The Student Newspaper of Imperial College Nol032 09JUN95 Excessive Drinking5 to be Curbed Imperial's senior academics are looking at measures to curb excessive drinking on campus. Alan Swanson, Pro-Rector (Edu- cational Quality) presented a paper to the house committee on Tuesday to express his increas- ing concern. "I have no doubt that some students are spending more money and time on drink than is good for them," he said. In response, the committee are pressing for a new campaign to heighten awareness of the dangers of alcohol. They are calling for a clampdown on beer promotions during the day, as well as a review of the bar extensions policy during term- time. In a report that also exp- resses concerns of problem drinking amongst staff, Dr Alan Swann, IC Occupational Health Advisor, said that the problem drinking 'exists at a level where action is needed.' But he admitted that the college A quiet day: but is excessive drinking a real problem at Imperial College? response should not be 'unnec- essarily punitive towards the many for whom alcohol is a safely-used social relaxant.' Holland Club in Doubt Gareth Jones, IC Senior Tutor, endorsed proposals to BY THE NEWS TEAM The worrying financial to the treasurer's report, he cost raise awareness of the problems. report comes on top of an £8,000 the club £7,000 for the six months "I've been concerned for some The future of the Holland Club, loss for the same period last year, he was employed. "Certain time about the effects on Imperial Colleges social club for leaving the Holland Club with members of the committee didn't students of excessive drinking," non-academic staff, is in doubt. reserves of only £2,000. like Duncan," one Holland Cub he said. "I've seen quite a However, Brian Devlin, Imperial "We were unfortunate in that member commented, "But a lot of number of students who have got College Credit controller and the bar steward wasn't up to the committee don't like each into difficulties, and it's sad." Holland Club treasurer, has scratch," Mr Devlin claimed. The other either." Describing cases where students dismissed fears that its future is Holland Club has been beset with Kevin Young, a former have got into difficulties that are uncertain, despite the latest nine- problem bar managers in recent Imperial College Union bar 'financial, behavioural, as well as month accounts which showed a time. One bar steward left at the steward, has taken over the getting into trouble with the net deficit of £13,000. Blaming beginning of the current aca- position. "We anticipate that [he] law,' he said. "I would not be the club's financial difficulties on demic year amid allegations that will make a positive difference," surprised if we have a worse staff problems, Mr Devlin he had been stealing from the Mr Devlin said. "The staff problem here than in other commented that the club was club, whilst another steward problem is hopefully sorted... universities." 'hoping to see an improvement lasted for only one half-year and," he insisted, "we can absorb (See report, page two) from now on.' probationary contract. According the-loss we've made." H news one&two editorial&credits two incoming three s-files: genderbenders five boysagainstgirls: loathsome women and who's wearing the new generation's trousers? six&seven boysandgirls: Islam and Aids eight&nine girlsagainstboys: compliments and why feminism is still important ten&eleven extracurricular thirteen standby fourteen&fifteen&sixteen eightdayguide eighteen&nineteen sport: skydiving not sex twenty 13 News
Annual Turnover of Student Union Bars, per student Drink Report Recent figures comparing Student Union alcohol consump-
Cardiff tion nationwide put Imperial College Union drinkers towards fiifiililf the bottom of the league. The
ICU comparison of how much is spent per student predictably mi leaves isolated campus univer- sities scoring highly, but even Kings, London amongst a comparison of city- till centre institutions Imperial students spend less on alcohol. Lampeter The results have led senior iiiiiiiiiiiieii academics to emphasise that excessive drinking here is a Leeds problem only for a noisy iiiiiiii minority. Others have speculated that the figure is surprisingly low Sheffield because the IC Union bars face iiiiiiiiiiiif stiff competition from Southside bar.
mental law for business and to 'a few dodgy blokes' with their News In assess issues of environmental e^itoriaL idea of men I suppose. policy and the law. Still, I have little sympathy Brief MSc Students at the IC Well it's thursday afternoon, I'm for those who explain to me in a Centre for Environmental Tech- late with pages, so it must be leather miniskirt that men don't New Group nology will be offered a specialist time to write an editorial. I take them seriously. Anyone who A new environmental law and option in environmental law and remember my dream of editorial sexualises the everyday environ- management group at Imperial management. writing before I became editor ment (and no, we don't need to has been launched. Sponsored by Penney Saved - the great social commentaries be covered from head to toe - Denton Hall, an international A break-in at the department of and the shaking fist at the men aren't) cannot complain if law firm, the joint partnership computing was aborted in the Sherfield building. The reality someone comments on their will work closely to help address early hours of last Friday has been somewhat less flam- appearance. the need for better technical morning. Security were alerted boyant and in fact I have a A girl I know wears high ability in practising environ- when the newly installed infra- confession to make: I've never heels because 'men don't take her mental law. red detectors sent alarms off. found more than twenty minutes seriously otherwise'. But why Since the UK's adoption of They gave chase to two for this regular event. This is not aren't people brave enough to be the Environmental Protection youths seen running away from a boast, I'm sure you will find it themselves rather than a sex? Act of 1990, the number of the broken window. Two men pretty easy to believe. I guess it's environmental lawyers in this detained shortly afterwards on some sort of belated apology. Credits country has grown from 40 to Kensington High Street are Sex Editor Owain Bennallack over 1200. This has occurred awaiting charge, awaiting police Sexism and feminism and grubby Printer Andy Thompson despite the fact that there has not forensic results from the old men, I dunno. On the one Assistant Printer Jeremy Thomson been a proportionate rise in fingerprints taken from the hand I think that some women Business Manager Tim Bavister relevant cases. broken glass. are prone to use the feminist Advertising Manager Wei Lee
"Lawyers need to under- The men attempted to break argument as a rather noble but Editorial Team stand the scientific options, as into the William Penney ill-considered argument about Art & Literature Jon Jordan well as the legal issues", says building from the Sherfield the problems of life in general. Cinema Wei Lee John Salter, head of the walkway, and although IC Why can't IX, why do we Y? But Clubs, Societies & Union Piers Daniell on the other hand, women environmental law group at security found a word processor Columns Marcus Alexander certainly have to overcome Denton Hall. "Businesses expect on the window-ledge, nothing Layout & Design Mark Baker and their solicitors to set their legal was stolen from the department. hurdles that us males can't really Rebecca Walters advice in a technical context." A computer was stolen and three appreciate. Features Kate Cox The group hopes to work others were damaged during a One of the simplest of these Musk Vik Bansal closely on subjects such as bio- similar, but more successful raid is sexual harassment. I went News Rachel Walters technology and biodiversity, on the William Penney through a period a couple of Photography Ivan Chan & Diana Harrison fraud and crime, contaminated laboratory last month. years ago where I endured several land and pesticides. The init- Terry Briley, Deputy Head run-ins with gay men: one who S-Files Rebecca Mileham iative will see Denton Hall of Security, said he was climbed over a toilet cubical wall Eight Day Guide Jeremy Thomson whilst I was using it (yeah, haha) partners teach at Imperial and IC encouraged that the new security Sport Juliette Decock and Mark Baker academics speak at the law firms measures were proving to be and another who I'm pretty sure Standby Jon Jordan training courses. Students may effective. Praising the quick was about to assault me had me benefit as they will have the reaction of the security guards leaping in front of a taxi. I've had Editorial Assistance opportunity to understand the involved, he said "I'm pleased to consciously avoid becoming Collating Last Week J. Jordan, Rachel true implications of environ- with my people". homophobic, as women balance Walters, Joe McFadden liTiEM FELIX 09JUIT9S Incoming
The Muslim Voice... The drug law-makers are off their heads... j Edited this week by Mark Baker to waste their efforts on causing good moan about the wrongs A User Change to insignificant ripples in the vast done to Islamic Socs and Muslims ocean of hypocritical democracy. in general but just to put the Hits Out Islam Before some ignorant and record straight about students not bigoted people start telling me and taking an active part in challenging Dear Felix, Dear Felix, the other Muslims to go and live in and questioning the system we live Over the past couple of weeks, the I note with interest some of the Iran or some other eastern under. As long as the two-faced evil weed has appeared as front comments made by Alan Bailey, country, I'd like to make it clear policy of freedom of speech and page news in Felix. I thought I'd (Mech Eng post grad.) about that we are the third generation of expressions only applies to every better clarify some points. student attitudes (Felix Issue No Muslims in class of people of every inclination 1030) and other way it should be. this country, not to mention the ever-increasing and orientation, BUT MUSLIMS, I 1) Smoking cannabis may cause He proclaims that our political numbers of English and other fail to see any basis for being cancer, but so can cigarettes and views should be voiced and action Europeans who have converted to outraged at the lack of life and alcohol, and they're legal. taken to change the world we live Islam. Islam, its principles and vitality in students. People who feel 2) 80% of students at IC smoke (or in. The fact of the matter is that the political policies are to be applied this way i.e. outraged, depressed have smoked) cannabis (according system which rules does so in to humanity regardless of the and whatever at the apathy to Mr Reynolds, Head of Security). tyranny. When was the last time colour, race or personal bias of amongst students should start government changed policy as a 3) In Mr Briley's (Deputy Head of taking notice of Muslims' activity direct result of public opinion? If individuals who regard themselves Security) words, the use of beyond the all-encompassing other than with the intention of marijuana is no worse than the you wish to refer to the poll tax, nature of Islam. We know that we curbing and repressing our voices excessive use of alcohol often seen well, it's now become the wolf can change the system (Piers of protest. on campus. Drinking clubs, are dressed in sheep's clothing in Daniell agrees) and that's what you listening? order to subdue and pacify the