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For me, love is a gulf of How relativity changed the story contradictions Science 28 Features 13 No. 853 Friday 26th October 2018 Arts varsity.co.uk Cambridge’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1947 Cambridge 91.9% among Percentage of total UK’s ‘most Cambridge professors and readers who are liberal’ areas white, of those who disclosed ethnicity Amy Batley Senior News Correspondent e Castle area of Cambridge, which in- cludes more than a third of the Univer- sity’s colleges, is “the most liberal area” of England, according to an investiga- tion into national attitudes published last week. e study, entitled ‘Fear, hope and loss: Understanding the drivers of hope and hate’, was conducted by anti-ex- tremist political action group Hope Not £11,947 Hate. ese ndings come ater a report by the Centre for Cities, released in Feb- ruary this year, described Cambridge as Di erence between the average the least equal city in the UK in terms of annual salary of black and white wealth and income. e Hope Not Hate report argues that academic and research sta there has been an emergence of “two Englands”, split between areas charac- terised by Euroscepticism and hostility towards immigration and “liberal, out- ward-looking and cosmopolitan areas”. ▲ Cambridge has few BME professors, a position which requires University approval through its General Board ROSIE BRADBURY e study, which polled 43,000 people at several intervals between 2011-2018 and incorporated analysis of Change.org petitions in support of Tommy Robinson, highlighted stark geographic divisions Stark pay gap for BME academics in attitudes towards immigration and multiculturalism. make almost £10,600 less, of Cambridge On average, academics from other those sta who have disclosed their e report distinguishes between six Jess Ma, Catherine Lally, and Rosie sta who disclosed their ethnicity. ethnic backgrounds face lower average ethnicity. In the University’s 2016-2017 di erent cultural attitudes, or “tribes”, Bradbury Data obtained by Varsity concerning salaries than their white colleagues at ‘Equality and Diversity Drat Informa- ranging from ‘Con dent Multicultural’ the University’s basic pay for the year the University. Academic and research tion Report’, 84.1% of sta had a known to ‘Active Enmity’. e ‘Con dent Mul- Black academic and research sta at 2017-2018 showed that the average salary sta from Black and Black British back- ethnicity. ticultural’ category, the report argues, is Cambridge make on average nearly for white academic and research sta grounds have an average salary of £37,495 Academics from Arab backgrounds characterised by a “celebratory” attitude £12,000 less a year than white sta , and was £49,442, while the total average per annum. academics from Chinese backgrounds across all ethnicities was £48,451. e average pay gures include only Continued on page 6 ▶ Continued on page 9 ▶ Inside ● Behind Cambridge’s latest access e ort Pg.10 ● Photographing the faiths of Cambridge Pg. 12 2 F 26 O 2018 News FEATURES For me, Pippa Rogerson: love is a gulf of contradic- ‘I want to hand tions Page 13 ▶ the College on in OPINION What are we not seeing? better shape than Understanding the need to decolonise history Page 18 ▶ I found it’ vulture Magazine Julia Davies speaks to Caius’ rst woman Master on her visions for one of Cambridge’s oldest colleges, and how “you can’t be what you can’t see” Clothing as a tool for or many, Gonville and Caius’ adopting them. appointment of a female mas- Caius students have voiced their opti- recovery ter for the rst time in its 670- mism that her tenure will be one of posi- year history is a huge mile- tive change, pointing to how Rogerson Page 22 ▶ stone in the ght for equality. recently promoted the ‘Caius4Consent’ FBut for Pippa Rogerson, “diversity goes campaign on social media. well beyond the women thing. at’s not ❝ Rogerson leads from the front, some- where we stop.” thing she is not unaware of. “I do feel Rogerson graduated with a Law de- Cambridge that I’m slightly standard-bearing,” she gree from Newnham in 1983. She devel- is not im- concedes, although she instantly tem- oped a strong connection with Caius as mune [to pers this with her characteristic humility. an undergraduate through her supervi- “You do feel a responsibility that you’ve sions. Now, she has been a fellow of the issues of got to get it more right, work harder, be Correction college for thirty years, working as a Sen- more careful about how you present A correction was issued on October 22nd regarding the equality and Opinion piece ‘CUCA must be held to