he No. 615 The Independent Cambridge Student Newspaper since 1947 Friday February 18, 2005 CUAI launch t Mockel-von-dem-Bussc r lbe high-profile A campaign against arms ness in Cambridge. Chine Mbubaegbu Admittedly, as students we live in a Cambridge bubble. We THIS WEEK saw the launch of need to get Cambridge stu- the ‘Control Arms Campaign’ by dents and the community out Cambridge University Amnesty of the bubble because it affects International (CUAI) at the Cambridge as well. There have Michaelhouse Café, in an been several instances of gun attempt to make Cambridge stu- crime in Cambridge and the dents aware of the mounting chances of these guns being global problems concerning the legal is highly unlikely. ” arms trade. Councillor Hipkin comment- The Cambridge campaign is ed on gun crime in Cambridge part of a worldwide movement to and the UK, saying: “What eradicate the “global misuse of everybody is aware of is that arms.” According to the organisa- there is an increasing ratcheting tion: “The unregulated supply of up of ordinary crime into the sta- weapons makes it easy for crimi- tus of violence. There are more nals to murder, for soldiers to kill weapons being used and we now indiscriminately, and for police to have governments positively arbitrarily take lives. Today’s telling people that it’s ok to shoot weapons are quicker and more burglars and the burglars will powerful than ever before. And in take the message from that. the wrong hands, faster and more Where formerly they would have powerful weapons mean more gone in with a hammer through abuse and more wasted lives.” a window, they’ll now go in with Councillor John Hipkin, a hammer and a gun. The escala- The Scissor Sisters are amongst the major backers of the campaign launched this week by CUAI Deputy Mayor of Cambridge, tion is frightening.” attended the launch of the cam- According to the Control paign, which is supported by Arms campaign: “There are Amnesty, Oxfam and the around 639 million small arms Police called in to settle Cellar fracas International Action Network on and light weapons in the world Small Arms (IANSA). He said: today.Eight million more are pro- Grime DJs who were present created no response, requiring 11.30pm. The college authori- “I hope to be mayor in May and I duced every year.” Oliver Tilley they “talked a lot of talk” and them to call the police, after ties said they were “very am going to dedicate my mayoral One of the main initiatives intimidated those students in which the intruders left pleased” with the way in year to the cause of peace and rec- of the campaign is the “Million THE KING’S Cellar Grime the bar. Students at King’s promptly. which the Cellar committee onciliation. Cambridge’s eminent Faces” petition – a visual peti- Night had to be prematurely have said they “caused prob- The Cellar committee, handled the altercations. history in the field of research and tion that will allow people to shutdown early this week after lem, pushing the lines of King’s College porters and the Concerns have been raised its eminent academics who have “show concern about the it was gate-crashed by three being aggressive, without King’s College authorities dis- over the King’s Cellar queuing taken up the cause of peace need spread of arms around the local youths from outside the being violent”. cussed the intrusion after- system, where those who have sto be celebrated. Cambridge is a world.” The campaign hopes to University. This culminated half-an- wards and have since decided already paid for admittance place where we have done a great present the petition to the gov- In an isolated incident, the hour after their arrival in a to ensure constant supervision have at times been declined deal of work on research into ernments of the world at the three adolescents, who looked clash between the youths and of the main King’s gate by re-entry after leaving. armaments and scrutinizing gov- UN conference in 2006. “around the 18 year old mark”, the Cellar staff at the Cellar manipulating the staff shifts. But plans are in place to ernment treaties.” Cambridge students and com- found their way into King’s entrance, which prompted the They expect that the intruders introduce an alternative dou- Tabassum Khandker, Co- munity figures, including the College at around 11.30pm on organisers to shut down the entered through an unattend- ble-queuing system in which Ordinator of the Control Arms Deputy Mayor, have already Tuesday February 11th. They event immediately, at 12am, ed main gate. The new meas- paid attendees queue in a sep- campaign in Cambridge, high- added their names and faces to subsequently entered the only half-an-hour before the ures are expected to prevent a arate line, while the toilets, lighted the need for Cambridge the petition, putting them King’s College bar where they scheduled end of the set. At repeat of the incursion. closed for years are to be re- students to be aware of the alongside such famous figures were verbally abusive and this point the porters were The college is usually closed opened after council officials issue, saying: “The first aim of as Desmond Tutu, Michael threw beer at fellow students. called and repeatedly asked after 10.30pm, while the assured the committee they the campaign is to raise aware- Moore and Sir Bob Geldof. After walking up to the the intruders to leave, which Cellar admits people until would be workable.

CANOEDLING ON CAM PAGE 5 NO, PRIME MINISTER PAGE 10 SCIENTIFICALLY INSANE PAGE 16 TALKING ABOUT MY GIRL PAGE 23 A HISPANIC RENAISSANCE PAGE 25 FINDING THE FALCON PAGE 26 2 NEWS February 18, 2005 www.varsity.co.uk News in brief Teaching first New name for Psalter Animal Rights Joe Gosden training program. Graduates cious pigments provides a unique Animals rights extremists have entered schools in 2003 and there insight into medieval life. Initial been accused of spreading THE SCHOOLS Minister has are now around 350 such teachers research has suggested that the malicious rumours about said that recruitment of high fly- working in 65 schools in 24 170x108mm work can be linked employees of Huntingdon Life ing graduates to work in tough London boroughs. A third of the to a priory at Gorleston in Suffolk Sciences and other companies inner city schools is having a “sig- graduates are from Oxbridge or at a time when East Anglia was linked to animal testing. nificant effect” in raising stan- Imperial College and statistics one of the foremost artistic cen- Cambridgeshire police have dards. In a speech to the Fabian show that the majority have tres in Europe. But Dr responded by saying that offi- Society on Friday, Stephen Twigg stayed in teaching after their two Panayotova suggests that it could cers would seize any offending MP set out his vision for the years, with some going on to be associated with a Norwich literature and speak to neigh- future of urban education, become head teachers. workshop. It is hoped that laser bours of people falsely accused. announcing the extension of the A Dfes spokesperson said “The technology and pigment analysis A spokeswoman for the police Teach First scheme to include largest group of Teach First par- will reveal the Psalter’s history said, “This type of harassment Manchester as well as London in ticipants teach the severe shortage which could see it renamed will not be tolerated.” a bid to further raise standards. subjects: maths, science and mod- according to its true origin. Dr Twigg said that he was “hugely ern foreign languages. Graduates Rachel Cooper accompanied by a host of Panayotova speculated on how Hawking Spaceship impressed” with the impact of the are placed in the secondary macabre and comic illuminations the manuscript was produced, scheme and wanted to “explode schools across London that need FOLLOWING THE arrival of is considered to be one of the suggesting that a team of artists A spaceship which has been the myth that urban schools fail them most; at least 30 per cent of the Macclesfield Psalter at most important medieval arte- could have created the work over flown around the solar system their pupils”. He added “the real- pupils receive free school meals in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam facts in existence. Dr Stella a period of one to two years dur- by Cambridge physicist ity is remarkable progress in our participating schools”. Museum, experts could rename Panayotova, Keeper of ing the 1320s. Heavily populated Stephen Hawking has been put cities – and in London in particu- Rosemary Sillence, who read the unique Fourteenth Century Manuscripts at the Fitzwilliam with illuminations which are an up for sale on eBay. The metre lar. The track record speaks for English at Cambridge and was illuminated manuscript. Museum described it as a “treas- assortment of the archaic and the long vessel was built for a itself. In the late 1980s just 15 per one of the first recruits, said that After a nationwide campaign ure of immense art-historical progressive, she has dubbed one Specsavers commercial starring cent of students got five good she liked the way the program raised the £1.7 million necessary importance” and likened its dis- of the artists involved “the mad- Professor Hawking in 1999 and GCSEs in inner London. In enabled her to try teaching whilst to save the manuscript from covery to a “major scientific man” who makes a guest appear- is being auctioned on the inter- 2004, London overtook the “keeping her options open”. She export to the USA, the Psalter has breakthrough”. ance in the creation of some of the net until Monday 21 February. national average for the first added that she enjoyed the fact finally come home to East Anglia. But little is known about its more obscure images. The latest bid has reached £157. time”. The Teach First scheme that “you go straight into the The manuscript is on display to origins and history: named the The script is currently in an encourages high-flying graduates classroom and learn the theory on the public from 15 to 27 February, Macclesfield Psalter after being unbound state due to the disinte- Family Planning to spend two years in teaching the job…enabling you to gain not before being withdrawn for con- discovered in the private library of gration of its eighteenth century after leaving university, posting only Qualified Teacher Status but servation and analysis. The the Earl of Macclesfield two years binding. After conservation it is A new survey by the Family them to tough inner-city compre- also a Foundations of Leadership, Macclesfield Psalter which ago, the 252-page manuscript hoped be ready for permanent Planning Association has hensives after a fast-track teacher all in the same program”. depicts the psalms of David embellished with gold and pre- display from December this year. revealed that 61 per cent of 18 to 23 year olds think that new technology such as mobile Liz Bradshaw phones and email makes it easi- A-Levels and GCSE’s are here to say, reports er for partners to cheat on them. Text messaging in particular is A-LEVELS AND GCSEs therefore give rise to accusations Tomlinson had advocated a ten- sioned by The Times newspaper reflect the fact that we owe it to used as a method of maintain- have been accorded a reprieve of declining educational stan- year reform programme that found this week that 45 per cent students to have reliable and rig- ing multiple relationships. amid pre-election fears of losing dards. would see the creation of a four- of headteachers have lost faith in orous external assessment”. Mr Email is the new way to flirt. middle-class votes. In a white paper on education, level diploma, gained between the current exams system and Clarke’s successor, Ruth Kelly, The government will reject the government is to announce the ages of 14 and 19, focusing on would rather their pupils sat described A-levels and GCSEs proposals put forward by Sir changes that will instead take literacy, numeracy and informa- something similar to the as the “gold standard” in educa- Stolen bike website Mike Tomlinson, the former place within the current system. tion technology, and giving equal International Baccalaureate. tion, saying that “We really do Chief Inspector of Schools, to These include opportunities for weighting to academic and voca- John Dunford, general secre- need to make sure that we have Cambridgeshire Police have set replace them with a European- the brightest sixth-form students tional qualifications. His propos- tary of the Secondary Heads GCSEs and A-levels remaining up a new website to help identi- style diploma with more to take university-level courses als received widespread support Association, called this a “tragic in place and build upon that”. fy stolen bikes. Pictures of emphasis on vocational skills. and to extend the range of voca- from teaching unions, govern- waste of national resources”, but Ms Kelly is expected to recovered cycles and locks have The Prime Minister is con- tional options available to the less ment exams watchdogs and the a spokeswoman for the announce the government’s pro- been published on the site to cerned that the new system may academically-minded. former education secretary, Department for Education and posals in a Commons statement help victims of bike theft. See be seen as less rigorous, and In a report published last year, Charles Clarke. A poll commis- Skills responded: “The costs next week. www.cambs.police.uk/camops/r ecovered/cycles. MHA week Crowded Cam DNA doodle on the web Events took place across The Cambridge University Cambridge this week to Combined Boats Club are urg- Lucy Phillips The Wellcome Trust in the increase awareness of the issues

ing rowing crews to think before NLM UK and the United States surrounding mental health they practise as the River Cam is A ROUGH sketch showing National Library of Medicine (MH) problems. becoming increasingly congest- Cambridge scientist Francis are currently working to digitise The week aimed to provide ed. The Club, which regulates Crick’s first impressions of the entire collection, which information on the support and organises the University’s the DNA molecule has been consists of over 11,000 items. available to students and chal- rowers, says that the rise in the made available to view over The project aims to open the lenge the stigma associated numbers of crews insisting on the internet. late scientist’s life and work to with MH problems. early morning sessions is leading The pencil doodle, made on the public and to act as a guide Events included a talk by to ineffective training for every a scrap of A4 paper, shows the for more in depth research. Tarryn Hawley from Young team on the river. first hint of the famous double Crick himself emphasised Minds entitled ‘Everyone has helix structure of DNA. the value of this project in mental health’, relaxation and Crick, along with his col- 2001 when he said: “The art workshops and film view- Black card mystery league Dr James Watson, iden- Wellcome Trust’s principle of ings of A Beautiful Mind and tified the double helix shape in free access to information will One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Students across Cambridge 1953. He famously celebrated apply to my papers. The CUSU Welfare Officer have been receiving mystery by going to the Eagle pub, on world’s scientists and medical Richard Reid said events “were black cards, allowing them entry Bene’t Street, and announcing historians can’t all make it over well received.” to an event described by sources that the two men had “found to my office in the States but He said “It’s always diffi- as “of epic proportions” and the secret of life”. The break- they will soon have unlimited cult to determine the effec- which will take place on Sunday through began a new era of sci- access to my archives at the tiveness of these sorts of cam- February 20, in the heart of stu- entific progress, revolutionising Wellcome Library.” paigns, but I hope that simply dent Cambridge. Details are medical and forensic science. Crick, one of the most cele- by running the week MH sparce and scant, but the event A total of 350 text documents brated scientists of the last centu- issues will become a greater seeks comparison to the leg- and images from Crick’s per- ry, died in July 2004 aged 88. part of people’s thinking. endary, and perhaps mythical, sonal archive, including the Since the Wellcome Trust and MHA Week has also been Black Card supposedly touted DNA sketch, can now be the Heritage Lottery Fund the driving force behind the by the likes of Kanye West and viewed or downloaded on the bought the Crick papers in 2001 relaunch of the CUSU men- Nellee Hooper; the suggestion internet. They also include his they have been housed in the tal health website, afforded is that this expectedly original research papers on Wellcome Library in London. www.giveitsomethought.co.uk humble student equivalent may DNA and genetic codes dating The process of digitisation will which is currently expanding.” have unexpected power... from 1948 to the 1980s. ensure their longevity. LP NEWS www.varsity.co.uk February 18, 2005 3

Tsunami update ‘Colonials and Natives’ themed night at Ballare Cambridge’s latest Tsunami Going mixed fund-raising event, a concert organised by CUMS, will be held in King’s College Chapel Barney Jones merger to go ahead. The on Saturday 19. widespread belief is that this Maggie Heywood, the Hon. THE PRINCIPLE OF equality ballot is unlikely to result in a Secretary of CUMS, is keen of opportunity has been ques- ‘yes’ vote. that the money should be tioned by a recent proposal from Members of the HMC have donated to ‘specific projects’. the Girls’ School Association stated that the wish for the CUMS plans to donate the (GSA), which requested a merg- GSA to join forces with them money raised to particular er with the Headmasters’ and is inherently hypocritical. communities in both Sri Lanka Headmistresses’ Conference They argue that the GSA and Africa which both present (HMC). Some headmasters in champions single-sex educa- and past CUMS members have the HMC have stated that such tion, and has stood by its personal contacts with. an idea is inherently hypocritcal. assertion that girls fare The concert will be attended The main reason why the worse in co-educational by heads of houses and depart- GSA schools, such as St Pauls’ schools. The headmasters do ments in the University as well Girls, would not be allowed to not question membership of as city dignitaries. The Vice- join the HMC is based on a single-sex boys schools Chancellor is also supporting controversial membership rule. already in the HMC. the initiative. Ticket prices Only schools with 40% boys are An argument against the range from £5 concessions to granted membership to the HMC’s criticism is evident in a £50 for seats in the front HMC. The HMC changed its report in the Telegraph from antechapel. CUMS is extreme- name from the Headmasters’ May 2004. The paper reported ly pleased that many of those Conference in 1996 when it that girls schools were consid- unable to attend have given gained its first Headmistress. ering admitting boys, after fig- donations instead, with “dona- The acronym remains the same. ures demonstrated a fall in the tions running equal to ticket Two GSA schools in particu- popularity of single sex schools. sales’ at present. “ lar, Guildford High and Cynthia Hall, the president Spot the odd one out. Students dressed in ‘colonials and natives’ outfits were in the minority. The programme includes Surbiton High, have expressed of the Girls’ Schools A NUMBER OF Cambridge students have voiced concern over a ‘Colonials and Natives’ fancy dress Handel’s Zadok the Priest the wish for the two groups to Association and head of St night, held at Ballare Nightclub on Wednesday, in largely isolated protests. The themed night was put on Chorus and ‘Jupiter’ from merge. Charlotte Rendell- Helen & St Katharine School, by the Hawks Club as part of their weekly Rumboogie club night. The theme chosen was the same as that Holst’s The Planets. It will be Short, Deputy Chief Executive in Abingdon, Oxon, is quoted of a recent party attended by Prince Harry, which prompted a public outcry for an apology, after the prince conducted by Stephen of the trust to which the schools as having said: “We think we was photographed wearing a Nazi armband. Cleobury, Timothy Brown and belong said: “It would be sensi- may have been too rigid about Despite a minority of clubbers turning up in the suggested costume, several people have suggested that Harry Blake. ble for them [the HMC] to excluding boys and that the the theme was inappropriate. Pav Akhtar, current NUS Black Student Officer and ex-CUSU President, A similar concert held at seek a legal opinion”. time has come to open up our suggested that the theme went against the Race Relations Act. Sholto Mayne- Harvey, who organised the Great St Mary’s in January Legal opinion is being schools as HMC has done”. event, has defended his decision, saying: “The theme was not intended to cause offence, controversy, or to raised over £10,000 for the sought by the HMC, who say The question as to the fair- maintain certain myths that might exist about Cambridge’s students.” However, he apologised for any Tsunami Relief Fund. they will also hold a ballot ness of the rules of member- offence caused. Amelia Worsley amongst their members to ship to the HMC is still to be - Chine Mbubaegbu decide whether they wish the fully debated. - See ‘Broadside’, p.12 4 NEWS February 18, 2005 www.varsity.co.uk Fitzwilliam nominated for Museum of the Year Channel challenge

y Phillips Amelia Worsley The race is expected to take expressed an interest include five hours, although it could be LMBC, Trinity Firsts and Luc OXFORD AND Cambridge extended to s nine hours Thirds, Selwyn and Darwin, Boat Clubs will race across the depending on whether crews with more entries from Oxford English Channel on June 20 miss the turning tides. “We colleges expected soon. this year, over what has been expect it to be a tough race”, Lennard Lee, of LMBC, called “one of the most chal- said the organisers. who will himself be rowing in lenging stretches of water in Teams will be crossing ‘the the race, said: “The support the world”. busiest shipping lane in the will be there, and with enough The ambitious plan, organ- world’, and crews will have to preparation we hope that all ised by LMBC, is for six to ten deal with ‘waves that stream the teams will finish.” teams of four rowers plus a cox off the bows of cross-channel Training will involve rowing from both Oxford and ferries and cargo ships that are in coastal areas, learning how Cambridge to race the 21-mile big enough to swamp or break to skull as opposed to the usual long route, with no swaps. The the boat’. In addition, success- technique, as well as getting teams will begin at ful teams will have to over- used to a bigger boat. The race Shakespeare Beach in Dover come potential problems of will raise money for the Harbour and the race will fin- hunger, dehydration and sea- Cancer Research Campaign ish when the first rower steps sickness during the race. and the University Sports onto French sand. So far, teams who have complex. Sky-high exam costs

Lillie Weaver examinations watchdog, below. Currently, British chil- described the system as having dren are amongst the most AREPORT JUST published “a huge amount of superfluous examined in the world, accord- has put the total cost of exams or duplicated information”, ing to Dunford, ,and the result- in school at over £600m, the with some exam boards sending ing system is so expensive and first study of its type. out paperwork to schools three elaborate that it may be “on the The figure includes GCSEs, times a week. Dr. Dunford, brink of collapse”. A-Levels, and their vocational general secretary of the The government is expect- equivalents, as well as the Secondary Heads Association, ed to iadd a new tier of voca- Standard Assessment Tests calls the expense a “tragic tional qualifications, rather taken at seven, 11 and 14. waste” of money and resources. than streamlining the existing The report was released a The Tomlinson report, system. Frances Sword (Head of Education at the museum), Sokari Douglas Camp (sculptor), Michael Day week before the government’s released last year, suggested a Critics hope the newly- (Chief Executive of Historic Royal Palaces) and Margaret Greeves (Museum Assistant Director) are pic- white paper on the future of broad reform of the current published report will highlight tured in the courtyard of Fitzwilliam Museum. The museum’s courtyard redevelopment has been short- these qualifications is due, and exam system, including intro- the need to tackle the bureau- listed along with 10 other projects around the country, for the prestigious Gulbenkian Prize for Museum is seen by many as an attempt ducing broader, Baccalaureate cracy within the of the Year, the largest arts prize for the UK, worth £100,000. Judges Michael Day and Sokari Douglas to influence ministers. style A-level qualification, and Qualifications and Camp visited on Thursday. The museum is now encouraging involvement and comments from the pub- PriceWaterhouseCoopers, advocated the scrapping of many Curriculum Authority and lic. Four finalists for the prize will be announced 18 March and the winner on 26 May 2005. who were employed by the of the exams at GCSE level and also within exam boards. Lucy Phillips CU Labour Club dispute Oxford Ball blunder Amy Goodwin when he was linked to to demonstrate how the elec- should have such a low opin- Murison’s activities. tions were stitched up for ion of Oxford’s natural

