IMPERIAL COLEGE UNION NO. 284 29th JANUARY, 1970 Direct Massive The Violence Action Other flares at A meeting of the Acade- mic Working Party for the Mooney Side I.C. Hop A.A./I.C negotiations was abandoned before business of commenced when students Student entered the room to observe Meeting the proceedings. the badly cut The meeting of the work- The last Union meeting the refectory committee, the Some tasty morsels ing party had been called to decided, as those who were caterers, and a representa- The disco at the last I.C. produce "A definitive paper present will know, to hold tive of the administration in the kitchens Story on student participation". an open meeting on refec- would be invited to explain hop had to be closed early This is the main stumbling tories in all their many the college's attitude (es- following some trouble be- block to the merger which facets. The refectory com- pecially to finance). tween visiting skinheads and has to be finalised by August mittee, Mr. Mooney, and The question of a full boy- self was. The staff were par- a boy from Chelsea college. this year. some of his manageresses cott has been put off until Felix asked Mr. Mooney ticularly annoyed when they Students at the A.A. are also wish to attend a Union after the open forum, which for his opinions on the REPORTS differ as to the could not recognise many of fully involved in the running meeting, to be held in the will almost certainly be on boycott. He gave the im- events leading up to the in- the pickets as regular users of their college. Two stud- next two weeks. Thursday 8th. Posters will pression of being upset and cident, but it seems that ents were invited to observe offended by the boycott, of the refectory. They were Terence Davidson was sitting The refectory committee be circulated, and it is hoped this special meeting, Piers despite John Goodman's as- also offended that the stu- telling a joke to his girl held an emergency meeting the Great Hall will be filled! Corbyns and a representa- surances that the action was dents found their food inedi- friend when a skinhead, who on Thursday (immediately Students are asked to think tive of the A.A.'s union. not intended as a personal ble. Moreover, said Mr. possibly thought they were after the Union meeting). of suggestions for improving Usually no students sit on attack on him. Mooney, there was the un- laughing at him, thrust a This meeting accepted the the college catering and also the working party. derlying fear that, if the beer glass into Davidson's invitation to the food Forum, o^ any complaints. In his opinion the standard In the Great Hall last situation got worse, the kit- face, cutting it badly, Tim, thought it was a good idea. of hygiene in S/S was ac- thursday the two hundred chens might close and the the DJ, closed the disco im- Apart from that, the meet- ceptable and the food was and fifty students present staff would almost all lose mediately and turned on the ing consisted of Mr. Stephen- The Student's not any worse than the other unanimously passed a mo- their jobs. lights; a boy was appre- son complaining of the cock- refectories. The boycott to tion before them "strongly hended at the door and was roach publicity in Felix, Case him was pointless; it would Mr. Mooney also men- requesting that the meeting taken to the police station for Felicity and the Sun. Mr. achieve nothing, and the tioned that the boycott had of the working party be John Goodman, who or- the night. Earlier in the Mooney related the saga of only people who would lose taken him by surprise. He held in public so that all in- ganised the boycott, gave his evening there was another the S/S chefs; and sugges- would be the customers, as had only heard of it that terested students from I.C. views in an interview with incident in the Beit quad- tions on improving the the financial loss entailed by morning (tuesday) and did and the A.A. may be present Felix. rangle which resulted in wages and quality of the the boycott could only be not think that the students to hear the discussion and someone from the Health staff. Students on the com- Felix Why did you ar- passed onto them. had time to organise their ask questions." A delegation Centre being called to treat mittee also asked the staff range the boycott? Mr. Mooney said that the protest. In fact, he was pre- of eight was elected to con- a girl who was injured. if they would condescend to J.G. I arranged the boy- kitchen staff in S/S were paring for the boycott the vey the motion to the work- following day, Wednesday. ing party, then in session, eat in lower S/S at least once cott because of a general more annoyed than he him- There were several skin- with Piers Corbyn acting as a week. feeling of discontent and heads at the dance but it is dissatisfaction with college intermediary. The request Explaining the philosophy reported that all had Stu- food. The cockroaches were was refused immediately, behind the motion John dents' Union cards. The the last straw, and it was as was the delegation's fur- Goodman said that Mr. dance itself was a success, clear that this was the issue ther request for the working Mooney had been complain- but more as a concert given to arouse the student body. party to allow more ob- ing about a lack of com- by the Procul Harum, since servers. munication between the Felix What were you try- there were so many people ing to prove? it was impossible for anyone On being told this by Piers various bodies concerned J.G. I was trying to prove to dance. Corbyn, the students outside with the refectories. In view (and succeeded in proving) started filing into the room of this and the fact that the that direct action works. Mr. a few moments after Piers student body had not had Stephenson and the staff took his place in the meet- an opportunity to put for- members of the refectory ing. The chairman, Profes- ward constructive suggestions committee claim that the sor Jones of the maths de- for improvements, an open Obituary partment, hurriedly aban- forum would be a good idea. (Turn to Back page, Alistair Buchanan doned the meeting. This would be attended by column 1) The R.C.S.A. has suffered a grievous and irreperable Before and after Mooney Chip loss through the death of Inconciusive Evidence Alistair Buchanan on 6th January 1970. As President Last week, a meeting of lack of bog doors on Mul- fence at a Disciplinary Com- of the R.C.S.A. for three Tizard Hall Disciplinary ler's staircase. She went to mittee hearing and yet no years, he stimulated and in- Committee was held to con- see the staircase rep. (Mul- action is to be taken due to fused new life into what was sider the conduct of one of ler) and saw two lumps in virtually a dying Associa- "inconclusive evidence". its members. The meeting, his bed, one with a head tion. His enthusiasm, ready which was closed, considered (his) and one without a head FELIX concludes from wit, and selfless character information that Mike Mul- in evidence. this that Muller denied the were an inspiration to all ler had been found at 9-30 Muller wrote a poem to "offence" at the committee who worked with and for one morning with a woman FELIX, (see page 3) which meeting. Comment overheard him. His interests and friends in his bed. The information were legion. As an old stu- says that he should not be in the Press Room—"There's (unconfirmed) which FELIX condemned for spending the dent (1927) of the Depart- nothing wrong in what I ment of Chemistry, he has lias, suggests that Miss night a woman. tilii Smailes, the Tizard house- It is believed that this did, and anyway, I didn't do shed lustre for all time on keeper, was investigating the would not constitute a de- it." Imperial College. 29th January, 1970 Page 2 FELIX —FELIX PROBE— A SPECIAL MOONEY FELIX Southside Kitchens INTERVIEW Two weeks ago, Felix staff heard disturbing rumours con- After the steady increase in the criticism of the The number of meals cerning the State of the hygiene in Southside kitchens and served in the lower Re- incidents of cockroaches in the food. Felix staff therefore Refectories by students, culminating in the boy- fectory at Southside has visited the kitchens on a night early in the week, before cotts of the Southside (see front page), Felix re- dropped recently, and Felicity broke the news. porter Tony Kirkham went to see the Refectory now only 400 lunches On that evening, there had been a late evening dinner. and 450 evening meals Felix staff saw piles of dirty pans and unwashed plates left Manager, Mr. V. J. G. Mooney, to ask for his com- are sold. There has also out in the kitchens overnight. Clearly the kitchen staff had ments on the situation. been a drop in customers dumped the dinner there and gone home! for the waitress service Insects, notably cockroaches between \ and \\ inches in Mr. Mooney thought that the trouble had been brew- Southside restaurant, length, were crawling all over the walls and floors; the ing for about six months now, and that in his opinion though the snack bar is machines, such as bacon slicers and potato peelers, were the Refectories had become the current target for still going strong.