••• ISION, RTICLES, EVIEWS, TORIES, NFORMATION, HOUGHTS AND WHAT OU WANT TO READ ••• e WEEK Independent Student LENT Newspaper est. 1947 Friday 10th February 2012 Issue No 753 | varsity.co.uk 5 News: Interview with Helena 14 Features: Exploring the darker side of romantic 16 Cocktail of the 24 Film: e enduring romance between Parisian Kennedy literature week culture and the big screen Snow is in the Cambridge air Of ty Lov Ci e Valentine’s Edition SCIENCE e chemistry of “Fucking is the love new frigid. So Cam count continues Errors, of MUSIC much sex. So little Two more bodies discovered in Cambridge in the past Montreal intimacy. Is that week add to the rising body count BOOKS e Art of freedom, do you Fielding, Granta by Helen Charman Riverside Housing hostel for the home- Last November, ARU lecturer, think? NEWS EDITOR less. Dario Fisher, the studio manager former Fellow and Director of Stud- of Minuteman print company, situated ies in English at Homerton College, FILM Roman Polanski’s On Wednesday morning the body of a opposite St Luke’s church, told report- Professor Julia Swindells was discov- Carnage 40-year-old woman was discovered in ers “it is really tragic that he could have ered in the Cam over a week after her the River Cam, marking the third such found help just up the road”. e man, disappearance. Just as with the bodies discovery in Cambridge in eleven days, originally believed to be homeless, was found more recently, the death of the ART Shelf Lives, and drawing attention to the growing a resident of the Emmaus community, 60-year -old, who was reported to have Boooooooooom number of bodies found in Cambridge which provides a supportive environ- suff ered from depression and extreme in the past year. ment for homeless people, and which paranoia, was not treated suspiciously. At 11.15am on Wednesday, Cam- the Duchess of Cornwall visited this e death of the 52-year-old home- THEATRE Bereavement: e bridgeshire Police were informed that week. less man, Raymond Boyle, last May Musical a body had been spotted near Ditton Just eleven days earlier than Week, however, is being treated as a Meadows; it was later confi rmed to be Wednesday’s discovery, and only nine murder enquiry. Boyle was reportedly that of a woman from Cambridge, who days prior to the body found outside stamped upon and then dumped in the WEEKEND > is yet to be publicly identifi ed. St Luke’s, the body of 37-year-old water by Jack Robinson, 18, and Daniel 6 WEATHER 0 is comes just days after the tragic Marek Bogdan Zajechowski, a miss- Mynott, 17, following an incident on news of another death in the early ing man from Newmarket Road, was Jesus Green. The coroner’s report 2 hours of Monday morning. e body uncovered by a rower near the Fort St stated multiple blunt impacts to the 0 0 of a man thought to be in his for- George pub on Midsummer Common. head, face and chest, as well as immer- 4 4 ties was discovered by passers-by in A full investigation has taken place, sion in water and alcohol intoxication, 4 the doorway of St Luke’s Church on and the post-mortem results have con- and the prosecution are claiming that 8 5 Victoria Road, buried in the snow fol- fi rmed that he drowned. e police are the attack occurred without warning. 7 Jeanette Winterson 1 lowing the freezing weather over the not treating any of the deaths as suspi- e trial investigating the two teen- 7 23 weekend. cious. In total this is now the fi fth body agers continues, with Mynott and 7 e body was found not far from the found in Cambridge within a year. Robinson denying all charges. 9 2 EDITORIAL FEBRUARY 10 2012 — WEEK 4 Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of fi lling space. – Rebecca West EDITORIAL ...24 pages of words, pictures, facts, opinions, thoughts, clues, statements, Inside conclusions, insinuations and the occasional fl a s h of genius... Love: Romance should not ONLINE BLOGS SCIENCE be tidied up online Varsitech: e Manson Family. h, romance. is week saw completely removed by Facebook. Is Interview 5 Tony Benn Scientology. Pacman. Dangerous 7 Cambridge taken over by it still possible to fi nd romance on the cults with vengeful followers; Jake Rock of the Week two extremes - snow and a computer, and will lots of romances Harris asks ‘what makes is week we present total heart-throb Heather posing with a mass of RAG blind daters. now be made in the computer? How people fanatical about hunky slab of phyllite. Looking for love? Look no futhur than the While some of us were gearing up in will this change the world? By making videogames anyway’? A University Earth Sciences Department our snow boots and skidding our way love somehow the result of an app, to lectures, others were preparing