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Dinosaur fossils show frustrated traces of blood cells over impossible Science 11 physics FGM: we need to care about it more exam question

Students told they will receive full marks if they had Comment 8 - 10

pointed out it could not be solved Exploring the Colchagua valley PHILIPPA SKETT Quantum Mechanics exam last the solution to a variant of the aware that many “put a lot of effort FELIX EDITOR Friday found that a 15-mark question Schrödinger’s Equation for the energy into the problem, and we very much wave functions was impossible to level in question. want to take that into account in our answer correctly. However such limitations meant marking.” The question, worth 15% of the that it was impossible for the deter- Jaffe stated that they would be hysics students have been left exam, was part of a larger section of mined energy level to actually exist awarding marks for those who at- confused and annoyed over an the paper about the potential energy within the system, thus rendering the tempted to set up the premise of the Pexam question that was proved of a quantum system. question impossible to answer. answer, and that: “Any student who to be impossible to answer, adding to The question asked students to The impossible exam question was did note that it was impossible even the plethora of mistakes in papers sat prove a certain energy level could reported to the course instructor, without the full algebra will of course by students from multiple year groups exist within a specific system with Professor Andrew Jaffe. Jaffe then receive full marks.” in the department this term. predefined limitations. told all second year students in an Travel 15 - 18 Second year students who sat the It then asked for students to find email sent on Monday that they were Continued on page 5 2 12.06.2015 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX This week’s issue... [email protected] Felix Editor Philippa Skett

Contents EDITORIAL TEAM Editor-In-Chief Here it is, the PHILIPPA SKETT News 3-7 Deputy Editor PHILIP KENT Comment 8-10 Treasurer THOMAS LIM Science 11 penultimate issue (woo) Technical Hero Games 12 LUKE GRANGER-BROWN his is the penultimate issue of matter how many hours you commit News Editors Film 13 Felix; we’ve got one last issue to the library as a first year student, CAROL ANN CHEAH Tto go before we break up for having an exam script with a question CECILY JOHNSON Travel 14-17 the summer. We’ll return in the containing an error can turn what KUNAL WAGLE first week of the next term, with a you know on its head, as what is Welfare 18 new editor, which will be an exciting seemingly more likely to be wrong; Comment Editor change for the paper. your notes or the script? TESSA DAVEY Arts 23-31 In this week’s issue we’ve covered Students aren’t science machines Politics Editor the news of the many mistakes that (just like the professors that write JOSHUA RENKEN Hangman 33-36 have been spotted in the Physics the exams, obviously), and even if we exams that students have been see a mistake during a test, it takes Science Editors LAUREN RATCLIFFE Puzzles 37-39 sitting all term. The mistakes range more than our own confidence in JAMES BEZER from missing signs and symbols and THIS WEEK’S EDITORIAL our knowledge to speak up and say Sport 40 poorly drawn diagrams, through to something about it. Games Editors a question that was impossible to That impossible question may have MAX EGGL solve, and left a lot of students angry, been only worth 15% of the marks, CALUM SKENE although perhaps not surprised. and Imperial itself. but I am sure a greater proportion Arts Editors Speaking to members of staff in the Typos in exams give an impression of the students would have worried FRED FYLES department, it seems there may be a of a lack of attention towards about on the way home after the KAMIL MCCLELLAND What’s on this flaw in the system as opposed to the the exams that students spend exam. fault of one individual. Not only that, hours poring over textbooks and Mistakes can contribute to students Music Editor week: it is probably not a problem unique PowerPoints for. The fact that feeling neglected, as can often be the GRACE RAHMAN to Physics, but is an issue nonetheless students in their undergraduate year case when feedback is late or non- Television Editors Dance Club Summer when factored into the bigger spend so much time, not to mention existent, or emails go ignored. GIULIA GABRIELLI picture of perceived apathy towards money, in preparing and taking these The Physics department seem JOHN PARK Ball undergraduate students. exams, it is all the more annoying genuinely apologetic over the errors, Saturday 13th June 7:30pm– Film Editors In the past five(!) years I have that it seems that the university and obviously no-one is perfect. I JOHN PARK 2am, Union Concert Hall spent at Imperial, by far the biggest haven’t given the exam the same due hope that their empathy is felt by the ELLEN MATHIESON IC Dance Club are hosting complaint I have heard from students care students do. students however, as if they are just JACK STEADMAN their very first (and very about this university is not the lack Not only that, but sitting exams is offered simple scaling or a few extra of girls, boys, beer or all of the above, an experience that can be made all the marks here or there, this feeling of Fashion Editors own) Summer Ball this but actually the sense of disconnect more stressful if you start to doubt disconnection may continue past CECILE BORKHATARIA weekend, with live music between the undergraduate students yourself over an exam question. No exams and even after students leave. Food Editors from IC Big Band and CAROL ANN CHEAH performances from the new Travel Editor club committee and their YUNG NAM CHEAH professional coaches. And it’s Welfare Editors DIBA ESBATI in the UCH, so you don’t have CHANON WONGSATAYANONT very far to go either! Puzzle Editor MICHAEL FAGGETTER RAG Summer Ball Hangman Editor Monday 15th June 8pm–2am, BORIS JOHNSON Shoreditch RAG are having their Clubs and Societies Editor BEN HOWITT Summer Ball too, over at Sport Editor Trapeze Basement Club. It’s KUNAL WAGLE in East London. They wanted One issue left – there’s still COPY EDIT TEAM us to tell you, so we did. Vital services being provided here Copy Chief JACK STEADMAN at Felix. (barely) time to get involved! Copy Editors Last Issue of Felix Email felix @imperial.ac.uk TESSA DAVEY Friday 19th June, 11am(ish) BEN HOWITT CECILY JOHNSON It’s Skett’s last issue next KUNAL WAGLE FRED FYLES Friday. Boo. Be sure to grab PHILIPPA SKETT a copy to enjoy the vast Felix Offices Printed by Iliffe Print Cambridge, Winship Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road, Road, Cambridge. quantity of piss-taking at her London SW7 2BB expense. Registered newspaper ISSN 1040-0711 Email: [email protected] Copyright © Felix Tel: 020 7594 8072 www.felixonline.co.uk Front page picture: Imperial College London Top banner: Facebook FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 12.06.2015 3 News [email protected] News Editors Carol Ann Cheah, Cecily Johnson & Kunal Wagle Imperial among one in six universities to set grant income targets for individuals

CECILY JOHNSON for individuals at the universities However in an article last year SECTION EDITOR of Aberdeen, Dundee, East Anglia, THE reported that Warwick Glasgow, Greenwich and Leeds, Medical School and the University as well as Queen Mary University of Warwick School of Life Sciences Freedom of Information of London, Plymouth University, single out academics for potential request by Times Higher Abertay University and Robert redundancy if their research income A Education (THE) has revealed Gordon University. over the previous four years is below that Imperial College London is Greenwich, Abertay, Robert an average of £90,000 or £75,000 among around one in six universities Gordon, Dundee and Leeds respectively. in the UK to set targets for the reportedly stated that these targets At Imperial, academics are amount of grant money brought in by are set “only on a case-by-case basis”, expected to “cover the costs of their its academics. while Plymouth and East Anglia say employment” with the income The practise of setting grant income that academics are “encouraged” but from their research and teaching targets for individuals was scrutinised not required to bring in the target work. There are also minimum after the suicide of Stefan Grimm, amount of grant money, the THE performance standards within some a Professor of Toxicology in the reports. departments that sometimes include Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, In their response, Glasgow said “a general statement of the amount last September. that targets are used alongside other of income that a researcher… might 93 UK universities responded to metrics in the criteria looked at when normally be expected to generate”. the FoI request from THE, which considering promotions for senior The inquest into the death of asked whether or not they set targets lecturers. Meanwhile Aberdeen Professor Stefan Grimm in April this of this kind. Of these, 11 universities say that their “expectations” are year heard a report from Imperial’s Individual targets have been criticised. Photo: Imperial College London reported that individual grant- only used to inform conversations internal review of staff policies, winning goals are set for at least some about “which aspects (if any) of an which was conducted in response Led by Imperial’s director of Members of the academic members of their faculties. individual’s career might need more to Grimm’s suicide. Senior coroner Human Resources Louise Lindsay, community have called out the Another 12 institutions have targets attention or support to develop”. Chinyere Inyama noted that funding the review recommended a number of practice of setting grant targets set at institutional, departmental or The universities of Bath, Bradford, issues were mounting stress on the changes including increased support for encouraging “overstretched” faculty level; this means that in total Surrey, Ulster and Warwick did professor, who was undergoing an for staff members who are struggling, staff to take on more projects 30 percent of universities set grant not respond with the requested “informal review process” after though Ms Lindsay admitted at the than they can reasonably manage income targets of some kind. information, claiming that it was “struggling to fulfil the metrics” of inquest that the changes still may not and discriminating against more As well as Imperial, targets are set “commercially sensitive”. his post. have prevented Grimm’s death. inexpensive research.

UCL students threatened after rent strikes

CECILY JOHNSON and the Head of Residential examinations”. rooms causing desks and mirrors to said that students have been offered SECTION EDITOR Accommodation has stated that they Construction work has been taking shake. Shaniqua Hunter, a resident of alternative study space, while will not seek academic sanctions place at Hawkridge House, located Campbell House, stated “I can’t even bedrooms elsewhere have been against the students. in Chalk Farm, since February 2015 make phone calls, watch television, sourced for some others. UCL have tudents living in accommodation The University College despite the original plan stating that study, take a nap or listen to music in yet to make an official comment run by University College London Union Accommodation the disruption would be started in my own room”. on the status of the threats and SLondon (UCL) have been Representative David Dahlborn September 2014 and finished by this A spokesman for UCL reportedly compensation. threatened by the university described the threats as “both vile January. with serious repercussions after and cowardly” and claimed that they Scaffolding has been erected on withholding rent due to allegedly “represent a mentality at UCL that all sides of the building, resulting ‘unliveable’ conditions in their halls. the bosses would rather expel their in a lack of natural sunlight inside, UCL has warned the final year best and brightest students than and dust and drilling noise have students that they will not be take their complaints and demands reportedly left students unable to permitted to attend their graduation seriously”. revise, causing stress and health issues ceremony, receive their final results Up to 200 students at Campbell for them. or have their degree reported House and 230 at Hawkridge House When the rooms were advertised unless they settle the outstanding have been withholding rent money to students last summer there was accommodation payments. on the grounds that conditions in no warning that any building work Returning students will not their accommodation buildings are would be taking place. More than be permitted to re-enrol at the sub-par, and that ‘severely’ disruptive half of the residents have demanded university until the balance is building works have been ongoing a refund of their accommodation paid off, warns the site manager of throughout the exam period. payments. Campbell House in a letter to those They accuse UCL of violating Residents of Campbell House taking part in the strike. Summer the Student Accommodation Code in Bloomsbury have also faced accommodation offers could also be (SAC) which sets out regulations disruption as the building next withdrawn. for all halls of residence. The SAC door is being demolished. Work has However, the accommodation states that “All maintenance works reportedly been taking place from office at UCL has reportedly claimed should be undertaken so as to 8am, Monday to Saturday for several that this was only a ‘standard letter’ minimise inconvenience to residents months. which is sent out to any student with … endeavours should be made to Students have complained of noisy Residents protesting outside Campbell House, where many students have an outstanding debt to the university, avoid sensitive periods such as drilling at over 90 decibels inside withheld rent due to poor living conditions. Photo: David Dahlborn 4 12.06.2015 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 12.06.2015 5 News News [email protected] News Editors Carol Ann Cheah, Cecily Johnson & Kunal Wagle [email protected] News Editors Carol Ann Cheah, Cecily Johnson & Kunal Wagle What checks Imperial centre identifies high cost of care Physics exams plagued by multiple errors, do exam including setting an “impossible question” scripts go for Afghanistan veterans through?

PHILIP KENT trauma care, as well as prosthetic the Royal British Legion. Continued from front page... Felix spoke to a faculty member of DEPUTY EDITOR limbs. She said, “This is the first attempt the physics department, who has The centre, which is located at we know of to publish an independent Jaffe also told Felix that he wished been working at Imperial for ten Imperial College London, raised estimate of the lifetime healthcare “to apologise for the error,” and years. He told us that after working esearchers at the Royal British concern over the cost, which they say cost of the British service personnel promised, “We will ensure that the at several institutions across the Legion Centre for Blast Injury may be underestimated because of the seriously injured by IEDs [improvised exam is marked fairly.” world, he was most impressed by RStudies have valued the cost potential need to replace prosthetics explosive devices] in Afghanistan. The senior tutor for the Physics the level of scrutiny exam papers of caring for members of the armed in the future, as well as other illnesses “This paper should alert health department also offered his apologies go through before a student sits forces serving in Afghanistan who (both experienced by all citizens) commissioners to the scale of the for the errors within the exam in the them, and the analysis process have lost limbs at just under £290 as well as injuries specific to bomb- problem, and help them to plan ahead same email. afterwards to ensure marking is million. related injuries. to meet the lifetime health care needs Speaking to one student, they told fair too. When broken down, it cost £1.16 The Royal British Legion also of this generation.” Felix how classmates were feeling He told us how the exam script million per person to treat soldiers felt that the cost of care has been The Royal British Legion Centre disappointed that exams are being goes to a Course Associate first, who required an above-the-knee underestimated up until now. for Blast Injury Studies was opened checked “so poorly’” and that some who checks the script and gives amputation, while those who required However, the researchers hope that by Prince Harry in 2013. The centre also feel they have been “lied to by the feedback on the questions before a below-the-knee amputation the study will help in planning for is the first in the United Kingdom department regarding the quality of the revised exam script is sent to an required care worth £870,000 per the costs of care in the longer term. where civilian researchers work with proofreading.” external Examiner. person. Additionally, avenues for future military doctors. Said another student: “I’ve now sat He explained how along with Their findings have been published research into the long-term effects of The centre performs research into two consecutive exams that have been the script, the lecturer will provide in the journal Clinical Orthopaedics blast injuries have been identified. possible methods of reducing the riddled with errors, both needing detailed information on how the and Related Research. This cost This study has been praised by Sue effects of bomb injuries, such as those Prince Harry opened the Centre for Blast Injury Studies in 2013. Photo: several corrections mid-exam, which exam is designed, along with includes rehabilitation fees and Freeth, the Director of Operations at caused by IEDs. Imperial College London is detrimental to students being able solutions. “They receive a lot of to focus. information about the exam, so “The Quantum Mechanics exam can provide a lot of opinions on the contained several typographical exam script.” errors, driving some students to These Examiners are academics disbelieving laughter as more and outside of the institution, and more corrections had to be explained although these external examiners Transport for London to the cohort. are not “experts in every field,” they “The Imperial physics department do give detailed feedback on the yet again shows how much they care exam. about research over the students.” When the changes are relayed to accept Apple Pay One student was keen to point back to the lecturer, they then need out that this may not be the fault of to report that the changes have just one individual. They told Felix: been put in place. “Andrew Jaffe is a very competent He said that typos will slip PHILIP KENT Monday to Sunday fare capping, lecturer, and was very apologetic This has not been the only issue for Physics undergraduate students this term. Photo: Imperial College London in from time to time, but it is DEPUTY EDITOR which is currently unavailable on about the whole situation. uncommon for mistakes to be Oyster. “I can understand that sometimes students were required to prove, and a everything possible to ensure that no made within the actual theory of TfL have reiterated their it’s hard to see errors in your own set of constraints about pressure in a students are disadvantaged in their sending a number of emails to the the questions. ransport for London have commitment to not phase out Oyster work, and thin that this is a problem system that were incorrect. results.” department staff, both before and “I have a lot of sympathy for announced that they will and to bring all the benefits currently with the system rather than with the Dr. Bob Forsyth, the Director of Two Comprehensive exams are sat after exams, highlighting concerns typos when they manage to sneak Taccept Apple Pay when it enjoyed by contactless users, such as lecturer.” Undergraduate studies, responded to in third year, and together they are about procedure. in, but if the mistake is one of launches in the UK in July. Monday to Sunday fare capping, to Another remained pessimistic, the formal complaint, stating that he worth a third of the year’s weighting As there were a significant number actual physics I would actually be The move makes TfL the first Oyster customers as well. stating: “The department doesn’t had confirmed with the Chair of the overall. The exams cover all topics that received no reply the issue was surprised.” public transport operator to accept Meanwhile, Google has announced really care too much for student Comprehensive exam panel that the taught in both second and first year. raised to a faculty level. I am led to However, having people sit the mobile payment technology. Android Pay, a very similar service welfare anyway so other than feeling paper had passed through all of the Over the term, there has been a believe an investigation is on-going the exam beforehand to check The announcement follows Apple’s to Apple Pay but specific to Android embarrassed as a whole it probably checking stages, including the script reported total of 17 issues across and I’ve made the department aware for these mistakes isn’t probably confirmation that Apple Pay will be devices. Like Apple Pay, the won’t do anything regardless of being sent to an external examiner various exams, affecting modules of at least 17 errors or issues with the answer either: “The [exam making its way to Britain. At Apple’s technology makes use of the same student consensus.” beforehand. across all year groups. Issues have examinations papers affecting 10 checking] system is so labour Worldwide Developer Conference NFC technology meaning that when Said another: “The mistake was Said Forsyth in his response: “The reportedly included poor quality papers.” intensive, that I think it would not (WWDC) in San Francisco last week it launches in the UK, Android Pay completely unacceptable; it could errors on this paper were taken very images being difficult to decipher, This follows mistakes being made be a feasible thing to do, unless we it was also confirmed that Apple will also likely work on TfL services. have been avoided if a single person seriously by the examiners during incorrect units and potential energy in an assessed problem sheet and paid post docs to do it.” Pay will be available to customers The news comes as TfL’s had attempted to do the question.” the exam, and all efforts have been values, and various typos. a maths revision test sat at the After the exam, the faculty of nearly all of the UK’s banks, with controversial plan to close Tube This has not been the only made in the marking to ensure that An accumulation of mistakes beginning of the year, which after members of the department meet Barclays being the notable omission. ticket offices takes pace. At time issue with exams for Physics no student has suffered in their result resulted in the complaints being being highlighted to the department to discuss the exam papers in late The service still requires an iPhone 6 of writing, ticket offices have been undergraduates this term; a Physics due to the typographical errors.” relayed to the Faculty of Natural by students, were initially deemed too June. “Everything is gone through or Apple Watch. closed at a number of tube stations undergraduate representative made He concluded that also it would be Sciences Teaching staff. Third year insignificant to be rectified. in extreme detail. It is a massive Apple have stated that Apple Pay including Gloucester Road and West a “formal complaint” via email to impossible to guarantee every exam representative Ben Fernando met Second year students were told to amount of work.” will also be supported at a number Kensington. The ticket office at South "Apple Pay the Head of the Physics department, paper in the future will be 100% error with the staff Monday morning. “take it on the chin…it’s a drop in the He did state though that with of other retailers, including Boots, Kensington is scheduled to close at users will Jordan Nash, on the “unacceptably free, but he agreed that exam errors In an email to the rest of his year ocean,” by a senior teaching fellow, all the checkpoints in place, the Marks and Spencer, the Post Office some point between October and poor nature” of the Comprehensive should be an exception. group, Fernando stated that the staff which caused further complaints. overall effect of such a question and Waitrose, however the near field December. receive paper that was sat earlier on in term, He assured the representative that will be conducting an investigation The Department of Physics was like the one in the QM paper communication (NFC) technology Some stations are to gain a the same on the 6th of May. he would raise the general issue at a into the examination errors, and ranked 8th overall in the UK in shouldn’t be too great. “The actual used by Apple means that any retailer replacement “Visitor Information The email complaint stated how the Teaching Committee meeting in the that “they have promised a speedy the recent Guardian League table, impact, as bad as it is to have that which accepts contactless payments Centre” which will sell travel tickets benefits as Comprehensive paper “contained no future. response.” although came in at 27th when happen and as frustrated it is to will accept Apple Pay as well. as well as tickets to enter London fewer than three large errors,” which Forsyth also told Felix: “I would like Said Fernando: “I am inclined not ranked according to overall student have that happen, TfL have confirmed that Apple Pay attractions. The first centre recently contactless we spotted and corrected mid-exam. to take this opportunity to reassure to pass comment but in the interests satisfaction. “I would be surprised if it had as users will receive the same benefits opened at King’s Cross St. Pancras card users" These errors included a missing all students that, where errors of transparency I can confirm that negative an impact as they may as contactless card users, such as station near the Eurostar terminal. power function in an equation that have occurred, our examiners do my actions as year rep included feel now.” 6 12.06.2015 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 12.06.2015 7 News News [email protected] News Editors Carol Ann Cheah, Cecily Johnson & Kunal Wagle [email protected] News Editors Carol Ann Cheah, Cecily Johnson & Kunal Wagle Students given chance to name new bar Nobel Laureate Sir Tim Hunt resigns from Philippa Skett reports as voting opens for new Woodward bar Royal Society post after sexist comments

