made the sort of copying equivalent of cy of 1400 people. a real problem now and will only dreadful mistake of walking Harts' Grocers. It was particular- For the sake of good order, get worse in 1998 with the arrival through Green Park the other ly good to see the RCSU turn up the BMS Action Group would of the proposed 1400 students day. Troops may be off the at 10.30pm on Wednesday night like to correct the figures men- and staff of the new BMS build- streets in Northern Ireland, but wanting us to photocopy several tioned in the above article ie. the ing - this is an issue that will it seems they are now focussing hundred copies of Broadsheet in reduction in student space within affect all IC students and not just on the terrorist heartland that is time for Thursday morning. Still the BMS is from 826 m2 to little the Medics. the grassy bit that runs alongside mustn't whinge, complain or over 300 m2. In addition, Piccadilly. And just in case a hap- grumble... although Ian Caldwell, Director The BMS Action Group less young female might be allowed to recklessly endanger eratta Deadline for letters in Felix 1048: 6pm, Monday 29nd the community, it seems they Please bring your union card for identification. feel they have to leap out from I have just had a phone call I behind trees in the dark, fully from Terry Briley, erstwhile camouflaged and yelling WHAD Deputy Head of Security, who DYE WANDT! louder than is was concerned that last week's strictly necessary. It wasn't very Felix had worried a few people. pleasant. We said that he was on 'extend- ed leave' whereas 'sick leave' following on... would have been more appropri- ate, and certainly implies rather For some reason 'whad dye less blame on his part. Terry is wandt' reminds me of 'wypi- likely to be retiring permenantly at the end of March: he tells me 1 he indispensabl e guide tor Felix wym' which apparently means 'where you point is where you he's 'getting too old for this game contributors: and helpers move'; a tremendous revolution- now'. (Funny, I was thinking ary advance in mouse mat tech- rather the same thing about monday, high noon : myself...) tuesday noon nology. clubs & societies Truly we live in a sad, sad Felix wishes him all the best arts meeting world. for the future. articles deadline tuesday 6pm monday 1.20pm EDITORIAL TEAM: features meeting NEWS: ALEX FEAKES FEATURES: MARK BAKER reviewers' MUSIC: VIK BANSAL CINEMA: WEI LEE thursday night meeting fii JEREMY PHOTOGRAPHY: DIANA HARRISON collating THEATRE: KATHERINE FISHWICK PUZZLES: CATFISH monday 6pm BOOKS: WILLIAM LORENZ friday morning SCIENCE: BEN WILKINS letters deadline : another Felix hits the monday 6pm COLLATING LAST WEEK: street... TIM AND BEN BUT DEFINITELY NOT MARK news meeting situations vacant

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Did you know that ICU has:

...27 full-time staff 75 part-time staff 1 cafe bar and snack bar 1 traditional pub type bar 1 bookstore 1 newsagents 1 print unit 7 minibuses 1 entertainments lounge 1 sports hall 3 sports' grounds 1 dining hall concert hall (also a cinema) 2 snooker rooms 1 table tennis room I TV studio 1 radio station 6 committee rooms...

...which somehow manages to house 140 clubs and societies, discos, comedy nights, pub quizzes, a students' newspaper, an advice centre...

And lots of other things.

Which is all very well if it runs to plan. But sometimes the chips are cold. And sometimes you wonder who you should speak to suggest that they have more Garth Brooks Country and Western Theme nights. Maybe you want to know if you can get legal advice because you're having problems with your landlord. Or what night you should get to the bar to get one of those pints of Caffrey's before the barrel runs out. And what should you do if you want some publicity posters printed for your club.

So we're suggesting that you all write to the catering manager, or the bookstore manager, or the bar manager, or the finance manager or the union reception and find out what it's all about: queries, constructive criticism, suggestions for improvements, and (even) complimentary stuff. Letters written care off Felix should be in by February 5th, and on Friday February 16th ICU's staff will reply, and it will become clear.... SPORT FELIX FRIDAY JANUARY 26TH 1996 TWENTY THREE