the result of interpersonal suitability Verifi ed: Bill Gates gets NEWS some deserved praise from themselves for what they were cer- decided by a computer programme? tain might be the fi rst date with the Is it something else about to be taken Ciaran McAuley for his eff orts love of their life (as one Varsity sec- over by Apple? (Bill’s, not Ciaran’s - try harder tion editor put it, “You never know, Facebook is not romance, it is a tar- Ciaran) to eradicate 10 tropical 10 is week’s snow I might end up meeting the pretty geted market research device which diseases. is week’s snow in pictures by Varsity readers. Unfortunately the blond from Trinity who I’ll end up takes the romance out of the world. board wouldn’t let us include any photos from the Inter Collegiate ‘Frontline Foods’ marrying.” Hope springs eternal even e site encourages us not to take Vice: Snow Penis Competition (see page 9) - ‘What’s bitchin’ in in the wintry cold). chances with our desires. Ultimately, the kitchen?’ - ‘THIS, After paying your fi ver and fi ll- however, love is a great risk taking is culinary triage’: FEATURES ing out the RAG blind date form, process, and involves taking the sort all phrases that fail wildly hoping that you’ll be paired of risks that make life richer. Face- to adequately describe 18 with the partner of your dreams, you book and the tabloid world encourage our Vice blogs this week. Valentine’s Voyeur receive your date’s disclosed details. addiction to instant gratifi cation and Of course, the very fi rst thing to do are ultimately about lust. Love is Rose Hills shows us how to make RAG blind daters and Varsity Assistant Buisness We follow is type their name into the Facebook about subtler, sweeter and ultimately chickpea stew; Lucy James ponders Manager Tristan (‘Future investment banker - Kaching!’) on their search engine and scrutinise, fi rst more satisfying romance; it is to be the great fryup; and Helena Pike search for love surveys a German cakery. and foremost, their appearance. Any nurtured. element of mystery and risk taking After the snow last week, Cam- Vulture: Alex Hitchcock is feeling THEATRE entwined with a ‘blind date’ is thereby bridge took on a new light. Coated Kind of Blue about effi ciently eliminated from the outset. in a blanket of seductive white - and whether to treat jazz as 20 Facebook itself was fi rst born as a treacherous ice - everything was taken a cultural artefact or Marlowe Society version of a university dating site – at a slower pace: the city fell quiet, recognise it as an ever- e Marlowe Society revives the comedy of from the Harvard ‘Fit-College’-esque and became romantic again. Couples relevant Love Supreme. A Midsummer Night’s Dream website ‘Facemash’, where online visi- ventured out at night having snow- I can only respond ‘Time tors would vote on all students in the ball fi ghts, and early in the morning Out’! I need to Ah and Um university database based on their in each college courtyard students this one over. attractiveness. Facebook, eff ectively, were building snowmen adorned with MUSIC became a mutated and updated ver- college scarves. Cambridge became sion of just that – originally built by aesthetically pleasing in a whole new Team List (Celebrity Crush) Mark Zuckberg with the intention of way. Editors Madeleine Morley and Louise Benson Love songs 22 discovering a girl’s ‘single/in a rela- A few days later though, the snow [email protected] (Macaulay Culkin) tionship/it’s complicated’ status. hardened and became icy and diffi - Business Manager Michael Derringer Our Music Editor, Rory Williamson, asks himself [email protected] (Birgitte Nyborg) ‘Why so many love songs?’ Ultimately, surmising whether the cult to deal with. e dreamy white Senior Arts Editor Zoe Large object of one’s curiosity was attrac- turned into something else, some- [email protected] (Richard O’Brien) tive or not. thing more real. And, in reality, it is News Editor’s Stephanie Barrett, Helen Charman, Matt Today, Facebook still could be just such honest, disorganised, messy Russell, Rosie Sargeant [email protected] (Johnny Depp) ART defi ned as having the same use, albeit - and real - love that can deal with the Online Editor James Vincent internationally and amongst non- slush and diffi culty, and with what [email protected] (Richard E. Grant) students. Although the website has comes next; we shouldn’t just want it Science and Theatre Editor Helen Cahill 25 [email protected] (David Leigh) Kettle’s Yard become publicly owned, with the new, to be a perfect snow all the time, and Perspectives Editor Emily Fitzell Curator Sebastiano Barassi talks about its founder’s legacy currently optional, version Time- not want the illusion to melt.