ELIXi* The Student Newspaper of Imperial College Nol031 02JUN95 Keep off the Grass BY RACHEL WALTERS

Following another spate of cannabis raids on Imperial College halls, there is still confusion about the details of IC's drugs policy. Five more students are facing college disciplinary proceedings after being caught with marijuana in the past week. Over the bank holiday weekend a number of students "Straight, go straight!" "Right?" "No! I said straight!" Imperial College Union sent a team of sabbaticals, were found with cannabis seeds officers, Union staff and students to a gruelling raft race last weekend, writes Owain Bennallack. The one hundred and marijuana plants in mile journey along the River Wye, billed as the 'toughest endurance test in Britain', certainly lived up to expectations. Southside. One student, found With the lowest river conditions for fifteen years, the first day saw team seventeen having to carry and drag 'The with a two-foot tall marijuana Consort' over large sections of river and eventually being forced to abandon ship after 28 miles. It was plant, several packets of cannabis withdraw for the second day to recuperate. Then, on Bank Holiday Monday, the raft set out again - with a slimmed seeds and a set of precision down crew and reinforcements from the disbanded RSPCA team. Hitting the water at 6.00am, they battled scales, vigorously denied that he to complete the route, passing Chepstow Castle and cheering crowds at midday. Despite this rude awakening was a dealer. Earlier in the need for training and fitness, everyone present was proud of their involvement and there are even plans for weekend a drugs pusher was outing! Dan Look, Deputy President, commented: "Obviously I am disappointed that we didn't complete chased out of Southside by a sub- hundred miles but I think everyone worked really hard to achieve the distance we did". The Prince Consort warden. partially sponsored by STA Travel and the Union Bookstore and hopes to raise around £1500for various charities. College security are conti- nuing to press for a clarification of college policy on the issue. NUS Rejects Graduate Tax There appears to be a wide discrepancy in the way hall BY RACHEL WALTERS their document "Funding our loans system because repayment wardens are dealing with the Future". The policy review would be related to the students' problem. According to Terry The National Union of Students calculated that basic rates of future income. Graduate Briley, deputy head of security, has rejected proposals to support income tax would have to be employers should contribute to some wardens deal with funding based on student contri- increased by at least 6.5p in the funding through National offenders at residence tribunals, butions. At the extraordinary pound to fund the current Insurance contributions. whilst other students face college general meeting in Derby last expansion of higher education The conference put these disciplinary action. "Some Tuesday, delegates voted instead with grants at the 1979/80 levels. proposals to debate. But despite wardens don't even tell us at all," to continue to call for grants to As an alternative, the document support from NUS President Jim he said. be increased to 1979 levels. came out in favour of a graduate Murphy, the one thousand Peter Mee, Imperial's The NUS held a £300,000 tax and maintenance income delegates voted to retain the registrar, admitted that "it is an conference earlier this year, contingency loans. These would original policy, calling for a (Continued on back page) leading to the formulation of differ from the present student return to full students grants. B news one&sixtccn editorial&intro three travel: Venezuela, Spain and Egypt four travel: South Africa and Bali five travel: Cyprus, Germany and Going Nowhere six travel: China, Venice and Thailand seven travel: Prague, Ecuador and Hitching eight&nine s-files: sci- travels ten xtra curricular eleven standby twelve&thirteen eightdayguide fourteen&fifteen Q FRESH HAIR SALON the best student offer in london!

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When Jack Kerouac wrote 'On the excitement of the road. surprising how easy it was to get the airport and the metro looking the Road' he redefined a feeling Again, the bohemian leaving people to write about their at words in French, amazed that that, despite the press spin at the Prague or Bali is only a little favourite destinations, it was they meant something to the time, is probably as old as man removed from the silence in a astonishing how many of them people around me. And then, less itself. We are wanderers: our vast family car driving back from wanted to simply return to the obviously I met some French spread across the planet is Heathrow after two weeks in the same place again. people and found them, cornily, probably as much an indication South of Spain. Anyone who As for my own voyages, not that different from myself. of the need to move as of that for finds his happiness walking to nothing "prepared me for my An alien and unknown city, space to live and stand still in. the greener grass will never smile modest escape last summer. the helplessness of a divorcement And those weary levi'd travellers over the final pasture. Despite being born in Australia from language, the solid reality of of America's fifties share much in And so to this issue. We (emigrating at nine) my family, hitherto mythical places like the common with the hordes of decided that, rather than attempt has in the main, led a land locked Louvre and the the Seine - they backpackers that shift across the to provide an all-too-slight existence. In fact, I could never in turn made the whole world planet like locusts, devouring overview of travel options and really understand ihe concept ol seem real in some way. Behind

culture and spending dollars. ticket prices, we would present 8:w.: that every postcard now there is a real Everyone is looking for the insiead experiences. Individual there were places where people place, with a million intersecting and sometimes the next 'postcards' that, we hope, might spoke differently to us, but the life-lines crisscrossing via the mountain, range can be enough lo strange language of Chaucer and mail and the aeroplane.

iiS; I know now that I must travel "i you on. Our l;:< lusi in you or, better, to lake a electromagnet waves seemed far !|il4 see something of the world, rfcdled with signifiers of^the vague already present notion and more down to earth. but my greatest fear is of irapor. spui 11 into action. It was only when my plane , the vacuous country- '.freeways', the myth of the The selection of articles are disgorged me at Charles de iio drinks McShakes frontier, ihe priceless "passport'. Gaulle ihat I realised there really from Peru lo Portugal. I hate the Bui equally, by definition, navel were other lands and other r its own sake; it can only lie a temporary solution. are a reflection oi the feelings peoples. They say that travel st. But When the travelling stops the they inspired in those who went expands the mind; ihe vast living begins again and whethei to ihem. As such, I hope they diversity ol human culture was as I ponder trips I know too that (H?'i«i$j|a* honfe orex&igrctet* provide a brief insight into ihe instantly forced upon me and my that's my only reason for going. disappointment can only follow world view changed. I ran about

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Well here we are, with only three EdiMi Owain Bennallack Primer Andy Thompson term and only two more issues ol A'.sisiani PfiniBi Jeremy Thomson LIX. Uoo-hou. I pir.end to Business Manoger Tim Bavisler hear you cry! But wait, don't Ad^t^ing Manager Wei Lee despair. Your favourite (your only'i studeni newspaper siill has a couple of old dogs shaking new Jon Jordan Wei lee tricks up its sleeves. 1 with Campus Travel Firstly, next week we're Piers Doniall we specialise in low cost travel for students and taking a look ai the ultimate Marcus Alexander young people providing support in over challenge: the battle of the sexes. Mark Beker end 150 offices throughout the world Two teams - the male team .md Rebecca Walters £ 0/W £ RTN £ 0/W £ RTN £ 0/W £ RTN Amsterdam fr. 45 69 Ibiza fr. 85 159 New York fr 82 153 ihc female leam -- w,!l '.v vagirtg> Kale Cax Athens - 79 129 Istanbul 111 186 Palma 69 139 352 555 Paris , : Vik Banal Australia Jo'burg 249 349 30 58 Bangkok 178 357 K.Lumpur 217 424 Prague 69 109 Rachel Wallers. Cairo 124 248 LA/San.Fran. 132 266 Rio 252 466 Corfu 90 169 Tenerife Articles are snll gratefully Photography Lisbon 69 79 85 165 Dublin 39 49 Moscow 135 270 Toronto 104 214 received, although we need Faro 69 139 Nairobi 189 378 Vancouver 138 282 perching by Monday latest. Around The World London / Sydney / LA / Surface / New York / London from £638 Then finally, the last issue of S-Files Rebecca Miltham London / Hong Kong / Bali / Australia / N. Zealand / LA / Surface / New York / London from £681 We also supply Trans Siberian Rail, North American Coach Passes, European lerm. (As usual no issue on Eight Ooy Guide Jeremy Thomson Train Tickets and Passes plus a vast catalogue of other services Friday, final lwie of term on the Sporl JulielteOeoxk and Mark Baker NOW OPEN following Wednesday.. This will be, hopefully, an extravaganza of STANFORDSil Campos TRAVEL MAP AND TRAVEL BOOKSHOP 52 Grosvenor Gardens opp. Victoria © 0171 730 1314 Mon, Tues, Weds, Fri 0830-1830; Thurs 0830-2000, Sat, Sun 1000-17C Or visit any of our other 4 London branches are happy to receive articles on IN STUDENT UNIONSUCL Union, 25 Gordon StreetEuston © South Bank University, Elephant & Castle © iusi about any subject, provided IN YHA ADVENTURE SHOPS, 14 Southampton St. Covent Gdn © 174 Kensington High St. Ken High St. © they get to the FELIX office by OPEN 7 DAYS WORLDWIDE EUROPE N' AMERICA next Friday. 0171 730 8111 0171 730 3402 0171 730 2101 Venezuela "East took me high above the tree line through hairpin bends into disturbing barrenness "

