ISSUE 1627 FRIDAY 19th FEBRUARY 2016
The Student Newspaper of Imperial College London
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RAG Jailbreakers removed from flight to Turkey after terror suspicions • 'Hand in Hand for Syria' charity caused confusion • Students met with armed anti-terror police • Group detained and prevented from flying
ne team in RAG’s They were carrying a sign leave the plane and to bring their jailbreak competition advertising what they were doing IDs. Just outside the cabin, they found themselves £400 which mentioned one of their were met with a group of armed and down and a day behind chosen charities: “Hand in Hand plain-clothes anti-terror police. after being pulled off of a flight to for Syria”. Their passports were examined, OIstanbul by anti-terror police. Despite being allowed through with one student’s passport causing The group of students, who were airport security and explaining what particular upset due to the presence raising money for several charities, they were doing to the staff who of a police stamp necessary for a had spent the first morning of the sold them the flights, just before visa. The three students were then jailbreak fundraising around West take-off, a man dressed in a high- separated and questioned by police London. After finding themselves visibility jacket boarded the plane for forty minutes. Once it became unable to blag any free flights and approached one member of clear that they weren’t a threat to at Heathrow that evening, they the group, asking: “So what’s the anyone, the group were free to go decided to use some of the money problem?” but were not... to buy flights to Turkey. Confused, the team were told to continued on page 5
committee, the Union President and College. The news story made page ten The Standard RAG mag battle reaches of Tuesday’s Evening Standard along with an image of the union president Photoshopped over the called it a business school. The piece was national newspapers mostly a rehash of FELIX content, "dispiriting with an additional comment from Daily Mail and Evening Standard both publish the union’s interim Managing Director, who said the union had example of news stories on the banned magazine's 'sexism' “responded to students’ concerns about the magazine and RAG the creeping his week, national to raise money for Great Ormond of “harassment and bullying” against had apologised”. A short Editorial newspapers covered Street Hospital, the British Refugee the Union President. After last Comment piece on the incident the sexism row that has Council and Porridge in Rice, which Friday’s FELIX, which published featured on page 14 of the daily censorship at been raging since the works in Kenya, RAG published comment pieces responding to the newspaper, calling it a “small but union strongly advised RAG to bin a 16-page handout that included story, journalists from the Daily dispiriting example of the creeping universities" 1600T copies of a satirical magazine several pages of ‘satire’, which the Mail and Evening Standard began censorship at universities”. they’d just printed. In an attempt union has branded a sexist example to contact members of the RAG continued on page 3 th PAGE 2 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk
Contents A word from the Editor News 3 Editor-in-Chief Grace Rahman
Features 6 Comment Editors limey, what a week! We for suspicion. Tessa Davey and Vivien Hadlow Comment 7 love an exclusive here at The story’s a happy one though, FELIX, but even we were because after being released by Science Editors Jane Courtnell and Lef Apostolakis Science 8 rather surprised that real armed anti-terror police, which hacks from the Evening Standard would have made even this Great Arts Editors Film 12 and MailOnline took notice of a Ormond Street Hospital Charity Indira Mallik, Jingjie Cheng and B Max Falkenberg story that hasn’t even been on our enthusiast cry and go home, the Arts 19 front page for two weeks or so. group from RAG decided to brush Music and Games Editor And bless RAG, because whatever themselves off and hitchhike to Cale Tilford Music 23 you think of them, they’ve had a Poland. Nice. rough ride of it recently. Not only Our story on the banning of Film Editor TV 25 Fred Fyles was their publication removed and boycotts may not immediately Games 26 their arms twisted for an apology seem like an Imperial friendly Welfare Editor (always a way of getting the most one – the union haven’t voted to Noor Mulheron sincere response) it’s now come to boycott, divest from or sanction Clubs & Societies 27 Puzzles Editors light that their perfectly innocent anything since 1984, when the Hamish Beck and Roxana Radu Hangman 29 jailbreakers were removed from a college hiked prices in the Queen’s flight to Turkey for raising money Tower refectory (back then the to the national press and back again, Food Editor Sanjay Bhattacharya Puzzles 31 for a charity that helps Syrians. Bit union also held ‘porn film nights’ in let’s not forget the worst part of of a case of mistaken identity, but the QTR though, so it was a pretty this media storm: the fact that the TV Editor Sport 30 this was only realised after they'd different time). It's an important Evening Standard’s print edition Saad Ahmed been questioned under Schedule 7 right of local democracies like ours called your beloved FELIX an FELIX, Beit Quad, of the Terrorism Act 2000, which to choose who we do and don't buy “official union magazine”. Sport Editor Josh O'Donnell Prince Consort Road, means anyone can be held by police from, and without this option, local Take this if you take nowt else: we London SW7 2BB at a travel hub for up to nine hours government is weakened. are not the union’s, and we’re made Technical Babe Tel: 020 7594 8072 and be questioned without a lawyer, As the Union vs Free Speech of paper. Never have been, always Luke Granger-Brown Printed by Iliffee Print Cambridge, even if the police have no grounds debate spreads from our letters page will be! Winship Road, Cambridge Copy Editors Registered Newspaper Mattin Mir-Tahmasebi, Anthony ISSN 1040-0711 Voyage, Henry Lloyd-Laney and Copyright © FELIX 2016 Cecily Johnson Letters
In response to 'Rag Mag battle skin colour, and that we only shout Having read the article I do not students. This is an important aspect RAG Vice Chair of Activities, becomes racism row', Issue 1626 ‘sexist’ when a woman is criticised believe you are ‘singled out’ because of free speech. Alicia Graham because of her gender. Anything you are a woman and in fact the This is as true for women as it is Sir/Madam, else is a shameful disservice to those article also includes commentary on for men. Whether you think they've As a former RAG Chair and who have truly suffered such abuse. other (male) sabbaticals. Freedom of speech, and messed up or not, we can all admit someone who was also heavily Ben Fernando Calling the piece sexist undermines indeed freedom of the press, are that RAG have had a hard time of mocked in the RAG Magazine, I RAG Chair, 2014-15 genuine sexism. It is true that there fundamental rights as important late. Let's just hope the union has find it disingenuous of the Union is a very distorted ratio at Imperial as the struggle for equal rights been supporting the committee to suggest that the targets of RAG’s It's madam. You know it's and as a woman I am challenged across genders. By 'banning' this through all of this as it as much satire were chosen based on their madam. Madam Editor, please. by this as well. However, this does article and threatening the RAG as it supports some of its student personal characteristics. Although And yes, it obviously wasn't not mean you can use your gender committee, the Union have trodden sabbaticals. under my tenure as RAG Chair sexist. We all know it wasn't, but to make yourself the victim in a on these freedoms in a way that goes -Ed. we may have chosen not to publish if they want to keep saying it was, case that has nothing to do with against the very principle of the such content, we must accept that as let them. Let's just hope it didn't sexism; the article does not even college's legal obligation to promote felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 12th FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 5 people in positions of authority we starve GOSH of an extra dialysis mention your gender. Rather it is free speech. COMMENT [email protected] become targets for public satire. machine. a satire about your opinions given I hope you realise that because of Your President speaks on RAG mag ‘sexism’ RAG has gone too far, and should take responsibility for putting women off taking on positions of responsibility To suggest that the Union -Ed. at an interview with IC radio and this dispute, a lot of charity money ho’s to blame for the to be a success, not a scandal. It is gender imbalance perverse to argue that raising money at Imperial, and can only be successful by being cruel in science and and ‘joking’ about natural tragedies. leadership in general? “Not me”, RAG week charities support victims you’reW thinking. For the vast of ill health, war and poverty. One President was selected for criticism on social platforms such as Twitter. was lost. We are working with three majority of you, that’s correct. But charity, Porridge and Rice, works to a tiny proportion of our community empower Kenyan women to break fails to recognise their role in free from the cycle of poverty – a creating that awful reality. worthy goal, undermined by using The institutional culture sexist stereotypes as publicity for surrounding gender at Imperial is fundraising. on the basis of her gender seems to In response to 'Your union It criticises your statements about charities; GOSH, Porridge and not an inevitable fact of life. It is The RAG mag writers must take Lucinda Sandon-Allum created, and sustained, by people full responsibility for the reduced Union President around you, right here, right now. In publicity they have caused for the same way that no one raindrop this week of fundraising. They considers itself responsible for the have potentially discouraged me absurd: I am the only person of president speaks on RAG mag Scottish Independence, the UK Rice and British Refugee Councils. flood, no one person considers participation, donations and themselves responsible for the fact sponsorship by tarnishing RAG as that Imperial can be, on occasion, a a group that permits and enables hostile environment for women. bullying. We must stop this culture that accepts bullying, accepts fewer colour satirised in the magazine, yet 'sexism'', Issue 1626 and the poor which many found Finally, by condemning the RAG No one women leaders, and dresses up personal attacks as ‘tradition’ or ‘satire’. It is not acceptable for raindrop Nobody banned anything. Photo Credit: RAG an article to be written to target an individual’s personal life, and considers that tradition justifies bullying, or consequences. This is an issue the even more so depicting someone’s I do not suggest that this is because offensive and racist. mag, we have lost valuable publicity that it’s somehow acceptable not FELIX editor tackled herself in her murder. to challenge your peers about what editorial on the 29th of January. I know that the majority of itself they say or do, or to refuse to take By condemning the article, Imperial students have no time for personal responsibility. Imperial College Union is in bullying, tasteless personal attacks, These actions have led to a female no way preventing RAG from and gendered stereotypes masked responsible student withdrawing their run for raising money. As a previous RAG as ‘banter’. I am and will always RAG is racist. Dear Lucinda, Furthermore, I do not believe this on the largest fundraising week a position of leadership, for fear of committee member and a huge be proud of the work I’ve done being subjected to the same abuse. If supporter of the society I want them as Union President to encourage for the this is the way a few loud voices treat to be as successful as possible. young women to study science and a woman in leadership, via trollish However, we want RAG week to take the challenge of leadership. flood stereotyping and personal attacks, it I would love to say that equality Discrimination and victimisation I read your article last week and article is justification for stopping at Imperial. We cannot express is not a surprise that other female can solely be achieved through students have been discouraged The RAG outreach projects and publicity, but But sometimes, it becomes from aiming for a leadership they are only half the battle. The possible to pinpoint a single action position. And so, Imperial’s gender deeper challenge is to confront and or incident that perpetuates this imbalance lives on for another year. mag writers uproot prejudices and structures reality. I can say with complete Being an adult is about taking that support and enable gendered are indeed truly awful facets of would like to reply to some of the women entering positions of power our dismay at how much was lost confidence that the actions of the responsibility for the consequences must attacks on women - even, or RAG committee in publishing the of your actions, and the individuals especially, when disguised as ‘banter’ RAG mag with offensive content, involved in writing that piece need or ‘tradition’. It is just cold, hard based on tired stereotypes about to accept what they have done take full reality that the path to equality women and drawing upon aspects and the impact they have had. is blocked by damaging habits, of my personal life, has directly As students we all have a duty of responsibility ingrained prejudices, corrosive society that must be stamped out, accusations directed at us. as I believe this article would have because of this commotion. led to women deciding against responsibility and mutual respect. behaviours and plain old bullying taking up leadership roles in our If these values are not upheld and and harassment. student community. I know this boundaries are crossed, the people for the I am grateful for the support I because students that have been accountable must confront their have received - from President Alice considering a future as Union unacceptable behaviour. reduced Gast to student groups, societies and both on campus and in the wider The RAG mag is made to be existed whether you were male or I believe men and women are President or one of our Deputy Every student is entitled to speak staff, all appalled by the behaviour of Presidents have now seen how a freely, but the RAG mag is an these few individuals. Together, we tiny minority of our students act. attack on this. Freedom of speech publicity will stand up to sexism and bullying world. Part of doing this includes accessible and funny. Thus, as the female. As a ‘woman in power’, I am equal and just because you were It’s clear that some individuals think does not equate to freedom from wherever we see it. ensuring that we only cry ‘racist’ union president, an article about aware that any position of power the subject of an article, it does not when a person of colour is offended you was published as you would be makes you a figurehead and open mean your gender was. The piece in question, which the if they were targeted because of their known by a lot of students. to criticisms and satire from other Kind regards, MailOnline subsequently rehashed. felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 19th FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 3