we, Muslims, have been trying to Yours sincerely 4) Cannabis users are considerably citizens. do through reducing public Farida Begum less violent and aggressive than As the commenting editor, Piers ignorance about Islam. However, Biochemistry UG3 Daniell, said it is the system which someone after eight pints. I for all the well-meaning advice needs to be and can be changed challenge anybody to try and beat and enthusiasm of people like but not individuals and individual It's a shame that you feel ICU has someone up after a few spliffs! Alan Bailey, London University policies. Well done, Sir. At last, taken away your freedom of colleges have proved themselves someone has come to the same speech. I hope that this does not So if all these points are true, and I to be against the concept of conclusion that Muslims worldwide continue in the future, as all people suspect they might just be, then university being a bastion of free have been and still are rallying deserve the right to voice their the current law on cannabis is thought, uninhibited expression, a and campaigning for. But when it opinion. In conclusion, I can only outdated, clearly uniformed and place where the world's future comes to students and their agree with your letter. WRONG! Twenty years on, things leaders form their values....and participation in politics, be they will change as 80% of students which principles they will embrace. local or global politics, it seems become 80% of politicians but I Some colleges have banned Letters may be commented that Muslim students are excluded can't wait that long. So, Sir Ronald, Islamic Society altogether whilst on by a guest editor, whose if you're reading this, GIE'S PEACE! from this general category of places like IC which let us exist on opinions are not necessarily students who should and can paper and in a prayer-room, those of the editor, and cut PS Thank God I'm not living in participate. I would like to remind refuse to let us exist in life. halls this year, Big Brother or readers that we Muslims constitute due to space restrictions. This letter is not meant to be a what? a significant proportion of the Deadline: Monday 6.00pm. student body and thus should be P.PS As for the argument against encouraged, not repressed cannabis, in that it induces whenever we voice our concerns, opinions and ideals. I refer to the memory loss... sorry, I've incidents of the past three years of completely lost my train of my time at Imperial during which I thought. have witnessed many bannings [Name withheld by request] and cancellations of talks which were considered radical but of Cannbis, like all drugs, has both high priority to Muslims on campus benefits and side effects. I am and worldwide. The Union (ICU) Bound always amused that cannabis is has a bigoted policy of freedom of compared favourably to tobacco, speech and expression which is but cannabis is often smoked with biased towards all groups of tobacco anyway, thus making the people but Muslims. The overall argument moot. Editions role of ICU seems too I won't attempt to gain the high authoritarian rather than moral ground, as I myself have democratic or diplomatic. I would partaken of the 'evil weed' in the be naive indeed to imply this past. But excessive use of ANY drug : attitude to be solely attributable to ffl:;ft:pi ' .ki?-'' W:<£ «" :fi\~ £^0wS' is bad for you! : : ;:: ICU: it is merely a reflection of the iMMfi a :?!;' . .;,: - v:' ' .At-;' v.:t
BEER / T-SHIRTS TO BE WON |tmurta ^ound System
blend of deep hou 7/1 tron 9 hnrrfcore $r bong STA TRAVF1
ICU ENTS (wnh help FROM DRAMSOC) PRESENT, iN TriE UNJON BuiLdii\q. t °IIlixed Blessings HE RMS ME RMS AND FERMS °Headlmes POLARITY IN THE PRESS °Real Liues IT'S A MAN'S MAN' S MAN'S MAN'S Between 1984 and 1994, the percentage of poetic fancies, they express underlying "If you prefer the female students at Imperial rose from about theories held by both lay and scientific husband, children and suc- 17% to about 27%. Efforts go on all the time people." (New Scientist, 15 February, 1992) cessful career scenario, then to increase women's awareness, appreciation Headlines from scientific magazines don't go into science and industry. Women who work in and wish to study science through schemes (see box below) reveal our predilection for industry are punished by our such as Women Into Science and Engineering expressing scientific findings in terms of male-dominated society for having the j (WISE) and Women's Science these polarised viewpoints. temerity to do so; the ones who make the Night at the Science Museum (to In Hungary, 47% of Research is presented for what WISEst choice do not do science at all!" Sue Tiplady, writing in Physics World name only two). professional physicists it means to one group or the other: but can we take the In Britain, however, the are women "The basic idea is that if you are a woman j perception remains resolute: divide for granted? interested in science you are gender confused." science and engineering are naturally Professor Anne Fausto-Sterling, an Catherine Didion, director oi the Association ordained as male preserves. 47% of academic American geneticist, has written that defining for Women in Science physicists in Hungary are women; the figure everyone as all-male or all-female may be in the United States is 3%. Where has the insufficient. Rather than using this 3 _ perception that science is for men -apparently prescriptive terminology, she proposes three prevalent only in English-speaking countries extra sex classifications, herm, merm and ferm. - arisen from? "Biologically speaking," she says, "there are many gradations running from female to male Helen Haste, former president of the and one can argue that along psychology section of the the spectrum lie at least five British Association for the Sex is a vast, infinitely sexes" (The Sciences, March Advancement of Science, has a malleable continuum that 1993). theory to answer this question. defies the constraints of Her idea is that people are even five categories If it is this difficult even "There is no evidence that sex is reared into anxious feelings to classify whether one is related to success in scientific research, j about being "properly" male or female: very technically male or female, there must even and no justification for holding women out few overlaps are acceptable. Haste sees the less of a basis for the argument that women for special treatment as part of formal j policy." choose not to study science because they are male-female polarity in many different guises: Editorial, Nature "In Western cultures some polarities have naturally less scientifically talented. Until become associated with male-female polarity: such ideas are expunged, the myth that "Research in the UK and elsewhere shows that such as public-private, hard-soft, active- science is male will live on and the real young women who choose to continue with passive, rational-intuitive, thinking-feeling, reasons will stay comfortably hidden. \ science, particularly physics, still do not achieve ! the same level as males of the same ability." science-arts. These metaphors are not just S-files Patricia Murphy, writing in Physics World "Being a scientist. in the UK at least, is badly paid, insecure. holds out minimal Why women are better with prospects and is a ge neral all-round crap career. 1 therefore cc>m e to the startling WOrdS New Scientist, 1 8 February 1' conclusion that wome n go for the careers they like, want to do. which the benefits outv Why women smell better W M Fletcher, lette The Sciences, January 1 995 "Women are the si ngle most under-used resource in British scieno Women get the feel-good HMSO report 1992 factor, men just get tired Sex and science "To women wh 6 New Scientist, New Sdentfst'11 March 1995 — dentist, 15 February 1995 professional phys suggesting that the paraphrase of Hillel' s words: 'If you are the National Curriculum not for yourself, who will be? And if not now, when?'" iGender gap W Lines of communication ... the headlines Fay Ajzenberg-S elove, experimental Physics World, January 1990 that show up the polarity nuclear physicist 09JUII95 FELIX MM Kl Boys Against Girls Why women are so by Glyph in the sixties. Even today, she appears obsessed with some sort of male plot to silence women, and worse yet she appears to hold onto some loathsome: an idea of the moral superiority of women to men. I recall an interview wherein she started harping on about if women ran the world, government evolutionary could be abolished because hierarchies in society are fundamentally patriarchal. Combine this with all those 'women against the bomb' protests, and Greenham Common women, and approach we are looking into the face of a gross hypocrisy. In what sense are women morally PWhy , apart bitch moan moan not taken seriously used as superior to men? The most common answer I ; object to popularise masculine products blab hear is something to do with the fact that men from the blah sex crimes harassment no time off for do not have children, they do not create life. babies blah blah eating disorders 40 times In terms of a biological phenomenon sheer physical more likely to occur in females than males as a called sexual selection, human relationships differences result of the male-induced pressure to conform need to be geared around finding the fittest to the popularised ideal female form which possible mating partner so that offspring will between men happens to be only maintainable in 20% of benefit from the good qualities of the sexually women without serious health risks. selected individual (as alluded to previously). and women is The last point seemed relevant. I read a This fitness is not necessarily displayed the male power book - The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf. She physically - say with a 'six-pack' - it's also starts with the suggestion that women behavioural. The likelihood that children will structure so . should be happy with their appearance, grow up healthily and reproduce (the biological because popular culture is essentially aims of parenthood) is a different quantity in stable? CT asinine in nature, and all statements the slums of Calcutta and provincial Ealing. therein are geared 99% to marketing and 1% to Thus social status as well as physical fitness is a I am reliably informed that we fear what we fail enlightenment. At this point she gets paranoid. sexually selective factor. I am talking about to understand. However, some things just She starts to imply that men have concocted a money, but more specifically power. Men will demand disliking, regardless of the individual's plot to suppress women by making them have noticed at the recent Maxwell 'millions' knowledge of the subject. Cabbage is one conform to impossible goals of personal trial the photos of Maxwell jr's American wife. example: it tastes and smells bad, it looks bad, presentation, and that all advertising agencies He is an ugly little shit; she is definitely not. But it is so crammed with glucosinilates that, were it are heinous dens of male fascism taken up with he is (was ha ha) a powerful rich man, so his a synthetic food, the health inspectorate would preserving male dominance in society like a selection over far more attractive men, me for laugh it off the shelves. Nevertheless, every day large golf club. She did not go on to say that ad example, is hardly surprising. This tendency for people are seen eating, cooking and force- men were actually aliens from the planet women to go for rich powerful men warps feeding small children