FR IDAY, 8 TH JUNE, 2018 – Keep the Cat Free – ISSUE 1696 Felix

The Student Newspaper of Imperial College London

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Rugby club suspended after naked Churchill snap PAGE 4

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Aftermath: can there be art after warfare?

PAGE 14 The battle over pay continues // Flickr MUSIC Universities withholding millions from staff involved in UCU strike

NEWS the near future. College London withheld In a statement, the graduation. Kanye West: do A series of Freedom of just under £280,000 from College said money A spokesperson for Im- Fred Fyles Information requests to staff in March and April; retained from striking perial College UCU said we hate the new Editor-in-Chief Russell Group universities this number is likely to staff “have been retained they were still waiting Ye? revealed those whose staff increase in the coming by the relevant academic to hear about the total took part in the University months. departments to support amount to be deducted PAGE 19 Russell Group and College Union (UCU) Imperial College has their efforts to mitigate from their members: universities have industrial action have withheld a full day’s the impact of the strikes.” “UCU is still awaiting a already withheld £8 withheld £8,248,376 from pay for each day a staff A large proportion of response from manage- academic and support member took part in the other Russell Group uni- ment on the total amount TRAVEL million in salaries, with staff thus far. Further strike, defined as 1/365th versities have ring-fenced of money that wasn’t paid further deductions on deductions will take the of their annual salary. The the retained salaries for to those who participated the horizon. total retained by Russell College has also withheld student support: UCL is in the UCU strike over Group universities to over 25% of a day’s pay for donating the money to the USS pensions. We also ussell Group £10 million. Action Short Of a Strike UCL Financial Assistance asked for this money to universities Russell Group uni- (ASOS) – working to con- Fund for students, while be used to help students have withheld versities are planning tract, and refusing to cover the University of Durham directly by transferring over £8 mil- to deduct an average of for absent colleagues or is paying the money into it to the student hardship Rlion in salaries from over £800,000 from the reschedule classes – al- the Student Hardship fund. However we’ve The Golden staff members who par- salaries of staff who took though it says it “reserves Fund. The University learned that the money City: travelling ticipated in this year’s part in the strike, which the right to review this of Manchester is using has been kept within in- in San Francisco strikes, with further ran for four weeks in Feb- percentage should the some of the money to dividual departments but deductions planned for ruary and March. Imperial dispute escalate”. waive its gown hire fee at Cont. pg 3 PAGE 26 FR IDAY, 8 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1696

EDITORIAL NEWS [email protected] CONTENTS EDITORIAL 2 Where is the money going? Pay deductions from strikes continue, as Imperial NEWS 3-5 les – Felix E COMMENT 6-7 o, we’re nearly Fy dit the strike – particularly in at the end. This ed or a city like London, where The Felix Team refuses to refund tuition fees to students Fr SCIENCE 9-11 week marks the the rise in cost of living penultimate edito- has outpaced increases in Editor-in-Chief Cont. from front Pensions Partnership, and surplus to buildings rather TECH 12 Srial – this time next week, Imperial salaries. Fred Fyles has not been ring-fenced trustee of Lloyds Bank than to staff.” • you’ll be reading the last One use of the money, Deputy Editor to ensure that it can only pension scheme), and A spokesperson for ARTS 13-15 paper of this academic which none of the uni- Joanna Wormald be used for the benefit of Chris Curry (Director of the College told Felix the year, which will also be versities we contacted • students.” the Pensions Policy Insti- discussions have “taken MUSIC 18-21 the last time you’ve got mentioned, was giving News Editor The strikes, which took tute). Joanne Segars OBE, into account feedback to listen to my weird it back to students, who Joanna Wormald place over 14 working chair of LGPS Central, from staff raised as part FILM 22 • stream-of-consciousness have paid for their uni- Politics Editors days, saw numerous which pools nine local au- of the Pay and Benefits GAMES 23 ramblings. versity education, and had Avirup Banerjee classes cancelled across thority pension funds, will Review.” But in some ways, this been missing out (in some Divyen Vanniasegaram the country. UCU, chair the JEP. It is due to “A number of follow BOOKS 24 week is the last ‘real’ ed- cases quite significantly). • which called the strike, report in September 2018. up actions from the Pay itorial, since I know next As far as I am aware, no Comment Editors did so in response to A spokesperson for and Benefits Review are Alan Perfect TRAVEL 26-27 week it’s just going to university in the UK has Charlie Titmuss proposed changes to the UCU told Felix: “The already underway. Staff be me gushing over how considered paying back • USS pension fund put work of the JEP will raised concerns about the HANGMAN 28-29 amazing all our contrib- tuition fees to students; Science Editor forward by Universities be closely watched by benchmark data used to utors have been over the and they’re not going to, Rosie Dutt UK (UUK). UCU said members of UCU and it is inform pay decisions, and C&S 30 past year. This means this • the changes would see unless the current legal Tech Editor hoped that a satisfactory the Provost has instigated week is the last chance I battles that are ongoing members of the scheme agreement can be reached a Benchmarking Working PUZZLES 31 Tom Mrazek have to speak my mind, succeed. The response • losing out on up to £10,000 to avert the necessity of Group that will be led by SPORTS 32 and do one last bit of – although not directly universities, with monthly from senior management Arts Editors each year in pension pay. UCU taking further strike the Dean of the Faculty tubthumping before I go. affected – were aware of incomes being reduced at Imperial – that we pay Indira Mallik action over our pensions.” of Engineering, Profes- So I’ve decided to return the impact this could have for staff. for ‘an overall outcome’ JJ Cheng Joint Expert Panel de- sor Nigel Brandon, and Adam Gellatly to the topic of the strikes. on their future studies or A Felix investigation and nothing else – is • cided include representatives Remember those? Back careers. found already Russell short-sighted, offensive, Books Editors “Imperial from across the College. when the weather was While the strike might Group universities had and damaging to the very JJ Cheng A further 14 days of The working group will exceptionally bitter, and be over – for the time withheld £8 million from idea of the university as Alice Peberdy industrial action were withheld make an interim report in many of us walked past being – the effects are still staff, with further deduc- an institution. We don’t • called off at the end of September.” Staff taking part in the strike earlier this year // Joseph O'Connell-Danes Music Editors just under our friends and colleagues being felt. And one place tions planned pushing it come here to just get a 2:1 Andy Djaba April, as UCU members The College will meet Felix Office th Beit Quad, Prince Consort picketing out in the snow they are being particularly past the £10 million mark. and fuck off. Or, at least, Adrian LaMoury voted to accept a proposal £280,000 from the JTUs on 15 June to force universities to com- saying: “We haven’t heard fees do go toward several Road to get (a) to class, (b) a felt is in the pay packets We don’t know how much we shouldn’t. We come Henry Eshbaugh by UUK. The proposal present the College’s pay pensate them for teaching of a single university services, “the question is London, SW7 2BB copy of Felix, or (c) an of the staff who joined the is being withheld across here to have a true univer- • involved establishing a staff in March offer. Information about time lost. Asserson esti- offering to pay anybody working out percentages. Tel: 020 79548072 SCR muffin (choose your strike. Universities across the UK, but based on sity experience. To meet Film Editors Joint Expert Panel (JEP) the offer should be availa- mates fair compensation compensation for the lost I don’t think anyone Email: [email protected] Mikhail Demtchenko poison). If you remember, the UK withheld pay for the data we got from the friends who we will keep Ashley Luckyram to report on valuation and April” ble shortly afterwards. for teaching time lost teaching time.” would say the percentage felixonline.co.uk the academic and support each day their staff went Russell Group, it is highly in touch with for the rest of the current pension would be several hundred He went on to say: of fees that go on teaching @feliximperial Mark Aduol staff were taking action on strike, and docked likely to be in the tens of our lives. To learn from Michael Purdy scheme, which will stay Tuition Fee Refunds pounds per student. The “Universities simply time is zero…if you look Printed by Mortons Media about changes to their pay for days where staff of millions, potentially inspiring mentors. To • in place until at least April The first meeting of the case has attracted over will not pay until they’re at the budgets universities Group, Boston Road, pensions, which would refused to cover classes approaching the £100 forge links. To lose sight TV Editor 2019. JEP took place at the end The debate over 5,000 students, from a forced to pay, and the only have, salaries of teaching Horncastle, Lincolnshire Andrew Melville have made them worse off or reschedule teaching. million mark. This high- of this is to cease to be Appointments to the of last month. A report tuition fee refunds is still range of universities. effective way to force staff are often the single Registered Newspaper • ISSN 1040-0711 in the long-run; they were This is money that is still lights the very real risk an educational institution, Games Editor JEP, which will also on the meeting stated the ongoing. A petition that them to pay is to take biggest item by a long joined by students, who being withheld by the our staff took to join in and become a factory. Saad Ahmed “agree key principles to Panel agreed to seek sub- circulated at the end of them to court. To do so way. It’s not unreasonable Copyright (c) Felix 2017 • underpin the future joint missions from stakehold- last term saw over 3,000 “The response individually doesn’t make to suggest that more than Food Editors approach of UUK and ers on the 2017 valuation students asking for a sense, because it’s too 50% of the tuition fee Alice Davage from senior Andrada Balmez UCU to the valuation of the USS, particularly refund in tuition fees in much risk and work for relates to face-to-face • of the USS fund,” were looking at ‘alternative light of missed teaching. management one person, but to do it as teaching.” Felix is recruiting! Travel Editor announced last month. valuation models and The petition was sent a group is doable.” Earlier this week, Edita Pileckyte UCU and UUK have assumptions to those used to senior management, to the demand A College repre- results of the 2018 Student • each nominated three JEP by USS.” but some students felt the Puzzles Editor sentative told Felix it Academic Experience Hamish Beck appointments with strong The developments on response was insufficient. to refund “currently has no plans to Survey were released, • backgrounds in actuarial the pension discussions Alex Chippy Compton, refund students”, saying: highlighting a desire from Sports Editor science and public policy. come as the College President of Imperial tuition fees “Fees cover all aspects students for better value Imraj Singh UCU has selected begins the annual process College Union, and Luke of a student’s time at for money in their degree • Professor Saul Jacka of exploring pay options McCrone, President of was deemed Head Photographer Imperial, and are based courses. Fewer than 40% Joseph O'Connell-Danes (University of Warwick), for staff. Last month, the Graduate Students’ insufficient by on the delivery of overall of students thought they • Professor Deborah members of UCU, Unite, Union, at the time said outcomes, rather than were getting value for CF Photographer Mabbett (Birkbeck Uni- and Unison presented a the response from senior some” being payments for spe- money from their univer- Fahdi Kanavati versity) and Associate pay claim to the College management was “un- cific contact hours.” This sity, with tuition fees and • Professor Catherine showing staff salaries have satisfactory, and failed to Copy Editors argument was echoed teaching quality leading Alex Adler Donnelly (Heriot-Watt). been falling in real terms address many students’ Felix spoke to Shimon by several other Russell causes of dissatisfaction. Ash Pattar UUK has selected Ronnie by 1.1% each year since concerns”. Goldwater, an associate at Group universities, which Students also highlighted We want you – yes, you! We’re looking for writers, photographers, editors, illustrators, reporters, Astrid Zong Bowie (Hymans Robert- 2005. The Joint Trade A class action bid, Asserson, about the case. said they had no plans to a desire for more contact Selin Olenik son consultancy), Sally Unions (JTU) wrote: launched by law firm Mr Goldwater called the offer refunds to students. hours, possibly a result of computer experts and grammar nerds to join our team. No experience needed – we’ll teach you Rhidian Thomas Bridgeland (non-execu- “Clearly, the College Asserson, has seen a response from universi- Mr Goldwater told high fees students current- Ezgi Ozyilkan everything you need to know. If you’re interested, send us an email on [email protected] Myles Lee tive director at the Local has chosen to devote its number of students join to ties “very disappointing”, Felix that, while tuition ly pay. 2 Hari Choudhury 3 FR IDAY, 8 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1696

NEWS [email protected] NEWS [email protected] Men's Rugby Club suspended after footage of team Professor Jonathan Haskel appointed to Bank of exposing themselves in public emerges England position