NEWS [email protected] Israel boycotts outlawed by government Public bodies will no longer be able to opt out of buying products made on the West Bank
Grace Rahman Oxfam rather than the sponsorship movement of boycotts would have Editor-in-Chief deal she had with SodaStream when been illegal. the charity expressed disapproval of The official announcement of the companies with factories in the area. policy is due to be made by Cabinet oycotts have long been a Last year, Sussex’s student union Minister, Matt Hancock, when he way for local government voted to join the boycott, divestment visits Israel in a few days time. to use direct action to and sanctions movement by FELIX previously reported that condemn government choosing not to sell Israeli products several Imperial academics had approved policies, such as apartheid. in their union-run shops. SOAS signed an open letter promising to BHowever, the government has students voted last year in favour boycott Israeli institutions. Boycotts announced new plans to bring down of a boycott of Israeli academic like this would be perfectly legal heavy punishments on government- institutions. The union’s YES under new rules. funded bodies such as NHS Trusts, campaign emphasised after their city councils and universities if they win that the move was to target choose to operate so-called “town- “Israeli institutions complicit in Companies hall boycotts”. the oppression of Palestinians, not The government has called such individuals”. protests “divisive” and say they have Imperial’s own union has not involved in the potential to be anti-semetic. voted to boycott any Israeli products It’s not just Israeli products that it or institutions. will be illegal to avoid for “unethical” The rules could also affect the arms, reasons. Companies involved in the public bodies boycotting other arms, tobacco or fossil fuels trades causes or businesses, such as tobacco or will also be safe from democratically arms manufacturers or fossil fuel voted for ‘discrimination’. companies, many of which have Firms who up until recently been boycotted by other universities. fossil fuels were running some operations The move has been called an in the West Bank, such as Veolia “attack on local democracy” by trades will and Sodastream, have since left representatives of Labour leader, the area due to mounting pressure Jeremy Corbyn. If this rule had Several Imperial academics signed this boycott in 2015. Photo Credit: The from the public. Scarlett Johansson existed back in the 60s and 70s, also be safe Guardian notoriously severed her ties with the anti-apartheid in South Africa
Imperial RAG mag story published in Evening Standard and MailOnline
continued from front page FemSoc said they hadn’t thought notorious on MailOnline for being The piece went online on Tuesday the piece was sexist. a source of bizarre views, one reader morning, and remained on the front The article also links to an Imgur remarked: “These students’ antics page of the Evening Standard’s upload of the RAG article itself, are just juvenile! Do we need reports website for several hours. which FELIX has been unable to of them in an adult newspaper?” As the Evening Standard story print. In this week’s FELIX, several broke, the president’s personal In the article’s comment section, notable RAG members wrote in, Twitter account became private. complaining about the union’s Later that day a similar story The article treatment of this year’s committee. appeared on the Daily Mail’s In a letter addressed to the union’s website. This longer article included President, RAG’s Vice Chair of multiple references to Lucinda’s also links Activities said: “Calling the piece comment piece in last week’s sexist undermines genuine sexism” FELIX, in which she claimed that and that she hoped “you realise she had been the victim of “trollish to an Imgur that because of this dispute, a lot of stereotyping and personal attacks” charity money was lost”. and that the union’s actions were upload of Lucinda told us: “I set out my “in no way preventing RAG from views on the trollish behaviour in raising money”. my FELIX article, and I’m grateful Lower down in the piece, which the RAG for the backing I’ve received from swings in no particular direction men and women leaders since that in support, it’s mentioned that IC article itself time.” The story didn’t quite make the sidebar of shame. Photo Credit: MailOnline th th PAGE 4 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 5
NEWS [email protected] NEWS [email protected] Syrian charity confusion gets RAG team pulled off flight from Heathrow to Istanbul by More than one female toilet for RSM anti-terror police All but one female toilet was removed from the Goldsmith’s Wing by College Estates continued from front page This meant they had raised £724, ...allowed to board the flight to not including the amount they had over the summer but now they’re getting changed back Turkey, and were now down several paid for the unused flights. hours and a few hundred pounds. The group were told their removal Grace Rahman female toilets across the department. the single female accessible toilet The team let the RAG committee was a direct instruction from the Editor-in-Chief The case for having changed the unisex. know about the situation via pilot but suspected it was because toilets in the first place was not a One RSM member told FELIX: Facebook, and this message was they had asked a flight attendant if strong one, as there were already a “As a woman in male dominated quickly passed to Imperial College they could make an announcement omen in the set of men’s toilets close by. departments with usually around via campus security. There was about the charities to the passengers Goldsmith’s However, without consultation half the number of women’s toilets some miscommunication involved, over the plane’s intercom. The wing of the RSM with the deparment, Estates had as men’s (meaning walking ten and college were told the group attendant said she would ask to the building had a bit changed them anyway. Although minutes to toilets if any are out were arrested, which they were pilot and it was soon after this that of a shock after coming back over there were technical reasons as to of order), having our Head of not. However, the students were they were removed. theW summer: all but a single female why the space could not be evenly Department take charge and do not contacted by anyone at college When the group returned to toilet had been converted to men’s divided, they had still left only one something about it is amaze”. during this time (or since) regarding the UK they had a meeting with only. This meant that women had to female toilet. The department of materials their safety. the union and RAG, where they either queue to use one loo or walk Haynes’ survey proposed making holds an Athena Swan Silver Despite the ordeal, the team went were told that the union would to another building if it was out of the four grouped toilets unisex, as award, which is an accolade given back to Heathrow the next day and help them recover the money from order. well as the single accessible toilet, to to Higher Education or research flew to Berlin, before hitchhiking Turkish Airlines, which would add A survey into the problem was please anyone uncomfortable with bodies that can prove they are to Radzymin in Poland, which to the funds they’d raised for charity, commissioned by the new Head of the idea of mixed loos. actively advancing female staff and amounted to 907 miles in 36 hours. and that perhaps there would be a the Department of Materials, Peter The survey results were shown to students in an attempt to achieve meeting with senior management Haynes, and it was obvious from Estates, who agreed the situation gender equality in the workplace. at college. However, weeks passed the 100 responses from staff and was unacceptable. Instead of The works are to be completed The group and the jailbreak group did not hear students that change was needed. making the toilets all unisex, there over the 5th and 6th of March. anything from the union or college. Both male and female responses was strong support for making the Female toilet users of RSM can were told Eventually, through RAG, they were The group spent all morning fundraising before heading to Heathrow. Photo Credit: Facebook/Two and half Asian’s were strongly in support of more men’s toilets women’s and making collectively breath a sigh in relief. Labels are for cans, not for toilets. Photo Credit: FELIX told that the union’s senior managers Jailbreak now felt that “any correspondence their removal regarding this matter should come the three students turning up at charity whose name seems to have directly from the students rather the company’s headquarters in got them chucked off the flight, told Despite the was a direct than from Imperial College Union”. Kensington Olympia last week. FELIX that it was “sorry to hear The jailbreak team members After initially promising them a they encountered difficulties” but told FELIX they were “extremely full refund, a member of staff later that “their total raised amount was ordeal, the instruction frustrated” with the union, so emailed the group saying they would incredible, and we’re so grateful that EARLY BIRD TICKETS FOR decided to attempt to recoup only be paid back the tax. After they have dedicated to raising funds the charity money themselves. explaining the situation once again for the people of Syria”. team went THE BALL ARE ON SALE NOW! from the Although several weeks had now to the airline, they finally agreed RAG told FELIX they were passed, the group repeatedly tried to pay back the amount which had “extremely grateful for the support back to Tickets for the Ball only pilot to get in contact with Turkish been raised for charity. received during and after the Airlines, which culminated in ‘Hand in Hand for Syria’, the incident from the Student Activities £32.50 team” at the union but that it was Heathrow Afterparty tickets only “unfortunate that senior managers in the union felt it was not the next day £6.00 appropriate to help out the students (total £38.50) to recover the money”, adding that they were “extremely proud of the or favours to travel. The teams are team for persevering and recovering sponsored per mile they get away Ticket prices will rise to £37.50 for the Ball and Afterparty the money and delighted that this from Imperial, with the record can now be donated to great causes”. for the furthest being Singapore. Wednesday 23 March The union told FELIX that they Although this one happened back had “supported these students in November, another jailbreak immediately after the incident and has been scheduled for the 19th of worked closely with College to March. ensure there was no impact on their Turkey is one of the main routes studies or ability to travel in future. into Syria, especially for Westerners Funfair | photobooth We decided that the students would who go there to fight. The British have a greater chance of getting a police say they suspect up to 700 Great value food and drink refund if they contacted the airline people from the UK have gone to directly, which turned out to be work or fight for jihadist causes in Fireworks And more! correct.” Syria and Iraq. Schedule 7 of the RAG jailbreak involves teams Terrorism Act 2000 allows police imperialcollegeunion.org/summer ball of students attempting to get as to hold people at ports, rail stations far away from a starting point as and airports even without needing possible in a 36 hour period. The “reasonable suspicion”. They can team can’t spend any of their own then be held for up to nine hours. imperialcollegeunion.org/summerball Despite all this, they still made £1100 for charity. Photo Credit: Facebook/Two and half Asian’s Jailbreak money, and must use donations GRACE RAHMAN th PAGE 6 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk
FEATURES [email protected] Things you’re desperate to ask your Muslim lab partner Can you shampoo with a headscarf on? Where can you pray when you’ve only got five minutes?
