ISSUE 1618 FRIDAY 20th NOVEMBER 2015

The Student Newspaper of Imperial College London

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PAGE 14 FILM PAGE 7 COMMENT Imperial mourns Crowds gather at Queen’s Tower to hold minute’s silence for Paris victims

everal hundred people gathered at the foot of Queen’s Tower on Monday for a minute’s silence to remember the 129 people killed Sin the Paris attacks. The crowd included students and staff, who joined a Europe-wide moment of reflection three days after the tragedy. Students paused at 11am, and after a minute of reflection returned to their daily activities. In Paris, crowds converged at the Louvre, Eiffel Tower as well as beneath the make-shift memorial at the Place de la République. The French President, Francois Hollande, observed the minute’s silence amongst students at Paris-Sorbonne university, where three victims of the attack were studying. Imperial had an intake of around 370 French students last year, making them the second biggest group from abroad, after the community of Chinese students. continued on page 5 Junior doctors vote to strike in December Matt Johnston take place on Tuesday 8th December two-thirds of junior doctors in schedule, causing the chance of I finish medical school if these Writer and Wednesday 16th December, and the UK, and 76% of these decided mistakes occurring to increase. contract changes are forced upon would be full junior doctor walkouts. to voice their opinion on the Med Harris, the ICSMSU us,” she added. Medical students have been warned government’s proposed plans to President told FELIX, “As medical n Thursday it was by ICSM that due to strike action alter which times in the working students we cannot strike with the The first strike announced that junior laws it would be illegal for them to week classify as “unsociable” and doctors but we will be showing our doctors had voted join the picket lines. hence qualify for increased pay. support for the junior doctors on overwhelmingly to take The BMA have stated that the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, the day!” would see action against proposed contract strike dates are only provisional has attempted to counteract this by Imperial College Union’s Deputy Ochanges, with 98% voting to take and that they are “keen to avert giving an 11% increase in basic pay President for Welfare, Jennie junior doctors strike action and 99.4% in favour of the need for industrial action” and but this still means that the doctors Watson, who is also a medic, said she industrial action short of striking. to this end have approached the working extra hours will actually be was “thrilled to see such a large turn only staff The first proposed strike is arbritration service ACAS to act as paid less due to the reclassification. out” and that the union “extends its scheduled for Tuesday 1st December an intermediate between them and Doctors also argue the measures full solidarity with junior doctors and would see junior doctors only Hunt. will increase risk to patients as they and we will do everything possible emergency staff emergency care. The two The BMA balloted almost 38,000 will be obligated to work longer to support our medic membership”. subsequent strikes proposed would of its members, representative of hours atop an already demanding “Personally, I plan to leave after care th PAGE 2 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015 felixonline.co.uk

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Contents A word from the Editor Editor-in-Chief News 3 Grace Rahman hat a fucking barren and rain-swept, I feel a little Comment 7 News Editor horrible week. At better. If you find it therapeutic to Cecily Johnson the time of writing, write, we can certainly help you do Science 10 129 people have that here at FELIX. Comment Editors died at the hands of terrorists in Our comment section is full to the Tessa Davey and Vivien Hadlow Film 12 Paris. brim this week of students expressing W Science Editors When things like this happen, their thoughts and reactions to Music 23 a lot of us can get caught up in the attacks themselves, France’s Jane Courtnell and Lef the tweets and the rolling news, response and the new phenomenon Apostolakis Arts 28 obsessing about how close this all of social media ‘reactions’ at times Arts Editors was to us, and becoming fearful of like this. Facebook can bring out Indira Malik, Jingjie Cheng and Welfare 33 carrying on as normal. If you already a new feature almost instantly, so Max Falkenberg had some form of anxiety, a feeling the way we publicly deal with these Puzzles 34 of superstition you’re vaguely aware events, or show our support from Music Editor of can turn into full blown panic at afar has changed. Not only can we Cale Tilford Hangman 36 the thought of venturing outside. attend vigils, but we can change our Writing down feelings can work profile pictures. We can ‘check in’. Film Editor Sport 39 for some. If you flick through to But does any of this help? Fred Fyles our welfare section, despite our We’ve seen some insightful illustrators and the general dregs Welfare Editor reputation here, you’ll see Imperial’s reactions from within our own of the internet, I found this week Noor Mulheron FELIX, Beit Quad, resources if you are feeling down. Imperial community this week, that these damaging opinions aren’t Prince Consort Road, One writer talks about the which can help re-assure us that as distant as I’d thought. While I Sports Editor London SW7 2BB therapeutic nature of writing, which there is a bit of sense left. However, welcome anonymity for writers, Josh O’Donnell Tel: 020 7594 8072 I couldn’t agree more with. I’d be perhaps more suprisingly, I’ve seen I do need to know who you are Printed by Iliffee Print Cambridge, pretty screwed if I didn’t with this some vitriolic droll, racism and to publish you. But there’ll be no Puzzles Editors Winship Road, Cambridge job. Even after writing this wearily imagery to rival Nazi propaganda in Islamophobia in this paper, thanks. Hamish Beck and Roxana Radu Registered Newspaper on a Thursday morning, looking its abhorrence. Don’t blame Muslims. Don’t blame ISSN 1040-0711 Copy Editors out over Beit quad, once filled with While most of this stemmed refugees. Don’t preface ‘extremists’ Copyright © FELIX 2015 Mattin Mir-Tahmasebi, Henry beautiful old cherry trees, now from American governors, tabloid with Islamic. Because they’re not. Lloyd Bates, Alexandra Lim, Cassandra Stephenson and Rachel Ettlinger What’s On

FRIDAY MONDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY WEDNESDAY Shadow chancellor, A celebration of the Student Assembly Imperial College Science Museum John McDonnell to centenary of general Against Climate Lates – CalcuLates make a speech relativity ft Stephen Austerity Convention Symposium SATURDAY at Imperial Hawking

Who knows? 5pm 10am 10am 6.45pm Imperial, somewhere. Great Hall, Sherfield Building SOAS SAF Building Science Museum, Exhibition Road

Are you a Corbyn-maniac? Well The man himself, Stephen For the looney lefties amongst you, The Green Party’s deputy leader, Museum lates are always a giggle, good news, his dream chancellor Hawking, will be in the Sherfield I bring good tidings: the Student Amelia Womack, will be at Imperial and there’s no excuse not to have a will be wondering around Imperial building, talking about theoretical Assembly Against Austerity is this week, delivering the keynote look-in, since it’s literally on your today. physics (obvs). having its convention at SOAS in speech on a day full of workshops, way to the tube station. After George Osborne was here Presented by Imperial’s Russell Square this weekend. speeches and discussions on the Otherwise, get a little academic last week, is Imperial becoming a Theoretical Physics Group, the talks Expect the usual NUS faces to policy and economics of climate before sport’s night. There’s always playground of the politerati? Are will celebrate Einstein’s best loved be in attendance. The leader of the change. a bar, and the silent disco that takes we students the bystanders in a theory. Green Party, Natalie Bennet, and With lectures from the place beneath the space exhibit is fight over who can produce more Speakers include Fay Dowker, chair of the Campaign for Nuclear former Chief Scientist from the sure to cause one of those ‘gee-I’m- soundbites from Imperial College a current professor who did her Disarmament, Kate Hudson, will Department of Transport, Friends so-glad-I-came-to-university-in- London’s extensive grounds? Is PhD under Hawking’s supervision, also be making speeches. Expect of the Earth and Climate Outreach, London’ moments. Dalby Court becoming as rife and Jerome Gauntlett who was the informed discussion and workshops it’s a must for any self-respecting Several Imperial lecturers will with political debate as the Palace physics consultant for the oscar- on PREVENT, Trident, racism and climate activist. making an appearance, so pop your of Westminster’s famous central winning film of Hawking’s life, The inequality. Not to be confused with the head in to see your best-loved Maths lobby? No. Theory of Everything. Essential for the socially ‘woke’ Imperial Hub’s London Climate professors do what they do best for Yo, John, if you’re reading this, can Tickets have obviously been sold Imperial student, wherever you may Forum. sozzled professionals instead of we interview you? Please? out since the beginning of time. be. Tickets are free, obviously. Tickets are £10, including lunch. hungover students. felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 20th NOVEMBER 2015 PAGE 3

NEWS [email protected] Students across the country stage walkout Neighbouring RCA protested outside the Daily Mail

Cecily Johnson organisations whose work benefits News Editor refugees. At the Royal College of Arts (RCA), students took part in number of UK university a demonstration outside the students have taken part headquarters of the Daily Mail on in mass walkouts, talks Kensington High Street in protest of and demonstrations as its strong anti-immigration stance. part of a “day of solidarity” with RCA student union co-president refugees.A The students are acting Miloslav Vorlíček said: “The Daily in protest of the government’s Mail is noted for a long history of mistreatment of refugees, along anti-immigration headlines.” with migrants and international “We hope to shine a spotlight on students. this paper’s activities. Who knows, The international campaign,we might even convince one or two initiated by the National Union of Students, was backed by the University and College Union, the A mock academic workers’ union and the National Campaign Against Fees border and Cuts. Students protesting on Monday. Photo Credit: Twitter / @RCAStudentUnion A mock border control point was set up by students at the London control point of its employees to walk away from panel discussions featuring students Liverpool’s student union tweeted School of Economics (LSE), who the dark side!” from Syria and other war-torn areas the day before that it would “fully intended it to show their support was set up Goldsmiths, University of of the world. support, endorse and encourage a ‘for a world without borders’. The London, incorporated the day into Other universities whose students walk out from lectures”. students’ union at LSE suggested by students their refugee awareness month, took part in the day of solidarity FELIX is not aware of any that its members spent the day hosting an exhibition on asylum included Reading, Cardiff,students from Imperial who missed carrying out charity work for seeking in the UK and a series of Manchester and Edinburgh. lectures for the cause. Union could be banned from lobbying Union Council will vote on whether to change its constitution

Grace Rahman The paper due to rise, union council voted to Editor-in-Chief support the Browne review, and the president wrote several damning proposes to articles in FELIX as to why he his week’s union council disagreed with the student protests meeting was rocked by ban the union that were happening at the time. the tabling of a paper to This council paper doesn’t seek to prevent the union from change the ability of the union to lobbying its own members. from lobbying lobby the government, but rather TA difficult read in itself, the paper would prevent the union from proposes to ban the union from its members lobbying its own students, whether lobbying its members in either that be for the benefit of the union direction for general or by-elections, amongst others. or its members. or in national referenda, such as Despite being tabled at a union The proposal would not do away the upcoming EU membership council meeting last week the paper with union-funded campaigns, but It’s as fun as it looks. Photo Credit: Cem Hurrell referendum. was neither voted on or discussed demands that campaigns are equally Despite proposing a constiutional in particular detail, since quorum funded. Slightly more difficult campaign goes ahead. any Imperial student) can present a change that could massively impact wasn’t reached. to police would be the paper’s The union did not take a stance paper to council, but only members the role of the union in students’ Traditionally one of the reasons for ammendment that two union- during the recent general election can vote on whether to pass them. lives, only members of union a students’ union to exist, Imperial’s funded campaigns would have to or the Scottish Independence The paper will be discussed at the council will be able to vote on the union has a long history of voting be “presented with equal gusto”. It Referendum. No campaigns next union council meeting, which matter. This includes officer trustees, on stances and then lobbying both also makes the point that the “lack supporting any voting stance were will be at 18:30 on December the 8th constituent union reps, management students and parliament on their of a volunteer for one stance should funded. in the Union Dining Hall. Anyone group chairs and ordinary members, behalf. In 2010 when fees were not mean a single union-funded Any member of the union (so can attend. felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 20th NOVEMBER 2015 PAGE 5

