ISSUE 1611 SATURDAY 3rd OCTOBER 2015 The Student Newspaper of Imperial College London rd PAGE 2 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 2015 felixonline.co.uk [email protected] A word from the Editor Contents ello and welcome to run something. Don’t ask me what News 3 Editor-in-Chief Grace Rahman this, the very first the others are here for, but I do the FELIX of the year. newspaper. Comment 7 News Editor And thanks for taking It’s a big old job, which needs Cecily Johnson the time to read my editorial, you a big team behind it. This means Feature 12 sweet angel. that there’s plenty of room for Comment Editor H Congrats for getting this far! You you. We’re always after illustrators, Tessa Davey Science 15 all deserve a pat on the back for photographers, writers and other Science Editor getting into Imperial. You deserve a cuties to get involved. You can read Clubs & Societies 19 Jane Courtnell little sit down for moving all your more about what we get up to in stuff into halls. By the end of freshers Clubs and Societies on page 19. We Music 22 Arts Editors week, you’ll need a beach holiday. have a good time. Indira Malik, Jingjie But for now, it’s time to forget your Stop me if you see me around the Arts 25 Cheng and Max A-Level results, unfollow all your place. Please. Most of my friends Falkenberg school friends on Facebook and have graduated and have proper jobs probably knock in a minute. Until Film 29 Music Editor think of a new nickname. Good so I have no one to eat lunch with. then amuse yourself with news, Cale Tilford luck to you. If you spot me wondering around culture, recipes, sport and some Food 34 Freshers’ week, man, what a time. Imperial, come and introduce nudity in the form of our ancient Film Editor It’s awful and great and terrifying, yourself! Don’t be scared. Much like centrefold tradition (flick to the Welfare 35 Fred Fyles but you don’t need me to tell you a spider, I am more frightened of middle you perv). that. I wish you the best of luck you than you are of me. Don’t be a stranger. Let me know Puzzles 36 Welfare Editor – with your studies, with your I hope you enjoy this issue. FELIX if there’s anything you think we Noor Mulheron communal kitchens and with your went to the big med student protest should be reporting, and come say Hangman 37 Sports Editor first load of washing. Don’t tumble this week, we’ve got a lot of bolshy hi if you want to get involved, no Kunal Wagle dry wool. You’re welcome, friends. opinion pieces, and there’s a big experience necessary. You’re reading Sports 38 But who am I to tell you how to feature on sex and your health. That this, which tells me you can read Copy Editors wash your clothes? Well no one last one is a personal obsession of and are already vastly overqualified. Fred Fyles, Cecily really – I’ve shrunk loads of washing mine. Other people are passionate Our brand spanking new office is Johnson, Jack Steadman in my time, but I’m just the Editor about Star Wars or The Great British in the West Basement of Beit (by FELIX, Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road, and Stephen Ball London SW7 2BB of your weekly student newspaper. Bake Off, but I love contraception (I the union) or you can email me at Tel: 020 7594 8072 Technical Babe Like the Union President, or any really love all three of these things [email protected]. Finally, have a Printed by Iliffee Print Cambridge, Luke Granger-Brown of her deputies (who you may well but contraception probably comes lovely week, and if you get to the Winship Road, Cambridge have already Facebook stalked) I am out top). puzzles and no one’s knocked on Registered Newspaper ISSN 1040-0711 Cover Picture by a sabbatical officer. We all get paid Have you left your room yet? your door yet, you should probably Copyright © FELIX 2015 Graham Davies to take a year out of our studies and Don’t. Read on. Someone will go outside and introduce yourself. Like what you see here? Join the FELIX team! This paper is made by students, for students – you can contribute content to any section. We want writers, photographers, web editors and programmers, copy and layout editors, puzzle makers, illustrators and drinking buddies. Come find us on the lawn of Beit Quad at Freshers’ Fair, stall 37. felixonline.co.uk SATURDAY 3rd OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 3 NEWS [email protected] Imperial’s University Challenge team through to second round Our boys attained the highest score so far this series, beating the University of Reading Cecily Johnson aired on the 14th of September. News Editor Imperial thrashed the University of Reading team with a