ISoc have an English equivalent so it’s Writers better to try and understand things in context.
uslims are probably one of the easiest A travel groups of people to identify from prayer mat the way we dress, girls being more Mobvious than guys. As Muslims we can also be find that there’s a lot of confusion about why we do certain things and people speculate because they’re too quite handy scared to ask in case we get offended. Contrary to what the media might tell you, 1 in 5 of us don’t sympathise with a certain group of people. In Can you hear properly fact we’d be more than happy to tell with that scarf on your you why we don’t eat all Haribos or head? why I didn’t join the Pub Crawl at the start of the year. For those too Sorry, could you repeat the shy to question us directly, here’s a question please? selection of questions Muslims on Religion can be a sensitive topic campus have been asked in the past. which is why many tend to avoid asking questions. As part of our Where do you go to pray We’re chilling in SAF, just like you . Photo Credit: ISoc annual “Discover Islam Week”, the at Imperial? Islamic Society will be hosting a bookshelves. Basically anywhere Mate, what is that “God has willed it” and “Praise be to range of events from exhibitions, to We pray five times a day wherever that won’t cause an inconvenience alarm? God”. We also greet other muslims a talk on Islam’s role in the world, we can and nip out whenever we to anybody else. One Islamic That would be the call to prayer. with “Salaam” or “Assalaamu to spoken word by British ex-hip find an opportunity during labs. If Society member made it her aim to It’s the same as the one you might alaikum” or if you’ve got that extra hop artist, Tommy Evans. Next there’s only ten minutes before the pray in every building atleast once get woken up by on a trip to Turkey bit of breath, “Assalaamu alaikum Wednesday (24th of February) there lecture starts it’s unlikely I’m going before she graduates. On Fridays or Egypt. wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh”. will also be a free, informal lunch on to trek it to the Prayer Room (in (holiest day of the week), we pray in They all mean peace be unto you the ISoc and the opportunity to ask Prince’s Gardens) and make it back congregation in Beit wherewe even and the last means “peace, mercy more questions that may have been in time. We pretty much disappear have speakers set up to deliver the Do you all speak Arabic? and blessings of Allah be upon you”. at the back of your mind. Looking to anywhere we can find a small, sermon. Many of us learn to read and recite But no, other than that not all of us forward to seeing some fresh, peaceful space on campus. It also Qur’anic Arabic and sometimes are native Arabic speakers and so inquisitive faces! has to be clean, so along with that Do you shower with your accidentally drop phrases such as for many of us, this is the most we For more info search ‘Discover portable charger, a travel prayer scarf on? “insha Allah”, “masha Allah” and speak. However, many non-Arabic Islam Week 2016’ on Facebook. mat can also be quite handy. This “Alhamdulillah” into standard speaking muslims learn the language includes lecture theatres, empty Unfortunately we don’t have English conversations. Force of to enhance their understanding of rooms, secret corridors and between “aesthetically pleasing” waterproof habit. They mean “God-willing”, the Qur’an. Not all Arabic words Dates for next week hijabs yet (swimming caps don’t count) and it’s harder to shampoo Monday 22nd February Yes, you with a scarf covering your hair. In Discover Islam Exhibitions in all seriousness though, our hijabs SAF and Sherfield probably are only worn in front of unrelated “Islam’s Contribution to men. We can take them off when it’s Humanity” by Adnan Rashid a girls only setting or the men are did see me close relations. Wednesday 24th February Discover Islam Week Free Lunch awkwardly Did I just see you washing yourself in the Thursday 25th February massaging toilets? Discover Islam Exhibitions in SAF and Sherfield Before prayer we have to wash “Tommy Evans: The Liberation my foot our hands, face, ears, arms and feet. of A-Man” Poetry Event by So yes, you probably did see me British Hip Hop Artist awkwardly massaging my foot. Room in SAF, travel prayer mat and you’re good to go. Photo Credit: ISoc felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 19th FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 7
COMMENT [email protected] Fishballs to bullets – that escalated quickly Hong Kong is going through a tumultuous period of civil unrest, but what were the real reasons behind the latest outbreaks of violence?
Don Ma ong Kong experienced parties, with 30 out of 70 of the seats Writer a fiery Chinese New being functional constituencies, Year as protesters and allowing small groups to have the police clashed on immense voting power. Time after the night of the 7th of February. time, the Hong Kong government HWith 130 people injured and 67 has continued to push unwanted people arrested, one might be policies, heedless of public outcry. surprised to find out that the riots Some examples include: The started with fishballs, a popular local Mainland and Hong Kong snack that could be bought from Closer Economic Partnership street vendors. Arrangement, The National During the Chinese New Year, Education issue, the police response as many restaurants close early, to Occupy Central, the shameful some streets become informal food faux universal suffrage plan, the markets, populated by hawkers attempted implementation of that sell curry fishballs, imitation simplified Chinese and Mandarin shark’s fin soup, and other street as the main language for education, foods. Many of these hawkers are the missing booksellers incident, the doing business illegally, as they forced appointment of the Hong haven’t obtained a licence from the Kong University Council chairman, Food and Environmental Hygiene the push for the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2014 are all examples of enforced policies for Violent the interested reader. But Government officials believe that this Fishball Riot has nothing clashes The 2014 Hong Kong protests. Photo Credit: Wikipedia to do with their actions? They may be acting clueless now, but let’s large groups of protesters, and the to the support of the police force, dispel once and for all the fiction broke out police were called in, leading to saying that the police were, in fact, that the Hong Kong government a standoff between the two sides. too restrained. doesn’t know what it’s doing. It and the city Violent clashes broke out and the Supporters of the protest zero knows exactly what it’s doing. city descended into darkness and in on the fact that fishballs led They are undertaking an effort to chaos. The violent protesters threw to bullets and police brutality, change the city, and to make it more descended bricks and other items at the police, while those against looked at the like China. A significant portion physically assaulted officers, and set injuries sustained by the force and of the public (particularly the cars and mounds of trash alight. the helplessness of some under- younger generation) are tired of the into On the flip side, police officers equipped officers. mainlanders flooding the streets of were using pepper spray, attacking Pulling the camera back, we see Tsim Sha Tsui, buying up property darkness protesters with their batons, and that the clashes escalated step-by- and causing baby formula shortages throwing bricks back towards the step and the violence from both sides while the government does nothing crowd. Members of the press were was irrational and unreasonable. But but encourage them. Something Department (FEHD). In fact, a vast also injured in the skirmishes. The more importantly, the fishballs were needs to change, and in my opinion, majority of Hong Kong’s hawkers night climaxed with gunshots, just the final straw for the protestors, the first step would be to remove are illegal as new hot food licences fired towards the sky by a traffic pushing them towards violence. We the system of electors and institute haven’t been distributed since 1980, police officer, and as the sun rose are looking at a city that has slowly universal suffrage. due to difficulties in managing the the protesters retreated. In the days but surely fallen from its place as the No one is saying that true safety and cleanliness of the food that followed, people were arrested number one international financial universal suffrage would solve every stalls. for rioting and obtaining access to a centre in Asia to a political mess problem in the city and make it a The FEHD are known to be computer with intent to commit an with a steadily worsening economic magical fairy land with a 420% rather lax regarding these offences offence or with a dishonest intent. issues. Sure, this may be the result GDP growth per year and a happy during the Chinese New Year, as The night left the city in shock. of the rapidly growing Chinese population. However it would make the informal markets are traditional As politicians awoke, parties economy and changes in the socio- the government accountable to its during this holiday. However, this began to swiftly condemn the political environment, but the people, and perhaps these seemingly year, the FEHD decided that New violence. Government officialsgovernment is not without fault. thoughtless actions, and the riots Year’s Eve would be a prime time stated that the riots had nothing The executive branch of Hong that follow, would happen less to enforce the regulations. The to do with localist movements, the Kong has no accountability to often. news spread and groups organised government’s approval rating, or the general public, because it is protests on social media against the hawker regulations. Supporters of appointed by a small group of FEHD in the Mong Kok area. the protest condemned the police electors. 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SCIENCE [email protected] SCIENCE [email protected] Scientists who made bank Sh!t Sc!ence In honour of Mary Somerville appearing on the new RBS £10 note, FELIX Scientists try and fail squishing bug MARIANNE GUENOT explores which other scientists have previously been represented, and asks who’s ockroaches are despised They showed that not only can the survivors in disaster situations. next? by everyone. With the cockroaches sustain that amount of So next time you question the whole human race out pressure, they can also immediately logic behind a piece of research, Madeleine Webb was a talented statistician and to squash them into fly away, unscathed. This shows next time you look at a Nature Writer the first female inducted into the oblivion, you’d think they’d have to everyone that the cockroach is, article twice, scrunching up your Royal Statistical Society. One of Cdied out by now. But instead, they scientifically, the creepiest animal face, next time you roll your eyes the hallmarks of Nightingale’s thrive, popping up in the most on Earth (or is that just me?). to the projects that manage to BS last week announced career were sanitary reforms, after random places, and miraculously But there is more to this research. secure funding despite being the results from a demonstrating with stats that a lack surviving the most vigorous It subscribes to a line of scientific based on some seemingly Facebook poll (welcome of sanitation was directly linked to squashing. Scientists have therefore investigation called terradynamics, ridiculous premise, think about to the future folks) mortality rates in rural India. Based spent months investigating why where scientists study how animals what we’ve learned from the whereby the mathematician and on her findings, she continued to it is so freaking hard to squish a move in the hope of designing robots creepy yet humble cockroach Rastronomer, Mary Somerville, was lobby for social reforms to improve cockroach. capable of negotiating complex and recognise that perhaps sh!t chosen by the people of Scotland to hygiene in Britain and abroad. Scientists from the University terrain, such as muddy, sandy, or science is in fact.... The Sh!t. be the face of the £10 note for the Nightingale later set up a Nursing of California have collected rough surfaces. By analysing the foreseeable future. And yes, since School and wrote multiple books on hundreds of high-resolution, slow- movements of cockroaches, the Scottish money is legal tender in her methods of care, some of which motion videos of them squishing scientists have uncovered a new England, that means a new face will are still used today. Much like Mary cockroaches. This technologymode of locomotion on which be on the funny looking notes that Somerville, Nightingale also found showed that a cockroach can they modelled a palm-sized, soft- momentarily confuse you every now time to be a pioneering feminist, progress at top velocity, a whopping bodied legged robot. This robot and then at the ATM. Personally I writing a series of essays on female 600mm per second, through a 6mm can manipulate very rough and think it’s a solid choice considering independence. Literature critic high crack, and can fit comfortably constricting environments in a that by all accounts, Mary Somerville Elaine Showalter dubbed the most in a crack as small as 3.2mm high. To way that no other robot could. The was a textbook scientific badass. famous of these essays “Cassandra”, confirm that cockroaches are super authors of the paper claim that Despite showing great intelligence a “major text of English feminism”. compressible, the scientists flattened this is the first step towards an from a young age, Somerville’s Florence Nightingale was on the The nobble cockroach Periplaneta americana, practicaly (and to our dismay) them with a piston applying up to effective ‘search-and-rescue’ robot, Be free litle buddy. Photo Credit education was largely informal and £10 note for 19 years before being unsquishable. Photo Credit USGS bee inventiory and monitoring lab 900 times their own body weight. which could help us rapidly locate Oliver.dodd partially self-taught due to the social replaced by Charles Dickens. conventions restricting her from As for future nominees for the higher education. The restrictions honour of being on the other side of placed upon her only worsened after the Queen’s face, my personal picks Natasha Khaleeq the death of her 10 year-old sister, are… Writer which her parents blamed on Mary’s determination to be educated. This week’s science picture Ada Lovelace Regardless of these hurdles wo black holes merged Somerville