cabbage. Women are Debauchery who have taken on humanoid form society, because, as anyone who has read somewhat analogous to this. Men are - from an with the intention of transforming female Freud for Beginners will gladly tell you, evolutionary perspective - irrelevant. One man humans into creatures sexually compatible with basically, men just want a damn good shag. their own species, although there is a sequel has sufficient sperm to inseminate entire Indeed, Germaine Greer is correct in her out now, so your guess is as good as mine. nations of women. But, due to the obvious assumption that social hierarchies are benefit of being male in such a situation, or Men are also victims of the same forms of patriarchal. But, if the roles were reversed, female in the opposite situation, the sex ratio is advertising. Look at the Calvin Klein underpants Denis Thatcher would look like Johnny Depp or maintained at 50:50. So women - whom, due adverts, or pick up any copy of Smash Hits or the Wundpitt. to the production of single eggs every now and the like. Women speak and write about the role Why then, apart from the physical then, tend to be monogamous - are left to pick of titillating imagery of differences between the prime males - whom due to their mass young women in objec- men and women, is the production of relatively energy cheap sperm are tifying them. Porno- male power structure so naturally less choosy and have a preference for Q It is men who graphy has very loose stable? Surely a blanket coverage of the females rather than definitions, but surely * are oppressed construct so easily monogamy with the fittest one on view. Thus Take That displaying based on a BMW and a social convention in humans - marriage and their back-sides, and and damaged by nice arse cannot be so babies - is dictated by the females. most other pop groups, the gender roles sexually specific. The important factor in the survival of who have a marked Empowerment humanity is thus under the control of women. It tendency to get their and not women. QT may only take is a stable system, and thus proliferative, but at 'pecks' and 'six-packs' education and the same time it hardly allies itself with the self- out in magazines, ostensibly marketed at easily money, so why are men eight times more likely publicised image of the 'discriminated against, influenced pre-pubescent girls can only be bad to study science and technology than women? abused and dehumanised' women of the for the male image. They can only produce Answer: because it is shit boring. It is well nineties. I was concerned that my role as a anxiety in boys that do not possess bodies of documented that people would rather work with male, ignorant totally of women (having not equally unnatural conformations. other people than with numbers or machines. clapped eyes on a non-relative female until the I started to read a bit more about Women are twice as likely to do languages as age of 1 9) was oppressive and degenerative to feminism. The Female Eunuch by Germain men (IBID p6 fab3.3). Languages are perceived them. I talked it out. Oh! winge winge bitch Greer was the first real blockbuster of feminism as social and fun (give me a pine weevil to gas MM FELIX Boys Against Girls any day I say), but in popular culture, which is the metre for popular opinion, scientists and Who's wearing the accountants and engineers and computer types are perceived to be really dull. Women can just get away with doing something they don't like because they have choices in their life that men new generation's don't have. Warren Farell in his book The Myth of Male Power summarises the possible male and female life histories as follows: trousers? Men: Work Women: Work Let me tell you a story. Like all stories it by Jon Jordan Have Babies starts "once upon a time, in a land far, far Work part time and have away ... all the men got jobs and married, and about the duty of mothers, the world of babies as well all the women got married and pregnant. employment is becoming more complex. ( IBID p9; women are seven times Everyone was happy, healthy, wealthy and For men, one effect of this new more likely to work only part-time) wise. They'd never had it so good." situation has been strangely to reinforce the The lack of pressure on Western women Like most fairy stories this one contains old class structure. As traditional working has allowed them freedom to pursue goals of some truth, some class manual jobs have self-fulfilment, not the other way around. make believe and rpi been lost, so the role of Stability in the patriarchal hierarchy is more than just a maintained not solely by the proliferate pinch of wish ful- 9 megalomania of the male psyche, but also by filment. In fact the _J_ lie COIlCept breadwinner has gone too. the way it enables women to have a cushy life. only certainty is ^~ X* '-g-pi In such tight knit They can be looked after. They are not contained in the v/A Lli.V' communities as mining conscripted to fight in major wars, they do not starting phrase, 'once underclass man, ^s ^ edundan f spend their lives working hard to support a upon a time'. » i n J men has been especially sexual partner perfectly capable of doing the Post-war impOrteCl irOm hard felt. However in the same work with the result that they live shorter employment trends long term the ma or pro lives. Men do all the worst jobs, men have a far have increasingly -j-V|/a crlif^t't'rw nf* ' ' ~ higher suicide rate (dentists curiously) so it LUC gllCLLVJO Ui blems are likely to arise made such happy wittheh ung s e would appear that contrary to popular opinion, families a thing of America, is one u^as workinfgr men;. (and let's face it if it gets you laid - which it the past. As heavy .l 1 ' rations who havThe elos t conboth- does - it will be popular) it is men who are industry has dec- tnat IS DeCOming their careerceps tan d otheif r 'throle oppressed and damaged by the gender roles lined and infor- underclass man', and not women. It would be possible to go as mation technology has cut a swatincreasinglh through imported fromy th e ghetto^s of America, is one far as to say that the whole system is geared middle management, the traditional preserves familiathat is becominrg increasinglQT y familiar in this towards giving women an easy life, but that of semi- and unskilled men have been lost. country too. However the job situation is only would be hypocrisy. Instead the fastest growing sector of the one part of that equation. This, for men, has The next time a women starts singing off economy is part-time jobs for women on low acted concurrently with the increasing attrac- about what a poor lot women have in life, beat wages. Whilst the Left rail on ad nausea tiveness of women within the job market, the living shit out of her. Jtj concerning minimum wages and the Right particularly in the retail section. The widespread failure of marriage and the acceptance of single parent families has hit young men in more ways than one. In the professional classes the situation is somewhat reversed. Twenty percent of women now earn more than their partners; a situation which leads to their careers dominating the social and geographic decisions of those relationships. The current trends for contractualisation and working from home have also provided some men with the opportunity to spend time with their children, take voluntary jobs of their own or just indulge themselves in rounds of golf. In the future however, the standing of women seems likely to continue to strength- en. Girls generally gain a better education than boys and women will continue, as a gender, to improve their employment prospects in both professional and casual spheres of work. But if they so desire they can also chose to opt out and have children. Maybe it's not an easy choice, but it is a choice. If there's any trouser wearing to be done, it will be women doing it. |J FELIX Girls And Boys What Does Islam Say? by Someera Butt & Farida Begum O For a change, Islam has been much slandered and infringement of the wife's role and rights. accused of oppressing women and granting Men are also obliged to attend group * you are now men more rights than women. Through the prayers and conscription for war. Women, media, the principles laid down seem to though not obliged to undertake these hearing it from contradict the practices of Muslims world responsibilities, are free to contribute as Muslim women. wide. The people who slander Islam do so out much or as little as they wish to these affairs. of sheer ignorance and malice but they are not In fact, if men are not fulfiling their due According to always guilty of fabricating the images of obligations in this regard, it becomes the duty Islam as they see it practiced. This is the fault of women to compensate or complement their Islam, men and of the Muslim who has failed to practice the effort. Forget Florence Nightingale, Muslim women are way of life Islam has prescribed for us. The women were engaging in active warfare on the media is prone to use the word Islamic for battlefield at the time of the Prophet (peace be independent what Muslims do. This is incorrect, the word upon him). They were not only bringing is rightly used for Muslims emulating the water to thirsty combatants, treating the entities and thus divine sources of Islam. wounded and carrying them to safety but also fully responsible^ So, about this men-women physically defending their fellow Muslims on business. What does Islam really say? the battlefield by confronting the enemy. A human beings. W For a change, you are now hearing it far cry from the generally expected and from Muslim women. According to accepted role of women in Muslim and non- The men-women issue as presented by Felix Islam, men and women are independent Muslim societies today! is the obvious conflict between principle and entities and thus fully responsible human Today, in the name of liberation of practice. On the one hand we have a society beings. Islam addresses each of them directly. women, a modern woman feels that provided unequivocally purporting universal equality Women are counterparts of men - contrary to she looks like a model, works twice as of men and women, on the other hand one the world-wide status quo of having to live in competently as a man, earns half the wages for continually practising double standards a man's world. They have the same status and their labour, carries and brings up the between them. The double standards that role in life, the same heaven and hell, reward children, cooks a banquet every night and still occur are most often not questioned. We live and punishment. Just like men, women have has the energy and mental capacity to lead a with them. But in our position as Muslims, to observe the general religious services, fulfiling sex-life, she is on an equal footing offering an alternative way of life and world personal conduct, social dealings and moral the man. How naive, blind and brainwashed view, those hypocrisies glare out at us. behaviour e.g. being truthful, fair, beneficent, that is. It would appear that intellectual We would like to pose the question: righteous and well-mannered. Islam does not liberation of women has not yet taken place what is the basis of your understanding of the provide different moral orders for men and and judging from the direction that societies issue of equality? If it is based on a personal women. all around are heading for, it will be a very interpretation of what YOU perceive to be Public life is no stage where men alone long time coming. right