ISSUE 1625 FRIDAY 5th FEBRUARY 2016

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RAG mag accused of "harassment and bullying" The handout will no longer be distributed after union tells RAG it's "an unacceptable personal attack"

Grace Rahman Union President. who do get to see the Mag as-is will Editor-in-Chief FELIX has seen the 16 page realise how absurd the response of handout, which is mainly adverts the Union has been”. for RAG week events, including the 500 copies of the 2000 magazines esterday the union told bungee jump, tunnel tours and the RAG printed have already been RAG its magazine of Valentine’s Ball. There are three or given out around campus. This cost adverts and satire was four pages of ‘satire’ of the union- RAG around £400. “beyond the acceptable hack variety, which (obviously) Alice Gast, the president of bounds of satire or mockery”. RAG we are unable to print here. The Imperial, who wrote a short wereY also warned that the individuals offending piece was a mock diary introduction for the magazine, said involved in writing it could be entry, reminiscent of FELIX today: "This year’s RAG Magazine faced with serious consequences Hangman’s ‘Diary of a Fresher’ is a discredit to RAG’s legacy and to from the college if they continued written from the perspective of the the College". to distribute the magazine as this Union President. "I find the mean spirited approach would be considered “elevated Its writer told FELIX they were to targeting of individuals within harassment”. “appalled” at the union’s decision to the magazine disgusting and am Not banning it as such, the union “censor” the piece. sorry that I agreed to provide a note strongly advised RAG to surrender “I hope that the Union's attempts for inclusion in it". all leftover copies as well as issue to withdraw all copies of the "I’m pleased to see the Union’s an apology to all those affected, uncensored version will not be strong response..." The cover of the offending leaflet. understood by FELIX to be the successful, and that the students continued on page 4

with volunteering opportunities, independence. In an email to the including street collections, singing medical student body this week, in hospitals and other volunteering the ICSMSU president said: “The Medics' Circle Line will opportunities at stops on the Circle history of events has now led to the line. Any student involved will also heads of College questioning why get free entry to the club afterwards. the faculty of medicine should have The President of the Medical its own Students’ Union”. be alcohol free School’s Union told students on continued on page 4 Monday that scrubs may not be Circle Line changes will see drinking swapped for worn in the club afterwards. This comes after students on the Scrubs may good deeds medic boat club’s trip to Leuven were refused passage on a P&O ferry he ICSM Student Union Crawl usually involves a charity has announced to its members that after students were deemed “drunk not be worn has been forced to reign bucket election for ICSM RAG at pub stops will not be an official part and disorderly”. The ICSMSU has in its plans for RAG stations around the Circle Line, as of the event. Any student visiting since banned alcohol consumption in the club week, due to growing well as stops as multiple pubs along one on the day will be doing so on coaches. pressure from the college over recent the way. The night usually ends at “on their own actions, not as an This and other alcohol-related afterwards alcohol-fuelledT bad behaviour. the Clapham Grand. ambassador of ICSMSU”. incidents over the years now The annual Circle Line Pub However, this year, the ICSMSU Pub stops will be replaced threaten ICSM students union’s th PAGE 2 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk

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Contents A word from the Editor Editor-in-Chief News 3 Grace Rahman News Editor Comment 6 ello there! Here we Yes, we could be doing worse things Matthew Johnston are again – it’s pre- on a gap yah – Goldman doesn’t Science 10 election time. Varsity is want to hear about a ski season or Comment Editors Tessa Davey and Vivien Hadlow just a sparkle in Sport six month stint writing poetry on a Arts 13 Imperial’s eye, and campaigning barge in Berlin – but there are also Science Editors is still far from beginning. If the offers that every year tempt some of Jane Courtnell and Lef Apostolakis Film 24 H Leadership Elections were the US the best people for the jobs away to Arts Editors Presidential Elections, we’d all be in more exotic pursuits. Indira Mallik, Jingjie Cheng and Music 28 Iowa right now. Sort of. I would argue that this pursuit is Max Falkenberg Undoubtedly, some people have a noble one, where yes, you really Games 30 been thinking about running for do have a frighteningly big impact Music and Games Editor Cale Tilford quite a while now, and they’ve been and influence. And if you do win, TV 32 planning kitch ways to nab votes people will remind you of that Film Editor since Christmas. That doesn’t mean throughout your tenure (which I Fred Fyles Puzzles 34 you, who occasionally slams a pint find odd, because if you tell me I’m Welfare Editor down at the union exclaiming that big and powerful that’s not going Noor Mulheron Welfare 36 you could really change this place if to shame me into doing what you you were given the chance, don’t still want, I’m going to think I’m the shit Puzzles Editors Hangman 37 have a fighting chance of winning. and probably disregard what you’re decide to run again the next year. Hamish Beck and Roxana Radu Nobody’s paying me to say saying). Often the votes are very close. Food Editor Clubs & Societies 38 this (although I am being paid, If you don’t win? Well, no one Working your arse off for a week Sanjay Bhattacharya indirectly, to say something) but will care except you. You’ll have met talking to people in the library could Sport 39 you should probably consider more people campaigning than you bag you a job. Initially approaching TV Editor Saad Ahmed FELIX, Beit Quad, running.This sounds ridiculous, but did in Freshers Week, and literally people is awful, but you’ll talk to so Prince Consort Road, even if your gut feeling is that you no one will remember you cried in many students who just don’t want Technical Babe London SW7 2BB shouldn’t really do it – that might Metric afterwards when everyone to know that eventually you’ll reach a Luke Granger-Brown Tel: 020 7594 8072 mean you’re the best person for the comes back after the summer. Not higher state of consciousness where, Copy Editors Printed by Iliffee Print Cambridge, job. Although we get accused of it even you. You will genuinely forget. genuinely, you are no longer able to Mattin Mir-Tahmasebi, Cale Tilford Winship Road, Cambridge all the time, us sabbs (cue the tiny Until the person who trumped you experience social awkwardness, and and Tessa Davey Registered Newspaper violins) aren’t really in it for the CV. does something terrible and you that’s a life skill. ISSN 1040-0711 Cover picture by RAG Copyright © FELIX 2015 Letters

ISSUE 1623 FRIDAY 22nd JANUARY 2016 In response to Issue 1623 already staggering debt that one whole cover (right), you'll have A question of journalistic integrity accrues to study here. noticed that the maintenance

- are we satisfied? This was excused in the ‘a word grants news story was also there. It Th e Student Newspaper of Imperial College London When a news outlet publishes from the editor’ section with lines is important, so we covered it. its findings every week, it has the such as ‘I love medics in all their I take offence at calling this well- Rewinding time in Where have all the opportunity to highlight the most forms’ and ‘one of my best friends researched story "gossip", Daniel! Life Is Strange. maintenance grants gone? important issues facing its readers. is a medic.’ For the more attuned, We contacted multiple sources, PAGE 10 GAMES PAGE 3 NEWS The FELIX stands in a privileged you’ll notice these lines fit the same including the coach company, the position, with a readership spanning formula used by any bigot to address med school, students on the trip, Medic boat club stopped on way some of the brightest young minds their bias since time immemorial. the Dover police and P&O ferries of this generation. It has, in my Replace medic with any minority to corroborate stories, and establish to Belgium for being too drunk opinion, the duty to inform its group and read it back to yourself. the facts. We didn't sensationalise. readers of the most relevant things This was a very poor choice of words As for my Editorial – sweet of you happening at the College, locally which reinforces the perception of a to read it by the way – it hurts most and nationally, that affect us as divide between ICSM and IC. of all that you didn't get my jokes. students. I expected more from FELIX. Of course racists say "I can't be When the editor in chief elected It should be a paragon of good racist because I have black friends", to run a front page spread of a club’s journalism that informs us, not an Dan. Some people can't be helped. The annual trip to Leuven ended abruptly at antics on a road trip, rather than outlet to spread gossip at the expense Entertainment, news, whatever, Dover when students were sent home place real news such as the axing of of our fellow students. There is a we're always going to disagree on

ast week’s ICSM Boat Grace Rahman the driver at 3:30am over the getting close to his legal driving arranged to fl y or take the train to maintenance grants at the front, it place for entertainment and drama, what should go on the cover, but club’s annual trip to Editor-in-Chief students’ behaviour. Th e coach left limit time, this would be impossible. Leuven instead. Th ese members got Belgium ended before it Hammersmith as scheduled at a Th e Dover port police were called, to their destination without a hitch. really even began – at the quarter past midnight on Saturday. to help the coach get out of the Th is news comes after last year’s belittled the integrity of journalism but unless you’re the Daily Mail, it what I had that week was a factual ferry port in Dover. captain told members that “[P&O] Th e coach company alleges that one way system before the group shenanigans on the same club’s LCurrent medics and alumni were were willing for us to be allowed on some students caused damage at were driven back to Hammersmith. annual Leuven trip, when a coach prevented by P&O ferry staff from after a 2-3 hour wait. Unfortunately, Maidstone service station, which Upon returning, the group tried to window was smashed on the way at this institution. It revealed that is not the front page. In the words account of what many agreed was a boarding the boat which would have the coach drivers were unwilling P&O ferries confi rmed. Th e book another coach in an attempt to Dover. Although the person taken them to mainland Europe, as to co-operate, hence are currently boat club denies that there were to save the short weekend trip, but responsible was an alumni student, they were too drunk. driving us back to London”. any complaints made during the could not. the whole club was suspended shaming our colleagues for their of the editor, please deliver ‘high newsworthy, if unfortunate, failure Th e students tried to board the Th e trip from Hammersmith planned stop in Maidstone. Drinking was heavy on the trip, during Imperial College Union’s 4:50am ferry from Dover to Calais to Dover had not been without Th e boat club was told by P&O with some rowers reportedly having investigation. but were “drunk and disorderly” issue. Th e coach company’s depot that they could take a slightly later port bottles strapped to their arms, Th e ICSM President and boat actions at a social event was more quality content for millennials.’ of a trip. according to port staff . P&O ferries manager was fi rst contacted by ferry, but as the coach driver was that they weren’t allowed to remove club declined to comment on this took the decision not to allow the until the bottles were fi nished. year’s incident. Th e tweet printed students to travel when they were Th e trip, which cost £80 per ticket, here suggests the club has not been newsworthy than the government’s Dan (via email) Do continue to read my editorials, scheduled to. involved two coaches and 100 issued with a ban. A representative In an email, sent as the students students, who each pay £70 per year of Imperial College Union told us recently imposed changes on but please do mind the sarcasm. were heading back to London for club membership. they “had been informed and are having been turned away, the club’s This tweet was sent after the party were turned away at Dover. Some students had previously investigating”. student finance, changes that will Gee, I do love fan mail! For the tack on £14,000 or more to the more attuned of you who read the -Ed. Good grief, is that the Daily Mail? felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 5th FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 3

NEWS [email protected] ‘Nuff(ield) said Imperial triumphs over Cambridge college in University Challenge quarter-finals

Matt Johnston Fernando also suffered a flip- News Editor flop in these bonuses, deliberating over “Peroxide” before settling on “Epoxy”. It came up “Peroxide”. The onday evening saw score remained at 55-40. the first outing The old adage tells that it’s ‘a game of the new term of two halves’ and it certainly was. for the seemingly Imperial suddenly found a new unstoppable University Challenge gear after Braude entered the fray, Mteam that is Ben Fernando, Ashwin upping the score to an 80-40 lead Braude, Onur Teymur and their with his clinically precise “Karelia”. captain James Bezer. The team The music round came and went were riding high on the back of with no points scored by anyone, their 305-75 demolition of Sidney indeed with a loss of five for Sussex, Cambridge, but as we all Imperial after another “Premature know, there are no easy games in Bezer Buzzer” (which I am reliably this league. informed is a serious medical The challenging side from Nuffield condition). College, Oxford was comprised of A Feynman quote for Fernando two Americans, a Norwegian and was counteracted by “Sudan”, a South African who were studying and a smattering of extra point a mix of Economics, Politics, conversions from Nuffield brought and International Relations. A the scores back to a level 85-85. combination which was far too Could it be any closer? No. “artsy” for their Imperial foes, a We’re not saying the mascot did it, but it did. collection of three physicists and a mathematician. incorrect answer of “Hippocrates”. since the last ACC sports night. “Bears”, Imperial went on to throw But then The excitement within theMinus five points. No need to panic But, what should be lurking round away yet more science bonuses. spectator arena (FiveSixEight) was though, plenty of time left yet. the corner but the apparent Achilles Chaos occurred in the union as Ben palpable from the offset, with all The crowd were anxious to see heel of the team, literature. With Fernando wrestled with himself to Imperial available tables being taken well a return to form, and the answer a bonus round that incorporated find the answer on the tip of his before kickoff. It was standing of “Hamster” from Fernando Jane Austen came exchanges of “Do tongue. But no, he couldn’t convert room only for the audience as they did just that. Woops and cheers you know?” followed by “I literally and Bezer wildly lashed out at the decided to watched the intellectual gladiators rang through the union building have no idea”. A picture round on target with “Pietro Aronica”, much do battle in the arena, with only with the follow up category on German geography brought the to Fernando’s amusement (it turns Jeremy Paxman to mediate the Mathematicians yielding “Hilbert”, ship back on course, sending the out he just named a bloke who was stop toying fierce competition that was to ensue. “Godel” and “Riemann” in quick score to 45-40 in Imperial’s favour. an ex-University Challenge player A poor start plagued the succession to bring the score back What followed was another for Imperial). The loss of points was Imperial squad, with captain Bezer to a level playing field of 20-20. breakdown in play as, after Bezer no laughing matter for the expectant with them handicapping the team on the very Bezer again decided to try grabbed the starter for ten with crowd of loyal fans though. first question, buzzing in before and score another slamdunk but But then Imperial decided to stop the end of the question with the “M-A-R” turned out to actually be toying with them. “D-A-N”. You win some, you lose A picture round with female some, I guess, and in this case it political leaders, questions The crowd was another five points conceded. surrounding dyes, and a rare flourish Racking up bonus points gave from Teymur with “Slide Rule” Nuffield a slender 45-15 lead but it meant the quartet were as on fire as erupted in really isn’t over ‘till it’s over when it Ben Fernando’s hot pink hoodie. comes to University Challenge. A celebratory dance was seen Supporters watched with baited from Fernando after he netted a frenzy breath through the rollercoaster of “Ellipse”, and Bezer brought home emotions that was the following “Venus” and “Kiloparsec” before the question. As they heard the word gong meaning the team ended on a unseen “physics” from Paxman, spirits rose, 105 point streak. A final score of assuming Imperial had it in the bag 190-85 meant another victory was but subsided again as the Nuffield recorded and Beit Quad was duly since the captain buzzed in first. Victory was bouncing. snatched from the jaws of defeat Paxman gave a damning post- last ACC however, with Fernando calmly match analysis, stating to the losers collecting the pieces after the “you didn’t do so well today”. No incorrect “Inertia” answer, parrying Jeremy, no they didn’t. sports night with the correct “Hysteresis”. The Imperial will return in their crowd erupted in a frenzy unseen This RAG hoodie was censored too. 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NEWS [email protected] Cambridge to introduce new admission test The new test will fill in gaps that AS Level changes will leave