but did not perform to the best Cup hiccup Hockey IC 'bailers of their ability, as with Alex, who, after having just re-joined the team, missed all his free fails to players in edged out throws and was fouled out leav- ing him extremely disappointed The IC basketball team played with his performance. Effort is distract RSM sarcastic QMW in the London College needed in no uncertain terms in Basketball League. IC lost 65- the teamwork department An eleven match unbeaten 56, but are still able to proceed before the next BUSA game next stretch was brought to a shud- mood, eh? to the next round of the league month. dering stop last Saturday, with since qualifying second, behind the RSM being 'kicked' out of What a start, a blown in goal by QMW. Guns! Huh- the LU Cup at the quarter final Shaggy in the first minute. A This game served to demon- stage. After RSM missed a concentrated IC attack led to a strate a lack of communication penalty, Holloway scored one to breakaway goal by their centre- and understanding between team huh-yeah... leave the first half 1-0 up. The forward, who after several near members as well as an obvious second half saw the miners crippling ankle injuries managed lack of practice. The West Kent Rifle League was pushing forward, yet this proved to appear in IC's D to score. A The game was close until the in an individual short range ultimately fruitless as Holloway half to half period followed last minutes and the chance to (25yd) postal competition. IC managed to seal the match in the which resulted in a shot corner win was always there. However, had several entrants and the fol- final ten minutes. for IC. Silence befell the pitch defensively IC were weak, leav- lowing placings were gained: Wednesday, though, saw the corner was taken, received ing gaps for the opposition to Class C RSM cured of their cup hang- by Dave Bacon who skillfully either drive in or take easy shots. = 74th NRoyall over in coming up with a win fluffed a shot past their keeper. Offensively, IC never really = 101st M Eustace over Charing Cross Medical In the second half it was end to got in gear and were poorly = 115th AEldridge School, Westminster. Goals end, almost. No-one scored, we organised. Guillermo shot well Never mind, there's always from Si (2) and one from progress to the next round, they from the outside. Theodore and the summer leagues to look for- Michels set up an easy win. don't. Roll on IC Hockey. Stellios played a consistent game ward to! (Quite)

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GET READY - GET FRESH! Access, Visa, Mastercard, Cash, Cheques TWENTY FOUR . FELIX FRIDAY JANUARY 26TH 1 996 SPORT Fencers FELIX SPORT keep on winning I IC Rugby Footballers The IC Fencing club contin- a bit ued it's impressive winning streak with a comfortable victo- ry over Salle Michael Joseph last Firsts In miffed, it week by 45-39. The team of Alex Davies, Charles Cooper and Nick Manton started and seems finished very strongly, but Win relaxed slightly in the middle, KCL IV 4 - 1 IC IV otherwise the winning margin This game swung dramati- would have been much higher. cally to King's College after an This win takes the college into f \ Shock unjust decision by the attention second place in the London seeking referee. After 34 min- Premier League. utes when the score was 2-1, a Reaffirming Imperial's dom- IC 44 - 5 R. HOLLOWAY team produced the best all round through ball split IC's defence. inance in fencing this season, 6 Imperial started well against a performance of the season. Showing his alertness Stuart out of the 8 fencers selected for depleted Royal Holloway side. Individual mentions must go Cook, the 'keeper, raced out of the London University men's From the outset Big Jack showed to the captain, also the afore- his area only to be beaten to the squad picked for last weekends the way with determined and mentioned 'Big Jack' and Jean ball by the striker whose first match against Cambridge were destructive running which led to Phillipe, whose inexhaustible time shot into the 'keeper's from IC. They were Charles, the first of many tries on a supply of tackles ground down a body struck the keeper's hands. Nick, Alex, Shafik Saba (c), The referee judged that it was promising afternoon. spirited Holloway comeback to Reuben Kalam and Eddie deliberate hand-ball and despite Royal Holloway, despite the point of submission. Rysdale (2 weapons). Liz Kipling heated protests the Hitleresque was also selected for the being a man down, replied with a It must be noted though, referee sent off the crest-fallen women's epee team. strong period of possession and that a contributing factor to this 'keeper. Incidentally, the King's forceful running, producing a impressive scoreline was the fact College players showed their brilliantly executed equalising that RH finished the game with wisdom by appealing for a penal- try. Imperial College's men only thirteen players. They were Sports News ty< responded quickly through their one winger short at the start, and tireless backs, with good straight the smallness of their squad was The score-line was kept The first weekend of the Five running and the ever-reliable tor- highlighted when their flanker respectable by the stand-in Nations Championship saw England fall ward support producing several was forced to retire through 'keeper, Paul Smith, who by 15 - 12 to France, and Scotland beating team tries. Tim Oldham led with injury. Nonetheless, an impres- luck or judgment deflected, Ireland 16 - 10 at Lansdowne Road. determination as usual and the sive win. diverted and parried numerous goal-bound efforts. The second Liverpool, despite their 5-0 win over FOOTBALL FENCING | half produced a determined and Leeds, look unlikely to catch rampant gutsy performance by the ten leaders Newcastle. KCL IV 4 - 1 IC IV ic 45 - 39 SMJ men of IC and it is to their cred- it that the team did not collapse Kenny Dalglish's name has been

RSM 0 - 2 RH HOCKEY as surely they would have done unexpectedly thrown into the ring for the earlier in the season. vacant England managerial post.

RSM 3 - 0 cxw IC II 2 - 1 SBLH Speaking after the game Stuart Cook said that he could IC Athletics Clubs RUGBY RIFLE LEAGUE hardly believe that he had been sent off for the first time in his Committee is ic 44 - 5 RH CLASS C INDIVIDUAL career. He recollected various similar incidents where "proper" sponsored by BASKETBALL J74TH N ROYALL qualified referees, on telly, had used their common-sense and ic 56 - 65 o.v.y J1 01 ST M EUSTACE distinguished between deliber- ate goal saving hand-ball and ^LAYERS Jl 1 5TH A ELDRIDGE accidental hand-ball.