mperial College Union are 40 suggestions of the name “The However there was outcry over running a poll to name the new Library” has been made through the names available, with a group Cecily Johnson on the controversy that has taken place over the last week Istudent bar out in Acton, on the the Union website, whilst around 30 of students setting up a Facebook site of Woodward halls. other suggestions for the name “The group in support of the name “Rock obel Prize winner and fellow The new hall of residence in North Kaye Bar” have also been submitted. Bottom” attracting considerable of the Royal Society Sir Acton will open in September and The Union ran a similar scheme attention. NTim Hunt has apologised will be home to over 700 first year back in 2010, for students to name the Students could then vote online for for causing offence and resigned students, and there will be a new bar bars based in Beit Quad before they the name of their choice. The name from the Biological Sciences Awards and restaurant based on the site ran were re-opened in the November of “Metric” received over 200 votes, but Committee of the Royal Society and jointly by Imperial College Union and that year. Before the redevelopment for the bar area, the name Consort an honorary professorship at UCL the College Campus services. of the Union bars, the nightclub was actually won with 131 votes, followed after sexist statements he made in a In a similar set up to h-bar, campus known as dB’s and the bar was known closely by the Library that received recent speech sparked outrage among services will oversee the provision of as Da Vinci’s. 126. the scientific community. food at the location and the Union Students were invited to email in The Union decided to re-open Speaking at an event ahead of will take care of the management of ideas to rename the venues directly nominations for new suggestions for the World Conference of Science the bar. to the Union, and a list of over 150 the name, and eventually settled on Journalists in Seoul, Sir Hunt Suggested names include One suggested was whittled down to a calling the bar FiveSixEight. reportedly stated that the “trouble Victoria Road, The Foundry, West shortlist for each venue. Said a Union spokesperson: with girls” in the laboratory Three, Urban Oak, The Contingency, A shortlist was announced for the “Imperial College Union is excited An artist’s impression of the new bar, and you have a chance to help environment is that “you fall in love The 1923 and The Meter. Also you new nightclub (now Metric), which to be part of ensuring that the decide its name. Photo: Imperial College Union with them, they fall in love with you, can submit your own suggestions. included alternative names such as student experience for residents of and when you criticise them, they The poll is more so to gauge Neighbourhood, Lab, Theory and Iris. Woodward Hall is the best it can be. cry”. opinion of the names already being Interestingly, the original shortlist “The new bar and restaurant, Campus Services to ensure that the bar and restaurant is just one little Sir Hunt added “I’m in favour of considered than a competition, for FiveSixEight didn’t feature its alongside the gym, offer some great nearly 700 students get the best part of that.” single-sex labs”. His comments were although a union spokesperson said: current name on the first shortlist; social and activity spaces for students possible welcome and on-going sense The poll is open now, and you can published on Twitter by Connie St “if there is a popular favourite not on options instead included The Library, living in the hall as well as those who of community. submit your choice at https://www. Louis, a Director of studies in Science the list we may go for that.” Consort, Crown and Shield and, live nearby. “The opportunity for students to imperialcollegeunion.org/help-us- Journalism at City University, Felix is aware that so far, over simply, Quad. “We are working closely with have an input on the name of the new name-new-bar-woodward-hall. London, who was attending the event. Ms St Louis said that the event was “utterly ruined” by the sexist Sir Tim Hunt apparently now recognises that his comments were unacceptable. Inset: Stephens Lab, Bristol having a laugh at Sir comments. Hunt’s expense. Photo: Huffington Post, Inset: Mélanie Boyer Panagi “Nobody was laughing, everybody was stony-faced,” she said in an comments were intended to be “light- fellow of the Royal Society in 1991. that effect by the Royal Society, this Union award winners announced interview with the BBC. “The Korean hearted” and “ironic” but had been The Royal Society were quick to would demonstrate their seriousness female scientists who hosted us “interpreted deadly seriously by my distance themselves, releasing a about diversity”. looked aghast and he just ploughed audience”. He has subsequently been statement that said “Sir Tim Hunt It was announced on Thursday 11th ceremony on Monday 15 June. Kai-Te Wang, Katherine Fok, Kayla on for about five to seven minutes. It criticised by several leading members was speaking as an individual and his June that Sir Hunt had contacted CAROL ANN CHEAH Chiew, Khizr Nawab, Laura Baird, was culturally insensitive and it was of the scientific community. reported comments in no way reflect the Royal Society offering to resign SECTION EDITOR List of Award Winners: Laura Wheatcroft, Lauren Anders, very sexist. Former chief scientific adviser the views of the Royal Society”. from its Biological Sciences Awards Lloyd James, Luke Armitage, Marcus “I just thought, ‘Where in the world to the president of the European “The Royal Society believes that Committee; his resignation has Colours: Bishop, Mark Sykes, Matthew do you think you are that you can Commission Professor Anne Glover in order to achieve everything that been accepted. The Royal Society mperial College Union Council Douthwaite, Matthew Slater, Max be making these kind of comments said in a statement “Tim Hunt it can, science needs to make the said that Sir Hunt now recognises ratified the list of individual Aaniya Ahmed, Aditya Ranjan, Boleininger, Melanie Wilson, in 2015?’”. Ms St Louis was among seems to have been speaking about best use of the research capabilities that his earlier comments were IUnion Award winners at its Akash Jyoti, Alex Compton, Natalie Andrews, Nicolas Prettejohn, around 100 guests in attendance at his personal problems in relating to of the entire population. Too many “unacceptable”. meeting on Tuesday 8 June, which Alexander Bond, Alice Tang, Noor Mulheron, Oscar Peace, Peter the lunch in South Korea on Monday women. talented individuals do not fulfil In a statement on their website, the sees 156 students out of the 310 who Andrea Michi, Ashley Wen, Ayano Bridgman, Peter Brook, Philip Sayer, 8th June. “What he describes is not my their scientific potential because of Royal Society said “Sir Tim Hunt’s were nominated receiving various Mizuguchi, Ayshah Sawjani, Ben Qiaotong Ren, Qinghua Lei, Rachael Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today experience and I have never had a issues such as gender and the Society recent comments relating to women accolades. The awards recognise those Stockton, Bertram Lim, Bethany Fletcher, Rachael Shuttleworth, programme, Sir Hunt said he is student (male or female, straight is committed to helping to put this in science have no place in science,” working across the Union, from clubs Davison, Bradley Pollard, Bryan Rachel Castola, Rachel Hounslow, “really sorry that I caused any or gay) cry when their research was right”. but also noted that “Sir Tim Hunt and societies to representation, with a Liu, Cecily Johnson, Christopher Rasheed Rabiu, Rele Ologunde, Rex offence” and that it was “a very stupid criticised. Maybe it has something Several critics called for the has made exceptional contributions belief that ‘those who have gone over Winchurch, David Leonard, David Manurung, Richard Simons, Rikki thing to do in the presence of all those to do with the way you criticise. I organisation to take action against Sir to science” and “over the years he has and above what is expected of them Snowdon, David Thompson, Dexter Rothwell, Robert Maizonnier, Robert journalists”, but admitted that he “did "The hope his attitudes regarding women "it’s hard Hunt after reports of the comments also supported the careers of many should be recognised.’ Tarr, Diana Newman, Diane Pople, Schussler, Rosanna Nichols, Safiyyah mean” what he had said. are largely confined to a former initially surfaced, including fellow young researchers. Selection of Union Award winners Don Koh, Edward James Cox, Edward Abdulla, Sami Simreen, Samuel “I just meant to be honest, actually”. Korean generation”. to find fellow of the Royal Society Professor “It is the great respect that he has was conducted by the Union Awards Kardouss, Edward Parker, Eleanor Spreadbury, Serena Yuen, Shanzeh Michael Chung receives one of his awards at last year’s ceremony. With regard to his remark about female Chief executive of the British Sir Tim’s Dorothy Bishop, a professor of earned for his work that has made his Committee, consisting of three Vincent, Elisabeth Robinson, Elise Khurshid, Sheeraz Iqbal, Simon Photo: Through Bens Lens women crying, he stated “It’s terribly Science Association Imran Khan developmental neuropsychology at recent comments so disappointing”. Officer Trustees and nine appointed Rattigan, Elizabeth Cotton, Enric Escobar Steinvall, Sinziana Giju, important that you can criticise scientists called Sir Hunt’s comments comments the University of Oxford. The Royal Society affirmed their Union members with a longstanding Juan Alcocer, Francis Clegg, Fred Sofia Qvarfort, Stephen Ball, Stephen people’s ideas without criticising “careless” and stated: “Sadly, dealing funny if “I have no doubt that, nice guy as commitment to “helping to put this history of senior contribution to Fyles, Frederik Piech, Gareth Holden, Ingram, Sudeep Biswas, Thomas Warnick , Cem Hurrell , Christopher Oliver Benton, Peter Griffin, Philip them and if they burst into tears, it who hosted with sexism and other forms of everyone confirms he is, he does his right”. Union life and activities. Gloria Rosetto, Guillermo Marrero Arrow, Thomas Jones, Tim Weenink, Wood , David Ham , Emma Toms, Kent, Richard Cameron, Robert means that you tend to hold back us looked discrimination are a daily reality you’ve best not to be overtly prejudiced, but On Wednesday 10th June University Council was only asked to uphold Samarin, Hammad Malik, Harriet Timothy Munday, William Daubney, Ethan Butler , Ethan Haley , O’Keeffe, Shiladitya Ghosh, Steven from getting at the absolute truth”. for many people, and I imagine it’s he clearly has a view of women that College London confirmed that Sir the list of winners for Union Colours, Campbell, Hasan Asif, Heather William Smith, Yasir Ashraf, Zheng Ibtesham Hossain , Jack Hatfield, Tran, Theresa Davey, Thomas Lim, He also said “I have fallen in love aghast and hard to find Sir Tim’s comments been held just makes him inappropriate in these Hunt has resigned from his position Outstanding Services Awards and Lambert, Henry Harrod, Henry Gu, Zoe Hsu Jack Steadman, James Badman, Tom Rivlin, Xin Phang, Yulia with people in the lab and people in he just funny if you’ve been held back by back by roles,” she stated. as Honorary Professor with the UCL Union Fellowships. Other award Legge, Isobel Mackay, Ivan Zheludev, James Targett , John Winters, Bulgakova the lab have fallen in love with me systemic bias for years – whether Professor Bishop urged the Royal Faculty of Life Sciences. “UCL was the winners, such as Community Jake Reynolds, Mames Jurphy, James Outstanding Service Award: Jonathan London , Jonathan and it’s very disruptive to the science ploughed those remarks were intended as a joke systemic Society to remove Sir Hunt from first university in England to admit Connections Volunteer of the Year, Threadgill, Jasper Stassen, Jessica McNaught, Lillan Agerup, Luke Fellowship: because it’s terribly important that on ... it was or not”. bias for committees that influence and women students on equal terms to Club, Society & Project of the Year Wade, Jo Schlemper, Joel Russell, Alexander Lown , Athanasius Granger-Brown , Maredudd Harris, in a lab people are on a level playing Sir Hunt won the 2001 Nobel Prize make decisions on appointments, men, and the university believes that and the President’s Awards, will only Jonas de Beukelaer, Joseph Gafton, Andriopoulos , Benjamin Fernando, Matt Jones , Michael Chung, Michie George Butcher, George Goldberg, field”. very sexist" for Physiology or Medicine for his years" fellowships and policy. “If this were this outcome is compatible with our be announced at the Union Awards Josh Orpen-Palmer, Joshua Renken, Benjamin Howitt, Benjamin Takeuchi , Mimi Li , Nida Mahmud, Max Hunter Sir Hunt stressed that his earlier work on cell division and became a done, and a public statement issued to commitment to gender equality”. 8 12.06.2015 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 12.06.2015 9 Comment Comment [email protected] Comment Editor Tessa Davey [email protected] Comment Editor Tessa Davey