Grace Rahman Cambridge University’s new Editor-in-Chief Director of Admissions across colleges said that this move was in response to teacher and student ambridge university is feedback, as well as to “maintain set to introduce new the effectiveness and fairness of our admissions tests for every admissions system”. subject to make up for Peter Lampl of the Sutton Trust, changes to the qualification system a charity addressing educational Cthat will see AS Levels no longer disadvantage, has said any count towards A Level results. simplication of the process of This change has been in applying to Cambridge is a good consideration since last year, when thing, but warned that: “tests could the government first announced present a disadvantage for low-and plans to change how A Levels middle-income students as there is worked. Certain AS Levels will now a thriving market in private tuition be uncoupled from the full A Level for the extra admissions tests.” qualification. Schools can choose to run AS Levels alongside teaching for A Levels, but it is predicted The tests that many will do away with AS to concentrate on teaching the full two will be taken year qualification. Cambridge has long been against You didn’t want to go there anyway. Photo Credit: Imperial College Union the reforms. In November 2014, the by students university wrote to schools and sixth Interestingly, the correlation is not sat before interviews in November students applying for 2017 entry, so forms in England asking them not seen when predicting outcomes for on the same day as similar tests for applicants sending off their UCAS applying for do away with AS Levels, since they a Maths qualification. Oxford, and others with shorter forms this September will have to are used by admissions tutors to The assessments will be unique tests conducted at the interview. take the tests to be considered for predict how well a student will do. to each subject, with some being The tests will be taken by interview. 2017 entry

...continued from front page as such the union made the call to stop distribution of RAG Mags Medic pub crawl becomes day of volunteering “...and its willingness to work with across campus”. the RAG committee to make sure “This is disappointing as it’s one ...continued from front page this year’s RAG Week is a success.” of our key methods of publicity. The “The dialogue [with college] is The union has told the Raising union have since replied that they such that there can be no more and Giving society that they can are willing to pay the cost to reprint negatives surrounding alcohol distribute a revised version of the the magazines, under the condition without risking the SU and our magazine only if the offending page that the offending article is replaced separate clubs and societies”. is replaced with an advert for the by a leadership election ad.” In the eyes of the law, Imperial union’s own upcoming elections. RAG mags have a history of only has one student union, and The union has also offered to causing controversy, with several ICSMSU is a constituent union reprint it, which would allow the in Imperial’s history being banned of ICU. However, at the moment, new magazine to be distributed by for bad taste, racism and to avoid ICSMSU does have some autonomy, Monday. RAG are likely to take damaging the reputation of the with its own separate clubs, societies them up on this offer, having already college. In 1987, the president and sports teams and a sabbatical The circle line, but not as we know it. Photo Credit: TfL lost several days of promotion for of CGCU said that year’s RAG president paid for by the faculty. next week’s events. mag ban was necessary to prevent Some concern also seems to RAG told FELIX: “Every year Imperial becoming “more renowned surround what a negative medics surfaced of members of the BMA’s over a weekend as a result. RAG issues it’s RAG Mag, which for it’s obscenities than its story could do for the plight of Junior junior doctor committee drinking Medic RAG week usually involves is designed to be a funny but excellence”. Doctors. Another 24 hour strike is and on holiday, the medical school the RAG invasion, where medical controversial magazine which This year RAG are raising money planned for Wednesday the 10th of is under pressure to make sure students in fancy dress complete promotes our great RAG Events”. for Great Ormond Street Hospital, February, and it’s feared that what students aren’t photographed in challenges and collect money “In the past it’s made fun of the British Refugee Council would normally be an innocuous compromising ways over the week. around central London, and RAG natural disasters and human and Porridge and Rice, a charity photo of a student drinking in The Circle Line pub crawl caused Dash, where students hitchhike tragedies, this year the call was providing food and educational scrubs, this week especially, could a stir back in 2013, when Imperial across the country before travelling made to print a satirical piece about resources for children in a slum in damage the contract campaign. medics were accused of damaging to a European destination, which, Lucinda, as such the union feels Nairobi. After The Sun’s desperate story property. All Imperial students were this year, is Paris. that this overstepped the mark, and GRACE RAHMAN on “Moet Medics”, when photos temporarily banned from the bar GRACE RAHMAN ANOTHER CASTLE Imperial’s gaming magazine returns this spring

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COMMENT [email protected] COMMENT [email protected] We should take the fascist threat seriously The left has no problem with free speech fascists coaches’ windshield and the AFN coaches from joining the We aren’t living in the Orwellian police state as some would have you believe As well as hurting those caught in the cross-fire, windows, and drew swastikas on rally in Dover and opposing the two coaches with blood. One of the far-right and their march against the hatred and fear of refugees is spreading coach drivers was injured during the immigration. Without the aid of Joseph Ronan reedom of speech is the that the company carrying out the that left wing PC ideology limits criticising Islam? It’s perfectly fine attacks. the London AFN coaches the anti- Writer right to speak without poll, Survation, publicly separated it culturally. Let’s take a look at as long as it’s done in a respectful acism, xenophobia and remove their face masks and giving Fascists were seen attacking each fascists weren’t able to maintain censorship or restraint by themselves from The Sun’s claim. left wing opinions on controversial manner and held to the same Islamophobia have officers in uniform the power to other and their own coach, once their blockage of the fascists’ march the government. At least, IPSO received over 2000 complaints topics. standards as criticism of any other reached a new height stop any person and search them for more proving that complete and in Dover. To those on the coaches that’s what Google says. How does about the article, printed on the 23rd What about gender imbalances religion with disrespect sometimes in light of the ‘refugee- weapons or harmful instruments. Fthe British establishment fare when November 2014, but are yet to give in academia? A product of coming in the form of Islamophobia. crisis’ and more recently the sexual Throughout the day there was we look at restrictions on freedom a ruling. societal gender roles, we see men Rharassment incidents in Germany a lot of violent fighting, with the of speech? The Sun also found itself in hot encouraged into STEM subjects What the on New Year’s Eve. This Saturday, riot police failing to keep the two Anti-discrimination laws protect water when it printed Katie Hopkin’s and women into arts subjects by a Dover saw another big anti- groups from clashing on several people from hate speech. These laws infamous article including the line culture depicting men as intelligent immigration rally by groups like the occasions. This resulted in several limit freedom of speech for those “Rescue boats? I’d use gunships to and women as passionate. There are left takes English Defense League, National people getting hurt, a lot of them who aren’t persecuted in exchange stop migrants”, which could be seen more arts than STEM graduates Front, South East Alliance, Britain obtaining head injuries from items for protecting freedom of speech as discriminatory or encouraging and, correspondingly, more female First, BNP and UK PEGIDA such as bricks being thrown. In the for those who are. The laws prevent violence. It resulted in over 400 than male graduates. If we want issue with (don’t even try to figure out what beginning, anti-fascist protesters the exclusion of minorities and complaints to IPSO. This time the gender equality in higher education Lisa Schneider PEGIDA stands for, the acronym succeeded in delaying the fascists’ persecuted groups, and without such organisation responded with a firm then surely we should tackle the is politics of Writer march by containing them at the protections a member of a minority rejection of the complaints in the gender roles limiting both sexes? Dover Priory station (their starting group could easily be frightened into Greer vs The Sun case. What about discussing the taboo Far-right point). Police eventually escorted silence by a hostile culture. This is a On the 11th of January 2014 a subject of racial imbalances in rhetoric and the far-right demonstrators to their clear-cut example of how political rallying point close to the docks. correctness and freedom of speech groups By this time only a fraction of the are not necessarily opposed and can insults original fascist protesters remained even complement one another. descended to listen. We also have regulators. Ofcom October 2014-October 2015 saw Violence had erupted before the and IPSO regulate what mass a 47.6% increase in hate crimes demonstration. At a motorway People and property were damaged in clashes. Photo Credit: Twitter/@bat020 media can say in order to maintain against Muslims compared to the on Dover to service station in Maidstone on the a degree of journalistic integrity and same period the previous year, with M20 route from London to Dover, utter idiocy does indeed exist. When it seemed an awful lot like the legality, and prevent discrimination. triple the number of reports after five buses organised by the Anti- police arrived they found a bag of police detained the AFN coaches Last year The Sun spoke of “1 the Paris attacks. voice their Fascist Network (AFN) clashed knives, nunchucks, knuckledusters for precisely this reason, thereby in 5 Brit Muslims’ sympathy for Holding other religions as with a bus of Chelsea Headhunters. and other weapons on the fascists’ indirectly supporting the fascist jihadis”, based on a survey which accountable as Islam is also “concern” These football hooligans are also coach and subsequently arrested march. actually asked if said Muslims had important – criticism of treatment of vastly involved with Combat 18 several men. “sympathy with young Muslims women and LGBT communities in (18 for AH = Adolf Hitler). A Police removed the right-wing who leave the UK to join fighters Muslim Middle Eastern countries about fight rapidly started, and escalated, group from the scene and then Fascists in Syria”. The question failed to should be mirrored by similar with members of the two groups detained the anti-fascist group on define which meaning of ‘sympathy’ criticism in Christian African throwing bricks, wood, and bins the coaches for almost six hours was meant, and didn’t specify who nations. If we want to discuss Islam, non-white back and forth, resulting in several under Section 1 of the Police were seen these fighters may fight for (with no can’t we use the discussion to reflect injuries. and Criminal Investigations Act. mention of the term ‘jihadi’). Katie Hopkins’ hate speech goes unpunished. Photo Credit: walesonline.co.uk on our own culture and mutually The fascists then went on to attack All passengers had to remain on attacking This misuse of data was so blatant grow? immigration a bus of Russian children, before the coaches and were filmed and terrorism commentator on Fox scholarship grants? In the US, The left has no problem with they smashed in one of the anti- searched. Police thereby prevented News called Birmingham a “no-go white students get 75.6% of merit discussing these issues: gender roles, only “makes sense” in German). each other Political zone” for non-Muslims. This time, grant funding despite being 61.8% racial injustice and religious freedom In September, far-right groups Ofcom called the incident a “serious of the student population. have all been commonplace topics descended on Dover to voice and their correctness breach” and passed a judgement. To balance this there are many for left wing politics for centuries. their “concern” about non- What price did Fox News have to scholarships prioritising race in What the left takes takes issue white immigrants. Dover carries pay? Two apologies. their selection process. With these with is politics of rhetoric and symbolism for the far-right as own coach and Amongst the many claims that grants taken in to account, white insults. Katie Hopkins isn’t they try to “defend their shores” political correctness has gone mad, students receive 59.3% of funding – criticised for breaking unspoken PC from people who desperately need Every person in Dover or the these three famous cases show much closer to their 61.8% share of rules, but for turning a discussion on our help and compassion. Groups service station that stood against freedom state intervention delayed by a the population. the social and political impact of the like Kent Anti-Racism Network fascism on Saturday could see slow bureaucracy, defending Katie Race-specific grants exist to refugee crisis into “show me bodies organised a counter-demo and were very clearly what the real threat Hopkins’ words, and requesting counteract racial imbalances which floating in water… I still don’t care”. supported by many locals and other to this country is. It is the angry, of speech apologies as ‘punishment’. start earlier in life. A black child in When Germaine Greer receives activists. white, middle-aged men in Enoch Political correctness is discussed America is more likely than a white criticism it’s for ignoring discussions Anti-fascism activists travelled Powell T-shirts and with “refugees are not as some monolith inhibiting free child to be brought up in poverty on trans rights and simply claiming to Dover to prevent the neo-Nazis not welcome” emblazoned on flags speech it finds offensive, yet Katie and have less access to education transgender women are “not from marching through Dover. (kudos for originality). I know Hopkins, The Sun and Donald economic support. If race-specific women”, not for being un-PC. In light of the protests, Section 60 it’s hard to take people in ANTI- necessarily Trump are safe from its punishment: grants are to become obsolete The modern left doesn’t reject & 60AA powers were in place in the ANTIFA hoodies seriously, but a slap on the wrist. then surely we need to end racial discussion, it rejects the idea that we Dover district on the Saturday of the the hatred and fear of refugees they If freedom of speech isn’t under injustice? should have to put up with hate in demonstration, requiring people to Maybe we should take this more seriously.. Photo Credit: Lee Thomas stand for is spreading across Europe. opposed threat legally, the claim becomes What about the taboo subject of our political system. th th PAGE 8 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 9

