FREE! No. 794 Friday 19th February 1988 INSIDE 2 Frazer Moonie-rakers! Members of the Unification Church, the Moonies, have been canvassing in the College area this week. Several posters have been spotted announcing that the For better or for 'Collegiate Association for the worse? Research of Principles (CARP)' will be meeting students between 15th and 21st February. Following this, members of the 4 Union & the cult were seen trying to recruit students coming into College GERBILL along Exhibition Road and yesterday they had set up a recruitment base outside the Mechanical Engineering 5 Libel Department. Followers of the cult have been banned from College premises by ' A CARPie trying to persuade an IC student outside the Mech Eng Dept 6 Science College Security. Security Officer Mr Terry Briley told FELIX that he was exploiting young people. They are my campus without revealing their only able to escort members of CARP giving out pamphlets to passing true identity'. He has added his off College premises and that he could students which make no mention that backing to College Security and Reviews do little if they set up a base on the CARP is linked with the Moonies. believes that they are completely right 8 pavement outside College. It was only CARP say that they 'are trying to in denying access to the cult. in the power of the police to move demonstrate that is realistic to be them on if they were causing an idealistic' and that its members obstruction or nuisance. He also said 'passionately believe that the world 10 Previews that Moonies regularly try to recruit can change for the better.' The students in South Kensington at this invitations to 'come and join us for STOP PRESS time of year. an evening of international songs, St Mary's students have voted The Unification Church is anentertainment—an d snacks' all seem that their student union should 12 Sports umbrella organisation funded by the innocent enough but students are become the fourth Constituent Korean millionaire Sun Myung Moon warned that CARP is a sinister and operates under at least sixty organisation which feeds on the College Union of Imperial College different names throughout the world. loneliness and unhappiness of people. Union when the two colleges 1 5 Letters The movement has been widely Honorary Secretary Chas Jackson merge in August this year. The criticised for using brainwashing said yesterday T don't like the idea votes cast were 223 for the move indoctrination techniques and of religious fanatics running around and 61 against. THE NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE UNION I EE I I MM! College students once more this year. GERBILL It happens every year. If you are What is GERBILL and why should approached by CARP on College every IC student be concerned about premises, please inform security so it. GERBILL is the Great Educational that they can throw them off. Reform Bill proposed by Kenneth Baker but that's about all most of us Who cares know about it. There are some pretty I find the Union Council's I attend scary implications to it, though, if all more and more disheartening. I think the proposals go through. For that most of the members are more instance, the Government want to like those nodding dogs that you see completely restructure the way in the back of cars rather than Union universities receive their funding. officers. The only people who ask They want to fund departments Happy New Year to all our Chinese a problem, should it? questions at these meetings are, individually. But who will fund the students at Imperial. May the Year of coincidentally (?), those who are Union? There are so many other the Dragon be as good as the last. Letters standing in this year's sabbatical points to be considered, and possibly, I hear that the weather's been good Why did the MOPSOC and AstroSoc elections, and even these people ask opposed. Please read page 4 to find all this week. Could the Union please committees demand that their letter be drivilly questions. out more and turn up to the UGM put a sunlamp in my basement? printed in this week's FELLX and why The Council on Monday was a next Tuesday to discuss the Bill and its implications. did I print it? Normally I wouldn't prime example of this phenomenon. x Rag—who gives the money? print a letter like theirs as I feel that One person asked the recurring Something has been concerning me such letters should only be written if question: 'When is Ian Howgate Finally... recently. Imperial's Rag Committee all verbal reasoning has failed. I going to write a report for FELIX?' We still have a few