EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW NEWS FEATURE NEXT WEEK Pirate Station Microsoft in the Jeff Mills Upfront FM Dock Interview Student Protestors Depose President JEREMY THOMSON the protesters were forced back celled after surveying the strength into the campus by the Riot Police. of the military presence in the area What started as a peaceful stu- Shots were then fired into the and ominous threats from army dent protest last week in Jakarta, building, killing six [Felix 1115]. generals. Indonesia has lead to widespread Protests immediately began across Although Suharto's departure demonstration, violence and the capital, with an estimated has been warmly welcomed by pro- finally the resignation of 20,000 students occupying the testers, the newly installed leader, President Suharto after 32 years parliament building. Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, is seen in power. The leader of the world As the army took control of as 'more of the same' by many. fourth-largest country took the much of Jakarta, looting and rioting One of the few senior officials not decision stand down yesterday become widespread, leaving over to have a military background he is morning amid increasingly ugly 500 people dead. Worryingly, the behind many of Indonesia's eco- scenes in the city and mounting Chinese minority appeared to be a nomic and social reforms - not international pressure. In his brief target for racially-motivated always successfully. He is also a speech, Suharto also acted to dis- attacks, and most of Jakarta's close personal friend of Suharto, solve the current cabinet and Chinatown now lies in ruin. and has been accused of 'crony- immediately handed over power to Amien Rais, the leader of an ism'. his vice-president, BJ Habibie. Indonesian Muslim organisation Aimen Rais has given only con- The trouble began last Tuesday with 28 million members, has ditional support to the new leader, when around 5000 students from a emerged as the unofficial leader of pressing for elections to be held as private college lead a demonstra- the opposition to the government. soon as possible. tion to protest at delays in essential He had planned a mass demon- reforms. Towards the end of the stration in Jakarta's Freedom day, a fight suddenly broke out and Square on Wednesday, but can- Spoof Holiday Leads Media Astray ED SEXTON Guardian, describing the group as sponsorship money, but this has "very bright". not pacified Leeds Student Union, A group of arts students who On Wednesday, however, the who gave the group a grant of over claimed to have used sponsor- group revealed that the entire trip £1,000. Speaking to Felix Ruth ship money to finance a holiday had been fabricated, and claimed Wilkin, Communications Officer for abroad have revealed that Leeds Student Union, the trip was a spoof. expressed her displeasure The thirteen students, all at the incident, comment- third years from Leeds ing that the students The University, had collected involved would be asked Shrinking £ 1,800 from various sources "to explain themselves" to put on an exhibition called next week. She added that Newspaper 'Going Places'. On arriving at the Union would "probably at Imperial the exhibition this week, be taking further action". tutors and critics were greet- Although the students have College ed with a bowl of Sangria and promised to return money flamenco music, before to all sponsors, Ms Wilkin being led to Leeds-Bradford One of the pictues used to dupe newspapers; mentioned that many airport, where they saw the actually taken in Scarborough groups were "really unhap- Issue students apparently arriving py" with the situation. The on a plane from Spain. The stu- spoof was not part of the students' 1116 that the media attention and emo- dents alleged that they had spent tion that had been generated was a course, but a voluntary exhibition the sponsorship on a holiday in the work of art. In The Independent often put on (or not, in this case) at 22 May Costa del Sol, justifying the trip as a Terry Atkinson saw the affair as this time of year by third year 1 998 statement about the nature of art. "very successful in raising questions artists. Their tutor, Terry Atkinson, defend- about the nature of art." The stu- ed the students in Tuesday's dents have promised to repay the NEWS 22 May 1998 rr V&A "Boilerhouse News in Brief. coupled with the marked differ- at Last Hurdle LEAGUE TABLES ences between different league DAVID ROBERTS huge selection of contemporary art. tables, can only fuel doubts as to By utilising NASA computer technol- Imperial has once again been the worth and even validity of the Designs for the Victoria & Albert ogy, the he has created a seven placed third in The Times universi- league table system. Museum enter the final planning storey building, coated in massive ty league