Iraq Nigeria bans FGM, 8 Eritrea 83 Egypt 91 but how much still Burkina Faso 76 Mauritania Senegal 69 Mali 26 89 Niger Sudan needs to change? 2 Chad 88 Yemen Gambia 44 19 Djibouti 76 Guinea 93 Nigeria Somalia Tessa Davey takes a look at female Guinea-Bissau 97 Côte Ethiopia 25 CAR 98 50 d'Ivoire 74 genital mutilation in Africa and closer Sierra Leone 38 Cameroon 24 90 1 Benin Uganda 1 Kenya to home Liberia Togo 7 66 27 emale genital mutilation immense pressure on families to Ghana 4 (FGM) has been performed on mutilate their children, particularly 4 Tanzania Fmore than 130 million women from elder female members of 15 and girls worldwide, and more than the family. It is often these senior 20,000 girls under the age of 15 in the matriarchs who will enforce UK are considered at risk. It is often this torture; in a parallel to male Prevalence of FGM done using razors, sharpened rocks, circumcision, it is largely done glass or even fingernails as tools. because it was done to them – there 1 – 9% The partial or total removal of the are no reported health benefits. external female genitalia or other However despite this being so 10 – 29% injury to the female genital organs widespread in some countries, it 30 – 49% for non-medical reasons has been is unspoken, often referred to as referred to as mutilation since 1929. “washing your hands” or “having 50 – 69% Despite this, FGM is still often called your bath”, and most women in female circumcision, or by a huge these regions lack the vocabulary to 70 – 89% variety of terms that imply cleansing describe what has happened to them 90 – 99% or purification. By others, it is or talk about it properly. In most referred to as “cutting”. communities, the women do not FGM is a violation of human realise that ensuing problems are as rights under several conventions, but a result of the procedure and most despite this it is widely performed women who have undergone FGM in some parts of the world, largely say that they would do it to their concentrated in 29 countries across daughters, but this is largely because Africa, with varying levels of they have never known anything prevalence. It is most common in else, and they do not realise the Somalia, Guinea, Djibouti, Egypt and implications. Increasingly, women Sierra Leone, where more than 90% who have emigrated to Western of women experience FGM. However countries are horrified at what has this is not to say that it is only a been done to them, but continue the problem in Africa. It is estimated practise out of fear of being shunned. that more than 137 thousand women Cutting is often not seen as a rite in girls in the UK have been forced of passage, something to signal the to undergo FGM, an estimate that is transformation from girl to women. increasing month on month. FGM has very complex and varied FGM is traditionally done to roots; it is recorded as practices In some parts of the world, FGM is the norm, but while it is seen as so horrific in the UK, it is rarely mentioned. Photo: flipboard.com preserve virginity, reduce sexual relating both to religion or ethnic desire, and even maintain a clean traditions, depending on the region. allow her to give birth, and closed many Western countries, including it might make you reel in horror. But there had never been a successful parties”, or someone taking their can make such a bold statement, I appearance of the genital organs. There are versions of FGM, such as afterwards. the UK since 1985, and this month, the fact is, in the UK, FGM is also a prosecution for the practice of FGM, child to be mutilated abroad; these think that we also should be able to There are several types, ranging from the stretching and lengthening of the Complications can arise as a result Nigeria, where around 25% of females significant issue. Even though it has even though it has been illegal in incidents have yet to be adequately make as much effort, be it through pricking or cauterising the clitoris, labia minora or clitoris, or internal of this repeated cutting, as well as are cut, passed a law banning this been criminalised for decades, it has the UK for a long time, with laws investigated. a strengthening of prevention, to total removal of the clitoral hood, cutting of the vaginal walls, which from the procedure itself. There are practice. Nigeria is not the first always been swept under the rug, with strengthened in 2003 preventing "it has For Nigeria, it is a huge step to ban education, and awareness. glans, inner and outer labia, with are said to enhance the pleasure many common complications such African country to do so, but it people afraid to discuss it for fear of travel to other countries for the FGM across the country. While it was I find the number of women and the total closure of the genital area, experienced by men. The roots of the as bleeding, swelling, infection, and represents a significant step forward being culturally insensitive. It was purpose of performing FGM. Last always been already outlawed in some states, in girls, both within and outside this with a small hole left for urine and practice, particularly in the case of problems with healing. Scarring for a country where it is ingrained only last year that data began to be year, guidelines for Border Force swept under others it is a cultural normality. With country, who are forced to undergo menstrual blood to pass through. The sewing, seem to stem from preventing and keloids may form, and damage in cultural fabric of so many collected on the prevalence of FGM agents were changed, to help prevent the rug, this law, the Nigerian government mutilation to be shocking. I find World Health Organisation classifies "more than young girls and women from "It is often to the urethra and vagina may communities. Of course, there is a lot in the UK, and by all counts, it seems girls from being taken out of the are saying that a traditional "While it it horrifying that even within this FGM into four categories, where each engaging in any sexual activity before cause infections, incontinence, and of progress yet to be made in Nigeria to have been grossly underestimated. country to be cut, and teachers and with people cultural practice is suddenly totally country girls are being taken away was already type varies in prevalence. The most 20,000 girls they are married – it is common for done using even infertility. Women who have alone; simply criminalising FGM will In March, 578 women and girls doctors have begun to be trained afraid to unacceptable, regardless of its to be cut, not because it has any extreme type of FGM ­– where the a man’s family to inspect the woman experienced FGM are at higher risk not immediately stop all incidence were treated for FGM in England, in identifying girls that may be at historical significance. This is not outlawed in benefits, but because of a long- under the razors, discuss it legs are bound together from thigh to ensure that her barrier is intact. of problems during pregnancy, and of this violence, but it represents a with thousands being reported since risk. In February this year, the first an easy thing to do; certainly many some states, standing culture of shame. The only to ankle for weeks following the age of 15 in Once a girl is married, she will be cut sharpened have a higher chance of neonatal change to the traditional culture of September. Every month that data is ever FGM case in the UK went to it for fear people will be unhappy with this, as way to stem this appalling practice is procedure to allow healing – is carried partially open either by her husband, mortality. They are more likely to violence against women, and will collected, the estimate for the number court, but it was against a doctor they have always done it and believe in others it to the break the taboo that shrouds the UK are rocks, glass of being out on 90% of all girls in Somalia. mother-in-law, or a circumciser (who or even experience pain during sex, have hopefully cause a shift in thinking of women suffering the effects of this in an isolated case, not prosecuting cutting to be necessary, but now that is a cultural it; by taking away the euphemisms Girls who are not cut are often considered is usually an elderly woman) to allow no sexual desire, or reduced sexual that will spread across the rest of mutilation increases. someone working as a cutter in a culturally it has been criminalised the awareness and misunderstandings, and giving outcast by their community, being at risk" for penetration. In the later case of fingernails" feelings. Africa. FGM hit the headlines in the UK large clinic, one of the circumcisers and education will increase and the normality." women the option not to do this to called unclean or impure. There is childbirth, she will be cut open to FGM has long been outlawed in This is a lot to take in, and a lot of last year when it was revealed that who come to the UK for “cutting insensitive." prevalence will decrease. If Nigeria their daughters. 10 12.06.2015 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX Comment [email protected] Comment Editor Tessa Davey There is always room for improvement George Butcher takes a look back on his time at Imperial

Imperial is full of happy memories, but looking back there are always ways it could be better. Photo: Imperial College

his week I finished my degree. biggest worry for me when I chose mental health; the stories behind year has been fantastic, the teaching clubs? Never mind the entire Dep Rep “Congratulations, you have Imperial. It seems silly to say that the statistics. I found that there is mediocre at best; my typical state network, an often overlooked part Tcompleted Mech Eng!” said the now: I haven’t struggled to make was support for students and some comprehensive school was more of union work. Too often we don’t figurative game graphic as I answered friends and have kept a wonderful great people doing great work. But innovative in its teaching methods. feel part of our own student union: the last question of my presentation. girlfriend, but it does fundamentally there is very little strategy, very Dep Rep meetings seem to be focused this very paper, which is a society Somehow I managed to do four years change how life works when a large little organisation and very little on when computer rooms are open, of the Union, paid for by the Union of my degree without failing an part of society is just cut out of your recognition at the most senior levels and cafes – for a university to be with an editor elected along with the exam (hopefully anyway, there’s still life. I hope that Imperial is trying to that the environment here causes relevant in the 21st century you need sabbatical team in Union elections, chance), and probably getting a 2:1 rectify this – I know the new “Design people to become ill. This needs to radically change how teaching is has a separate “Union Page”, which is overall. Thanks for that. Engineering” course has 40% female recognising, accepting and then done, for soon it won’t be possible to bizarre. This came to a head when the Would I recommend the Imperial applicants. I want Imperial to commit changing. The problem is that we cruise on a reputation as employers rugby team actively worked against experience? Yes, but that’s not to say to end this imbalance, for the sake of make students ill in the first place, realise that university is just an overly the Union’s efforts to minimise the that Imperial doesn’t struggle in so both accessibility and reducing the not that we struggle to help them elaborate sorting mechanism. College or police sanctions into public many ways. testosterone-filled environment that when they are. Finally, Imperial needs to better accusations by The Telegraph, rather We all laugh at the student we live in. The way that departments teach work with its student union, and the than seeing them as a method of satisfaction survey. “People don’t This leads me onto the second across Imperial seems to vary hugely. Union with its students. We’re very support and help. like no longer being best,” “Imperial problem with Imperial: mental Partly down to the subjects’ nature, fortunate to have a well organised You might read this and think that students are just whiny,” and “we’ve health. Two weeks ago Felix published but also down to the individuals in and structured student union. It runs I haven’t enjoyed Imperial. This is not just got really high standards,” are the results of a student-lead Union that department. As innovative as popular bars, allows every student to true, I have done. However an article all excuses I’ve heard wheeled out. survey showing that Imperial not the research may be, the teaching use the clubs and societies that are the about how wonderful Imperial is and But the reality is that many students only had a huge number of students methods are right out of the backbone of the Imperial social life what a great place it is to discover new are not happy, Oxford, Cambridge, struggling with their mental health, Victorian era. Most of my time was and isn’t going bust. stuff doesn’t make as a good a read. UCL and other good universities but that it was higher than other spent in a lecture theatre trying not to But what is “The Union”? For Imperial College is genuinely full consistently outperform us. Students universities surveyed by the NUS. go to sleep. If you were lucky you got many it is this mythical beast that of opportunities and I’ve had a great are not enjoying themselves, and so A few weeks before, we published a tutorial. If you were very lucky the inhabits the back offices of level time taking advantage of as many as why would they rate their university my own investigation where I tutor cared enough to teach, most of 2M in Beit. How can the sabbaticals I can, but there is always room for highly? interviewed many students who the time not. have a personal relationship with improvement. Go on Imperial, you The gender imbalance was the had struggled in some way with Whilst my project work in 3rd/4th the presidents and committee of 350 can do it. FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 12.06.2015 11 Science [email protected] Science Editor James Bezer & Lauren Ratcliffe Blood cells discovered in dinosaur fossils James Bezer reports on Imperial’s latest dino-discovery

group from Imperial has we were expecting to find at all. It discovered evidence of soft actually took quite a while for us to be A tissues in poorly-preserved convinced of what we saw.” 75-million-year-old dinosaur fossils. Evidence of soft tissues has The group analysed 8 typical bone previously been found in only a samples from the Natural History handful of extremely high quality Museum that showed no obvious fossils. signs of soft tissue preservation. The Most, however, are too poorly samples analysed included a claw of a preserved to show any obvious signs. meat-eating dinosaur, a few toe bones This is because protein molecules from a duck-billed hadrosaur and rib decay quickly—it was previously fragments with unknown origins. believed that their full structure Using electron microscopes, and a could not be preserved for longer focused ion-beam (FIB) to investigate than around 4 million years. the fossils’ internal structure, Therefore, even in the best they discovered bands that closely preserved fossils, evidence has only resemble collagen fibres in modern previously been found of protein bone samples. This was backed up fragments. by mass spectrometry, which found According to Bertazzo, however, peaks consistent with fragments of although the findings are promising, amino acids present in collagen. further research is needed to confirm In two samples, they also discovered them. structures that appear very similar to “I think we will need to find more red blood cells from birds, and which of these structures in other fossils, were again backed up with results and if we are lucky enough to find from mass spectrometry, showing a fossils with a larger quantity of the strong chemical similarity to cells structures, we will be able to isolate A juvenille hadrosaur skeleton Photo: Wiki Commons from emus. them and do even more biochemical Sergio Bertazzo, a Junior Research tests. We will then be sure that they that far more can be discovered from warm blooded. these creatures once lived and Fellow from the Department of are red blood cells.” less well-preserved fossils than was And there could be fragments of evolved,” said Bertazzo. Materials and lead author on the The paper, published in Nature previously believed. other tissues and molecules preserved “What we showed here is that this paper, says he was “totally blown Communications, involved researchers If confirmed, they could help within fossils that could give further kind of preservation is probably away” by the results. from the departments of Materials, answer many open questions in clues about the animals’ biochemical much more common than we “We were actually hoping so see Earth Science and Bioengineering. palaeontology. Investigations make-up. expected, so I cannot even begin to the gaps left in bone by the organic Their results and techniques could into their red blood cells could, for “If we can confirm that our initial speculate about what can be found in material that had decomposed. lead to a wealth of new information example, identify when dinosaurs observations are correct, then this the future.” “This was absolutely not what about dinosaur tissues, as they reveal evolved from being cold blooded to could yield fresh insights into how DOI:10.1038/ncomms8352

NASA’s supersonic “flying saucer” parachute fails The parachute NASA hopes will But, unlike on the moon, which land its future craft on Mars has has no atmosphere, this thin broken up in a test over the Pacific atmosphere makes using rockets Ocean. alone unsuitable. The current system, which was NASA tested the decelerator in used to land the Curiosity rover the stratosphere, where the air is in 2012, has been used since the similar to the Martian atmosphere. 1970s, and has now reached the This is the second failed test of limit of the size of payload it can the LDSD, but those involved are carry. keen to show the test was partially The new decelerator consists successful. of a 6 or 8m inflating drag device “The physics involved with to slow the craft down to around LDSD is so cutting-edge we learn mach 2, and a larger 30m main something profound every time parachute, more than twice the we test,” said Ian Clark, Principal size of the previous system. It’s Investigator of the project. designed to slow down craft “Going into this year’s flight, I weighing up to 3 tonnes, and would wanted to see that the parachute be used on any future manned opened further than it did last missions. year before it began to rupture Landing fast-moving craft on The limited data set we have at Mars is much harder than doing present indicates we may not only so on Earth, because its thin have gone well down the road to atmosphere doesn’t provide full inflation, but we may have Nicknamed the “flying saucer”, the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator is designed to land craft on Mars enough resistance for conventional achieved it.” Photo: NASA parachutes to work effectively. JAMES BEZER 12 12.06.2015 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX Games [email protected]@imperial.ac.uk Games Editor Max Eggl & Calum Skene A long time ago, in a game far far away... CHOO CHOO! Max Eggl welcomes you to the Star Wars hype train!

f you love star wars, first person the game-play delivers what the trailer shooters or in fact games in promised. While the graphics looked Igeneral, you could not have missed stunning, you have to keep in mind the fact that the makers of Battlefield, that this was actually all pre-rendered, DICE are remaking one of the best probably over a couple of days, to First Person Shooters (FPS) game ever. make it look so good. So we can When the original battlefront assume that it won’t really look that and its sequel came out and in my amazingly good, even with the best of childhood I spent many, many, PCs. Sadly, most of us don’t have the many hours immersed in these titles. best PCs around, so you may have to Therefore when it was first announced deal with the less beautiful graphics or that there would be finally be a new upgrade to a new rig (I really want to game, tied in with the new movie do the latter, but will probably have to (which I am also more than excited to accept the former). see), I didn’t just board hype train, but In terms of features we have bought the whole damn track! Ever confirmed that there will be 12 since then we have been drip fed news playable maps at launch on the regarding the games development and planets Hoth, Endor, Tattoine and possible features, and I was getting Sullust. Furthermore, in lieu of actual more and more excited. space battles (yes they won’t be in However, just last month EA finally the game) we will instead have space A childhood dream come true? Photo: Creative Commons decided to come clean about some ships in the ground battles, a lá Hoth of the features (or lack thereof when from Battlefront 2. Furthermore, it "I didn’t special and told a really good story! track record with releases, I would compared with the previous games) has been confirmed that heroes will With regards to the space battles, I "One find no benefit in spending my hard- that would be included in the game, make a comeback, however at this just board am not really too fussed. They were warning earned cash so early. Server issues will as well as showing off a teaser trailer. point only Darth Vader and Boba kinda cool, but in reality where definitely be a problem, and I think The trailer itself looked amazingly Fett are confirmed. However, very hype train, really repetitive and while they may that I that the day-one patch will probably good (and brought about as many sadly, there will won’t a single-player but bought have worked better in this modern would give be a necessity. After all the initial feels as the movie trailer did), we saw campaign. Especially the lack of a iteration, I don’t think we have lost hype has settled down and all the speeder bikes, AT-ATs, force fields single-player campaign makes me a the whole that much. you guys, initial bugs are patched, you should and jetpacks among many other bit sad. While I do get the move to damn One warning that I would give you is don’t be able to decide quite clearly if you things. The concepts on show looked multiplayer only, the singleplayer guys, is don’t preorder. There are no can afford this game and/or your pretty amazing, and I really hope that in Battlefront 2 really had something track! " associated bonuses, and given DICE’s preorder." computer can handle it! War. War never changes... (Part 4)

MAX EGGL that Bethesda has made a good this harsh wasteland. The games that it seems our main character SECTION EDITOR attempt at breaking it! After putting themselves originated from a comes from, namely 111 (which also up a countdown about a week ago, text-based game to a full sandbox happens to be binary for seven which Bethesda then released the trailer to game with RPG and FPS elements. is pretty cool since this is the seventh es, the day of reckoning is the newest installment in the Fallout Basically, imagine Skyrim with game in the series!). upon us. Global productivity series. technology in post-apocalyptic There is no real further Yhas come to a standstill. These For all of you who don’t know America, but better. information from the game, but if are the news headline that will echo what Fallout is; Fallout is a RPG Sadly, the last Fallout game you can’t hold in your excitement around the world on the day of the game set in a post apocalyptic which was Fallout: New Vegas, which was there are several analysis videos of release of Fallout 4. has been ravaged by a nuclear war. announced in 2010, almost 5 years the trailer that are trying to glean If you have spent any time on the These games revolve around you ago. So now, out of the blue (ok as much information from it as internet in the past week, you know the protagonist trying to survive fine, there have been several hints possible. Most people are hoping here and there, but nothing really for more information, including a solid) to get this is pretty neat. The release date, at E3 which is in about trailer itself has that same Fallout a week. However, what we do know feel as previous installments, with is that the game will be available on Imagine the 40s, 50s style music and retro There Xbox One, PS4 and PC, so if you still futuristic design. We follow a dog, own the old generation of consoles it Skyrim as he explores an abandoned house, hasn’t been may be time to update! with getting the occasional flashback any really I have to say that I am really, to the better, more hopeful time really excited for this game. There technology before the nuclear war. We then are good post- hasn’t been any really good post- in post- treated to a view of a ravaged and apocalyptic apocalyptic games like Fallout in destroyed Boston where the game a while (DayZ and all the zombie apocalyptic will take place, followed by scenes games like games didn’t really live up to their America, of feral ghouls and even a return Fallout in a hype), so I really can’t wait to unpack of Deathclaw, a villain from the my vault boy, gorge on some nuke This is the best marketing a game has ever had and in fact ever will have. but better. previous games. Furthermore, we while. cola and explore the destroyed land Photo: Creative Commons are given the number of the vault that is post-nuclear america. FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 12.06.2016 13 Film [email protected] Film Editors Ellen Mathieson, John Park and Jack Steadman

