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ISSUE 1654 ...the issue that wasn’t meant to but became an anti-Trump issue FRIDAY 27 JANUARY 2017 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON elix Students f demand better Careers Service RESIST PAGE 3 News Imperial students march against Trump PAGE 6 News To protest or not to protest? PAGE 8 Comment Trident | They lied to us PAGE 10 Comment Barry! Grab the boys some poppers will you? The state’s fight against legal highs PAGE 27 Millennials 2 felixonline.co.uk [email protected] Friday 27 January 2017 felix EDITORIAL Resistance is not futile. We think. ell we honestly tried – you Also jumping on the bandwagon, every know, taking a break from the >>insert descriptive term of choice<< in the US is doom and gloom. With the end proposing backwards bills such as bills “to repeal of 2016, we were eager to turn the Environmental Protection Agency’s most over a new leaf, start anew with recent rule for new residential wood heaters” starry eyes full of hope for the or bills proclaiming “each human life begins Wfuture. But since Trump’s inauguration last Friday, it’s with fertilization” or bills requiring “pipelines just been an onslaught of bad news, dumb news and regulated by the Secretary of Transportation to outright ridiculous news. Since Friday, the Donald be made of steel that is produced in the United has broken Obamacare, has withdrawn from the States” or God knows what. Transpacific Partnership, has reintroduced the Mexico Meanwhile the Brexit saga is dragging on City Policy which effectively strips federal financial and on. It’s turned from hard to soft to fluffy to support from any NGO lobbying for reproductive snakeskin. Honesty I just want to know when to rights, revived the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pack my bags. Come on people, I got plans to pipelines, ordered the construction of a Mexico wall, make, flights to book and a mojito somewhere in allowed six journalist to be charged with felony for a beach-bar with my name on it. covering the anti-trump protests from last week, frozen So read on and resist I guess, cause Shia science grants from the Environmental Protection Labeouf is in prison and we need a new glorious Agency, and removed any mention of the LGBT leader to create motivational viral hits, urging movement from the government’s website. us to “just DO IT”. Editor-in-Chief | Lef Apostolakis || Deputy Editor | Mattin Mir-Tahmasebi || News Editor | Matt Johnston || Comment Editors THE | Vivien Hadlow, Tessa Davey, Jonathan Masters || Culture Ringmaster | Fred Fyles || Culture Editors | Indira Mallik, , Tom Stephens, Meryl Anil, Anurag Deshpande, Theo Farah || Puzzles Editor | Hamish Beck || Clubs & Societies Editor | Abigail de TEAM Bruin || Science Editor | Lizzie Riach, Ipsita Herlekar || Millennials Queen | Tessa Davey || Millennials Editors | Saad Ahmed, Sanjay Battacharaya, Matt Johnston || Sports Editor | Sam Smith || Illustrator | Nathan Macabuag || Copy Chief | Mattin Mir-Tahmasebi || Copy Editors | Ipsita Herlekar, Selin Olenik, Vivien Hadlow || Cover | Joe O’Connell-Danes ||Editorial Pic | Fahdi Kanavati ||Centrefold | Joe O’Connell-Danes ||Potest Pics | Tom Hartley, Piramol Krishnan, Indira Mallik, Esther Maltby, Fred Fyles Address | felix, Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BB || Telephone | 02075948072 || Printed by | Ilifee Print Cambridge, Winship Road, Cambridge || Registered Newspaper | ISSN 1040-0711 || Copyright © felix 2016 Friday 27 January 2017 [email protected] felixonline.co.uk/news 3 NEWS felix Student calls out Career Services Lef Apostolakis Union pushes for resolving funding and staffing issues he Union has employ twice as many career ly the Science Communication have been to know the dead- spokesperson told felix resolved to put consultants, an additional six MS offered by the Department lines. Goldman Sachs’ gradu- that “support is available pressure on Imperial CV consultants and eight free- of Co-curricular Studies is well ate deadlines were in August! to students throughout the College to Improve lance career consultant pre- known for facilitating the net- I have been applying this year, including during the Career Services. sumably for seasonal spikes. working of students with indus- October when really I should summer vacation, and we The decision came Considering that Imperial Col- try giants through seminars have been applying the latest encourage students to be- Tafter Eric Suen, a third year lege has 17,000 students while and internships. September. Wish someone gin thinking about their medic raised the issue during LSE has approximately 9,000 Other departments are less had told me especially since career plans as early as Council last Tuesday. students, the quality and quan- lucky. Industry oriented career I had been to a careers ap- possible” Suen acted on results from tity of career advice at Imperi- events in the department of pointment”. Furthermore