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ISSUE 1624 FRIDAY 29th JANUARY 2016 The Student Newspaper of Imperial College London Savages before How does the left feel breakfast about free speech? PAGE 22 MUSIC PAGE 5 COMMENT Rowers thrown out of hotel for partying too hard Venue bars non-medic boat club after accusations of damage and disorder Grace Rahman “business relationship” with Imperial Editor-in-Chief College may now be in danger, and that college would be informed of One the matter “to make them aware of behaviour did not improve they the behaviour of their students”. student was would be ejected from the venue. The club has now been temporarily The hotel accuses students of suspended by the union. damaging equipment, bringing This comes just one week after the accused of alcohol and consuming it in the medics boat clubbed were stopped ast Saturday, Imperial “vomiting all over [the] manager hotel which is not allowed, and at Dover on their annual trip to College Boat Club’s when he was explaining to you leaving bar bills unpaid. At 10pm, Belgium for being too drunk. Some “vomiting annual party ended early that the function was going to be two hours earlier than planned, the had port bottles taped to their arms when students were stopped due to the behaviour”. hotel management turned on the as P&O ferries decided to deny all over [the] chucked out for bad behaviour. The party was held at the swanky lights and threw the students out. them passage due to being “drunk LIn an email seen by FELIX sent Ambassador’s Hotel in Bloomsbury. The students are also accused of and disorderly”. from the venue’s management after In the email, the management told smashing the glass wall of a toilet Regarding the non-medic boat manager” the event, the students are accused the boat club that they were now cubicle in the hotel, which it is now club’s recent antics, the union told of throwing food at members of banned from any future events at seeking compensation for, as well as FELIX: “Following the alleged staff, vomiting in corridors and the hotel. extra cleaning costs. incidents of Saturday 23rd January, They are cooperating to establish staircases “around the hotel”, with Early in the evening, managers The club were also told in the the club have been immediately the facts of what happened on the one particular student accused of warned students that if their subsequent email that the hotel’s suspended pending investigation. night.” Is Crossrail 2 coming to Kensington? Local bosses publicly back plans to bring new rail link to the King’s Road osses of organisations on the King’s Road. passing through several stations in around West London, The proposed station would be London. including Imperial part of the £30 billion infrastructure The support was provided through College Union’s managing project by Transport for London a letter to the London Evening director, have signed an open letter to and Network Rail that would open Standard which was also sent to Bthe Evening Standard announcing in 2030 and provide new links London Mayor, Boris Johnson. their support for a Crossrail station between Surrey and Hertfordshire, continued on page 2 th PAGE 2 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON FRIDAY 29 JANUARY 2016 felixonline.co.uk [email protected] Contents A word from the Editor Editor-in-Chief News 3 Grace Rahman News Editor Comment 5 Matthew Johnston h hey there! Take a seat. do the same at Imperial, invite me. Science 9 There’s been a lot of I’d happily be the Holly Willougby Comment Editors Tessa Davey and Vivien Hadlow talk in the paper this to the Katie Hopkins you find Feature 13 week about political somewhere. Science Editors correctness gone mad, and all that What I have a problem with is Jane Courtnell and Lef Apostolakis Film 19 gross garb your granny comes up using free speech as an excuse to be O Arts Editors with at Christmas. But unlike a dick. Yeah, you can say what you Indira Mallik, Jingjie Cheng and Music 22 Grammy, these bite-sized chunks want, and people are going to die for Max Falkenberg of bigotry don’t sandwich an M&S your right to say it, but just because Arts 24 card with a ten pound note inside. you can say it, does it mean you Music Editor Cale Tilford Some LSE students, presumably should? It’s easy to be inoffensive TV 26 the ones that aren’t occupying, have and engage in debate. It’s called not Film Editor decided to form a free speech club, being a terrible person. Fred Fyles Puzzles 28 because their strain of debate isn’t It’s a hazy road from debate to Welfare Editor being catered for at a university purposely being controversial, with Noor Mulheron Hangman 29 well known for political activity. not being awful about stuff floating And look, this isn’t disgusting in somewhere in the middle. Political Puzzles