www.felixonline.co.uk @felixImperial /FelixImperial [email protected] Keeping the cat free since 1949 Issue No. 1585 October 24th 2014 2 24.10.2014 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX This week’s issue... [email protected] Felix Editor Philippa Skett

EDITORIAL TEAM CONTENTS Editor-In-Chief A poorly captioned photo of PHILIPPA SKETT News 3–6 Deputy Editor a man sweeping in Metric PHILIP KENT Comment 7–8 Treasurer THOMAS LIM Features 9–10 speaks a thousand words Technical Hero Science 11 LUKE GRANGER-BROWN ast week we ran two stories the night when the newspaper layout News Editors Technology 12 that we were worried (or did gets too much. If anyone needs any AEMUN REZA Lwe hope?) would cause a storm. post-it notes, give us a shout. CECILE BORKHATARIA Music 15 One was covering the amenities funds Finally, we saw the launch of our KUNAL WAGLE cut, and the other was looking at the amazing, brand new website last first non-alocoholic bar night ran by week. Personally, I was dozing in the Comment Editors Television 16–17 TESSA DAVEY Imperial College Union. Surprisingly, corner after a particularly stressful Film 22–23 the latter story is the one that is submission of the paper the night Technology Editors seemingly kicking up a storm. before, but I heard that it all went JAMIE DUTTON Arts 24–27 We are running a whole page this smoothly and was launched on time. OSAMA AWARA week dedicated to the news story that We are still uploading articles onto Science Editors Food 28–29 only warrented about 200 words in the site a few batches at a time. The LAUREN RATCLIFFE the first place, most of which were entire pdfs of each issue are still JAMES BEZER Travel 30–31 tounge in cheek. there to have a scroll through, in case Our journalistic prowess has come you want to relive the shadow-dick Games Editors under attack, with a lot of it to do THIS WEEK’S EDITORIAL phenomenon from Issue 1583. MAX EGGL Fashion 32 CALUM SKENE with the “illustrative” photo we used If you want to see it in all its glory Welfare 33 to accompany the article. Apparently too (the centrefold itself, not the Arts Editors our credit (or lack of, as it were, for the Office congratulating friends and actual penis shadow), come down FRED FYLES Hangman 34–35 the front page thumbnail version) trying to help my Section Editors at to the Office. You might as well ask KAMIL McCLELLAND was not enough to explain how the the same time. Credit to them, we us how you can get involved whilst Music Editors Puzzles 36–37 photo was not a completely correct actually managed to make this issue you're here. GRACE RAHMAN representation of the entirity of the with time to spare, a rare occurance PHILIPPA SKETT AMNA ASKARI Sports 38–40 night. in the production of the Felix FELIX EDITOR Honestly, I thought it was hilarious, newspaper. Television Editors and I am sure that at some point they In other news from the Felix Office, GIULIA GABRIELLI JOHN PARK What’s on this week: did indeed sweep Metric that night. we are so, so close to completion. We Let’s use this as the lesson that taught are just waiting for the infamous Film Editors us that photos may be louder than semi-circular desk to appear, which ELLEN MATHIESON ACC Night words, and also that we love to rub the should arrive Monday. We have a JACK STEADMAN JOHN PARK 20:00 - 02:00, Oct 29th, All Union up the wrong way every now dictophone now, so can start running and then. wire taps into the office of Chris Kaye, Union bars Book Editor As I actually graduated last year Deputy President (Betrayal). We also DIANA LUCACI With a theme of S&M and (picture related), this Wednesday I have lots of stationary that we have M&S, come dressed as an spent the day popping in and out of stolen from the Union in the dead of Fashion Editor old lady or bring your best CECILE BORKHATARIA ball gag. Or do both. I am Food Editors planning to turn up rocking CURRENT FELIX VACANCIES CAROL ANN CHEAH my whips and a zimmer We are looking for a new team of If you enjoy website management, Don’t know how computers work? MICHAEL CHUNG have used the internet before or just We don’t either, so don’t worry about frame. Web Editors, to manage online Coffee break Editors content, approve comments, keep our really want some free stationary, having any prior experience. TESSA DAVEY Tickets: £8.50 online, £9.50 on site in check and get everything onto come down to the Office or get in Email us if you are keen: ELLEN MATHIESON touch and we can show you the ropes. [email protected] the door the website by Friday afternoon. Travel Editor Tickets include four beers or YUNG NAM CHEAH bombs Welfare Editors DIBA ESBATI CHANON WONGSATAYANONT SKETT’S BOX OF SHAME Clubs and Societies Editor Apologies for some mistakes in Issue BEN HOWITT 1584. These were: Sport Editor - Missing some copy editors off the KUNAL WAGLE roll call on the editorial page due to a formatting hitch COPY EDIT TEAM - The DramSoc advert, the iPOP advert and the photo in Televion Copy Chiefs STEPHEN BALL were of a terrible quality, due to ELLEN MATHIESON a technical diffi culty that occured as we sent the issue to print. We Copy Editors ANNINA SARTOR apologise. TOM RIVLIN - Losing the font for Diary of a BEN HOWITT Fresher and having to use one that JUNE GAN MICHAEL FAGGETTER is more akin to a secondary school MATTIN MIR-TAHMASEBI homework piece then a satire section JASPER MENKUS of a newspaper. CECILY JOHNSON FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 24.10.2014 3 News [email protected] News Editors Kunal Wagle & Carol Ann Cheah Imperial graduands flock to Royal Albert Hall for graduation Philippa Skett reports on the main events from Commemoration Day

t was Imperial’s favourite day Medals for Outstanding off this week, as graduands came Contributions to Teaching Excellence Iback to touch the Gast hand and were presented to to Professor Mary finally graduate completely. More Morrell from Faculty of Medicine than 2200 undergraduates passed and Dr William Knottenbelt from through the Royal Albert Hall to the Department of Computing. Dr receive their degrees in three separate John Gibbons from the Department ceremonies that took part during of Mathematics and Dr Rudiger Commemoration Day. Woscholski from the Department of This was the first Commemoration Chemistry will both receive Medals day for Imperial’s new President, for Excellence in Pastoral Care. Professor Alice Gast, who told Medals for Supporting the Student students to “Take all that you have Experience were presented to Dr learned and put it to work,” during Maria Toro-Troconis, School of her speech. Medicine, and Mr Ian Gillett from “The demands of the world are the Safety Department. daunting. We need well-educated But why is it called leaders like you who can develop the Commemoration Day? The day new approaches, the clever solutions is named in honour of a visit to and the compelling ideas that will Imperial by King George VI and guide us in the future.” Queen Elizabeth in 1945, on the The ceremonies also included centenary of the foundation of the presentation of the Awards the Royal College of Chemistry, for Outstanding Achievement, Imperial’s oldest forerunner. which went to Caroline Wood Chris Kaye, Deputy President from the Department of Chemistry (Welfare), said he was impressed when (a former Felix editor) and they played God save the Queen, Alireza Tahmasebzadeh from the although he said he got emotional Department of Bioengineering. “due to a separate matter.” I know that this day happens every year, but for some reason it makes me all teary and proud. Photo: T. Lim A-level results can’t be finalised “until October”

KUNAL WAGLE sure if the increases were as a result SECTION EDITOR of “fundamental weaknesses in marking”, but did point out that there is now a “lack of confidence in the exam system”. niversities have been told that Richard Harman, who is the they shouldn’t view exam Chairman of the Headmasters’ and Uresults as “finalised” until the Headmistresses’ Conference said that end of October. OCR, a leading exam “The college or university places of results board, added to the statement tens of thousands of students have saying that all results “remain been needlessly jeopardised this provisional” until all re-marks are autumn and the exam boards must be complete. Re-marks aren’t fully made to do much better.” finished until the end of October, UCAS, who run the admissions which is a month after most degree platform for most UK universities, courses start. released a statement in which it said, Universities don’t want to wait “We strongly advise students who until October to make their final have requested a remark to contact decisions, which means that many the university or college immediately students could miss out on their and explain their situation. university places due to human error “Institutions guarantee students in the marking of papers. who have requested a remark that The news comes as it emerged their offer remains open until 31 that more than 45,000 exam grades August. were changed this year on appeal, an “After this point universities will increase of 15%on last year. It has make their best endeavours to keep a increased by as much as 50%on 2011. place open for the student until the The general secretary of the process is resolved, or may provide Association of School and College the option of deferred entry the Leaders, Mr Lightman said he wasn’t following year.” That summer of exams that you spent 400 hours studying for may have been for nothing. Photo: Sutton Comet 4 24.10.2014 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX News [email protected] News Editors Kunal Wagle & Carol Ann Cheah RSM Dinner caps off a successful fortnight Matthew Pike talks about what the Miners got up to last Friday

he summer months were spent treat with everyone, a different league catching up with friends back from those student budget meals your Thome, travelling, earning uni friends cook and upload pictures money to blow on rent and, for of onto Facebook in the hope of a few some, geological mapping. Mixed in “ likes”. No, this was a formal three with this, the Royal School of Mines course dinner from a five star hotel in committee had carefully planned Kensington, food we at the RSM like their start of term activities leading to savour for our big events: chicken up to the big one: Fresher’s Dinner. liver pâté with compote, cod fillet On 17th October, 178 people with creamy chive sauce, ratatouille attended the annual dinner at The and potato rosti cake to name a few. Rembrandt Hotel, 91 of them freshers Also in attendance were two guest from the Materials and Earth Science speakers: Dr Martyn McLachlan from departments; this reflects the high Materials and Dr Matt Genge from demand for the social events that the the Earth Science department. Both RSM provides for its members. are popular lecturers among students All the first years, accompanied in their respective departments, by their older undergraduate hosts, and quickly became the centre of marched along Exhibition Road attention with eye-catching and looking rather dapper and not too funny speeches to the audience. out of place out and about in South One highlight of the evening Kensington. Upon arrival at The included third year geologist Rembrandt they were greeted by an Matt Irwin, who took centre stage, RSM: hardcore miners love a good silver and peach colour theme. Photo: Matthew Pike array of black and gold decorations, declaring that his table would like to and empty helium tanks that raise a toast to the President and his pulled off. Well played, boys. joining in and taking lead. The RSM, Fresher’s Dinner had been held at The definitely weren’t inhaled by Vice- committee for organising the event. After the closing speeches – as is still looking stylish in their formal Rembrandt; rave reviews came from President James Cox. President Ben Then all five hosts and five freshers at standard – the Scottish contingent of wear, proceeded to head back through those who attended and even hotel Warnick started proceedings with the table stood up, and literally “raised RSM spontaneously burst into song South Kensington for a post-dinner staff. an impressive welcoming speech, a toast” by holding aloft slices of toast as “ Flower Of Scotland” rang through gathering at the Union, which A big shout out goes to Vice- including a hysterical poem read to the committee table. Their pockets the room. This was not planned, and included discussions along the lines President Tor Tennant and Ball from the “ RSM Bible”. may have been filled with burnt was not prompted for any reason, of “what a jolly good dinner that was”. Officers Abbie Trice and Bethan Clark The three course meal went down a crumbs, but the gag was successfully but it did not stop Dr McLachlan It was the first time that the for organising the event.

A Powerful man moves from the Union Ambulances arrive at the to the Blue Cube Union after RSM dinner held in Queen’s Tower Rooms, and STEPHEN BALL matters including life and associate staff would miss Phil Power, Felix was PHILIPPA SKETT traditionally people move on to the ELLEN MATHIESON memberships and tankards, among told: “ Our loss is College’s gain.” FELIX EDITOR Union for after dinner drinks. NEWS WRITERS other things. The last of these lead to We spoke to Ben Warnick, RSM him recieiving the title of Tankard President for 2014/15, who was also Baron. wo ambulances were called to present at the dinner. “ After the end r Philip Power is finally However Dr Power is not leaving Beit Quad last Friday night to of the official RSMU Freshers’ dinner leaving the Union after 16 the Imperial Bubble completely, as Tcollect two students who had on Friday some people chose to go Dyears of involvement at he has found himself a new home been drinking in the union bars. The back to the union due to its proximity Imperial College London, first as an in “ the Blue Cube” on the South students in question, two girls, had to the hotel. All were sufficiently undergraduate, then a postgraduate Kensington Campus, moving over previously been to the Royal School sober to be let in by the bouncers. All and finally as a member of staff for the road to become the new Faculty of Mines (RSM) Freshers’ dinner, of the appropriate welfare measures Imperial College Union. Education Officer for the Faculty of although the reasons the ambulances were taken to ensure the wellbeing of During his time as a student at Engineering. were called were unrelated to alcohol the people involved.” Imperial, first in the Department To celebrate the end of this long consumption. Deputy President (Welfare), Chris of Mathematics and then as a PhD period of work, the Union is hosting The ambulances arrived shortly Kaye, was also present that evening. student in the Department of Earth a leaving party with a guest list that after midnight. The first came to Said Chris, “ I arrived at the Union just Science he was heavily involved boasts some of the biggest names collect a student who had passed before midnight and an ambulance with the Union, including being on from Union history as well as current out due to a pre-existing medical was pulling up outside. A student had the Recreational Clubs Committee, staff and students, with the event condition, whilst the other took a collapsed with what I believe to be an of which he was the Chair for three being described by some as “ the Party student who had sliced open her foot. underlying medical condition. years, from September 2002 to June of the season” . Both students have subsequently “ Shortly afterwards, another 2005. Dr Power has been a highly made a full recovery. ambulance turned up for someone After completing his PhD in 2005, regarded member of Union staff, The dinner was held at The who had fallen and injured he then joined the Union Staff where making fine use of his considerable Rembrandt Hotel in Kensington, and themselves. I made sure to stay he became the Membership Services knowledge of the Union and College was attended by 178 people, around around with Ben until it was Manager, dealing with many of the to enhance the student experience. Phil Power celebrates leaving the half of whom were first year students. confirmed that the students were in major Clubs, Societies and Projects When asked whether the Union Union. Photo: Steve Tran In previous years, the dinner has been safe hands.” FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 24.10.2014 5 News [email protected] News Editors Kunal Wagle & Carol Ann Cheah Fire alarm interrupts bar night again Oliver Benton reports as students refuse to leave until Phil Power does

undreds of graduate students rose between several sports clubs, were looking forward to glasses were broken and it looked like Henjoying one last hurrah the whole evening had gone to the treading the sticky floors of Metric dogs. only for their revelry to be cut short After a stern word from Sam the by fire alarms and the early closing of bouncer things quietened down, the the bars. discontent merely simmering below For the second time in two weeks the surface. As it was clear that there the fire alarm forced people to leave was no fire, people were loathe to the Union buildings. Stepping up leave but nobody was being allowed their game this week, the serial back in until the alarm was turned anarchist triggered several alarm off; this led to people urinating in the points causing security to take over quad as there were no other facilities 40 minutes to deal with the alarms. available. When the alarm initially sounded, While it’s clear the staff on hand the Union Bar was four people deep, were doing what they could to reopen and nobody moved. Such was the the bar as quickly as possible and that desperation to quench their thirst no members of the public could be people were risking being burnt alive allowed to enter the premesis without to get their drinks. Only when the a working fire alarm system, those lights got turned up and people were 40 minutes of cold are going to be threatened with being kicked out some peoples lasting memories of the The worst form of torture is being locked out of Metric and being forced to sober up. Photo: Annabel Keeler did people eventually begin to move Union. outside. Eventually the multiple tripped quickly, which led to the quad filling activation points were falsely incidents the Union is reviewing our The bar staff dealt with the angry alarms were quietened, the bar was up fast and lots of semi-drunk people triggered by people in the venue approach to access to the building on crowds by issuing paper slips with restocked and the thirsty graduands desperately competing for Uber cars. which in-turn caused a full busy nights and will also be increasing numbers written on them to try and were allowed back in. This sweet sense On the whole it was an enjoyable evacuation of the Union building. the amount of security staff in the preserve the queue at the bar; it is of relief was short lived however as evening, even if it was punctured by The time it took to check the venue and restricting access to areas unknown how successful this was. the bar closed at 1, the lights going up a wannabe anarchist and curtailed activation points, isolate them above the ground floor. Once outside, scores of people immediately, unlike a standard ‘CSP early. and reset the alarm was around 40 It is a shame that the actions of a immediately left for Eastside, and Wednesday’. Mutterings about the A union spokesperson said to minutes. A similar incident occurred few had an impact on so many people, those that remained tried to keep lack of a late licence were short-lived Felix: "Unfortunately, during last Wednesday night, again causing however our first priority will always warm by singing songs. As tensions as patrons were encouraged to leave CSP Wednesday, three fire alarm a full evacuation. As a result of these be the safety of our members." The Medics say goodbye to Teddington