COMMENT [email protected] COMMENT [email protected] Rhodes must fall Photographers have a right to capture We should be remembering the South Africa Company. Those killed and enslaved around the word of imperial apologists. We should immortalised in stone are usually – not the man who subjugated them. not celebrate the instability we have Too many photo opportunities are ruined by my latest photoshoot, I spent the world where taking photos such as victims of the British Empire, not the heroes or innovators of our past. And we can do that by erecting left behind, destroying once proud best part of a month searching for his “Derriere la Gare Saint-Lazare” In hindsight, Rhodes represents the a statue of those he exploited as a nations for our own economic gain. unnecessary regulations appropriate locations and seeking could allow him to be stopped under the perpetrators worst of the British empire and by replacement. permission; this was ultimately Section 43 of the Terrorism Act. removing the statue we can begin It’s interesting that so many have fruitless given how quickly we were Even more worryingly, in July ast week Oriel College, to reconcile ourselves with our come out to attack the Rhodes Must We can t was 3pm on a cold Saturday “Have you got a permit for told to leave multiple sites. The 2015, the European Parliament Oxford confirmedcountry’s dark past. Fall campaign. The university’s in January. On location at photography here?” creative vision was there, I had the voted on the Right to Panorama, that a monument chancellor, Lord Patten, suggested do that by Alexandra Palace, a beautiful “Nope we’re just some student equipment ready, the models were an outrageous law which could have commemorating Cecil that students with such views old building atop a hill friends taking photos in a public willing to take part; but all was at classified skyline and building views Rhodes, a 19th century British Maybe “should think about being educated overlooking the London skyline area, for non-commercial purposes strong risk of being jeopardised for as copyrighted and thus illegal to Limperialist, would remain despite elsewhere”, and Harry Mount, erecting a Iin all its splendour. Two friends of only. Is there a problem?” lack of an appropriate backdrop. sell without permission. Thankfully a massive movement by students Imperial writing for The Daily Telegraph mine are dressed up for an urban “Well you need to have a permit to I should clarify that legally, all of this law was defeated in parliament, seeking the removal of the statue. (always the voice of reason), photoshoot, and I’m focussed on photograph in this area, I’m afraid the locations that we were stopped but indicates the absurd lengths to Like many of the students at described the students taking part statue of the viewfinder, trying to nail the you’ll have to leave, Sir.” in were private property, and thus which our right to photography is Oxford University, I’m disappointed could start in the movement as “a generation perfect shot. Assistants are holding This was the third time on the security teams had official rights under attack. Public access should by the college’s decision which goes raised to believe that their feelings those he reflectors and various bits of that particular day I’d had that to stop us. However, as we all know, be able to be captured by the public against the views of the university’s by changing are all that matter”. The real problem equipment, perfecting the lighting. conversation, and frankly I’m sick with rights come responsibility, and in all forms; we have no say in student union. Rhodes must fall, is their generation; they seem happy Composition, check. Lighting, and tired of it. Over my six years the indiscriminate and accusative the skyscrapers that make up our Cale Tilford and be moved to a more suitable for institutional racism to remain. exploited Hussain Al-Jabir check. Camera, check. *Click*…. of serious photography I’ve lost behaviour demonstrated by the skylines, but are somehow expected Music Editor location – the dark and dusty corner it’s name Unfortunately, the reaction to Writer shot captured. I’m getting ready to count of the number of times guards and their superiors is an to defer to their owners when it of a museum. Rhodes Must Fall is part of a Britain needs to wake up to the take the next picture… I’ve been stopped, including in abuse of this right. comes to imaging that which we see Our universities and society are in Some have argued that as a greater problem – Britons are not fact that the world still continues to Out of the corner of my eye, a Canary Wharf, Greenwich Park I, along with the vast majority around us. dire need of decolonisation. And I historical artefact, removing his educated about our colonial past. A suffer from the consequences of the yellow clad security guard shuffles and Westminster Station. I’ve been of photographers, are socially don’t think Oriel College’s decision likeness is an attempt to “cleanse recent survey by YouGov revealed colonial project. By promoting the along purposefully, radio in hand. told not to use a tripod, not to take responsible. We avoid blocking to keep the statue of Rhodes in history.” What it will actually do that a staggering 59% thought the voices and stories of the oppressed, The whole group lets out a collective pictures of entrances or simply entrances, scaring wildlife or taking These place while adding what it calls is “recontextualise iconography British Empire was something to be we can begin to make amends and sigh; we all know the conversation to move elsewhere or risk being photos of children without their “clear historical context to explain celebrating grave injustice,” moving proud of. Only 19% said they were make students feel welcome at their that’s about to take place. arrested. In planning alone for parent’s permission. It therefore why it is there” goes far enough. and presenting it in a way which ashamed. On the empire’s legacy, own university. appears incongruous that we restrictions Cecil Rhodes was a tyrant and fully condemns Rhodes’ actions. 49% said countries were better Maybe Imperial could start by should be subject to photographic a racist, exploiting the people We should be remembering the off colonised compared with 15% changing it’s name to something restrictions in places which have of southern Africa through millions of victims of the British believing that they were worse off. that isn’t a daily reminder of our public access, such as Canary Wharf and the operations of the British empire – those who our ancestors It seems that Britain is a nation colonial past. and Alexandra Palace, since we are not harming anyone nor causing damage. perhaps if these security impositions guards had read J.S Mill’s ‘On Liberty’, we’d be better off. are The fact remains that these The greatest crime in human history restrictions and impositions are threatening our creativity and threatening As an intelligent species, we should recognise that eating meat is not natural placing boundaries against our imagination and ability to express o. If you guessed by intelligence. Pigs are desperately squealing, lobby against it. It may well be legal, ourselves. Numerous times I have our reading the title that I Intelligence allows us to discern cows violently writhing, chicken but essentially lacks the most basic seen a perfect photo opportunity was going to say warfare, the good from bad, the right being forced to lay unnatural of ethics: humanity. Ah, but when – perfect lighting upon a sign or you are wrong. Poverty? from wrong, happy from sad, and amounts of eggs, ducks having a stick it comes to a cute puppy everyone colours within a shop – but have creativity We built that ourselves. Famine? Yet ultimately have mercy – or at least jammed in their throats and still feels empathy and is softened just by thought twice of taking my camera Nanother consequence of capitalism. pity – for those in pain. Indeed, it there are a handful of shareholders looking at a photoshopped picture. out on seeing a guard in the corner Nevertheless, London’s youth The Holocaust? Although a stigma is natural for animals to eat other profiting from it. And it is from Sadly, there is no stopping this of my eye. creative scene is booming. Having that will forever stain the history of animals but since when did it death that they profit. Insofar as force given that it has gained too Of course, it was all a lot easier been fortunate enough to collaborate mankind, it did not sustain itself for become natural to inhibit millions of laws concern, this is legal under much inertia by today. Meat is now fifty years ago. Back before the with photographers, musicians, relatively long. Inquisition? Read animals from having their freedom every constitution even despite a staple in everyone’s diet and is even threats of Islamist or IRA terrorism, models and stylists from all over the the previous. What about, say, the by confining them in cells awaiting how many non-governmental entrained within different cultures. and when Downing Street was capital, I am convinced of the sheer food industry? And moreover, the their unquestioned demise? organisations and activist groups By opting to be a vegetarian, one’s open to the public, photography talent out there. Young people are carnivorous food industry? conscience may remain clean but was seen as a benign pastime, and excited to be making creative media Eduardo Conesa-Pietshceck Yes, that’s right: mass-slaughter this does not stop the ruthless candid images of everyday life were and expressing their opinions of Writer of animals. As much as meat eaters consumerism of the society as a perfectly acceptable. Henri Cartier- the world around them. But talent may use the excuse, “Oh no, but we whole. Perhaps a good way to part- Bresson, considered the father of needs to be nurtured, encouraged are higher up the food chain and solve the problem would be to, at the street photography, talked about and shared; I fear that these onerous, some animals eat others as means very least, let these animals live in the importance of capturing “the tiring and baseless restrictions of feeding” as an argument, this is a somewhat “natural” environment decisive moment” to maintain and imposed upon us by society will an altogether fallacious one. You and use less violent methods (some express a memory in a shot. He simply cause our creativity to fade see, we as humans should have – sort of short life drug) to butcher took images in streets and stations, away. It is this that will be the real and in fact it is this very capability them. And of course, decrease the of children playing and adults going tragedy – not the taking of photos that supposedly distinguishes us volume of the overall industry by a Derriere la Gare Saint Lazare: If we took a similar image today, we could be about their daily lives. This approach in public access but privately owned from the rest of faunal species – Dairy cattle are raised in painful conditions. Photo Credit: thedodo.com great deal. under threat of counter-terrorism laws. Photo Credit: Henri-Cartier-Bresson seems hollow and idealistic in a land. th th PAGE 10 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 11

SCIENCE [email protected] SCIENCE [email protected] Britain gets the push to clean our lungs Zika virus spurs global health emergency Will £600 million be enough to help the UK keep any of its COP21 promises? Naomi Stewart brains. Microcephaly can be and to mobilise funds and research. Writer potentially fatal if brain processes However, the WHO has said it Rahul Shivaram are not sufficient enough to allow could take up to nine months to Writer for vital life functions, and even if definitively prove the link between n 1947, researchers uncovered they survive, they face intellectual a unique virus in macaque disability and developmental delays. ave you ever smelled monkeys in the Zika Forest The on-going outbreak is centered the air in London? in Uganda, transmittable in Brazil and Latin America, with Women Wait, stupid question. through the bite of infected Brazil having over 400 confirmed For those who aren’t IAedes mosquitoes, the same ones cases and investigations of almost should aware, London’s air isn’t the best on responsible for yellow fever and 4,000 on-going. Reports of Hthe market. Nor is the rest of the dengue. occurrences also extend throughout UK’s. In fact, the UK has been found Almost 20 years later, the almost all of the Americas, with avoid in breach of EU regulations on air namesake Zika virus was discovered the exception of parts of Canada quality in 16 zones nationwide for in a human in Nigeria. Since then, and Chile where it is too cold for the last 15 years. it has been relatively rare in the the mosquito. Cases have also been getting It turns out, the UK’s air has been infectious diseases world, with reported in Australia and Ireland of so dirty for so long that the EU is only a few occurrences and minor people who have travelled to Zika- considering a £300 million annual outbreaks in Africa, South East infected locations and carried it back pregnant A feeding Aedes Aegypti mosquito. Mosquitoes of this genus are responsible for fine for the government. The affair Asia, and Oceania. The infection with them. It can also be passed on the transmission of the Zika virus. Photo credit Jentavery was described by the European itself is fairly short and mild, sexually from an infected person – a courts as “perhaps the longest involving headaches, joint pains, case of such has just been reported until the we know very little about the Zika the Aedes mosquito, which was running infringement of EU law in pink eye, fever, and rashes. As it has in Texas from someone whose virus because of its rarity in humans. almost successful in South America history.” been uncommon in humans and partner had travelled to Venezuela A rapid global response by the in the 1960’s. Around July last year, King’s symptoms generally clear up in ten and became infected. end of scientific and health community – Still, some countries have issued College London published a days with rest and fluids, no cure or In response, the World Health catalysed by the WHO’s declaration travel advisories for pregnant report stating around 9,500 people vaccine has been developed for it. Organisation (WHO) declared 2017 – should let us get ahead of the women not to go to infected areas, die prematurely, every year, from However, there is now a novel a global public health emergency virus’ spread, which is predicted to and even for women to avoid Nitrous Dioxide emissions in outbreak since May 2015 which on Monday, moving rapidly as a see four million cases by the end of getting pregnant until the end of London alone and 29,000 in the has seen a sharp parallel rise in result of previous accusations that Zika and microcephaly, and that the year. 2017. Until we get a grasp on it, UK (that VW scandal didn’t help cases of pregnant women infected they were too slow to react to the it was “strongly suspected but not If the disease does continue to people are otherwise advised to take things much). With this being the with Zika virus and microcephaly Ebola crisis. This quick action scientifically confirmed”. Control spread and is linked to microcephaly, care to prevent mosquito bites and case, and British air pollution being – infants born with smaller-than- allows governments to standardise studies will start in the next two it seems like one of the best options avoid semen from individuals who amongst the worst in the EU, it’s average heads and underdeveloped surveillance of new cases globally, weeks, which is important since available will also be to just eradicate have been infected. no wonder the government can find Smog obscuring the view from Primrose Hill in London. Photo Credit: Luton Anderson substantial money, during a period of such austerity, to combat the ahead with plans. the future’. This involves dozens elaboration on the figures could explain why the clean air project is issue. It looks like Newton’s First The output of the competition was of roads in Hackney with street- either be a transparency issue or less funded than we’d expect. Law applies to policy too. a selection of four winning cities: lighting that can charge your car. unfounded, causing debate around A second point worth considering The UK has just set aside £600 Bristol, Milton Keynes, London Harrow will also be giving priority whether such minor sums of money, is that while the government has UK universities pair up with Big Pharma million, awarding £40 million of it a and Nottingham. Here are some of on the scale of public policy, could set aside £600 million for the clean few weeks ago, from now until 2020 the nifty ideas as well as the changes give a strong enough push to get us air program, they have been quietly Academia forms links with industry to try speed up application of research to scrub clean our British breath. you Londoners can come to expect. The UK all to go green. defunding councils and separate The £40 million had been awarded First off, the creation of ‘traffic When you consider the context organisations who are in charge Nefeli Maria Skoufou knowledge generated from all these basic knowledge around a disease diseases from an alternative, more in the name of the Go Ultra Low priority’ schemes for Electric of this move, the plot thickens. of keeping Britain’s air clean (i.e. Papoutsaki years of research, with biomedicine into a potential cure. innovative angle that would include fund: City councils around the Vehicles (EVs) which allows EVs to has just set One needn’t be reminded that the the Department of Environment, Writer being at its zenith, should be This idea is currently being research and industry working close UK proposed plans to increase the use bus lanes 24/7 like normal traffic UK entered COP21 looking a bit Food and Rural Affairs giving less). translated to the everyday world of materialised in the UK through The Apollo together towards a common goal. uptake of electric cars in their cities lanes, not a bad bypass. Milton underwhelming (thanks to Amber Arguably, declining air quality has cancer, dementia or heart disease, for Imperial College London, UCL The therapeutic areas of interest are by residents, those with the best Keynes, receiving £9 million has aside £600 Rudd’s hash up). We were set to shown how useless local funding e are lucky enough example. The key behind this idea is and the University of Cambridge not yet fixed but they will include ideas were awarded funds to push gone gung-ho, offering all 20,000 miss targets, infringed regularly on is but still, funds for certain city to live in the golden the relationship between academia working closely together with Fund’s research in a broad range of medical parking spaces, city-wide, for free to EU regulations and hadn’t done councils have been halved from age of biomedicine, and industry. Most of the time, three pharmaceutical companies, conditions, such as asthma, cystic EV users. Bristol, given £9 million, million to much to boost renewables. £1 million to £500 thousand and with scientists all discoveries made at universities AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline fibrosis, cancer, diabetes, obesity has also opened three carpool lanes Naturally, the UK on its back instead they’ll have to participate in over the world working to find cures provide important information on and Johnson & Johnson. Imperial therapeutic and Alzheimer’s. Scientists behind to EV users and is building 80 scrub clean foot in Paris, signed up to the Zero programs such as the Go Ultra Low forW diseases affecting thousands of the evolution of particular diseases Innovations, UCL Business this consortium believe that in this free-to-use rapid charging stations Emission Vehicles Alliance (ZEV fund, to have a chance of winning people every year. and the mechanisms behind them. and Cambridge Enterprise are way drugs will be produced faster citywide. Also, it offers a four Alliance) which has the mission them back. Meanwhile, the city The good news is that institutions Yet, in only a minority of cases responsible for commercializing areas of and at a lower cost. Professor James week lease of EVs to introduce our British statement: “Only zero-emissions councils who can churn out clever working on biomedical research is this knowledge used to create the research of their respective Stirling, Provost at Imperial College potential buyers to their cars. vehicles will be sold in the member proposals will get the funding to go today are provided with higher a cost-effective cure, available to universities into knowledge that interest London, said: “Translating our Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire country by 2050.” Bold right? ahead. budgets than ever before. However, everybody. can be used by pharmaceutical research into benefits for health and offer 13 miles of crucial bus lane, breath One could even say, it’s the drastic All might join in thinking that it’s the therapies tackling these diseases A solution to this discrepancy companies to manufacture society is at the core of Imperial’s 230 charge-stations and a business change that should ensure the UK a step in the right direction, even are becoming more expensive, and might come from pharmaceutical medicines that can save anywhere are not yet mission”. What else, other than ‘try before you buy scheme’. heads toward a greener future. if they wish the magnitude of the subsequently accessible to only companies themselves, which could between thousands and millions of exciting news and discoveries could As for London, our friends Boris parking and traffic priority to Unfortunately, just like COP21, it step were a bit larger. Regardless, a limited range of patients. The pay the institutions undertaking people. The so-called £40 million we expect to hear when three of Energy Secretary Amber Rudd. Photo and co. will use £13 million in a plan EVs. Promises of delivering Ultra wasn’t strongly binding and is more stay tuned for some progress and in solution to this problem could be research to tackle issues defined by Apollo Therapeutics Fund was fixed the largest global pharmaceutical Credit: Department of Energy and to convert several boroughs across Low Emission Vehicles (ULEVs) of a support group for those who the meanwhile, watch out for those translational research. the companies, so that research can announced on the 25th of January, in companies work together with three Climate Change London into ‘Neighbourhoods of have also been made, but a lack of want to make the change. This could silent electric cars! The basic principle is that the be more effective at translating the the hope of approaching these severe of the world’s top ten universities? th PAGE 12 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk

SCIENCE [email protected] The elusive green business model Why is it taking so long for businesses to adopt greener strategies?

Jane Courtnell technology, would deter any lower efficiency in the short term. in an attempt to reduce waste, in developed countries, to set an Science Editor corporation, especially when the Secondly, because few businesses something that, a few years ago, was example for developing countries theory is yet to prove itself. I mean, act to run sustainably, there is little generally unheard of in the UK. to follow. With intimidating evidence behind statements, such usiness sustainability as as “positive correlations between a concept came about UK’s green environmental performance and in the early 70s, with business performance”. We thus controversial publications have a situation where businesses such as The Limits to Growth, economy huddle like penguins carrying on Baddressing environmental and social with the standard practice, not one consequences of economic growth. business wanting to be the first to Since the ‘green business’ model was make that much needed transition. began to establish its domain, little However, change is finally coming attention was paid to the discipline about. The UK’s green economy until the last 7-8 years. We can estimated was estimated to grow by 4.9 to now see an exponential growth 5.5% in 2015, with a 48% return in the number of businesses and rate in energy efficient investments organisations looking to minimise to grow by for large businesses. Demand for their local and global harm to the greener products is also seen to be The Adobe headquarters in San Jose, California. Adobe Systems is one of environment, community, and 4.9 to 5.5% increasing. A lot of this change can America’s greenest companies And it basically provides Adobe Reader for free. society – aiming to make profits be attributed to an increase in public It’s an all round corporate nice guy. Photo credit Wikimedia Commons without compromising future demand for greener products. For generations. in 2015 example, there is an ever growing As more and more businesses shift threats from climate change, such So why has the response to the demand for meat substitute products their business model to a greener as loss of natural resources, habitat sustainable business concept been why would any corporation invest such as Quorn as the environmental alternative, there is likely to be a destruction and species extinctions, so slowly incorporated into many millions for huge organisational impacts of eating meat gain more domino effect leading to the foreseen there is a need to preserve and work business models? changes, when such changes and more notoriety. The shift is exponential increase in ‘Green with nature and the environment so Firstly, those initial investments could expose these corporations clearly visible; we now have to pay Business’ models. It is important that a long term valuable economy to incorporate a more efficient to short term risk associated with to use plastic bags in supermarkets, that this change occurs especially is maintained.