This Week The wonderful world of film at Imperial Cinema Jack Steadman looks back at this week’s news This week at Imperial Cinema, Earth’s mightiest heroes are crash-landing onto the big screen. Sir Christopher Lee passes The stars of the Marvel away Cinematic Universe are making their second group appearence eteran actor Sir Christopher in Avengers: Age of Ultron, the Lee died aged 93, it was smash-hit sequel to that other Vrevealed on Thursday. smash-hit that also featured all The star of many films, Lee passed of the heroes from Marvel films. away on Sunday at Chelsea and Following on from the events Westminster Hospital after being of the first Avengers film, as well admitted with respiratory difficulties as the other contributions to and heart failure. ‘Phase 2’ of Marvel’s grand plan, Lee had an incredible career, with Age of Ultron sees the team in a performances in films ranging from comfortable place, mopping up the classic Hammer Horrors to the the remnants of the evil Hydra. epic Lord of the Rings and Star Wars Everything kicks off with an franchises. all-out assault on the castle His big break came in 1957, where lair of Baron Von Strucker, with he appeared as the Monster in The the ultimate prize being Loki’s Curse of Frankenstein under director scepter, the source of so much Terence Fisher. trouble in the first film. The role proved a springboard Christoph Waltz looks suitable menacing and shadowy as Franz Oberhauser in the teaser for Once inside, the team to further appearances under the the newest Bond film. Photo: Sam Mendes/Sony soon discover that Strucker Hammer banner, most notably as has more up his sleeve than Count Dracula, a role he would play a appearances as Thor in the Marvel Street/Men in Black crossover, which they bargained for - a pair of total of nine times. franchises, joins a line-up that Sony has been pushing for since the “miracles” in the shape of mind- While with Hammer, Lee also includes Kristen Wiig, Melissa success of the sequel. altering Scarlet Witch and super- played the likes of Mummy, Fu McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie There’s no news on the story or speedy Quicksilver. Manchu and Rasputin. Jones. any real details for any of the three And if they weren’t enough, it Away from Hammer, his large roles The film is being pushed as its own projects - not yet, anyway. looks like Tony Stark may have included Lord Summerisle in the story, not just another spin on the just created a homicidal robot... classic 1973 horror The Wicker Man, original tale of the ‘busters, and is Spectre teaser released Avengers: Age of Ultron is and his first big franchise appearance currently targeting a 2016 release playing in 2D Tuesday 16th June as Bond villain Francisco Scaramanga date. he latest James Bond film, at 18:30 and then again on in Roger Moore’s second outing The Before that, Hemsworth is Spectre, got a new teaser trailer Thursday 18th June at 21:10. Man with the Golden Gun. appearing in the new Vacation film, during the NBA finals on It’s also playing in 3D on T th His other main franchises came landing on August 21, while future Tuesday night, marking the start Tuesday 16 June at 21:10, and later on, first as Saruman the White co-star Melissa McCarthy is on of the steady increase of publicity then again on Thursday 18th June in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings screens now in Spy. materials for the highly-anticipated at 18:30. trilogy (a role he then reprised in the film. That’s right, we’re double- Hobbit trilogy), then as Count Dooku Female Jump Street gets A teaser trailer for the 24th film in billing 2D/3D. More Avengers for in Episode II: Attack of the Clones and more writers the James Bond franchise made an your money. Episode III: Revenge of the Sith of the appearance back in March, and the Tickets are £3 for members and Star Wars series. uch like Ghostbusters, the first half of this new trailer recycles £4 for non-members, or £5 for a Lee also had an extremely active Jump Street series is getting much of that first glimpse. members double-bill and £7 for career outside of acting, not least in Mits own female-led spin-off, From there, it’s a smash-grab of non-members. the world of music. and Sony has adopted one of cinema’s smash-cuts that give tiny glimpses Doors open around 15 minutes Lee was made a CBE in 2001, before new favourite tactics: having multiple of what’s in store for Daniel Craig’s before the start of the film. being knighted in 2009. writers working on separate scripts Bond. To buy membership or to find for the same film at the same time. Ben Whishaw’s Q is briefly visible, out more about our showings Chris Hemsworth joins Warner/DC have been toying with as well as both new Bond girls Lea this term, visit: imperialcinema. female Ghostbusters the system for the Wonder Woman Seydoux and Monica Bellucci. There’s co.uk. film (amongst others on their slate), also a shadow-cloaked visit from aul Feig, director of the all- and now Sony have jumped on the Christoph Waltz’s Franz Oberhauser female take on beloved classic bandwagon by hiring Wendy and - long rumoured (and denied) to be a PGhostbusters, has announced his Lizzie Molyneux to draw up a draft reincarnation of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, latest piece of casting via Twitter. idea for the film. the evil supervillain in charge of the Feig made the announcement They join Lucia Aniello and Paul shadowy, titular Spectre organisation. with the words “our receptionist. W. Downs, who were hired by Sony in The major players from the hit #whoyougonnacall”, stating pretty April to get cracking on ideas. "It’s a smash- 23rd entry Skyfall are all returning, much outright that Hemsworth will "The The Molyneuxs (not convinced including the likes of Ralph likely be taking on some form of that’s how to pluralise their surname) grab of Fiennes as M and Naomie Harris as Annie Potts’ role as Janine Melnitz in Ghostbusters have previously worked on the likes smash-cuts Moneypenny, as well as director Sam both original films. reboot is of Bob’s Burgers, with multiple scripts that give tiny Mendes. Deadline did some snooping being pushed currently in development (including Spectre’s script has been penned by through casting assignments, digging Hot Stuff at Dreamworks). glimpses of John Logan and Neal Purvis & Robert up a reference to a “male tech as its own The main thrust of the franchise what’s in Wade, the men responsible for much assistant”, which may well be the job story." is also going strong, with Rodney store." of the modern resurgence of Bond. Hemsworth has landed. Rothman working on a 23 Jump Street, Spectre is due for release on The actor, most famous for his and continued mutterings of a Jump November 6. 14 12.06.2015 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 12.06.2015 15 Travel Travel [email protected] Travel Editor Yung Nam Cheah [email protected] Travel Editor Yung Nam Cheah Tips for budget airline packing Travel made easy - the world of apps Yung Nam Cheah reveal her packing secrets learn through experience Yung Nam Cheah shares her top ten favourite travel apps

t’s no secret that the internet has revolutionized the world: there ravelling on budget airline isn’t picky, do it twice only. Remember Iis a whole host of information easy – you’ve got the luggage that unless you are heading off into and applications available now that Trestriction, liquid restriction, the wilderness (in which case you weren’t there a few decades ago. and only airline magazines for really need that 20kg luggage), there’s People can now do things on their entertainment. However, with their nothing you can’t buy once you get phone that no one could even dream unbeatable prices you can only there. of before – in fact, I still remember grit your teeth and adhere to the putting my phone away for my increasingly intricate rules of hand 2) Get those 100ml bottles travels a few years back and now I luggage restriction to save the extra from Primark or drug stores wouldn’t even think about not having dosh for something more worth it. it on me. The two most popular budget There are really no needs to succumb With the apps market springing airlines in UK are Ryanair and into buying those small travel portion up like wild grass in spring, you can Easyjet. Surprisingly, Ryanair is the shampoo and conditioners they virtually download an application for more lenient of the two and offer have in Boots that costs an arm or everything. travelers a 10kg limit of a suitcase of leg. Be green and buy a set of travel Through searching in the apps 55 x 40 x 20 cm size, as well as a small bottles for 1 pound, and save yourself store and recommendation from bag of 35 x 20 x 20 cm dimension. some money. Unless you shower friends and blogs, I have discovered Though allowing a bag up to 56 x 45 three times a day, a 100ml bottle some great apps that I want to share x 25 cm, Easyjet only guarantee your of shampoo can last you for up to a with you today and hopefully that luggage with you if it’s smaller than month. would help you in your travel too! 50 x 40 x 20cm and you can only take Same goes for any of your favourite one bag. skincare products – put them into 1) TripIt Whilst this might not be a problem those handy little clear, circular for some, those of you who are a containers. This way, you can fit a lot An easy way to organise your heavy packer – like me – will cry into your 20 x 20 cm plastic bag. itinerary in one place, Tripit take in outrage. How on Earth are we And need I remind you that you are snippets of information from supposed to fit everything we need only allow liquids in less than 100ml confirmation emails you forward into such a small space? However, bottle, even if the actual content in it them from your bookings, and puts it since I been on two one-month long is less than 100ml. The sacrifice you have to make for cheap airfare is luggage restriction and ungodly hours. all together. Now your flight details, trips this summer, I realised that Photo: flickr/maik_sv hotel bookings, and tour itinerary you really can pack as little as that 3) Clear plastic bags – save are all in one place. You can get and still be okay, as long as you are some for next trip “How on directions, edit manually, and sync prepared. Earth grab a few and re-use them – saves free in your bag for other things. it to your own calendar. And most Speaking of the clear little plastic are we you time as well. importantly, it’s free (there is a paid 1) Plan your outfits two, no bags, you might be shocked to know 5) Send in one bag as a group version). three, times that not every airport offers them for supposed 4) Wear all the chunky stuff “Not every The top ten apps are available in both Android and Apple device Photo: flickr/edited from Seth Merander free. What? Aren’t they compulsory to fit airport If there are enough of you going 2) Pocket Whether it is for a weekend getaway to put your liquids in? Yes. This is especially true for shoes. If you together, and you all have something time. life a whole lot easier. boarding pass. This is very useful, or a year-long trip – choose your You can grab some (in fact, tons) everything are bringing a pair of walking boots, offers you desperately want to bring some This handy little app allows you to Xe currency not only allows you to particularly for those who don’t have favourite outfits, then choose from for free at Heathrow and Gatwick, we need or any chunky footwear, it’s best to those clear more goodies on the plane, then it save websites and read them later, quickly calculate the rate, it allows 7) Rail planner (Eurail/ any luggage to check in because it it your favourites, then again. This but if you are flying from Stansted into such conserve space by wearing them. might be feasible to send one bag offline. Available on your browser as comparison with up to five currencies Interrail) saves you time at the airport. It also will help you narrow down which or Luton, bring you own, otherwise Bundle as many layers on your body plastic bags through together. This will make it well, you can save any articles, blog as well as their exchange rate profile. gives you update on the status of the really is your favourite and save you will have to pay 1 pounds for five a small as you can; it might look weird but more economical and if you are all posts, and even videos on your phone An offline app that shows you the flight so you will know whether or not you the dead weight and used space even if you only need one. space?” you are saving precious space! Take a for free!” in it together then no one can point for later. So now you don’t have to 5) Tripadvisor City Guide timetable for Eurail and Interrail it’s delayed. in your luggage. If you are not that If you are a frequent traveler, just coat with you too, to keep that space fingers when you wait for luggage! screenshot it all. passes, this is perfect for anyone How do you know whether you travelling through Europe by train. 10) Kites 3) Guide apps should go to restaurant A or B? This is especially true for those who Simple – check their rating on the are compulsive at planning and An app designed by an Imperial For the lazy fellows out there who Tripadvisor City Guide app. knowing every part of the journey graduate, this still-expanding app Get ready for summer! don’t like to plan their trip, apps such It downloads reviews on a map (like me), because it shows you all shows you recommendations by users as Pocketguide and Rough Guide offline, so you can rest assured that the stops and even the route on map all over the world. With a twitter- will do all the planning for you. Bear the restaurant you are going to is so you can follow every part of the based format, each ‘kite’ is only 140 Summer is just around the corner and I am sure most be gearing towards making sure you are ready for this in mind that they usually charge vetted. Make sure you download the journey. The only downside is you characters long, keeping things short of you have something exciting line up to take the stress summer! a fee (under a fiver); in exchange correct city before you leave – this is can’t buy tickets through it. and sweet with option to add photos. of your exams. This week your past travel editor Chris Richardson is they set up a route for you to follow made easier by the new Tripadvisor You can follow users and add your Whether it’s a weekend getaway in Paris, a party going to transport you to the charms of South America. with information on the sights and Catalogue app. 8) EventBrite kites into a collection, like a London holiday at Ibiza, or even backpacking around South East I, on the other hand, will bring you tips that would monuments. While they are handy "With "We have Harry Potter tour. Asia – we want to hear all about it! hopefully make your summer journey easier. Whether little things, you might want to check the apps 6) Citymapper An app that I am sure most of you “But I haven’t even gone on the trip yet!” some of you it is packing your hand luggage on those budget flights before you purchase or follow the all been would already possess, it lets you Hopefully these apps would help might cry; well, planning is as much a part of the journey or some handy apps that would make your travel life a route to make sure you actually enjoy market Currently only available in certain there... discover local events, buy tickets, smooth over your journey and makes as the journey itself. whole lot easier. what’s on it. springing metropolis, this urban jungle and show them on your phone. This life as a traveller easier. Now your Tweet your travel plans and travel photos @felix_travel And for those of you staying in London, we haven’t public transport navigation app is calculate is perfect for last minute night out only problem would be making sure and follow us to see what your travel editor 2014-2015 forgotten about you – there will be a special feature on 4) Xe currency up like constantly expanding territories. the at a foreign city where you won’t you have enough battery power in (yes that’s me) is up to this summer. summer in London next week. Because no matter where Integrating all manner of transport, necessarily have access to a printer. your phone to last for the day!. For those of you who have nothing planned yet, don’t you go, travelling can be as close as your own backyard. We have all been there – when you wild it helps you pick out the best travel conversion worry, we are here to help. With only one more issue this see something beautiful on a trip and grass in routes from point A to B, and even in your 9) Airline apps If you know of a good travel app term before summer begins for good, Travel Felix will NAM CHEAH wants to buy it, but had to calculate tells you the cost. that isn’t on the list, drop us an email Summer at London isn’t even remotely close to boring. Photo: Yung the conversion in your head every spring...." So if you are heading to New York, head ." Most airlines now have an app or even tweet us to let us know! Nam Cheah Paris, or Madrid, this can make your where you can check in and get your @felixtravel 16 12.06.2015 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 12.06.2015 17 Travel Travel [email protected] Travel Editor Yung Nam Cheah [email protected] Travel Editor Yung Nam Cheah