CAMBRIDGE University Arrowsmith denies that Powell by reading him an email ll Online charms, that they feel obliged Labour Club has emerged CULC suffers from the fac- from Jacks’ account. to look to the River Cam for from its recent scandal in tionalism which is often in evi- Arrowsmith decribed how rwe inspiration.” ‘fighting form’, newly-elected dence in student politics. Murison left his room late one Che But the Ball Committee Chair Martin Arrowsmith Murison was ‘very much on the night before the elections with have explained that, due to the declared yesterday. fringe’ of CULC’s ‘broad the words, ‘I’ll see you on sponsorship deal they have This year’s committee elec- church’, and the fact that not Judgement Day’. with the advertising company, tions were delayed after for- only was a unanimous decision Although Arrowsmith Getty Images, they are obliged mer Secretary Henri Murison made to expel him but believes that Jacks’ ‘excellent’ to use pictures that feature in a was accused by outgoing Arrowsmith was elected Chair chairmanship and the team he specific area of their collection. Chair Jane Jacks of abusing with equal confidence shows now has in place form a secure This means they cannot choose her email account. Jacks had that this was a ‘singular basis for CULC’s work this equivalent photos of Oxford. given Murison her password episode’. year, he is concerned at news James Gallon, Zita Caldecott to access the account on a that Murison was elected as and Alice Leedale, Presidents unique occasion. “I’ll see you on National Secretary of Labour of Trinity’s Ball Committee, She was later tipped off by Judgement Day,” Students at their conference said the poster was intended to Arrowsmith that Murison had earlier this month. Jacks with- be “evocative, not representa- been checking her emails regu- -Labour drew her support for Murison’s tive, of what is elegant and larly in order to keep tabs on Club Secretary nomination in the wake of the refined about the social side of the inner workings of the Club email debacle. life at Oxford” but that “none in the runup to the elections. The circumstances in which CULC then attempted to of the images on the posters Murison, who Arrowsmith Murison parted company with make delegates aware of Anna McIlreavy One poster is dominated by were taken in Oxford.” describes as ‘a careerist loose can- CULC are highly ironic given Murison’s record, but the rigid an idyllic scene of punting on Students have complained non’ and ‘fiercely New Labour’, that he accused Jacks of con- structure of the conference OXFORD STUDENTS have the Cam, with the caption that the failure to use a pic- was expelled from CULC follow- ducting a ‘dirty tricks’ cam- meant that Murison was able expressed surprise at images of sprawled across saying: “345 ture of punting on the ing a unanimous vote. paign when they both ran for to sidestep awkward questions. Cambridge being used to years before Pimms and poet- Cherwell is at odds with the The meeting decided that Chair last year. As he was standing unop- advertise the 450th ry did battle aboard a punt.” Ball’s claims to be an occasion Murison had ‘broken the law At the time he argued that posed no serious efforts were Anniversary Ball of Trinity Oxford students have won- which celebrates Oxford. to gain political advantage, she had broken the Data made to attack his reputation. College, Oxford. dered why the Ball Committee The Trinity Ball Committee broken the bond of trust Protection Act by sending her CULC is considering how A range of posters, designed have not used scenes of the at Oxford has not expressed between himself and the Club’ manifesto to the entire CULC best to deal with the situation to advertise what will be one of correct university. any intention to retract the and shown serious dishonesty. mailing list. but as its ties with Labour the most extravagant Oxford Damian Murphy, a graduate posters that continue to cause Another member, Joe Arrowsmith also found his Students are fairly loose Balls of the year, was released of Trinity College, mild confusion amid the Powell, chose to resign from candidature was far from pop- Arrowsmith is unsure how this week to a mixed reception Cambridge, commented, “I Oxford student body. the Club after his campaign ular with Murison when the much impact any protest because the posters have been find it strange that the Trinity for chairmanship collapsed latter threatened him and tried would have. described as “a bit Cambridgey”. Ball Committee of Oxford NEWS www.varsity.co.uk February 18, 2005 5

Science Matters

Canoe club future at risk Cervical cancer bring novices into the sport, Given the logistics of the procedure, smear testing is (at best) there has been virtually no sup- undignified, and with the threat of cervical cancer a seemingly port from the University who remote one for young, healthy women, the UK’s screening process have been unable to provide any is relatively unpopular. alternative storage space – Sadly though, cervical cancer is far more prevalent than most

rsity Canoe Club something very much at odds women imagine. Professor Margaret Stanley (OBE), Head of the ve with the support given to canoe Stanley Laboratory here in Cambridge, told the Scientific Society clubs at most other UK univer- earlier this term that cervical cancer is the second most common

e Uni sities. The collegiate nature of cancer in women Worldwide, being especially rife in the

idg sports here at Cambridge has Developing World. resulted in a lack of central sup- Over 90% of cervical cancer cases are thought to be the result port for non college based clubs, of infection by a group of sexually-transmitted, tumour-inducing Cambr and as such leaves the canoeists viruses known as Human Papilloma Viruses or HPVs. The ini- with few options. tial effects on the cervix of these viruses can be detected using the In order for the club to con- Pap smear tests which have helped make the UK’s screening pro- tinue running, it is vital that gramme hugely successful. alternative storage can be found Unfortunately, a regular smear testing programme would be quickly. Without easy access to simply unaffordable to developing countries; and impossible given Rebecca Hodge use of the land as part of their participation, the club are the river, beginner’s courses the lack of infrastructure. Professor Stanley described the recent- building expansion, leaving the equally well rounded in terms of would prove too difficult to run, ly-reported studies which have offered hope for women in these THE FUTURE of the club with nowhere to go. performance, displaying multi- reducing the accessibility of the countries, though, in the form a vaccine that acts against HPVs. University Canoe Club has The Canoe Club boasts 170 ple medals from previous club and depleting the range of If a single-dose vaccine could be produced, this would offer a been thrown into uncertainty as members, and caters for all lev- BUSA successes, including a less mainstream sports available much more feasible option than regular smear tests in these areas. a result of being made home- els of ability. Trips to alpine bronze in the girl’s river race to students at Cambridge. As a Another option could be urine-testing. Dr Nancy Kiviat report- less. Lacking more convenient whitewater venues are inter- and third overall in the team result, club president Jamie ed to the American Association for Cancer Research that in a options, the club have for the spersed with regular beginners slalom. The canoe polo teams Grundy has sent out an appeal study of 143 Senegalese women with cervical cancer, urine testing last ten years housed much of sessions on the Cam – it is esti- have begun competing in some asking for anybody who may be for the presence of abnormal methylation in certain cancer-linked their equipment in several sheds mated that around 70 people of the top regional leagues, able to offer the use of a shed on genes detected cases of invasive tumours with 90% accuracy. on land owned by Caius learn to paddle with the club whilst the annual Varsity match the upper cam (above the mill Cervical cancer is likely to remain a problem in the developing College. The arrangement was each year, and new members are has grown to include four dif- pond), away from punts and world for some time, but with research ongoing there is hope that one that suited both parties always welcomed irrespective of ferent disciplines. rowers, to contact him on in the future women there, like us, will have help – be it through amicably, although Caius have previous experience. Yet despite Despite competitive success, [email protected]. vaccines or urine-testing – in the prevention if this killer. recently announced they require placing a strong emphasis on and the club’s willingness to

Monkeys watching porn Horse rescue Male monkeys know what images they like, and – along with Eton help out many of their human counterparts - they’re willing to pay for them. Mark Padley pledged to assist a planned In a report published in Current Biology, researchers from academy in Peterborough. For Duke University of North Caroline described how male rhesus ETON COLLEGE, one of many schools, such as macaques “sacrificed fluid for the opportunity to view female per- Britain’s best known public Bancroft’s school Essex, who inea and the faces of high-status monkeys.” schools, is to give state school already share their facilities In the experiments, monkeys were faced with the choice of a children the benefit of its with the local community, this fruit juice drink, or a different-sized beverage and the chance to facilities and educational greater level of partnership is look at a picture of another monkey with whom they were already expertise for free. Under a new likely to be a natural step which familiar. The test subjects had previously only been allowed con- government initiated partner- should help further relations trolled measures of fluid, making them highly sensitive to the ship, which aims to help turn between independent schools varying juice quantities. ‘bog standard’ comprehensives and the communities they are Alternating the images and juice volumes, the researchers into state of the art ‘acade- situated in. found that whilst the monkeys would take a slash in juice supplies mies’, Eton will be giving These developments come to view images of female hindquarters or the faces of socially Langley Academy in Slough at a time when the charitable high-ranking males, they had to be ‘bribed’ with extra fruit juice the benefit of some of its status of private schools such to look at males of lower status. resources. Pupils will be given as Eton, which charges over Furthermore, the researchers found that the test monkeys master classes from Eton £20,000 a year for its educa- observed female perinea for longer periods of time than the faces tutors free of charge and will tion, is potentially under of any monkey. This is consistent with the notion that staring in also be allowed to use Eton’s threat from the government if the wild is often threatening to the monkeys – the test subjects £10 million lake – the venue they are not seen to be con- seemed unwilling to prolong the face-to-face encounters. for next year’s rowing world tributing more to their local Despite being hailed as proof of ‘monkey pornography’, the championships. Additionally, communities. findings (in indicating that the monkeys valued visual information the new academy is to be on the influential individuals within their society, or on female sponsored by the Arbib sexual receptiveness) offer an insight into primate behaviour - Foundation, owner of the they provide evidence for the hypothesis that monkeys can dis- A Przewalski stallion, soon to be reintrodced in Mongolia Henley rowing museum. criminate between individuals of different social status, and will in In return, Eton will be fact seek only selected social information through their observa- given access to some of the tions of other monkeys. Natasha Anders Kayleigh is an experienced state school’s facilities: A proj- The report by Deaner M.O, Khera A.V & Platt M.L is pub- rider and comments that the ect manager for Langley acad- lished and available online through Current Biology: www.cur- KAYLEIGH FAWCETT, a 19 trip will also give her the emy stated that “The inten- rent-biology.com year old biological sciences stu- opportunity to experience rid- tion is that it will be a two- Zoe Smeaton dent from Homerton College, ing “Mongolian style.” way process. Eton’s pupils will is appealing to students The Przewalski horses are the be using Langley’s indoor Cancer research throughout the University to only example of truly wild hors- cricket pitches, as well as our take part in a fundraising bowl- es left in the world today and pupils benefiting from Eton’s Experts at Cambridge University have embarked upon a two- ing competition, to raise £1,200 Kaleigh intends, on her 3 week resources”. year project to discover whether the risk of cancer can be linked in funds for the reintroduction trip to Mongolia in July, to gain This process of partnership is to early childhood growth. of the Przewalski’s Horse a useful insight into a valuable not limited to Eton either; The Cambridge scientists have been awarded a grant of Project in Mongolia. research programme, which other independent schools £123,000 by the World Cancer Research Fund in order to carry Kalyleigh is taking part in the monitors the horses which are of pledged support and expertise out the experiment, which will involve studying 500 babies born project herself this July, where she great significance and impor- for the development of Tony in Cambridge. will be working in the Hastai tance to the local people. Blair’s new academies when he Professor David Dunger at Addenbrooke’s Hospital is heading National Project alongside The fundraising bowling com- met them in October. Most up the study. He said: “We will be studying 500 babies at regular rangers, research scientists and petition will be held on March 7, pledged only expertise, intervals throughout early childhood.” He added that the study local people. This will involve fol- at TenPin Cambridge Leisure although the King’s School, “may also provide support for the concept that cancer prevention lowing and monitoring herds of Centre from 7pm. Tickets are Canterbury, is participating in may need to start very early in life.” horses, tracking them in remote £4.00 and participants will be put plans for a school in Folkestone, It has been suggested that children’s early diet and weight gain areas, observing herd behaviour into teams of six, with prizes and the United Church Schools may affect leg length, body weght, body mass index and the risk and patterns, as well as becoming going to the winning team as well Trust, the owner of eight pri- of cancer once the child reaches adulthood. familiar with the Mongolian way as the highest scorer. Those who vate schools, already runs an Eton College Chapel. Eton is Each of the 500 children will be examined and measured at six of life, such as living in yurts (huts) are interested can e-mail academy in Manchester. to help raise the standard of months, one year and two years. and sampling the local dishes. Kayleigh at [email protected]. Oundle School has also some UK state schools Chine Mbubaegbu

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we’re all cheats at Luc heart, but most of us simply don’t know it This week the SPS faculty sent phrasing, or quoting without an email reminding students that references as plagiarism. plagiarism “may lead to severe Apparently, many students do penalties,” after new guidelines not even know they are plagia- (see article, bottom right) warned rising. One told Varsity “it took universities nationally to watch my supervisor actually accusing out for cheats. me of having reduced an aca- But it appears that many demic essay I’d read for me to Cambridge students are not realise I’d done it; at the time I actually aware of the difference was so stressed out that I didn’t between, in the words of the notice how much I was using SPS faculty, “a lack of profes- one source. I even accredited it sionalism,” and “the deliberate in my essay, but apparently this and concealed submission of still counts as plagiarism.” another’s work… in order to The survey results showed gain unfair advantage.” that only 9 percent had been 69% of 100 students sur- accused of plagiarism by a veyed by Varsity believed they supervisor. But with 74 percent had not been guilty of plagia- saying that it was ‘easy’ to hand rism. Yet nearly half of them in other people’s work, this is admitted paraphrasing or probably more a comment on quoting material without ref- whether supervisors spot or erencing it, which the universi- highlight plagiarised material. ty would regard as plagiarism. One St John’s supervisor told 33% of Cambridge students surveyed admitted to plagiarism. Below left are the reasons why. But even more plagiarise without knowing it. The SPS faculty guidelines Varsity,“People definitely pla- refer to the “paraphrasing of giarise for their supervisions, Reasons for plagiarism sentences, paragraphs or whole but at the end of the day they arguments of another persons are only cheating themselves.” Deterring, detecting and work,” and “cutting and past- With such levels of confu- Too much work ing from the internet to make a sion over the exact definition collage of online sources.” In of plagiarism it is surprising Too many dealing with Plagiarism light of these criteria it appears that CUSU do not advise on commitments that plagiarism (even in its the issue. As one student Bad organisation Sam Richardson said that there had been a “hyste- more accidental forms) occurs admitted in the survey “I wish ria built up” over the problem of more regularly than students I had more information on Laziness ll colleges and univer- plagiarism. And he said that stu- are aware of or will admit. what plagiarism is, especially sities are being sent dents sometimes did not have 74 percent of students do not since I have to hand in course- Not knowing the Anew guidelines in a bid the research skills to recognise regard omitting references to work soon.” It seems that stu- answer to provide advice and support on what is meant by plagiarism. all material used as plagiarism, dents need further informa- Books weren't in dealing with plagiarism. The Frank Furedi, professor of and a staggering 9 percent tion. Despite Varsity’s persist- library etc guidelines – “Deterring, sociology at the University of failed to recognise handing in ent attempts CUSU failed to Detecting and Dealing with Kent, rejected this interpretation, other people’s essays, para- offer a comment. Student Plagiarism” – were writ- saying that students knew when ten, the authors say, because of they were cheating – and that the widely expressed concerns universities preferred to “turn a that “student plagiarism in the blind eye” rather than confront Rachel UK is common and is probably the problem. “A culture has been Willcock Academia and plagiarism: becoming more so.” created which sends the message The ever-growing amount of that second-hand, unoriginal information on the Internet and work and cheating are part and the ease with which students parcel of university life”. what’s the difference? have access to it have produced The majority of plagiarism an increasing temptation for stu- cases occur when students mis- eople frequently commit medieval literature is a translation untrue – science is surely the only would realise it had already been dents to download Web material, understand or misuse academic plagiarism without realis- of adaptation of some previous field where new research allows said fifty years ago – was it still possibly modify it, and hand it in conventions and attribution Ping that they have. work and is never seen as plagia- discovery and complete originali- my idea? Or ought I reference as their own unaided work. rules, but it is deliberate cheats Descriptively it is a difficult act to rised as a result. ty. On the other hand, for a stu- what was published before I had Taking the words or ideas of who cause the most concern, define. The majority of people in More recently in the last cen- dent, the regurgitation in essays that thought? another person and using them argues the guidelines document. Varsity’s survey admitted that tury, modernist writers like Eliot of what is already known must What makes academic study without proper acknowledge- “Students who deliberately cheat they had handed in essays con- and Joyce were seen as so pro- feel slightly plagiarised. so rich is its changing nature ment is a commonly accepted or engage in fraudulent behav- taining unreferenced material foundly new as a direct result of There is not really room for with time. Every scholar is influ- definition of plagiarism. iour are characterised as threat- and yet, many of them did not their layering a wealth of literary original thought, merely knowl- enced by their culture, and this Universities are increasingly ening the values that underpin feel they were guilty of plagia- sources. In even more contempo- edge. Once accepted, somebody’s includes what they have seen or using software like Turnitin academic work, angering and rism. Is this symptomatic of the ‘theory’ becomes fact. Einstein is read. If I suddenly see Freudian which can spot material taken discouraging other students who fact that a degree of plagiarism is Once accepted, not referenced every time the references in a poem, that isn’t from the internet. In 2002, do not use such tactics’ accepted as not only justifiable somebody’s theory theory of relativity is mentioned, because I have plagiarised Freud CAVAL, a university library con- To show how easy plagiarism but perhaps inescapable in aca- becomes fact and all science surely involves or a psychoanalytic critic who sortium in Australia, used can be, it now becomes neces- demic work? ‘standing on the shoulders of said similar things. It’s just the Turnitin software to screen 1,770 sary to confess that, until this Language is limiting. We all rary culture, ‘sampling’ by DJs is giants.’ This seems to lead to less inevitable result of being a stu- pieces of student work and found paragraph, this entire article has communicate using not only the not considered theft. There is an guilt by scientists on the subject dent in 2005 doing the that 8.8% contained more than been plagiarised from online same words but often identical idea that once an artist has of plagiarism: essays are less sub- Cambridge English Tripos. 25% of unattributed web-based sources. We would therefore turns of phrases. In some sense a released their work into the pub- jective, there is often a right or Plagiarism is a moral and material. like to credit BBC News cliché can be considered plagia- lic sphere then they also lose con- wrong answer and thus to copy technical maze and can often be More worrying to the educa- Online (paragraph 4 and 5); rism. Many authors’ original use trol over it. How though, can the somebody’s essay is not ‘robbing’ confusing for a student. However, tionalist are the commercial The Guardian (paragraph 3 and of language has been adopted idea of ‘the death of the author’ be them of their thoughts. it is a field in which carelessness internet sites such as 6); The JISC Report and into common English; many reconciled with stringency However, it is also difficult for and misunderstanding carry seri- papersinn.com or literaturepa- accompanying press release people are surprised at how often against plagiarism, especially if arts students to know the bound- ous penalties. The University pers.com, which offer “cus- (paragraph 1); Plagiarism Issues they unwittingly quote we see the essay as a creative aries of what is allowed or accept- needs to make sure it clarifies its tomised” essays by moonlighting for Higher Education by Shakespeare in their everyday form. In what ways is academic able. I remember being frustrated definition and policy, because postgraduates on any subject, for Culwin and Lancaster (para- small talk. Indeed there has study different to art? in my first year studying English, although all academia must be to $8.95 a page. graph 2). As various embittered always been a contention in One second year natural scien- confronting criticism for the first some extent plagiarised, it is also But academics have disputed student writers, whose work has English literature between origi- tist replied to her plagiarism sur- time, as it made being original so important in a pioneering institu- the scale and motivation behind appeared uncredited in the nality and imaginative use of old vey ‘All science is plagiarism.’ On difficult. Every time I thought of tion that we protect rigid stan- the problem. Ranald Macdonald nationals, are aware, not even sources and imagery. Most the one hand this is completely something to say in my essay I dards and the value of originality. of Sheffield Hallam University, the media is above plagiarism. 08 INTERVIEW February 18, 2005 www.varsity.co.uk Peering over the Horizon: One man’s mission to make theatre interactive Simon McBurney, artistic director of astian Hoppe b

