FREE Take a Feeling copy language Menswear under the collar sick Fashion 28-29 Rediscovering my native Sitting down tongue after years of neglect with he Mays Features 12 Features 13 Arts 24 No. 862 Friday 15th February 2019 varsity.co.uk Cambridge’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1947 Cambridge birth control: long waits and high prices Belle George Revealed: Cambridge’s bid to Senior News Correspondent “I was feeling quite mentally fragile. I would have been in no state to cycle the 15 minutes home on a freezing dark house a Ministry of Defence January night,” said an anonymous sec- ond year student who recently had an intrauterine device (IUD) itted at Cam- psychological research centre bridge’s Lime Tree Clinic. 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After waiting three he Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, London (DENNY J) Exclusive page 6 ▶ Continued on page 7 ▶ Inside ● An interview with Dr Nisha Kapoor Pg.2-3 ● Costs of halfway hall prove steep at certain colleges Pg.8 2 Friday 15th February 2019 News FEATURES Talking Dr Nisha Kapoor trauma at Cambridge. One student’s ‘We need to experience. Page 14 ▶ think about OPINION Highly functioning, still in need of support. he transition from racism more coping to struggling. Page 18 ▶ deeply and FEATURES Lamenting the lost tongue Page 13 ▶ more critically vulture Magazine than is being An exlusive behind the scenes look at the latest allowed for’ menswear derstand the way in which borders are shoot for constructed and what their purpose has Raphael Korber Hofman speaks been.” Kapoor notes how the intensiica- CUCFS tion of the use of deportation arose in the to the sociologist about racism 1990s in the UK with the growth in the Page 28-29 ▶ number of asylum seekers often arriving from countries which had previously been colonised by European powers. editors Catherine Lally & Vivienne Hopley-Jones [email protected] and deportation in the age of the deputy editors Maia Wyn Davies & Stephanie Stacey [email protected] In certain high-proile cases public magazine editor Isobel Bickersteth (Senior) & James Dickinson (Deputy) opinion can be swayed towards sup- [email protected] War on Terror porting extradition despite the various digital editor Joe Cook [email protected] business manager Mark Curtis [email protected] human rights concerns. In reference to news editors Jess Ma & Kiran Khanom (Senior); Elizabeth Haigh & Oliver the media and public hostility to the Rhodes (Deputy) [email protected] senior news correspondents Belle George, Katy Bennett, Charlotte rom the so-called ‘hostile envi- security, be subject to deportation on idea of due process and human rights Lillywhite, Victor Jack, Chloe Bayliss, Molly Killeen, Kyoka Hadano, Hannah ronment’ in Britain to Immigra- national security grounds.” guarantees in high proile extradition Bowen, Nesta Smith & Diana Stoyanova tion and Customs Enforcement With the issue of deportation con- cases, Kapoor argues “a big part of this investigations editors Amy Batley & Sarah Orsborne investigations@varsity. co.uk (ICE) in the United States, it stantly making headlines on both sides feeds on racism.” opinion editors Nicholas Harris, Eve Lynch & Cait Findlay (Senior); Charley F seems as if the topic of immigration is of the Atlantic, with the controversies In the era of the War on Terror, “the Barnard & Bethan McGinley (Deputy) [email protected] becoming an ever more prominent part surrounding the actions of ICE in the Muslim comes to be synonymous with science editors Zak Lakota-Baldwin & Marco Oechsner [email protected] features editors Marcus McCabe & Sophie Zhang [email protected] of political discourses across the world. United States often focussed on people the igure of the terrorist in general.” She arts editor Lois Wright [email protected] It was in this context that Dr Nisha Ka- from Central America, and the Windrush goes on to make the point that “you film & tv editors Lillian Crawford & Madeleine Pulman-Jones ilmandtv@ poor, Assistant Professor in Sociology at scandal at home regarding the deporta- have these particularly unsympathetic varsity.co.uk music editors Miles Ricketts & Alex Spencer [email protected] the University of Warwick, published tion of people originating from the Carib- pathologized igures that become tropes fashion editors Helena Baron & Cie Jen Wong [email protected] her book Deport, Deprive, Extradite in bean, Kapoor acknowledges the funda- in the media. So Abu Hamza with a hook theatre editors Alex Jacob & Jess Beaumont [email protected] 2018. mentally racial element to deportations for a hand and a patch over his eye. lifestyle editor Emily Blatchford [email protected] sport editors William Ross (Senior) & William Robinson (Deputy) Kapoor points out at the beginning and notes the political nature of the “it’s an ideal trope for the media to [email protected] of our discussion that of the extradition original construction of borders as part mobilize a sort of demonic monstrous violet editors Edwin Boadu & Steven Edwards [email protected] cases discussed in her book, only one of the idea of the nation-state. Referring non-human igure upon which you can interviews editors & SWITCHBOARD producers Daniella Adeluwoye & Raphael Korber Hofman [email protected] individual had been convicted of a crime to the “arbitrary boundaries” which was carry any kind of measures.” long reads editors Lucy Fairweather & Iris Pearson [email protected] before they were extradited, and that the result of this development, Kapoor he fact that there has been a “mass head of video Zébulon Goriely [email protected] sub-editors Hannah Kossowska-Peck (Chief); Alex Parnham-Cope, Hania crime was not the reason for their ex- adds that “there’s no kind of normative mobilization of Islamophobia for the Bar, Poppy Kemp, Beth Noble, hea Trollope-Metcalfe, Esmee Wright, Georgia tradition. his serves to demonstrate the way in which certain groups of people last 20 years” only increases the chal- Burns, Pia Engelbrecht-Bogdanov, Ruth Moss, Aimee Wragg, Daniel Maghsoudi point that the UK has deported people belong here, and other groups of people lenge of encouraging the public to sup- & Edwin Bahrami Balani [email protected] photography editor Sarika Datta [email protected] to “places that are known for carrying belong there.” port human rights for individuals who illustrations editor Alisa Santikarn [email protected] out torture who have not been convicted Kapoor refers to history in noting how have made the news for the attempts website developer Edwin Bahrami Balani [email protected] of any crimes.” the enforcement of immigration legisla- to extradite them. Kapoor further raises varsoc president Caitlin Smith [email protected] associate editors Noella Chye, Rosie Bradbury, Merlyn homas & Devarshi A large part of this comes down to tion in Britain began in the early 20th her concern with regards to the Home Lodhia [email protected] counterterrorism legislation which “is century restricting Jewish immigration oice denying certain individuals pass- varsity board Dr Michael Franklin (Chairman), Prof Peter Robinson, Dr Tim suiciently expansive so as to allow for from Eastern Europe, before later be- ports – that there is “no real transpar- Harris, Michael Derringer, Caitlin Smith, Noella Chye, Louis Ashworth, Anna Menin, Daniel Gayne, Ellie Howcroft other mechanisms of punishment where ing used to restrict immigration from ency” in a process which she describes © VARSITY PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2018. All rights reserved. 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