“Keep the Cat Free” 10/05/13 Issue 1546 felixonline.co.uk Flexible screens Only on tape Felix Science interviews an Imperial Felix Music interviews the professor researching OLEDs. Page 12 creator of Opal Tapes. Page 21 Dialogue over Acton Inside...>> College stress they will continue to look for cheap, close accommodation ARTS Structural inspection of Evelyn Gardens and Garden Hall Garden removed from website for next year’s freshers, with Paragon and Xenia remaining Working group of staff and students set up for input in Acton development Berkeley First Philip Kent Reporter for keeping Garden Hall, one of the cheapest and the most oversubscribed Hall of Residence. Th e Union has replied to the Col- Alongside this, Beaumont argued lege’s response to the Against Acton for retaining Evelyn Gardens, a group- Artist’s impression of campaign, started earlier this year fol- ing of fi ve halls at Evelyn Gardens, the new halls. Also a A review of the lowing the unveiling of plans by the near Gloucester Road. Th e halls in level on The Sims 4, College to construct a 724 bed hall of Evelyn Gardens are owned by the maybe... Design Awards 15 residence in North Acton. Paul Beau- Wellcome Trust, and are leased to the >> mont, Union President, sent a list of College, though this lease is expiring requests to the College, which went to within the next few decades. the Management Board in March. It was also of concern that the Ac- Th e North Acton campaign mus- commodation Survey, held in 2011, TRAVEL tered large amounts of support from may contain “discrepancies” when the student body at Imperial College, compared to the Accommodation a body that has in the past been ac- Strategy. According to an article on cused of not using their voice. A peti- the Union’s website (now unavail- tion organized by the Union received able), data from the survey suggested 709 signatures, and a separate petition student’s want accommodation close from the Garden Hall Committee got to College, at a price similar to that to 1,461. charged by Evelyn Gardens. Building on from this, Beaumont Union’s Requests argued that the North Acton project Paul’s letter to the College comprised should have had proper consultation of fi ve key requests to resolve the with stakeholders before the plans Greece: a summer complaints of the student body. First were approved. In his requests, he and foremost of these was to push asked that such consultations >> 7 paradise >>24 A first isn’t all people look for... HANGMAN Tim Arbabzadah Editor-in-Chief despair. So perhaps it’s not the best ful laboratories tend to be most ef- subject. Th e letter was clarifying what time to be told that getting a fi rst isn’t fectively run with a happy collabo- he meant when sources reported a all there is to life. rative team, essential in almost conversation that took place during a It’s exam season. Everyone at Imperial In a letter to Th e Times, Profes- all science. Good degrees are school visit. is slaving away behind a desk, energy sor Lord Robert Winston said important but they are not Lord Winston is currently a Pro- drink of choice in hand. It’s the time that “Scientists are best not ap- the only measure of suc- fessor of Science and Society and of year when fi nding a spare computer pointed purely on the basis of cess.” Lord Winston wanted Emeritus Professor of Fertility Stud- in the Library is enough to make you whether they had fi rst-class de- to explain to those who as- ies at Imperial College London. He is Guide to the banker ecstatic, and noticing it’s not free and grees; other human values are pire to a science degree that mostly known for his work in science 26 someone is using the classic penny in important.” He went science is not “harder” communication, including his recent lifestyle >> the arrow key trick will send you into on to say: “Success- than other academic series Child of our Time. 2 FRIDAY 10 MAY EDITOR’S PICKS 12 25 28 SCIENCE >> TRAVEL >> PUZZLES >> OLEDs Totally Mexico A welcome break Weird fact about OLEDs: when Taking a break from thermo? A massive slitherlink, hashi, I applied to university I spe- Escapism is a nice feeling some- a crossword, and Passi, what cifi cally singled them out as an times. The title here is a refer- more could you want in a re- area of interest on my UCAS ence to the excellent Nathan vision break? It’s like being on form. I may have exaggerated... Barley by the way! The Crystal Maze. MARQUEE WATCH PART 2 Examining hope Queen’s Lawn hasn’t got a marquee, but it does have a bouncy castle... Tim Arbabzadah Editor-in-Chief t’s that time of year once last time” approach very much. Halls again. The last term and the During the next few weeks you may College and the Union ping ponged last stretch of College until start to think that exams and work are responses to each other. This is a step Iexams are over (hopefully you the only thing there is to life. At a place forward. Now there is a much more won’t be returning in sum- like Imperial it’s really easy to get into open dialogue. Before it was all things mer for resits). You can almost sense the mindset that it is the most impor- that nobody was able to tell anyone the high tension and stress in the air. tant aspect of your existence. All of about. The fact that the Management It’s a familiar feeling and reminds you the work and your grades do matter Board have responded to students is that the culmination of months (and a lot, but remember that there is light defi nitely moving in the right direc- in some people’s case years) of work at the end of the tunnel. Just keep a tion. However, we must be careful. is just around the corner. Much like positive mental image of what it’ll be The words must turn into actions and Phil Collins once said, you can feel it like when you fi nish. It can be any- fi rm guarentees. Also, we must make coming in the air tonight – which, inci- thing: sunbathing on a beach/watch- sure we don’t all just get bored, forget dentally, I’ve only just realised actually ing endless TV/reading a good book/ about it, and let things quietly slip by sounds pretty rude when you think in Belushi’s calling the toilet attendant without the student voice being heard. LOLCAT OF TEH WEEK: Finding these is a perk of the job about it. “mate” and inexplicably giving him £2 Garden Hall and Evelyn Gardens So, standard advice about not coins for no reason – as long as it’s are still under threat, as is Pembridge. stressing too much and blah blah something that makes you smile it’s They really are a great asset and make blah. It really does apply though. It’s what you should remember you will being a fresher at Imperial an amazing better to actually do three hours of be able to do in a few month’s time. If year. In terms of student experience focussed work and then an hour of that still doesn’t help then remember (the latest catchphrase that basically chilling out as opposed to fi ve hours this: it is just an exam. Nobody will means how good your time is here) of not really concentrating. If you’re die if you fail it (erm, except maybe having such great, cheap, close ac- not a fi nal year then spare a thought for medics? But, you will have loads commodation was a real boost. We for them. In your fourth year you may of on the job training I’m sure/hope). must hope that there will be some have had seven and over years of ex- Even if you do, there’s always a way good news on this front at some point, ams in summer. By then you defi nitely out. Retakes, resitting a year, going and also continue to lobby for their get exam fatigue, and really have to to a different university to start fresh, survival. They are really worth it for motivate yourself to remember that there’s a range of options. So, parting Imperial. In terms of Acton, there must it’s just one last push. Unless you do words from the strange Agony Uncle now be a positive dialogue. We have to a law conversion course, or are go- persona I appear to have adopted: see what we can do to make it the best ing into a job where you have to do work hard for this short period of time, it can be, if it must be. It’s defi nitely training and pass exams. Sorry, that’s and it’ll all be over soon. Then you can good that there is a working group and probably not helping the whole “one forget differential equations exist. students are involved. Felix, Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BB. Email: [email protected]. Tel: 020 7594 8072. Fax: 020 7594 8065. THIS BROUGHT Printed by Iliffe Print Cambridge, Winship Road, Cambridge. Registered newspaper ISSN 1040-0711. Copyright © Felix 2013. 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