2 V100 | EDITORIAL
he Mercer Varsity 100 is in Cambridge. Most people, not a talent list. To make when reading the list, will not a talent list in Cambridge breathe a satisfied sigh and mar- Twould be like making a vel at the achievements of their list of dangerous objects in an peers. Let’s face it, the 100 exists armoury. The Mercer Varsity 100 because of the crucial impor- is a list of one hundred people tance of status and hierarchy in who have made their way We remember Cambridge life. It would be hard through the assault course of to deny the competitive element being nominated by Tutors, well the in the most part of our academic
Faculty Heads, Varsity Section desperate pangs and extracurricular. We print the Editors or by having friends with Mercer Varsity 100 because our enough nous to fill out the online of jealously and readership engages with the idea form, and then being chosen by a “hope that rose in of listing and discriminating fairly random panel of judges our hearts, as between achievements, and who have never met them “ because theMercer Varsity 100 is before, but who they liked the well as the small the most talked about publica- sound of on paper. There were amount of vomit tion of the year, a reaction that, some, of course, it was not diffi- like it or not, gives it a certain cult to eliminate from the process that rose into our amount of significance. – Adolf Hitler (Hermes Webmail mouths, when we Of course significance doesn’t Address ah204 apparently), sev- mean gospel truth, and the list is eral unnamed rugby boys who first encountered read, criticised, and often reject- are “great in bed” and a lacrosse the list. ed. We still remember well, player with ‘amazing legs’ did not before ever being involved in make it onto the shortlist. But Varsity, the desperate pangs of through the titters at the back of jealously and hope that rose in the classroom, you might note our hearts, as well as the small that that it is not part of the amount of vomit that rose into everyday to sit and pass 10 A our mouths, when we first Levels at once, to write a best encountered the list in previous selling novel at the age of eight- years. Back then our new under- een, to found a Ugandan standing of what a smug, insular Education Charity, to tirelessly Mary & Jonny and elitist place we’d arrived at campaign for Green Issues, or Co-editors was accompanied by a secret freedom for political prisoners, or desire to be at the warm centre an abolition of top-up fees. of all that smugness, breathing Among the 100, there are in the opiatic fumes of small those for whom it could be said noterity. that the gods were discriminate Yet, inescapably the list is a in their distribution of talent, random and subjective creation. there are those who may have Though we try our absolute stumbled into talent whilst hav- utmost to make it is as accurate ing their heads in the clouds, and and democratic as possible, the there are some who have old cliché remains that talent worked relentlessly to follow cannot be so easily defined. So their own passions whilst the we suggest you try to enjoy the rest of us were working our hips 100 for what it is, and not get too in Cindies. Of the many excep- hung up on its choices. tional people in our fair Cantab, The 100 this year also has two there are certainly more than a supplementary lists: the IQ Five, hundred who will make the chosen by British Mensa from world sit up and take notice. among those who sat the adver- These 100 are but a soupçon of tised Varsity-MENSA IQ test at the incredible feast of intellect, the end of last term, and the creativity and downright persist- Power 10, voted for by Varsity ent energy that typifies our stu- readers. Do students have any dent population here in power at all? And if they do, Cambridge. what does it mean beyond the Though let’s not go over the three or four years of under- top with this vision of the Mercer graduate life? Is the Mercer Varsity 100 as some kind of mass Varsity 100 self important or celebration of the diverse talent stupendous? you decide.
3 V100 | THE PANEL
Simon India Jon Hoggart Knight Ronson
Simon Hoggart is a political India Knight was born in Jon is a Guardian columnist, journalist and broadcaster. A Brussels, read MML at Trinity documentary film maker, radio graduate of King’s, he now and is now the author of three presenter and author of three writes for the Guardian and highly acclaimed books. She books. He lives in London with has written for the Observer as lives in London with her three his wife Elaine and eight year well as the Spectator and children and long term old son Joel, who helped him Punch. He lives in London with boyfriend, Andrew O’Hagan. select the 100 on a day off sick his wife and two children. from school. Jeremy Richard Raj Hardingham Brown Shah
Jeremy is Production manager Richard is Head of Music at the Raj graduated from for Escape Artists, a company Junction. He has toured with Cambridge in 2003 with an that seeks to promote social bands throughout the UK and M.Eng in Chemical change through the arts. He Europe and promoted for sever- Engineering. Swapping has been a professional writer al Cambridge pubs. When he’s Sidgwick for shareholder and performer for 12 years, not practising pedal steel gui- growth, he now works as a specialising in collaborative live tar, Richard likes spending consultant for Mercer theatre and video. time on his allotment. Management Consulting.