Getting there

Exploring the Colchagua There are several ways to get to Colchagua Valley, including by car, bus, and private transportation. The trip is approximately 1-2 hours south of Valley in South America Santiago, depending on the day and time that you leave. From Santiago, take Route 5 South. You’ll pass the cities of Rancagua and San Fernando. Take Route I-50 (Wine Road - Carretera del Chris Richardson knocks back a couple Vino) which leads to Santa Cruz. Once you are on Route I-50, Santa Cruz is approximately 41 of glasses in Chile’s stunning wine km (25 miles) away. You can’t miss the entrance on the left region hand side. much easier. HOTELS NOI Blend Hotel couple of months ago I was www.noihotels.com/hotel/noi- just like you: I’d crafted blend A what I thought at the time Hotel Quinta Maria was the perfect route through South www.hotelquintamaria.com America, cruising merrily along the Lapotolle Residence gringo trail, diverting occasionally http://en.lapostolle.com for the miscellaneous hidden gems I’d Santa Cruz Plaza Hotel heard about through the grapevine. www.hotelsantacruzplaza.cl But as it turned out there were several grapevines missing from the RESTAURANTS discussion. Enter Chile’s Colchagua Rayuela Wine and Grill at Viu Valley. My initial plan was to call it Manent a day at the Mendoza Malbecs but, www.viumanent.cl following several tastings in the area, La Famiglia Italian my thirst was far from quenched: the www.lafamiglia.cl time was clearly ripe to search for Vino Bello Italian something new. www.vino-bello.com Colchagua extends across Chile’s Cruising through The Clubhouse at Casa Silva central valley, a beautiful strip of epic Winery proportions dedicated to traditional www.casasilva.cl agriculture and winemaking. It is known for its full-bodied Cabernet TOURS Sauvignons, Syrahs, and Malbecs, Colchagua Wine Tours not to mention Carmenere, which Chile: (+56 9) 7529 7525 was rediscovered in 1994 and is now USA (+1) 301 637 5883 mostly produced in Chile. That said, "The valley Colchagua www.colchaguawinetours.com there’s a plethora of other excellent red and white varietals found is nothing throughout the region. Despite being short of Wine tasting with Chilean wine connoisseur Margarita Valenzuela. Photo: Chris Richardson The rolling green hills of Montes Winery. Photo: Chris Richardson much closer to the equator than Europe’s vineyards, the region has stunning." the nearby Pacific Ocean bringing gaining traction every year, and one Chile’s first ultra-premium wine, one of the continent’s best private itself, and presenting it in such a way to find such a good level of service, a solid Mediterranean climate, with a consistent cooling effect to the that is well worth discovering while it Alpha M. Throughout the winery collections, boasting well-decked that really captures the severity and and I have no doubts that CWT will valley. And, perhaps above all, the is still within its prime. what stands out is the astounding exhibition halls inside a huge colonial scale of this iconic event. While there contribute to Colchagua’s continuing Andes help to maintain grape acidity attention to detail: the building has building with a stunning courtyard are endless attractions throughout rise to stardom. levels through diurnal temperature Recommended wineries been oriented about the surrounding attached. The museum encompasses Colchagua, the Museo certainly is a I first ran into CWT’s co-founder variation, and deliver fresh melted landscape according to the principles all one could wish to know about must-see. Connie, a US expat, at a wine harvest water into the valley in the form of Visiting a handful of wineries is of feng shui, while one of Montes’ Chile and elsewhere on the continent, festival in a small town in the heart the Tinguiririca River. clearly the main event in Colchagua. bottles features exclusive artwork including palaeontology, pre- Colchagua Wine Tours of Colchagua, and found her to But it’s obviously not just the The area does continue to maintain from Gerald Scarfe, the revered Columbian art, the colonial era, and capture the spirit of CWT perfectly: solid science that gives Colchagua an air of reserve – only a handful illustrator behind the iconic cover of subsequent liberation. It is well worth Colchagua as a tourist destination enthusiastic, personable, and busy its appeal: aesthetically, the valley of wineries are currently open to Pink Floyd’s The Wall. The carbon- a few hours – if not a few days – of is still somewhat in its infancy. As a investigating up-and-coming trends is nothing short of stunning. The the public – but I believe that this neutral winery also has an attached your time in Colchagua: everything result sourcing reliable information in the area. Coupled with co-founder gorgeous landscape is accented with only adds to Colchagua’s charm and conservation area dedicated to is beautifully presented, and finding and professional tour guides is Francisco – the Chilean-born endless picturesque vineyards, and hidden gem status. The following preserving local flora and fauna; exactly what you want is made easy by something of a challenge, particularly entrepreneur with a real passion for the perfect summer days drastically wineries are an excellent starting meanwhile the barrels receive the soft following the guided circuit through if you’re looking for a good level putting home-grown businesses on descend into night skies that are a point that will provide you with a whisper of round-the-clock Gregorian the halls. of spoken English. Thankfully the the map – CWT offer unparalleled stargazer’s paradise. There are plenty "For the solid grounding in what the region chant to give them – quite literally – By far the most impressive region is now served by a local tour knowledge and an unrivalled quality of great hiking options along the perfect has to offer, including the essential non-stop good vibes. collection is ‘The Big Rescue’, a series operator, Colchagua Wine Tours. It of service. Having spent a weekend mountain range, achieved either on Colchagua grape varietals, as well as the contrast of rooms and tunnels dedicated to would be difficult to reduce CWT to a with them in the area, I was extremely horseback or on foot. Meanwhile sun between industrial operations and The Colchagua Museum recounting the tale of ‘los 33’, the 33 single unique selling point: they offer impressed with their incredible and surf worshippers will be satisfied experience, smaller-scale outfits. Chilean men trapped in the San José completely-customisable tailored attention to deal, ability to seamlessly with Pichilemu, just under two CWT is Montes Winery: This boutique As I alluded to earlier, the activities mine in 2010, an event that captured tour packages, knowledgeable native stitch together a complicated hours from Santa Cruz and “widely winery is located in the heart of in Colchagua don’t start and end with the eyes and hearts of billions around English-speaking guides, and a well itinerary, and willingness to adapt the considered the best surfing in South your go-to Apalta, an area synonymous with the wonderful wine. Located just off the globe. The owners and curators thought-out pricing system that far plans according to our preferences. Barrels upon barrels of wine maturing in the Montes America year-round” by Fodor’s. guide." outstanding quality and prestige. Santa Cruz’s main square, the Plaza have done a fantastic job of securing surpasses that offered by rival tour For the perfect Colchagua experience, Winery. Photo: Chris Richardson Colchagua is a destination that is They are also the outfit behind de Armas, sits Museo Colchagua, endless memorabilia from the mine operators in Santiago. It’s a rarity CWT is your go-to guide. Infinity pool, Lapostolle Clos Apalta Winery . Photo: Chris Richardson 18 12.06.2015 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX Welfare [email protected] Welfare Editors Diba Esbati & Chanon Wongsatayanont

Mental health Don’t keep it all bottled up helplines and resources

Chanon Wongsatayanont explains why seeking If you are concerned about your own mental health or that of a help for mental illness can be tough loved one, there are people out there you can talk to who can give you advice, or will be there few weeks ago, the results of to listen. a College-wide mental health A survey was released on Felix. At first glance, the numbers Helplines looked scary where 75% out of 1115 respondents said that they’d If you are distressed and need experienced unhealthy amounts of someone to talk to : stress and mental health symptoms sometime during their time in Samaritans (24 hr helpline) Imperial. Phone: 08457 90 90 90 It is more comforting to see the www.samaritans.org.uk figures concerning help they have sought out. To give a recap on some numbers, more than half of sufferers said that they confided in friends, 20% said they saw a GP and 13% said that they approached their personal tutor for Anxiety Help : help regarding this. Anxiety UK Unfortunately, 28% said that Phone: 08444 775 774 they didn’t disclose their stress or (Mon-Fri 09:30 - 17:30) condition with anyone. www.anxietyuk.org.uk In addition to this, 16% suspected that they have a mental illness but No Panic are yet to be diagnosed, which is only Phone: 0808 800 2222 slightly different to the percentage (daily, 10:00 - 22:00) of those who have already been www.nopanic.org.uk medically diagnosed (20%). Combined with the number of Eating Disorders: respondents who spoke to no one Admitting that you are suffering from a mental illness can be just as nerve-wracking as admitting you’re gay. Beat about their stress, this suggests that Photo: noringnosheets.com Phone: 0845 634 1414 there is a lonely group who did not (Mon-Thurs, 13:30 - 16:30) receive any help for their conditions. down the thought, dismissing it as the Because of stigma and fear of I think there are a number of blues everyone talks about. misunderstanding, there is a vast gap possible reasons for this: Help might So of course you wouldn’t talk to between self-diagnosis and going to not be visible enough, which is anyone about it since it’s nothing, the health centre for an actual one, or something currently being addressed right? seeking any help at all. by Mentality. But the suffering is real. Weeks and To bridge this gap, there are the call Some people might prefer to deal weeks go by and these terrible phases centres on the side of this page. with the stress and their condition on come back. Some of these numbers, such as the Addiction: their own. You still think it’s the blues and Samaritans, are operated by trained Alcoholics Anonymous Or finally, seeking help of any you’re more sensitive than everyone supporters who can give advice or just Phone: 0845 769 7555 kind is a terrifying prospect, else because you can’t get out of it like listen, depending on what the caller (24 hour helpline) whether because of the stigma everyone else can. prefers. www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk surrounding mental illnesses or fear By blaming yourself for being The best thing about these services of dramatising themselves. overly dramatic, you bottle it up even is the anonymity. That way, sufferers Narcotics Anonymous The last reason is the topic I want to more, putting up a wall so no one won’t have to be afraid of judgments Phone: 0300 999 1212 talk about this week. would judge you. or consequences after confiding in www.ukna.org It’s a scary feeling when you want Even if you know your friends someone else. help but are stopped by real or would be sympathetic, you don’t want After calling them, the sufferer imagined pressure, because it’s not "Mental to risk the misunderstanding. "If your would hopefully know more about a visible problem that can be easily illness If your social circle has a stigma social circle what they’re going through, without College Resources resolved. for mental illness, confiding to has a stigma having to confront the wall they set It’s a kind of isolation and can be a them is like coming out to a group of up for themselves because they’re Student Counselling Service loneliness that can’t be explained to confusing homophobic friends. for mental talking to trained strangers. Phone: 020 7594 9637 others because it seems to go against and One difference in the analogy illness, Then with that information, it is e-mail: [email protected] every instinct to talk about it. An however. While homosexuality is much easier to decide whether they example will show you what I mean. isolating a usually concrete where you feel confiding still want to seek out help as they Imperial College Health Centre Say, you’re suffering from a case experience attracted to guys or girls, mental to them is now have a second opinion, which Telephone: 020 7584 6301 of depression but you don’t know illness has a lot of overlap with is invaluable when you already e-mail: [email protected] about it. Every once in a while, you which everyday emotions and it’s sometimes like coming have a whirlwind of doubts and will enter an episode that makes makes hard to draw the line between them. out to a unconfirmed fears in your head. You can also go to your academic everything seem pointless and Coming back to my original point, group of Regardless of your choice, or personal tutor regarding unachievable for days on end, even if seeking help experiencing a mental illness can be contacting call centres would be a pastoral issues, especially if you this is something as simple as getting harder than a confusing and isolating experience homophobic helpful and harmless first step to think your mental health might out of bed. You suspect it might be it seems" which makes seeking help harder friends." however you choose to deal with the be affecting your academic depression, but you quickly shoot than it seems. stress you experience. performance. Union Page Name our new bar and restaurant at Woodward Hall

In September the new hall of residence in North Acton, Woodward Hall opens to almost 700 new students. As part of a number of facilities at the hall there will be a brand new restaurant and bar offering great value food and drink as well as entertainment and events. It will be glass-fronted, bright and breezy with a variety of seating including booths and long tables. We need your input in helping us to name this new facility!

It is the first time that the College and the Union has opened a new restaurant and bar outside of one of our campuses and we have been looking into the area for inspiration in helping us come up with a shortlist of names. The shortlisted names are:

A The site was formerly a factory that produced “Elgee” electricity meters One Victoria Road The Foundry A The hall is named after Dr Joan Woodward an Imperial alumnus who pioneered West Three Urban Oak research into Contingency Theory The Contingency The 1923 A The address of the hall is 1 Victoria Road, W3 The Meter Other... A North Acton Station on the Central Line opened in 1923 A ‘Acton’ is derived from the Old English for ‘oak farm’ or ‘farm by oak trees’ To pick a name you like from the shortlist go to imperialcollegeunion.org/name- woodward-hall Community Connections Mass Volunteering

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part, refuses to give the game away, Richard Roxburgh lends a subtle to have taken a uniquely Australian delivering her lines in a flat style that Australian brogue to his put-upon direction: the down-on-their-luck Editorial: The brings to mind the American artist Estragon, and finds a formidable characters lurch around the stage Laurie Anderson. Born in Ireland to sparring partner in his companion in old boots and musty jackets in Experiences French parents, Fouéré’s upbringing Vladimir, played by Hugo Weaving. a spectrum of grey, looking like International Beckett Season: makes her perhaps the perfect The pair bicker and squabble, some early settlers, lost in the bleak Issue person to interpret Beckett’s work, enacting out various games, passing outback. understanding the nuances of both the time as they wait for the unseen The English translation of Waiting FRED FYLES the French and Irish components titular character. How long they have for Godot is given the subtitle ‘a of his mind; she certainly doesn’t been waiting, how long they will tragicomedy in two acts’, and in this KAMIL MCCLELLAND Lessness & Waiting for Godot SECTION EDITOR disappoint, conjuring up a ruined continue to wait, remains a mystery, production the comedic elements mental landscape that seems to go on furthering the sense of alienation are certainly highlighted. Capering forever. the audience finds themselves on the around the stage, Roxburgh and While Fouéré manages to generate receiving end of. Philip Quast plays Weaving form a brilliant duo, with The poet John Keats, in a letter Fred Fyles heads down to the Barbican Centre, where their season a desolate wilderness in the mind the role of Pozzo, who seems to be Vladimir providing a witty foil to to his brother, two years before of the audience, such an effort is trapped in his relationship with the Estragon’s more grounded grumbles. his death of tuberculosis, wrote celebrating the influential Irish writer gets underway with one of not needed for those going to see put-upon Lucky. Dragged this way The production is clearly indebted to that ‘nothing ever becomes real the Sydney Theatre Company’s and that, near-mute throughout the the theatrical tradition of slapstick, until it is experienced. Even a production of Waiting for Godot, for majority of the play, until he vomits and the early physicality of actors proverb is no proverb until your his masterpieces, as well as a lesser-known work which the Barbican Theatre has been forth a stream of consciousness at the such as Buster Keaton, which provides Life has illustrated it’. To read turned into an actual wasteland. The end of Act I, Lucky is perhaps one of a rich seam of imaginative influences a great novel, to sit through a stage, bare but for a naked tree which the most difficult characters to get for director Andrew Upton to mine. powerful play, to wander the twists upward to the rafters, cutting right, but Luke Mullins brings an At some points, however, it feels that hallowed halls of a gallery; these a sharp line through the space, forms extraordinary physicality to the role. this aspect has taken precedence over are all means through which we the setting in which the characters While the setting pays homage the tragic elements of the script, with are able to experience the world merely wait. And wait. And wait. Not to the idea of a post-apocalyptic the themes of isolation, loneliness, around us. This issue of Felix Arts, for nothing did critic Vivian Mercier wasteland, set designer Zsolt Khell and general bleakness taking a back we bring together a number of describe it as ‘a play in which nothing also toys with the idea of the nature seat. This does provide a warmth to different cultural works, offering happens, twice’. And yet, somehow it “Lessness is of theatre - with its exposed backdrop, the play, which I have not seen in a wealth of experiences. seems that everything happens. I will the stage is clearly just that: a stage. other versions, but - particularly on a We kick off at the Barbican not try to elaborate on the meaning heady and Perhaps Khell is trying to emphasise warm summer night - sometimes one Centre, where a celebration of of the play; there is no point, and powerful, the idea that the theatre is a dead requires a little bit of chill. the work of Samuel Beckett is Beckett plays more on the nerves and art; or maybe, as Pozzo says, ‘they currently underway;nowhere is heartstrings of the audience, instead creating give birth astride a grave’, and the Owen Fouéré’s Lessness was on at the Beckett’s power with language of functioning as a cerebral exercise. a unique instantaneous gleam of light that is Barbican’s Frobisher Auditorium from more apparent than in these All I need to say is that by the time life is akin to a performance; either 5th - 8th June productions of Waiting for Godot the play is over, we are just that much headspace way the staging has a powerful or Lessness. closer to understanding the human for the effect on the play’s meaning and The Sydney Theatre Company’s We then head over to the condition. atmosphere. In her costume design, Waiting for Godot is on at the Barbican Almeida, where Robert Icke The small cast, comprising of four audience” Alice Babbage - and perhaps I am Theatre until 13th June. Tickets from £16, christens their Almeida Greeks main members, is incredibly tight: reading too much into this - seems available online. season with a production of Oresteia, the only surviving trilogy of tragedies from the era. Lia William’s Klytemnestra is a powerful interpretation of woman scorned, and this four-hour production is certainly something that needs to be experienced. The paintings of Agnes Martin are what we turn to next. Aleksandra Berditchevskaia heads along to the Tate Modern’s retrospective of the American artist whose work defied interpretation. With their subtle tones, and close attention to detail, her work needs to be seen to be truly appreciated, and this exhibition is a rare opportunity to do so. Indira Mallik checks out the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy; a yearly Sydney Theatre Company, Waiting for Godot, Richard Roxburgh, Luke Mullins, Hugo Weaving and Philip Quast Photo: Lisa Tomasetti showcase of the best art in the country, both professional and he great Irish dramatist and by generation upon generation of than a jumble of repeating words minutes she lures us into a trance overall effect is heady and powerful, nonprofessional, the Summer writer Samuel Beckett, whose scholars, eager to eake out more and and phrases. But when transported through the sheer power of Beckett’s creating a headspace for the audience, “This Exhibition marks the beginning Toeuvre the Barbican Centre more meaning from every syllable, into the Barbican’s Frobisher mind. With certain phrases coming which I can only describe with the of the new artistic calendar, and are celebrating through the month but it is upon the stage that his words Auditorium, a deeply intimate to prominence - little body; only word ‘trippy’ - a term that simply does production is always well worth a look, if of June, said that he wrote because really come to life, forcing us to sit up, venue, Fouéré’s reading allows us to upright; true refuge - the mechanical not do justice to what was going on in of Godot only for the spectacle. writing was all that he was good pay attention, and be awed. make sense of the piece. delivery of the lines weaves an the room. Finally, Jack Steadman takes a for. Far be it from me to disagree Perhaps nowhere is this more Sitting at a desk, bare but for a imaginary tapestry in the minds of It is not clear whether Fouéré is is clearly trip to the Valleys in the Royal with him, but the man greatly apparent than in Olwen Fouéré’s anglepoise-style lamp, Fouéré faces the viewer. Fleeting and ephemeral, reciting from memory, or if she indebted to Court’s latest play, Violence and misestimated his talents. Beckett’s interpretation of Lessness, a short the audience, her white hair pushed this vision, one of desolation, is being fed the lines one-by-one Son, a beguiling, powerful piece writing does not really exist in the story translated from the original back behind a utilitarian pair of longing, and alienation, somehow through her headphones. It’s not slapstick of modern theatre that forces realm of the written word; instead, French work, Sans. The work, which headphones. Above her, a wide manages to be both concrete and even clear whether this is the original and the viewer to deal with the dark what he was exceptionally talented is a pair of seemingly random screen of static is projected against ungraspable, something accentuated work, or one of the innumerable physicality” nature of humanity. Truly, it is a at was creating an atmosphere. His arrangements of 60 sentences, when the wall, flickering to and fro. The by the minimal drone soundtrack, arrangements of the sentences Sydney Theatre Company, Waiting for Godot, Hugo Weaving, Philip Quast, Richard Roxburgh and Luke Mullins Photo: Lisa real experience. works may be endlessly interpreted seen on paper, is really nothing more piece begins, and over the next 35 composed by Phill Niblock. The that are possible. 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and the occasional grand speech, Klytemnestra from a happy-yet- such as Klytemnestra’s monologue hardened politician’s wife, through following the murder of her husband, to a master adaptor, tossed to and fro Oresteia: A Greek Drama as Bloodily in which she revels in the brutality of by the whims of men – following the her actions: ‘I open my mouth like a death of her daughter: ‘I will get up plant in the rain in the red and I feel at the very first sign of morning, and so awake’. I will make a plan’ – and finally to a Greek theatre is renowned for its woman in charge of her own destiny; Relevant as Ever larger-than-life female characters: such a multi-faceted role would Medea, Electra, Hecuba – any give anyone pause for thought, but actor attempting to take on one of Williams manages to look deep inside these roles faces an uphill struggle. herself and deliver. What’s more, in this revised version, Similarly, Angus Wright’s Fred Fyles finds the combination of director Robert Icke and actor Klytemnestra’s role is even more “For 220 Agamemnon is wonderful, with intense, with the on-stage death of his stilted, slightly chilly delivery Lia Williams to be an unstoppable tour de force of tragic theatre her daughter adding an increased minutes, encapsulating the inflections of a vulnerability to the character. with little politician forced to go off script. However, Icke has found a fitting Jessica Brown Findlay’s delivery of Klytemnestra in Lia Williams, who respite, we the character of Electra is excellently inhabits the role completely; within confront realised – all pent-up fury and Williams there is a cold gleam of steel unreleased grief – that makes me which, only glimpsed at the beginning the evil want to see her take on the role in of the play, is slowly revealed, until of human Sophocles’ tragedy; the fact that this she is transformed into a cold killer, is her stage debut is only all the more blood glinting in the sunlight. Over nature” remarkable. the course of the play, we follow Hildegard Bechtler’s minimalist