r Se theatre company phe ra Complicite, talks to Emily Stokes everybody recognises that’s places a lightbulb (which then what it is. Everybody recog- magically lights up). nises what it means to be out It is precisely the idea that

y of Complicite/photog of step, what it means to make what we are watching is the es t mistakes, what it feels like ‘internal horizon’ that makes when you desire to express us invest so much of our emo- e cour yourself and you cannot, what tion and imagination into the it feels like when you’re performance: ‘Everything in Imag absolutely terrified of nothing the piece is real and nothing is at all and it’s just in your imag- real at the same time’. When I ination…’ was ten, I went to see A Street This representation of grief, of Crocodiles, and remember while heightened rather than my delight at seeing a pile of naturalistic, is grounded in the books turning into birds in the everyday and the ordinary, and actors’ flying hands. The in how we relate to our sur- actors in A Minute Too Late roundings. McBurney wants play with this idea of the audi- to show ‘what happens ence’s acceptance of the imagi- between the moment of having nary; Magni and Houben the flowers in your hand and introduce themselves to the putting them on the grave. audience as actors, lay out the That is the thing that obsessed set before the audience and me when I started making the- then put on their costumes on atre, to see the world in a grain stage before ‘beginning’. This of sand; what is contained is a Complicite signature: at within a single moment; what the beginning of The Elephant Still image from the Complicite production Mnemonic. are the internal horizons and Vanishes, we are told by a landscapes that are being lived beguiling Japanese lady that s I wait to meet Simon ings rather better than his seem to have detracted from ating a brilliantly silly through when people every there has been a power-cut McBurney in the staff clownish counterparts; he the ensemble’s rebelliousness sequence of resuscitation. day sit down and have their preventing the play from Acanteen at the National looks a little tired from his and unpredictability. Perhaps He explains to me why the cup of tea at six o’clock or beginning, and, in Mnemonic, Theatre, I watch his co-stars of performance, and has very nor- it is McBurney’s interest in portrayal of the pain of grief when they wake at three Simon McBurney, facing the A Minute Too Late, Jozef mal hair. But back in his ‘disobedience’ that has meant can be so very funny. ‘What o’clock in the morning.’ And audience, tells a friend on his Houben and Marcello Magni, dressing room, as he talks to that, despite being branded as I’ve discovered doing it is that it was the point in A Minute mobile phone that he is about eating their steak and chips. I me sitting curled over a sand- the way that we wrote it was Too Late when I watched the to watch a play. ‘You are con- am transfixed by them. wich, I am just as entranced by “my brother calls through the process of locat- character played by McBurney stantly telling people all the Oblivious to the busy, mum- his mannerisms. As on stage, ing where each of these feel- sitting in his house, making time that we’re just actors, and bling canteen hall around he is never inert: his eyes wan- me constitutionally ings resided in the body. If himself a cup of tea, that my in a curious way the more you them, they tuck their napkins der around the room as if look- disobedient” somebody says something laughter turned to tears. We tell people that you’re actors into their jumpers, sharpen ing for an escape and his hands extremely hurtful to you, for see his loneliness by the fact the more they project upon their canteen knifes against never cease to move. When he one of the most important instance, you will have a reac- that Houben and Magni trans- what you’re doing, and in so their forks and steal chips from speaks, he contorts his face to British theatre companies, tion, which of course will be form themselves (with breath- many ways it is more affective each others’ plates, exaggerat- show his concentration; it is as Complicite has retained its described as an emotional taking ease) into the kitchen’s than having a piece of scenery’, ing every action as if before a if he is making sense. He ruf- ‘underground-ness’ while per- reaction, but you are likely to furniture, as if to accompany he explains. real audience. They are jokers fles his hair, unwraps a choco- forming in the most establish- be able to locate it in your him. Houben’s flickering fin- The acute awareness of what on stage and off, and wonder- late, plays with a coin. ment of establishments: the body. Sometimes you get it in gers become a gas flame on a it is like to be a member of the fully incongruous in the banal McBurney tells me of his National Theatre. the back, or in the stomach, or hob and his whistling the audience is a preoccupation of setting of the canteen. I find obsession with ‘the world of Complicite’s return to A as a headache: the body itself sound of the kettle, McBurney’s, so I am not sur- myself studying Marcello the child’s imagination’. Minute Too Late, their second responds. Each moment of and Magni’s prised when he says, ‘you know Magni’s hair; I had somehow When I ask him about study- ever show, is perhaps the per- this piece is making external open I go to the theatre sometimes assumed that it was a sort of ing English at Cambridge, he fect birthday celebration, as it that place in the body which mouth and I think, ‘why’s it so boring? stage gimmick, another detail tells me about his problems seems to encompass that ‘free is feeling whatever it feels, becomes Why’s it going on so long? of this high-definition stage with the student-teacher rela- and startling’ quality that so it is trying to make bodily a lamp Why are they talking and talk- persona with its two curly tionship, saying: ‘my brother McBurney admires in the real those physical internal into ing and nothing’s happening?’. sprouts on either side of his calls me constitutionally dis- imagination of the child. locations for which we have which ‘A play is not theatre,’ says head. But it is decidedly real. obedient’. Complicite is twen- Based on the experiences of his no words but which we can McBurney McBurney, ‘I would maintain Simon McBurney seems to ty-one years old this year, yet father dying in McBurney’s locate because they are that even what happens on the belong to his proper surround- reaching ‘adulthood’ does not third year at Cambridge, it is sources of pain.’ stage is not theatre. about what happens when a McBurney talks in perfectly What is theatre man visits his wife’s grave. Yet formed, long sentences, yet is the act of Complicite despite the topic, most of the at times leaves such long collec- show is wildly funny and tack- pauses that I fear his tive Founded in 1983 as Theatre de Complicite by Simon les the delicate subject with thoughts have gone McBurney, Annabel Arden, and Marcello Magni, what McBurney succinctly elsewhere, to one Complicite is a constantly evolving ensemble of per- calls ‘anarchic abandon’. The of the ‘internal imagi- formers and collaborators, now led by Artistic Director visit to the grave immediately landscapes’ nation, which is why the Simon McBurney. triggers an exploration of what which he ref- e audience is crucial’. Productions include The Street of Crocodiles (1992), McBurney calls the man’s erences, And so, as we laugh and The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol (1993), Mnemonic ‘exploding internal landscapes’: until he cry, we are exhilarated (1999-01), The Elephant Vanishes (2003) and Measure there is a gag about stolen returns to by the complicity we for Measure (2004). flowers, before the scene the same feel with these consum- Simon McBurney studied at Cambridge and trained degenerates into farce when spot thirty Ainslie/Sarah mate clowns on stage. in Paris. As an actor, McBurney has performed exten- McBurney accidentally knocks seconds later: ‘…and so I think sively for theatre, radio, film and TV. into another mourner and they that the externalisation of the

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BLAIR Me, I like statistics. in children who haven’t had the jab as [email protected] MEETS REAL PEOPLE, yester- “ in children who have, and given that Film Editor Emma Paterson day’s Daily Mail headline read: PR You know that Bland there is now no credible scientist who [email protected] STUNT ON TV TO POLISH THE will endorse the view that there is a Literature Editor Benjamin King PREMIER’S IMAGE IS Disraeli line about Student Columnist link, I’m going to continue firmly to [email protected] WRECKED BY FURIOUS damn lies? of the Year believe that the jab is an excellent idea, Visual Arts Editor Johanna Z-Sharp ONSLAUGHT FROM VOTERS. It’s total balls even though your son developed his [email protected] Six of our country’s stalwart Real ” condition subsequent to his injection. Fashion Editors Agata Belcen People were pictured below: Nurse, On the other hand, also because I like Lucy Styles Teacher, Mother, Student, Writer (yes, statistics, if I were this Prime Minister [email protected] writer) and P.A. Each had appeared on our news-stands yesterday. REAL LIVES, because, of course, seeking re-election, I’d bear in mind how Sports Editors Adam Edelshain on Channel 5’s Talk to the Prime If I was Amol’s PR advisor – a posi- politicians aren’t real: they don’t eat or I’m polling on compassion and how this Tom Burrell Minister show the night before, as part tion I’m happy to take up at a moment’s sleep or shit or fuck or deal with issues of is a strong point for me in comparison to Ben Myers of a day of programming devoted to notice, should I hear the call – my sec- massive global importance and know far Michael Howard, and with that in [email protected] giving the general public a chance to ond piece of advice for a higher profile more about them than you or me or Jazz mind, instead of all that stuff about the Production Ifti Qurashi see Mr Blair answer our questions, not slot should he take to the airwaves again, or Marion. 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Anecdote is not a being told about someone else’s anec- me; but if they can give me a good kick- Funnily enough, the editor of this reasonable basis for dotal experience when you haven’t any ing now, and if I manage to nod at the newspaper was also on the show. formulating policy comparable material of your own. right moments and coo and tut and tilt (They’ll let anyone on the telly these I firmly believe the death penalty to my head just so, and seem suitably hum- days, it seems - full story with picture to months, or a brother who’s been burgled be a terrible idea, and I firmly believe it’s ble but also manage to suggest that I’m Email the business manager to enquire follow next week, apparently) Now, he a dozen times in the last twenty-four right to let reformed criminals out on working as hard as I can to put things about placing adverts. Letters for publica- tion should be emailed or posted to the controls whether or not I get a space in hours, or an auntie who has been sold to parole; but I wouldn’t feel very comfort- right, perhaps they’ll get it out of their editor. these pages each week, so obviously I’m the Germans to fund illegal immigrants’ able discussing either of those issues systems before the general election. biased, but it seemed to me that he was yoga classes. with James Bulger’s mother. And I’m In which case, I’d muse, perhaps To get involved in a section, email the rele- perhaps the best of our representatives to I jest, but only a little. This is the not even Prime Minister. In the end, Alastair was right, and this isn’t the vant section editor listed above, and come along to a meeting. No experience neces- face Mr Blair: he was unruffled, mildly fetishization of personal experience. though, anecdote is not a reasonable political mistake of my life after all, but sary. amusing, and made some serious points MOTHER Maria Hutchings says ‘I basis for formulating policy, as anyone merely an excellent way of selling news- which the Prime Minister had a hard don’t care about refugees: I care about who has examined the Tories’ reaction to papers, and further ensuring that the Varsity is published by Varsity Productions time dealing with. (He’s not exactly my little boy who developed autism after Tony Martin will know. In the end, we Tories haven’t a hope of regaining Ltd, and printed by Cambridge Evening News. All copyright is the exclusive prop- telegenic, of course, but you can’t have the MMR jab’. NURSE Marion need something more substantial. power. Then I’d put the anecdotes, erty of Varsity Publications Ltd. No part of everything.) Brown cannot live on her salary and Me, I like statistics. You know that affecting as they might be, out of my this publication is to be reproduced, stored Curiously, though, he wasn’t picked as wonders if the Prime Minister would Disraeli line about damn lies? It’s total mind; and get back to the enormous in a retrieval system or transmitted in any a front page star – even though Blair like wiping someone’s backside for £5 an balls. I like statistics because they documents full of numbers in front of form or by any means, without prior per- gave much less satisfactory answers to hour. PERSONAL ASSISTANT Jazz enable me to make points like, Ms me, and try to concentrate on making mission of the publisher. his questions, about faith schools, than Kaur barely ever sees a policeman. 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Credit where it’s due get if we don’t turn to him first. enough if one is not involved Sense and Insensitivities with them. Plugging the Plagiarisers (The spelling and capitalisation At the very least please please Dear Sir, Original ideas are the great rascals of the history of philosophy. Those of this letter retains that of the origi- please please consider it seriously: Although their intentions are who claim ownership of them are invariably those who try to preach nal, at the author’s request) if there’s anything in what I’m good, the results are not. Firstly, I was horrified to hear that the against a spirit of free enquiry, in which scientific knowledge is correct- saying it would be a huge mistake bad publicity for Christianity Hawks Club hosted a ‘Colonials ly seen as the property of humanity, rather than the property of a cho- Dear Sir, not to. generally by the 'push it down and Natives’ night at Ballare on sen few. But it is always dangerous to enter the practice of labelling one yourthroat approach' and second- Wednesday. I realise that a idea ‘original’ and another ‘unoriginal’; after all, who is ever to say, with I was surprised to find that the Yours faithfully, ly, making non-Christians think Hawks club night is unlikely ever any evidence, that this or that idea has not entered the mind of anoth- banner which was unfurled on the that all Christians are like to prove the acme of Cambridge er person before? Human history is rectilinear, but the history of ideas Jesus College Gatetower last Susan Allister (Fitzwilliam) CICCU members. cultural life, but members did is not. Nevertheless, in an academic environment where careers are Wednesday misattributed in your themselves and their university made and lost on the basis of research, it is necessary that the work of paper (February 11, p.10) to Yours, etc, the ultimate disservice by engag- pioneers is held up for exactly what it is: pioneering. Such work Cambridge's Chinese communi- ing in such tawdry and insensitive deserves credit, and students who lean on pioneering research without ty. It was in fact the work of the Journalistic Guy Willis ( Jesus) behaviour. I am sure that some giving it due credit are doing both themselves and their mentors a 'Roosters' of Jesus College as part Scepticism clubgoers justified the theme as grotesque disservice. They are better off recognising their debt to the of their day of celebrations in an arch post-modernist joke. academics around them, and seeing in that debt the lively seeds of suc- honour of the Chinese New Year Sir, Parental Support cessful scholarly activity. of the (Green Wooden) Rooster. However, the fact that they As Sam Richardson writes today (Analysis, page 7), lifestyle changes Archie Bland's last political In response to your article belonged largely to the same have affected attitudes to plagiarism. The internet, in particular, with its A quick examination of the article, "The Grand Narrative and about single parents in a recent social elite as those who recently hastening in of the information era, has made access to research mate- banner would be repaid by the the Big Tent" featured a graphic edition (Analysis, Feb 04), I was found themselves in hot water rial significantly easier. It seems right and proper, therefore, that with a realization that the Chinese reads demonstrating that journalists are informed by a Cambridge hous- after Prince Harry’s fancy dress changing social climate Universities re-examine their attitudes toward “Roosters wish everyone a good trusted even less than politicans. ing benefit officer this week that high jinks precludes it being per- plagiarism. passing of the year”. Given that, why should we believe since Oct 2004 single parents ceived in this way. Such antics do The principle, of course, is simple: plagiarism implies dishonesty, and a word he says? ARE entitled to housing benefit nothing to counteract the promotes intellectual laziness, and should therefore be eradicated. The The crack-team of Roosters for university accommodation. Cambridge stereotypes perpetu- practice is harder. But with the distribution of new guidelines to all who assembled that Wednesday Francis Heritage ated in the national press, and Universities and Colleges – which outline, for the first time, precisely dawn to erect the banner are con- This will certainly help me as I detract from the valuable access what constitutes plagiarism in the new information age – students and fused to find themselves now currently have to travel for a hour work which is actually being car- academics alike should come nearer to eradicating both the need and members of the Chinese commu- CICCU criticism and a half daily between home, ried out. Is it too much to ask the the motivation for this most seductive of all academic activities. nity, for amongst all the titles of nursery and college. Hawks to come up with an origi- our monochiko-oligarchik Sir, nal and light-hearted theme democracy and Most Antient Sincerely, instead of merely aping the preju- Fashioning our identity Parliament of ffowls, this has The most damaging thing dices of mindless Home Counties Of all the commercial art-forms, people talk most about fashion as a never been one of them. that CICCU does is to convey Kate Rayner (1st year English inbreds? constantly evolving, and always progressing means of personal expres- the impression that they are undergraduate, single mother to sion. The way that we dress is generally indicative of the person that we Although we agree that "The the only Christians in four) are, and in a place like Cambridge, it is often the only biography that we professionalism and commitment Cambridge and that, further- Yours sincerely, are offered by the hundreds of momentary encounters we make with of the Chinese community is to more, one is not a 'real' Sally Cooper one another each week. It has been noted many times before that be heartily applauded" the Christian or not committed Selwyn College Cambridge is a place obsessed with identity and belonging,and yes, that Roosters do need some encour- we do have a bizarre obsession with something called “stash.” agement of their own from time But what this say’s about Cambridge is that it changes the way that to time. They hope that you will so many of us look. Many amongst us choose to tick a distinct lifestyle be more assiduous in your edito- box when here. And whichever box this is, the first indication of the rial attention to detail in twelve context that we create for ourselves is the clothes that we (and the peo- years time, when we celebrate the ple that we surround ourselves with) choose to wear. So the probably next gallinaceous New Year. pretentious significance that we have given to our fashion pages, our recent “PREP” magazine and our involvement with the Student Yours Sincerely, Fashion Show is because we hold this cultural form to be important both as Vox-Pop and as a creative mode that is rarely offered by the stu- 194th President, Old Cock. dent press. More people applied for the position of Fashion Editor than any other section this term. More people turned up at the launch party of the Fashion Show than any other we have been to this year. The way Freedom to Choose that we make ourselves look when here probably makes the rest of the world hate us, but it is clearly important to us. The Varsity fashion page Dear Sir, has little to offer the world of fashion, and it’s only about the clothes we wear, but we like it… I know that we are (sort of ) allowed freedom of expression, and that this letter is laughable The function of Burlesque (and I do regret contributing to your mirth on the whole matter). Cambridge is an oppressive and incestuous place. Many students here find it increasingly claustrophobic as they progress through their careers However, the existence of here, especially if they’ve come from larger cities across the UK. Apocalypse: the Musical is deeply Escapism is therefore both necessary and defensible. Some people offensive to anyone who believes resort to drinking. All drugs - and alcohol is the most prevalent and that Jesus Christ is Lord and will socially acceptable of them all - are, ultimately, forms of escape. return one day. It is also in danger Scientific investigation into the field of drug addiction - a significant of being blasphemous against the proportion of which has been led by Professor Barry Everitt, Master of creator of the universe. Downing - tends to come to this one, simple conclusion: addicts prefer escaping from reality to dealing with it. The idea of the Apocalypse Common sense supports this conclusion. But shows like that put on may seem absurd (the Bible does by The Cardinal Club at the Union this week offer a healthier form of admit that the gospel is foolish- escape. Escapism is not their primary function - launching a few ness to men), but it is a future cer- careers may warrant that accolade - but for most of the audience on tainty. Since it is going to happen, Monday, the opportunity to forget about academic worries and indulge and will not be a joke when it in communal humour was a resfreshing respite from other commit- does, a comic musical based on it ments. One could easily get addicted to this stuff: glorious girls quiver- is incredibly dangerous. ing with excitement, in a frenzy of yellow sensuality; comperes incan- descent with intellectual luminosity; and all the fun of the fair packed Please be warned! That Jesus into a series of magic performances and musical extravaganzas. Such Christ, who those Christians keep is the major, utilitarian justification of student art in Cambridge: it going on about, is real and alive brings pleasure, and pleasure is a Good Thing. and reigning. We will all meet The organisers of this week’s event at the Union deserve credit for him, when we die or when he bringing to the Cambridge stage a vibrancy that even some of its most comes back: whichever happens loyal veterans say has been lacking of late. But their two greatest suc- first. We will all be accountable to cesses were these: firstly, treating a crowd of largely ignorant students to him for rejecting and ignoring our some of the finest reggae and ska the Union has heard for decades creator our whole lives. We all (albeit through a CD system). And secondly, for making the annual, genuinely deserve unending pun- ritualised suffering of Valentine’s Day singledom more bearable, by ishment, and that is what we will bringing lonely hearts together in a sea of rampant joy and felicity. COMMENT www.varsity.co.uk February 18, 2005 12

No more Victorian sexual games Broadside Rachel Willcock on the impact of an open dating market Sholto Mayne-Hanvey ednesday night’s his week we have enjoyed intimidating and has thrown r theme of

