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Imperial College Union has prepared emergency measures to Biotech buyout help students taking exams if the threatened 24 hour tube strike by the National Union of Railwaymen Imperial Biotechnology, partly (NUR) goes ahead.The College has owned by Imperial College and a made similar plans for members of world leader in the fast expanding staff. Bacterial products market, is to be The strike was announced on taken over by an Austrailian Wednesday when negotiations company. Five years of world class between Unions and Management award winning, academic research over proposed changes in staffing are likely to pass out of British and promotion for the bus and hands. underground services broke down. Burns Philp are to take over Bus services should run normally Imperial Biotechnology Limited on Monday but a series of one-day (IBL) by the end of the month, if IBL stoppages on every second Monday shareholders approve. The move from May 15 is threatened will aleviate cash flow problems depending the result of yesterday's within IBL which have resulted in ballot. the company making an operating Some departments will be loss of % of a million pounds last rescheduling examinations and plan year. to inform students of any changes A letter has been circulated to IBL that are made whilst others are shareholders detailing Burns Philp's IBL's fermentation unit, once owned by IC considering allowing students to intention to 'buy out' IBL. Imperial sleep overnight. In some cases the college, the second largest starting time of examinations will be shareholder, has already announced sav that they have reached an delayed with a greater leniancy for its intention to sell its 88,473 shares, agreement with IBL to pay back the late-comers. The College say that worth an estimated £600,000. money in monthly instalments of Savs individual departments will keep Imperial Biotechnology was set up £30,000. students informed of the changes. five years ago to research and College Secretary, John Smith, a This is a black day for British The Students' Union plan to market enzymes for the food member of the IBL's Board of Technology. Britain has once again provide an minibus service for those industry. The company took over Directors told FELIX that company given away one of its leading students affected. The service will redundant fermentation units in the had performed badly because the technologies to a foreign competitor. be available for the duration of the Biochemistry Department and was market had been slow to adapt to It is a sad indictment of ten years strike for students who register with given office space at a nominal rent new products/The sales before of Thatcherism that British firms are the Union Office before 2.00pm in return for shares in the company. Christmas were very good' he said unwilling to invest in an area of today. The company has been making a 'but they tailed off in January, research which has so much In addition, the Green and Brown loss for some time. College Finance February and March.' commercial potential. Committee rooms in the Union Officer, Malcombe Aldridge told Burns Philp bought a large The Australians have been quick Buiding will be set aside for use as FELIX 'the Company is not number of preferential shares in to realise the possibilities of a 'crash pad' on Sunday and insolvent in a technical sense, but if December of last year in conjunction biotechnology one of the most Monday evenings. it continues with its present staffing with Investors in Industry and rapidly developing industries. Union President Nigel Baker levels it will need additional capital Protein Technology. The deal was The market is not yet ready to commented 'there are showers for before much longer.' said to be worth Vi million to the accept the techniques developed by men and ladies in the gym loos.' He He added 'We've allowed them Company. Imperial Biotechnology and this has added that the Union Snack Bar fairlv soft credit. Its not in our IBL have recently been awarded resulted in an uphill financial would be available for meals as interests to put them over the trunk' the DTI Small Firms Merit Award struggle for the company. usual but warned students to bring Sources within College say that for Research and Technology. The But when the market place does their own sleeping bags. the company owes Imperial award will pay for 75% of the costs catch up, those British investors The College has sent a circular to £150,000 in wages for the eight of research into the way enymes can who refused to back the company members of staff urging them to technical staff who operate the be used to speed the maturation in its recent attempts to raise more 'make every reasonable effort' to fermentation unit. The College now process of Cheddar Cheese. capital will be left in the cold. cont. on back page ISSUE 834 5 MAY 1989 Letters

Having chosen to spend most of this vear prices or welfare. And what about homophobia? treating ICCAG, and presumably other clubs, in It may be legal now (homosexuality, not AUT Response this high-handed manner it is too much to expect homophobia that is) but you try telling the police us to come running back with articles just because that. Again where is ICU? you have decided that FELIX is looking a bit thin It is up to students to mobilise to bring these and needs some more pages whilst your regular issues into the open, yes even IC students. To Richard Spencer and Charles Brereton. ' contributors get their revision done. Hillsborough again showed the Police in their You have to make up your mind on clubs* true colours, an instrument of oppression. Where 1 have been urged bv members of mv Association articles and not expect clubs to put a lot of effort i^ 1CL'?—at home looking after its own. to respond publicly to vour letter concerning the and time into a submission only to be told that )'our>. AUT action on examinations, which was it won't be printed or that they must spend more James Nathan, Mech Eng 1. addressed to members of academic staff in the time and effort collating for vou. So do vou want College. them or not? The decision to withdraw from the examination Yours sincerely. process is a serious action which has never been Alistair Goodall, taken before in the history of the AUT. It is seen ICCAG Publicity Officer. bv members as a last desperate measure to Satire lives PS. Wouldn't it be awfully funny if you came up persuade the CVCP to listen to our demands. You with some witty heading to this letter such as may be interested to hear that the action has Boring, or even better don't print it due to lack finally had the effect of extracting an offer. On of space. Dear Bill. 26 January the CVCP made an offer of 3% to AUT 1 low wonderful it is to see that the art of satire from April 1989 and a lump sum equal to 3% from I'm sorry to hear that you have had problems is not vet dead. That truly inspired piece 'Jesus January to March 1989. The CVCP themselves with your articles, why don't you call in and Votes Tory' (issue 833) should be regarded as an admit that the figure is derisory and the AUT are discuss it with me—I don't bite. Most of the the all time classic and its author Dylan James (is that awaiting a more sensible offer. As soon as the problems have arisen because we have been a pseudonym?) placed in the satirists' hall of fame CVCP can make an acceptable proposal the action lacking a Clubs editor for the past term. alongside such people as Swift and Stoppard. will be called off and the examination process will Just for the record. Yes, we do ask people to This beautifully crafted piece combined all the be recovered very quicklv. collate particularly if they submit late articles. cliches and false truths beloved of those on the My colleagues are therefore questioning whv I do not consider this unfair because many of far right with the bland unthinking rhetoric of the vou are not writing to our Rector over this matter. our regular staff stay up until the early hours of worst of the evangelists and yet was so over the The Rector is a member of the CVCP and it is to the morning on a regular basis to collate FELIX. top that it had to be regarded as a joke. Just think! him that representations should be made, to urge This is in addition to the work they put into If 'Mr James' really believed all that he had the CVCP to make an acceptable offer to the AUT writing and laying out FELIX during the week, written, it would be frightening. Perfect Satire! as soon as possible. We were recently told by the consderably more effort, I might add than it Yours faithfully. Rector that the projected accumulated deficit for takes to write a clubs article. Do you really think lason Lander. Imperial College, indicated in the financial plan, it unfair that we ask clubs who benefit from now amounted to about a million pounds. In the regular articles in FELIX to put something back circumstances the Rector could not support an into the paper occasionally? increase above the 3% offered. However, it has just been announced that the College in fact A mere facade expects to be in credit this year. Perhaps the Rector will now be able to support those of his colleagues on the CVCP who wish to make an Dear Mr Goodwin, acceptable offer to the AUT. Enraged In response to the article 'Jesus Votes Tory' of Yours sincerely, 28.4.89 issue. Susan Parry, President ICAUT. This is a matter which concerns both Christians Dtw Bill, and Non-Christians alike and about which we feel I would be very interested to find out who the very strongly. The main objection we have to this selfish, thoughtless idiots were who organised article concerns the continual comparison the carnival outside my room in the middle of between the welfare 'state' and charity. D James Not boring my final exams so that I can stand outside their obviously fails to understand that we are the room playing deafening music and shouting at state, and that the welfare state is publicly the top of my voice at 3am in the middle of their funded. Whether or not individuals, over and exams. above taxes, choose to give money to charity, is Dear Bill, Yours, a matter of their own personal choice. The I am writing concerning your policy, or lack of Enraged Beit Hall Resident. introduction of the welfare state was surely proof it, on clubs and societies. that we cannot rely solely on charity for the In last week's copy of FELIX we read how you provision of the basic necessities of life. 'would like to see Clubs and Sports pages Can we point out that the early Church 'held expanded' which you then claim you cannot do everything in common and all sold their land and unless the clubs 'are willing to submit articles'. Priorities gave the profits to the disciples to use for the good In the same issue we see that you chose to head of the community'. Is this not a contradiction of a letter as 'Boring' which was complaining about provate ownership which is fundamental to the your treatment of 'One shitty clubs article' philosophy of Toryism. (apparently your words). Dear Bill, The serf-righteousness expressed by the writer Going back a few more issues we read that you The students of the LSE have recently shown is offensive not only to us, but also to those who cannot guarantee to print club articles and that how far ahead of us they really are. By voting are dependent on the welfare state for survival, you are offering to break the nose of anyone who Winston Silcott as their Honorary President last and who do not wish to be seen merely as the insists that you print their letters etc (FELIX 829). week they recognised that he is a hero, a victim recipients of charity. I have tried to submit articles on ICCAG on a of the institutionalised racism of our country. It seems that D James is using Christianity as number of occasions and have got steadily more Why can't ICU be more like LSE and stand up a mere facade in promoting his dangerous and more fed up with being told that either I and fight for once, instead of contemplating its political beliefs, which we sincerely hope are would have to collate, when collation takes place own navel? ICU should be campaigning on real contrary to those held by most Christians. at the same time as the ICCAG Soup Run, or that student issues such as police brutality and their Julie Healer, Biology, you might print it if there was space (which oppression of the working classes, instead of Bil Paxton, Biochemistry, invariably seems to happen). moaning on about so-called priorities such as bar Katherine Jones, Biology.