The Varsity 100 in production
A word from Mercer Management Consulting We would like to be the first to making the most of their time rigour, creative thinking, and congratulate each of the at Cambridge and changing it deep business insight. Put sim- memebers of this year’s 100 on for the better, is one we whole- ply, we help our clients make a the impact that theyhave made heartedly support. difference. This term we’re on Cambridge University life Having impact is fundamen- recruiting for summer ana- and in furthering the tal to everything we do at lysts. If you would like to solve University’s image. While no Mercer. We help senior execu- some of the toughest problems doubt there will be some tives across a wide range of in business and start to make a debate about the final make-up industries solve their most dif- difference in the commercial of the list, the idea of recognis- ficult problems. Our unique world as well, we’d love to ing and congratulating those approaches combine analytical hear from you. 4 V100 | PERFORMING ARTS
Lizzie Max Crarer Bennett Trinity Hall 2nd Year Queens 4th Year Theology: II.1 MML: II.1
The current fresh face of the Cambridge thesp-world, Lizzie wowed audiences playing the lead in last year’s Freshers mainshow at the ADC. She took up the role of Alice in Closer (and left half the Megan university dribbling at Prosser the much- talked-about Homerton 3rd Year strip scene), Education: II.1 though por- trayed a Megan has proved herself a more modest stalwart of the Thesp-world, Hero in Max Bennett is without doubt having been involved in over 30 Much Ado the most sought-after actor in shows in Cambridge. She has About Cambridge. He has proved a acted, directed, designed and Nothing. She heartthrob in every major lead, even been a lapdance choreog- headed up a from Macbeth, to Don Juan. rapher. She is especially schools tour- His Romeo wooed audiences all acclaimed for directing South ing theatre over Europe, whilst his part in Pacific and A State Affair at the company the 2005 Footlights touring ADC and has starred in pro- last summer show left towns all over the UK ductions from Taming of the in Nepal and chuckling in admiration. Shrew to Bat Boy. She has just India. However, this year he has finished a three term tenure as bucked the hero typecast by TCS theatre editor. playing the demanding role of Sarah 45-year old rapist Ian in the ADC production of Blasted. Osh Brocklehurst Jones Anna Homerton 3rd Year O’Grady English: II.1
Osh has the strongest claim to being Cambridge’s best direc- tor. His productions Blasted and Oleanna have been ADC Homerton 3rd Year triumphs as was 1, 2, 3, 4, (5) Education: II.1 and Edinburgh’s dark and dar- New Hall 3rd Year ing The Cabaret of Menace.He English: II.2 Anna has entertained has shown as much Cambridge audiences in many talent on-stage, Sarah is best known as the cur- a Footlights Smoker and as having acted rent President of the ADC. Faust in the ADC/Footlights in shows Dedicated to changing the more panto, amused Edinburgh including conservative face of the ADC in Grow Up, and German Baal and program, she has taken on a audiences as Lady The variety of more controversial Bracknell in The Goat. productions including In the Importance of Being Next Blood, Blasted, and a devised Earnest, amongst many term’s piece called Something About other notches on her thes- The Life and Music – all to much py belt. Her direction of Seagull is acclaim. She has been involved Beautiful Child caused quite eagerly in over seventeen plays, and is a kerfuffle. We look forward to awaited, as is PR and Marketing director of seeing her on stage in the real his contribution Close Knit Productions. world in the near-future. to Varsity as Theatre co-editor. 5 V100 | PERFORMING ARTS
Alastair Holly Roberts Morgan Churchill 4th year Oriental Studies: 1st
Does Alastair Roberts ever leave the ADC stage? A regular performer in smokers and pantos, he made for a disturbingly sexy Crassus in Spartacus and an endearingly unsexy Fitzwilliam 3rd Year Cornelius in Faust. His portrayal of English: II.1 Subtle in The Alchemist showed that the comic facility he displayed in Holly’s many stage appearances Grow Up and Circus is matched by have made her something of an serious acting ability. He also studies musical theatre icon in Japanese (perhaps from a desk and Cambridge. Having a great pair chair backstage?) of lungs, they say, helps. She has played Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar (Fitz Will Theatre), Deirdre in Wetmarsh Wykeham College (Edinburgh Fringe), Sheila in Hair (ADC), Elvira in Blithe Spirit (ADC), Mrs Lovett Fitzwilliam 3rd Year Engineering: II.2 in Sweeney Todd (Fitz Theatre), Shelley in Bat Boy The Musical Will Wykeham is undoubtedly one of the most ambitious techni- (Edinburgh Fringe), and Anna cians in Cambridge. He began his ADC career by building the in Closer (ADC). She’ ll be top- now legendary two-storey house set of A Small Family Business ping this lot off as Gloria in and created the catwalk structure used in Closer. Will sits on the Return to the Forbidden Planet ADC Committee for a second year running. We await his work on at the ADC in March. Return to the Forbidden Planet this term with much excitement.
Vivienne Helen Storry Cripps Homerton 3rd Year Education: II.2 Homerton 3rd Year Education: II.1 Vivienne’s talents do not merely Helen looks stretch to acting remarkably alone: in her like Annie, tenure as from Annie, President of the but that is Marlowe society not her only she has helped talent. She is build the bridge a regular between performer in Cambridge drama Footlights and the world of Smokers, professional the- and has atre. She organ- starred in ised a casting their 2006 showcase for bud- tourshow ding Cambridge and Circus. She does both actors – and in the Beckett and Shakespeare, as process bagged proved by CAST’s Much Ado herself a job at a About Nothing and Beckett top casting agency. Shorts. She also provided our Her acting credits Christmas entertainment for include Beatrice in two years in a row in pantos Much Ado and Spartacus and Faust. Her pro- Margaret in file on camdram runs onto two Richard III. pages; that says it all really. 6 V100 | WRITERS AND PERFORMERS
Tom Kingsley Caius 3rd Year English: II.1
Tom has directed shows Dead Funny and Kafka’s Dick. His name is synonymous with that of the Footlights; he co-wrote and directed shows Grow Up, Our Darker Purpose and Circus, and he designed the set and publicity for their ADC panto Faust. Tom has also been features editor, a satirical car- toonist and a designer for Luke Varsity. He’s a dab hand at photoshop and Roberts the artist behind Churchill 3rd Year English: 1st some of the most mem- After reaching the final of the BBC New Comedy Awards, Luke orable the- appeared on Radio 4’s 28 Acts in 28 Minutes, on Robin Ince’s Book atre Club and Josie Long’s Sunday Night Adventure Club. His first posters to Radio Sketch show, Spats, was broadcast by the BBC in ever grace December. He has also proved himself an exceptional playwright, the walls of having been awarded both the Footlights Harry Porter Memorial a Cambridge Prize for Evelyn Budden: Auctioneer and the prestigious Other café. Prize for 1, 2, 3, 4, (5).
Tom Henry Sharpe Eliot Tom Trinity 3rd Year Williams Classics: II.1
As President of Footlights, Tom appears in every Smoker, he co- wrote and composed the music Magdelene 3rd Year for Faust, starred in Grow Up, English: 1st directed Circus and wrote and performed his own solo stand- Multi-talented and with a repu- up show tation for being complete- Nip-On / ly lovely, Henry won this Emmanuel 3rd Year Nip Off at years Harry Porter prize English: II.1 the for The Barber Shop, Edinburgh described by judge Fringe last Michael Frayn as “fresh, Vice-President of Footlights, summer. lively and entertaining”. Tom Williams co-wrote and per- His tragi- He also adapted and formed in Grow Up, co-directed comic play directed The Third and co-wrote Circus, and will Hang on Policeman by Flann be acting in I’ll Be Back Before Mr O’Brien and had a hand in Midnight later this term. His Bugson, writing this year’s stand-up at smokers is regular- performed Footlight’s panto. ly well-received, though some this term at Memorable stage perform- postulate that his singing went the ADC, ances include Sir Epicure somewhat under-appreciated. is certain Mammon in The He certainly put things right in to be a Alchemist, Prospero in The Faust as Satan. Finally, Twill in barn- Tempest and Baptista in a towel in 1,2,3,4,(5) was an storming ETG’s The Taming of the (almost) undisputed highlight success. Shrew. Plays a mean accor- of the term. dion.
