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FR IDAY, 15 TH FEBRUARY, 2019 – Keep the Cat Free – ISSUE 1714 Felix The Student Newspaper of Imperial College London FR IDAY, 15 TH FEBRUARY, 2019 FELIX EDITORIAL CONTENTS EDITORIAL 2 Happy Valentine's Day NEWS 3-5 jaba – Felix any opinions of the less The Felix Team y D Ed COMMENT 6-7 his week, I've d ito than glowing content we An r Editor-in-Chief not done it well often include about the Andy Djaba POLITICS 8 at all. Much like university. Would she • Ole Gunnar quiz me on the origins Deputy Editor MUSIC 9-13 TSolskjaer's Manchester and cultural significance Joanna Wormald United, I've been lulled of the Felix centrefold, • ARTS 14-19 into a false sense of se- like the Provost did last News Editor curity by the relatively Joanna Wormald term? Alas, she kind of • BOOKS 22-23 smooth running of the ran off before we had the Politics Editors last few issues. How- chance to have a proper Avirup Banerjee FILM 24 ever, the honeymoon conversation. I had been Divyen Vanniasegaram period is over and, with hoping to grab her for a Juan Rubio Gorrochategui GAMES 26-27 this issue, I've come quick interview but sadly • crashing back down to it was not to be. I'm sure Comment Editors TRAVEL 28 Earth. Maybe not in as our paths will cross again. Aida Manzano Kharman Charlie Titmuss embarrassing fashion This week, the paper • SUSTAINABILITY 29 as only mustering one includes a rundown of Science Editors shot on target at home in the most hotly anticipated Rosie Dutt INVESTMENT 30-31 the Champions League, awards show of the year, Eyad Abuelgasim but it is 8pm and I still the 4th Annual Neighbour- Henry Alman C&S 32-33 have a page and a half of HOOD Grammys. For Sânziana Foia News and a double page that reason, the Music • HANGMAN 36-37 Music spread to finish... hall I compare iki, do you section easily snatches Tech Editor Krithika Balaji This time last year, thee to a Sum- love me? Are the Section of the Week Haaris Asghar PUZZLES 38 I was at a Jorja Smith mer's Day, hot you riding? prize this week (a subtle • concert watching my and sweaty in the Say you'll reminder to the Arts Arts Editors SPORTS 39-40 babes perform. Who'd SWest Basement. Knever ever leave from Section that, in the words Claire Chan have thought just one beside me. of J Hus, this competition Helen Money-Kyrle year later, I'd be spending oses are red, is "all about quality not Vaishnavi Gnanananthan my Valentine's Day in a violets are I can't think of anymore quantity"). Special shout- • Felix Office Books Editors Beit Quad, Prince Consort basement with a bunch blue, I'm stuck sadly. Anyway, on reflec- out to the Books Section- JJ Cheng Road of dudes. In the immortal in this base- tion this has been an inter- for once again providing London, SW7 2BB • words of Clean Bandit, Rment from 9 'til 2 (am). esting week. There have an extremely compelling Music Editors Tel: 020 79548072 "there's no place I'd rather been a number of devel- read - definitely skip to Simran Kukran Email: [email protected] be". Anyway, perhaps it's he breeze blows opments in the News and that section if you have Adrian LaMoury felixonline.co.uk the romance in the year softly through this also marks the week a chance (after you've Henry Eshbaugh @feliximperial because I'm in a very my fingers as I that I finally met our Pres- finished taking in the Asad Raja • Printed by Mortons Media poetic mood. I've taken type this edito- ident, Alice Gast (if you #HOODGrammys2019 of Group, Boston Road, Film Editors Horncastle, Lincolnshire the liberty of writing a Trial, thinkin 'bout you. don't count me shaking course). Anyway, I'm out. Mikhail Demtchenko few short Valentine's her hand at Graduation). I Happy Valentine's Day! Registered Newspaper Sung Soo Moon ISSN 1040-0711 poems (this has nothing must admit, I was slightly Aidan Chan to do with me trying to fill nervous ahead of meeting • Copyright (c) Felix 2017 up space right now): her, wondering if she Investment Editor reads the paper and has Tom Alston • Food Editors Eva Tadros Julia Dąbrowska • Travel Editor Joana Correia • Sustainability Editors Artur Donaldson Monami Miyamoto • Puzzles Editors Lorenzo Silvestri Lisa Hey • Sports Editor Imraj Singh Fergus Johnson • Copy Editors Rhidian Thomas Isabelle Zhang Shervin Sabeghi Calum Drysdale 2 Jia Qi Tan FELIX ISSUE 1714 NEWS [email protected] Union to scrap breakfast offering following huge losses NEWS on, they’re earning £8-9 an hour, they’re there for Andy Djaba five hours – you’re minus Editor-in-Chief £20 a day. If