NEWS Union, who suspended the got bigger maracas” to the NEWS economics. His research The appointment has A Treasury spokesman team earlier this week. onlookers. Another video and intellectual leadership drawn criticism from said: “We are committed Fred Fyles Video and photograph- shows a student exposing Frank Leggett is among the best in our women’s rights groups, to diversity and encour- Editor-in-Chief ic evidence, which had himself on a public tube News Writer school and we are hon- after it emerged Prof aging the broadest range been shared on a group carriage. oured to have him in our Haskel was the only man of candidates. We actively WhatsApp chat, was pub- Other videos show the faculty.” in a shortlist of five. A contacted 44 women to The Men's Rugby Club lished by The Sun earlier students making offen- Jonathan Haskel, Prof Haskel has a Women’s Equality Party apply for this role, 80% were seen exposing this week. sive comments: in one, a a professor of Chair in Economics at the spokeswoman said the of those interviewed were themselves in public, The photos show the student in a sombrero and economics at the Imperial College Business decision sent the wrong women, and the majority being encouraged students, apparently on a poncho clambers over a Business School, has School. He is known message on the commit- of those on the interview ‘Mexican-themed’ night high wall, while another for his book Capitalism ment of the Treasury to panel were women. The to defecate in public, out, posing naked in front shouts “typical immi- been appointed to Without Capital: The improve diversity. final appointment deci- and making offensive of the statue of Winston grant”. Another video the Monetary Policy Rise of the Intangible Rachel Reeves, Labour sion was based on merit.” comments about Churchill in Parliament allegedly shows a student Committee. Economy, co-authored MP for Leeds West and The Treasury said that immigrants and the Square, covering their trying to dance with a with Stian Westlake, and Chair of the Business the appointment was made genitals with sombreros. disabled girl in a night- rofessor Jona- his winning entry in the Select Committee – which by a panel comprised of disabled. Other photographs feature club; a comment on the than Haskel has Professor Jonathan Haskel // Imperial 2017 Indigo Prize, which oversees the administra- two women – Clare Lom- team members exposing WhatsApp group reads: been appointed asks how we measure tion of the Department for bardelli, first female chief mperial College themselves outside the “Poor girl can’t even walk to the Bank of ends on the 1st of Septem- in maintaining the UK’s economic activity in a 21st Business, Energy and In- economic adviser to the Men’s Rugby Club Royal Albert Hall and away.” PEngland’s Monetary ber 2018. price stability and com- century economy. dustrial Strategy – said it Treasury and Kate Barker, (ICURFC) have downing bottles of wine. The Union suspended Team members posing in front of Churchill // The Sun Policy Committee Prof Haskel said: “I’m municating its thinking.” Philip Hammond, the was “truly staggering that former MPC member – been suspended Videos published by the Men’s Rugby Club (MPC). He will be one truly honoured to be nom- Professor Francisco Chancellor of the Excheq- the Treasury has failed to and Richard Hughes, the Iafter evidence emerged The Sun show members of prior to the publication supported and respected. necessary.” an investigation from the of nine members re- inated to the MPC and to Veloso, Dean of Imperial uer said: “I am delighted appoint a woman to this Treasury’s director of showing the team ex- the group nakedly clam- of the story, which was The College and Students’ A representative of Union, who will take their sponsible for making a follow Ian McCafferty College Business School that Professor Haskel is role”. She further added: fiscal policy. posing themselves in bering through the foun- quickly picked up by Union continue to work ICURFC told Felix: “The findings to Governance range of decisions, such who has been such a ded- said: “I would like to joining the MPC. I am “The fact that four women Earlier this year the public. tains in Trafalgar Square. other news outlets, includ- hard to challenge and rugby club are deeply Committee before the end as setting interest rates. icated and hard-working extend my warmest con- confident that his exper- were shortlisted shows Business School apolo- Students were caught One student attempts to ing the Telegraph and the remove all inappropriate regretful about the behav- of June. The Club will Haskel will replace Ian member over the last six gratulations to Jonathan tise in productivity and that there are plenty of gised after a complaint showing their genitals climb to the top of the Independent. behaviour at Imperial.” iour which occurred in be suspended until this is McCafferty as one of four years, especially with his on this appointment, innovation will further capable and well-qualified their Managerial Eco- in front of the Cenotaph, fountain, while another In a statement on behalf “The Students’ Union this incident and how it resolved. external MPC members work visiting schools. I which reflects his recogni- sharpen the Committee’s women, but yet again nomics module made use climbing naked into the says “bonus points if you of the Union and the has strict policies in place reflects on the university This is not the first when McCafferty’s look forward to contribut- tion as one of the leading understanding of the the top jobs seem to be of teaching materials that fountains in Trafalgar get in that saucer and take College, a representative regarding the behaviour and members of the club. time the Rugby Team second three-year term ing to the MPC’s vital role international authorities in British economy.” reserved for men.” "objectified women". Square, and making jokes a dump”. told Felix: “This alleged of all members of clubs We are fully cooperating have been in the headlines about Mexicans and disa- Further videos feature behaviour goes against and societies. In response with the Union in this for stripping in public: bled people. The students’ a naked student coming the values and expecta- to these allegations the investigation to ensure in 2014 the team was behaviour was described out of a phone box near tions of our student and Union has suspended the an outcome is reached suspended after members Union Award nominations and shortlist announced as “completely unaccept- the Cenotaph war memo- staff community and is club pending investiga- as quickly and easily as stripped on a public tube able” by both the College rial, before displaying his completely unacceptable. tion - further disciplinary possible.” carriage, leading to the and Imperial College genitals and singing “I’ve Everyone deserves to feel action will be taken where ICURFC will now face police being called. NEWS Year’, and Union Colours of the City and Guilds The RSMU ‘Look After “students were able to award is Union Colours, acknowledge the efforts College Union, told Felix Your Mate’ campaign be involved in such life which recognises those Hafiza Irshad Union volunteers go to she was “honoured and focussed on advising saving measures, from who have “given signif- News Writer in order to improve the delighted” to receive a students how friends can feeding the homeless and icant and repeated out- TEF round three: the reckoning student experience at Fellowship: “I have really support people having a donating blood, to clean- standing contributions to Imperial. enjoyed volunteering difficult time at univer- ing the community!” the student experience at As well as Union Nominations for the with the Union in several sity, while the ICSMSU This year saw a number Imperial”. In total, 69 stu- NEWS (TEF), which has under- Framework). There are 1.0. flags amounting to 1.5 or background in handling Colours and Awards are submitted capacities, and it’s lovely ‘Online Honestly’ cam- of new award categories dents have been awarded gone significant changes now six main metrics A flag system has more are to be considered advanced data”. Fellowships, new by students, and student to be recognised. It shows paign saw current and launched, including ‘New a Colours Nomination. Joanna Wormald following the year two (drawn from the National also been introduced to bronze, regardless of any About a quarter of awards include panels decide on the me that all the hard work former students sharing CSP (Club, Society, or Mira Davidson, Biochem- Deputy Editor consultation. Imperial’s Student Survey, numbers indicate providers who positive flags they may the 231 institutions to recipients of the Awards, I have put in over the their true feelings behind Project) of the Year’, Soc Chair, who has been gold rating (awarded in of students completing are significantly above have received. All other receive a full new-look 'New CSP of the which will be presented past few years has been old posts on social media, whose nominations awarded Colours, told June 2017) still stands, their course, and numbers or below the TEF bench- providers are deemed TEF award were rated Year' and Wellbeing on the 15th June. This year appreciated and was as leading to genuine and include Sign Language, Felix: “‘Volunteering for The results of the though it may not be of students in employ- marks for each metric silver. gold; half took silver and Representation over 500 nominations worthwhile and beneficial eye-opening reactions. ICSMSU Coding, and the Union can be incred- third round of TEF directly comparable ment or education six and is used to form an Assessors also consider the remainder were given Network awards. were made for the Award, to the student experience Muslim Medics/Islamic ICSMSU Women’s ibly rewarding. ratings, which have with institutions that re- months post-graduation) “initial hypothesis”. For supplementary metrics, bronze ratings. A further beating last year’s total. as I hoped it would be.” Society have been nom- Football. Nominations for “[Departmental socie- undergone significant ceived gold in the 2018 which are intended to test each metric a provider such as longitudinal 64 education providers This year three students The shortlist for inated for their ‘Believe ‘CSP of the Year’ include ties] will always be there. assessment. teaching quality, learning may receive zero, one or education outcomes and received provisional mperial College will be awarded Fel- Campaign of the Year is and Do Good’ campaign; Pole & Aerial, Muslim It's great to see these soci- changes, were Following feedback environment, and learning two positive or negative grade inflation, as part of awards due to a lack of Union this week lowships, given to those between campaigns run Jarka Naser, who was in- Medics, and Felix. Two eties and their volunteers released this week. from year two partici- gain. Weighting of each flags. Providers with a “holistic judgement” data required for a full announced their who have “continuously by the Royal School of volved with the campaign, new awards have also gain recognition, as this pants, the Department for metric has also been positive flags totalling at before issuing the final assessment. nominees and win- served the Union…over Mines Union (RSMU), the told Felix the campaign been established to recog- encourages us to keep esults are in Education made a series changed: each of the three least 2.5 (according to the award. The rating process In addition to institu- Iners for the 2018 Union a number of years”: Milia Imperial College School aimed to “encourage nise volunteers within the doing what we love.” for the third of “refinements” to TEF NSS-based metrics has new weighting system) has become so com- tion-level TEF awards, Awards. Hasbani, Abhijay Sood, of Medicine Students’ unity through performing Wellbeing Representation year of the (which now stands for a weighting of 0.5 while and no negative flags are plicated that additional a two year trial of The 14 categories, and Lloyd James. Union (ICSMSU), and selfless acts of kindness; Network, which was set The Union Awards Teaching the Teaching Excellence the three non-NSS-based initially considered gold. training may be required subject-level awards is including ‘Campaign of Hasbani, current Chair- Muslim Medics/Islamic positively influencing the up this academic year. ceremony will be held on RExcellence Framework and Student Outcomes metrics are weighted as Institutes with negative for assessors “without a underway. the Year’, ‘Event of the man and former President Society. local community,” and The most popular 15th June.

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COMMENT [email protected] COMMENT [email protected] Grumpy Bastard on Love Island: a sexually- Cultural appropriation should not be charged narcissist’s paradise trivialised This week, to celebrate nearing the end of exams, Grumpy Bastard has taken a swing at the BME Officer Chimdi Igwe responds to last week’s article and thinks people need to appreciate nation’s favourite TV show: Love Island. what cultural appropriation really means.

COMMENT of the nice weather and that all the people are fortable with each other, be fairly soon – the next you feel superior at the COMMENT juvenile, and that we had the sudden onslaught of quite attractive, almost the producers drip feed logical step that ITV same time as giving you a “actual important things” Grumpy Bastard overcast skies; the sight universally the same new meat onto the show will take is to run real raging erection. Chimdi Igwe to focus on. In any area Comment Writer of the first gammon wan- shade of orange, and also and create conflict through gladiatorial fights, where BME Officer of liberation, dismissive dering around with his have about as much grey the use of challenges and the victor is rewarded by apathy can be more dan- shirt off and his sunburnt matter between them as an ever imbalanced male being able to sleep with “Love Island is gerous that outright op- hank Jean- tits out for all to see; and, your average cockroach? to female ratio. Quite the man/woman they ver the past nine pression. As an Imperial Claude Juncker, more recently, the start of All the characters frankly, that’s about as choose, and the loser has nothing more or so months student who has taken the exam season the sexually-charged nar- have so little depth, if much of an explanation to desperately claw at than a colossal (and, if I’m the time out of their day is nearly over. To cissist’s paradise that is the participants were a as I’m willing to give. I their intestines as they pile honest, much to write an article about Tthose of you who have fin- Love Island. As it features swimming pool, they could explain some of the up on the ground. It would turd in the Oearlier than that), I’ve something for which they ished exams, may I extend in a Grumpy Bastard, you wouldn’t even be able to nuance, but there just isn’t probably be as compelling often found myself being don’t care, I’m sure the my congratulations; and can of course assume that drown a paralysed quad- any. It is probably the most as Love Island and I’m form of a light thrust into conversations writer is capable of caring to those that have not, I fucking despise it. riplegic. Other than the blatant sex-sells success sure people would make around topics of race, eth- about more than one issue I shall laugh pityingly As a show, it has one compelling cast, the show that anyone, except from the same excuses as to entertainment nicity, and identity. More at a time. whilst sipping a scotch. basic premise: the execu- has a magnificent way of maybe Playboy, has ever why they watch it, about it programme” than once, I’ve been asked May your efforts extend tives at ITV, clearly driven manufacturing tension, pulled off. being ironic. Don’t lie to all manner of questions or to barely attaining a pass to distraction by the de- whereby if an individual The whole concept yourself. You need these for my take on a number “Wearing this year. clining viewership of Big is single by the end of the of Love Island has now people to watch and laugh of issues, many of which I think that there are Brother, came up with the week, they will be sent off convinced me that when at as they pathetically Thanks to people like I haven’t really cared for. Western several signs indicating bright idea to do the same the island. they have run out of at- imitate romance in real you, Western Civilization But nothing gets under when British summer programme, but with a In order to prevent all tractive people to feature life, all whilst wearing no is doomed. my skin quite like the clothing in officially begins: the end twist. Why not make sure of the cast becoming com- – and in Britain that will clothes, because it makes mention of ‘cultural a Western appropriation’ – so much so that I have to suppress country is the urge to roll my eyes dramatically each time it’s assimilation, uttered. not Are you sentient? Nevertheless, I couldn’t This man is probably not a Sioux warrior // Flickr help but cringe when appropriation” reading a piece published general trend has been talk about cultural appro- My foremothers walked Thirdly, and most im- in the Comment section that their definitions priation, they are looking around their communities portantly, we can’t ignore of Felix last week. The become diluted as they at how a society can completely bare-chested colonisation. Much of the I’d just like to clarify Do you have opinions? article was centred around move from the realm of embrace a culture whilst with the utmost confi- conversation about appro- at this point that I per- the news story that broke academia to the mass rejecting its source: the dence and with no shame priation tends to focus on sonally didn’t care much of a young woman who public (you could say as people. (not so much anymore). the United States, often for the debates online was met with criticism they get ‘appropriated’), Of course, culture is Imagine the front pages around Native and/or as to whether or not that online for wearing a tra- taking on meanings which fluid and flows across the of the tabloids if my black American culture young woman appropri- Do you want to share ditional classical Chinese poorly reflect their defini- world – “no man is an grandmother did this now. – groups of people who ated Chinese culture. The dress to her high school tions. One good example island”, after all. We live in Countless headlines have historically have been op- speed at which people prom. is the tendency to misuse a European country whose been published in which pressed and suppressed in label something as ‘ap- Though the article’s the word ‘racism’ in sit- national dish is apparently people have complained society. When a group of propriative’ is concerning, tone was meant to be uations where, going by chicken tikka masala. But about Islamic faith schools people have been forced and many times the term them in Felix?! satirical at best (which is its original definition, it false equivalencies exist, – that they don’t embrace to isolate their culture is incorrectly used. That’s giving it a lot), I felt un- does not necessary apply and the article was riddled ‘Western education’ and from the mainstream for not an excuse to throw the necessarily vexed by the (anyone who went to a with them in all forms. I ‘British values’ (neither whatever reason, can they baby out with the bathwa- lacklustre approach to dis- multicultural secondary will try to break down the are quite true). truly be blamed for feeling ter. cussing the idea of cultural school will likely have more pertinent ones. Secondly, there is angry when you try to The line between appropriation. Despite witnessed this). Firstly, wearing such a thing as cultural incorporate their culture appreciation and appro- my general discomfort Like everything to Western clothing in exchange. In this case, into your own whilst priation is thin, and it’s WRITE FOR COMMENT with broaching this topic do with liberation work, a Western country is there is a mutual benefit to ignoring their grievances? a real headache trying to when often asked about cultural appropriation is not appropriation, it is both cultures in question. What really bothered map it. But to pretend that it, I decided it would be about power dynamics assimilation. Neither is Though I know very little me about the article the latter is fiction is just amiss to sweep this under on the societal level (I’ve undertaking a Western about Malaysian culture, was the dismissive way being obtuse. And that’s the table without making a put this in bold because if education (which itself I do come from a country the writer approached never a good look. rebuttal of sorts. you take nothing else from greatly benefitted from of over 200 ethnic groups; appropriation, suggesting [email protected] With academic soci- this article, understand Islamic scholars in areas fashion, music and slang that talking about appro- ological concepts, the this). When academics such as mathematics). flow around. priation was somehow 6 7 Your Union events Friday 8 June

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SCIENCE [email protected] Bringing in a new era of healthcare data