7 V100 | WRITERS
Ruth Martha Gilligan Spurrier Cauis 1st Year English
An Irish native with boundless energy and real star potential, Ruth has already proved her- self a precocious and accom- Joshua plished writer with her first Emmanuel 3rd Year Farrington novel, Forget, which was an History: II.1 Irish bestseller, and is currently Trinity 2nd Year writing a second. She has Martha is a true theatrical English starred in a mainstream Irish polymath: having started in the soap opera and in The Blue NYT, she went on to perform Room, appeared in several in, direct, write and produce Swooned over by the majority magazines, and is a fully many plays in Edinburgh and of the English faculty (both fledged Emeralds devotee. Cambridge, including ADC staff and students) he is also Definitely a 150th Anniversary show Wild one of Cambridge’s most talent- name to Honey. She managed the ed writers. He won the Powell remember. Footlights National Tour this Prize for Serious Verse with his year. Martha co-founded a the- entry The Hectoriad written in atre company to explore classical hexameter. Beyond devised drama, which produced Cambridge, Josh has had fea- the original and much- tures and articles published in acclaimed Calvino Project. the NME, The Western Mail, Wales on Sunday, WM Magazine, and many more. Josh Stanley Judith Queens’ 2nd Year Fathallah English
Josh’s poetry has been pub- Issy lished on-line and in journals McCann alongside some of the biggest names in contemporary poetry and has been commended by the likes of Keston Sutherland and Emily Critchley. Showing his St John’s 2nd Year prowess on English the stage as well as the Issy is the influential writers’ page, he rep for the Marlowe Society. acted in Emmanuel 2nd Year She has established links with ADC suc- English the professional writing world cesses Much and organises a Scriptlab that Ado About Despite being a mere 18 years takes place on alternate week- Nothing and old, Judith has proved that she ends. Here she has helped The is not too young to turn a hor- members of the writing com- Alchemist, rific experience into something munity practice their writing and his writ- inspirational. After overcoming with professionals. She is also ing has been anorexia as a young teenager, organising a writers’ showcase, performed by she wrote the novel Monkey “Writing for Tomorrow” at the the Training, about a girl with the ADC Theatre, this term. Issy Pembroke same affliction, which was pub- has a remarkable talent for Players. Josh lished this year. Judith has enabling other writers, and as is currently wanted to be a writer since she such is quietly responsible for writing a was five or six, and now it much of the great writing gen- play in verse. seems she is well on her way. erated in Cambridge. 8 V100 | JOURNALISTS
Elly Adam Shepherd Bott Caius 2nd Year English: II.1
Adam is co-editor and founder of the new political magazine Scrap, which is produced by and for students at Cambridge, Jonny Fitzwilliam 3rd Year Oxford and the London univer- English: II.1 sities and online. Ensall Scrap’s inau- Elly has been appointed editor- gural issue Fitzwilliam 3rd Year in-chief of TCS for Lent Term featured English: II.1 2007. She has been a regular writing by contributor since her first Noam Jonny made the leap from year, and has held various Chomsky Varsity Film Editor to Co- editorial positions, including and has Editor in one term, taking up a that of TCS Features Editor attracted secondary position as Chief of last term. She also writes sponsor- Design in the process. He’s the poetry and short stories, has ship from promoter of (and occasional DJ showcased her work at various JP Morgan. at) Shut Up and Dance! at the readings during her time at To prove that his Union, which has ensured a Cambridge, and was published tongue is as sharp as his pen, massive turn around of the alongside other gifted young Adam is current national Union’s ailing Ents pro- writers in the New Writing 13 debating champion and last gramme. The second incarna- anthology. year’s international debating tion of Shut Up and Dance! champion. launches at The Soul Tree this term. Jonny is a current Mary Reddaway Scholar at Bowers James Shepherd & Fitzwilliam College. Michaela Freeland Hermione Cauis 2nd Year Buckland-Hoby NatSci: 1st Pembroke 3rd Year English: 1st Newnham 2nd Year In her time off from being an Maths: all-round Cambridge beauty, 1st Hermione has risen from the- atre editor to the position of Varsity co-editor within the Dedicated to raising the stan- period of a term. She also Queens 3rd Year dard of scientific journalism in scored a top first last year. History: II.1 Cambridge, Michaela and Before Varsity, she acted to James are Lent term’s Varsity acclaim and was involved in ten Science Editors. They have both Cambridge shows. Also a talent- This girl of many talents began made invaluable contributions ed classical singer, she’s per- writing Comment for Varsity in to BlueSci and have been formed in the Royal Albert Hall her first term at Cambridge, cap- involved with The Triple Helix. amongst many other places. tivating her readers with her The two have also been very witty asides on Sudoku and successful academically, gaining Cambridge dating. Having edited high firsts in Part 1. Between the Music and Arts Sections, she them they hold an impressive rose to the task of co-editing the range of committee positions paper, and became renowned for including TTH writer and making the Varsity office a fun Editor-in-Chief (Michaela) and place to be. Mary is also lead Faculty Rep (James). Michaela singer and songwriter in Her also conducted and published Daddy is a Guru, who last year research into black holes for received special interest from a Sydney Uni. Both are involved top producer at Sony. in SciSoc. 9 V100 | JOURNALISTS
Ben Sillis
Robinson 3rd Year History: II.1
Since finishing his tenure as Editor of TCS, Ben has contin- ued his journalistic momentum by penning film reviews for several internet sites. He con- Emily tinues as a TCS board member and will, this year, edit Stokes Contraband; a quarterly maga- zine including short fiction, Trinity Hall 3rd Year English 1st political essays, poetry, artwork and satire. Nominated for the Guardian Student Features Writer of the year award, Emily has made many important contributions to journal- istic life at Cambridge. As interviews editor for Varsity in 2005 and Ed 2006 she interviewed many, from Rushdie to Shrigley, Andrew Motion to Emma Thompson. She became editor of Varsity in 2006, Grouse completing a redesign of the paper. She now writes occasionally for the Observer. You’ll know Emily as the girl riding a tricycle around Cambridge with a fag in one hand and waving with the other.