Jessica Brown Findlay and Angus Wright in Oresteia. Almeida Theatre. Photo: Manual Harlan

stage design complements the am not suggesting that the works of performance, allowing the script to Freud and Jung do not have a place speak for itself, and accentuating within the Greek tradition, the effect the action. The stone stage, dissected of this intervention is to spell-out the by two wide panes of glass, acts as meaning of the play to the audience, simulacrum of a family home, with as if we are unable to come up with the giant marble bathtub – the conclusions on our own. Similarly, murder site of Agamemnon, who was Icke’s treatment of Electra’s prophesied to ‘die in water’ – looming character, which culminates in a Fight at the back like an ominous warning. Club-style twist had me rolling my But The Oresteia are not happy eyes somewhat. plays, and this is not a happy home. A Aeschylus’ original Oresteia was a certain cold, unfriendly nature runs radical departure from the original throughout the house, beginning Homeric text, which feted Orestes as Eve Benioff Salama, Lia Williams, Ilan Galkoff & Angus Wright in Oresteia. Almeida Theatre. Photo: Manual Harlan with the murder of Iphigenia. The a hero to be worshiped. Icke’s version sterile nature of the sets, alongside thus serves as a reinterpretation et’s just hold off the redeeming and healing enchantress’, process, rather than something that These ideas, of ritual and habits, of justice men are favoured’. What the aggressively neutral costume of a reinterpretation; Orestes is interpretation tonight’. Nietzsche writes in The Birth of is merely referred to. This first act, play into the themes of the final act, happens when the democratic choice choices – all grey tones and collarless dragged into the modern world, not LThese words are spoken by Tragedy, ‘she alone may transform which documents the beginning of where Orestes goes on trial for the is the immoral one? Icke leaves these shirts, like the mood board of a Cos through any kind of visual trickery, Klytemnestra, the much-wronged, these horrible reflections on the the end of the House of Atreus - a murder of Klytemnestra - that most questions unanswered, with Orestes’ designer – makes the killing of the or gauche plot intervention, but central character of The Oresteia terror and absurdity of existence into house affected by the ongoing war, transgressive of crimes: matricide - final cry of ‘what do I do?’ echoing child all that more horrifying; and instead through subtle altering trilogy, embodiment of both representations with which man may challenged by the demands of having and the Athenian tradition of a court society’s inability to come to a thus, Agamemnon’s murder, which of the original text. Icke remains woman scorned and maternal live’. At the stroke of 7pm, the doors a leader for a father, but happy of law, based on the newly founded conclusion. paints the set with red blood, acts respectful to the source material, but retribution, directed at her husband of the theatre slam shut, sealing us nevertheless; they sit around the Areopagus, is questioned. With such Icke’s decision to remove the almost like a form of visual catharsis through a number of changes – the Agamemnon, who has just sacrificed in as if inside a tomb, where for the table at dinnertime, sing each other universal themes - retributive v Chorus from the play is a bold one, for the audience. introduction of the on-stage sacrifice their daughter in exchange for a following 220 minutes we are - with songs, and bicker gently - serves to restorative justice; the role of the state and is reminiscent of the track taken Unfortunately, there are some of Iphigenia, the degree to which we victorious conclusion to a long and little respite - forced to confront explain the motivations behind the in family matters; the foundations by Ivo van Hove in his production of “Icke’s elements of this adaptation that can sympathise with Klytemnestra, bloody war; and yet, in the close the immediacy of evil, revenge, and characters’ later actions, and allows us of democracy - it is little wonder that Antigone, which recently ran at the don’t work as well. Icke’s decision the modern courtroom drama that confines of the Almeida Theatre, bloody human nature. to see how far the family will fall, thus The Oresteia still hits hard today. Barbican Centre. Like van Hove, revision to stage the play like a court concludes the plays – we have a she seems to be speaking directly to While every translator may be a making their descent into chaos all Instead of using the ending, in which Icke’s production democratises the manages to reconstruction makes sense within revised edition that manages to us, warning us against attempting traitor, there is also an element of the more affecting. Orestes is pardoned by Athene, script, dividing up the role of the the context of the last act, and adds convey all the drama and strife of to analyse the work presented. liberation in the act of translation, As time passes, and the war is as an explanation for the ancient chorus among the main parts; the convey all an interesting lexicon to the script, modern existence. The ancient Greek Indeed, director Robert Icke, who has and Icke has used his creative won, the household - or at least Greek law of ‘The Vote of Athene’, script, with its lines running into the drama which speaks of evidence, witnesses, tragedies have always spoken to us, radically reinterpreted Aeschylus’ freedom to unlock some of the heavy Klytemnestra - tries to maintain the Icke instead uses it to explore the and out of each other, weaving a rich and representatives; however, the and will continue to speak, as long as trio of plays - the only surviving chains attached to the story. The illusion of normality: the dinner bell problems apparent in a democratic tapestry of verse, echoes the idea of and strife introduction of a ‘Doctor’ character, there is a society to hear them; it’s just example of a Greek trilogy - seems most daring change he has made is to is still rung, and red wine continues justice system: ‘we favour men in all a unified Chorus whilst remaining of modern who we cut to at intervals in the that the Almeida’s production speaks to align with Nietzsche’s view of introduce the sacrifice of Iphigenia, to be drunk, as the body count things’, intones Athene, ‘and as the fresh and modern. The lines are action, questioning Orestes, lends a little louder. ancient tragedy when producing the daughter of Klytemnestra and increases, and more and more chairs just representative of our society, thrown across the stage back and Ilan Galkoff, Lia Williams, Angus Wright, Eve Benioff Salama and Luke Thompson in existence” the performance a psychoanalytical Oresteia is on at the Almeida Theatre this version: ‘art approaches as a Agamemnon, as an actual on-stage at the table remain unoccupied. it is appropriate that in this house forth, punctuated by heavy pauses Oresteia. Almeida.Photo: Manual Harlan angle that doesn’t suit it. While I until 18th July. Tickets from £10. 27 12.06.2015 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 12.06.2015 28 Arts Arts [email protected] Arts Editors Fred Fyles & Kamil McClelland [email protected] Arts Editors Fred Fyles & Kamil McClelland

In fact, the smaller painted works she was producing at the time were already exploring manifestations of Agnes Martin: repetitive lattices of lines. Then follows the room where we encounter some of the earliest grid paintings produced by Martin. The year is 1963, and there are only three The Unbearable canvases on the walls, which the curators have selected to represent the vital transition in Martin’s oeuvre. They are striking in their differences. Suddenly we start to understand Lightness of the potential contained within such deceptively simple arrangements of vertical and horizontal lines. Always working on the same scale of 72 x 72 Beauty inches, throughout the 60s Martin was uncompromising in her subtle yet assured portrayals of seemingly banal subjects such as Tree, Rose, and Aleksandra Berditchevskaia Morning. The faint pencil lines are both precise and slightly uneven, heads to the Tate Modern, where carrying a richness that reveals itself only after careful inspection. In the words of the critic Lucy Lippard, she finds a contemplative stillness Martin’s works are remarkable examples of “unrepetitive use of a Untitled #1 2003 ; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris Photo: 2015 Agnes in their celebration of the late repetitive medium”. Such imaginative Martin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York use of grids brought the artist much attention, and increasingly she was applied when compared to her is these revelations that hint at the American Abstract Expressionist included in group shows, something signature smooth washes. Yet, this intrinsic humanity behind the higher she resisted and struggled against. In work is her self-selected epitaph. concepts she was trying to capture f this is the first time you’ve something entirely removed from fact, it eventually pushed her to give A few days before her death, she and end up feeling like the most come across the name Agnes the physical world. In interviews she up painting altogether: in 1967 she requested that her gallerist and long- emotionally resonant aspect of the IMartin, you’re in good company. referred to an attempt to capture packed up her things and abandoned time friend Arne Glimcher returned work. In an interview, Glimcher has Encountering her work in the context internal states – we’re invited to New York to travel around the to her studio and cut two of the drawn comparisons between the final of a large museum collection, she is connect to something vestigial, country for 18 months, before settling canvases of the three paintings she painting and one she had produced easy to overlook, since her paintings the beauty that remains in the on a remote mesa in New Mexico. had left there. An uncompromising during the 1970s, Trumpet. Both are really demand that you spend time mind when the image of the rose Here she built a house out of logs and self-editor, she had always cut the ‘stormy’ and unsettling, in spite of with them to get to their essence. is taken away. She said of her work adobe bricks, and led a largely self majority of her output over the course the use of Martin’s signature pastel Her pieces also don’t reproduce well, that it was about “light, lightness, sufficient, ascetic lifestyle completely of her career, leaving only the works palette. And so we’re left with an and I assume it is for this reason that about merging, about formlessness detached from the art world. She was she was entirely satisfied with. The enigmatic final statement, a reference the Tate Modern has opted to use a breaking down form”. Later in her only prompted to take up her practice selection policy seems baffling. It is to an earlier piece, from a painter who photograph of Martin in the poster life, she playfully claimed that she again 5 years later when a German claimed that she aimed for exactitude always insisted on letting her work advertising the artist’s first large-scale had given up intellectualising thanks gallery commissioned her to produce and perfection in her execution, yet speak for itself. retrospective since her death in 2004, to a painful parting with Einstein’s a series of screenprints. some of the paintings in the show rather than an example of her work. Theory of Relativity, and she always The show is curated with great reveal imprecision in the grids and Agnes Martin is on at the Tate Modern Only when you remove yourself resisted formal analysis of her care by the Tate’s Director of the occasionally ‘messy’ reality of until 11th October. from the busy concourse area work. It seems ironic then that the International Art, Francis Morris, using very liquid washes. Actually, it Tickets £12; concessions available. and enter into the first palate- majority of us will cry out for just who has been working towards this cleansing room of the Tate’s new such an intellectualising in order to exhibition for many years. We show can you begin to establish start understanding these very bare should be grateful, since as visitors the necessary mental framework canvases. We reach for meaning we benefit from being guided by the through which to gain access to and guidance, for the theoretical hand and introduced to the artist in the work. In this first room we’re backdrop; when really Agnes Martin two halves. Split between the North introduced to the quintessential wants us to clear our minds and and South galleries we first witness Agnes Martin: large canvases of simply to meditate on the paintings. an artist finding her form during the calming pastel washes methodically Only then can we begin to realize our New York period and then, following contained by faintly drawn ruled “full response to this work”. her return to painting from 1974, lines. She always considered herself But who was Agnes Martin? Born claiming that form with an assured an Abstract Expressionist, which in Canada in 1912, she had a strict confidence. An interconnecting may come as a surprise given the religious upbringing at the hands Friendship 1963; Museum of Modern Art, New York Photo: 2015 Agnes Martin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York passageway displaying the 30 German obvious contrasts with the Pollocks, of her maternal grandparents. This screenprints guides us between de Koonings and Rothkos that childhood went on to shape her and formal style of the Minimalists a period that brought the liberty is most famous. The intriguing and these two periods. In the North the term conjures up. But just as professional struggle with the sin of and the brash, sexual Abstract of experimentation, allowing each ultimately surprising display reveals galleries, the later works are bathed those artists relied on automatism ‘pride’; throughout her career she was Expressionism. of them to discover their very sculptural pieces constructed from in natural light from the windows as a technique, surrendering “Almost at pains to resolve a fierce ambition “Martin But Agnes Martin aligned herself singular styles. Many of the artists the materials that Martin found in “Her 3D facing the Thames, as if echoing the "There is their actions to impulses of the with a reluctance to embrace the idea to an undercurrent. Her neighbours making up this group went on to the scrapyards bordering her studio openness and wild prosperity of the unconscious, Martin’s grids sprang impulsive of success. Leaving Canada for the US wants us and friends at the time were the gain recognition within the larger at Coenties Slip. You sense that work New Mexican landscape in which an intrinsic from her mind’s eye. And although in her to study, she went on to qualify as a to clear subversive young community that art establishment, with names working in 3D gave her a certain gave her they were produced. Many of these humanity she planned the dimensions of her teacher and finally decided to become took up residence in the disused such as Lenore Tawney, Ellsworth release from the painted form; it paintings from the 1970s make canvas works with meticulous care, movements, an artist at the age of 30. Moving out our minds, warehouses of Coenties Slip. Here, Kelly, Robert Indiana, and Jack was these works that allowed her a certain up whole series, an approach that behinf videos showing her at work depict Martin is a to complete further study and live in and simply amongst the dilapidated workshops Youngerman claiming their rightful the space to better appreciate the release allowed Martin to explore certain the higher an artist who is quick and decisive New Mexico, she was only persuaded and shipping rubble, artists of a place in American art history. physicality of shape and structure. themes in greater depth. in her application of paint. Almost very gestural to return to the art world of New York meditate new generation were finding their Early on in the exhibition, the Tate It’s difficult not to think of these from the The turbulence of her final painting concepts impulsive in her movements, she is a painter, like when the famous art dealer Betty on the voice. Although they didn’t form showcases Martin’s works from mixed media assemblages as natural painted Untitled 2004, on display in the show, that she very gestural painter, just as her male Parsons offered to represent her. New a coherent movement and their this period, and through doing so precursors to the development of the is strangely at odds with others from contemporaries were. her peers” York of the 50s and 60s was a hub of paintings” practices remained diverse, they provides some insight into the origins grid, particularly Water 1958, with its form” the period. 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though refreshing and inventive is undermined its text to make it yield too weak to sustain all 13 rooms, each the ghosts of other possible stories.’ with different personalities. Each This work alone could have sustained hang is particular to the room and an exhibition, and one suspects Summer Exhibition 2015: A Dizzy, the academician who has curated it. it’s less the quality of the work and Whilst some rooms are filled sparsely, more Phillips’ relative obscurity each piece existing in a synergy with when compared to Perry, Emin, the rest of the room, in other places, and Akroyd, that means that the Kaleidoscope Explosion of Art the room is crammed to the rafters, Humument has been tacked on to the a cacophony of sights and colours end of the Summer Exhibition rather that can be at times overwhelming. than honoured by a solo celebration. There are so many pieces that it However, this arrangement does We send Indira Mallik along to the Royal Academy’s annual seems unlikely that three or even four guarantee that Phillip’s work will visits would be enough to cover the find a larger audience than if he had celebration of art, where she is overwhelmed by the range of breadth of work on display. At times struck out on his own, and that can it feels as if the exhibition consists of only be a good thing. through multiple shows all somehow The Summer Exhibition 2015 is pieces on display interconnected in a colourful an exuberant celebration of art, labyrinth. It’s entirely charming, but and drifting through each of the nevertheless it does leave you feeling thirteen galleries can is something a little unmoored, unsure where of a SparkNotes of the zeitgeist of would be the best place to linger, and art in Britain, filtered through the which spaces to move through. capable hands of the Academy’s most The final room of the exhibition is influential members. But don’t go definitely a place to take a breather. expecting to absorb it all. The RA It exhibits the life’s work of Tom have published for the first time this Phillips, whose alteration of the year, an online catalogue of each Victorian novel A Human Document of the works in the exhibition, in began in the 1960s. Pages upon pages addition there are virtual tours given of The Humument line the walls of by Michael Craig Martin, Tracey Gallery X, each a tiny silk screened Emin, novelist Sebastian Faulks, jewel. The Humument is part painting, and Cath Kidston with more to be part illustration, and a considerable added over the summer; handy if you part erasure poetry. The work is "The want to plan your trip or catch some based on reimagining and altering Summer of the work you missed. However pages of a salvaged Victorian novel; comprehensive, the online version certain phrases have been picked out Exhibition cannot possibly hope to rival the real and the others hidden in translucent 2015 is an thing; the Summer Exhibition remains paint to create fragmentary poems exuberant something to be enjoyed in person; a that are reminiscent of ancient true Experience with a capital ‘E’. texts by Sappho or Catullus, where celebration phrases have been lost. The absence of the The Summer Exhibition 2015, this of words defines the meaning as year co-ordinated by Michael Craig- Michael Craig-Martin CBE RA unveiling a new site-specific artwork by Jim Lambie for the much as the words that remain. zeitgeist of Martin CBE RA, is on at the Royal Summer Exhibition 2015 Photo: David Parry, Royal Academy of Arts Speaking about his work, Phillips British art" Academy until 16th August. has said ‘[I] plundered, mined, and Tickets £13.50; concessions available. depths of the mine, staggered crops of in reality the work is very little else wood and plastic that reveal glinting but unsightly and ever so slightly polished bronze representing the gold disturbing. at the bottom. Above this piece hangs There are far too many stand out Dame Zaha Hadid’s vision of Beijing pieces to mention them all, but Airport. Grayson Perry’s large tapestry of Architecture is so rarely featured in the couple he built his house for in any other gallery shows that it feels Essex is exhibited in the small works truly special to have it here. Revealed room despite being several feet in are visions of the future, such as in both height and width. As with all Gallery III of the Summer Exhibition 2015 Photo: David Parry, Royal Academy of Arts Lord Rogers of Riverside’s model the other works of art in the Summer Feed the World, where power station Exhibition it is on sale – for £62,000. ach year, the Royal Academy kaleidoscope-coloured lines in the brilliance of the walls, with the Mahal, St Paul’s, The Parthenon all Kapoor, Geoffrey Clarke, and Neil chimneys have been reclaimed The Emin animal prints, £1,250 a heralds in summer with vinyl tape that distort the space cold Nordic light streaming out from appear in a glorious amalgamation Jefferies. as food growing greenhouses; in pop, are guaranteed to sell out in the Ethe Summer Exhibition, a and pulse with pure energy in the them. Further on, the print room of all the world’s most recognisable Architecture, usually placed Laurence Pinn, Ben Kirk, and Andrew first few hours, and Gebler Davies’ showcase of the work of the Royal traditional Victorian space. The is similarly full on monochrome landmarks whilst a whale flies centrally, has this year been Diggle’s Urban Flora Propagation Field own hair calice has already sold out, Academicians, a select group of galleries themselves have been gems, and is curated by Norman through the sky, a zeppelin fashioned segregated to the Large Weston Box, the architects envisage a way to according to the RA website. There’s ‘honorary’ academicians, and – unconventionally painted in Ackroyd, one of the greatest masters out of pure whimsy. Room, which can give the sense of the conserve bees in urban spaces. One no accounting for taste. uniquely – entries from the public. paint-box colours: bubblegum pink, of the form. Several of his own Craig-Martin was determined that work being included as somewhat of of the most conceptual pieces and The Summer Exhibition, which has Each year it serves up a feast of work turquoise, and ultramarine – it prints hang in the room flanking the sculpture should have a prominent an afterthought. Happily, the room, one of the most humorous is Tale of ran uninterrupted each year since from all different aesthetics, work of shouldn’t work but it does. It has main archway alongside some tiny stage this year, and The Lecture curated by Ian Ritchie, houses some the Washer, in which Tim Robinson 1795, is one of the most unique "Architecture different media, and curates into the raised a few eyebrows, admits head of Tracey Emin animal prints. Emin’s Hall, is a testament to this ambition. of the exhibition’s most intriguing relates the story of the missing washer exhibitions in the world. Yet in trying is so rarely ‘best of the year so far’. This year is no the Summer Exhibition Edith Davey, work is unusually restrained: sparse Of 118 works exhibited in this and unique works. Ian Ritchie from the Hubble telescope, which cost to be too many things – perhaps to exception. but even the sceptics were won lines delineate rabbits and badgers, space, the majority are sculpture; in started with the theme of inventive NASA millions to replace. please too many people in catering for featured in Co-ordinated by Michael Craig- around in the end. It feels like a true reminiscent more of a modern addition, the halls are punctuated landscapes, and Norman Ackroyd Even though the exhibition could all tastes – in trying to fit in as much any other Martin CBE, the galleries have taken celebration of the art that is stacked Beatrix Potter than her previous with commanding pieces, such as features once again with his prints be described as innovative, and of painting, sculpture, mixed media, gallery shows on the vivid peacock hues of his on the walls. work. The focus is not on these big Tim Shaw’s Erebus (Man of Fire III) of the Galapagos, his works acting exciting, it hasn’t escaped the touch as possible, it never quite establishes paintings. The colour experience Given the colour of the back canvas names however, but rather on bigger which makes a lasting impression. as quiet, traditional foil to the other of the bizarre. One of the finest its own identity. It houses over 1000 that it feels begins before you’ve even entered itself, perhaps it is unsurprising pieces by less well known artists: Shaw has conjured up rippling pieces around the room. In Canvey examples of such is Clancy Gebler works, selected from 12,000 that truly special the galleries, where Jim Lambie has that the works that really stand Adaptation by Ade Adesina shows a muscles and outstretched limbs Island, the architects Nic Clear, Mike Davies’ cilice made of her own hair. have been sent in, but there is no to have it decanted the London Tube Map out are the ones in monochrome. huge ship sailing through a densely with an electrifying presence from Aling, Hyun Jun Park, and Simon Conceptually, it may be a meditation overarching theme to tie the galleries onto the main staircase, creating Emma Stibbon’s stark paintings of populated city on train tracks; in painted foam, polyethene, and steel. Withers have created the model of a on the use of hair shirts in religious together and present it as a cohesive here" Works on display in Gallery II of the Summer Exhibition 2015 Photo: David Parry, Royal a signature floor installation of Iceland strike a bright note against Questions by the same artist, The Taj Other featured artists include Anish gold mine; viewers can look into the practice as an act of penance, but whole. Craig Martin’s colour scheme, Academy of Arts 31 12.06.2015 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX Arts [email protected] Arts Editors Fred Fyles & Kamil McClelland Violence and Son: Dark, Darker, Darkest Jack Steadman returns to the Royal Court for their visceral new play

