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NUS TRAVEL iThe NUS Travel office A/ill not be open until May 10th due to staff illness. The nearest bureau is at /ictoria Station. FOUNDED IN 1949 NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE UNION No. 417 Friday 30th April, 1976 FREE! WP on sport facilities Rapist A WORKING PARTY has been set up to consider what additional sports facilities are required over the next five years, and where they might be provided. The Working Party is to be chaired by Dr. B. White and it was set up at the request of the Rector. strikes The other members of the Working Party are Mr. Peter Teague, ICU President; Mr. John Thornback, Chairman ACC; Mr. D.W. Clark, Estate Secretary; Mr. F. Hollinghead and Mr. J.R. Davidson, the College Secretary. again All members of the College are invited to comment on the existing sports and athletics A SECOND assault on a facilities for students and girl in the ladies toilet of staff, and offer suggestions the Union took place during for improvements or additions. the Easter recess. This Comments should be sent to attack follows the rape of Mr. John Davidson Room 535. Sherfield Bdg.. an IC girl student there Photo fit of the first assailant. not later than Monday, 10thMay. last November. The attack occurred at about 10 pm on Monday 8th April. A man, bearing a description similar to that of the November Student Spongers assailant, had followed the girl into the toilet where he STUDENTS CLAIMING Social It described as "most nal Secretary, said yesterday; assaulted her. However, when Security benefits have been despicable" the reason, "I believe that anyone who is the girl began screaming, he attacked by a Scottish student "If I took a job I would be supposed to serve the interests ran off. newspaper. depriving someone else of the of students could do that better Search made The attackcame from Omega, right to work and consequently than by attacking students People present in the Union the newspaper of Heriot—Watt worsening the unemployment who are victims of the present Bar at the time made a search University, Edinburgh. situation". It would cost the crisis, along with the vast of the immediate vicinity soon According to an editorial pub- nation nearly £21 million if majority of working people in afterwards but found nothing. lished in its latest issue, everystudent received only the this country. It was reported that, at about 'betweenseventy and eighty per minimumentitlementduring the the same time, a motorcycle centof those students (claiming Easter vacation alone. was heard leaving within close benefit) will have just proximity of the Union Building An NUS spokesman,however, hammered one more nail into disagreed with the points made the coffin of the Nation'. IC scarf by Omega. The unemployment Excuses usually given for level had hit students badly The attacker is described as a negro type, about 5'9" not finding a vacation job and the situation was so bad tall, with fairly short dark (especially during Christmas that traditional employers,such brown hair. He was wearing and Easter) were dismissed as as the big stores and hte GPO a light raincoat and blue jeans. feeble and inadequate."Students had offered very few jobs He is said to be of medium should be resourceful enough during the Christmas vacation. build with pointed high cheek to find sufficient time for their The NUS see social security bones with a smallish flat nose. academic work even if they are He was also wearing an IC as a safety net for those on low working forty hours a week", scarf. pay and fixed incomes. The the paper said. It was rarely spokesman also pointed out that Similarity difficult, the paper claims, for according to their survey, 57% The police have not made students to find work as say of students on mandatory awards any definite statement about barmen or petrol pump atten- did not receive the full parental similarity in descriptions, but dants if they tried. contribution to their grant. Half the College Security Officer, Claiming benefit, the paper the student population did not MISS JULIA ROSS, above, Mr. Dawson, said that the is the new President of says, "is an act of apathy and receive the vacation element, similarity in the descriptions L'Institute Francais du £3.80 per week for those on a pointed to a strong possibility selfishness which jeopardises Royaune—Uni Secretarial of the attacks having been not only their own future but full grant, as a result. College Students' Union, committed by the same man. that of the entire nation'.' Ms Sue Slipman, NUS Natio- popularly known as IF. 2 MUX FELIX Photographic INVITATION Competition The competition is open to all staff and students of Imperial College, except members of the FELIX staff. This year all entries must be B&W or Colour prints. There will be nine categories: B&W COLOUR Portrait Portrait Landscape Landscape Natural History Natural History Photojournalism General General 1. Prints must possess a surface area greater than48.su, inches. 