Roland Foxcroft Churchill 2nd Year SPS: II.1
Roland re-launched The Berry, Cambridge’s political newspa- per, in Michaelmas term and is currently its editor-in-chief. He also expanded the political events calendar, the only cen- tralised information source for politically-minded students, Joe and offered all political soci- Queens’ 2nd Year eties free advertising. He is Gosden Classics: 3rd Director of Recruitment at the Cambridge Union, pioneering Downing 2nd Year Ed had been working at the the campaign to make the History Hedge Fund Journal only a Union more inclusive and few months when he was pro- transparent. He has tirelessly Joe is one of the in-coming edi- moted to News Editor, a job campaigned to tors of Varsity. He’s been a stal- which he is currently taking reform CUCA wart of the paper for the last on full time. On his return to from a “back- two years, rising to the top by Cambridge he plans to contin- ward-looking way of the News Desk, using ue writing freelance. He is dining club” both his canny knowledge of also setting up an Oxbridge into an associa- Cambridge wannabe politicians Speed Dating company and tion represent- and his deft handling of a good will attemp a charity climb of ing 21st Century pun. He is President of the Kilimajaro in March. For Conservatism. Downing Tribe, a rowing sport- those of you who were won- ing society, and has rowed in dering, he is dressed, in this the Downing 1st VIII for the picture, as a candle. last year. 10 V100 | VISUAL ART AND DESIGN
Bethan Rob Bide Petit Julien Hunt New Hall 2nd Year St John’s 3rd Year English Geography: II.1
Current Designers’ rep at the Rob already has one foot in the ADC, Bethan has done much to film industry, after having push the importance of original worked as Assistant Producer and daring design to the centre for MTV Flux in the Summer Robinson 4thYear stage. Her cre- holidays. His film project BBTV MML ative energies was selected for the 2006 have stretched Rotterdam The main illustrator for Varsity beyond the International this year, Jules honed his talent eight Cambridge Film Festival on a Barcelona fine art course shows she’s as well as the in his gap year. Unlike the rest worked on: a Akbank Film of us, who put our watercolours fashion design- Festival away after interrailing around ers’ collective 2006. Rob is Southern Europe, Jules persist- she founded now also heavily ed, and it’s lucky for us he did. stocks boutiques involved with His stunning drawings are live- in London, the Cambridge ly and professional and always Madrid and film-making perfectly suited to the theme. Barcelona. scene as Vice- This year’s Varsity 100 cover is President of a case in point. CineCam. Despite her own unique flair for fashion, Lucy is not Lucy limited to being the belle of the house party; con- tributing to Cambridge theatre productions as a cos- Minyo tume designer since her first year. She used this King’s 3rd Year experience in designing her much-talked-about run Architecture: II.2 for Cambridge Catwalk this year, which exhibited a lauded Regency style.
Benj Ben Ohad-Seidler Jones
Magdalene 3rd Year Philosophy: II.1
Homerton 3rd Year As former photo editor for Architecture both Varsity and TCS, Ben has been one of the highest His collection at Cambridge profile photographers at the Catwalk was slick and beauti- University for several years ful but also very wearable – now, snapping away at gigs rather than creating abstract and events throughout the art he designs with his friends town. He has also been in mind. Having interned at involved in CUSU. Staff pho- Anna Sui, Bottega Veneta and tographer for drownedin- Roland Mouret, as well as sound.com, Ben runs his own being highly commended in professional photography com- 2006’s Vogue Talent Contest, he pany. He is present at almost is set to take the fashion world every gig in Cambridge, and by storm. Most famous in even at the odd supervision or Cambridge this year for cover- lecture in the Faculty of ing Portugal Place with giant Experimental Psychology. knitting. 11 V100 | VISUAL ART AND DESIGN MUSIC
Thomas Hewitt-Jones
Caius 4th Year Music: II.1
Tommy is former principal cel- list of the National Youth Orchestra and played as a con- cert organist in the UK and the USA. Winning the BBC Proms Young Composer Competition 2003 kick-started his career beyond Cambridge as an excel- lent pianist and writer of music for the BBC. He is best known to his audiences in Cambridge, however, as the composer of the much-loved facebook song.
Charles Siem Girton 2nd Year Music: 3rd
The most prominent of any undergraduate instrumentalist in the University, virtuoso vio- Naomi linist Charles Siem won the coveted CUMS Concerto Grant Competition in 2006, perform- Jesus 2nd Year English ing Wieniawski’s first violin con- At a university where facilities and encouragement for artists certo in the are distinctly limited in scope, Naomi has quietly continued to Stephen paint masterpieces, her work standing head and shoulders Hawking con- above other offerings in the recent Pembroke exhibition of stu- cert last term. dents’ art. The protégé of artist Israel Zohar, her influences are An IMG Artist, numerous, although admirers of her work cite Rembrandt and he is well on his Schiele. She never enunciates, but always points out the direc- way to a stun- tion of greatness in her own very quiet way. ning musical career.
Under the talented stewardship of outgoing Cellar Bar Chair Cath, King’s Cellars has over the last year reclaimed its status as one of the best college Cath venues in the University, after a campaign to re- open it was (thankfully) successful. Adapting from Richardson its previous billing as a drum’n’bass haven, every- one’s favourite sweaty-hole-in-the-ground can now King’s 3rd Year truly claim to offer something for everyone, the Classics: 1st only common denominator being high quality.
12 V100 | MUSIC
Katherine George Hambridge Crowley
Girton 3rd Year Music: II.1 Magdalene 3rd Year English: II.1 The big momma of Cambridge musical management, An extraordinary jazz saxophonist, George has been in almost every Katherine, whilst not tending ensemble in his time in Cambridge. He has transformed Fitzswing as her choral flocks as senior Musical Director, and is a frontman of Oxbridge band CUJO. He plays organ scholar at Girton, has frequently with many other up-and-coming musicians on the London held down positions on the scene. George’s talent looks set to break the bubble. He takes up a place Opera Society, Chamber Choir at the Royal Academy of Music next year. and Organ Scholars’ Forum, as well as organising concerts for the Cambridge Music Festival Clare and her own college. A mezzo- soprano and conductor to boot, Hammond Katherine is an exemplary pro- ponent of classical music, com- Emmanuel 4th Year Music: 1st bining frightening zeal with seeming administrative infalli- Clare is one of Cambridge’s outstanding pianists. She has been bility. awarded both the Langley Senior Scholarship and the Greenwood Prize for academic achievement and the Nigel W. Brown prize for performance. With such adulation, it is unsurprising that she plans to remain at Cambridge next year to complete a BMus before moving to London to study piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2007.