The light drive to Caracas from La Gua'ici national airport was tho crime body count of the end of landmarks until we hit the hills JBpp fertile ground where surrounding the capital, these waterfalls spilled under and over were smothered in thousands of the road, feeding lush vegetation. tiny flickering lights and I found South, then into Canaima, an myself deceived, missing an expansive National Park spanning Cairo is a dreadful, smelly, imposing mountain range. The - =..- :i-.^.. : : / into Brazil. My first view of the horrible place. Most people hate bewitching fairy lights cresting the landing; whilst still in the clouds, jungle was from a dugout canoe it, but then if you come on a day landscape were actually densely on the river weaving between trip from Cyprus, you can hardly packed brick built shoe box shacks .:').'.: p ' some of the world's oldest rock expect great cultural insight. that spill in their thousands across ilozen black lakes fuW below. formations; weird 'table top' sand- Certainly don't go there if you stone mountains called 'tepuis' the outskirts of the capital. it bloody scary at h;0;Si«. s:ia, romantic vision of It was sobering to see, in the the same time), From a random rising above the vegetation. An pyramids, Tutankhamen, an I local cold light of day, shanty-towns selection from the several mini-bus almost perfect scenario but sphere swimming in the river was slightly sprawl under a sky-line of North mountains, ££££££Mi£$£M'%^^--:i- American style sky-scrapers. All east took me high above the tree marred by every cheesy pirahna coloured by the insidious glow of lin#~^hftwign hairpin bends into movie I'd ever seen. everyone ntually slaughter goats state of the art western neon disturbing barrenness, west into Isabel Castro to

Spain hundreds of camels are shepherded by wizened old men I'd been to Spain before, as an Au fact, back by the railway station, in galabayas across the sprawling Pair in Teruel near Valencia. There, we sped back down thevalley, 1960"s suspension bridge. Or the I'd mopped floors six days a week across the bridge, up the other quite exceptional experience of for six months, learned Spanish side and into the Youth Hostel, about being up on a high roof words such as "tadpole" and which had no space left for men. overlooking the city when the call "skipping (useful for talking to a We ended up in a hostal just to prayer echoes round at sunset. four and a seven-year-old) and off the main square. Toledo was I'm sure the sky wouldn't turn that spoke hardly a word of English the excellent, one of the important shade of red were it not for the whole time. cities during the civil war, as the smog, but it looks pretty all the Two years later, I went bullet-ridden Alcazar bore witness. and we ended up sitting between same. InterRailing around central Spain After Toledo we zoomed up to some tower blocks, surrounded by The best way to really with my brother. We began in Aranjuez, supposedly city of little boys playing football and a appreciate Egypt is by finding a Madrid in 35 degre" heat, staying strawberries and the royal train. cloud of wasps. Returning to the local to interpret for you. That way with some friends on We saw neither, station, the train we had planned you can get them to translate the the outskirts of the "we had tO take sunbath to catch didn't exist, and we had to television programmes: there is city. After rowing ^ moved or make o two hour round trip to get quite simply nothing funnier than around the Parque del Avila. T back - on a train which managed Dynasty in Arabic. Retiro an<| looking at owner tl to catch fire. When you do make it to the

huge numbers of Qn a On then to another university pyramids, you can spend hours

paintings of St ' movec) j town, Valladolid, and subsequently trying to get that postcard Stephen being shot Which managed single be Burgos which was greener, leafier photograph of the Sphinx, with full of arrows in the ther. I tried to subtly and more full of cathedrals than Cheops behind, in the middle of Prado, we journeyed reveal the truth in anywhere we had yet been. From the desert, rather than amid the south to Tulrdo The town is split Spanish Avila had enormous here it was an overnight train to urban sprawl. Having battled of into old and new by n river at the battlements, dramatically lit at Valencia, and then by bus back to dozens of hardened crooks forcing bottom of a steep valley. Greg and night. Teruel, which felt like going home. a bottle of Nefertiti's own Queen I, eager and fresh off the train, One evening we took a trip to It was so different to be there as a of the Desert lotus oil perfume rushed past the other backpackers nearby Salamanca, which I had visitor: I did no mopping and upon you, the final hurdle is to down one side of the valley, across visited before arid knew to be a looked after no children. We met part with another small fortune the 17th century bridge, up the university town built in sandstone friends and swam in the reservoir. and go inside the great pyramid. other side, and halted in the town that gently radiated the day's heat I didn't need to say tadpole or Perhaps I was a little naive to square to consult the guide book. at dusk. It was only a half hour skipping, but it was just as hard to expect it would be just like Indiana Discovering that the Youth Hostel train journey, but upon arrival we say goodbye. Jones and the Temple of Doom. we had been aiming for was, in were miles from the town centre, Rebecca Mileham Rachel Walters