(or endured) the festival open to debate a lot of the phe Colonials and ra W Tof St Valentine’s Day that characteristics that were taken Natives at Rumboogie seems to annually brings with it attention to be ‘female’. Suddenly have been the source of some to a supposedly ‘idealised’ form females are supposed to be as photog controversy in Cambridge this of romantic love. Thus gender sexually predatory and active as week. As the organiser of the relations were the hot topic for men, but does either sex want event on behalf of the Hawks debate against my various disillu- this? Cambridge men, in the Club, I would like a few words sioned single friends. One girl face of this confusion seemed to respond to some of the com- bemoaned the loss of chivalry - to have opted out of moderni- plaints which have arisen. “All women want to be treated sation altogether and instead Firstly I would like to offer like a lady” - whereas the retort have hearkened back to the my sincerest apologies for any from the other corner was “Deep bygone era of Victoriana. unintentional offence caused. down all women want to be The Victorian Gentleman was It was I who decided upon treated like bitches.”This is cause a master of disguise. He led a the theme, although I am not for worry amongst many men double life in his sexual relations. a “right wing, golden spoon about how women actually want On the one hand he was the most up (my) arse, posh public them to behave. charming company at parties, school boy harking back to Men have had a turbulent and with impeccable manners and the good old days when (I) uncertain time in the last few wonderful wit – all the chivalrous could get all dressed up in post-feminist decades. They behaviour a woman could wish have the worry of whether set- for. On the other hand, behind I do not believe the tling a bill, holding open a door closed doors he had his ‘bitches’ theme was either or carrying heavy shopping is and his male-only clubs. Sexual expected or whether it will earn activity was rampant but kept inappropraite them accusations of misogyny. within certain perverse and secret or insensitive bounds. Essentially he found The Victorian alternative avenues for venting shiny leather and keep those Gentleman led a the testosterone and brutish filthy spear-wielding natives behaviour that was kept sup- Valentine’s Day brought around the annual ‘what’s-love-got-to-do-with-it’ jamboree under control.” At least I double life in his pressed in public, and this seems brought in as ‘dates’ or sexy wait- to have a level of confidence cally possible for women to wouldn’t define myself that sexual relations to happen here. resses to club dinners. It feels that is lacking in today’s youth. reproduce without men, men way. The theme was not Cambridge University is host sometimes as if anything is Women want to either be taken need to start making themselves intended to cause offence, The nineties witnessed the to a dominant public school advantage of or spoiled because socially and romantically neces- controversy, or to maintain decline of traditional gender atmosphere which a lot of us buy Women want these two roles involve a man sary to women again rather than certain myths that might exist roles, as it supposedly became into. Women are wined and either to be taken taking control, taking an initia- just pleasing themselves. If they about Cambridge Students. acceptable for men to moisturise dined at formal hall and sudden- tive and thus relieving them of don’t want to be as out-dated as a To dress up is to forget one- and women to demand no- ly the old rules seem to apply. advantage of the putting themselves vulnera- penny-farthing, or other once- self. The particular theme in strings sex. “No, no,” I am told, “A lady or spoiled bly on the line. Men don’t ask functional Victorian antiquities, question allows for a broad This left the dating scene, should never fill up her own women out any more, simply men have to decide which age range of fabulous costume, formulated as it is on fixed eti- glass.” But alongside this charm acceptable behind closed doors because they don’t have to. they align themselves with. which is perhaps its best aspect. quette and rules, in a state of there is a very different male- as long as it is in the name of tra- Usually they can get laid with- Either it is the last century, with It offers a chance to exercise disarray and perhaps even only culture, of binge-drinking dition. There is a sense that both out going through the formality its sexual inequality and misogy- your creative imagination and decline. Women are just as per- and mass misogyny involving in front of and away from of a dinner. They can rely on ny that went with making moves don clothes you never normally plexed as the men, not know- lewd and boorish acts. females, men are no longer trying just seeing someone in the on and looking after women. Or would; it’s fun. I actually toyed ing how they are supposed to There is a drive to get ‘points’ to impress women – they are sweat of Cindy’s - one Blues it is the twenty-first century with the idea of naming the behave and wondering every out of women, not for the actual impressing their fellow men. Rugby player vowed to me where an open market in dating night ‘Princes, Colonials and time a man buys them a drink sex but for the credibility that is Unfortunately for those who recently, “I will never ask a means women should ask men Natives,’ but I then came to the if they are betraying their bra- earned from the lads. We foster a desire it, women are not being woman out.” out but are treated with the opinion that it was not so burning ancestors. The new generally accepted culture of treated like ‘bitches’ or ‘ladies.’ With science advancing so equality and respect that goes required to highlight the con- Sex and the City-style woman is demeaning women who are Both of these roles require men that soon it may become physi- alongside that freedom. temporary element of the post- ironic theme. Personally I do not believe that the theme was inappropri- ate. But in view of the criti- cisms levelled I appreciate that Anorexia: as much a creed as a disorder it has been deemed by some as insensitive and offensive. The in days, and then discussion mentality, but the drive for ication and co-operation of the While this narrow-minded- theme was in no capacity an Majeed was buried. perfection that lies below is no pro-ana community is exempla- ness relates to that single- attempt to vitiate the historical The technological naivety of bad thing. ry. Comparison, whilst undeni- mindedness which can and contemporary issues con- saying that “such sites should Coverage of anorexia focus- ably competitive, is supportive. become a virtue, it also relates nected with it. It was, however, Neky be banned from the internet” es on the media, citing stick- Those who lapse are rebuked – to the crux of pro-ana’s failure: designed to satirise the recent is disheartening. Upon view- thin models or obsessive dis- but can always try again. it does not fulfil its potential. controversy surrounding the ing some pro-ana sites, howev- cussion of diets. Whilst self- The much-publicised, dark- Instead of rising above the Prince Harry episode. er, we might sympathise with image is doubtless a factor in er side of pro-ana lies in the bodily, the hatred of ‘fat’ peo- It is important to engage with emocracy is good, the censors. It is easy to imag- anorexia, psychologists are as creation of a persona for the ple and the ‘thinspiration’ the problems of society and in terrorists are bad, ine unstable minds being likely to focus on self-control. ‘lifestyle’. Most pro-ana web- sought in actresses and models this way overcome them. I “DBlair and Brown destabilised further, and diffi- Online experience accounts sites include ‘Ana’s Creed’ and show that pro-anas, fixated to refuse to feel ashamed or awk- aren’t the best of friends – oh, cult to ascribe to the sites the echo this, linking consump- ‘Ana’s Psalm’ and some pub- the point of illness, are more ward about a period of history in and anorexia is on the increase.” supportive aim claimed by tion and autonomy conscious- obsessed with the body than which I played no part. This last item is no more their creators. ly but simplistically: “Ana is a Ardent anorexics anyone. Their discipline, inef- Furthermore, I believe that surprising than the others. The way of controlling my life... pledge fectively channelled, manifests humour serves as a mirror in same news resurfaces every In past centuries, All I have eaten today is a itself in anything between a which society can see its own few years, heralded by a shal- perhaps these yoghurt (63kcal).” In past cen- to die for Ana. destructive quest for an ill- defects more clearly. To mock low compilation of psycholog- people would turies, perhaps these people defined goal, and a sick joke, our own idiosyncrasies is to ical soundbites. Should our would have entered holy lish a ruthless, contractual let- the anonymous creators of address them, and this, I believe, interest stop here? have entered orders. Now they develop eat- ter from Ana, who is trans- which have much to answer is a far better way of dealing According to BBC Health, holy orders. ing disorders. fused into life as ardent for. What pro-anas should with human immorality than living with anorexia ‘is a mis- I do not intend to belittle eat- anorexics pledge to die for her. never have to justify, however, simply trying to erase it from erable, lonely experience.’ The Either way, it is unwise to ing disorders, or deny that they The Creed includes the affir- is their need for discipline, our collective memory. efforts of some anorexics to dismiss the issue lightly, dog- are genuine illnesses – that mation, “I believe that I am their impulse towards perfec- Thus to dress up as a Colonial combat loneliness through the matic even to regard pro-ana would be to reprise a core mis- the most vile, worthless, and tion. Our lasting impression or a Native, or a Prince for that web hit the headlines in 2001, as a necessary evil for free take of many pro-anas, their useless person ever to have should be of inspiration and matter, is to mock neither, but with graphic warnings of a speech reasons and remain erroneous belief that their men- existed.” Such self-degrada- aspiration: as William Caxton rather provides us with a lens sinister cult. The censorship uninformed. It is not only the tal illness is a choice. But let us tion provoked the initial out- said of Malory’s Morte through which we can consider campaign was inevitable; peti- virtuous and the sane that har- examine pro-ana on its own cry, met by pro-anas with d’Arthur, “Do after the good human behaviour. In this way, tions against pro-anorexia bour truths. Truth is found terms. In a world with not accusations of jealousy (and and leave the evil, and it shall rather than ignore our past, we (pro-ana) sites emerged with- here beneath layers of victim enough self-discipline, the ded- obesity) against censors. bring you to good fame.” can learn from it. FEATURES www.varsity.co.uk February 18, 2005 13 More than simply a Long Walk To Freedom Adam Swersky explores childhood memories of apartheid South Africa he American white er was the house owner’s maid Act respectively banned sexual relegates the black to and that it was only by the gen- activity between different races, “Tthe rank of shoeshine erosity of the owner that she was categorised all citizens into racial boy; and he concludes from this able to go to my school at all, groups, created designated land that the black is good for nothing rather than a penniless black areas for ‘separate development’, but shining shoes.’” school in the townships, miles prohibited blacks from taking on Inauspiciously, the quotation’s away from her mother, a sure skilled jobs and, most incredibly, author, George Bernard Shaw, route to a miserable life. disenfranchised millions of died in 1950, the same year as the Yet the rhetoric was all so dif- coloured voters under the guise of passing of the Population ferent. The Prime Minister and ‘separate representation’. Registration Act in South Africa so-called ‘architect of apartheid’, This legal framework gave which signalled one of the great- Hendrik Verwoerd, perfected the apartheid its air of acceptabili- est institutionalisations of racial art of toning down tyranny. In ret- ty which ensured the entrench- discrimination in history. rospect, his speeches send shivers ment of cultural perceptions Every man, woman and child down the spine. that persist to the present day. was to be classified as white, black Responding to Harold Ten years after democracy or coloured. Just like every other Macmillan’s ‘winds of change’ came to the country, there are pre-democracy child, my birth address that called on South still far too many people – certificate classifies me in this way. Africa to embrace equality, some, I should add, are mem- I am ‘a white person’.These words Verwoerd agreed with the senti- bers of my extended family – were, under a white dictatorship, ment but argued that ‘we who talk of Kaffirs and, in more important for me than abil- believe in balance, we believe in Yiddish, the Shvartzers. ity, character or self-worth. allowing exactly those same full Apartheid legislation ranged Being white meant that I opportunities to remain within from the terrifying to the absurd. White Shame: Black South Africans survey the fallout of 1976 riots went to a good school, got the the grasp of the white man who The government forcibly sets of buses came into use; and, the tyranny being prosecuted in the huge expansion of freedom best health treatment, suffered has made all this (western civil- removed blacks and coloureds most obscene for its triviality, South Africa. With economically and reduction in police power less crime and benefited from – isation) possible.’ from ‘white areas’ and compelled park benches were clearly marked crippling trade sanctions and came an explosion of crime. for want of a better word – them to live in designated places. – ‘for blankes’ and ‘nie blankes’. morale-crippling sports sanctions, With a new and inexperienced lebensraum, living space. For Apartheid 19 million blacks were squeezed With labour shortages across apartheid was running out of government came financial forty-six years, those classified legislation ranged onto 13% of the country’s land the country, the law was changed steam. Citizens who had for so instability. But most importantly, otherwise were forced to endure area while 4.5 million whites took to allow blacks to live near, long supported the regime in the with leaders that had been the most oppressive and from the terrifying the remaining 87%. though not in, white cities. naive belief that everything was ‘in unimaginably harmed by the old demeaning treatment conceiv- to the absurd Resources were redirected Townships grew up, Soweto (an order’ became aware of the truth. regime came the white fear. If we able and all under the innocent away from the ‘bantustans’ (the abbreviation of South Western Floods of emigration undermined did it to them, why shouldn’t guise of apartheid, Afrikaans for White supremacist sentiment black areas) towards white Townships) being the most the Nationalist government. they do it to us? ‘separate development’. was hardly peculiar to South regions, resulting in white chil- famous. The black population By the time I began to have This is why Mandela is really As a kid, I thought of South Africa. Yet what made Dr dren receiving over 15 times as swelled and the seeds of discon- any real memories, the one of the greatest men ever. He Africa as a white country with a Verwoerd’s system incomparable much money for schooling as tent were sown as terrible living blankes/nie blankes signs had was in prison for twenty seven few blacks (who clearly really to almost any other (bar Hitler’s, their black counterparts. standards were combined with been largely taken down. Nelson years. Four years after his release enjoyed being gardeners and of which Verwoerd was a fan) was Separate development was cer- close proximity to the luxurious Mandela was released from he was President. But not once domestic servants). My best the complex institutional and tainly not equal development. lifestyles of white employers. prison and the murmurs for did he show any inclination to friend, Dolly, at my (private) legal framework that was devel- Unsatisfied with the targeted In 1976, large-scale protests democracy became a cacophony. avenge the old guard or white school was black. Surprisingly this oped to support it. destruction of black communi- began in Soweto that changed the Yet as the new South Africa came people. He called on the country didn’t surprise me. What did I, Following the election of the ties, the obsessive regime course of South African history into being, my family packed up to be a ‘rainbow nation’, not only what did anyone, know about Afrikaner National Party (‘the imposed restrictions designed to forever. Brutal policing escalated and took off to London. of coloureds and blacks, but of how blacks were usually treated? Nats’) in 1948, racial prejudices prevent the mixing of races in a the violence, leaving over 300 Of course, my parents did not whites too. We were all cooped up in our became the law. The Prohibition way that might ‘contaminate’ the blacks dead, schools burnt and the pick that particular time on pur- These days, I go back often to a beautiful homes and marble- of Mixed Marriages Act, the culture of the other. Post offices world shocked. Most famously, a pose. They had been discussing country riddled with crime, floored shopping centres. Population Registration Act, the built two entrances – for blankes 13-year old boy, Hector Petersen, the move for twenty two years. poverty, unemployment, AIDS As with all innocence, my Group Areas Act, the Bantu and for nie blankes (whites and was shot dead in cold blood by The old South Africa was a and every other problem there is. naivety was eroded over time. I Building Workers Act, and the non-whites); railway stations had Afrikaaner police. dying country. The new South But the country has spirit. And never dreamed that Dolly’s moth- Separate Representation of Voters two waiting areas; two different Suddenly, the world awoke to Africa was a naive country. With the sun is always shining.

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Sarah Sackman, in conversation with Jenna Goldbe Cambridge’s African students, finds a group whose academic enthusiasm is matched by a determination to eradicate false stereotypes here’s more for me still “suffering the consequences Downing. “I think a lot of people to do there, that’s of a broken empire.” are ignorant. No one knows “Twhy I’m going African students form a small where my country is, they seem back.” Joyce Otobo, every inch but dynamic community in proud of being ignorant,” notes the feisty South London girl, Cambridge with groups includ- Timothy Biswick, a Chemistry will tell you she’s Nigerian. ing the Southern African Society, PhD student from Malawi. Despite having been born here, and the Nigerian Society sup- This questioning of a conti- having studied here and know- porting a vibrant cultural scene. nental identity underpins the stu- Left to right: Joyce Otobo, Timothy Biswick, Susan Keitumetse ing that “people are killing to The prospect of well-funded dents’ views on the aid debate. A get out of Nigeria” she remains courses, unavailable to them in ‘Marshall Plan for Africa’ – a nomic and health crises. “The is currently working with young people’s affected American adamant about returning to her universities back home, attracted blanket approach to aid – cannot intent is there, the implementa- Nigeria’s Ministry of Science and accents. She laments that “our mother’s birthplace. them here. A restricted job mar- succeed when each region has its tion is not,” says Joyce. “They Technology to help provide a traditions are no good anymore. Joyce is a rarity amongst ket, which discriminates against own particular needs. promise a lot of money but a lot more economically secure future If it’s Western, it’s good.” African students in Cambridge: the academic elite, discourages Tim and Susan feel strongly of it goes to overpaid Western for the country. The influx of oil For these students, Cambridge while most have won Cambridge them, in the short term, from that until African countries are specialists who do not understand companies has seen a rise in is part of this Western ideal, Commonwealth scholarships for going back. allowed to trade on an equal foot- the problems as locals do.” employment levels but Nigeria though all our talk of AIDS, the opportunity to head out of The students challenge the ing with Europe and America, Nonetheless, they welcome the lacks the infrastructure to support Darfur, political corruption, is a Africa, she can think of nothing concept of treating Africa as a who currently subsidise their New Labour initiatives over aid big business. Fraud, corruption far cry from the world of formal else but heading back. Studying monolithic whole. “I do identify farmers and operate protectionist to Africa and its convening of the and litigation are rife. halls and May balls. “That’s for an MA in Technological with Africa but I’m from trade barriers, all modernising Commission for Africa. This economic colonisation true,” says Susan. “It’s a shame Policy, she feels she has a real Bostwana,” says Susan drives will be undercut. It is educated Africans like has broad cultural effects. Joyce that I’m unable to share all this contribution to make to a nation Keitumetse, who is studying for a The students are sceptical of Joyce, Susan and Tim who repre- recalls that the last time she went with my family – they wouldn’t which, despite being rich in oil, is PhD in Archaeology at any miracle cures for Africa’s eco- sent the continent’s future. Joyce to Nigeria she was shocked by the understand.” /guide /stage /music /the rest

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the ‘missing link’ between ape his reasons for writing it. ve and Alex Steer and man in a quarry near The problem is, now nobody hi rc Piltdown, East Sussex. knows what’s going on. Even n terms of telling us the The hominid skull appeared without parodies like Sokal’s,