and wrong (by its very nature highly can play. There is no segregation of sexes in Blatant fallacies have been propagated susceptible to external pressure) then the public domains which call for joint efforts. by Hollywood. These images are nothing but validity of such rights and wrongs are very Thus both men and women are expected to false and distorted images of Islam's attitude much at risk. Also, the word equality itself is contribute equally to decisions which affect towards women. Modesty in dress and repeatedly used today without qualification. the society they live in. In sharp contrast, take attitudes, applies to both men and women. Yet men and women are not absolutely equal: a look at all the exclusively male establish- Both must refrain from dressing to impress they differ in many matters e.g. biologically ments of various political leanings which are and seduce. This is not a form of sexual and in psychological characteristics. What prevalent in a culture which fights for equal repression. Islam does not impinge repression sort of equality are we talking about? rights for women to take off their clothes in of the sexual instinct but regulates it in a Consider the case of Islam: based on the public but does not allow them nor encourage manner which allows a healthy attitude absolute truth (the Qur'an) and the Prophet them to partake in affairs of public concern. towards it in the defined context of a res- Muhammad's (peace be upon him) example There is no separate order of ponsible and accountable sexual relationship (the Sunnah). The guidance for all judgments regulations between men and women except i.e. marriage. passed on every issue of what is right and for a few secondary regulations where a Contrary to what is currently perceived what is wrong has been ordained by the distinction is drawn between the sexes. These as sexual liberation, the practice and excessive Creator, Allah. Once a person accepts Islam - are intended to enable them to give a genuine encouragement of unlimited and wide spread through conviction that there is no deity expression of their faith with consistent with promiscuity and sexual deviations from the worthy of worship but Allah and that their respective human nature, human life norm (homo and bisexual inclinations) are all Muhammad (peace be upon him) is His and Society. The preservation of the family manifestations of misuse of the sexual instinct messenger and servant - he/she has submitted unit and the welfare of children are of in a society obsessed with the physical to the will of none but Allah. This is the paramount importance in Islamic social pleasures of a conjugal relationship without literal meaning of the word 'Muslim'. setup. The ultimate responsibility on familial the commitment which should accompany it. Through application of the unequivocal matters (particularly financial support) lies The men-women thing is not an issue. principles, teachings and rules of the divine with the husband in consultation and co- It is a by-product of a confused and aimless texts of the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah, we operation of the wife. Do not interpret this to society which needs an answer to its iWs.This have an infallible criteria for all matters. read that whatever he says goes. This is an is the issue. H EH FELIX ogjunas Girls and Boys UNPROTECTED Sexual Exploration in the Aids Era by Manor Askenazi Have you ever had 'unprotected' sex? Have youMoralists . The increase in sexual freedom ever wondered about the sexual history of yourbrough t with it a diversification of attitudes partners? Have you ever questioned the lack ofto ase x and sexuality. public campaign for voluntary testing? Does the appearance of a new and deadly A growing number of us encounter Aids STD (such as Aids) threaten the legacy of this era? before encountering sex - our first sexual In other words, are we seeing the return of a escapades plagued by the fears and doubts polarised approach to sexuality? surrounding this disease. Perhaps it is time On the face of it, the answer seems to be our generation considered the untold a resounding no. Society is dealing with Aids consequences of the epidemic: for Aids does in a radically different manner to its approach not exact its toll in lives alone, it also claims a to Syphilis (you won't find many government heavy socio-cultural price. sponsored posters which preach 'clean living' STDs have always influenced society's or the avoidance of 'fornication' as a means of attitude to non-reproductive sex. In the past, protection against Aids). Yet it could be that this has translated into an oversimplified the current 'safe-sex' campaign reveals a more dialectic of Good (healthy) vs. Evil sinister undercurrent. (syphilitic). Fortunately, the discovery of Consider the underlying assumptions Penicillin brought an end to this point of behind the 'safe-sex' campaign: view. In just a few short decades a far wider No one can be trusted. range of practices were legitimised: the world Sex is essentially a 'plug & socket' affair. ceased to be divided into Hedonists and Clearly, under these conditions sex in the Aids era is 'hobbled' in comparison with < pre-Aids-post-Syphilis times. There are two ^5^ ^^^^^ €8^^" ^ exceptions however. Neo-Moralists: those who will only ever have No One Can Be Trusted one partner (for instance those of a religious Though we do not yet have the technology persuasion). Clearly they are not affected by with which to beat Aids, we do have the the current sexual climate. technology with which to detect it. Why then, Neo-Hedonists: those who approach sex Se are we not hearing any calls for voluntary without much regard for its human screening? Why is it common practice to stop perspective. Whilst the physical constraints Sex is a 'Plug & Socket' Affair by for a casual mammography but not to do may slightly annoy them, they are not really Condoms are a perfectly adequate means of the equivalent in the case of Aids? The affected by the current sexual climate either protection against infection from penetrative answer to this question is twofold: (e.g. the loss of trust is not an issue for them). sex. However, most people are not likely to 1. The health authorities fear the con- In other words, I believe that we are be satisfied by a single form of sexual activity sequences of people finding out, en masse, living in an era which may very well see the and virtually everyone experiments at the that they have the disease, without return of a two-sided, simplistic approach to boundaries of what is considered 'safe' appropriate counselling being given at the sex. Those who regard it as a sacred/religious according to the scientific community, e.g. same time. Some of the specific concerns are: activity can continue to flourish alongside many people regularly have oral sex under fear of an increase in suicide cases, and fear those who approach it as purely physical. the assumption that this is a low-risk activity. of irresponsible 'I won't go down alone' However, for those who live in the fragile Unfortunately, it is only as Aids affects reactions. middle-ground, Aids represents a serious behaviour patterns that data becomes 2. More importantly, the health authorities setback: if you find the current sexual climate available focussing on specific forms of sexual are afraid that people will get tested once, of mistrust profoundly disturbing, and if you activity. In the case of oral sex, it was initially and then operate under the assumption that feel constrained by the rules of safe sex, then very difficult to find cases where the physician they don't have Aids, and won't ever get it. you are a member of this middle-ground. knew for certain that no other high-risk This is particularly important in the case of As such, you must ask yourself whether activity was being practiced. Today, such data prostitutes which used to display 'certificates there is an alternative answer to Aids, other is becoming available, and the results are not of HIV-negativeness'. Genito-Urinary clinics than the tyranny of safe sex. Could we not pleasant: oral sex has recently been pro- no longer notify patients of Aids test results in replace fear and suspicion with a more moted to a moderate-risk activity by the writing: results are always given verbally. positive approach based on mutual trust? Centre for Disease Control. Should we not place more emphasis on The safe sex campaign is a based voluntary self-testing as a means to minimise As long as safe-sex means 'use a entirely on the irresponsibility of the individual. the need for safe sex, even in the absence of a condom and everything will be all right' most It asks us, in the name of public health, to long-term relationship? people live with it, but how many people do have sex in a climate of suspicion. By planting No one is forcing us to treat our you know, who would even consider using mistrust at the heart of every sexual partners as potential killers. We can break the such a thing as a dental dam? Would you? interaction, aren't we re-defining the very circle of suspicion. Then how safe are you after all? Is safe sex meaning of sex? Is safe sex really sex? We can get tested. U really safe? ogjungs FELIX MM Girls Against Boys Girls Against Boys Why? DO YOU SUBMIT OR FIGHT Models By Helen Louise By Owain Bennallack More than clothes horses, we need models to base our mental idea of self on. Until a a perspectives will be geneticist convinces me otherwise, it seems fM. ^Men can be FOR YOUR DIGNITY ? different. Thus a male bulk of our development is A businessman is such assholes aggressive; a business- interview panel will the actions, postures and indeed the lives of woman is pushy. He's good naturally be biased towa others; our parents, our peers, characters in when drunk on details; she's fussy. He loses his temper abusive. Society has By Fiona Duerden been boxed inside an males (of the same background - this affects films and novels: And I would argue that it is or because he's so involved in his job; she's never recognised women emotional stereotype - but class and race), just as male critics are biased indicative of the still prevalent bias in culture and language that 'model' is a female word Some men hove to get completely slaughtered bitchy. He follows through; she doesn't as thinking, dynamic, strong people capable that is one that can change without to male art. There is, then, a need for positive and, bar the Cover of 1 oaded, a female before they dare approach a woman Fair know when to give up. His judgements arc of leadership, and still doesn't. Yet in challenging the shape of society. What men concern. Whereas roio model is at best non- enough, some of us are shyer than others. But her prejudices. He is a man of the world; Western history women have been taught to have been given is independence and "I men and women in positions of power, or gender specific and probably tends to the male. is it necessary to be drunk to the extent where she slept her way to the top. He's a stern protect their men from the realities of life - ambition - creative and mental stretching and else the situation will continue to propagate the girl concerned feels sexually harassed and taskmaster; she's hard to work for." women coped with pregnancy alone and were the potential for advancement - continual itself. There is absolutely no reason why !