SCIENCE Resonance Imaging, a have all started investing technique which can be heavily in healthcare. Varshit Dusad used to measure metabo- Google, under its parent Science Writer lome. company, has developed However, the cost of a separate division named these devices is quickly Verily, specialising in the DPR is in full reducing. The first human medical sector. Micro- effect, and genome cost ~ $3 billion soft, with its ‘Microsoft technology to sequence, but now the in Health’ initiative, is companies are industry cost of sequenc- partnering with healthcare Gsweating to work out ing is down to $1000. experts to provide robust the appropriate strategy Though the cost of genetic digital infrastructure for to comply with new testing is still beyond their data storage, trans- regulations governing the regular means of an mission, and analysis. digital data. However, average earning person, Apple, their longtime amidst this data frenzy celebrities like Angelina competitor, is also pro- around our web footprint, Big data is coming to healthcare // CC Jolie have benefited from viding similar services in a new conversation systems medicine by un- the healthcare sector. This around a different kind measurements, including genome project in the technologies which can dergoing genetic testing paradigm shift with the of data is taking place: genetic sequencing, whole early ‘90s, where it was quickly measure com- for susceptibility to breast use of digital technology healthcare data! Big data, body imaging, and metab- well understood that many plementary properties cancer and subsequent is making the medicine AI, and analytics have olomics, to name a few. diseases have a genetic like proteome, transcrip- preventive surgery. sector more accessible to made a buzz in all busi- This makes it possible to basis. If we could read the tome, and metabolome Precision medicine has patients. In an interview ness sectors today. Their understand a patient’s test entire genome of a person, alongside digitisation of become the talk of the with Mckinsey, Dr. Eric rising importance has results in the context of then we can identify the medical records. These town in healthcare with Schadt, the founding also captivated leaders in the whole body, as well genetic peculiarities in changes are driving a new every pharmaceutical director of the Icahn medical technology. as observe and understand them, and understand the era in the digitised foot- giant investing heavily Institute for Genomics Medical science was its progression over time, causes of the disease. print of medical records. in it. The rise in data and Multiscale Biology, once the science of ob- leading led improvements Today, it is well These technologies are has brought the need for explained big data will servation. Today, it is the in both prognosis and di- accepted that genome currently still very expen- software, web pipelines, play the leading role in science of data. More and agnosis of many diseases. alone is not the complete sive, though some of them and databases to store the providing personalised or more healthcare facilities The idea of systems repository of everything are more widely used than data, as well as new al- precise medical solutions are focused on collecting medicine (personalised which happens in the others. The most prom- gorithmic based methods tailored to each patient. large sets of data from their medicine) dates back to body. There has been inent example of such a to analyse them. Google, This will be a new era of patients using a myriad of the days of the human rapid improvements in technology is Magnetic Microsoft, and Apple medicine! Exam stress? Time to cure your fear of spiders

SCIENCE key component of expo- increased likelihood of a three minutes in order to sure therapy, which aims connection reforming, and provoke a stress response, Lucy Rowlands to reduce anxiety related the anxiety association while the other half put Science Writer symptoms by helping the returning. their hands in warm water. brain unlearn fear-related This study was based Both groups then under- connections and develop on the fact that many of went exposure therapy in a s the end of term new ‘safe’ networks. It is these harmful connections different location to where getting you all one of the leading strate- can be formed when the they had acquired the fear. stressed out? The gies for treating anxiety, body is subject to a lot Key differences emerged latest research sug- post-traumatic stress of stress. Therefore, to the next day, with the Igests now may also be disorder, and other related increase the generalisabil- ‘stressed group’ showing the perfect time to tackle conditions. The main ity of extinction therapy, less relapse of anxiety that fear of spiders… problem with exposure a mild artificial stress when back in the original yes, you heard right – therapy however, is that response was used. In the location. Previous results spiders! A new study it is very dependent on initial phases of the exper- have shown that an injec- from Professor Oliver the situation. This means iment, participants were tion of the stress hormone Wolf at Ruhr-University that whilst the harmful subjected to a mild elec- cortisol can increase the Bochum has shown connections may be easily tric shock when shown effectiveness of anxiety Spider-haters look away now // Wikimedia stress can increase ex- generalisable, the new certain coloured light. treatment; however, this tinction learning, which ‘safe’ connections are very This meant, understand- study provides important deep fear of arachnids, planned by Professor unlinks two previously context specific. Since ably, that they displayed evidence of an underlying this study has great im- Wolf’s group to determine paired stimuli, and a therapist’s office does anxiety when shown the mechanism and demon- plications in psychiatric if this stress response can drives improvement in not effectively mimic the lights. Subsequently, one strated that it can also hold medicine, with pharma- be used to increase the anxiety therapies. original situation bringing half of group put their across different situations. cological trials planned effectiveness of exposure Extinction learning is a about anxiety, there is an hands in ice water for Besides curing your soon. Further work is therapy. 9 FR IDAY, 8 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1696

SCIENCE [email protected] SCIENCE [email protected] Puppy science: Why they are so cute? Charles Dickens – was he the original science SCIENCE More importantly, the attractive they were. perception of the puppies. communicator? group suggests this ‘peak’ The three breeds shown While the experiment is Sarah Wong of adorability is around were Jack Russell Terrier, overwhelmingly cute, we Science Writer the time of weaning, Cane Corso, and White can also learn some psy- The Victorian author is known for his dense novels, exploring the intricacies of a rapidly-changing society, but he because younger puppies Shepherd. Since Cane chological information, are actually dependent on Corso is a large breed, since baby-like facial was also a keen science enthusiast, as a new exhibition shows. don’t know about all their parents; therefore, often used as guard dogs, traits in humans are also of you reading this, being very attractive prior it is not surprising that it perceived as more likable. but I am crazy about to that age does not make is perceived as compara- For example, if you have a SCIENCE the soldiers she nursed. puppies! However, evolutionary sense. tively less attractive. Nev- ‘baby-face’, with a larger Dickens’ lifetime saw Ihave you ever wondered ertheless, all puppies were forehead and a smaller Rosie Dutt a number of key scientific why they look so incredi- rated as most attractive jaw, you are probably Science Editor breakthroughs, which bly adorable, especially at “Puppies have prior to ten weeks across perceived as more attrac- lay the foundations for a young age? all three breeds. Addi- tive. This phenomenon, modern science, such as According to a recent evolved to be tionally, the puppies were coined ‘Kindchenschema hen you the acceptance of the age collaborative study reported as having a very effect’, is proposed to hear of of the earth, the theory of between the US and the cute because low attractiveness rating ensure adults care for Charles evolution, and the second Netherlands, puppies their lives around the one-week their young’uns, so babies Dickens, law of thermodynamics. have evolved to be cute mark. Consequently, this survive. Wyou most likely instantly Dickens himself felt so because their life depends depend on it” supported their hypothesis So next time you see a think of classic works deeply about these issues on it. Unlike their wolf of puppies being per- puppy, think how Mother of literature, such as that he campaigned for ancestors, the mothers ceived as more adorable Nature is manipulating A Christmas Carol, various scientific theories, of these puppies usually Are you a dog person? // Wikimedia To test their hypothesis, to humans around the us to love them, and then Oliver Twist, or Great as well as publicly crit- leave them when they are they showed pictures weaning period. go pet them! If you have Expectations. However, icising other aspects of six to eleven weeks old, this weaning period. This attractive during this of ‘cute’ puppies to 51 To study the hu- a baby face, be grateful as seldom does one hear he science. Unfortunately, depending on the breed lack of nursing can result weaning period would be people in a form of beauty man-dog bond, the paper you are perceived as more was a man of science – let little is spoken today and whether they live in in a shortage of food, loved by us humans and contest! Adult humans suggested they could attractive! If you do not alone an early science about how Dickens has the wild or in captivity. It and in some cases death. therefore have a better were shown pictures of screen videos instead of however, it is also fine as communicator! Indeed, helped shape scientific means that puppies will Therefore, it would be chance to be adopted, dogs differing in their still photos, in order to you have already grown George Henry Lewes, a understanding, and how not receive support from logical to deduce that increasing their chances breed and age, before study how the movement up and your parents love prominent writer, critic, he tried to solve social their parents following young dogs who are more of survival. being asked to rate how of dogs affected our you anyway. and amateur physiologist problems through inspir- of the Victorian era ing his audience with his declared Dickens was books. Unbeknownst to “completely outside phi- us, Charles Dickens is losophy, science, and the indeed a man of science, Connect with Conservation: cat-astrophe higher literatures” follow- and should be recognised ing a look at his library. for his contributions to the Unbeknownst to many modern era. SCIENCE 2013, a study conducted the very rare and endemic us, however, Dickens in the US estimated that Scottish wild cat is at risk was indeed an individual Steve Allain domestic cats, both owned of imminent extinction heavily influenced by “Dickens is a Science Writer and feral, killed between due to hybridisation from science, with much of 1.3–4.0 billion birds and feral cats, and the trans- his work being inspired man of science, 6.3–22.3 billion mammals mission of disease. There by a variety of scientific The Charles Dickens Museum is currently exploring how he was a science communicator // Wikimedia ne of the more each year. As well as the have been isolated inci- aspects, from the human and should surprising direct effects of hunting, dents around the world body to the Earth itself. be recognised in nineteenth-century lit- clear about the importance would associate with to reach the masses, then invasive cats can act as vectors of single cats killing large Dickens was at the erature at King’s College of Dickens’ role in shaping science, as he did not have take inspiration from species, now for multiple diseases, amounts of wildlife, such centre of Victorian for his London, said that they public understanding of a background in science Dickens: look for science Ofound across the world including those that can as a case from Ohakune, society, with a devoted believe this was the first science: “Dickens is a or scientific training, and communication events, thanks to mankind, is the be spread to humans such New Zealand where in a audience taking his word contributions exhibition of its kind to was mainly associated team up with someone domestic cat! Whether as rabies. week one cat killed a total as gospel, from his novels focus on Dicken’s interest with the arts. He cam- who has an interest in these moggies are pets The domestic cat is, of of 102 bats. This is based to the magazines he pub- to the time” in science. Dr Buckland “Dickens paigned for a science that the arts, or try something left to roam free, or have course, a beloved pet, but purely on the number of Or a cat person? // Wikimedia lished and edited. Con- said: “Dickens was a everyone could do, or be unusual to grab people’s established themselves most people seem to be bats that were found dead; sequently, his fame put famous writer, but his campaigned involved in and partici- attention! as feral population, both oblivious to the ecological we all know cats like to prevent further damage to it may have once bought due to their young age him in touch with several Last month, the Charles powers of observation and pate in – a science that is Charles Dickens: cause unimaginable damage their cat has the play with their food, thus the ecosystems into which you unwanted gifts in of sexual maturity and notable scientists of his Dickens Museum opened his connections as one of for a science exciting and enlivening. Man of Science is on damage to various spe- potential to inflict. These the real number is likely we have transplanted the past – in the form of the large numbers of day and age including a new exhibition to try the most famous men in everyone He was a pioneer of that at the Charles Dickens cies around the globe. effects are more notably much higher. them. dead mice or birds. If you litter a cat can have Charles Darwin, chemist and address this lack of Britain at the time meant idea that science matters Museum (closest tube: Domestic cats have no seen on islands, with All of this has sounded The main reason they want to help prevent local each year. So next time Jane Marcet, botanist Jane understanding – Charles that he was also a leading could do or be most when it reaches Russell Square) until native range, and they statistics recorded by the pretty negative so far, but are such a threat is that the wildlife in your neck of Tigger is out playing in Loudon, and Michael Dickens: Man of Science communicator of science. more people!” 11th November 2018. are listed among the 100 IUCN Red List indicating I am not against owning animals that they hunt are the woods from declining, the garden, just think of Faraday, to name a few. looks at his work to try He communicated science involved in” Here at Imperial, a lot Tickets for museum and worst non-native inva- that cats have caused or cats, nor do I hate them. not used to predators (es- try to keep your cats in the unseen damage that Furthermore, his work and show he was a key through his journals and of great research is going exhibition: £9.50 adults; sive species in the world, been implemented in the I think now is the time pecially on islands); and doors and neuter/spay your beloved pet may was admired by the likes science communicator of magazines, and cam- on. However, much of £7.50 concessions; £4.50 by the International extinctions of 33 modern to step up and to become so, cats can unfortunately them. Cats are prolific actually be responsible of Florence Nightingale, the age. Speaking to Felix, paigned on it, on behalf of great example of a science the time it is confined children; free for <6s. Union for Conservation birds, mammals, and responsible for the actions lead to their extinction. I breeders, with feral pop- for. who would even prescribe Guest Curator Dr Adelene lots of his friends.” communicator; however, to scientific journals. If of Nature (IUCN). In reptiles. Here in the UK, of our pets in order to am sure if you own a cat, ulations quickly growing his novels as treatment to Buckland, senior lecturer Dr Buckland was also he is not someone we you want your research 10 11 FR IDAY, 8 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX

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GDPR might have been cluttering up your inbox in the last few weeks // CC “We have updated our privacy policy” – a closer look into GDPR I’ve received more than 17 emails from the services with that exact subject. And I’m not the only one who’s inbox has been flooded – here’s why.