current series high score of 285 to 110. team of students from Performing strongly on the Imperial College range of science and mathematical London has made it questions, the team earned through the first round of a rare “well done” from host popular BBC quiz show University ChallengeA this month. They will face a new team in the second round Over 100 of the knockout tournament on Monday 2nd November. students took Headed up by last year’s FELIX Science Editor James Bezer, a third year student of the Department part in the The Imperial College London team pose with host Jeremy Paxman and a FELIX mascot. Photo Credit: Ben Fernando of Physics, the team also features postgrad Onur Teymur, who is internal team Jeremy Paxman after successfully Imperial last won the show back part in the internal team selection working on his PhD in statistics, completing a starter round on in 2001, also coming runners-up process earlier this year. fourth-year physicist Ashwin selection planetary astronomy. However they one year later. This is the first team Winners of the quiz show get Braude and Ben Fernando, also a flopped the second picture round, to make it onto the televised portion bragging rights and a shiny trophy. third-year physics undergrad. not recognising Salma Hayek’s of the series since 2012/13, when See how the team fare in the They were featured in the tenth process portrayal of artist Frida Kahlo. we were eliminated in the quarter- second round at 8pm Monday 2nd episode of the 2015/16 series, which Seriously guys, Kate Winslet? finals. Over 100 students took November on BBC Two . Times rankings put Imperial eighth globally Overall a good year for European and UK universities as US dominance wanes Cecily Johnson overseas.” Universities and Science, did his News Editor Other top UK universities best to assuage these concerns: included the University of Oxford, “These rankings confirm the world- in second place, and the University class standing of our education he Times Higher of Cambridge in fourth. sector. Education (THE) World Topping the table was the “Our reforms will ensure our University Rankings California Institute of Technology universities continue to compete 2015/16 were revealed for the fifth consecutive year. A with the very best internationally this week, with Imperial College total of 78 UK universities made the and deliver high-quality teaching to LondonT gaining one place from last top 800, second only to the United students at home” year. Four of London’s universities States. Editor of the THE rankings were ranked in the top 30. Phil Baty described the UK as a Imperial took eighth position “stand-out performer”. The capital this year, with University College “However, despite the UK’s London in 14th, the London School success, its continued cuts in higher continues to of Economics 23rd and King’s education funding … and series of College London 27th. immigration measures affecting Mayor of London Boris Johnson overseas students, will hinder its be the global said that he was “incredibly proud” performance in the long run”. He of the capital’s performance in the continued: “The UK will have to leader in rankings: “The capital continues to work hard to ensure [these] do be the global leader in education, not hinder its place in the World education innovating and inspiring top talent University Rankings”. from both across the country and Jo Johnson, Minister for Imperial came third in the UK and top in London. Photo Credit: Imperial College rd rd PAGE 4 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 2015 felixonline.co.uk felixonline.co.uk SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 5 NEWS [email protected] NEWS [email protected] n Monday, around three thousand junior doctors, 3000 medical Demonstrators say their main medical students and supporters marched on students and junior concern is safety, and that long Whitehall to demonstrate against IMPERIAL MEDICS ORGANISE PROTEST doctors marched The government’s proposed new contracts could see Grace Rahman hours would affect quality of care Othe proposed changes to junior Editor-in-Chief doctors’ contracts. The protest began outside the Methodist Central Hall on Whitehall newly qualified doctors taking a significant paycut in Westminster, near the Houses of Parliament, where a meeting Union, was one of a handful of sign waving around the meeting between the NHS and some junior students who arranged the protest. hall, protesters with megaphones We cornered doctors about the proposed changes She predicts she was joined on the maneuvered through the large group the Imperial was supposed to be taking place.