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It's Not Easy Being Green ••• ISION, RTICLES, EVIEWS, TORIES, NFORMATION, HOUGHTS AND WHAT OU WANT TO READ ••• e WEEK Independent Student LENT Newspaper est. 1947 Friday 17th February 2012 Issue No 754 | varsity.co.uk 10 Features: Former president of Virgin Galactic, 15 Books: Aliens, monsters and the 20 Fashion: Cold walks on frosty beaches provide 23 Sport: Will Whitehorn, on the future of space travel head of the CUSFS magazine the perfect mid term escape Hockey “A delusion is not a psychotic phenomena but a It’s not easy being green DARREN ZU response to one; a constructive attempt to give meaning to one’s experience.” 5 Science interview: Darian Leader, psychoanalyst and It’s wise to energise: students at the ‘Rally for Renewables’ on Parker’s Piece campaign for the reduction of the university’s carbon footprint author publicity was overwhelmingly positive, Cambridge have already submitted a by John Wallis WARMING FACTS NEWS CORRESPONDENT it was extremely diffi cult to convince policy proposal to the University’s Perfume Genius, students to make time for the event Environmental Strategy Committee, MUSIC 2008/9 Cambridge students participated on itself. She stated: “the fact that we got which is currently under consideration. In , the University’s emissions Shearwater were 7 7, 6 6 0 tonnes CO equivalent, Friday in what was possibly biggest upwards of 70 or 80 people out during e University is due to fi nalise its next 2 and this has been growing every year action on climate change the city has a working day on a freezing Febraury energy contract in September 2013. BOOKS Philip K Dick, ever seen. A large crowd gathered on morning should be seen as an over- With this in mind, the proposal states 94.5% Ender’s Game Parker’s Piece to take part in the ‘Rally whelming vote of support from the that, “the University’s decisions and of those surveyed agree or for Renewables,’ organised by student actions over the next few years will… strongly agree that climate change is a serious threat to humanity. campaign Energise Cambridge which defi ne its national and international FILM e Woman in calls for a more ambitious green energy place as either a leader or a laggard in 90.3% Black, the Baftas policy from University authorities. the response to the global challenge would be prepared to pay an £10 e campaign claims that the Uni- [of climate change].” It adds, “each of extra per year in university fees to versity has one of the highest carbon us has a moral responsibility to reduce help fund the purchase of renewable e Cambridge of students would be prepared to pay energy. ART footprints of any higher education insti- an extra £10 per90% year in university fees our emissions as much and as quickly Aff ordable Art Fair tution in the UK, and says it is working as possible.” to help purchase of renewable energy 2010 with professors and administrators to Current University policy states that is the hottest year on global records, tied with 2005. A View From the move energy consumption away from any emission-cutting measures should THEATRE fossil fuels. e rally was called to show student body. ere’s a strong desire to be cost-neutral. The new proposal Bridge, Uneasy Atmospheric CO levels are currently student support for Energise Cam- see more ambitious attempts to tackle contains four key recommendations: 2 Dreams 390 ppm bridge’s recommendations. energy problems on the part of the to commit to an ambitious reduction at . Climate experts say 350 is the safe limit for humanity. According to a campaign spokes- University”. in carbon intensity, to recognise that WEEKEND > person, Izzy Braithewaite (a third year She added that CUSU, Cambridge adequate action requires investment 6 student at Clare College), Energise Hub and other student groups had also now, to conduct a cost-benefi t analy- WEATHER 0 Cambridge has sent a “clear and un- offi cially endorsed the campaign. sis of renewable energy options and to the University to do more to combat cli- 2 ignorable message that students really In response to a survey created by further student and staff awareness on mate change, to lead the way among top 0 0 care about climate change”. Close to Energise Cambridge, 93% of students such issues. universities, and to inspire students to 4 4 100 demonstrators formed a human agreed or strongly agreed that climate According to Energise Cambridge’s get involved. Renewable energy policy 4 wind turbine against the snow and were change is a serious threat to humanity website, the campaign is “not aiming is extremely complex and we are hope- 8 5 photographed from the roof of the Uni- and 90% would be prepared to pay an to attack or discredit university ful that the University will build on our 7 versity Arms Hotel. extra £10 per year in university fees to authorities, many of whom have been eff orts to establish much more ambi- 1 7 Organising the rally was not an help fund the purchase of renewable supportive of environmental issues.” A tious targets.” 