*: "OkoyfjlJIHP say, 'but what's the*kip*: is afraid to go out in case it happens* again? In Imperial College there are three shut away to do so. Family illness was challenges, something new. Probably the deal' '? ("Owain' is a male right, or have my I've never heard my male friends comptdjri they female professors - yet throughout the handled by women. Unwanted pregnancies most damaging box a woman is put in is the women are not differ : worst fears been realised'2) Well. I'm a male have been groped by a stranger in the bar... country women are consistently getting better and physical disasters were all handled by one that says it is what she looks like that or abilities, women are not 'naturally passive', who is interested in aging, time and what we The male/female mix at IC is. a bit grades in school. Social leaders and personnel women. Often the financial running of the determines her level of acceptance - whether women are not inherently anything but make of our lives The fii'.t time I stopped going unusual - perhaps our social situation provokes management are almost exclusively male - household was handled by the woman, who she is listened to, respected and her opinions, women. The fact is that the all-male world is "who needs feminism - we're all equal enough that sort of behaviour. Somehow though, I think even though women are commonly (rightly or consistently protected her man from trouble. even her self, valued. And the difficulty with ; .i.J .': ' - :;.':> : ' . .' ""ds it's a more fundamental problem. I've been wrongly) accredited with a far better Men were not to be told about anything that this is that what she is supposed to look like is changes in male lifestyle in offices, it creates writing pointed out to me that a good example hassled myself whilst out around London more understanding of people. Over 50% of the could upset them and women, as they still do, 'feminine' - a word defined by males to mean challenges to traditional thinking and of how far we've (not) come can be gauged times than I can count on my fingers. Smiles population is female - yet birth and bore the brum of the problem and tended to gentle, pretty and generally Laura Ashley. practical arrangements. (I wonder in simply by walking through the underground and wolf-whistles don't bother me at all - they menstruation are unacceptable conversation the man's needs. This inherently excludes women from any midst of this whether if there were more and looking at the posters Try it You'll notice position of power or authority, if only by are positive gestures that can brighten up your topics. Far more than 50% of television Imperial College pats itself on its female senior staff in college, male lecturers (again) female bodies used to promote impracticalities of dress! day. But unwanted physical contact? From viewers are female, yet producers and managerial head for hosting an annual WISE with a 'reputation* would still be doing the everything The film posters which virtually strangers? I think not. directors (nearly all male) write and film for week - while in the meantime the senior This image is propagated by a male; jobs they do - bee invariably feature man-to-fore, weak or semi- strong woman behind The way women over Recently I've had a couple of really nasty the male perspective - (male) staff in the advertising world, a male film world, male- ;stion whether the age of thirty-five disappear from view, until experiences. Oddly enough, in both cases the one that is frequently biology dept (in oriented authority figures. Male historians But a woma uaily has to be twice as they become seventy and need medical care male was somewhat one over the eight. I don't patronising and offensive. Y He is a man of theory the most have deprived me of role models, again id as a: .: : half as far (although it think I'm prone to scaremongering, nor do I Advertising friendly in propagating the belief that women can never has been said that this is not difficult...). For Don't think that it's the same for men: dress outrageously or walk home alone in the executives have only two the world; she X:e) discuss be great. Male critics, who naturally do not Margaret Thatcher to be a leader she became look and you'll see that it isn't; There is the odd dark. But at 7am on a Sunday morning in types of women in their ishing out the relate to the experiences of female artists, branded 'the Iron Lady', a derogatory term underwear advert or burly bloke leaping naked slept her way to -< from a bottle of bacardi, true. But there is a Covent Garden, surrounded by people, should I ads: the 'executive tart' or crumpet" as they writers, film directors and musicians, have denoting her loss of 'femininity' - okay, I feel scared when someone who seems friendly 'two cunts in a kitchen'. the top 0* survey the photo unwittingly prevented their recognition, thus have problems with her policies, but she was huge range of other males in a variety of enough starts chatting me up? Or when three Over 50% of us are female sheets of the new depriving me of another huge part of my an excellent leader. To be this good, to get fictitious walks of life. Not all are attractive and of us are walking down Hammersmith but history books are - sr's . make to heritage. More damaging is that female this far, why should we have to become 'like a a significant block have made it past forty. Broadway on a Friday night -a main road, well- exclusively male; Jessie Bernard, a"n* ciiuifcufc ib.sm aaongsi ibes-selves s.s fJM-ss. perspectives of female potential is not pub- man'? There are strengths in female culture The only consistent female figures are the lit - and an alcoholic starts trying to grab us? It established academic, points out that Meanwhile a career's officer takes a long look licised, again relegating women to the role of that are generally not present in male culture females society can't fear - the supe1-'iiodcls might not sound like much, but I have felt practically all sociology to date has been a op god cknn&s cfiiat's legshc&M>tidDti^ lua^ tart or mother that need to be present in The most visible, highly paid women in the emotionally scarred ever since. sociology of the male world. Males have taken no,'lint t$Ef4;ltfetjit fati. before- pt- bifijl figure. leadership situations - the world who are rewarded, basically, for doing "defin . - - - _ - - " . Reading most nothing since the day they were born except Obviously there are a lot of reasons why themselves as the reference point, assessed ability to talk about feelings for mm. les Liter hv IICMICS hci lor not I. acclaimed 9 Women are avoid motorcycle accidents and too many sexual harassment like this occurs. It's not problems and determined priorities from example. Maybe if women were herself uoiislv j\ an ,n.ci. HK \gain, books, the dif- put in these positions men cream cakes. What kind of a model is that: stay funny trying to figure them out when you're in their perspective and then proceeded to not naturally throughout college, staff who are known to ference in the young, pretty and we'll take you into our arms? that situation. Yes, there are perverts out there conduct their research and construct their could, by association, become have harassed female students are kept in portrayal of And before somebody yaps on about male who get their kicks out of terrifying others. But sociological knowledge on these most passive, women released from their own position, kept in contact with first years and women by wo- super-models - yes, they do or could soon exist. I've noticed that all the men who've tried it on subjective and unquestioned premises - an emotional boxes. But, looking at given female tutees. Female students are men or by are not But who are they going to threaten? with me were perfectly decent blokes when not exclusion of female meaning. Over 50% of us the facts, this time is still a long commonly in receipt of letters from male men is enor- drunk. Why do certain males find it necessary are female - but this workforce, these way off. Too many men, in The point that critics of this simple brand lecturers suggesting relationships, and then inherently to act like this when drunk? Immaturity? consumers, these civilians with equal rights to short, have a problem with of feminism (which is really just eye-opening) are expected to turn up to tutorials and suk Inadequacy? Or primeval 'male' behaviour? independence still live a second-class life. The anything but being under the authority of consistently miss is that for the moment at least, concept that the need for feminism is a thing out this person for academic advice. And a woman. It is this ego that it wouldn't matter two hoots if a few super-boy- Guys - when you read this - please just these women, again taught by society to women of the past, that everything is alright now, stands in the way of our bimbo's appeared on billboards everywhere. take some time to stop and think about the way could fairly be described as a sop fed to us by consider these men's feelings as of paramount ultimate freedom. Because men could simply open any qualiiy you act. By all means have a drink and enjoy or a male-dominated society protecting their importance, are afraid to speak out. Not "If a woman recognises that the only waynewspape r and see page after page of small yourselves, but don't lose control over what you to take to tbese b own backs. because of fear of personal exposure, but due women can ever live in real dignity is to make grethisy squared mostly-male faces: running the are doing. You may think you are just having a accept h ' - and to this ingrained idea that we cannot cause a society a place where both men and women cancountry , making the best deals, inventing and bit of harmless fun, but I bet you've never been As a person I am still seen primarily again and again t man trouble but must instead protect him share its responsibilities and rewards equally, allowethen d to grow old gracefully in the public eye in a situation where an unpredictable, as female - and boxed accordingly. Society ambition, self-bel fflseh es from it. she must commit herself to the struggle for women's(old wome n have two options: homely granny physically stronger person is trying to force you classes me according to dress - frump or tart. freedom. Coming to grips with this is very difficult.or hag ) If we're serious about 50-50 men- to do something. Have you ever walked down This doesn't happen to men. Society does not In the light of all this I find it Steinbeck with At Even now, I feel resentment that my choice iswome n then that's a simple fact to bare in the street fingering a rape alarm in your allow me to walk down the street without increasingly difficult to accept that the battle It is nothin; that all of submit or fight." JJ mind. It's not anyone's fault particularly. I just pocket, wondering when to start running? Can harassment - if I object it brands me as is won, that women are accepted as an integral us are inherently : as we are feel lucky you might see me grow old. £j you see the fear in my eyes? HJ having no sense of humour or becomes part of society. I admit that men have also separated in our ulture our FELIX inn FELIX Filmsoc Presents... TARANTINO DAY Wednesday 21st Reservoir Dogs - 2pm True Romance - 5pm Pulp Fiction - 8pm is mil. i; a Thurs 22nd 8:30pm Fri 23rd 5:30pm An Awfully THE r>. * i / SHAWSHANK Big Adventure REDEMPTION Tuesday 20th at 6pm Thursday 22nd 5:30pm A DEADLY VIBUS IS LDDSI... ANS FHE GREATEST MEDICAL CRISIS La Reine Margot III HISTORY BEGINS. Tuesday 20th 8:30pm DUSTIN RENE MORGAN HOFFMAN RUSSO FREEMAN OUTBREAK AI No Corrida Try to remain calm. (IN Till Rl OF Til! SIXSIS) Weds 21st 11pm Sunday 18th June 8pm Tfeurs 22nd 11pm