sweatshirts and has been the strongest and keenest for printed it because I would have been Ian replied 'I'm not' and not a single t-shirts left! several years and is going to raise the open to all sorts of criticisms about person asked him to justify why he largest amount for charity ever this censorship of embarrassing letters if wasn't, given that all past presidents year. This is excellent and deserves I hadn't. I don't invite criticism. I have written a regular report. Is no the highest praise in the world. invite constructive debate. I would one concerned? Does anybody want Charity work gives students a good prefer any clubs who do have gripes to know what Mr Howgate does with name, yes, but should we be against the Print Unit to come and talk his 8 hours Monday to Friday? If you collecting amongst ourselves or out to me, in my capacity as Print Unit do then I would urge you to ask him in the community? There have been Manager, and if you don't feel happy at Tuesday extraordinary Union an abundance of sponsored events this with my explanations, then write to General Meeting in the JCR. year: the Piano Marathon, the Firkin FELIX. Runs, the Bed Push, etc, etc. All the On the other hand, if you have money raised from such sponsored criticisms about the content of Editor-in-chief Judith Hackney events comes from Imperial students, FELIX, please write in straight away. Business Manager Chris Martin who can ill-afford it and are probably Don't write articles for CCU Reviews Editor Charles Robin getting a little sick of being accosted magazines, especially if you're going Features Editor Kamala Sen by their friends who want their to get your facts wrong. Clubs Editor Andrew Waller signatures and, eventually, their Sports Editors Dominic Strowbridge money. I think, as an ex-Vice and 'Hector' Sullivan Is FELIX the SUN of student President of the Rag Committee, that Science Editor Steve Black newspapers? it is time to put aside sponsored events Typesetting Rose Atkins Try comparing the news story we ran in favour of events which raise money Printing Dean Vaughan on Ian Howgate's name change last whilst entertaining. Alternatively, Contributors: Chris Jones, Al Birch, Adrian Bourne, Dave Jones, Pippa week to the one in The Sun on Salmon, Adrian Grainger, Phil Young, William Lumb, Martyn Peck, Noel arranging more public collections. Of Monday. Nuff said. Curry, Martin Cole, Thomas Grieg, Pippa Salmon, Kamala Sen, Chris course, this would require much more Martin, Lloyd, Rupert, Simon, Paul Shanley, Neil Motteram, John Noble, work than organising sponsored CARP Max (I love you really) and all the other collators. events, but with the new Honorary CARP is a branch of the Moonies and Secretary (Events) this shouldn't be they have been approaching Imperial T~HEI«. OfJE V E A £ &U.A & A * Tr£-.' W6 W&R-t. ALU' \ H b ' on/I. ©WW 8tl5lN£SS AN\? HOWOATt LEilHAM' VET A\VAy WITH l-r.'fHAT ' B ArA\.£T ' TriE/^ G-tT P,\0 OF PK HEilpENCt WITH W>S ArPRovAL- AND R.E8M6.T 6-OIN6- IT'S 60l»<5 TO -T A K.6 QU|TE A ' S £ \"P 1HIS WEE IC Out OF &HAHTS , 3u. ST 'CO S WE LIVE It) THE fT?ASER.FufAtS '.SOUTH! WELL' X o-ugsi" A80mT COLVEbfc WE'i/E KNOWIJ ^8OUT Fofc AJ-COTAOO ATiolO:' 'WEtKS.1 Friday February 19th 1988 FELIX the writers and readers change so hopefully realise without such clues! should the paper change to Nonetheless these methods make the accommodate this. New technology page much more organised and offers the possibility of reducing those uncluttered than previously, giving 'endearing typographical garbles' and the overall effect of a European 'grey mists of pictures', even at the newspaper. The lines, however, have cost of upsetting readers for whom not had a favourable representation in such idiosyncrocies all go to form a the trial-by-letters page currently in 'flawed and fudgy friend'. More progress. cynically, however, the redesign is Also under attack is the tendency seen by some as a rearguard action of the layout design to incorporate against the loss of student readers to white spaces rather than the more the Independent. Though the common practice of packing every Guardian still boasts more readers page full of print. Though a deliberate aged under 35 than any other quality attempt to promote clarity, this does daily newspaper and perhaps, sometimes give the impression that conceitedly, the best educated the headline does not fit. As a similar For or readership in the national press. better worse? Before discussing the changes perhaps I should, at this point, confess Martin Cole reviews the new-look Guardian that I am not infact a Guardian reader.