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Smallads ACCOMMODATION Hamlet Gardens. Twin rooms ANNOUNCEMENTS available for Summer Term at £38 Editorial Keyboard lessons: Rock, blues, pp,p/w, situated in luxury flats improvisation, MIDI. Blackmail for six persons. All interested Hammersmith/Clapham (24-track The nice people from 'Time Out' decided to present FELIX with a bottle parties contact Matthew studio with modern keyboard) of champagne at the end of last term. The champagne is currently in the Bridgwater (aka Baldrick) on 748 first Vi hour free. Isabel 498 0781. possession of Ruth Benzimra, the ULU President. An irate Ruth rang up 0577 (evenings) for more details The Health Centre has decided yesterday and threatened to drink the champagne if I did not make the and a guided tour. to inaugurate a new patient following correction to the news story entitled 'Angry' which appeared Summer—Fulham Broadway participation group to meet once in last weeks issue. tube, 4 large double rooms with every term. This group will be in Ruth would prefer the paragraph which read 'The ULU exec has decided ensuite bathrooms. Well addition to the health service not to publicise the demonstration' to read 'Members of the ULU exec equipped kitchen—washer-drying users advisory committee. Its decided not to publicise the demonstration.' and dish-washer. £100 per week, purpose will be to enable past, She would also like us to point out that she is the ULU President, not per room inclusive. Phone 348 present and future patients, of the the acting ULU President...Can we have our champagne back now? 2389. Health Centre to discuss with Shared room available for Congratulations Health Centre staff how services female IC student in Evelyn To Ramin Nakisa for completing the Alternative Prospectus. He has done could be improved. The first Gardens for the summer term. an excellent job. meeting will be at the Health £25 per week. Contact Anne 351 Leafing through the offical prospectus it becomes apparent how Centre on Tuesday 18th May, 4582. important it is to present a students-eye view to prospective 4.30-5.30pm following the undergraduates. When it comes down to it, the prosectus is little more meeting of the existing users PERSONAL than a glossy recruitment brochure complete with colour enhanced advisory committee. So that we Suze—Why is your head in the photographs. It glosses over many of the problems which students will can have some idea of numbers toilet each morning. be likely to face at Imperial. please tell Marion Clarke, Dylan—I'm surprised to hear The Alternative Prospectus is not there to dissuade students, but it is Secretary to the Director, if you about my son's views. God. there to let them know exactly what they are letting themselves in for. intend to come (int 3088 or 584 Dylan—Would you like a job? Take the accommodation costs for example. The Official Prospectus 6301 or drop a note in). Your D Jenkins. lists the current accommodation prices but ignores the fact that views will be very welcome. Dylan—Are you trying to put accommodation costs will have increased by £10 a week when the Dinner Dance. Saturday 6th me out of a job? S Milligan. students actually reach Imperial. This misleading presentation of May, JCR. Live band, buffet, Dylan—Why don't you write a information is grossly unfair to prospective students. dance demonstrations. Tickets £5' book about it? E Currie. In many ways the Alternative Prospectus is not independent enough from the Haldane Library. All Dylan—Loved the Story— from the College. Currently departmental articles are vetted by the Staff welcome. Sunday Sport. Student Committee. It is reasonable that Departments should check articles Vacancies exist for two Dylan—If only I'd known about for factual accuracy, but the problem with using the Staff Student assistant subwardens in you when I was looking for a Committee as a forum is that the Departmental Reps are forced to be very Falmough Keogh Hall, deputy—J Anderton. careful what they write. It takes a lot of guts to submit an article which Application forms are available Joan Collins is a virgin—D is anything other than one hundred percent praiseworthy when you know from the Student James. that the academics you are presenting the article to will also decide what Accommodation Office. The Dylan—A minority of one is a level of degree you will be given. deadline is May 16th. madman—G Orwell. LeaRonal, the world's leading Dylan—I know nobody else is Weather independent supplier of going to believe we're in contact: What nice weather we have been having recently. It's so nice to be able proprietory plating processes, Never mind J.C. to sit in the sun and not worry about exams. In fact it's so nice that I think presently wishes to recruit a Dylan—Ever thought of I'll cut this editorial short and go back to sleep. student for the summer vacation. running for RCSU President? N The student, who should have Johansen-Allison. Thanks to Stef Smith, Ramin Nakisa, Liz Warren, Tony Spencer, Adam some knowledge of collodial Has Jo gone down on the Harrington, Andy Clarke and Sumit, Rose and Dean, Jason Lander, Gary chemistry, will work in the beach yet? Hastings and Michael McCarthy, Marge, Penny Gamble, the collators, and Research and Development New RIP(?)Soc babyfood. Free everyone I have forgotten. department on a variety of metal detector with every ten projects. LeaRonal is situated in labels. Buxton in the Peak District and is The DramSoc stagecrew DO easily accessible by train, car or sincerely hope that the three girls bus. Would anybody interested we rescued from the crush are VOU in this position please contact Dr alright now, with love and M Goodenough at the following kisses, Nick, Pete and Dave xxx. HAVE EXAMS address: LeaRonal (UK) pic, High Did you know Ian Batt is a Peak Laboratories, Ashbourne Kylie fan? Je ne sais pas Road, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 pourquoi. NEXT WEEK? 9SS (tel: 0298 71122). Because of the TRAVEL STRIKE by all forms of LOST & FOUND public transport next week the Union will be running Lost—Heavy silver chain FOOD a minibus shuttle service for those STUDENTS WITH bracelet. Lost at Union Friday IS JOLLY EXAMS. 28th April. £10 reward for return. Contact Honey on ext. 7488. SCRUMMY! If you wish to benefit from this service fill in one of the forms available from the Union Office. This must be done by 2pm FRIDAY FOR SALE & WANTED Why not try some? 5th MAY. A timetable of pick-up times and places will then be The Caterpillar Cafe published in the Union by 5.30pm that day which will include who Bike wanted: Men's racer, will (Beit Quad) shall be picked up at each point. consider anything. Phone Rose Open 8am to 8pm weekdays IMPERIAL COLLEGE USION- on 3515 (FELIX). Serving You Better

