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Felix Issue 1016, 1995 TT IV The student newspaper of I Imperial College Issue 1035 October 6th, 1995 Hizb-ut-Tahrir Move into Imperial BY ANDY SINHARAY Islamic state as such, but were Police were called to an incident merely "raising awareness." on Prince Consort Road on According to sources at ICU, Tuesday after confrontations the group's aggressive style between the Islamic Liberation warranted concern among Party and the organisers of the Union Stewards who asked Freshers' Fair. A group of them to relocate. students representing Hizb-ut- When this failed, College Tahrir were involved in security called the Police, who unauthorised activities just watched from outside the newly outside Beit Quad. refurbished Aeronautics Chem- While the officially ical Engineering entrance. recognised Imperial College Shortly afterwards they asked Islamic Society had a legal stand the group to move slightly to in the Sherfield Ante Room, one side as they were blocking certain members of an the main Union entrance. internationally renowned radical However the Hizb-ut-Tahrir grouping decided that this was campaigners complied with this not sufficiently prominent. request. Hizb-ut-Tahrir feel that Hizb-ut-Tahrir came to both their organisation and prominence in October 1994 Islam in general, have been after allegedly distributing anti- subjected to a media smear semitic and homophobic BY IVAN CHAN campaign portraying them as literature at the University The annual Freshers' Flea Market - another creative name for evil extremists. Distributing London Union, and IC's own freshers' fair - took place on Tuesday afternoon. While committee leaflets from a stand outside Islamic Society distanced itself members of clubs and societies tried to get as many members as Beit Arch on Prince Consort from the group, as have many possible, freshers and non-freshers received more and more leaflets. Road, entitled "Discovering mainstream Muslims. Students readily solved the problem of excessive pamphlets by Islam", they claim that the A thirty-year-old inter- getting rid of them in the nearest bin. "western secular way of life is national organisation, Hizb-ut- Almost 200 clubs, societies and businesses braved the rain to not working". Tahrir feel that western display their wares around the Queen's Lawn, Sherfield building However, one of the problems such as poverty and and throughout ICU. organisers claimed that they unemployment could be solved "I think it was a great success," said Tim Townend, Deputy were not proponents of an continued on page 2 President (Clubs and Societies). Drinking to Excess Fire in Garden Hall ICU staff angrily denounced an Graham Cox, IC Fire Officer, article in last week's Time Out has denied there is any problem which suggested that Imperial with the fire alarm system in the students have a problem with light of a fire in Garden Hall last drinking to excess. month. Page 3 Page 2 TWO . FELIX FRIDAY OCTOBER 6TH 1995 Fire Officer: News in brief Beit Moves While Lucy had not left anything Alarms are Fine After the months of confusion, particularly valuable in the store, Imperial Estates are openly she has lost a number of things of discussing their plans to move sentimental value, including her BY ANDY SINHARAY insists. Imperial College Union over to old rowing medals. As a number A burning dust sheet, apparently In view of the over-activity the Sherfield building. Sarah of different people have access to left by contractors, almost of the Linstead Fire Alarms, the White, ICU president, has been keys to the store, it seems caused a serious fire in Garden Fire Officer stressed that he had given a copy of the final unlikely that ICU will be able to Hall during September. With the no concern over the system's feasibility study undertaken by find the culprit. main entrance to the hall filled reliability. In contrast it has been architects Trout and MacAslan in with smoke, a female security suggested to Felix that Security preparation for a meeting with Freshers' Full Up guard managed to put out the had no knowledge of the fire Director of Estates Ian Caldwell The ICU Freshers' events have flames using two fire until alerted by a Garden Hall next week. "I am delighted we sold out every night this week, extinguishers. resident are making some progress," and there are no tickets left for Speculation that the fire was Mr Cox said that the Sarah said, although she is still tonight's carnival. Entertain- concerned about the lack of started by a burning cigarette majority of these alarms were ments Manager Mark Home student representation on the butt, dropped by one of the hall's caused by students tampering insists that students without crucial Building Committee. summer residents, is with the system or by tickets should not turn up at the unconfirmed as the cause