ELECTIONS 8 PAGE VARSITY PULLOUT PULLOUT All the info for next week’s Varsity matches Your guide to the big elections “Keep the Cat Free” 07/03/14 Issue 1571 felixonline.co.uk Discovering Miso-gine-soc THIS ISSUE... Joe Letts Felix finds evidence implicating the Men’s Hockey XI 2’s CLUBS & SOCS Editor-in-Chief team in misogynistic behaviour online his week Felix discovered the existence of “GineSoc”, the alter-ego of the Imperial Men’s Hockey XI 2’s team. After discovering Ta certificate of “Gine” last week on a table outside the FiveSixEight (a bar located on Union premises), we carried out further research. Our Check(mate) your investigations revealed the existence of an “@ginesoc” twitter feed (now Privilege 54 removed), containing an explicit avatar image and a mixture of tweets to pornographic actresses as well as tweets about hockey matches. Included in the twitter feed were TV an invitation for a porn actress to visit Imperial College Union on a Wednesday night if she “ever want[ed] a good time in London” and a request for a shout out from Select UK Radio to “ginesoc hockey club, listening on the way back home from a big 4-2 win” Felix also found a closed Facebook group called “ICHC Men’s Ginesoc XI”, in which the group identified themselves as “The glorious men’s 2’s” and linked to a definition of “gine” Exploring the wit of which states that gine means “sexual relations with a girl”, which “comes Stewart Lee 51 from the word Vagina” and “is a harsh way of saying that someone wants to have sexual relations with a girl”. Felix spoke to the ICHC asking them to explain why they felt it was FEATURES acceptable to publish the material they they did on social media in a way that potentially excludes the female associated with the facebook page and Looking at the evidence we have scrutiny on the squad is due to members of hockey. In response to twitter account in question. A formal gathered, Felix believes that the squad Union Bye-Law E, which deals with these allegations the Men’s XI 2’s investigation into these allegations has is potentially in breach of BUCS “Bringing, or having the potential Team Captain Jack Farrant stated via been launched under the provisions Regulation 17 article 1, which states: to bring, the Union into disrepute”, email, “ICHC is one of the largest contained in the Union’s Bye Laws. “Every member institution and its amongst other matters. entirely mixed sports clubs at Imperial While this investigation is taking place clubs shall be responsible for ensuring After we reported the allegations and we pride ourselves in being one of a suspension of activities has been that its players, officials and all persons to both the Union and ICHC, the most friendly and inclusive societies” issued to the team in question. purporting to be its representatives offending facebook group and twitter Felix also spoke to the Union, who The Union takes allegations of do not conduct themselves or print account were removed (although a A bit of interfaith released the following statement: this nature very seriously; we will / have published any material which text version of the twitter feed is still “The Union were made aware on be acting quickly to establish facts will bring the company into disrepute available in the google cache). discussion about Thursday 6 March of allegations that and explanations related to these including social media platforms.” Have any further information? Please extremeism 4 the IC Hockey Mens 2nd Team were allegations.” We also believe that the further email us at [email protected]. FRIDAY 07 MAR 3 Editors: Nida Mahmud, Maciej Matuszewski, Aamna Mohdin, Aemun Reza NEWS [email protected] Imperial Student mines Chess Team wins at Elections begin teams, was much less clear-cut. The at Imperial Dogecoins BUCA second team, seeded first in this to send the Jamaican bobsled team competition, consisted of first board College Union to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Wan Mohd Fahzli, second board Boey Maciej Matuszewski However Dogecoins are not yet worth Max Eggl Jin Huey, third board Shih Goh and anywhere near as much as Bitcoins – fourth board, captain Luke Barron. News Editor the student’s efforts have only earned Games and Tech Editor Throughout the first few rounds, they Aemun Reza him the equivalent of £20. routed their opponents, however a News Editor An Imperial student used College Speaking to CoinDesk reporter and Two weekends ago, Imperial College draw against main title contenders computers to mine 30,000 former Felix editor Kadhim Shubber London’s chess club fielded three Birmingham did not bode well for Dogecoins. The Dogecoin, which earlier this week the anonymous teams for the British University Chess the rest of the competition. However was first introduced three months student said that he decided to Association championship (BUCA), even after that setback, they team ago and is inspired by the popular use College computers rather than coming away with two cases of bounced back all the way to the Doge meme, is one of a number of buying a powerful computer because silverware. last game, which seemed have been cryptocurrencies set up following the he doesn’t “find the cryptocurrency The first team competed in the written in the stars, against Imperial’s spectacular success of Bitcoin. Such market stable enough to make real open competition, where the real third team. The third team, lead by cryptocurrencies are not controlled investments, at least for now, on a title of British Chess Champion Maximilian Eggl and fielding Alina by a central bank but rather by a pre- student budget”. He added that: “I’ve was competed. Captained by James Mititelu, Nikolai Rozanov and Ioannis The Big Elections for 2014 have determined algorithm. Individuals not had a single issue yet, so I’ve kept Hookham, and including Alex Englezos, had traversed an easier path. started this week at Imperial College. can donate some of their computer’s scaling up! It seems they don’t have Galliano, Veronica Foisor as well as After losing against Birmingham in Campaigning started on Monday 3rd processor time to running this anything set up to bring attention to Chess President Arijit Gupta ¬– the their third game, they had gone from March and will continue through till algorithm and managing transactions the fact I’m maxing out the CPUs, team that had been seeded first – strength to strength and won all their the 14th March and voting opens next performed using these currencies. which is nice”. was expected to retain the title that consequent games. This led to the week on Friday 7th March and will They are rewarded for this by being However, by Tuesday the scheme was they had won last year. However, game of the two Imperials being quite last one week. awarded newly generated coins of that discovered by College ICT, resulting several hurdles stood in the way of significant in determining the final According to the ICU website, over currency – this process is referred to in the student being permanently Imperial’s success. Over ten teams position of the two teams. In a show of 459 candidates are running. So even as mining and is the only way in which banned from using the College’s more were competing, including formidable selflessness, Imperial thirds lost their though there are over 100 positions, new Dogecoins and Bitcoins can be powerful research supercomputers. In foes in Cambridge 1 and Edinburgh. game securing Imperial second’s win competition for certain positions produced. a statement to The Tab Imperial, the However, after playing five rounds, in this competition, leaving them in will be tight this year. The infamous Working late at night, the student College said: “Use of the College’s IT all the worries of Imperial’s first fifth position in the standings. Union President position has seven was able to use ordinary desktop facilities for commercial purposes is team were proven to be completely In addition to the team prizes, six candidates running. terminals to mine the Dogecoins. not permitted without authorisation. unfounded, as a clean sheet of five wins Imperial players won board prizes for For more information, follow the He follows the example of a Harvard Imperial investigates and takes were secured leaving the Imperialites their outstanding play. These included #VoteICU hastag on twitter or follow Student who used their University’s appropriate action against instances with ten points out of a possible ten, Nikolai Rozanov, Veronica Foisor the Elections Blog on the ICU website. research supercomputer for of misuse, in line with information and thus confirming them as British and Luke Barron. All in all, this was To view the full list of who is running Dogecoin mining. The currency policies. Occasional personal use of Chess Champions for the second year quite a success for the Chess club, and for what position check out felixonline. has been growing in both value and College machines is permitted where running. hopefully this can be repeated in next co.uk (http://bit.ly/1czDRCr) or read popularity – most notably having use does not disrupt the conduct of The Plate competition, which year’s competition. 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