TECH became enforceable from than we’ve ever seen on any personal information. operated under the rather University of Colorado, 25th May 2018, is a set the internet before. For However, the GDPR irresponsible principle of Boulder, writes in The New Kapilan M of regulations passed by any instance where a means this fee will be ‘extract as much data as York Times that the law is Tech Writer the European Union in company collects personal scrapped, and requests for possible and figure it out “staggeringly complex” 2016, setting stricter rules data on an EU citizen, personal information can later,’ reorganising under and practically incom- policing how companies it will by default need be made free-of-charge GDPR will be a pain. Part prehensible to the people urope’s General manage and share the explicit and informed and must be released of the problem is how who are trying to comply Data Protection personal data of users. In consent from that person. within one month. companies’ data solutions with it. Several scientists Regulation, theory, the GDPR only The GDPR also enforces These changes make are set up, and a portion of and data managers she otherwise applies the data of EU that users have “the right the GDPR a significant it is that ‘personal infor- spoke to “doubted that Eknown as GDPR, is a citizens. However, the to be forgotten”. In other improvement on existing mation’ is a wishy-washy absolute compliance was set of new regulations global nature of internet words, users need to be requirements, and it ex- category. Names, email even possible.” that has the potential to services means nearly given a way to revoke that plicitly extends to compa- address, phone numbers, At the end of the day, fundamentally flip the every online service is same consent. nies based outside the EU. location data – those are the effectiveness of – increasingly strained – affected, and the reg- Users should also be The tech industry the obvious ones. But then GDPR will only be seen relationship between the ulation has resulted in able to request all the data has, especially in recent there’s more ambiguous as time passes and will massive technology com- significant changes for a company has on them years, become used to data, like ‘an oblique ref- depend quite heavily on panies that gather data and users all over the world as a way to verify that (and highly dependent erence, like the tall bald how strictly it is enforced. the users from whom they as companies globally consent. This concept has on) collecting and sharing guy who lives on East 18th But users like you and gather it. scramble to adapt. been present in previous data with little to no Street.’ Such data would me can take steps to be The issue of privacy in Much of the GDPR iterations of privacy reg- restriction. Furthermore, be hard to organise, and more aware of the rights the tech world has been builds upon rules set ulations, but the GDPR that freedom has been the that makes GDPR-en- that we have over the data ballooning at a formidable by earlier EU privacy ensures companies give primary business model forced Subject Access that we so readily hand rate, notably with the measures such as the Data individuals access to the of several companies. Requests particularly over to companies. For widespread coverage Protection Directive and information that organi- The GDPR gives users difficult to handle. starters, go take a look of the investigation Privacy Shield, but there sations hold about them more control over their To be fair, GDPR as at your Instagram app’s into Facebook’s data are some crucial aspects free of charge. Prior to the data, and also pushes for a whole is a bit more settings page. It looks privacy practices after of the GDPR that warrant GDPR, there was a £10 innovation in the way complicated than what vastly different to how it the infamous Cambridge a closer look. fee for a Subject Access that online advertising is I’ve illustrated above. a few months ago – and Analytica scandal earlier Firstly, the GDPR sets a Request, which business- currently targeted. Alison Cool, a professor that’s partly attributed to this year. higher bar for companies es and public bodies can For companies that of anthropology and the GDPR. The GDPR, which to obtain personal data charge in order to release have for far too long information science at the 12 FELIX ISSUE 1696

ARTS [email protected] Can there be art after warfare? The Tate Britain’s new show does a good job looking at how WWI impacted artists, but falls apart at the end.

ARTS full gamut of war, from AFTERMATH violence to horror to grief. Kollwitz’s prints retain their numbing, tumultu- ous power, centring on the Where? Tate Britain women and children who When? Until 23rd Septem- were left behind. ber After this point, How Much? £16; students however, the exhibition £15 starts to lose its narrative thread. The curators make Fred Fyles the decision to focus Felix Editor on artists exploring the impact the war had on society at large. The issue ftermath, the with this is that the war title of the was so large – there is a Tate Britain’s reason it was called the new exhibi- Great War – that any art Ation, which looks at art produced post-WWI could produced in Europe after be said to have an impact World War One, was orig- on artists. Yes, the works inally an agricultural term. by Winifred Knights and It described the growth of Meredith Frampton are grass and other plants that beautiful, as are the classi- followed a harvest – the cal studies by Picasso and sweeping away of the old Derain, but how are they creating a space in which really related to the First the new could develop and World War, other than by blossom. It’s an appropri- virtue of being produced ate choice: the outpouring post-1918? of violence and horror As the final section that occurred within WWI moves towards the paved the way for a com- Paul Nash (1889 –1946), Wire, 1918-9. Watercolour, chalk and ink on paper // IWM Bauhaus, the decision pletely different society, to only include artists one explored by artists leaving it pockmarked a figure of pitiful vul- interestingly explored: by soldiers, produced from the UK, France, and in a heady combination and hollow. Charles nerability; and Wilhelm Charles Sargeant Jagger’s for medical purposes, Germany comes to seem of jingoism, misery, and Sims’ vast landscape of Lehmbruck’s ‘Fallen sculptures commemorat- contrast with Grosz’ and strange – these weren’t the powerful imagery. trenches stretches along Man’, whose elongated ing those who died in the Otto Dix’s brilliantly-un- only countries affected by The exhibition begins one wall of the gallery; limbs convey the horrific Royal Artillery and Great settling caricatures of the war, and by bringing with the War still ongoing, its tumultuous topography anguish of warfare. Le- Western Railway contain crippled soldiers, which in art by Oscar Schlem- featuring artists from looks like a vast wave of hmbruck, who committed a tension that spills out are pure nightmare fuel, mer and others the choice France, Germany, and the sea foam, with corrugated suicide in 1919 following in his great tableau of a and contain a powerful to exclude Russian artists, UK who had gone abroad iron and crosses sticking military service as a para- scene of a sentry in No political message. Conrad who were hugely influen- to document the destruc- out like the carapaces of medic, was clearly keenly Man’s Land, which is Felixmuller’s lithographs tial throughout Europe, tion. While this generation crustaceans. It contrasts attuned to the dehuman- horrific in its violence. A of soldiers in psychiatric becomes a striking of artist-soldiers may have beautifully with William ising effects of warfare, nearby Hindenburg Cross, hospitals bristle with omission. been fighting for different Orpen’s delicate oil and this work crackles awarded by the Nazis as an unsettling energy, By turns heart-rending sides, with radically dif- painting of the trenches, with an energy akin to part of their mission to reminiscent of something and frustrating, Aftermath ferent outlooks, they all which is almost bucolic Käthe Kollwitz’s ‘Mother reconfigure the memories out of The Cabinet of Dr is worth going to for the recognised the horrific in its radiance. Elsewhere, with her Dead Son’. Both of WWI, shows how art Caligari. prints section alone. The waste of war, with the Paul Nash’s ‘Wire’ works connect beautifully and sculpture can be used These dark visions are power of works by the abandoned helmet coming features a mutilated tree, with George Grosz and for propaganda purposes, revisited in the center- German artists isn’t quite to represent loss across all surrounded by whorls of John Heartfield’s dadaist which is reinforced by piece of the exhibition: a enough to sustain the three countries. barbed wire that appear work, ‘The Middle-Class Andre Maré’s vulgar darkened room containing exhibition through the If the First World like horrific gashes on the Philistine Heartfield Gone monument to the French works from print series by latter half – where the War had an official form canvas. Wild’, whose mutilated war dead. Otto Dix, Max Backman, tight curation begins to of painting, it could be The room is watched mannequin highlights the As well as scars on the Kathe Kollwitz, and unravel – but Aftermath called the ‘anti-land- over by a pair of incred- treatment of veterans in land, WWI left its impact Georges Rouault. The shows us how beauty can scape’ – a reflection of ible sculptures: Jacob post-war Europe. on the terrain of both the prints, which are all from be obtained even through the way shells and mines Epstein’s vulnerable The interaction body and the psyche. series the artists produced, tragedy. churned up the beautiful ‘Rock Drill’, truncated between artists and English works depicting are incredibly poignant, French countryside, and de-limbed, becoming governments is also facial wounds obtained taking us through the 13 FR IDAY, 8 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1696

ARTS [email protected] ARTS [email protected] time in our lives for other or three hours – whatever things is really sad. And you want to do – and not Clash of Cultures – Mindy Lee needing that permission feel you can’t. You’re in a to do it is frustrating. safe, creative space. It’s about giving people Mindy Lee is an artist and curator of the Blyth Gallery commission to celebrate make art, and be taught to the conclusion that the confidence to do F: Within your own women in science, which for free by myself and working in the studio something creative. It work, you incorporate a – the creative hub of Imperial, showcasing various I won. So I worked with other artists throughout and working in the lab benefits us just as much as lot of elements relating Imperial for a year to the year. is exactly the same. It’s sports, to keep our minds to the body – prescrip- works from Imperial students and professional artists develop a painting, and about looking at a set of and bodies healthy, it’s tion sheets, eyes, teeth. from that I got to know F: What do you think information and rules, and the same with arts, with How do art and science throughout the year. In a continuation of the Clash of Richard Dickins, Director about the societal di- how you explore those music, with writing, with come together in your of the Centre. We had a vision between art and logic systems within your theatre. practice? Culture series, Fred Fyles, Editor-in-Chief, talks to Mindy lot of conversations about science? Do you think own practice, whether how the Gallery could such a division does re- that’s an experiment F: Do you think hav- M: When I was doing about her work at the gallery and the division between stay open, because it was ally exist? How do the or a painting. It’s like ing something like the GCSE science, we had to under threat of closure. two interact? translating: the translation Blyth Centre as a whole take something in to look science and art. That led to me coming isn’t word for word, but that is semi-institution- at under the microscope. here as an independent M: I think the divide is it’s about the flow of the al makes it easier for My dad worked in the advisor for a couple of imagined, or it’s to do with language and the nuances students to get that hospital, and he brought ARTS emanate; it has a beautiful chat about the intersection years, before eventually not being able to translate of the language you’re permission? me cross-slices of tissues, view over the grass of between art and science, getting a permanent from one language to speaking – it’s the same saying ‘you can take Fred Fyles Queen’s Lawn, where as well as the influence position. another. I think interaction with visual and scientific M: Yes. It’s very those and they’ll be really Editor-in-Chief students have spilled out science has had on her and influence between processes. If you’ve got a immediate and very interesting to see’. So to enjoy the warm midday own work. the two happens in three rigorous discipline in one accessible. Especially in there’s always been this sunshine. The Blyth “The division ways: there’s a direct but it’s light in the other, terms of seeing exhibi- medical understanding of hen I listen Centre, is, in a number of Fred: Could you tell me interaction, which could then it doesn’t translate as tions in London. There are the body, and this emo- back to the ways, the artistic hub of a little bit about your between be a collaboration on well as it should. Whereas hundreds of exhibitions, tional side of the inside recording Imperial College London; background, and how projects. The second way if you’ve got a respect and they’re all in quirky of the body have been of my it’s home not only to these you got involved with science and art they influence each other for each language and an places, like ‘knock three mashed together for me. Wconversation with Mindy practice rooms, but also to the Blyth Gallery? is imagined; is an indirect way, which understanding of each times on this unmarked An analytical response to Lee, artist and curator of the Blyth Gallery, a long is a cross-pollination of language, then you lose door.’ You think: ‘is it an internal body is very Imperial’s Blyth Gallery, white-walled space, where Mindy: I’ve always it’s to do with ideas or conversations the barrier, you can flow going to be good? Will good counterpoint to an there’s the faint sound Imperial students and staff wanted to be an artist, and arising between subjects between the two really it be bad? Can I go there emotional response to an of piano music tinkling regularly display their I was born into a family not being able and disciplines; it’s not easily. on my own? Will I knock internal state, so they play along in the background. work. Mindy is its curator, of scientists, so I’ve been a direct interaction, but on the door?’ – you can together and bounce off Mindy’s office is located dividing her time between brought up with a scien- to translate there’s something about come to the Centre and each other really nicely. I in the Blyth Centre, sur- organizing shows, putting tific way of processing the from one talking around subjects “Working in see a strong cross section enjoy having something rounded by music practice on art workshops for staff world around me. I was at or research through of what’s going on in the that has to be true and rooms, from which the and students, and making the Royal College of Art language to exhibitions and work- the studio and art world. something that’s very sound of students ham- her own artistic work. from 2002 to 2004, during shops which triggers a working in the intuitively felt coming Mindy Lee & J.A.L-B, Knocking Knees, 2017, acrylic and thread on cotton bandage cord and wood // Courtesy of the mering at piano keys We caught up with her to which time there was a another” development. The third together. artist/Photo: Nick Mansa way, which is equally lab is exactly “When things important, is a separated F: Recently you’ve also him more of that freedom, work come together, and novel, so to speak. So – were there any that F: Could you tell us a bit interaction, where the art the same” are coming been making artwork and take on more of the then coordinate and curate that’s the first part of the particularly stood out about the Blyth Gallery and the science are apart in collaboration with parental roles within the it. It’s an art form in itself, job, understanding the for you? itself? – particularly at Imperial, together and your son – can you talk art practice then we can bringing things together work and how it relates the scientists are taking a F: You also run painting being curated, a little bit about how communicate visually like a conductor so I can to other work, which is M: One of my proudest M: The Blyth Gallery is break from thinking about and drawing classes having a child, and in- across our different modes understand the story of relative and will change. shows was between on Level 5 of the Sherfield their analytical research. within the studio. One what I imagine volving him in your of making. how work comes together Then there’s how the Photography Society Building, and we have They can concentrate on thing I’ve found encour- work, have influenced That explains a lot and let the viewer see that works behave in the and Leonardo Fine Art twelve shows a year. Three using a different part of the aging students to write are the works your practice? more about my reactive, as well. It’s a very natural space. For me, it’s very Society. They’d been are professional shows brain, and thinking with is a sense that people adaptive, response to space for me to be in, this anthropomorphic, they doing this hybrid show by visiting and emerging different logic systems don’t feel they’re ‘al- are like M: Before I had him, being a mum, being a inbetween, so I’m very are very living things, so for a few years, but there artists, who could be Lon- and scenarios. Then when lowed’ to be creative characters in a I had two strategies to person, and being an artist lucky. there are questions like: was just one year where don-based, or national, they come back from because they’re a sci- making: a loving render- – my experience of life how much space do they that really clicked. They or international. There is this altered, other way of entist. I was wondering story” ing that’s very careful carries through into my F: You mentioned the need? How much space stopped being Photogra- one Royal College of Art spending time, they return whether that’s some- to get things in a certain work. curational side of it. between work is needed, phy Society on one side show, and eight shows refreshed, and might just thing you’ve found? way; and then a much Can you talk about how so they’ve got their own and LeoSoc on the other; that are Imperial College have a breakthrough, more emotionally expres- F: Do you think your you curate a show and time to breathe and be we did a show where we student and staff: art soci- because they’re coming at M: Yes, there’s a barrier It’s the same with sive way to work. I would time at Imperial, being set up the work? processed? It sounds like folded photographs into eties, medical humanities the research from a com- there in terms of self-per- making, that fear of the let those two things smash at this intersection be- I think about these things origami birds, and they students, PhD researchers, pletely different angle. I mission, absolutely. I’m blank page – writer’s together. Looking at my tween art and science, M: When things are consciously, but over the flew like a flock through solo staff members, artist try and provide opportu- mentoring with PhD block, artist’s block. son’s gestures, he has a has influenced your coming together and years it’s become very in- the space. It was beautiful in residence – you’ve got nity for all three scenarios students over the summer, Being able to come on a truly accidental gesture practice over the years? being curated, what I stinctive – like learning to and really ambitious. It a really nice mix of things with the programme here, and a lot of students have Wednesday afternoon and because he had no control imagine are the works are drive, it seems mad when took a week to install. You to see in the space. so there’s maximum said ‘I needed an excuse say ‘I don’t know what to over the marks he was M: Absolutely. Defi- like characters in a story. you first hear it, but then could not tell that wasn’t I also run a studio space, opportunity for people to to allow myself to make do’ with other people in a making. My emulated free nitely subconsciously, My job is to introduce the it’s very instinctive. a professional show – and which is in 153 Roderic influence each other. some art, and this project similar situation, and be gestures can’t compete but then there are certain story, and then let the char- from that point they’ve Hill, where students and Talking to one of the has given me that excuse.’ able to make something with his. So I thought if I shows that really excite acters interact in a way F: I know you’ve been interacted really well Mindy installing the work of Alexander Yip in the Blyth Gallery// Alexander Yip staff can come to learn PhD students, we came Not allowing ourselves for ten minutes, or an hour, split my practice, and give me. Getting to see all this that makes for an exciting here for a lot of shows together. 14 15

