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Love it? Loathe it? Completely irrelevant? The Mercer Varsity 100: you decide The Independent Cambridge Student Newspaper since 1947 | varsity.co.uk | Friday January 19 2007 | Issue 649 ARTS & Hutchinson cleared FEATURES of sexual assault FEATURES »Trinity Hall fellow to New year’s sue Cambridge daily resolutions two for “libellous” coverage weeks on Hutchinson “declined to speak to us »PAGE 12 ELLIOT ROSS but instead sold his story to a tabloid News Editor Sunday newspaper, whose reporter was at his house on the evening of A Cambridge academic cleared last the not guilty verdict”. month of sexual assault plans to sue Hutchinson described the reaction the Cambridge Evening News for of his students, three of whom what he called “three clear cases of returned from their year abroad to libel”. He may bring a further charge act as character witnesses, as of harassment. “absolutely amazing”, also praising Dr Peter Hutchinson, Deputy his “wonderful” colleagues in the Head of the Department of German University. One of Hutchinson’s stu- and Fellow of Trinity Hall, was dents, third year linguist Callum found not guilty by a jury at Hind, was critical of “unfair” Norwich Crown Court on December reportage in the local press. He said MUSIC 8 2006 after a previous trial in that all eight linguists in his year at Cambridge had to be adjourned for Trinity Hall visited Hutchinson as Dubstep: legal reasons. soon as the story broke to let him Hutchinson has spoken out know that they were “very much Entering the against “inaccurate and unbalanced” behind him”. Later in the term the press coverage of the case, and said same group took Hutchinson and his underground his barrister, who has advised him to wife out for dinner and gave him a take legal action against two nation- luxury hamper. »PAGE 19 al newspapers, considered the The accusations were brought by a reporting of the first trial “among young policewoman, a former stu- the most scurrilous he had experi- dent of Hutchinson, who had visited enced in over thirty years at the him in his college rooms in October Bar”. The CEN were “determined to 2005. She claimed to have been shame me in the local community”, assaulted by Hutchinson as she he told Varsity. “My aim is to pre- examined a mouse mat. She told the vent the newspaper from treating court “I felt his hand cup my buttock. anyone else in this way, with their He didn’t say anything, he sort of let intrusion of privacy, harassment, out a chuckly-type groan and pervy ridiculously one-sided view of the noises.” She said that Hutchinson case, and clearly libellous state- then tried to kiss her twice, attempts ments”, he said. that she resisted, latterly using a At the time of the trials, the CEN police training manoeuvre which carried headlines such as “Dirty don involved pressing her arm against wanted a quick feel, jury told” and his throat. “German lecturer: ‘I do pat bottoms’”. Hutchinson has always admitted But CEN Editor Murray Morse physical contact with the woman. dismissed suggestions of a vendetta But he argued, “that touching was Dr Peter Hutchinson: found not guilty last month DYLAN SPENCER-DAVIDSON as “rubbish”, defending the newspa- not primarily sexual, and I had no per’s coverage as “totally fair and reason whatsoever to believe that from me” contained sexual innuendo. quality of teaching that the Medieval accurate”. “I don’t know who has she would object”. Hutchinson pointed out that the and Modern Language students advised Hutchinson to pursue a The meeting between the two was nature of email correspondence deserve,” praising Hutchinson’s legal action against the newspaper” preceded by an exchange of emails. excluded facial expression and tone “outstanding reputation”. Asked he said, adding “whoever it is should Prosecution lawyer Chris Morgan of voice, but conceded “the banter whether he considered Hutchinson check their facts first”. He is “total- told the court that Hutchinson wrote and flirtation – on both sides – went to have been in breach of any code of ly confident” of mounting a success- of his tendency to “go a bit weak at a bit too far”. practice, Bampos stressed the col- returns... ful defence. the knees with blondes with a cer- Hutchinson expressed relief that lege’s adherence to the University’s Morse went on to say that the tain colour of eye who are just won- no moves had been taken to consider ‘Dignity at Work’ policy, but said »PAGE 10 CEN had offered Hutchinson the derful people as well”. Morgan his suspension. Dr Nick Bampos, that as the complaint was made from chance to give his full story after his argued that a separate email asking Senior Tutor at Trinity Hall, said outside the college, it was for the acquittal. He claimed that her to “Give your… cat a stroke “our first priority was to offer the court system to deal with. 