About 400 people were thought to PHILIPPA SKETT have attended the event in total. FELIX EDITOR The event represented a final send- off for the grounds, which have been used by the medical students since he final day of sporting events 1935. Lord Beaverbrook, a consultant, at Teddington Sports ground bought the land in 1935 and gave it Ttook place last Saturday, 18th to St Marys Hospital Medical School, October. Things kicked off at midday which went on to form Imperial and carried on late into the evening, College of Medicine in 1997. with matches taking place throughout Despite initial protests to save the the day. Teddington grounds and ensure their Imperial College London staff, continued use after Imperial College some of the officer trustees and purchased Heston, this was the last senior medical staff from Imperial time medics will be playing on the College School of Medicine were in grounds. attendance, with many bringing their Dariush said of the event: “ It children and pets. Deputy President was very sad to say goodbye to (Clubs and Societies), Abi de Bruin, Teddington, but the day was a success said that the atmosphere was very and we would love to replicate it on pleasant. “ It was very much a family an annual basis, with many older day – it was a great vibe.” students and retired doctors in Sports games took place over the attendance. day, including lacrosse, netball, and “ It was well received and enjoyed by the men’s and women’s rugby teams all. There was great food and a great playing. The Imperial Medics team, social atmosphere. the Legends, played against a team I would like to thank Charlotte of alumni players. The Legends, Duggan, Leena Barret and the An action shot from one of the last games to be played at Teddington. Photo: Ben Lester, throughbenslens.co.uk captained by the ICSMSU President sabbatical officers for helping to Dariush Hassanzadeh-Baboli, beat organise it.” playing matches at Heston, half an Heston, home of the BA Members features both indoor and outdoor the doctors by around 20 points. From this point on, medics will be hour’s drive away from Teddington. club, is close to Heathrow airport and facilities for student use. 6 24.10.2014 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX News [email protected] News Editors Kunal Wagle & Carol Ann Cheah Empower: the new feminist society to hit Imperial? Fred Fyles attends the first Empower mingle of the year to find out

mpower, founded by two fourth year students at Imperial ECollege London, held its first event last weekend, in the form of an icebreaker at the Union Dining Hall. Tea and cake were provided, along with a surprise VIP appearance in the form of Imperial’s new President, Professor Alice Gast, who gave a 10-minute speech to the assembled group of around 30 students. During the evening, founders Sanya Patel and Sophia Lewis set out their aims for the group. “ Empower is a support network aimed towards women”, says Ms Patel, “ We have three aims: to improve self confidence and well-being by having a positive environment where people can set out goals and achieve them; [the teaching of] professional skills; and charity”. While charity work may seem incongruous compared to the empowerment of women, the founders see it as integral to their mission: “through charity you can be encouraged to learn skills such as time planning, organisation, budget management and leadership; and raise money for charity, helping support women in less fortunate positions.” The idea for Empower came about “ over falafel” ; Ms Patel and Ms Lewis both describe themselves as “ ambitious women”, however, Ms Lewis noted that “ a lot of things we were being told in hospital [both women are medical students] went against this…the idea that girls can’t Professor Alice Gast talks to the members of Empower. Photo: Billy Liu be academic”. So do they feel that things are critical of the group, questioning its idea it is, or who’s organising what, older years, saying “I think that [in this criticism, with Ms Patel saying different for women in STEM necessity when Imperial Feminist the point is addressing gender terms of mentoring] more senior that those who were complaining (Science, Engineering, Technology, Society was founded three years ago, inequality and imbalance,” says Ms students benefit from it as much as seemed to think that “a woman can’t Mathematics) subjects compared both Empower and FemSoc agree that Patel. “ We both want to achieve that, the younger students do.” During be ambitious and intelligent, and to those in other disciplines? “ Of their groups have different goals. and it doesn’t matter how it comes her speech, she mentioned her wear a bikini at the same time”. course!” says Ms Lewis, ‘Oh you’re a When asked for a statement, about.” experiences in being both a mentor The group is also yet to have been girl, you’re no good at maths; you’re a representative of FemSoc said Professor Alice Gast, who is the and a mentee, and commended the granted official society status, as their a girl, you’re no good at physics; “ I think that the roles of the two sixteenth head of Imperial College valuable contribution it provided to application to the New Activities you’re a girl, why do you want to do societies are different; we’re more and the first woman to be appointed her academic life. Committee hasn’t gone smoothly. engineering? Why do you want to be a about political discussion and to the role, has expressed support for However, not everyone has been Their application wasn’t accepted surgeon, or…’ People will tell you this activism, whereas they’re more about the group. As well as taking time out so sold on the idea of Empower. In in its initial form, and Empower your whole life.” Ms Patel agrees; “ we networking and professional skills. of her schedule to attend the meeting, terms of criticism, the overwhelming will be meeting with the committee are so lucky in the UK to be given a However, there is plenty of room, she said “I think it’s terrific to have complaint has been that people don’t to re-evaluate their application in lot as women, but there still remains a and we are more than happy for the interdisciplinary collaboration, know what the group aims to do; November before reapplying. baseline attitude of inequality.” two societies to coexist and work where students from different years with such a large range of goals, some The women behind Empower still Within the group, which was made together.” can come together to support one people feel that Empower may lack a remain optimistic, both for their up of people from a variety of years Empower is similarly friendly another, share ideas, and become single focus. group, and for the future of women at and subjects, the focus seemed mainly towards FemSoc, and are open to mentors.” Further controversy came in the Imperial. “Everything is possible”, says to be on personal goals related to self- collaborating with them in the future. Professor Gast was particularly form of the promotional video they Ms Patel, “ and when you have a team, confidence, as opposed to overarching “Empower is about collaboration, enthusiastic about the mentoring posted on Facebook over the summer a committee, a society around you, all aims relating to campaigning within about working together to achieve scheme, which aims to provide that featured the girls in bikinis. willing you to do well and to achieve, society. While some people have been goals, and it doesn’t matter whose women students with support from Sanya and Sophie were both aware of there is no reason why you can’t!” FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 24.10.2014 7 Comment [email protected] Comment Editor Tessa Davey Is it bad to be All About That Bass?

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eghan Trainor’s super- appears to succeed. It doesn’t take a size. This isn’t an attack on all catchy ‘All About That feminist to recognise that promoting “You know I won’t be no stick figure skinny women, suggesting that they MBass’ has been “getting the idea of beauty not being defined silicone Barbie doll only have a right to feel good about flak” (as she puts it) from all angles, by the photoshopped images we see so So if that’s what you’re into then go themselves as they have the same from people of all walks of life, all of frequently in the media is undeniably ahead and move along” body insecurities as larger women. It whom seem to have something to say positive and empowering. doesn’t force a limited definition of about this seemingly body-positive If you haven’t heard this song, by she isn’t saying that it’s wrong for attractiveness, it just points out that bubblegum pop song. some miracle, you might not know any heterosexual man to be attracted women (whose attractiveness is often With the number of people that the message is aimed mainly at to any woman who doesn’t fit her marginalised) can be just as hot as jumping on the bandwagon of hating girls and women who “ain’t no size body type, or indeed that all men those prescribed by the media, and on this song, it would be really easy to two”. But where the song tends to will find her attractive. What she’s in deserve to know it. write an article picking at all the flaws fall down and be reprimanded by fact saying is that she is the way she In my opinion, this song is in the arguments against this song. Of feminists, is in the choruses. is, she is attractive, and if you don’t empowering to women who don’t course, it’s easy for them to say that think so, then that’s not her problem. fit the culturally preferred norm the opening line, “Yeah, my mama she told me don’t worry When you take it on a basic level, as of minimised curves. While the about your size written by someone who really just song might not be perfect, it doesn’t “Because you know She says, ‘Boys like a little more booty to wants curvy girls to feel good about encourage fatter women to start I’m all about that bass hold at night’.” themselves, that’s pretty body- slinging mud at skinny girls. It may ‘Bout that bass, no treble” positive, isn’t it? contain concepts that are problematic Now of course, this isn’t great. It’s Of course, this isn’t the only when examined under the is completely ridiculous, given that never a good idea to base your self- problem that people are finding with microscope, but it’s certainly far from the song in fact, is not entirely bass esteem on your attractiveness to the this song. toxic. It’s incredibly rare to see music based. But petty niggles aside, the opposite sex. While I disagree heartily aimed at the acceptance of curvier song can have an entirely different with needing male validation for “I’m bringing booty back women (while big booty pride is interpretation, depending how self-acceptance, it is true that women Go ahead and tell them skinny bitches everywhere at the moment, it’s mostly pragmatic or fastidious you choose who are, as one article berating that within the realms of complimenting a to be. the song describes it, “pleasantly No I’m just playing. I know you think itty bitty waist), so why not just let us Trainor, who claims not to consider chubby”, are constantly told that you’re fat bigger girls have this one? "It's incredibly herself a feminist, puts it simply: “we they are unattractive and unworthy But I’m here to tell ya Those who criticise this song seem wanted to write a fun song for the throughout their lives. They often Every inch of you is perfect from the to think that nothing that preaches rare to see world, and we thought, why not do a grow up being told that no one will bottom to the top” acceptance is valid, unless it preaches song about loving yourself and loving ever be attracted to them, and it can consistent acceptance on all levels. music aimed at your body, because I don’t think girls take a long time to organically gain The question that arises here is This is a gallant aim, but it simply really love themselves as much as enough self-confidence to fight this, whether or not this is name-calling doesn’t exist. Meghan Trainor is the acceptance they should”. and accept that they are worthy of or skinny-shaming. I don’t think, using her personal identification respect. For once, it’s nice to be told, and I’m sure that the writers of this as a curvy girl to encourage other of curvier “I see the magazine workin’ that truthfully, that (some) men will fancy track don’t think, that this addresses girls to feel good about themselves, Photoshop you, whether you’re a size six or a all skinny girls as bitches. This and if even one person who has low women [...], so We know that shit ain’t real sixteen or a twenty-six. addresses the subset of people who self-esteem feels even a little bit more C’mon now, make it stop Trainor doesn’t generally engage may have something vindictive to confident about themselves in any why not let us If you got beauty, beauty, just raise ‘em in feminist discussion. It is likely say about voluptuous girls, who, by way whatsoever, then this song is a up that she, along with the majority of and large, will not be of a full-figured positive influence. Calling for the bigger girls ‘Cause every inch of you is perfect listeners of this song, aren’t reading body type. This comment is aimed song to be banned serves only to deny From the bottom to the top” into this song with the same ferocity at those, particularly those who are girls who identify with it any outlet have this one?" and vigilance as those who with to skinny, who may consider themselves for their personal acceptance, which is On the surface, Meghan Trainor rebuke it. When Trainor says, superior because of their diminutive by no means fair. 8 24.10.2014 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX Comment [email protected] Comment Editor Tessa Davey Dri night’s coverage does not whet the appetite

Nick Farmer responds to Felix’s article about the Union’s inaugural non-alcoholic night

suspect that I was not the only person disappointed to read I the news article “Lesson Learnt: Never go in Dri” in last week’s issue (Felix 1584). This awful pun aside, I felt that the article unfortunately misrepresented and undermined Imperial College Union’s ‘Dri’ night, its first ever alcohol-free club night. The event was aimed at students who, for various reasons, don’t drink, and might not feel comfortable with NICK FARMER COMMENT WRITER one of the Union’s typical boozy nights. This includes students under the age of 18 who cannot attend Union events at which alcohol is served, or even enter Union bars, due to licensing restrictions. These students are socially marginalized and excluded from most of the fun of Freshers’ Week events and are not able to make use of the social hub that is the Union bars. Dri night provided an opportunity for this group to access some of the facilities that the rest of us take for granted, an opportunity that around a hundred people, many of whom will have been under 18, took advantage of and presumably enjoyed. In this respect the event was a success. The article puts forward the contention that Dri night was some sort of Union ghost town experience, with tumbleweed rolling across the sticky floors of Metric and FiveSixEight. However, with attendance in three figures this can’t have been the quietest Monday night that the Union has seen this term, and seasoned veterans will all be able to remember nights in the Union bars when everyone present would have been able to fit into a cab. Quoting a dubious “anonymous Union source” with criticisms of the event, and ambiguously presenting a photo of the inside of Metric not taken at the event (captioned as The original article, as published in last week's issue. Photo: Carol Ann Cheah an ‘artist’s impression’ on page 7, but left uncaptioned on the front cover), doesn’t seem to be a fair representation of the night. They Oliver Benton’s response... didn’t seem to ask any people who were there if they enjoyed themselves Thanks for the response; I'm glad these students and engage with Union to account. This is sometimes either, which might have given a at least somebody, other than them. How to actually achieve this uncomfortable, as shown by the more accurate view of the event. the Union staff and Sabbs that is the tricky part and something I pre-emptive press release by the Providing events for non-drinkers, ‘checked over it’, actually read the can't pretend to have a solution for. Sabb team, but if an event doesn’t "The article and especially under-18s, is a worthy article. Social marginalisation of any work then that's unfortunate. goal. Indeed it was one of Chris I feel that the article may have student here is outright wrong and The idea to cater to non- misrepresented Kaye’s (this year’s Deputy President been slightly misinterpreted. everything should be done to avoid drinkers is a good one, only the (Welfare)) manifesto pledges. While I can, but won't, apologise this. implementation didn’t come off. and This kind of unreasonable attack for the puns that littered it, I do not While slightly tongue in cheek, While the choice of my sources may on an event that benefited students feel that it misrepresented Dri. (think of all the pun opportunities) seem “dubious”, unfortunately they undermined prejudices the Imperial community There are a huge proportion of the ‘unreasonable attack’ was an often want to remain anonymous against any other events that seek students at Imperial that don't article on an event that flopped. to protect their job, degree, the Union's Dri to include those who can’t, don’t or drink, and even more that don't Well-intentioned, this loss leader friendships etc. won’t drink, and negatively impacts drink to excess. to get people to come to the Union The suggestion that my source was night." on their ability to interact with other Imperial College, and the Union, clearly didn't work. fictional is false but you’re going to students and have a good time. could do a lot more to include Part of Felix's job is to hold the have to take my word for that. FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 24.10.2014 9 Science [email protected] Science Editor James Bezer & Lauren Ratcliffe Rare cancer drug shows promise Utsav Radia looks at research at Imperial on DTP3’s therapeutic potential

cientists at Imperial, led by calcium), the damaging effects of Professor Guido Franzoso, the paraprotein (such as peripheral Shave developed a new drug neuropathy or renal failure) and to be used in patients with multiple impaired immunity as a result of myeloma, a rare type of cancer reduced healthy immunoglobulins. affecting 4,800 new people every year Currently, multiple myeloma is in the UK. treated with two aims in mind: to help Multiple myeloma results from the to keep the myeloma under control proliferation of cancerous antibody- and to help with symptom relief. secreting cells (called neoplastic Treatment combinations to control plasma cells) in bone marrow and the myeloma usually consist of three other tissues. classes of drugs: a chemotherapy Physiologically, these plasma cells drug (e.g. cyclophosphamide), a are responsible for synthesising corticosteroid (e.g. prednisolone) and protective immunoglobulins (a either thalidomide or velcade. family of proteins that include Unfortunately, often patients tend antibodies) in response to a specific to relapse in which case additional antigen (which is usually foreign). anti-myeloma treatments have to be However, in a cancerous state, these given, adding to the plethora of side plasma cells start to secrete lots of effects that patients experience. abnormal (and often immature) Researchers at Imperial have immunoglobulin molecules, known reported laboratory findings that as paraproteins. show the new drug, DTP3, kills Patients with multiple myeloma myeloma cells in human cells and usually present with bone pain or a mice without causing any toxic side pathological fracture. Others may effects. The drug uses a completely even present with symptoms of different mechanism of action blurred vision (that may result from compared to other cytotoxic drugs. hyperviscosity of the blood due to DTP3 targets a biochemical step in high levels of paraprotein), kidney a process called the NF-kB pathway, damage, anaemia or even infection. which is involved in switching off Interestingly, in the early stages, the normal cellular mechanisms that multiple myeloma usually doesn’t naturally lead to cell death, hence cause any symptoms and it is usually prolonging (cancerous) cell survival. picked up after a routine blood or Professor Franzoso, lead scientist urine test, when the presence of of the study, explained “we had the abnormal immunoglobulins is known for many years that NF-kB detected. is very important for cancer cells, The clinical and pathological but because it is needed by healthy Myeloma cells stained under the microscope. Photo: myelomapennstate features of multiple myeloma are cells, we did not know how to block it mainly due to direct effects of the specifically...blocking [this specific] treating patients”. Franzoso’s research to ensure the drug, funded by the MRC, US tumour (bone invasion or fractures), pathway with our DTP3...[that] Further work is now being done quickest and safest way to administer National Institutes of Health and metabolic effects of the neoplastic selectively kills myeloma cells could to commercialise DTP3 and other this treatment in patients with Cancer Research UK is due to take cells (high plasma uric acid and offer a completely new approach to candidate drugs based on Professor multiple myeloma. A trial of this place in late 2015.

Graphene sensors used to study brain activity t seems there is no limit to the usefulness of graphene. Using graphene electrodes solves this problem, as In the few short years since its discovery, scientists graphene is so thin that it is completely transparent. Iand engineers have come up with countless ways that It's also one of the best conductors we know of, and so this two-dimensional form of carbon could transform produces very little noise in the signals received. And, our lives: graphene computer chips, graphene solar unlike metallic electrodes, they have the added benefit cells, graphene drug delivery systems – even graphene of being invisible on MRI scans. condoms. The authors of the paper, published in Nature A group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Communications, used their device to obtain extremely have added to this list by devloping a device which high resolution information on individual cells involved could significantly improve our current techniques for in seizures in rats, although it could easily be scaled up studying the electrical activity of brain tissue. to look at larger regions of tissue. To accurately investigate the cause of certain This device could easily be used in implants, not just neurological disorders, such as epilepsy, it’s often in the brain, but also in to monitor electrical activity necessary to obtain highly detailed information of the the peripheral nervous system and the heart. And locations and electrical activity of individual neurones because graphene is extremely inert, these implants in a patient. This is usually done by placing metallic are expected to last longer than conventional metallic electrodes on the surface of the brain, but these are ones. opaque and can obstruct the doctor’s view of the brain DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6258 tissue. JAMES BEZER 10 24.10.2014 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX Features [email protected] EditorFeatures Philippa Editor Skett VACANT Professor Sir John Pendry, inventor of the invisibilty cloak, tells Felix about his work, his past, and what makes him tick. Ben Fernando interviews Prof. Sir John Pendry, former head of the Imperial Physics department

rofessor Sir John Pendry, FRS, transmission of light through holds a Chair in Theoretical disordered materials – those where PSolid State Physics here at the light isn’t absorbed, but also isn’t Imperial. In 2014 he was awarded the transmitted because it’s all scattered $1M Kavli Prize by the Norwegian away. An example would be, say, a Academy of Science and Letters bottle of snow. in recognition of his work in the I was able to show that this was field of nano-optics. This article is a a bit like a maze, in that there was summary of an interview for Felix one particular path along which all that took place on September 26, the light was transmitted through 2014. such a medium. Obviously, this can massively increase the transmission Ben: So, would you mind telling me coefficient (the amount of light a little bit about yourself and your hitting the detector compared to the Photo: Imperial College work? amount incident). This result was only tested about This led on to working for the form silver appears black. John: Well, I started here in 1981, but three years ago, but a Dutch Group Marconi Company, looking at We called this new class of thankfully they still pay me so I guess were able to increase this coefficient materials used for radar absorption materials ‘metamaterials’. The I must still be considered worthwhile! by a factor of 10,000. One thing that on warships. They knew that the structure of the metamaterials was When I arrived here I was we’re looking at now is whether this carbon fibres were absorbing radar "Well actually altering their physical interested in surface structure and technique might be adapted to enable "Well, I well, but didn’t know why. After all sorts properties, and they allowed catalysis. I worked on electron better medical imaging through a started here doing some work on this, it turned of weird us to realise things that might diffraction data and surface person’s skin. in 1981, but out that the key wasn’t that the otherwise have not been possible. crystallography, before looking at In the mid-90’s, I moved on material was made from carbon, but things In optics you’re always constrained how waves move in disordered solids. to looking at optics, specifically thankfully rather that it had a fibrous nature. would by the available materials, but This is a really difficult thing to do, photonic crystals. These are weird they still pay Unlike most materials that you happen: the metamaterials raised the prospect of a and most of my work was ignored at crystals which are black at certain me so I guess might encounter, this meant that the material whole new science. the time and is only now coming to frequencies not because they absorb structure and not the composition One such class of materials would the fore. light but because they don’t let any I must still was the main determinant of the would have negative refractive indicies. One result that was really light in. I like to say that you couldn’t be considered material’s properties. Another good behave like What would this mean? Well all sorts important from all this came light a match inside one because worthwhile!" example is silver – crystalline silver a lens. " of weird things would happen: the about when I was looking at the there’d be nowhere for the light to go. is highly reflective, but in granular material would behave like a lens. It FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 24.10.2014 11 Features [email protected] EditorFeatures Philippa Editor Skett VACANT