Monty Python's THE MEANING OF LIFE Friday 23rd 8pm Xtra Curricular BcQte Run-down of this week's ents This Year's Awards Keys: Midsummer's Carnival Keys: Reward, Service, Social Well, now we've recovered from our headshaking little welcome burst of Imperial Fiona Grandison Stephanie Couchman Garret O'Connor indieness, here's this weeks pearls, Garry Waller Karen Young Eric Allsop guaranteed to be more entertaining than College Ivan Chan Kim Jabbour Steve Wilkinson England's display against the might of Japan. James Harrow Sarah Thomas Prof Julia Higgins Friday June 9th: If you want a special Union Jeremy Thomson Cathy Anderson Paul Griffith night of 'mind-expanding trance, happy Joe Mcfadden Melanie Hayles Ian Parish hardcore and bangin' techno', then mantra is Awards Jules Taplin Alison Dyer Dr Shaun Crofton for you and it's all yours for just a Quid. Or Juliette Decock Rand Selman Adrian Winchester free if you're there before 9pm. and Kate Andrews Laura Rasso Mark Walton Saturday June 10th: Without my Mystic Colours Karen Barnes Sarah Godleman Colin Rogers Meg Ball, I don't know who's playing but I Keith Fisher Jessica Dallimore Nick Morgans do know we'll be continuing our big screen 1994/1995 Kuham Sivathan Nick Flynn coverage of the Rugby World Cup quarter- Louise Rickard Tim Oldham Full Colours finals in Da Vinci's. Bar opens at 1pm, watch Union General Lucy Hobs Marcus Alexander Tim Dulley posters for full details. Award Luke Gietzen Keith Simpson Nathan East Tuesday June 13th: This is going to be a Dan Look Mark Sharman M Yasuda Jez Clayton very lucky 13th for somebody, as we hold our Ian Parish Marlain Angelides Helen Brindley Tammy Atkins end of year, summer holiday, Bar Trivia. Owain Bennallack Martyn Crook Tansin Lyle Alison Butt There's £50 cash to the winning team, Lucy Chothia Matt Szyndel Maryam Yahyavi Kieran McCullough courtesy of STA Travel, plus beer and other Mellissa Parcell Mark Price goodies to be won. Is there a better way to Pot Michael Biddle Social Colours Fiona Grandison spend a Tuesday night? Dave Goddard Mike Hanson Jon Philip Louise Van Der Wednesday June 14th: Still hanging on in Dan Look My les Barret Chris Collinson Straeten there... Club Spanque. 8pm - 11.30pm. Ian Parish Nigel Wheatly Belal Al-Khatib Ralph Clague Thursday June 15th: An evening of light Owen Brown Ste Lamb Roger Pownall training before the main event...Cocktail Honourary Life Paul Brown Claire Robins John Evans Night. Summer specials from £1.70. Membership Piers Daniell Mike Elliot Tom Howell Friday June 16th: What the world's been Karl Drage Piers Williams Rachael Curran Alex Bell waiting for. For those of you with you head Stef Laugharne Rachael Curran Su Purdom Gavin Chow full of formulae who've not noticed the garish Ian Nichol Rebecca Finn Juliet Bird Andy Smith posters, it's The Midsummers Night Paul Cooper Richard Parker Toby Rolph Carnival. For just £5 in advance, you can Mark Walton Sarah Wingrove Richard Bibby Half Colours celebrate the end of the year in style, as the Marc C. Swan Sir Frank Cooper Paul Bland Eric Fosdike Union Building gets as close to holiday Charlie Leary Susan Dalan Ivor Crampsie Duncan Tindall heaven as possible without putting 2 tons of Tony Moore Sian Evans Nick Osborne sand in the Quad. For fans of all things Outstanding Vinod Fernandez Caroline Deetjen Rob Bell trancey, Whirl-y-gig, featuring DJ Monkey Service Award Brooke Hoskins Jon Jansen Pilot, Earthtribe, and Joi will be in the Annie Mathewman Althetics Karl Drage Steve Starkey concert hall, and quieter types may fancy the Owain Bennallack Gareth Williams Thomas Todd chilled out ambience of the Malibu Cocktail Jon Jordan Clubs Rhydian Jones Stephen Barnes Bar, with cool cocktails and chilled sounds. If Peter Mee Committee Stevie Wilkinson Simon Cope you want to get wet and wild, the Ents John Durrell Colour Vinod Fernandez Karen Ay 1 ward Lounge turns into a bubbletastic Foam Party, James Cooper Tim Townend Adam Torry on a Balearic tip. You can also try not to Chris Ince Awards David Lloyd Dan Look "wipeout" on the Surf Machine, limbo away to Christian Endersby Ben Maxwell the Steel Band, "oooh" and "aaah" at the Garret O'Conner Full Colours City & Gareth Parry Circus Acts, stuff yourself at the Barbecue, or Wai Kwok Eloise Thurston just make yourself sick on the free "BIZZ" Social Colours Ben Willis Guilds Glen Walllington soft drinks, and Candyfloss. And someone Anthony Waite Jane Key College John Esser will be going home with a surfboard! There's Ashley Lumsden Tara Wood Union Tim Oldham also special gifts for those in beachwear. Barry Wright Jim Ryan Tom Salter Ticket are on sale in the Union Office, but we Becky Cotton Colours Hulian Harrison expect to sell out, so don't leave it too late. Brian Lloyd-Davies Half Colours Tom Hovord It's going to be hot, hot, HOT! Charlie Bell Abdul Said Distinguished James Turner A final thing... if you want to stand a Chris Bragg Daniel Loureda Service Award chance of winning £150 worth of travel Chris Lowe Barbara Spence Becky Cotton Co/ours Certificates may vouchers, fill in an I.C.U questionnaire and Claire Moloney Steve Trussell Helen Roberts be collected from the City return it to the Union Office or STA Student Duncan Tindall Jin Yee Lim Christian Enderby & Guilds Union Office. Travel, before 5pm next Friday (16th). Emma Green Ian Haines Pauli Markannen FELIX Standby crumb THcmcnu In a wild and wacky week; tintin keeps on truckin' with king of underground comics, Robert Crumb in the documentary ft crumb. Magpie endures the charms of the brady bunch. In space no-one can hear you scream, on rotation they don't stop you spinning until you ask them nicely. Luke Gietzen and o Joe McFadden muse over the week's singles. paul weller bring it all back home - Nick goes too. Joe hears the new future sounds of london album and says yes, Nick returns with teenage fanclub live before fan is surprised by boy george. Vik brings up the rear with steamboat band. The 227th Royal Academy of Art summer exhibition is the setting for over a thousand exhibits from established artists and random newcomers. Tintin mingled with the crowd. The ever popular classic book column continues for an IpjjJ unprecedented second week as Samin sings the praise of Umberto Eco's reflections on the name of the rose. O welcome to weirdsville crazy have always told us more about society than the sane and The power of documentaries has yet boring film, purely one for the seeing it demonstrated in Crumb always been grounded in the graphical train-spotters. turns out to be an intensely understanding that they are fact. In Tragically though this isn't the disconcerting experience. documentaries, the people who talk case and it's this twist of the factual to the camera say their lines as knife which makes the film so Let's set the cringe worthy themselves: no characterisations compelling. Because behind the scene: the brady bunch have 0 are involved. But that power always facade of the professional somehow evaded time. They have involves a double-edge; something commentators loom the three neither grown old or changed with evidenced in crumb - a docu- Crumb brothers and, for all their the times. Maybe it's an alien mentary about the underground sad weirdness, it's an enthralling abduction or some genetic artist Robert Crumb. sight. For the Crumb family was, experiment. Whatever, this family Some parts of the film are and what remains of it still is, an has landed in the nineties and they unsurprising in their factuality. example of the two sides of the are completely oblivious to their Crumb, the geeky, speck ridden american dream/nightmare. new surroundings. artist, sketches continually and Father was an authoritarian Well, until that oblivion is compulsively. Even when being marine who wanted his sons to be rudely interrupted by the small interviewed in a restaurant, he blond, strapping lads. What he got matter of a $20,000 property tax. draws over the paper napkin. was three dysfunctional geeks, as The Brady Bunch face eviction (cue We get to hear about the well as two daughters (neither of audience tears) and the auctioning experiences he had in the sixties, which appear in the film, one being off of their house. And if that when his influence was strongest. a 'separatist lesbian'). Mother was a weren't enough the individual Ex-lovers and wives swan into view, tranquilliser addict and the boys, members of the family are facing expressing mock anger over the Charles, Robert and Max grew up their own personal problems; way he treated them and Robert and atrophied within their own little puberty, dating, middle child just raises his shoulders and laughs world of hand-drawn comics. syndrome, inner voices. It's all very soundlessly. Robert Hughes, the Older brother, Charles, gives worrying, it really is. gruff culture critic, tries to raise gummy smiles (sans teeth) and tells If you are unfortunate enough Crumb to the canon of great art tales of his mental illnesses, the to see this film then watch out for and fellow cartoonists discuss medication that stops him wanting the star guests. Ru Paul plays a whether he's a racist, a misogynist, to commit suicide, reclusehood and school counsellor in one of the a genius, a sell out or a loser. We the continual rereading of the more amusing scenes, and then see him doing a photo shoot for books of his youth, and it's there are three quarters of the 'Leg Show' magazine; him and a compelling. One because he's real, Monkeys (Davy Jones, Peter Tork bevy of lovelies. The editor, another two because he's actually funny, and Micky Dolenz). It's small ex, waxes lyrically about his sexual three because it's incredibly sad comfort I know. habits - uninterested in bed, and four because Charles is aware From start to finish The Brady obsessed by masturbation, excited of all these things too. In a similar Bunch had me cringing in my seat by piggy-backsl way Max gets out his bed of nails with embarrassment. It will also It's all quite standard docu- and sits on it, swallows qualities of embarrass and haunt every mentary stuff really. Some infor- cotton to clean out his gut and tells thirtysomething who remembers mation is imparted and something of the urges that saw him jailed for polyester shirts and flared trousers, "...I am the pass-eno-ger. .") of Crumb's strange character is pulling women's trousers down. and those still wearing them today. The verdict: guilty ot shameless displayed. If the documentary was In turn it doesn't take too much Burlesque it is not, a turkey it made up totally of this type of of this before you realise where is. This film is best seen, and I material it would remain a worthy, Robert's art is coming from. The quote, "stoned and on video". © f FELIX 09JUII95 Standby with 'funtime' (Iggy Pop/Bowie) running on the spot or standing still? and progresses on through a fair number of guitar laden tracks. A wry smile must have crossed track, but Weller is in danger of than vaguely recognise a similar Another remarkable thing about it paul weller's lips when he pushing the aor routine a little too sophistication in the arrangements. is how personal the themes are. penned the first track of his latest far. Despite being the darling of FSOL are, despite occasional George defends his sexuality from album, Stanley road. Weller is the NME, he may indeed have to lapses into back-patting preten- society, attacks past lovers as well indeed a 'changingman'. From the re-invent himself once more to tiousness, one of the most as talking about cheapness, beauty Jam and Style Council to today the regain what he has lost. (6) important and innovative artists on and misadventure. modfather has certainly altered his the music scene today. (8) With anyone else this material musical direction. There's a five second snatch of would probably just end up angry 'Changingman', the track, sampled speech at the start of teenage fanclub wander and loud. George, however, seems opens 'Stanley road' and it's a isdn, the future sounds of onto the Shepherd Bush Empire to be content to lead you through stomping song which is one of the london's epic new album, where stage in their customary manner to the pages of his public life. A good album's best. A ballad, 'you do the creators break their rule of a wall of clapping and whistles. example is 'unfinished business'. something to me', then shows off invisible performances and speak With no further ceremony, they It's about an ex lover and is sung Weller's chocolate voice as it directly to the audience. What do kick off with 'hang on', followed emotionally, without resorting to changes from contemplative to they have to say to the punters? quickly by 'what you do to me'. By shouting match. rocky during the song. 