truth about things, science to feature a human-like cranium areas of research like quantum arsity A Ihas preserved a pretty good but an ape-like jaw. After further field theory are so speculative V name for itself since the hominids were found in the and difficult that (like areas of ‘Enlightenment’, three hun- 1930s, the skull of ‘Piltdown social and cultural theory) they dred years or so ago. But every man’ was eventually found, in can seem very much like non- so often something goes 1953 (41 years after it was sense and their work is no longer wrong, good scientists go bad, brought to light), to be the skull accessible by good old common bad scientists get caught, and of a medieval human, the jaw of sense and reason. the resulting scandal can be a Sarawak Urangatan, with Sokal’s parody and others enlightening in itself. Here are chimpanzee fossil teeth. The like it have themselves become some of the more notable and whole thing was aged by stain- subjects of study: in 1998 spectacular frauds. ing with iron solution and Sokal wrote a chapter in a In 2001, Jan Hendrik Schön chromic acid. Dawson’s name book on the philosophy of sci- was a boy wonder. Working as may now be mud, but there’s a ence, discussing his own arti- a physicist at the prestigious very good pub in Piltdown that cle. More alarmingly, science Bell Laboratories in New bears the name of his ‘discovery’. seems to have a hard time Jersey, his meteoric rise to In 1996 though, New York proving (or disproving) theo- fame culminated in the claim University physicist Alan Sokal ries these days. Extraordinary that he had created a transistor took things one step further. and controversial French theo- from a single molecule – effec- Concerned at what he saw as the retical physicists, twins and tively the Holy Grail when it replacement of scientific rigour TV presenters Igor and comes to building powerful with fashionable concept-drop- Grichka Bogdanov published a nano-computer. ping, he published an entirely novel theory of what happened But in 2002 investigators had spoof article in the journal Social gotten more than a little suspi- Text, incoherently argued but Modern research cious of his supposed break- stuffed with an array of critical throughs, when they noticed theoretical terms and designed is no longer exactly the same perfect graph to flatter his editors’ prejudices. accessible by appear as separate experimental ‘Transgressing the Space probes: more useful than their ‘mentalist’ Earth counterparts data in a dozen different papers Boundaries: Towards a good old published in journals as esteemed Transformative Hermeneutics of common sense Quantum Gravity’ made no Journey to the centre of the Earth Science should sense, and thus made perfect ‘before’ the Big Bang in 1995. ollowing the tsunamis on iron, down a self-propagating gested by Stevenson could shed “liberate human sense, parodying the tendency Despite being dismissed as Boxing Day, there has been crack in the earth’s crust. Since the light on what other materials, beings from the for scientific writing in the mid- ‘highly theoretical’ even by its Fmuch focus on the scientif- molten iron is denser than the apart from iron, contribute to the nineties to dispense with data to publishers (and others, who ic methods used in predicting rock it is melting, gravity should composition of the Earth’s core. tyranny of make room for analysis of the point to the twins’ history of plate tectonic movements. One carry the probe all the way to the Such revelations, apart from absolute truth” social conditions within which unusual scientific thinking rather less documented - and, earth’s core. being a major turn-on for geolo- such data is gathered. and bare-minimum qualifica- quite frankly, mentalist - sugges- The major stumbling block for gists, would aid understanding of as Science and Nature. He was dis- Arguing that physical reality tions), their take on quantum tion is that of David Stevenson, Stevenson is getting the crack tectonic movement and so missed from his post after an is “a social and linguistic con- theory is intriguing not described in his article ‘A Modest started. One option is to detonate expand our knowledge of seismic external committee found he had struct,” that “postmodern sci- because it’s definitely a hoax, Proposal: Mission to Earth’s a nuclear bomb between 100 and activity.This would not only ben- fabricated data at least 16 times ence” should “liberate human but because no-one can tell if Core’ published in Nature in 1000 times the size of the efit science, but also go some way between 1998 and 2001. beings from the tyranny of the theory is valid or not! May 2003. Hiroshima bomb, quickly filling to preventing the loss of human In his defence, Schön claimed absolute truth,” and that “eman- Since the days of Charles Chances are the Earth’s core the resulting hole with 100 mil- life following the unexpected that he couldn’t produce any of cipatory mathematics” should Dawson, scientific scandal, it really is just a load of very hot lion to 10 billion tonnes of occurrence of seismic events all the evidence when questioned, replace set theory, with its “nine- seems, has evolved: it gets iron, but it’s impossible to be sure molten iron. Stevenson did not over the world. as his notebooks were “lost in teenth-century liberal origins,” harder to pin down not because without going there. That’s why disclose a possible starting loca- Or, of course, the Earth could transit” and the hard drive on his Sokal took the already mystify- the hoaxers get smarter, but Prof Stevenson, from Caltech, tion, but any suggestions would be hollow and inhabited by a computer too small to store ing subject of quantum field because the science gets proposed his “slightly tongue-in- be welcome (and pointless). superhuman race of Atlantean them. Perhaps he really did have theory and made it subtly stranger. That’s not to say it cheek” plan to send a probe down On a more serious note, the origin, technologically far in the world’s first nano-computer. incomprehensible. isn’t all true. Maybe, in some to investigate. His ideas just go to whole proposal does highlight the advance of ourselves, sucking the Falsifying data is nothing new, The article was published strange future, Alan Sokal’s show how weird the world of sci- gaps in our knowledge about the bacteria off rocks for survival and though. The most notorious without hesitation, and it took feminist epistemology of the ence can get; if you want to know centre of the earth. At present, relying on cold fusion for all their hoax, as far as Arch&Anth stu- some time before the editors dis- shape of the universe will be what the centre of the earth is scientists rely on information energy needs. For more on this dents are concerned at least, took covered that they had been had. proved correct. In which case, really made of, though, then this from seismic waves which is “lim- particular theory, visit place at the start of the 20th cen- In a spirit of postmodern we’ll be happy to meet him for is the experiment for you. ited by their narrow frequency www.space-2001.net/html/hol- tury here in Blighty. Charles inquiry, they allowed Sokal to a pint in the Piltdown Man at Stevenson’s idea is to send the and dynamical range”. low_earth.html. Dawson claimed to have found publish an afterword explaining a time of his choosing. probe, free floating in molten A probe such as the one sug- H Hobson & G Lynch Famelab: WLTM beautiful boffin, GSOH, for fling with fame and fortune

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arsity A tory, with the ability to com- competition’s early stages ing figures from the world of Although the talent show V municate the most irrelevant utilise the trial-by-panel science and media, such as Jim aspect of the competition will scientific fact to anybody, then method so effectively adopted Al-Khalili, Adam Hart-Davis provide good TV, the patron you are in luck. Because the by X-Factor and Pop Idol.In and Dr Mark Lythgoe. of the competition, Nobel search has begun to discover the audition, contestants are The twelve lucky winners Laureate Paul Nurse, hopes the next face of science com- given just three minutes to from the six regional heats will that FameLab will raise the munication. talk on a subject that is enter- undergo a two-day science profile of science communica- The regional heats for taining, exciting and scientifi- communication boot camp, tion, and give hope to those FameLab, the science world’s cally accurate. To make this before going up before the thinking of communicating equivalent of Pop Idol, begin in seemingly impossible task expert judges of Prof Kathy science. The prestigious prize March. The competition, slightly easier, props and assis- Sykes, Prof Robert Winston and the potential for a career sponsored by Channel 4, The tants are allowed. The three (The Human Mind) and Simon in world of science and media Daily Telegraph, the judges then decide if the con- Andreae, Head of Science and are very appealing, and many a Cheltenham Science Festival, testant has engaged the audi- Education at Channel 4, at scientist dogged by lack of Open and Pfizer, is open to ence enough to proceed to the the 2005 Cheltenham Science recognition and funding is anyone in the field of science, next stage, or if they are the Festival. The overall winner urged to apply. technology, engineering or scientific equivalent of the will get broadcasting time on maths, and aims to find the Cheeky Girls and should be Channel 4 and the opportuni- Ben Onwuegbusi Boffin Idol? V

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ed and black posters abound pick of the week across Cambridge faculties, Radvertising an evening of poet- Red Poets Society Music: Fonda 500 ry with musical interludes tonight, at Portland Arms, Fri 18, Fitz auditorium. This promises to be 20.00 no genteel ‘book at bedtime’, present- Charlotte Holden talks to self- They play shimmering ing instead the “eloquent screamer” skewed pop like the Patrick Jones and “poet for the people” proclaimed ‘people’s poets’ Beach Boys, Pavement Mike Jenkins. “Yet these were the Arts and the Super Furry colours used by the anarchist move- Patrick Jones and Mike Jenkins Animals, and were pronounced by ment at the heart of the Spanish Civil Careless Talk Costs Lives “the best band War,” I hear the wary tweed-jacketed gies: “People come first. I am political- in the musicality of poetry, in the on earth, end of story.” Don’t miss it. SPS student pipe up from his desk… ly concerned, and I write political sound of words, and their composi- “Could this flyer I spy be the portent poetry, but the satire I use is quite spe- tion. Assonance and rhythm are key of Anarchy in the UL?” cific.” The Red Poets Society, with features of my poetry.” Literature: One needn’t worry. When I quiz the which Patrick collaborates, is no The collaborations between Cambridge bards on their political agenda in ‘members only’ club for the self-elect- Patrick and the Manics are well pub- Series Poetry Cambridge, they disarm my journalis- ed intelligentsia. Holding meetings in licised, with James Dean Bradfield Readings tic motives with polite magnanimity. pubs and social clubs, the aim is to fos- writing soundtracks for his plays, and Drama Studio, This makes their fervour all the more ter genuine creative reciprocity with a whole host of Welsh musicians English Faculty, Mon irresistible. Patrick, critically acclaimed the community. (including Catatonia, Super Furry 21, 20.00 poet and playwright, not to mention Animals and Manchild) feature on A strong line-up this week with Tom formative influence on brother Nicky’s “Poetry becomes com- his 1999 CD of ‘poetry to music’, Paulin, Andrea Brady and Bernard Manic Street Preachers, answers: “I Commemoration and Amnesia. O’Donahue, some of the best poets in wouldn’t say I have a political ‘mission’ edy when we merely When I ask how they hope to be Britain today. exactly! No, I believe that art can tran- feed the masses received as ‘red poets’ in a Cambridge scend politics, to become more of a atmosphere both chuckle nervously, universal spiritual voice.” With their stress on “reaching peo- wondering what kind of an austere Film: Echoing his observation that the ple”, I ask Patrick his opinion on the reception I might be alluding to. In the Contemporary Manics have grown from “glam hate current literary scene: just how inspir- same vein as their community ethos, Latin American rockers to considered poets of the ing is it? His tone changes from opti- the emphasis will be on informality, Cinema Season human condition”, he draws a parallel mism to disillusionment. He describes fun, and of course, music. Arts Picturehouse, with himself: “A poet can get caught in a situation of “stagnancy”, elaborating Patrick: “Well, it’s difficult to say Sat 19 - Thur 27, a rut, and I wanted to avoid going that “poetry becomes comedy when how I’ll be received. But make it Showcasing some of down a ranting road. My mission has we merely feed the masses”. known that I’m no Billy Bragg!” Mike: the most thematically and stylistically changed since I began writing at 18.” He also laments the mis-directed “Our readings are for entertainment. innovative cinema to emerge from the Aspiring to a universal voice: is this education system, with its ‘same old’ They aren’t stuffy, as they’re all about continent in recent years. not a switch from political militarism dusty texts, and the focus on exam reaching out to new audiences. We to lofty spiritualism? Quite the reverse. preparation, so pre-emptive that it don’t take ourselves too seriously.” “I’m not trying to be radical. It’s more eclipses any artistic spirit. “Creative Cambridge will be a new audience for Art: The about freedom of expression. I have writing has been crushed out of poet- the two poets, and as such worthy sup- Decisive attacked many targets, from New ry”, he says with vehemence. pliers of contemporary poetic voice, Moment Labour to the monarchy, but I write When I mention the connection speaking between interludes from Cambridge Union, what I want to write, and in that sense between the poets’ work and music some of Cambridge’s finest unsigned Feb 21 - Mar 7 I am a social anarchist!” Mike responds with zeal. He reveals musicians, how could we fail to listen? The University Poetry for the people indeed, and that for the past ten years, music has Photographic Society’s Mike Jenkins, founder of the Red been more of a muse than poetry; his Guerilla Tapestries, Graffiti Narratives: exhibition, inspired by the words of the Poets Society, also stresses his empha- inspirations including John Cale, Friday, Fitz Auditorium, 8pm recently deceased Henri Cartier-Bresson, sis upon people as individuals rather Robert Wyatt, and Cambridge’s very Tickets: 4/5, proceeds to Tsunami Relief. promises to be varied and full of talent. than as metaphors for larger ideolo- own Syd Barrett. “I am very interested

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Varsity Recommends When Saturday comes around Virginia Woolf Ian McEwan can both baffle and amaze, as Sophie Allen finds out by Hermione t dawn on Saturday, 15 that Saturday can sometimes intense pride, show McEwan’s Lee February 2003, a day of read a little like Ulysses meets 24 talent for placing the everyday Amass anti-war protests - echoes of Leopold Bloom’s in a fresh, new light. Even Lindsey Smith in London, the distinguished metropolitan wanderings with Perowne’s heated debate with neurosurgeon Henry Perowne just a hint of 21st Century para- his daughter over Iraq is less Anyone undertaking to write a stands at his window and noia thrown in for good meas- about the pros and cons of war biography of subject as popular watches an aeroplane plummet ure. McEwan does not always and more about the dynamics of as Virginia Woolf begins with to the ground. From this omi- seem entirely at ease with the those frustratingly oblique the knowledge that there is no nous start Ian McEwan leads us host of modern references he arguments we all find ourselves such thing as starting from through Perowne’s day, moving crams into the novel, and often having with our loved ones. scratch. Any in-depth writing from the usual to the extraordi- they contribute to its least con- If there is a message within about Woolf ’s life involves find- nary, as a minor road accident vincing points, where a desire to Saturday, it is to cherish the ing one’s way through the myri- has repercussions that bring his make a comment overtakes small, seemingly inconsequen- ad images, traditions, and family close to tragedy. plausibility. Also, although it’s tial moments that accumulate to schools of thought surrounding clear this specific Saturday has produce a happy life. In the her memory. Hermione Lee Saturday can been chosen to add an extra early stages of the novel, makes no secret of this difficulty; sometimes read layer of significance to the story, Perowne’s safe, middle-class in fact her book begins by there’s often a creeping feeling existence often seems a little too acknowledging it. Remarkably, like Ulysses that he isn’t describing a mod- cosy and detached from reality, however, Lee’s biography of meets 24 ern moment of history in the yet McEwan’s aim is to show a Woolf manages to turn this del- making but merely rehashing way of life that can be unex- icate and potentially tedious task Following the phenomenal old news. Of course, this may be pectedly compromised. By the of negotiation into a virtue. The success of Atonement, Saturday exactly the author’s point - that, end of the day the safety of the reader gets both a meticulous sees Ian McEwan turn his just like Perowne’s 18-year-old thing he holds the most dear, and highly entertaining biogra- attention back to contemporary son Theo, who feels he can relax his family, has been threatened. phy and a broad introduction to London after this brief flirta- when there are no news He learns not to be complacent the ways in which Woolf ’s work tion with the historical novel. updates, we are all sometimes a over his own happiness: the has been read and imagined over McEwan has always been a little too eager to forget and small joys in life, especially the last century, as well as an writer interested in violence move on. those arising from his love for impression of the traditions, cur- and obsession, in dissecting the Despite this, Saturday is his wife that sustain him in rents, and relationships that dark heart of the human condi- never a truly political novel. In moments of crisis, are the ones influenced her in life. tion. His latest novel places fact, Perowne’s opinions are he previously took for granted. Woolf notoriously never these themes on a global scale often infuriatingly ambiguous. feeling that Saturday is his Shifts in opinion like these attended Cambridge as a stu- while considering the complex- Although McEwan can’t be McEwan is mid-life novel, in which he mean Saturday isn’t always a dent, but it was always an ities of modern existence. As considered a satirical writer, he undoubtedly a feels obliged to question the comfortable read. Those who important presence in her life Perowne watches the aeroplane is undoubtedly a master of usefulness of his craft. came to McEwan through and a frequent subject of her crash, Muslim extremism is observation, and the political master of McEwan also uses Saturday to Atonement may find its rela- writing. The infamous instantly at the forefront of his backdrop provides plenty of observation explore the perennial issue of sci- tively few moments of conven- ‘Bloomsbury Group’ of mind. The extent to which fear scope for his sharp and inquisi- ence versus art. In one notable, tional plot a little hard to Cambridge graduates were of terrorism, however irra- tive mind. At the heart of There is arguably a great deal though rather improbable scene, digest. But the novel’s flaws are some of Woolf ’s closest friends tional, has become ingrained Saturday are a series of beauti- of the author in his protago- a recitation of Matthew Arnold’s more than outweighed by its and life-long rivals. Scenes into the national conscious- fully described set pieces, which nist, so Perowne’s belief in lit- Dover Beach produces in one strengths: in particular, from various colleges, along ness, is just one of the novel’s he uses to reflect upon themes erature being inherently character an almost magical McEwan’s surprising and com- with Woolf ’s wry characterisa- many preoccupations. such as mortality and justice. untruthful is intriguing. change of mood. In another, for pelling use of language sug- tions of the “very Cambridge” Its focus on a single day, Scenes like Perowne’s fiercely Beyond the playful reference to all his intricate knowledge of the gests that, regardless of his young people she met, form a along with the positioning of competitive squash match with McEwan’s own A Child in Time human brain Henry cannot pen- subject matter, McEwan continuous thread woven worldwide concerns next to the a colleague, in which the fight in Henry’s dismissal of magic etrate the mind of his deserves to be classed as one of through the book. minutiae of ordinary life, means for each point is a matter for realism, one can’t quite help Alzheimer’s-afflicted mother. our greatest living writers. My own Arthurian legend Tess Riley pays tribute to the late Arthur Miller

hen I got back home five years until their divorce in someone could produce such leaves the audience to figure last Thursday and 1961. He and his third wife, powerful emotions by the way out is how to get back there. Wswitched on the the artist Inge Morath, had two they arranged the words on a Having finished my AS lev- radio to catch the evening children. Their daughter page then I wanted to try too. els and gained the ‘inevitable’ headlines, I was dismayed to Rebecca followed in her father’s Many of Miller’s plays are exam grade, most of my text hear the words “Arthur Miller, footsteps to become a writer about the things we take for books went back on the shelf, one of the greatest American and film-maker herself. granted in life – the things that ready to gather dust during the dramatists, has died at his However, this article is not matter – while we endorse summer before autumn term home in Connecticut.” about drawing dubious links unending conspicuous con- arrived. My English texts, how- Miller, whose most famous between Miller’s life and his sumption. Although the world ever, did not. Instead I did works include The Crucible and writing or to probe into person- is not so hopeless that human something I had always slightly All My Sons, was a prolific writer al and unnecessary details that relationships have been looked down on as Boyzone- throughout his life. His plays become the story of the replaced entirely by material teenage-fan-obsessivism: I deal with the realities of human moment. Pick up any daily desires, Miller pointed out that wrote to Miller and said thank existence. The greatest success newspaper and there will you. Thank you for voicing of his career, Death of a almost certainly be something It is all too easy to some of what didn’t seem right Salesman, opened in 1949 and of his private life sprawled in the world, thank you for put- remains one of the most popu- across the page. No, to honour forfeit the impor- ting your life into something larly performed plays of our day. a man whose works have influ- tant things in life you believe in and thank you For some, Miller’s name is syn- enced the lives of so many for showing me that I wanted onymous with that of Willy requires more than that. it is all too easy to forfeit the to do it too. Loman, the eponymous tragic When someone you care important things in life and He wrote back. I didn’t think hero of Death of a Salesman, about dies you feel the loss much harder to get them back it would happen but a few whose life unravels onstage as instantly. It may seem absurd again. In Death of a Salesman, weeks later, handwritten, on audiences hold their breath, that as I sat listening to the after the death of Willy four sides of beautiful, thick, A5 waiting to discover the outcome. radio I felt this same desolation Loman, his son Biff sums up paper he wrote back. What he Arthur Miller’s private life for a man I had never met. Yet his father’s life with the simple, said, like his private life, doesn’t often sparked as much media Miller was my inspiration. sombre conclusion that he “had need to be excruciatingly attention as that of his working Studying two of his plays “to an the wrong dreams. All, all analysed here. Nor do I want to one. In 1956, a year after his unnecessarily detailed degree if wrong.” Miller shows where let a part of him go that I feel divorce from his first wife Mary you want an A-grade in your humanity has strayed from the belongs to me in some way. One Slattery, he married Marilyn exams” just because I wanted path as it spirals into the world humbling last point, though: he Arthur Miller: deconstructing the American dream Monroe, a union that lasted to, was not enough for me. If of consumerism. What he said “thank you” back. 20 MUSIC February 18, 2005 www.varsity.co.uk

NEW IN 2005 #5

Apartment Towers are just an eyeful Towers of London mouthing ‘boring’ at a less than last night…but I had more fun Take away their ridiculously very polite, slightly red-faced enthusiastic crowd, Donny was tonight.” I nearly gagged, tight strides, bizarre hairdos and security staff, it seems that APU Bar – 10 Feb sadly not interested in enter- though this may have been on Mötley Crüe-lite attitude and most people saw straight Review by Mic Wright & taining. Speaking to him after the fumes from his gravity defy- you are left with little more than through their pantomime act. Lloyd Beecham the show he commented, “I ing barnet. Give me rock ’n’ roll McFly – and they do harmonies. Support band Suffrajets think we played better as a band rebellion, but weld a tune to it. Their tour t-shirts read should have been headlining. With trousers so tight they “Drink, Fuck, Fight”, and that The all-girl four-piece from This London four-piece are were cutting off the circulation seems to be their mission, no dif- North London were tight, visu- heading down a well trodden to their brains, Towers of ferent to any bunch of semi-ilit- ally arresting and exuded confi- path to indie ‘stardom’, with London imposed themselves erate numpties you’ll find in dence. They are a talented band debut single on Fierce Panda upon APU bar like an inebriat- Wetherspoons of a Saturday and were able to project atti- rsoflondon.net

Everyone Says I’m Paranoid ed, bouffant-aired panzer e night. You had to feel sorry for tude and excitement without barely hitting shelves before attack. But, like my Nan’s cro- the support bands - who suc- recourse to property damage – being coldly hunted out of chet pattern, they were dull and tow ceeded in warming up the crowd Donny might also ask them existence by scenester hounds. predictable. On record, they - and also for the promoter, about their hair care regime. Recent support slots for the make a passable attempt at whose long-standing relation- Towers of London’s latest sin- Killers and the Bravery suggest exciting, old-school punk with ship with APU has now been gle On A Noose is not a bad song, a penchant for stylish suits and attitude; this insane four-piece marred by the appearance of sev- but is remarkably similar to all 80s bandwagon jumping, but are intent on bringing hair eral paddy wagons and the pres- the others in their set. It is much the twitchy basslines and com- metal back into our lives, along ence of more police than you’d better on disc than live, mainly plex guitar riffs of tracks like with a host of venereal diseases find at a Millwall game. because you don’t have to stare ‘Patience is Proving’ suggest a and huge, backcombed haircuts. This wasn’t the first time into their vacuous faces or listen more angsty, less disposable Three songs into their set, that the band had caused wan- to Donny’s torrent of abuse. sound than the cheaply ironic goggle-eyed munchkin Donny ton damage to a venue. Early With any luck, you won’t ever 80s pastiches currently en Tourette insisted on ripping in the tour, Southampton’s have the misfortune to see vogue. The mesmerising down part of the ceiling and Joiner’s Arms had half its ceil- Towers of London, as they seem swoop of David Caggiari’s destroying a lighting rig above ing ripped down by the to be playing a game of vocals evokes a gloomy roman- it. He had to do something - delightful Tourette indulging Monopoly with a deck of Go To ticism redolent of early Roxy the turgid riffs and sub-Johnny in his favourite party piece. I Jail cards. After the fracas at Music and John Foxx-era Rotten wail were about to send would be more than willing to APU, Mr Tourette found him- Ultravox, as well as the tradi- the crowd into catatonic spasm. teach him how to make a bal- self in the luxury accommoda- tional staples of Echo and the This was less about music loon giraffe: he may find this tion at Parkside Police station. Bunnymen and The Cure. and more about a show – the trick receives a better recep- Thanks to them, APU have Think imaginary soundtrack sort they put on Men And tion. The £500 fine following stated that they will never host to La Dolce Vita, soaked in Motors: tedious and hugely the incident does not seem to punk bands at the venue again. lens-flare for added drama and unsatisfying. While the bassist have deterred him from this A reminder of the 70s when you’re close(ish). Visit their site tried to pretend he was in a real kind of behaviour. punk bands were regularly for free tracks, or catch them at band, the guitarist dreamt of With seventeen-year-olds banned, throwbacks like Towers Downing Ball in March. being Slash and the drummer burning posters outside the of London will love this. The Was Yaqoob hid behind his ridiculous kit. venue following Tourette’s music-starved student popula- www.weareapartment.com Throwing his mic stand into assault on those terribly tion of Cambridge will not. the crowd, gobbing and Donny Tourette: Probably saying a really bad swear word threatening lighting rigs and www.towersoflondon.net

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Jazz @ John’s ment, both physical and musi- which began in homage to the

St John’s College - 11 Feb cal, and were clearly having as original, but soon changed to a of the w much fun as the audience. more interesting, funkier take Review by Hywel Carver Throughout, they struck a on this Herbie Hancock tune.