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Our training Chinese professor dumped for dissidence Arts Thomas Carroll After a colleague reported his social media updates, he found Writer degree & development programmes himself demoted from his management position English are designed to rofessor Liang Xinsheng being exerted in the by the Chinese and the accompanying “infiltration” of Lingnan Normal state following the distribution of a of China’s “ideological sphere” degree help you learn University has lost his government communiqué, dubbed with liberal western ideas. Beyond managerial position in light “Document Nine”. the wordy preface its message the most from of posts made on Weibo expressing The document is a response to to authorities and institutions is an outstanding Pdiscontent over social issues. The the perceived spread of dissent summarized as such: tow the party Your demotion has been widely seen in the country’s “public lectures, line, punish dissent. This suppression variety of work as a symptom of an increasing seminars, university classrooms” has steadily intensified following crackdown on dissent in academia, the appointment of President Xi a crackdown led by China’s premier Jingping, who visited the UK and degree is Xi Jinping. Liberal Imperial College in late October. Professor Xinsheng was in the While Mr. Jingping has been midst of competition for the position hailed as an economic reformer, of departmental deputy chair when academics his appetite for political reform just the a rival colleague reported him for has been less than encouraging. As President Xi wouldn’t stand for protests. Photo Credit: Imperial College London posts containing ‘radical views’ have come reported by the Guardian, liberal made between 2012 and 2014, the academics have been coming under city government’s decision to spend China Digital Times. However, to professor claims. This has led to him under increasing pressure from the state £20.3 million teaching Marxism in think that, given the last few years, start Science being dropped from the managerial since his appointment in 2012. the city’s universities. this case or its widespread coverage staff in the university, as reported This reflects a move back to a more Professor Xinsheng’s case has will cause any reversal or relaxation degree by the South China Morning Post, increasing unilateral style of governance that garnered wide media attention, of these types of policies in perhaps although he still retains his position is less tolerant of free thinking. This despite government authorities naïeve, and such policies may as professor. The case serves to aggressive promotion of the party directing state media outlets not to continue to be implemented under highlight the new wave of measures pressure message is evidenced by the Beijing “hype” the story, as reported by the Xi Jingpeng’s leadership. History Geography degree degree Imperial reflects on the Paris attacks continued from front page Dan said he’d had “harassment hundred raids since the attacks. So- One French student told FELIX, and abuse” for the post afterwards called ‘Islamic State’ have claimed “the only way we can stop this is by but that he was also “being told responsibility. winning the war. I wish countries (by people from every corner of David Cameron has announced A career that takes you places will [sic] send more help and the globe) that I had perfectly a “comprehensive strategy” for soldiers, showing french flags is encapsulated what they wanted to dealing with ISIS, which he says Work in: We welcome all degree subjects at PwC. In fact last year, almost half our graduate recruits unfortunately not enough.” say”. includes making the case for air Actuarial Assurance had degrees in arts & humanities, science, law or social sciences. Surprised? Don’t be. 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COMMENT [email protected] France must change One French student says the divisions to blame are ingrained

s a French national, the events of the 13th of November in Paris were a dagger through my heart. It capped off a tragic year forA our country. The Charlie Hebdo January attacks came as a shock, but the stabbing of three soldiers in February followed by the attacks of last Friday have exposed the serious political crisis within our nation. With the rise of Islamist radicals in the world, it pains me to say that Natan Stoessel these catastrophes on our soil were Writer inevitable. The middle-eastern wars since the beginning of this century have fed extremism, but I believe the specific threat to France stems from the accumulation of our political frailties. I will explain myself. In the 19th and 20th century, France was a colonialist power, notably ‘possessing’ territories in North Africa. The end of the violent Algerian War of Independence in 1962 marked the end of this London Bridge was lit up in solidarity. Photo Credit: Matt Johnston era, leading to mass immigration (notably Muslims) to France. segregation. 1980s, there was no such debate in It brought diversity and new This has posed modern-day issues France; the Kippah, for example, talent to the country, but it also regarding the integration of some could be worn in schools without Some do enhanced inequalities in major of the Muslims from these tougher a problem until then. However, the cities. Gradually, a ‘stereotypical’ areas, who are born in our country, emergence of a large community of picture was being drawn as some and descend from immigrant Muslims led to this law being voted. not feel of the immigrants from ex-colonies families. How can they be This clearly is a stigmatisation were being segregated into poorer patriotic when they are sometimes towards this community, and a welcome in districts. It is very important to discriminated against, and have political contradiction to the “open- clarify that many immigrants the feeling that the government mindedness towards religion” stated integrated very well and succeeded. is not helping them escape their in our 1958 Constitution. Therefore, our country As a consequence, as years have impoverished circumstances? some of them do not feel welcomed gone by, the economic alienation of In 2004, a law in our country in our country. some of these populations, blended was adopted that prohibits any The lack of effort from the I believe France must change its with the discriminatory mind- form of visible religious signs in government to dampen this identity education system: we must allow set towards them instilled since public schools. Hence, women crisis clearly feeds the potential religious signs in schools, and the colonial period, have swirled cannot wear the headscarf in an for extremism. Indeed, some therefore allow the headscarf to be France into an unwanted cultural academic environment. Before the psychologically vulnerable Muslims worn. Also, we must instil from a are more likely to be radicalisation very young age the important values targets of Islamist groups. of our Republic. I was educated in That is why I think last Friday’s the French system, but I find that attacks show the necessity for our famous motto “Liberty, Equality France to change. The fact that and Fraternity” was not stressed a lot of the terrorists guilty of the enough. We must insist on it in 2015 atrocities are French nationals schools, and exhibit the beauty of a shows this identity frailty within free democratic country. our nation. We must adapt and Finally, I believe that forcing a fight to create unity and respect military service would harmonise between our different cultures. It is the different cultures within our true that we need to react abroad to nation. These are my opinions, but counter the ISIS threat, but there whatever the changes that are to be is also a philosophical battle within made, they need to be concretised our borders. How do we promote quickly. It will take generations to the integration of these vulnerable create this craved unity in France, Muslims, and inhibit the rise of but it is essential if we are to win the There have been false alarms at the Eiffel Tower since. Photo Credit: pexels.com French-born terrorists? war on terror we are facing. th th PAGE 8 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015 PAGE 9

COMMENT [email protected] COMMENT [email protected] Changing your profile picture won’t help Are air strikes the right response? Would you do more to help than click a button? Delivering ‘death from above’ won’t weaken ISIS’ battle for hearts and minds

hen ‘Le Tricolour’ France since 2005. This is terrorism however the overlay of Lebanon’s to change it back to their original n the wake of last Friday’s us. We should treat all murder with intentionally, we arbitrarily value continue then we will never be able was first adopted not occurring thousands of miles red and white with a tree in the picture once supporting France was horrific attacks on Paris, it’s similar disgust. certain lives over others and we to defeat terrorism in its current by the Nation of away, causing asylum seekers to flee middle was not offered to anyone. no longer the zeitgeist. To clarify, important that we remain Moreover, we must question continue to justify accidental deaths form. A single civilian casualty France in 1794, their homes; this is on our European My problem is not with the idea however, I believe that Facebook is calm and collected when the effectiveness of airstrikesas necessary by-products of war. should never be accepted nor should the three colours were meant to doorstep and Islamic extremism is a of showing support towards those the one whose motives are morally dealing with our enemies. To defeat in combating ISIS in Iraq and The recent attack on the Kunduz we respond with vengeance. We representW the Royalty (the white threat that must be countered with affected by the tragedy in Paris, contentious, treating France’s Iterrorism we need a well thought Syria. The American and French hospital in Afghanistan that left cannot play into the hands of ISIS; portion), with the red and blue increased awareness and increased but rather the false sentiment that tragedy as a plaything. I would ask: out and multilateral response. bombing campaigns seem to have 22 dead proves that our military is they yearn for a world of absolutes representing the arms of the city. security. However, the one thing they show solidarity, leading to the if people are actually inclined to Instead, on Saturday, Francois done little to stop the terror that not yet capable of reducing civilian without a grey area in between. Their representations of the three that we can do without, and one idea of being socially conscious show solidarity with France, would Hollande responded with a futile ISIS create. In fact, they seem to casualties to ‘acceptable’ levels. colours then changed with the thing that will not aid this war is or compassionate as a “me too” they be prepared to do more than act of revenge. By bombing ISIS and have inspired more people to join Sometimes the people we attack coming of the French revolution the option to temporarily change activity rather than people actually click a button on their home page? declaring war, we prove their world the terrorist group. Airstrikes are have already proven their guilt. But We which caused the colours change our profile pictures. consciously thinking about the view, that the world is black and merely a simple, public appeasing, instead of bringing the perpetrators meaning. They were now the three Facebook, as a social media outlet, larger issues at hand. Instead white, and play into the insidious and largely inadequate solution to a of heinous attacks to account, we Jonathon Masters principal French ideals: liberty, has increasingly been trying to of considering how our social Facebook Cale Tilford narrative of us versus them. complex problem. So, it’s worrying respond with wrath and fury. In arbitrarily Writer equality, and fraternity; however it humanise its interface by attempting landscape is changing, how that may Music Editor Just two days after the death of that David Cameron now seeks these cases we have the ability to seems that as of Saturday morning to transmit empathy through a affect the way security is run in our 132 innocent civilians, the French to involve Britain in the same truly distinguish ourselves from the Facebook has now appropriated computer screen, however, the end country, or even campaigning for has now military launched fresh strikes on nationalistic display of military barbarity of our enemies. value these colours to signify self- result is as far away from human our government to make a greater the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in power. The last thing ISIS want us to do indulgence, egotistic tendencies, empathy as possible. The fact that effort in taking in asylum seekers, all appropriated Syria. There is no doubt that the When we drop death from is to bring them to trial and surely and a disingenuous compassion for it was only when tragedy struck a that is occurring is a careless click of militants killed in this attack were above, it invariably results in the in the case of Mohammed Emwazi certain the tragedy of others. western nation that Facebook felt a mouse. awful human beings, but it’s sad slaughter of innocent civilians. ( Jihadi John), a British citizen, we At the time of writing, 129 lives the need to remind us to show our If there was ever a sign that these that so soon after a tragedy we Not only is it immoral, but when should have dealt with their crimes have been lost as a result of the support’ is in itself offensive. On this action was one of the most are willing to respond with such you kill someone’s brother, aunt, under British law, rather than under lives over three co-ordinated attacks on the 12th of November there were disingenuous actions of recent colours destructive violence. It seems as if or grandmother you are likely to state-conducted vigilantism. Friday night in Paris leading to the multiple suicide bombings leading times, just look down your newsfeed the violence of the west is far more create more allies for ISIS on the If we allow the warmongering others first national state of emergency in to estimated deaths of 43 people; at how many people were quick palatable than those who oppose ground. Although we don’t do it rhetoric of our leaders and media to This is everyone’s fight Jeremy Hunt’s plans for junior doctor contracts will affect the care you receive The modern way of dealing with crises Facebook’s ‘I’m safe’ button and French flag filters have divided critics ’m aware that the media in the middle of plenty of 13-hour and Facebook may have days. n the deadliest attack on feature”. recently reached saturation So, what is the justification French soil since WWII, “The product will continue to with heartfelt pleas for help for this? Jeremy has masterfully panic and chaos unfolded in evolve as we learn more about how from the medic community. I misrepresented evidence published the French capital this week. it’s used during different crises. We Ihave undoubtedly littered friends’ in the BMJ, claiming that patients Many people were left worried that hope to never be confronted with a timelines with tearjerking videos, are more likely to die if admitted Itheir relatives, family and friends situation like this again, but if we are, angry statistic-riddled rants and at the weekend because there are had been amongst those murdered we are of course open to activating protest photos. However, Jeremy less staff working on Saturdays and or injured. the tool given how reassuring it has Hunt still refuses to listen and I Sundays – and hence, junior doctors In what initially was a welcome been for people in Paris”. believe you, the voting public and apparently need to take on more move, Facebook launched the ‘I’m Facebook also launched the French NHS patients, deserve to know hours, and more antisocial hours, safe’ button for people to confirm flag filter which I’m sure readers what’s happening. I hope you might within the pay envelope. However, via social media that they were will be familiar with; many of your Sarah Sturrock even join the debate. there was merely a statistical excess okay. Previously used by Facebook friends showing solidarity with the Writer There are many ways in which of deaths at the weekend – the Philip Kurukgny during natural disasters, the button’s French people by applying the filter the new contracts will be damaging authors themselves admitted it Writer use has expanded during the Paris to their profile picture. Lebanese to doctors’ personal lives and bank Junior doctors will now stage a walk-out. Photo Credit: FELIX would be “rash and misleading” attacks to encompass human bloggers criticised Facebook for Staff attended the minute of silence at Imperial this week. Photo Credit: FELIX accounts, but I’m writing today to to assume that these are avoidable conflict. Facebook has since received not making a Lebanese flag filter tell you the most important part: professional would expect to do. the whistleblowers. This means deaths. criticism because the button was available. The filter has also been is a political statement, that echoes It’s sad to see we live in a world it will affect the care you receive Under Jeremy Hunt’s proposals, that any unsafe rotas would only There is a lot more to say on not made available to people in criticised by some people, as being through social media. It signals where we need to check in on as an NHS patient. Currently, these penalties will be removed. be picked up retrospectively, and this topic, and I would welcome the Beirut bombings that killed 43 not the most appropriate to show solidarity with the French people, Facebook to say we’re safe from trusts are penalised financially for Instead of this proactive, financial hence dangerous mistakes may any Imperial students who would the day before the Paris attacks. support to the French people, since with the idea that collectively we are monstrous nihilistic ideology rather giving doctors rotas that include incentive for NHS Trusts to have already been made. Although like to know more to peruse the Theories surfaced online about how few of those who have that filter stronger and that wherever we can, than check in a nice French bistro at an excessive number of ‘antisocial’ ensure safe working hours, Jeremy assurances have been made by NHS BMA’s website, or contact me for ‘French lives are more valuable than activated know any victim of the we will help each other. It’s hard to the heart of Paris. We do live in dark hours. Consequently, doctors would rather that our rotas are employers that the working hours more information. We want to Arab ones’, which fueled the debate attacks and that it’s just something judge people’s intentions in times of time but we must carry on with our retain some circadian rhythm and, sporadically monitored by the will not be extreme, rotas released give you the best care we can, and on inequality. to boost one’s appeal on social crisis, but the debate about the role way of living or the attackers’ goals generally, are able to care for their Care Quality Commission or on their own website show the that requires us to have a safe, fair In a statement, Facebook called media. We live in a world where of social media in a time of crisis has of generating fear and disruption mental and physical health as any that juniors themselves become opposite, with isolated night shifts contract. its safety check a “relatively new showing your picture with the filter certainly been revived. will have succeeded. th th PAGE 10 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015 PAGE 11

SCIENCE [email protected] SCIENCE [email protected] The Secrets of Seduction Forgotten Oceans Female mice take the power of seduction in thier own hands, and re-brand a thier Ocean acidifcation tests the limits of our seas, bringing them to an irreversible own flirtatious fragrance breaking point

