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FREE! No. 791 Friday 29th January 1988 INSIDE Accommodation attack 2 Frazer Another four student bedrooms will have to go following an order Anna Jones said that they knew of the from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's Environmental situation but had not yet been asked Health Officer. College administration have been served an to rehouse the students. 3 Reorganisa- Overcrowding Notice on 54 Lexham Gardens, one of the College's The Student Manager of 54 head tenancies. The notice follows a surprise inspection of Lexham Lexham Gardens, Aaron Kotcheff, described the four rooms in question tion of the Gardens during the Summer vacation. Four single rooms in No 54 as 'miniscule'. The four students have been declared too small for occupation. Union living in the rooms are paying over £35 a week each. 'I think that the rooms are appalling considering what 4 College the rent is', he told FELIX. The loss of another four rooms strikes another blow to College's Question- student accommodation following last naire week's news that they will be unable Being the occupier/pwpw waving mml enti nage«ent of the presisea to guarantee all first year students a year in hall in 1988. College will be know, a, Uj,kQ^ Qu^dCV.^ lA/g Notice* is hereby given with respect Co che above mentioned premises retaining only half of the flats 5 Libel available in Lexham Gardens next (1) It appears to chc Mayor and Burgesses of the Royal Borough of year. These were to have included No Kensington and Chelsea (hereinafter called "the Council") that an 54. excessive number of persons is being or is likely to be accommodated on 6 John Noble the premises having regard to the number of rooms available; Other head tenancies are also under (2) The rooms listed in Schedule 1 to this Notice are in the Council's threat. Part of the Hamlet Gardens opinion unsuitable to be occupied as sleeping accommodation; Council's - -his Notice are In the complex is also going because the .. Usee. » !«*-«' 2 to U'col^lon by «» lease is not going to be renewed. The s 7 Travel (j) The >»' " be occupied a= u s 1 landlords wish to convert the flats into opinion ° ""tfp«->« 'P"""" than the number 01 P«' .„,. of the" PO"*" higher standard accommodation for Special W ^ sale. Union President Ian Howgate under Section 90 01 out in the Including Socice applyi"S ">» ll«"« has already gone down on record as premises - sal submitted by *» Interfiling and saying that he wants to see the whole round the world «e.,l« ot petsoo having e<»« ^ ""^.X* to the trough of Hamlet disappear in favour of travel. better quality College-owned s.ua. & — — Environmental Healcn v accommodation. Another residence at 8 Earls Court 10 Reviews Square will definately go by the end of the year. Mr Howgate told FELIX that the accommodation was in 'a very Dated, 1^ poor state' and'would probably be 14 Drug Alert shut down if the Health and Safety Officer saw it. 'It is potentially lle.lth omcer Borough E»vlron~o dangerous: they've had a fire there 18 Letters already', he said. FELIX tried to contact College College's Accommodation Office are have to move out immediately or wait Assistant Secretary Michael Arthur still unsure as to whether the students until the end of the academic year. but he was unavailable to comment on currently living in these rooms will Student Accommodation Officer the situation. rHE NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE UNION now St Mary's Medical School. St schedule. I am also being asked to Mary's don't have any sabbatical produce St Mary's publicity. Perhaps officers and are in danger of being left it is time for a big shake-up in the out of the Union activities if there is FELIX Office. This means that I am no sabbatical officer who is prepared unable to take on any personal to travel between sites and encourage printing work for the forseeable integration. Do you really think that future. Sorry. St Mary's students will trek all the way over to IC just to attend a UGM? Collation Not even most Civil Engineers are Collation is the subtle art of putting prepared to walk to the JCR to do FELIX together every Thursday that! night. All four thousand copies. I would urge all Council members Recently we have seen the number of to think twice about these new job collators drop due to third year descriptions and to amend them at the projects and finals approaching. I Welcome to the first of a series of (only members can vote) to next opportunity. I would also suggest would like to encourage