account’ pub- ior Lecturer in the Law Faculty and Direc- yourself and what you say [as a wom- lished in issue 852 to remove an erroneous claim made tor of the Law Tripos from 2014-2015. diversity], an]”. Later she re ects on how, in her about members of the Cambridge University Conserva- Although she feels “a very great debt even though own family, the expectation was that her tive Association. of gratitude and loyalty” to Newnham, we’d like to brothers would attend Oxbridge, but the she admits that she has been linked to notion that she might was “crazy”. Noella Chye [email protected] Caius for ten times longer than Newn- think we’re The maxim Rogerson lives by is Merlyn omas & Catherine Lally [email protected] ham. Her cohort was less than thirty per- Michelle Obama’s: ‘when you can, be Vivienne Hopley-Jones [email protected] better at it Joe Cook [email protected] cent female, so being at an all-female kind.’ “Basically, be kind: kindness ex- Mark Curtis [email protected] college was a huge bonus for Rogerson. ❞ tends to anybody, regardless of their Rosie Bradbury & Stephanie Stacey (Senior); Isobel Gri ths & As she puts it, ater Caitlin Moran, “you position. We have to try and see the Millie Kiel (Deputy) [email protected] Jess Ma, Alexandra Giannidi, Sarah can’t be what you can’t see.” On grad- world through the eyes of somebody Orsborne, Kiran Khanom, Elizabeth Haigh, Amy Batley, Maria Stragapede uating, her intake at the rm Cli ord that doesn’t have the [same] advantag- Jack Conway [email protected] Chance was over half female – twelve out es.” Rogerson is candidly aware of her Maia Wyn Davies (Senior); Dan Wright, Nick Harris, Priya Bryant, Tom Nixon (Deputy) [email protected] of twenty. But now, all but four of them own, saying, “I know very well that I Joseph Krol & Gesa Sophia Borgeest [email protected] have retired, and of those four, two are am very privileged.” Isobel Bickersteth & Jess Tan [email protected] Nick Collin [email protected] here at Cambridge: Rogerson herself, and Rogerson has faced hardship, includ- & James Dickinson [email protected] the Pro-Vice Chancellor Eilís Ferran. ing the death of her husband, father to Miles Ricketts & Alice French [email protected] ings today are a lot better, cer- her ve daughters, eleven years ago. Julia Davies [email protected] Iris Pearson & Niamh Curran [email protected] tainly, but much remains to be done to “[My family] have faced considerable Ella Jones [email protected] improve gender equality in career pros- adversity, and that puts an awful lot ❝ Marcus McCabe (Senior) & William Ross (Deputy) pects. “How can we say that we’ve done into perspective,” she says. “I let Cam- [email protected] You do feel Devarshi Lodhia [email protected] enough when the evidence shows that bridge never, ever thinking that I was Belle George & Oliver Rhodes [email protected] people are just not being promoted or going to face any sexual discrimination a responsi- Jamie Hancock & Nick Chevis [email protected] developed on merit, or anything that you of any sort, and I haven’t in any very Cordelia Lam [email protected] bility that - Vivi Way (Chief); Aimee Wragg, Gabby Handberg, Helen Grant, would want your sta to be developing?” obvious way.” She continues, “I’ve just Helena Mackie, Emily Kilner, Imogen Childs, Jasmine Phull, Naomi Hayes, Rogerson asks, concerned by the “com- had a slower progression through the you’ve got to Poppy Kemp, Ruth Moss, Allison O’Malley-Graham, Phoebe Harris, Shannon placency” which envelops Cambridge. academic ladder from having children, Phillips [email protected] get it more Abdullah Shah “Cambridge is not immune [to issues Gerry dying, and various other normal Raphael Korber Ho man of equality and diversity], even though vicissitudes of life, really.” Here Roger- right, work Edwin Bahrami Balani [email protected] Caitlin Smith [email protected] we’d like to think we’re better at it.” 1979 son’s positive attitude is apparent. “But harder, be Reuben Andrews, Felix Peckham, Anna Hollingsworth For Rogerson, the diversity issue spans those will happen to everybody. It’s how more careful [email protected] far beyond gender, and especially con- you deal with it in relation to other peo- Dr Michael Franklin (Chairman), Prof Peter Robinson, Dr Tim Harris, Michael Derringer, Caitlin Smith, Noella Chye cerns race. Levels of representation for ple that’s important.” about how those who are “non-pale, non-male and As a master, it is clear that Rogerson you present non-stale” are “very low”, and she says will be focused on the pastoral aspects of the discussions the University is hav- Cambridge life as well as the academic.