Sam Leon & THE NICE UP TOP 5
Mike Misiewicz Justice To The People – Lee Perry & The Upsetters David Back To Black – Johnson Amy Winehouse Queens’ 3rd Year Hustler – Music: 1st Simian Mobile Disco
David received the highest Girton King’s Erotic Discourse – grade in his year for his Part I 3rd Year 3rd Year Paul Woolford Music Tripos. He has Grade 8 Philosophy: Philosophy: Distinctions in guitar, cello and II.1 1st Bump – Spankrock piano, as well as a Licentiate of Trinity College London in Piano Sam and Mike are the duo behind Nice Up The Shake Down at Performance. His Cambridge Kambar, and are often to be found playing an eclectic mix of musical formations – from clas- everything from Reggae to Electro in Kings (Cellars, Mingle, sical to jazz to the odd bit of Affair) Emma Bar, Kambar and The Cow. Probably the biggest metal – include CUGQ, Black double-act in Cambridge at the moment, the pair are getting Shabbat, Anada and Fiend. He plenty of attention from outside the bubble. However, they played 19 gigs in May Week share more in common than just a set of decks: both are aca- 2006! He was awarded the demically talented and plan to go to New York on a five-year James Beament Prize and is fully funded philosophical research programme. president of MagSoc. 13 V100 | MUSIC ACADEMICS
Giovanni David Ed Menegalle Wyatt Kite Trinity Hall 4th Year Engineering: 1st*
After a gap year working on robotics in Australia, David arrived Pembroke 4th Year in Cambridge to NatSci: 1st* King’s 2nd Year prove his aca- MML: II.1 demic creden- Ed has a passion for all things tials, topping planetary. Impressively, he will Giovanni has rejuvenated DJ- the Engineering have been published in ing in Cambridge. Starting Tripos in his respected scientific journals with electrosleaze last year, and first year and three times by the end of this now having run Admin and coming second year. He has already worked Duplo, he has led a DIY DJ in the second with the lab that created the renaissance. Bringing a bit of year. In his Beagle spacecraft, as well as Shoreditch into Cam with an third year he both MIT and Caltech. Ed is a eye for 80s retro fashion, and a went on an key member of the university’s much-envied wardrobe, he has exchange to naval unit, a talented speech- firmly established himself as a MIT. Now in his forth, his tutors writer and, let’s face it, will talented DJ and an important hope he will stay in Cambridge probably know more about part of the Cambridge music for a PhD, despite efforts from most subjects than we do. scene, not to mention its unoffi- across the pond to lure him Amazingly, he does it all in a cial catwalk. back to the US. really fun way. Paul Jefferys
Trinity 3rd Year Maths: 1st*
Aged just 20, Paul arrived in Cambridge already with a first class degree in Economics from Stephen the Open University which, of James course, he completed in his Davidson spare time. At Cambridge, he Trafford came top of the maths tripos King’s 1st Year last year, with an astounding St Catharine’s 2nd Year English 96% result. This precedent for Geography: 1st* academic over-achievement was Together with three friends set at 6th form where he Last year James won the from school, Stephen formed gained 10 As at A-level (the UK Andrew Hall prize for the high- indie-rock band Tellison. record). He’s also been the est part 1A Geography tripos Calling themselves “a self world infomatics championship result, after achieving a starred determining unit without girls and has topped the UK Maths first and averaging 87%. He from Hammersmith”, Stephen, Challenge four times. However, also won the Alfred Steers and Tellison, have had feet a- Paul is not one to sit behind his memorial Award and is AAL tapping at venues from desk. He holds a half-blue for Caesar Scholar at St Catz. He Scarborough to Goole and have Eton Fives and captains this has showed his non-academic received a large amount of posi- year’s team, whilst last year he talent, not only on the Club tive press attention. Apart from won blades at May Bumps. Twenty-Two dance floor, but Tellison, Stephen has made a Definitely one of this year’s also through his responsibilities number of successful solo least debatable inclusions in as CUSU LBGT ents officer recordings. Plays a mean guitar. the list. and Catz JCR RAG rep. 14 V100 | BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY
Magnus Kunal Gittins Patel Trinity Hall 3rd Year Robinson 3rd Year SPS: II.1 Engineering: 1st
Magnus has returned to complete his Kunal has had degree after taking two years out to unparalleled set-up a nanotech company, Advance success as Nanotech, with operations in the Vice-President USA, Singapore and the UK. It links of Cambridge to a number of universities and is list- University ed in New York. Magnus was CEO Entrepreneurs. over the two years before returning to He has spent a Cambridge, and is assured a glittering great deal of entrepreneurial career after gradua- time securing tion. One is left asking whether connections in Magnus needs a degree at all… London. Incredibly bright, going places, fast - and Matt taking lots of Cambridge stu- Lewis dents with him - Kunal is hotly tipped to be President of C.U.E. next year. Somehow, he has casually managed to achieve very high firsts every year too.
