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Issue 1,450 10 felix felixonline.co.uk The Sound of This week.... 2010 University Challenge: Impe- felix’’ss alternative guide to who yyou’llou’ll be listening to rial double up Edinburgh this coming yearyear,, see page 14. felix speaks to the Under Islamic Society about their News, Page 2 perceived scrutiny ICE: The way forward for extremism, environmental justice see page 5 Science, Page 8 A blagger’s guide: How to pretend to know about fi lm Film, Pages 17 Brand New speak to our glorious Editor-in-Chief Boris Johnson squares up The Mayor of London visits Imperial to open Prince’s Gardens this week, see page 3 Music, Page 19 2 felix FRIDAY 22 JANUARY 2010 News Editor Kadhim Shubber NEWS [email protected] Game, set, match Imperial College The world beyond College walls Haiti he most powerful earthquake to hit Haiti in two hundred years caused devastation in the country’s capital Port-au-Prince and the surrounding area. As many as 200,000 people are feared dead. TAt least 70,000 of the dead have already been buried, but accurate figures will take weeks to emerge. The Haitian parliament was destroyed during the earthquake, as were a third of the buildings in the capital, and lines of most communication. The government now convenes daily in a run-down police Some of you may want to marry these men,now. I’m swooning just writing this caption about them. Too la.... station near the airport. The UN mission in the country has also suffered heavily, losing many of its staff, including the head and deputy head of the mission. Aid started arriving several days after the incident, and has since KKawaiawai WongWong News Reporter place from a diagram of the knockout gained momentum, with the United States sending troops and aid through- stages of the tournament. Healy suc- Imperial’s Bonus Round Topics out the country. cessfully identified the starter diagram 1. British History (2 correct answers). France and the US almost got themselves embroiled in a diplomatic row On Monday, Imperial won the quar- together with three bonus diagrams 2. Shared Names (1 correct answer) after a French plane carrying a field hospital was turned back from the air- ter-finals match against Edinburgh leading to a 75-0 lead in the first 7 min- 3. Long Walks (1 correct answer) port at Port-au-Prince by the American forces running the overcrowded University in the latest University utes of the competition. 4. Picture Round – FIFA World Cup (3 airport. France’s International Co-operation Minister Alain Joyandet said correct answers) Challenge. Imperial needs one more Simon Good correctly identified 5. Girl’s Names Invented by Writers (1 “This is about helping Haiti, not about occupying Haiti.” French President win against either University of Man- Puccini as the composer of a piece of correct answer) Nicolas Sarkozy diffused the tension during a talk with President Obama, in chester or St John’s College Oxford to classical music during the first music 6. Historical,Administrative which they pledged to “unite their efforts to confront the urgent humanitar- secure a place in the semi-finals. round. Although the team failed to Subdivisions – (3 correct answers) ian situation.” The University Challenge team, led give any correct answers for this bonus 7. Terms Begin with the Prefix Poly – (2 by MSci Theoretical Physicist Gilead round regarding 19th century Italian correct answers) Amit, previously beat Southampton operas, Imperial was 105 points ahead 8. Music Round – 19th Century Italian Operas (0 correct answers) University and St. Hugh’s College Ox- of Edinburgh University after the 9. Literature – (1 correct answer) Japan ford with scores of 175-135 and 280- eighth starter question. 10. Picture Round – Identifying paintings 80. The team sustained the winning Edinburgh University Brechin an- depicting Greek philosophers (0 track to triumph 240-110 over Edin- swered all the questions to the bonus correct answers) sia’s biggest aircraft carrier, burgh University. of ‘identifying the Nobel Prize winners 11. French Cathedral with UNESCO Japan Airlines (JAL), has filed Chemist Ciaran Healy picked up half in Chemistry from the committee’s of- World Heritage Site Status – (3 for bankruptcy protection on of their fourteen correctly answered ficial citation’, closing up the gap brief- correct answers) Tuesday this week, in what is starter questions with Amit six, and ly. Imperial won 240-110 as the gong 12. Subscripts and