EM FELIX Postcards Bali South Africa

Bali is bonus land: we got the view If you want a real adventure of rice paddies falling away into holiday why not try South Africa. I the valley as we ate our fresh fruit did and loved every bit of it. I breakfast in the open air resturant; stayed there for three weeks with a the tame baby heron which stalked friend from College: if you intend between the tables as we ordered to see all of it you definitely need our lunch on Monkey Forest Road, more time. We hired a car in the and the climate, so friendly to first two weeks and drove a total artists, lizards, orchids, frogs, distance of three thousand miles, ducks, hawkers, surfers and us. much to the hire company's The Indonesian island of Bali horror. The last week was spent on floats in the southern Pacific, two Safari in South Africa's famed hours from Singapore by plane, on We met one elderly Spanish artist Kruger National Park. are marvellous. We spent the next the other side of the equator. We sitting in his gallery: something of Our first stop in South Africa week and a half driving down the chose Air France and thought we'd a shock, as from the sign outside I was Jan Smuts Airport and it didn't 'Garden Route'. This route takes picked well - the bag of in-flight had thought that the establishment take long to find our bearings, sort you through many black goodies under the seats in front was a memorial to someone long out a car and a place to stay. The independent states (now a part of contained toffees and games dead. He talked about his recent tourist industry in South Africa is a South Africa) and finding camp cartridges. Later, realising the meeting with Michael Jackson in little immature but because of this sites near the beach was easy. The bags belonged to the children Singapore with peculiar excite- all the tourist businesses are very beaches were deserted and sitting in the seats, we guiltily ment. friendly and helpful. breathtakingly beautiful and we replaced them, sans toffees. We took a bemo - local Johannesburg is not a city for certainty were in paradise. The transport - north to Penelokan at the timid. It has the highest end of the first two weeks was the foot of Mount Batur, the murder rate in the world but this drawing too close too quickly. "We ate fish fresh remaining active volcano around a didn't stop us checking out the Drifters Adventure Holidays from the lake and much larger crater now filled by a night life. Caesar's Palace was our supplied us with entertainment for lake. We ate fish fresh from the first sample of South African the last week. We started from persuaded ourselveslak e and persuaded ourselves that culture and we were very imp- Johannesburg and travelled that seeing dawn seeing dawn from the top of the ressed. For the price of pizza in through the Eastern Transvaal volcano would be worth the climb. London, we got our entry tickets visiting a few historic landmarks. from the top of the Next morning at 3.30am, and unlimited free food. Our real adventure began at volcano would be Made, our local guide, arrived and Everything seemed so cheap. One Kruger National Park. We spent we and the two Germans who pound goes a long way and, our nights in rustic camps and the worth the climb" were also making the ascent despite the price of the air ticket, day was spent tracking the 'big struggled to the foot of the the holiday turned out to be a bit five' either by foot or by Land of a bargain. Now that apartheid Landing at Kuta beach at t le mountain. The honeycomb rock Rover. We were lucky enough to has gone one would think that it south': end of tlw island, wo found was loose and very sharp, and see something very rare on our would now be all fair share but it a taxi and got stuck in a huge Made, the shortest and lightest of safari, a lion and lioness making was noticeable that there was not traffi. int. It the party, dragged me up the love. one black in Caesar's Palace. A gav us a chance to watch the steep places. Two and a half hours The role of the lazy lion in his quick dash for the car stopped our Australian surfers on one side of of climbing found us at the top, habitat is simply to reproduce and , wallets being pinched. the road and the restaurants on watching the sunrise, eating eggs even this takes some encoura- the other, and wonder whet' er the boiled in volcanic steam, and South Africa has still got a gement from the lioness. The feat rest o* Bull was like this congratulating each other. We long way to go before it can claim takes three days consisting of a We made our escape to bought some Coke from a friend it is a racially equal society. The series of thirty second busts at Denpasa*, the capital stown, the of Mode's who had apparently run general attitudes of both whites twenty minute intervals. It seemed next day Were the hawkers were up the mountain behind us and blacks seemed like an the lioness didn't like too much fun incredible, making you feel guilty wearing flip flops. apartheid still existed. For this and the frustration on the lion was for not stopping, then guilty for not On the way back to Kuta we reason we spent most of our time quickly began to show Along with wanting to buy anything, then drove along roads now fringed associating with the whites. It our amorous lions we saw several guilty for haggling, and finally with pejong poles, long bamboos seemed that if you :|#re BritjjK§ |jj|erds of elephants, rhinos, gir.r is guilty for paying what was from which hung flowers and and supported Mam hester United and hippos A quick tour down an probably far too much for woven offerings. The dashboard of ypu had an instant fr- something you didn't really want. . the bemo displayed pink flowers more FA coverage in South Africa In Ubud, the artistic central and a little tray of joss sticks. Kites then we get in England! region of Bali, we ate nasi goreng flew in the distance: it was a day It didn't take long to realise Sere I wanted to spend my next in one restaurant ranged down the of celebration. Johannesburg didn't have every- Holiday I would hove to y South side of a gorge and in another We left Bali knowing that thing so we set off down the N3 Africa If it the mast wonderful surrounding a pool covered in we'd have to go back. My toward Durban, Over the eight place on this planet. If you're lotus. The galleries were full of photographs are filled with rice hour drive 1 le climate changed looking for a holiday of a life time vivid black-outlined green and red paddies and sun which spills out from a dry war, iirom sand to safari, white-water paintings of men and women every rainy English day that I open day to an i -tremely humid, hot Hiver» to cheap food then South working in the rice paddies the album. sub-tropic type climate DurbWWs Africa is waiting with open arms. culitvated on every sloping surface. Rebecca Mileham a beautiful city and the beaches Piers Daniell

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that never existed flew in and out do your head in. Along with 99% of the compound. Whether the of the planet Cyprus has storms. hostages made it out or the The electrical storm are cool but Cyprus, such a wonderful place. terrorists blew everything up I the ram storms ore boring. You Birthplace of Aphrodite, wonderful don't know. can nearly walk through the rain sunshine and the warm Medi- Cyprus, as mo t people don t Without getting wet, the droplets terranean. Well, to tell you Ihe know, is now the disputed ten .y Pre massive but few and far truth it is a bit of Greece u* o downer. "VOU Still hciVQ tO Turkey. The North Summing up Cyprus is hard. I ^^ffla have to go for the view that ISP* TOUr's*s are 'he better class of Ijjhglish man (not your Torre- ^Bolinos type), you still have to and loads of other stuff you or I troubles in the It beat the Germans to the sun- don't know about. If the Americans

130 i loungers, and nearly everyone is once used Britain as a large had di -ided to hijack a plane and April in Cyprus mrans the sea friendly (realising hassles the aircraft carrier then Europe uses it had landed at tarnaca Airport, is freezing cold and there is snow island has had). Cyprus as one. The whole island was buzzing in the mountains. Having a Don't forget that Cyprus is of And hey, if you don't get with activity, not that I Saw it. I was snowball fight in a Mediterranean good military value placed close to much sun you can nearly always confined to Britain's largest country in April next to a cafe all our favourite countries. There count on a good war. military base, RAF Akrotiri. Aircraft called "Smokey Joe's" is enough to are radar bases, air force bases, Frank Poole Germany Going Nowhere It seems obvious to me that I People say that travel expands the should write about holidaying in mind... I disagree. I have not been Germany, as this is the only away for four, maybe five years country whose language I have now. There are, of course, many studied, albeit to a pathetic D at excuses I could thr .* around to GCSE level. Unfortunately this explain this; lack of money, lack of meant that the only phrase I could time (I spent my free time earning recall was "When does the next money), even sheer laziness But train to Koln leave?" and as I was then the salad contained tiny the real reason is that \ haven't travelling by car, I did not even get chopped up bits of some dead really wanted to go I wouldn t to use this carefully memorised animal. In the end I survived on exactly say that I haven't travelled, query. bread and cheese, two foods but all of the journeying I have However, accompanied by a which - even in Germany - do not done was tbrou ih the realm of the fcim that I have not travelled, good 'German-for-tourists' hand- usually contain meat. mind. There is so much to discover |||ien the njjght of the greatest loss book, it is possible to bluff your Turning from food to drink, in within myself before I even think |fi my life iwas followed by the way through and if you fail then this area Germany excels as it is a about travelling physically. poming of :the greatest clarity? normally the nation of Beer Any journey through life is a §P K i$

English. In fact, without K14.L lib Europe. These are who claims to d s r6a perhaps further and n 77j£d with the exce- Germany dktfl tO 3 t fun to attend know them ption of restau- p, «; and, unexpectedly, selves, the; y than exciting. I

