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felixonline.co.uk @felixImperial /FelixImperial [email protected] Keeping the cat free since 1949 issue 1593 January 16th 2015 Inside... Nutt develops new Keeping your wardrobe fresh Party Drug Clotho: the new clothes swapping scheme Features, pages 14 and 15 Nous Sommes News 7 The highs and lows of Charlie volunteering in Jakarta Travel 30 Being LGBT in sport: have your say London and its Welfare 33 Whitechapel and its students react to the abstract appeal French tragedy Editoral: page 2 London reacts: page 4 and 5 What the students think: pages 11 to 13 Arts 30 - 33 2 16.01.2015 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX This week’s issue... [email protected] Felix Editor Philippa Skett EDITORIAL TEAM CONTENTS Editor-In-Chief Defending the right to PHILIPPA SKETT News 3–8 Deputy Editor PHILIP KENT Comment 9–11 Treasurer offend THOMAS LIM Features 12–13 Technical Hero Science 14 LUKE GRANGER-BROWN THIS WEEK’S EDITORIAL News Editors Film 16–17 CAROL ANN CHEAH KUNAL WAGLE Music 18–19 Comment Editor Arts 22–28 his week we are looking at TESSA DAVEY the story of Charlie Hebdo, Technology Editors Television 29 Tsomething that no doubt is JAMIE DUTTON already familiar to many of you, but OSAMA AWARA Travel 30–31 still a story that is ongoing. Despite the fact that Charlie Hebdo has now Science Editors LAUREN RATCLIFFE Welfare 32–33 bravely managed to put out their next JAMES BEZER issue in an act that proves they can’t Puzzles 34–35 be stopped by such savagery, there Games Editors are still many questions that remain MAX EGGL Hangman 36–37 unanswered. CALUM SKENE These include the debate over what Arts Editors C and S 39 constitutes an expression of free FRED FYLES speech and what is crossing the line, KAMIL McCLELLAND Sport 40 and yet another debate if there is even a line to tread. Music Editors GRACE RAHMAN The debate over printing the AMNA ASKARI cartoons is also ongoing, with papers facing a daily battle over defending Television Editors their choice to replicate the images GIULIA GABRIELLI or not. Felix has decided not to JOHN PARK reprint the images of the Prophet Film Editors Muhammad as a show of respect not a comfortable right to defend, thought and, if nothing else, print ELLEN MATHIESON to our diverse readership and their but it falls under the umbrella of pure, sometimes illogical crassness JACK STEADMAN beliefs, but we have printed the front free speech, which, to succeed in its that most people would pick up, JOHN PARK cover we would have run with last purpose in full, must be absolute. maybe chuckle over (or simply Books Editor week if we had gone to print. We, as an audience then have every grimace at), then move on with their DIANA LUCACI Unlike all the national papers that right to challenge the media if we are day. week in the UK, we made a cover offended, and this too is an absolute As a publication, pushing those Fashion Editor comprised of a select few previous right. boundaries was part of their niche, CECILE BORKHATARIA Charlie Hebdo covers, to represent Just like we print our centrefold, or and they occupied it in the way Food Editors that nous sommes Charlie too. We our horoscopes, or even some of my they seemed fit. Part of our niche CAROL ANN CHEAH may not agree with how tasteless more frightful late night articles, we as a student paper is to inform our some of their images may have been, do so because we’ve reasoned that we diverse body of students about what Coffee Break Editors and though we would not print think they are appropriate to print is going on at University and in our TESSA DAVEY everything that the magazine have such material for whatever purpose local area, so printing these cartoons ELLEN MATHIESON done in the past, we agree they have we align with as a publication. We in particular does not help us in Travel Editor the right to print them and not face can therefore exercise that right succeeding as a publication. YUNG NAM CHEAH the risk of death in doing so. without fear for our lives. The same However, our niche as an editorially If we shy away from standing unfortunately could not be said for independent newspaper is also to Hangman Editor with the magazine because of those working for Charlie Hebdo. print what we do feel is appropriate, SKILLIPPA PHETT how potentially sexist, racist or These people weren’t fighting for which aligns with the principles that Welfare Editors Islamophobic they are interpreted anything when they put pen to paper, Charlie Hebdo stood for, and what DIBA ESBATI as, then we are also abandoning our and didn’t have any real cause to any true free press should stand CHANON WONGSATAYANONT support of their right to express defend when they went to print