became a respected name billions of light in the scientific community as an Why? Easy. Lovelace was a years away, causing adult, her translations and original charismatic mathematician and a ripple in the fabric works about astronomy becoming widely considered to be the first of spacetime big enough to be widely popular. She became the computer programmer, writing measuredT by scientists at the LIGO first female member of the Royal the first algorithm designed to Collaboration. The results provide Astronomical Society and her work be performed by a machine. further support for Einstein’s theory was instrumental in predicting the Additionally, Lovelace was close of general relativity. presence of the 9th planet, Neptune friends with and was tutored by The 4km long interferometers in our solar system. On top of Mary Somerville, a scientific badass in astronomy and mathematics, proposed to be the new face of the Scottish £10. Photo Credit: wikipedia Somerville. These women both at LIGO simultaneously detected all that, Somerville continued to being on currency money together a disturbance in their lasers fulfil the expectations of a well- in circulation, as well as being the Darwin and his Finches in 2017 role is the fact that Newton served would be a triumph for the scientific signifying the passing of a massive connected socialite, supported most famous biologist of all time. as warden of the Royal Mint, or sisterhood. gravitational wave through the women’s suffrage and was one of However, none of this could have Isaac Newton “Master of the Mint” for 30 years. Earth. The measurements suggest the most influential science writers been predicted when he initially It’s quite fitting then that Newton’s J.J. Thompson the black hole collision released a of her time. boarded The Beagle. Darwin had Physicist, mathematician and face was stamped on all one pound wave og gravitational energy equal Mary Somerville may be the not completed his studies and noted apple tree enthusiast, notes from 1978 until 1988, when Why? Aside from having a to three times the mass of the sun. first female scientist to appear on therefore was taken on as a self- Newton, whose work in the 17th the switch to coins sadly took cool name and excellent facial Prof Danzmann (a leading a Scottish banknote, but when it funded secondary naturalist for century wrote the rules of physics, him and his fancy telescope out of hair, Thompson was a as a genius European scientist at LIGO) comes to representation, scientists the journey, with the ship’s doctor classical mechanics, and a bunch circulation forever. physicist who won a Nobel prize for praised the finding as one of the do quite well for themselves. To holding the role official. Even his of other stuff I don’t understand. discovering the electron in 1906. He most important discoveries since name just a few… father considered the trip a waste His seemingly endless list of Florence Nightingale was also a gifted teacher, inspiring the Higgs boson and on par with of time. Darwin and his majestic achievements include, formulating many famous pupils including the discovery of the double helix. Charles Darwin beard are gracing our tenners aat the laws of motion, building the I’m counting the lady of the lamp Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr Detecting the waves opens up the moment and have been there first reflecting telescope, creating on this list because her revolution who would go on to make major the Universe to completely new Ok we’re starting off with the easy since the turn of the millennium. the theory of gravity, and correctly of nursing was down to applying discoveries in physics as well. investigations leading to a new era one; Darwin is the only scientist However, the prolific regency author predicting that the earth was an simple scientific principle to medical of astronomy. A mumerical stimulation of the black hole colision Colours signify the degree of petrubation of the spacetime fabric (the gravitational waves). Photo NASA Blueshift to be featured on a note currently Jane Austen is scheduled to replace obligate spheroid. A lesser known practices. 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Science, what’s good? Are there really different sugars? Science& the City Or why your agave syrup isn’t really any better Termites did Super Earth Explosive Printing ‘living’ Mixing with he walks among us and with Alexandra Lim us. Rattling in our pockets castes first probably toxic cancer cure ears Neanderthals Writer beside loose change, beaming through the air, whipping us through the underground in the Lef Apostolakis Ah, the exotic and awe inspiring Nanoparticles have been used to Over the past decade we have DNA is more than just a ane sugar, honey, raw much-beloved, spacious Tube, and Sciece Editor S super-Earth, a class of exoplanet precisely target and, via the use of seen many great breakthroughs in sequence of As, Ts, C, and Gs. It turbinado, coconut sending Londoners south to Ibiza larger than Earth but not quite the infrared light, successfully destroy 3D printing, improving the speed of is a fingerprint of our individuality, sugar, agave syrup. Many or Tangiers. Science is everywhere in size of a gas giant. For quite some cancer cells left over from excision the process, the smoothness of the capturing our primitive past and nutrition experts sitting our world. But it’s more than just a hen you think of time now, scientists have been procedures. products and the range of materials even the behaviour of our ancestors; on their high horses all wax lyrical pragmatic method of understanding castes, the animal fantasising about one in particular, This new method, onlyavailable for printing with. and it seems our ancestors hooked Cover these glistening labels, eager to the universe and creating new ways kingdom may 55 Cancri E, and what conditions implemented in mice so far, used One of the materials that has up with our evolutionary ‘cousins’ proclaim the nutritional properties to navigate and interact with it; not be the first on such a celestial body might be clusters of gold atoms to clear the shown promise in its application a lot earlier than we previously of each. These are the same people it’s a creative force in our human thing that pops into your mind. like. A group of astronomers though mice of any traces of cancer cells, across the health sector of course is thought. Specifically 110,000 years who are religious avocado-toast society with powerful feedback Nonetheless,W castes are prevalent in recently burst everyone’s dream which is important as such cells can human cells. earlier. eaters and green-juice guzzlers. mechanisms that determine many many other species besides humans, bubble, pointing out it’s probably act as sources of new tumours. A team has come up with a new It is not a novelty that we find These are the people who are fine aspects of our lives. So no matter with bees a shining example of an a cyanide packed, face-melting The procedure has been around for technique – integrated tissue-organ Neanderthal DNA in human DNA, with anything that’s not white sugar how interesting (or dreary) you may efficient caste system, with their hellhole. years, but has been problematic as, printing which hopes to make the however, an international group or high-fructose corn syrup, the find it, it’s worth exploring how we queens, workers and soldiers. The team of astronomers used like with other treatments, precision dream of printing of organs a reality. of researchers recently found the four words which instigate heated interact with science and the many However, it seems that whatever Hubble pictures to measure the has been low, resulting in damage to The new technique allows lacing presence of a reverse situation. That debate in the world of nutrition. impacts it has on our lives – from bees did to become a eusocial spectra of light coming off the adjacent healthy tissue of artificial body parts with living is, human DNA incorporated into The hidden truth? All these sugars the kid learning the hard way that species, termites did it first. planet as it passed in front of its However a research team has cells and was successfully used to the genetic code of a Neanderthal. are the same, in the sense that they gravity is a very real force when they New fossils, unearthed in parent star. managed to greatly refine the use 3D print a human ear. A 50,000-year-old Neanderthal toe all get processed the same way. do that first belly flop at the pool, to Myanmar show that termites Sadly the high levels of hydrogen, of nanoparticles, by coupling them So far scientists have been able bone contained a human signature Too much sugar in any form is the disenchanted adult zoning out became eusocial about 100 helium and hydrogen cyanide with appropriate antibodies, as well to generate 3D printed bone, embedded within its collagen case. dangerous. on the couch, to some droning late million years ago, aproximately detected, lighter elements and as using ultrashort infrared rays to muscle and cartilage which after The findings have posed the need Processed starches and breakfast night news about climate change. 80 million years earlier than what their products (which our planet’s zap the gold bearing cells. being implanted in mice, developed to rethink human migration in the cereals might as well unzip In Science & the City we’ll palaeontologists thought until now. atmosphere lost long ago), don’t Clinical trials could begin in the natural structures such as blood light of the now apparent genetic themselves from their beige coats explore the many interconnected The fossil finds from Myanmar seem to be putting an end to the next two years, which if successful vessels, closely resembling natural evidence, pointing strongly to an because they are digested in an Sugar resembles crystal meth a bit too much. Coincidence? I don’t think so . Photo Credit Marko Knuutila ways that we interact with the included five termite species, two of search for a cooler, larger home any would greatly aid the fight against tissues. earlier migration out of Africa. instant, in much the same way as scientific way of thinking, and which new to science. time soon. cancer our bodies process that brownie or demands a series of catfights in the state, making it seem that much might as well be drinking a coke. its real-world application. From bowl of salted caramel Haagen Dazs vegan community. Yes, fruit has better than glucose alone, it actually The solution for many, lies in the societal interactions, challenges Engel et al. 2016 @ Current Biology Tsiaras et al. 2016 @ The Lukianova-Hieb et al. 2016 @ Kang et al. 2016 @ Nature Kuhlwilm et al. 2016 @ Nature (which I must admit will always be lots of sugar, especially mangoes, increases average triglyceride levels glorious buzz of anything containing within scientific communities, Astrophysical Journal Nature Nanotechnology Biotechnology a firm favourite of mine). Eating a durians and grapes. Even the ratio more than glucose. However, it’s artificial sweeteners, the siren call of connecting science with other bowl of sugar and eating a bowl of of fructose to glucose in fruit and the fibre and vitamins in fruit that your trusty diet sodas. Now I feel sectors and spheres of life, to cultural cereal may taste different, but below table sugar is practically the same. compensate for this, and add to the bad saying this because I’ve been a and historical understandings and the neck, they’re metabolically Keeping in mind many scientific wholesomeness of eating fruit. The Diet Coke fan for many years, and beyond, we’ll explore together this identical. studies have proven that, although problem arises when you’ve got a although the craze has waned, I still very modern way of thinking about So what about sugar in fruit? fructose increases blood insulin bottle of fruit juice for fuel, because give in to the odd temptation. Sadly, our world. Questions like why is Ah, another question that almost and glucose levels in the fasting this has no fibre whatsoever. You and ironically, the stuff wreaks so much of researcher’s time now havoc on our normal metabolic allocated to grant writing instead A fresh look through bacteria routes and hormones, most notably of research? How do we address insulin’s neurobiological actions. sexism in laboratories and research Morgaine Stiles microscope, to then observe the move towards the laser, until they this optimum is achieved. translate to rod shaped bacteria, The infamous sweetners aspartame facilities? Why are field naturalists Writer bacterial response At the bacteria’s hit the beam, where they would Although this is a beautifully assuming, they even use a similar and Splenda still produce drastic dying out? How do we make side opposite to the incident light then retract. elegant method for spherical method… Watch this space. spikes in insulin because the brain our research exciting to different and direction of movement, a bright Further research showed that, bacteria to respond to light, it is tricked into wanting sugar, sugar audiences – or do we even need to? f we were to play a word spot was realised. They discovered when two sources of light were remains to be seen how this will and more sugar. Considering Imperial College’s association game and start that this was indicative of the introduced, the bacteria would I know I’m making it sound like strengths in sciences and the fact that off with the word ‘eye’ you bacteria acting like a little eye. The present two spots on their surface, there’s just no win-win situation. I we have the greatest concentration might shout out ‘face’, or light spot was the result of light and move towards the light sources mean, sugar tastes good, and we all of high-impact research of any ‘London’, or even ‘mantis shrimp’, focused from the beam, hitting the at an intermediate angle between want to feel and taste something UK university, many of us will go Ibut you probably wouldn’t shout bacteria, the bacterias surface then the two. which doesn’t have us plucking on work directly in science, often out ‘bacterium’. Well, new biologcal behaving as a lens, and its cytoplasm Being cyanobacteria, and thus out our eyebrows. There’s no need in influential positions. So let’s research might change that forever. as the retina, re-focussing the light using photosynthesis to make to feel pressurized to be the most consider what space it is that science Although the phenomenon of beam. glucose for energy, it is important perfect healthy robot human. Here occupies in the world as we move bacteria moving in response to This phototaxis process bythat Synechocystis and similar at university, life is for living, for through it, with it, and because of it. light, known as phototaxis, has been Synechocystis is a negative response bacteria have a system to navigate those 3am pizzas and ice creams, And if you have any thoughts documented since the late 1800s, it to bright light exposure on their towards optimal light conditions. not gnawing on grass. It’s simply around the human side of science, took until this year for a group of surface. Scientists investigated That is, the bacteria need enough important to be aware of the get in touch, and we can go for a observant researchers to discover this further by shining a laser onto light to make sufficient glucose, various metabolic effects our best coffee (or tea, or water, or whatever) how certain bacteria do this. A the centre of a plate contiaing but should not be exposed to too friend sugar, and to go easy on our and explore your views of Science & research team led by Nils Schuergers Synechocystis, and then using a much light, which would damage overloaded systems once in a while. the City. exposed a plate of Synechocystis light to direct the cells towards this the bacteria cell. Here scientists Bacteria or eyes? Synechocystis elicit a primitive version of ‘sight’. Photo Credit: Go on, have a Diet Coke. With a NAOMI STEWART to a directed light source under a centre. They found that cells would explored the mechanism to which BASF At least with sugar mice, at peace with the fact that you’re basically consuming pure sugar. Photo Credit Osaka19 splash of rum. th th PAGE 12 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 13