Elizabeth Riach to have slightly different messages they give us some insight into the Samuel Lickiss the worst impacts of climate change existing corals, but also makes warming seas, the fear is that carbon the potential to cause accelerated Writer to convey to the interested male. neurobiology of mice behaviour. Writer by the great ocean buffer. it harder for them to recover by dioxide-saturated oceans will be climate change at rates we have not One reassures the male that the This communication works So why is ocean acidification limiting the amount of calcium forced to give up vast quantities yet experienced. mouse is female, and the other that both ways, however, and another a problem? Many invertebrates carbonate that can be precipitated. of their stored gas. If cold polar As with ocean acidification, we weat, urine and other she is ovulating and ready to mate. American study published in July id anyone else have build their exoskeletons out of Weaker corals are more vulnerable seawater is saturated with carbon have been spared the worst of bodily fluids have long been Interestingly, these scents do little earlier this year has found that female one of those plastic calcium carbonate. This is the same to tropical storms and cannot dioxide, as that water warms some the effects so far. This is because known to be the designer for the male libido when isolated mice have a way of combatting Helix rulers that said chemical found in limestone, and sustain the same volume of life that the oceans are not just a chemical perfumes and colognes - they only change male sexual unwanted male cues. Non-ovulating ‘shatterproof ’ on them it’s vulnerable to acid erosion. You we come to expect from them. buffer. They are also resistant of the animal world. Chemical behaviour when both are present. females can actually block irrelevant back in school? I always saw that as can see the effects of acid rain on At its current rate, ocean acidity to temperature change. While Ssignals known as pheromones can The chemicals are waste products male sexual signaling. This is known Da challenge. limestone buildings throughout the is predicted to increase by a Ocean atmospheric temperatures have modify the behaviour and biology as sensory silencing, and works via You could bend those rulers a world, or you can experiment by factor of five by the year 2100 to increased by about 0.6°C over the of other individuals. They can act as hormones such as progesterone surprising distance, nearly a hairpin, dropping some vinegar on marble concentrations capable of dissolving past century, in the oceans this deterrants between males through Female blocking out the receptors required and they’d spring back into their chips. sea creatures’ shells in just 45 days. acditiy is change has only been about 0.1°C. marking territory or establishing to sense sex-related chemicals. The original shape. Go just a little far Marine farmers of lobster and This is because water has what we dominance. mice have same research team is looking at though, and they’d snap clean. other invertebrates are rightly call a high specific heat capacity – it Alternatively, pheromones can whether the human sense of smell Our planet’s oceans, like a concerned about this. Already, predicted functions as a storage heater, storing turn up the allure by attracting is in any way altered in response to shatterproof ruler, can take a Our the oyster industry in the Pacific heat for long periods of time. a way of oscillating hormonal levels. surprising amount of abuse. Since Northwest has struggled with high Like the ruler, there’s a limit. As a Non- In the past, pheromone-receptor the Industrial Revolution, humans rates of oyster mortality due to to increase species, are we really willing to find combatting interactions have been hard to have been pumping out carbon planet’s ocean acidification. A 2013 study out where that limit is? Last week, study in mammals due to the fact dioxide into the atmosphere at published in Geophysical Research a study published in Science found ovulating they are often released in very small ever-increasing rates. However, not Letters found that it is becoming by a factor that much attention had been paid unwanted quantities. This is in comparison all of that carbon dioxide remains oceans, too energetically expensive for to the effects of climate change on females to insects, which have been under in the atmosphere. Roughly 28 organisms to build shells and land and in the atmosphere, but male cues scrutiny for around 60 years. Studies percent is taken up by plants during growth rates were slowing. of five by little on the ocean. We’re beginning have identified insect pheromones, photosynthesis and a further 26 like a The cold, polar seas are especially to understand the economic and can actually Mice uniting over urine; females “sexy scents” attract the male. Photo Credit: their receptors and even the neural percent is absorbed by the oceans. vulnerable because cold water is ecological impacts of climate change pixabay of the female’s steroid metabolism, pathways behind them. The reason 2010 data estimates that 33.4 able to store more dissolved carbon 2100 in the oceans, but a co-ordinated and act as a form of communication for such extensive study on insect billion tonnes was released from shatter- dioxide. Oceans absorb, but they also response from world governments block gather in an aggregation, raise an as well as urine from female mice from the internal environment of pheromones is due to the use of burning fossil fuels and cement emit carbon dioxide. Up until now, has been limited. alarm or even trigger a chain of with no ovaries. the female mouse to the external them for trapping and monitoring manufacture; a further 3.3 billion proof ruler, the effect has been net absorption. of that gas will no longer remain They’ve been taking up the strain irrelevant developmental effects. By looking at which compounds receptor of the male mice nose. In insect levels in crop fields and tonnes was released due to land use However, the problem is not storage. Mass emissions of carbon for a long time. Now the oceans are A new study published a few days within the urine causes “smell” this way, it tells males which females orchards worldwide. More research change, such as deforestation. Nine limited to ocean acidification. With dioxide from the oceans itself has beginning to tire. ago by Washington University has neurons to fire within the male are sexually active so they don’t is required to truly understand billion tonnes of that ends up in the can take a male sexual isolated the exact two compounds mouse nose, the two “sexy scents” waste time and energy pursuing the workings of mammalian ocean. that sexually arouse male mice, were distinguished from the other infertile mates. Although these pheromones to this extent. Boars Carbon dioxide dissolves in water signaling acting through the delightful compounds in the urine. These chemicals don’t give us the whole have also been under intense study forming weak carbonic acid. For surprising medium of female urine. Just by chemicals elicit sexual behaviour in answer to mice sexual responses, for pheromonal excretions. 300 million years our oceans have potential mates. In this way, it watching mice behaviour, it is their male mice counterparts. When maintained a pH of 8.2 making is usually a signal between two obvious that these chemicals are these chemicals were added to male them slightly basic. Since the amount of members of the same species, where present in female urine compared to urine and ovary-less female urine, 1800s, that pH has dropped to an both the sender and receiver get that of males. Whereas males stop an increase in sexual male behaviour average of 8.1 – it’s not an especially mutual benefits. This benefit isn’t to investigate excretions of potential was observed as well as prolonged dramatic change in 200 years. That’s abuse always sex - in insects, pheromones mates, they swiftly pass on after interest in the urine itself. Each because the ocean functions as a may act in order to cause them to encountering a rival male’s marking, of these stimulating aromas seem giant chemical buffer. Chemical buffers are able to resist pH changes. Add a bit of acid or A 2012 study in Nature found A Pheromone Factfile base to a buffer solution and it will that pteropods, or sea butterflies, in • The first pheromone was discovered in 1953. It was named “bombykol” and is used by female be neutralised. In the ocean, various the Southern Ocean had extensive silkworm moths to attract males over large distances (sometimes as much as 10km) carbonate compounds help to damage to their shells from acid • The term pheromone is derived from the Greek words “pheran” (to transfer) and “horman” (to excite) neutralise the carbonic acid formed erosion. This is a trend that is • Mammals detect pheromones through the VNO (vomeronasal organ) situated in the nose and by dissolving carbon dioxide. Ocean likely to continue, and the impacts connected to the mid-brain chemistry is complex and not fully on marine ecosystems could be • Humans have been found to have a severely reduced or absent VNO, and so if we respond to understood, but what is clear is devastating. Coral reefs are often chemical signaling it’s mostly through our normal olfactory (sense of smell) system that this buffer system is looking considered the ocean’s nurseries; a • There is still limited scientific evidence that there are human pheromones, despite the existence of strained. fertile breeding ground for many “love potions” containing pheromones being sold online. Most of these concoctions actually use pig Like a shatterproof ruler, there is a species of fish that in turn sustains pheromones point of no return: a point where the human communities. • Under stressful conditions such as increased carbon dioxide levels, mice can release alarm pheromones ocean can no longer neutralise all of Corals, like pteropods, build that cause other mice in near proximity to freeze in order to conserve oxygen. The chemical identity of this excess carbon dioxide. their exoskeletons from calcium this compound remains unknown Captured in a container, the more females spray the more they get . Photo In other words, we’re living on carbonate. Ocean acidification Credit: pixabay borrowed time. We’ve been spared runs the risk of not only dissolving Whats beyond the horizon for the ecological health of our oceans? 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FILM TangerineFILM The Lady in the Van

Danny Boyle does the Job Dir: Sean Baker. Script: Sean Baker, Dir: Nicholas Hytner Script: Alan Chris Bergoch Starring: Mya Bennett Starring: Maggie Smith, With a quickfire script and powerful acting, this is the biopic we’ve been waiting for Taylor, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Alex Jennings, Frances de la Tour James Ransone 88 minutes. 104 minutes.

Steve Jobs ransgender revenge he reputation The Lady dramedies are somewhat in the Van has gained hard to come by in a in the run up to its cinema. In fact I’m not release can perhaps be Dir: Danny Boyle Script: Aaron sure many of them exist at all. If you best illustrated by the fact that Sorkin Starring: Michael needT to bump up your street cred, duringT a recent phone-call to my Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth then, Tangerine will definitely be the grandma – a woman in her late 80s Rogen, Jeff Daniels 122 minutes. edgiest film you’ll see this month, whose closest cinema is the civic perhaps this year. Fortunately it’s centre, where all films are released Tom Stephens got enough substance in it that you 3 months later than anywhere else Writer can get more out of it than just a – she mentioned that she was very good story. excited to go and see it. This is what When trans sex worker Sin-Dee happens when you blend together t was a bit of a shock when finishes a four-week stint in jail, she Christmas stateside sure looks different in Sean Baker’s LA comedyTangerine Photo Credit: Magnolia Films director Nicholas Hynter, actor Ashton Kutcher was picked finds out from her friend Alexandra Maggie Smith, and playwright Alan to star as the Apple-founding that her boyfriend/pimp has been Warriors if it either focussed on the team and of a country, and the impossibility Bennett: you get a national treasure billionaire in 2013’s biopic cheating on her. An insane day-long – more importantly – its members, of such a renewal while the land smoothie, palatable to all. Jobs; he’s not the most likely actor chase across Los Angeles ensues or as a Horizons-style programme is still full of death. A mournful But while this may be the II would have picked for a historical – part buddy movie, part revenge focusing on the problem of FGM poem, it is in many ways a perfect reputation the film is conjuring breaking of typecasting, but a thriller, part tragedy, part comedy; Dir: Barney Douglas. Script: Barney with cricket as a brief side point. encapsulation of what the film up, the actual product is far from role as one of the most iconic and Tangerine’s genre mishmash is Douglas. 87 minutes. wishes to show us. populist. Maggie Smith plays Miss influential men of the modern both a strength and a weakness. BEN COLLIER Directed jointly by Saeed Taji Shepherd, an elderly vagabond with technological revolution being given There’s an excellently seedy nature n important and at Farouky and Michael McEvoy, the a past, whose malodorous presence to that guy from Dude, Where’s My to the story as it deals with LA times genuinely moving Tell Spring Not to documentary is an utterly beautiful, inflames Mornington Crescent’s Car? was a casting decision reaching low-life, and individual plotlines documentary, Warriors Come This Year haunting piece of cinema. It follows residents’ liberal guilt and innate Robin Williams in Good Will such as the struggle of Razmik, an tells the story of the a year in the lives of the Commander disgust in equal measure. Taking Hunting levels of unexpectedness. Armenian taxi driver and family Maasai of Nairobi, how their culture and his men after the withdrawal of up residence in Alan Bennett’s Far from the glimmering success of man in too deep with the underbelly promotesA FGM, and its ties into the NATO forces, and their work on the driveway, she remains there for Williams’ atypically heartbreaking of prostitution, pack a genuine AIDS epidemic. In a society where Dir: Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael frontlines to rid Helmand province 15 years, much to the chagrin performance, Kutcher’s turn in Jobs emotional punch. However while the elders are believed to have a link McEvoy Editor: Gareth Keogh 83 of the Taliban. of neighbours. Alex Jennings is appears to have become a bedtime the individual performances – a to God, it’s hard for the youth to be minutes. It would be easy to focus on the well cast as Bennett, retaining horror story that agents tell their fantastically charged Kitana Kiki heard. The solution to this? Form battles – and clearly there were many, the Yorkshire playwright’s social actors before they go to sleep: ‘If Rodriguez as Sin-Dee, a hilariously a cricket team. It sounds odd, and ell Spring Not to Come with 31 of the brigade killed in the mannerisms that have become so you ever break type, the spirit of sassy Mya Taylor as Alexandra, and one does spend most of the film This Year is named after documented year – but, a shot isn’t well established over the years, but Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs will a perfect turn by James Ransome wondering how this club is actually a poem chosen by one fired until about halfway through Maggie Smith is the real star of possess you and you will never be Michael Fassbender as the dictatorial genius in a turtleneck, in Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs Photo Credit: Universal Pictures as the pimp in question, who doing anything to help, but we do of its main subjects: the film. The directors instead the show; her character is certainly respected again.’ Shudder. The film damn near steals the movie – keep eventually get an idea, if too late. Commander Jalaluddin of the 3rd mainly focus on the relationships, sympathetic, but Smith never lets itself was apparently so bad that it sharp witticisms and arguments that intricate as they are brutal; though on, to the point where the audience a show it is; you care deeply for the dialogue amusing in passing, Firstly, cricket gives links to the BrigadeT of the Afghan National motivations, and the frustrations this spill over into sentimentality, a had to be remade within two years consist of extended monologues as you may feel as you hear it that this does not see Seth Rogen, Michael Fassbender’s Jobs, even when he’s there are few real laughs in the West: the team works with the Army (ANA). The poem is a of the men of the brigade, painting permanent sneer etched around her of its release, and so here we are is definitely not how real people talk Stuhlbarg and Michael Fassbender shouting at innocent writers of code movie.I can’t decide if the fact that British army to build their pitch, reflection on rebirth and renewal a picture of their lives in a country mouth. with Steve Jobs. What’s gratifying regardless of their intelligence, it’s onscreen, but Steve Wozniak, Andy or arguing with his long-neglected Tangerine was shot entirely on an and they travel to Lords to take part they describe as ‘ruined’. Certain aspects of the film don’t is that it’s been done very, very well so thrilling just to listen to that its Hertzfeld and Jobs himself, aging in daughter; you feel his pain when iPhone is impressive or distracting; in an amateur competition. All this They do this with considerable quite work: a backstory involving a this time. Steve Jobs surreal nature can immediately be real time. he faces failure and his ravenous The cinematography is colourful, gives the men a different perspective Transgender artistry, masterful cinematography, sinister figure from Shepherd’s past Deftly executing a rounded story forgiven. The main reason that these hunger for success. all-encapsulating, and feels quite on their often dogmatic culture, and and a poignant score giving a would be better left out, and the with narrative action that unfolds It may in fact be one of the best characters come so vividly to life In its examination of a flawed naturally lit, but there’s something it is this that spurs them to call for combined effect reminiscent of a idea to have two versions of Alan over the course of only three days may be one screenplays director Danny Boyle is not, however, the accuracy of great man of the modern age, Steve wrong with the graininess of the an end to FGM. Secondly, despite revenge fairy-tale. But it’s not so removed Bennett’s character – the writer in Jobs’ life, each of them launches has worked with in his career, and their appearances, but that the Jobs bears significant resemblance film, the uncertainty of the camera a fiercely patriarchal society, the as that – it’s personal, intensely so, and the man – does not work as for his latest innovation, Steve Jobs he certainly rises to the occasion performances in the film are to the David Fincher-directed The movement, and the odd contrast club allows men and women to play drawing you beside these men and well as it could have, although it is at once feels relaxed and fast-paced, of the best – while it might be impossible to universally excellent. Seth Rogen’s Social Network – a difficult film to and focus. together as equals. Much of the film dramedies into their everyday experience. an interesting touch. Hytner, fresh and always engaging. It’s a feat that make a bad film out of a Sorkin geeky persona is given a new edge hold a candle to, even by Sorkin and With an in-your-face soundtrack, is spent following the team as they The overwhelming emotion of from his tenure at the National does not necessarily require, but is script, Boyle has gone a way towards and ends up forming a perfectly Boyle’s standards. But although it at times distracting camerawork, train for, and eventually partake in, the film is of mourning: the men Theatre, where he directed Maggie greatly helped by, a script written screenplays making a great one. Not only is the believable Woz, Jeff Daniels’may not quite have as much instant- and a thoroughly defiant attitude their competition. are pretty mourn for their shattered country, Smith in the first stage performance by Aaron Sorkin (writer of The film excellently shot throughout, but experience with Sorkin dialogue on classic flair as The Social Network did, towards critics of its subject matter, The question, however, is how does and for their perceived futility to of The Lady in the Van, does a Social Network and Moneyball). It’s his taste for subtle tweaks of style TV seires The Newsroom pays off well its stellar script, dazzling direction Tangerine may prove hard to this quirky tale of a cricket team fit do anything but keep it hanging very good job at conjuring up the been a while since I’ve seen a film Danny Boyle that truly make a film its own come in his turn as ex-Apple CEO Pete and fantastic performances make it a swallow for some viewers at first. in with the dark themes tackled? hard to together by a thread. A gripping and complex social interactions for performed in the not-widely-spoken through in force in Steve Jobs: swells Sculley, and Kate Winslet’s portrayal brilliantly engaging film of the kind But with profound moments of The answer: it doesn’t really. The film thoughtful documentary, Tell Spring which the North London elite have dialect of Sorkinese, and as soon as of music are never overstated, but of Joanna Hoffman, Jobs’ ‘working that doesn’t come along too often, insight into its protagonists’ lives, suffers from an awkward dichotomy Not to Come This Year is essential become famous. It is a film that goes the film’s first conversation began to has ever perfectly placed; flashbacks to early wife’ and lifelong confidant, is one and is very hard to ignore. In fact, and a brace of strong performances in its tones, reminiscent of when come by in viewing for anyone interested in the down smooth, leaving a sensation of play out, I felt old, dusty corners of days under a mellow, grainy filter are of perfectly understated control, this is one of the most justifiable to boot, it proves to be a rewarding a news anchor has to swap from a all too human aftermath of the war warm contentment – definitely one my brain fire up in ways they haven’t excellently intercut with present-day with just enough fire to keep him in ‘remakes’ of perhaps the entire 21st experience to those willing to treat serious story to a feel-good one – in Afghanistan. you can take the granny to. done in years. The dialogue is a worked with scenes in crystal clear quality; and check. But this was always going to century – and it only took two years it with patience. awkward smile and all. Warriors the cinema concoction of his trademark razor- costume design is absolutely spot- be the Fassbender show, and what for it to come about. TOM STEPHENS would perhaps have worked better THOMAS CARROLL FRED FYLES th th PAGE 14 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015 PAGE 15