increase light intensity by factors of ‘transformation optics’. up to 100,000. This is getting on for Recently we’ve been looking what a laser can do. But our nanoscale to concentrate light in more concentrations of light would be far interesting ways, using more complex less expensive and dangerous than a transformations. We can even do high-power laser. an inversion, which basically turns These incredibly intense things inside out. concentrations of light lead us to Imagine that we have a slab of another amazing thought. Light silver, and then the electrons in the doesn’t normally ‘switch’ with itself. silver form waves on the surface of “Once I had What I mean is that two photons the sea of delocalised electrons. rarely interact in a useful manner. We call these surface plasmons. A Electrons are very good at this, molecule at the surface will radiate they can scatter off each other, and plasmons off to infinity, but if we modern electronics work off this do an inversion suddenly the points principle. But with light, in order swap around. to get it to interact you normally The infinity becomes the origin, the Harry have to change it into an electron, and vice versa. Because we change the then interact with it before changing energy scale, the light at the point of it back into a photon. But at these origin gets slower and slower as the intense concentrations, light might energy from infinity piles up. We can begin to interact with itself – we could basically crush light to intensities a possibly make routing switches and million times more than what we had Potter optical chips, maybe even one day before. we’ll be able to do computing with By doing different mathematical light. transformations on the silver, we can To properly understand this, we create all sorts of different structures. have to throw away Snell’s law and In fact, we’ve been able to make a go back to Maxwell’s Equations. radar dish that weighs a few hundred aspect under In fact, let’s go all the way back grams, where a conventional concave to Einstein. He talked about how lens would weigh ten or twenty times space can be stretched or squashed, as much. We have a ‘flat lens’ that and that light rays are affected by refracts differently at its centre to this distortion. Now we know that at its edge, thus allowing us to focus Maxwell’s equations differ from light. This was commissioned by control, it was Snell’s law in that they deal with Boeing, and looks like a poppadom. fields of force, rather than rays. How Other companies like Toyota are do the field lines behave when space interested in these because they gets distorted? might be able to use them in collision Well, it turns out they behave like avoidance radar in driverless cars they’re embedded in space. I like to – the reduced size compared to a much simpler think of this as wires in a rubber sheet conventional lens would bring all (the kind that people often use to sorts of advantages. visualise space) – they move with the We’ve also been looking into distortion. So we can control light be developing phased radar arrays, stretching and pulling space. That’s which instead of sweeping a beam all good, but we can’t really pull space around the sky simply sit on a silicon at will, we’re not black holes. block that delivers the right phase to get people It turns out that we don’t need to. of light to the lens. When a specific We can use General Relativity to phase hits a specific part of the lens write down Maxwell’s equations in it sends the light in a particular a different format, and the metric direction. (a measure of how squashed space These could be a lot cheaper and is) sits exactly where we’d expect plug into a USB port, so Bill Gates is interested” the refractive index to sit in the interested as it might enable internet equations. So we don’t need to squash access to be brought to remote space to make like switch, rather communities, for example in Africa. we can do this just by changing the Or we might be able to use this to do refractive index that the light’s in, MRI scans that are less risky as there which has the same effect as changing are no RF fields going all over the Photo: Imperial College the distortion of the space the light place that can heat things up in your is in. body. wouldn’t even need to be shaped, a provocative title The Perfect Lens. It turns out that the materials you simple slab of it could do the job. That was back in 2000, and there was need to do this are rather exotic, "The B: Wow. That's quite a set of I was working on this one a big storm over it. Lots of people got and have negative refractive indices. achievements! I don't even know Sunday morning (which as Head of very upset, and even now continue to Now most people wouldn’t light outreach where to start or what to ask. I'll Department sometimes feels like "So insist that I was wrong. But they’re up when they saw this set of partial has been need some time to think about it the only time you get to do your own eventually just digging holes, and as the holes get differential equations, but it turns fun, I guess. For now though, just one research!) when I realised that the I published deeper their voices get fainter. out that they let us design a cloaking and the question: are you hoping to get any lens could be ‘perfect’ – it wouldn’t be the paper In the end that became my most device. The field lines deviate, they more invites from Scandinavian limited to resolving things the size famous (or infamous!) paper, and is don’t go through the object but also [invisibility Academies, perhaps to Stockholm? of the wavelength as normal lenses under the at over 5,000 citations and counting. don’t scatter away – they come back cloak] work are – it’d be something quite new and rather The lens we’d come up with broke the together on the far side of the object. has led to J: I would like to have a flat in central extraordinary. provocative Law of Abbe, which says that the size Once I had the Harry Potter aspect London one day, so that would be For a while I thought that I must of the wavelength is the best that you under control, it made it much me being nice! I had a lovely week in Norway have made a mistake somewhere. title The can do in optics. simpler to get people interested. awarded when I won the Kavli, so we’ll see Everyone agreed, but no one could Perfect Using things that you’d ordinarily The outreach has been fun, and the the Kavli what happens next. find the mistake. So eventually I Lens." think were not lens-like at all, like work has led to me being awarded published the paper under the rather metallic silver, we were able to the Kavli Prize for this so-called Prize" B: Good luck! We'll be in touch. 12 24.10.2014 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX

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Welcome to Net Neutrality – what’s it to you? Felix Tehnology 2014-15

Jamie Dutton discusses the equality of the internet JAMIE DUTTON TECH EDITOR

Hello and welcome to a new academic year at Imperial College – “A world famous centre for engineering and technology” (according to that bloke who narrates The Apprentice). I'll be your section editor this year alongside Osama Awara – you may remember him from such articles last year as “5 Things Consoles Are Killing” and “Cyber Black Market Is No More”. We are both keen on our gadgets and technology and will hopefully keep you entertained every week. While this section has been sorting itself out, a lot of major press releases and technological developments have been missed out. If you've picked up a new piece of tech in the last few months then we want you to contribute to our section with a review, or some comments. It is very important that we get lots of contributors, to avoid bias in our reviews. But it's not just gadgets we are concerned about. We also want articles about website news, internet security or anything else you think would fit this page. So if you want to review a shiny-new phone, recommend what should be written about or contribute in any way, please don't hesitate to e-mail us at: [email protected]. President Obama asks Vice-President Biden why Pornhub isn't loading as quickly as usual. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

ou may have heard about everyone queues in the same line for successful because they were proven (smashing previous FCC record of 1.4 open web for everyone”. internet fast-lanes over the internet access with no bias towards by the internet-visiting public million comments on Janet Jackson’s Sufficient ISP competition in YSummer and it’s been a highly rich or successful websites. that they were superior to their Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction the UK and an EU law (set in April contentious issue particularly in the So what is the benefit of the fast- competitors. Today, a new start- in 2005). A study of the comments 2014) blocking the ISP’s ability to US. Most of us have grown up on an lane system? One argument is that up search engine or video-hosting showed that less than 1 percent charge traffic-heavy websites for internet where all websites have been the revenue brought in from big website would have to struggle even of commenters were against net faster network access means that treated equally, where data exchange websites can be invested in improving more to gain success with the major neutrality – evidence that the internet this is unlikely to affect you. But it is not biased towards any particular consumer service; upgrading players in the market controlling community is not one to piss-off. is certainly worth at least thinking company or brand. technology, supplying fast-internet the fast-lanes. People thinking of Fortunately for those in support of people in the US, the richest However, in January this year to a wider range of people and accessing these new budding sites of net neutrality, there is one man economy in the world, whose citizens Federal Courts in the US nullified generally improving the performance would be either significantly slowed who has been a key component in may have to pay over-the-odds for a ruling laid out by the Federal of the internet for everyone. This is down or blocked completely, thss preventing fast-lanes in becoming services freely available worldwide. Communications Commission (FCC) making the large assumption that is the nature of the absence of net widespread occurrence – Barack For awareness about the trouble faced stating that it is illegal for internet the ISPs aren’t just going to use the neutrality. Obama. In fact in 2007, before his by millions of American citizens, service providers (ISPs) to block money to fill their pockets, which is However, it is likely that consumers reign as US president began he you may have been affected by online traffic or offer preferential a realistic issue in the US where the could also be negatively affected stated that he and his party would be the “Internet Slowdown Day” that treatment. The consequence of this competition for internet service is by this ruling. It is in the realms of explicitly against an abolishment of took place on the 10th September overruling is that the massive ISPs low (or even zero in monopolised possibility that ISPs would be able to net neutrality and said that this sort 2014. Many websites with a variety in America (Verizon, Comcast) can regions). Companies such as Comcast charge extra for customer access to of system “destroys one of the best of renown and wealth came out in give wealthy websites access to ‘fast- and Verizon offer poor service for websites that require more bandwidth things about the internet – which support of net neutrality and slowed lanes’. The concept is fairly simple astronomical prices, just because they (such as Youtube or Netflix). In high- is that there is incredible equality down access to their content and – multimillion dollar companies are able to and canning net neutrality competition areas, this could result there”. And perhaps unlike some displayed a “spinning wheel of death”, pay the ISPs a fee depending on how is not going to assist this sort of issue. in the bulk of the internet being other of his policies, he has stuck showing what a world without net quickly they want consumers to The main victims of this system basically inaccessible. to his guns on this subject, stating neutrality could be like. access their content. The ISPs then are start-up companies. Many of Many people in the US realise this on the 9th October 2014, that he is The whole situation is fairly organise the rate of data exchange the companies, paying significant is a realistic obstacle in the way of “unequivocally” committed to net similar to the protests against the between the website and the amounts of money, would not be their ability to freely surf the web neutrality. Another major supporter Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and consumer. This system is analogous where they are today without net in the foreseeable future. The FCC is Tim Berners-Lee, the grandfather PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in January to premium airline boarding services neutrality because in the past, the welcomed comments from the public of the internet. He urged, in March 2012. Over 115,000 websites joined where people willing to spend more internet has been a fair battlefield on their opinions on the abolishment 2014, that internet users insist on the protest and the legislation was money can get on the aircraft faster. for competition. Companies such of net neutrality and over 3.7 million the development of a “digital bill of significantly altered in favour of the The idea of ‘net neutrality’ is that as Google and Youtube became comments were received in total rights” that would “advance a free and internet’s opinions on the matter. FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 24.10.2014 13 Music [email protected] Music Editors Grace Rahman & Amna Askari I due Foscari at the Royal Opera House Connal O’Neill reviews the opening night of the new production

pening night of a new production at the Royal OOpera House (ROH) is always an exiting night, and this was no exception, with world renowned tenor (now baritone) Plácido Domingo heading up the cast sheet. This compact piece is one of Verdi’s early works and has all of the themes and idioms we have come to know and love in his later works. In many ways I due Foscari can be seen as a precursor to Don Carlo. The story is taken from the Byron play of the same name (The Two Foscari). Set in 15th Century Venice, it tells of an ageing Doge who has lost most of his family to the plague. His one remaining son has been accused of murder and is to be exiled or executed. Will the Doge follow his duty as a statesman or as a Father? Domingo is a singer I have always wanted to see live; his powerful voice so familiar from The Three Tenors. While his voice is not the glimmering beast of ten years ago, the brilliance of timbre is still there and still unmistakable. He was captivating as the Doge and was missed whenever absent from the stage. His acting, phrasing and stage presence were perfection, however, baritonal his voice is not and his first couple of As someone who hasn't seen the show yet, the reasoning behind this scene is unclear, but it seems exciting enough. Photo: Cotidianul scenes were crying out for a richer lower register. However, one persistent problem for an opera. Its three acts clocked the curtain, allowing mood and pace This is a good opera, with some Meli plays the accused son of the was his lack of projection. His voice in at under two hours (excluding to be maintained. handsome tunes and a simple but Doge. A good actor with a good did not feel big enough for the space the interval) and as such there is not The production was hit and miss, riveting plot. A must see for any voice, his highs were beautifully despite its tone being indicative of the much time for character development entertaining and original at times, Domingo fans. controlled. In the opening scenes his Verdi repertoire. with all characters either being and at others rather non specific and This incarnation of I due foscari performance was lacking a degree Agresta, playing his wife, was roughly painted or merely reduced to bland. Surely Venice does not lack is running until 2nd November. With of lyricism but this cleared up as the captivating and entertaining, but like stereotypes. Cue evil bass villain with visual inspiration. It occasionally student ID tickets are £16. It is also night went on which may have been Meli didn’t truly come into her own a penchant for power snatching. had the feel of a smaller house’s streaming live from the Royal Opera the result of some opening night until after the interval. Before each act a quick synopsis of production stretched to fit ROH’s House to ODEON cinemas nationwide jitters. This piece is incredibly compact the action off stage was projected onto colossal stage. at 19:15 27th October.

What’s on this week... Friday, 24th October: Monki and friends @ Fabric two London dates will presumably feature unheard new Despite being only 21, DJ Monki has already secured material from his long-awaited debut album. a regular slot on Radio 1 and is part of Annie Mac's infamous AMP crew. Catch her tonight as part of a Thursday, 30th October: Jungle @ Shepherds Bush promising line-up that includes hit-makers Redlight. Empire Until recently shrouded in mystery and often literal Saturday, 25th October: St Vincent @ The darkness, Jungle return to their native Shepherds Bush Roundhouse with catchy-as-heck tracks from their much hyped Annie Clark brings her ethereal shredding to the eponymous debut album, which is hotly tipped to win hallowed halls of The Roundhouse for a sold out show. this year's Mercury Music Prize. Beg, steal or become a groupie in time for a ticket to what is sure to be part gig, part religious experience. The Tings Tings @ XOYO Shut up and let me go! We won’t judge you for partying Monday, 27th October: Raleigh Ritchie @ Heaven like it’s 2008. With a new album, Super Critical, out Forget Finn Jones spinning discs in Metric, Game of later this month, this Mancunian duo's boppy brand Thrones’ Grey Worm moonlights as a singer-songwriter. of electropop is sure to draw a nostalgic crowd to Performing as Raleigh Ritchie, he just collaborated with Shoreditch on Thursday. Tickets still available. Little Simz on the desperately cool Cuckoo and these 14 24.10.2014 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX Television [email protected] Television Editors Guila Gabrielli & John Park

Shonda’s other Shonda’s legal murder mystery money-making shows John Park learns How to Get Away with Murder

hat’s how you get away with murder, says professor TAnnalise Keating, played by the ferociously talented Viola Davis, as she walks away from a blackboard in her criminal law college class. “I want to be her,” says one of her students, and we do not blame her for feeling Grey's Anatomy, now in its this way. Annalise Keating is a tough, eleventh season, is almost shark of a criminal defence attorney, unrecognisable from its first comparable to the great Patty Hewes season now. More than half of (Glenn Close) of Damages. the original interns are gone now, ABC’s new ratings hit, How to Get residents and attendings have Away with Murder, made with the come and gone, but at least we backing of executive producer Shonda Photo: deadline still have Meredith Grey (Ellen Rhimes, who currently has three hit Pompeo) working in the world's shows under her name airing on the most promiscuous hospital to be same night over in the States, benefits Photo: tvafterdark able to call the show what it is. greatly from having such a firm, Marital troubles are on the untouchable, ambiguous heroine this acronym will become a thing), in horizon for Meredith and Derek leading the rest of the talented cast. that unlike the majority of American Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), Morally dubious and unpredictable network television shows that tend also for Callie (Sara Ramirez) at every turn, this new legal thriller to have 20+ episodes per season, this and Arizona (Jessica Capshaw), of the 2014-15 season is simply an series will only have 15. So instead although the biggest storyline unmissable treat. Davis provides a of filler episodes of middling quality here is the introduction of yet cool, slick figure who is the definition that drag on until some shocking another half-sister of Meredith, of a confident career woman. She series finale leaves a massive Dr Maggie Pierce (Kelly loves a challenge in the courtroom, cliffhanger, it seems more likely that McCreary), whose birth parents and does not let a significant setback Photo: blackamericaweb there is a clearer sense of direction are Richard Weber (James make a dent in her case for her clients. and structure to the way things are Pickens Jr.) and Ellis Grey (Kate Essentially, whenever Davis is on the who wouldn’t think twice about headed. This is a sharp, fast-paced Burton), who is also Meredith's screen, very little can go wrong. She backstabbing, Laurel Castillo (Karla legal thriller with lots of murder and mother. Get ready for drama, has weak spots too, however, ones that Souza) is the quietest one but this lots of sex. along with some thundering are shown in her private moments, by no means affects her intellectual Despite the many, many positives, medical emergencies and and Davis shows that she excels capabilities, and Asher (Matt it’s not a perfect show. Not quite yet heartbreaking patient stories. not only in the earthy, dominating McGorry) is just as keen as everyone anyway. There is a lot to squeeze courtroom scenes, but she also else, but with perhaps the sharpest in to the 40-minute episode block, knocks it out of the park in her more sense of humour. The chemistry the and because of this certain elements vulnerable moments in which she young members of the cast share is of the storytelling are sacrificed. looks truly frightened for whatever impeccable; there is a fiery dynamic Showing how each case is solved reason. among the finely assembled group, takes the biggest hit, as very often The series has a similar format and they do not hold back the rest loose ends are tied up in the most to Damages. Using flashforwards of the more experienced cast one ridiculous fashion, court proceedings, and flashbacks, we see a group of bit. Enough time is spent with each confessions and investigations Professor Keating’s students trying student every week to reveal more happen within seconds, and the to cover up a murder. Then we about them to the audience, and it is superhero group of lawyers and Scandal is crazier than ever in its rewind to three months ago, when the gradual revelation of everyone’s students assembled are capable of 4th season. they started in Professor Keating’s true nature that keeps us guessing doing quite literally anything that Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington Criminal Law 100 class. The five about who we should be rooting for. helps them win a case. Some narrative – where’s her Emmy?!) wanted to students assist Professor Keating Annalise’s associates at her law tension is undoubtedly lost as there get away from it all, but it does and her two associates with their firm also have meaty roles to play. are very few difficulties that need not take long before she is called high-profile criminal cases, not all of Bonnie Winterbottom (Liza Weil) overcoming. back to help be Washington, them murders, in a self-concluding, is not as nice as she first appears to But it is a new show with plenty of D.C.’s best fixer. President Grant criminal-case-of-the-week type of be, although getting the job done potential. The season-long story arc (Tony Goldwyn) is still clearly not format, then we get what appears to to help the case as a trustworthy is setting up the show to be highly over her, whereas his wife Mellie be a season-long story arc that deals second-in-command is what makes addictive. (Bellamy Young – where's her with the disappearance, and eventual her valuable. Very little is known Emmy?!) is struggling to come murder of a college student, all the about Frank Delfino (Charlie Weber) to terms with her son's sudden while developing the characters of the for the moment, aside from the fact death. main cast. that he likes sleeping with female "This is a Everyone in the cast beautifully What is quickly established is the "Essentially students. But the way he mysteriously performs the word-heavy, speedy nature and dynamic of the five main whenever broods and goes about his days sharp, fast- dialogue, and the amount of lies students who get the chance to work [Viola] helping Annalise suggests that he paced legal and deception that start piling for Professor Keating. Wes Gibbons has a lot more going on than what thriller up week after week is asking for (Alfred Enoch) was only barely Davis is on is initially suggested. Tom Verica more and more trouble. When accepted off the college waiting list, the screen, plays Annalise’s husband Sam, with lots it all comes to a head, expect Connor Walsh (Jack Falahee) is a sly very little who also becomes entangled in all of murder nothing but fireworks. young man using his sexuality for can go the flashback/forward drama and and lots of information, Michaela (Aja Naomi mysteries. sex." JOHN PARK King) is an ambitious, driven woman wrong." More good news for HTGAWM (yes, Photo: tvfanatic FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 24.10.2014 15 Television [email protected] Television Editors Guila Gabrielli & John Park The apocalypse will be televised Giulia Gabrielli discusses TV’s new doomsday trend

