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“Keep the Cat Free” 07/12/12 Issue 1534 felixonline.co.uk FOOD FOR THOUGHT? Broadsheet looks into doing a Year in Industry, and has some top tips! Lording it over us? Your magazine from the RCSU FREE An interview with Lord Norton about the Roving Reporter We see what Curiosity has been up to House of Lords and reform. Pages 8-9 Win RCSU Tickets! It’s all in the head Try our puzzles to win Winter Ball Fill your brain with (more) science – we tickets! It’s fun and completely free have a roundup of podcasts for you Issue 3 – December 2012 www.rcsu.org.uk/broadsheet Pick up your copy. Pick up your even be next to Felix... It may Over £45,000 raised Massive building in Charity Week Inside...>> project underway Clubs&Socs Maciej Matuszewski Reporter Tim Arbabzadah Editor-in-Chief Page 3 Any keen eyed students who were at Imperial last year will defi nitely notice the diff erences around campus, spe- Student escorts? Mongolian cifi cally the Mechanical Engineering Building. Th is is not a simple reclad- A company trying to get summer camp 10 ding to revamp the building’s look. It is >> in fact part of a major redevelopment female students to pay for of building on the South Kensington Imperial get all Gok Wan with a refurbishment and refreshment. their student loan with campus. Steve Howe, Director of Capi- Before (above) and after (below) of the Mechanical Engineering building escorting has been found tal Projects and Planning, has said that 5 BUSINESS what you see is just the “tip of the ice- Page berg” describing the plans as a “huge project”. International reply Th e multi million pound project, believed to be costing roughly £39m, Following on from the has been termed the Aeronautical Me- story about the fees paid by chanical Engineering Project (AMP). international students, we get It will be performed over a number of years, meaning some changes may not some opinions on the matter even be seen by the current cohort of Page 6 fi rst year students. >> 7 FinanceSoc host CSR conference Podcasting: being slowly rolled out. Page 4 >> 21 SPORT Hockey destroy arrogant Kings >>53 2 FRIDAY 07 DECEMBER EDITOR’S PICKS FASHION >>29 FILM >>30 PUZZLES >>51 Fast fashion? Christmas fi lms! LAST CHANCE Fashion has been gone for a It’s the best holiday The last chance this week to while but makes a glorious movies for the ridicu- storm up the leaderboard return just before the end of lously cold nights. and become the biggest term. This week, is high fash- Home Alone is a must FUCWIT of them all. 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FRIDAY 07 DECEMBER 3 News Editors: Aemun Reza, Nida Mahmud NEWS [email protected] It’s the return Over £45,000 raised at Charity Week of the yard Hazem El Turk Reporter citing auction (which saw a choco- late cake go for £1,250), but also due Tim Arbabzadah Editor-in-Chief to the generosity of 21 individuals Last month Imperial saw the return who each sponsored an orphan for a of Charity Week, an annual campaign year’s duration. Paul Beaumont, Union President, has organised by the Islamic Society with Charity Week is a national cam- proposed a new “Retailing of Alco- the aim of raising as much money as paign facilitated by one of the UK’s hol” policy to the Executive Commit- possible for orphans and needy chil- leading charities – Islamic Relief – tee (Exec.), which will change the bar dren worldwide. Th is year the Week one of 14 charities that make up the opening hours and yards. was held between 29 November and UK’s Disaster Emergency Commit- Th e bar will now have to remain 4 December, however some events tee. For this specifi c campaign, they open until the advertised closing time were held outside of this week due to operate under a 100% donation poli- (which is section 5 of the policy). room booking constraints. Months cy, meaning that every penny raised Yards, as mentioned above, will also of preparation and behind the scenes by students will go towards helping be aff ected. Th is is the largest inser- work culminated in a series of excit- orphans and needy children world- tion into the policy. It will mean that ing and innovative events, including wide (the exact destinations will they are allowed and it sets out the the now much renowned ‘Battle of be voted on shortly), without there process for doing yards.