Churchill 2nd Year CompSci: 1st
Matt has been programming since the age of 7. He works for Matta, and wrote the key part of a groundbreaking piece of net- work security software designed to make security systems hacker- proof, which will be released in April. He has contributed as a writer for the industry standard book on security. Matt has been published anonymously in one of the oldest and most respected hacker journals. Camilla John MacDonald Robb Dan Queens’ 3rd Year Hill History: 1st* Emmanuel 3rd Year Milli is one of only two Part I Music: II.1 History students last year to receive the coveted 1*, no small Dan’s professional web-design achievement in a subject where has brought visual polish to the the joke about everyone getting image of Cambridge’s leading a II.i is not actually that much ensembles. As well as sites for of a joke. Such an achievement the University Opera Society becomes all the more impressive King’s 3rd Year and Music Club (of whose when bearing in mind that she Classics: 1st* Chamber Orchestra he is also also draws President), Dan has construct- political car- John received the highest (and ed the invaluable Cammuso toons, took the only) 1* in Part 1b Classics last database, enabling publicists to lead in year, suggesting that he never enter details of their events to Relatively makes the fatal error of writing create a calendar of University Speaking at “Sophocles” instead of musical events. His smooth Queens’ last “Socrates” in his examination tones, clear layouts and ration- year, and has essays. He is also a member of al navigation characterise his perhaps the King’s College Choir and has technological prowess, match- best pair of legs performed on several of their ing the musical expertise which in the History recordings. earned him a conductorship of Faculty. CUMSII. 15 V100 | SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS
Kim Roach & Hamish Stephen Jones Falconer St Johns 2nd Year SPS: 1st
Tess Riley Emmanuel Robinson 3rd Year 4th Year St Catharine’s 3rd Year Engineering: Engineering: English: II.1 1st II.1 Varsity’s very own Interviews As joint chief executives of UK- Editor and Ethics Girl has wide international student devoted great amounts of posi- development charity Engineers tive energy to promoting green Without Borders, Kim and issues in Cambridge. Among Stephen have raised over As Michaelmas term’s chair of the many environmental groups £50,000 for its activities, and Amnesty International Tess has campaigned for, she is have been responsible for over Cambridge, Hamish headed a co-Founder of the Cambridge 100 student placements. new initiative called “Weekend branch of Plane Stupid, an Between them, they have also of the Letter”, collecting 2000 action group opposing the carried out considerable work in letters and signatures for expansion of air travel. In Nepal and India. With a strong Amnesty in just two days. This between protests, she still finds ethic and clear vision, Kim and term he will be heading the time for her performances as a Stephen together prove to us main Annual Campaign, which singer-songwriter, and as a for- lay people that Engineering is will focus on Refugees’ Rights. mer President of the Shirley about much more than building He has also launched a new Society, there are few authors wobbly bridges. nationwide campaign for she doesn’t know. Whether she divestment in Sudan, starting sleeps is another question. with Cambridge colleges and Brian liaising with other British uni- versities and institutions. Sam Lavery Rose Mark St. Johns’ 3rd Year Koller (Sabbatical)
Sam crossed the road from the Fitzwilliam Museum to the CUSU office one day and sud- denly found himself on a year- St. John’s: 3rd Year long sabbatical from History of Classics: 1st Art as CUSU Welfare Officer. King’s 3rd Year Since then, he’s known for his NatSci: II.1 As President of U8 and The broad grin and sense of Cambridge University humour after the As Cinecam President, Brian is International Development all-night work effectively charged with pro- Society, Mark has done stints that moting and ensuring the suc- much to raise awareness have pro- cess of student filmmaking in of international politics duced tire- Cambridge. He has, in his in Cambridge. At the less cam- tenure, done much to increase Student U8 event in paigns on membership and access to film- Cambridge last March, everything making projects. Despite some Film Director Michael from alcohol criticisms levelled at the society Mungai commented, awareness by writers in Varsity, Brian is “never in my life have I to do-it-your- confident of Cinecam’s bright met so many inspirational self Chlamydia future. We look forward to the people in such a short period testing. Sam’s a Cinecam short film competi- of time”. Presumably he met man who’s not afraid tion this year. Mark first of all. to talk dirty for your benefit. 16 V100 | SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS
Rachael Donnacha Morris Kirk Churchill 4th Year NatSci: 1st
Donnacha has been heavily involved with Education Not For Sale, an organisation that fights for universal, free educa- Newnham 3rd Year tion at every level. When not NatSci: II.1 protesting against Top-up Fees, he is busy as Fisher House As chairman of RAG, Rachael Rep. for Churchill and as a Cong Cong has continued a long tradition member of the Gaelic Athletics of proving to students that Squad and the Quiz Society, A Bo they can create charitable technician for six Cambridge donations out of their silly, shows, he has also Emmanuel 2nd Year drunken and slightly irrespon- tried his hand Medicine: II.1 sible behaviour. Her work this at directing, year has facilitated everything and is Cong manages to intercon- from the mandatory Pyjama treasurer nect artistic flair with the Pub Crawl to the eagerly antic- for the mind of a scientist – reach- ipated Blind Date. All in all, God’s ing very high standards in RAG’s work is expected to Dramatic both fields. She is co- pinch approximately £160,000 Soc at President of the Scientific out the pockets of miserly stu- Churchill. society and President of the dents this year. Plays a Photographic Society. A natu- mean game ral leader, she has had a great of Tiddlywinks. influence in the way the Kate Photographic Society has improved in terms of atten- Eyre dance, and has organised fasci- nating talks and workshops. Business-minded, she also Ed started her own photographic Bolton company.
Fran Lewis Caius 2nd Year Downing 4th Year History: II.1 NatSci: 1st Fran says she loves Cambridge Queens 3rd Year Ed Bolton describes himself as a student life, and tries to “get as NatSci: II.1 “broadcasting journalist of the involved as she can” in the lowest degree”. We can only beg Cambridge community. In that Kate set up and now runs to differ. As programme con- case, her CV would suggest she’s Esuubi, a charity which looks troller of University Radio living the dream. A keen Union after orphans, and runs schools Station CUR1350, and the best debater, she is also Secretary in Mityana, Uganda. The vision live sports reporter they have General of behind the charity came during ever had, Ed has added much of Cambridge Model Kate’s Gap year, but unlike the his professional experience and United Nations, rest of us, the philanthropy did vision to the organisation, whilst and acts as not dissolve in the Duty Free putting in a more-than-valiant Undergraduate on her flight home. Despite this bid for a material science degree Liaison for veritable full-time job, Kate at Downing. A teetotaller him- Coger’s Debating still manages to find time self, he organises the annual col- Society. She is also between charitable deeds to be lege pub-crawl, donning fluores- an editor of The among the highest achievers in cent tabard and goggles as their Berry and writes her tripos. self-appointed Safety Officer. for TCS.