FILM [email protected] FILM [email protected] The Young One (1960), for which a The top three His work Harlem newspaper even wrote that he should be ‘hung upside down from a lamppost on Fifth Avenue.’ sports films The cinema is an instrument of explores Other films of his that gained international recognition were Él that aren’t (1953), Viridiana (1961), Belle de nearly every Jour (1967), and his very last film, That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). Rocky poetry While some consider the majority genre in film of his work to have consisted of eople always say the This week sees the start of a retrospective of Luis Buñuel, the films adapted to the norms of the original Rocky is a classic, disaster, perhaps due to Buñuel’s national film industry, others believe but I’ve never really seen radical Spanish filmmaker, at London’s ICA. We take a look at the rusty technical skills after so many there is a deceptive complexity this. I challenge its fans to years out of the director’s chair. El within it, which offers ‘a sustained watch it again today, and tell me it’s director’s life and work, identifying the key themes at play in his Gran Calavera, on the other hand, mediation on ideas of religion, Paged well. Yes, there are some iconic a hilarious eccentric satire of the class inequity, violence and desire.’ scenes, but this is not because they’re films: sexuality, satire, and surrealism Mexican nouveau riche, was an His work indeed often dealt with good – rather it’s because the film instant hit at the box office in 1949. themes central to his lifelong was popular. What we have here is Because of this success, he was able concerns, such as sexual pathology, a serious case of nostalgia goggles. to claim more freedom in his next the destructive effects of rampant Here are some alternatives: film project: Los Olvidados (1950). machismo, the blurring of fantasy Catherine Deneuve in the French drama, Belle de Jour, directed by Buñuel in 1967 Photo Credit: MUBI However, the film was taken by many and reality, the disruptive status Raging Bull (1980) as an insult to Mexican sensibilities of women in a male-dominated The better film about an Italian- Jeanne Rucar, whom he married in deliberate attack on Catholicism; it Hollywood, lacking the arrogance and the Mexican nation, with some culture, and the absurdity of the American underdog boxer, Raging 1934. caused such a scandal that the film and pushiness necessary for it, even asking for Buñuel’s recently- religious life. Focusing on the films Bull is Rocky without the melodrama. His first picture, Un Chien was withdrawn from circulation, not according to his biographer Ruth acquired Mexican citizenship to Buñuel produced in Mexico and Scorsese replaces Avildsen, and Andalou, was made at the very to be seen again until 1979. Brandon. Receiving no interest from be revoked. Fearing a complete Spain during the 1950s and 1960s, De Niro – in his best role bar The end of the silent era, in 1929. It Thanks to the succès de scandale, even independent producers in LA, fiasco, Dancigers commissioned Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla Godfather 2 – replaces Stallone. is a 16-minute short, which he Buñuel spent a short while in Buñuel moved to New York, where an alternate ‘happy ending’ to the argues that Bunuel’s films that It’s a bit like that scene in Shaun of co-wrote and directed with Dalí, Hollywood working with MGM, he worked at the MoMA, gathering film, but was forced to withdraw there are multiple forms of identity, the Dead where the cast meet their based on a dream each of them had and associated with iconic figures of anti-fascist films to be distributed in it after only three days in theatres subjectivity and sexuality present in superior alternate versions. Raging had, extremely Freudian in nature; the time, such as Sergei Eisenstein, Latin America. due to poor attendance. Nobel these films. Bull isn’t an easy watch but there’s the two deliberately contrasted Josef Von Sternberg, Charles Finding himself in Mexico Laureate in Literature Octavio Paz, In his 70’s, Buñuel once told his a reason people have written whole Epstein’s approach to filmmaking Chaplin, and Bertolt Brecht, before in 1946, as the Golden Age of however, promoted Los Olvidados friend, novelist Carlos Fuentes: ‘I’m books about it. by deliberately making a point of returning to pre-Civil War Spain Mexican cinema was climaxing, and Buñuel won the Best Director not afraid of death. I’m afraid of eliminating all logical associations in 1932, at a time of political Buñuel attempted to learn a thing award at Cannes Film Fesitval for it. dying alone in a hotel room, with The Wrestler (2008) from the narrative. “Historically,” and social turbulence. His next or two about ‘normal’ cinema. Buñuel remained in Mexico for my bags open and a shooting script Another film I could write about he wrote, “the film represents a film, Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan, Teaming up with Óscar Dancigers, the rest of his life, completing over on the night table. I must know for years, The Wrestler is one of violent reaction against what in focused on peasant life in Spain, a Russian émigré producer active 20 more films by the end of his whose fingers will close my eyes.’ Darren Aronofsky‘s best films. those days was called ‘avant-garde’, and is one of the first examples of in Mexico, he directed the musical career. His first film in colour, also He died in Mexico City, in 1983. The backstory here is interesting which was aimed exclusively at a mockumentary. Buñuel was able period drama Gran Casino (1947), his first in the English language, was enough, with Mickey Rourke artistic sensibility and the audience’s to reconcile his political ideology which was turned out to be a Robinson Crusoe (1954), followed by DIEGO APARICIO making a return to cinema after reason.” Alas, unfortunately for with his surrealistic aesthetic in huge issues with drugs and plastic Buñuel, the film was a huge success what was labelled as a ‘surrealist surgery. His story is reflected in that among the French bourgeoisie! documentary’. After this, he worked of the main character Randy “The A parody of The Last Supper in Luis Buñuel’s 1961 filmViridiana, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes Photo Credit: Creative Commons Due to a clash between Dalí’s in dubbing studios in Paris and Ram” Robinson, whose tale is one eccentric, but nonetheless rightist, Madrid, before producing films for of a washed-out ex-wrestler and uis Buñuel Portolés was a visual style, with an emphasis on he would put on for friends at the critical intelligence and exercise ideology and Buñuel’s strong leftist a mass audience with Spanish film his attempts to reconnect with his Spanish filmmaker who character-defining elements in the time, by projecting shadows on over him a kind of fascination, akin sympathies, his first feature film, company Filmófono, insisting that daughter whilst resisting the lure of worked in Spain, Mexico, shot, and elimination of unnecessary a screen using a bedsheet and a to hypnosis. L’Age d’Or – originally meant to he remain anonymous so that he a comeback. and France. Born in 1900, detail. Another was his own ‘stock magic lantern – an object which The film that played a catalytic role be a collaboration between the two may preserve his reputation as a at the very beginning of the new company’ of trusted cast and crew, also evoked Ingmar Bergman’s in Buñuel pursuing his interest in – ended up being shot entirely by surrealist. During the Spanish Civil Space Jam (1996) Lcentury, he lived to witness two used repeatedly in his productions filmmaking talent. film was Fritz Lang’sDer müde Tod, Buñuel himself. Completed in 1930, War (1936-1939), Buñuel essentially Space Jam may not be a work of world wars, as well as the liberation (same way that a score by Danny In 1917 Buñuel enrolled at the aka Destiny (1921). “Images could Dalí proclaimed the film was a functioned as the coordinator of cinematic mastery like Raging Bull of Spain from Francisco Franco’s Elfman written for a movie University of Madrid for a degree and did become”, for him, “the true film propaganda for the Republic; or The Wrestler but damn it’s still an 36-year-long dictatorship, before starring Johnny Depp screams in agronomy, but switched to means of expression” and he decided the Spanish Ambassador suggested amazing film. The ridiculous pairing his death in 1983. ‘Tim Burton’). Finally, his repeated industrial engineering, and then to devote himself to the cinema. At In Buñuel’s that he revisit Hollywood, where he of Michael Jordan and the Looney Considered to have been a leader use of the traditional drums from finally to philosophy. It was there age 72, an ever-enthusiastic Buñuel could give technical advice on films Tunes is one only the greediest and of avant-garde surrealism in his his birthplace of Calanda in his that he would meet and develop asked Lang for his autograph. being made there about the war, and most brilliant of film companies early years, Buñuel was a dominant films, have been described as a intimate relationships with painter In 1925 Buñuel moved to Paris, films there so he did. could think up. More intelligent figure in international filmmaking, ‘biofilmographic signature’ of his. Salvador Dalí and poet Federico where he decided to enter the film However, the National Legion of than one would think, the film often regarded as a moralist and Buñuel spent his childhood and García Lorca, the three of them industry, enrolling in a private Decency, an organisation combating is genuinely funny in parts. The revolutionary. His career lasted 48 adolescence in Zaragoza, where he forming the core of the Spanish school run by one of the most are multiple content in motion pictures question is, does me liking this film years, spanning from 1929 to 1977, received a strict Jesuit education. surrealist avant-garde. During celebrated commercial directors in objectionable from the point of for mostly nostalgic reasons make with his work exploring nearly By the time he was 16, however, his student years, Buñuel became France at the time, Jean Epstein. view of the Catholic Church, saw to me a hypocrite considering my every genre in film, yet despite this he came to perceive the Church as an accomplished hypnotist: in He worked for Epstein as assistant forms of it that his work in Hollywood was thoughts on Rocky? A little bit, but versatility, his films possess certain illogical and had grown disgusted of fact, he insisted that the darkness director until 1927, and after that left unfinished. Buñuel managed to be fair Space Jam’s theme song is traits that clearly distinguish him its wealth and power. Perhaps one of the theatre and the rapidly he worked as a film critic, helping to to sell some gags to Chaplin for way better. as an auteur. One such trait was his of the first signs of his fascination changing scenes, lights and camera establish Madrid’s first cinema club. subjectivity The Great Dictator (1940), but BEN COLLIER highly functional and uncluttered with cinema, were the ‘productions’ movements, weaken the spectator’s It was around that time that he met was otherwise unfit for success in Buñuel with his then BFF Salvador Dalí, in happier times Photo Credit: Creative Commons th th PAGE 16 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015 PAGE 17