The Jazz @ John’s website balance between music both The band showed incredible lbum promised big things for this gig, incredible to watch, and cool stamina, dancing and playing at A and both The George Crowley and enjoyable. an intense level throughout, and Quartet and Funk Shui lived up The second band of the night could maybe even have played Death From Above 1979 Doves Tori Amos to the hype. was the interestingly-named something a bit slower to give You’re A Woman, I’m A Some Cities The Beekeeper The former opened with a Funk Shui, featuring Jamie both them and the audience a Machine mixture of sub-genres, from Castell on saxes, Justin Salamon break. What was clear was that more mellow tunes to hard-hit- on guitar, Shaul Tor on electric this is a fantastic band who real- ‘FUCK JAMES MURPHY... Since the Gwynnies of the After the mid-nineties’ Boys ting Coltrane numbers. bass, Andras Nagy on keys and ly know how to engage an audi- If I had the resources I would world have Coldplay and the for Pele and From the Choir Throughout, saxophonist Tom Barrie on drums. Their ence. fly a plane into his skull’. rest of us Elbow, I’m not sure Girl Hotel, I was initially dis- Crowley played in the virtuosic, first piece was Pastorius’ ‘The Once again, Jazz @ John’s has DFA 1979 posted this on what business Doves have any- appointed on hearing The lyrical way that has earned him Chicken’, which seemed to get proved itself one of the finest their former website when more. Some Cities opens with a Beekeeper’s toned-down, soft- a reputation as one of the the band in the right mood for jazz nights at the university, and asked to change their name by triple-whammy of songs led by ened Tori. Unlike past albums, hottest new talents in the the rest of the set. A particular we look forward to their next DFA records. It exemplifies rolling drums, crunchy guitars it often hums conventionality. Cambridge jazz scene, backed highlight was ‘Upside showcase. the visceral, sexual energy that and mid-song bursts of rever- No longer fluctuating between by Kit Downes on keys, Johnny Downstairs’, an incredibly splurges from each of this berated strings padding out the dirty growl and screeching Brierley on string bass and Jim funky tune written by guitarist Jazz @ John’s returns on 25th record’s orifices. Noise-ter- songs to their outer limits. But banshee, it relies on more Hart on drums. The band had a Justin. Also of note was their February. rorists deride them as the while ‘Black & White Town’ is poppy melodies. The har- tremendous sense of move- version of ‘Cantaloupe Island’, “chart-friendly Lightning an obvious single, others such monies are sometimes annoy-

l Bolt,” with their ‘accessibility’ as ‘Almost Forgot Myself ’ are ing and the beats monoto- and ‘tunes’, but the H-bomb- ironically unmemorable. But, nous; the straight style can be Rose

. in-your-ear of ‘Turn It Out’ any momentum gained is grating in its conformity but J and the visceral ‘Cold War’, negated by the catastrophic does yield some catchy tunes dia featuring Sebastien’s animal second half. Doves show them- and good lyrics, notably in Ly scream and the the sonic selves to be in limbo between ‘Cars and Guitars’, where our equivalent of a hospital full of the rousing joy that Coldplay heroine moves on to disclose animals being blown up, evoke and the risky experi- glimmers of the sensuous should silence doubts raised ments in sound Elbow have breathy and passionate Amos. by the perversely sweet power achieved. To address such a Fortunately, the title track pop of ‘Black History Month’. divide by adding a few arpeg- finally reveals that missing This record makes you want giated bleeps from a Casiotone darker tone; its pared down to slam-dance and shoot peo- isn’t enough. Some Cities is use of a grinding bass and ple in the face, but, for once, essentially cheese-on-toast spacey keyboard hits a con- in a good way. experimentalism. templative note.

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Released on February 21st Released on February 21st Released on February 21st Funk Shui’s Jamie Castell and Justin Salomon slip into something smooth through 679 Recordings through Heavenly through Epic www.varsity.co.uk February 18, 2005 MUSIC 21 Not just Eiffel 65 and Eurovision Alex Lambeth tells us what the German music scene has to offer n this coming onslaught of Alec German vocals are similar to album has no set release date in time of Empire’s “Futurist” in March you those of Rammstein, yet they the UK it is availible through Isup- should take note. come across as far more serious amazon.de or megaherz.com. Any posed I presume some of you may and philosophical. The 1997 fan of industrial metal must look

European have already begun laughing - the single ‘Gott Sein’ (Being God) into this band. ammstein.com unity there idea of German metal or industri- hits the listener with a stunning The coming release of the for- .r is still one al to most respectable Brits is mix of beauty and aggression mer Atari Teenage Riot frontman nation that quite comical. Rammstein on through the fusion of spooky Alec Empire’s new album follows www remains to stage do indeed resemble guitar chanting and driving guitars. the sonic head-fuck that was many as something of a joke in thrashing bratwursts playing with Megaherz have found relative 2002’s Intelligence and Sacrifice the modern music scene: fireworks. However, this is pre- success in Germany, Austria (see the electro stomp that is ‘The Germany. Yes, the nation that set cisely what drives me to admire and Switzerland and are cur- Ride’ and the gabba infused metal unto the earth ‘Neunundneunzig them, the unashamed Germaness rently attempting to break the madness ‘Everything starts with a Luftballons’ is largely restricted to of everything they do is refresh- UK and the US markets with fuck’). Although Mr Empire has selling records to themselves, the ing. Most of Europe at some time re-releases of their work moved his base from Berlin to Swiss and the Austrians. or another has not particularly between 1997 and 2002. The London, and now mainly sings in This may appear to be quite a liked the ol’ Gerries, yet new album 5, is undoubtedly English, there is still a wonderful- good thing - the German lan- Rammstein embrace and exag- one of the best things I have ly Germanic edge to his music. guage is hardly the most attrac- gerate stereotypes in a way is both heard within recent months. Alec Empire’s career has seen tive in Europe. However, I have knowing and artful. This arguably After the recent departure of him range from techno-punk decided to make a stand. I want explains their position as the most singer Alexx Wesselsky poster boy of Atari Teenage Rammstein have helped eradicate German music’s folky stereotype you to listen to German music. successful German band ever after Megaherz looked in trouble, but Riot, to a masterful DJ and pro- You may ask why. Well, because the huge success of 2004's Reise they found a more than adequate ducer and currently to the posi- and his label Digital Hardcore I’m guessing there are still frankly, no European nation does Reise (Journey, Journey) replacement in Mathias Elsholz, tion of leather-clad electro remains proudly independent. If people reeling at the sugges- heavy music quite like the Megaherz are a more recent whose voice ranges from spectac- tinged metal overlord. Although you like darker music and do not tion that these Teutonic musi- Germans, and with Rammstein's discovery of mine, even though ularly terrifying to truly beautiful. Empire has worked with people own Intelligence and Sacrifice go cians may be able to offer the tour about to grace our shores, the their debut Wer bist du? (Who You need only listen to the open- as famous as Bjork, Dave Grohl and buy it now; if you do, then UK scene something that no hopefully imminent UK release are you?) came in as long ago as ing track of 5, ‘Dein Herz and Rage Against the Machine await the February 28 release of other nation can, but I warn of Munich industrialists 1997. Their fusion of metallic Schlägt’ (Your Heart is Beating), guitarist Tom Morello, he has new single ‘Gotta Get Out’ with you, slowly but surely the Megaherz's new album 5, and the riffs and electonica and guttural to realise this. Although the still not quite hit the big time, baited breath. Germans are coming.... Music for the cause Brits 2005 - did they get it right or wrong? Right: Scissor Sisters Niccie Simpson and will bring together cutting- The Brit Kings, winning all three awards for which they were nominated. You have to hand it to them, edge Asian DJs with the best in while still feeling that Outkast were unfairly over-looked for ‘Best International Album’ – ‘Hey Ya!’...need

If you’re still feeling guilty for not .swr3.de UK Hip-Hop and soul. All I say more?’ buying the Big Issue from the guy ticket proceeds will go to DEC, ww outside Sainsbury’s, there are two providing funds for Tsunami So Right: Bob Geldof musical events this week you can and other disaster- affected Hairy, but charitable. While we hate him for inflicting ‘Feed the World’ on us twice in the space of twen- attend to ease your conscience areas. Get involved. ty years, we have to admit he was a deserving and obvious candidate for the award of and do the world some good. Outstanding Contribution to British Music. The first is a piano concert this CAMFED coming Sunday in aid of a local Sunday 20th February Half and Half: Joss Stone charity called CAMFED 7:30 pm at West Road The right choice for British Female Solo Artist she may be (if you ignore the fact International, which supports Concert Hall. that Amy Winehouse is basically better), but best British Urban Act? She’s girls through school in rural parts Tickets: £15 and £12 (conces- about as urban as my nan. Should have been Dizzee Rascal. of sub-Saharan Africa. she finally left China for Paris, sions £6). The concert will feature the where her internationally Cambridge Arts Theatre Box Right: Gwen Stefani internationally renowned Zhu acclaimed career began. Office: 01223 503333, or buy on Could have won the Best International Female Solo Artist it solely for that fact that Xiao-Mei performing the Bach The second event takes place the door. she performed in 8-inch heels, but aside from that, her music is original, unique and Goldberg Variations. Described at The Junction on Wednesday utterly unlike anything anyone else is doing at the moment. She is simply inimitable. as "beautifully unegocentric" by 23rd, and is a fund-raisingevent SAMA-SAMA The Independent on Sunday, for the tsunami-affected Wednesday 23rd February All wrong: McFly Xiao-Mei suffered persecution regions in Asia. Called ‘Sama- 7pm at The Junction. Because they should never win an award for anything. Even if they are up against for playing Western music in her Sama’, from the Indonesian Tickets: £10 such shite as Avril Lavigne and Westlife – there was still Natasha Bedingfield. native China during the word for ‘togetherness’, it is Junction box office: 01223 511 CD:UK/Sun Bizarre column readers/O2 and Samsung mobile owners Cultural Revolution.In 1985, headlined by Amy Winehouse, 511, or buy on the door. (the scoundrels responsible for voting for this award), hang your heads in shame. The legend that is... Bruce Springsteen? dlands.co.uk a .b Jacqui Tedd reveals the skeleton in her closet, and finds some reasons to be unashamed

www In this world of ‘cool’ and months of teasing and taunting the same way hip-hop fans mut- Now, as I revisit Bruce’s music and saxophone solos all add to ‘uncool’, there are some of us would be sure to follow. ter that the Black Eyed Peas were as a fully-fledged adult, I get the make him one of the few people harbouring dirty little secrets; as My clandestine music love is far better before ‘that’ girl joined. same pleasure as I apparently did I listen to that I am guaranteed to we go about our daily music lis- Bruce Springsteen; yes, that’s One must embrace the rock as in the past. There’s nothing like always enjoy. tening business we are trying right, ‘The Boss’, ‘Brucie Babe’, whole heartedly as his more soul- lifting your mood through feel- A man who brings people joy desperately to conceal them. the authentic anthem genius of ful tunes and love both equally. ing that he ‘understands’ you as is a man worth listening to, he’s Secrets that if exposed could Behind my adoration for also not bad to look at, and, let’s make or break the reputations we Some of us are Bruce lies an almost mythical The authentic be honest, that is always a bonus. have steadily been building for harbouring dirty tale of joyous days when I anthem genius of So if any of you out there are ourselves since the days our would emphatically jump up the late 70s and 80s also true, yet closet Bruce fans I mums first allowed to choose our little secrets and bounce around continuous- feel that now is the time for him own clothes. the late 70s and 80s. Thinking of ly for the duration of Born In he belts out, often accompanied to experience a major revival. We Behind closed doors, and Bruce means thinking of tight The USA every time my dad by my own honeyed tones, must stop just listening to him in preferably soundproofed ones, denim jeans, the American flag, played it. Bruce’s music was “tramps like us baby we were our rooms and start singing him we hesitantly go to our CD racks stadiums and of course, that now apparently the inspiration for born to run”. and playing him wherever we go. and pick from the shelves a CD infamous video in which he me to walk and dance for the Bruce’s music has a diversity to We must no longer be ashamed ingeniously disguised as some- dances with Courtney Cox. first time. After hearing this it which makes him perfect lis- of our love for ‘The Boss’ but let thing obscure and respected. Bruce is much more than these story how could I not revisit the tening, his combination of the everyone know that we need However, we know that if some- things; but as a true fan one must music that so obviously brought blues, his gravely voice, meaning- Bruce in our lives, and that is The Boss. And he knows it. one were to walk in on us, not despise his popular rock, in me delight in my baby years? ful lyrics and the legendary guitar most definitely not a bad thing. 22 THEATRE February 18, 2005 www.varsity.co.uk Taking theatre back to basics Kate Merriam graduated from in an audience at the end. freedom as possible to experi- thing about the creative process is Cambridge last year and has How do you see actors? ment. In Me and My Girl I have to give your mind the time to returned to direct the CUMTS They are very talented individ- encouraged the actors to com- wander over all the possibilities. Show ‘Me and My Girl’ at the uals doing a very different job pete by continually upstaging What was the most fruitful Arts Theatre. During her time at from the director. Ultimately it each other. It is right for the experience you had at university she directed nine plays lies in their power to bring a show show because it requires constant Cambridge? and was involved in over 20 shows. alive. The director is at best an energy and humour. Definitely conducting the honest mirror, and that is why The cast can be too accommo- ADC interviews. During my Why direct? Why is it impor- every actor needs a director. dating and supportive of each three years on the committee, as tant? How has Cambridge theatre other, whereas I want to ensure director’s rep then president, I It is a bigger question than changed in your time here? that they are all significant indi- must have interviewed over 250 that really. Why do theatre at It has got much bigger. For viduals on stage. It also reduces people, most of whom were other all? For me, it’s about enter- example there are four musicals my stamp on each character and directors. Some interviews tainment, a unique form of on this week, which has meant ensures that they take responsi- became very technical conversa- entertainment. It is as impor- that we [Me and My Girl] have a bility for the spontaneity of their tions about directing techniques. tant as concerts or film or tele- relatively small cast for an Arts performance. I quickly learnt what was straight vision as a form of communica- Theatre musical. This quantity How visual is your approach? out of the theory books and how tion. I like to go for the maxi- has also lowered standards Me and My Girl is not a con- to spot instinct. mum entertainment and popu- because everyone wants to make cept show so there is little room It is important to know the lar appeal. their mark and have their show for interpretation. Most of my theory, but it only supports a What makes you start each new put on. There is no more room work with the designer was about good director’s instinct. Some show? for experimentation in the characterisation, not themes. people enthuse you and others I direct because I feel lost with- rehearsal room because everyone For Utopia at the Minack just can’t. out it and I feel like I am in my is short on time. It becomes Theatre in Cornwall on the other Directors talk a lot about ideas natural state in rehearsals. It is about getting the show done and hand we significantly adapted the but you have to challenge yourself not just the idea of the show but covering the basics. script, so I spent a lot of time to know when an idea is really an the whole process that I enjoy. What is your basic approach? working on the show’s visual con- idea and not just an obvious con- Kate rehearsing Utopia in Cornwall with Sam Goodyear in 2004 And the buzz comes from sitting I try to give the actors as much ception. The most important clusion.

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Should Know flown away by the end of the first Luc A world of pain Review by Tess Riley five minutes. Special mention deep into any one routine, at Corpus Playroom 15 - 19 Feb should go the pianist and the Still Standing times it can feels more like bassist, who both performed non- Review by Dan Benton freestyle impersonation than This is an action-packed musi- stop. Several special touches Pembroke New Cellars, stand up. Technical points aside, cal that will appeal to anyone turned it into a veritable 15th - 19th of February Swarbick largely gets away with who’s ever been away from home. Cambridge performance; a semi- it: his one liners are tight and well This cautionary tale for trav- naked male, reference to Bill When he says, “Self depreca- delivered, and the stand out sec- ellers takes its audience on a hilar- Clinton’s extra-curricular activi- tion – the easiest card in the com- tion is his take on the forthcom- ious tour of the possible – no, ties and brilliant outfits. The gar- pe edy pack”, Joe Swarbick is setting ing Lord of the Rings musical, inevitable – pitfalls that material- ish Hawaiian shirts help you for- himself up for a world of hurt. with a cynically effortless series of ize as soon as “passport” is even get the Kings Parade winds wait- And the first Eddie Izzard-y skit Broadway parodies, and a suitably uttered. An extremely versatile ing outside. of his set has the mind wandering acerbic running commentary. cast performs numerous roles, the One final point; to get me to in queasily familiar directions. Picking holes in student per- scenes effortlessly sliding from the laugh is a challenge. I can giggle, His stylistic influences show up formances may be cheap and lazy, tourist who became just that little I smile quite a bit, but rarely do I all over the set; from skittish but then so am I; Joe Swarbick is bit too intimate with her Mexican laugh out loud. On this occasion, delivery, to one liners: “I’m not clearly not. His undoubted tour guide, to the man whose however, the quips were quick saying Superman is better than charm and presence need to be suitcases are spinning thousands and the laughs were plenty. And God… but I would like to see it backed up by stronger material to of miles away in the Dantean not just from me. So, here’s a settled in the ring.” cut it as a stand up. All of which Carousel Hell to which all lost secret every smart student should While his set is usually expan- begs the question: “what could luggage is doomed. know: there’s a musical on at the sive and lively enough to cover the this guy do if he concentrated on The singing is the real treat, Playroom - and I truly think you gaps, and to avoid getting too just the one thing?” with witty cabaret-style tunes should go. This was a musical that will appeal to all senses of humour Bravely unorthodox Fuming comedians win stagefight Footlights Smoker tion with the audience front row, absurd and the down-right fae- Volpone: sex, lies projected news screen behind almost biblical sense of self ful- before asking for a volunteer cal. “What is style without sub- and videotape the stage (fed live from the bar). filling prophecy. Review by Chris Clarke who was subsequently mauled stance” seemed to be more a dis- Review by Lottie Oram, ADC However there are some pleas- The rewritten dialogue often ADC, 15th February on stage by a veloceraptor. cussion on how to be funny than ing touches from the squab- sounds awkward next to 19 - 22 Jan, 19.30 Coleman kindly provided part of the sketch, and the bling news reporters who pro- Jonson’s original prose but in colouring pencils and party pop- Cambridge audience responded What attracted the director, vide an effective lick of media the second half, the new lines Last Tuesday’s Footlights pers to accompany his bid to to the more subtle levels of self- Libby Penn to Volpone was its sycophancy that compliments come into their own. Lines Smoker was shit. Or, at least, clamber across the audience. reference with great delight. "preoccupation with power, Volpone’s own superficial from Sylvia Plath’s juvenile that was how it was intended. The reaction was as much fear as Particularly delightful was the wealth and sex" but any audi- lifestyle and the duplicitous poem Never Try To Trick Me Enraged by the review of the laughter, and the stunt was bril- experimentation with new ways ence of this week's production greed of his servant Mosca. With A Kiss repeated chorus previous smoker in Varsity, the liantly entertaining. of telling stories, where several was presented with much more. After a clunky first half, the are hypnotic, and the well writ- Footlights team decided to strike The rest of the smoker dis- actors would stand with there The script was almost entire- various ambitious elements of ten interpretation of a section of back in the only way they knew played similarly creative backs to the audience and take ly rewritten in a modern politi- the direction and stage manage- Paradise Lost describes Mosca’s how: insults and mockery. moments. A sick child (Thomas turns at turning around to con- cal context with excerpts of the ment start to gel and the plot malevolent role perfectly. It is “Comedy is my life” said Simon Eccleshare), whose mother tinue the narrative from their Jonson text occasionally laid veers sharply away from the impossible to shake the feeling Bird before ceremoniously seems to prefer the pets than perspective. over the top. Penn takes the original. Mosca and Volpone however, that the director tried removing the kid gloves and him, tells his story of being beat- The sketch, about a cheating darkest parts of Volpone, name- (engagingly played by James to do too much. There are challenging the audience, who en up by the cool kids at school. chess champion, was ended by a ly the rape of Celia and the cor- Norton and Will Featherstone numerous topical references, (the review demanded) ought to That he is so sweetly accepting side-splitting “chess-dance” ruption of the Venetian court, respectively) hold it together such as to the Hutton enquiry participate more, to a game of of such harsh treatment reduces where the actors mechanically and extends it to the rest of the throughout with an excellent but the motivation behind this slinging mud. the audience to a rare moment of danced as chess-pieces. The rest play. The primitive superstition scene straight after the rape of is unclear. Anyone who did not Insult was traded for insult, pity and the laughter is sympa- of the sketches were of a very that sleeping with a virgin can Celia. The illness he initially know Volpone well may leave a and, hilariously but not surpris- thetic and embarrassed. Equally high standard, and Luke cure you of HIV is mentioned began as a clever media ruse little confused, although this is ingly, the Footlights side won. In different was the lecturer’s self- Roberts gave a very assured per- throughout, with the rape of 14 becomes a genuine case of certainly a brave attempt to be another feat of piss-taking, Ed referential monolog, combining formance, proving that stand-up year old girls reported on the AIDS and lends the play an different. Coleman held a two-minute a very erudite style with the is not dead. getting-to-know you conversa- THEATRE www.varsity.co.uk February 18, 2005 23

sedate setting of the Hampshire countryside there is a lot of very lively dancing a Galvin