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A Bigger Splash fails to make an impact Dir: Tim Miller. Script: Rhett gangster films Despite the best efforts of Swinton and co, Luca Guadagnino's latest dissapoints Reese, Paul Wernick. Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Gina Carano, T. J. Miller. 108 minutes. that aren’t A Bigger Splash ritics have been The Godfather predicting comic book movie fatigue ever since rancis Ford Coppola’s Dir: Luca Guadagnino. Script: Marvel’s The Avengers Godfather films (excluding David Kajganich. Starring: Tilda back in 2012, yet audiences are The Godfather III – no one Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota turning out in droves to increasingly likes the third one, let’s C Ryan Reynolds as wise-cracking, fourth-wall-breaking, uninspiring Deadpool Photo Credit: 20th Century Fox Johnson, Matthias Schoenaerts. 124 stale comic based blockbusters. be real) are often considered to be minutes. Many had hoped that Deadpool, Ftwo of the greatest films ever made. the eighth installment in the powers in an attempt to cure his Morena Baccarin provides much Wade Wilson can be a complex and In fact, they sit nicely below The Fred Fyles X-Men series and the directorial terminal cancer and becomes needed romance as Vanessa, and interesting character; unfortunately, Shawshank Redemption’s top spot Film Editor debut of Tim Miller, would provide Deadpool. The film follows his her relationship with Wilson, Deadpool offers none of this. on IMDb’s Top 100 Films list. something radically new. The source attempts to hunt down the man who although accelerated (through a Unnecessarily obscene, always dark, However, The Godfather is not the f you expect nothing from material from which it could have disfigured and tortured him in an sequence of interesting sex scenes), and never clever, the self-aware be-all and end-all. One must never anybody,” writes Sylvia borrowed is vast and diverse, but experimental weapons programme. is surprisingly believable for a comedy and repeated breaking of the forget that the ‘gangster film’ genre Plath in The Bell Jar, “you’re writers Rhett Reese and Paul Ryan Reynolds, who plays the comic book film. Two lesser-known fourth wall are an attempt to appeal is rich in quality, and can branch out never disappointed.” Such Wernick have instead delivered titular antihero, gives a performance X-Men make welcome appearances to the worst kind of demographic. from the standard mid-1900s Mafia a statement may seem bleak, but a formulaic origin story and a that perfectly captures Deadpool’s in the film: Colossus (Stefan Full of obscure references and setting: the idea that expectation is the forgettable villain. Whilst it might wacky sensibilities. The ensemble Kapičić) and Negasonic Teenage awful jokes about topics ranging I Once Upon a Time in mother of all dissatisfactions is begin mid-action, it spends far too cast, however are mixed: as Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), from genitals to murder, Deadpool only confirmed by A Bigger Splash, much time in flashbacks to the Weasel, Wilson’s best friend, T. providing counter-balance to is nothing more than the Reddit of America (1984) Luca Guadagnino’s much-awaited protagonist's past: Wade Wilson, a J. Miller plays the same character Deadpool’s crude humour. movies. Once Upon a Time in America is return to our screens that – while mercenary for hire, unlocks mutant he plays in HBO’s Silicon Valley; Comics readers will know that CALE TILFORD the first in the trilogy of films by entertaining and well-made – fails Sergio Leone, which also contains to fulfil this reviewer’s hopes. the classic Once Upon a Time in Guadagnino first burst onto the West. The fact that this feature the international scene in 2009, follows the entire lives of a group of garnering wide acclaim for I Am Jewish ghetto youths and their rise Love, a sumptuous piece of work to power in New York means that centring around an industrial Doc corner: Exit Through the Gift Shop it is notoriously long. I’ll be straight Milanese family; Tilda Swinton though, unless you’ve experienced gave a magnetic performance as the Dakota Johnson as Penelope, in the sun-drenched erotic thriller A Bigger Splash. Photo Credit: Moviestore/Rex/Shutterstock Ben Collier just not massively interested in the 251 minute extended director’s Russian-born matriarch of the clan, Film Writer debating its legitimacy. cut you have no right to complain desperately watching her family fall part only communicate in whispers, the trademark features that left their pure white ricotta, Harry handling during a hike into the mountains To the film’s credit, there is about the length. apart whilst entering into a tryst but as usual her immense physical mark on I Am Love: his creeping use a grotesquely oversized hunk of (it is perhaps worth pointing out ast week we had The a nice blend of sweet and sour with her son’s friend. And now, presence comes to the fore. As of the slow-zoom shot; frequent parmesan at a tense dinner. In fact, that they are the only non-white Imposter – a gripping here with humour and political Reservoir Dogs (1992) seven years on, Guadagnino is back, Harry, Fiennes dominates all the jump-cuts; and his propensity to one of Penelope’s first actions is to characters encountered in the documentary following satire both featuring heavily. The Tarantino’s feature-length debut and has brought Swinton along for scenes he’s in – dancing around the have food stand in for dialogue. peel and bite into a ripe fig in a way film, and have no lines). It is very a bizarre case of identity film shines in its first act which movie – and, in my opinion, one the ride, in his remake of Jacques living room to The Rolling Stones, While the latter technique fitted in that would make Angela Carter unclear what point this is supposed fraud and murder. The film was gives us the backstory of various of his best – is an intricate, stylish, Deray’s 1969 work La Piscine. diving naked into the pool, nearly quite well with the plot of his last blush. to serve. Are we supposed to feel Lheavy with recreation scenes and prominent street artists such theatrical story set almost entirely Swinton is Marianne Lane, a driving his car over a cliff; whenever film (Swinton’s character’s lover The island setting, too, feels like a amused at the irrelevant worries utilised them to such an extent as ‘Space Invader’ and Shepard in one location. The film is such a world-touring, glitter-coated rock he enters the frame it become ‘The is a chef ), here there are instances misstep. A barren island that admits of the rich and famous being cast that it blurred the lines between Fairey. Also interesting is how classic and many of its scenes so star, presumably based on a Bowie Harry Show’. Continuing on from where it is (figuratively) over-egged. no beauty, A Bigger Splash resists into shadow by ‘real’ struggles? Or documentary and feature drama. the film explores the idea that the iconic that it’s likely you’ve already archetype. Following an injury to his star-turn in Wes Anderson’s We have Marianne being shown the best efforts of cinematographer are the characters supposed to be The documentary of choice this most important thing in the art had countless Tarantino fanboys her vocal cords, she has retreated Grand Budapest Hotel, A Bigger by an old nonna how to prepare Yorick Le Saux; there are some psychologically trapped, just as the week continues the theme of mixing world is not the quality of your insist you watch it already. Why in to a private villa in the Strait of Splash sees Fiennes expanding his beautiful scenes shot at night or refugees are physically detained? reality and fiction. The difference pieces but rather your ability to God’s name haven’t you then? Sicily for rest and relaxation, with oeuvre into broad comedy. sunset, but in all the daytime scenes The overall effect is just to leave a here is that it's kind of the point. create hype. Banksy, through this her long-term boyfriend Paul But the real discovery here is The real the hot Mediterranean sun bleaches sense of confusion on the screen, In reality, Exit Through the Gift character of Guetta, exposes how Hard Boiled (1992) in tow (Matthias Schoenaerts). Dakota Johnson, best known all life out of the film. It’s another and a bad taste in our mouths. Shop may not even be allowed to Super-cool 'artist' Banksy. Photo Credit: Exit Through the Gift Shop PR comfortably commercial street Asian crime dramas are the Unfortunately, they are tracked thus far for her work in the unfortunate contrast to I Am Love, Standing on its own, A Bigger feature in this section, as it’s not art has become. spiritual cousins to the classic down by Harry (Ralph Fiennes), a flaccid Fifty Shades adaptation; as discovery on which Le Saux also worked; Splash is a solid film; competently really clear if it can really be called a is making a feature documentary Banksy convinces Thierry himself The fact remains that he’s so American Mafioso film. Be it an record producer and old flame of Penelope she radiates a true sexual while that film manages to capture directed, well acted, and – despite ‘documentary’. when, in reality, he has no intention to become a street artist under the unfathomably annoying that artistic and violent Yakuza drama or Marianne’s; he brings along newly- charisma, mixing the ingénue the frantic energy of Milan and the certain missteps – delivering a The narrative presented to us of editing his footage. Banksy, as I’m title of ‘Mr. Brainwash’. ‘M.B.W.’ you’ll want to reach into your gritty 90s Hong Kong action romp, discovered daughter, Penelope and the deviant in a chimerical here is sun-dappled splendour of Sanremo, powerful psychological impact. (should we take the film’s word sure you know, is a fan of anonymity goes onto make millions off the TV and strangle him by the third the Eastern film industry has many (Dakota Johnson), and they settle beast of a role. Manipulative and with A Bigger Splash he can only However, given Guadagnino's last for it) is that an eccentric amateur and as it turns out eventually turns oh-so-trendy art crowd of LA. The act. If Banksy makes another film contenders for critic’s top spots. down to an uneasy holiday. devious, the interactions between do so much with the setting. film, it comes as a disappointment. filmmaker Thierry Guetta set out to the cameras back on Thierry. issue here is how much of this story without the pretentious nonsense Hard Boiled focuses on tough-as- All four leads are excellent in their her and Marianne bring to mind Dakota Furthermore, there is the bizarre I Am Love was like a beautifully locate and document a number of In the end Banksy is credited as we believe, and personally, I don’t or over-complications, I’ll make nails cop Yun-Fat Chow drives the roles. As perhaps the only character the sparring between Charlotte choice to set all the action against presented plate in a Michelin-star popular street artists, including the the director of this film, taking the believe any of it. In this way, whilst sure to give it a watch. narrative. For reference, Body count: who could possibly be construed Rampling and Ludivine Sagnier in a backdrop of the current European restaurant – sumptuous, vibrant, controversial graffiti artist Banksy. creative reigns to tell his own story the documentation of the other 307. as ‘realistic’, Schoenaerts brings a Francois Ozon’s Swimming Pool, Johnson as refugee crisis: towards the middle of and delectable. In contrast, A Bigger Guetta was interested in filming with Guetta’s supposed ‘mountain street artists is factual, Banksy quite sense of groundedness to his Paul. another psychosexual drama deeply the film we start to hear news reports Splash is much like the volcanic rock the creative process, – telling many of video cassettes’ to hand. The clearly fabricated this character of BEN COLLIER Swinton faces a challenging role indebted to Deray. of drownings near Lampedusa, and upon which it is set – unnerving, prominent ‘street artists’ that he final parts of the film describe how Guetta to tell his own story. I’m in that Marianne can for the most Guadagnino carries over some of Penelope Penelope is ogled by a group of men hostile, and ultimately desolate. friday 19 February BPM House, Bass and DnB BPM (Beats Per Minute) Anything with a bassline Friday 19 February 20:00 - 02:00 Metric || FiveSixEight
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ARTS [email protected] More than just a century of style Vogue 100: A Century of Style is a celebration of history and what made it beautiful