FILM [email protected] FILM [email protected] a disturbing reference to de Sade’s saw Buñuel. There is a tendency for notorious 120 Days of Sodom – directors and films associated with the survivors are shown exiting an art movement as nonsensical the castle, with one survivor, the as surrealism to be considered An exploration of the irrational Duke of Blangis, bearing a striking pretentious and as something We head down to the opening night of the ICA’s Buñuel retrospective, where a resemblance to Jesus Christ. meant for a film thesis, but Buñuel Make of that what you will, but I is genuinely entertaining. Get a selection of his key films – Un Chien Andalou, Eating Sea Urchins, and L’Age D’Or – personally am intrigued enough for taste of Buñuel’s satirical surrealism a second watch. at the ICA, and even if you end display his mastery of the surreal “Students come here not up hating Buñuel, at least you’ll expecting them to be so funny” have watched a film in a charming Rob Stone exclaimed. And I agree venue. “The best way is to relax, get – I was taken aback the first time I the humour, and go along with the black comedy. Rather than trying to analyse and try and work out the Students meaning for it.” Stone continued, “Embrace it, and see what happens come not next!” – wise words. MERYL ANIL A scene from L’Age D’Or, Buñuel’s first feature length film Photo Credit: Creative Commons expecting Luis Buñuel: Aesthetics of the surrealist group founded by Breton. failed attempts of two lovers to increasing in ridiculousness that Irrational is on at the Institute of Finally the feature filmL’Age achieve intimacy, it was Buñuel’s reached an apex near the end when Conemporary Arts, until the 6th D’Or was screened, wherein you take on the absurdities of the the male protagonist, overtaken the films to December. The retrospective will cover can really see the comic in Buñuel: bourgeois society, and how society with immense jealousy, throws all periods of the director’s career, brilliantly funny, the film has a is oppressed by rules we ourselves inscrutable items out of the window. and will ulminate in a round table strong satirical undertone that created. Every scene connected This rage is then compared to the be so funny discussion at the Instituto Cervantes cannot be missed. Following the to the next with subtle ties, slowly damnably sinful, as the film cuts to on 2nd December

Documentary corner: The Cove Ben Collier the television series Flipper, but has Writer become somewhat of an eco-warrior following a series of upsetting experiences I won’t spoil here. What uch like Bowling gives this movie substance is the for Columbine, our almost Oceans Eleven-esque feel of featured film ofthe narrative’s main driving force. last week, The Cove Much of the film is dedicated to stands as a masterful example of a the crew’s efforts to covertly set documentary with a message. A up surveillance around the bay The brutal eye-slicing scene of Un Chien Andalou, which remains one of the most iconic scenes of modern experimental cinema Photo Credit: Creative Commons M renowned critical darling, the film to record, for the first time, the boasts countless awards, including slaughter of these dolphins. auntingly beautiful, the most original filmmakers of all panel discussions with acclaimed focused on, Jo Evans stating how it that might lead itself to a rational the Academy Award for ‘Best An expert team is put together with no linear narrative, time is therefore no surprise. The academics, Jean Claude Carriere – was hard to watch it having seen its explanation of any kind would be Documentary Feature’. Despite including an electronics professional no clear plot, and no retrospective, which commenced on an Academy Award honoree and role in Un Chien Andalou. accepted.” The film, laced with a dark being heavily one-sided, it is a from the Canadian Air Force apparent meaning, the 12th November and took months to frequent collaborator with Buñuel Then it was onto probably the most humour typical of Buñuel’s films, near-perfect example of how to and a Hollywood SFX artist who films of Luis Buñuel mark him out put together, aims to cover all the – and Diego Buñuel, Luis Buñuel’s popular of Buñuel’s films: Un Chien sews together almost completely produce an informative, campaign- disguises the cameras. The crew Has a revolutionary director and key key periods of Buñuel’s expansive grandson. Andalou. Buñuel created the film nonsensical scenes with trivial links based documentary. While many is seen battling with intimidating figure in the avant-garde surrealist body of films, and includes The opening was initiated with on the basis that “no idea or image and contains iconic scenes, such as films of a similar vein often end and relentless Japanese fishermen movement. At the Institute of Eating Sea Urchins; it was the first the slitting of the eye in half, which up incredibly dull and repetitive in who attempt to silence and scare Contemporary Arts (ICA) a time even the panelists had viewed still has the power to shock. Given their preachiness, The Cove keeps the them away. The editing, music, and retrospective of his work and life, Buñuel is this extremely rare film, which There is our desensitised society, and the viewer engaged, and has more than camerawork all crescendo towards begun with his most popular film, was found as recently as 1988 in a time at which the film was made, just dry facts to keep us hooked. the final act in what is a perfectly Un Chien Andalou (1929), and his biscuit tin at Dalí’s sisters house. it is rather incredible. The film was The documentary covers, in crafted piece of suspenseful action most rare film, Eating Sea Urchins one of the Made around the same time during a dark intended to be an insult to the painful detail, the issue of dolphin storytelling – when we do eventually (1930); a home-movie made at the which Buñuel was making L’Age French bourgeoisie, but instead – drive hunting and whaling in Japan. get to see the events of this cove, Fishers in the Taiji cove, where thousands of dolphins are slaughtered Photo Credit: STR/AFP house of Buñuel’s close companion D’Or (1930), it is a film wherein frustratingly for Buñuel – turned out More specifically, it focuses on an it’s not easy to watch. Other parts and artistic partner Salvador Dalí’s, world’s most the director has made his mark. As humour that to be a commercial success. Being isolated cove in Taiji where every of the film go about explaining The Cove holds a place as one of Q&A with a member of the Ocean has done so to this day. As a meat it has been seen by relatively few. Ingmar Bergman put it: “Buñuel accepted by the masses put him at year thousands of dolphins are various aspects of dolphin and very few documentaries that have Protection Society. One topic that eater myself, this film was genuinely The ICA, a small intimate venue nearly always made Buñuel films” odds with his intended audience – captured and either taken to be whale activism, with talking points made me question myself and the came up during the discussion was quite emotional and challenging to just five minutes from Piccadilly original and this is seen in the general is typical of the likes of Andre Breton and other sold or slaughtered for meat. The ranging from mercury poisoning, things I believe and do. When the question of how, if someone is watch; I would recommend it to Circus, “promotes and encourages direction and use of recurring surrealists – but not excessively, main character, of sorts, is seen captivity in SeaWorld, and the I first saw the film as part of a a meat-eater, could they oppose anyone interested in the topic, or an understanding of radical art themes such as the sea urchin, which since on completion Luis Buñuel in Ric O’Barry who is famous for Minamata-Disease scandal of the showing with the Wimbledon Film the killing of these dolphins? This indeed any aspects of animal welfare and culture”. The fact they are filmmakers also appears in Un Chien Andalou. Buñuel films and co-writer Salvador Dalí became training the dolphins featured in 1960s. Club, the audience was treated to a question stuck with me then, and activism. hosting a retrospective on one of This was a point the panelists the first filmmakers to enter the Don’t give criminals a chance! 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MUSIC [email protected] What went down at Dreamland? with ‘Snake Oil’, the crowd excitedly crowd sang, not just to the band eleven songs and they were gone. opened up a mosh pit. As the drum but to each other. People hugged Obviously, they returned for an beat came in, it felt like a boxing and emotion of the audience was encore. Dedicated to anyone who match. Ding ding, round five. overwhelming. “won anything in the roulette shop.” The mosh pits stayed active ‘London Thunder’ from the new throughout the gig, with the energy album was played with more punch of the crowd and the band never The crowd than on the record, with Yannis lapsing. Even calmer songs, such as Philippakis (lead singer, guitarist) ‘Blue Blood’ from Total Life Forever, initially playing solo. caused mass singalongs with the greeted Foals finished with two of their entire crowd screaming along. heaviest songs: starting with the ‘Give It All’ slowed things down. Yannis title track from What Went Down. Some bands put in slower and more Yannis crowdsurfed while still melodic songs to make the crowd playing guitar, returned to the stage, This way to Dreamland. Photo Credit: Aiden Langan think later songs are heavier. Foals almost and then went in again for another do not; they do so to prevent the go. The crowd greeted Yannis almost Aiden Langan new live experience was that it was crowd fainting from the madness. like a like a messiah. Writer played at Dreamland, a theme park ‘Providence’ from Holy Fire was ‘Two Steps, Twice’ built up slowly on the coast. a particular highlight for me. The over eight minutes. The crowd was Going on a few rides before crowd went mad, and an audience messiah still wild, only now beginning to oals are one of the most the concert was a lot of fun (with member even chipped a tooth. tire. Yannis had gone to the bar legendary live bands of the park only open to gig-goers); The gig calmed down again with with his guitar, downing a shot in this generation in music. however, we were really here to see one of Foals’ greatest songs, ‘Spanish People kept dancing and moshing the process. The crowd reaches its A bold statement, perhaps, Foals. Sahara’; a melodic masterpiece all the way up to, and including, climax and the concert finishes. Not but I honestly believe that to be the Having headlined Alexandra which continued to bring the crowd ‘Inhaler’ from Holy Fire. The crowd one person left without a smile on Ftruth. Palace almost two years ago, they closer together. The band really danced and moshed harder than their face. Travelling down to Margate on a were returning to a much smaller showed their skill with frenzy- before. The band let rip with their I’ve said it before and I’ll say it wet day in November might seem venue, a roller disco room, to inducing solos. instruments more than they had again: Foals are quite possibly the odd, but the weirdest part of Foals’ promote their new album. Opening It was beautiful as the whole before. And then they left the stage; best live band in the UK.

TĀLĀ live at ICA MS MR of her contemporaries. As only her second live show, it was all the more impressive. Leaving the stage smiling, it was obvious that TĀLĀ was pleased with her performance. TĀLĀ showed

TĀLĀ blends her Iranian heritage with modern-style music. Photo Credit: TĀLĀ how one A brilliant performance with lackluster vocals. Photo Credit: Cale Tilford

Cale Tilford to reconstruct an electronic song woman can t’s rare to find a band with With performances that are as Music Editor single-handedly live on stage. such mesmerising on-stage energetic as this, it’s forgiveable There may have been some trickery dominate a chemistry. Last Tuesday at that the vocals are drowned out behind the scenes; regardless, Electric Brixton, MS MR and breathy. The catchy synths and racefully floating from TĀLĀ showed how one woman can brought their dynamic live show to bombastic drums were a little more synth to drums, TĀLĀ dominate a space and captivate an space ILondon. pleasing than Plapinger’s middling immediately made the audience. Lead singer Lizzy Plapinger’s vocals. But when compared to the stage her own, pouring On her numerous EPs she explores genuine excitement was evident in recorded versions, many of the every part of herself into her singing, pop music to its fullest. There are ‘Enya Ayez (You Wish)’ exclaims her sweat and tears; her presence songs felt messy. Glyrics and production. clear similarities to M.I.A., but “I hope, I hope, that the whole put the audience in a state of awe. Only the best can balance a bold The ICA often plays host to TĀLĀ doesn’t let this define her. world’s watching.” Give it a few It was difficult not to gaze at her as stage presence with an excellent multidisciplinary artists, but TĀLĀ She’s more influenced by her own years and the whole world will be she sparkled across the stage in her live sound. Unfortunately, MS MR has honed a single craft, the ability Iranian heritage than by the music under her spell. glittery playsuit. aren’t quite there yet. felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 20th NOVEMBER 2015 PAGE 25

Union Page MUSIC [email protected] Mental Health First Aid Training Demo Dump Volume Three Last year Mentality and Imperial College Union worked together to conduct research to identify the levels of stress and causes of poor Cale Tilford Music Editor mental health.