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MUSIC [email protected] MUSIC [email protected] Beware the man who has everything Naked, honest, and mildly disappointing

Father John Misty’s back. God’s Favourite Customer, his fourth full-length, is a tortured and tantalisingly vulnerable MUSIC not to say I’m excusing of headphones. There are grandeur. This is his For into subdued rapping into Kanye’s anxiety Kanye’s recent pro-Trump a lot of production and Emma and he sets that tone which is sweet until an surrounding the attention YE exploration of the human psyche. Serving wit and darkness in equal measure, Josh Tillman only reaffirms his stance or “slavery is a vocal nuances which, if right from the onset with abrasive beat switch his daughter is bound to choice” ramblings, I’m missed, may cause the a blunt spoken word over up kind of ruins things. get when she grows up. lyrical majesty. just saying that I will treat Another experimental “Don’t you grow up in a him with a fair deal of moment on the project that hurry” 070 Shake croons Artist: Kanye West. Label: patience, as anyone with does not pay off is ‘All on the chorus. This comes MUSIC Def Jam/G.O.O.D. Music. a mental health condition Mine’. Jeremih’s Young straight after the singer’s GOD’S FAVOURITE ing how elegantly FJM bright idea was it to Top Tracks: Ghost Town; should be treated. Thug impression on the fireworks-display of a CUSTOMER is able to discuss the soul sharpen the knives? / Just No Mistakes. For Fans Of: chorus is jarring and the performance on ‘Ghost wrenching topics that he twenty minutes ‘fore the Kid Cudi; Frank Ocean; the sparse drums accentuating Town’ – certainly the deems important enough boat capsize / If you want old Kanye. 24 minutes “There are a lot Kanye’s confession of all highlight of the album. to share with the world, an answer it’s anybody’s the “basic” girls he craves The theme of mental dys- Artist: Father John Misty. while also remaining guess / I’m treading water Asad Raja of production only comes off as tacky. functionality and love in Label: Sub Pop. Top truthful. The album deals as I bleed to death.” The Music Writer and vocal ‘Yikes’ sounds like spite of that really comes Tracks: Mr Tillman; with loss – of home, of appeal of death in such an the sequel to ‘FML’ to a head in a beautiful Hangout at the Gallows; loved ones, of purpose inescapably depressing nuances which, from The Life of Pablo, fusion of instruments and Disappointing Diamonds – and discusses the existential crisis finally hree things I though a sonically and synths matching herself, Are the Rarest of Them All. various dark and insidious becomes most apparent in would like to if missed, may lyrically lesser version. Kanye, Kid Cudi and For Fans Of: New Arctic imprints this leaves on the the lines: “So you wanna clarify before ‘Wouldn’t Leave’ and John Legend’s emotional Monkeys; The War On human soul. Sometimes hang out at the gallows? I begin this cause the ‘Violent Crimes’ are odes delivery. Another high- Drugs. 39 minutes it feels as though people / Those guys get an early Treview: I am a Kanye stan to his wife and daughter light is ‘No Mistakes’, album to come who tell stories of sadness start.” A dark opener (albeit a realistic one); respectively. The former a true Late Registration Martin Flerin do so sanctimoniously, indeed. this album has grown on off as boring” is a soft admission of the throwback containing Music Writer feeling their sadness This is followed by the me immensely since my strain his recent actions the best Ye verse on the makes them unique and brilliant ‘Mr. Tillman’, first listen; and I have Created free at yenerator.com// Def Jam/G.O.O.D. Music put on his marriage and album. Indeed, Kanye, special, but that is the where FJM uses his decided to take everything Aside from patience, Kim’s tender loyalty. The “a shaky-ass year” is an s a book lover, exact opposite of what we alter-ego to tell a ridicu- on this album, especially a second thing you may album to come off as warbling synths about his latter, the last track on the understatement. it was a won- get with Father John. lously exaggerated story the comments on mental need when listening to boring. Still, expect very suicidal and homicidal album, is a pretty simple derful thing to of the alienated existence health, as genuine. That’s this album is a good pair little of Kanye’s typical thoughts. This morphs but endearing insight discover Father of a musician always AJohn Misty. It is simply “The soulful on the move. Hotels impossible to get past the are a constant theme brilliant lyrics this man inquisitor throughout the album, a Natalie Prass returns bigger, bolder, and hella funkier has continuously pumped symbol of detachment out on all four albums contemplates and an unbalanced life. released under this moni- death, with Here, the verses are told MUSIC the follow up to Virginian underscored with a throb- ‘Hot for the Mountain’ The ballad ‘Lost’, a cheat?” while ‘Hot for ker. When listening to the intermittently by a hotel songwriter and Matthew bing old-school baseline. veers into atonality before which comes halfway the Mountain’ centres THE FUTURE AND THE stories he has to tell, you receptionist worried about E. White collaborator The opening bars of ‘Oh developing into a series through the record, is around the refrain of ‘we a feeling like PAST are completely immersed Mr. Tillman’s bizarre Thinkin bout dat boi xxx // Sub Pop Natalie Prass’ self-titled My’ are reminiscent of of swelling strings and evocative of her earlier can take you all’. ‘Shop in a child-like trance of he has been behaviour: “And oh, a debut. Prass had the album work – and displays Go Down’ and ‘Nothing emotional connection. reminder about our policy harrowing self-contempt It feels as though the understands exactly how ready to go at the end Prass’ warm, powerful to Say’ both speak of That said, this does not cornered into / Don’t leave the mattress endemic to depression: lyrical subject does indeed you feel. It is not easy to of 2016, but scrapped it vocals, which she usually brewing storm – whether mean the musical side can it” in the rain if you sleep “Last night I wrote a poem reach some point of rec- build such a rapport with Artist: Natalie Prass. Label: following the presidential reserves behind a speak- that’s one of resistance or be neglected when look- on the balcony” which / Man, I must have been in onciliation with his life fans that are thousands of ATO Records. Top Tracks: election, breaking with sing style – but still trouble it’s hard to gauge. ing at his work. It may is followed by the elated the poem zone… Maybe at the end of the album. miles away, but in listen- Oh My; The Fire; Lost. For the Spacebomb label and retains a spikiness. While ‘Sisters’ may take the serve mainly as the vessel He gets straight to response of the apparently I’ll get a pet / Learn how (“I’m in the business ing to Father John Misty’s Fans Of: Janet Jackson; producing a record that Natalie Prass was full of idea of protest lyrics a bit within which he can deliv- the point in the album’s intoxicated subject: “I’m to take care of somebody of living / yeah, that’s music you really gain Matthew E. White; U.S. feels much more urgent rounded sounds – soaring literally – ”come on nasty er his beautiful words, but gloomy opener ‘Hangout feeling good / Damn, I’m else / Maybe I’ll name something I’d say”). The a sense of the universal Girls. 45 minutes and necessary. violins and glowing women / so all the bad his smooth baritone and at the Gallows’. The feeling so fine / I’m living him Jeff.” moral lesson he leaves us presence of pain – that he From the opener ‘Oh brass – The Future and girls here’ let’s make that meticulously arranged chorus asks the same on a cloud above an island The album’s mood does with is a powerful one, feels the same as you do. Fred Fyles My’, it is clear The Future the Past is indebted to clear” – but then again, compositions are nothing four questions each time: in my mind.” The song pick up after this and ‘Dis- it tells of the disillusion- He seems to be moulding Editor-in-Chief and the Past is going to ‘70s funk, lounge jazz, so did ‘Blowing in the to scoff at. Now that I’ve “What’s your politics? has a remarkably catchy appointing Diamonds Are ment that can come from the demons inside him in be a different kettle of fish and neo-soul. ‘Far From Wind’, so there are few got my confession of love / What’s your religion? melody and fades out with the Rarest of Them All’, planting your feet too clay right in front of you. to Natalie Prass. While You’, a tribute to Karen complaints. for the man out of the / What’s your intake? / the accompaniment of one of the most beautiful firmly in what you have: His lyrics feel like he’s long with a her first LP was deep Carpenter, is Prass at her The Future and the way, I can proceed with Your reason for living?” some careless whistling, on the album, compares “Beware the man who has having the most honest of worsening of within the Spacebomb most Spacebomb-esque, Past is a bold, assured the review with a clear – these are questions on implying the notion of the crazy, out-of-the-blue everything / Everything conversations with you. the environ- ethos – a collection of but is followed by ‘Ain’t follow-up to Prass’ conscience. a grand scale, questions a mind on the wane or love that sometimes that he wants… I’m out This has always been a mental crisis, timeless songs, evocative Nobody’, whose high-hat long-delayed debut. She Josh Tillman’s work everyone must face up perhaps merely past grabs hold of us to both a here testing the maxim / strong suit of folk music Athe increasing shameless- of Southern soul, with a beat and bleep-bloop has already proved herself has been on an upward to in their lives, and they caring. pervert on a crowded bus That all good things have and with every new album ness of neo-Nazis, and sprinkling of Broadway baseline mark a turning to be a confident musical trajectory since renaming set the tone for the album. The lowest point of the and an oil tanker tipped to stop.” it feels like FJM’s songs a potentially precipitous and classic Americana – point in Prass’ career. magpie, as happy with an himself as Father John Lacking an answer, the album is ‘The Palace’. at sea – an unwanted con- Life is hard, there’s no belong in the vault with plunge into nuclear ar- The Future and the Past is Wibbley-wobbly timey-wimey stuff// ATO Records Lyrically, the record old-school ballad as with Misty, with every new soulful inquisitor con- The subject’s desolation tamination but, as he says, getting around that, but the canonical works of mageddon, we can blame comprised of a much more is markedly different. a bit of funk. It’s exciting album being hailed as his templates death, with a has escalated to complete- “Does everybody have to I feel that a great deal Bob, Neil, and Graham. Donald Trump for another modern sound: the beats Janet Jackson’s ‘What cascading keyboards, On ‘Oh My’, she takes to see where she might go best work. This new LP is feeling like he has been ly new heights, the jokes be the greatest story ever of comfort can be taken problem: the long wait for are faster, the riffs funkier, Has He Done For You checking out with a jazzy shots at modern politics, from here. no different. It’s surpris- cornered into it – “Whose are dry and reek of the told?” from feeling like someone The Future and the Past, and the majority of tracks Lately’, while slow burner piano solo. asking “what is lying to 18 19 FR IDAY, 8 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX FELIX ISSUE 1696

MUSIC [email protected] MUSIC [email protected] The age of Oneohtrix Point Never has finally touched King Push reigns supreme on DAYTONA down …plus a brief obituary for Aubrey Graham.