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Most Featured College: 1. Emmanuel = 2. Trinity = 2. Queens’ = 2. King’s
Matt Most Featured Clifford Subject: Clare 3rd Year History: 1st* 1. English From the moment he arrived in Cambridg, Matt showed himself to be nothing less than the young upstart of student politics: JCR 2. NatSci President by his second term, then CUSU Chair, he went on to 3. History Found Clare Politics, bring speakers such as Douglas Hurd and Shami Chakrabarti to our very own backwater, all while achiev- ing the highest 1* in his year in History. US Congress intern for Summer 2007, only American naturalisation now stands between Most Featured him and the US Presidency. Gender: Jenni Luke 1. Men (64%) Scott Pearce 2. Women (36%) King’s 3rd Year SPS: II.1
The boy done good: Luke clam- bered from rural Wales not only to a degree in SPS at King’s, but to the most contentious and sought-after position in Cambridge. As President of the Union Society, it is difficult to know which is his greatest achievement: holding together Pembroke 4th Year the University’s fighting fac- NatSci tions or entertaining Jeremy Paxman at dinner. In any case, Jenni, in her own words, has like those before him with the “given enough to Cambridge privilege of life now”, after being President having of, amongst others: the Union, presided over Pembroke Stokes Soc, the famous Pembroke Players and high- debating ranking just about everywhere chamber, the else. It would be a shame just real world is Back-scratching, egomania and to think of her as an organisa- sure to wel- self-promotion - The Varsity tional machine, though having come Luke 100 gets the Bishop’s seal of not had a free evening literally with open approval. The official view all of last term, she seems to arms. from the pulpit on the more dis- not quite have realised her goal tasteful aspects of the V100 of taking something back quite inside this week’s edition. yet.
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Samantha Cutts Emmanuel 3rd Year Vetinary Sciences: II.1
Current BUSA Individual Student Riding Champion, Samantha won individual gold for show- jumping in her first appearance on the British Student team. She captains the University riding team, and when off a horse, takes up her sword and fences for the women’s sabre team. She hopes to make her first appearance at badminton (top level in the world) next Spring. Samantha events her own horses, and presumably puts her studies in Vetinary Sciences to good use in the stables.
Graeme Spence Charlotte Hill Trinity Hall 3rd Year NatSci: 1st
Currently Captain of the University Swimming Team, Graeme also holds two University Swimming records, Matt and remains, unsurprisingly, undefeated in Varsity Match Austin races. A former youth finalist, Downing 3rd Year he has gone against against the Emmanuel 3rd Year NatSci: II.1 tide of all that is expected of Economics: II.2 sportsmen in Charlotte has proved that academia, not Never one to do things by Cambridge female sport is only earning a halves, Matt has the rare dis- about more than just jolly hock- place at Trinity tinction of holding full Blues in ey sticks: Captain of the Blue’s Hall to read two sports. He is the current lacrosse team, she has also Natsci, but also Captain of the University risen to play lacrosse for excelling in Squash Club, having won his England. And all this whilst Chemistry and blue for the sport in 2005. retaining a decidedly unsports- coming near Swapping one bat for another, woman-like elegance and study- the top of his he was awarded a full blue for ing for a degree in Natural sci- year cohort. Cricket in 2006. ences and Pharmacology. 19 V100 | SPORT
Edward Andrews
St John’s 3rd Year History: II.1
A rugby and boxing Blue, Ed cuts a fairly buff figure in the Cambridge sporting world. Capped for Wales at Under 18s rugby, he went on to play for Saracens and London Welsh RFC before starting at number 8 for the University. In 2006 he matched the same distinc- tion in heavyweight boxing, becoming the Captain of the CUABC. Ed will competing in the 100th Varsity boxing match in March.
Joe Ansbro Ed Gunn Magdalene 3rd Year Geography: II.1
There were many individuals nominated for the Varsity 100 as an “all round legend”, but here is one that is truly qualified: Not only is Ed a professional snowboarder, athlete, footballer, rugby player and gymnast, he has also served as equal opportunities officer, proving himself a real man of the match. Whether all this leaves him with any energy to do his Geography degree is another question.
Robinson 3rd Year Phyllis NatSci: II.1 Agbo Joe is perhaps Cambridge’s most influential rugby player. Trinity 3rd year Already signed up by the NatSci Northampton Saints, he has continued to play for the Blues. Phyllis holds international honours for long His name was the subject of jump, 200m, 100m hurdles, 4x100m and hep- much drunken chanting in tathlon. In her first international European Twickenham pubs in December Youth (U18) Olympics in Spain in 2001 she after he memorably kept his came 8th in the long jump and 2nd in the 4x100 opposing number, former relay. Her first senior International was the Australian international Joe European Cup Combined Events Super League, Roff, quiet during this year’s in Arles in 2006, where she was part of the Varsity match. He has also team that came 4th out of 10, equalling Great played for England U18. Britain’s highest ever position.
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Tom raduates and postgraduates are excluded from the main body of the Varsity 100 this year.. However, here are a James few names to consider, who’ve either left Cambridge, or Gare studying on a postgraduate course, but whose acheivements demand recognition. Simon Stephens Having gained a 1* in both Part I and II History, Simon was awarded a year long Fellowship to Harvard University. As an undergraduate he founded Christ’s Politics, served on the Union’s External Committee and competed in inter-varsity debating. Rahul Vohra Trinity Hall 4th Year Engineering: II.2 Rahul is studying for a PhD in Computer Science at Christ’s College whilst serving as President of Cambridge University Entrepeneurs. Under his tenure the group has raised around Loved by all women, envied by 100K to help students start up their own businesses. all men, the President of the Blues Boat carries demands Bobby Friedman beyond the merely physical. Bobby was President of the Union in the first term of his second Tom, however, has also repre- year. He went on from his undergraduate career into a job at BBC sented his country at interna- Newsnight and then returned to do an M.Phil in Management. tional standard (Olympic Probably the most well connected man in Cambridge. Games, World Championships and other events) and raced Natalie McGoldrick against Oxford three times. Osprey of the year in 2005, Natalie has been riding for the You might think this means we British team for three years, representing her country on six should envy him, but Tom has occasions. In 2004, she won the World University Championships. done all this while remaining level-headed, undertaking a Kieran West demanding degree, and being Studying for a PhD in history, Kieran is a former World and enormously popular amongst Olympic champion rower and three time Cambridge Blue. He his peers. raced for the third time in the university boat race in 2006. Thomas Endlein Studying for a PhD in Zoology, Thomas’s stunning photography Rosie earned him the titles of BG Wildlife Photographer of the Year Sherman and European Nature Photographer of the year in 2005. Tom Stern Tom came top of his Tripos in Philosophy and then top of his year again in his Philosophy M.Phil. He is now doing a PhD and is also bass player and manager of