May 5 1989 FELIX Page 3 News/Feature Growl, Roar! This Easter, the Natural History metal skeletons are powered by Museum opened an exhibition compressed air, there is an audible called 'Dinosaurs Live!'. As the title hiss whenever anv part of the suggests, the display is supposed to dinosaurs move. This is with the convey the impression of being in sole exception of their eyes; they the presence of some long dead click whenever the dinosaur casts a creatures, which have been quick glance in either direction. mysteriously brought back to life. However., their main fault, This amounts to a cross between a occurring only with the larger history programme, and a skulled models, is that their heads prehistoric chamber of horrors. are too heavy. Whenever the head The atmosphere is rather stops moving, it seems to do so too impressive; there are jungle noises, quickly, because there is a dimmed green lights and the odd significant wobble whenever they plastic palm. The 'Dinosaurs' are in come to rest. small enclosures, from which they On the press day, there was an tower impressively over the human added attraction, which will not be form. The larger dinosaurs are built joining the rest of the display; an to half scale, but even so, the eight foot tall walking Tyrannosaurus manages to leer Tyrannosaurus Rex. Unfortunately, down quite successfully. this dinosaur was not of the robotic The creatures are built from a kind. Instead, it consisted of a man metal framework, and are driven by inside a rather sturdy inflatable compressed air. This is all covered rubber suit. This, to the press, was by a convincing rubber skin, upon much more interesting than the which is modelled the features of display, and the organisers had to the dinosaur, as guessed at by threaten to take it away, to bring the scientists everywhere. The heads journalists and photographers back (including eyes) and a few other to the display. parts of the dinosaurs' anatomy are The exhibition also has many animated, moving to the commands spin-offs; there is a dinosaur shop of a preset program. These situated next-door which, if not built sequences have been well designed; specifically for the occasion, will the dinosaurs look down to the certainly benefit from the increased place where people are most likely enthusiasm in dinosaurs. to stand, and although this is not Altogether, 1 would say that the exactly frightening it is, to say the display is an interesting part of the least, unnerving. museum and admission is free in A prehistoric friend visits South Kensington However, there are drawbacks to the last hour so it is well worth a the display. Since the automated look. Crazy Carnival Mayhem Prince Philip The Union building was packed as band with a style of their own. have an adverse effect on full as fire regulations would allow There was some doubt as to how examinations. One finalist with an estimated 1200 students long Bad Manners would be playing, commented, T had had two exams (nearly) visits present at the Carnival last Friday. since they walked off the stage that day and was feeling a bit The event made a £200 loss which refusing to continue after they were knackered'. He said that he had Ian Morris, the Union Hon Sec, prevented by the Dramatic Society been unable to sleep, adding that he ICU Carnival claims was predicted before the from taking a bucket of water onto had also had an examination on the event. the stage. After a small pause the Tuesday following the carnival. There were three bands, and a band took their places back on the Another student living in Beit said, Last Friday, as students were variety of comedy acts performing. stage; without the bucket of water. even though he had attended and starting to turn up for the Carnival, The first band to open was Stop There were objections on the enjoyed the carnival, 'Nobody slept security cordoned off the Sherfield laughing; a concoction of heavy grounds that the carnival might on this landing that night'. Building in readiness for the arrival metal guitars with weak-sounding Ian Morris replied to this by of Prince Philip, the Duke of vocals. The audience judged the saying that a questionnaire asking Edinburgh. The Prince was band by emptying the hall rapidly. whether people would object to the attending the annual dinner of the Following this were the comedy The Summer is carnival had been put under ail British Antartic Society held in the acts, which were not well received; residential doors in Beit Hall, asking Staff Senior Common Room. there were shouts of obscenities Approaching if there were any objections to the In a joint secuity operation carnival taking place. This was throughout most of the and you have to wear a between the Royalty Protection performances. One comedian was circulated prior to Easter, and there squad, the local police and ICs own swimming costume narrowly missed by a full beer-can DON'T PANIC! were no objections to the event security staff: the doors to Sherfield thrown by a member of the taking place. Ian Morris assured were locked and a number of audience. On Mondavs, starting 8th Mav, there will he a FELIX that the carnival would have policemen patrolled the college. ladies onlv session at the Multigvm; from 7.45 to The other bands were The 8.45pm. An introductorv course will be given been cancelled if there had been any Security Chief, Geoff Reeves, said Butterfield 8, a rhythm and blues during the first two sessions. objections beforehand, but none later that the security arrangements band, which produced some good Pop into the Sports Centre tor more info. were received. went 'very smoothly'. dance music, and Bad Manners; a

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Dear Marge, roll. Have I come to the wrong I am having to work 72 hours a College? week for my final examinations. I Yours, am exausted and fed up. Can you lan Morris help me. Yours sincere!}/, Marge says: What are you doing on A medical student. Friday evening Iuvvy?

Marge says: Don't worry luvvy— Dear Marge, in a few weeks it'll all be over and Why, o why, do people insist on you'll be able to start your career as walking down the pavements in a junior Doctor. London? Why can't they use the pavement like everyone else? Yowrs, Dear Marge, Deranged. I've just been turned down by the Clues: By Agamemnon blood transfusion service. Is this Marge says: It baffles me too dear. normal? Across 33. A crime since time began Yours sincerely, I. Substance of woven fabric? (6) A Stone. Dear Marge, (6) Down I suffer from biscuit phobia. 4. It erased a French letter (6) 1. Taster of free Marge says: that's not funny. Yours, 7. You and me back to back entertainments (6) with a bird (3) 2. Cosy hideaway for guns (4) Jason McVitie 8. Good sorrow, Charlie B.l (5) 3. Receiver (3) Dear Marge, II. Partial retreat of unsung . 4. Regret messing around in Can you help me? I've just been Marge says: crumbs animal (3) the ure (5) sent an absolutely enormous 1 2. Shining shaft (3) 5. Young woman, perhaps? (4) telephone bill. I simply can't afford This is awful - Ed. 13. Imitation idol? (5) 6. Greet ron first of all, then to pay it. What should I do? 1 5. Bare teeth and growl at feel sorry (6) Yours, tangle (5) 8. Imperial Engineer (9) ET. Dear Marge, 17. Time for bed sir! (5) 9. He's neither frog nor prince saewr jlnu sdkl jiej mnsd e?kj df 19. Broad speaking rustic (5) (9) Marge says: take the next flight to ndir jaej d ?alkjf jdf a e f ejkfj a?kd 20. Flies lightly and lifts (5) 14. Professional in an overall Rio. da d fje fdfwer iml?uq ?q edre 21. Shanghai tiger holds key (5) alcohol qwee WP ESDS qwe qwe w to the island (5) 1 6. Score at start of match (3) q. erer, qewrwqe... 23. Palindromic note (5) 18. Over seasoned stolen Dear Marge, Yowrs, 24. PA's health resort (3) property? (3) People just don't understand that Stoic 25. Rector has burnt matter 20. Raft he reconstructed for the mega powerful, X-ray laser I (3) his son (6) have constructed in my lab has Marge says: erp adf ip nop werere 27. & 10A: Sweettoothed 22. Clothe in underwear (6) nothing to do with the SDI au poqq. scrooge? Rubbish! (6) 24. Self-satisfied mugs! (4) programme. It is simply part of a 28. Fibre found in many long 26. Loathe the heat (4) project funded by the Ministry of stockings (5) 29. Up till now (3) Agriculture to find a faster way of Dear Marge, 31. Beer in the meadow (3) 30. West African sorcery poaching eggs. I am overcome with guilt because 32. Make a grout stew! (6) involving Japanese sash (3) Yours, I am the man who invented the easy Harry Blacket. to open milk carton which sprays milk all over the walls of the fridge Answers to last term's crossword Marge says: Of course I believe you. when you open the spout. What am All scientific research is pure and I to do? innocent. Just don't point it in my Yowrs in desperation, Across: Down: direction. Shamus O'Milk 1. Broadside, 7. Rhea, 9. Male, 2. Reel, 3. Desecration, 4. 10. Liberal, 11. Enumeration, Deal, 5. Orchestra, 6. Marge says: Don't worry. I'll drop 12. Instead, 14. Runt, 15. Levantine, 8. Aliment, 9. Dear Marge, in in person with a few dozen Lien, 1 6. Satanical. Marital, 12. Inca, 13. Diva. I'm into sex, drugs and rock 'n' friends and we'll sort you out.