we were in- a survey he carried out with al is significantly lower. Life Sciences are notoriously Perhaps College will take formed that when demand help from Officer Trustees and This might come as a sur- few and far between with stu- a page out of the book of is high Imperial also re- Union staff, which revealed an prise to many, as Imperial is dent looking to follow ‘green- Simone Buitendijk (Vice cruits freelance consult- average satisfaction score of renowned for producing high- er’ paths such as Ecology of- Provost for Education). Bui- ants, while the Services 3.6/5. The survey (which ad- ly employable graduates. Ac- ten left to their own devices. tendijk has been working also offer a full range of mittedly had a small sample of cording to The Times and the Those coming from such less on redefining the teaching group support through dai- only 48 participants) revealed Sunday Times’ Good Univer- career-oriented departments strategy and one of the ly workshops, seminars, in- that users found booking ap- sity Guide 2016, Imperial is face a mediocre service. key elements of her plan teractive sessions streamed pointments with Career Servic- ranked 2nd in terms of gradu- The testimonials from Suen’s has been identifying pock- workshops through Panop- es very hard (3.9/5) with 30% ate prospects. This discrepan- survey don’t paint a flattering ets of good practice within to. Whether these services of participants having tried cy is thought to be due to the picture departments and trying to are insufficient or simply and failed to secure appoint- support departments give out “They always say “very apply them across the Col- inadequately advertised ments. themselves though. good” to CVs and rarely give lege. will be debated during the Career Services employ 17 Weekly Career talks are for any good advice. In terms of When asked about the long lobbying process that members of staff of which only example routine practice in job search they say “just goog- student dissatisfaction sur- is certain to come in the six are career consultants. the departments of Earth Sci- le it” – Anonymous rounding Imperial’s Ca- following months. The equivalent services at LSE ence and Engineering. Similar- “The most useful thing would reer Services, a College Mental Health Officer joins Union roles nion Council has physical and mental) but there grief and stress” to the Union’s The role would provide a 600 and IQ, imperial’s net- voted to intro- also are LGBT, Ethics and En- attention. point of contact for students work for LGBT+ staff and stu- duce a new lib- vironmental, Gender Equality, During her presentation on wishing to get in touch with the dents respectively. eration officer, Interfaith BME, Campaigns, Tuesday, Sadr-Hashemi said Disability Advisory Service, Still there are valid concerns representing stu- and International officers. that “we are at a very weird Departmental Disability Of- on what happens once the role dents struggling Despite the existence of a point at mental health, where ficers and the Mental Health is created. It’s not uncommon Uwith mental health issues. Ap- role meant to deal with mental it’s becoming more accept- Advice Service. It would also for Liberation Officer positions propriate steps will be taken health, the paper proposing able to struggle with mental liaise with Mentality (a ICU to remain vacant after the first for the position to be created the introduction of the new health issues”, however she campaign raising awareness or even the second round of in time for the elections in role suggests it is not enough. stressed that despite positive for mental health) to “facilitate elections. At the moment, such March. Arian Sadr-Hashemi, chair of steps, some mental health is- engagement of students with is the case with the Disabilities Liberation officers exist in or- Mentality and author of the sues receive a very different mental health issues in Union Officer. We will have to wait der to represent and campaign paper believes that the cur- public treatment to others. activity”. and see whether the Mental for underrepresented students rent role “does not provide “We have to push that [sic] all Concerns of the constitution- Health Officer position proves and support the Deputy Pres- appropriate representation mental health issues are ac- al inclusion in the role descrip- to be more attractive. ident for Welfare. Currently for all students with mental ceptable”. While addressing tion of Mentality as a point of there are seven roles. There’s health issues”, that its duties Council members, she stressed contact were shut down using a Disabilities Officer meant are “too broad” and that it is the need to represent all mi- the LGBT Officer as an ex- Lef Apostolakis to represent the needs of stu- necessary to bring “short term norities and urged the Union ample who is constitutionally dents with disabilities (both mental health issues [such as] to “keep up”.

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