interesting relationship plots. Town of the Living Dead, on the other hand, is a harmless attempt at a living-dead-comedy-improv. And why not, I say? Well, because unfortunately, when you take the drama out of the apocalypse, it turns out that, as a situation, it is hard to squeeze any comedy out of it. Photo: moviepilot The Strain is Guillermo del Toro’s Photo: horrorsociety spin on the apocalyptic scenario, if you enjoyed his performance as and as such definitely has some McSteamy in Grey’s Anatomy, you It is universally known that television thinking The Last Ship or The Strain, interesting moments. However, probably won’t be disappointed to see and cinema feed from each other are also gaining popularity. vampire zombies is a bit much. The Photo: thecalifornian him in a uniform. for themes and topics. Therefore, it Z Nation and Town of the Living Last Ship is a different story entirely. So, can we expect this trend to comes as no surprise that a zombie- Dead are both part of the network Based on a ship sent out to see at Rhona Mitra (who also starred in decline soon? Eric Dane aside, the obsession that started in 1968 with Syfy’s Thursday night zombie- the beginning of an epidemic to the apocalyptic Doomsday, probably end of the world is an attractive the release of Romero’s epic Night fest. The first is a slightly less develop a vaccine, the show boasts the chavviest movie ever made) and scenario. The spread of an infection of the Living Dead and brought us sophisticated version of The Walking great performances by British actress sex god Eric Dane. I am not kidding, points at the downfalls of our society. films like 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Dead. Writers haven’t bothered Real monsters are often normal Later, the rest of the Romero saga and with providing a pre-zombie look healthy humans. Emotions are Resident Evil: Apocalypse (I refuse to into the characters persona or the heightened. Friendships are born acknowledge the rest of the series) has ante-apocalyptic world in general. between implausible characters. massively hit the small screen. Electricity still seems to be working Power-struggles, desperate romances More of the same medicine, some in many cases, with lifts casually and plots to save loved ones make might say, and there is some truth operating like an everyday Monday at for a good story. Writers are going to that. However, shows such as Z the office. to continue exploiting this source Nation, Town of the Living Dead and Don’t let these details bother you of creative richness for a while. So, the more celebrated and raved about however, because the show actually as Jesse Eisenberg’s character is The Walking Dead definitely have provides excellent gore (admittedly Zombieland would say, “Fasten your something to add. Viewers even seem the zombie baby was a gross misuse of seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy to want more, as series focusing on CGI, and unfortunately it became one ride.” simple deadly epidemic scenarios, I’m of the promotional pictures…) and Photo: hollywoodreporter Coming soon in future issues of Felix TV...

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American Horror Story: Freak Show Gotham State of Affairs Madam Secretary The Flash

Not exactly the most politically A prequel to the Batman saga, we Katherine Heigl, after starring in Who says there is no good writing for The superhero genre is no doubt correct title for a television show, not follow Detective James Gordon trying disappointing rom-coms, returns to women in television? Téa Leoni plays saturated wherever we look, but that Ryan Murphy ever cared about to keep order in the dark, damp, what made her famous television. She Elizabeth McCord, the new Secretary network channel CW is posting some something like that. Once again, corrupt city of Gotham. Young Bruce plays a CIA analyst who is responsible of State who comes aboard after the great numbers with The Flash, a following the tradition of the American Wayne sees his parents gunned down for delivering “ The List” to the previous Secretary’s sudden death. spinoff show from another of its hit Horror Story anthology, the cast is full in the pilot episode, and Detective President of the United States (Alfre Each episode deals with interesting, show, Arrow. A freak accident leaves of recognisable, talented names, and Gordon is assigned to solve the case. Woodard), containing the top ten complex international crises of some Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) with the setting is suitably bloody, twisted The show will also involve origins most critical threats the country is sorts, ones that the writers guide us superhuman speed, something he uses and downright bizarre. Will this stories of many iconic Batman villains, facing. A political conspiracy thriller, through, and Leoni plays the role with to serve the public good. Will there be live up to the highs of Murder House, such as Penguin, Riddler, Catwoman, it is yet to be seen whether this will put enough serious, stoic energy, and just a crossover between the two shows? Asylum and avoid the low of Coven? Joker, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, etc. Heigl’s name back on the map. the right amount of humour. Never say never. Are your Wednesday afternoons as Dri as a non- alcoholic bar night? Join Felix, we can Whet your journalistic appetite

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£8.50 online £9.50 on the door entry includes 4 beers/bombs Search “ACC Bar Night” on facebook for tickets 22 24.10.2014 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX Film [email protected] Film Editors Ellen Mathieson, John Park & Jack Steadman “Dai, your gays have arrived”

trailers and posters he is sidelined, PRIDE but he is excellent in every scene that Director: Matthew Warchus is focused to his character. Screenplay: Stephen Beresford The Welsh women have more fun Cast: Bill Nighy, Imelda than their male counterparts in the Staunton, Dominic West, film, with a group of them, led by Andrew Scott, Ben Schnetzer Hefina and Gwen visiting gay clubs in London, pushing their way in despite it there being a “ men only” policy. “Oh don’t be daft” says Hefina, as they dance away with gay men. JOHN PARK Staunton as always, is spectacular, SECTION EDITOR bringing a whole load of fun energy into the mix, acting as a matriarch of sorts, helping with the smooth ased on an incredible true transition of outsiders coming into story that you have probably their tightly-knit community, always Bnever even heard of, Pride standing firm on the issue of equality. tells the story of how Welsh miners Photo: horrorcultfilms Hefina is an admirable character teamed up with a group of gays and played by an actress who is on top lesbians to fight the oppression miners. Of course, it is support that dance floor with his funky moves. of her game. Gwen provides healthy from the Thatcher government and no one asked for, and no one really You would never expect someone like support, always providing great her bullying antics. It shows the wants. At the height of homophobia West to be in such a goofy role, but laughs, with Jessica Gunning also as unlikeliest of people coming together in Britain, very few people are he is perfect in it. Never too over- a younger wife, but by no means less forming an alliance, and the initial willing to associate with individuals the-top to be reduced to a simplistic impassioned, having her moment to struggle shown in the film for the branded as “ perverts”. But one mining caricature, but a well-written shine. two groups to bond is somewhat of a village in Wales is welcome to have character who has more to say and do There is a lot to squeeze in. Each predictable starting point. them around, and accept their than just have one highlight dance character has something profound In fact, once you get to know the generous donations. Schnetzer plays sequence; it just so happens that West to say and go through, but even general plot synopsis, the entire gist determined and stubborn well, the dancing to ‘Shame Shame Shame’ is so fleeting shots of their lives are of the film can be played out easily. kind of attitude that gets things done, unexpected that it is that much more enough to provide the tears and the First there is the struggle for the but also is prone to attract trouble too. enjoyable. laughs. Despite having fun with the more flamboyant gays and lesbians Among the more forward-thinking, Mainly told from the point of view subject, the film never forgets to the to integrate into the conservative open-minded people in Wales are Dai of Joe (George MacKay), a young address the more serious, darker side Welsh community, but after a few (Paddy Considine), who first meet the man recently coming to terms with to this movement. Not everything speeches and memorable events, group and decide to give them a place his homosexuality, all the strange, went smoothly, there were those there is a breakdown in prejudice and to stay in his living room, Cliff (Bill wonderful, new things experienced willing to take down the LGSM ignorant hate, with the two groups Nighy) and Hefina (Imelda Staunton), by him are directly shown to the movement using devious methods. coming together in a touching display who are essentially the elders of the audience. His first Pride march in We do get hate crime taking place, of unity to march together for rights. community, Gwen (Menna Trussler), which there are objects being thrown complications arising, and given how There is absolutely nothing new here, who has some innocent but hilarious at them, plus a sign that reads “ burn the miners’ strike ended, you get the but because of the way this story is questions about lesbians, and Sian in hell”, his first party, first charity feeling that not everyone has a happy told and presented, Pride works to a (Jessica Gunning), a housewife and collection, first kiss, and frequent ending coming for them. Pride shows surprisingly stirring and hilarious mother who takes interest in the adventures to Wales that open his that no matter how much something level. village politics. But for every man eyes to the bigger outside world, makes sense, and no matter how It starts off as a pet project for and woman who is happy to welcome all the while falling behind on his many brilliant minds and genuine Mark (Ben Schnetzer – an American them with open arms, there are those cooking studies whilst following his people get together to back it up, actor who flawlessly gets by with his who are actively resistant to their passion. MacKay is a pleasantly doe- sometimes things just are not meant Welsh accent), marching at a Gay input. eyed, innocent-looking addition to to be. Pride event of 1984. Noticing that The initial struggling period is have as a lead, providing a fresh set of However the film does find a way the “ mining community is being marred with ups and downs. Among eyes on what is happening. Unlike the to finish on a joyous note. One that bullied, just like we [gays and lesbians] the happier events is a scene in which other members of LGSM, Joe is a shy, mirrors the 1984 Pride march shown are”, it is that classic notion of “the Jonathan (Dominic West), a member insecure youngster who ends up in earlier in the film, but this time with enemy of my enemy is a friend” that of LGSM (Lesbians and Gays Support the group by pure chance. But as his an extra twist. A twist that will surely gives him the idea to support the the Miners), starts taking over the confidence grows and he starts taking have your heart melting at the sight "It just so charge of his own future, you see the of human kindness, compassion and happens personal journey of self-discovery friendship. Being kind to one another, in Joe, in the midst of the progress it seems, worked out well for the that West LGSM makes with the miners. characters of Pride. dancing Speaking of personal journeys, to 'Shame another heart-warming plot strand "Being belongs to Gethin (Andrew Scott, of Shame the Sherlock fame), a gay bookstore kind to one Shame' is owner who has not been back to another, so unex- his home town in Wales for fear of it seems, judgement from his mother. Scott pected that appears to be a master at giving the worked out it is that smallest of looks and twitches on well for the much more his face, and yet portraying so many characters enjoyable." emotions at the same time. He has of Pride." Photo: hamburg-news a relatively smaller role, even in the Photo: hitfix FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 24.10.2014 23 Film [email protected] Film Editors Ellen Mathieson, John Park & Jack Steadman “You are all grounded” John Park sits Shiva with the Altmans in This is Where I Leave You

Director: Shawn Levy that this underdeveloped history well, starting all the way from Screenplay: Jonathan Tropper between Wendy and Horry are going the matriarch, right down to the Cast: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, to waste. children and their significant love Jane Fonda, Corey Stoll What blossoms between Penny interests. Fonda is hilarious as and Judd also seem rushed. Being the inappropriate mother having the principle character, Judd needs undergone a brand new boob-job, to have a way to get a happy ending. and the veteran actress still has what Penny is pushed in front of the it takes to command the screen in hen the Altman patriarch cameras to act all smiley and nice her strong performance, although passes away it is only with Judd, without giving these two the final reveal in her character is Wnatural for the rest of the characters much context to work something so poorly managed that no family and their significant others to with. actress could have made it work to a come and honour his memory. And Of course when brothers get convincing level. we all know that when siblings get together, there is bound to be a The tender moments come and go, together, it does not take long for all physical fight of some sorts. Insults much like the memorable comedic hell to break loose, with hurt feelings, Photo: youtube fly and tempers flare up, especially scenes, but there is simply not enough sibling rivalry, years of jealousy and when Paul tends to have anger issues of either to truly satisfy even in just resentment starting to bubble up as reeling from the affair his wife Quinn (Debra Monk). And there is a good and the youngest Phillip gets a kick one aspect of the film. As family every minute passes under the roof. (Abigail Spencer) had with his sleazy reason to explain this. out of baiting his older brother, not dramedies go, Shawn Levy’s This is As the matriarch, Hillary (Jane boss Wade (Dax Shepherd), and There is arguably way too much so dissimilar to how August: Osage Where I Leave You tells a very average Fonda) grounds her four children Phillip is a playboy who may or may history here to catch up on, with County shows its meltdown, in one of story about being a middle-aged for the next seven days as they sit not have found the perfect woman in everyone vying for some coherent the film’s more dramatic moments. adult, one that is elevated by a great shivva for the dead dad. The four therapist Tracy (Connie Britton). And story time. So instead of delving The cast performs exceptionally cast of big names. children who gather are Paul (Corey Hillary? Well she is the mother kids deeply into each sibling, we only get Stoll), Wendy (Tina Fey), Judd (Jason are embarrassed of being with, given fleeting shots and vague ideas of what Bateman), and Phillip (Adam Driver). how she goes around saying things happened between everyone. Each remaining Altman member has like “the man was hung” about her It is a shame the film decides to pull drama and baggage of their own to dead husband. away at all the wrong moments. For handle, which is what makes up the The crowded cast list does not instance, Wendy has a significant running time, on the background of a end there. Judd gets a new romantic past story with Horry, something that family tragedy. interest with Penny (Rose Byrne) signals heartbreak given how Wendy Paul and his wife Annie (Kathryn the sort-of high school sweetheart of declares that she will never love Hahn), who used to date Judd, are his, who is now teaching in a local ice someone the way she did Horry. And struggling to get pregnant. Wendy skating rink, and Horry (Timothy in a rare, more dramatic role, Fey is a mother of two with a husband Olyphant), an old flame of Wendy’s does excel. She even gets the chance (Aaron Lazar) more preoccupied is still living across the street from to throw a good punch to protect the with his work than family, Judd is the Altmans with his mother Linda Altman name. But there is a sense Photo: screencrave

This week at Imperial Cinema Disney and arthouse cinema are classic fairytale, Maleficent (played to another whilst his errant, way to bring realism onto the screen; not two words that are often used by Angelina Jolie) becomes more charismatic father (Ethan Hawke) the characters literally grow up in in the same sentence but this week than just a 2-dimensional villain. intermittently enters his life. As front of your eyes. we are bringing you an exciting Showing 18:30 Tuesday 28th and 21:45 Mason grows up, he displays a The result? Boyhood is an (and slightly random) double bill Thursday 30th perceptive wisdom beyond his years astonishing achievement that feels featuring both! and it becomes clear that his parents less like a film and more like an Boyhood might be the ones that are more in observation of a young life. Showing Maleficent Director: Richard Linklater need of growing up. 20:30 Tuesday 28th and 18:30 Thursday Director: Robert Stormberg Screenplay: Richard Linklater Boyhood is devoid of stagey 30th. Screenplay: Linda Woolverton Cast: Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, cathartic moments and instead Cast: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning Patricia Arquette chronicles the everyday events of life: riding a bike, school, falling in Everyone knows the story of Sleeping You're unlikely to ever see another love. Under Linklater's naturalistic Beauty: girl is cursed to prick her film like Boyhood. Director Richard direction, these seemingly mundane finger on a spinning wheel, falls Linklater filmed over a 12-year moments always feel engaging and into a deep sleep, gets saved by period with the same cast to chart true to life. her prince charming, yadda yadda one boy's journey from early No matter how far removed your yadda. Maleficent tells the story from childhood to late adolescence. life is from Mason's, it's impossible the perspective of the powerful fairy Through his eyes, we see Mason's not to see personal instances that who placed the curse on Aurora dysfunctional family unit morph you can identify with. Linklater turns in the first place. In a clever, and as his mother (Patricia Arquette) what could have been a directional Photo: wired visually spectacular reworking of the jumps from one bad relationship gimmick into a completely authentic Photo: gimlifilm 24 24.10.2014 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX Arts [email protected] Arts Editor Fred Fyles & Kamil McClelland

Editorial: An Artistic Frieze – Where Art Goes To Die Drought Hits the Capital FRED FYLES & KAMIL MCCLALLAND ARTS EDITORS

