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THIEF CAUGHT in BEIT HALL the Secrets of the Fire Alarm Used As Opportunity for Student Thefts: Page 5 Election Website Page 10 “Keep the Cat Free” ISSUE 1514 FELIX 09.03.12 The student voice of Imperial College London since 1949 UNION ELECTION MANIFESTOS PULLOUT Make up your mind on where to place your vote this year using our eight page guide inside! TECHNOLOGY THIEF CAUGHT IN BEIT HALL The secrets of the Fire alarm used as opportunity for student thefts: Page 5 Election website Page 10 ARTS Some like it dramatic with ICSM Page 18 TELEVISION £10 million awarded to College Healthcare Sophia David country submitted bids for the award cal investigative sciences at Imperial est research discoveries into clinical Imperial College Healthcare has been which were judged based on the qual- College Healthcare NHS Trust and practice to benefi t our patients.” awarded over £10m from the National ity and volume of medical research head of experimental medicine, said, Set up in 2001, the McMichael Institute for Health Research (NIHR) they support, and the strength of their “This is a very prestigious award and Clinical Research Facility has recent- to develop new treatments. The Trust partnerships with universities and in- is a testament to the excellent clinical ly reopened on the ground fl oor of the successfully bid for the funding to dustry. The award will fund research research already happening in Impe- Imperial Centre for Translation and support its newly refurbished Well- nurses and technician posts as well rial College Healthcare Trust. Experimental Medicine at Hammer- It’s time to fi re up come Trust McMichael Clinical Re- as support studies into treatments for “This funding, and the strong part- smith Hospital. It specialises in the search Facility at Hammersmith Hos- conditions including cancer, diabetes, nership between Imperial College design and implementation of early the Quattro! pital. stroke and obesity. London and our Trust, will ensure that phase clinical trials including fi rst- Healthcare trusts from around the Martin Wilkins, director of clini- we are well placed to translate the lat- time-in-human trials. Page 27 2 Friday 09 march 2012 FELIX HIGHLIGHTS What’s on MANIFESTO PULLOUT CLASSIFIEDS Promises are made, will they be ICU Cinema Friendly girl from Imperial looking for female stu- dents to share a 3 double bedroom fl at at Esher Gar- Spring All-Nighter kept? dens, Southfi eld (District line Wimbledon direction). Large living room, recently furnished, family bath- room and separate toilet, balcony, c o m m u n a l Tuesday 20th March 2012 gardens, double glazing, close to town centre, 18 mins walk from Southfi eld tube station, 24hr bus be- tween Wimbledon and Putney Bridge (2mins walk). It’s that time of the term again... It’s time for Internet connections available and all bills are in- the epic film-fest that is the ICU Cinema Spring cluded with the exception of telephone. All-Nighter. Rooms are £110 per week and £130 per week per person. No pets and no smoking. Six films. Contact 07715452186. 6pm to 7:30am. Tuesday 20th March 2012. Medium sized double room available in fl at on a pri- 18:00 Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol vate, gated community in West Brompton. 24-hour 20:45 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows security, parking space, swimming pool/gym com- 23:30 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo plex, and in walking distance of West Brompton/Ful- 02:30 Puss in Boots And when I say RON, I don’t mean Ron Paul ham Broadway tubes and the bus routes of the 430 04:30 Moneyball and 74, which pass college. 06:00 Attack the Block Room is £635 a month including gas, electricity, It’s time to sit down and take a look at this phone, water and internet. Has double bed, fi tted Tickets for the whole night are £10 online (avail- wardrobe with chest of draws and bookshelf. Fully able until 4pm on the night) or £12 on the door. year’s Union Election manifestos. Don’t equipped kitchen and two bathrooms (bathroom will be shared with one other person). Flat has no living Buy online at forget that you can take the conversation to room but we are quite chilled out and hang around in http://tickets.icucinema.co.uk/ the kitchen or one of the rooms. Twitter using the hashtag #voteicu We are both busy Imperial MSc students. Looking If you can’t make the whole night, tickets for indi- for a female fl atmate of any age to come join us. vidual films will be available on the door for £3 a Editor Viewing by appointment on Wednesday afternoon film. or weekend. If interested in looking around, email As usual, there will be a range of bottled beers, [email protected] or call 07715452186. ciders and soft drinks, sweets, popcorn, crisps, and chocolate on sale throughout the night. All-you- Just so we’re clear, Felix accepts no responsibility can-eat hot food and hot drinks will also be avail- for services bought or sold, capiche? Good. able for just £5 per person. This includes hot