Natasha Khaleeq Writer This week’s science picture rom space, Earth is a sensational sight often hard to grasp because seeing where all of human history has occurred, can be quite emotional Fand very impactful. As time goes by, visible signs of climate change start to appear. Those on land may notice air pollution, deforestation, or even rises in temperature and sea level. However astronauts are the only ones to bear witness to the mighty destruction of Earth, macroscopically. According the Michael Lopez-Alegria (former astronaut 1995-2007) they can see the effects of human presence on the planet. For example a different hue to the air indicates air pollution and contamination. Deforestation is also recognisable and so is the decimation of our water reservoir, as bodies of water noticeably becoming smaller. Capturing these photos from space allows astronauts to raise awareness of the fragility of the planet and its ecosystem, to those of us safe at home. A plume of smoke wafting from a forest fire in western Colorado, taken by astronauts aboard the ISS. Photo Credit NASA Goddard Space Flight Center felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 5th FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 13

ARTS [email protected] Escaped Alone is Churchill at her surrealist best The veteran playwright packs a punch with a powerful and lyrical indictment of modernity

Escaped Alone at the Royal Court. Photo by Tristram Kenton

Fred Fyles and concepts than most playwrights cosy of commodities, one whose Film Editor do with twice the length. Well Escaped inoffensive charm rests upon a into her fifth decade of writing, foundational history of colonial Churchill Churchill’s advancing age is perhaps expansion, oppressive empire, and aybe Caryl Churchill reflected in the choice of cast: four Alone the slave trade. It is this space, should be worried. explores women who are all described in the between a sentimental unexamined The past 14 months script as ‘at least seventy’. domesticity and a void of existential have seen a mass Such a combination is incredibly packs horror, that Churchill inhabits with excavation of her earlier work, with the space rare in theatre (indeed, in any her work; indeed, this dichotomy Mfour of her works being produced art form), and it seems that the is expanded upon quite literally, as in the UK. From Maxine Peake’s four leads are all ready to prove in more the green lawn intermittently gives tongue-twisting turn in The Skriker, between themselves, putting in electrifying way to a blank nether-world, where a highlight of the Manchester performances: Deborah Findlay questions Mrs Jarrett relays stark messages International Festival, to the sentimental is Sally, an ex-medic with a of disaster upon disaster. Is it a National Theatre’s double bill of pathological fear of cats; Kika prophecy? A warning? Nothing is Light Shining in Buckinghamshire Markham bends her body into a and certain. Designer Peter Mumford’s and Here We Go, Churchill’s work unexamined rigid ball of energy as the nervy lighting is brutal – a coil of metal has been granted an attention Lena, who suffers from depression wire glows around the periphery of normally reserved for the recently and agoraphobia; June Watson concepts the stage, like a coiled filament of an deceased. domesticity hardens herself as the ex-con, incandescent bulb, or the familiar But she is alive and kicking at 77 possible murderer Vi; and Linda orange flame of a toaster, only any years of age, still preoccupied with Bassett puts in a barnstorming than most warmth is snuffed out by its scale, fragile mortality, as evidenced by and a void performance as Mrs Jarrett, the as thoughts of home comforts spill her newest work, Escaped Alone, neighbour who encroaches on the over into industrial wastes. currently showing at the Royal of existential trio, and is as a result inevitably on plays twice Jarrett’s descriptions of the Court. In her typically blunt style, the periphery. bleak future are delivered with the play is a trim 50 minutes long, The four women sit in the garden an abruptness that is by turns although within that time she horror during a warm afternoon, and its length comic and desolating. From a tale manages to pack in more questions drink tea, that most parochial and involving food stocks being diverted th th PAGE 14 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 15

ARTS [email protected] ARTS [email protected] into television programmes, Churcill’s Jarrett’s interspersions, of which appear to shift before our eyes last half-century, which will surely contemporary pieces belie a sense confront the usually-indelible allowing starving commuters to there are seven, begin to suffer from due to the changing lighting, and go down as a landmark exhibition. His piece of creeping encroachment of civil forces of surveillance; and Zach watch breakfast on iPlayer, to a familiarity towards the end of the a poster for the ICA’s Cybernetic From the off, we are introduced liberties. Blas’ work joyfully subverts both man-made landslide that buries language play, and nothing feels as gripping Serendipity exhibition questions to artworks whose themes, while Trevor Paglan’s map-based work the heteronormative nature of villagers, with fragments of rock as when she first steps from the the new shifts technology will bring possibly synonymous with modern allows traces the cable-routes through New internet technology, and the force of landing ‘onto the designated child’s garden into the black wastes. But to the art world – a seismic change life, have their roots within the York, juxtaposed against the NSA’s unfettered capitalism propelling it. head’, Churchill’s text is a relentless reveals a still, this is some of Churchill’s most that we have just surveyed in the advent of the technological famously-blocky slideshows, while “Electronic Superhighway” may take-down of modernity. With clear-cut, daring writing to date; the previous galleries. revolution. The nature of the cyborg, visitors to his piece Autonomy Cube allows seem like an anachronistic phrase, mentions of property developers, abstracted scenes in the garden, which sizzle Of course, such a concept would omnipresent in popular culture since visitors to hide their movements and indeed, many of the pieces laptop cancers, and poisonous sugar, with a charged undercurrent of be mere window dressing if the the 1960s, is explored in Aleksandra through use of an encrypted Wi-Fi displayed in the exhibition attest a comparison could be made with unease and neglect, are beautiful in work inside weren’t any good. Domanovic’s work, which uses hide their signal. Elsewhere, James Brindle, to the faster-than-light nature of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror quicksilver their awkward terror. Luckily for us, the curators at the the ‘Belgrade Hand’ – the first coiner of the New Aesthetic, internet trends. ASCII art, early series, although Churchill’s ideas are The French philosopher Simone Whitechapel have managed to put artificial hand with five fingers – to movements provides the most directly cutting web interfaces, and scratchy live- more refined and abstract, bracing character Weil wrote that loving one’s fellow together a cutting and incisive show, examine the relationship between piece in the exhibition with TV broadcasts are all dragged out in their meaningless surrealism. Her man is merely a question of asking a wide-ranging retrospective of the man and machine. Elsewhere we Homo Sacer, a facsimile of the of the broom closet of technological penchant for chaos seems instead ‘what is your torment?’ Escaped have mediations on the theme through annoyingly-chirpy, happy-valley- history, and brought to the forefront. to draw on the work of speculative up.’ At points, she takes both the Alone offers us the opportunity to of representation in the virtual esque human holograms found Cory Arcangel’s work, which sees writers, especially J. G. Ballard’s language and the performers to simply listen, and try and unpick the The curators world; in a society where our self- in airports that quotes lines from an Instagram post of Paris Hilton themes of social isolation and their limit, with a monologue rotting agony lying just underneath representation is primarily made use of an UK legislation, warning visitors overlaid with a MySpace ripple resolution through turmoil. delivered by Findlay at a breakneck the skin of her four leads. It is an up of online data, the disturbing, with the threateningly bureaucratic effect, brings the world of the Her writing, as well, continues speed rivalling Beckett’s Not I for unsettling, brilliant work; we have at the dizzying video works of both Ryan claim that ‘citizenship is a privilege, modern and the recently-obsolete to develop. Escaped Alone is full of its poetic lyricism. Churchill leads more to fear from Mrs Jarrett’s Trecartin and Jacolby Satterwhite encrypted not a right’. The addition of Addie crashing together, making us phrases that stick in your mind, us, as an audience, up to a point prophesies than from the thought Whitechapel show us the self-empowerment of Wagenknecht’s Asymmetric Love, a wonder whether the hegemonic swirling round and round like an icy where language begins to fracture, that Churchill could – after fifty creating our own narratives. chandelier of CCTV cameras that grip Facebook et al have on internet mist – ‘the chemicals leaked through revealing its complete, abstracted, years – be losing her brutally-cold This theme of narrative control Wi-Fi signal hang over the room, is a playful space is truly unbreakable. cracks in the money,’ ‘children fell quicksilver character. force. have is echoed in earlier works, such work, but has all the nuance of a But while the phrase itself asleep in class and didn’t wake The repetitious nature of Mrs At the Royal Court till 12 March. Linda Bassett as Mrs Jarrett. Photo: Tristram Kenton as Olia Lialina’s 1996 work My Banksy piece. may be a blast from the past, the managed to Boyfriend Came Back from the War, a bold contrast to the exuberant Never fear, resistance to erosion show is anything but. Electronic and Lynn Hershman Leeson’s works exhibited towards the of civil liberties is at hand. Douglas Superhighway displays the dazzling seminal interactive work Lorna. beginning of the exhibition. Nam Coupland defies Facebook’s facial array of ways technology has put together The latter tracks the decisions of June Paik is given a near-obligatory recognition system by replacing informed art, and provides us with an agoraphobic woman, while the mention with his multi-screen visages with Mondrian-esque a cautionary hope for the future, Going back in time on the Electronic Superhighway a cutting and former explores the relationship assault Internet Dream; but while blocks, echoing designer Craig as artists form the vanguard of a between a distant couple after an personal self-expression may have Green’s plank masks; Rafael movement leading us into a brave The landmark exhibition brings together 50 years of art and technology co-evolution unnamed conflict, resulting in a fulfilled his prediction for a playful, Lozano-Hemmer’s Surface Tension, new world. incisive show mosaic of hauntingly black screens. liberating world of technology, it a giant eye that follows the patron Electronic Superhighway is at Fred Fyles Nam June Paik in the mid-70s, has ever-present surveillance. While between the artistic and the digital; Work Tomorrow?, which transforms The depressive nature of both is has come at a price, and the more round the gallery, allows us to Whitechapel Gallery till 15th May. Film Editor fast become a relic of the bygone age such an optimistic view of human the phrase’s ethos is reflected in this the virtual social space of Grindr of utopian technology. While Paik’s endeavors has since been consigned retrograde collection of work, which to a physical, temporally-isolated idea of a communication revolution to the growing pile of historical is exuberant, ground-breaking, and reality. The interplay between the he phrase ‘electronic that has become so far-reaching as to disappointments, the Whitechapel wholly revolutionarily. promise of increased connectivity superhighway’ has become, in his words, ‘a springboard Gallery is unafraid to take a As first impressions go, it’s a bit social media brings, and the isolated become, a mere 40 or so for new and surprising human retrospective look at the concept. of a surprise. The Whitechapel actuality, it a running theme. As years after it was coined, endeavors’, modern technology has Indeed, it forms the name of its have taken the (as far as I know) no more than a vague anachronism. instead brought with it the threat newest exhibition, which looks back unprecedented decision to TheT concept, envisioned by artist of coercion, manipulation, and at the past 50 years of interaction arrange the exhibition in reverse This chronological order, and the result is something that is an exhibition collection striking in its immediate familiarity. For most retrospectives, be it of Caravaggio or Caro, the collection of work is will take a strictly normative chronological route; the result exuberant, is an exhibition that tends to be most familiar in its centre, where artists reach their creative peaks, ground sandwiched between early periods of juvenilia, and later works that breaking simply seem outdated. In contrast, the Whitechapel exhibition begins with what is most relevant and and wholly familiar: artworks produced in direct response to the needs and revolutionary pressures of the modern age. Thus, we have Amalia Ulman’s four-month long project Excellences we move back in time through the and Perfections, perhaps the first exhibition, the references in the piece of performative art produced work become more and more dated, entirely through the medium of and the technology used cruder; Instagram, and Mahmoud Khaled’s eventually, we reach the last room, “Lorna” by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Photo: courtesy of Whitechapel Gallery. staged conversation Do You Have where Peter Sedgley’s circle works “Homo Sacer” by James Brindle. Photo: courtesy of Whitechapel Gallery “Snowbunny/Lakes” by Cory Arcangel. 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ARTS [email protected] ARTS [email protected] A vibrant tour of 20th century blossoms The Royal Academy’s colourful exhibition brings together gardens of all times and styles

One of the standout works of better for it. A ghostly figure of a each other evoking the sinister vein Indira Mallik the earlier galleries is Frédéric woman carries in a bench, melting It is the that runs through all of Munch’s Arts Editor Bazille’s The Terrace at Méric; it is in and out of the shadows. In the paintings. an unfinished work, but almost background the sunlit path has all Santiago Rusiñol conjures up a o walk into Painting the the solidity that the figure doesn’t. kind of fading grandeur in his painting Modern Garden: Monet Broad peach strokes clash against of Spanish gardens. In Gardens to Matisse at The Royal The strength the burnt umber of the shade to sumptuous of Monteforte, the golden light Academy is to plunge create the bright heat of a Turkish from the setting sun falls through into a world of exuberant greenery, of the summer. imagery that windows cut in hedges and gilds an ofT sun-dappled paths, manicured Gustave Caillebotte’s Nasurtium, ornamental pond. The fiery oranges lawns, a land where it is always painted in 1880, is one of the few are reflected in the autumnal trees spring, and Paris is always in bloom. curation paintings in the earlier galleries that would not in the distance. It is the kind of “Perhaps I owe it to flowers” feels genuinely revolutionary. Tiny sumptuous imagery that would not Monet once said, “that I became lies in the sparks of scarlet flowers, engulfed look out of place in a big budget a painter”. Within the exhibition by verdant leaves on fragile stems look out of movie. amongst the best of Monet’s work, are sown without context on a lilac- Elsewhere, coming across it is easy to see how Monet’s unique fact that the mauve ground, it provides a bridge Kandinsky’s Murnau Garden II is a painting style, from his brushstrokes between the realism of the past and place in a revelation. Stylistically, it is so far to use of colour was informed by the abstractism that would follow. removed from the paintings that his love of gardening. Only quick other artists This technique is later amplified big budget surround it, that it is thrown into frenetic flashes of colour could do by Monet in Chrysanthemums, an sharp relief, akin to having icy water justice to the sheer mass of leaves featured extreme close up transforms the splashed in your face (in the best and petals, and the light filtering flowers into exploding fireworks. movie way possible). Even from the far through them that Monet painted. Although the usual suspects end of the gallery it is impossible to It is undoubtedly Monet’s show. give Monet are Renoir, Pissaro and Cézanne, hover over the children with subtle look away from the splodges of mid No exhibition on gardens could there are also works by Gauguin, menace. Edvard Munch’s Apple yellow, cerulean, and scarlet. Wassily Kandinsky. Murnau Photo: PR Image Santiago Rusiñol, Gardens of Monforte, 1917. Photo: David Mecha Rodriguez/Colección BBVA be complete without Waterlilies or Gabriele Münter and Paul Klee. Tree in the Garden, an homage to The Royal Academy rightly Japanese Footbridge, but the strength a run for his It isn’t all bourgeois rural gardens the biblical allegory depicted in devotes much of the final gallery World War, and the aftermath years, when he painted on large abstract. Lilacs dissolve into greens, into blue, in awe. of the curation lies in the fact that replete with creamy pinks and soft medieval paintings of gardens, is full space to Monet. These last paintings of the destruction it wreaked. scale canvases, he worked mainly The uncontested highlight of broad flat strokes of white suggest Painting a Modern Garden the other artists featured give Monet money blues either. In Garden Study of the of lurid lemon yellows, ultramarines form the last canvases of his life, Though Monet never varies from in studios from sketches made this exhibition is the final gallery lily pads. It is at the zenith of his is a whistlestop tour of early a run for his money. Vickers Children, huge ghostly lilies and sea greens, which clash against spanning the years of the First his subject matter, still iterating the outdoors. Monet was never a simple which houses Monet’s Agapanthus exploration of colour over form, the 20th century art, charting the waterlilies and Japanese footbridge transcriber of nature, but further triptych, reunited for the first time fluidity of the strokes mirror the evolution of Impressionism to in his garden in Giverny, the war degrees of separation of the source in Europe. The canvases are vast, fluidity of the water, the wavering of Post-Impressionism to the avant encroaches onto his work. material combined with his failing panoramic, and if you stand in just the reflections. In the piece’s diffuse garde movement. It would have eyesight may have influenced the the right place it is possible to fill light, it is impossible to stand in been easy for the pieces to feel too evolution of his style towards the your entire field of vision with it. front of these paintings and not be disparate, but thematically it is Monet’s cohesive enough to rise above the difference in style. It is a shame personal that Van Gogh who spent much of his life painting gardens is not grief is more heavily featured, but no one palpable It is a