Elizaveta Tchebaniouk name of the painter. With this Writer approach the photographer is truly emphasized as an artist with regards to his or her role in and importance ne enters the exhibition to Vogue. through a room with pillars that are kaleidoscopes of British The pictures Vogue magazine covers throughout Othe years, and is instantly transported represent to a magical world. The films at the end of the entrance corridor act to further set the scene and create that not only fantasy atmosphere which resonates throughout the show. The films contrast the iconicity of the covers fashion’s with their whimsical and dreamy air. Robin Muir, curator of the exhibition, points out that “since history, but Vogue’s debut, photography has been its lifeblood”, and the centrality the world’s of photography to Vogue’s essence since its conception is wonderfully conveyed in the way the photographs as a whole are presented, as well as their content itself. All the photographs stand out from those seen in other magazines All the by how like works of art they are in themselves – how well the model, from make-up to clothes to the photos pose, fits the surroundings to evoke a specific emotion or convey a message. Overall each photograph stand out is almost surreal – truly magical and fantastically beautiful. Each is from those also extremely unique; Vogue has a history of surprising readers with the unexpected and a dedication in other to taking no shortcuts in ensuring the authenticity of the beautiful world they create for their readers. magazines For example, there are photographs Anne Gunning in Jaipur by Norman Parkinson, 1956 Photo Credit: Norman Parkinson Ltd. of a model in Peru beside local by how like residents by Mario Testino, and one are the pictures appreciated for their ‘Century of Magazines’ gallery, is of art in itself. which was shot by Tim Walker in aesthetic beauty, but also because a captivating journey. These range Throughout each decade, its Mongolia with the model sitting on “some pictures just drip history”, from beautiful Art Deco-style readers opened Vogue to find more works of art a yak. and are representations of not only hand-painted covers on bound than just the latest news in fashion. Vogue 100 takes its chance to fashion’s history, but the world’s as copies to the glossy digitalized On the very first page,Vogue “replay Vogue’s greatest hits” – iconic a whole. issues of today. But in addition to its promised that “really and truly, such they are photographs that defined the This exhibition also shows Vogue as physical evolution, Vogue 100 offers amazing things are going to happen magazine’s milestones. For example, more than just a fashion magazine a comprehensive exploration of how to you that you would never believe Those who’ve attended other Kate Moss’s first ever cover and in emphasizing its promotion of the magazine responded to current them, unless you saw them in fashion photography exhibits in story are instantly recognizable. and inspiration by the art world. In fashion trends of each decade in Vogue”. Each issue provides a portal London last year will instantly Beside these are ‘hidden gems’ - the ‘Century of Magazines’ gallery addition to the changing times in to another beautiful world with an recognize works by Horst and Guy rare original photographs from are Vogue editions that introduced society and world events. air of magic and mystery contained Bourdin in the ‘100 Years in Vogue’ the 1920s and 1930s that are readers to the drawings of Picasso This exhibition shows whybetween the covers. Vogue 100 gallery. Mario Testino’s photograph particularly precious. Some of these and featured a story on Matisse. A British Vogue stands out from successfully captures this wonderful of Kate Moss in a corridor is also have never been displayed before, photograph of Aldous Huxley is other fashion magazines in that world, leaving a lasting imprint of instantly recognizable by his and it took Robin Muir five years displayed in the 1920’s room; he was it did not passively mirror trends, beauty on its viewers and, of course, signature photography style. Each to hunt them down from sources subeditor of Vogue and later its chief but invented, reinterpreted, and an aesthetic inspiration to be utterly photograph is labelled with the all over the world including private book reviewer! presented them in such a way as to fashionable. photographer’s name in the same collectors, auction houses, and The physical evolution of Vogue, stay true to the magazine’s vision. Vogue 100 is on at the National way a painting is labelled with the international art galleries. Not only displayed issue by issue in the Each issue of Vogue remains a work Portrait Gallery until 22nd May th th PAGE 20 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 21
ARTS [email protected] ARTS [email protected] “Theatre isn’t just one thing” Unique setting brings warmth to winter FELIX asks Gate Theatre’s new director Ben Kidd about directing and his latest work The Globe’s The Winter’s Tale is striking in its clever use of an intimate atmosphere
Ben Williams I’d tried (unsuccessfully) to apply writer [Nina Segal]? Matthew Jesse inconvenience as they are cushioned Arts Writer for a number of things, and got BK: That’s a very important Arts Writer benches, so unless you get a seat at rejected. As a director, it’s a dream relationship. Nina is just starting the rear you have to support your when someone rings you up – that out and she has a whole wonderful own back, making it a little difficult en Kidd bounds into a never happens! I don’t actually career of writing ahead of her. You he Winter’s Tale is a to get comfortable. But any notion Notting Hill basement in know how many Nina [Nina Segal, see she’s very discreet – I think even true winter’s delight. It is of discomfort is soon forgotten between a kebab shop and In the Night Time playwright] and if she thought we were f***king it performed at the Globe when you get lost in the play. The a pizzeria. For the first Chris [Christopher Haydon, Artistic up she wouldn’t say. She’s confident Theatre, but fear not time, Gate publicity maestro Tash Director at The Gate] interviewed, enough in her writing to trust us, as it isn’t an outdoor getting-wet- BBrown looks a tad worried. She but I think they had me in mind and that someone will get it right, standing-in-the-pitT affair, rather The needn’t be. Gate’s work is exactly the when they were thinking of putting eventually! you are welcomed to an enchanting kind of thing I wish we had more on the play. theatre tucked next door, the recently of here at Imperial. Passionately FELIX: How difficult was the built Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. juxtaposition done and served up with a massive FELIX: A friend of mine saw it casting? I mean, the minute I read The Playhouse is a replica of the dollop of generosity on the side, and compared it to lyrics. To me it the script, I immediately thought theatre that Shakespeare’s plays Gate Theatre is one big cosy theatre reads like a kind of epic poem. It’s that you need someone who’s going were written for, with no modern of tragedy family – and y’all are invited. (Check one big stream of consciousness, and through this... [Just having kids] In the Night Time. Photo Credit: Bill Knight giveaways in sight. It is intimate and out its outreach programme!) Kidd, there isn’t a single stage direction in BK: [Laughs] It’s bizarre to think snug; the small stage is surrounded fresh from rehearsals, bubbles with the whole piece. How hard has it how we would have made the play FELIX: What drives you as a around the gaps where we don’t by the limited audience and entirely and then the same outspoken friendliness, been to get that sense of flow across, without someone in the production director? know – it’s about God and death. I lit by candlelight, giving a sense that and we sit down to talk Ireland, and keep up some tension? having kids. I don’t have kids, no BK: I want to get to the point reckon as a scientist, the only reason you are peering into someone else’s Imperial and art. BK: It’s a hard play. My first one at the Gate has kids... If Alex where you can see it again and get you get out of bed in the morning is living room. Along with the rich comedy question when I read the script was [Alex Waldmann, ‘Man’] hadn’t had that same feeling you felt when you that you have the belief that there’s and vibrant characters, the musical FELIX: After working with the “Why isn’t this a short story?” It’s kids I don’t know what we’d have first saw it. I want to introduce an this idea of progress. What if there quartet and the intimacy you feel Young Vic, and now here at The definitely a very langauge-focused done! We cast it as naturally as audience to that thrill that I had in is no endpoint? warm and cosy, enough to brighten brings the Gate, are you starting to feel more play. I don’t really do ‘creeping possible. These are two people who my head. up even the dreariest of winter part of the furniture in London? tension’ or anything like that. I could believably be the people in the FELIX: So you wouldn’t try to nights. Niamh Cusack (Paulina), Rachael Stirling (Hermione) and John Light (Leontes) in The Winter’s Tale. BK: [Laughs] I don’t think anyone think there’s a million different script.... above all, I think you cast FELIX: Let’s say that science bridge those gaps? It’s not nature On entering the theatre I heard Photo Credit: Tristram Kenton play to life feels part of the furniture in London ways you can direct things. There’s talent, and you cast people who are is essentially about trying to make that made these boundaries... murmuring that we were in for a 3 – it’s too big! not necessarily one set way, I just interested in the role. sense of the world. Isn’t that what BK: I suppose there isn’t a hour ordeal, however even if it was sudden jealousy and the tragedy and After a very sincere first half then comedy brings the play to life. ending is slightly bizarre, but there try to be explorative and flexible. art’s for? Why is there such a big difference between Chemistry and it definitely didn’t feel like it. The rather fortunate events that follow. the second half picks up the pace, The acting as expected was are enough good times to make up FELIX: Is it more bread and A director should generate ideas – FELIX: So, the curtain comes gulf between the two? emotions. I definitely wouldn’t Winter’s Tale follows the (not too The first half is a little slow beginning with a jester style impressive. Not particularly for it. butter in London and fun in you can have a rough feel of how it down on the first night. How am I BK: There’s this cultural cringe. support the idea of forcing all complicated) story of the jealous and riddled more with the usual character who carries this comic exceptional, but good enough. They On the whole it is a unique and Dublin? How does your work with should be but you need to be open to changed? It’s quite easy I think for a scientist physicists to do ballet. But some and suspicious King Leontes Shakespearean outpourings of feel through to the end. The morose made good use of the stage, often enjoyable experience, possibly more DeadCentre fit in? the idea that something might have BK: I don’t know... hopefully to come to the theatre, to go to a of the things we’re doing with who accuses his wife, the serene emotions, speech and monologues, atmosphere before is dissipated with walking through the audience and so for the charming atmosphere BK: London is much more of a to change. For me, the set design, you’ll laugh and cry and think gallery. It’s not easy for someone DeadCentre are trying to challenge Hermione, of adultery with his however it is not too hard to follow declarations of love and a surprising even at one point jumping into the than the plot. bubble. It’s commerical. Directors the production is very important. I differently about the universe. It’s on the arts side to go the other way the way that the audience interacts childhood friend, another king. The and you feel a certain sense of amount of singing and dancing. crowd and squeezing themselves The Winter’s Tale is on at the Globe learn to get 4-star reviews from the can have five or six competing ideas about creating a space for someone around. This idea of the Renaissance with the theatre. It’s not just a tale follows the consequences of his satisfaction for keeping up. This juxtaposition of tragedy and onto the seats. The seats were a slight until 22nd April Guardian, and Simon Stephens is – the set is the thing that has final to have an emotional journey. man has been lost; we’re all case of come in, sit down, watch Simon Stephens because of West choice – when it has to become an ([Laughs] “They better f**cking specialists – and that’s a shame. But something. For example, there’s End transfers [Laughs]. There’s actual, physical thing. cry!”) I don’t think people will come some people would disagree with one show we’re doing where the no such thing as famous people in away and want to be this or that. No you. Perhaps the point of art is to audience has headphones and can Dublin. It’s a lot more informal, FELIX: How important has it one cares what a play is about – they say that the world mostly doesn’t hear a directors commentary on the more like a family, more “What are been to have that link with the care what a play’s going to be like. make sense. Art tries to dance show, while the show is happening. you going to f*** up next?” The most We’re trying to make it more of a important people will just pop along conversation with the audience. to your show. Here, it’s hierarchical. There are more stakeholders, and FELIX: What advice would you you get a lot more feedback – give someone trying to get involved someone (normally a well educated in directing? white man) who’ll say “Well done, BK: Do all the things I didn’t do! I you’re clever enough”. But that’s a kind of just fell into everything, fell huge support, in the sense that you into ‘stuff ’. I came late (after trying have someone there legitimising to be an actor), and I was jaded, what you do. worried “I was too old for this”. Calling all writers, artists, photographers and creators of art! Develop your taste, see as much FELIX: This is your first play theatre as possible. Talk to as many It is halfway through the term and we would like you to start thinking about what you might want to submit to our termly at the Gate, and an international people as possible. Don’t be afraid of premiere, too. What made you pick knocking on doors (or some public PHOENIX publication. You can start submitting your work to [email protected]. Hit us up if you would like to discuss anything. up this script? school boy will get there before BK: Actually, it was the other you). Above all, don’t get obsessed It’s time to start collecting all those doodles and verses that you’ve been saving up! way around! This is my first time on fixed paths – theatre isn’t just directing something at the Gate... Ben Kidd, the new kid on The Gate’s block. Photo Credit: The Gate Theatre one thing. You’ve only got one week to stand in The Leadership Elections 2016.