Kamil McClelland is disgusted by this year’s Frieze London was thrown into a feeding hen men die, they enter bombardment set in, making it frenzy last week, as culture vultures into history. When statues difficult to appreciate what you from around the world descended on die, they enter into art. were seeing. The Frieze has swollen the city to feast on its artistic innards. W Yes, it was Frieze week, the (alleged) This botany of death is what we call to grotesque proportions, crammed highlight of London's cultural calendar! culture. These powerful opening full of substance, like a bloated, But as quickly as it came, this tornado of lines from the 1953 film ‘Les Statues waterlogged corpse that has been chequebooks and perfectly manicured Meurent Aussi’ (‘Statues Also Die’) - dragged out of the Regent’s Park nails disappeared, to return again next originally made as a critique of the Boating Lake. The fact is that this is year. In our article on the fair, we reflect West’s consumerist attitude towards not how art should be viewed, in an on this white elephant of Regent's Park African art – resonated with me as I environment more akin to a cattle and its implications on London's cultural went around London’s 12th annual market than an art gallery. landscape. Frieze Art Fair, where art exists only But I can understand why the However, just as we lament a lost past, as a commodity, a soulless husk. galleries act as they do. Here, they are Lizzie Riach speaks with optimism in her I visited the fair last year and was in a highly competitive environment, My Art piece about The Other Art Fair, quite upbeat; there was an air of youth and so they are naturally going suggesting that there is still a vibrant and dynamism about it and you felt to display their most famous and and very much alive art scene in the East as if you might be seeing the ‘next big valuable pieces because that is where of the capital. As a fair aiming to exhibit thing’. Of course, as with any fair, you the money and reputation lies. the 99% of artists not represented by a were aware that the art on display was However, with that, the essence commercial gallery, hopefully this news from out east bodes well for the health primarily there to be sold but you did of the art fair ceases to exist and of the city's art scene. occasionally forget this. It was a truly becomes a façade, just like the Gagosian Gallery, Frieze Art Fair 2014 Photo: Linda Nylind/Frieze Next, we turn our pessimistic gaze immersive art experience. immaculately dressed gallery owners to another of London's great art I wish I could be so positive this who sit with their espressos, much was on offer; and finally the pieces institutions: the Turner Prize. Not scared year, but it seems that the view of art too busy for anyone except the most designed purely for the selfie – often of a bit of controversy, we take a leaf as a mere asset has grown too strong, serious buyers. mirrored, always provocative, perfect out of its book and suggest it's become like some kind of parasitic mould. There were certainly some standout to show your social media contacts an almost irrelevant competition, Frieze has lost its unpretentious spirit galleries; Hauser & Wirth and the just how artsy you are! deliberately choosing ‘out there’ works and is now just another of the many Gagosian Gallery in particular had This final category is a perfect to force ‘discussion’ about art now. It’s fairs around the world that exists only just the right mix of high quality illustration of the superficiality tiresome. for the super rich elite, out of touch art and interactivity to attract your of much that was on show. This Continuing in this vein of misanthropy, and irrelevant to everyone else. This attention and set them apart from the year’s Frieze art fair was a sorrowful we come away from the Hayward should have been obvious enough by crowd. Elsewhere, Jesus Rafael Soto’s occasion, no longer a place where the Gallery’s MIRRORCITY exhibition with a just looking at the ticket prices – £33 Op Art piece ‘Carré olive et vibration’ average art enthusiast can get a sense feeling of bewilderment and frustration for adults and £24 for students – from the Galerie Perrotin proved of the shape of art to come. as it tried to answer everything but fell expectedly short. simply not worth the money! extremely captivating and quite It had as much personality as a Finally, to end this depressing editorial I am not saying that the art was of unique in a fair overburdened with kitchen showroom: elegant and on a slightly more positive note, we went poor quality, as there was undeniably highly decorative works of synthetics skillfully crafted but nothing more. down to the HELIX Centre at St. Mary’s some excellent work on display that and acrylics. "An And ‘more’ is exactly what art should "This year's Hospital. Part of Imperial’s Institute of was simultaneously exciting and In general, the works on display be: an experience, an emotional Global Health Innovation, they are an challenging – everything you might seemed to fall into three categories: environment catalyst that sticks with you for days Frieze Art amazing team of RCA-trained designers want. But it was not allowed to shine the mediocre, big money pieces more akin afterwards. fair had working closely with doctors and for the most part, crammed into that galleries were putting all their to a cattle But one can’t deny that Frieze is as much researchers to create design solutions the 162 galleries from 25 different hopes on, like Martin Creed’s (I still merely part of a bigger problem, as to common healthcare problems. So countries vying for your attention. have no idea why he’s famous) or market the artistic heart of London is gutted personality whether you're interested in design, Moreover, as you rounded gallery Tony Cragg’s; the less well known art than an art out, replaced by the shallowness of as a kitchen medicine or just great ideas, check this number 100, the inevitable art that bulks out a gallery’s portfolio, gallery" foreign buyers and their veneration showroom" interview out! fatigue resulting from this sensory providing the best and worst of what for the famous.

My Art: A Morning Exploring Shoreditch’s Art Scene As I walked up the stairs at The Other Art Fair in between the conscious mind and dream state. Shoredith , I was immediately overwhelmed by the The remainder of the works were equally eccentric: sheer diversity and amount of art that met me. The fair an artist who used old wine corks to create large scale featured 130 up and coming artists, each with their own pieces, a hilariously outré man who had several iPads unique art space; but what made it unique was that the playing videos of him singing along to songs in locations artists were stood in front of their work, allowing you to across the world, and a bizarre collection of modified directly ask them questions about the pieces. storm-trooper helmets. Not only did I leave this magical Among the artists, a particular favourite of mine was place with armfuls of free stickers, posters and postcards Fran Giffard, who took to drawing and painting on the to put on my wall, but I was inspired by how innovative pages of her Moleskine diary. What drew me to her the artists were. stand were the incredible selection of colours and the The fair did what every exhibition – and every work of intricacy with which the birds were painted. In contrast, art – should do: it inspired me to want to create my own next to her was an extremely dark stand showcasing a work and develop my own signature style just like them. selection of medium-sized sculptures. As I drew closer, I highly recommend catching next year’s art fair, which I realized that almost all of them featured taxidermy, unfortunately only runs for three days each year around including a piece called Little Lives Dream – a jar October time. Meanwhile, I’m going to carry on checking containing a small mouse curled up asleep on a velvet out new artists, and trying to find inspiration! pillow underneath a tiny crafted lantern. This was the LIZZIE RIACH work of Rachel Ann Stevenson conveying the fine divide 2ND YEAR BIOLOGIST FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 24.10.2014 25 Arts [email protected] Arts Editor Fred Fyles & Kamil McClelland Contrasting Worlds - The 2014 Turner Prize Kamil McClelland assesses the contrived controversy of this year’s prize ate Britain’s two main shows impression. Oh Turner Prize, how I may be similar in name but missed you! Tin reality are worlds apart. Rosebud by Richards explores The first, an exhibition of J.M.W. censorship of artwork, showing Turner’s late works, is a life-affirming close-ups of art books in Tokyo where homage to one of Britain’s greatest the genitalia has been scratched out painters and offers glimpses into the to comply with their strict laws. It beginnings of modern art. The other, is pornographic, shocking, asking shamefully named after this great whether art can ever be censored. artist, is something of an anticlimax. But it is also meandering, tiresome, a The Turner Prize, now in its 30th year, story with no plot. is meant to showcase the best of what I was hoping, after the torment British art has to offer, helping define of Richards’ piece, for things to get how the country’s art shall progress. better. It was Tris Vonna-Michell’s Well, if that is true, it’s not looking turn: not the best of starts when good; this year’s celebrations went off even the explanation of his works with little more than a whimper. described them as ‘confusing’. How The Turner Prize has never shied was I going to manage? But seriously, away from controversy; in fact, it has what was his work even supposed to almost become a defining feature be? I was trying to create meaning of the show. This was especially true for it in my head: perhaps it was back in the late 90’s when the Young a comment on the confusion and British Artists – Damien Hirst, neuroticism of the modern world. It Tracey Emin and the like – were was as if the space had been thrown beginning to establish themselves together, a random collection of on the art scene. Whether this art slideshows and photographs that is actually any good is a debate for added nothing to your experience. another time but it was certainly All the while, an incomprehensible new and exciting and something that voice played over the speakers, like Ciara Phillips, Things Shared, Turner Prize 2014 Photo: Tate Photography forced you to reconsider how you the stream-of-consciousness of a viewed art. More recently though, madman. Then came his film, where expected you to sit through over 50 whole thing proved to be an effort. the Turner Prize has too consciously he takes you on a journey back to minutes of video. I see myself as a Ciara Phillips, the only artist not to tried to be controversial, engineered Berlin, searching for a place that no patient person but this is taking the do a video piece, offered up a room to provoke a reaction as opposed to longer exists. Was he trying to look at piss a bit. No one has time for that! plastered from floor to ceiling in simply displaying the best of Britain’s the confusion of memory and reality? Video collages are very in vogue at overlapping prints, repeating images current art and letting us decide what Who knows? Probably not even him. the moment, suggestive of a post- like frames from a film reel. Overlaid to make of it. The public has grown Three of the four installations internet generation that has grown onto this were bold, strong colours, weary, and the formula for success this year were video works, a sign of up with the digital revolution. How attempting to inject some vitality that had once worked so well is now the times but also a shame: I would to portray this online world and its into an exhibit that left little effect. backfiring, pushing the Prize into have liked to see a greater range of cultural repercussions seems to be I left the exhibition without irrelevance. "This year's media. Video art is not like other art a real point of debate in art at the the feeling in my gut that follows So as you can see I had my doubts as competition forms where you can lapse in and moment. Video and sound art seems profound and perspective altering I entered the gallery but I tried to not out of consciousness and still have a to be one answer as artists struggle shows, just a strange hollowness. let this cloud my judgment. I can’t went off sense of what is going on. Video art to manipulate orthodox media. Yes, some of the works touched on say the first artist, James Richards, with little requires your full attention, all the However, the attempts provided interesting topics, like Campbell’s made it easy for me: seeing a flower more than a time. Three video works, then, was at the Turner Prize have proven work exploring how objective truth slowly being stroked across a man’s overwhelming and quite fatiguing, disappointing, not able to boil down can be manipulated in media so that sphincter gave quite a jarring first whimper" especially as some of the artists the essence of this world into succinct even our eyes deceive us. But I just pieces of art. don’t feel video art in the way it was As you can tell, I wasn’t too presented did it any favours. I wasn’t impressed with what I saw. The artists the only one who felt that way, as the are nominated based on exhibitions comments on the board outside the put on over the past 12 months and exit showed (although in slightly less these previous exhibitions are also measured words). what determines the winner so what My advice to anyone considering is on display really has no influence going: don’t. It’s not worth your time. on the final outcome (thankfully). I’m going to be generous and say Some of these previous exhibitions that this is not the best of what some were actually rather widely praised, of these artists have to offer and, at most notably Duncan Campbell’s £11, it is simply not worth it for a entry for the Venice Biennale. It competition that is looking more and is such a shame, then, that what is more irrelevant as time goes on. Go on show here really does nothing – instead to the Late Turner exhibition especially seeing as you are expected "The downstairs, which provides you with to pay £11 to enter. a completely new perspective on the The remaining video artist, Turner great artist. Who will be the winner of Duncan Campbell, built on his Prize has this year’s £25,000 prize, announced Irish background to create a mock tried too in December? For me at least, none documentary exploring the country’s of the artists emerges as an obvious turbulent past, quite a poignant piece consciously frontrunner. but just as exciting as you would to provoke 30th Sept 2014 to 4th Jan 2015 Tris Vonna-Michell, Addendum I (Finding Chopin: Dans l'Essex), Turner Prize 2014 Photo: Tate expect a fake news piece from forty a reaction" Tate Britain Photography years ago to be. Sitting through the Tickets £11 (regular), £6 (student) 26 24.10.2014 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX Arts [email protected] Arts Editor Fred Fyles & Kamil McClelland An Imperfect Reflection Of Our Modern Society Fred Fyles takes a glance at the new MIRRORCITY exhibition pasted together, creating a new soundscape Reality Flickers is visual language. Less effective are housed in an empty locker, a space Daniel Sinsel’s canvases: aiming to that “contains nothing but its own deconstruct the relationship between absence”. A voiceover that describes materials and the feelings they evoke, the story of Miss Ficker, a naive Sinsel uses extreme juxtaposition collector of tossed objects, defined by to bring out their qualities, but the fact that they are ‘lost rather than ultimately lacks emotional force. found’, who meets the Heart Beast. Helen Marten attempts to do Underscored by a subtle, melancholic something similar with her rag-tag piano score & unintelligible voices collection of curios, assembled as which mutter and stutter, Palmer if by a magpie. Sadly, randomly has created an oasis of solitude and throwing together disparate objects isolation within the middle of the does not effective art make – perhaps gallery. she should leave it to the actual birds. The remainder of the exhibition The promised exploration of – and trust me, it is extensive – is by capitalism is fulfilled by Tim and large uninspiring. There’s Anne Etchells; his fantasy headlines, Mardy, whose constructed spaces printed on large sheets, satirise the are as bland as the cement blocks news of today. Dryer than a gin inhabiting them; Michael Dean’s martini, and packing twice the punch, sculptures, which are dull both in they take on all manner of topics, form and name; and Mohammed Tim Etchells, Vacuum Days (Posters), MIRRORCITY at Hayward Gallery 2014 Photo: Courtesy from CCTV to gang culture (Sample Qasim Ashfaq, whose work of the Artist headline: Tonight’s Presentation: Black simultaneously demands ‘viewer Hole – No Intermission). In terms engagement’ (his words, not mine) o say that J. G. Ballard was a sea monster. This is the work of of understanding modern culture, and manages to be monumentally only a writer is to do him a Lindsay Seers, whose installation Etchells is way above any other insipid. Some work comes from a Tdisservice. The late British confronts the disconnect between artists in the exhibition; if Private clear germ of inspiration, such as modernist, whose oeuvre included myth and reality. Drawing on the Eye is looking for a new contributor, Susan Hiller’s collage of space sounds novels, essays, and short fiction, was personal story of her great-great- perhaps they should give him a call. and frequencies, but ultimately fails more of a prophet than an author: uncle – a sailor – Seers uses film and Pil & Galia Kollektiv continue to say anything of importance. seemingly predicting the brutal sound to subtly make the viewer in this vein, with their sculpture We have seen in the past few years modernisation that would descend question the world around them. Concrete Gown for Immaterial Flows that the Hayward Gallery is able to upon the UK during the second half This theme of artifice is further taking its name from a Zionist paean put on first class exhibitions which of the 20th Century, as well as the expounded upon by Turner Prize to cement. Inspired by capitalism, it take on a wide range of themes. accompanying social stagnation it winner Laure Prouvost, whose is a stage constructed out of concrete However, MIRRORCITY is a step too would bring. Ballard has the honor work The Artist comprises of a pre- blocks which form bar graphs and far; by trying to cover all the bases of having his name as an adjective: arranged ‘studio’, purportedly that pie charts, while behind a red arrow it stretches itself too thin, until you Ballardian, which Collins English of her conceptual artist grandfather. crashes towards the earth. The can see through the veneer of the Dictionary describes as “dystopian Squeezing into this cramped space work subverts the argument that majority of the works to find the modernity, bleak man-made under the beady eye of a security capitalism is a natural extension unimaginative premise underneath. landscapes, and the psychological guard, one is immediately assaulted, of evolution, instead revealing it "The Like many visions of the future, it effects of technological progress”. both visually and audibly: every nook as something artificial, manmade, promises wealth and riches, but at You could easily be forgiven if and cranny of the room is filled up and callous. While the work is quite exhibtion is best delivers malaise and ennui; in you think this sounds familiar. with clutter, tools, and ephemera, clever, some of the points the artists beguiling, that respect, at least, Ballard would With the advent of social media, through which Provost reconstructs are trying to make can at times feel uplifting, be proud. online communication, and mass the legend of her grandfather. Video like a bit of a stretch – you’re more but media, society has moved into installations play throughout the likely to see this piece on Top of the 14th Oct 2014 to 4th Jan 2015 an unprecedented age: post-post- room, while looped soundtracks filter Pops than at an Occupy rally. ultimately Hayward Gallery modern and more futuristic than in and out of the space. Urging you A highlight of the exhibition is frustrating" Student tickets from £8 the future, the world we now inhabit to ‘Look here!’ and ‘Look over there!’, Katrina Palmer, whose emotive has been cleft in half: we have they combine to create an unsettling the ‘true reality’, and the virtual experience. ‘mirrorworld’. At least, this is what Another narrative is constructed the Hayward Gallery hopes to by Ursula Mayer: taking inspiration prove with the opening of its latest from Euripides’ Greek tragedy Medea, exhibition MIRRORCITY. Taking she casts LGBT activist JD Samson on innumerable big themes – reality, as both Medea and Jason, creating a narrative, physical spaces, illusions, ‘post-gender speculation’. A vision social mobility, capitalism, and more of a future where social structures – MIRRORCITY is an exhibition have been broken down, it is at once that aims high, but never quite both inspiring and dystopian. Set delivers such lofty heights, creating predominantly among valleys and an experience that is beguiling, "John deserts, the collage of text, sound, sometimes uplifting, but ultimately and film is like a Middle Eastern frustrating. Stezaker's version of Derek Jarman’s The Last of Upon entering the bleak cement work is England. exhibition space, we are confronted excellent, Elsewhere, artists explore the with the vast upturned hull of a ship. meaning of different media and Its figurehead lies, pathetic, on the creating a materials. John Stezaker’s work floor: a young woman whose face is new visual is excellent as usual, with his shrouded, entangled in the arms of language" repurposed film stills, clipped and John Steazker, Double Shadow V (cropped), MIRRORCITY at Hayward Gallery Photo: Courtesy of the artist FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 24.10.2014 27 Arts [email protected] Arts Editor Fred Fyles & Kamil McClelland HELIX: A Marriage of Design and Health Kamil McClelland speaks to Maja Kecman, a specialist in medical design at the HELIX Centre his week, I had the opportunity K: And how has it been working on to visit The HELIX Centre healthcare design as someone who Tfor Design in Healthcare, trained at RCA? Does it have some part of Imperial’s Institute of Global unique challenges that you weren't Health Innovation. Based at St. expecting? Mary's Hospital in Paddington, the centre aims to provide solutions M: First of all, a common in healthcare through intelligent misconception about the RCA is that and low cost design. Formed less it is all fine art. Around 80% is design than a year ago as a collaboration and in fact everyone here has some between the Royal College of Art example is our Asthma Project where health perspective, it means that we kind of background in engineering or and Imperial College, London; I was I started with the statistics that 75% can roll it out to developing countries industrial design. In terms of working really enthusiastic about this, both as of asthma hospital admissions and who would otherwise not be able to in healthcare, I’ve been working in a medic and someone interested in 90%of deaths are preventable. As afford it. So going back to this app, we the field for the past ten years but it clever and elegant design. It promised you can see, these are pretty shocking are hoping to expand it to India, with certainly does have its own problems. to be an exciting integration of fields numbers so I did some research into the help of one of our international There’s a lot of bureaucracy and not often thought of together. I sat that and came up with a simple app collaborators there. This will mean regulation and this makes progress down with Maja Kecman, a specialist for children to help with compliance testing it on 200 children and really difficult. Being embedded in the in healthcare design working at and monitoring of the disease. seeing whether it can effectively hospital does help on this front as this HELIX, to see if the hype was be rolled out on a wide scale and in streamlines the process somewhat. justified: K: Could you tell me a bit more settings and cultures different to the This is one of the reasons we don’t about this asthma app? UK. deal with surgical instruments. Kamil: So can you tell me a little Another problem with hospitals is bit about what you do at HELIX? M: So I started out with this statistic K: Have you done any other that, because of their organisation, and then basically needed to international work in settings it’s really difficult to bring in Maja: HELIX stands for Healthcare search for a cause. After spending outside the NHS? widespread change. They aren’t Innovation Exchange so it is all about time in an asthma clinic at Royal like a supermarket chain where the sharing of ideas and know-how Brompton Hospital and talking M: Not yet, but it’s certainly an area each individual shop has the same between doctors, researchers and to some specialists in asthma, it that we want to expand in the future. format so changes can very easily designers to create products that seemed like a major factor in these At the moment, we’ve just been be implemented across the board. A have a real impact on healthcare statistics is the incorrect use of the working inside the British system hospital’s more like a collection of and disease management. We’re inhaler. Of course, this could have because this is where we are based and little corner shops, each one slightly really privileged to be based here in meant redesigning the inhaler but what we know. But, by making our different, each with a different St. Mary’s Hospital because we can that would have meant having to designs cheap, simple and scalable, managerial structure that needs to be very easily test our prototypes in a change too much. So instead, we we hope this will make them more approached separately. This is what clinical setting and see what could came up with an app that would feasible business models that can be wards are like let alone hospitals, be improved. Also, being at the top help kids measure lung function as expanded abroad more easily. And trusts and the NHS as a whole so you trauma centre in London means well as monitoring the management I think that is what sets us apart can imagine some of the problems that we have access to expertise that of their condition over time. It’s from other research centres looking faced when trying to bring change. wouldn’t be available elsewhere. It’s a simple, cheap and easy to use and at healthcare design: we want to, at great place to be! preliminary studies in patients seem the end of the day, create an actual K: Finally, I wanted to ask you a to suggest it is effective and quite marketable product as opposed to little bit about the future and what K: And so, how is an idea usually popular. just a research project that never goes you think it holds for HELIX. thought of? Are you approached by beyond the early stages. You talked briefly about wanting people working in the healthcare K: Is making cheap ideas quite This means we think a lot about a greater international focus to environment or do you yourselves central to HELIX's practice then? how to make our ideas implementa- HELIX, are there any other plans spend time on the wards or in ble and we also work closely with you have for the centre? clinics looking for things that M: Absolutely! Frugality is one our business people to advance our could be improved on? central principles. It makes our designs into viable creations. M: That’s definitely a key part of ideas more easily implementable It’s probably best to think of us as a what we want to be doing as we go M: It’s a bit of a mixture of both. and realistic so they don’t just stay collection of healthcare design start- forward. If you look at the Mayo Because we’re quite young as a as research but actually become a ups with the unique benefit of being Clinic's Center for Innovation in centre, we have only quite recently product. Also, from more of a global closely linked to a hospital. the US, they do a similar thing to us started offering consultations to but mostly focus on creating designs outside people. Otherwise, it’s mostly for their own clinic so I feel being part either spending time in healthcare of IGHI with its global perspective environments or just looking at means we are doing something new. disease statistics to see what the big When I visited there five years ago, problems are and working from there. they were as small as we are currently For example, back in 2009 as part of "We have "Most but now employ around 30 designers. the RCA’s Helen Hamlyn Centre So I’m optimistic for the future! Also, for Design, my colleague Gianpaolo access to people at as we roll out our products and earn Fusari spent time with paramedics to expertise the RCA some money, we’re hoping to become look into problems with the current that actually more financially self-sufficient so we design of ambulances. This helped have a don’t have to rely on outside funding. him learn about issues such as the wouldn't be I think this will be a key step for us poor layout of storage spaces and the available background and hopefully help drive even more difficulty cleaning the back of the anywhere in design innovation. So it’s an exciting vehicle and led to an award-winning else" engineering" time at the moment in the centre redesign of UK ambulances. Another with a lot of change ahead! 28 24.10.2014 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX Food [email protected] Editors Carol Ann Cheah and Michael Chung