As German troops approached whistlestop Paris, his brushstrokes become more frenetic, he loads paint more thickly, tour of early uses bolder, darker colours. Gone is the pastel prettiness from his earlier th depictions of the footbridge, instead 20 century it is engulfed in flame like brush strokes, lime green, hot orange, art emerald yellow ochre. Some parts of the canvas are left unpainted, other parts are built up in richly textured would begrudge the curators their impasto, almost Braille like, globs of enthusiasm for Monet. If you go to paint that dissolve into sculpture the one exhibition this year, it should be closer you get. this one. Monet’s personal grief is palpable; his stepson was drafted as was Painting the Modern Garden: Monet his son. Though Monet is known to Matisse At the Royal Academy Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1916-26 (detail) Photo: Howard Agriesti, Cleveland Museum of Art painting en plein air, in the later Gustav Cailleboit, Nasurtiums. Photo: Wikipedia until 20th April friday 5 february weekly events

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FILM SpotlightFILM for it is a good story – a true one at that – that is well told by a brilliant script. It tells of the uncovering of the child molestation rife within Youth is a masterful reflection of old age Dir: Tom McCarthy Script: Tom the Catholic church, and the effect Paolo Sorrentino’s touching tragicomedy deserves more praise than it has recieved McCarthy, Josh Singer. Starring: it had on its victims, by the four- Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, man Spotlight investigative team of Rachel McAdams, Liev Shreiber the Boston Globe (Ruffalo, Michael Youth 129 minutes. Keaton, Rachel McAdams and Brian D’Arcy James), as well as their new, t’s remarkable how much can quietly brilliant boss (Schreiber). be forgiven when you have They begin as underdogs facing a Dir: Paolo Sorrentino Script: Paolo a good story. Stylistic flaws giant of a system; as the plot pulses Sorrentino Starring: Michael Caine, can be almost completely along, more victims are found, more Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul forgotten about – when I think dead ends are hit, and the rottenness Dano. 124 minutes. Iabout The Lord of the Rings novels, of it all becomes more and more it’s not Tolkien’s endless stream of clear. Ioanna Morianou minute details that I remember, but The handful of truly excellent Film Writer the epic quest of Frodo, Sam, and moments in the film arrive, the rest of the Fellowship through unsurprisingly, when a glitter Neo-colonialism are explored in Hubert Saper's We Come as Friends. Photo Credit: We Come as Friends PR Middle Earth. It’s rare enough that of craftsmanship appears in the a Grande Bellezza a film with a truly gripping story filmmaking – scenes like the single Innocence of Memories characters’ lives, while also exploring experimental documentary, We (The Great Beauty), (true or otherwise) arrives, and so moving shot in which D’Arcy Upper-class life in Istanbul. Come as Friends draws links between was undoubtedly a when it does, it may get more praise James’s character walks from his This sense of meta-narrative fits the historical colonialism practiced masterpiece. Filled with and attention than it deserves as a front door for less than fifty metres in well with the concept for Grant by the French and the British, and art and symbolism, it left us in awe, whole. in the dead of night to find himself Dir: Grant Gee. Script: Grant Gee, Gee’s documentary Innocence of the ‘new colonialism,’ represented by Las Italian director Paolo Sorrentino Spotlight is just such a film, right in front of a rehab centre Orhan Pamuk. Starring: Pandora Memories, in which a camera roams a steady stream of Chinese investors reflected upon life and death. This although it has quite the opposite for child-molesting priests, or a Colin, Mehmet Ergen. 97 minutes. the streets of Istanbul, and a ‘friend’ and Western interventionists. is partly why Youth is so widely flaw that Tolkien’s work does, heartbreaking sequence in which of the main character of the novel Coming out of a 22-year long anticipated, and also why it has being almost devoid of any stylistic the sound of children singing ‘Silent obody has written more recounts the plot of the book. civil war, and a referendum that received merely good or average flourish whatsoever. The soundtrack Night’ at a carol service is intercut on the changing face of Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s saw an overwhelming majority reviews. Youth, however, although is bland, the cinematography – while with shots of the victims breaking Istanbul than Nobel- concept of the flaneur, we are opting for independence, South contemplating similar themes, is crystal-clear – is largely devoid of down as the Spotlight team question winning author Orhan treated to a nightime walk around Sudan emerged in 2011 with a different in the sense that it was any beauty or technical proficiency, them. While I don’t think the Pamuk. Born in 1952, Pamuk Istanbul, occasionally happening sense of hope and joy. But such never intended to be as extravagant. The lovely Michael Caine as English composer Fred Ballinger, directing a herd of cows. Photo Credit: StudioCanal/Youth PR and with only a few exceptions film deserves anywhere near the Nhas witnessed an explosion of on TVs showing interviews with aspirations have since turned sour: Instead, Sorrentino aims for a (Mark Ruffalo and Liev Schreiber amount of recognition it’s getting population, which has seen Istanbul Pamuk himself, giving us a sense of Chinese investors have moved into lighter, more straight-forward, in the process of writing his final questionable success. Here, Paloma overwhelming finale, for which the routine. It is about the lustful craving come to mind), the performances are (the nominations of McAdams swell to 14 million inhabitants, voyeur-like pleasure. At one point, the territory, erecting US-designed simple film. And that’s what most work. His "sentimental, intellectual Faith’s presence, criticised for being audience is being primed throughout of missed sexual experiences, the probably best described as "solid" – for supporting actress and director making it the largest city in Europe. Pamuk states that "the hero of the oil rigs; the fertile country attracts have failed to realise. In the end, and moral testament" as he puts shallow and devoid of any meaning, the film. Fellini-esque scenes, never wasting of youth, and the nostalgia not necessarily a bad thing, but not Tom McCarthy by the Oscars are And perhaps no book of Pamuk’s novel I’m just finishing is a man numerous foreign businesses; and Sorrentino’s touching tragicomedy, it, the quite symbolically-titled: is intended to mock today’s popular absent from Sorrentino’s work, and melancholy associated with really a good thing either (can you just baffling to me), Spotlight is that better represents his love of the city who continuously walk" with a glint American missionaries joyfully accompanied by virtuoso acting, Life’s Last Day. Mick is writing culture and succeeds in doing so. also get their moments, the most old age, the latter being beautifully tell I’m bitter that this film beat rare film worth seeing for, and made than The Museum of Innocence, which of delicious irony. As memories of declare South Sudan ‘a new Texas’. deserves more praise than it has the film for his old friend, who In the hotel, Fred also meets characteristic being when Mick summed up in Mick’s dialogue with The Big Short to the Screen Actors’ enjoyable by, the strength of its recounts a love story over nine years. a lived-in city pile up, the screen Sauper creates a mosaic of thus far received. he greatly admires: Brenda Morel and befriends Paul Dano’s Jimmy imagines a meadow full of his his female screenplay co-writer, as Guild Award for Best Performance subject matter alone. Following its publication, Pamuk becomes hazy and opaque, obscured uneasy scenes; there is no narrative Youth is set in an Alpine luxury ( Jane Fonda). Brenda appears in Tree, a young actor from California female protagonists; all performing she takes a look through both ends By A Cast In A Motion Picture?). created an actual museum, which by layers of gauze-like shots. voiceover, but the gaps create hotel & spa, surrounded by breath- arresting cameos, reminding us who – much to his discontent – is their roles at the same time, it shows of a telescope: "This is what you see But what Spotlight does have going TOM STEPHENS claims to display objects from the While I don’t know whether the their own story. It is rare to find a taking scenery, where retired what a legendary cinema figure Jane most famous for his portrayal of the great impact all these women when you’re young – everything film would be appealing to someone scene in the film where some form composer Fred Ballinger (Michael Fonda is. Rachel Weisz also gives an the robot ‘Mr Q’. Jimmy seems had in his life, even though he never seems really close: that’s the future; who is familiar with Pamuk’s work of background happening is not Caine), best remembered for his amazing performance; her character, tired with fame and the Hollywood came to fully understand them. and now… that’s what you see when – especially since the film seems to relevant: in one, white peacekeepers Simple Songs, is spending his Lena Ballinger, is married to Mick’s actor lifestyle that comes with it. Overall – overlooking the you’re old – everything seems really just repeat the plot of The Museum drink in the new year while a black summer vacation with best friend son, who leaves her for… Paloma He wants his acting to have a real Paloma Faith moments – Youth is far away: that’s the past". of Innocence – those looking for a employee in overalls gathers water; Mick Boyle (Harvey Keitel) and Faith, playing a caricature of herself. impact on the world. accompanied by music that fits well Youth is also about simplicity, as gentle, beautifully-shot introduction two scenes feature televisions daughter-assistant Lena (Rachel Sorrentino is known for adding The film begins with a slowly to its atmosphere; David Lang, with Fred’s ‘Simple Songs’ reveal; easy to the scribe of Istanbul could do a playing interviews with Hillary Weisz). Fred, fantastically portrayed celebrity cameos in his films with evolving plot, including amusing whom Sorrentino has previously to play, they are performed by only lot worse Clinton – one from 2009 in which by Michael Caine, is an apathetic, sarcastic casual dialogues between collaborated in The Great Beauty, a small section of the orchestra. FRED FYLES she refers to Africa as ‘the world’s somewhat cynical old man who Caine and Keitel. A satirical touch has created a wonderful, fittingly- Nevertheless, as a young boy in breadbasket’, and one from 2012 avoids any emotional contact, Repeated is also present, like in the numerous simple, classical music score. the hotel points out to Fred, they We Come as Friends where she exploits the legacy of leading his daughter to resent him. scenes featuring an overweight The first time the film’s title are "not only simple, but really Western colonialism as a weapon Fred thinks that "emotions are portrayal of Argentinian footballer appears on screen, ironically enough, beautiful" too. With the loss of against the Chinese. overrated," preferring to express patterns are Diego Maradona. Surreal and it flashes in front of a perfect row youth comes this appreciation of The civil war has simply continued, himself through his music. Later-on visually indulging interventions, of semi-naked elderly women the simple moments in life that Dir: Hubert Saper Script: Hubert with guns and knives replaced by in the film however, a more tender common for Sorrentino, frequently marching towards the hotel’s sauna. should have been cherished more. Saper 110 minutes. diplomacy and land-agreements. side of Fred is progressively revealed: beautifully interrupt the plot, such as when This scene emits right from the For Fred one of them is his wife Imperialism leaves behind what someone who cares deeply for his Fred ‘directs’ a herd of cows in an start a feeling of doom, associated Melanie; as he says, besides all fter more than a decade Frantz Fanon called ‘germs of rot,’ daughter, largely appreciates Mick’s idyllic Swiss scenery. with old age. Ultimately, Youth has a they had been through, they liked away, director Hubert and has re-emerged as a postmodern friendship, and, most significantly, orchestrated This light atmosphere gradually pessimistic outlook on growing old, to think of themselves ‘as a simple Sauper has returned scramble for Africa. With a style who terribly, desperately misses develops over a number of fore- or rather, a deeply realistic one; it is song’. We come to the realisation with We Come as Friends, that calls to mind the non-linear his wife, Melanie, ceasing to find shadowings and repeated patterns, about aging and the losses that come that emotions are everything but a troubling, immensely powerful films of Adam Curtis, We Come meaning in life without her. by beautifully orchestrated by with it. The loss of a loved one, the overrated; according to Mick, they lookA at South Sudan, the ‘World’s as Friends is a vitally-important, Mick, on the other hand, is more Sorrentino, to reach a plot-twisting loss of memory, the loss of purpose are "all we’ve got", and by the end, newest country,’ whose post- beguilingly-strange call to arms for sensitive. A widely recognised, but climax of highly unexpected and in life, the loss of enthusiasm and Fred finally gives in to them, giving independence existence has been all those who reject oppression. now washed-up film director, he is Sorrentino tragic events. All building-up to an talent. The heaviness of a dull daily the film it's perfect ending. The central cast of Boston-set jornalism drama Spotlight. Photo Credit: Spotlight PR blighted by violence. A looping, FRED FYLES th th PAGE 26 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 27