Superscripts in oneA of the country’s biggest corporate Scientific Notation – (1 correct physicist Simon Good one. sounded. Imperial’s team of Gilead answer) failures. In the first picture round, the con- Amit, Simon Good, Ciaran Healy and 13. Archaic Place Names – (1 correct The airline owes more than $25 billion to testants were asked to identify the win- Ben Nicholson and Ed Brightman will answer) its creditors, and has vowed to cut 15,700 ning team, the host country and the be in the second round of the quarter- 14. Wine Grapes – (1 correct answer) jobs. A state-backed turnaround organisa- year which the FIFA World Cup took finals next week. tion has taken managerial control of the company, and injected 1 trillion yen ($11 billion) to keep the flights in the air. 22 Shares of JAL, have fallen more than 90 percent since the start of the month, Felix, Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BB. 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This issue of felix was brought to you by: Editor-in-Chief Deputy Editor Deputy Editor Copy Chief Somalia Dan Wan Kadhim Shubber Gilead Amit Sasha Nicoletti News Editor Business Editor Travel Editors Puzzles Commodores he discovery of a second uranium enrichment plant near the Kadhim Shubber Sina Ataherian Dylan Lowe Sean Farres city The Maran Centaurus, a Greek-flagged supertanker cap- Olivia Davies Milli Begum Games Editors tured by Somali pirates on November 29th last year, has been Medic News Editor International Editor Katie Clemence released for a record ransom. Dina Ismail Raphael Houdmont Science Editors Sports Editors Adam Lane TSeveral reports about the ransom have emerged. One put the sum at Brigette Atkins Mustapher Botchway $5.5m, while the other said two separate sums of $7m and $2m had been Assistant Editor Film Editors Nathan Ley David Wilson Feature Editor paid. Both sums are far larger than the $3m generally believed to have been Jovan Nedić Zuzanna Blaszczak Indy Leclercq Afonso Campos paid in January last year for the release of the Saudi-owned Sirius Star, the Ed Knock Nightlife Editor largest ship seized by pirates. Layout Editor Charlotte Morris Arts Editors Holly Farrer The pirates have become increasingly bold and ventured ever further from Carlos Karingal Technology Editor Caz Knight Tabitha Skinner their shores since the international community has dispatched as many as 20 Samuel Gibbs What’s On Editors Rosie Milton Rhys Davies military ships to defend cargoes passing through the area. Despite this, last Comment Editor Rachel D’oliviero Lucy Harrold Alex Karapetian year saw another increase in the number of ships seized – 47, compared to Ravi Pall Fashion Editor Lily Topham Matt Colvin 42 in 2008. 11 ships, along with 266 crew members continue to be held off Kawai Wong Photography Lizzy Griffiths Somalia’s coast. Politics Editors: Coffee Break Editor Ben Smith Ayyub Kamaludin James Goldsack Music Editors Charles Murdoch Alex Karapetian Joanna Cai Katya-yani Vyas Kadhim Shubber Jamie Beal James Lees Alex Ashford Clubs and Socs Editor Catnip Editor Richard Howard By Raphael Houdmont, International Editor Phillip Murray Luke Turner Alex Kendall Rhys Davies Stefan Zeeman felix FRIDAY 22 JANUARY 2010 3 [email protected] NEWS Political heavyweights visit Imperial Imperial is increasingly the go to place for leaders from a wide variety of political backgrounds, and as several visit the South Kensington campus this week, Features Editor Afonso Campos reports he last week has seen a fore moving on to officially open the and Technology as well as Minister itself however, was to observe how our As part of the Fabian Society’s new flurry of big political hon- residence and the square. Of note in his of Earth Sciences. The visit comes as university operates its processes of year conference, Gordon Brown and chos visiting our South speech was the description of Imperial part of a week-long tour of a mission to transferring technological and scien- Peter Mandelson delivered what the T Kensington Campus. as “amongst the very finest of universi- further the educational bonds between tific research into applications that can media have started describing as the Boris Johnson, the ties”, adding that he also wanted to “see the United Kingdom and India. India be commercially viable and applicable first “keynote” speech of the new elec- floppy haired Mayor of London, has more Nobel Prize winners cut their is looking at ways in which it is able to to real-world scenarios.