We did the maths Paul omas FREE Take a Anderson copy Camdram delivers Calculated again REVIEW Art and its Looking at the data behind Phantom atrocities every thesp’s favourite website Are these the worst → read ever pieces of artwork? eatre Vulture Film & TV Arts Cambridge’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1947 No. 842 Friday 9th February 2018 varsity.co.uk The image of the world can be different The exhibition, with work by thirty-eight artists, marks the opening of the new Kettle’s Yard. Actions. The image of the world can be different seeks to reassert the potential of art as a poetic, social and political force in the world. Come and see what art can do. Free admission | kettlesyard.co.uk We did the maths Paul omas FREE Take a Anderson copy Camdram delivers Calculated again REVIEW Art and its Looking at the data behind Phantom atrocities every thesp’s favourite website Are these the worst → read ever pieces of artwork? eatre Vulture Film & TV Arts Cambridge’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1947 No. 842 Friday 9th February 2018 varsity.co.uk Joey Barton Adonis: Toope asks Varsity ‘blackmailed’ reporter if the University he is a virgin Varsity News Team for publication. Exclusive e criticism came while Adonis was Footballer Joey Barton questioned a Var- Harry Robertson in Cambridge in an attempt to rally stu- sity reporter’s sexual history ater speak- Interviews Editor dent support for reversing Brexit through ing at the Cambridge Union Society on a second referendum. He has been out- Tuesday. Labour grandee Andrew Adonis has spoken on the issue since he resigned Barton responded personally ater hit out at Cambridge vice-chancellor from his post as chair of the National In- our sport editor, Lawrence Hopkins, 20, Stephen Toope over his large pay packet frastructure Commission in protest over asked if Barton had an opinion on foot- in an exclusive interview with Varsity, the policy of the May government. ballers’ use of social media in the light of published today. Adonis made a second appearance in a sex tape recently released on Twitter Speaking ater a talk last week to the Cambridge last night, speaking in a Un- which features 21-year-old Tottenham Cambridge Universities Labour Club at ion debate against Jacob Rees-Mogg. He Hotspur footballer Dele Alli. St John’s College, the former transport opposed the motion ‘ is house believes e ex-England international was secretary and education minister at- no deal is better than a bad deal’, along- asked: “In a week that a sex tape involv- tacked Toope for his annual salary of side Nicky Morgan, former Conservative ing Dele Alli has been released on Twitter, £365,000. secretary of state for education. are you concerned about young players “I don’t think the University of Cam- In the last six months, Adonis has also and their attitudes to social media?” bridge should be blackmailed by some- become a leading critic of salaries paid Barton responded confrontationally: body from Canada – which, ater all, let’s to top administrators at British universi- “Have you never had sexual contact? be clear, doesn’t have any universities ties, using Twitter and his position in the Are you still a virgin? Have you ever had which are as great as the University of Lords to criticise high pay and to call for sexual interactions with anybody?” Cambridge – into being paid an obscene- lower tuition fees. He also accused the student journal- ly high salary,” Adonis said. Adonis himself was central to the ist, who had interviewed him before his In blistering criticism, Adonis said introduction of fees in 2004, when he talk, of tabloid-esque journalism: “Are that Toope came “because somehow was Tony Blair’s head of policy. e La- you trying to be a journalist for like e he was going to be paid more than for a bour government allowed universities Sun or...?” Canadian university”. He added that if to charge students up to £3,000 a year. Residents of Barton’s home city, Liver- Toope admitted he accepted the Cam- Since then, Lord Adonis has singled out pool, have largely boycotted the tabloid bridge job for the high salary then “he highly-paid vice-chancellors, tweeting paper since its controversial coverage of should go back to Canada”. about a “pay bonanza at the expense the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. Varsity revealed last term that former of lecturers & students”. He has called Ater our reporter persisted, Barton, Trinity student Toope, who was previ- Brexit an act of “self-mutilation” and has who is currently banned from profes- ously vice-chancellor of the University compared its signi cance to “decolonisa- sional football for betting on matches of British Columbia, would be paid tion in the 1950s and ’60s and