: rant waiters, it trying t are big family lying; those ; can revel in seems that the virgin i \tftg S events. They are not who actually do changes of whole country ,» confined to strange know themselvc . have no need to the mind simply for what they are. can speak Cn 'real ale' addicts or boast about it. So I have been Even $he'blackest of depressions English, and will try to do so as soccer hooligans. making a |ourney long and WOS worth having, simply for the soon as they realise you are not a If you are offered a piece of wondrous, and it has been joy of actually being able to feel native. the Berlin wall, politely decline, as through the depths of my self Most people will find that one grafitfied chunk of concrete And the places I've been! i||o I have travelled, and German food is very acceptable, looks much like another. What can compare with that perhaps further and more even delicious at times, but this A final word of warning for feeling of I il despair, sitting in dangerously than most. No-one does not apply to me, as 1 am a any trendy would-be travellers; tears by a turgid nvei knowing can claim that I have failed to vegetarian. Attempting to get a Doe Martins are not appreciated in knowing that life can nevei get expand my mind on my traveU for decent meal without meat in Germany. They may be cool over any better. The total euphoria of they have by definition been mind Germany is akin to trying to find a here, but you will be regarded as a waking up one morning and expanding. Sometime maybe I will virgin in King's Cross. At one point Nazi-loving Fascist if you wear feeling life itself. The complexities go and visit other places, see the I asked for a green salad (the them, as they hold too many bad and intrigues of friendship and sights, but I'm not in a great hurry. method by which I survived in five memories. hatred, and the insane purity of I still have so far to go right here. other European countries) but even Mark Baker love and obsession. Who can ever MA FELIX Postcards

popular small club, the music is most agreeable time. Thailand hardcore house and trance and Travelling around Bangkok: Venice the most popular venues occur on Bangkok has a continuous rush the weekends with international hour throughout the day so be DJs. prepared for a long slow journey. Shopping is another great There are taxis which have air thing to do. Thailand is very cheap conditioning, tut tuts which allow so it is possible to over shop and the passengers to experience the have too much to bring back full force of Bangkok's pollution home. The best time is at the and bod drivers and then there are weekends at Chatuchak Market. It the buses which should be is great for the usual tourist goods found in the Far East, handicrafts, To fully relax, a short period at antiques, and clothes; Next on the one of Thailand's other resorts is a list will probably be MBK (Ma Boon very good idea. Koh Somui has Bangkok caters for all types of Krong), a Thai style cheezy great beaches with loads of night Venice is one of those cities that holiday makers, from the avid shopping mall. Locals shop here life with that island feel and is just everyone has heard of. It has been sightseer to the serious clubber for fashion imports and so it caters civilised enough for convenience. the setting for many films, perhaps who just wants to have some fun. for rockers, rappers and the usual Phuket island features hotels most notably for the gondola clubbers. The Night Market on Silom Road galore for the wealthier tourist and chase scene in Moonraker, in sells everything you could need. For sightseers the main a bizarre vegetarian festival in which James Bond (aka Roger Remember though - you get what attraction in Bangkok is the Grand November which involves hypnotic Moore) powers a high-speed you pay for. Then there is the well Palace; stunning architecture body piercing of the extremely gondola through the back-waters known Pat Pong: the go-go bars everywhere you look, and every faithful. Also consider Pattaya: of Venice, only to change into an and clubs welcome all tourist and item seems to be laid with gold many international travel agents inflatable-car thingie and drive ex-pats for friendly entertainment. leaf. There is a strict dress code in promote sex tours to this small away to safety. However, you beach town which is 2hours from For the serious clubber, you the palace so no shorts or won't see this happening these Bangkok. Krabi has cheap can find the young, beautiful and miniskirts, otherwise you may end days, as the wakes from such fast bungalows or the exclusive 5 star fashionable at So/ 4, Silom Road, up in a long queue for a pair of ill boats have begun to erode the Dusit Hotel. And lastly, Koh just along from Pat Pong. This is fitting jumpsuit trousers. Another walls of raqny of the buildings, Wwmngnangan is the place to find the place to hang out, is seriously popular tourist attraction is a river and a more pedestrian spe- I limit trendy and you'll find the strangest trip on the river Ton, however the hippy in you. \M$ZMZMZZM/£V,A'ZMZW going during midday is not the mix of people. Deeper is another Wah and Wei Lee Z:Z \V 1 iZZMM>: most unlikely city ever constructed and is incredible to walk through cottages piled high with cardboard as almost every building is a work boxes containing plastic toys, the of art. You can nevi quite get China boxes stamped 'Made in China' used the sheer improbability of it and realise that this is where they all, with boats serenely gliding Travelling by train through the come from. Industry extends down from street to street. The only Southern part of China you look to the person in the street; the down-side to the whole occasion is out of the window, past the tracks notion that everything is made in the number of tourists, but this strewn with rubbish cast out by the large factories entitled 'The must be expected from such a passengers and see the rural Number Thirteen People's Plastic China you were expecting; there Football Factory' or similar is a Prices ore high for really are coolie hatted workers fallacy. Women cycle past with refreshments, and temperatures tending lush green paddy fields, baskets overflowing with high-tech unless you're willing to depart with are often hot, SO I personally remote villages linked by mud electrical components; the shop- a large amount of cash in recommend a large packed lunch tracks, oxen being used to work ping streets in towns have shops n fees to the official and lots of bottled water to keep the land. But then the selling nuts tourist services It is a matter of yourself going. Taking a quick dip train turns a corner and J'Jbw get the sense and bolts policy for non-Clfinese to be to refresh yourself will not be a stark, ugly industrial machine charged more for train tickets, looked upon kindly by the locals. plant appears on the it is a real country, shop equip- pitry charges am the like. In the You can either wander horizon, looking incon* independent, not sriuller cities the foreigner is still a aimlessly through Venice, or take , llDveiiy, ana as such is considered one of a number of guided tours apparent idyll China is fair game for surrounding and to help you make the best of your full of industry, you get mZs. MMMrAiMyZMZxA ZZi^A'ZZZZ- staring at; also the treatment you stay. Most visitors do not actually the sense it is a real receive from officialdom often stay in Venice, but at a nearby country, independent, seems hostile. A thick skin is useful camp or hotel as I did, and catch a

: to avoid these irritations ruining not needing to trade with the rest : :UMziAj'.r,- l,;Z li%MM:Mk:J}'&l bus and ferry to the city. The ferry of the world. Barges ply the rivers ifiltyr trip, but the sheer fascination itself is something of an antique, loaded to within an inch of 11 blue Chairman Mao suits ||f observing the last great but does provide excellent views flooding, your 'express' train will and all toiling for large bureaucratic communist country is (and photo-opportunities) when stop to enable mile-long goods government organised schemes is something not to be missed before leaving the city near sunset. In trains to pass. also dated. Coca-Cola consumerism takes short, Venice is a feast for the Wandering around the back Tourism is a fairly new over... eyes. streets of cities you see small concept - don't expect an easy ride Tim Bavister Mark Baker 02JU095 FELIX HQ Postcards Postcards

