The student newspaper of Imperial College Issue 1050 FELIX February 16th 1996 Bookshop May hew: IRA must call bid may ceasefire again before talks cost £80K BY MIKE INGRAM BY THE NEWS TEAM The Northern Ireland Secretary College authorities have indicat- Sir Patrick Mayhew visited ed that they may ask for up to Imperial College on Wednesday, £80,000 a year from the bidder amid the furore following the successful in their application to IRA bombing of Docklands last run the new bookstore. IC's Friday. He spoke to a packed Estates Department are planning Mechanical Engineering lecture to launch an 'invitation to ten- theatre on the Ulster peace der' to gauge the interest of process in the wake of the break- major book companies, such as ing of the paramilitary's cease- Blackwells and Dillons, in man- fire. aging the proposed shop. College stepped-up security They will also consider an for Sir Patrick's arrival to application from ICU, who cur- address the gathering, organised rently run the shop on the by the Conservative Society. He Sherfield Walkway, but Union described the current situation officials are concerned that they as "a time of great disappoint- will be priced out of the market. ment |and| great anxiety", and The insist they could offer at spoke of his sympathy for the least as good a level of service to victims of Friday's attack and students, but haven't the exten- their relatives. He also sive capital of larger chainstores. expressed hope that the peace The Director of Estates, Ian process could be brought back Caldwell, insisted that the bids on track as quickly as possible, "will be judged on.a balanced set of criteria between service, the and that this would be through financial deal, and the risk." round-table discussions between the factions in the province. The Estates Department are He explained the hurdle planning to include the large preventing the setting up of all- bookstore on the ground floor of party talks on the future of the the library (Felix 1044) when it PHOTO: ALEX FEAKES province, as a "question of conti- is expanded as part of the cur- Continuc.d mi page three Sir Patrick Mayhew: not too busy after the bomb to talk to ConSoc rent expansion plans. Foot on HG Wells Elections update Karian speaks to ICU The Right Honourable Michael The papers for next year's sab- University of London Union Foot entertained a pack theatre batical positions will come down President Ghassan Karian out- on Wednesday evening, speaking this evening at 6pm. Although lined the new shape of ULU's on HG Wells, the subject of the further candidates have stood in constitution. Under discussion former Labour leader's new the past week, two of the posts was the representation of the biography. page 4 remain uncontested. page 3 medical schools. page 2 TWO . FELIX FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1 6TH 1996 NEWS ULU constitution debated News in brief BY ALEX FEAKES leges brought about by the The University of London Tomlinson report have changed BY THE NEWS TEAM students and staff alike to be Union's constitution became a this. aware of this method of entry by subject of heated discussion at Under the new rules, Southside robber criminals. ICU Council meeting on London's medical schools togeth- charged Monday evening. Ghassan er have only 4 delegates to the The burglar apprehended in the 'Drop-in' students get Karian, President ol ULU, was Senate between them. Some Southside Halls two weeks ago as £450 fine invited to the meeting to talk on medics have said that this means reported in Felix 1048, has been Two geology students called to the four month review of the that they will have less represen- charged by the police on three Union disciplinary after breaking constitution. tation on the new body. One counts of burglary. The name of into ICU Print Unit earlier this In his speech, Mr Karian said council member suggested that the burglar has not been released month have been charged with that the recent Education Act the fact that the medical schools yet, though he is believed to be the cost of the damage they which reformed the structure of will still send delegates to GUC from the London area. catised. student unions, and pressure to separately from their parent col- IC's Deputy Head of Last Friday's meeting also make the Union more account- leges was just "half-cocked Security, Kenneth Weir, still has banned from entering the Union able were the main driving forces appeasement", defeating the aim some property in his possession premises for the rest of this behind the review. The ULU ini- of the integration of the medical recovered at the time of the bur- term. The IC band Herb had to tiated a consultation process schools. Mr Karian said that glary, for which no owner has pull out of the Jazz, Rock and which began in September, and there would be another review in come forward. If you lost a large Ents . Friday night rock is now reaching its conclusion five years time. men's suit at the time of the "Abandon" on finding that one of with ratification by the student The Sports and Societies thefts, Mr Weir at the security their member was no longer allowed in the building. unions of the University. sabbatical post was proposed as a control in Sherfield will be The main changes from the solution to the conflict of inter- pleased to help you. Senior Union sources have old constitution involve repre- est between the Sports Council expressed disappointment that sentation of the medical schools President and the VP for Sports A Measure of Mary's the punishment was too lenient. and the proposal to introduce a and Recreation. The two posi- A ground breaking appearance of new Sports and Societies sabbat- tions will be merged to form the St Mary's Dramatic Society at New life found on ical post. The medical schools are new post with the aim of improv- ICU next week has raised hopes Earth currently grouped together as ing efficiency. of more cooperation between Researchers in America "Med Group" and send 20-30 A motion to implement the Mary's and IC. Shakespeare's announced this week that they delegates to the General Union new document, sponsored by play Measure for Measure is cur- have discovered a new type of Council of ULU but the mergers ULU VP Tara Jefferson, was rently being shown at St Mary's lifeform, distinct from all others. between medical schools and col- approved by Council. Union. The production is being The work in Wyoming's brought over to South Yellowstone National Park con- Kensington for performances on centrated on the genetic differ- Tuesday and Wednesday. ences between various microbes, utilising recent advances in struc- Marines play at the tural molecular biology. This has Albert Hall meant that microbes that are The Albert Hall was taken over outwardly similar in structure by the massed bands of Her have been revealed to be some- Majesty's Royal Marines this what different at a genetic level. week as they presented the The discoverer of these new life- Mountbatten Festival of Music forms claims that it will revolu- 1996 in aid of charity. Security tionise the way scientists classify species. was tight, however, with several roads closed to parking and the On a related note, builders area patrolled by police all week. in Romania have uncovered a cave containing 31 new species. Physics computer chips The cave was originally under stolen water, but became separated The Physics department was the when the Black Sea water level victim of yet another computer fell. Inside the cave, there has hardware robbery over the week- been no sunlight for 5 million end. A.selection of memory chips years, and the creatures have were taken from personal com- established an alternate food puters in a fourth floor teaching chain exclusive of photosynthe- laboratory. sis. Scientists have established Security believe that the that all the energy for the ecosys- PHOTO: IVAN CHAN thief 'piggy-backed' in to the tem originates from when bacte- ria oxidise the hydrogen sulphide ULU President Ghassan Karian spoke to ICU's Council meeting on building behind a legitimate user abundant in the cave. Monday, encouraging members to support his new constitution. of the department, and urged NEWS FELIX FRIDAY FEBRUARY 16TH 1996 . THREE NI minister appeal to Sinn Fein continued from front page recommendations in the report, taries have continued to commit- Sir Patrick became uncom- dence" in the intentions of he said, and pointed out the sec- throughout the ceasefire: "we fortable only once during the nationalists: "there has to be con- tion calling for all parties to sign have not had a true peace." He questioning, looking agitated on fidence that the ceasefires are up to the principle of democratic asserted that the activities had as the subject of last Friday's bomb real". Both the British and Irish methods. The report also con- much political purpose as the at Canary Wharf. A member of governments have stated that cluded that the IRA was not bombing campaign, intending to the audience asked whether he they will not meet with Sinn Fein going to accede to government "subvert the RUC" and "tell the thought that the leadership of until the IRA reinstate the cease- demands that it decommission people the IRA are in charge". Sinn Fein had prior knowledge of fire that was broken on Friday weapons before joining talks, and The spectre of a return to the docklands bombing.