appease- while being a player, asked if Dele Alli’s £365,000 this year. Leszek Borysiewicz, ment in the 1930s”. sex tape was “any of your business”. the previous vice-chancellor, was paid He has been criticised by many of “He’s a young lad, I mean it’s not right £345,000 in the 2015/16 academic year. his colleagues in the House of Lords for that it’s got out, obviously that’s some- Adonis insisted that he saw “no his comments on the government’s ap- one’s daughter. It’s not right, but, it’s not, reason why the vice-chancellor of the proach to Brexit. Lord Cavendish, a Con- I don’t think it’s wrong,” the footballer University of Cambridge should be paid servative peer, called Adonis’ resignation continued, before he was beckoned away more than £200,000.” letter “petulant and self-serving”. by a Cambridge Union o cer. e University did not respond to Varsity’s request for comment in time Interview, page 10 ▶ A ‘Kiss-in’ demo at Rees-Mogg’s Union appearance. Page 9 ▶ DOMINIKAS ŽALYS Interview, page 34 ▶ Inside ● Student tripos swap statistics revealed Pg.4-5 ● Students helping Cambridge’s homeless Pg.6-7 2 Friday 9th February 2018 Editorial News A world still to Sufrage be built his Tuesday saw the unveiling of a plaque in the centenary TCambridge Guildhall to commemorate sufragist campaigner and Newnham College co-founder, Mil- licent Fawcett, for the centenary of women’s sufrage. Occasions like this are a brilliant time to relect, on the one hand, on what has been achieved in the inter- Cambridge vening period, and to consider on the other the progress still to be made. A hundred years after the expansion of sufrage, women in Cambridge hold powerful positions throughout the student body. his term, CUSU, the Union, TCS, the ADC, he Wilberforce Society, and others all have women at the helm. In the wider world, despite headline celebrates backsliding (you know who), recent years have seen a huge increase in the number of women leading parties and contesting for the highest political oice. But attaining power is only ever the start when sexism is so deeply built into the structure of our society. It has votes for taken 100 years since basic franchise to get where we are, and there is so much more to be achieved. To properly celebrate the legacy of Fawcett and Pan- khurst, we must recognise that their struggle did not start and end at formal, procedural equality between women men and women. hough a pithy statement, Feminism is more than ‘the radical notion that women are people’ – it’s a movement which seeks to rebuild our society by deconstructing the prison of gender norms. A cursory lick through the Varsity archives will show the efects of ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ traits, and the relative value given to each, on men and women in Cam- bridge. Only last week, we reported that there remains an 18.3% pay gap between the average basic incomes of men and women in the University. Some have suggested A new plaque commemorates that women simply need to be more assertive, but the subsequent question is surely whether we really want to build a society which further rewards overconidence Millicent Fawcett, trailblazing and narcicissm, as our existing one does for men. he bias extends to your weekly essays, too. Last June, sufragist and Newnham founder Varsity reported on the gender attainment gap in the History Tripos, with Dr Lucy Delap, who specialises in Gender and Modern British History, saying that the Tripos launched in 2001 to honour the most tumed, were scattered among the au- systematically under-rewarded bright women. Noella Chye famous people and events associated dience. A group of actors – including his week, the University’s new anonymous report- Senior News Editor with the city. he plaque unveiled on one in a University gown – repeatedly ing system revealed that 173 anonymous reports about Stephanie Stacey Tuesday was funded by Newnham Col- heckled and insulted the sufragette sexual misconduct were made in a nine month period. Senior News Correspondent lege, which Fawcett founded in 1871 with leader, suggesting that she “mind her WomCam, led by Lola Olufemi, have been quick to move just ive students. It currently houses 655 own business”, and calling for her re- to the next stage, pressing the University to reform their Over 400 people gathered to commemo- students, and about 70 academic staf. imprisonment. When the actress began disciplinary procedures to better support victims. rate 100 years of women’s sufrage in hat evening, prior to the plaque’s un- to say, “I’ve just come today from–”, they “Courage calls to courage everywhere”, reads Fawcett’s the Guildhall on Tuesday evening. he veiling, the Guildhall was transformed cut her of, jumped up from their seats new plaque.