l/ou have probably heard watching the sun rise in Germany, the worst of what the city had to attempts to pay the tram driver. It took a while to understand tales of cheap beer, our arrival in Prague was sensed in a offer. Things looked up when we (You are supposed to buy tickets in that the people waving at me were cigarettes, food and all night state of intense ennui and painful found a fantastic campsite, a small advance and punch them in one of Hitching in France trying to signal that the back seats parties in Wenc square. But clarity. There was a tense silence as place run by a the pleasantly j||g|j|en't in fact empty, there were Prague is a city of beauty and we drifted past the crumbling friendly young '|l$Sl some very small people sitting "Prague 10 a citp of m e c h a n ic a 1 Hitchhiking is dangerous, make island abbey of Mont Saint Michel, culture, its atmosphere concrete factories into the man who gave us a devices on mistake! Before you even considejjjf |||i them But eventually a 22 year- unique, dilapidated bus discount and had beauty and board). It was it find a partner and make the f||ld air-traffic controller stopped, unsullied by the station, each pas- find my luck was in again! I fruit trees and cats. something of a following three mental checks (1) - -'. ": 'yM'M Western ethos. culture... tte " tfnpretentfou* senger fearing they (Camp Dana revelation you're both insane, (2) you have si f the aty by its scale on the ipeveloped a strange kind of trust had made a terrible Troyska 1) It was a atr/to&p/>ere 10 Mhen travelling a long distance A twenty three cafee and bare though. The no responsibilities (and neither of rr i inn be a bummei when you hour coach journey mistake but unable mile or so out of unique" streets resemble, you are in the process of some hav. to walk across it to get to the jpith people I met while hitching; with just one stop spitt onto tl>e to face the stupen- the centre, but > I'm told, Paris, major relationship crisis), and (3) jlj'S not anything profound, but it dous deflation of Prague's public transport system is did rekindle some faith in you can swing a good right hook! : (twenty minute with artistically patterned cobbles, '' . - * etreete..." admitting it. We left excellent, costing 6Kcs (~13p) to go Humanity. One moment you could break! Zweizehn few cars, no T shirt shops, large Right, once you've decide l c 5 .1 >:j;M'\\ J!-:', M1 ->:; M': free spirit, guts and a sense of Minuten Pause! barks the driver) the coach, got our currency (you anywhere at any time on bus, tram plazas and handsome old buildings where you're going, pack a back- offer: you a lift all the way down nd youi ;elf abandoned in the adventure, not to mention a cannot buy Kronas in England so middle o* nowhere, having just does strange things to the mind. or underground. Camping is the juxtaposed with ambitious new pack full of clean underwear, get a the Loire fundamental belief in the take pounds) and flopped onto a best option as hostels are over llealised rou dropped your camera Sleeping fitfully through France, projects. Unpretentious cafes and map and go! At least, that's what I bi tiful old rhateaux's tucked in generosity of the local populace. I patch of grass by a tiny food van. We crowded and have strange rules. on your last hitch (yes, with all stopping in an unidentifiable bars spill onto the streets and the did. And try to stay in your pair, it's fM:M;r, 'M&/Mr¥W\^Mffhi&lM managed to complete my route country (we now think it was had arrived. whole place has an optimistic air — those piLcious photos!) feeling with a day to spare - I like to think I don't remember our first trip safer. We didn't. I started out from i M:MiiTW 'MMMi'-'-:- '"-A-:f;f;f; refurbishment is everywhere and jpuly stupid, when it begins to rain! Luxembourg) and pensively We had, however, seen only to the centre, except our stupid Paris, with one week in hand and vi it one2 Because tft iaid- that was good planning... But l|nd the i ext enjoying the native there is a wonderful lack of the aim to go south to La Rochelle afternoonpand hitching in the dark choose your country wisely! hospitality. Hitching takes a care- advertisements and tacky outlets. and then back north to the famous is a bit tricky! Stiff,! did. David Cohen Ecuador Time for a little of the Czech Republic's history: Anyway, enough of the politics, are made of ham and served with shots of a sweet hazelnut liqueur 3 Idle. This is an honourable /J zechoslovakia was formed I recently worked on a four month American music is heard on the what is there to do in Prague? Sauerkraut and ketchup. They are called Becherovka. For diehards, tradition. Wander around the street expedition to Ecuador in South radio and in the buses and houses. Ifc^ shortly after the first World delicious, and cost just 18 Kcs Guinness is available in the markets, sit in cafes reading Kafka War by gluing together three America. The country crosses the They drink rum and coke, or beer 1 Eat. There are many restaurants (~35p). Pareck is a huge sausage Highlander Jazz Club, Narodni 28. (Czech's most famous author), smaller states, and was under equator and that is what gives it its or if you befriend the locals they and even the best are affordable. served with chunks Prague has several listen to buskers. Russian communist control by name. We raised most of the will give you some of their punto Czechs take their main meal at of bread and beerhouses 1945. It then drifted along an WtWauder around - money for the expedition from which is a very strong spirit that lunch times and some restaurants mustard and is even 4 Culture. The place is steeped in it. inorexible path of corruption You sit on grant-giving bodies such as The they flavour with cinnamon or are a little reluctant to serve large cheaper. It has several old opera houses, a leading to the installation of a tin Imperial College Exploration Board liquorice (it is actually quite tasty evening meals. Tasty three course Wbe street marfet* long woodenhug e and fantastic castle, Cubist pot dictator. However, the country and The Royal Geographic Society, and potent enough that the flavour set menus can be had for around 66 2 Drink. Prague had l the villas and many churches and did not fare as badly as it might reading Xaffa and ^TTl as well as through personal soon becomes unimportant). usually obvious that you are a Kcs, as we discovered when we the best lager in the ' locals. The beer is museums. have, receiving useful Russian contributions. In Quito the buses have a tv foreigner. There are jumpers, asked the waiter for three menus. world, Budvar, being attention in the capital (such as the meten to twzfere" then brought by The capital city is Quito. It lies and video, so that you can watch ponchos, shirts, hammocks and Prague has a few McDonalds, but if the home of Pilsner (invented in 5 Nightlife. There is plenty going on subway) and little interference waiters who cal- along a valley, surrounded by the news as you travel through the bags and other artesanias, few of you go in them I'll never talk to you Piltzen). The beer comes in two after dark, centred on Wenceslaus elsewhere. Being by definition a culate your bill by tallying them on mountains. The houses extend up town. I was very lucky because I JMtfairh the locals wear or use. again. Fast snacks are available from types, light and dark. Both are random number. All drinks are very Square and Narodni. Prague has a Bohemian lot, Prague's population, a beer mat then multiplying it by a the mountain slopes. In one town went with a We had vans dotted around — Hamburgers excellent, and are often served with cheap. strong Jazz tradition and many night especially the young, eventually that I visited there was a house on couple of jabs before clubs and discos have sprung up. "the men are often very made a bid for independence. the top of a hill, with farmland all |ye went. You The best places we found were people ^°frjendly to women and it around it stretching down the hill. had been J ' ' " can find out They held an all out strike and Highlander Blue Note, Narodni 28 Ploughing is done using oxen and there before, could he daunting to a which jabs vigil in Wenceslaus Square for days for jazz and blues and Bunkr and may be on slopes that are at forty- you should until the capital was paralysed. Lodeka 2, a large underground knew what it woman on her own" five degrees to the horizontal. Vaclav Havel, a political prisoner dance venue. was like and have for a trip Quito is the second highest capital and plagwright, was installed as where to go, and we already had from the college health centre or city in the world at about 2400m friends there. They also guide* British Ainways travel bureaus. president and the communist rule Bad experiences were fairly above sea level. We were there to the safer parts of town. The Money went further in the was overthrown incredibly peace- few. Taxi drivers are to be avoided, from the end of September to the people were very friendly, south of the country where prices fully in what is now known as the they are incredibly expensive and end of January this year. although the men are often were half that of Quito and there Velvet Revolution. It separated back unnecessary. The state campsite is Most days the sunshine was friendly to women and It could be are fewer foreigners. You could into Slovakia and the Czech not up to much. Avoid the hot and bright, and it usually daunting to a woman on her own, get a meal for about £2 in Quito Republic. supermarket, it is a depressing rained in the early afternoon at if she was unsure where sn|f|l|as and £1 in the south. The capital today is in a fine experience. Soft drugs are in short about two or three pm local time. going. Best memory/souvenir: There position, with a liberal and wise supply and oh yes, don't get caught There were many bars and discos People do get mugged, are too many good memories such government, a good infrastructure, crossing a tram bridge when a tram with chart music or salsa and even particularly if they are carrying a as learning to salsa, swimming in an artistic attitude and a happy is coming. a hippy pub called "Pobre diablo" camera or have been seen to pull a tropical river on Christmas Day populace. The change so far has

(The Poor Devil) with candles and out an inflated wallet. The wages and discovering Quito's laund- been encouraging, a careful balance - relaxing blue walls where you there are a great deal lower than rette; a large room full of women between pleasure and tackyness, could drink some great cocktails. in the West and even if you do not and about fifty sinks! between growth and burgeoning Generally only South think that you appear rich, it is Jenny expansion.