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If Fleischmann and Pons are right and cold fusion SCIENCE is possible — what, asks Tony Spencer, will be the consequences? SPORT OSC FOOTBALL Cyprus v Cheap, clean and India

The inter-society indoor Football doomed? Tournament organised by the OSC ended last term with the Cvpriots The recent claims for the discovery beating the Indians 19-5 in a of fusion at room temperature by convincing finals victory. Although Drs. Pons and Fleischmann raise the match was one-sided right from some interesting questions about the beginning, the Indians put up the future, assuming the claims a gallant effort. Nevertheless, the prove to be justified. skills of the reigning champions If what they have found is indeed proved to be too much for the fusion, or even a new form of Indians. chemical energy, then the potential Earlier, in the semifinals, the benefits for mankind could be Indians overpowered the Afro- enormous. The process seems to Caribbeans 11-8, while the Cvpriots produce no unwanted by-products entered the finals bv beating the such as carbon monoxide, carbon Italians 14-12. dioxide, or long-term radioactivity. In total 9 societies took part in this Large scale use of this new form of event. Apart from the Chinese and energy would be a lifesaver for the the Sri Lankan societies, which ecology of the planet, giving us a didn't even bother to turn up for real chance to reverse the damage their matches, the teams put in already done to the environment. tremendous efforts and snowed It seems that we could be at the much anticipation and eagerness. dawn of a new age of cheap power, Despite the high standards something that would not only help displayed each of the participating the development of the third world, teams this year, there can however but would also help reduce the be only one.single winner, and the American budget deficit. It would Cypriots yet again emerged as the see domestic and commercial champions. energy bills cut drastically to the -"Neutron dance" benefit of both rich and poor. Clearly such a new source is 'push'. With a life expectancy in With so much at stake, there is a real TENNIS essential if the Third World is to excess of twenty of thirty years, likelihood that there would be major develop to anywhere near Western such generators would be essential opposition to the widespread living standards. Last year America, for the rapid development of the development of this new fusion Start of with about a twentieth of the Third world, enabling power to be process. Worlds population accounted for available cheaply, and without For better or worse, in order for Season Thrills 43% of the World's oil consumption transport costs or problems with the this new technology to see the light - there is simply not enough fuel fuel supply. This, coupled with the of day, we may have to encourage The tennis season is upon us (so available for the rest of the World to environmental benefits, make it a oil companies and other affected please tell the weather!), and it is live like this. very attractive proposition. parties to develop and not too late to join IC Lawn Tennis Dr Hagelstein of the As with any new radical idea, commercialise the fusion process Club. Membership of the Club Massachusetts Institute of whether or not it gains widespread themselves, allowing them to allows play on the two tennis courts Technology (MIT) has already acceptance largely depends on diversify. With care, this could be adjacent to Prince's Gardens, and applied quantum mechanics to cold vested interests. Cold fusion could handled to everyone's satisfaction: the availability of these courts is deuterium fusion. He claims it may destroy some industries. Oil the new applications could be controlled by weekly booking sheets be possible to produce fusion driven companies would probably suffer developed and the oil companies at the desk of the Sports Centre. lasers, small fusion generators, most, along with gas and electricity could use their stocks for essential To join the Club, send your name reverse fusion (What! - Science Ed.) generating companies. The internal chemicals. and department with a cheque for and new exotic fusion reactions. The combustion engine could become as Failure to take these implications £4 made out to ICUACC to Roy idea of suitcase sized power stations outdated as the steam engine, and into account may result in the Harrison Elec Eng 4. Further may be exciting, but the real there is the danger that a lot of technology being 'still-born', information, a reciept and a revolution would be small portable Engineering jobs could be lost and leaving the Third World, Mankind membership card will be returned fusion generators. equipment made redundant. and the ecology of the planet back as soon as possible. Provided that such generators Large corporations wield a lot of at square one, with the continued were small enough, say the size of power and influence, and it is squandering of resources and the an internal combustion engine or possible that these organisations world taking a step backwards less, and were relatively cheap to may seek to inhibit the development rather than a leap ahead. make and service (presumably of such a revolutionary idea. As heavy water and palladium and with the everlasting light bulb and platinum electrodes are not that rust-proof stainless steel cars, expensive), it is conceivable that multinationals are likely to buy up Tony Spencer they could be self-contained, with the patent and sit on it, smothering a solar panel to provide the initial the development of a new idea.

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produced in this region are considered to be better than the whites. Italian delightsEating out in Milan I recommend going to the La Spaghetteria di Via Solferino, 3 Via FELIX culinary expert, Yishu Nanda continues his Solferino (Tel. 872735). The chef prepares a sauce which is served gastronomic exploration of . This week Yishu with spaghetti. Everyone is offered a small bowl of the pasta and the samples the delights of Milan and Verona and brings you surprise sauce. If the sauce does not the recipes for two authentic Italian pasta dishes. tempt you then you can wait for the sauce of the next round. One can carry on eating for as many rounds Part 3 as one likes. The meal for everyone at the table is offered free if any Fine food in a Milan home individual can break the record number of rounds of spaghetti The Italians have a profound love consumed. I think the record stands for their food. Even in Milan the at about 45. The portion offered in fast city lifestyle cannot detract each round is not large so that one from a proud display of cooking at can sample as many sauces as home. I hope to give you a flavour possible. of the casalinga that one could expect to enjoy.