FILM [email protected] FILM [email protected] simply don’t sell. This is clearly a he believed he had Native American The top three lie, as recent releases have proved: ancestry; this has not been proved. Straight Outta Compton made more The theory of evolution suggests Korean films Hollywood and the DuVernay Test than $200 million, while Star Wars: to us that change must be gradual, The Force Awakens, whose two incremental, and natural, but the protagonists are black and a woman, rate at which Hollywood is adapting that aren’t became the highest-grossing film itself to its market-demographic is of all time in the US. There is now achingly slow; despite how much no excuse for studio executives to the industry may will it, the USA Oldboy refuse to fund minority films on the isn’t a homogenous clone-world rather weird exchange excuse that it doesn’t represent a safe filled with thousands of Ryan of words comes investment. Goslings and Emma Stones. The about every time I Furthermore, many roles that film industry is sick. While we recommend maverick may be filled with minorities are should rightly criticise the Academy Korean Director Chan-wook ‘whitewashed,’ with Caucasian for their refusal to include actors Park’sA 2003 masterpiece Oldboy: actors chosen instead. While we like Idris Elba or Will Smith in ‘Trust me this film is so amazing may want to kid ourselves that their list of nominees, what the and messed up, it will scar you for we have left such portrayals like DuVernay Test would do is shift the life!’ It’s something that has to be Mickey Rooney’s grossly-offensive attention back towards the root of seen to be understood. What is turn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s in the the problem: the channels of money for sure is that Oldboy represents past, we only need to look back a and power that flow through the Viola Davis, accepting her Emmy for Best Actress, during which she made a stirring call for equality. Photo Credit: AP just one film in the blossoming couple of years, to 2013’s The Lone Hollywood studios. There are few world of modern Korean cinema: Ranger in which Johnny Depp plays roles out there for minority actors, acceptance speech, Viola Davis said the industry’s refusal to promote of an iceberg of inequality. Tests like a Native American character, to see and all-too-often they are shut out that "the only thing that separates minority actors, not only during the DuVernay Test help shed light I’m a Cyborg, But That’s such practices are alive and kicking. of potential roles in favour of white women of colour from anyone else awards season, but throughout all on this, and set out a new path for OK (2006) Depp received a fair amount of actors, who offer a more ‘bankable’ is opportunity. You cannot win an stages of film production. What the future. What a name, eh? I’m a Cyborg... kick-back for his choice to portray a alternative. Emmy for roles that are simply we see when we look at the list of was the first film Park released Native American, and claimed that In her emotional Emmy not there." We should be angry at nominees for the Oscars is the tip FRED FYLES after finishing his ‘Vengeance’ trilogy, of which Oldboy took centre stage. Here, Su-jeong Lim gives an electric performance as Ava DuVernay (centre) has supported a new test to encourage wholly developed minority characters in films. Photo Credit: AP/Wikimedia/Sundance Selects Young-goon, a factory worker who is sent to a mental hospital or the second year running, ceremony; and the deliberately- (white, straight, male) hero. The test that would require him to put on Documentary corner: Chimpanzee for thinking that she is a combat the Academy Awards has titled slave rebellion drama Birth is not about quality, more about the an Indian accent, despite the fact cyborg. At the institute she meets nominated only Caucasian of a Nation has won two of the top representativeness of the industry. that he was born and grew up in the Ben Collier filmmakers called ‘Scar’ and the several characters ­– all deranged actors for the awards, prizes at Sundance. The DuVernay test, as expressed US – it’s a common problem many Film Writer other led by Freddy. The pacing and or strange – including Park Il- igniting a powder-keg on social In an article for The New York by Dargis, brings up two key points. minority actors face. editing here is absolutely superb, sun, played by Korean heart- Fmedia, and highlighting the lack Times, chief film critic Manohla The first is that minority characters Even in those roles where and as much as I don’t want to throb Rain, a man who thinks he of diversity in the film world. But Dargis has floated the idea for a in films have ‘fully realized lives,’ minority actors have garnered h a genuine big-budget admit it I also found myself more can steal souls. not all hope is lost; while actors ‘DuVernay Test,’ one modelled on an idea that involves the characters acclaim, the range of such roles has nature documentary," invested in the outcome of this clash like Charlotte Rampling and the Bechdel Test, and named after being named, their thoughts been limited: the first black winner I thought excitedly. having followed the main players The Host (2006) Julie Delpy may make misguided Ava DuVernay, the director of Selma, explored, and their portrayal on- of an Oscar, Hattie McDaniel, won As a biologist and throughout the film’s narrative. It is I always considered The Host to comments on the industry, there are whose snub at the Oscars was seen as screen being nuanced. There is the for playing a ‘mammy’ stereotype; lover of all things primate I was here where the film shines. be the first true ‘Blockbuster’ film signs of real change: Cheryl Boone a crucial indication of Hollywood’s long-running trope of the black the last three black winners of the Oinstantly excited to watch this One issue is persistent however: to come out of South Korea. Upon Isaacs, president of the Academy, problem with minorities. DuVernay character being the first to be killed Best Supporting Actress Oscar film upon seeing its name online. whilst the looming hand of release it sold over 13 million has stated a move towards changes herself has endorsed the idea on in a horror movie, of the Asian have won for, respectively, a slave, a Unfortunately, my excitement Disney is mostly absent from this tickets domestically. Assuming no in the membership policy, which Twitter, although the actual form character being a maths and science maid, and an abusive mother reliant quickly flip-flop’d when I saw the experience, Chimpanzee can be, repeat viewings that totals 20% would hopefully lead to a more of the test is unclear; while the whiz, and of Middle Eastern on welfare. While Birth of a Nation second part of the title: ‘Disney at times, anthropomorphic to a of the South Korean population. representative group choosing the Bechdel test merely requires there actors inevitably playing a string of does, I am sure, deserve its critical nature’. Expectations dropped fault. The narrator often describes It’s not hard to see why as The winners; Idris Elba picked up two to be two named women characters ‘terrorist’ roles; but tropes are tropes acclaim, it would be fantastic to see considerably. Disney, as a company, the chimps activity in an all-too Host is essentially Korea’s answer SAG awards, in a pointedly-diverse who speak to each other about for a reason, and they reflect the roles for minority actors that break has several connotations which, romantic way. Even the labelling to Godzilla – instead featuring a something other than a man, lack of fully-developed characters out of traditional tropes. whilst fitting for children’s cartoons of the leader of the second clan monster lurking in Seoul’s Han Dargis just stated that the test offered to minority actors. In one But there is another issue at and comedies, doesn’t seem to blend as ‘Scar’ is a rather obviously River. DuVernay's would involve: ‘African-Americans episode of Aziz Ansari’s lauded hand here that the DuVernay Test well with the themes and tropes of a manipulative move. Selective and other minorities having fully Netflix sitcom Master of None, brings up, not equality of outcome, mature nature documentary. editing allows the filmmakers to Memories of Murder realized lives rather than serve as struggling-actor Dev refuses a role but equality of opportunity. It is What I was pleasantly surprised spin any narrative they wanted, and (2003) snub at the scenery in white stories.’ all well and good getting annoyed to find out upon finishing the film one does often question the reality Released the same year as I am sure that there are those who with the Academy, but really what however, is that Chimpanzee does of what is presented on screen. As Oldboy, Memories of Murder will – like critics of the Bechdel Test You can't we should be doing is questioning away with a very large proportion, it stands though Chimpanzee still is almost every bit a classic, Oscars was – argue that such motions are merely and examining the deeper power although not all, of its Disney Oscar, the central character in Disney’s perhaps over-anthropomorphic Chimpanzee. Photo Credit: Disney serves as an expertly assembled starring the incredible Kang Ho- ‘painting by numbers,’ and wouldn’t structures present in the film baggage. and executed look into some Song as one half of a detective be in any way representative of win awards industry. In order to have more Chimpanzee is presented as with his clan none of the other 35 Forest all whilst following the main gain character development, but are very intimate parts of the lives of team tasked to solve a string of indicative of the quality of the film. I would say minorities being recognized for a story-driven narrative, and mothers are then prepared to ‘adopt’ protagonist’s journey. For example, also informed of primate learning young chimps. It is also a lot more brutal murders in the Gyeonggi that such critics have obstinately their work, they need to have the throughout the film we follow a him. Just before all hope is lost in one short scene where Oscar behaviours. educational than one might assume. province. With perfect pacing, missed the point of such tests: in a for roles that chance of showing off their talent in 3-month old chimpanzee called however an adult male ‘Freddy’ takes observes how to crack open nuts In what I consider to be the big As for recommendations, of course deep and engrossing characters the whole US population that is 51% women the first place, something that does ‘Oscar’. In the opening scenes we Oscar under his wing. This narrative – Oscar tries desperately to get to ‘Act 3 showdown’ of the film there I would suggest you watch this film and a mystery plot every bit as and nearly 40% non-white, we not seem to be happening within hear of his mother’s death and is expertly spun throughout and we the nuts using logs of wood before is a clash between two warring but perhaps bring a younger family shocking as David Fincher’s should expect minority and women aren't there the current studio system. Often, see him separated from his troop. are able to learn a lot about the life an adult shows him how to instead troops of chimpanzees. One is led member along with you as they will Seven, this film is a must-see. problem characters to serve as more than executives have given the excuse that Unfortunately, even once reunited of chimps in the Ivory Coast’s Tai use a spiked rock – we not only by a battered old alpha-male the absolutely love it. BEN COLLIER just a backdrop for the exploits of a stories about minorities or women th th PAGE 28 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 29

MUSIC [email protected] MUSIC [email protected] MTV’s Brand New for 2016 Racism is so metal Aiden Langan Rob Garside Anselmo’s life. At the last week’s white wine backstage). This was Writer Writer annual commemoration of iconic captured on camera and put up Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrel, on YouTube (however the video the former Pantera member (also was put up on video a week after he second of MTV his article is something I a member of Down, Superjoint the event as the filmer was afraid Brand New for 2016 need to get off my chest. of the backlash from tarnishing showcases, hit Camden’s I love heavy music with Anselmo’s name). The video is Electric Ballroom on aggressive themes, from conclusive, Anselmo’s actions were Wednesday 27th January, featuring Black metal to hardcore to grind – I The video is horrific. There is no doubt that he is up-and-comersT Nimmo and Rat loveT it all. I love the catharsis and a piece of scum who, whilst a gifted Boy alongside noughties indie thrill that a pounding drum and conclusive, vocalist, deserves to be recognised legends Bloc Party. palm muted guitar line can provide and castigated by the mainstream but sometimes the shit that comes metal media for the awful bigot he Nimmo with it really makes me wonder why. Anselmo’s is. Metal has well established But instead of reacting to a Nimmo were the first band in the problems with racism (see: below), clear scandal (although one that evening’s lineup. Their electro pop sexism (see: lack of inclusion of actions has happened a bit too much in songs were catchy with the band any female members unless they Anselmo’s life) metals major media looking extremely happy to be on are overly sexualised in a “female outlets reacted slowly – if at all – stage, if a bit nervous. Their songs fronted” band) and a culture were to this despite in some cases being initially felt a bit on the long side that suffocates new ideas or present at the dimebash event. but they definitely grew on me by experimentation (see: recent festival Kerrang, Decibel and Revolvers were the end. They definitely have the bills with the same headliners as in horrific loath to call Anselmo out on his possibility of being the ‘next big the early 90s). clearly racist actions as they were thing’, and are of a similar vein to This week it was racism that reared Ritual and others) choose to finish seemingly afraid of damaging their Jungle. The chemistry and songs are its ugly head. What has particularly his set by snapping off a Nazi salute working relationship with a metal there for a solid foundation. set me off is the latest event in a long and shouting “White Power” into icon (Decibel and Revolver have had Kele Okereke looks suave in his vintage shirt. Photo Credit: Aiden Langan line of racist events (Google it: there the crowd (he later said that this was no mention of this even happening Rat Boy are a couple) that make up Phil due to the fact they were drinking on their site in an age when being do well no matter what happens. on to ‘Song For Clay (Disappear been released at this point, very few each other at the climax. It’s truly first to report on everything is so Next up was the 19 year old Rat Here)’ and the classic hit ‘Banquet’, people in the crowd knew the songs the highlight of the night, and I treasured). Others such as Metal Moments after Anselmo raises his right hand. Photo Credit: Youtube / Chris R Boy (aka Jordan Cardy) and his Bloc Party the crowd starts to finally form a and the feeling from the crowd would even go so far to say it saved Hammer chose to hide behind safe band. It’s clear from the start that reasonable mosh pit (for a free gig, went to euphoria to frustration the gig. language using terms like “Nazi- to be offensive” echoed from the and despite seeing the video. When many people, most between the ages Bloc Party’s return after a two year anyway). The band also seem to very rapidly. People were calling Asking the audience if they esque gesture” and “allegedly keyboards of hicks. reported, a scary number of metal of 14 to 16, were looking forward to hiatus was surprising due to the fact enjoy themselves, relaxing into the out for (debut album) Silent Alarm “wanted a banger”, Kele and co shouted White Power,” when the It should take no explaining why fans didn’t seem to work out that his performance. It makes sense as that half of the line-up had left corporate setting. Bartle shows her tracks during this marathon of finished with ‘Ratchet’ which guy clearly did it. Eventually after I’m annoyed at this but let’s spell racism is bad and can’t be excused his lyrics are generally tinged with during the break. Replacing Matt new songs, with Kele asking ‘Who produced the most violent mosh the smaller blogs had broke the it out. Famous man uses a far right as a joke. teenage angst. Rat Boy sounds like a Tong (drums) and Gordon Moakes let these fools in?’ but alas most pit of the night despite the odd news (and a couple of days later salute and slogan. Man in crowd It really annoys me that a society Jamie T clone who could potentially (bass) with Louise Bartle and Justin people agreed with the hecklers. person still heckling the band for when the mainstream media finally videos racist stuff and waits a week. in love with being a subculture and emulate the success of the original Harris, respectively, the band have The band It was saddening to see as the live more Silent Alarm tracks rather caught up), these new articles Big media fails to report it despite “for the outcast” is so bad at excusing but I feel like he’s a bit of a ‘record been building up to the release of versions of the songs are a lot better than a (somewhat) recent hit. It was were bombarded with metal fans being at the event (they were happy the persecution of minorities. label manufactured’ Jamie T rather their new (less than acclaimed) than the studio versions, especially a great way to end a concert with defending Anselmo. Cries of “it’s enough to host videos of Anselmo Not cool metal world. than something more natural. album Hymns. knew how ‘Different Drugs’. Saying that, the energy of the crowd equaling, Phil apologises. Photo Credit: Youtube / Philip Anselmo just a joke” and “metal is meant singing the Pantera classic ‘Walk’) Not cool. The sound quality is extremely Entering with new song ‘The ‘The Love Within’ was just barely possibly even surpassing, the energy poor (with a sound check almost Good News’, they started out a listenable to (though the album during ‘Banquet’. seeming like an impossibility). The bit too slow and the energy of much version is actually unlistenable) After this, the band left the stage. kiddies mosh like there’s nothing the audience was slightly drained and got the best response of the Despite cries for another song, with wrong but a loud siren-like sound with mild swaying being the most better this new songs. The band also seemed the most popular suggestions being plays between songs, and I’m unsure active response. It’s a nice start but a bit disappointed with the general ‘Helicopter’ and ‘Flux’, the band if it’s intentional or not (it didn’t nothing special. To me, it felt like if response from the audience during did not return. I can’t blame them sound right at all). The rest of the it continued in this way this could concert this segment but they were playing completely for leaving without an crowd almost look surprised and have been the most dull concert I’d generally very boring parts, with encore, as it was a corporate gig and Calling all music writers shocked that the music gets such ever been to. the raw skill of the band not on the fact that a large number of the a good response. There was even a Thankfully, they go straight into could have display. In particular, the drumming audience seemed disinterested with stage invasion during the last song 2008’s ‘Mercury’. Whilst it’s not is extremely basic and disappointing the band. ‘Fake ID’, which I’m sure all of his Bloc Party’s most famous song, the to watch as Bartle is clearly capable Saying that, the disinterest was Do you have strong opinions on music? Do you think fans would have needed to buy any dancey vibes of the song energise been of performing to a much higher a result of the uninspiring setlist. I drinks during the evening. the audience. Kele Okereke (lead standard. believe they could have gotten away Rihanna’s latest album was just okay? Excited for Having listened to studio versions vocals, rhythm guitar) hypes up the Thankfully, the concert did finish with a Hymns heavy set but they of some of his songs previously, crowd with some playful banter. The skill on the old songs with fast paced on a high with the Silent Alarm needed to spread the new songs out Kanye’s next album? Want to be the next Anthony they’re actually quite good, if musicianship of Harris is truly seen drumming and perfect precision. track ‘This Modern Love’ reminding a bit more and it did feel almost unoriginal. Maybe with a sound to be great, and perhaps supasses Sadly after this, the concert went most people why they fell in love criminal to not play ‘Helicopter’. Fantano? Drop an email to [email protected]! check, he may have been much his predecessor; he performs with a for a turn for the worse as three with Bloc Party back in the mid to Many left disappointed, despite the better than he was on this evening. saxophone rather than a synth which songs from new album Hymns are late 00s. Russell Lissack (guitarist) event being free, as the crowd and Send us your articles or ideas. However, from the audience makes the song have a bit more played, all in succession. As the still impresses to this day and the probably the band knew how much participation I saw this evening, he’ll of a ‘human’ feel. Moving swiftly majority of these songs had not audience were practically hugging better this concert could have been. th th PAGE 30 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 31

GAMES [email protected] GAMES [email protected] FELIX reacts to virtual reality Land’s End is a VR gem The future is here and you’ll look like a fool wearing it The makers of Monument Valley return with the first great VR experience on mobile