HJ9 FELIX FELIX MM The S-Files Cornwall and on: scientific expeditions

^Scientific expeditions WANDERLUST: 1831 TO 1994

°Hot°Sticky DARWIN VS IC IN GHANA

°R travellers tale TANZANIAN CORAL COUNTER

! Every traveller must consider the same questions. Where should I go, and S-files spoke to Tammy Davison why? How should I travel? How will I eat and live? In this week's S-files we of Biology II who spent 1 0 weeks I take the theme of travel and look at three scientific expeditions, in 1831, in in Tanzania last summer: 1957 and in 1994. In 1831, Charles Darwin, then little more than a beetle collector, was > Why did you go to Tanzania? I volunteered as a diver collecting engaged as a ship's naturalist on the Beagle which was on its way to map the desolate coast of data for a research project on the island of Chole, South America. He didn't see England again for five years, and in the time he was away, he off the Tanzanian coast. In that area, there are collected plants, animals and also fossils, writing in his journal: "a fine group of fossil bones problems with people coming down to the sea and tell their story of former times with almost a living tongue". "dynamite fishing" - blowing the fish up so that they float to the surface. Also the reefs are being In 1957, Imperial's Natural History Society gained funding from the Exploration Board destroyed by people paid to collect coral and sell it for the first time to make an expedition to a region of tropical rainforest in Ghana, West for trinkets. Africa. They studied the changes in > What is being done? food crops caused when forest was The project I worked on is organised by Frontier, felled, and the report about this trip, who have also done conservation projects in rain forests in Vietnam, game parks in Uganda and the along with others to Greece (1959), Rufiji Delta near Chole. They only go in when the Iran (1960), Ethiopia (1962), Uganda government of the area invites them. Frontier is (1965), Greenland (1966) and many trying to turn the area into a multi-user marine park other places, are in the Haldane which the locals, the tourists and the library (General Books 910.4). conservationists will all be happy with. So they're teaching sustainable fishing and doing research Below, find out what Darwin ate, projects about the area. where he slept and what he thought > How did you help? about it all as he sailed towards the Our job was to dive around the reefs in pairs, and Galapagos Islands. See how the IC one of us would count the number and type of fish - there were about 60 species - while the other one team felt about West Africa, and did a Benthic survey, looking at the surface of the what they did there. And on the right, hear first-hand about one IC student who, last year, reef and seeing whether it was rock, coral, sand or went diving off a tiny Tanzanian island to help save the coral reef. sea grass. We had plastic slates and pencils to write In comparison with the exotic locations in Africa, Asia and India visited by many it all down. > What did you eat? Imperial expeditions, two reports look slightly different. They are from the teams which Generally what the locals ate: rice, fish and kidney visited Cornwall. It just seems to prove the point made in the introduction to Ghana 1957: beans, although we did have the luxury of a bottle "Exploration indicates doing something new, and exploration in the biological sense is of soy sauce. There was lots of fresh fruit, bananas possible anywhere in the world - even in one's back garden". and green oranges. We took it in turns to get up, S-files start the fire, and cook breakfast, which was Ugi - sort of maize porridge with sugar. Typical menu: > What sort of place did you live in? Mwtfon and corned beef, Chole is a really idyllic island, and we lived in long !lf|f^ . XitrT!chips; potatoes and open huts made of mangrove poles and woven SBR1*** , ijfoltfjpie, fruit salad. "The palm leaves. We slept on the floor, and our W* f^,, voter supply w#s stored individual spaces were marked out with mosquito fliT^Frr1'- >-«inwcft&r, and tfeis wesson nets hanging from the ceiling. We dug our own ^^^^^^fc. . t exc^ent excust^for dpnllhg lager while toilets - a pit six feet square and ten feet deep with mangrove poles across it. Then you squat - it was surrounded by a fence, though! > What was the atmosphere like? Absolutely superb. Nobody knew anyone else *Tr»e fa&ilbalow hod o lacge dirorigTroom before they went but it was excellent. There's a real community aspect to Chole and the locals accepted ;v'..-v Qtu&J3 bawoorrt.;*rith aflufhing toilet. At M'.'yWT a " thef%ack was a wng hut VrTier».|he Boyus being there. There's a hotel being built on the . oijct tfceirfsrriilies couid nVe.-^tJ* ^ island now, and tourism is developing. Eventually I (Kepokpr0) think people who visit places like Kenya will also hear about Chole. 2 !j s;': " '"Sofllfcftund the climate hoi and sticky, > Was the project part of your degree? arid others tl§sbughr-it warm and It's certainly helped with my degree - not directly, ''>'/?.' pleasant. We realised fief ore we left but I was in Tanzania learning how to sample and collect data, while half of the people on my course longer in vogue, although most people were on a marine ecology field trip in Cornwall. " .X " advised us to wear hats to stop our tesir Frontier are at 77, Leonard Street, London (RerjoCp43) (Old St Tube) f FELIX D2JUR95 Xtra Curricular

Friday - Music, Dancing, Bar Extension For those of you who've missed your repetitive beats, a night of (and I'm quoting here) 'Mind expanding deep house grooves, hypnotic trance, happy hardcore and banging' techno' with guest DJs and live music from Wave Method. So for the best sounds, join our 'Mantra'. Free before 9pm, £1 after. And that's almost it, except to remind you that it's only a fortnight until the 'Midsummer Nights Carnival'. Tickets are starting to sell fast, so buy now or miss out - you've been warned! :i)!^GJUi^0(3 A Midsummer Night's Dream Keys: Shakespeare, Sixties

Intensive preparations have begun for this term's DramSoc production of 'A Guts: Defying the laws of gravity with just your rope to hold you up. Midsummer Night's Dream'. Written over three decades ago this classic play (by that aging star Billy Shakespeare) will be J^pCferica^bii rereleased in late June with a new improved Sixties sound track and will be performed Caving Adventures in Slovenia Run-down of this week's ents exclusively for the students of Imperial College. Keys: Plateau, Bivouac, Plugs Keys: Music, Dancing, Madness Set in Athens (a record studio), our four In there last lecture of the year members will Doesn't time fly when you're having fun? lovers rebel against their parental commands talk about the IC Caving Club's recent Here we are two thirds into the final term and escape to the woods (a nightclub). expeditions to Slovenia. The Caving Club has and the Ents office is brimming with Classic Shakespeare, classic rock 'n roll a long history of expeditions including places enthusiasm and excitement just as if it was we will be seeing for the first time a newly as far afield as Peru, Morrocco and the Freshers; Of course, this isn't strictly true - discovered band from Imperial, 'The Fairies'. Himalayas. even the Events crew have exams, so the Last Summer a group of undergraduates office is bereft of all life and I struggle on 'A week of talent and Rock' - and postgraduates spent six weeks exploring gamely with only my Dannii Minogue The New Musical Express and mapping previously unknown potholes posters for company. But we're still laying on 'Billy's best, and the best of the Sixties' - in a remote high altitude plateau of the Julian the best value for money events in London... Melody Maker Alps (North West Slovenia). Due to the difficulty in reaching the Friday - Indie Sounds plateau it was necessary to live on the It's here - an escape from all that 'Faceless mountain top in a bivouac where there were Techno Bollocks' as the T-shirt says. A no rivers and the only source of water was chance to shake your head and stomp your from snow plugs. Three new cave systems feet to the finest indie sounds of the past 20 were discovered and a further two were years at 'Pop Tarts'. Stuffed with Britpop, US extended significantly. The talk will include guitar sounds, New Wave and Retro-Indie. photographs of these new caves. Free before 9pm, £1 after and bar open until In February four members of the lam. expedition left their caving equipment and Monday - Monday Madness put on their winter mountaineering gear in Our usual beer promotion - a chance to chill order to visit the plateau while under deep out in the quad. The perfect summer night in snow in order to search for holes blowing the city. through the snow which are a clue to as yet Wednesday - Club Spanque unknown cave systems. Short but sweet... A brief visit to the unreality What they found was much better than of 'Club Spanque'. In three more weeks I can they had expected and will be the key to this give it a new name! From 8pm until 11.30pm. years Summer expedition back to the plateau. Thursday - Cocktail Night Balmy sunny evenings, the chink of ice in a The talk is on Thursday, 8 June at 12.30pmlon g glass... The iCU Cocktail Night, you in the Biology W2IW3 lecture theatre. Admissioncan' t beat it. Cocktails from £1.70, the perfect is free and all are welcome. way to celebrate the end of your exams, or just the fact that it's Thursday.