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SPAAAAAAAAAACE! Photo: Youtube; pop-culture reference: Portal 2 (Valve) Yeah, I make no apologies whatsoever for the awful punnery present in that editorial title...so sue me. I really do have burgers on the brain this week though; yes, who'dve thunk that I have “junk grub” moments like every other human being? It's interesting how London’s love affair with the tarted-up meat sandwich has reached crazy heights, and doesn't seem like it will wane anytime soon...to the point that even vegetarian/vegan options have flourished as well, and some are pretty damn tasty. On the subject of punnery...editor's personal shout-out of the week goes to my lovely local- I mean, what's not to like? Pak choi, good. Ramen, good. Meat, good! Photo: Michael Chung; pop-culture reference, Friends delivery-recently-turned-employers, the Chosen Bun (chosenbun.com) homeboys in Fulham (is it apt to ored of having a conventional shape. Repeat the wrapping-and- juicy and good for you. call your bosses “homeboys”, pray tell?!). Some of you burger with a bun? Well despite weighting process for the other “bun” , Mike didn’t use the seasoning guys may have heard about their recent “out-of-this- what our parents have told us, then put them in the fridge for 15-20 packet that came with the instant world” pseudo-space burger stunt, which recently B it is time for us to play with food! minutes so they hold their shape. ramen, however you can add it to made both national and international press. I have How about a ramen burger? For the burger patties, chop the the recipe if you like. Either chuck it on good authority that one of the Evelyn Gardens halls procured a massive delivery during one of the The idea came from Keizo spring onions and ginger finely, then it in with the water when boiling World Cup matches...for the curious, there's pictorial Shimamoto and has been voted as one mix it with the mince along with the ramen for the buns, or add it to the proof on Facebook. of “The 17 Most Influential Burgers five spice powder. Shape the mix into meat mix. Just be careful if you do They're both science geeks and one of them's of All Time” by Time Magazine. He patties – there are many ways of doing the latter, as you really don’t want to actually a trained mechanical engineer, so I'm sure serves it at his restaurant, Ramen.Co, this, but the easiest is to first shape over-season and make your burger Imperialites can find plenty of common ground in New York. Thankfully you don’t it into a ball, then squeeze the mix inedible! (hah!) there - they did, after all, go on an exhaustive have to travel across the pond to taste into something almost resembling a On a final note about portion sizes... taste-testing trip around America (spiritual it; it is actually very simple to make hockey puck, ensuring it is roughly feel free to adjust quantities to suit homeland of the burger, of course) before setting up it yourself at home, making this a the same size as the “bun”. your appetite, or split this up into two shop. Gottta love a startup that loves their research, great and easy way to convince your Fry the patties in a frying pan with smaller snackable burgers. You might especially if it's in the name of food. housemates of your culinary prowess. a shot of oil for 3-4 minutes on each need to adjust cooking times if you do But let’s not detract from their main offerings: side to char and colour the outside, this. 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That's before you take into • a knob of ginger retain the Asian-inspired flavours. account the witty branding and personable charm/ • Pak choi (or your choice of leafy Pop your other bun on top and tuck service, especially from Andy and Pete themselves. If vegetables, e.g. little gem lettuce) in! Be warned, it’s deceptively filling you do say hi, tell them Carol sent you! for one person so you might want to Aside from the “vested interest” recommendation share as a snack between two. this week, it would also seem that some of our Method contributors have been equally burger-inspired. For the ramen buns, bring a pot of Mike (fondly known as our “editor in absentia”) has water to the boil and cook noodles Felix Food Protips been tinkering with the oft-called-bizarre Ramen according to the timings stated on the Bring it up to Level >9000 by This post was brought to you by Burger craze, and our lovely Travel Editor, Nam (no packet (anywhere between 2-5 mins). subbing the instant ramen noodles the Sorted Food #beatmyburger actual relation to me, for the curious), managed to Drain and leave to cool slightly for a with fresh noodles. In fact, it’s what "Be challenge, which aims to source hit the Broadway Market recently to sample a unique minute or so. creator Keizo Shimamoto does as warned, it's and share some of the best seafood burger. Beat an egg and toss the noodles in. standard at his restaurant. deceptively burgers on the web. If you're Sheesh, writing this editorial has made me go Put half of the noodle-egg mix in a Vegetarians can swap the patty feeling inspired, feel free to head into craving overdrive, especially since lunchtime's mould lined with cling film. Fold the out for a stonkin’ good portobello filling for over to sortedfood.com and see a-coming. As always...keep on eating, laughing, film back over the noodles and place a mushroom. Just fry for a few minutes one person" what the fuss is all about! loving and living! weight on top to compress into a patty on either side and season...absolutely FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 24.10.2014 29 Food [email protected] Editors Carol Ann Cheah and Michael Chung Crabbie by name, not crabby by nature Nam Cheah shacks up with some great unique street grub

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Casa Batlló – A Statement of Delight Local Highlight - Broadway Market Emmilyn Yeoh talks about her favourite Gaudi piece Yung Nam Cheah TRAVEL EDITOR arcelona, a city so vibrant with culture that I just had to Wedged between London Fields and Regent Canal Badd it to one of my favourite in the hip district of Hackney in north-east London, cities in the world. However, this Broadway Market has a history dating back to 1890s. capital would be significantly Originally a local trading market, it now welcomes different without the works of a plethora of mouth-watering street food, baked Modernist Antoni Gaudí – the man goods, clothing and grocers’ stalls from all over who gave creativity a whole new London on a Saturday. definition. Gaudí contributed seven With numerous quaint restaurant and cafes of exceptionally beautiful buildings to its own as well, you can indulge in a pulled pork the Spanish architectural history. You Taiwanese bun, heart-shaped pizza, French must be wondering, out of seven, why Caribbean pork ragout, salmon tapas, chorizo scotch did I choose Casa Batlló? egg – the choices are endless. If street food isn't Casa Batlló was previously an your thing (though I can't imagine why), there is ordinary piece of property before it plenty of shopping to do too. Be it vintage one-offs was bought by textile businessman or handmade kimonos, or fresh local produces and Josep Batlló. It was then remodeled baked goods or flowers, you will be hard-pressed to and redesigned by Gaudí between leave without spending your dosh on at least one 1904 and 1906 and to this date, still thing in this market. On my short wonder last time, I reflects the existence of imaginative managed to buy a lovely bouquet of orchids for £3.50. architecture. It stands out due to the innovation of concepts employed and Address: East London, Hackney, London E8 the methodology used. The building 4PH consists of a ground floor, a main The multi coloured exterior of the masterpiece illuminated by spot light. Photo: Emmilyn floor with a courtyard, four further Yeoh Opening times: self-contained floors, a loft and a Saturday 9:00 – 16:00 rooftop terrace. Once you enter the lighter at the bottom. The windows isn’t too crazy about art, it is pleasant building, be ready to be blown away as get progressively bigger as you to look at, intriguing enough to muse Closest station: you’ll be greeted by a grand wooden move from the top to the bottom on after, and the best of all, nothing Bethnal Green tube (14 staircase, which leads to the Noble of the house. This further testified short of a remarkable experience that minutes), several buses Floor, where the Batlló family used to Gaudí’s ingenuity by incorporating catches one off guard at every turn. stop nearby (King call home. natural light in his work. Wooden For €20, you get an unforgettable Edward's Road LP As one slowly walks up, they’ll slits are added below the windows to tour around the house at your own stop with number 55 Bursting with activities, the be instantly entranced by the maximize the functionality of the pace. The ticket price is also inclusive that runs from Oxford broadway market is more Circus) different hues of blue coupled with house by ensuring good ventilation. of an audio guide, which describes of a meeting place than a skylights shaped like tortoise shells, The roof resembles a dragon’s in most languages the perfection in market. Photo: Yung Nam transporting you to the underwater back and is decorated with four every detail. There is always a huge Cheah nature reminiscent of Finding chimneystacks. The chimneys are "The roof crowd of tourists on most days; one Nemo. Gaudí stood true to his word, carefully designed with caps to should thus book their tickets online A quick hello! My name is Nam and I am the new engaging the close relationship prevent the obstruction of smoke resembles to avoid disappointment. From a Travel editor. This year we are publishing fortnightly between colours and light. As a escape by the wind. As one moves a dragon's student’s perspective, admission and I am looking for anything from summer adven- result, the building well was created. through the house, they would be back and is tickets can slightly be on the high tures you have been on, things to do in London, high- It was the most crucial part of the constantly surprised by the tiniest side, however I can assure you it is lights of a city you visited, how to budget for a small refurbishment as it allows light to elements displayed. The abundance decorated worth every single penny. trip, funny travel story, even a comparison of London enter. To complement this idea, the of creativity is shown from the with four Casa Batlló, a unique residence so Mcdonalds to say the Mcdonalds in France and much, interior walls are covered in varying different colours of tiles used. chimney- laboriously designed and executed much more! shades of blue, arranged from a I thoroughly enjoyed my time at that it left me in awe for the rest of stacks." Submit your article at [email protected]! darker hue at the top grading to Casa Batlló because for someone who my trip.

from the headline accessible by roads, waves are strong on the day you will there is a concrete surface midway up, though the sign to it is obscurely have to swim to shore, leaving your to the left of the stairs, for daredevils Zakynthos Highlight written on the ground before a sharp belongings on board. to leap into the lagoon, or for those Yung Nam Cheah U-turn. Up there are many souvenir who are merely looking for a better TRAVEL EDITOR that the best way to navigate and stalls selling local delicacies such as Porto Limnionas Bay place to work on their tan. For those enjoy this wonderful Greek island is spiced wine, honey and olive oil to With no tours or public transport who are more safety cautions, you can by renting a car and sailing along its tourists. On the edge is an observation link, this gorgeous bay along the dive from or sit down by the lagoon aving spent a month in coasts. While I only travelled across platform, but if you are determined west coast of the Island is a secret on the small concrete platform at Zakynthos as a volunteer, I a small part of the island, here are to get the best angle, walk all the way sanctuary from the main tourist sites. the bottom of the slope – though be Hhad come to the conclusion two highlights that I would highly out along the headland to the right Upon arrival at the car park you will warned: it is very slippery! recommend both driving and sailing for that perfect shot. be dazzled by the sapphire water through. For those who want to go to the nestling between the tall white cliffs beach, boat trips are bookable at either side. While it has no beach, the Shipwreck Bay numerous locations in town (as are tavern at the top has sun-loungers for Whilst the mystical, almost milky jeep tours for those who don’t want rent set up along the platforms next turquoise water alone provides to drive) and usually involve a stop to the natural limestone steps leading enough incentive to visit this by the famous Blue Caves. Costing down to the water. sea-access only beach, the wreck of around €25, it lasts about five hours Boasting numerous caves and Panagiotis washed ashore during and if you only want that photo of the crystal clear water, it is the perfect 1983 has made it one of the most wreck on the beach, there are plenty place to snorkel and explore. The famous and photographed locations other beaches you can relax on with water is refreshingly cool and rather Dazzling in sunlight, the lagoon is The infamous shipwreck bay. in the world. less effort, as the ship up close is only salty, with little to no waves to trouble the perfect getaway place. Photo: Photo: Yung Nam Cheah The iconic views of this cove are a graffitied metal mess, and if the your swim. For the adventurous kind, Yung Nam Cheah FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 18.10.2014 31 Travel Travel Editor Yung Nam Cheah [email protected] Travel Editor Yung Nam Cheah Zakynthos - the lost paradise Yung Nam Cheah’s tale of how being a popular clubbing destination has changed this island bottom. There has been cases where meters turtles are injured and left for death Stick to the opening time of the after the boat has run it over. And beach, which is usually 7am-6pm this is not the end of the story: boats DO NOT under any condition will come and go in turns to ship return at night to see the female the next batch of tourists to make nesting or hatchlings, as this will only the most of it, caring little for the disturb them stressed creature being chased and If you do see a turtle when cornered for what can last for hours. snorkeling, make sure you stay at As for night time tours, they try least 5 metres away and only follow to take advantage of the early hours for five minutes – this is also for your when females would emerge from own safety as Loggerheads have a very the sea and using their flappers, they powerful jaw. crawl slowly and strenuously to the Dedicated to protecting and dry sand to nest. This is an extremely educating the public on this is Earth, difficult journey for a marine species Sea and Sky Global founded by and any disturbance can easily scare local Yannis Vardakastanis in 1993. the creature into returning into Sponsored by Sealife, they have built the sea as often occurs with tourists a magnificent rescue center last year oohing and awing over them. If on the Southeast corner of the Island stressed enough, the turtles will lay near the picturesque Gerakas beach. the egg in the ocean where they have The number of volunteers vary Creative side of the volunteer My welcome dinner with three volunteers, founder Yannis and the project no chance of survival. depending on application and experience painting a sign to ac- manage Jonna Photo: Yung Nam Cheah Even if the female successfully during my month long stay I met company the turtle statue at the nests, the odds are still stacked thirteen wonderful people from all front of the center Photo: Earth, ith white sandy beaches, for thousands of years. Mating in the against the eggs. With lazy sun over the world. The center is run by Sea and Sky crystal clear water, open ocean, the females then travel loungers, swaying palm leave the founder Yannis who leads the Wmagnificent white cliffs up to thousands of miles throughout umbrellas, bars and even tractors morning survey daily and Jonna who is also a nesting ground for data and lustrous woodland, at first the months of June and August to invading beaches across the island is in charge of the volunteers. We collection in tourism effect on the glance, Zakynthos seems the picture the beach where they hatched to take compacting nests, suffocating or often have meals together after the Loggerhead. of paradise like the dozen other their turn to nest. barring the exit and often destroying last shift at the adjoining restaurant Again we run the gift shop and at beautiful Greek islands dotted Laganas town of Zakynthos is the the eggs altogether. Even if the which gives us 50% off food. 15:30 we feed and check if there are across the Ionian Sea. Famed for famous beach and party destination, hatchlings make it out after 60 days, As a volunteer during nesting ticks on our resident tortoises in the Laganas clubbing stripe, iconic with rolling sand dunes stretching light and noise pollution from the season, my typical shift involves early their enclosure. They are very sneaky shipwreck of Navagio beach and the on for hundreds of meters attracting bars and pubs will disorient them and morning surveys to count new nests and take some time to locate! Every sightings of Loggerhead sea turtles, it thousands in the 80s. Now, however many have ended up in the road and and relocate any that are in danger week we also feed Diamond the snake has been a hotspot for youngsters all it is completely gone and in its place of being crushed. You can identify on Friday and the Maury Eel on over UK as well as divers and beach stands countless bars and pubs new nests by the fresh flapper tracks Wednesday. lovers. However, most holiday seekers leaving only a measly few meters on the sand leading to a small sand Evening shifts are quietest for the flocking to this lost paradise rarely of compacted sand, effectively mount. Although, it takes time to shop and allow us the time to work on take a moment to consider their destroying the breeding ground. get an eye for telling the difference any projects we initiated during our impact on the endangered turtles. The same is happening all over West between a real and abandon nest stay. We are encouraged to suggest Zakynthos has been the main Laganas Bay as more and more which is often less well covered. changes to the information center nesting ground for the Mediterranean tourists flock to the gorgeous beaches, Morning shifts involve opening and in such a small organization, Caretta Caretta species of sea turtles rendering only 6 of the 11.5km up and cleaning the center, feeding your action creates a large impact. stretch of beach usable for nesting. the fishes and running the gift shop. During my month, I helped to paint a The aftermath of this is reflected Educating and answering questions sign to accompany the newly acquired in the dramatic drop of female from tourists are also important parts giant turtle Zantos greeting visitors at loggerheads returning to Zakynthos of our job. the front as well as creating numerous to nest every year, and tourism Excavation of a nest on one of the During the midday shift we do a posters and translated leaflets for the affects even those that still return. nesting beaches, ready to be moved people count at Gerakas beach, which centre. Business such as turtle sighting to a new location. Photo: Earth, Sea boat trips and night time beach and Sky tours advertising for sightings of the endangered species have sprouted have been hit by traffic. across touristic towns taking full There are plenty of beautiful advantage of the visiting bloom. beaches apart from those in Laganas “Why is this bad?” you might ask; Bay on the Island and I would glass bottom boat tours are amongst strongly urge you to avoid all nesting the most notorious in their ruthless beaches in an effort to conserve the behavior to sea turtles. Boasting Loggerhead. However, if you are a guarantee of a turtle sighting or determined to visit one, here’s a few your money back, these companies tips on how to be sea turtle friendly work in groups to locate and corner tourists when you visit from May to loggerhead females in the bay. Often October. they use propellers to stir up the Stay within 5 metres of the Tracks of a female turtle as she sand forcing them to swim to the waterline and do not venture into makes her way from the ocean to surface for the amusement of tourists softer sands where turtles lay their the soft dry sand to nest . Photo: exhausting them. Then they will try eggs. Yung Nam Cheah to get the turtles under the boat for Nests are usually fenced off, make Gerakas beach, which is a few minutes walk from the centre and also a photographic views through the glass sure you stay clear of it by at least two nesting beach for the Loggerhead sea turtles. Photo: Yung Nam Cheah 32 24.10.2014 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX Fashion [email protected] Editor Cecile Borkhataria Legendary designer Oscar de la Renta dies at 82 Cecile Borkhataria takes a look at the highlights of his successful career

