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FREE Take a copy Unfair and Finding room lovely for expression with third space Beauty standards of fairness are ingrained in our Art 20 society. A student speaks on her experience of colourism. Let’s rethink beauty Features 12 Fashion 22 No. 859 Friday 25th January 2019 varsity.co.uk Cambridge’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1947 St. Edmund’s drew controversy in December for its appointment of Carl (LOIS WRIGhT) NUS formally proposes to defund its Trans Campaign Diana Stoyanova Senior News Correspondent he National Union of Students (NUS) has formally announced a proposal to defund its Trans Oicer and Committee for at least the 2019-20 period, prompting criticism from the NUS LGBT+ Campaign, among other student activists his proposal, which was formally conirmed on 16th January, comes along- side a series of cuts aiming to limit the number of full-time oicers to 12 and plug the NUS’ large deicit. he proposal letter was co-signed by the Chair of the Board, NUS President Shakira Martin, St. Edmund’s students reject investigation Continued on Page 9 ▶ ‘Unacceptable panel into Noah Carl appointment overreach’ students and academics. St. Edmund’s JCR released in a state- panel” and the lack of external advice Jess Ma he investigation panel set up by St. ment saying that they had rejected the and student involvement. Colleges’ Senior News Editor Edmund’s consists of three senior college investigation panel on the grounds of “In the given circumstances, since all members, none of whom have academic three primary reasons – a lack of inde- constituents of the Nominations Panel Prevent data he St. Edmund’s JCR has unanimously expertise in the social sciences or are pendence among those on the panel, a and Governing Body are implicated in rejected the College’s investigation panel conirmed to identify as BAME. lack of academic expertise, and “poor the allegations of racist sympathies dur- into the appointment of Dr. Noah Carl, he investigation has also been la- representational ethics”. ing appointment procedures, the College returns whose involvement in eugenics research belled as a human resources investiga- he JCR questioned “the principles has sparked major controversy amongst tion. used to appoint the current investigation Full story page 7 ▶ News page 10 ▶ Inside ● An interview with Lord Adonis Pg.2-3 ● Student eforts bring University its irst Green Week Pg.7 2 F 25 J 2019 News FEATURES ‘Our lives are like ngerprints Lord Adonis: – the one thing twins don’t share’ Page 13 ▶ “Although I am a FEATURES e breast cancer gene and radical education me Page 14 ▶ OPINION reformer, Divestment is a feminist issue. Women’s colleges should be leading the way. I can’t wave a Page 17 ▶ vulture Magazine magic wand” Rethinking beauty in the industry. e Labour peer speaks to Daniella Adeluwoye about his proposal for new access colleges – and why he still believes Using make-up to spark that this is the ‘radical’ change Oxbridge needs joy Page 22-23 ▶ arlier this month, Lord Adonis know what else would. controversially proposed that I think it would be naïve of me to Oxbridge should establish claim that structural reform would be Catherine Lally & Vivienne Hopley-Jones [email protected] Maia Wyn Davies & Stephanie Stacey [email protected] new colleges for disadvan- an easier and quicker x to the prob- Isobel Bickersteth (Senior) & James Dickinson (Deputy) taged students. Both Oxford lems Adonis tried rightly to address [email protected] Eand Cambridge have since rejected this in his Guardian op-ed. But surely we Joe Cook [email protected] Mark Curtis [email protected] proposal, deemed “revolutionary but should be looking at Oxbridge’s access Jess Ma & Kiran Khanom (Senior); Elizabeth Haigh & Oliver achievable” by the former Minister of problem through a structural lens and Rhodes (Deputy) [email protected] Belle George, Katy Bennett, Charlotte State, and the idea has been criticised tackling systemic and institutional is- Lillywhite, Victor Jack, Chloe Bayliss, Molly Killeen, Kyoka Hadano, Hannah for failing to address the wider issues sues? “I agree,” Adonis replies. But then, Bowen, Nesta Smith & Diana Stoyanova which are essential to discussions about I respond, if we’re advocating for new Amy Batley & Sarah Orsborne investigations@varsity. co.uk Oxbridge access. access colleges, that’s not really tackling Nicholas Harris, Eve Lynch & Cait Findlay (Senior); Charley In the article in which he proposed the real institutional issues that come Barnard & Bethan McGinley (Deputy) [email protected] this idea, Adonis anticipated its criti- before students even step foot in Ox- Zak Lakota-Baldwin & Marco Oechsner [email protected] Marcus McCabe & Sophie Zhang [email protected] cism. When we speak, this same attitude bridge. “It is. It’s one structural