The results of the survey confirmed that there are high-levels of stress at Imperial and that poor mental health is commonplace. igger, better and even more critical. Welcome As part of the recommendations of the report we are already to the all-new, expanded Demo Dump. One voice seeing widespread changes being implemented across the is no longer enough, so this week I training, including a redesign of Imperial’s Welfare website, and a grabbed anyone and everyone who review of Student Support Services as well as an increase in the B stumbled into the FELIX office and services being provided in some areas. forced them to listen to the demos you sent in. Photo Credit: Willie Rush Photo Credit: Cylink Photo Credit: Oebus Next week this could be your demo! Imperial College Union wants to support students to be able to support their friends and classmates. As part of this we are offering Mental Health First Aid Lite We’ve had submissions from training. The training will give students the skills to identify the discrimination surrounding mental health issues, define mental health and some across Imperial this week: maths Cylink well it fits in. us that “If ‘Basskick’ was released Oebus common mental health issues, relate to people’s experiences and look after your own mental health. freshers, second year chemists and ‘Dreams feat. Kefei Hu’ is bold seven years ago when I was like 14 even someone doing an MSc in This week’s anonymous guest and bombastic, an absolute banger. or 15, I would have banged it out. It It’s all looking up for Oebus.. The training would usually cost £30, but Imperial College Union is contributing to subsidise the training to just £12. To find out more and book your space go to: Neurotechnology (what a clever critic had a lot to say about Cylink ‘Basskick’ is a bit too over the top, would have genuinely been my jam.” After a touring the campus over bunch). Anyone you sit next to in a and his EP Dreams. I’m not sure all following many of the tropes of the It looks like Cylink now has a fan. the last year (even playing a gig in imperialcollegeunion.org/news/mental-health-first-aid lecture could be a secret, moderately- of it was fair. house genre. Cylink has tagged his Available on SoundCloud Metric), they now find themselves good musician. D’annyG provides clean vocals on music as ‘Progressive House,’ and in the pages of FELIX. If you haven’t sent your demos ‘We Don’t Stop’ which turn a well- this is the track least worthy of this Willie Rush A few weeks ago they released in yet, please do! Even if it isn’t produced (but rather predictable) description. It’s a poor attempt at their alt-funk-rock EP, It’s an Oebus. Saturday 21 November sees the Imperial College that great, we’ll try to be as nice deep house track into something making a club-worthy anthem. ‘Epilogue’ is an ambient, jazzy I’ll forgive the flat production, as possible (we often like to give special. After listening to ‘We Don’t Stop single. It starts of as simple chill- because their music is seriously Climate Symposium contrasting opinions). And if it’s ‘Peace of Mind’, on the other feat. D’annyG’, my guest critic step, with a synth undulating in the groovy. good, we’ll probably still be mean, hand, is brilliantly cinematic. It’s a dived deep into their past: “This background. At about the minute A few weeks ago I reviewed the In the footsteps of the London Climate Forum, we have planned an exciting but at least someone will have massive contrast to the other tracks one time I took an overnight ship mark, a cheesy sampled saxophone new Guitar Hero (you should read lineup of interactive workshops and talks that will give you the opportunity to listened to your music. on the EP, and I’m not sure how from Grimsby to the Hook of comes in and the track begins to engage with our speakers. Holland and it was only, like, old open up. It gently relaxes back into people on board. I went into the the ambient tones of the beginning, It’s all sort of nightclub bit and it was with soft piano chords, before Leading thinkers from politics, academia, industry, think tanks and social climaxing once again with a cheeky movements will come together to present their innovative approaches to the FELIX’s ears sax. looking up climate change issue. I would have While it may be little rough are bleeding! Send around the edges, it’s still a good for these Find out more and buy your tickets at: banged effort and perfect for a chilled night imperialcollegeunion.org/climatetickets in. Pick up a beer (or other alcoholic guys, us the cure. beverage of your choice), and sit it out. It back and chill with ‘Epilogue’. One voice in the FELIX office was they’ve even would have What do you want from a Union app? A cheesy played a gig genuinely We are looking into launching an app for your phone and we need your help. sampled More and more of you are accessing our website using your mobile phone or in Metric tablet and, whilst we are working on making our website more mobile friendly, been my we also want to talk to you all about what you might want from a Union app. saxophone FELIX’s game section once in a jam while, it’s great), and many of their We have some ideas already, but what we really want is for you to let us know comes in songs provide the catchy and skilled what you would want. We also want your feedback as to how we should make guitars that would be perfect for the the app. We know there budding developers out there who might want to help just completely empty. I had a free game. us out! drinks token so I went a got a beer and the I enjoyed ‘Hazard Perception’ the and this sounds like the sort of least out of the four tracks; their Let us know what you would want from a Union app at: music that was on loop.” attempt at singing along with the On ‘Piece of Mind’ they said track begins beat of the bass guitar and drums “This one’s alright, I would listen to felt far too forced. imperialcollegeunion.org/unionapp this.” At this point I told my guest Give them a year or two and to move onto the next artist, but to open up they’ll be great. they insisted on listening to more. Mystery guest number two said Send demos to Apparently, if ‘Dreams feat. Kefei less kind: “There were odd chords, a this about the EP: “It’s sounds like Hu’ came on in the club “(he) would weird dissonance, which came out someone is trying to imitate Jack [email protected] most definitely turn up.” of the blue in a not pleasant to listen White, but is 19.” I’m not really imperialcollegeunion.org For what? to way.” sure what he meant. Reminiscing once again, they told Available on SoundCloud Available on Bandcamp th th PAGE 26 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015 PAGE 27

MUSIC [email protected] MUSIC [email protected] FELIX’s Mercury Prize picks How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful Florence + The Machine In Colour Jamie xx If you haven’t heard of them, instrumentation, and some of The lyrics are poignant. Her vocal stunning. She’s basically Adele with Times’, and presumably, not in the some point with Jamie. Places’ was your track of Summer His sampling of old rave vids, the imagine a bunch of competent the nicest singing you’ve ever control is excellent. Her vibrato is an indie vibe. eyes of the Mercury Music Prize “If they’re going on tour, I’d like ‘15, ‘Crystallised’ will always be the notable downer on some tracks and heard. That’s what you should I’ve looked hard for one, but there people. to go out with them.” Can you song you lost your virginity to. lack of lyrics on others, makes for expect from this album. Lots of isn’t a flaw with her performance. The flabbergasting combo of Jamie imagine? This album, catchy though it is, an album you just turn up Spotify’s critics have complained about the The vocals Like I mentioned earlier, the only Smith, dance hall A-lister Popcaan, But I wonder, while Jamie’s was inconsistent, but when the best twelve second fade option on, and She’s instrumentation, but that’s never criticism that actually lands is Young Thug and The Persuasions’ sipping Ka with Young Thug, do stuff is this good, it doesn’t matter. play all night. ‘Obvs’ and its joyful been one of their strengths. It’s about the instrumentation. C’mon. ‘Good Times’ made for a track The xx really support him in his As Jamie’s first length solo record, rooftop steel drums as folks arrive, basically all decent, atmospheric, reverb-y are the point, It’s the Mercury Awards. Not to that has the gusto to support the solo endeavours as their Instagram it was a masterpiece in execution of ‘Good Times’ as the party heats whatever. It sounds alright. knock Ghostpoet, but his critically- whole album, and potentially win posts suggest? Are the others really a wide-spread appeal, boys in ironic up, the ethereal ‘The Rest Is Noise’ The *point* is Flo. And Flo crushes and Flo’s acclaimed early work was probably Jamie the prize. When some of the all off pursuing separate projects, or Adidas, white people at carnival as the hangers on refuse to leave, lorence + The Machine put Adele it in a routine, almost mundane way. composed by a Casio calculator or h Jamie, you can do original Persuasions members heard are they the Kelly and Michelle to vibe. Which isn’t bad; white people and his xx bandmate Romy’s ‘Loud out their third album this Back in the United States, we have something. no wrong. Not in my the sampled track, on hearing lines his Beyonce? While Beyonce may can go to carnival. Maybe the fact Places’ as a kind of hipster ‘Mr summer, and it rocketed to with an a saying, “there are three certainties vocals are on At the end of the day, the vocals eyes, the eyes of anyone like Thug’s ‘I’m-a ride that pussy be the leader of the free world, no that any song on the album could Brightside’ that you all sing along to the top of the charts - #1 in life: death, taxes, and traffic jams are the point, and Flo’s vocals are on who went outdoors this like a stroller’, one exclaimed, “wow, one can say ‘question’ without me quite comfortably be the backing before collapsing or going home. It on the Billboard 200, and all the on I-93.” If there was a fourth, I point point. summer who was inundated with times have changed, man!” but they thinking, ‘tell me how you feel about track on your GoPro filmed gap yah really is an album of the people. relevant UK metrics. Oh, and they indie vibe guess it would be Florence turning F HENRY ESHBAUGH your invariably uplifting ‘Good still expressed a desire to perform at me’. Similarly, although ‘Loud video montage is a good thing. headlined Glastonbury. in a pitch-perfect performance. O GRACE RAHMAN

Are You Satisfied? Slaves Hairless Toys Róisín Murphy

couple of years ago, Slaves have energy and live feel of the album. cheek lyrics. Sure, this album’s not in the right place, each guitar riff with warm vocals swirling around minute ‘exploitation’, lyrics cut album, but about four minutes from since experienced massive success A band Minimalism is a prevailing theme wall-to-wall bangers, but it is about timed to complete perfection. And Murphy’s core; during the second out in favour of an instrumental the end: during ‘Unputdownable’, that their contemporaries (such as throughout, which adds to the three songs too long (and that’s yet dangerous emotional currents half of the nine-and-a-half- breakdown, drums overlapping each where Murphy compares a lover to a Hookworms and the sorely missed playful (but slightly aggressive) being kind) with songs like ‘She lie beneath the calm surface. Like other in a form of unpredictable favourite book, the chilly synths and Wet Nuns) can only marvel at, playing attitude. The riffs are distorted and Wants Me Now’ and ‘Wow!!!7AM’ someone trying to hold things randomness. In ‘Hairless Toys claves are suddenly cut through with headlining large dirty clubs and uncomplicated whilst the drums are really falling short. Let’s be honest, together following a personal crisis, Hairless Toys (Gotta Hurt)’ Murphy’s delicate a burst of acoustic guitar, completely weirdly signing to Virgin EMI (but sloppy sparse and tribal. The lyrical content a band playing sloppy garage rock is there is the sense that Hairless Toys cooing is ensconced within a cloak blindsiding us. It’s a sign that, even then not every band can release a follows the same theme; you’ll find never going to be consistent. could come crashing down at any of stabbing synths before being after 50 minutes of Hairless Toys massive hit single like “Where’s no over-complicated or pretentious This album is a worthy winner of minute. could come completely subsumed, the lyrical and 20 years in the business, Roisin Your Car Debbie”). garage rock lyrics from the twin vocalists here, the Mercury Prize. The album is fun Murphy affords us precious content rendered nonsense by a wall Murphy has not lost the power to laves’ Are You Satisfied? The appeal of Slaves’ debut album just shouty calls to dance. and doesn’t take itself too seriously; urphy has exercised few insights into this maelstrom, crashing of icy sound. But like a Baroque surprise. ‘And when at last I turn getting nominated for a is pure fun. Dirty, spiky guitar riffs is never The first single of this album it’s easily the best release this year what seems to be but there are moments where the composer, Murphy manages to to the end/I turn back to page one Mercury Prize is pretty swirl amongst simple drumming ‘Cheer Up London’ (with the bratty from the British rock scene (on this complete creative mask slips: ‘Uninvited Guest’, a regain control, ending on a note of and again/pour over every word’ she weird, but then the punctuated by shouty Frank Carter- refrain of “You’re dead already! short list at least). This award could control over the funky number reminiscent of early down at any harmony. From dissonance comes sings – a perfect attitude towards Tunbridge Wells garage rock two- esque (post Gallows) vocals. The going to be Dead! Dead! Already”) is the best go to some obscure arty album, but project, extending even to the music Grace Jones, spirals out of control, resonance, and resolution. this remarkable album, one to return Spiece Slaves are far from ordinary. choruses to all the songs show this album can deliver, exhibiting where would the fun be in that? Mvideos, an achievement that is no the base groove unravelling into minute The turning point of Hairless Toys to, again and again. Playing dirty basements only a great gang vocals adding to the consistent catchy choruses and tongue-in- mean feat; each beat seems precisely a dreamy whispered sequence, comes not in the middle of the ROB GARSIDE FRED FYLES

Syro Aphex Twin My Love Is Cool Wolf Alice

Syro sounds isolated from the it never sounds as dark), but it feels house / Disgusting / Needy slut / weird vocal samples on the album. EPs and tour around the country, their debut studio album My Love Is audiences into a false sense of unanticipated riff-filled thrash pop present. There are clear similarities more like a throwback. Which isn’t Fucking whore.” Although oddly The razor-sharp ‘s950tx16wasr10 gaining fans along the way. In June Cool, reaching a peak of number two indie-cradled security, the band hell. to Burial’s recent work (although surprising given that the album was disturbing, it’s just one of many [163.97][earth portal mix]’ (at this of this year, Wolf Alice released in the UK album charts. The album then swerve into a ruthless and This kind of unpredictability is recorded over a number of years. point in the tracklist the titles are has received positive reviews and rare and ever increasingly desirable Seamlessly shifting from one track unpronounceable) bounces from features chart topping singles. in new music, which is why My Love Nothing to another, Syro morphs between Syro acid to jungle, wobbling your mind A flag-waving To reach where they are presently, They have Is Cool has done so well achieving sub-genres in over 64 minutes of in the process. Wolf Alice have come far in a this Mercury Prize nomination. music. From ambient to glitch and It’s surprising that not a single relatively short span of time. From Not only is the music of Wolf ever feels techno, all are executed expertly. sounds record from his expansive career spearhead their early folky acoustic style, they transformed Alice a new and unique fusion, ‘minipops 67 [120.2][source field has ever been nominated for the have transformed into an off-kilter but the band itself is a flag-waving rom the depths of the auxilary mix]’ was the first Aphex Twin track isolated award. Yet no figure has been more his four-piece grunge for new rock band, incorporating post- into an off- spearhead for new upcoming British deep web, Aphex Twin in 13 years, and it starts off the influential in modern electronic rock band from North grunge themes. bands. returned in late 2014 with album with twinkling piano notes music. Syro proves that even after London splashed onto Ever-present on the UK tour It only makes sense that this young Syro. 138 separate pieces or out of and disorientating vocals. from the years of hiding in the shadows, no the music scene back in upcoming and festival scene, they deliver kilter rock and vibrant quartet are awarded the of equipment come together, all The wonky synths of ‘produk 29 one can craft music as intelligently 2013 with a fresh sound described solid performance after solid 2015 Mercury Music Prize. Fin absolute harmony, to create an place [101]’ overlay a plodding bass while present and flawlessly as Aphex Twin. asT the love child of folk and grunge. British bands performance, mesmerising crowds band single soundscape. Nothing ever a ghostly female voice jabbers “Like, Their unique combination saw with the soothing voice of lead feels auxiliary or out of place. we were at that club / Fucking CALE TILFORD them release a number of successful singer Ellie Rowsell. Lulling their PETER MUNTON th th PAGE 28 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015 PAGE 29