Staying with the Rossies in Milan Part 4 was an opportunity to see how the lovers of food tread the compromise A taste of Verona—Veronesi between enjoying food and a fast lifestyle in which both husband and tutti matti! wife work. 1 cannot enjoy good food without giving some in return, so I The 'mad' Veronese pride took three home-made fruit cakes themselves for their Peru and with me to present to friends in Polenta. Italy. I saw the polenta made in the On Saturday morning I traditional way. The coarse ground accompanied them to a street A selection of cured meats. maize was continuously stirred by market to buy the cheeses, cured arm for about half an hour as it meats, vegetables, fruits just as 1 do a simple dish of red peppers cooked 25gr yeast absorbed the boiling liquid. It was in Chapel market in Islington. They in tomatoes, onions, garlic and Itsp sunflower oil served in the shape of a mound on bought some Parmigiano, pecorino (an herbs. It is rare that peppers are htsp salt a wooden platter. Slices of the ewes milk cheese), fontina, enjoyed on their own. polenta were served with a sauce mozzarella, scamorza, ricotta cheeses. The Rossi family also provided a Method: made from porcini mushrooms. In The ricotta cheese must be enjoyed display of cooking which requires a Make the dough and leave it covered in Verona they also eat it with thin as fresh as possible and was bought litte more effort. A visit to Milan a warm place for Vi hour. Roll out apple slices of salami and gorgonzola to be consumed at lunch that day. would not be complete without size balls into face size oval discs. cheese. A good polenta should be The cured or cooked meats were trying a risotto Milanese so it was Shallow fry on a medium flame for moist but firm. A good texture of also bought in generous prepared for me. There was also the several minutes, turning a few times, finish can only be achieved with proportions. We chose to get spek torta salata, a pie made from spinach, until both fides are cooked. years of cooking experience. Tyrolese, prosciutto crude, salami and mozzarella, fontina, parniegianno, eggs The mushroom sauces that some pancetta. The cheese and meat and nutmeg. Zelina spoke of the revival of the use pervade" Italian casalinga are the products are not inexpensive, but I also enjoyed a spaghetti al pesto. of chestnuts in the cuisine. She gave finest. Often the mushrooms have thev give the Italians the flexibility The pesto is a sauce made from me her recipe to make castagnaccio, been hand-picked in the nearbv to feed themselves and their guests garlic, basil and pine nuts. The a cake made from chestnut flour. woodland. I was shown some conveniently. I was to discover that Rossies make it a few times a year. During the Second World War the whole porcini mushrooms which wherever I went the Italians would It is frozen and used a little at a time. castagnaccio was eaten as a bread had been sealed individually for offer a platter ladden with razor thin Another successful way of enjoying because chestnut flour was available freezing. Alternatively, the slices of the cured meats, another flavoursome sauces without the toil. much more easily than wheat flour. mushrooms are sliced and dried. with the cheeses on proud display Serve the spaghetti pesto with My thanks to Eleo Arrighi for and a basket of bread. ground pecorino cheese as the presenting me with a packet of his A simple salad such as tomatoes Genovese do. CASTAGNOCCIO hand-picked, home dried and capers in an olive oil and lemon No trip to Italy is complete chestnut flour mushrooms. juice dressing would also be passed without a trip to a wine cellar. I had lOClgr milk The pera, a favourite in the local around. the opportunity to visit the enoteca Some saltanas cuisine, is a sauce made from The home cooking that I enjoyed Limbardi delta Certosa di Pavia near the Some pin nuts adding bread crumbs to a broth in Milan included a simple fusilli Certosa monastrv in Pavia. The reds ':tsp baking powder containing marrows. It is served in pasta flavoured with butter and 2tbls cocoa powder ' generous proportions to accompany cinnamon. The timballo (macaroni Some Recipes bollito misto (slow cooked meats) and baked in bechamel sauce, tomatoes, Method: vegetables. black olives) is an impressive pasta CRESCENTINE Bake for hour at 165"C or until I would like to thank the Rossies, dish when brought piping hot from 350gr white wheat flour cooked. After it has cooled pour some Arrighies and Zullos for making this the oven to the table. I also admired 1.5 wine glasses of water liquor over the cake. tour a great success.

May 5 1989 FELIX Page 7 Travel ^INDEPENDENT ELLERTRAVELLERTRAVELLERTRAVELLERTRAVELLERTRAVELLERTRAVELLERTRAVELLERTRAV Cycling in India

Gary Hastings and Malcolm is unbearable, so we decided to pull McCarthy spend three months into a dhaba for much needed cycling in India. refreshments. Initially we had planned to cook We spent a week in Dehli preparing our own food but it didn't take us and planning our trip and set out on long to appreciate the convenience, a hot and humid November not to mention the excellent food, morning, with only a vague idea of of the dhabas which were littered where we were going. Our only aim along the highways. was to experience the splendour of This dhaba was far from the the Indian Himalayas. cleanest we had ever seen; the It took twenty minutes for the first normally appetising Indian sweets problem of the tour to arise: I had were covered by a layer of flies and a puncture and we were in a wasps. Dust covered everything crowded bazaar on the outskirts of else, including the owners of the Dehli. establishment who were squatting A crowd started to gather as soon on a clay ledge which housed an as we stopped. The crowd grew to oven fuelled by slabs of dried dung. at least 200 people and children Undaunted we entered and were pushed their way to the front only introduced to the delicious to be ejected by adults wishing to beverage: chai. Geared to the very witness the spectacle. sweet tooth, the beverage is The 'crowd' is a characteristic of prepared by endlessly boiling urban living in India. It's like living buffalo milk, water, tea and copious was not going to sway this man's This type of incident was not your whole life in a crowded amounts of sugar. Our enthusiasm mind but when I threatened to write uncommon; whenever we were London tube station. There is no for the concoction and its energy to the Harayana Tourist Board we down, someone always came along such thing as privacy or personal giving qualities were immense. We were offered a tool shed behind the and provided us with invaluable space. downed five cups immediately and, lodge. After inspecting the shed I help. People were forever asking us The traffic on the highway was still thirsty, we tried some campa- decided that going back to Karmal if we required their assistance. chaotic but colourful. Every cola (India's answer to Coca-Cola). was by far the more attractive of the Indeed, all one had to do was look conceivable mode of transportation We pulled into the 'Red Robin' two choices. at a map in a public place and aid was on the road: rickshaws, carts, lodge near Sinipat at the end of the Meanwhile, Malcolm had made was immediately offered without donkeys, dogs and cows. first day. These lodges are all named friends with an engineer who took having to ask. The only rule on the Indian after birds and litter the highways a great interest in our bikes. This Despite the inaccuracy of our highways is.if it's bigger than you, of the Harayana. man seemed to have a magical Indian maps, we found the turning get out of the way. Since the We set out early the following control over the chowkidar and, for Nahan and thus began our highway has only one lane, smaller morning and, after stopping to with a wave of - his hand, had journey around the edge of the vehicles are regularly forced off the repair another puncture, we reached managed to secure us a room and Punjab and into the mountains... road into the dust tracks on either Paniput which, according to for chai to be brought immediately. End of part I, part 2 next week. side of the highway. Moslem legend, is the most fly It wasn't long before we were infested area in all India. unceremoniously dumped in the We stopped at a dhaba and left dust and, since the dust seemed to the crowds to ponder over our be littered with razor sharp thorns, mountainbikes. Usually, in such we were soon -repairing more situations, there is an on-hand punctures. expert to explain the finer Tourist buses regularly drive specifications to the, exclusively lorries off the road and all along the male, audience. These 'experts' route one can see overturned lorries, assume the right to touch, prod and their cargoes strewn everywhere. tinker with whatever takes their Unperturbed drivers can often be fancy without considering to ask seen relaxing amongst the wreckage you if it's okay. This particular and consuming the cargo (if it's expert pointed knowingly to our edible), presumably waiting for help water bottles and said, 'petrol!'. to arrive. We could not envisage the Soon we reached Karma Lake same tranquility being shown by a lodge ten miles outside of Kamal. driver on the Ml suffering a similar The chowkidar tried to convince me fate. the place was full even though it At midday, the heat of the plains was obviously empty. Politeness Sheep blockage on road to Shimla.