Editors Games 31 principle. correctness is a phrase certain "Why can’t I be a bit racist against Hamish Beck and Roxana Radu They say they want to offer a folks seem to take as a personal immigrants?" Just don’t be dick about Food Editor platform to speakers that have affront to themselves, despite the it! "But Muslims think differently Sanjay Bhattacharya FELIX, Beit Quad, previously been ‘no-platformed’, fact that usually they're discussing to me, what’s up with that?" Again, Prince Consort Road, but surely they’re a union club, a marginalised group that they are just respect people! "What if trans TV Editor Saad Ahmed London SW7 2BB so are subject to the union’s safe not a part of. people are different to me and I Tel: 020 7594 8072 space policy just the same as the Instead of calling it that, which don’t share their experiences?" Be Technical Babe Printed by Iliffee Print Cambridge, Humanists, Palestine Society or upsets people so much, maybe just nice and not a dick, simple as. Also, Luke Granger-Brown Winship Road, Cambridge FemSoc. I’d have to go to a meeting replace it with “not being be a dick work hard and call your mum at the Registered Newspaper Copy Editors ISSN 1040-0711 to really judge. If anyone wants to and respecting people”. It's easy! weekends. Hot-take over. Mattin Mir-Tahmasebi, Ahmed Copyright © FELIX 2015 Ibrahim, Alexandra Lim Cover pictures by Tripadvisor and Crossrail Union boss one of 46 representatives of local "business, major employers and institutions" to sign pro-Crossrail letter ...continued from front page is being led by some famous local The signatories’ letter says that residents including The Good Life the north-south link would provide actor Felicity Kendal and Made In Kensington and Chelsea with the Chelsea stars Georgia Toffolo and “integration with the wider London Hugo Taylor. public transport system, especially The proposals are currently part of the Underground” which they say it the wider consultation on Crossrail currently lacks. 2 led by TfL who recently reported The 46 signatories were cultural, 19,000 responses, which are business and health chiefs including currently being analysed. The project the chief executive of the Chelsea has previously met with criticism and Westminster Hospital, the when Soho’s Curzon Cinema was chair of Harrods, and the director earmarked for demolition to build a of the Natural History Museum. Crossrail station’s ticket hall. The signatories claimed that the “A number of suggestions and project would “safeguard the area’s alternative proposals have been put status as a world-leading cultural forward and will be considered” hub and location for pioneering announced Michèle Dix TfL’s medical, research and educational managing director for Crossrail establishments”. 2. The results will be published in The current plans involve building Spring. the station opposite Chelsea’s Old Town Hall on the King’s Road. A GRACE RAHMAN & campaign opposing the proposal PHILIP KURUKGY Not everyone's a fan. Photo Credit: Get West London felixonline.co.uk FRIDAY 29th JANUARY 2016 PAGE 3 NEWS [email protected] LSE students start free speech society Their union recently said it would ban “something like a colour” if it offended students Grace Rahman Editor-in-Chief What does it all mean? tudents at the school have started a ‘Free Speech Safe space Society’ due to what they A ‘safe space’ policy is call the “growing sense of something most student censorship” on campus. unions have, and promise SThe group say they’re tired of to keep members and staff their university’s reputation, given happy and protected. Imperial that so far this academic year the SU’s own policy includes sale of The Sun has been stopped measures to combat sexual in its shop, the rugby club has harassment, violence, abuse and been disbanded for a year after it discrimination, citing ‘blackface’ distributed sexist and homophobic as one example of unacceptably leaflets, and trigger warnings were offensive behaviour. put up around a Palestinian Society While most of these policies are broadly similar, some unions cite their policy more than others, Founders of Breath in, can you smell that? It’s the spare time of Humanities students. Photo Credit: Wikipedia leading to the phrase becoming synonymous with, depending on ‘Speakeasy’ protest. confusion between debating a point correspondent, Nick Parker, who in your view, political correctness The group’s founders argue that and agreeing with it, saying that 2014 was charged with handling gone wrong, or the right to universities “should prepare us for some students feel there is a “veil of an MP’s stolen phone, but cleared comfort and safety during your believe that the real world instead of putting us hypocrisy” while students “pretend of aiding abetting misconduct in a time at uni.