n Monday 20th October, the world lost a fashion legend in OOscar de la Renta, who died at the age of 82. He died after battling colon cancer for over 10 years. De la Renta was most well known for his glamorous red-carpet gowns, and he could never be described as avant garde or edgy. He was very popular amongst celebrities and other important figures, and his looks were always feminine, elegant and appropriate. His long and successful career has seen him dress some of the most prominent style icons in the world, including Jackie Onassis, Audrey Hepburn, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie in ‘Sex and the City.’ Oscar de la Renta was part of the fashion establishment. When it came to his designs, he didn’t rock the boat- but that didn’t make them any less memorable. He was born to a wealthy family in Santo Domingo in 1932, and emigrated to the US after living in Madrid and Paris, working for household names such as Cristobal Balenciaga, Lanvin and Balmain. Luckily for de la Renta, he remained impeccably dressed throghout his time living in Europe, as his wealthy father used to send him money. His trademark look was a dapper three- piece suit. It was important for his buisness and reputation to be well dressed, as he would often entertain his wealthy clients in his holiday homes. Whilst he was well known for his gowns and skirt suits which represented American high society, his mainstream reputation grew out of Sarah Jessica Parker’s ‘Carrie Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw. Photo: agirlsbestfriendblog Bradshaw’ in the hit TV series ‘Sex and City’. In the show, Carrie’s Russian magazine at the time, wearing the House Fashion Education Workshop. Amy Adams at the 2013 Oscars. Photo: stylefrizz boyfriend buys her a bright pink gown he designed. Shortly afterwards, This was significant, because by Oscar de la Renta dress, with a tight he dressed Jackie Kennedy in the appearing in one of his designs, she top and a full skirt. It became a cult 1960’s, and in the 1990’s, he began to acknowledged his place as household tv moment, and it cemented de la dress Hillary Clinton, who credited name in American fashion and Renta as a household fashion name her signature suited style to the supported him as a designer. in popular culture. Off screen, Sarah designer. Hillary took to twitter and Before his death, Oscar de la Renta Jessica Parker also regulalrly wore his said “ He’s been working for 20 years announced earlier this month that designs on the red carpet. to turn me into a fashion icon.” he would appoint Peter Copping as He was, arguably, the king of the As much as he was well dressed, the new creative director of his label. red carpet. His flowing, opulent wealthy and versed in socialising Copping, an English desinger, has gowns were worn by many women with the elite, he was not afraid to worked for Nina Ricci for five years during the Oscars and other red criticise and engage in an argument and is known for his elegant style, carpet events, with Amy Adams in the public eye. In 2009, he criticsed which is befitting of the fashion wearing a memorable grey ruffled Michelle Obama for wearing a J.Crew legagcy he must live up to. His first voluminous gown at the 2013 Oscars. sweater to Buckingham palace to collection will be shown in February. Most recently, he featured heavily meet the Queen. Perhaps de la Renta’s No doubt he will pay homage to de in the media for designing Amal critcisms towards the First Lady la Renta with glamorous red carpet Alamuddins ivory lace wedding dress stemmed from her breaking the looks, whilst still catering to younger for her wedding to George Clooney. White House tradition of wearing high society with colorful gowns and De la Renta’s big break as a designer the designers pieces, as she declined cleaner, structured silhouettes. Oscar came when he dressed Beatrice to wear his looks for the past seven de la Renta will be remembered for Lodge, who was the daughter of the years. Finally though, this month, dressing the First Ladies of the White American Ambassador to Spain in she wore an Oscar de la Renta cocktail House, ruling the red carpet, and Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta in Panama City in 2005. 1956. She featured on the cover of life dress to a party after her White embodying the American Dream. Photo: Reuters File FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 24.10.2014 33 Welfare [email protected] Welfare Editor Diba Esbati & Chanon Wongsatayanont

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Diba Esbati Eat habit, can have a terrible effect Have you taken a break? Some time SECTION EDITOR Have you eaten today? If you haven't, on both your mood and physical between problem sheets to just relax please try and have at least a little health. If you've been struggling not only helps you unwind, but is bit to eat, even if it's just some fruit, with insomnia for a while, it might also proven to help you be more o I know for most of you, term a few almonds, or an egg. I know be a sign of something bigger at efficient overall. I know you have a has started to pick up, and sometimes, it might feel like a work, so you might want to consider deadline, but taking a few minutes to Ssometimes, in between various monumental effort to take care of consulting your GP. just stretch your legs and take a few coursework deadlines, problem yourself, especially if you've been Also, your health is much more deep breaths won't make you fail that sheets, and even socialising, it might having an off day, but your physical important than your grades! If coursework. The most important tip: cuddle as be difficult to remember to take care health is important and neglecting it you're having problems with time many cute animals as you can Photo of yourself. I'm definitely guilty of will only lead to more exhaustion. management, try consulting that one Take your medication credit: Flikr becoming so absorbed in my work friend who always somehow seems to This is the one I always struggle with, and general worrying about life that I Sleep have everything planned out, or talk I know it sucks balls to have to take forget anything else matters. So here Along the same lines, have you had to your personal/academic tutor. medication, but they were prescribed crucial for a swift recovery, so please are my top four self-care tips, in case enough sleep? Sleep deprivation, for a reason, and making sure to take care of yourself by listening to anyone else needs reminding. especially when it becomes a frequent Take Breaks take them in their required dosage is your doctor! 34 24.10.2014 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX

HANGMAN [email protected] First year votes for “recognisable Eastside pints cheaper classmate” in elections per mole of alcohol

One keen fresher apparently campaigning in FiveSixEight. Photo: Imperial College London WKD: The W stands for Welfare. Photo: Facebook

t has been reported this week that politician. Said one of the candidates “ I really a first year biochemistry student “Although I want nothing to do want to make a difference in my n an embarrassing turn of events Hangman reckons going to any Ivoted for one of the candidates with whatever this “RAG” is, I’ve only department, because that is what this an anonymous Deputy President Wetherspoons is preferable, where the running for RAG deputy halls officer been here two weeks and already I feel is all about right? We really should I(Welfare) Chemist emailed conversation with the local clientele because “he recognised her from really involved with the Union.” get podcasts of lectures out.” Hangman this week with a scoop. is excellent. Alternatively, you can lectures.” Unfortunately, he did later state When asked if he was doing this to After calculating the £/%mol of take a visit to a certain bar in Fulham Speaking to Hangman, the student that he only tended to vote “for hot fill up his CV, he denied it, although ethanol and contrasting it between that does £7.80 jugs of beer on a said that he “had no idea what she was girls.” did at a later date admit he thought Eastside and 568 it was found that Wednesday. actually running for,” but had seen Union staff were not officially there were no job opportunities for it is actually cheaper to get drunk at It is reported that should you take her in the chemistry café. available for a comment on record biologists anymore. Eastside. the editor in chief of Felix for a night Once the position was explained but are reportedly ecstatic at reaching He went on to say that if he lost, This 57 page treatise, purportedly out in Wetherspoons, she will proceed to him, he realised it was essentially out to a single fresher, claiming that he could potentially fill more lines the subject of his final year project to incoherently tweet, demand rounds being an unpaid club rep, and he was it shows how they are enhancing the on his CV as a redundant Academic and the culmination of four years of tequila and then attempt to strip mortified. He then went on to RON student voice. Affairs Officer. of Chemistry is, however, drier than innocent men. all other candidates. Other students have been actively Said his opponent, “ I really couldn’t an ambitious and well-intentioned In an unrelated note, the Academic However, despite this initial scorn, campaigning, with a reportedly very give a shit, but I heard all of the non-alocoholic night at a charity ran Affairs Officer for the City and the fresher in question did apparently tense race currently in play between college meetings come with free establishment. Guilds Union, James Murphy, was find that voting brought out his inner two year reps in biology. sandwiches.” If you do really want a cheap pint, unavailable for comment. OHBITCHUARY: Power on my friend, Power on

elix was very sad to hear this allegiance and complete a PhD in a glass of port. Phil confided to Felix hot work permits to how he invented week of the passing of the 1911, as well as becoming a popular last month that he planned to set up eActivities in a dungeon below the FUnion’s Membership Services fixture at the annual RSM Dinner. Minibus Etiquette lessons, which West Basement on a dark and stormy Manager, Dr. Phil Power. While During his PhD, he met author H. were stalled pending the delivery of night. However, one person who can the exact causes of death are not yet G. Wells, and the two of them went suitable port to the Union Bar. describe the man better than anyone known, rumours from the Union on to found Imperial College Union, Another notable fact about Phil else is Mr. Caye. In an exclusive Building are suggesting a freak where Phil has been working for the was his title of Tankard Baron, an interview with Felix, he revealed that accident involving a pewter tankard, last 100 years. honorific title bestowed upon him in ‘Phil was a great man, always up for a a minibus instruction manual and There are rumours that Phil 1908 by King George. bit of a punt at the Casino and showed Deputy President (Betrayal), Khris invented the minibus, although Whilst Phil never took up his me things you can do with minibuses Caye, who he was due to meet that day these are exaggerated. What is true, seat in the House of Lords, he did I never knew. Did you know that for a casino trip. however, is how he introduced make sure to keep all of the Union’s that new blue one has a built in De Dr. Power was born in 1880 in the minibus to Imperial – a sight tankards in tip-top condition Lorean machine?’ Subsequently, he England, British Empire. A keen on campus now just as famous as in case the monarch was ever to referred himself to himself for some scientist, he secured a role at the penicillin, Queen’s Tower, and come and inspect them. Much do counselling, and then proceeded to Royal College of Science, studying the RCSU Sex Sofas. Phil would the disappointment of DP(B), no have a few drinks at the Union’s new Mathematics under Fermat and meticulously care for each and monarch is yet to visit even if he does Whet night. Pythagoras, for which he got a first every minibus under his ownership have a giant 50 inch portrait of the Ed note: Thankfully, Dr. Power has not class degree. However the general as if they were his own children: Queen. actually died. He has left his role at the debauchery of the Royal School checking oil levels, washer fluid and There are many other fun stories to Union and will be the Faculty Education Dr Phil, being a proud parent at of Mines attracted him to shift seat bounciness every evening over share about Dr. Power, ranging from Officer at the Faculty of Engineering. graduation. Photo credit: DPW FELIX THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 24.10.2014 35

HANGMAN [email protected] NEWS WITHOUT THE NEWS Diary Of a Fresher, aged 18 3/4 Sunday 19th October

My roommate stole my fountain pen, alongside my “special sock” although I am more worried as to why he took that.

Massive disaster. Someone in my halls was cooking rice in their rooms (in clear contravention of Halls policy) and they fell asleep! The rice burnt and set the fi re alarm off. At 2am! Outside a cute girl noticed my silk dressing gown and smiled at me. Win; I knew Spiderman was an investment.

Monday 20th October 2014 Found out who the cute girl is from the Halls facebook group; Dorothy Wu, living in room 319. I am so in! She’s got a roommate though so need to catch her alone. Keep walking past her kitchen slowly to try and make eye contact with her through that glass slit in the door, but haven’t seen her yet.

Tuesday 21st Still no sight of Dorothy.

Wednesday 22nd Imperial ratio evident after student graduation I am so hungover. Went back to Ministry last night as it was the RAG Ball. There was nobody at the bar so I bought loads of drinks. Everyone else was still dancing at 3 (maybe it’s because they were drinking loads of wa- ter?) so I got the two night buses home alone. I fell asleep and ended up in Brixton, and didn’t have my NPower rape alarm on me. I felt so naked.

Thurs 23rd Yesterday was commemoration day. No idea what that is. No lectures though, which was lucky. I had so many drinks. Managed to rewrite my lecture notes though. Gotta keep up to speed with them lectures! It only takes me four WKD: The W stands for Welfare. Photo: Facebook hours a lecture, which is worrying but I’ll get better at it, right?

Better consult TSR on this one. ACC bar night diagram deemed “scarily accurate.” HOROSCOPES CANCER TAURUS GEMINI VIRGO ARIES LEO

This week you go to the ACC This week you ask out the only This week, once again, you are This week you have been This week, you get thrown out This week you’re sat in labs Bar night dressed in a ball gag attractive girl on your course, the DPW. It’s like it’s a real job assigned your target for of Metric for pointing out that looking at the monitor of a and G-string for the S&M night. and shockingly she actually says or something. In one of your Assassins’ Guild. You want to do there was no one in Metric. spectrometer that is older After quickly downing four yes. It doesn’t go quite as well day long sessions of emptyness, everything perfectly to get the CRITICISM OF METRIC than you are. You wonder how Jungfrau bombs in Metric, you as you would hope though, as you decide to have a read of Best Kill award, so you spend WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. many people have used this pass out for an instant and wake she turns up late, refuses to pay Felix and realise that your face a long time planning to make Cowed, the remaining dancers spectrometer, and how many up handcuffed to the radiators for the drinks or the meal, and appears in every single issue. sure that it is spectacular, and hold their positions on the of them now have soulless jobs in Coitus Corner. Because no one has a dick. Knowing full well What are you, the sponsor of the you succeed. As the police are dancefloor, each with enough in banking. You realise labs are else goes into Metric for the rest that this is going to be the only paper? Maybe you should give putting on the handcuffs, you space to attempt ambitious perfect training for mind- of the night, you’re stuck there action you’re going to get before them another third of your pay realise that maybe you weren’t breakdancing. Unfortunately numbing screen watching. Labs until morning when you are Christmas, you give it a suck (hint hint). actually meant to kill them for breakdancing is also banned. are so dull. discovered by the cleaners. anyway. real. CAPRICORN SAGITTARIUS AQUARIUS SCORPIO PISCES LIBRA

The week, on the way home This week the annoying guy This week you write an entire This week you are the Felix This week, after spending This week, you are the from the drycleaners after who always asks questions and set of horoscopes in the style of Editor, and in a drunken night the average Freshers lifetime Felix editor’s drying rack. cleaning Mr Flopsy, your interrupts the lectures asks you Thomas Pynchon but the Felix of regret with the Hangman enhancing the student Unfortunately despite being assassin comes for you, riding on out on a date, and because you editor takes exception to your editor you make some very poor experience at the Union, you shiny green and perfectly a horse down Glouchester Road, feel sorry for him you say yes. visceral description of lecture choices, making the situation finally sell out and move to the innocent, you wind up being lance in hand. Unfortunately After a fairly uneventful date, theatre coprophagia and thus in the office so awkward that he Blue Cube. During your leaving the middle of a really awkward no-one told him the rules about you go back to yours, and get forces you to change them. You doesn’t turn up, so have to write party, the event of the year, series of messages and late not actually killing people, and down to business. For some use one of the horoscopes to Hangman yourself. You think things go horribly wrong and night texts. In-jokes in a student as you bleed to death you hold reason he acts weirdly after you complain about this fact. How it’s pretty good; maybe you after an accident in the Union newspaper eh? That’ll teach you Mr Flopsy to your heart, soaking take off your clothes, and cries you suffer for your art. should take on more sections. Bar you are buried under a sea of for getting rid of my last set of him with blood. Poor you. And while he gives you a blowjob. Which editor should you get tankards. Long live the Tankard horoscopes. poor Mr Flopsy. with next week? Baron. 36 24.10.2014 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX Puzzles [email protected] Puzzles Editor VACANT

Your Momogram Acrostic Grid Paul G.

The solutions to each pair of clues are anagrams of one another, but only one of them belongs in the grid. When the correct solutions from each pair have all been entered, the first column will give the name of a Scottish town.

1. Boy's name (short form) || Form of "to be" 2. Nocturnal mammal || Small flap 3. Sports contest || Unit of area 4. Headdress || Parts of the heart 5. Native of an Asian country || Relating to certain European mountains 6. More than a few || Unveils 7. Artists' workshops || First 8. Coffees || Take back 9. Definitely (two words) || Shift in direction of wave

The Felix Quick Crossword Jamie Dutton

Across 1. North Scotland Archipelago (8,7) 5. Sign of the Zodiac (3) 6. Greek letter (2) 9. Biological catalyst (6) 10. Squared pasta (7) 11. A worker for Gru (6) 12. Danny Wallace book/Jim Carrey Film (3,3) 13. Leonard ____ - Original Star Trek actor (5) 16. An endless pursuit (3,4) 19. Robin Williams film (1992) (7) 21. Brand of resonator guitar (5) 23. _____ Stone – Oscar-winning actress (6) 25. One who suffers from a haemoglobin count (6) 26. French frozen dessert (7) 27. Adjusts to certain requirements (to live) (6) 28. Greek letter (2) 29. Donkey (3) 30. 22nd and 24th US president (6,9)

Down 1. Northwestern Spanish City (9) 2. Disease that can cause extremity loss (7) 3. Tolerant, permissive (7) 4. South African fast bowler (5) 7. ___ Rankin – Scottish Crime Novelist (3) 8. England Singer-Songwriter (White Flag) (4) 9. Cathedral City in Cambridgeshire (3) 14. Rotationally symmetric function about the origin (3) 15. Bastard son of Eddard Stark (A Game of Thrones) (3) 16. Greek letter (3) 17. Character from Winnie-the-Pooh (3) 18. No longer possessed of demons (9) 20. Unit of optical power (7) 21. False tooth (7) 22. Soft, cheese-like food (4) 23. Dragon from The Hobbit (5) 24. American Rapper (Debut album - Illmatic) (3) 25. Alter trajectory (of e.g. an arrow) to hit a target (3)

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Quick Cryptic Crossword James Debney FUCWIT The Felix puzzle league, FUCWIT, was named after Across an acronym at some point but no-one can remember 3. Detained Release (3) what it means anymore. 6. Not this, but this (4) 8. Transmutation of fruit to give revelation (5) Play as individuals or in a team (Punny Quiz name 9. Growth of gas backwards is inevitable without compulsory), fill in the puzzles, scan them and send hydrogen (7) them to us as an email attachment. 11. Removing poison in anger, identification is lost in Beijing (5) This can be done at the nearest printer to you in 13. When shortened, this field becomes rug with what Central Library. If you are doing these puzzles in sounds like little space (11) lectures, then you can always scan your answers when 17. Given to a lady, old soldier seeks help (5) you visit the library later.