'Time "Stop flashing those f'king lights this time, the moshers are in full Boy George has pulled off a passes' is another ballad in the please" And that's it. mosh and the atmosphere is very pleasant surprise with this same vein but before too long you The rest of the album is a brilliant. Every single track is filled album and while he may not be a start to realise that "the same" is a seamless soundscape of cybernetic with the enthusiasm the band cool name to throw around, you phrase which casts a long shadow cool with samples from 'aliens' demonstrate each time they play should give this a chance. (8) over the album. Yes, Weller can and 'repoman' serving as the live. Then TFC storm through 'the play, I don't deny that, but the vocabulary for a post-modern cabbage', 'commercial alternative' I so wanted to like the album as a whole is better suited conceptless album. Meaning and other from their previous and steamboat band. After all, it's to midnight background music disappears over the event horizon current albums. The hour long set not every day that a band from rather than upfront non-passive and you're left simply to sink into finishes with the sublime 'star sign' your home town, who have played listening. The songs only seem to sensation. This is music in its and we're into encore land. your local pub, release a major have two faces - loud or quiet - truest, purest sense. First cover version is the label Ip; runners and riders. Alas, and they either start with a clanky Motifs repeat, fade and return Beatles' 'rain', followed by 'the no. Within the first few chords of guitar sound or a piano break. in transmuted form during this concept'. Encore number two opening track, three ugly (to some) 'Wings of speed' includes a seventy minute journey. I might consists of covers so obscure no- words slap you across the face; the some gospelesque singing which compare it to classical music, but I one had heard of them. In a mosh Black Crowes. This wouldn't adds originality to the closing don't know enough to do more of feedback and strobe lights, TFC necessarily be a bad thing if it finish and wander off as they came weren't for the fact that the world on. The best band in Britain? is only big enough for one lot of thrown together in a very Rolling Stones purloiners. Copying reverend black grape haphazard way to little effect. boy george is back with an the pioneers is one thing, copying ty; album that touches on aspects of the copyists is quite another. molly half-head - shine his life and also takes a new The moral of the story is that a screamesque one might say Luke: Not bad in a strangrlovey musical direction, leaving behind rock band who play in their local way. the old days of Culture Club. pub often ends up playing pub ii if;i : ,; Joe: Usud cheapness and beauty opens rock. (4) 0 burble froi 's. i . i. : .Kf&ivU:- i . ; ' ': ' i"; finds::n)i.o|s: r - r-- 'i My Bloody Valentine, whicrfls § . '.::h:'ftik ;; ? .' i...-S':^-v-5;i itely a good thing. ; : ;i -,;,:;,''' Mkk'k': kfi kykfk'\:--::' kl% <: kkkk :'kk' >-.M. I : i: i . ':\s. ' ; : : [ ..'":: : ' I Joe Ah, yes. the heady, intoxKatina dehahts of drugstore; a combination of hrnLon h*>rirtfid "nrnk nnH M^MMMMk'-: > kmda thing (it says here) The ; k, Si-k Ski. MMMMM effect, but other than thot, I MMMMMML : ...MMMMZ.M MMikMMMMM MtM MMSM paul weller's Stanley road FELIX Standby sandro chia: sacre cuore The entrance to the Royal Academy's summer exhibition is dominated by the model of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi's sculpture, newfon after blake for the british library. The enormous white figure bends down to measure out and reduce creation with a pair of dividers. As an opening object it's impressive although not particularly representative of the art within. The strength and weakness of the Summer Exhibition rests in the diversity and amateurism of its exhibits. Few of the works dominate or even stand out but that's because few of them are by Artists - as opposed to artists. To that degree it's a large show made up of small, if enthusiastic, endeavours. There are some notable exceptions amongst the 1,168 works. Peter Blake, pop - album cover - artist, has a characteristic mixed media, h.o.m.a.g.e. /'./'. in memory of roger de grey. Carel Weight has a series of five oils, and pop art godfather, Roy Lichtenstein, dominates the large gallery VII with his nude with beach ball. These are the exceptions however. This being the case, heavy duty art critics will, and do, complain brush and strokes of the home counties about the exhibition but such an attitude seems to defeat its whole The exhibition is organised example of a striking building and people. The latter is of the underlying ethos. The Summer throughout the thirteen galleries of design and the incredible attention other, more practical, problems Exhibition is more an opportunity for the Royal Academy; each room to detail of the actual model itself. associated with the Summer the artists of the home counties to being loosely ordered by the media Another favourite gallery is the Exhibition. It can get extremely display their still lives and type displayed within. Perhaps one small south room, which as in crowded, a fact which could be seen landscapes and perhaps even sell of the most interesting galleries is previous years, is packed from floor as suggesting some measure of some of them. This year 1,383 that which displays the architectural to ceiling with small oil paintings, popularity, and even success.© pieces (including multiple prints) drawings and models. Some of had been sold prior to the public these are particularly stunning, days and over eleven thousand although whether they are art is articles were submitted to the another question. Whilst not literary reconstruction Academy for the show. In this sense actually in that room, the Future at least, the Summer Exhibition does Systems model of their proposed Umberto Eco's reflections on the name of the rose, true to its seem to have a part to play within Tate Gallery Extension, gallery for genre, is not a book but a symbol for a book. the public arena of art. the 21st century, is perhaps the best 'Reflections' is a slim A5 lit. crit. exercise. No chapter is more than 5 pages but the shortness deceives the reader concerning its cleverness. The title might imply that the book is about Eco's reflections on his novel, 'the name of the rose.. But naming a book is unavoidable. Even calling a book 'unfinished' or 'untitled', as in Martin Amis' 'the information', tells us something. The title is inescapable, but that doesn't mean that it should be faithful. Eco never interprets 'the name of the rose', but invites us into an eclectic universe of issues surrounding a - The, even - novel. Indeed, Eco's 'reflections' is a dialogue on the intertextuality of literature. He tells us how books are always about other books. And about how constructing a novel is a cosmological event. 'Reflections' tells us of the technicalities of writing a novel; of all the card files and notes; and of how even writing a simple conversation between two men is cause for concern. Topically (but isn't it always?) Eco discusses whether a high- brow, intellectual event, such as a novel, can ever be popular. This whole situation reeks of irony, of course, as Toby Young's the Modern Review used to sell itself with the "low culture for high- brows" slogan. Ah, post-modernism, how can we ever escape it? Eco is its symbol and for those in the dark, gives his own definition in one of the last chapters. 'Reflections' takes less than half an hour to read, yet contains enough material for the reader to spend half his life on. Eco the semiotician has not written a real book. But, as the song goes, "it's Wctor posmore; beyond the eye, i the real thing, it's even better than the real thing". Q MM FELIX 00JU095 New DRAMSOC PRESENTS WEDDING of the decade - HIPPOLYTA to marry JUKI THtSlUS president of Athens Records PICS inside Vfeok aiding June 1 9,1965 CIRCULATION OF ANY MUSIC PAPER I Next Week: In the Concert Hall. Tickets £6 (students £4) June 12-15 & 17 at 7pm (Preview Sunday 11th June at 5pm) ICU Concert Hall,Prince Consort Road, SW7 Tickets available from I.C. Union, Dramsoc or call the ticket hotline 0181 940 2848 The FELIX ASSISTANT GliTD Ay Guide WARDEN fJUft QUfSTIOrtS m SG Southside Gym SL Southside Lounge m m 10 cort- flfXI SflTUPDflT SUMY ttOllDflY ILIfSDflY UDH Union Dining Hall AflnDAtnTS - ftntrtpT fPIDfIT WLDHLSDAY TttUBSDflT UCH Union Concert Hali WILSON HOUSE fRIDflT EL Ents Lounge no t\om THfin 3 Latitude 7.30pm Rugby World Cup Bar Trivia 8pm Club Spanque 8-11.30pm Cocktail Night 5-11pm Midsummer night's GH Great Hall IC's very own tangy cock- Big screen action at Da £50 cash prize, and other Fre&UB. R. Bargain cocktails from carnival TTR Table tennis room tail of funky jazz and latin Vinci's. Open from 1pm. goodies. Da Vinci's. £1.70 Weekly specials. 3 floors of holiday fun See grooves. Appearing with LT Lecture Theatre Da Vinci's. R. ents bit of Clubs & Sacs. Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Warden Multiformity at the Arena, £5 in advance from the Drury Lane. £3 union office at Wilson House, which is available from September 1995. Mantra SMALL ADS Live music from Wave Wilson House, situated in Sussex Gardens, is a self-catering Method, Guest DJs. £1 after 9pm. lam bar. Student Tutor Wanted mixed house of approximately 270 medical students. The To help two boys (12 & 13) assistant warden will help the Warden with pastoral care of Labour Club 12.30pm Gliding Club 8.15am Gliding Club 8.15am Aerobics 12.30pm Benelux Soc 12pm Roller Blade Soc 12.15pm Aerobics Class 12.30pm Labour Club 12.30pm with homework in Knights- SL upper. Lasham Airfield. Come to Lasham Airfield. Come to Body Toning level 1. SG. Meeting. Traditional bar. Meet at SL for hockey. Legs, turns & bums. SG SL upper. bridge. Contact Mr V, Malik the residents and with maintaining discipline. In return s/he Islamic Society 1 pm Thurs meeting if it is your Thurs meeting if it is your Exploration Soc 1pm UCO 1pm Motorcycle club 12.45pm Conservative Soc 1pm Islamic Society 1pm on 0171 584 5842. receives rent-free accommodation in a self-contained flat. Friday Prayers SG. first time. first time. Meeting, SL (upper), Bible study. Mat B432. weekly meeting. SL. Meeting, SL. Friday Prayers. SG. Professional Typing ICU Rag 1.10pm Roller Blade Soc IC Choir 11am OSC 1-2pm Leonardo Soc 5.30pm Micro Club 1 pm Gliding Club 1pm ICU Rag 1.10pm Large & small documents, Rag Meeting. EL. 10.45am. Rehearsal. Reed LT. Meeting. Brown cmtty rm. Woodturning with Tony Meeting. Top floor, Union. Meeting Aero E445B. Rag Meeting, EL. letters and projects. Application forms and an information pack can be obtained Aerobics Class 5.30pm Ramp skating at Brixton Wargames Club 1pm Ski Club 1-2pm Rippon. CivEng 101. Free. Aerobics Class 1.15pm Jazz Dance 5-6.30pm Aerobics Class 5.30pm Microsoft Ward used. Call from the General Personnel Office, Room 511, Sherfield Table Tennis Rm. Meeting. SL (upper). Aerobics Class 5.30pm Beg/inter level II SG Advanced Step level IV. SG. Skate Park. SL. Union Dining Hall. Advanced Step level IV. SG. Helo on 01372 376*045 Building, extension 55513. Any non-undergraduate member Free Minibus Service Roller Blade Soc 2pm Roller Blade Soc 2pm Aerobics Class 5.30pm Advanced Step level IV. SG. Hoverclub 1.30pm Aerobics Class 5.30pm Free Minibus Service Subwarden wanted 11 30pm-2am from the Skating and Hockey in Skating and Hockey in Beginners level I. SG. Wine Tasting Soc 6pm Old Chemistry. Intermid level 3 SG. 11 30pm 2am from the For Montpelier Hall, of the College may apply, but experience of pastoral care of Union. Hyde Pork/Kensington Hyde Park/Kensington Concert Band 5.45-7.15 £5, £4 memb. UDH. Ten Pin Bowling 2.15pm IC Choir 6.15-8pm Union. Research student with at students would be an advantage. Gdns. SL. Gdns. SL. Any Ability, GH, Dance Club 6pm Meet outside Aero Eng. Rehearsal. 342 MEng. least 18 months to go. Aerobics Class 2pm Bridge pub 6pm Autumn beginners. JCR. Jazz Dance 3.30-5pm IC Jazz Big Band 7pm Contact Accommodation Intermediate level III. SG. Rm 345 Huxley. Ladles' Power Pump Beginner. Southside Gym. Rehearsals. SCR Union office. Apply by 6 June. Closing date for the receipt of completed application forms: Tae Kwon Do 8pm Class 6.30-8.30pm Aerobics Class 5pm Dance Club 7pm Contact the Warden on Tuesday 20 June 1995. Regulars - Please tell me if you want an Self protection. New Southside Gym. Step level III. SG. Autumn beginners JCR 46283 for more information. entry reinstated, changed, removed or Olympic sport, tutored by IQ - Imperial Queers ULU Lesbian & Gay Soc Cheap tapes & CD's 7.30pm Rm3C, ULU, Malet almost anything else by the Tuesday current silver medalist. Meeting. Brown Comm- Friend of editor is clearing ittee room. 7.30pm St,WCl. 0171 580 955? morning the week before it happens. out his record collection. Tae Kwon Do 8pm Come to the Felix office. Thanks. Jeremy T. Self protection. New Lemon flavour Angel olympic sport. Puffs: Test Match Special 11am Rugby World Cup Desert Island Disks Thatcher: The path to The Cook report 8.30pm Blackadder goes forth The Mind Field 8pm The World of Lee Evans ingredients: R4 LW Day two, first test. 11.45am - 5pm ITV. 12.15am. R4. Bluest blues- power - and beyond ITV. Hand-over-lens chaos. 9.30 pm. BBC1. C4. Psychology for the 9pm C4 Popular comic's 10 oz plain flour Weekend 12.30am Johnnie Walker with man John Lee Hooker 10.10pm A 'probing' pro- Twin Peaks 9pm Smashie & Nicey - the masses - a top doc. stand up show. 3 eggs BBC2. Jean-Luc Portishead 2pm Rl pushes Hie boat out. file with David Frost. Bravo. end of an era 10pm The Crystal Maze Drop the dead donkey Juice of 2 lemons Goddard's disturbing post Band starts at 3.30pm. Fawtty Towers 7.30pm Pat Garrett & Billy the BBC1. Enfield kilts off his 8 30 pm. C4. Incompetents 10,30 pm C4 6 oz sugar modern savage revolu- Big Break 6pm BBC1. Entertoinment during Kid 10pm classic characters in a rea- bottle it out with Edward Celebrity Squares 7pm 5 oz butter tionary film wishes death BBC1. There was an BBC's production freeze. C4. Unfortunately this is sonably good spoof doc. 'Im so strange' Tudor-Pole. ITV. A novel way to 2 oz baking powder to cinema and its ruters. Irishman, a Pakistani, a Bonfire of the Vanities the poorer Holywood cut, Smashre singing the chari- Newsnight 10.30pm increase the percieved spices The smell of Reeves & jew ond a cripple in a pub. 9pm. C4. which misses out the ty song at the end not to BBC2. The day's news in quality of their programs, tablespoon of vinegar. Mortimer 9.30pm Then Jim Davidson came ambush scene, but still well be missed. convenient sound-bite this show so dismal that it BBC2. A right grand in and they all had a worth watching.. Watch out Rolling Stones live -sized chunks. With Peter sets the new low point Instructions: grand finale bloody good laugh at him. for Bob Dylan. 10.50 BBC1 Snow-ometer. marker for ITV. Sift together the flour and Nothing doing at ICU week, though - Dogs, True Romance, Meanwhile, Dram Soc June 12 - 15 & 17 at baking powder Add the cinema this week, due to Outbreak, S.W.F, An Pulp Fiction, AI No presents: 7pm. £6, £4 for stu- sugar and butter and gently the Midsummer Night's Awfully Big Corrida, Dumb & A Midsummer Night's dents. Preview Sunday fold together When well fILtt Dream production. Adventure, La Reine Dumber and The Dream the rock version at 5pm, £2. Tickets from blended beat in the eggs, Plenty of films next Margot, Resevoir Meaning of Life. by Billy Shakespeare. Union Office. vinegar and lemons. The ACC " mixture should be a smooth paste, odd more flour if Pavement + dEUS Fleadh '95 Boyzone + Whigfield ALT Black Uhuru Bluetones J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.) Weezer necessary Roll out onto a Brixton Academy (Beautiful South + Grand Jazz Cafe Subterania Dingwalls Underworld Astoria floured board, cut into angel tube; Brixton Van Morrison + Saw train; Clapham Jet. tube; Camden Town tube, Ladbroke Grove tube; Camden Town Presents tube; Camden Town tube; Tottenham Ct. Rd. shaped and bake for 20 Doctors + Sinead 017J 738 9000 0171 916 6000 0J81 9604590 0171 267 1999 0171 924 9999 0171 482 1932 0171 434 0403 O'Connor + Jimmy doors; 3.30p.m. doors; 7p.m. doors; 8p.m doors; 7.30 p.m. mins in an oven heated to doors; 7p.m. doors; 7.30 p.m doors; 7p.m. Barnes + Big Country + tickets; £5 tickets; £10 tickets; £8 tickets; £5 350 degrees F. Sprinke with tickets; £9 tickets, £8 tickets, £7 50 THE JUNE Kirsty MacColl + Shane icing sugar to serve. MacGowan etc.) Freakpower Dodgy + Cast Bitty McLean Whale Quicksand Warrior Soul + Go to the Union Carnival, Finsbury Park Forum Jazz Cafe Splash at Water Rats Garage Astoria Clawfinger pick up your fast FELIX on UUorrj for the tube; Finsbury Park tube; Kentish Town tube; Camden Town tube; King's Cross tube, HighburyS Islington tube; Tottenham Ct. Rd. Astoria Wednesday June 21 and DISCOUNT DAY 0171 344 0044 Week 0171 284 2200 0171 916 6000 0171 278 3879 0171 607 1818 0171 434 0403 tube, Tottenham Ct Rd then GO HOMEM! gates, 11 a.m. doors; 9 p.m. doors; 7 p.m doors; 8 p.m. doors; 8 p.m. doors; 9 p.m. 0171 434 0403 Maranbutsiansica tickets, £27.50 tickets; £7.50 tickets; £15 tickets; £3.50 tickets, £5 tickets; £9.50 doors; 7 p.m ON tickets; ring for prices Meaning: A word of underfermined origins whose meaning is The Best of British The Brady Bunch Movie Killer Clerks Six Degrees of Rob Roy Bullets over Broadway Six Degrees of SUNDAY JUNE 11TH Animation 2 A gently ironic look back MGM Chelsea, Kings Rd Renoir, Brunswick Sq Sepe ration Odeon Kensington Chelsea Cinema, Kings Seperation unclear, other than it is From the darkest realms at america's 70's glamour. 0171 352 5096 0171 837 8402 UC1 Whiteleys, 01426914666 Road SW3 0171 351 MGM Fulham Rood a suitable entry for a of fantasy & desire to the MGM Baker Street. Sloane Sq and then bus tube, Russell Square Queensway tube; Kensington High St 3742. Slone Sq tube. 0?7I 370 2636 name on a 10 pin Save an EXTRA 10% on ALL 3, 6.05, 9.10 tickets; £6, bitter edge of comedy. . 0171 935 9772. tube; 2.10, 4.40, 7.00, 9.30 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9 0171 792 3303 2 10, 4.20, 6.35, 8 50 S Ken tube and then bus bowling computers. ICA Cinema, The Mall, Baker Street. 1.30,3.55, tickets; £6, Mon-Fri tickets; £6, 1st perf £4, tube, Bayswater £6.50, before 5pm £3 50 110, 4.10, 6.55, 9.30 M—I tickets £7, £6 cones. SW1. £6 50, £5 matinees, 6.20, 8.45. £6. £3.50 before 6pm and students £2.50 cones. 1.40, 4.10, 6.40, 9.10 today & tommorrow only. tickets; £6, Mon-Fri cones & mondays. matinees & cones. £3.50 tickets; £5.75, before before 6pm and students Example: "Did you calls, ALL day o 3pm Mon-Fri £3.50 £3 50 know that Iran was ...except of course for once called Please note this is the last ACC discount day for the Sorry, but art has IC's very own exhibition Ma ranb utsta n si ca ? " in the Sherfield Ante become a sub section said Sandy's younger 1994/95 academic year room. Some are very of the veneer of style, brother. the glam genre that good, some are for sale, "No, foolish one, you thinks if s art... some ore not very large but all are on free view all mean Mesopotamia. day. Maranbutstansica means something far more sinister." said Sandy. "My, you are so wise" replied his brother. This document is foi guidance only and docs not form pail of any contract. It is subject !o change without notice Blur + Boo Radleys + Dodgy im 17 June £18.50 Rod Stewart Wembley 17 June £22-3 Fiddler 21 June £8 Jamiroquai ! £12.50 Meltdown 95 Loads of bands Royal Fest Hall 23 Jovi + Ugly Kid Joe + Von Ho1« - 25 June -£23 Glastonbury SO 23 25 June Wet Wet FELIX is produced fc 1 behalf of Imperial College Union Publications Board. It is printed by the Imperial College Union Print Unit, Prince bOOKinas & 27 June Robert Cray Shep Bi 30 June £1 5 Mercury Rev Astoria 1 July Jesus & Mary i Consort Road, Londor IB (Tel: 0171 594 8072, Fax: 0171 589 4942). Editor: Owain Bennallack Copyright FELIX 1995. ISSN 1040-0711 FELIX Empire 2 July £10 Elastico + G M Forum 6 July £10 The Verve Astoria 7 July £7 levellt FELIX Sport -dive to: : Deen used during mat Sports hours, then you will get to )ui There are three different kii as the5parachute is opened by parachute opens 2-3 seconds ; jumps have been done in this Crazy - Se jump without the line. Acceli Lunatic Frige - Tom Coo irane& Red Rider You train tor 5 hours and tun trol and Jet you pull vour owr three jumps, only one itistrue jump on vour own. Tandem, strapped to a more experience the parachute, ft requires onf fewer physical restraints. It's no want to try the experience! "What: tie parachute doesn't open?" is a fairly obvious w aa "€Wigv.i v» ondense on their exposed s question, law you have two parachutes, so if one does not irption of the necessary OX} open you ire a reserve. However, it must be noted that the technology utilised foi Devices are recommended f in today's ort parachuting equipment is light years ahead of the old military m surplus gear used in the '60s and '70s. The canopies are drastically different 1 ran be obtained via the WWW - the Partoaru Skydiving from the classic G.I. Joe round parachutes. The materials are stronger, lighter cli riiversity of Technology (Finland). and last longer, the packing procedures are simpler, the deployment sequence is ht yok/kerhot/Paranam. There's another site at much more refined, etc. ht kydivE/. If you're interested in trying it out, look in tlie The reserve canopies are even more carefully designed and packed. The Y< tish Parachute Association, Wharf Way, Glen Parva, reserve parachute must be inspected and repacked every 120 days by an FAA L< FRESH HAIR SALON the best student offer in london! CUT & BLOW D RY £14 LADIES £12 MEN j^X*"! Normal price: £28! 1 minute walk from South Kensington Tube Station!! Call: 071 823 8968 15A HARRINGTON ROAD, SOUTH KENSINGTON, LONDON SW7 3 ES