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ISSUE 1647 ...the daddy issue FRIDAY 18th NOVEMBER 2016 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON elix Charing Cross f Hospital to be demolished PAGE 5 News Grammar schools are not the answer PAGE 7 Comment The myth of ‘prancing princes’ PAGE 24 Culture Is TV breaking masc norms? PAGE 27 Culture Will being masculine get you laid? PAGE 34 Millennials 2 felixonline.co.uk [email protected] Friday 18 November 2016 felix EDITORIAL We’ve all got daddy issues hange is in the air. Imperial College has Regardless of my questionable attempt at creating taken up recommendations to improve #content, we think this is a relevant time to have some student satisfaction made by the Union, discussion on this topic, as International Men’s Day the Higher Education and Research Bill is fast approaching (19th of November), moustaches has just been amended, an education are popping up like mushrooms nationwide in an demo is taking place in London this effort to combat prostate and testicular cancer (the Cweekend, and Donald Trump’s backtracking behaviour Movember phenomenon), and the Southbank Centre has captured the public’s imagination anew. But is dedicating a full three days this weekend to discuss enough of that, this issue is the daddy issue, the issue “the challenges and pressures of masculine identity” where we explore our complex relationship with our in an event aptly named Being A Man (BAM). fathers, our constant pursuit for their approval, our And we really should be talking about the masculine personal struggle: our masculinity. norms a lot of us are knowingly or unknowingly Masculinity is a bizarre concept. Though I’m constrained by. How so many aspects of our culture, someone who has struggled with it their whole life I our life (even our sex life) are affected by masculinity. still don’t feel confident addressing it. I still think many How it’s not expected of us to openly and critically essential elements surrounding masculinity discourse discuss such issues. So, talk we shall. escape me. This became painfully evident whilst trying to write a feature this week, as I realised that my views on the masculine were not quite as clear in my head as I thought they were. 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Consider splitting 13. Ensure all departments out earlier this year Union’. These then show the academic and pastoral agree a minimum amount and the long and College and the Union where Below are the 16 recommen- care aspects of the role. of free time for students. the short of it is that they need to up their game, dations that the Union feel 8. Standardise the admin- Decided by Faculty working students are getting relative to either themselves that College and themselves istration around mitigating closely with students. Tless and less satisfied with or the wider university world. need to act on. (We’ve para- circumstances 14. Make sure the skills both College and the Union. phrased some of the boring employers want are in The Union has now published And what did the NSS Union language, don’t worry) Organisation and modules its list of recommendations it say this year? Management wanted College to enact to try Teaching 9. Compile all deadlines that The Union and reverse the slump, all of 1. Staff should work with a student may have, in order 15. Look at how to tell the which have been accepted. Basically in six of the students to improve teaching to spread them out evenly students what the Union is sectors Imperial is below 2. Give credit to exceptional actually doing. So what is the NSS? the average score with only lecturers and allow them the 16. Find how to engage stu- ‘Learning Resources’ and freedom to try innovative \\ Compile all dents and allow them to make The National Student Survey ‘Student’s Union’ buck- teaching methods the changes they want. is kind of self explanatory: ing the trend. Learning 3. Students should be given deadlines that a final year students complete resources also ranks us 11th the opportunity to act as student may have, What does it all mean? a survey just before they in the country and the rest teaching consultants. graduate, rating the university of the categories place us in order to spread This all depends on whether in several categories. 23 anywhere from 56th to a wor- Assessment and Feedback them out evenly \\ the recommendations are questions cover the eight rying 151st (out of 157 Higher 4. Traffic Light system to actually adhered to once categories of ‘Teaching’, Education Institutions). Over- force feedback to be timely enacted and are actually ‘Assessment and Feedback’, all our satisfaction was 83% (two weeks late equals red) 10. Provide termly timeta- worthwhile. What the declin- ‘Academic Support’, ‘Organ- which sounds pretty good 5. Departmental leader(s) bles in advance of term start ing student satisfaction does isation and Management’, ‘ until you realise this puts should be responsible for dates (i.e. stick to the actual mean is that it effects our us 114th, with the national overseeing the quality of College policy) overall ranking as a univer- average being 86%. It’s also feedback, interacting with sity. This has the potential to \\ The most satisfied a 5% drop from ourselves a Academic Reps and students. Learning Resources effect our place within the year ago. The most satisfied 6. Students and staff should 11. Look at how best to use Teaching Excellence Frame- department is department is CivEng (96%) work closely to co-design space within college, espe- work (TEF), the government CivEng (96%) with with Physics bringing up assessment/feedback cially at busy times policy which means your the rear (67%). Physics also 12. Make sure facilities are tuition fees rise by £250 next Physics bringing up dropped the most from last Academic Support still world-class and push year. So that might change the rear (67%) \\ year, a decrease of 20% in 7. Continue developing the utilising digital technology for should Imperial keep falling. satisfaction, quite the drop. 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By now, work as well as some people hospital have the NHS – which places a process will be. most of the world seems to think. ramped up in the greater emphasis on the need Whilst the government states know that Donald Trump is “To be honest, I see all these past week, with a for increased primary care this is part of a wider goal to the president-elect of the people moving to Canada, public meeting being provision, better IT facilities, equalise health outcomes IUnited States. but it’s such a different country Pheld on November 29th a and education to enhance for people in different What isn’t as clear, however, than the United States,” pivotal moment in the future of general public health. communities, campaigners is how much he will scale said Boutin, a 23 year-old healthcare provision in North However, campaigners contend that the issues run back from his hateful rhetoric Canadian studying finance West London. The meeting, to contend that this shift is at much deeper. Sir Richard and proposed policies during and accounting. be held by Hammersmith & the expense of acute care, his year-and-a-half long It also isn’t as easy as Fulham Council is likely to be and could be seen merely campaign. Americans think to just move key in gauging public support as a cost-cutting exercise.