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Friday January 19 2007 2 NEWS [email protected] varsity.co.uk/news In Brief Academics bust chip and pin Scott’s last »Payments Association maintains that cardholders’ details are safe letters on show chip and pin terminal, but collecting lion pounds was fraudulently siphoned in protecting their PIN, or they were AMY HOGGART card details and PINs entered”. from customer accounts. attempting to defraud the bank by Captain Robert Scott’s final letters to his Worryingly, he claimed that the Open to such attacks, questions making false claims”. wife, written on his ill-fated expedition to Members of the University of experiment would be easy to recre- have been asked as to why the But it would be difficult to move the South Pole in 1912, have been dis- Cambridge Security Group have dis- ate: “Only moderate technical skill in machines were introduced and mar- back to signature cards as banks are played for the first time. The letters covered a new way of doctoring chip electronics is needed and it took keted as a safer alternative to the sign- apparently reluctant to reissue them. were given to the University’s Scott and pin machines to steal customer around a month for us to build and ing method. Murdoch acknowledges When asked how he personally pays Polar Research Institute by Scott’s data. The team opened up a chip and test the equipment. We estimate that that the terminals do incorporate anti- for goods, Murdoch said that he uses daughter-in-law, Lady Philippa Scott. pin terminal purchased on eBay and the equipment needed to perform this tampering protection, but that “when cash whenever possible, even though Director of the Institute, Prof. Julian replaced its internal hardware with attack would cost less than £250, and triggered they only prevent the termi- this “results in different risks”. He Dowdeswell, said they are “invaluable in their own, gaining complete control of is easily available from online elec- nal processing real transactions”. He added a recommendation that credit enabling us to continue our historical role the machine without displaying any tronics shops.” He added, explained that “this feature cards should be used in pref- as an international centre for the study evidence of external damage. “Everything we used is general pur- exists to protect the bank, erence to debit cards of the Polar Regions”. Jessica King Personal account details and PINs pose hardware with many legitimate not the customer”. as the legal pro- could then be copied and used to cre- uses, so buying it should not raise sus- While previous tection is bet- ate fake cards. picion. After this stage, building any signature-based ter. New look for Steven Murdoch and Saar Drimer, subsequent fake terminals would be transactions researchers at the group, which spe- much cheaper and faster, probably laid the respon- Fisher Square cialises in testing the security of elec- taking a few days to a week.” sibility on the But the importance of the discovery bank to Fisher Square, adjacent to the Soul was yesterday undermined by Sandra prove that Tree nightclub, will undergo a £350,000 “To demonstrate Quinn, Director of Corporate the cus- renovation. Cambridge City Council Communications at APACS, the UK tomer- has commissioned British sculptor their complete payments association. She told Varsity autho- Peter Randall-Page to transform the that they “have discovered that the rised pay- area. Mr Randall-Page’s work, control of the terminal the Cambridge Security ments, inspired by patterns in nature, has Group used isn’t in fact a chip and pin chip and pin been exhibited in the British Museum machine, they terminal and has none of the tamper- transactions and the Tate Gallery. The centrepiece responsive switches that the current allow banks will be a sculpture carved from red wired it up to terminals have”. She added that “the to assume that granite. Other planned innovations terminal manufacturer is writing a let- the customer is include a curve of steps and new-band- play Tetris” ter of complaint to Cambridge”. As liable, unless ed paving. Chrissy Collins well as arguing that “what is possible they can prove in lab conditions is unlikely to be suc- otherwise. cessful in the real world”, she detailed Murdoch tronic hardware, were responsible a variety of safety features designed to pointed out one Breakthrough in for the project. To demonstrate their prevent such fraud. negative effect of complete control of the machine, But the Security Group believes the move to chip nuclear research they wired it up to play Tetris, post- that theirs is not the only method of and pin in “the Cambridge scientists have developed a ing a video of the feat on the committing chip and pin fraud.

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