7 ● let the blues get you down Don’t easy task, according to Braithewaite. energy. campaign organiser, Jess Walsh, told More information is available at 9 PS. 1CMWhile 1CM student response to the pre-rally Representatives from Energise Varsity that “ e aim is to encourage EnergiseCambridge.org 2 EDITORIAL FEBRUARY 17 2012 — WEEK 5 In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act - George Orwell EDITORIAL ...24 pages of words, pictures, facts, opinions, thoughts, clues, statements, Inside conclusions, insinuations and the occasional fl a s h of genius... Madness: “My illness is NEWS seeing too clearly” ow the weeks have more students should be aware of, e physics of hair 6 fl own by; with our free even simply as a starting-point to Cambridge scientists come up with a formula for ponytails time marked not by the locating further help. Varsitech - ‘Out of Body Experience’ weekends but by academic With discussions in the past - Jake Harris examines the damage deadlines, it’s easy to start losing week, however, of the proposed online abuse can cause. Hsight of much outside of Cambridge. updated and extended version of the Equally, then, any problems Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Verifi ed - ‘Mental Illness: How do SCIENCE encountered here are magnifi ed that categorises every type of mental we defi ne it? - Ciaran McAuley asks often beyond their true magnitude disorder, published by the American what the best diagnostic methods 7 – ranging from a missed lecture to a Psychiatric Association, a further might be in a fi eld we rarely Mad scientists misplaced pen. Such a distortion of question is raised over our defi nition understand. From Albert Einstein to Nicola Tesla, Varsity tells you the top 5 perspective is easily transferred to of well-being entirely. Huge numbers mad scientists from throughout history those issues that ought to be treated of people will be labelled mentally ill Vetements - ‘Quality with the sensitivity and respect that on the basis of behaviour that most Street’ - Winter is the their gravity commands; it is when people would consider normal, with time when quality MUSIC the big concerns are brushed over anxieties labelled disorders including counts. When the in favour of the immediate rush of shyness in children, and unhappiness elements can be this essays, laboratories and crits that we after bereavement. cruel, we need to button 14 really need to worry. Library fi nes Already, the new manual has been up right. Kristina Bugeja wants to Rhyme no reason? aren’t as important as getting enough condemned in a petition circulated show you how. Music Critic, Dominic Kelly, notes the conspicuous snubbing of sleep once in a while, and exams do by psychologists in Britain and the rap music at the Grammies and explores the unfair dismissal of a not signal the end of the world. is United States, accumulating more Vice - Rose’s Kitchen Comforts: genre that has been seen an exciting rebirth in recent years sort of confl ation of the two can in than 11,000 signatures. Til Wykes, French Toast’ - It’s sweet and itself set the small problems spinning professor of clinical psychology at savoury. It’s exotic homely. It’s ART out of control – something we all King’s College London, described delicious. know as that tired phrase overheard how the proposals are likely to on repeat at your nearest coff ee shop: “shrink the pool of normality to a Vulture - ‘Gilt: Illumination’ 17 the ‘Week Five Blues’. puddle.” A line uttered in Robert - Have you been to the UL’s Control freak out Coleridge wrote of ‘A grief without Bresson’s classic e Devil, Probably, manuscript reading John Cage’s experiments with spontaneity a pang, void, dark, and drear/ A a fi lm characterised by its exploration room yet? If not, stifl ed, drowsy, unimpassioned and fi nal rejection of psychoanalysis, check out Gabrielle grief/ Which fi nds no natural frames the answer to this issue Schwarz’s latest outlet, no relief’ in Dejection: An perfectly: ‘But Doctor, I’m not ill. My forary in illustrated THEATRE Ode, the limiting of any outlet for illness is seeing too clearly’. manuscripts. such melancholia underpinning its Really, though, it is mental health own intensity. is relief, even in itself that needs to be viewed through Team List (What drives you crazy?) 18 the simplest shapes and forms, is a clearer lens. Misdiagnosing cases Editors Madeleine Morley and Louise Benson High fl yers needed more than ever in the face can have immense, far-reaching [email protected] (Each other) Varsity eatre Critic, Richard Stockwell, interviews Adam Law- Business Manager Michael Derringer of the relentlessness of the mid-way consequences, and must be better [email protected] (LOL cats) rence about next week’s Corpus lateshow Cambridge term.
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