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The Rise of Edward IV death scene for Richard, in which the plays. Her degeneration from Much of the second play consists of one is left wondering whether the sexy young queen, to power hungry scenes of military or civil warfare, as actor would rise for the curtain call, bitch, to ranting senile woman is Richard of York strives for Henry's the Earl of Richmond steps forward impressively convincing. throne. The ruinous feuding of the to take the throne and signal a new Inspired set and costume design, The nobility is parodied by a peasant era of national unity and Tudor rule. as well as Adrian Noble's rebellion led by the ribald Jack Cade, After all the carnage and pageantry, flamboyant and confident direction, who believes himself to be heir to the cycle ends with simple pull the production together into a Plantagenets the crown. understatedness. glorious tapestry of Shakespearean Shakespearian historical soap Battles ensue and fortunes In general, the acting throughout drama; although nine hours may be operas have become fashionable meander with dizzying intricacy. the production is of a very high a bit too much. theatre entertainment. After the We see elaborate displays of standard, although lesser roles are The Plantagenets continues at the lavish seven-play history cycle swirling flags, glittering armour, not as memorable as the 'War of the Barbican until July 3rd, with the staged at the Old Vic earlier this blood strewn fights and frenzied Roses' series. There is no Michael whole trilogy played every Saturday vear, which expunged the word motion. Unfortunately, the brutally Pennington or Sion Probert injecting until then. Ticket prices start at £6 anachronism' from every critic's unsettling battlefield scene in which life into a minor character. per play. pen; comes a more traditional, yet Queen Margaret splatters York's Penny Downie as Queen Suniif Guha. no less spectacular three-play face with the blood of his dead son Margaret is the one link through all extravaganza, reworked bv the RSC is wasted in mayhem. from Shakespeare's Henrv VI parts After York's death his sons rally I, II, and III and Richard'III. and defeat the Lancastrians, and so The plays spread a colourful Edward, the eldest, becomes king. length of history. Illustrating a Immediately, the scene changes to nation's collapse from prosperous one of voluptuous frivolity, with a stability and conquering patriotism, giant golden disc hanging over a through the horrors of civil war, a court of loitering lovers. In amongst reign of tyranny and on to a this, the warped figure of Richard, conclusion of harmonic optimism. Edward's brother, stands out as a Intricate webs of political intrigue soured misfit. are woven, and violent, bloody battles are fought in this chronicle Richard III, His Death of a fascinating 65 year period in There is an obvious difference in English history. style between this and the previous Three kings of starkly contrasting plays. The bombastic vertiginous character sit in turn upon the throne evolution of the first two plays of England: Henry VI, a pious contrast with a more subtle and saintly figure, ill-equipped to tackle emotive play on greed and tyranny, the politics of power; Edward IV, a significant of a more mature bard. lewd sensualist; and Richard III, a The play opens with Richard in a crazed tvrant, full of malicious drunken stupor, declaring 'Now is intent. the winter of our discontent made glorious by the son of York', an Henry VI interesting twist to the more Ralph Fiennes is superb as the traditional opening. uncertain, wimpish Henry; a Richard schemes his way to the reluctant ruler proclaimed King at crown. One by one his foes line up nine months old. As his realm is for execution. One by one they exit split bv war, intrigue and factions, offstage into a corridor of light to he seeks peace and consolation in meet the axeman's blade, as the religious books and study. The atmosphere becomes greyer and members of his court vie for power; more sinister with each of Richard's the French army, headed by Joan of conquests. Arc and the Dauphin, drive the Anton Lesser is mesmerising as English out of ; and the feud Richard. He is quirky, unpredictable between Lancaster and York and revels in his manipulations, intensifies, but Henry stands aloof deriving a genuine sadistic pleasure and innocent as chaos unfolds from his actions. around him. After a particularly gruesome 'Too damn right I've got the hump!'

to be, is empty and under threat of kids. Didn't you ever see Nightmare Hannah play the lovers, sweetly a take-over from an American who on Elm Street? The castle is doomed. and innocently, the victims of wishes to transport the castle to The real ghosts meanwhile decide events. Amongst a hoard of Vlalibu and make a theme park of it. to do something about this—they ghoulish creatures, the delightfully In a desperate move to save his don't want to live in California. comic O'Toole is often the most home, Peter Plunkett (Peter While they create mayhem amongst moribund, even without makeup. VIDEO O'Toole) advertises the place as a the staff and visitors alike, a couple The castle itself is convincingly haven for ghosts, and is then treated of love-hate relationships are atmospheric, and provides an to a party of American tourists, a becoming mixed up in the appropriately characteristic setting mixed bunch including a nympho- background. But the real world and for the occasional visual effects High Spirits maniac with desires on a young the spectral world cannot which intersperse the chaos. For all priest, and a parapsychologist and intertwine, except once a year. its musty tincture there is a definite family. Thank god it's Hallowe'en glint of emerald green running In the heart of the Emerald Isle lies The castle staff employ tomorrow. through the film, and that makes it Castle Plunkett, majestic and themselves in a bungling series of High Spirits is amiable enough, all the more appealing. masterful, ancient and knackered. ghostly fakes and completely fail to with a wonderful script and a good Well worth a look. The hotel, as the building purports impress the guests, including the cast. Steve Guttenberg and Daryl Andrew Clarke.