My Girl got me to be done – including a par- gr ticularly memorable lle Wil James is inspired by an excellent production ‘Lambeth Walk’ that had A audience members on their In Cambridge there are few quirky extras, including surreal word. He is ably supported by feet the night I attended. spectacles quite like the annu- tap-dancing ancestors and another strong singing talent With a very few exceptions, al CU Musical Theatre numerous historical references. in the shape of Tammy the choreography is strong Society (CUMTS) Musical. Still, this is a musical in a Harvey as his sweetheart and captures the spirit of the This year, once again, the classic mould that succeeds Sally, who brings a touching age wonderfully. society has presented its loyal through its charming combi- tenderness, as well as plenty The production also bene- audience with a romp of high nation of memorable tunes of guts, to her role. Comedy fits greatly from a lavish kicks, high spirits and even and snappy tap dancing. is provided in spades in the budget, enabling them to use higher notes. From the opening scene the form of the stalwart Oli a professional set that helps Me and My Girl tells the cleverly crafted ensemble grab Robinson, whose drunken yet immensely to set off the pro- age-old tale of the poor bar- the audience’s attention and hopelessly romantic Sir John duction. On the first night row boy, Bill Snibson, plucked Tremayne will undoubtedly from obscurity to inherit a The choreography have set heart aflutter. The show relies fortune and an Earldom. But is strong and Meanwhile, the all-singing, heavily upon a in the process, he must choose all-dancing Tom Leonard whether he is willing to give captures the spirit succeeded in taking the role of strong and up his roots and the girl he of the age the ineffectual Gerald versatile lead loves in order to rise through wonderfully Bolingbroke to another level the classes and assume his with a lisp that really deserves the show was not without its rightful place amidst the draw us into a prewar world of a show all of its own. technical hitches and in the nobility. It won’t be giving garden parties, croquet, hunt Amongst the other principles, large auditorium of the Arts too much away to reassure you balls and rigid etiquette. Emma Brown stands out in Theatre it was occasionally that eventually he gets to keep But don’t be put off: this the role of the domineering difficult to hear the singers. his girl and his title in a finale isn’t Noel Coward; Bill’s Duchess, managing to capture Any problems were in any full of wedding bells and pro- arrival at the family pile, her character’s age without case more than made up for fessions of undying love. Hareford Hall brings the sacrificing her brilliant ring- by a spirited band led by But the plot is really sec- more colourful tones of ing soprano. Musical Director Candida ondary in a show that is prin- Lambeth to the sedate Indeed, director Kate Caldicot-Bull. cipally a showcase for the tal- Hampshire estate. Fresher Merriam must receive full Me and My Girl really is a ents of the cast, who really James Smoker shines in the credit for her casting across great romp, skilfully staged by pull out all the stops. lead role, combining a clear the board. Audience mem- this talented cast. It com- Originally devised in the singing talent, some nifty foot- bers I spoke to were particu- bines slapstick cockney come- 1930s as a star vehicle for the work and a face that will win larly impressed by the dy with a tender story of now largely forgotten Lupino over an army of grandmothers. strength of the chorus, which enduring love. It may be Lane, the show was revived by The show relies heavily although relatively small soppy, but it is great fun. So Stephen Fry and Mike upon a strong and versatile showed great versatility. This get down those apples and Ockrent in 1984, giving the lead, and Smoker easily suc- was needed in a show that pairs and make your way original interwar song and ceeds with wicked comic tim- often calls on its cast to sing down to the Arts Theatre for dance number a witty, knowing ing and an ability to hold the and dance simultaneously. a barrel of laughs and some new libretto that adds some stage without uttering a single And for a show set in the great performances. Almost the wild wild west Oliver Tilley and Lucy Phillips at Churchill ball Sipping mulled wine in the rain-lashed queue, we immedi- ately began to wonder whether a y Phillips ‘Showdown’ theme in a spring ball could really be pulled off. Luc And, despite the impressive horse-riders who paraded around the entrance, we were not sure it entirely did. After entering through the innovative (if bedraggled) wagon-style tunnel, the limits of the décor became immedi- ately apparent: Churchill looked just like Churchill, but with some ill-arranged ‘Wanted’ posters and the odd saloon door to interrupt the brown brick. Though the designers had a challenging prospect due to the college’s un-ball-like setting, previous committees have succeeded comfortably, even impressively, making it the biggest disap- pointment of the night. Never mind, we thought, and pushed straight on to the buffet One wet reveller kisses Winston’s adorned bust in the relatively poor;y attended ball. deli after quaffing a few glasses of well chilled Champagne. It erally well handled with an pit and the tent DJ received a good extension of the theme. became an apt introduction to excellent venue replete with rapturous reception, despite a By the end, though we had an an array of excellent food and steel girders and luminescent food and drink drought at the excellent time and each con- good wine, including a choco- lighting. It was, perhaps, a lit- crucial 2am point. stituent part of the ball seemed late fountain, hog roast, fajita tle heavy on the cheese, with There were no dodgems to work well on its own, there bar and potato wedge hut. The the Dampness – a Darkness this year but a bucking bronco was not enough cohesion buffet was the culinary high- pastiche – proving to be the almost sufficed and the throughout and the theme, light, with artichoke hearts, sun- biggest crowd puller and the swings were a good touch; though potentially effective, was dried tomatoes and a good evening ending in a Chesney while the firing range, though never worked through consis- selection of cheeses. Hawkes fest in the outside tent. wickedly difficult, was a tently. And we never did locate The entertainment was gen- The Dampness created a mosh- refreshing addition and a that elusive caricaturist. 24 VISUAL ARTS Febuary 18, 2005 www.varsity.co.uk Central Park: a new vision in orange Monstrosity or master- piece? asks Claire Hart t is luminous shiny. When the sun is in the “Iback it will be golden yellow.” This was how Christo described his new work The Gates which consists of 7,500 orange gates, each covered in three hanging panels of saf- fron coloured muslin, stretch- ing across Central Park for twenty-three miles. Other words have also been used to describe it, not all of which are quite so glowing. The Gates does, however, undoubtedly represent the embracing of Christo and his partner Jean-Claude by New Travelling far and wide to wrap cover and, arguably, obstruct landmarks

York, one of the most influential centres in the world when it comes to art, and the place that they have made their home after nearly forty-five years travelling far and wide to wrap, cover and, arguably, obstruct, a whole host of landmarks. Christo and Jean-Claude make Tracy Emin look conven- tional and Damien Hirst seem Christo and Jean-Claude’s latest work The Gates has attracted excitement and controversy in equal measure unimaginative. They are the Madonna of the art world. Too ferent birth places incorrectly a week, whilst Jean-Claude world, disgruntled a few brought out to play yet again. amongst those who come into famous to feel the need to use attributed to him, but was puts in a mere 12-13 hours a Greenwich Village joggers and If your idea of art is one of contact with it, then you can- their surnames, not ones to shy officially born in Bulgaria. day at the artistic grindstone. provoked cries of “But is it painstakingly painted frescoes not deny the inclusion of this away from controversy and Jean-Claude, with her fluffy The word eccentric barely and carefully crafted portrai- installation within that cate- showing no signs of packing it orange hair, was, spookily seems to cover it. They are the ture, then Christo’s work gory. Regardless of whether all in to live the quiet life after enough, born on exactly the Last Saturday, Christo and Madonna of clearly isn’t art at all. the opinion you form of The decades of artistic output. same day as her beloved hus- Jean-Claude “unfurled”, as the art world If, on the other hand, you Gates is a favourable or a Their biographies have band seventy years ago in the they like to put it, their latest take the view that art is any- scornful one, the work become practically apocryphal exotic setting of Casablanca. creation, The Gates, in Central art?” The perennial question: thing, any object or image, nonetheless provokes a in their own lifetimes. Christo Christo works on average sev- Park, New York. They made “monstrosity or masterpiece?” which provokes some kind of response and most likely quite has apparently had seven dif- enteen hours a day, seven days headline news around the has been dusted off and significant human response a strongly-felt one. The changing faces of a single painting Sam Rose at an exhibition on the development of the artistic process

nless you want to carry The Charrington Room earlier imagery being replaced small part of each image, as examples are interesting, and an X-radiograph itself seems a rather small with frenzied scratching. only the cars in the top right in some cases very beautiful, Ones to watch Umachine into the space to explore such a broad Stark changes in mood are hand corner are varied. many of the prints have a gallery, it’s pretty much impos- subject, but by showing only also apparent in the works by greater number of ‘states’ than sible to understand or indeed two to four versions of each Blake and Rembrandt where A small change can are represented. The Gerald Laing responds to appreciate the progressive work the exhibition is able to the later versions sacrifice real- affect an entire Rembrandt print, for example, the war in Iraq using a com- stages of layering which lead to touch on a number of ideas. ism for a more intense religious is only shown by states three bination of Powerful pho- a final piece. atmosphere heightened by a work of art and four when there are five in tography and Pop Art. ‘Altered States’ at the Meaning or choice of darker colour tones. total, meaning that we don’t King's Art Centre Saturday Charrington Print Room in content can be Between these is an image of Depending on your point of see a true picture of the work’s 19th February to 3rd March the Fitzwilliam does however the ‘headless horseman’, a por- view, this could be either a fas- progression. Weekdays 1.30pm to 4pm, give us a brief insight to this changed in the trait of Oliver Cromwell cinating example of how a It is nonetheless an interest- Saturday and Sunday 11am process by looking at the process leading whose head was altered in later small change can affect an ing (if brief ) look at the possi- to 5pm. He will be giving a impression left after a print is versions to become Louis XIV entire work of art, or a lazy bilities of printmaking, and as talk to the Visual Arts reworked showing us a number to completion and then, ironically, Charles I. artist trying to produce as a free exhibition even students Society tonight at 8pm in of earlier versions, or states, of Picasso’s etching, for exam- Surrounded by such emotional many saleable prints as possi- have no excuse not to wander King’s Art Centre. the piece in question. Through ple, shows how a mood can works, this is an amusing ble without having new ideas, around for ten minutes. It is this the exhibition attempts to affect the work, with versions example of ‘art’ as cynical or even doing much work. well worth a visit, and the only Yoshitoshi Japanese 19th show how the meaning or con- of a print etched before and money-making exercise. Although fascinating, the drawback is that there is not Century woodcuts. tent of a painting can be after Guernica. The later ver- Craig McPherson’s ‘Chop exhibition does lack direction. the gallery space to explore Fitzwilliam Museum, until changed during the process sion is far more raw and emo- Shop Series’ is a modern This is where the real problem such an interesting theme in the end of Febuary. Free entry leading to its completion. tional, with the subtlety of the example of changing just a lies: whilst the individual more detail. www.varsity.co.uk February 18, 2005 FILM 25 .net e

The Hispanic inquisition imag Daniel Igra speaks to Professor Paul Julian Smith, and unveils the reality of the Latin American renaissance hese days it seems there drew on Hollywood and North praise. Recent Almodóvar He replies that Sight and Sound, are a disproportionate American modes of story- films, most notably Talk to Her the magazine of the British Tnumber of people - espe- telling, telling their stories and Bad Education, were met Film Institute that he writes for, cially amongst the Arts through exciting pictures. At with great excitement by the is “running out of space to Picturehouse-loving Cambridge the same time they remain British film-going public, and include reviews of all the community - who include a very Mexican.” Professor Smith’s enthusiasm Spanish-language films that are name of one of the recent Latin Hispanic culture, compris- for the Spanish filmmaker released in the UK. A few years American films within their all- ing both Latin America and goes back nearly twenty years. ago I would do two or three time favourites list. Certainly, Spain, is certainly converging “The first Almodóvar film I every year – now it’s pretty Amores perros and Y tu mamá more and more with that of saw - I was bowled over by it. much one a month.” también have reached near cult I had never seen a Spanish Yet he is quick to point out status. And if these Mexican fea- “Recent Latin film like it before.” In some that this does not necessarily tures don’t particularly float your American directors ways it seems that mean that we, the common boat, no doubt the Brazilian City Almodóvar’s films appeal to a movie-goers, are aware of any of God will. But why is it that have drawn on British audience for the same more films being released. these films have resonated with Hollywood modes” reasons as the Mexican ones. In 2000, Latin American cinema bit back with Amores Perros British audiences? “Similar to the Latin “The so-called crisis of the Spanish film indus- nearly always publicly funded. Cambridge’s very own the West. Latinos, as the American directors, he has a Hispanic renaissance try. Spain has more films dis- Recent Latin American and Spanish and Latin American biggest and fastest-growing very distinct aesthetic which is tributed than Germany or Italy. Spanish films may be more film expert, Professor Paul minority in the US, now have always recognizable. He has a only refers to two or Yet the films at the heart of its accessible to the British specta- Julian Smith, explains that a more obvious input into unique way of telling stories – three films” ‘renaissance’ are not representa- tor, but as Professor Smith has they have avoided the political North American popular cul- they are quite complicated but tive of the nation’s industry. argued, we should not necessar- didacticism of earlier efforts. ture. Spain holds an increas- he makes them appear trans- “Every now and then there is a Almodóvar, for example, has not ily expect to see more Spanish Moreover, they now seem less ingly important position in parent somehow.” Spanish or Latin American film been recognized by the film- language blockbusters in the foreign to an audience brought Europe and its economy has Spanish films, especially those renaissance but it is dependent making establishment in Spain cinemas. If you want to see more up on Hollywood. “In the past, boomed over the last few produced towards or after the on very few titles. So the so- because he has his own produc- than the two or three that might Latin American films made a years. In terms of cinema, it end of General Franco’s dicta- called Latin American renais- tion company and sets himself figure in people’s all-time virtue of having poor visual has a figurehead unlike any torship, were dark and tragic. sance simply refers to two or apart from the filmmaking favourite film list, watching style in order to distinguish other non-English speaking Almodóvar injected colour and three films that are widely mainstream. The situation is the them on DVD or at the one-off themselves from Hollywood – country in the form of Pedro comedy. I ask Professor Smith known outside the countries in same in Mexico. The two ‘ren- Latin American cinema season whereas the directors of Almodóvar. Indeed, it is not whether he thinks Spanish lan- which they are made.” aissance’ films were unusually at the Arts Picturehouse this Amores perros and Y tu mamá only South American films guage cinema will build on its Professor Smith tells me that funded by foreign investment, weekend would probably be también worked in the US and that have been showered with success and continue to grow. the Spanish press laments the and Latin American cinema is your only bet. .net .net e e imag imag

Javier Bardem seeks dignity through death in The Sea Inside Gael Garcia Bernal, talkin’ about a revolution The Sea Inside Amenábar, however, is quite Sampedro’s loving family and The Motorcycle The Motorcycle Diaries is capitalist corporations, Ernesto explicit as to which side he the tender relationships he based on a description in the becomes gradually more aware Showing now at wishes us to stand. Sampedro is develops with Rosa and Julia – Diaries journals of Ernesto ‘Che’ of, and more angered by, the the Arts Picturehouse the articulate, quietly compas- could equally be seen as oddly Christ’s College Films Guevara of a journey which he divisions in society. Review by Daniel Igra sionate hero loved by all around life-affirming. undertook with his friend The organic alteration of him. In opposition stand two Whichever side of the moral Sun 20 Feb, Alberto Granada in 1952, and character is part of a general At this year’s Goya film awards, caricatures: his coarse, farmer divide you stand, The Sea Inside 20.00 & 22.30 shows how influential the expe- strive towards realism by Salles the Spanish equivalent of the brother (who seems to be the is certainly worth watching. rience was in shaping the world- and cinematographer Eric Baftas, for once Pedro only character to insist on Aesthetically it is a striking Review by Ben Irving view that was to propel him into Gautier. Shot with a mixture of Almodóvar was usurped as king speaking provincial Galician) film, most notably in the On the face of it, Walter Salles’ the midst of the Cuban Super 16mm and 35mm stock, of Spanish cinema. Instead it and the seemingly irrational, sweeping shots of the Galician The Motorcycle Diaries could be Revolution. Indeed, although the film was made very flexibly was Alejandro Amenábar, direc- staunchly Catholic priest whose landscape and the sea when just another road movie.The film there are many touching and with a small crew who complet- tor of The Others, whose film The tetraplegia appears demeaning Sampedro dreams that he can sees two young Argentineans hilarious moments in the film ed the two protagonists’ actual Sea Inside took the spoils with a rather than ennobling as in fly. In such scenes, effective travelling thousands of miles that stand independent from the journey. The film provides a record 14 of the 15 possible Sampedro’s case. editing and cinematography from Buenos Aires to the Guajira biographical content, it can only portrait of South America, hon- awards. Based on a true story, it This disparity is at first con- brilliantly blur fantasy and real- peninsula in Venezuela on a leaky be fully appreciated with a estly and beautifully capturing recounts the final months of the vincing. However, a rather neg- ity, leaving us wishing and 1939 Norton 500 motorcycle, knowledge of the lead charac- both its society and its life of Ramón Sampedro ( Javier ative message could be inter- almost believing that he can one of them aiming to sleep with ter’s political importance. panoramic landscapes from the Bardem), a man in his mid-50s preted here. Life is only worth walk over to his window. women in every country of South Guevara (played brilliantly by Patagonian Andes to the who has been confined to his living when you have absolute And above all, Bardem deliv- America. The film could also be Gael Garcia Bernal) is seen as a Atacama desert, from Buenos bed for the last 28 years after ‘freedom’ to do so; that is, when ers a truly remarkable perform- added to the long list of coming- naïve 23-year old middle-class Aires to the Amazon rainforest. being left paralysed from the you are able to move. For those ance as Sampedro. Playing a of-age movies; movies of trite asthmatic, growing naturally Interspersing the political evo- neck down by a diving accident. with serious disabilities who part over 20 years his senior, he self-discovery. However, rarely into a man of principle over the lution of such a significant fig- Avoiding the predictability of a struggle through life but enjoy underwent 5 hours of make-up do these sorts of films deal with course of an 8-month trip free ure with light-hearted humour ‘disease-of-the-week’ film, it its privileges, the glorification every day as well as learning to such a historically significant fig- from the epiphanic moment of and touching celebrations of focuses on Sampedro’s desire to of Sampedro’s wish to die could speak Galician and write with a ure - one whose true nature has clarity which tends to haunt friendship, this film is a tender end his ‘undignified’ life and very well be offensive. On the pen in his mouth. The unrecog- been lost behind the myth, films of this genre. Experiencing and uplifting balanced whole reopens the contentious debate other hand, Amenábar’s nizable Bardem stretches the trapped behind the T-shirts of the plight of indigenous South which does not allow itself to be about euthanasia. emphasis on these privileges – boundaries of acting. teenagers for decades. Americans at the hands of large sucked into the myth. 26 SPORT February 18, 2005 www.varsity.co.uk Football’s coming home to Cambridge Nico Leslie explains the history of the beautiful game lshain Bizarrely for such a proud institu- Club down in Essex. By 1874, left to the honour of the captains Despite initially trying to ban tion, we have forgotten one of the indeed, there was talk of a Varsity and other players. There are football for its excessive violence,