inadvertently exposing detectors event, as they will not be able to remains a mystery. With at least to cooking fumes. Andy Mourned get in. He says he is 'delighted' one alarm not sounding a The Fire Officer went on to Andrew Flanagan, who was ICU with the success of the events. considerable number of residents indicate that similar systems are Bars Manager between 1991 and There have been a number did not even attempt to exit the widely used in hotels, "and there 1993, died of AIDS this week. of problems during the week: on hall. hasn't been a fatality since the There will be a service at Monday evening, the building Speaking to Felix, Graham Fire Precautions Act". He Golders Green Crematorium at had to be evacuated when the Cox, Imperial College's Fire attributed the excess of alarms in 3pm this afternoon. fire alarms went off. Badly Officer, played down the the halls of residences to the functioning vents meant that gas incident insisting that there was positioning and relatively high C&S Break-in from the smoke machine no real blaze as such. "Dust number of kitchen facilities in It is still not known just how accumulated at the top of the sheets do not readily burn ... it's student buildings. much has been lost in the theft building. On Wednesday even- unlikely that it would have done The contractors, to whom from the clubs and societies ing, a window was broken in the Union lounge. It is not known anything," he said. the burning dust sheets store room last month. The store who was responsible. Mr Cox further asserted belonged, have now finished on the top floor of the union that a subwarden had attempted their work in Garden Hall. building was broken into at some to extinguish the sheet before Mr Cox said though that in stage over the summer, but it is Erratum alerting security. The fire, which future such items would have to not known exactly when. The In Felix 1034 we mistakenly occurred in the early hours of 15 be locked away when not in use damage was only discovered described the attempted suicide September did not result in any to reduce any fire risk, though when last year's ICU President as being from the Mechanical injuries, and following the why regulations to such effect Lucy Chothia went back to Engineering department. He was activation of the alarms the Hall did not previously exit remains reclaim some things she had left in fact from the department of was promptly cleared, Mr Cox unclear. in the room over the summer. Electrical Engineering. Hizb ut Tahrir continued from some of their negative publicity, universities, but were strongest in the freshers' fair at University page 1 also claiming that their campaign London. "They are really bad,"he College London, and that there was being stifled by student added, citing newspaper reports had even been a bomb scare. One by embracing an Islamic way of unions like that of Imperial of their anti-semitic, anti- source at UCLSU said the group life, especially in Britain, where College. democracy, extremist views and had "been very disruptive and they claimed the political system In spite of their apparently their support of anti-Israeli intimidating, and were harassing merely offers "capitalism and mild publicity, Hizb-ut-Tahrir terrorist action. If they appeared students" and had been ignoring more capitalism". are well known for their on campus again, he said, they pleas for them to stop. They were In response in an incident extremist views. The Deputy would have to removed for consequently banned from the where Hizb-ut-Tahrir students President for Clubs & Societies, trespassing, as happened on Freshers' Fair but proceeded to reportedly "sat in" on a meeting Tim Townend, told Felix that Tuesday, though he conceded take over the stalls of the Arab of Kings College London's Jewish "they're a recognised terrorist that it was problematic for other and Pakistani Societies. In the Society, they said that Muslims organisation, banned from Arab college issues such as freedom of light of these events, Sarah said should have the right to listen to states... [and] banned from most speech. that there were now plans for a other ideologies. They also said universities." He added that last Imperial College Union ULU-wide telephone support that they were quite prepared to year it was believed that they President Sarah White said that service should such activity occur go on the record and account for were active in about 50 similar activity had taken place at again. NEWS FELIX FRIDAY OCTOBER 6TH 1995 . THREE IC Drink Problem Denied PC Alcohol Awareness Campaign Planned Clive Reports Dear Readers, Welcome to Imperial College. I am the local community officer for the area. My involvement at the college is to report crimes, give student talks, organise crime prevention displays and code pedal cycles.
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