more first 'special' issues which will be running completely change the way a Union that once a decision has finally been years to give up an hour on Thursday over the next few weeks. This is our is run and a Union General Meeting made about the Union, that it is no evenings to help us with this Student Travel issue. It is a little on (any Union member can vote) to longer left to Council to change but mammoth task, particularly those the small size due to lack of finances adopt Bungle, Zippy and George as that, like Union by-laws, job who live in Beit Hostel. It's a chance in the FELIX coffers but it contains mascots? description changes have to go to see FELIX before the rest of a personal account of a trip around the I think what concerned me most through two consecutive UGMs College does or before the Guilds world, youth hostelling and was that the meeting was so badly before being accepted. Every member President tries to steal it again! It's interrailing. handled by the Chairman Alistair of the Union should be able to have not a particularly exciting job, but We are planning a special 'Comic Seymour. With such a major subject a say on this subject. there are soft drinks on hand and Relief issue next week to coincide to discuss, he should have first you'll get a credit in FELIX to say with Comic Relief Day. All your allowed debate on whether we needed Guildsheet questionnaire thank you. special College officials will be such a drastic reorganisation of the I think that this questionnaire was so donning their red noses and the whole Union. Instead he allowed petty clever. I wish that I'd asked the same Finally... issue will be incredibly tongue-in- squabbles over wording of job question as to whether people wanted There will be a special staff meeting cheek. This means that we will only descriptions. Had Mr Howgate Ian Howgate as their President or not. in the Union Snack Bar today, include articles and reports which fit consulted with other Unions which Perhaps he would have tried to resign 1.00pm, to discuss next week's issue. in with the general 'feel' of the issue. had tried creating a sabbatical to run as well. Anybody is welcome to come. Mars You have been warned. entertainments, he would have Bars obligatory. I must apologise for the lack of a discovered that all have failed. Printing SciTech page in this issue, but Steve Aberystwyth is a case in point. They There is too much printing work Black has been ill for the past week. found that the only people who stood floating about this College to be fitted He has promised me that the page will for the post were those concerned into the Union Print Unit's busy return as soon as he is well again. with self-promotion and freebie- hunting. Their entertainments were worse than before the change. In the Editor-in-chief Judith Hackney Council horror end they appointed a permanent Business Manager Chris Martin I left Monday's Council completely -Deputy Editor Pippa Salmon member of staff as Entertainments disillusioned with the Union anfl the Reviews Editor Charles Robin Officer with the brief that his wages Features Editor Kamala Sen running thereof. I could not believe would be paid for out of the profits, Clubs Editor Andrew Waller that Ian Howgate's report, which and if there were no profits, then he Sports Editors Dominic Strowbridge contained proposals for the biggest and 'Hector' Sullivan wouldn't get paid! However, we have Union shake-up in years, was passed. Science Editor Steve Black now been landed with a sabbatical His proposals for the three Union Typesetting Rose Atkins position to organise events. Printing Dean Vaughan sabbaticals were ill-conceived and Contributors: Chris Jones, Al Birch, Adrian Bourne, Dave Jones, Bill Goodwin, Pippa misguided. He has effectively created I am also worried triat the Union Salmon, Adrian Grainger, Phil Young, William Lumb, Martyn Peck, Noel Curry, Martin a new sabbatical post and thrown one hasn't used this opportunity to create Cole, Roy, Chas Brereton, Steve Mercer, Thomas Grieg, Dave Smedley, Andrew away in just one Council. Why does a sabbatical with special responsibility Waller, Pippa Safmon (), Kamala Sen (*), Chris Martin (), Chris the collator, Lloyd, Rupert, Simon and all the other collators. it only require one Council meeting for the College sites at Silwood and X 'l"v AFR.A1P XT iS P R. AT-E. |J- KOT , we-vrv= fast Fif'iSHC-y woRKiKK"- \ OkT Vc?uR AHOC^\OW op VOUCHERS 1 TMfloufcf ASSES3tN>t> YOU./2- w O £ K / E?~7 3 LECTURE An <p £"*. As t*- 5 so VoaR V/oucnt^S,"1 ATTeNPA^ce Recolto A^p you R.