University’s greatest successes. It match, and on March 30 the two many remarkable stories attached the University authorities finally Adam Ede seems crazy that while Nobel Universities first met. Although to this tradition; for instance the relented and instigated an Inter- prizes and Bloomsbury novels are the Light Blues succumbed 1-0, refusal of the Corinthians foot- Collegiate Cup competition in fêted, we appear to have ignored a they were to dominate their ballers ever to take penalties, since 1877, first won by Jesus. By breakthrough that might be con- Oxford counterparts until the they believed their opponents to 1900, a league had been started, sidered more influential than end of the century. be gentlemen and could not and football began to flourish to almost any other. As Colin Weir However, even if Cambridge imagine them wishing to foul a the widest degree throughout asserts in his new history of supremacy might seem familiar, Corinthian near the goal. the University. Having already CUAFC, ‘it would be hard to the game itself would have been Still, having developed as a been anointed as a full Blue exaggerate the influence that the hybrid of the sports played at sport in 1885, despite the firm University footballers of This humble patch public schools throughout the opposition of the Boat, Athletics Cambridge have had on the game of turf is almost country, the rules required sub- and Cricket clubs, Cambridge in England and subsequently all certainly the birth- stantial alteration down the footballers went on to represent over the world.’ years. Again Cambridge was at England 105 times at senior Parker’s Piece, the unlikely home of football It was on a cold, damp morn- place of football the forefront of the innovations. level and 135 times at amateur ing in 1846 that HC Malden of Slowly, the notion of passing level, with others being capped All these achievements make inated on the fields and in the Trinity set down the first ever hard to recognise for a modern began to supersede dribbling, for Wales, Scotland and Egypt. it doubly strange that football hearts of our University. rules of football, posting them on fan. For a start, passing forward while the formation of two full- Many players also went on to has been condemned to a The 2005 Varsity match is the trees around our very own was prohibited, the emphasis backs, three halfbacks and five sign for professional clubs, most peripheral role in the University the 131st fixture between the Parker’s Piece; few realise that being placed rather on individual forwards was introduced in the recently Steve Palmer, a Blue – perhaps a symptom of its two sides, Oxford being nar- this humble patch of turf is dribbling or energetic hacking, Varsity matches (it was to be demotic image and the stagger- rowly ahead with 47 victories almost certainly the birthplace of and there were a variety of ‘touch- widespread until the 1960s). The pitch was 150 ingly high standard of the pro- to Cambridge’s 46, 27 games the most popular game on the downs’ and kick-ons which have The forwards also evolved, yards in length fessional game. Though the having been drawn (the games planet. The laws, known as ‘The now been abandoned. Moreover, dividing into centre-halves and Blues team is picked from a from 1911-14 and 1939-45 Cambridge Rules’, were then the pitch was 150 yards in length out-and-out strikers, an idea while the goals pool of players vastly larger than are not counted). After a suc- unanimously adopted by the – almost twice the size of some adopted simultaneously by the were 15 feet wide that which regularly produced cessful season competing at original Football Association in college pitches – while goals were Light Blues and the legendary internationals a century ago, the top of the British 1863, a decision made over a an inviting 15 feet across. To help Preston North End team. In 1986-9, who captained QPR students cannot compete with Universities league, hearty meal and a pint of ale at defenders, the last rule judged fact, so strong was the and is now at the Milton Keynes modern players on multi-mil- Cambridge still has a reputa- the Freemasons’ Tavern in that ‘All charging is fair’, a law, as Cambridge side that it was able Dons. What’s more, there are lion pound contracts. tion as a formidable foot- Central London. From these you will know, that has been to drop an established Welsh now 105 teams involved in the Nevertheless, as Colin Weir balling institution. With inauspicious beginnings the game interestingly retained in College international who refused to College leagues, made up of contends, ‘the part played by Oxford languishing in the was to grow rapidly, and it was football. Nonetheless, perhaps adopt the new approach – the both men and women, and four Cambridge in soccer’s develop- league below, the Light Blues the action of Cambridge men to the greatest difference was the decision to leave out Giggs in fully fledged University squads, ment should not be forgotten’, have the best chance in years of set up new clubs such as Hallam absence of a referee or linesman, College football would certainly making it by far the most played and we should all feel pride that squaring the series and inflict- FC in the north and The Forest meaning that all disputes were raise eyebrows now. sport in Cambridge. the greatest sport on earth orig- ing a Varsity Day massacre.

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Sport In Blues have a Varsity net-ball Brief shooters relaxed into their Netball een game. First year blue Becky Tw Gwilliam won man of the CROSS-COUNTRY

CAMBRIDGE 46 atie match for her excellent per- Cambridge A recorded a K formance as GA. The final fantastic third place in OXFORD 32 whistle blew with Cambridge Saturday’s ‘Euro Student on 46 and Oxford on 32. Relay Race’ at Hyde Park, Georgie Powell was delight- London. Katie Tween ed with the triumph comment- ing after the game: “We won because all the girls put in GAELIC FOOTBALL Last Saturday saw the 100% and played as a team, Cambridge’s Gaelic football Cambridge University netball supporting one another. By team were unlucky to exit squad confidently defeat their keeping a calm head and utilis- the BUSA championships in Oxford opponents in both the ing our superior fitness we the league stages. Despite an first and second team matches, were able to dominate emphatic 12 point victory marking the blues’ third con- throughout.” against Whittle University, a secutive double Varsity victory. After a fairly even start in final minute Aston goal pre- Oxford and Cambridge had the seconds match, nerves vented further progress. actually already met on the resulted in some scrappy play netball court three weeks prior and Cambridge pulled ahead. to the varsity match at a mini Fluid play in the centre third FENCING tournament in London with fed the ball quickly into Cambridge Men and their joint sponsors KPMG. In attackers Kate Yateman-Smith Women Blues combined to this instance Oxford were the and Eimar Neeson to exhibit annihilate their Oxford winners, a result which per- some superbly accurate shoot- counterparts in the 108th haps fostered complacency ing. Amy Scorah as centre put Varsity match. Ultimately, amongst the squad, for as the in a great performance in spite the main competition was two teams met again last of a season dogged by injury which gender would record Saturday at Kelsey Kerridge and worked particularly well the most spectacular victory, sports hall for the Varsity with wing attack Penny with the men just edging it clash, Cambridge were clearly Goalkeeper Cathy Cucknell was outstanding, with consistent interceptions. Anderson to bring the ball up with a 135-93 scoreline sur- the more focussed and deter- from defence into the circle. passing the women’s 126-88 mined side. drills seemed frantic, point on Oxford could not shooters into error. By half time it was clear that triumph. As the squads began to Cambridge executed their syn- seem to regain their compo- Likewise centre court play- an Oxford comeback was warm up, it was clear that chronised runs and stretches sure, with their set plays and ers Victoria Jones and Claire impossible, the remaining two Oxford had selected a great with calm precision shooting style totally disrupted Leonard outmanoeuvred their quarters saw some confident AND FINALLY... quantity of players with over The first team match began by some brilliant Cambridge markers and caused such con- play by Cambridge, with their LACROSSE twenty girls on court, whilst with Oxford in front after defence. Captain Georgie fusion and frustration amongst gruelling fitness training A weakened Blues side lost Cambridge with a slimmed some missed shooting oppor- Powell as GD and GK Cathy the losing Oxford side that regime clearly paying divi- out 9-12 to Spencer. down squad of just eighteen tunities. However Cambridge Cucknell totally dominated their centre received a discipli- dends as they outpaced and Nonetheless, a spirited display had strived for quality. The quickly regained their rhythm their area, intercepting and nary warning from the umpire. outperformed the Oxford girls, provided good practice for the contrast in warm up was also and by the first quarter were tipping the Oxford feeds to the By half time Cambridge were with the match ending in a upcoming Varsity tie. revealing, whilst the Oxford seven goals ahead. From this circle and forcing the Oxford confidently in the lead as the final score of 45 points to 32. Late Fitz blitz seals win Uni football

Cup Football comfortably than the 3-2 process that Johns were well been behind in a league or Uni Football several key players, lacked score line suggested. and truly still in the game. cuppers game this season, and cohesion and shape. Warwick FITZ 4 As in the previous clash it To Fitz’s credit, they as John’s heads dropped, WARWICK 2 scored twice to go ahead was Fitz who took the initia- refused to buckle under Threlfall was able to add his before Adams appeared again ST. JOHN’S 2 tive, their positive start seeing mounting pressure, and were twenty-first goal of the sea- CAMBRIDGE 2 eight minutes from time to Jonny Hughes force a save thankful to their Blues influ- son, hooking home Griffiths’ seal a point from close range, Sam Lardley from John’s keeper Greene ence for their next two goals, low cross to make the game Glen Amaux silencing the Warwick sup- following a mazy run into the scored in almost identical cir- safe and sparking scenes of porters in the process. Clichéd as it may be, anyone area, and Tristan Windley cumstances. It was Clamp jubilation amongst the So whilst performances in present at Oxford Road on shooting just wide following a who was the unlikely scorer to impressive Fitz support. continued from back page BUSA have not always met Sunday afternoon will tell you rare sight of goal. The crowd put Fitz back in front at 2-1, James Bewley and the Fitz expectations, had the rub of that there really is something didn’t have to wait long for towering above Greene to side were clearly delighted post and goal line clearance in the green been Blue, a second magic about cuppers. Two the breakthrough either, a head into the empty net. with the result, the captain succession, this after Jonny consecutive league title would touchlines full of fans, six wonderfully weighted Again Johns refused to lie emphasising the pride his Hughes’ header had cannoned not have been out of the ques- goals, goalmouth scrambles, through ball allowing the down, and with quarter of an team demonstrated to over- off the crossbar. tion. The Blues will have to bad tackles, great saves, pas- excellent Danny Griffiths to hour remaining the inevitable come a resilient John’s outfit No Cambridge player could hope that if luck acts random- sion and pride in abundance: burst through and slot the happened. A well judged in what were difficult condi- claim that optimum perform- ly, and if only so much can be this game had everything. No ball into the bottom right through ball bounced tions. ‘I thought John’s had ance was reached in any of made, that they are due to get player or supporter would hand corner, much to the between the Fitz centre backs the better of the second half, these games, yet it would surely some in the season’s remain- argue with the statement that delight of the noisy Fitz con- and into the path of Adams, but we created the clear cut not have been too much to ask ing fixtures. it really could have gone tingent, who totalled in the who sprinted away from chances throughout and took of fate to help nudge a ball over Despite a couple of tired either way, particularly when region of one hundred. Hardy to lift the ball past the them’, he said. ‘I would like the goal line, or to correct the performances in the last week, Johns equalised late in the Moments later, Greene was onrushing Whale and into the to thank the fans for their prescription of an ageing offi- this is an exciting side full of second half to make the score called into action to save well net, sparking mass celebra- excellent support once again. cial’s spectacles. quality, and expectations are 2-2. The game was won on when one on one with tions from the John’s players. It makes a huge difference to Whilst fortune played an high ahead of the clash with the foundation of a never-say- Brendan Threlfall, the At this stage, it was Johns the way we play’. important part in the De Oxford. Although it doesn’t die attitude that saw Fitz destroyer of many a college who looked the more likely, Nothing should be taken Montfort defence on Friday, mean very much, if you asked ultimately inflict sweet defence this season. the crowd forced to witness away from the attitude of the the Blues’ draw with Warwick Darby whether he would take revenge on their cuppers con- The second half was less some nervy defending from St Johns team, committed can only be attributed to a a win at Upton Park courtesy querors from last season, one-sided and consequently Fitz as John’s sought to turn and inventive throughout and poor performance. The side of an own goal off an Oxford earning themselves a place in hugely entertaining, the Fitz the screw. But as the game gracious in defeat, their faces looked jaded from the jour- defender’s backside, you get the semi-finals of the compe- defence not dealing well with appeared to be heading for a picture of pure disappoint- ney, and were second best the feeling he might say yes. tition along the way. the strong breeze blowing extra time, it was Fitz who ment at the final whistle. before taking the lead against Having said that, any luck Both sides were clearly into their faces, resulting in came good, the irrepressible Fitz, meanwhile, will hope to the run of play through a would do. buoyed by the arrival of two Adams getting the better of Jonny Hughes using incredi- continue their run of victories piece of individual class by The Varsity match takes Blues each in their sides, and them on numerous occasions. ble hang time to hover above that has lasted for the whole Mike Adams. His turn and 18 place at Upton Park on the this was a key factor in mak- It was fresher Nick Bell who Greene and head in another of the season thus far, when yard strike stunned the home 12th March. Tickets are £5, ing this game more of a spec- forced the equaliser however, inch perfect cross, putting they take on Trinity next side, giving the Blues the nar- and available from college tacle than the league meeting rising highest in the six yard Fitz into the lead for the third week at Oxford Road in what rowest of leads. Cambridge reps, or by emailing earlier in the season, where box to head into the top cor- time in the game. could potentially be the failed to lift their perform- [email protected] for more Fitz had triumphed more ner and confirming in the Incidentally, Fitz have never league decider. ance however, and missing details. February 18, 2005 SPORT Cambridge women win Varsity netball The blues prove too strong for their opposition at Kelsey Kerridge - page 27 r

Wanderers hneide ude Sc destroy slack Cla Occasionals with ruthless performance ever, with Romito keeping the Varsity Hockey back four organised - though CAMBRIDGE 6 with little in the way of an Oxford offensive, they were OXFORD 0 not tested too hard. Effective Tim Blanchard tackling by Blanchard and Mackenney cleaned up any attempts, and awesome distri- LAST MONDAY, the bution from Guy Foxell Wanderers stepped out onto the formed the foundation for pitch for their annual Varsity many an offensive. The two Match against the Oxford Oxford short corners of the Occasionals. Confidence was game, representing their best high within the squad and the chances of scoring, were both colourful array of bespoke sweat charged down by the management systems and spirit Cambridge defence. The Wanderers outplayed their opponents from start to finish to record the largest victory by any CUHC team in over five years bands ensured that the team was With little defensive wor- not only set to play well, but also ries, Cambridge went hunting the Oxford defence. Hitting to look good while doing so. for a second goal. A disguised the by-line, Palmer slipped The Wanderers started at a pass from Rees Alun found the ball inside to Mark high tempo, setting out to Mark Rushton inside the D. Rushton whose shot found Blues lack cutting edge impress their mark upon the Although contemplating the the bottom corner of the goal. game. Slick, simple passing reverse stick shot, Rushton 4-0 Cambridge, and yet the University Football side over the year so far, and a with a single point, though the and disciplined structure in instead picked out the late Wanderers kept on pressing string of impressive results in game should have been over the midfield and defensive lead of Tim Blanchard, cap- for more. BEDFORD 1 the traditional fixtures which long before the final whistle. back four quickly allowed the tain of the side, into the D for Ten minutes before the end, CAMBRIDGE 1 usually serve as indicators for Coach Dave Robertson Cambridge to set up camp in him to slot home a clinical the final goal flurry came, on the Varsity match, the BUSA later remarked, "I believe you the Oxford half. finish into the bottom left a swift break from a defensive Glen Amaux promise has not been fully ful- make your own luck, but we’ve The first ten minutes corner, leaving the keeper no short corner, the ball found its filled. Through a mixture of just been so unbelievably brought a plethora of chances chance at all. way from the left flank to average performances and less unlucky lately, it’s difficult to for the Wanderers as Oxford The Wanderers went into Mark Rushton on the opposi- APAIR OF lacklustre draws than average luck, Cambridge see exactly how that works." looked like a rabbit caught in half time two goals up and tion’s 25. Beating the last last week brought an anticli- find themselves now wonder- Robertson raises an inter- the headlights. The unstop- clearly the dominant side. defender and steaming into mactic end to a promising ing what might have been, esting point. Looking back pable running power of Mike However, rather than easing the D,Rushton drew the BUSA campaign for the rather than looking forward to from the Bedford game, there Palmer, later named man of off the pressure, Cambridge keeper, only to slot a precision Blues. Last year’s promotion the national knock-out cham- have been numerous occasions the match, tore open the came out just as hard at the pass to Gareth Collins who and subsequent exodus of pionships later this year. this year when, regardless of Oxford defence on countless start of the second half. A smashed the ball home for players set a tough task ahead The match against De the boldness of this attacking occasions as he ran rampant short way into the second Cambridge’s fifth. With 5 of this year’s squad, and had Montfort Bedford epitomised Blues side, fortune has down the right wing. Melvin half, having won a free hit on minutes to go, Rees Alun Blues supremo Darby been this ultimately disappointing favoured everyone else. Take Hibberd, vice-captain, domi- the top of the D, Hibberd decided that 5-0 simply wasn’t offered a solid, yet unspectac- season, as Cambridge came the draw against Warwick in nated in midfield, spreading dummied the pass for enough and having picked up ular 4th place finish ahead of away with a 1-1 draw courtesy Michaelmas term, when a the play well and being an Mackeeney to step up and the ball just inside the 25, the first match, he might well of a Matt Clamp header, when dubious penalty given against instrumental part of many slap the ball to an unmarked drove into the D and slotted have been tempted to accept. it was clear that three points Alan Spanos for handball cost Cambridge attacks. Graham Shaw in front of the ball into the bottom cor- Yet despite the popularity of and a significant margin of the Blues two points. With such sustained pres- goal. ‘Points’ made sure of his ner of the goal, leaving the such suggestions, offers like victory could have been had. On that occasion, Spanos sure, it was only a matter of shot, slotting the ball past the Oxford defence stunned. that are never made, and well The Blues were a markedly clearly did not handle, unlike time before the first goal for flailing arms of the With Oxford fully humili- it would have seemed for the stronger side, capable of free the Lincoln goalkeeper at the the Wanderers came. Pushing Occasionals’ keeper. ated, the final whistle blew Blues. After decent early flowing counter attacking, and end of January, who twice forward, Mike Palmer sent a Assertive play by Stuart and the celebrations could results were earned by per- incisive play that at times set caught the ball outside his own rocketing hit into the D, Penman down the left flank begin. Recording one of the formances that hinted of more them a class above their oppo- box, yet went unpunished. Such which was tipped over the kept the Oxford right side largest victories the to come from a capable nents. Yet it was that combi- decisions have been difficult keeper by the diving reverse- pinned back, as he effortlessly Wanderers had ever had, and Cambridge outfit, the team’s nation of not really clicking for the Blues to stomach, and stick effort of Sam Grimshaw. took the ball off any advanc- the largest victory by any aspirations were lifted and into top gear, mixed with Bedford saw more of the same, The goal celebration was ing Occasional. Switching the CUHC team in over 5 years, sights were set upon a first hideous ill luck and some with Alex Mugan denied once equally as extravagant. ball to the right side of the the Wanderers will no doubt place finish. wasteful finishing that denied by an errant linesman, and once Defensively, the Wanderers pitch, space opened up for look back on this day with However, despite a visible Cambridge victory once again. by keeper... were looking sharper than Mike Palmer to get in behind great pride. increase in the quality of the In the end they made do continued page 27

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