Felix Issue 0953, 1993
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The Student Newspaper of Imperial College 1 JJ JJ 1 ILOt h April 1993 Issue 964 Smoked out Good Win for Bill? by Jonty Beavan cause an alarm to be triggered. Narcotic smokers face immediate According to security sources, 'any detection following the installation other smoking substance' will also of new fire alarms. Smoke from set off alarms. Mr Graham Cox, cigarettes containing marijuana or Imperial's Fire Officer, said that hashish could trigger the fire alarms when a new system is installed in introduced over the Easter vacation, buildings already occupied, some health and security sources have 'teething problems' will occur. Mr revealed. Cox added that each detector could The installation of the fire alarms be 'interrogated' to find the source has been prompted by Health and of the alarm, and that a number of Safety demands for conference fire warnings had been activated accomodation. Opening the that were not caused by pipe or buildings to a wider range of cigar smoke. visitors means that they must be The Warden of Weeks Hall, Dr rated 'LI' for fire safety, the same Simon Walker, said that there had as hotels and boarding Houses. The been about half a dozen alerts since major alteration has been to students returned after the Easter increase the volume of fire alarms break. The disturbances could be at the pillow head of each bed. The irritating, but the system was new, increase in the number of smoke sensitive and sophisticated and had detectors has been followed by a been installed for the protection of rise in the number of unexplained residents. Dr Walker told Felix that fire alerts. there had been one accusation of All smoke detectors are screened cannabis use, but that those so burning tobacco does not activate concerned had denied it and he had them. Though the extra fumes no evidence to disbelieve their produced by pipes or cigars can claims. The National Union of Journalists has launched a campaign to save a Road law former Felix Editor. The Bill Goodwin Campaign Fund plans to help Mr Goodwin take his case to the European Commission of Human Rights. 1st May will be forced to make a by Jonty Beavan The case will be heard on 7 September. This month Westminster police court appearance, and could face a Mr Goodwin faced a possible 12 year jail sentence in a case heard in have started a drive to reduce the fine. November 1989. Working for The Engineer, he received classified financial number of lawbreaking cyclists. PC Coleman said that the purpose information about a well known company, which for legal reasons we Cyclists who ride without lights, of the campaign was to increase cannot name. Mr Goodwin contacted a senior executive of the company, on pavements, through red lights awareness among cyclists that who obtained an injunction banning the publication of the story. The High and the wrong way up one way traffic laws applied to them, as well Court ordered Mr Goodwin to reveal his source. He refused, and was streets could find themselves in as other road users. The drive will found guilty of contempt of court. Mr Goodwin, escaping with a £5000 court, warned PC Clive Coleman be backed up by leaflets and posters fine, told Felix he had not been jailed 'because of the publicity'. The case recently. Police have been ordered emphasising the safety aspects of was thrown out of the Court of Appeal and discarded by the House of to crack down on bike crime in obeying traffic laws. PC Coleman Lords without hearing. It will now be heard by the European Commission London from the first of May. Until said it was important that Imperial then, cyclists who are caught students were aware of the risks of of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Donations can be sent to: Bill Goodwin disobeying the law will be warned flouting the rules of the road as so Appeal Fund, c/o the NUJ, Acorn House, 314-320 Gray's Inn Road, and possibly officially cautioned. many students ride bikes through London WC1X 8DP. Any bike rider apprehended after Westminster. 