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29 The award-winning student newspaper of Imperial College . 01 “Keep The Cat Free” . Issue 1,451 10 ffelixelix felixonline.co.uk Films of 2010 This week.... Smoke-free campus? DPEW felix looks ahead at the rreleaseseleases set tries to ban cigarettes to blobloww our minds! PPageage 17 for I voted News, Page 2 Ashley Brown STOIC makes a triumphant comeback... ish... as ICU President So News, Page 3 felix celebrates record label what’s Tru Thoughts’ anniversary Music, Page 21 changed? The iPad: giant iPhone, pile of poo or both? We interview Union President Ashley Brown on the successes and failures of his term, Pages 4 & 5 Tech, Page 25 2 felix FRIDAY 29 JANUARY 2010 News Editor Kadhim Shubber NEWS [email protected] Smoking stubbed out on campus? The world beyond AAlicelice RowlandsRowlands through. This reporter wonders wheth- er Mr Silver’s dislike of walking through the Quad may go some way to explain John James, Deputy President (Wel- his sporadic attendance at the office. College walls fare), presented a controversial paper A lot of people feel a student of Im- to central Union’s Representation and perial College ought to be able to ask Welfare Board (RWB) last Thursday, another to alter their behaviour, if they calling for a ban on smoking on all Un- see it as offensive. As pointed out by ion premises, including Beit Quad. The non-smoker, Jess Poore: “If it’s got to paper asks the Union to: Implement a the point where we can no longer rely ban on smoking in any part of Union on common courtesy and the ability to Sri Lanka premises and a ban on the sale of tobac- ask someone to move away from you co by the Union and to lobby college to if you find them smoking unpleasant, implement a smoke free campus. and instead need to enforce school- n Sri Lanka’s first presidential election since victory in the During the meeting, concern was ex- like rules, we should be concerned civil war against the Tamil Tigers, the incumbent Mahinda pressed that a ban on smoking in the about the general conduct of our stu- Rajapaksa has been declared winner with a majority of 57.8 Quad would result in smokers congre- dent population rather than a bit of percent. gating by the entrance on Prince Con- smoke.” IBeing the first President to have led a successful campaign against sort Road or at the back of the Union Talking to students around campus, whether students want a smoke free the Tigers, it may have seemed that Mr. Rajapaksa was in no threat of building near the Albert Hall. Anyone it appears there is little support for a campus at the next Council meeting losing his post. But his main rival in the race was General Fonseka, entering the Union would still have to full ban on smoking in the Quad, even on the 15th February. Any student may the head of the army during the war, who got 40% of the votes. walk past smokers, as would pedestri- among non smokers. Amanda Cheung attend Council and voice their opin- Soon after the results were announced by the Electoral Commission, ans using the pavement. told felix: “I think a full ban is a bit ion, though only Council members can troops were deployed around the hotel where General Fonseka was John Silver, Deputy President (Edu- extreme but it would be nice if peo- vote on whether to pass a paper. staying. The General has since lodged a complaint to the Electoral cation) expressed his dislike of people ple who don’t smoke could sit outside Aside from soothing the sensitive Commission alleging vote rigging. smoking in the Quad, implying he felt without having to breathe in cigarette nose of our DPE, many question the unable to ask them not to smoke near smoke, especially with the summer motivation of the paper and whether him. He said that he was put off go- coming. How about implementing this is really one of the biggest Welfare ing into the Quad because he “gets a designated smoking in the Quad?” issues affecting Imperial students. If face full of smoke” every time he walks Smoker Matt Kaufeler joined a the aim is to improve the atmosphere Switzerland number of students in questioning the of the Union, the pools of snakebite sanity of the motion telling felix: “If and vomit, odour of student and this is anything more than an attempt general decor, should probably be he five day World Economic Forum has opened its doors in Deputy to stimulate a debate on smoking, then attended to before smoke in the Quad. Davos, Switzerland, where 2500 leaders in business, govern- President it is idiocy. A short term ban would Alternatively, if the aim is to stop ment, and civil services are expected to meet. (Welfare) probably be accompanied by a short selling students products that