David Moorst as Liam, in the Royal Court’s Violence and Son Photo: Helen Maybanks

walked into the Royal Court’s adorable – and wholly disarming. a gentle humour that gives way appearing as just another ‘boy fancies Rick is a viciously physical being, Violence and Son knowing virtually This weird dream-state where Liam to horrifying, brutal outbursts, girl who doesn’t fancy him back’ but there’s an animalistic intelligence Inothing about what I was letting faffs around in a Doctor Who-based before just as quickly turning into story, but it’s the wonderful way the beneath all that – where Liam is quick myself in for. state of mind marks the scene changes something that feels awfully like a script handles the characters involve with words, Rick is quick with actions. As it turns out, this was probably in the play, allowing for a brief respite rom-com. that sell it. The omnipresent threat that for the best. from the intense domestic disputes In lesser hands, this could well feel The constant, nagging fear that Rick presents is never undersold by What little I did know consisted that otherwise dominate proceedings. jarring, a series of constant tonal Rick – the man who seems so Hughes, nor is it oversold. It’s played of the protagonist being called They don’t seem to add much, and shifts that only serve to throw the wrong, so violent – might just be the perfectly. It’s all played perfectly. Liam, him being 17, liking Doctor with designer Cai Dyfan opting for entire audience off-balance and leave man who proves to be right. It’s a Violence and Son was in the Who and having to live with his dad a static set there’s no real call for them feeling apart from the action. terrifying thought, and the play tugs unenviable position of following on (nicknamed ‘Violence’) after his mum physical movements of set – the only None of that is the case here. so insistently on that thread that it from Who Cares in the Royal Court’s dies. Turns out it’s set in Wales, too. change that ever has to be made is The rapid changing in the way becomes all-consuming, impossible Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. Definitely didn’t know that. done in the interval anyway. the play presents itself never to ignore. It’s nowhere near as nakedly The set does nothing to help give They’re the only weak point in the feels anything less than natural, The emotion keeping you trapped political as that work (which also any clues about what’s going on: rings whole thing, proving to be nothing the delicate power balances and in your seat slowly changes from featured directing work from Hamish of plastic garden chairs surround the but a fancy light show acting as a relationships all feeling impossibly curiousity in what will happen next to Pirie, who takes sole directorial stage space, bordered by a knee-high distraction from the real goings-on. real. fear of what will come to pass. A well- control here), and it makes very wall. The real goings-on in question are The relationship between Liam founded fear, at that. different use of the space. Inside, the contents of the living utterly absorbing, revolving around and Jen is at the centre of all this, It’s not an easy job for the cast to But Violence and Son still has room of a dingy flat sit. A couple of Liam’s relationships with the three constantly shifting before the handle, not least when there are only something to say – originally Doctor Who toys sit, one unopened, other members of the cast. audience’s eyes. four of them to begin with. something on a far more personal one not. A few Doctor Who DVDs sit There’s Jen (Morfydd Clark), the At times cute, at other times Every member of the cast plays level, but as the unexpected ending underneath a TV set. Dangling above pretty girl he clearly has a crush on, slightly concerning, it’s also subject to their part admirably, and these are comes crashing in, leaving a trail of the set are fluorescent lights, arranged his dad Rick (Jason Hughes), with the worrying influence of Rick. four flawless performances. destruction in its wake, it lands with a in a hexagon. It looks suspiciously whom he has nothing in common, His interference in his son’s love Siwan Morris is the most short- message that feels painfully urgent. like it might be borrowing design and Suze (Siwan Morris), Rick’s life manifests as advice, what he changed of the four, with Suze being It’s something that needs to be inspiration from a certain time- current squeeze. would do if he were Liam, and it all both the weakest and most thankless screamed from the rooftops, but to do travelling blue box. The script quickly sets up just who sounds horrific. And to begin with, part. that, now, would spoil the play. If, like me, you’re starting to sense these people are, and how they’ve it looks like it’s backfired, as Jen runs Suze’s shifts in opinions feel the It’s a message that can only be a theme here, you’re correct. Doctor come to all be in the same flat, and out. But then it very, very quickly most forced, more a result of the delivered wrapped up in this entire Who plays a big part in this show – at then just as quickly starts pulling starts to piece itself back together, and story’s needs than a natural character package, as the build-up is as essential least, it does to begin with. apart the very fabric of that setup. the scary, overwhelming Rick begins progression, but she handles them as the pay-off. The lights dim, and Liam (David Nothing is ever exactly what it to sound like the voice of reason. well. Go and see it. I urge you. Morst) appears, dressed as Matt seems in this play, and at every It’s an initially subtle shift in power Morfydd Clark is alluring and Smith’s Doctor. moment there’s a prickling unease that works marvellously, and it’s one adorable as Jen, while David Violence and Son is at the Jerwood He waves a sonic screwdriver that everything could turn, and go that is constantly broken and re- Morst handles his character’s arc Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court Theatre around, and the lights descend, horribly, horribly wrong. forged throughout the play. wonderfully. It’s Jason Hughes until 11th July. forming a TARDIS-lite console. There’s a spark of wit running The underlying plot for much of who dominates the space, though, Tickets from £15 (for students), It’s all a bit silly, a bit weird, a bit through the whole thing, providing the play isn’t particularly interesting, physically and otherwise. available online.

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News in Brief: Physics Department too busy wanking to News in Brief: Broadcasters in terror of slip-ups as man write valid exam papers. named ‘Hunt’ makes headlines again. HANGMAN [email protected] HANGMAN [email protected] Stripping students arrested for Dinosaur theme park NEWS WITHOUT THE NEWS Diary Of a Fresher, aged 19 1/4 desecrating sacred monument apparently bad idea Saturday 6th June I don’t really remember what happened on Friday night, to be honest. After reading about the goat-woman-man threesome in the sex survey I felt really ill, so I went to 568 and just started drinking. I think Kris tried to apologise to me at one point, but I just tried to punch him.

Someone told me that I missed, punched Dorothy (the goat one) instead, and then she kicked me in the face. That’d probably explain why I think I’m missing two of my front teeth. It’s really painful and every time I breathe it makes a weird whistling noise.

Sunday 7th June

I spent most of the day curled up in bed whistling quietly. It was crap.

Monday 8th June Hangman accused of being “too cheeky” by FIFA ex-President Well, there’s good news and there’s bad news. I tried submitting one of those ‘mitigating circumstances’ forms so that I don’t get killed by the lecturers for doing such a shit job in the exams. I still can’t believe I wrote the words ‘Kris Kraye’ over and over.

I wonder if ‘DP(W) stole both my girlfriends’ is an okay reason to have failed all my exams?

Tuesday 9th June

Blackett Laborary, the sacred monument allegedly deserated by stripping students. Photo: Imperial College A typical exhibit at Jurassic World. Photo: Jurassic World Ltd Apparently it isn’t. I put in my application, and I got an email from the official DP(W) email account telling me that he was taken my concerns into consideration and hoped I felt better soon. And that Dorothy (both of them) said hi. here was an outpouring location. nudist. “We were told we had to do a o-one was surprised today had hoped to maintain control of What a dick. of shock today as several The photos are alleged to have centrefold for Felix, and we thought when it was revealed that the population by keeping only Tstudents were arrested for their been taken atop the sacred Blackett that the roof of Blackett would be a Nopening a theme park filled one gender of dinosaur in the park, participation in a nude photoshoot. Laboratory, causing a campus-wide great place to take the photo. You get with live dinosaurs is actually a although this plan was soon disrupted Image deemed “worth Police swooped on the unsuspecting outcry at the student’s actions. some really great views.” terrible idea. Footage has leaked to by the dinosaurs still finding a way students during the early hours of Said one anonymous Felix Editor: Hangman would like to take this the outside world showing dinosaurs to breed. printing” by Hangman Thursday morning, following their “I’ve seen the photos in question, and opportunity to confirm that the running amok at Jurassic World, a Several experts were invited to HOROSCOPES suspected attendance at Imperial I was disgusted. They didn’t even take photos do indeed allow you to get recently-opened theme park located the park before it opened to test the College Union’s “CSP Wednesday” it all off. If you’re going to take naked some really great views of [You’re fired on the remote Isla Nubar. viability of such a theme, although

that night. pics on top of Blackett, at least get - Ed.] Concerns had been voiced the results of their tests have never CANCER TAURUS The photoshoot in question took properly naked.” The police finally made moves on previously about the logic behind been disclosed to the outside world. GEMINI VIRGO place several days before the arrest, Hangman spoke to one of the the students following the publication the decision to not only bring back Rumours that the tests involved ARIES

with the participants originally students involved in the photoshoot, of the photos in Felix. dinosaurs but to also then cage them several individuals being eaten by LEO seeming to believe they had escaped who asked not to be named (but Rumours that the students’ and put them on display, with several dinosaurs remain unconfirmed. repercussions. One posted “teaser” did encourage us to print the photo actions are being blamed for experts pointing out the inherent Information on this latest shots from the photoshoot on social again). the recent unexpected spate of flaws in keeping intelligent animals outbreak at the park is slim, although media, before “taunting” those who “We didn’t mean to cause any unnaturally warm weather are as yet caged. Hangman has heard that famous film This week the usual writer is This week in response to This week you decide you need This week your friend finally This week due to the fact that This week you really fuck up complained about the photoshoot’s offence,” said the anonymous unconfirmed. The original owners of the park star Chris Pratt is on location. writing the horoscopes due to the findings of last week’s someone to look after your comes out from the cave in you have spent so much time on your exams. Shit man, you Hangman being salty af due sex survey, you realise that finances since you need to save which he entrenched himself revising really hard for your probably should have revised to the fact you had exams and you haven’t been fingered a few quid for next year so you for revision, only for you to first year exam because it’s a bit harder. I mean, you even though you definitely anywhere on campus and look around for an accountant. realise he has become a mole extra important, you decide to couldn’t answer one question told them in advance you set out to try to correct this; Luckily there’s an ex-FIFA in this time. At first it is a very brag to other people about how on that paper? Fuck. Looks like President steps down amid corruption claims weren’t doing them because however, it seems that the Felix president in dire need of a job, confusing transition for you much revision you did in one you will be taking a gap year you had exams but it turns out Editor had the same idea and and you end your second year to accept him as a mole but day. They from there on avoid whilst Imperial decide if they he President of Imperial anonymous source tipped them off ‘It’s O’Kaye Bar’, in honour of President, and told Hangman: “I they don’t seem to remember unfortunately they seem to be with an inexplicably larger eventually you learn to feed it you because you’re a boring want to let you back in. College Union stepped down to this latest instance of unmitigated sitting Deputy President (Hugs and think the new name is a fantastic that. there before you everytime. sum of money. worms and you grow to love it. obnoxious cunt but oh dem Ttoday, following widespread corruption and anti-democratic Tampons), Kris Kraye, who is also the decision by the Union. Naming the Spooky. sweet marks.