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demon knight ^ screamer In rotation this week, Biochem 1 hot honchos, Michael Calais 0 and Ben Kemp, play with assorted bits of plastic, and even Tales from the Crypt was originally manage to say something nice about a couple of them. a fifties' American comic book but in the late eighties the Cryptian In what can only be described as a scary week for all ethos turned towards television. concerned, Magpie dares to enter the crypt in pursuit of the Now the Crypt Keeper has been demon knight whilst Jenny Ho endures richie rich, a awakened once more and one story Macauley Culkin 'vehicle' (stop those hearse jokes now!). has been turned into a film, demon knight. Vile winds back the years with the police - live and tintin Brayker is the hero of the story, reviews the new albums from yo la tengo and latimer. a man forced to defend a boarding Dave, never one to stay home, gets his ears blown out by the house and its guests against the P Collector and his demons. Why is psyclone rangers. the Collector after Brayker? Well, In the revenge of the indie kids, Vik treats this borrowed Brayker has an ancient key, that column with an astonishing lack of care as he clubs out at can unlock the universe and the automatic. Collector wants it - simple really. Brayker, however, is only mortal Tintin opens the door on another irregular classic book in the and his sole weapon against the excellent company of Salman Rushdie's midnight's children; Collector is the blood contained the mother of all Booker prize winners. inside this key. Originally if was the blood from a carpenter - crucified at Calvary, but each dying keeper gore, perhaps in an attempt to replenishes the key before passing make some people feel a tiny bit © rotation: meanies it on to the next chosen one. nauseous. Whatever nausea soon Fortunately Demon Knight passes though, and being spoon does not become an Alienesque fed small doses of black comedy out of my hair - mister /ones killing demon scenario or a Friday also helps. Demon Knight is high The proprietor rubs his grubby This is what you get for the 13th. It's a film full of excellent on the impressive list. hands together as another poir changing your name from ideas. However close attention of likely lads make off with the si mon to comfort: a kate bush- needs to be paid to avoid confusion richie rich (Macauley Culkin) record industry's single flotsam. tori amos pastiche with in some scenes, as you may start is the richest kid in the world; the Just wait til they return, hearts sprawling pianos and no asking yourself, how could that sole heir to a $70 billion fortune. and dreams broken. But alas, it redeeming features. happen? Not only does he have his own seems that this week's Collector Billy Zone is personal baseball coach, but he rotationees, Michael Calais and fsol - far-out son of lung and... charismatic throughout the film, a also has a roller coaster in his Ben Kemp (Biochem 1) are far fact that allows his character to backyard and his aerobics instructor too cynical already. A career in seduce all the boarding house is Claudia Schiffer. music journalism awaits... guests in the attempt to retrieve the But Lawrence Van Dough is the key. His character is very much villain of the film. He wants to the cardigans - carnival along the lines of Beetlejuice eliminate the Rich family so that he single of the week; a song (comically frustrated) and the Joker can take over Rich Industries. crafted from everything that (the devil with a big smile), which Mysteriously, Richie's parents go makes you feel good inside; an proves to be effective. missing leaving Richie in charge. To instantly memorable chorus, Demon Knight is not defeat Van Dough, he seeks the string laden melodies with particularly scary; there is less help of a group of city kids who swathes of Hammond organ. shock and more special effects befriend him. As a Macauley Culkin film, high llamas - checking in ... Richie Rich is predictable. It's very If anyone had ever published an much in the same vein as his other a-z on how to sound exactly like films with plenty of slapstick elo whilst giving it a revolu- humour and Macauley Culkin tionary new country twist, the attempting to save the day. group got it out the library and However it also has vomit- kept it until it was long overdue. inducingly sentimental undertones with the moral of the story being kingmaker - the best possible.. that true friendship should be Particularly bad indeed. In fact valued more than money. this isn't even as good as the Undoubtedly Richie Rich is by guys next door tuning their micro. far inferior to Home Alone and guitars and practising bongos. Uncle Buck, the main problem being that Culkin's cuteness is joy division - rapidly diminishing. But as the idea love will tear us apart of being the richest kid in the world This is godlike genius, probably is every child's dream, it will the most important single of the probably be readily lapped up by week. Unfortunately this group the pre-pre-pubescent audience. turned into new order after ian Adults, on the other hand will find curtis hung himself. Or ultravox with innuendo. it a silly but harmless film, which is mildly amusing in places and just about bearable. Q