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or a gaming device to truly succeed it needs a great launch title. Land’s End, a virtual reality puzzle adventure from the creators of FMonument Valley, is the game that every owner of the device must play. Developers Ustwo truly understand the power of the new medium and where it works best, and they’ve used that knowledge to create something that feels completely new. Set over five short chapters and distinct environments, players must help awaken an ancient civilisation. Those who have played Thatgamecompany’s (yes, that’s actually their name) Journey will notice the obvious visual and thematic similarities. The game’s Land’s End, the first good game about somewhere in Cornwall (kinda). Photo Credit: Ustwo title has many obvious meanings, but one of it’s most literal is the way traditional, puzzles. For an hour or massive collections of islands. it frequently places you at the edge so I really felt like I had the power Sometimes you’ll come at these The FELIX team model this season’s biggest fashion accessory. Photo Credit: Cale Tilford of a cliff, allowing you to peer down Physical of telekinesis. For an hour environments from above, slowly into the sea (or abyss) below. The game also plays with descending into the depths below. he year of virtual reality a medium it’s really exciting to see Fred Fyles, Film Editor Grace Rahman, Editor- Cale Tilford, Music To move around the environment, controllers perspective as part of the puzzle or so I really At other times, you leave a cave only is finally upon us.VR being developed and tech such in-Chief Editor the game uses head tracking. You solving gameplay. Unfortunately, to be blinded by sunlight. The most This week, the FELIX as Gear VR make it accessible to All new technological advances look at a place on the screen and the this isn’t used enough which feels breathtaking moments are when team tried Gear VR, everyone. bring with them the fear that current camera moves. Ustwo have got right really like an oversight for a game that felt like I you soar above the landscape (and Samsung’s mobile virtual reality forms of art will go out of date or The general experience was Until recently, I saw virtual reality what many other developers have makes the most of VR. this happens a lot); you get a real headset.T Indira Mallik, Arts Editor become extinct; upon seeing early headache inducing, but Lands End as part of an elusive future – one that got wrong – physical controllers Land’s End might look simple in sense of scale which can only be It’s not as powerful as competitors examples of the daguerreotype, Paul was cool. I don’t think it’s going was particularly out of reach for the really break the immersion of break the comparison to VR titles on Oculus had the achieved with stereoscopic virtual like Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive, Ever wished you could press your Delaroche exclaimed that “painting to catch on in a very big way. But majority of society. Technologies like virtual reality, so why not do away Rift and the HTC Vive (which is reality. Unfortunately, this often but it’s a decent introduction to VR nose to Gauguin’s masterpieces is dead”. I have little such fear for Gear VR and Google Cardboard with them? The device’s head mainly a technical limitation), but leads to motion sickness, although I for the unacquainted. without being hauled off by gallery mean anyone (with the right sort tracking ability also gives you immersion it’s stylised, cell-shaded graphics power of haven’t thrown up yet. security? Well if you don’t mind If folks of smartphone) can access one of the ability to look at objects and are one of its best features. Dreamy Land’s End, although short, leaves Lef Apostolakis, Science being roundly mocked by everyone It will the most promising new forms of move them with your mind; you’ll colour palettes and spectacular a mighty impression. It’s the first Editor surrounding you IRL and the nausea media. There are problems with VR, have to do this often to help you of VR lighting illuminate environments telekinesis truly great mobile VR experience. inducing experience of walking start solve environmental, and more ranging from small cave interiors to Available on the Oculus Store places using head movements, you remain I tried a few different things. can do just that. My highlight? The One reality Personally theBluVR (an immersive disconcerting effect of being taller doing this ocean experience) resonated with than you actually are. So this is nothing me the most. As an ocean lover and what the world looks like for people on the is not free diver, the app really managed to whose bones didn’t fuse freakishly replicate the freediving experience early. Technical issues (my own) other than and I felt that it really gave me the aside, this is a weirdly addictive bus their enough opportunity to do a couple of my experience: you know something is dream dives (alas only virtually). As worth it when the headset literally a gimmick has to be snatched off your face. stuff will get especially if you suffer from motion sickness, but my small glimpse of A weirdly Saad Ahmed, Television the impact VR will have on film. another reality has me excited for Editor While the technological advances stolen the further advancements we will are interesting, the films on offer see in the next few years. One reality addictive were not; I believe that it will remain maybe I’ll look stupid in ten years is not enough, and the games and A little uncomfortable and some nothing other than a gimmick. We time like when we quote people who other experiences I’ve played so far kinks to iron out but ultimately will continue to watch our films in said the internet was never going to are incredibly immersive and offer experience something fun, creative and damn the dark, looking straight ahead, just catch on. If folks start doing this on interesting, and innovative, new enjoyable. as nature intended. the bus their stuff will get stolen. ways of interaction. Black holes and revelations.. Photo Credit: Ustwo Ustwo have gone for a cheeky vapourwave aesthetic. Photo Credit: Ustwo th th PAGE 32 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 33

TV [email protected] TV [email protected] Mozart in the Jungle Rise of Netflix (Fall of Cable?) Anurag Deshpande Malcolm McDowell also puts Saad Ahmed need to wait for a particular hour on however, one should also look what Writer in a standout performance here, Television Editor a certain day and build your activities the internet in general has to offer. playing the aging ex-conductor who around said hour. It is completely up For example, in places like YouTube struggles to deal with the fact that to you when you want to watch, and and Twitch, creators are able to he’s past his prime. It’s great to see hese past few years, we’ve also how much you want to watch. provide content which caters to f you followed this year’s seen a sudden shift in Binge watching is a natural follow- specific audiences. Watching people Golden Globes, you might’ve popularity of several play games, reviewing and reacting been surprised by Mozart in The show’s online streaming sites to movies and even teaching some the Jungle sweeping the Best with Netflix, Hulu and Amazon All you need skills, there is usually something Television series – Comedy, and wit is sharp PrimeT being the most popular of the the internet can provide for you. It IBest Actor in a Television series bunch. They’ve added competition is an internet is easier to get access to something – Musical or Comedy categories. and rarely into the television market and are really specific you have in mind. This By virtue of being an Amazon growing in popularity by the day. connection is a far cry from cable TV, a feature Original, this show has flown under Netflix have also been expanding it probably can’t really implement as most people’s radars. predictable their reach, now present in most it tries to cater to the majority. I consider that a damn shame, countries around the world. With and a Online streaming services are also since the show is actually pretty him not taking himself too seriously, all this growth, it begs the question, usually cheaper than a conventional good. Following struggling Oboist and his comedic timing is great. It’s Full of style and substance. Photo Credit: Amazon Prime can these online streaming sites subsciption TV package. So with all these Hailey Rutledge, played by a capable too bad he doesn’t get more comedic replace live cable TV altogether? advantages, can they truly become Lola Kirke, the piece chronicles the work. The evergreen Bernadette so if you’re expecting some great Another factor that only helps is the Schwartzman, and I say that as a First we need to examine why the primary method of TV viewing? Game of Thrones typically has a relatively lavish budget. Photo Credit: HBO lives of the New York Philharmonic Peters also features, owning every treatise about the meaning of life series’ freshness. The subject matter huge fan. In fact, the overwhelming these services have been so popular and you’re Netflix’s president Reed Hastings Orchestra, as they attempt to get scene she’s in. then I really don’t know what to tell is fairly new popular fiction, and so majority of this quirk is the good and what they provide that makes certainly thinks so, recently claiming due to a multitude of reasons on Game of Thrones has a very large to grips with the flamboyant new The show’s wit is sharp and rarely you. I mean, why are you looking for every development and exploration kind. If you like Schwartzman’s them more appealing than cable. ready to go that internet TV will replace linear various services. One of the perks of budget as well as planning behind maverick conductor Rodrigo; a role predictable. There are quite a few that in an Amazon series about an manages to keep viewers interested. usual shtick, you’ll like this; if you The most prominent feature of these TV in the next 20 years or so. cable TV is just browsing through it, and it is a very long time before that Gael García Bernal clearly moments that got big laughs out of orchestra? Go read The Master and If I have any complaints, they are enjoy orchestras, you’ll enjoy this, services is that they are convenient. up from this ease of access; after a However personally, I don’t think channels and finding a random before something like Netflix will has quite a lot of fun with. García me, and they never felt stale, trite, Margarita or something. that the show meanders a tad in the and if you’re a fan of good comedy, As they are online services, it long, busy week of hard work, it’s this is happening any time soon and movie you want to watch, or seeing be able to produce something Bernal really sinks his teeth into or done to death. There’s scarcely Nevertheless, the characters are middle of the first season, and that you’ll be a fan of this. means all you need is an internet usually a relaxing experience to definitely not straight away. a rerun of your favourite old series. original along that level of scale and the character, deftly encompassing a dull moment, and the viewer is strong enough to keep the show at times it can feel too ‘hipster-y’. connection and a subscription just lie in bed and watch all the As great as these sites are and An additional point to note is calibre. That hasn’t stopped them the mix of eccentricity and genius compelled to keep watching the afloat with much of the humour But really, what can you expect Mozart in the Jungle is available and you’re ready to go. This means episodes of your favourite series in may seem to be, they have their that most content-producers and from continuing to produce various necessary. series. It is strongly character driven, coming from their interactions. from a show produced by Jason on Amazon Prime people can use devices like laptops, one sitting. These services are also limitations. For example, not all pay-TV operators have been adept unique shows to enjoy, however, tablets and mobile phones to watch a different experience altogether. the shows and movies are available at making sure consumers cannot and it is great that they’re churning TV shows and movies, wherever You can note down your favourite on any one site. To watch all your watch current episodes of their them out, albeit slowly. they may choose. Of course you shows and movies and get updates favourite shows, you may need favourite shows. In other words, they A major obstacle these sites have need internet access but in this day on new episodes as well as get to subscribe to several different have not made the same mistake is also the inability to air live sports. and age that’s not really a problem. recommendations for other things services all at once. Also some that newspapers did a decade ago, The rights to live sports and their It’s not just convenient in terms of to watch. With all these things, it’s shows just simply don’t have an channels are expensive and they Cartoon Corner: Bojack Horseman where and how you can watch, it’s not a surprise to see why so many online presence at all. To add to are a market online streaming sites Harry Wilkinson Also, it is fantastic. need to give time to get your head The show’s central character, the show begins to really shine in also useful in that you can choose students use them. this, shows and movies are regularly A large have not been able to take over. You Writer The Netflix original animated around, the first episode gives the Bojack is a deeply unhappy ex- the latter half of the first season. when to watch as well. You don’t Taking a step back from TV taken down and brought back can’t really binge football games; the series stars Arrested Development’s impression of a silly, Family Guy celebrity, keen to return to the public It displays the fact that, with the number of fun is watching them in a group, Will Arnett, Breaking Bad’s like animated show with throwaway eye by releasing an autobiography possible exception of Paul’s Todd, socializing and commenting on the ojack Horseman is a Aaron Paul and Community’s jokes and unlikable characters but of his years on TV. Brie’s Diane no character in the show is without play. show about an alcoholic Alison Brie in a world where all of it is building to what has Nguyen comes in to act as ghost depth. Even the seemingly one- hit dramas Online streaming services horse who was the star anthropomorphised animals live been called one of television’s most dimensional (if hilarious) Mr definitely have their advantages of a Cosby-esque family alongside humans, and that’s hardly accurate portrayals of depression Peanutbutter displays some of his are still on and sure as heck aren’t going away sitcom in the 90s, now dealing with the most surreal thing about it. and a biting satire of Hollywood No character own demons that he’s battling. any time soon. In the short term, Ba life of loneliness and depression. Bojack, is certainly a show you culture. The second season brings in traditional, they haven’t even come close to in the show is some new players in the form of killing cable and it is more likely Lisa Kudrow’s Wanda Pierce (an cable TV will have a prolonged owl) and Ben Schwartz’s Rutabaga live television decline. The number of households without depth Rabitowitz, each fantastic characters having cut the cord entirely is pretty complementing the remaining cast. offering the same content online insignificant compared to cable writer for this and serves as the The second season also marks a for free that they expect subscribers subscribers. outside look into Bojack’s mind. shift from the satire of Hollywood to pay for. A lot of content-owners Having said all this, the switch The series shifts between wacky and towards more personal stories, have restricted the rights of these to online TV is a meaningful one, humour coming from the world’s topping with a truly devastating streaming sites so they cannot air and has the potential to accelerate animal inhabitants and long drawn scene involving someone from shows until after they have aired live over time. There are children who out pieces of wordplay (“There is Bojack’s past. on television. have, and will, grow up without nothing funny about stealing a meal Bojack is a show you need to be The scope and cost of making a cable altogether. Internet connected from Neal McBeal the navy Seal”) prepared for, a ride of ups and downs new show are also pretty substantial. smart TV’s are also becoming more then hits the viewer with glimpses and testament to the success of While these sites do have a number popular and people may well opt of Bojack self-loathing, Diane’s Netflix’s release all at once method of brilliant, original shows like out of paying cable and just stream deep insecurity and the shallowness of showing TV. House of Cards, they are not in a Netflix in their living rooms. Until of Hollywood culture. significantly large quantity and that time, I’ll just sit down and After some difficulty finding its Bojack Horseman is available on a vast majority of hit dramas are check what BBC One has to offer A has-been actor, drinking away his problems. Photo Credit: Netflix footing in the first few episodes, Netflix House of Cards, a compelling and amazing Netflix original. Photo Credit: Netflix still on traditional, live television. at 11pm on Saturday night. th th PAGE 34 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 35

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Across 39. Light based (5) 72. Distant rock (5) 14. Crusty end (4) 54. U.S. exchange (4) 1. Still products (11) 42. Average man (3) 73. Gone beyond good (6) 16. Rolled letter (6) 56. Invisible cordoned off area 5. Babylonian king (14) 43. Heartless air (8) 75. Cut away (financially) (10) 19. Germ killer (9) (2,3,4) 13. Temperature scale (10) 44. Fable writer (5) 76. Imperial stop (5,10) 20. Destroyed to nothing (12) 59. (Of a person) lacking PAID ADVERT 15. Walkway to seating (5) 45. Dealing with it (6) 21. Sounds like itself (12) refinement 17. Once more settled (9) 47. Flat surface (8) Down 23. Lacking reserve (7,7) 60. Got (8) 18. Syrup (8) 48. Based on estimation (8) 27. Squared nail (4) 61. Sticky black substance (7) 20. Surrounding area (12) 52. Type of bacon (8) 1. Slander (10) 28. Gin flavourant (7,7) 63. North London area (7) 22. Ladies’ fingers (4) 55. Trademark (5,4) 2. Authority of a study (7) 29. Sulking like a child (8) 64. Greek nymph (7) 24. Oppressor (6) 57. A Chinese philosophy (6) 3. Solid water (3) 33. Online market (4) 66. No longer dormant (6) 25. Florence born sculptor (9) 58. Educational talks (8) 4. Duplicate (4) 37. Mexican foodstuff (6) 68. Heavy feeling (5) 26. Signed and ______(9) 62. Nearly gone (5,2,10) 6. Hawaiian instrument abbr. (3) 40. Sound of ‘cheers’ (5) 74. Further than 73. (3) 30. Supercontinent (6) 65. Cunning (3) 7. Deeply distressing (9) 41. Pitch classification (4) 31. Caribbean country (5) 66. Deep dread(5) 8. From reality to theatrical (13) 46. European capital (4) 32. Seafarers unit of distance (8,4) 67. Brine, for example (5) 9. Petrol station chain (4) 49. Hurricane of 2009 (3) 34. More than one(3) 68. Level standing (5) 10. Coldest (4,6) 50. Hammering in (7) 35. Flowering period (5) 69. Congregate (6) 11. Bombay born poet and novelist 51. Protect with plastic (8) 37. French fries (6) 70. School of Buddhism (3) (7,7) 52. Persuader (11) 38. Flat bone (7) 71. Wild feline (6) 12. Early chess sacrifice (6) 53. Possible result of 75. (11) th PAGE 36 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk

WELFARE [email protected] Mental health helplines and Reflecting on Mentality resources The author, historian, and schoolmaster, Sir Anthony Seldon, spoke If you are concerned about your own mental health or to Imperial on the subject of mental health that of a loved one, there are people out there you can talk Emily-Jane Cramphorn to who can give you advice, Writer or will be there to listen.