dogs, a range of toasties, pot noodles, soups, tea, coffee Contact [email protected] to place your clas- and more. sifi eds! Find out more about the lineup on our web site: http://www.icucinema.co.uk/ Lolcat of teh week Felix, Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BB. Email: [email protected]. Tel: 020 7594 8072. Fax: 020 7594 8065. Printed by Iliffe Print Cambridge, Winship Road, Cambridge. Registered newspaper ISSN 1040-0711. FELIX Copyright © Felix 2012. Editor-in-Chief Matthew Colvin Deputy Editor Charles Betts News Editors Sophia David Alex Nowbar Reporter Aemun Reza Features Editors Katy Bettany Stephen Smith Sports Editors Indy Leclercq Sports Rookies Gabriel Oppetit Johnny Wong Science Editors Kelly Oakes Alexander Karapetian Politics Editors Rajat Jain Joseph Letts Business & Finance Editors Will Prince Deepka Rana Technology Editors Chris Bowers Feroz Salam Comment Editors Tim Arbabzadah Samuel Horti Arts Editors Will Prince Eva Rosenthal Music Editors Mark England Simon Hunter Íñigo Martínez De Rituerto Alex Ramadan Fashion Editors Saskia Verhagen Alice Yang Television Editors George Barnett James Simpson Film Editors John Park Lucy Wiles Games Editor Laurence Pope Food Editors Anastasia Eleftheriou Michael Krestas Travel Editors Dushi Arumuganesan Chris Richardson Online Editors Chris Birkett Jonathan Kim Kadhim Shubber Puzzles Admiral James Hook Photo Editor Miles Robertson Copy Editors Carol Ann Chea Iulia Gherman Philip Kent Ravi Pall Jonathan Peek Annina Sartor FELIX Friday 27 january 2012 33 News Editors: Sophia David Alex Nowbar [email protected] NEWS 56 teams, 28 matches 10 sports, 1 winner Varsity 2012 Tickets FREE for Imperial Who’s game? students! Imperial College vs Imperial Medicals - Wednesday 21 March Registration for free student match tickets has been extended for 1 week only! Register online by 14 March, or you will need to pay the full price of £10 at the gate. Matches at Harlington, Wilson House, Ethos and The Stoop Stadium, Twickenham, home to Harlequins RFC www.imperial.ac.uk/sports/varsity Election campaigning begins Sponsored Editorial Matthew Colvin More student cuts Campaigning for this year’s Union Elections began in earnest on Monday, with candidates for the available po- Discount haircuts for Imperial sitions given the opportunity to show students across Imperial their creden- students at Fresh Hairdressers tials. Wednesday saw the second-ever ‘Meet the Candidates’ live televised More student cuts for Imperial To book an appointment, hustings take place, broadcast by Im- students at South Kensington’s call 0207 823 8968. Ask for a perial’s student television network FRESH Hairdressers. student discount and bring your STOIC from the West Basement in Men’s cuts £22 Imperial ID. Beit Quad. The 80 minute broadcast Women’s shampoo and cut saw candidates, running for the sabbat- and shake dry £28 ical positions, faculty union presiden- Women’s shampoo, cut and tial positions and four student trustee blow-dry £38 positions, take to the screen to deliver All of our cuts are done by their manifesto points and respond ‘Meet the Candidates’ is now available online highly experienced stylists. to questions sent in by email or over Tuesday to Fridays 9.30 to Twitter. Whereas last year’s broadcast 4.30 (sorry no discounts on was not made available following the parison to last year’s hour delay. tion that is notably absent of a running Saturdays). event, this year’s is now available to The format marks a notable differ- candidate is ‘Graduate Students’ As- We are only 70 metres from watch from the Union’s election web- ence in the hosting of hustings, follow- sociation President’, who represents South Kensington tube station site. In addition, the live stream found ing previous years of holding the event Imperial’s postgraduate student body. no signifi cant delays and met its pro- in the Union Building. Voting opens on Monday 12 March jected start time of 6pm, in stark com- Regarding available roles, one posi- at one minute past midnight. unionpage THE SUMMER BALL 2012 h e Summer Ball YOU Asked For Saturday 23 June 19:00 - 02:00 Transformed South Kensington Campus Funfair, Fireworks and Formal Dinner Black Tie Dress Code Summer Ball Ticket Live Bands and DJs Af ordable Price Formal Dinner A erparty Ticket +£40 +£602:00 - 06:00 £30Rising to £35 4 May Buy your ticket now at imperialcollegeunion.org/summerball Bike Auction 12 March 2012/12:00pm your sabbaticals Nicolas Massie Deputy President (Welfare) Dr Bike there from 12:30-14:30 [email protected] 14 March Police Marking 12:00-16:00 Keep up-to-date with your Sabbaticals at: imperialcollegeunion.org imperialcollegeunion.org/sabbs FELIX Friday 09 march 2012 5 News Editors: Sophia David Alex Nowbar [email protected] NEWS Sponsored Advertisement Break-in at Beit Hall Fire alarm in halls leads to stolen cash and jewellery Alexander Karapetian in them being more vulnerable in a got back to find my cash had gone, it Aemun Reza situation such as this.
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