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storming tsunami of an album that Even more chaos is created by old coppers and yanks was 1993's 'painful'. Now 'electr- latimer; a band who have chosen o-pura' sees a louder band getting to called their album, Ip title. It's exam season and I need an Far from making some huge scuzzalled in form and function. Maybe it's supposed to be escape - something to steer my statement about modern society, Ira Kaplan's voice still drones, something to do with simplicity but sieve-like mind away from the de the Psyclone Rangers are simply out Georgia Hubley occasionally takes more likely it's the desire to force rigeur stress - R - us look that to do what they want. Like Valania vocal control with shy confidence, that breed of infidel dogs, music accompanies this time of year. Oh, said, "one day you wake up and but the group's driving force journalists, into forced errors. what's this? It's the early '80s and realise you don't want a Merc and remains their love of some good Whatever, Latimer come screaming the police are live! in america. a condo in the suburbs, then it's guitar reverberation and semi- from the best traditions of the Sting is disarmingly free of time to say 'f*k it!' and just go for inane odd-ball attitude that heartland of American psychobilly- pretension, Stuart Copeland is not what you really want". provides us with a running and-spit rock. writing film scores and Andy commentary of the album on the At their most reprobate they're Summers is as anonymous and There seems to be some sleeve notes. And as far as they reminiscent of the ten gallon extremely old as usual. I can take confusion on this one; is electr-o- may seem to head into Sonic Youth swagger of the Supersuckers and in the profound social and political pura yo la tengo's seventh or country, Yo La Tengo never end up they have toured with the awesome commentary that is 'de do do do,' eighth album? Not one for the faint alienating or attempting to spook Rev Horton Heat. Yet they also de da da da' and while away my hearted I'm sure you'll agree. What their audience with art school display some surprisingly melodic time pondering its significance. I is certain though, is that Yo La angst. leanings, as most particularly can chuckle at the pseudo- Tengo have been around for a As they write about their realised on the elegantly named reggaisms of 'roxanne' (but enjoy long, long time with little of the current single, 'torn courtenay' - "a 'chicken the goon'. it all the same) and cast a nostalgic recognition that some would group is like a jig-saw puzzle, Still you shouldn't expect an ear back to the perennial classics of suggest has been their due. everything must fit into the easy ride on 'Ip title'. It's oily, wily, 'don't stand so close to me', 'so But it is slowly changing, groove". 'Electr-o-pura' has no pig-headed and not always a lonely', 'message in a bottle' and particularly after the warming, missing pieces. (9) pleasure to know. (7) © best of all, 'every breath you take'. Hey, this isn't bad - they knew how to get a crowd going and in those days the only stress I had came portend from worrying whether Optimus Prime was going to recover from Within its own retrospect there's his near fatal clash with Megatron. always going to be a question Maybe they should reform so that I marked hanging over midnight's can be forever sentimental. Then children. Which, in a literacy again, why should they when Sting sense is extremely strange as it can write manifestly inferior tosh come highly recommended. and earn copiously greater Winner of the Booker Prize in the quantities of cash? Like exams, year it was first published, some injustices never go away. (6) 1 981,'Midnight's Children' has since^won the 25th anniversary Situated in the armpit of award as the best Booker Prize Camden Town's trendy anatomy, Winner. Yet the question mark the Laurel Tree pub is a haven for remains, Salman Rushdie? those in the know. Owain assured But leaving that aside, at least me that "that's where Blur hang- for this short column, 'Midnight's out", so I was rife with excitement! Children' is a book of rare insight yo la tengo After a 15 minute brainstorm trying and depth. Loosely autobio- to remember what the street was graphical in respect to growing up called, we arrive. But Blur? Blah! in Bombay and then Karachi, Upstairs at the Laurel Tree is a 'Midnight's Children' is in actuality room the size of yer average far broader - the history of an double-bedroom. Still it was where postage stamp Not impressed? Okay, imagine slamrr entire subcontinent wrapped up in the psyclone rangers make their the brief span of four hundred and h'vr/ts, iMM'-'M'':ZW^i^£MiS'WSz. debut London appearance. ; ::\;:\;'£Mi ..y-I;.^-:-.: WxMMl sixty three pages. My ears were feeling quite Maybe? Okoy, And yet the amazing thing is cathedral thanks to the supports, ng away on a that it works on both these two but that wasn't a problem; the * like* of Blur, levels, macro and micro, as they, rangers decided to go one notch '' ' ' '>' '": MMMMAiMMMMi>tMMMMMl,tead and many in turn , work together and apart. higher. Not a band for the faint >r £1.50 (with a The currents of an independent hearted. Jonathan Valania (lead India, breaking into Pakistan and guy) conceded they were not a hip Bangladesh, and the labyrinthian roots of its politics, shape a family grunge band from Texas (actually iiciKfui Squoio) Allentown, Pennsylvania?), and nd don't get up just as the members of that family on a W.: !p*;Pl§3: then kicked into 'feel nice', their [ shape countries by their actions, for a>liVM.!<" !>";<> 'v<.v: / ZMfW-My7 first single released back in 1993. 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ISSN 1040-0711 News Contract Conflicts News In BY THE NEWS TEAM the quality of their work was only Loweth also cite political brought up after Loweth's and personal conflicts. Earlier Brief Loweth Limited have vigorously decision to leave IC became this year Ron Jeeves is alleged to Beyond Wye College refuted suggestions, previously known, and that the letter from have attempted to have the The loose federal structure of the reported in FELIX 1029, that College confirming Loweth's Chairman of Loweth brought out University of London looks set they had 'lost' their contract with departure does not even mention of an important meeting to to become even more dispersed. Imperial College. The company, quality. In response, Mr Jeeves discuss a problem at Imperial. Malaysia College, a new London whose contract expires at the end said that the quarterly Imperial The IC Operations Manager is University college based at of July, insist that in early April College quality audit showed a then alleged to have described Kuala Lumpur, will be privately they themselves made the 10% failure rate in November, the company as 'crap' and sponsored and have a student decision to pull out of IC, before rising to 15% in February, while suggested that he would like to population of over 5000. the contract came up for review an internal audit in March 'wring the neck' of the Chairman, A recent report by the at the end of this academic year. showed that out of twelve jobs Mr Stuart Redcliffe. projects planning committee Ron Jeeves, IC Operations assessed, four were deemed to The 113 year old company suggests that fees will be around Manager, has acknowledged that have been unsatisfactory. does not rule out the possibility 80% of those charged in London, Loweth told him that they did He insisted that Loweth of working with IC in the future, with the additional benefits of not want to renew the contract, were informed of problems with with their Managing Director greatly reduced travel costs. and that they claimed 'Imperial the quality of their work and saying that they 'would love to be Imperial has a large number of College is an impossible place to showed FELIX minutes of a involved' in future developments. Malaysian students regularly work.' But senior estate managers meeting held at the beginning of They are anxious to repair what making the pilgrimage each term stand by his allegation that work- March. The minutes record that they see as the 'slight on our to the United Kingdom. manship was of an unacceptable 'the quality audit has revealed an reputation', with Stuart Redcliffe Malaysia College would be standard. "All of these problems increase in the rate of failures insisting his company 'believes required to adhere to the have come about because of their which has risen to 15%'. The in values' and is 'nothing like as standards set by the University inability to get the quality right," meeting was attended by three bad as we've been painted'. of London. The ULU building, Jeeves said. Loweth representatives. "We At the same time, Nick in Malet Street, is not expected Loweth point to a recent IC made a commitment to quality Black, IC's Estates Manager, to consider an expansion of audit of their work which found a control - we never actually defended Ron Jeeves' record. facilities if the proposal is 92% satisfactory rating. They achieved that with Loweth", Ron "We should have hired someone implemented. further assert that the question of Jeeves said. like Ron 10 years ago," he said. Top Spot for Chemical Guide John Emsley, science writer-in- residence at the Department of ('Grass' continues from page one) Chemistry, Imperial College, has issue that college should perhaps Physics Filched won the Rhone-Poulenc prize for deal with more coherently than science books. Mr Emsley they have done." He and senior BY RACHEL WALTERS ment. "It's a trade off between collected £10, 000 for 'The college tutors will attend a keeping things locked up and Consumer's Good Chemical seminar organised by the CVCP The Huxley building has been giving students access," he said. Guide' and is the seventh winner this month on the role of burgled twice in the past week. Meanwhile in a separate of the prize. university disciplinaries. "In the Last Thursday night, thieves incident, staff are confused as to Pubs and Clubs light of this discussion, we will broke into the Physics Depart- how two Macintosh Classic Young adults go to clubs and consider whether we need to ment through a window on the computers went missing from a pubs to socialise, not get drunk. make any changes to college third floor, stealing four memory locked room sometime between That's the findings of a new policy," he said. chips from the second year Tuesday afternoon and Wed- study by researchers at New- Mr Briley called for a teaching laboratories. They went nesday lunchtime. castle University. The loss of clampdown on college policy, so through several rooms, damaging The Physics Department is traditional job structures and that if any student is found in eight computers during the raid. continuing to review its security consequent trend against early possession of drugs, the police Two first year students have lost policy. "They're making the marriage has led to a culture will be informed. He acknow- three weeks of project work due place like Fort Knox," one where going out may continue ledged that the police would be to damage inflicted to a work security guard commented. The until the 20's or 30's. Thus, unlikely to deal with small time station disk drive. Computing Department side of social life has turned into the offenders, but said that the local Terry Briley, Deputy Head the Huxley building has been modern equivalent of the constabulary were concerned of Security, described the robbers free from thefts since the community. Project leader about the scale of the problem at as being 'far more subtle than our installation of infra-red detectors Robert Holland told the THES Imperial. Last week there were proper thieves ... there was no earlier this month, but the that: "people assume it's a more drugs related incidents at kicking doors in'. Gaining access Physics Department is not problem to be contained rather IC than in all of the rest of through the windows, they left equipped with the sensors. than an a positive opportunity." Knightsbridge. Mr Briley the scene of entry as they found The man arrested on Mascots Inviolate emphasised the gravity with it. "Someone knows what's going Exhibition Road in April for The two remaining violate which he views IC's drug on," Mr Briley said. thefts from the Huxley building mascots of the City & Guilds problem in comparison to other Steve Cleverly, the tech- over the Easter holiday was College Union became inviolate current security issues. "I think nician in charge of the second charged and released on bail last on Thursday. Any attempt to it's serious. In the end, year labs, said the there was a Friday. That evening, he was re- obtain the mascots- will now be computers are just computers, growing problem in imple- arrested, having been caught regarded as theft and will be but drugs is people," he said. menting security in the depart- breaking into a car. dealt with by the police. IJTf FELIX 02JUI195