Felix Issue 1103, 1998

COLOUR EXTRAVAGANZA SUMMER SOUNDS GOT SOME SPARE TIME? Sixty-page Guide to the Jumbo $f Bumper Issue Festivals Crossword Interview with the Rector Campus Renaissance Game y the Tunnels "of IC 1 'I ^ Trip to Le Mans 7 ' W- & the Embrace War Massive Film Preview Thailand Travel Diaries IN GO EOUS FULL C 4 2 GAME 24 June 1998 24 June 1998 GAME 59 Automatic seating in Great Hall opens 1 9 18 unexpectedly during The Rector nicks your exam, killing fff parking space. Miss a go. Felix finds out that you bunged the builders to you're fc Rich old fo work Faster. "start small antiques shop. £2 million. Back one. ii : 1 1 John Foster electro- cutes himself while cutting IC Radio's JCR feed. Go »zzle all the Forward one. nove to the is. The End. 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Back three.. 24 June 1998 NEWS Sabbatical Elections Finally Over (Yawn) DAVID ROBERTS Whilst the election result itself represents good news for the Union, the pitifully low With just six days to go before the end of term, turnout is symptomatic of a far wider problem. the Union has at last completed next year's sab- Senior Union figures continue to cite general batical line-up, with Chris Ince elected as contentment with the way the Union is run and Deputy President (Finance Services) by one of exam pressures as the root cause, but serious the lowest turnouts in living memory. questions still remain as to why so few 1C stu• The election, which took place last dents really seem to care about the organisation Wednesday and Thursday, was called when the which is supposed to represent them. If messrs previous DP (F&5)-elect, Dave Wharton, Hellard, Ince and Cherrington wish to claim a resigned. Mr Wharton was elected last February, true democratic mandate to run the Union, then alongside Dave Hellard, Adam Cherrington and their biggest challenge will perhaps be to stop Ed Sexton, but stood down when it became this downward spiral from continuing any clear that he would not pass his examinations. up a 336 to 57 victory. further. Rather than leave the Union in limbo whilst he The result was greeted with relief in Union awaited official confirmation of his results, he circles. Senior Union figures have been under• decided to open-up the field for new candi• standably concerned that a New Election result dates, to ensure that someone filled this vital would leave the Union in crisis, forced to survive role. without one of its most vital officers until elec• = Chris Ince When papers for the post came down on 9 tions could be held in October. Indeed, ICU June, Mr Ince was the only candidate to throw President Andy Heeps had described the = New Election his hat into the ring, and with the result seem• prospect as "more serious than having to do ingly a foregone conclusion, very little enthusi• without a President". However, the election of asm was shown by the electorate. Hustings at Chris Ince has been warmly received, with Mr both Charing Cross and South Kensington were Ince (a long-term Union stalwart, now in his cancelled, and the traditional IC Radio and Felix sixth year at Imperial) believed to represent a interviews did not take place. Consequently, worthy successor to the current incumbent, Rob most students were unaware that the election Clark. was taking place, resulting in a turnout of just Mr Ince was elected on a platform of finan• 395 - less than five percent of the registered cial prudence and review, highlighting student electorate. training as one of his principle policies. He On a more positive note, those who did promised to organise financial training for every turnout returned Mr Ince by one of the most club or society treasurer, and thus ensure prop• comfortable margins ever recorded. Mr Ince er controls at all levels of Union funding. He has beat New Election (the only other "candidate") also made manifesto commitments to pursue a at every polling station apart from Silwood Park, thorough review of the levels of subsidy offered registering 85% of the votes cast and notching to Union clubs and societies. STOIC Make Offal JON TROUT One singers making it an instant favourite. Another feature is the "Crappy Logo of the Friday night Channel Four viewers might have Week", featuring last week ICU's Student had a bit of a fright. For the discerning post-pub Television of Imperial College. The pictures punter Victor Lewis-Smith's TV Offal has proven showed the indeed substandard logo; a revolv• to be compulsive viewing for the last few weeks; ing cardboard dodecahedron. They went on to genuine footage from assassinations, honest show some eternally recognisable Imperial obituaries of unlikeable television presenters unfortunates, a chap with a poodle haircut and and slick jingles from the original BBC Radio a celebrity interview. It came as quite a shock to Mike Gibbs, STOIC chair, who only became aware of it after the broadcast. Anonymous Channel 4 researchers had asked to look through the archives a month ago, promis• ing to pay for any footage they used, in the dents will ensure the immediate future of the region of over a hundred pounds a second. After struggling society is sweetly ironic. Hopefully we a largely unproductive couple of years, the can use the cash to get a few more people inter• money could prove a godsend in providing ested in getting STOIC to make television pro• funds for a non-linear editing suite, which would grammes." Mike Gibbs is about 22. make production easy even for beginners. One Publication Board member said: "That the fright• ful design and hopeless taste of late sixties stu• NEWS 24 June 1998 Summer Ball Success ALAN CEER AND JULIA HARRIES crowds partied until they were finally forced out in the early hours The first ever Imperial College by weary Ally Pally staff. It looks like Summer Ball was held on Friday 19 the Imperial Ball is here to stay, of June at Alexandra Palace, and make sure you get your tickets proved to be an unprecedented early next year. success. The event, which sold out several weeks ago, was attended by over a thousand people. Apart from only seven coaches turning up to take people to the Ball and the ridiculously small numbers of bar staff, the Ball was enjoyed by all. Left: Ling Lee, one of the students Organisers had not planned on who organised the ball;. Below: apathetic IC students wanting to The dodgems were a big attrac- dance, or even wanting to come, tion. Right Johnny Ball in the mid- but in the event the dance floor dle of his popular after-dinner became too crowded. Johnny Ball, speech. Above: The small dance after consuming several bottles of floor was crammed to capacity. wine, gave an immensly popular Photos: Mark Baker. speech, and although only some revellers could hear him, he received a standing ovation. Exuberant and very drunk stu• dents including Andy Heeps, 32, were forced to find other avenues of amusement. Luckily with dodgems, a casino and the karaoke machine, no one would have noticed Mr. Heeps' hairy buttocks. Amazing lighting effects and the uncharacteristically friendly atmos• phere made a complete change from Union carnivals. The groovy Print Unit's Last Impression JEREMY THOMSON encountered in training students to year. Felix itself looks likely to be strong argument that Felix should print, and lack of profits have ruled produced by East End Offset in receive the majority of the pro• After nearly twenty years, 1CU Print out a full-time professional printer. Bow, who have also printed this ceeds from the closure - though Unit is set to close. The printshop, Concern about the newly revealed issue. it's all union money in the end", he which is thought to be the only in- financial performance of the print Concern was raised by both the said. The Print Unit Manager, Andy house union printing facility in the unit and the need for major invest• Felix Editor and the editor elect, Ed Thompson, also seemed resigned country received its death-knell ment brought matters to a head. Sexton, over the timing of Felix pro• to the fate of the printshop; from a unanimous vote from an Further bad news came from the duction. The current tradition of a "Obviously, my initial reaction was emergency ICU council last Friday. print unit manager, who revealed Friday release would prevent up-to one of disappointment, that the The print unit was founded by that he was considering retirement date news coverage, and would union's development of dBs failed Felix in order to provide cheap, fast at the end of this year. delay sports reporting by at least a to take into account the require• newspaper printing. It continued Several options were consid• week.

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