2. Prints may be mounted or unmounted. Only unmounted prints may be reproduced. 3. FELIX reserves the right to reproduce any entries. Only prints made on glossy paper may be reproduced. 4. If there are insufficient entries for any of the categories prints entered for those categories wHl be judged under the General section. 5. Entries should have the name, department and year of the photographer attached to each print. Lady F'owers, assisted by members of the IC Wives Club, 6. There is an entrance fee of lOp per competitor. welcomes students to a free BEER 'N' BANGERS nosh-up All fees will be added to the prize money. at 170 Queen's Gate, on Thurs. 6th May . from 5.30-7.00pm 7. Last date for entry is 2.00pm on Friday 21st May. Names, please, to Jen. Union uiiice. by not later than 8. There will be cash prizes. Wednesday, 5th May lunchtime. ALL WELCOME! FREE! 9. The judges decision will be final. 10. Prints should be delivered to the FELIX office. Ilopl College of Science Union I.C SUNDAY SESSIONS: ANNUAL DINNER with guest speaker RAYMOND BAXTER of 'Tomorrow's World' Friday 7th May, 7.00 for 7.30pm Sherfield Building GALA NIGHT Tickets: £2.50 from Social Reps or RCSU Office. Dress: Lounge suit or equivalent. OF JAZZ MOPSOC A lecture by PROF. T.W.B. KIBBLE FELIX Published by the Editor on 3 GREAT JAZZ BANDS behalf of I.C.Union Publication PHYSICS OF ENERGY- Board. Printed Off-set Litho on " the premises, THE ENTROPY CRISIS Felix Office.PrinceConsort Rd, 1.15pm Tues 4th May London SW7 2BB. Sunday 2nd May. 7p.m. Physics LT2 Tel. 01 589 5111 ext 1048,1042 FOLK EVENING ©FELIX, 1*976 Guest Musicians Welcome. in Southwell House (Evelyn Editor P.Ekpenyong. Many thanks to Phil Dean, Gardens) Pnvo F Oira 11 Pnvp -Hopkins WED 5th MAY at 8.00 pm Dave Knights, John McCloskey, Lower Union Lounge Bar. Uuncuii Susi, ieiiy Ae Bar facilities provided. and extra special thanks to Everyone welcome, Ian for putting up with us all, and Gill, who did all the work especially singers. before she went away. Admission Free. PROfr BREMSSTRAHLUNG Quark' Have you seen rny baa-Lightniri3 anywhere0 j\ Above; Hilary Greenaway Below; Fiona Foley Rebecca Abbott Olivia Lawson-Tancred wins with CLOTHES designed by students at RCA's School of Fashion Design were paraded in a fashion show held in the Rector's flat just before the end of last term. The proceeds were donated to the Day Nursery. Four female students from IC- Olivia Lawson-Tancred, Rebecca Abbott, Fiona Foley and Hilary Greenaway-took part in the show organised by IC Wives Club. Heather Boxer, sister-in-law to Dr. Schroter of the Physiological Flow Unit, also took part. Make up was done by the RCA students. Photographs by Neville Miles 4 MUX Press badges were issued, no credentials were ever checked Obviously an unsatisfactory state of affairs if we are to Closed sessions and be allowed to view the deepest and darkest secrets of the Union. the student press FOLLOWING THE decision, taken in the first session of The Tory challenge conference, that Finance Committee Report on NUS Services (Travel, Marketing and Endsleigh) should not be held in closed session, a constitutional amendment allowing THE ANTICIPATED, and much publicised, Tory challenge Student Press into closed sessions was carried over- of the Federation of Conservative Students (FCS) seemed to whelmingly. The opposition to this move was, not unjustifiably fizzle out immediately after the Presidential Election, when due to inaccurate reports of the NUS Travel financial their candidate was beaten into third place.They, effectively, situation (in the main) which many Executive members and held the balance of power between the Broad Left (Labour others considered irresponsible. No doubt, since first hand Party and Communist Party alliance) and the more extreme information will be available in the future, the accuracy of left wing (the IMG, IS, etc.) with a transfer of about 85 votes such articles will improve. going consisiantl) to the Broad Left candidates. Their Some felt that the Student Press were a dispensible strength has risen, however, since the Scarborough luxury; delegates should report back to their SRC's /UGM's, Conference when they had just over a dozen delegates. and all the Student Press can do is cut the ground from This has been reflected by the fact that they now have under their feet. But, on the whole, it was realised that the one executive member, Steve Moon, and means that their Student Press has a valuable role to play in relaying, policies will have a platform at National level.
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