accusations of corruption within principles. incoming Deputy President (Money bar after the champion of the people CAPRICORN SAGITTARIUS the organisation and the subsequent Several members of staff were and Swag). Kris Kraye is a magnificent move, AQUARIUS arrests of several members of his placed under arrest in a surprise sting, It has been suggested that this and I can think of no other who is as SCORPIO

staff. timed by officers to coincide precisely choice was influenced by a monthly deserving as he to have an entire bar PISCES Imperial College Union (or ICU, as with an all-staff meeting. donation from a still-anonymous named after him. LIBRA it is often referred to) has long had a The meeting in question, Hangman source, rumoured to be someone The student was less forthcoming reputation for what has at times been has learned, was called to discuss the high-up within the Union itself. when Hangman pressed him on the referred to as ‘wheeler-dealing’, with accusations of corruption, causing Despite this, the Union went ahead claims of corruption in the process, alleged instances of bribery being rife. some observers to comment on the with their poll, claiming that the replying only “what do you care if I Events came to a head when the irony of being arrested for corruption student voice would be heard in the paid them to name it after me? This week you are the This week you, too, are the This week a beautiful woman This week you notice that This week you are an This week you are Hangman. organisation attempted to run a poll at such a meeting. decision, and insisting that “every “Bloody Felix, always sticking their horoscopes writer, and you try horoscopes writer. You claim to calls to you in the entrance several Imperial students on anonymous reader of You receive all twelve asking students what they thought Although the investigation vote counts!” nose in other people’s business.” and sneak another relatively have returned, but only write of Sainsbury’s. You puff out your course appear to have horoscopes. Inspired by horoscopes from a new writer, the new bar in the Woodward Halls continues, after being given special Hangman took their information Hangman wishes to take this unacceptable horoscope past half the horoscopes. your chest, flatten your pitiful eye injuries. You offer them Hangman’s call to action, you but most of them are so weird should be called. dispensation by the courts Hangman on the new bar name to the student opportunity to agree firmly with Hangman with the phrase “lol Hangman doesn’t pay you to neck beard and engage her your hand in solidarity, before send in all twelve horoscopes that you’re unsure whether to The halls themselves were a major can now exclusively reveal that the population, asking their opinions the sentiments expressed by Deputy i bet this one gets taken out.” half-ass this crap. Hangman in flirtatious conversation. noticing the white bones of and demand they be printed. print them. You opt instead to source of contention, with students bar’s name had already been decided, on both the name and the Union’s President, as Felix are indeed far too Hangman fires you and doesn’t pay you at all. Before long she has your your knuckles. It turns out Hangman respects that. print a mixture of the original campaigning vigorously against long before the poll was opened to attempts at hiding their choice in nosy for their own good. replaces you with someone number and bank details and that you have become the Hangman has printed two of writer’s, the new writer’s, and relocating accommodation to Acton students. faux-democracy. Hangman would also like to point who knows how to use the shift you are condemned to donate manifestation of Death and them as a token of this respect. your own. You are promptly to little avail. Officials at the Union had decided One student asked us to only refer out that Hangman and Felix aren’t the key. your monthly stipend to a whomever you touch dies fired for doing a terrible job. Police moved in after an that the bar was to be dubbed the to him by his first name, Deputy same thing, thank you very much. Corruption Central. charity for cats. immediately. 36 12.06.2015 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX

What is going on inside the Blue Cube this week

It’s summer at last, and the sun is shining bright. What better way to experience its Blue News warming, life-giving rays than through the delightfully tinted glass windows of the The weekly newsletter of the Faculty Building Faculty Building?

All-Staff Briefing Cancelled This week’s All-Staff Briefing has sadly been Hello all, Provost Post cancelled by the Vice Provost (Arbitrary Excuses) due to a problem with the air of the Week It’s with a heavy heart that I welcome you back to this, the penultimate conditioning. issue of Blue News for this academic year. Yes, that’s right – after this, Every week, a member of there will be only one more burst of brilliant facts and figures for your Al assures us that this will be fixed post- our esteemed Provost board digestion until we recommence printing in October. haste, but in the meantime he is unable shares their thoughts with to find us a suitably chilled room to hold our collaborative, cohesive any meetings in. As a result, all in-person community. This week, we I hope this news doesn’t come as too much of a shock for you – as we all welcome back Al Pologies, know, all great things must come to an end (before starting again after meetings have now been cancelled, and Vice Provost (Arbitrary will be replaced with conference calls on Excuses)! a short rest), and that includes Blue News, which we feel confident in the messaging service, Skype. Sadly, Al was unable to calling the greatest thing of all. write his column this week, as he is currently stationed All staff members are advised to obtain at Woodward Hall in Acton, As the temporary end approaches, now is as good a time as any to start Skype for themselves as soon as helping to prepare the space for the influx of paying suckers looking back at the year we’ve had – and what a year it’s been! reasonable possible. Anyone having students in October. difficulties is advised to contact the lovely However, this seems like We’ve had some ups and downs, with the unprecedented success of boys in IT via their Service Desk. They an appropriate moment to assure us they will be on hand to answer remind you all of the exciting the likes of our #PeopleatImperial campaign helping to really push a any queries as soon as humanly possible new facilities which have been progressive agenda amongst our staff, and the ongoing unveiling of constructed over in Acton, (1-2 working weeks). so we’ve asked back Dee Woodward Hall, our brand new accommodation outlet occupying One Creaserent, Vice Provost (Halls Victoria Road, Acton, taking place to a rapturous reception. Demolition) to give us a few What Is: Conflicts of Interest? words. This week, our perennially popular ‘What Hi everyone! We’ve seen off challenges from the likes of the BUAV, Felix and whoever Is’ session will be on the tricky topic of so- It’s so great to be back on called ‘conflicts of interest’. these hallowed pages with it was complaining about oil the other week, showing that Imperial is yet more exciting news about stronger than any other institution who wishes to oppose us. our ever-evolving property We received a complaint last week portfolio! regarding the positive opinion of big We’re delighted to be putting We have an incredibly strong community here at Imperial, and being oil and gas, claiming that there was an the finishing touches on able to fend off the baseless accusations of Felix and their ilk is proof of Woodward over the next few unexpressed ‘conflict of interest’ (their months, as these wonderful that. It is to the immense credit of all who live and work in the Faculty words). new halls present an ideal Building that we have emerged through the occasional trial by fire opportunity to introduce students to the wonders of unscorched, all through the power of collaboration. The complaint has been dealt with (as living and studying out in West has the staff member responsible), but London. it has been decided that in order to aid As you all know, the cost of We now begin to look ahead, to the future, and to what the next year living in South Kensington has may bring. There are murmurings among some staff of crowning the next collaboration between staff members the proven to be extremely high year the ‘Year of Collaboration’, and we would like to whole-heartedly concept of a ‘conflict of interest’ should be for Imperial, as we constantly clarified. have to deal with students endorse such suggestions. It’s ingenuity like this that helps keep us a complaining about their high world-leading institution. rent prices and the associated In a special treat for you all, this session will food costs. be lead by the President herself! Having such a large base in Have a productive, cohesive, collaborative and happy day! Acton, alongside the wonderful Imperial West campus, means Don’t forget to bring your yoga mat as that the case to relocate all usual, and green tea will (of course) be student activities to Acton and provided. the surrounding area becomes ever stronger. Alice Gast: Thought of the Week Imperial has a wonderful What is going on outside the asset in our South Kensington “I was shocked and disappointed this week campus, but I’m sure you can to hear of students stripping on campus, and Blue Cube this week all agree with me when I say encouraging their fellows to take pictures that students are a blight on of them. I was even more shocked and Due to ongoing concerns over student the pleasant and wonderful nudity and unconfirmed rumours of this environment we’ve cultivated disappointed to discover that these pictures here. were then being distributed all across campus. I nudity being photographed, the ban Moving them out to Acton hope that all involved will take a long hard look on leaving the Building without written presents an ideal solution to all at what they’ve done. That Pole and Aerial one permission remains in place. of our problems. was hot stuff though.” FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 12.06.2015 37 Puzzles [email protected] Puzzles Editor Michael Faggetter Weekly quiz Suck on these sudokus ICU Quiz Soc 1) World Geography Work For You Which Asian country is known Most cases of goitre and as the Kingdom of the Thunder thyroid disorders are caused Dragon? by a deficiency of which trace element? 2) Literature and Written Word Which play by Dylan Thomas 7) TV and Movies tells the story of the inhabitants Which 1990 movie has the of the fictional Welsh village of protagonist remark “As far back Llareggub? as I can remember, I always wanted to be a ganster”? 3) Foodstuff Which now luxury food was fed 8) The Fine Arts to prisoners in the 19th century Which 18th century English and was considered a cruel and painter and cartoonist is known unusual punishment? for works such as The Rake’s Progress and Marriage à-la-mode? 4) Questions About Good Songs What is part-time according to 9) This Day in History Stevie Wonder, turbo according What did Ronald Reagan ask to Judas Priest, and good old- Mikhail Gorbachev to do on the fashioned according to Queen? 12th of June 1987?

5) In the Last Week 10) ...and if you got all the other To whom did England lose on right, their initials spell out... Tuesday in the Women’s World What kind of event would you see Cup? at Las Ventas, in Madrid?

6) Making Your Science Degree Small Nonobellogram Slitherlink

There are three Nonograms for you to complete this week! Shade in cells according to The objective of this logic puzzle is to connect the dots with horizontal and vertical the numbers at the end of the rows and and columns. lines to form a single continuous line/loop. In addition, the numbers in the grid indicate the total number of adjacent segments within the loop. 38 12.06.2015 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 12.06.2015 39 Puzzles Puzzles [email protected] Puzzles Editor Michael Faggetter [email protected] Puzzles Editor Michael Faggetter Big and strongogram Super Duper Nonobellogram Tiny weeny sudokus FUCWIT Last Week’s Don’t forget to send in your completed puzzles. Solutions: Points are awarded for each correct solution, bonus points (in brackets) are awarded to the first correct answer!

Points avaliable this week: Tiny Sudoku (each) 3 points (+1) Each Sudoku 3 points (+2) Quiz 3 points (+2) Slitherlink 3 points (+1) Small nonogram 2 points (+1) Large nonogram 3 points (+2) Super nonogram 5 points (+3) Bridges 4 points (+3)

Leaderboard Individuals: 1. Adam Stewart 106 2. Catmelon 58 3. Jem Ong 45 4. Catmelon 58 5. Ayojedi 22 6. Kebab King 21 7. Sach Patel 11 8. Angus 8 9. Gene H. 7 10. Fengchu Zhangjj 3

Teams: 1. Fully Erect 313 2. L3Gendary 96 3. WG 74 4. pintosRules 51 5. Mindsuckers 48 6. SAFCAF 29 7. Dapper Giraffe 15 8. AnyonebutKofi 8 9. Ebolalala 7 10. Aerodoku 2 Bridges

Bridges is played on a Last Week’s rectangular grid with no standard size. Some cells Solutions: start out with numbers from 1 to 8 inclusive; these are the islands. The rest of the cells are empty. The goal is to connect all of the islands into a single connected group by drawing a series of bridges between the islands. The bridges must follow certain criteria: They must begin and end at distinct islands, travelling a straight line in between; They must not cross any QUIZ 3) Xhosa 9) Hound Dog other bridges or islands; They may only run ANSWERS: 4) Ozymandias 10) Auxotroph orthogonally; At most 5) Turkey two bridges connect 1) Prince Ali 6) Red a pair of islands; and The number of bridges bin Hussein 7) Ouija connected to each island 2) Uracil 8) Parsley must match the number on that island. Issue40 08.05.2015 1609 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX

[email protected] Sport Editor: Kunal Wagle Imperial make storming start to trail season William Jones reports as Imperial put in great performances in Wales and Surrey

ith exams (almost) over Simon, Charlie and Ellie, and after a and the arrival of summer quick race briefing they were off on Wweather, the last couple of their forty mile plus route shortly weeks have signalled the start of the after 8:00. With the forecast showing trail running season proper. IC Trail rain in the afternoon there was Running – part of the Cross Country certainly motivation to get round and Athletics Club – got things quickly. Shortly after, at 8:30, James underway with a trip to the Brecon and his dad set off on the marathon Beacons for the second round of the route, and then at 9:00 it was finally Welsh trail running series, and then time for Will to set off on the ‘short’ on the following weekend travelled ten mile route. All the courses were down to Dorking for the Surrey Hills tough routes, with fast starts and Race. Both occasions resulted in significantly more climbing in multiple podium places and victories the latter halves putting strain on for the team, great results all round, already-tired legs. The start on the ten and a lot of sore legs! miler was particularly fast with Will After underground closures caused leading out; however the competition chaos on the last Friday of May, we proved too strong, and he was caught departed for Wales slightly later than on the main climb, ending up settling planned, but still in good spirits. The for second. Meanwhile, in the longer five team members driving up to races, signs for another route had Talybont-on-Usk in south Wales were been put up without the organisers James, Ellie, Charlie, Will, and team knowing, causing a brief period of captain Simon. Luckily there were no navigational chaos. Most were back further delays on our journey, and on track quickly though, and James we arrived at the event centre early was soon leading the marathon The Imperial team before the meet at Surrey Hills Photo: ICXC enough to get a good night’s sleep in again after gaining an extra 3km of ultra – really testing the competitors. Charlie finishing together at around and Simon solving the navigation the rooms saved for us by James’ dad! distance. The race continued onto the James put in a fantastic finish on the seven hours and 50 minutes, having problem by simply following right Getting up early the next morning Pen-y-Fan ridge, featuring ‘the bog’ ‘marathon’ to come in a clear winner matched each other the entire way. behind the leader, before sprinting revealed a beautiful dawn, and on the way where the question wasn’t at under four hours despite the extra Ellie came in a while later, having also the finish – James received quite a conditions looked great for the day’s “did you fall in?”, but “how deep?” The distance, with his dad finishing first run a brilliant and incredibly tough ridiculously large trophy as a result! racing. Each of the team members Pen-y-Fan ridge featured many steep veteran just over half an hour later. race. Merely moving the next day was Great performances were put in on prepared themselves and their kit in climbs and treacherous descents that The ultra was won in a blistering a struggle for all of us! both of these races by a host of other their own ways – honed from many were almost as tiring, with the total time of six hours and 30 minutes by After a brief week’s recovery IC runners and alumni, and everyone race experiences, both good and bad! climb and descent – over 1500m on a Swedish international runner and the team was off again, down to had fun, both out on the course The first to go were the ultra-runners the marathon and over 3000 on the ski mountaineer, with Simon and Dorking with 17 keen club members and relaxing in the sun afterwards! and alumni to run the Surrey hills Meanwhile in the ‘A Race’ Will and Race organised by South London Jack had (surprisingly) held onto Orienteers. The first to set off – at a their early lead, and after a series much more reasonable time of 10:30 of steep climbs (including one that – were the runners on the 30km ‘A ended in a scramble up on all fours) Race’, who had the task of finding and were in 1st and 3rd at the halfway their way between twelve checkpoints point. A poor route choice shortly spread across the Surrey hills using a after this turned a 30 second lead map and compass. Six runners from into a 30 second chase – showing just Imperial were competing in this race: how important the navigation can Will and Ellie (having not decided be – and as fatigue (and the results that last weekend was enough…); of a night out) set in in the latter alumni Jack and Sophie; and fresher parts of the race Will eventually was Lily and her friend Lucie. Knowing caught again and came 3rd with Jack the strenuous challenge ahead, all finishing strongly to claim 4th. Sophie opted for a steady start up the first and Ellie both ran great races, the two hill. All that is except for Jack and of them crossing the line together, Will, who decided to play ‘king of coming joint 2nd women. Lily and the hill’ and sprinted off at full gas. Lucie also ran together and had a Lots of laughs and some “look at great day’s running, despite it being those idiots” were heard in the field the toughest race they’ve ever done! A behind them. A few minutes later big congratulations to everyone who the 10km ‘C Race’ runners were off. competed, and once again there were Chris Thomas had a strong race a lot of sore legs on the way home! and was smashing it up all the hills, After these and earlier results in but a late navigational error cost March and April, IC Trail are now him the win. Fellow competitors preparing for more racing over Liam and Tom came in 3rd and 4th, the summer, both in the UK and running a great race despite the abroad. With the support of our tough conditions but were outfoxed sponsors, Raidlight (kit) and Aptonia by the navigational skills of the two (nutrition), we’ve been able to achieve leaders. Finally the ‘B Race’ was better and better results, and hope to off ten minutes later, with James continue this over the year! Charlie and Simon at the finish line in Wales Photo: ICXC