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MUSIC [email protected] FELIX Music The Life of Pablo #HotTakes Kanye West causes tidal waves with his eighth album of the week Takes so hot they are literally hell Ben Collier Writer He wanted the world to The Life know his struggle or those of us who have of Pablo been following the run- up to The Life of Pablo album, it’s been a ride. has a more The Life of Pablo really wasn’t The release cycle was so messy at worth the hype (sorry Ben). And Mr. Ftimes many people began to expect West certainly isn’t happy with all disappointment. Four album names modern the critics who have dared to suggest and endless delays later however, it isn’t the god-like masterpiece he Kanye West’s seventh studio album had hoped (Pitchfork gave it a 9.0 so has finally dropped. And, despite and fresh I don’t know why he’s complaining). all the drama, The Life of Pablo is I guess life’s hard being married to absolutely phenomenal. a businesswoman who earned $52.5 ‘Ultralight Beam’ opens the album. feel million in 2015. Kanye needs some This gospel banger, with its church help, and he needs it now. His art choir, organs and auto tune is already Metro Boomin with their trippy might be great, but it’s not worth many people’s favourite of the autotuned vibes. more than building schools for the tracklist as is Chance the Rapper’s Producer-wise, if one said impoverished. verse. In my opinion, it’s the best rap that Yeezus was made great by album opener since Nas’ ‘NY State collaboration with Rick Rubin and Kendrick Lamar steals of Mind’ or GZA’s ‘Liquid Swords’. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy the show, but Taylor Swift The track is anthemic perfection. by Jeff Bhasker then Chance steals his Grammy Listening to the rest of The Life should be considered the master Shut the fuck up and enjoy the greatness. Photo Credit: Kanye West of Pablo, it then becomes clear collaborator on this record. As that Kanye started as he wished to always (to quote Jayson Greene) well as Rihanna who lays down The Life of Pablo has a more modern proceed. Two other stand out tracks Kanye “makes people you don’t care a flawless Nina Simone cover in and fresh feel. Kanye’s mastermind include the haunting and nocturnal about sound fantastic and people ‘Famous’. for production is seen in flashes of ‘Wolves’, and ‘Father Stretch My you do care about sound immortal”. The new blood featured here absolute brilliance such as the outro Hands Pt. 1 & 2’, which are both Returning faces from other projects includes up-and-comers TY Dolla to ‘Famous’, the explosive gospel To Pimp A Butterfly won five very reminiscent of Atlantan include Kid Cudi who features in Sign, Post Malone, Desiigner, sections of ‘Ultralight Beam’ and Grammy’s at this year’s ceremony, rappers such as Future, Migos and ‘Father Stretch My Hands Pt.1’ as and Yung Thug. Travis Scott also the short intro to ‘Wolves’. I haven’t missing out on the main prize to returns off the back of his incredible heard such instantly ear-pleasing T Swizzle’s 1989. Swift’s latest debut studio album Rodeo to lend perfection since the explosive album was great and might have his unique production stylings as guitar section at the end of ‘New been deserving any other year, he did in Yeezus. Overall, when Slaves’. True to its Pablo Picasso but it pales in comparison to compared to something like My namesake, the various periods of Kendrick’s politically infused LP. Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye’s discography are all present #GrammysSoWhite which featured various godfathers here. Yeezus’ gritty harshness is of rap such as Wu Tang members seen on ‘Freestyle 4’ and 808s and Please no (Mackle)more RZA and Raekwon as well as Jay Z, Heartbreak’s solemn ballad-style with ‘FML’. Even College Dropout’s On Monday, Macklemore outro ‘Last Call’ is reflected in ‘30 released ‘Spoons’, which some critics Kanye Hours’. have labelled “the worst song ever Interestingly, for the first time, recorded.” My 13 year old cousin Kanye West has made album that could have written a song with more seems to is simply that – an album. Kanye mature themes: “And she’s like, Can seems to be drawing inspiration you undo my bra strap? / I try to rather than giving it. Ultimately play it cool, in my head I’m like, Aw be drawing I do not see this as a bad thing, as yeah!” How did this guy ever win a I have always been less of a fan of Grammy? Kanye’s concept albums such as 808s CALE TILFORD inspiration and Yeezus. As it stands, The Life of Pablo is a work of energetic yet soulful expression – Kanye doesn’t rather than hold back and this is where his passion shines through. Everybody giving it seems to hate how cocky Kanye is but at least he can back it up. The Life of Pablo is now streaming The final tracklist? Photo Credit: Kanye West on TIDAL Union Page
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TV [email protected] Cartoon Corner: The Boondocks Saad Ahmed touches and reflects on interesting Television Editor and controversial issues like black culture and race relations among other things. It’s a show that can reated by Aaron make you really think about deep McGruder and based issues. It contains a mix of of the on the comic strip of political, social, philosophical the same name, The and sentimental, not usually seen Boondocks is a show that takes Ca sharp and satirical look at American society with an emphasis A show on social issues, as well as icons like Oprah Winfrey and Barack that takes a Obama. It was controversial right from the start (as you can tell from the opening line) but it was able sharp and to address hot button issues in Huey and Riley, partners in crime and brothers at odds. Photo Credit: Adult Swim unconventionally humorous ways. satirical look The main characters of the show through bold moves. The n-word The show is first and foremost, incredibly smart and witty, makes are Huey, a 10-year-old mini- at American is used very casually in almost a comedy and its execution is this one of the few gems of TV. revolutionary named after the every episode, Martin Luther plain brilliant. It’s hilarious to see Three excellent seasons were Black Panther Huey P. Newton, King even says it at one point. how much the show parodies or made with Aaron McGruder and and his 8-year-old brother, Riley, Society McGruder also attacks politicians exaggerates various problems and one disappointing one without a would-be gangsta, who live with and celebrities of every stripe and incidents. It’s equally entertaining him. While the show ended long their cantankerous grandfather in other animated shows. The race; he is merciless about President to see the different shenanigans ago, what remains, at least from Robert Freeman. They live in character Huey Freeman channels Bush, Sean Combs and Robert the Freeman family get involved seasons 1-3 is a potent, poignant an affluent white suburb called the creator’s own thoughts and Johnson, the founder of Black with, whether it’s opening a fast and sometimes controversial look Woodcrest, with other supporting views, disapproving of how things Entertainment Television. The food restaurant, getting trapped at politics and race in a show that’s characters, where the main actions currently are and sometimes taking show also made daring statements in jail or going on a hunger strike full of laughs. of the show takes place. matters into his own hands. and took harsh stances in trying to against BET. Every episode makes The show, in a politically The show is widely known for get its message across. you laugh at one point or another. The Boondocks is available on Adult incorrect and brash manner, the controversy it whipped up Don’t let all this scare you away. That, and the fact that the show is Swim
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GAMES [email protected] Take a hike with Firewatch The brilliant first-person adventure game from the minds behind The Walking Dead
Cale Tilford thread that is unnecessary. The voice Music & Games Editor actors Rich Sommer and Cissy Jones (who play Henry and Delilah respectively) bring life to script in elltale’s The Walkinga way that is unparalleled in video Dead was met with games. Henry and Delilah are critical acclaim when relatable and believable characters, it was released in 2012, both hiding from their past. Without and arguably revitalised the dying adventureT game genre. Firewatch Firewatch has much in common with Telltale’s game, released by Campo Santo, a studio founded by creative leads is not who had previously worked on The Walking Dead. Unlike Telltale’s point-and-click a hiking inspired adventure games, the story unravels from a first-person perspective. Early marketing hinted simulator at a game that looked and played like a survival game, with the player spoiling too much, Firewatch isn’t In the wilderness, no one can hear you scream. Photo Credit: Firewatch, Campo Santo chopping down trees and exploring a story that is grand or fantastical; caves, but the player’s interaction it’s grounded in reality with a tight setting of the beautiful wilderness soundtracks. with the environment is in reality, focus on the interaction between of Campo Santo’s debut release. The The only downside to an otherwise rather limited. Firewatch is not a its main characters. Some have environments, rendered in the Unity One of spectacular debut, is the game’s hiking simulator. complained that it is anti-climatic Engine, are inspired by Yosemite poor performance on the PS4. The four-to-five hour story follows and non-cathartic, a symptom of and Yellowstone. Whether you are the best Normally, I don’t like focussing on a volunteer fire lookout, Henry, and the fact that it offers something walking around a forest, a cave or a the technical problems with games, his relationship with his supervisor new in video games – a narrative lake, the game is truly breathtaking. but with Firewatch the frequent Delilah (they communicate via that is more subtle. Gamers are The changes in environment and adventure framerate issues are noticeable. walkie-talkie). The script, from used to instant rewards and results, time of day are reflected in Chris However, play the game on PC and writer Sean Vanaman, manages to but Firewatch requires the player to Remo’s moody score. When the games in you’ll be able to fully enjoy one of succinctly tell a story which mixes think and reflect. game is at it’s most thrilling, the best adventure games in recent humour and mystery. It’s short for Those who can’t afford a flight the soundtrack adds even more years. a videogame, which is ultimately a to North America to visit it’s lush suspense. It’s part of the continuing recent years Firewatch is out now on good thing as there’s no filler or plot national parks will find solace in the trend of indie games with great PS4 and PC
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CLUBS & SOCS [email protected] SCUBA do Lanzerote Night dives, skinny dipping and sangria
Alex Leonard scorpionfish and bearded fireworms Writer to keep us on our toes, or more accurately, our hands off the reef. The next morning marked the first fter an icy cold weekend of many dives where we all flirted trip to Portland where with the maximum allowed depth, we explored all the except for Andreas “Was No One pleasures the Dredger Else Legal” Georgiou, that is. The wreck has to offer, Imperial College Blue Hole was the chosen dive site, UnderwaterA Club was off to bigger although it was quite dark, and thus and better (and warmer) places. the more exotic name of the Black Lanzarote was the choice for the Hole was used. Red Cross was the inauguration of the ICUC winter afternoon boat dive, and was well tour, not least because we heard the worth the five minute ride. To top wine was cheaper than petrol. With off a great day, we went back in after three associate members and four “I dark for a night dive filled with should be in lectures” members, there more cuttlefish, nudibranchs, and was a good balance of experienced some giant sea hares. members and those who were yet to While it wasn’t a Sunday, we still learn the endless inside jokes. After a sufficient acclimatisation period of cheese and chorizo, it was time to The last get into the water. Although no one was keen for the night ended standard shake out dive, we were all pleasantly surprised, especially Jo “Ms. BSAC” Beresford, as there back in the were cuttlefish at almost every ICUC on some Finding Nemo hype. Photo Credit: ICUC turn. The afternoon dive was also a water sans pleasant surprise as the abundance went to the famous Cathedral the until the afternoon artificial wreck All in all it was great escape from of nudibranchs was also ideal. next day – it just happened to be graveyard dive that Keshwyn wintery England for some beautiful Likewise there were plenty of clothes 30 metres under water. It wasn’t “Computer Bending” Annauth diving and decent company. ICUC actually monitored his depth. is already planning more trips Unfortunately, the drysuit donning abroad for the coming months, with guide was strict about the “don’t plans for Belgium, Italy, and the go inside the wreck” rules, which Scilly Isles taking shape. If you’re did not please Olivia “Penetration already a qualified diver and are Keen” Ashton. The next morning interested in these trips, give us a had something special in store, shout at [email protected]. two seahorses, leading Alex “Baby Instructor” Leonard to call the unnamed dive the “Seahorse It was great Safari”. The afternoon held in store a welcomed shallower dive, allowing everyone to breathe a bit more than escape usual. The night was topped off with a final night dive, with Karim from wintery “Fashionably Late” Nahas leading from the front. The final dive involved a serious surface swim, but England Grouper Run did not disappoint, and there were plenty of the giant for some fish to spot. The trip ended as most ICUC trips do, and that was with a beautiful few decompression beers, wines, sangrias, shots, and ice cream. Carrying on the tradition attributed diving and to the legendary previous chair Theo, the last night ended back in decent the water sans clothes. Luckily Josh “Hides Your Clothes” Mo was on Oooh, fish. Photo Credit: ICUC hand to help everyone dry off first. company th th PAGE 28 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 29