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THIRD WORLD FIRST Branston, B«nne Cuisine, Cook in arrived at our humble abode in the weeks! the Pot, Rice & Things, 4 Seasons, Highlands at around 10pm. By the Some of our number though have Pasta Choice, Dish of the Day. way, thanks very much to Louise organised an expedition to Peru for Nestle kills and to Mike and Rupert's mum for a month or three. I would like to As a far better alternative to providing much needed wish them the best of luck on bahalf Nescafe, try Oxfam's Nicaraguan refreshments along the way! For of all the members of S&G, and to babies! Coffee, the profits of which go to the those of vou who aren't quite sure those of vou that haven't bought a 1C Third World First is participating people and not to Western owned of where Glen Shief is, take out a T-Shirt from them, do so soon. in the Nestle Boycott campaign companies that exploit Third World map of Scotland, find Skve and then Good luck chaps, don't go falling off which was relaunched this March. workers. Nicaragua has suffered move your finger down and to the anything! This article explains why. greatly because of its debts and the right a bit. The aforementioned Four vears after the end of the last US trade embargo, and Coffee 'humble abode' bv the way, was a pickers have often been the victims Nestle boycott, Dr Raj Anand, a 3-storey shooting lodge on the shore o.s.c. paediatrician from Bombay told a of attacks by the US aided Contras. of a verv beautiful lock. This meant press conference in Washington (Traidcraft also sell non-exploitative of course that we had real beds to 'Bottle feeding is killing babies...say coffee and teas.) sleep in for a change, and that our Elections For more information contact C meals were served onto a real table no to Nestle.' The Overseas Students Committee Wong, Phvsics or Babv Milk Action, in a real dining room! The plastic The initial campaign started in will be having elections for the new 6 Regent Terrace, Cambridge CB2 bowls and mugs which we use did 1977 following worldwide exposure Committee on Thursday 11th April 1AA. Tel: 0223 464420. seem rather incongruous, but as of the devastating effects of baby at 12.45pm in room 408 Elec Eng. most people are simply interested in milk promotion. Illiteracy, lack of I am prepared to sell Traidcraft The posts that are up for grabs stuffing their faces then trying to hygienic conditions, clean water and and Oxfam's teas and coffees on a are: fuel for sterilisation combined with strictly non-profit basis. Filter or de- steal somebody else's as well, poverty and made bottle feeding caff coffee is available. Tea is nobody complained. 1. Chairman. lethal. Despite this, baby milk available in loose packets or 120 one Glen Shiel offers an enormous 2. Vice-Chairman companies continued to use or two cup bags. variety of things to do, so long as it 3. Secretary aggressive marketing techniques to involves walking or scrambling up 4. Sports Officer make a killing. Massive advertising, mountains! There are the Brothers 5. Publicity Officer sales reps dressed as nurses, SCOUT & GUIDE and Sisters; the Saddle and friends 6. Liaison Officer sponsored babv shows and free which can be reached by a great 7. Welfare Officer samples all contributed to a decline scramble; the South Glen Shief 8. Events Officer in breast feeding and rise in infant Calling all Ridge with its seven Munros and 9. Treasurer illness. James Grant, director of many other variations and routes 10. 5 Ordinary Members. UNICEF, estimates these practices taking in various combinations of caused a million extra deaths outdoor types these. All of these, and others, were All overseas students are eligible to worldwide each year. Scout and Guide, being generally attempted by members of the stand and to vote in the election. This campaign forced Nestle to all-round people, decided it would group, and a great time was had by The nomination papers are up on sign an agreement with protestors be a jolly nice idea to go to Scotland all. To be precise, two Swedish the OSC board in the Sherfield and the boycott was lifted. But today during the Easter hols just gone guys, the bloke who now lives in walkway (nearest the bookshop). Nestle are up to the same dirty (alas!). It was therefore decided that , numerous other The Overseas Students tricks. Nestle continues to dump Glen Shiel would be the place to go stragglers from all reaches of the Committee oversees the various babv milk supplies on hospitals in and do our all-round outdoor type UK. national societies and runs the over 20 countries, particularly Africa of thing. However, somewhere The only problem that some of us International Week in February and Asia, in direct violation of the along the way, someone decided it had all week was sunburn! Yes, you every vear. World Health Organisation would be a terrific idea if we were can forget the Med. just pop up to International Code of Marketing to set off early in the morning to Bonnie Scotland and be very, very ENTS Breast Milk Substitutes, adopted in travel during the day. So, there I lucky. We went during the last week 1981. These supplies inevitably get was, stood outside Beit Arch at 7am of the hols, so there was reasonably distributed and impede breast on a Saturday morning wondering fresh snow on the tops of the Carnival feeding. "Free samples are not where the hell I had left my brain. mountains. We also happened to hit Carnival charity, they are a marketing ploy Those ever-so-luxurious union vans a sunny patch in the weather, so This was a storming success with to increase'profits: breast feeding needed to be packed, and then the walking along the tops was a really one of the best bands we've had stops so the mothere have to buy people somehow crammed in on dazzling business! Walking over at College for a long time. Nestles milk. top (why is it that the people come virgin snow in bright sunshine is Apologies to anyone who had to To make the boycott most last?). Then guess what? The bane of really rather strange, because your wait for a long time to get the effective cut out Nescafe. every club trying to get away on eyes have a hell of a job trying to minibus home. One of the buses Other Nestle products include: time, the people who turn up late. focus on something. You have to had been taken by St Mary's Rowntree Mackintosh, . Now we had one guy who was look at the end of your boots or at Rugby Club when it wasn't Nescafe, Blend 37, Nesquick, Cello, coming all the way from Germany some distant piece of rock otherwise booked by them and the other Ideal, Fulcreem Custard, Elevenses, just to go away with us, you think you are likely to fall flat on your face had to make an unscheduled trip Sarsons Vinegar, Chambourcy, he would have had the decency to because your balance goes! The to the hospital with one of the Darkly, Le Grande, Chamby, turn up on time wouldn't you? He snow did, though, provide ample evening's casualties. Nouvelle, Robot, Jacky, Fox's Mints, did finally arrive of course, not too opportunity for sledging or sliding Many thanks to all who helped , Mix-o-Choc, Superquick, Flo- late in the end, and off we set. One around and generally playing silly and who've helped all year, lite, Fine Blend, Findus, Eskimo, van was to go up the old M1/M6 (ie buggers. One particular decent from particularly Milan Lester for , Hippopota, Bonjour, the obvious route) and the other one a mountain simply involved putting driving the van practically until Flamby, Fromage Frais, Creme was to go up the East cost route. on waterproof trousers and sitting dawn. Vienna, Kremby, Sun-Pat, , Why? Because one of our number down—gravity did the rest! , Milkmaid, Flo-Mix, had left his kag at a friends house As for the rest of this term, Elections Karima, , Libby, C Drinks, in Ripon, of course, it's quite simple nothing too strenuous with the big There are still a few posts available Moonshine, , Coffee- really! Also we were due to pick up E's and all. This weekend we have for next year as Union Officers (and Mate, Slender, Build Up, Go-Cat some 12 year-old in Durham, a our Annual Dinner in Derbyshire, for this year unfortunately). Please and Dog, Gales, , Original younger verson of one of our then after the exams a weekend of contact myself or Nigel or sign up Cookie Co., Coffee Substit., number no less. cream teas in Cornwall, then for with ten seconders opposite the Tip Top, Ashbourne Water, Alta Well to cut a long (oh! so very those lucky enough to be going, the photo machine in the Union Rica, Crosse & Blackwell, Waistline, long) story short, we eventually summer tour is to Norway for three Building.

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Southside Gym. Build your Brown Committee Room (top and confidence. What's On fitness and confidence. floor Union Building). Open Circle Study 4.30pm Latin American Meditative Prayer 5.45pm 9 Prince's Gardens. See Islamic A guide to events in and around Dance Class 8.00pm Chaplain's Office, 10 Prince's Soc. . IC.' UDH. Cha, Samba, Rumba, etc. Gardens. Come and join us for Kung Fu 7.30pm FRIDAY 80p some peace and quiet. See West Union Gym. Grandmaster CK Consoc Meeting 12.30pm TUESDAY London Chaplaincy. Chang's class. Keep Fit 6.00pm Basic Christianity 6.30pm ME569. CU Prayer 8.15am Southside Gym. Stretch class. Senior Common Room, 7th Floor. Friday Jamaa Prayer 1.00pm 308 Huxley. For those who think Beginners Ballroom 6.00pm A meeting held by University Southside Gym. prayer is more important than JCR. 80p. All welcome. Christian Outreach examining the Christian Union sleep. Free. Judo 6.30pm life and claims of Jesus. Meeting 5.30pm Remote Controlled Union Gym. Beginners welcome. 308 Huxlev. Time for prayer, Modelling Club 12.30pm THURSDAY worship and discussion. Karate 7.00pm Southside Upper. Fencing Club 12.30pm Shotokan Karate 6.00pm Southside Gym. Build your Sailing Club .12.30pm Union Gym. Meeting also at 6 Southside Gym. fitness and confidence. Poetry Readings 6.30pm University of London School of Oriental and African Studies Room G57. Fencing Club 12.30pm I nion Gym. Meeting also at 6 O Clock. SATURDAY Karate 10.00am Suuthside Gym. Beginners welcome. Build your fitness and confidence. IC Kung Fu 4.30pm Southside Gvm. Beginners alw avs welcome. SUNDAY Sunday Mass 11.00am West London Catholic Chaplaincy, More House, 53 Cromwell Road. Also at 6pm (followed by bar supper). All welcome. Shotokan Karate 1.00pm Southside Gvm. Wargames 1.00pm Senior Common Room. All Intermediate Ballroom 7.00pm o'clock Welcome. Boardsailing Club 12.30pm JCR. 80p. ICYHA Meeting 12.30pm ICSO Rehearsal 3.00pm Southside Lounge. Caving Club Meeting 7.00pm Southside Upper Lounge. Rehearsal for Fridav's concert in Audiosoc Meeting 12.30pm Southside Upper Lounge. Everyone welcome. the Great Hall, only 7 days left. Union SCR. Cheap records and Everyone interested should come Audiosoc Meeting 12.30pm Kung Fu 4.30pm tapes etc. along. Union SCR. Cheap records, tapes Union Gvm. Beginners welcome. Roman Catholic Improvers Ballroom 8.00pm etc. RCSU Night in Mass 12.40pm JCR. 80p. Ski Club the Bar 7.00pm Mech Eng 702. Mass followed by Mountaineering The Ski Club will onlv meet on Union Bar. lunch. 50p. Club Meeting 9.00pm Tuesdays this term. Ski Club Meeting 12.45pm Debating Society 1.00pm MONDAY Southside Upper Lounge. Southside Lounge. Interested in Beginners always welcome. Room 341 Maths (Huxley). Rock Soc Meeting 12.30pm learning to ski? Already hooked? Arabic Lessons 1.30pm Suuthside Upper Lounge. Want to trv racing? Come and WEDNESDAY 9 Prince's Gardens. See Islamic Anyone interested in any form of find out more. Keep Fit 12.30pm Soc. rock music come along. 3rd World First 1.00pm Southside Gym. . Keep Fit 5.30pm Artsoc Meeting 12.30pm 4th Floor, Env Tech, 48 Prince's Sailing Meeting .12.30pm Southside Gym. Union SCR. Sign up for shows. Gardens. Outside Southside. Prayer Meeting 5.30pm Membership £2. Beatles Hour 1.00pm Caving Club Meeting 1.00pm Chaplain's Office, 10 Prince's Yacht Club Meeting 12.30pm For all the best Beatle and Beatle- Micro Club Meeting 1.00pm Gardens. All Christians in Upstairs in Southside. related material on Cd with Third Floor, Union Building. If College are welcome to come and Recitation of Spenser Lane. vou're interested in computers pray for the work of Christians in Holy Qur'an 1.30pm Qur'an, tradition come along. College. 9 Prince's Gardens (Basement). of Prophet 1.30pm Hamsoc Meeting 1.15pm Cricket Nets 5.45pm Keep Fit 5.30pm 9 Prince's Gardens. Third Floor of Union Building. Meet in Mech Eng Foyer. Sign Southside Gym. Almroth Wright Amateur Radio Society regular up on cricket noticeboard. Improvers Ballroom 6.00pm Lecture 5.00pm weekly meeting. Everyone welcome. JCR. 80p. Almroth Wright Lecture Theatre, Intermediate Rock Judo 6.30pm Beginners Rock St Mary's Hosp. Med. School. F 'n' Roll Class ! 2.15pm Union Gym. Beginners welcome. 'n' Roll 6.45pm Y Liew, Ph.D. speaks on UDH. 80p. Shotokan Karate 7.30pm UDH. 80p. 'Regulation of the immune Jazz Dance Class 3.15pm Southside Gym. Advanced Ballroom 7.00pm response to infectious diseases by UDH. 80p. Soup Run 9.15pm JCR. 80p. cytokines. Karate 3.30pm Meet Week's Hall Basement (back Karate 7.30pm Amnesty Meeting 5.30pm Southside Gvm. Build vour by 11pm).

