Th e student ‘news’paper of Imperial College London Issue 1,403 felix Friday 16 May 2008 felixonline.co.uk Inside Return of the Singh Pages 10 & 11 Architecture Vs. Fashion Pages 16 & 17 Guns, gorillas & Generals Pages 20 & 21 Hangman – Two bookable Brown love offences? IC Football Club loses £1,000 and is accused of criminal damages and intimidatory behaviour at a Knightsbridge hotel, see page 3 Page 23 2 felix Friday 16 May 2008 News News Editor – Andrew Somerville, News Goblin – Matty Hoban
[email protected] NSS rigging undermines MPseudoSci: is Imperial credibility of league tables lending credence to rubbish? Kingston University lecturer caught red-handed trying to influence her institution’s standing in national league tables national league tables, employers will be led to believe students’ degrees are “shit” rendering them essentially unemployable. As a result of this, students are told to artificially inflate the scores for each of the twenty-two questions posed. “... If you think something was a 4, my encouragement would be, give it a 5”, says the Kingston academic to a lec- ture room full of students. In response to national media coverage of the inci- dent, the university’s Vice-Chancellor has called this an “isolated incident” and that the lecturer’s comments were “inappropriate”. Homeopathy in action. Active molecules? 1 in 1060 , if you’re lucky The story was picked up by IC news website, Live! (live.cgcu.net) and subsequently by the BBC, The Daily Kadhim Shubber In the past, the Centre for Homeo- Telegraph and The Times.