Age Of is a brilliant development for Oneohtrix Point Never, which sees producer Daniel Lopatin taking on more MUSIC DAYTONA starts with capital Santo Domingo. DAYTONA the incredible ‘If You The next track definitely collaborators, and deconstructing popular music’s toolkit. Know You Know’. The picks up, beginning with song’s production is a dramatic sample of infectiously chopped and The Mighty Hannibal constructions – is at pains Twin Peaks theme. It is, Artist: Pusha T. Label: layered with a mind of speaking about addiction. MUSIC to point out, completely perhaps, the closest he has G.O.O.D. Music. Top its own, distorted vocal The beat then abruptly AGE OF meaningless. As part of come to a straightforward Tracks: If You Know You samples weaving in cuts in; a minimalistic but the ephemera surrounding pop song, until it suddenly Know. For Fans Of: Jay Z; and out at just the right heavy thumping bass that his latest release, Age Of, cuts out, plunging us into Jay Rock; Big K.R.I.T. 21 moments. Another neat demands headbanging. Loptain has created his acoustic darkness, as if minutes. touch I should point out It’s grimy and dark and Artist: Oneohtrix Point own system of chronolo- something had blown in the production: the perfectly matches Push’s Never. Label: Warp Top gy, loosely based on the a fuse in the recording Asad Raja instrumental on each song mean, pronounced flow. Tracks: Age Of; Toys 2; progression of human studio. Music Writer of this project flows into The bass melts away Black Snow. For Fans Of: history from agrarian In ‘Toys 2’, Lopatin the next seamlessly. Push again for the chorus, Holly Herndon; ANOHNI; arcadia, to capitalist offers up a proof of packs his verses on this another emotive soul Laurel Halo. 43 minutes economy, to post-indus- concept for a potential usha T is one of first track with references sample, before coming trial wasteland: the Ade soundtrack to a Pixar film. the few prominent and imagery that only a right back in for the Fred Fyles og Ecco, Age of Harvest, The track starts off with rappers from the “trapper turned rapper” second verse. We then Editor-in-Chief Age of Excess, and Age some straightforward first decade of such as himself would flow into the emotional of Bondage. It’s a vague panpipes and whistling, Pthe 2000s to side-step any fully appreciate, with centre-piece of the album system, one that has the building in a crescendo waning in his relevance lines such as “I predict – ‘Santeria’. Push mourns n their 1997 book advantage of being able that wouldn’t sound out since then. He’s achieved snow, Al Roker / I only the tragic murder of his The Fourth Turning, to fit any situation, like of place in a Disney film, what a Lupe Fiasco or ever looked up to Sosa road manager, De’Von historians and the historical version of over a scuttling beat of a 50 Cent were not able / You all get a bird, this Pickett, with the produc- authors William a pseudoscience. It is this pops and clicks. But then to by inhabiting a space nigga Oprah”. The pro- tion perfectly matching IStrauss and Neil Howe subversion that Loptain the notes pile up, building somewhere in between duction on the next track, his bars. First, we get the put forward their theory delights in. “It is really the to a cacophony of black – he raps about a street ‘The Games We Play’, mature but cold side of his that all of human history most satisfying thing you MIDI-esque horror. The lifestyle with a heavily becomes simpler but just pain matched by an eerie could be tracked as an can do,” he told the New fact the track was named, lyrical delivery that is as effective. Powerful electric guitar refrain. infinite cycle of four ages, York Times, “put a little not in reference to the often cryptic and full of horns come crushing The eeriness comes to a as regular and predictable scratch in something… much-loved Toy Story, references. Since the end down periodically with head at the chorus as 070 DAYTONA // GOOD as clockwork. An ‘awak- that has the arrogance of but rather after Toys, the of his Clipse/Re-Up Gang loose guitar plucks and Shake sings a ghostly ening’ would be followed knowing what it is.” 1992 Robin Williams era, Pusha’s solo career drum claps filling the gaps Spanish echo over synth donned will make him Drake-Meek beef of offered since this public by an ‘unravelling’, then nightmare-fuel, points to has only grown more suc- between, while Push lays hums. Push comes back exempt from racial profil- 2015, which Meek unde- crucifixion is a statement a ‘crisis’, which would its sensibility. cessful, having been made down braggadocious bars in sounding more sombre, ing. niably lost. Indeed, Drake attempting to explain the resolve with a ‘high’, “Oneohtrix Oneohtrix Point Never Order this outfit from your local Pearsons today! // Warp president of Kanye’s with no interruptions. “I with lines such as “Darken The last track on the responded to ‘Infrared’ song’s shocking cover before the whole thing is always a project that G.O.O.D Music in 2015 am your Ghost and your my doorstep, they told me album is ‘Infrared’. The less than a day after the art – a genuine photo of starts over again. Between Point Never has existed at the margins that, although deeply Lopatin’s sonic universe. your own adventure and releasing a few decent Rae / This is my Purple the day’s gone”, before beat is loose and echoey release of this album Drake in black face. If each of these ages, a of pop music, scuttling entrenched within a mesh Cinematic is a word novel, gaze admiringly up mixtapes and two great Tape, save up for rainy the beat switches again with a looped sample that with ‘Duppy Freestyle’, you ask me, when you’re specific event would has always around its edge like a of referents, remains un- often used to describe above a glowing macbook albums since 2011. His days” he claims, a particu- to aggressive, clattering works well. Pusha raps a pretty scathing attack replying to a diss track shift humanity into a new existed at the dark crustacean. Loptain tethered from reality. music like Oneohtrix – with this album Lopatin last album, King Push – larly clever line referring drums and Push becomes without a hook on this on not only Push, but with a press release, you chronological epoch, like clips and borrows from Lopatin has also taken Point Never’s, which is free-associating within Darkest Before Dawn: to the Raekwon and more menacing, implying song, which is appropriate Kanye too. Drake made have officially lost the some kind of mechanical margins of pop the language of modern on more pop sensibilities makes use of expanse and a structure of controlled The Prelude, was his best Ghostface album, Only that he will “draw blood” because he has a lot to one mistake though – he beef. Rest in peace Drake, automaton. It’s the kind pop – glassy synths, in terms of the production aural imagery. But the complexity. to date, featuring gritty, Built 4 Cuban Linx…, as reparation. say. A subliminal Pusha mentioned Push’s fiance’s while the internet rekin- of intellectual theory that music” deep baselines – while of this album, which is his term is a lazy one, which Societies tending dark beats and typical which was nicknamed the A similarly ominous T vs Drake, Birdman, and name. It was this that Push dles its pre-2015 love gives rise to a faint sense retaining the syntax of most collaborative yet. belies what Loptain is towards decay. The witty lyricism. That brings Purple Tape and included sounding beat is main- Lil Wayne beef has been would cite as his trigger affair of memeing you. of satisfaction: to identify experimental music, After producing tracks for really trying to do: he is philosophical problem of us here, to the album the song ‘Rainy Dayz’. tained for ‘What Would present since 2011, though after releasing the savage In all honesty though, our specific point within With Age Of, he’s not throwing in references to ANOHNI’s album Hope- not creating a film, but nuclear waste disposal. that was supposed to be The project then Meek Do?’, which sees as of this album the most ‘The Story of Adidon’ as a the real losers of this rap the history of the human letting us stay in one cyberpunk, postmodern lessness back in 2016, she an entire world. From the Theories of a post-sin- King Push, now renamed simmers as it leads into Ye and Push each spit attention it had gotten was response. Within the one- beef are anyone sleeping race, and define it as one in place long enough to even philosophy, and 1990s returns the favour, lending plinking harpsichord on gularity world. These DAYTONA, with similarly the track ‘Hard Piano’, a verse on how they on Drake’s ‘Two Birds, verse track, Push pulls all on this excellent album. a series of events, is to fix attempt to discover what internet culture. The result her haunting vocals to a opening ‘Age of’, which are all ingredients added unexpected cover art of with the production doing respond to those “talking One Stone’ where he of Drake’s skeletons out DAYTONA is proof that us within time. It prevents things are: at every turn, is a sound existing within number of pieces. Noise quickly disintegrates together in a blender by Whitney Houston’s drug pretty much what the title shit”. Push’s verse is full questioned Push’s street the closet – his absent, Pusha T and Kanye are us from feeling lost, adrift Lopatin will upend our a liminal space, unan- artist Prurient is also into the sonic equivalent Loptain, resulting in a filled bathroom, selected promises. A piano melody of materialistic bragging credibility. On ‘Infrared’, dowdy father; the child still the only ones who in a universe without any expectations, subverting chored. ‘The Station’, a enlisted, echoing back of a retro-futuristic city musical collage that defies by Kanye two days before loops itself, becoming and cites Meek Mill, Pusha T responds to this that he has been keeping a know how to make what kind of meaning. what we have come to track originally intended Loptain’s words, the builder game played description. Age Of is an its release. In fact, this slightly boring by the end recently released from a with very explicit shots secret and from whose life they make: lyrical, luxury It is also, as Daniel expect in a regular form for Usher, demonstrates screaming overlaid in a through a busted VHS album that makes use of is perhaps Push’s most of the track, especially ridiculously harsh prison at all three Young Money Drake himself has been drug raps and hard, Lopatin – who has been of music. On ‘Babylon’, this tendency, juxtaposing wailing electroshock of machine, through to the a well-known toolbox Kanye-influenced album alongside Rick Ross’ sentence, as the devil associates. The bars that absent; the lack of time bumping beats that hit you working for the past for example, pipes whistle its autotuned vocals with noise. James Blake came cover art – a work by Jim in totally unexpected with the alarmingly short forgettable verse. The on his shoulder. Kanye he directs at Drake mock left for Drake’s terminally right in the chest. Put the decade under the moniker and flutter, joined by an underlying static, as if on board to help with the Shaw work entitled ‘The ways. Difficult? Perhaps. album length and the chorus is a pretty glam- delivers a pretty impres- his reliance on a ghost ill producer, arguably two together and clearly, Oneohtrix Point Never, Loptain’s own vocod- warning us of a coming final mixing of the work. Great Whatsit’, in which Exceptional? Without a production from start to orous moment though, sive verse also, complete writer, arguably a brave the contributing factor to you get a masterpiece. producing gradually more er-ed voice, anchored storm within the void. Luckily all these collab- three women, half-Lo- doubt. finish being the work of with Tony Williams with a suggestion that the move since this was the Drake’s popularity. The elaborate experimental to the baseline from the The result is a sound orators manage to fit into gan’s Run, half choose Ye himself. singing about the drug MAGA hat he infamously exact jab that began the only thing Drake has 20 21 FR IDAY, 8 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX

FILM [email protected] That Summer: The revenge of Grey Gardens

FILM David Maysles were the provides an invaluable THAT SUMMER first to shine a light on insight into the develop- the pair in their seminal ment of Grey Gardens: cinéma vérité film Grey Peter Beard, artist and Gardens, which has gone friend of socialite Lee Dir: Göran Olsson. on to inspire an HBO Radziwill (herself the Starring: Peter Beard; Lee drama and a Broadway sister of Jackie Kennedy) Radziwill; Edith Bouvier musical. The two Edies hired the Maysles to shoot Beale; Edith ‘Little Edie’ have become a cultural footage of the redevelop- Bouvier Beale. 80 minutes touchstone, not only for ment of the Grey Gardens what they said – Little estate, and the two eccen- Fred Fyles Edie: “I only care about trics at its centre. The film Editor-in-Chief three things: singing, was eventually scrapped, dancing, and the Catholic although the Maysles ob- church” – but for what viously returned to shoot n terms of Great they represented. As all their masterpiece – with American Mysteries, romantics know, there is or without the consent of the story of the beauty found in ruins. Beard or Radziwill, it’s Beales ranks up there That Summer, a doc- never made clear. Iwith Lindbergh’s baby or umentary from Swedish That Summer presents the Black Dahlia. Why director Göran Olsson, us with the four extant and how, exactly, did ‘Big helps to fill in some of the reels of film from that ‘There’s nothing worse than dealing with a staunch character’ // Dogwoof Edie’ and ‘Little Edie’ gaps left by the original early project, giving us a Beale, the mother-daugh- film, making it a must-see peek behind the curtain Olsson allows the Beales wonderful companion to exploitative? Why did ter duo, lock themselves for any Beale enthusiasts. of the mansion. Unfor- to speak for themselves, the original film. Fans of Little Edie allow herself to inside their decrepit man- Like his earlier film, tunately, we are forced uttering lines that are Grey Gardens will delight become a recluse? What’s sion in the East Hamptons Concerning Violence, to sit through a sequence innately brilliant, by in sequences that preempt with all the headscarves? for decades, slowly accu- the work consists mainly of Beard pontificating on turns hilarious, poignant, its key themes – Racoons! That Summer provides mulating the oppressive of found footage – the his celebrity connections and beautiful – they are Singing! Little Edie’s a long-overdue update weight of squalor, rubbish, majority from the before we are able to get a scriptwriter’s dream. outfits! – but for every on the iconic East Coast and hostility from wealthy Maysles, along with some to experience the grainy While the reels run to answer the film provides eccentrics; let us hope neighbours? from Andy Warhol and majesty of the reels. little more than an hour more questions are raised: more footage is unearthed Brothers Albert and Jonas Mekas. The film As with the Maysles, in length, they provide a were the Maysles being one day. François Ozon’s sexual thriller fails to ignite

FILM their sessions after falling drain-eye cut with a far experienced are written AMANT DOUBLE in love with her, thus more intimate part of the off as hysteria, Ozon only allowing them to begin a anatomy, is worth the ad- partly tackles this idea. He physical relationship. Of mission price alone, as is ends up reinforcing boring course, their happiness the introductory analysis ideas around pregnancy Dir: François Ozon. Script: cannot last for long, and sequence, in which split and neurosis. François Ozon. Starring: – after happening to see screens show the same Vacth has developed Marine Vacth; Jérémie a man who looks exactly sequence from different since her role in Jeune et Renier; Jacqueline Bisset. like Paul – Chloé stumbles angles, disrupting the idea Jolie, but still retains an air 110 minutes upon his identical twin of the camera-as-eye. of impassive hauteur that brother Louis, also a psy- In terms of the plot, can be difficult to enjoy. Fred Fyles chiatrist, with whom she although based on a Joyce Renier is much stronger, Editor-in-Chief // Curzon Artificial Eye embarks on an affair. Paul Carol Oates short story, playing both twins with denies the existence of Ozon borrows liberally equal aplomb, despite among them – he seems therefore, a double disap- Louis, and, as she tries to from classics such as opposing personalities. ith Amant to be most at home when pointment, both for what uncover the truth, Chloé Vertigo and Rosemary’s Amant Double is a Double, straddling the line be- it is, and the realisation veers closer and closer to Baby. He even puts lot of fun, and – while it there is the tween erotica and horror. of what it could have hystria. Myriam Boyer in as a could certainly do with sense that Now, after several films been. Marine Vacth plays Stylistically, this is wonderfully invasive a sharp trim – most of it WFrench director François that explored different Chloé, a withdrawn young Ozon at his most indul- neighbour, with shades of rattles along at an enjoy- Ozon is returning to genres, he has gone back woman suffering from gent, taking cues from Ruth Gordon’s imposing able, campy pace. By where he is most comfort- to his roots, ploughing stomach pains, which Bergman, Hitchcock, and matriarch. Unfortunately, ratcheting up the drama to able: sexual psychodrama. the same furrow of some doctors insist are psycho- Cronenberg to create a while the sexual elements ten pretty much from the While Ozon’s filmog- of his best works: Under logical in origin. She sees tableau of imaginative, may be subversive, little off, however, Ozon loses raphy has some notable the Sand, Swimming Pool, a charming young psy- thrilling images. The else is. While films like us long before the credits exceptions – the high- and In the House. chiatrist, Paul (Jérémie opening sequence, which Rosemary’s Baby explore roll. camp comedy Potiche Amant Double is, Renier), who calls off replicates Psycho’s the way women’s lived 22 FELIX ISSUE 1696

GAMES [email protected] Video games: Teaching us about the future How video games can make us question our lives and relate to the circumstances of other others.