Down More points are awarded based on how early the 1. Before scheming, plum removes itself to give puzzles are submitted back to Felix. We sit and repository (7) diligently watch our inbox all day Friday just to make 2. High up, Buddhist monk delivers disorderly punch (6) sure we can tell who sends in their answers first. 4. From talent one can in part lodge this country in ear, or perhaps beside it, causing a toll (11) Felix Quick Crossword: 5. Austrailia becomes country (3) 5 points for first complete submission 7. To defy by further cutting of a lady short (5) 1 point for every subsequent complete submission 10. Prior glimpse of tree stem (9) 12. With a bit more than lust body part gives question (5) Cryptic crossword: 14. Initial gambling lets Brits share knowledge (8) 10 points for first complete submission 15. To go against a snake without hesitation (8) 2 points for every subsequent complete submission 16. Metal bewilders stick, allowing transmission (4) 17. Contrasting above, soft metal removed in reverse (5) Dingbats (must get all of them): 5 points for first complete submission 1 points for every subsequent complete submission Mini sudokus Acrostic Grid: 5 points for first complete submission 1 points for every subsequent complete submission Nonogram: 5 points for first complete submission 1 points for every subsequent complete submission Mini sudokus: 10 points for first complete submission of all sudokus 2 points for every subsequent complete submission Benedict Cumberbox Imperial Dingbats Ellen Mathieson

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2: AM (MA), 3: SPA (ASP), 4: HOSE (SHOE), 5: MOIST (OMITS), 6: ONSIDE (EDISON), 7: LOBSTER (BOLSTER), 8: 4. ESTIMATE (MEATIEST), 9: ARGENTINE (TANGERINE), 10: NECTARINES (TRANSIENCE) 38 24.10.2014 THE STUDENT PAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FELIX

Sport Editor: Kunal Wagle In case you missed it... - The World Sport Column Kunal Wagle takes a look at what’s been going on in the world of sport

n the Champions League, there murder. controversy that resulted in Russian were goals galore on Tuesday In response to the West Indies’ Tennis Federation president Shamil Inight, as Chelsea won 6-0, Bayern players going on strike in cricket, Tarpischev being banned from 7-1 and Shakthar Donetsk 7-0. India has suspended all bilateral the WTA tour for a year. He had There was controversy in Moscow series with the West Indies, and earlier referred to Serena and Venus as Manchester City’s game against has opened legal proceedings. The Williams as the “Williams brothers” CSKA Moscow, which was meant to damages bill? It’s expected to top $65 on a chat show. be played behind closed doors, had million. In Formula One, the future of an attendance of 650, most of whom Andrew Flintoff has signed a Caterham has been thrown into seemed to be supporting CSKA. contract for the Big Bash with doubt again. After the company In Wednesday’s football Arsenal Brisbane Heat. The tournament will that builds the cars went into produced a last gasp comeback to be played in December. administration on Tuesday, reports defeat Anderlecht 2-1. However, England have announced their have emerged of a dispute between Photo: Getty Images Liverpool endured a miserable squad for the upcoming Autumn Tony Fernandes and the new owners. night, ending up on the wrong end internationals. Chris Ashton, David The route for next year’s Tour de of a Cristiano Ronaldo inspired Strettle and Danny Cipriani have France was announced this week. thumping. To add insult to injury, missed out, whilst there are three After seeing the route, which only Mario Balotelli was seen to swap uncapped players selected. has 60km of time trial stages, Chris shirts with Real Madrid player Pepe, Andy Murray has reignited his Froome suggested that he may not sparking fury from Reds manager campaign to reach the World Tour race, and instead choose to focus on Brendan Rodgers. Finals in November. After beating the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a Espana. The psychiatrist who assessed David Ferrer on Sunday to win the Oscar Pistorius during his trial has Vienna Open he has now beaten said that he is “unlikely to compete Jurgen Melzer convincingly in again”. Jonathan Scholtz said that Valencia to progress. He is currently he “seriously doubts” that Pistorius eighth in the world rankings – only will return. Pistorius was sentenced the top eight will qualify. to five years this week for killing In other tennis news, Serena his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last Williams suffered her worst defeat year. He was convicted of culpable for sixteen years, losing 6-0 6-2 to homicide, but was found not guilty of Simona Halep. This came after a Photo: Jan Kruger/Getty Images Photo: EPA

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Sport Editor: Kunal Wagle Falcons make semi-finals in UK Softball Championship

remained high and the Falcons to close out the game. The first out off the game and the mood was tense and the Portsmouth team closed ASHLEY NG DING WEN ICBC CHAIR kept their hopes alive with an came easy enough with an infield as ninth batter Vincent stepped up to the game our 9-2 with penalty runs invigorating performance against fly ball caught by third baseman the plate to lead off. Unfortunately, added. the Loughborough Thunder B Stephane. However, after that, things the final inning would prove to be an The Falcons then played the third he Imperial Falcons Softball team. This time, the Falcons were started to unravel as pitcher Ashley anticlimactic one as the Blue Sox gave and fourth placing playoff game team was looking to improve the benefactors of the penalty rule, committed a throwing error to first up 4 walks in succession to give up against the Loughborough A team Ton their dismal last place having 4 girls on the field against followed by 2 hits and 2 walks which the win off a “walk-off walk” to third which started a very tight affair, showing at the 2014 National the 3 in the Thunder’s team. Again, saw the Thunder put 4 on the board batter Ashley. with both teams shutting out the University Softball Championships having won the toss, the Falcons before the Falcons finally managed On the strength of their 2-1 win top of each other’s order in the first (NUSC) Spring Cup. Drawing on took the field first. With renewed to get out of the jam with 2 fly balls loss record and 31 conceded runs inning before a series of 5 hits from 8 players from the baseball and 5 vigor, the fielding side put up a to centerfield Yuki and shortstop (after penalties), the Falcons set the bottom of the Loughborough new female members of the club, strong performance off the back of Eduardo respectively. Having the another club record by making it order brought in 4 runs in the top the team look set to get the one win some strong pitching and a stellar home field advantage, the Falcons to their first ever slowpitch softball of the second inning. With things they needed to improve their dismal fielding performance which included didn’t need to bat again and closed semi-final against the top seeds from looking grim, the tired Falcon squad softball track record. a remarkable diving stop from the game out 16-9 after penalties. the University of Portsmouth. The could not mount a return salvo and The first game proved to be a third baseman Stephane. Despite Buoyed by their first ever softball Falcons started off strongly to get Loughborough A team shut out the setback however, with the Falcons the performance, the Falcons gave win, Falcons morale was riding high 1 run off hits from Eduardo and Falcons to end the inning. Despite falling to the Nottingham Swingers up 2 runs on 2 hits before getting as they went into the final group Christina, helped along by 3 walks shutting out their opponents again A team. The Falcons took the field out of the inning with 2 strikeouts. stage game against their baseball drawn by Anqi, Ashley and Esther. in the top of the third, the bottom of first, but a walk saw the Swingers’ Now down by 2 runs, the Falcons arch rivals, the UEA Blue Sox. Again As the Falcons came on the field, a the third would see the Falcons fail leadoff man get on base, which would came back with a vengeance with the winning the toss, the Falcons took strong errorless fielding performance in their comeback attempt as their prove detrimental as he eventually first four batters from Eduardo to the field first and managed to see out saw them holding the top of the opponents shut them out again to came home on a sacrifice fly by their Esther all drawing walks before Yuki UEA for a single run off the back of Portsmouth order scoreless to close close out the game 7-0 winners after fourth batter before the Falcons grounded into a fielder’s choice with some strong pitching and fielding. out the inning. The next inning adding penalty runs. closed out the inning with a strikeout. Anqi out at home on the forced play. The Falcons then came racing out of however, saw Falcon bats shut out Despite their losses in the last two The bottom of the inning proved a Carole then drew another walk to the gates at bat with 4 runs scoring and the Portsmouth team started games by 7 run margins, the Falcons quiet affair for the Falcons despite bring in another run before Zack hit off 3 hits from Eduardo, Ashley and to show their top seed credentials as take great heart in their performance, a hit from leadoff Eduardo as they in two runs with a line drive single. Yuki, as well as 3 walks drawn by some excellent fielding kept Falcon having gained their first 2 slowpitch went quietly without scoring a run. Despite Catherine’s strike out, third Christina, Zack and Catherine. The bats at bay while they scored 4 runs softball wins and made their first ever The Falcons then had a disastrous baseman Stephane drew the walk next inning however, saw the Blue off 4 hits. As the next inning came NUSC semi-final appearance. The top inning in the second, giving up needed to end the inning on the Sox getting back in the game off a round, the Falcons managed to put Falcons will be looking to train hard a mercy rule 5 runs despite no hits mercy rule. pitching meltdown from the Falcons one more run on the board courtesy over the winter and come back even coming from the Swingers. In the Leads come and go quickly in as pitcher Ashley gave 4 walks to of a triple from Yuki which scored stronger when the Spring tournament bottom, the Falcons sought to get slowpitch softball and the Falcons allow the Blue Sox a mercy rule Esther but it was too little too late, season comes around in March. back in the game with leadoff Yuki knew that they’d need to be on their inning to regain the lead. Thankfully, getting a single before a combination toes to protect their lead. Heading their lead was short-lived as the of errors and walks drawn by Carole into the top of the second, pitcher Falcons rallied to save the game at and Jacques saw the Falcons hit back Ashley finally found his groove and batting with a mercy rule inning of with a mercy rule inning of their own had an almost perfect inning with their own off a hit from Eduardo, 2 with runs scored by Yuki, Carole, 2 strikeouts, 1 walk and an infield errors and 4 walks drawn by Anqi, Rhys and Jacques and Eduardo. The pop fly that came right back to Ashley, Yuki and Christina. final inning saw the Falcons give up a him. Having held their opponents Back on top, the Falcons found further 3 runs while giving up a 1-2-3 scoreless, the Falcons came out again renewed strength despite giving up inning at bat. Taking a 1 run penalty looking to do some damage and they an inside-the-park home run to the per inning for not having enough got just that with another mercy rule Blue Sox’s leadoff man. The next 3 girls, the Falcons saw their hopes inning coming off 1 hit from Yuki, outs came in quick succession and getting that coveted first softball win helped along by 2 errors and 3 walks the Falcons closed the inning out for delayed further with the 12-5 loss to drawn by Alex, Carole and Catherine. 1 run, bringing the score to 10-9 to the Swingers. With an unassailable 8 run lead, the UEA after adding penalty runs. The Despite the loss, team morale Falcons headed into the final inning Falcons now needed 2 runs to walk

Rugby 1st XV hold out for crucial victory over Reading Imperial kicked off the season ball from fresher Toby Simpson maul marched the visitors fifty and this allowed Rigsoc co-founder international Olisa Ufodiama against newly relegated Reading and newly converted No.8 Joe metres down the pitch, leading to Sam Moorby and Chris Macbeth spoilt an otherwise impressive at Harlington in what could be Bowden. However, a lack of match an IC penalty and a sin-binning for to make good yards through performance and decided he an early promotion clash. Off sharpness was evident in some of Reading. Imperial continued to midfield. Macbeth danced through fancied the last ten minutes of the back of a good pre-season, the initial exchanges, with a few turn the screw, and set up another a number of tackles and was pulled the game off for a rest in the and with a new coach, IC were Imperial handling errors amongst couple of penalties for Cox to take up just short of the Reading line, sin bin. Hopefully the 700 press optimistic about the season ahead. the good work, leading to a couple us into half time with a narrow but partner in crime Moorby was up punishment afterwards will Fortunately, there was a break of soft tries for Reading. lead. on hand to finish off. More big hits be a sufficient deterrent in the from the recent bad weather, IC grew back into the game in The second half carried where came in, one in particular leaving future. Reading managed to get which allowed a good fast game of traditional style with a powerful the first left off. The new look Bowden seeing stars, eventually a converted try to bring the score rugby. maul off the line out, leading to front row of Adam ‘Motley Crew’ leading to him being replaced by back to 26-22, and set up a nervy A new look Imperial (five full yet another try for David Nielsen- Postlewaite and fresher Nathan Ruaridh Mckay, who slotted in final five minutes. Everyone dug 1st team debuts plus one off Scott in the corner. A missed Tomlinson combined well with easily and found time to have the in deep, and, with the assistance the bench) were quick off the conversion from Cox brought the club veteran Tom Hobson to Reading scrum half rear Rangered. of Luke Armatige's cider wielding line and won an early penalty in score to 12-8 in favour of the away destroy a Reading scrum. More England international Billy army on the sideline, IC held on for the ruck, allowing captain Cox side. A tough period in the game imperial pressure gave Postlewaite Twelvetrees also came on for his a big win. to put the first points on the followed, where no side gave a the chance to burrow over the line, debut at full back. JOE BOWDEN board for the season. There was yard, with big hits coming in left, and Cox duly added the extras. Just as IC seemed set to ease to 1ST XV RUGBY some neat work under the high right and centre. Another huge Quick ball was regularly on offer victory, our other, less-famous, Issue 1585

[email protected] Sport Editor: Kunal Wagle Imperial duo represent Britain in Triathlon Imogen Simmonds reports on Imperial’s success from Edmonton, Canada

fter 24 hours of travel and air force, and a speech from the overtaken by the fastest swimmers, By this point, I had caught up with Alistair Brownlee’s phenomenal win quite a few more hours spent coolest mayor ever, Don. Every time and into the heart of the brawl. On some of the girls in the age group in the WTS final. Atraining, I finally arrived the sun came out, the fear of bike every stroke I was being dunked below, giving a burst of adrenaline in Edmonton, Canada for the 2014 tyres bursting due to the increased and struggling for breath, and never with each overtake. I gave the rest of World Triathlon Series and Age- pressure played on everyone’s mind. managed to properly find a rhythm the run my all, and just managed to Groupers’ World Championship. Finally, it was time for the pasta meal or do any good sighting, to the point hold myself up after a sprint finish Feeling not so jet-fresh due to a and then off to bed in time to wake past the grandstand. Everyone from delayed arrival, I met the Team GB up for the relatively relaxed start of all countries present was cheering so age-groupers for the bike course 5.30 am. loudly I couldn’t distinguish a single familiarization at 8 am the morning Arriving at the venue on race day, word. The atmosphere was crazy. I of my arrival, having built my bike I was pleased that not only had my was greeted by Hannah Johnston, a in a record 10 minutes. The sense of tyres survived the heat, but also the fellow GB team-mate who’d come team pride was clearly displayed as a conditions were perfect for a race. 2nd in the race, who informed me I’d peloton of over 100 riders took to the There was no rain - so less likelihood come third. I couldn’t believe it and streets of Edmonton, with motorists of slipping off the bike, something I didn’t believe it until the results were enthusiastically waving and letting us seem to be quite prone to doing. pinned up. through. After The usual warm-up, I joined And there I was, third! A podium The following day was pre-race the rest of my 9.41am female 20-24 place! I’d manage to avoid all bike day; to me, this means doing bare wave in the race village. Nerves were mechanical failures and falls (a minimum. We headed over to high as we were led out to the starting triathlete’s worst nightmare), survive the race village for a swim in the pen by a bag-piper-who’s relevance being consistently dunked and finish chlorinated lake (don’t even get is still very mysterious. At 9.30, the third in the world Champs in my first me started). The water, I must first and youngest wave was finally year of triathlon. Not only that but frustratingly admit, was nearly off. As we took to the start line, the we were soon to learn that Laura- perfect to swim in with all the various first of these younger athletes were Ann, fellow Imperial competitor had chemical additions, and was wet-suit already coming out of the water. finished top GB, and 13th overall in temperature. This meant that luckily, Finally, the horn hooted and we were Running out of the swim into an extremely competitive age group. I had my buoyancy aid for the swim. off. I seemed to somehow manage T1: Multi-tasking Photo: ICU This also means that both McGill After racking bikes the compulsory an amazing dive off the beach start Triathlon and Simmonds were amongst the few 24 hours in advance, we headed back and started with a body’s length lead to pre-qualify for the 2015 Geneva for the welcoming parade of nations. on everyone else. But this was short where I undershot the swim exit and European champs 2015, as well as the Legging it down the home straight This included a fly-by by Edmonton’s lived, and at the first buoy, I was had to veer round 90° to get to the Chicago World Championships later Photo: ICU Triathlon blue exit carpet. in the year. Out of the swim, my loyal Further qualifying races are taking Thank you firstly to Laura-Ann supporters (mother and brother) place in early 2015, and we strongly McGill, my tri-mum without informed me that I was in 9th recommend you give it a go as the whom I would never have even position, much higher than I ever racing and experience of representing thought it possible to trial for, let come in the weakest of the three your country is like no other. alone represent GB. Also, thanks disciplines. I ran towards transition The weekend was followed by a to Mum and Jethro, for coming (and may have dropped my hat lot of triathlon watching, although and supporting and being dragged and goggles which I go back for to limited triathlon doing, as the Elite around triathlons without (well avoid a 15 second penalty), and into women’s and Men’s and U23 races minimal) complaint. Finally th ank transition area. Here I whip off my were taking place. We got to witness you to Sport Imperial and Team GB wetsuit and onto the bike as fast as Gwen Jorgensen’s inspiring run and organisers for helping me get there. possible. The bike course started with a hill. As I was struggling to breathe, I took this one to try to settle into the bike, and managed to overtake a couple of my opponents on the way up. The rest of the bike course was flat, albeit windy, and I was glad my trusted Scott was not blessed with rims or a disk wheel, as this would undoubtedly have led to being thrown across the highly ventilated bridge. After 2 laps and no falls, it was off the bike and into T2. As I began the run, I realised just how hard I had pushed on the bike as I felt the initial signs of cramping in my calves. As instructed in my first race this year, I took the advice of James Ellis and “took the first 500 gently”. After surviving this, I knew the likelihood of cramp was slim, so I went for it Parading about Edmonton Photo: ICU Triathlon then, running as hard as I could. Elite women's start Photo: ICU Triathlon