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FR IDAY, 19 TH OCTOBER, 2018 – Keep the Cat Free – ISSUE 1701 Felix The Student Newspaper of Imperial College London FR IDAY, 19 TH OCTOBER, 2018 FELIX EDITORIAL CONTENTS EDITORIAL 2 Letter to Lauren NEWS 3-5 irstly, I want jaba – Felix forever miss your infec- The Felix Team y D Ed POLITICS 6 to take this d ito tious laughter and how An r Editor-in-Chief opportunity to you showed everyone Andy Djaba COMMENT 7-9 congratulate how to live and love. • Feverybody that grad- I know you wouldn't Deputy Editor SCIENCE 10 uated from Imperial want us to be sad so, Joanna Wormald in Wednesday's although I'm heartbro- • TECH 11 Commemoration Day ken, I want to end this News Editors undergraduate graduation by thanking you. I will Joanna Wormald Frank Leggett BOOKS 12-13 ceremony. It was some- forever be grateful and • thing of a bittersweet blessed to have been able Politics Editors FILM 14 moment for me. Although to call you a friend. Thank Avirup Banerjee I was obviously extremly you for allowing me to get Divyen Vanniasegaram MUSIC 18 happy to collect my close to your family and Juan Rubio Gorrochategui degree and finally see the friends, who are some of • ARTS 19-22 fruits of four years' worth the most amazing people Comment Editors Aida Manzano Kharman of hard labour, the day was I'ver ever met. Thank you Charlie Titmuss GAMES 23 also tinged with extreme for everything. • sadness. I couldn't stop The world was lucky Science Editors FOOD 24 thinking about one person to have you. You were the Rosie Dutt that should have been strongest person I know Eyad Abuelgasim INVESTMENT 27 there celebrating with us and I pray that God rests Henry Alman all; my close friend and your beautiful soul. Like Sânziana Foia HANGMAN 28-29 • the strongest person I a loss for words. There How could someone have you said to me countless Tech Editor know, Lauren Dennis. aren't any words that can the strength to keep that times, you're my G. Love Krithika Balaji PUZZLES 30 On the evening of do you justice, nor are beaming smile on their always, Haaris Asghar Monday 15th October, there words to describe face at all times? How Andy • SPORTS 31-32 I was told of Lauren's how I'm feeling right now could someone going Arts Editors passing after an 18-month but it's somewhat cathartic through so much still Claire Chan battle with bowel cancer to put what's in my head care enough to ask me Helen Money-Kyrle and, if I'm honest, I down on paper. It doesn't how my day was going? Vaishnavi Nathan Felix Office • Beit Quad, Prince Consort haven't been able to think really feel real. It was less Or how the next issue of Books Editors Road of much else since. Lauren than two weeks ago that Felix was coming along? London, SW7 2BB JJ Cheng was a Chemistry student we were planning how If you were here today, I'd • Tel: 020 79548072 at Imperial. I wanted to to celebrate graduation probably be complaining Music Editors Email: [email protected] take this opportunity to and you said you would about the parking ticket Simran Kukran felixonline.co.uk dedicate my editorial to use it as "motivation to I got this morning while Adrian LaMoury @feliximperial her memory with a letter improving fam". Even you laughed, saying Henry Eshbaugh Asad Raja Printed by Mortons Media to Lauren: when I came up to visit something like, "Read the Group, Boston Road, • Horncastle, Lincolnshire Yoo Lauren, wys? you in hospital in Wol- signs Andy..." Film Editors I wanted to start this verhampton last Tuesday You touched so many Registered Newspaper Mikhail Demtchenko ISSN 1040-0711 how I started every con- after you called and let me lives and you will be Sung Soo Moon versation with you. Don't know the doctors had said sorely missed by everyone Aidan Chan Copyright (c) Felix 2017 worry, I won't be sharing the cancer was terminal, who had the pleasure • any memes this time. I was almost certain the of knowing you. I will Markets Editor To be honest, I'm still at doctors had got it wrong. Lauren Dennis Tom Alston • Food Editors Eva Tadros Julia Dąbrowska • Felix is recruiting! Puzzles Editor Lisa Hey Lorenzo Silvestri • Sports Editor Imraj Singh Fergus Johnson • Cover Photo Joe O'Connell-Danes • Copy Editors Andrada Balmez Ash Pattar We want you – yes, you! We’re looking for writers, photographers, editors, illustrators, report- Rhidian Thomas ers, computer experts and grammar nerds to join our team. No experience needed – we’ll teach Katherine Milton Shervin Sabeghi you everything you need to know. If you’re interested, send us an email on [email protected] Artur Donaldson 2 FELIX ISSUE 1701 NEWS [email protected] Ede & Ravenscroft accused of “anti-competitive” business practices Students are seeing increases in the cost of graduation due to the company’s alleged “near monopoly” on gowns NEWS the country. Contracted Andy Djaba universities, such as Im- Editor-in-Chief perial, insist that students must wear the "official supplier's" garments. The universities are paid de & Raven- commission, in some scroft, the cases 20 per cent per