GAMES future. In that moment, At one point in the the child would have a game, you’re gathering Saad Ahmed brief understanding of supplies and pondering Games Editor loss and could probably your next move when you relate to their peers who hear a conversation next have experienced it. Now door, although saying ames are pri- I’m not saying that losing “conversation” would be marily a form of a virtual character is the being polite. A soldier is entertainment same as losing a loved being aggressive with a to most people; one in real life, but at least woman and threatening Ga unique way to pass the there can be a small degree to rape her. The character time. However they can of understanding from the you’re controlling is only sometimes do a bit more video game, which can armed with a shovel; the than that. Depending on ultimately be the first step character also has three the game and at which in empathy. people who are dependent point you’re in, games can on him. If you’re able to teach us important things leave safely, then those about society and empa- “They can people will be able to thy. Heck, they could even survive for longer. What Nothing more needs to be said // 11 bit studios be considered character highlight do you do? It’s an intense building in a sense. and gruelling decision about society. Science celebrities than business rising to the top ranks. Consider a small child, things like the and this game is just full fiction, in particular, is owners, where a single Human Revolution puts a child who has yet to harsh realities of these complex choices. an interesting concept to step out of turn can break us smack in the middle of experience the misfor- While playing a game play around with in media up the company. It’s a the situation and makes us tune of loss in their life. of war” like this can emotionally because of the way tech- bit of an extension of examine the effects of this They’re playing a game wreck you, they can nology is becoming more current society, where particular technology first like Final Fantasy for highlight things like the prominent in our daily there’s a focus on a form hand. example. And they reach In a more contempo- harsh realities of war and lives. Compared to other of hedonism as opposed a point where one of the rary and mature example, the plight of those unfor- forms of media, you’re to personal growth or characters dies and cannot let’s have a look at the tunate individuals who able to play a persona by sustainability. What’s the “Games can come back for the rest of game This War of Mine. are trapped in difficult yourself in a video game. point of taking pictures of the game. The child may In this game, you control circumstances where they You step into the shoes of food? Just to show off and speculate over try all sorts of tricks to different civilians during can’t see an easy way out. a multitude of characters have others look at our reverse this outcome, but a war. The characters Games can not just help (literally if you’re playing achievements, right? developments at the end of the day, they have no experience with us emphasize with par- a VR game) and you get Games can speculate that are yet have to realise they must fighting or combat, their ticular situations but also to experience how you’re over developments that move on and look to the only goal is to survive. make us ask questions treated, what impacts are yet to come and shape to come and your choices have, and the future; they make us much more. It can get you introspect about hard, real shape the thinking on what kind of life questions. By having person you are and how the events of a game in future” different things can affect an alternate world or a your lives. near-distant future, we can Detroit: Become draw parallels with our Ultimately games are Human attacks the current world. Deus Ex: Human more than just a story- status quo and makes Revolution in particular telling device and an gamers recognise the deals with transhumanism entertainment medium. faults within society, and and the disparity of wealth The fun and awesome even within themselves. in society. The main char- gameplay can be juxta- It has only been out for a acter is someone who goes posed with societal themes few weeks but it’s already beyond what it means to and character questions. been gaining a massive be a regular human with They provide a canvas to following. I’ll try not to augmentations and body explore questions about go into too many spoilery upgrades. Throughout our world and teach us details but, essentially, the the game, we also get more about different situ- game makes a statement glimpses of the under- ations people experience. on what technology does classes who are left behind Sure, there will be people to us and what it means and complaining simply who won’t be able to to be human. It features because they cannot take home the important a society that has become afford augmentation. We message, but it will reach so dependent on societal see how this disparity a lot of people – including approval that CEOs affects society, the good you, if you remember to What does it mean to be human? // Sony Interactive Entertainment are regarded more as and the ugly, with the rich look for it. 23 FR IDAY, 8 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX

BOOKS [email protected] Disoriental – A multi-generational study of identity Négar Djavadi’s debut novel explores the history of a single family living through revolutionary Iran, mediating on how language can help carve a space of belonging.

in French, it has now Djavadi is particularly been translated into good at balancing the English by Tina Kover surreal with the real. Her for Europa Editions; this heady descriptions, which translation adds another have a mystical air, are layer of meaning to a kept grounded by refer- novel already steeped in ences to the real-world questions of belonging turmoil going on around and history. Disoriental them: on one page, she’ll is a story about identity, build up the image of or – rather – the effects of Kimiâ’s mother Sara and a lack of identity. her neighbour as fated The central character is twins – “The children had Kimiâ Sadr, one of three the comforting sense of sisters born to a family having to mothers…one of intellectuals living brunette mother, Sara, BOOKS through the tumultuous who worked and knew DISORIENTAL Iranian revolution. We how to console and to by Négar Djavadi open the novel with her listen; and another, who sitting in a fertility clinic in varied between chestnut, Europa Editions. 335 pp. Paris, awaiting the results blonde, and sometimes red of tests; in the quiet of the hair, Big Mina, who didn’t Fred Fyles waiting room, she begins work and who organised Editor-in-Chief to float back through her games and enormous own memories, exploring afternoon snacks.” – and the story of her family, then undercut this with he father of a tracing its generations. a direct reference to friend of mine the impact of American has a story about oppression on Iranian growing up “There’s more culture. “Imperialism is Tbetween cultures. Born no joke!” Djavadi says in England to a Greek- than a hint with a sly grin. Cypriot family, he lived In this sense, Disori- Protests during the Iranian Revolution// Wikimedia in London until he was of magical ental reminded me most a few years old, before realism in of some of the best work language not only allows clinic an intern “tosses a the end of the book – they going to Cyprus for about of Salman Rushdie and for communication, but name into the damp, stuffy all are, but mostly right at six months. Surrounded Djavadi’s Isabel Allende, which allows for identity. Kimiâ air of the waiting room the end of the book, giving by family members, all balanced political seri- is “confronted by a world and disappears”, while her the impression they were chattering away in Greek, descriptions of ousness with the impos- that I could see and touch blue clothing “accentuates an afterthought. the English he had man- sible lightness of magical but didn’t know how to my olive skin and makes aged to pick up in his first the Sadrs” realism. talk about” – robbed of me look like an overripe few years of being verbal Of course, we know the means of describing eggplant.” “For a debut vanished, to be replaced from the off that Kimiâ words “from peaceful Structurally, the novel by the language of his There’s more than a has now made it to Paris, lives, lives that belong to has a couple of issues. novel, extended family. When hint of magical realism and left her homeland the people living them.” Djavadi spends so much he returned to London, he in Djavadi’s descriptions behind, unable to return, Depression, for Kimiâ, is time describing previous Disoriental needed to relearn English of the Sadr family, which meaning the grounding a word “whose meaning generations of the Sadr is hugely all over again; at this reaches far back into the work Djavadi does with I finally understood in family, that the present young age, he was made history of Iran. We have her family narrative Paris”, highlighting both becomes like a reverse impressive” aware not only of how he children born in harems, makes the point of de- the isolating effect of black hole: as we get was viewed as ‘foreign’ regressive sky-blue eyes parture that much harder. becoming the ‘other’, and closer to it, things start by fellow children and marking out genetic Djavadi draws on her the way concepts don’t to speed up. Kimiâ’s life For a debut novel, parents, but also how lineage, multi-generation- own life in these sections, always translate between after the family’s move Disoriental is hugely im- language can delicately al conflicts, and a set of having travelled across languages. to Paris seems truncated, pressive. It’s a bold, imag- tie you to a sense of time six brothers spread across the Kurdistani mountains Kover, however, has with vast swathes seem- inative piece of work, one and place. the globe. It’s dizzying, with her sister and mother, done well to bring Dja- ingly lost or looked over. that – in its interrogation This anecdote was brilliant stuff, but Djavadi after her family opposed vadi’s vivid prose to the Similarly, towards the of what we mean by what came to mind when manages to keep a tight the Khomeini regime. English language, which beginning of the novel identity and belonging – reading Négar Djavadi’s enough hand on the plot Once the family make is studded with brilliant Djavadi establishes a leaves us enriched on the debut novel, Disoriental. to prevent it spiralling out it to Paris, Djavadi mag- imagery, like a clove series of questions that other side. First published in 2016 into absurdity. nificently explores how studded orange: at the need to be answered by 24 Union Page Friday 8 June

Student Support Strategy Consultation Union Brand Survey

An Imperial wide consultation has begun on a student support strategy The Union would like feedback on your perception and experience of that the Union has been working on with College. The aim is establish a the brand. We’ll be doing consultations on the logo, and other aspects clear plan for supporting students year round, particularly in the year of of our visual identity, as well as seek to better understand members’ wellbeing, as there has been a gap in this area. experiences of the Union. Now that there’s a framework, we would like widespread feedback to The research will form part of a larger effort to refine our brand so help College shape a final strategy that works for everyone. Tell us your members can feel clear on what we offer, and improve their connection experience of wellbeing and support at Imperial. to the Union and each other. We’re running a survey, as well as stalls between 18 and 26 June at different points on campus. Or contact Fintan O’Connor, Deputy President To start, we’ll be running a survey. Look out for it in the latest newsletter. (Welfare), who along with Union president Chippy Compton, has been working on this with College.

If you’d like to read more: imperialcollegeunion.org/support-strategy

Name our House Cider One of the many upsides to changing our bar supplier on 1 August? We get Summer Ball is near to name our house cider. From about 100 suggestions, we have created a shortlist of four. Travel back to the 1920s and immerse yourself in the underground Mr. BrightCider: Regulars to Metric or Reynolds on Wednesday and Friday world of lawless bootleggers and glamorous flappers, as extravagant nights will recognise it as a fave tune, so why not name our house cider after entertainment from Blonde, James Hype, Gemma Cairney, Goldierocks it?! and more student acts than you can shake a feather boa at, will keep your feet shimmying and your hips swinging until the early hours. Psi.dr: Psi is the Greek letter Ψ , used in physics to represent wave functions in quantum mechanics. dr is the differential with respect to r, usually distance With only 5% of tickets remaining - the FOMO is real as it can get at this in the radial direction in polar coordinates. Duh. point. Grab your ticket or risk missing out on: • Chart-topping DJs • Fairground rides • Interactive photobooths Malus Principia: Malus is the scientific genus under which apple trees are • Fireworks • Pimm’s and Prosecco Tent • Silent disco • Fire dancers classified. Principia translates to principles and is also the name of Sir Isaac • Vintage car rides • Morrocan street food • VK Bar • Woodfire pizza Newton’s theory on gravity. Potential translations: ‘principles of evil’, ‘a bad beginning’ or ‘fundamental truth of apples’... So dust off your vintage hats, ‘cause ain’t no such thing as being overdressed in the Roaring 20s! The Chipper Piglet: Because, why not?

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TRAVEL [email protected] TRAVEL [email protected] Exploring San Francisco: the Golden City by the bay Top tips for visiting the Greek Islands on a budget San Francisco is one of the most famous cities in the world, and is truly worth paying a visit should you find With the approaching summer break, Travel Writer Elina Michaelidou shares her best tips for visiting the tourist- yourself touring the West Coast of the USA. Here’s a quick guide of things to do and see in the city and beyond. beloved Greek Islands without splurging too much.

TRAVEL over the ocean. Besides across the Golden Gate TRAVEL beach that is accessible by able to choose which fish being fun and all, a day Bridge, you can visit road and make sure you you want to eat). Before Edita Pileckyte of cycling also proved to Sausalito city on the other Elina Michaelidou know the way there. ordering, ask for the Travel Editor be good cardio – the city side. It resembles Nice, Travel Writer total price if not shown. is so hilly that I could France and is therefore Avoid paid beaches Finally, when travelling easily skip all my leg days sometimes called Califor- by ferry, you can bring Getting around that month (JK, I don’t nia’s French Riviera. You reaming of Renting umbrellas and your own snacks on board exercise). can also visit the Black visiting the sunbeds can be quite ex- – even though most ferries ompared to many Sands Beach if you want Greek Islands pensive on their own. You have bars with food and famous cities in City landmarks to see and walk on some but don’t have can simply cut costs by drinks, they are usually the States, San black sand. Dall you need to enjoy going to a beach with free overpriced. Francisco is rel- The pride of the city – If you still have some an Instagram-perfect entry. Even better, bring Catively small, so you can the Golden Gate Bridge – time left, you can go trip (i.e. money)? Don’t your own umbrella and a Enjoy the Greek hos- easily get around by foot. offers mesmerising views south to visit Stanford worry, you can still take folding chair. Don’t forget pitality! However, to get a more of the Bay on one side and University. The campus is your memorable shots to pack your own snacks authentic experience you the Pacific Ocean on the larger than any university and experience Greece to too and remember to clean The last tip is not might want to opt for cy- other, with many white campuses I’ve seen in the its maximum while trav- your space afterwards. related to money, but cling, which has become yachts ‘decorating’ the UK, it’s almost a town elling on a budget if you rather to the basis of your increasingly popular in blue waters. According The world’s crookedest street might not be so fun to drive on // Flickr of its own: they have follow the following tips. Avoid overpriced trip. Wander around the the past few decades – to Google Maps, crossing shopping malls, a massive meals picturesque streets, taste there’s even a Bike to the bridge by foot takes winds down a steep hill Bridge. Besides numerous 39 where you’ll find sea stadium and pools, a Travel off-peak Gorgeous (yet expensive) Mykonos island // Pexels the Greek cuisine and Work Day in May! There around 30min (I wouldn’t in sharp turns, surrounded food and souvenir shops, lions (you’ll immediately church, and more. The Main meals in res- the authentic ingredients are cycle lanes every- know because I cycled, i.e. by patches of greenery bars, and restaurants, you recognise the distinctive lawn in front of the main Or at least avoid July to avoid being outside beaches that you see taurants usually should used, talk to the locals, where across the city, sat still on the bike while and blossoms. You can can enjoy the views of noise and smell) as well entrance is incomparable and August! Prices in “To visit one of between 11am and 4pm), online, then you will need be around €10-15 each. and take a donkey ride . including the Golden Gate the strong ocean wind was also check out Telegraph colourful Chinese-style as cute souvenir shops and to our cute and tiny September and October and spontaneously go out a bit of planning. Most Street food like souvlaki Fun fact: If you visited Bridge. I found a deal to pushing me forwards). Hill – filled with beautiful buildings as well as cafes. Queen’s Lawn. It can take tend to drop, both for those secluded to take pictures and get of them are not easy (or or gyros (meat in pita 3 different Greek islands rent a bike for $13 for 24 The east pavement is used fauna, it overlooks the awesome street art on a while to walk across the flight tickets and hotels. some fresh air. If you sit cheap) to reach. Some of bread or wrap) costs and islets (both inhabited hours (helmet and lock exclusively by pedestri- Bay and is home to Coit every corner. My personal Paid attractions campus, so students get The beach is great that beaches outside, bring a hat and them require a two-to- even less. Also, be sure and not) every day, you included), and spent the ans, while cyclists have Tower. favourites were a wall around by cycling or by time of year, and you get that you see lots of sun cream! three-hour drive from the to check the total price would need more than day cycling to and across access to both sides. San Francisco also decorated with red enve- San Francisco also one of the many shuttle to avoid the extreme heat closest city (best case), or before ordering fresh fish 5 years to visit them all. the Bridge, exploring the Another famous attrac- has the world’s largest lopes and a huge mural prides itself on its cable bus lines. I happened to of summer (it can easily online, you Rent a car, not a boat they are only accessible in restaurants – in many visitgreece.gr reports that Sausalito city on the other tion is Lombard Street, Western Chinatown, more representing all Chinese cars, which had served visit on the UG arrival get above 30oC at noon). by boat. Renting a car is cases, the price is calcu- the total number of Greek side, and coming back just the so-called ‘crookedest popular among tourists Zodiac signs. as the main means of day which left me with However, keep in mind will need a bit If you want to visit clearly not as expensive as lated by weight and type islands and islets is 6,000! in time to catch the sunset street in the world’ that than the Golden Gate Another interesting public transport before all kinds of nostalgic feels that (early) September is one of those secluded renting a boat, so opt for a of fish (you may also be landmark is the city hall, buses were introduced. as I reminisced about my also quite hot. of planning: which reminded me a bit There are currently three first weeks at Imperial. most of them of St Paul’s Cathedral. It’s lines left, and they are Further south, in Avoid Mykonos & also close to a neighbour- used by both tourists and Mountain View, which is Santorini are not easy hood containing Victorian local commuters. You can a part of Silicon Valley, houses that have been also visit a free-of-charge you can find many famous Although there are (or cheap) to beautifully re-painted in museum of cable cars to high tech companies and many direct flights to various colours and are learn more about their their campuses, a future these islands, which reach” famously known as the history and importance. workplace for some of us. makes them more easily “painted ladies”. I visited And of course don’t I visited the Googleplex, accessible, accommoda- High-speed ferries are the place late at night forget to visit Alcatraz where staff members cycle tion is rather expensive usually more expensive so I didn’t get to fully – the infamous former between buildings on there. If you still wish to and may require an appreciate the colours, prison for world’s most bikes painted in Google’s visit them for those mag- advance booking. Most and the park nearby felt dangerous criminals, colours. You can’t get nificent sunsets or their ferries also accept cars for a bit dodgy, but I enjoyed known for being impos- inside the buildings as a clear blue beaches, opt extra cost, unless they are the breath-taking views of sible to escape from. The visitor unless you know for a nearby island. The going to a car-free island, the city skyline unfolding guided tour (about $40) anyone who works there closest (inhabited) island like Hydra and Kastellori- behind the low-rise Victo- includes a ferry ride from but you can enjoy a walk to Mykonos is Tinos. zo. On a side note: choose rian buildings. the city to the Alcatraz outside where you’ll see Naxos and Siros are also a seat inside the ferry Finally, you can visit Island and back, and an many Google-themed nearby. For Santorini, if it’s air-conditioned! Union Square, a busy and informative audio guide objects, including life- look for accommodation Most ferries have both vibrant place with shops, with stops all over the size Android statues. in Ios or Folegandros. an indoor and an outdoor restaurants, and bars, prison. However, I would suggest You can then day-trip to sitting area. Personally, where you can chill in the going there only if you Mykonos or Santorini! I would go for an indoor evening. And you simply Outside the city really have nothing else to seat to avoid the summer can’t miss Fisherman’s do as it’s not as interesting Check the ferry type heat, especially at noon One of my favourite shots of sunny San Francisco // Edita Pileckyte Wharf, especially Pier If you opt for cycling as other sights. (in general, it is advisable Sunset in Santorini: you can’t put a price on a view like that! // Pexels 26 27 FR IDAY, 8 TH JUNE, 2018 – Fake News! – ISSUE 27 FELIX ISSUE 1696