means of Lois Wright [email protected] appears as he shrugs o the criticism doing so. But of course, there are others. & Lillian Crawford & Madeleine Pulman-Jones lmandtv@ this proposal has received over the past I didn’t say this is the only thing to be varsity.co.uk Miles Ricketts & Alex Spencer [email protected] few weeks. Of his critics, he says: “ e Got a story for done. And indeed, I hope that if we set up Helena Baron & Cie Jen Wong [email protected] most insidious object, oten unstated, us? Email our colleges which are speci cally targeted Alex Jacob & Jess Beaumont [email protected] comes from faux radicals.” However, it news team at at the 3,000 schools and colleges that Emily Blatchford [email protected] William Ross (Senior) & William Robinson (Deputy) is possible to question how radical Adonis news@varsity. don’t have a Cambridge tradition, that [email protected] himself is. co.uk would impact signi cantly on the prac- Edwin Boadu & Steven Edwards [email protected] Adonis is not new to being unpopular tices of the other colleges over time. So, & SWITCHBOARD Daniella Adeluwoye & Raphael Korber Ho man [email protected] for his proposals. He has advocated for I see these two as going together.” ❝ Lucy Fairweather & Iris Pearson [email protected] state schools to emulate the private sec- What Adonis falls short of is promot- Zébulon Goriely [email protected] By far the - Hannah Kossowska-Peck (Chief); Alex Parnham-Cope, Hania tor and has criticised under-perfoming ing the more structurally radical reform Bar, Poppy Kemp, Beth Noble, ea Trollope-Metcalfe, Esmee Wright, Georgia comprehensive schools, which proved that Oxbridge is in dire need of. We have most effec- Burns, Pia Engelbrecht-Bogdanov, Ruth Moss, Aimee Wragg, Daniel Maghsoudi to be hugely unpopular amongst trade to address the root problems which & Edwin Bahrami Balani [email protected] tive way of Sarika Datta [email protected] union members and angered the let of cause the imbalances in Oxbridge’s ad- killing any Alisa Santikarn [email protected] the Labour Party. Adonis nds himself missions. Oxbridge is merely a symptom Edwin Bahrami Balani [email protected] in the same position this month. is of inequality - a mirror image of the gross reform is to Caitlin Smith [email protected] Noella Chye, Rosie Bradbury, Merlyn omas & Devarshi time he has frustrated individuals across educational inequality in our society. In argue that it Lodhia [email protected] the ideological spectrum, including Toby response to Adonis’s proposal, a Cam- Dr Michael Franklin (Chairman), Prof Peter Robinson, Dr Tim Young. Young described Adonis as hav- bridge representative stated: “We know doesn’t Harris, Michael Derringer, Caitlin Smith, Noella Chye, Louis Ashworth, Anna Menin, Daniel Gayne, Ellie Howcrot ing done “more to drive up standards we can do better still but we cannot do answer © VARSITY PUBLICATIONS LTD, . All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be in state schools as a Labour education it in isolation.” reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, some bigger mechanical photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission of the publisher. minister than most Conservatives do as When I again push the argument that Varsity, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX. Telephone 01223 337575. education secretaries.” If this comment educational inequality is entrenched question Varsity is published by Varsity Publications Ltd. Varsity Publications also publishes e Mays. made by Toby Young fails to give you in British society and that this should Printed at Ili e Print Cambridge – Winship Road, Milton, Cambridge CB24 6PP on 42.5gsm ❞ newsprint. Registered as a newspaper at the Post O ce. ISSN 1758-4442. an insight into Adonis’ politics, I don’t instead be the focus when it comes to Friday 25th January 2019 3 News forming solutions, Adonis rebuts, “not ❝ get big change from setting up new col- ▲ Adonis claims access, there is a considerable amount of fence mechanism to avoid an immediate instead, no. We need to do both. I’m a leges than trying to dramatically change that new access nuance that is lacking. he discourse per- reform like the establishment of new radical school reformer.” I realise that It would practices and redistribute assets between colleges would vading access is monopolised by how we colleges.” I have pushed him as far as he will go put more the existing wealthy colleges.” He be- not decrease might get disadvantaged students into In my opinion, Adonis should stop on this topic. Adonis claims that he is scrutiny on lieves that “nothing short of quotas... will pressure existing Cambridge, but not so much on how best trying to take shortcuts and instead go “completely signed up to radical im- bring about transformational change” colleges’s to support them once they’re here.