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NationalWaste exposes the Theatre hypocrisy of Victorian revives morality andbanned remains relevant classic today Birth,Morgen und death,Abend throws and us into athe man’s messinessexistence, and beyond in with between mixed results

Max Falkenberg are used sparingly, with a further Arts Editor layer of symbolism being attached to them each time. The door becomes a gateway between worlds and times, aste is true to the the boat on which he used to fish name, a play about becomes the vessel to carry him off. dashed hopes and We seem to be in a timeless space, broken dreams. It’s moving backwards and forwards a damnably English affair. as we hop through the chronology WBanned in 1906, it has, in parts, of Johannes’s memory. More use relaxed gently into middle age. The could have been made of the visual back story – a political scheme to cut metaphors suggested in the text, the British church and state apart such as the ocean being the vast – would struggle to move many realm of death – instead we are left outside the back end of Belfast. Fosse’s Waste is one Joycean great shout script against that provides system, the pure and the sensation petty class of birth and tribalism that death accompanies to imagine these against the white it backdrop on stage. One lighting trick at the end really impressed Charles Edwards as Henry Trebell. This guy looks serious. Photo Credit: Johan Persson Charles Edwards and Olivia Williams in Waste. Photo Credit: Alastair Muir/Rex me, seemingly setting everything But focusing on the setting and on stage into relief as if in stone the antics of our anti–hero, career tribalism that accompanies it. The speak to the cast, but refused). brooding sense of mortality to it. take as a brother a man who has Emiel de Lange successful. As Johannes is born into by irrelevant details, attempting and emphasising the permanence of politician and cold–blooded atheist, ‘system’ is the only real character The National’s, clean – even ‘IKEA’ As the play puts it, “Either life is never known how to love. It’s very Writer Long the world, it almost seems as if the to create logical consistencies death. Henry Trebell (Charles Edwards), ever on stage. Personal details like staging does an excellent job too little a thing to matter or it’s so careful work – to be strong in this fabric of the universe is being pulled or perhaps just filling time. For The small cast of singers and actors would be a mistake. are irrelevant and the story arc is of emphasising this bigger picture. big that such specks of it as we may eggshell, pitiable kind of way, is a sustained and stretched, as if to accommodate example; that Peter has been sent did very well in performing such The doomed relationship between obvious. It’s the crazy mechanics of be are of no account.” The effect is hard balance to hold. here words leave his new consciousness. Long back as Johannes’s best friend in difficult music. In particular Sarah Trebell and the wily, married the political downfall that this play marred only by some fairly clunky Above all, Waste reminds me of off, music begins”, sustained notes, and glissandi in order to guide him into death adds Wegener, in the role of Signe, was Amy O’Conell (a sparkling Olivia speaks about. However, Waste is a There’s a screen transitions (blackouts in all two things. It’s a challenge not to said the poet notes, and the strings create hallucinogenic nothing to our understanding, and forced to grapple with microtones. Williams) is a summary of the bemused caricature of a system of but name) that give the whole thing accept convention for convention’s Heinrich Heine. textures, shifting between light and in fact feels rather more like the However, despite this, Morgen plot – and a side note. His first and double standards that is somehow constant, a disconcerting hint of punch and sake. Crucially, it’s a reminder Morgen und Abend, a new opera by glissandi in dark. An unseen choir gives the sort of supernatural explanation und Abend doesn’t quite meet the last, it barely makes it beyond a one stable, but run on a completely Judy. In theme maybe, but it’s a that we shouldn’t take change for AustrianW composer Georg Friedrich sense of something great occurring. found in a young adult novel. There weight of its subject matter. A few night stand. fake, theatrical morality. We come killer for the pace. granted. Progress is not always Haas, attempts to go where words Although the orchestra produces are deeper problems too. Though uniquely profound moments here However, things roll along away with a certainty, that to a man, brooding Actress Sylvestra Le Touzel inevitable. Perhaps we have pushed cannot and follows a man, Johannes, the strings these soundscapes flawlessly, such titled “Morgen und Abend”, and there almost rescue the plot’s smoothly enough from here – and this is a cast of hypocrites. Trebell’s deserves special mention as the back some of Granville’s demons, into existence and beyond into magical moments are heard only a morning and evening, the morning strange occupation with more we follow the consequences of this executioners – a pluck of adulterers, sense of motherly, bumbling sister to but the fact his words are still sharp, death. Although death (together shift between handful of times. As the plot seems scene depicting Johannes’s birth mundane matters. For some, it may illicit affair, until Trebell is left a a pinch of monied holiness are as Edward’s Trebell. A character which living things today is warning with love) is one of those ubiquitous to concern itself with mundanities is just a short introduction to the be more interesting to read Ludwig purposeless, broken man. guilty as he. Being right is simply a mortality could so easily become unbelievable enough. Ultimately, he tells us , we themes in opera, it is usually the act light and for large stretches, the music often interminably long evening in which Wittgenstein’s ideas on death in the That said, seeing Waste as just case of not being caught. and fluffy – noise to be drowned should not bind ourselves or turn of dying rather than the experience feels reduced in its significance, or we watch as Johannes painstakingly programme notes. Perhaps better another Victorian fable about the In that sense, it’s as sharp today as out by Trebell’s thunderous idealism away from the truth. As Trebell, of being dead. This opera then even unnecessarily hefty. comes to understand what the for the Royal Opera to heed his ruin of idle sex would be as sloppy as when the ink dried. Lord Horsham, The cast are swamped by the space or the sleaze around him, Touzel that dead, broken idealist would say promises a new kind of musical dark, creating As with the music, Fosse’s Joycean audience has long realised – that he advice; “Whereof one cannot speak, the backstreet abortion that exposes anxious and waiting, pale faced for of it – little toy cogs in the great big manages a set of wonderfully – “The fear of life is the beginning experience. script at times provides the pure is dead. thereof one must be silent”. our loveless couple. The real punch Mr. O’Conell could be Gordon messy engine of politics. It looks – balanced monologues. In the space of all evil”. Indeed, Morgen und Abend flawless sensation of birth and death, Visually, we are presented with a of the comment here is the reverse. Brown on the night of the expenses in a way that isn’t cheap – as if it all of a scene we are moved – (in a is unlike anything you are likely stuttering long strings of descriptive suitably minimal and grey tableau. Until 28th November at the Royal Waste is one great shout against scandal – or Henry Trebell a Nick might be packed up and swept away way that goes so lightly on the Until 19th March at the National to have heard before, and at words and noises to great effect. Important objects are strewn about: Opera House that system, and the petty class Clegg of sorts (who was invited to in an instant. There’s a constant, mozzarella you might miss it) – to Tickets from £15 key moments it is spectacularly soundscapes But it is all too often distracted a door, a bed, a fishing boat. These Tickets from £5 th th PAGE 30 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015 PAGE 31

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StandGreg Davies up and friends stars perform raise at the Apollomoney to help UNHCR for refugeesand Action Aid ScienceThe Royal Shakespeare Editor Company’s pops Henry Shakespearean V at the Barbican sursprises and cherry delights

Indira Mallik his Edinburgh Festival show ‘Firing familiar to fans of Russell Howard’s Lef Up Arts Editor Cheeseballs at a Dog’audience Good News. Science Editor favourites included ‘The S&M Dog’ Most of the comics played it safe, and the various tales of ‘Rachel the perhaps mindful that they were ast Wednesday, a Slag’ in between acts. performing to raise money for lthough I can’t say constellation of comedy Reusing old material was the charity and not to create headlines I’ve ever been called stars performed at the common theme, unsurprising since (and ticket sales) with outrageous uncultured, I’m still a Eventim Apollo’s one off the whole gig was organized in view. Reginald D Hunter, no cultural virgin in many Stand Up in Action benefit to raise three weeks. Russell Howard stole stranger to controversy, seemed not respects. I’ve never gone to the money for Action-Aid and the UN the show with a set combining to have got the memo; his jokes ballet, and my last brush with opera L A rd Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the righteous political anger with seemingly justifying the actions of resulted in a 3 act power nap (it was charities providing aid in response stories about his mum, all delivered Bill Cosby deservedly fell flat. four hours long and in French, just to the global refugee crisis. with a brilliant comedic timing, mix The night is estimated to saying). I’ve also never picked up The night included routines by have made over £100,000 funds Shakespeare, let alone sat through Jo Brand (Getting On, GBBO Russell both Action Aid and UNHCR one of his plays. So when Max An Extra Slice) , Jack Whitehall desperately need in order to help procured a ticket for Henry V, I took (Fresh Meat, Bad Education), relieve the suffering of refugees the opportunity and popped my Russell Howard (Russell Howard’s Howard stole crossing Europe’s borders and Shakespearean cherry. As expected Good News), Reginald D Hunter remaining in the Middle East. it was dramatic. (Zing!) (Reginald D Hunter’s Songs of the the show Action Aid has focused its efforts Many of the cast’s comedic South), and Dara O’Briain (Mock on Syrian refugees in Jordan and performances were stellar, extracting the Week) amongst others. Lebanon, and is also giving out copious amounts of laughter from It’s a testament to the importance with political information to refugees arriving by the audience, particularly adorably of the issue that the organisers were boat to Lesbos. The UNHCR have funny Oliver Ford Davies as Chorus, able to put together such a famous anger and deployed emergency personnel to Joshua Richards as a chatter-boxy line up. provide safety to refugees travelling Fluellen and Jennifer Kirby as an Greg Davies (Man Down, stories about through Europe, and has helped infantile, alas delightful Katherine. The Inbetweeners) acted as host, over 60 million displaced people Most other French parts were also regaling the audience with short across the world. hilarious, albeit borderline offensive. anecdotes, previously included in his mum Greg Davies hosted the night. Photo Credit: greddavies.co.uk But it’s a play about the English There’s something awfully disconcerting about this image – why no real horse? Photo Credit: RSC ripping the French a new one, written in 1599, so I guess I’ll let added to the experience. a mohawk, kicking ass and taking probably would have been a capital somehow miraculously wins and it slide. The audience certainly did, But performances of the more names, you know, oozing national crime back in good ol’ Elizabethan proceeds to awkwardly court and as during their performances LOLs serious dramatic roles, particularly pride. Instead I saw a childlike England. marry the French princess (who I echoed all round and for a few brief that of Henry V, performed by psychopath, voice breaking every But I personally liked it, finding it think is also his cousin?), then this moments, we were transformed Alex Hassel, were surprising. Sure, so often, going through emotional an accurate depiction of monarchy. is the play for you. Home is so Sad back to Shakespearean times, where I’m not a Shakespeare buff, (even states like a nymphomaniac through So, if you’d like to see a play Verdict: 7/10 hobnobs* Philip Larkin this play would have been executed though I’ll have you know I have sets of linen. His performance made *SPOILER ALERT* about a *Yes, hob and nob first came in front of nasty hecklers and gangs watched both Shakespeare in Love, Henry V seem dark, twisted and young royal sociopath who gets together in Shakespeare’s Twelfth of riff raff, busy heaving, shoving, and Anonymous, so I’m somewhat possibly a bit unhinged, which so angry after receiving a box of Night – Thanks, Internet. winking and smiling. Good times. of an expert). I was, however, is a far cry from what I assume tennis balls from the French prince Music, costumes, sets and effects expecting a rendition of king Henry Shakespeare was aiming for when that he decides to declare war on Until 24th January at the Barbican Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, were similarly brilliant and really as strong, mighty, possibly sporting creating the character, given that said prince’s kingdom, which he Tickets from £5 for under 25’s Shaped to the comfort of the last to go The As if to win them back. Instead, bereft Of anyone to please, it withers so, Having no heart to put aside the theft phoe ix n est. 1887 And turn again to what it started as, IS BACK ! A joyous shot at how things ought to be, Long fallen wide. You can see how it was: The final issue of this term’s FELIX will feature the Autumn 2015 issue of The Phoenix (hopefully) jam packed full Look at the pictures and the cutlery. of the best arty things Imperial has to offer. We’re looking for paintings, photographs, poetry, or short stories. The music in the piano stool. That vase. Send in your work to [email protected] by 29th November.

