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The student ‘news’paper of Imperial College London The Epic Fail Edition Issue 1,415 Friday 14 November 2008 felixonline.co.uk felix Inside International - It’s back baby! Pages 4-5 Comment - Angry Geek is back Pages 6 Feature - Lord Mayor’s Show Pages 24 - 25 Dreamserve - Epic Fail!!! The river that nearlyImperial College Canoe Club gettook more than they bargained a for,life see page 3 Network Down! 2 felix Friday 14 November 2008 Friday 14 November 2008 felix 3 News [email protected] News News Editor – Kadhim Shubber [email protected] Imperial Canoe Club to the rescue NUS vote for reform again Universities to be IC Canoe Club aid canoeist stranded on a rock above a Ashley Brown reversed. Proposals to allow elected of other amendments. A proposal to waterfall whilst attempting to recover his canoe Live! reporter officers - who typically receive many force conference delegations to be 50% times the number of votes of NUS female was thrown out - the amend- restructured? This afternoon the NUS was once delegates - to automatically qualify for ment noted that over 50% of students Jovan Nedić rienced canoeists. members present radioed the rest of again attempting to reform itself, at conference failed to pass. are women, but the same does not ap- Goverments calls for reports on the Editor in Chief It was as ICU Canoe Club were get- the group to come with more safety an extraordinary conference in Wol- The controversial Trustee Board re- ply to conference delegations. It should ting ready to tackle the water that equipment to rescue the boat. verhampton. In contrast to last year’s mains intact, with the Black Students be noted that despite Imperial’s gender current state of higher education in the Members of Imperial College Union they bumped into the individual who It was at this point that the Impe- extraordinary conference, it appears campaign failing in its attempt to have imbalance, the last conference delega- Canoe Club were involved in the rescue turned out to be a friend of one of rial canoeists were informed that the to have been a very civilised affair, an automatic seat for all liberation tion was almost a 50/50 split. United Kingdom of a canoeist from a Snowdonian river the members. The individual, age 20, individual that went on ahead never although a number of changes went campaigns on the supposedly apoliti- One other amendment of note aimed last Sunday. The individual was swept joined the group as they went down turned up. Assuming that he must through. Conference eventually voted cal board. The board’s function is to to stop ratification of the reforms oc- down the river before he managed to the river, however since the group was have missed the exit point, the group in favour of the revised reform propos- ensure the NUS remains financially vi- curring at a second extraordinary con- Jovan Nedić A report by Universities UK, which climb onto a rock just before Conwy full of a lot of beginners, it took longer went down to the third stretch of the als by 614 votes to 142, easily meeting able and acts within the law, which led ference, instead requiring that the An- Editor in Chief represents vice-chancellors said: “It is Falls, near Betws y Coed, Gwynedd. than expected and the individual went river where they found him stranded the 2/3 majority needed to change the to concerns that it could simply throw nual Conference be the one to approve simply naive to suppose that UK uni- The individual in question was ca- on the do the next section alone, which on ‘The Rock’. This particular rock has constitution. out anything it did not like. This was the changes. However, this was also Universities face the prospect of radi- versities can operate effectively and noeing earlier that day with ICU Canoe is considered to be unwise, as he had to received it’s name as it is the last large The decision must be ratified at a clarified, with the Annual Conference rejected, fuelling speculation that re- cal changes after a review ordered by compete with emerging global giants Club, but is not a member of Imperial. meet a friend. rock in the river before Conwy Falls, a second conference, either a further Ex- able to refer items back to the Trustee forms will be ‘forced through’ by hold- the Government. In his report, Paul while funding remains at about one IC Canoe Club were on their weekend With all the beginners safely taken 30-40 ft drop. traordinary Conference or at Annual Board if it disagrees with their decision. ing an additional extraordinary confer- Ramsden, chief executive of the Higher third of US levels. By 2023, a signifi- trip with a large cohort of beginners in out of their boats, the more experi- Boaters from the nearby café were Conference in April. In either case, Im- A proposal to remove external trustees ence, for which delegates do not need Education Academy, said that universi- cant proportion of higher education Wales, with the aim of the event be- enced went on to tackle the second akready at the scene, but didn’t have perial will play no further part in the was also defeated, meaning the ‘safety to be selected by cross-campus ballot. ties should no longer class degrees as may be delivered by further education ing to introduce them to the basics of section of the river. This was not with- enough safety equipment with them. process due to our disaffiliation. net’ committee will be recruiting from Reports from Imperial’s delegates in- firsts, 2:1s, 2:2s or thirds. Instead they colleges, private and international pro- canoeing. out it’s own incidents, as one of the At this point, Tom Haywood from The reforms originally eased the outside the student movement. dicate it was a civilised affair, and the should issue report cards. viders. The challenge for institutions The River Conwy can effectively be Imperial canoeists managed to capsize Imperial College Union Canoe Club, requirements for delegates to Annual Attempts by far left groups to kill off margin by which the reforms passed “The present system of classifica- will be to ensure that the UK retains its split up into three separate sections, his boat and had to evacuate it. Due to called the minibus to bring down the Conference to be elected by cross- the talk of reform once and for all were is more convincing than the last tion was designed for a smaller higher reputation for quality and excellence, each of varying difficulty. The first sec- the fairly strong current, the boat was safety equipment that they had with campus ballot, however this has been rejected again, along with a number attempt. education world,” he said. “It does not and that diversity and differentiation tion of the river is described as very taken away and after the IC students them. Rory Fyffe, President of Impe- describe the range of knowledge, skills, do not lead to incoherence within the easy, with the next two sections getting ensured that the canoeist was safe, rial College Union Canoe Club, then experience and attributes of a graduate sector.” progressively harder. The final stretch they began the search for the boat. managed to organise his club to con- in the 21st century.” Predicted demographic changes over of the river is considered a grade 5 and After a while, the boat was found tact the emergency services and give “It reduces the complexity of a gradu- the next decade should prompt fairer should only be attempted by very expe- wedged between two rocks, and the their current location. In the mean- ate’s performance to a single category. policies for part-time students, it said, time, the older members of the club And it is not reliable across different as there will be fewer full-time, teenage secured a line and got the individual subject areas.” undergraduates. to a safe location. Due to the nature of In another report, Drummond Bone, One of the key points from the report the river and the steep cliff faces on ei- Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool Univer- were that more postgraduate schol- ther side, the members of ICU Canoe sity, said that British universities faced arships are needed to stop the “brain Club could only get the individual to a growing competition abroad, and that drain”, by which they mean that would certain point where it was considered the credit crunch had made distance like to prevent students moving away very unlikely for him to get back into learning programmes more popular. from academia. the water. “The figures for a massive increase in The reviews outline that there clearly The Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Imperial College Canoe Club on the River Conwy international education are no longer is a problem with the current state of team and the Betws y Coed fire service tenable,” he said. “The last 13 years higher education in the United King- then arrived on the scene and managed have seen an extraordinary expan- dom. These problems have also been to get the individual to safety. Rescuer water and decided to jump in after it. “Given the events of this weekend I sion of global trade and an extremely outlined by the Minister for Higher Chris Lloyd from the Ogwen Valley At this point the rapids took the indi- wanted to email you all. Firstly to thank benign financial environment, neither Education, David Lammy (Issue 1,413). Mountain Rescue Organisation told vidual downstream until he managed you all for your help, level-headedness of which can be relied upon in the Imperial College have also recognised BBC Wales that “This kind of rescue to cling onto ‘The Rock’ where he was and patience last night.