Cambridge band Sleepwalker. James Brown James is currently doing a PhD in synthetic biology at Downing, whilst retaining his position as iGEM European Ambassador for the second year running. Susan Kitagu Backed by a grant from the Smuts Memorial Fund, Susan has New Hall 3rd Year devoted her energies to improving sex education in Kenya in Medicine: II.2 order to bring about changes in the sexual behaviour of young people and curb the spread of STDs. Rosie was elected in April 2006 as Captain of the Hockey Blues James Sherlock having been a Blue since her Co-conductor of the university symphony orchestra (CUSO), first year. The team is current- James won First Prize in the Marcello Galanti International ly third in the BUSA league. Organ Competition in 2005. He will play later this year in Japan Her quick start in University and the US. sports is unsurprising, consid- ering she was Captain of her Louise Woodley county team as well as Captain Louise was part of the founding team behind BlueSci, the uni- of West of England under 16 versity’s science magazine, and is now its managing editor. The and under 18 teams, and that magazine has been described as “a leading source of information she had two trials for England about scientific research in Cambridge.” team at the same ages. 21 V100 | THE IQ TOP FIVE
n assocation with British Mensa, Varsity held a free IQ test for Cambridge students at the John end of Michaelmas Term. Here we list the top Stevenage Iscores and explain the actual meaning of IQ. The Chief Executive of Mark British MENSA on the test IQ or Intelligence Quotient Dickens is an attempt to measure Clare Hall, Oriental Studies, PhD intelligence. This can be interpreted to mean many Score:159 different things, but gener- ally the attribute of intelli- gence refers to quickness of mental comprehension, or Richard mental agility. Gibson People who show this abili- Trinity College, Maths, II.1 ty tend to favour careers where quick thinking, a Score:157 wider view of situations and attention to detail is important. These can be IT specialists, the legal profes- Michael sion, medicine, etc. There is no stereotype though, and Wallace it depends on the individ- Trinity, Maths, II.1 ual how they wish to devel- op their own career. That is Score:157 reflected in the diversity of membership of Mensa – from those who choose not to join the rat race, through Michael white van drivers and blue collar workers, to celebri- Contario ties, professors and politi- Trinity College, NatSci, 1st cians. Score:155 The students at Cambridge who took the Mensa test were a self-selecting group and – as they are recog- Adam nised as exceptional stu- dents, by virtue of having Edelshain been accepted by the Jesus College, Economics, II.1 University – it was no sur- prise that they all showed Score:154 they had very high IQs. A total of 67% of the students scored in the top 2% which is the eligibility range for Answers on page 23 Mensa. This is slightly TAKE THE TEST above the national average – again to be 1. Which two letter word can 3. What is the value of the expected be placed in the centre of bottom row of the grid? given the each of the following words quality of to form a longer word in the candi- each case? dates. DOES CORNED GOWN OUTING
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V100 | THE POWER 10 Mark Ferguson
CUSU President arsity conducted a survey asking you to name the students with the most power, influence and ability to Vimplement change in Cambridge. Here’s what you told us. The status of the Union Society “ President is probably based more on Michael1 Jacobson “reputation and prestige than the Union Society actual power the position itself brings President2
I took great comfort from Toby Young this. Was it possible that the- undergraduates who were so The author and journalist prominent in my day – a warns of the fleeting reality group that didn’t include me of student power – would end up as non-enti- Sarah ties in the outside world? I When I was an undergradu- sincerely hoped so, but I Brocklehurst ate at Oxford, I read AJP scarcely dared believe it. ADC President Taylor’s autobiography in Twenty years later, when I 3 which, among other things, attended my second gaudy at he discusses his long career Brasenose College, Oxford, as a Fellow of Magdalene Taylor’s observation seemed College. He says that one of to be borne out. All the the most pleasant occasions undergraduates who’d Various he can recall is a dinner he impressed me as the Most had to preside over featuring Likely to Succeed when I’d JCR Presidents all the College’s former JCR first met them had failed to 4 Presidents. He was dreading set the world on fire. Indeed, Special mention was made of it beforehand – what could several of the Big Men on Calum Davey at Clare, Maz be more dull? – but it turned Campus had pointedly failed Kemple at Magdalene, Amina out to be a thoroughly enjoy- to attend, so embarrassed Al-Yassin at New Hall, and able experience, mainly were they by their failure to Caz Neville at Queens’. because the guests at the live up to early expectations. “Unlike many of the Power dinner had lost none of the The ones who’d done well for
Ten, she was actually elected charm that had enabled themselves - become success- by the student body and is them to become JCR ful novelists, or made mil- liked and respected...” Presidents in the first place. lions as hedge fund man-
However, he did note that agers - were those who’d not a single one of them had been so anonymous as amounted to anything. undergraduates that I sim- College Presidents and the JCR are“ the only people who have actually caused meaningful change Tom James “ Men’s Boat5 Club President
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Footlights 6President “ Dilly Nock President among the triumvirate Ospreys’ of Toms. He has the power over 7President “Cambridge University’s up-and-coming funny men
ply didn’t recognise them. pretty undergraduate called Was such-and-such a person Rachel Weisz as destined for really a contemporary of higher things. But 99% of my mine? I had no idea. My fel- picks in both places have dis- low student at Brasenose appeared off the face of the who has gone on to be the earth. Even a Google search most successful is David fails to turn anything up. Cameron, and while I knew So take heart, oh you Dan Barry who he was, he did wretched hordes of Hawks’ Club nothing outside anonymous under- the College to graduates. The stu- 8President speak of--he dent gods you gaze had no inter- at in wonderment est in the today will nearly Union or in all come crashing the down to earth as Isabel University soon as they leave Gutteridge Dramatic the University. It's Society or any- men and women Trinity May Ball thing like that. like you – the people 9President He kept himself to that no one has taken himself and concentrat- any notice of – who will ed on his studies. really light up the firma- Of course, there are excep- ment. tions. My Oxford contempo- As Cyril Connolly said, raries included Boris “Those whom the Gods Johnson, who was as conspic- would destroy, they first call uous then as he is now, and promising.” The corollary of when I was a graduate stu- this is, “Those whom the God dent at Trinity College, would anoint, they first pay
Cambridge, I marked down a no attention to.” Luke Pickering CUSU Access “ 10 Officer It might not be a glamorous post but it involves real hard work and commitment MENSA test answers (from p 21): day-to-day for something that really 1.Do to give dodoes, cordoned, “matters godown and outdoing. 2. B. These letters appear from left to right on the bottom row of a keyboard. We are now accepting applications for Summer Analyst positions Apply online at www.mercermc.com/joinlondon by 16 February 2007