Helplines and Online fter a successful Resources campaign last academic year, Mentality has If you are distressed and need succeeded once again in someone to talk to: capturing the interests of the staff andA student body alike. On the 19th Samaritans January 2016, Sir Anthony Seldon Phone: 08457 90 90 90 ‘headlined’ at Mentality’s most (24 hour helpline) recent event, giving an honest and www.samaritans.org.uk humbling talk about his personal experience of mental health both in For issues with anxiety: and outside the world of education. He spoke about the pressures of Anxiety UK university and how looking after Phone: 08444 775 774 (Mon-Fri 09:30-17:30) Mentality www.anxietyuk.org.uk No Panic has been a Phone: 0808 800 2222 (Daily 10:00-22:00) www.nopanic.org.uk highly active There’s still more to do when it comes to mental health care at Imperial. Photo Credit: Newscast UK For eating disorders: and eminent oneself often becomes sidelined hard work and their impact on by students at world class and campus, approximately 90 people, Mentality Beat high pressured institutions such both students and staff, attended Phone: 0845 634 1414 student as Imperial College, giving some Sir Anthony Seldon’s talk and gave (Mon-Thurs 13:30-16:30) simple tips for how to achieve better overwhelmingly positive feedback. have started www.b-eat.co.uk campaign mental health whilst studying. Additionally, Sir Anthony himself As a testament to Mentality’s praised Mentality, stating that he to elicit For addiction: was ‘inspired by Mentality’s work and felt honoured to take part in Alcoholics Anonymous their campaign.’ change on Phone: 0845 769 7555 Mentality has been a highly active (24 hour helpline) and eminent student campaign at campus Imperial over the past two years Narcotics Anonymous and has enabled the completion of Phone: 0300 999 1212 the largest student mental health its attitude to mental health and (Daily 10:00-midnight) survey ever held at a UK university, becoming a happier, more supportive www.ukna.org receiving over 1000 responses. and accepting community. With the Armed with this data, Mentality upcoming graduation of Mentality’s College Resources have started to elicit change on core over the next couple of years, Student Counselling Service campus, with college pledging it is vital that current students (and Phone: 020 7594 9637 to prioritise student welfare and staff ) of all ages, departments and Email: [email protected] mental health for the foreseeable level of study get involved to ensure future. the continuation of Mentality into Imperial College Health Small, but powerful changes, can the future, so that the movement Centre already be seen: the counselling toward mental health equality on Phone: 020 7584 6301 service has expanded, signposting campus does not lose momentum. Email: [email protected] of available help has become clearer Mentality aims to leave a lasting and personal tutors are being given legacy at Imperial embodied by You can also go to your academic additional training in mental health. a happier and more empowered or personal tutor regarding Nonetheless, there is more work student (and staff) body. pastoral issues, especially if you to be done, and continued action For more information or to get think your mental health might is required to ensure that Imperial involved search ‘IC Mentality’ on be affecting your academic Stress balls are only part of the solution. Photo Credit: IC Mentality remains dedicated to changing Facebook. performance. felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 5th FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 37

HANGMAN [email protected] NEWS WITHOUT THE NEWS

UNION INVITES EXPERT ON FREEDOM RAG organises last minute charity bonfire OF SPEECH TAURUS CANCER GEMINI VIRGO ARIES HOROSCOPES LEO

This week you and Matt This week the Daily Mail This week you receive some This week you wish your This week you miss the This week you are reminded LeBlanc are chosen as the ask “WHO WILL SPEAK disappointing exam results housemate would stop familiar cosiness of halls: the that we all die alone – let’s new hosts of Top Gear. You FOR ENGLAND?” and in and decide to pursue your having loud and rigorous lack of bills, the feeling that be honest, and no one will have yet to pass your driving a surprising turn of events dream that you’ve always had sex with random guys she there was always someone to remember anything you do test and as a result are always you are picked. Unfortunately of being a fisherman. I don’t brings back after nights out. talk to, the sound of someone for that much longer. That stuck in second gear. you were still hungover from know where this horoscope Especially when you’re in else having sex next door, the is except for Chris Kaye – ACC and inadvertently cause is going I’m just working the room trying to finish free sunday breakfasts, and praise be for those fresh pizza a constitutional crisis. through some things at the problem sheets. the nearness of university. bases! moment. Sigh. SCORPIO AQUARIUS SAGITTARIUS CAPRICORN PISCES LIBRA

This week you start watching This week you are censored This week, after committing This week you are having sex This week you disseminate This week you are chosen as Making a Murderer; by the union. Nooooo! anti-union thoughtcrime, with your girlfriend and it’s hateful and offensivethe third new host of Top however, you get one episode Fortunately, they were so you are taken to Meeting all going pretty well; however, propaganda all over campus Gear. The producers saw in and, what the fuck, there quick off the bat that you Room 101. “Who rose 15 at the point of climax you early in the morning, before you passed out by one of the are nine more episodes? were censored before you places in the NSS rankings?” momentarily forget her name anyone can stop you. You ferraris at South Kensington Ugh. I haven’t even finished even thought of it. What was they ask you. and yell the closest thing you guessed it! You’re the FELIX and assumed you were Breaking Bad yet. Also no it again? Um. “Don’t make me say it!” you can remember. Unfortunately Editor! Well done you. knowledgable on cars. In way am I paying for Netflix. cry. it’s her mum’s. reality you’d mistaken it for But you say it because they your Uber. get everyone in the end. th PAGE 38 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk

CLUBS & SOCS [email protected] ‘Friendship’ in the name of art Photosoc and ArtSoc are giving away tickets to Wicked if you can snap a picture on this theme

Matt Chaplin most to grow if we let them, and Writer we help them in return... I know I’m who I am today because I knew you”. s an inaugural The impact our friends make in collaboration between our lives is significant and you learn Photography and and grow together with your mates. Art Society, this This is the essence of friendship that photography contest revolves all of us have experienced, but yet in aroundA the theme of ‘friendship’. a unique way for each of us. So show Both societies organise activities of us your unique interpretation and different natures: ArtSoc organises perspective on friendship, and you street art walking tours and musical might win a pair of tickets to watch outings every week, while PhotoSoc Wicked with your friend! organises regular photo walks and workshops. How do I take part? However, both of our societies All you have to do is to upload a strongly feel that photography is photo on to Facebook and use the a form of art and expression. A #icFriendship in the description. piece of art does not need to be Aw, friends.. Photo Credit: PhotoSoc This will be open until 26th February beautiful, it just needs to make you and the winner will be announced feel something. So if you think with a mate, jointly sponsored by friendship between two of the standing up for each other; in the on 27th February. you have a photo that conveys the PhotoSoc and ArtSoc. most unlikely friends who met in process of doing so, they realise how The winner will be chosen by the theme perfectly, take part and stand school. The story revolves around much they helped each other grow. Photosoc and Artsoc committees a chance to win a pair of tickets What is the theme? how these two friends grapple After all, like one of the song goes, and is open to all students at to watch Wicked at the West End In Wicked, the plot explores the with compromise, acceptance and “We are led to those who help us Imperial.

New Financial Worlds Conference Zain Ebrahim Writer Those who

he Imperial College impress Finance Society proudly presents the 5th annual may even New Financial Worlds Conference 2016, which is set to takeT place on the 17th February at the secure prestigious Bloomberg Auditorium in London. This year will mark the first conference in several years and internships will focus on two key themes of Investment Banking and Global number of our speakers having also Markets. The conference is aimed worked at Bank of America Merrill at providing students with a strong Lynch, Citi and Deutsche Bank. insight into the most cutting-edge As such, these speakers are leading and relevant topics in finance in a luminaries in the field and their medium that is far beyond what Does this life appeal to you? You should probably apply then. Photo Credit: Wikipedia talks will greatly benefit students they can learn from just reading the on an educational level and career- Financial Times. of current market conditions. will seek to outline the drivers of successful and lasting relationships level. Investment Banking talks will Meanwhile, global markets will this volatility, the impact on trading with other delegates and speakers. Applications are now open but include mergers and acquisitions, focus on equities, derivatives, and the general outlook for the Those who impress may even we are screening applications equity issuance and debt capital foreign exchange and commodities global economy. secure internships with our sponsors on a rolling basis, so apply soon markets. Talks will seek to explain trading. The first week of 2016 saw The event itself will host over as achieved by many past delegates. to avoid disappointment at: the underlying trends of activity $1 trillion wiped out of the stock 200 students and has received a Attending firms include Goldman bit.ly/nfw-conference. in this field with unique insight markets due to the volatility in oil lot of positive feedback in previous Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, We look forward to seeing you into private equity, in the context and in China. Talks from the panel years, with many students building Nomura International with a there. felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 5th FEBRUARY 2016 PAGE 39

SPORT [email protected] Lions trump Immortals Strong performances but a loss early in the year for the women’s rugby team

Panukorn Taleongpong the offensive team on. A punt was Writer required after a few plays, as the first drive was unsuccessful. Not so long afterwards, a run play executed by ast Sunday the Immortals Birmingham’s offense was stopped faced the top team of the through fantastic teamwork on Southern Premiership the Immortals side. This resulted league, the Birmingham in the ball being stripped and an Lions. The Immortals knew that ambitious run towards the end- Lwith such a strong team like the zone. Unsurprisingly due to the lack Lions, they had to come out firing. of speed given his injury prone leg, The Immortals did just that and the ball was re-fumbled within two despite putting up a phenomenal yards of his run, a ‘classic linebacker fight the Lions had the edge towards thing to do’, thankfully, recovered the end of the game and came out by an Immortal. After a few plays victorious with a score of 6-20. on offense, it was fourth and inches, The Immortals started the game and instead of a punt, a fantastically by kicking-off and the defensive executed rolling maul was team was on. The defense started implemented instead, gaining a lot out solidly, having given up some of yards, going into Birmingham’s yards, and they were able to half. The avalanche of Immortals eventually force a fourth down O was intensified soon after when within the red-zone, which brought newly appointed Quarterback,

If only the dude on crutches had played. Photo Credit: Imperial Immortals

Reese Kildem, ran with the ball after receiver Noach Ben-Haim then Mhor – for consistently playing both the snap, gaining significant yardage followed up this miraculous string ways at a phenomenally intensive and earning a first down. This was of plays with a pad-cracking hit mind-set. Emanuel ‘Fleece mode’ backed up by penalties going against against Birmingham’s receiver upon Olagbaju – once again for bulleting Birmingham’s side, resulting in the kick-off. The Immortals defense through the lines of defense line of scrimmage moving closer were on point afterwards, with destroying anything in his path. and closer to the end zone. the defensive backs shutting down Rhys ‘season-changing’ Kilian – for The start of the second quarter all pass plays and the front seven his sneaky runs, his bravery and saw the Immortals getting close holding off run plays. Birmingham his unforgettable touchdown. The to getting a touchdown against an were unable to redeem any points team will now face the Kingston extremely strong Birmingham side. ending the half with a score of Cougars next Sunday, followed by a Big man Emanuel ‘Feast Mode’ 6-0. Despite having achieved so highly anticipated Super Bowl 50 at Olagbaju, sprinted closer to the much this game so far, the lack of Imperial’s very own 568 and Metric! end zone, and after a few more numbers on the Immortals side was downs, Quarterback Race Korma, an inevitable enemy. The Lions were dived bravely getting into the end- able to take advantage of this weak- The whole zone. All the hard work in that point and scored three touchdowns, drive by the whole offensive team one in the third quarter and two in was rewarded with a much needed the fourth (two out of the three one offensive touchdown (two point conversion point conversions were successful), was unsuccessful afterwards). Up ending the game with a score of against all odds and criticisms, 6-20. team was the Immortals were up 6-0 going An amazing effort by all the towards half time. Veteran wide- players! This game’s MVPs are: Jack rewarded “LEFFFFFT” Codrey – for playing both ways tirelessly and being of The massive help in all plays. ‘Fresh’ with a Aaron Wright – who despite having only one week of experience was defense able to perform at an amazing level, much notably making a spectacular tackle against Birmingham’s running back. started out ‘Confused’ Imraj Singh Sunner – needed for stepping up as a line backer and solidly performing extremely well, flying all Customary high fives. Photo Credit: Imperial Immortals over the pitch. Markus “Mhuuurrr” touchdown th PAGE 40 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk

SPORT [email protected] Drenched duathletes dominate Gravesend The formation of a “small lake” on the track didn’t stop Imperial Triathalon Club

Sam Jackson regain his position. Writer Having built up a comfortable gap ahead of Matt, Milan was the first male to cross the line in a s the first month of 2016 time of 1:09:42. Matt joined him came to a close, eleven on the podium in second with a duathletes from Imperial time of 1:12:04. Katie was the first College London battled female to finish in a time of 1:25:09 against the elements to achieve an followed by Nicola (1:26:09) and impressiveA tally of podium finishes Lily (1:28:46) to complete an at the Gravesend Winter Duathlon. Imperial 123. At 8:50am on Sunday 31st January, Elsewhere on the course, Miguel competitors gathered for the pre- Pereira, whose muscles apparently race briefing at the Gravesend still ached from his impressive Cyclopark in Kent. The course was performance at the GO TRI slightly changed due to a “small Velopark Duathlon earlier in lake” that had formed halfway down the week, put in another equally the originally intended run course. impressive performance to finish The first run was now lengthened in a time of 1:18:19. Chris Lehrter slightly to just over 6km with a finished just ahead of Katie in a time lap around the cycle circuit before of 1:24:15 and Marcel Admiraal did joining the first half section of the well to come 3rd in the men’s veteran original run route. The second run category in a time of 1:28:46. Qalif was 3.65km and followed the same Razman struggled a little on a bike route but without the lap of the which was clearly too small for him, cycle circuit. Sandwiched between but his speedy running was able to the two would be eight laps of the The whole gang. Photo Credit: Imperial Triathalon make up for it and he finished with cycle circuit totalling 20km on the a time of 1:31:51. Anna Lawson bike. competitors with his lengthy strides. followed by Matt. Katie Slater Disaster struck for Milan at completed her second duathlon in However, the total running As the rain started to fall, the race took the lead of the women’s race. the start of the bike leg as he a decent time of 1:32:55. Sam was distance was unchanged and Matt got underway and the field quickly Lily Battershill, Anna Lawson and struggled to slip his right foot into the last Imperial duathlete to cross Douthwaite was salivating at the spread out with Imperial Triathlon’s Nicola Mason clustered together to a particularly troublesome cycling the line in a time of 1:37:37 – a thought of being able to reel in his Milan Misak leading the way closely form a pursuing pack. shoe that refused to stop spinning. disheartening seven minutes slower Matt’s euphoria of taking the lead than his performance two years was short lived though as the fully ago. But he was pleased to have clipped-in power of Milan’s legs was at least finished the race without able to retake the lead within a few any pain from his long-term shin seconds. splint injury; the road to recovery By now the constant drizzle had continues for the club captain. made the smooth tarmac of the circuit even slicker. This posed a greater challenge to the competitors By now the on a course that could already be described as ‘quite technical’ with plenty of bends and sharp corners. constant Surprisingly, there were no major incidences, although Katie did drizzle had admit to misjudging a corner and veering onto the grass for a brief moment. She kept her composure, made the and more importantly her lead. The pursuing pack had dispersed and she now had Nicola hot on her heels. smooth Nearing the end of the bike leg, Matt’s “runner’s legs” were unable to hold onto second place and he tarmac of was overtaken by a triathlete from Tunbridge Wells Triathlon Club. However, Matt’s sneaky tactic of the circuit simply not changing his shoes between bike and run during even slicker Anna Lawson sprints to the finish line. Photo Credit: Imperial Triathalon transition enabled him to quickly