5 8 10/11 14-18 Lonely Trip Marathon Reviews Hearts Away Man and Records N ews 30 April 1993 Felix 964 Free radical Jobs flop by Declan Curry Whitehall, London, SW1A. Entries by Declan Curry of that year. At the same point in The prize for this week's Felix may also be left with Rose or Jonty Unemployment among Imperial 1990, only 8.8% of 1990 graduates competition has been sponsored by at the Felix office, for faxing to Mr College graduates is rising more were believed unemployed. William Waldegrave, the Science Waldegrave. The closing date for rapidly than at other colleges, Meanwhile, Imperial College Minister. In a call for better entries is 1 June 1993. The according to figures just released. Planning Unit figures show that understanding of science, Mr champagne will be provided out of Despite this rise, the figures show 5.8% of 1991 Imperial graduates Waldegrave told reporters in Mr Waldegrave's pocket. that unemployment among were 'seeking employment' at the Brighton that he would give a bottle An interview with Professor Tom Imperial's graduates is still much end of December 1991. Only 3.3 % of vintage champagne to anyone Kibble, a former Head of Physics lower than for the country as a of Imperial's Class of 1990 were who can tell him what the Higgs at Imperial and one of the whole. jobless by Christmas of 1990. This boson is, and why they want to find discoverers of the wretched particle Official figures issued jointly by year-on-year percentage change of it. is on page 9 of this week's Felix. the Government Statistical Service 75% for Imperial graduates is Entries must be on one side of a A Waldegrave-friendly answer and the Department for Education considerably higher than the single sheet of A4 paper, and must form will be printed in next week's show that, nationally, 13.2% of national 1991/90 percentage change be posted to William Waldegrave, Felix. Order NOW at your local 1991 graduates were still of 51%. Chancellor of the Duchy of Union office. unemployed at the end of December Lancaster, Office of Public Service While stocks last. and Science, Cabinet Office, 70 Fluttering millions Heads Screwed by Declan Curry Tomlinson plans for London health by Andrew Tseng, The Science and Engineering Health Secretary Virginia care is being diverted from other News Editor Research Council (SERC) says it Bottomley, facing another storm parts of the country. Mrs Bottomley Professor H Worthington has been has been 'screwed to the wall' by over the Tomlinson Report, has said in February that the £170 appointed Head of the Department 'tight' Government funding. The opened a mobile cardiac laboratory million would be 'additional of Geology, succeeding Professor claim was made after the Council at St Mary's Hospital. expenditure on capital projects R Selley. His term of office extends refused funding to Professor Sir The heart unit, the first such which will bring London's primary from 1 July 1993 to 31 August Geoffrey Wilkinson, the Nobel facility within the National Health care services up to an appropriate 1998. prize winner still working at Service, will be used to carry out standard.' Other senior staff announcements Imperial's Chemistry Department. heart tests at local hospitals. Mrs Dr Peter Scholar, a Camden GP see both Professor W Wakeham and Professor Wilkinson applied for Bottomley said the unit will help the and member of group charged with Professor I Aleksander, having £30,000 to pay for a post-doctorate NHS in London 'meet the challenge introducing the Tomlinson Report, their appointments extended to 31 researcher, chemicals and of providing a more accessible told IC Radio that after meeting August 1996. Professor Wakeham equipment. Sir Geoffrey, who won service for patients.' Department of Health officials he is currently the Head of the the Nobel Prize in 1973, says he Meanwhile, doctors have claimed had 'no idea where the money was Departments of Chemical sent the rejection slip to his MP. that £170 million extra money coming from'. Dr John Chisholm, Engineering and Chemical The SERC says that it can only promised by Mrs Bottomley for GP negotiator at the British Medical Technology whilst Professor afford one third of chemistry London patient care is a 'myth'. Association, said that the medical Aleksander is the Head of the projects submitted for funding. Medical journal 'Pulse' reports that profession had been dealt a 'three Department of Electrical and money for implementing the card trick'. Electronic Engineering. Blatch to the drawing board by Declan Curry extend the Education Secretary's Academics were outraged at what academic freedom. Academic An Imperial Governor was part of executive powers over education in many saw as a secretive freedom was last discussed in the an academic ambush which last England and Wales. The Government attempt to restrict House of Lords last year, when the week forced a headlong climbdown took place in the House academic freedom, and to dictate peers defeated Government plans to Government retreat on its latest of Lords, during the Committee what they could teach. University allow the Education Secretary to schools Bill. stage of the 1992 Education White vice chancellors said that they were impose conditions on university Lord Adrian, a Crown-appointed Paper. 'puzzled and concerned' by the new grants, and to link university member of Imperial's Governing Although the Bill re-organises clause, and demanded the 'specific funding to the use of academic time.