we carried it on, it’s predicted to cost us £8000, just because of staffing costs outweighing The trial of Union the food performance.” Breakfast has come Claudia Caravello, to an end, just five Deputy President (Fi- nancial Services), was months after its allegedly not consulted launch prior to the decision being made, highlighting a possible disconnect mperial College between members of Union announced the Senior Management its decision to Group (SMG) and the cancel its breakfast student-elected Officer Ioffering following sub- Trustees. One member of stantial financial losses. staff commented, “largely From Monday 18th Feb- it’s been Julia and SMG ruary, Union Breakfast taking things on”. will cease to be served In an e-mail informing and the opening hours in Union staff of the decision FiveSixEight will revert to end Union Breakfast, to 12pm. The decision was Julia Mattingley, Head taken a week ago, with the of Commercial Services, breakfast offering being stated: “I am extremely The most important meal of the day // Imperial College London described as causing the proud of the effort, cre- “The breakfast project Union to “absolutely ativity and willingness came about as a result set us up for the future Rob informed Felix that, but, at this point, we need haemorrhage money”. of our amazing Bars & of the five year Com- and ensure the long term “Claudia has been putting to actually look at all the Speaking to Felix, Rob Catering team to take on a mercial Strategy and a viability of our outlets in a lot of work into the food information we got, the Tomkies, Union President, new project at the busiest steer towards extending order to better serve our offering on campus with customer feedback, the said: “There was an initial time in our year and and improving our food membership.” Campus Services because performance reports and spike in the performance without full resources. offer generally across the After the disastrous they have a considerably so on. Actually try and of sales and so on, which You’ve worked hard and Commercial Services, to performance of Union bigger budget than us, figure out why is it that is obviously really good, it hasn’t gone unnoticed.” include bar food, func- Breakfast during its trial, they can do all sorts of we’re only making £17 a but actually it then started Union Breakfast was tions catering and retail stakeholders, such as stu- things.” day. Why is it only four to peter out. Towards announced in response to grab ‘n’ go. The work first dents and Union staff have Despite the failure of people are having food the end, we’d get about the the widely unpopular started on the early stages raised the question of why this short-lived breakfast here each day? When it £16-17 net a day, and that’s decision to scrap breakfast of the breakfast project in the trial was launched in trial, students are being comes round to next budg- without staffing costs or in the Senior Common April 2018 with a view the first place without firm reassured that this does eting, look at what the anything, which equates Room (SCR) at the start to launching during the foundations already being not mark the end for lessons learnt are because to four meals a day. At of the 2017-18 academic Welcome period. We were in place. breakfast offerings on students do need food but which point, the decision year. Felix was provided always clear that this was According to Rob, campus. Reflecting on clearly what we’re doing was made that it wasn’t with a joint statement by a trial – as this was not competition with the this, Rob added: “We are at the moment isn’t what financially viable. If you Julia Mattingley and Rob something we had tried breakfast offering in the very much still looking they want”. have one staff member Tomkies: before – and there were Library Café was a sub- into reviewing breakfast several unknowns at stantial obstacle: “One of launch mainly due to the the main factors we strug- timing of the launch and gled with is the Library several operational chal- Café do run breakfast, lenges that we were (and it’s a very similar offering still are) experiencing at to our own and, overall the time. We got amazing Campus Services put feedback from our mem- in £1m subsidy a year. bership which we will Which means they can factor into all of our future go down to costs that we plans going forward. We literally just can’t match.” have taken the decision This comes as the to cease breakfast service latest development in the for the time being in order ongoing efforts being to lay firm foundations.