robe, company allowing them to accrue which provides thousands of pounds from Egraduation gowns for the arrangements. Imperial’s (and other Students are essentially universities’) annual being denied choice of graduation ceremonies, robe supplier by their has been accused of universities and are, driving the cost of gown subsequently, unaware of rental up through “an- incentives and missing out ti-competitive” business on cheaper suppliers. One practices. such supplier, Churchill In the week that saw Gowns, gave Felix the fol- more than 2500 under- lowing statement: “We are graduate students collect selling directly to students their degrees from Imperi- and cutting out the middle al College London in the man (the University) who university’s annual Com- needlessly take a cut out memoration Day ceremo- of the students pockets. ny, Felix reports that Ede Now that students are & Ravenscroft has been spending upwards of 30k Commemoration Day// Imperial College London accused of holding an to graduate many feel it bottles which are not only Ede & Ravenscroft alleged “near monopoly” unethical and needlessly more ethically made but gowns range from numbers of students can’t A spokesman for Ede over the gown market. As rapacious of any uni- much more affordable”. £45-£50 to hire, while afford to attend their own and Ravenscroft said that first reported in national versity to squeeze more students can be charged graduation ceremony. it operated in a “compet- newspapers including the money in the form of back between £30-£150 for Robert Halfon, chair of itive market” and denied Telegraph and Daily Mail, hand payments from robe “Students are photographs. Oxford and the Commons education claims that its success Ede & Ravenscroft was makers. Ultimately we are Cambridge are believed select committee, labelled was due to students being the subject of a complaint trying to offer students essentially to be the only universities the claims 'deeply con- “obliged to do business for allegedly “eliminat- choice.” Churchill Gowns in the country which have cerning'. with us”. He continued to ing” and “deterring” com- claim to be “disrupting the being denied arrangements in place say students can choose petition by entering into industry” by offering stu- choice of with multiple suppliers. to hire their gowns from exclusive contracts with dents gowns made from Two Oxford Universi- “Two Oxford whichever supplier they 109 universities across “100% recycled plastic robe supplier ty-accredited retailers wanted to and added University- by their charge just £9.99 for the firm won contracts undergraduate robes and accredited because of their 'compet- universities £7.99 for a mortarboard. itive pricing'. Ede & Ravenscroft instead retailers They also said man- and are, insist that students hire ufacturing gowns for a a full package of gown, charge just single university can cost subsequently, hood and cap meaning more than £250,000. £9.99 for unaware of that cheaper substitues for some elements cannot be undergraduate incentives and used. The alleged lack of robes and missing out free market composition has led to students paying £7.99 for on cheaper over the odds to rent their graduation gown mortarboard” Graduation// Imperial College London suppliers” and, as a result, large 3 FR IDAY, 19 TH OCTOBER, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1701 NEWS [email protected] NEWS [email protected] Joe Biden, the former U.S. Vice-President, visits Imperial College London takes part in the first Green Imperial GB Week Imperial College London played host to a number of different events and activities for different audiences during the first Green GB week The 47th Vice-President of the United States delivers inaugural cancer research lecture at Imperial NEWS groups, and charities to enterprise in Great Britain to ensure that innovative NEWS and had helped foster new explore how clean growth and Northern Ireland. approaches can flourish in collaborations with coun- Andy Djaba will change our futures In his speech to the every corner of the globe. Andy Djaba tries all over the world. Editor-in-Chief and others can contribute Green GB Week Clean In this Green GB Week… Editor-in-Chief The former Vice Pres- to action on climate Energy Innovation it’s your turn to take that ident urged scientists to change. Spearheaded by Summit at County idea you’ve always kept at collaborate in ways that the Rt Hon Claire Perry Hall, Sam Gyimah, the the back of your head and haven’t existed before, his past week MP, Minister of State Science Minister, said start bringing it into the oe Biden, the US calling for data to be made saw Imperial for Energy and Clean the following: “The UK real world.” Vice President more widely accessible play an active Growth, the government may be home to some of Imperial hosted three during Barack and for the creation of a role in the first initiative is led by the the brightest minds in the events as part of Green Obama’s admin- cancer research and care TGreen GB Week.
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