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Hawking at IC turn up to work. The circular states AUT EGM that four or five mile walks are not 'unreasonable' and says that flexible The extremely short and not working hours, including work at particularly well attended EGM held home, can be arranged with Heads vesterday, discussed just three of Department. motions supplied by Union Those staff who are not in President Nigel D Baker. possession of parking permits have The first of these dealt with Union been asked not to bring their cars policy towards the AUT action into College, but a car sharing which supported their aims but scheme is available by contacting the criticised their policy of not marking Registry on extensions 3309 and exam papers. The motion was 3310. passed with ammendments from An NUR spokeswoman told Thomas Wyatt which noted that the FELIX that' the Union will talk with universities no longer have the London Transport right up until the money available for the pay rise deadline.' She expressed sympathy being asked for by the AUT. Nigel with student examinees but added will write letters to the Committee 'if you students had only a one year of Vice Chancellors and Principals contract for a job and a family, you (CVCP), the AUT and the Rector would probably feel just as detailing the new stance of ICU desperate.' towards the AUT, and condemning London Transport described the the CVCP for withdrawing from the NURs' action as 'somewhat negotiation process. stubborn' and has gained a High Course changes were covered in Court injunction to prevent the the second motion especially strike. Geology courses which have been The departments and years that changed from the description given will be affected are: Maths I, in the College Prospectus. It was Geology (Mining) I, Geology II and agreed to ask College to withdraw III, Mineral Resources Engineering the disclaimer in the Prospectus (Petroleum Engineering II, Hi and Staff and students packed into the topped both the British and which prevents students from IV), Electrical Engineering III and IV Great Hall on Thursday evening to American best-seller lists and been sueing them in the event of a course and Chemical Engineering III and hear Stephen Hawking, Lucasian translated into 22 languages. change (as happened to Aston IV. Professor of Mathematics at Professor Hawking said that he University). Cambridge, give a lecture on knew the book was a sucess when Imaginary Time'. Hundreds of he heard that it had been translated others were unable to attend into Servo-Croat. because of shortage of space. In the lecture the Professor The lecture was the second of the described the theory that time may Civ Eng students angry Schrodinger Lectures, named in not be a simple 'linear' quantity moving steadily from a beginning to honour of the quantum mechanics Irate second year Civil Engineering but agreed to provide sample an end, but two quantities, the 'real' pioneer, and was chaired by the students claimed they had been questions. He said the standard of time we measure or think we Rector, Professor Eric Ash. 'messed around' this week when the exam was easier than in measure and an unobservable Professor Hawking, who is the Civ Eng department reschedul- previous years, and agreed to 'imaginary time'. By travelling in confined to a wheelchair and is ed an exam that had been post- release the distribution curves from imaginary time we may be able to severly disabled makes use of a poned by the AUT strike. this year and last year so that travel into the future or back into the computerised speech synthesizer. Students were given only eight students could be sure they were past of our own universe and even Professor Hawking said that the days notice of the exam when they being fairly treated. synthiser give him an 'accent' which into other so-called parellel returned from theEaster break. This Mr Sharma, one of the lecturers had been described variously as universes. It may also provide the is despite assurances that the exam responsible for the course, told American, Scandinavian or Irish. key to combining relativity and would not be held in May and that FELIX that the exam was only part quantum mechanics into a single He is probably best known as the there would be two weeks notice of of the course and that success in the theory. writer of the scientific best-seller 'A the date. course was not dependent upon Brief History of Time' which has A petition calling for the exam to passing it. He claimed that students be boycotted was signed by about had been provided with three eighty per cent of the class. unscheduled hours of help in the Students approached Union week before the exam. He went on IC cleared of legionella Honorary Secretary, Ian Morris on to say that the date had been set in Tuesday, calling for the exam to be consultation with the Civ Eng Dep An independent report has pin- Head of Health and Safety at IC, cancelled. Mr Morris and Union Rep and said that the exam would pointed cooling towers in the Dr Hargreaves, said that the College President, Nigel Baker ICU have been too close to the main Science Museum as the source of intends to phase out cooling towers conducted a straw poll amongst Civ exams had 15 days notice been the recent outbreak of legionnaires and install heat pumps before the Eng II later in the week and were given. disease in South Kensington. hot weather starts. told that the exam should be Students in the department said The report rules out towers at Mr David Evans of the canceled. If this was not possible, after the exam that it was 'a pathetic ImDerial College as the source of maintenance section said this was said the students, they would like exam, set out of a bloody-minded infection, but the Health and Safety 'impossible' and expects the work the exam to go ahead on the original desire to have an exam at all costs' Executive have placed a prohibition to be finished by October. Work on date rather than have it interfere and that they 'should have asked for order on the College's towers until the Biochemistry tower is due to with the rest of their exams. the exam mark to be reduced as a their recommendations can be begin within a month, followed by The Head of Section, Mr Chiat, proportion of the course'.

implemented. the Mechanical Engineering tower;. was not prepared to cancel the test,

FELIX is published by the Editor for and on behalf of Imperial College Union Publication Board and is printed by the Imperial College Union Print Unit, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BB (Tel 01-589 5111 ext 3515). Editor: Bill Goodwin. Business Manager: Liz Warren. Advertising Manager: Nick Jones. Copyright FELIX 1988 ISSN 1040-0711. J6 7 1 fe[±x Silwood Ball Brighton Run Summer 11 12 13 14 1989

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