HANGMAN [email protected] Hangman Imperial College Book Club suspended after drunken rampage in London

HANGMAN pended pending inves- of the Gutenberg bible. member of the group, tigation, after evidence In another video, posted who wished to remain Negafelix came to light showing on the WhatsApp group, anonymous: “I’m not Editor-in-Chief them being drunk and members of the society against people having fun, disorderly in public. can be seen running naked and I’m not a prude – I Screenshots from through Bloomsbury, and mean, I’ve even read On Hangman has the Imperial College aggressively shouting at Chesil Beach – but this obtained evidence Book Club’s private passersby. One student time Book Club went way showing members WhatsApp group, leaked can be heard yelling at a too far. I’m embarrassed to Hangman, show a pedestrian: “if you think to share a mutual love of of Imperial College group of students posing Finnegan’s Wake isn’t Camus with them.” Union’s Book Club naked in front of Virginia Joyce’s masterpiece you In a joint statement naked in public, Woolf’s statue in Tav- can suck my fucking dick between the Union and and threatening to istock Square. Another you Ulysses-loving cunt.” Imperial College London, photograph shows the stu- It is believed the group a representative told defecate in the British dents, who were dressed of students had been on a Hangman: “This behav- Library as early 20th Century pub crawl in memory of iour goes against the Literary lads on tour // Wikimedia modernists, vaulting over American writer Philip values and expectations ne of Imperial a wall into the British Roth, who passed away of our student community, for their literary opinions, allegations the Union College Un- Library – in a subsequent last month, when the inci- and is completely unac- even if they think Bu- has suspended the club ion’s societies video one student threat- dent occured. ceptable. Everyone has kowski is a good writer. pending investigation.” O has been sus- ens to defecate on a copy Hangman spoke to one the right to feel respected In response to these

Thai students are no longer allowed in the Union Bar // Imperial College Union ARIES TAURUS GEMINI CANCER LEO VIRGO

Mix-up over tie clubs leads to Imperial College Union This week you’re the This week you’ve This week the return of This week you miss the This week your exams This week you plan Felix Editor, and you finished all your exams, Love Island coincides old Kanye, straight from are over, and you’re so to spend all your realise your plan to have but you feel compelled with the beginning of the go Kanye, chop up happy can focus on the time inside, watching banning Thai students the Rugby Club do a to return to the sweaty your exam week. Oh the soul Kanye, set on his really important stuff: live-streams of game centrefold in Parliament comforting heat of well, you were probably goals Kanye. Trump’s tweets. You now announcements from E3 Square got a bit out of Central Library. Get some going to get a third either feel miserable. alone and stuffing your HANGMAN Gemma Ryan, an Ordi- allow anyone Thai within Clubs – drinking societies Democracy is never however, supported the hand. help. way. face. A bit like every nary Member of Union the Union Building. for students and alumni – wrong. We will be raising motion: “Yeah, of course I weekend then. Negafelix Council for the Faculty of instead referred to the 60 a counter-motion at the read what it said, I’m not Editor-in-Chief Natural Sciences, called million Thai people living next Council session, due an idiot. But I am racist.” for ‘Thai Clubs’ to be “Thai Society worldwide. It is unclear to take place in October. In a statement for banned on campus. At the how many of these Thai Until then, Thai students Hangman, members of Security has been Council meeting, Ryan said they people have been in the will not be allowed in the Thai Society condemned hired to prevent Thai gave an impassioned didn’t go the Union Bar on a Friday Union building.” the decision: “We feel students entering speech, saying: “the night. Reactions from very strongly that Impe- time has come for these Union Bar However, reports from members of Union rial College Union should the Union Bar, after a elitist drinking societies Council members and Council were mixed. not be the place for racist motion banning ‘Thai to be completely banned. anyway, since Union representatives Lily Gladlin, one of the or discriminatory practic- Clubs’ passed. Seeing groups of men in make it difficult to deter- constituent union Welfare es. We will be appealing LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES ties at the Union Bar on it was ‘full of mine exactly why people Officers, told Hangman: the decision at the next his week Im- a Friday night, singing voted for the motion. “I feel terrible about Council meeting. Until perial College sexist drinking songs, is old men in Patrick Winbers, the voting for the paper. But then, our members will This week your Visa card This week you’re This week you start This week you’re a This week you’re a This week you’re the Union has something we should be ties’” Union’s Vice-Principal what was I supposed to be unable to access the doesn’t work. Must be annoyed your trying to calculate just Design Engineering fresher, and you’ve Horoscopes Writer, and banned Thai ashamed of.” Student Voice Consult- do? Actually read the Union Bar; to be honest, because of that big crash! nominations for how many portions of student, and you’re finished your first set of you’re almost going to Tstudents from entering The motion passed ant, told Hangman: “We papers I vote on?! Get out this doesn’t make that Nothing to do with how Memeperial to win curly fries you bought wondering how long exams. Go you! Now you miss this when you’re the Union Building, overwhelmingly, and Hangman believe a believe the motion was of here.” much of a difference to you’re £800 into your Contribution to College over the exam period. it will be before all the just have horrific housing done. Almost. Not really. following a mix-up at the Union immediately typographical error meant raised in error, but the Rory Kullers, an Or- us – we don’t visit it, since overdraft. Life at the Union Awards You lost count after a few twats who look down on drama to contend with. Union Council. passed on instruction to Ryan’s paper, rather than decision of Union Council dinary Member for the it’s always full of weird were completely ignored. minutes and go to the you start using your new A paper, proposed by their security team to not referring to the Union Tie must be respected. Faculty of Engineering, old men in ties.” toilets to cry. building to work in. 28 29 FR IDAY, 8 TH JUNE, 2018 FELIX

CLUBS & SOCIETIES [email protected] GET YOUR the impact on your joints Thursday 21st June in Her passion for belly SHIMMY ON WITH is minimal. Activity Space 1 from dance comes from her BELLY DANCING Moves from this dance 6-8pm. This is a folkloric Turkish background. She SOCIETY’S style have quickly been dance from the rural area has trained in a number of WORKSHOPS picked up and used in called Sa’id located in styles including Oriental fitness classes, as they Southern (Upper Egypt) Raqs Sharqi (Egyptian work out many areas and is performed by men and Turkish), Classical Feeling a bit tense or at once while feeling and women at festive Egyptian, Folkloric stressed out? Then come like you’re just dancing events, such as weddings. Egyptian styles, Turkish along to Belly Dancing around! The atmosphere During the workshop we Romany, and Tribal Society’s workshops this in class is always fun will cover many basic Fusion, as well as Ballet term! We’ll be running and enthusiastic ensuring steps, foot patterns as well and Street dance. Sureya two sessions over the next you’ll leave with a smile as technique covered in a has been described as an few weeks, both suitable on your face! By focusing combination (canes will energetic, vibrant, and for beginners, the first on the fitness aspect, this be provided). versatile performer who being a belly fitness class class will be primarily Saidi dancing orig- is keen to share her love (free) and the second drills and floor exercises inates from a kind of of dance through teaching a Saidi (canes) prop to increase strength and conflict with sticks around the UK. workshop (£8-10). control. There will also be between men to show Come along to our an interlude of yoga-like their power. It is the oldest Belly Fitness Belly Fitness class to stretches to improve form of Egyptian martial Thursday 14th June shimmy your cares away flexibility and try and get arts to have survive and is 6:30-7:30pm on Thursday 14th June in rid of the knots that might from the pharaonic times. Activity Space 1, Union Activity Space 1 from have accumulated over The Pharaohs painted this Building 6:30-7:30pm! Get ready this term. No dancing kind of dance on the walls Free for pumping music, experience is necessary; of their temples and their strength drills, and belly just come along and have soldiers learned it. At the Saidi with Sureya! dancing (at the same a bit of fun! It’s complete- time it was considered Thursday 21st June time!). Belly dancing ly free to attend so bring to be a form of weapon 6-8pm requires careful control your friends along for an training. Over time it has Activity Space 1, Union of various areas like the exciting evening of dance! evolved into purely dance Building abdominals, obliques, This workshop will be and incorporated with £8 members/£10 spine, and neck. It focuses Sureya Bellydance who will be taking the Saidi work- run by the Belly Dancing other styles of belly dance non-members on moving with the body shop // Sureya Bellydance Society’s President, Rani to give the Saidi we know instead of contorting it Mehta as part of the today. This workshop will For more information and has a lot of surprising bring, belly dance also dancing, your leg muscles Dance Imperial summer be taught by Sureya Bel- on either of these work- health benefits. Aside improves your posture by are constantly in use to workshop programme. lydance, a professional shops please email belly- from the stress reduction strengthen muscles in the stabilise you and give Our second workshop belly dance performer, [email protected] and relaxation a good back and relieving tension the impression of gliding will focus on a dance instructor and choreog- or find us on Facebook @ session of exercise can in the lower back. While movement which means style known as Saidi on rapher based in London. ICbellydance. Felix is recruiting!

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SPORTS [email protected] ICXCAC – regicide on the athletics track

SPORTS He has since run the fifth ICXCAC managed to fill fastest time in the UK this almost every event and Max Thorp year at the Loughborough were ready to cause a Athletics Captain International Fixture. stir. The first track event As usual, Chris Olley of the day was the 800m was in excellent form and with 1st and 2nd places ver the past and stormed to a fifth in both the men’s and month, Imperial place in a stacked 5,000m women’s categories, it Cross Country field in a time of 14:06. was clear from the off that and Athletics Niki Faulkner and Max they meant business. OClub have been fighting Thorp stormed to lifetime Imperial were neck- exam doom and gloom best times in the 1500m and-neck with King’s with record-breaking and 400m respectively, throughout the day with achievements. It all began while Kate Olding and tensions rising and jocular at BUCS Outdoors in Alex Mundell made it banter flowing between ICXCAC glammed up and all smiles // ICXCAC Bedford with one of their to the semi-finals of the the athletes. Imperial’s largest ever teams ready to women’s 800m. Perhaps team went on to win 13 his fair share of GB vests. onships began! university track season challenge some of the best the most impressive result events across the day. The This not only ensured However, the most ending the club wishes to athletes in the country. was that the team placed last event of the day was that Imperial would bring important race of the day thank Athletics Captain Over the three-day event, twelfth out of all univer- the medley relay which home the freshly minted must not be forgotten. The Max Thorp for his com- Imperial athletes raised sities, despite Imperial’s consisted of two legs (one medley relay trophy but mascot race is a hugely mitment throughout the their game to compete reputation for academia male and one female) also won them the match valued tradition where year that has brought with the other quality ath- over sporting prowess! across each of the follow- by a margin of just three ultimate, beautiful glory Imperial their most letes on display, with many Further success for the ing three distances: 200m, points! This slim victory or pure, humiliation and successful track and finals being worthy of a squad came at the recent 400m and 800m. With so really highlights the im- shame is at stake. Victoria field season in memory. national championship meet in the London Uni- much to play for, the team portance of every single the Lion (Albert had other Special thanks also go final. The highlight was versities track and field knew the pressure was on. Imperial athlete from the business to attend with to former captain Matt fresher Daniel Rowden’s series final in Battersea. Ultimately it came down total beginners to those some rowers) achieved a Douthwaite for organising 800m final where he King’s College had been to the last few metres champions that medalled solid 3rd to finish on the the London University stormed to a BUCS gold dominant in the first two but fresher James Millett in multiple events. This podium, cementing Impe- Athletics Series, and to all medal in his first year at matches but Imperial had kept his cool and crossed was Imperial’s most rial’s position as a big deal the volunteers who helped the championship – an been gaining momentum. the line in first ahead the successful result since the on the athletics scene. ensure the season was a incredible achievement. With a 46-strong team, King’s athlete who has LUCA Outdoors champi- With the end of the great success. “Graduating in October 2018?”

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