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[email protected] 3 What is: Science? For those of you who are perhaps a little HANGMAN new to this ‘College of Science, Technology Blue and Medicine’ business, we’re running a The weekly newsletter of the Faculty Building special catch-up session just for you! NEWS WITHOUT THE NEWS Formerly ‘Blue News’ That’s right, this week’s ‘What is’ is exclusively devoted to science - all of it! Come on over Provost Post of Hello all, to the Boardroom from 1pm on Monday to discover all the wonders that science holds the Week in store for you, and why it’s clearly a much Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome back to Every week, we like to better choice for universities to specialise in another wonderful issue of Blue3! provide the opportunity for than all of that “humanities” nonsense. one of our wonderful Vice Provosts to write a short It’s been a hectic week here in the Faculty Building, and I’m sure you column on a topic of their Staff wishing to know more about the can’t wait to take the chance to de-stress, put your feet up in one of our humanities, rather than science, should get choice. Providing our staff specially-designed break-out areas, and catch up with all the latest news with the opportunity to in contact with the Vice Provost (Grievance communicate to the masses from across the Imperial campus (well, the important parts of it, anyway)! Procedures), Celia Overup, at c.overup@ in such a highly respected imperial.ac.uk, whereupon Celia will be 3 3 organ as Blue is key to our After all the excitement of the Blue relaunch last week, everything able to provide you with more information. continued commitment to was going to feel like a bit of an anti-climax, so we can understand any Any resemblance between this information staff development here in the element of disappointment or feeling of diminishing returns you might Blue Cube. This week, we’ve and a p45 is purely coincidental. asked the Vice Provost (Staff get while perusing this week’s copy, but rest assured: the lovely boys (and Management), Reese Huffle, girl!) in Comms assure me they have plenty of fabulous and exciting tricks Blue3 Launch Party to give us a few words! left up their sleeves! The end of November draws near, and that PM RESPONDS TO REQUEST can only mean one thing - that’s right, it’s Hi everybody! This week’s big, blue news is of course that Imperial has been making time for our pre-Christmas Party! JEREMY ON JEREMY: “POLITICALLY NAIVE FOR RETURN OF KOH-I-NOOR I’m delighted to be able AND DOOMED TO FAIL” TO INDIA to take this opportunity to a splash in the media with our latest commitment to Doing Science™ share a few words with all you (can someone please check if this is the correct trademak? We have so Due to the College Closure over the magnificent workers of the Blue many, and I’d hate to accidentally muck up the branding). We’ve been December/January period (not a “cheeky Cube, and I’d like to thank the covered in some very big national newspapers for our forthright and month-and-a-half’s holiday”, as some staff boys (and girl!) in Comms for uncompromising new position on antibiotics, and I’m very glad to see the have been heard referring to it as), we are maintaining such a fantastic TAURUS CANCER positive and encouraging response from the world at large. of course completely unable to celebrate

GEMINI publication. I’d also like to VIRGO ARIES HOROSCOPES thank Alice for giving me this Christmas together at the correct time. LEO prestigious slot, and I’m sure Some expressed surprise that we were taking such a strong and world- she won’t be disappointed with leading Stance on Science™ (again, can someone please check if this is With that in mind, we’re delighted to confirm what I’ve got to show you all! correct? All this branding business is hard work), and I had to laugh. As this year’s Pre-Christmas Party will be held Unfortunately, Reese was a Science Stronghold™ (that’s one I just made up, can someone actually on Wednesday in the Boardroom from 1pm unable to complete his column – there will be a small competition to come due to an unexpected top- get that trademarked please?), of course we are taking the lead on such down reorganisation of his important issues as “people should have antibiotics” and “antibiotics”, up with a better name than ‘Pre-Christmas This week, you are the This week your Irish dance This week you are no longer This week you try to go to This week your routine of This week you are convinced Party’, and as we all know, competitions FELIX Editor. Yet again, Horizons teacher is driven allowed into FiveSixEight a press screening of a new having a shower in halls at that you met the love of department. As a result of this because if not us, who? Those posh tossers at Cambridge? I don’t think organisational restructure, mean prizes, so don’t miss out! you find yourself reprinting to the edge due to the fact for some reason but due Russian ballet documentary precisely 9pm is interrupted your life whilst visiting a so. the same bloody images at you no longer reply to her to inebriation you can’t in SoHo. However, you when you find that an friend at Loughborough some minor down-sizing occurred, and Reese was We look forward to seeing you there – don’t the whim of Hangman. We’d emails, causing her to remove remember quite what. mistakenly go into brothel impromptu orgy has been University; however, all you We’ve also apparently been up to some nonsense with “cryptocurrency”, say it sucks to be you, but you your legs so you are no longer However, upon asking and it turns out that the organised in the communal can remember is that he was regrettably shuffled off to forget your party hats and yoga mats, and another, lesser paid job in whatever that is. One of the interns tried to explain “Bitcoin” to me the actually get paid to deal with allowed to dance. At least around you discover that you Romanov Dynasty shows all showers. Quite frankly you playing Danny from Grease green tea will (of course) be provided! our nonsense. you can claim mitigating tried to have sex with the extravaganza is not what you are just annoyed that you so you tweet a nude to John some other, less world-leading other day, but why anyone would want a bit of a coin when they could circumstances. new tree in the quad. expected. received no invitation. Travolta in hope of being institution. just have a whole one (or rather, lots of whole ones) is completely beyond reunited. Due to Reese no longer SCORPIO AQUARIUS SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN me! Kids these days. PISCES being with us, we regret that What’s On outside the Blue LIBRA we may have to cut this week’s Cube this week Provost Post somewhat shorter Have a happy, prosperous, wonderful and collaborative week! than we would like, and feel Following on from last week’s campus-wide that this lack of commitment and willingness to see things (if not city-wide!) rejoicing at the rebirth, 3 through to the end, no matter Alice Gast: Thought of the Week relaunch and redesign of Blue , we’re still what, is typical of Reese’s not entirely sure what’s actually happening This week as horoscopes This week you (unlike most This week in an attempt to This week you hope to finally This week you are very close This week your housemate attitude and perhaps indicative “I took the chance to look at our wonderful beyond these fine, four walls of this brilliant, writer you realise how much other Imperial students) get spice up your sex life with have a threesome so you to finishing your Mech Eng that spends every night at of why the time had come for institution through the lens of an outsider this blue building we all love to work in. you hate this fucking job. I laid! Congratulations! The your partner you decide to decide to post an advert on masters project and once it her boyfriend’s is finally him to be (forcibly) moved on. week, drinking in all this wonderful science mean no one even knows problem is you went out on order some saucy outfits your course’s Blackboard is done all of humanity will back but she seems to have Anyone with any queries knowledge without any experience of what it’s or concerns over the recent really like inside. As this hypothetical outside, I We did send out a couple of the interns to who I am? Bullshit. I spend the ACC sports night and are as well as a litre of lube; page. Most Physics boys are thank you. However, when aged dramatically. Turns out try and discern what “the haps” (as I am like an hour on these. Some forced to go into your 9am however, you accidentally too scared at this concept you show it to your supervisor whilst she was away she had staffing changes can of course marvelled at our wonderful prime real estate, of these are even real so I’ve labs in the outfit you wore send it to your home address. so you only get one reply he doesn’t think a robot that like 3 kids. Time flies when get in touch with our staff spread across London, and I admired our reliably informed the kids these days are had to carefully write them to the night before. Perhaps you You return at Christmas to but unfortunately it’s your alerts you to when someone you’re at Imperial, I guess. complaints email address, world-leading facilities. But, most importantly, saying) were for the common or garden protect anonymity. Fuck you, shouldn’t have dressed as the you find the mango lube half thermodynamics lecturer. is going to walk in on you disciplinaryproceedings@ I celebrated the fact that we don’t have any of student, but this provided regrettably imperial.ac.uk. those bloody humanities students to drag us FELIX. murdered quad tree. empty. masturbating is a good idea. down.” inconclusive results. friday 20 November

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SPORT [email protected] RUGBY: SOAS fail to knock out IC Overtime cup progression for the mighty Rugby 2s

Edric Ramirez-Valdez several phases of clean ball, were at the breakdown, the game seemed backline, which was brilliantly read Writer able to cross over the whitewash to El capitán, beyond saving for Imperial. To by the phoneless Oli Parker, who score the first try of the game. further IC’s struggle, Rob Lawrence intercepted the final pass and ran IC were able to regroup and decided to take a 10-minute the length of the field to touchdown n Wednesday the 11th hold onto possession for several Gavin breather and IC were forced to play under the sticks for IC. November, IC 2nd XV phases in SOAS territory and until fulltime with 14 men. IC finished the first half of extra travelled to Regents’ the communication between Roberts, had It took until the very last play of time with a seven point lead and Park to face the School forwards and backs throughout the match for the 2nd XV miracle strong commitment to keeping an of Oriental and Asian Studies in these attacks led to long periods his mind on man, Will Goldberg, to work his overtime clean sheet. Throughout Othe first cup game of the season. of sustained pressure in the SOAS magic and sidestep two defenders to the second half of extra time, IC After four consecutive wins for 22. Unfortunately mistakes and score under the posts. Dunne kept a kept possession and territory to IC, the last two of which were by ill-discipline meant the lads went the game and cool head and slotted the conversion keep SOAS pinned in their own over 50 points, playing a team from unrewarded for their efforts in leading to a final score of 15-15. half. Some good phase play from the a different league meant a solid attack until a slick lineout-and- realised a cup A draw after 80 minutes led to forward pods and silky backs allowed performance would be necessary. drive allowed for a man who always some confusion amongst the players; flanker Roo Mitchell-Heggs to Motivation for IC was at it’s peak ensures family comes first, Adam some where thanking the SOAS burst through a gap and offload just with the whole squad knowing that Motley, to touch down and score game can’t boys for a good game, some thinking before the tryline to fresher George the toughest teams we will face for Imperial in the corner before about curries and nightclubs, but Nicholas who touched down over will be in this cup, so progression halftime. Dunne was unable to be left at a el capitán, Gavin Roberts, had his the line unopposed. Dunne added would be crucial for the team’s add the conversion but a slim lead mind on the game and realised the extras and sealed the win for IC. development this season. at halftime meant the next points a cup game can’t be left at a draw. There was a small sense of After some focused warm-ups, and would be pivotal to the final score. draw After confirmation from ICURFC disappointment that we did not a minute’s silence in remembrance Although the boys were fired up headquarters, a further 20 minutes settle the match through a historic of veterans, Ali Jones kicked off for from the halftime team talk, poor Much to the sadness of Imperial were about to be played to decide round of penalty kicks but there will IC and the intensity from both sides communication in defence meant hearts everywhere, the correct score the winner. The lads regrouped and be opportunity for that later in the was obvious from the first collision. that SOAS were able to create an was clarified and the game played immediately got fired up to win the cup. Early pressure from the IC forwards overlap and their winger scored to on. game and stay in the cup. The victory song and port tasted forced a penalty at the breakdown take the lead from Imperial. Some IC was forced to play catch-up IC kicked off through Jones and extra sweet after a hard-fought win and Ruairi Dunne landed the kick friendly chats ensued with the ref for the remainder of the second SOAS quickly worked their way for the 2’s, and the unbeaten record putting Imperial into an early lead. when both sets of players realised he half and after another SOAS back into Imperial’s 22. SOAS holds up for another week. Onwards SOAS then retaliated and after had the wrong score written down. penalty due to some dubious work shifted the ball through the and upwards.

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SPORT [email protected] A Phaal from grace IC fail to curry favour, losing to Royal Holloway last week

Aleksei Zaboronsky Imperial’s frustration was Writer beginning to overflow, which became apparent in the next phase as Russian fresher Ali Zaboronsky, mperial travelled to Royal probably still fuming from his Holloway last Wednesday to country’s exclusion from the start what they hoped would Olympics, tackled an opposition be a long cup run culminating player clearly still in the air from the in some silverware. Falling on restart. This resulted in an untimely IRemembrance Day and being 10 minute sin-bin as well as being followed by the club curry night, awarded DotD. With things there was a lot to play for to ensure seemingly going from bad to worse, that IC got back on track after an IC captain Dave Nielson-Scott unmentionable loss to the medics rallied the team with a series of the week before. hard-hitting runs, bhaji-ing through Arriving at the venue to discover the Holloway line and bouncing the that the game would be played on a biggest plum pudding of a player 3G pitch, Coach Rich’s rousing pre- ever to set foot on a rugby field. match speech dispelled any notion With the sin bin period expiring that this was in any way an excuse, and no more points conceded, and saw IC make a solid start to Imperial started stringing together the game, dominating possession good phases of play, and edged and creating opportunities early on. ever closer to scoring a try which However, a lack of clinical finishing would put them within a score of saw the scoreline remain static until Holloway. Yet, as time ticked on, sloppy play at the breakdown saw Is this allowed? We don’t know. Photo Credit: ICURFC the scoreline didn’t alter, long phase a penalty go Holloway’s way just plays and well formulated attacks all inside IC’s half. This saw their one- was sweeter than the sweetest Chris MacBeth and Sam Moorby’s succumbing to silly errors. trick pony of a fly-half step up and of Peshwaris; slick hands from hard lines off Charles Posh-Smith A sense of inevitability gripped the IC knew unleash his potent kicking ability to the dummy mall saw a barrelling punching regular holes in the team as they ruminated the thought put Holloway ahead. run off the peel to finally wreck defence. Thanks to the unison of of defeat. Just as the heavenly Remaining calm, Imperial the opposition line which had the forward pods the team trundled embrace of naan was coming, that a responded instantly from the kick maintained abstinence for far up the pitch and set the stage for a cruel twist of fate saw a rare off, securing possession straight too long. With the conversion Moorby, who finished off a long Holloway foray into IC territory madras-tic from the restart through great going wayward, at 5-3 the game set of phases by blasting through and uncharacteristic errors creep pressure from Alex Clayton and remained tighter than the average a “Receding” Holloway defence into Imperial’s defence. Shortly Hugh Wilman. This lead to a line- Alex Calyton gym top; apparently to dot down over the line. Extras afterwards, insult was added to change was out fifteen metres out from the as- Mothercare make workout clothes added by CPS, Imperial seemed in injury as Holloway sent their winger of-yet-unbreached opposition try now. control. However, a late Holloway over in the corner to round off a 25- line. This called for the big guns to Due to this, IC continued in the penalty saw them stay within a 12 upset. With hearts broken and needed come out, and the resulting move same spirit as before, with centres converted try as half time came with prides bruised, IC need to recover, IC leading 12-6. Tikka good long look at themselves However, even with the game and bounce back next week in the going to plan, as they say: it’s never league to get their season back on over until the fat lady sings, and it track. seems that the mellifluous old gal had only begun warming up her vocal chords. Holloway came out Holloway guns blazing in the second half, and capitalised on some missed tackles to score under the posts and take a came slender one-point lead. Aware that they couldn’t allow the game to out guns slip away, IC knew that a madras- tic change was needed, resulting in local wasteman ‘Harry Styles blazing in fresher’ being brought on at scrum half. However, the One Direction IC headed was backwards, as a the second messy turnover at the scrum saw Holloway run in a breakaway try half to extend their lead to a dangerous O’Donnell’s facial expressions weren’t enough to distract Royal Holloway. Photo Credit: ICURFC eight points.