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Everything's done! This week you’re flicking This week you decide to run This week you’re writing the This week, you’re the US This week you’re Kanye This week you’re Kendrick in Dear Imperial College through the Evening Standard for every position in the horoscopes but you’re doing government. West. Someone nicks your a world full of Taylors. when you're come across elections, but accidentally it nervously. Your complex “pls pls can u jailbreak my iPhone, and changes your Union, some offensive content. You win them all. Now you’re book of astrological star iPhone timmy?” you ask Twitter password. The world attempt to collect up every chair of everything. You maps are telling you to take Apple. keeps thinking it’s you saying issue before remembering merge all clubs, renaming the mickey out of the sabbs, “Nooooo don’t do dis 2 me terrible things, but it's not! Lots of love there are 900,000 in London them SocSoc and it turns out but you’re worried that’ll get obama” they reply. You’d tweet about it, but and you collapse in a pool of to be the most successful act you banned. You cave and do “fuk u” you respond. you know, the password and ripped up newspapers and of social cohesion Imperial some horoscopes about butts everything. your own salty tears. has ever seen. instead. SCORPIO AQUARIUS SAGITTARIUS CAPRICORN PISCES LIBRA Template for writing your manifesto (circle where appropiate)
• I will be transparent / approachable / donate my pay to charity • I will hold college / the union / the government to account • There will be greater student involvement / engagement / satisfaction This week you’re the RSM. This week, after the press This week, you're theThis week, you're trying to This week you're JebThis week you’re going • I will give out Haribo / Maoam / something halal Finally realising that attention garnered by IC of women's rugby team. In travel to Syria to fight for Bush's gun. In order to through airport security. • I love the queen / Margaret Thatcher / curly fries women go to Imperial, late, you're offered a part on protest of last year's Varsity, jihadist causes. However, distance yourself from the However, you’re withheld • You will vote for me because you’ve heard of me / I’m cute / you accommodate them by a new structured reality series you decide to play your you are mistaken for a RAG campaign (you're more of because you are wearing a ‘we we’re already friends designating toilets for their based at Imperial: Made In match in those inflatable jailbreaker, and instead of a Hillary gal) you make a are sex bob-omb’ t-shirt made • I will serve the student body / my own interests / whoever buys exclusive use. Riots break China. sumo suits. However, injuries fearing you, people just public announcement that famous by the comic book me pints out, as this move is seen However, you soon realise are significantly reduced, and offer to give you their loose you're officially a Democrat franchise and subsequent • During Meet the Candidates I will be sweating profusely / as a gateway to things like you are the token minority, Sport Imperial rolls out the change. now, but no one takes you movie Scott Pilgrim. You’re drunk / flirting with the host maternity leave and mixed and join their rival show: The suits across all the Rugby seriously. You buy a gun, cos questioned without charge sex tutorials. Only Way Is No Sex. teams. The boys are secretly it's America and even the for nine hours. This is grateful. guns have guns. perfectly legal. th PAGE 30 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk
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SPORT [email protected] BUCS victory for Waterpolo James Mccomish stepped up next and scored, again Writer followed by a Northumbria miss. Northumbria pulled back thanks to an Imperial miss, but David calmly fter securing 4th place scored his to keep the pressure on. in the Premier South A questionable signal from the division, a home draw ref meant Imperial captain, Irish, against Northumbria horribly miscued his penalty and awaited the Imperial College Men’s didn’t even get to take it forcing the waterpoloA team in the first cup teams into sudden death instead of round of BUCS on Wednesday. securing the win. Alex Macaulay With a number of starting players scored, as did Northumbria. Next missing, things were not looking up, Laurie Edwards kept calm good, and early in the week they under the pressure and scored, quickly got a lot worse. Problems putting everything on their next with pool bookings left the team penalty taker. Imperial stood with nowhere to play the match and poolside watching as Northumbria at risk of conceding a walkover. took a strong penalty towards the Lengthy negotiations with bottom right corner. But somehow, Northumbria eventually led to the after four long quarters and six good agreement that the only option penalties, Maurice had the legs to was to travel away to them. With get his hand to it sending the ball less than 24 hours notice the team onto the post, and Imperial into the gathered 13 dedicated players and next round. organised trains to make it up north Well-deserved celebrations began just in time. immediately and the team travelled The match began andNobody in this photo is tensing. Photo Credit: Waterpolo home with high hopes for the next Northumbria’s home advantage stage of the competition in Sheffield let them strike first with an early opening goal, but it wasn’t long composed and determined, quickly wing to Alberto Lauri who played in March. before one of our medics, Alex scoring three goals in a row with no a perfect pass into Ramon’s hand Macaulay, bagged an equalizer response from Northumbria thanks on the left. Ramon exclaimed “this With a after getting free from his marker to solid defence and great saves from one’s for you Jenny!” as he put the A reminder down the right wing. Another goalkeeper Maurice Zard. The third ball away for his fourth and most number Northumbria goal quickly put quarter continued and Northumbria important goal of the game. of how them back in front, but TJ, Ramon managed to regain their lead leaving With less than a minute left on the Fernandez, responded with a great the score 10-8. clock swim captain, Alex Picksley, of starting shot from far out to end the first The talk going into the final quarter made a decisive tackle in our half important the quarter 2-2. stressed the importance of keeping and played the ball to safety. From players As the second quarter progressed, our defence strong, and a reminder there, Laurie Edwards, managed to match was growing home support pushed of how important the match was get the ball to captain, James (Irish) Northumbria into the lead and sent the tired Imperial team out Mccomish, who came in from the missing by the third quarter they had with a new lease of life. Impeccable right side and put the ball past their sent the tired accumulated a four goal advantage. defending left Northumbria keeper on the near post to level things were Running out of time, four goals frustrated and prevented them from the scores 10-10 with less than 20 team out down, and a long way from home, scoring a single goal in the last seconds remaining. The final whistle things weren’t looking good for quarter despite having three man- blew and penalties were to follow. not looking Imperial. A time out was called to up attacks. Still two goals down Alberto scored the first penalty with a new gather the team before the game with only three minutes left on the for Imperial and Maurice made good slipped out of reach. clock Maurice made another top an important save putting us in a lease of life Imperial came out of the time out save, passed the ball down the right good position. Adamos Solomou
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SPORT [email protected] Medics don’t see vets, Animals do The score was 34-15 to IC Rugby 1s in their match against the King’s Medics
Alex Amato went for the jugular, knowing that Writer points difference would likely decide the league. Ed Durkin took the ball to the line gifting a try to ollowing a strong home none other than Tom Hedley, not performance against the yet as skilled in hat-trick avoidance league leaders the previous as our 2nd row, Toby Simpson. week, ICURFC 1s took Replacement wing, Oli Parker, on the King’s Medics. The first met his match as King’s put up an Fchallenge of the day reared its head unlikely attacking high ball down with the devious Science Museum the wing for their hooker to chase. impounding our buses (likely Poor Oli could do little to stop the wishing to examine them as they bumbling knuckle dragger from appear to be older than time itself plucking the ball from the air and and, judging by their condition, scoring. Outclassed. were used in the great siege of Troy). A less than satisfying end to a After breaking through the first mediocre performance from IC, who defensive line of the day the boys know they’ve got more to give. Final reclaimed their chariot and were score was 34-15. MOTM, similarly on their way to the grimy depths of to Jonathan Joseph at the weekend, South East London. The whole gang. Photo Credit: ICURFC was awarded to Alex Tamato A big win was needed in order (who didn’t stop mentioning it to to maintain the challenge for the Wright who crashed in from short unrelenting pummelling. Soon and the chance to finally earn his the RVC girls that night) for an title and, of course, because RVC range. another IC maul was over the line. father’s love, but alas the opposition exceptional performance. girls love a stallion as the author of A bit of sloppy play allowed Kings Tom Hedley, once again. It makes winger just managed to bring him this piece well knows. The first five to go over in the corner to level the you think that maybe he plans to down. A moment of silence broke A big win minutes were relentless from the score. Game on. A strong restart stay at the back of the mauls, doesn’t and hearts were in mouths, which boys, giving the medics no room from IC allowed Tom Hedley to it? was all rather melodramatic as his to breathe. Five minutes gone, five trundle over from the back of the And then it happened, a moment momentum carried him over to was needed points scored, courtesy of Mike maul. Another brilliant piece of of pure brilliance. The ball was score half a second later. play allowed the towering Josh passed out to the faster, more No. 9, James Field, was taken off O’Donnell to go over in the corner. handsome Bryan Habana, Alex the field so we could field another in order to I believe there was something about Tamato (Not DNS). Given some scrum half/stroppy toddler, Matt The boys a scrum try for King’s, but I won’t space, the dashing young speedster Blackett. Despite the best efforts of go into that for the sake of the and author of this article, was able Blackett and the opposition on the maintain the reclaimed forwards. to take on the full-back and with side of the field, he was unable to Soon IC were able to force the his silky smooth feet and tiny lady sufficiently piss off the referee and, challenge hand of the ref. The King’s player hips send him the wrong way to much to Field’s disappointment, their chariot saw a yellow. Poor guy, he probably waltz on past him. Amato could see remained on the field. just fancied a respite from the the line gleaming in front of him The bonus point confirmed, IC for the title
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ast term in the midst of backs with Ed Durkin stepping in down by Joe McGrail. Club Captain was an incredible score. However, it by Durkin putting Moorby in ‘Imperial Girls Can’ week at ten. A guest appearance at prop Charles Price-Smith proved to Link wasn’t long before this was corrected under the posts to give the kicker the ICURFC gentlemen from Eifion Foster got the horns up well with Moorby in the centres, a slight chance of converting. The headed down to Kent blowing when he put Hobson over bursting through the line for the opposition’s chances of recovery for their last formal game of 2015 the line for the first score of the third score. He slid into were receding faster than Clayton’s Lin the hope that they could make game and the second score of his The second half saw the Imperial hairline when Price-Smith bundled the ladies of Imperial proud. With life. The Sonny-Bill offload brought boys hunting for that invaluable the corner over for the fifth score of the game. our eyes set on the league title the an orchestrated applause from the bonus point try. The bells rang out This reassuring victory for IC has necessity for repeated bonus point crowd; an impressive start for IC. of their head-height towers for kept the promotion prospect within wins cannot be stressed enough; the The game evolved gently in the Josh O’Donnell when he slid into for the reach – next term would surely see pressure was on. The game opened first half with College chopping the corner for the fourth try only some thrilling rugby. with a few changes to the regularly the opposition’s chances of victory to have his dreams swatted as the fourth try fielded side – most notably in the through a driving maul touched referee wrongly disallowed what JOSH O’DONNELL