table, published last stage this week, amid a flurry of ceramic tiles, yet with no internal week. Cambridge was top, with criticism. framework. Libeskind describes it as Oxford beating Imperial into third BIOCHEM FLOOD The design, a high-tech structure "unlike any spiral that's ever been place by just three points out of a known as "the Spiral" or more criti- built, because there's not a centre or possible thousand. In The Flooding occurred on three levels cally "the Boilerhouse", has led to its a single apex...it's a vertical slice Financial Times table, published of the Department of Biochemistry architect, Daniel Libeskind, being through time". earlier this month, Imperial came last Friday when the hose to a described as "architecture's Pol Pot". The design brief called for some- second with Oxford top. What water pump on an overnight Critics claim that the new build- thing that would make a "hugely makes The Times table interesting, experiment split. The sink below ing will be a blot on the classical avant garde statement about the if not dubious, is Imperial's score had become blocked and, as a buildings that surround it, viewing site" - and the project director, of 85 for research, much lower consequence, water spilled out the design as "an explosion in a Gwyn Miles, feels that the design than previous years and placing it into the lab and adjoining corridor cardboard box factory". Libeskind, Libeskind produced was "spot on". eleven points behind Oxford. and then down to the two levels however, is used to such criticism. In an unprecedented move, the brief Imperial kept its third place by below, where the departmental His previous work includes Berlin's also insisted that the new building scoring a high 93 in the staff-stu- stores are located. Fortunately Jewish Museum, which led to the would have to be capable of lasting dent category and a maximum most of the stock in the affected young Polish architect being branded another 120 years. Consequently, 100 for facilities spending, a find- area was salvaged. The flooding the "destroyer of Berlin". His design Libeskind has produced something ing that will no doubt please the was discovered by Security early includes seven great "voids", and which he believes will fit into the college and bemuse many stu- Friday morning. The Departmental the entire structure is based around twenty-first century, "a craft and a dents. Other London universities Superintendent, Mick Rogers, lines plotted from the museum to culture for eternity". in the top ten were the London declined to comment, saying that the homes of 1050 pre-war Jews. The plans go to the Royal School of Economics and Political this sort of thing happens every Yet his design for the £75 million Borough of Kensington &. Chelsea Science and University College, day. He did say, however, that in pound extension to the current planning committee this week, and if with King's College being placed his opinion there are not enough museum is utterly different. It is a given the go-ahead, building work 18th. people around at that time to look futuristic plan, designed to create will commence in earnest later this The change in Imperial's out for faults in equipment used in the correct setting for the museum's year. 'strong' categories from last year, experiments. Friday a-z. free m a/a after Chunky club tunes with. KGDonizm RlGclecti c electronic^ from... Saturday STANDING HOOM ONIY England v Saudi Arabia I J Tuesday STA BAR TRIVIA W Win £50 or a crate of lager. DaVinci's 8pm 1111 Wednesday j^S^ 9-12. Free I I Thursday COCJtrAU MICH? mm&er hour emcxs mm micht. s-m 22 May 1998 NEWS Microsoft in the Dock MARK BAKER Internet creates a vast new market. More than the ability of U.S. companies to continually 100 million people are now connected to the improve their products." In an open letter to cus- Microsoft, the world's most successful soft- Net with the figure expected to increase to a bil- tomers, Bill Gates said that the requested ware company, faces a new threat this week. lion by 2005. E-business is expected to grow changes to Windows 98 "appear to benefit a sin- The US Department of Justice (DO)) and twen- nearly a hundredfold over a five-year period and gle competitor at the expense of consumers". ty US states have filed a lawsuit against Bill traffic over the Internet is now said to be dou- Microsoft also stated that the release of Gates' all-powerful company. bling every 100 days. Windows 98 was "on schedule" to reach con- Microsoft is charged with engaging in anti- sumers on June 25. competitive and exclusionary practices designed However, most industry observers remain to maintain its monopoly in personal computer unconvinced of Microsoft's lofty principles - in operating systems and to extend that monopoly March 1997 an internal memo concluded "if we to Internet browsing software.