each for too. That is why we are Charlie views no matter how they are week. They simply enjoyed pushing Hebdo, and we are truly saddened by Clubs and Societies Editor BEN HOWITT interpreted. The right to offend is the boundaries of humour, critical what happened. Sport Editor KUNAL WAGLE We are looking to expand our news COPY EDIT TEAM reporter base: fancy joining us? Copy Chiefs SKETT’S BOX OF SHAME STEPHEN BALL Email: [email protected] ELLEN MATHIESON We couldn’t spot any errors in and let us know! Copy Editors issue 1892, which is probably an ANNINA SARTOR TOM RIVLIN error in itself. BEN HOWITT Felix, Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road, Printed by Iliffee Print Cambridge, Winship Road, JUNE GAN Do let us know if you could find London SW7 2BB Cambridge. MICHAEL FAGGETTER Email: [email protected] Registered newspaper ISSN 1040-0711 MATTIN MIR-TAHMASEBI any. JASPER MENKUS Tel: 020 7594 8072 CECILY JOHNSON Front image credits: Craig Buchanan, thanks so much! Copyright © Felix ABBY GOLDBLATT FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 16.01.2015 3 News [email protected] News Editors Carol Ann Cheah and Kunal Wagle Shutterbug-gered: legal action may be sought against Imperial students CAROL ANN CHEAH financial toll on our business, but NEWS EDITOR were also extremely detrimental to our reputation.” In an email to Felix, Patrick from photo booth hire service is Unlock goes on to say: “As I am sure considering further legal you can understand, I am disgusted A action after incurring by the student’s actions, and we will damages to its equipment during the not tolerate malicious damage to joint RCSU-CGCU Winter Ball in our equipment, as such actions are early December last year. illegal.“ Felix was told that the RCSU, RCSU President Serena Yuen who made the hire arrangement provided the following statement to on behalf of the joint organizing Felix: “I can confirm that the RCSU committee, had paid the cost of the has paid for the costs of damage, equipment damages in full upfront to and several individuals have been Unlock Photo Booth after the night. identified to the Union who are now A representative from the RCSU dealing with this matter instead of us. had said that Unlock Photo Booth Naturally we are disappointed that had subsequently confirmed that an incident took place, but we are payment was received. Unlock also working closely with the Union to get “provided a photo of the culprits” to the bottom of this. ” it alleges were involved, with the ICU have confirmed with Felix that RCSU turning over these names to "We are its investigation on the matter is still Imperial College Union for further working under way, and has since resumed investigation. closely having being briefly suspended over However Unlock Photo Booth has with the the Christmas term holidays. They since implied that this payment is are also currently reviewing the now insufficient, saying that the Union to claimed loss figures with Unlock losses suffered now include “the get to the Photo Booth, and have said that the cancellation of 2 events as a result bottom of alleged culprits have been extremely of the damage sustained. These cooperative throughout the cancellations not only took a huge this" investigation. Source: Unlock Photo Booth, taken from the RCSU Facebook page These Aero-smiths didn’t want to miss a thing ...but they ended up doing so anyway. Philippa Skett reports on an exam gaffe ndergraduate aeronautical graded with the other papers. to assist them so that they are not students were given a Sources from the aeronautics disadvantaged in any way.” Upostgraduate exam paper to department have told Felix that Felix spoke to one of the students sit this week, with no-one realising the papers covered different CFD involved, and said that he thought until the end of the exam the mistake material, although the module the department had handled the that was made. content is exactly the same. The mix-up satisfactorily but that he Third year, fourth year and postgraduate paper allegedly covered would probably be re-sitting the exam postgraduate students sat their more theoretical derivations than the after all. “I don’t know if it was hard Computational Fluid Dynamics undergraduate equivalent, although because it was a different paper or (CFD) exams on Monday, with the department stated that the exams just because I hadn’t revised! But I undergraduates and postgraduates were apparently of similar difficulty. think the department is dealing with seated in different exam rooms. Postgraduates and undergraduates it well.” Due to an apparent shortage of are taught the same modules Pascal Loose, Deputy President papers for the undergraduates in one independently throughout the year.