may Already there has been confrontation between bankers and John James is term boycott, which may lead to a long harm their health, I’m sure the Union regulators. Barclays head Bob Diamond, and Lord Levene, proposing a term loss of custom” has served me ‘meals’ that pose a far chairmanT of the insurance market Lloyd’s, have both lashed out at Barack campus-wide The meeting resolved not to pass more imminent danger to my Obama’s plans to break up banks ‘too big to fail’. Mr Obama’s proposals, which smoking ban the paper, but to ask Council to vote health than a few need congressional approval, would also prevent banks or financial institu- on whether to hold a referendum on cigarettes would. tions that own banks from owning hedge funds and bar them from propri- etary trading. Lord Levene was quoted as saying that “We need good regula- tion, better regulation but not more regulation.” s s Imperial Business School climbs e n i up the Financial Times rankings s u Nigeria Business, page 10 B Business ays of violence between Christians and Muslims in the city 29 of Jos, Nigeria, have left nearly 500 people dead. Felix, Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BB. Tel: 020 7594 8072. The riots started in Jos, but then spread to neighbouring Fax: 020 7594 8065. Printed by The Harmsworth Printing Ltd, 17 Brest Road, . towns, and dozens of houses, churches, and mosques have 01 Derriford, Plymouth. Registered newspaper ISSN 1040-0711. been burnt down. Police are still removing bodies from wells Jigsaw font by typotheque.com. and pits, whilst residents are fleeing to military camps set-up around the city. felix 1,451 . D Copyright © Felix 2010. 10 This is not the first time the city has experienced such trauma. Indeed, an estimated 200 people were killed in religious clashes in the city in late 2008. The political situation in Nigeria isn’t helping the situation either. It’s Presi- This issue of felix was brought to you by: dent, Umaru Yar’Adua has been in hospital in Saudi Arabia for two months, and the Senate has called on him to concede his powers to his deputy, to allow Editor-in-Chief Deputy Editor Deputy Editor Copy Chief him to take up presidential duties. Dan Wan Kadhim Shubber Gilead Amit Sasha Nicoletti News Editor International Editor Science Editors Sports Editors Kadhim Shubber Raphael Houdmont Brigette Atkins Mustapher Botchway United States Nathan Ley David Wilson News Reporters Film Editors Indy Leclercq Politics Editors: Dina Ismail Zuzanna Blaszczak Nightlife Editor James Goldsack nder mounting political pressure, Tim Geithner, U.S. Joanna Cai Ed Knock Charlotte Morris Arts Editors Katya-yani Vyas Treasury secretary, testified on Wednesday for the bailout Alex Karapetian Caz Knight James Lees of AIG, the world’s largest insurer. Alice Rowlands Technology Editor What’s On Editors Rosie Milton Phillip Murray Specifically in question are AIG’s payouts of collateral- Samuel Gibbs Rachel D’oliviero Lucy Harrold ised debt obligations (CDOs) at full value to undisclosed Assistant Editor Lily Topham Feature Editor counterU parties, who were comprised mostly of large banks. As a result, Jovan Nedić Fashion Editor Photography Afonso Campos many politicians and pundits are labelling the bailout a further opaque hand- Kawai Wong Coffee Break Editor Ben Smith out to banks. Geithner defended the bailout of AIG and the measures taken Layout Editor Charles Murdoch Holly Farrer to uphold its credit rating as “absolutely essential.” This testimony and the Carlos Karingal Music Editors Catnip Editor Rox Middleton uncertain confirmation of Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke for a second Kadhim Shubber Clubs and Socs Editor Rhys Davies Matt Colvin term come amid a rising wave of populism in the U.S. and elsewhere, affecting Comment Editor Alex Ashford Alex Kendall Lizzy Griffiths global politics and economic reform. Charlotte Morris Luke Turner Games Editors Ayyub Kamaludin Puzzles Commodores Katie Clemence Jamie Beal Business Editor Travel Editor Sean Farres Adam Lane Richard Howard By Raphael Houdmont & Tom Greany Sina Ataherian Dylan Lowe Milli Begum (APPLY NOW!) Stefan Zeeman felix FRIDAY 29 JANUARY 2010 3 [email protected] NEWS Guilds Vice President AWOL? Not likely, he says DDanan WanWan Editor-in-Chief when “no indication of sympathy” was given to- wards his situation, de- In a long line of mishaps involving the spite immediate contact City & Guilds College Union, their and a full explanation. Vice President (Finance & Societies) “Upon seeing the article Rikki Norris has been criticised for his I immediately contacted absence about College, but has now the editor to request that spoken to felix to clarify the situation.