Sport p38-39 Features p23 Varsity Match Solving the Every player woes of profi led with Cambridge: full special the quest for The man who claims he can preview and the perfect pick up any girl explains how analysis cake Interviewp16 Issue No 667 Friday Nov 23 2007 varsity.co.uk e Independent Cambridge Student Newspaper since 1947 Guardian Best Student Publication Design 2007 Intruder caught at Fitzwilliam » Trespasser found asleep in student’s bed and arrested » Trinity Hall break in replicated within ten days Katy Lee dumped the fi rst. Students who saw doesn’t look like a student.’” him as he was taken away have de- The student said the police arrived Chief News Editor scribed him as a medium-build white and locked the intruder in the room. man in his thirties with dark hair who “They were in there for about ten or A man has been arrested on suspi- was wearing a dark blue hoodie. fi fteen minutes talking to him. Then cion of burglary after taking two A police spokeswoman said: “We they escorted him from the premises laptops from students’ rooms in Fit- were called at 8.20pm to reports and threw him into the police van.” zwilliam College and falling asleep that someone had found an intruder According to the student, the lap- in one undergraduate’s bed on in their room at Fitzwilliam Col- top stolen from A block was then Wednesday evening. lege. They tried to steal a laptop. found “dumped in the rain” outside Police and University Security The fi rst offi cer got to the scene at the accommodation block. The po- were called to the college at 8.20pm 8.31pm. Four offi cers arrived in to- lice have confi rmed that the intrud- after one student reported the theft tal and arrested a man on suspicion er has been charged with burglary of her laptop to the college porters of burglary. after he was found with another and another, from a different ac- “We then got a further report that laptop on his person. commodation block, informed por- someone else’s room had been bro- Several students have reported ters that a man he had never seen ken into and a laptop had been stolen. on the similarities between this case before was asleep in his bed. Por- A 32 year old man has been arrested and that which occurred at Trinity ters locked the intruder in the room and is currently in custody.” Hall last week, when students’ pos- until the police’s arrival, when they The police were unable to com- sessions were moved around the arrested the man and escorted him ment on rumours that the man may building by intruders, one of whom from the premises. have been involved in the break-in at was reported to have fallen asleep in The burglar had a second laptop a Trinity Hall accommodation block a bush after the break-in. on his person but appeared to have on November 10, when several stu- One eye-witness said, “My as- dents were attacked and one had her sumption would be that he was on laptop taken. something. There was defi nitely One student, who lives on thesa- something weird going on.” She add- Nick Clegg me corridor as the girl from whom ed, “It’s made us a lot more aware of the fi rst laptop was taken, was with how unsecure our rooms are. I leave The Lib Dem the victim when the theft occurred. my room unlocked a lot – it’s all quite “The laptop must have been stolen disturbing. You also just assume that leadership from her room between about 6pm the college provides a certain amount candidate on and 7.30pm,” she told Varsity. “We’d of security itself. I think we’ll all be a all been chatting in the kitchen and bit more cautious from now on.” the dangers when she went back upstairs she The college’s Senior Tutor sent an found her room in a state and her lap- email to students yesterday reassur- of ID top gone. Nothing else was missing, ing students that the incident had but her things had been disturbed been resolved. “Nobody was hurt in cards and her top drawer was open. the incident, and we believe that the “Someone who had been on our property taken has been recovered. fl oor earlier said that they’d seen a Thanks to the actions of the students bloke standing outside someone’s and porters yesterday evening, and p10 room – they hadn’t recognized him the intervention of the police and uni- but just assumed he was someone versity security service, this incident Scientists survey Arctic ice else’s friend. We then went to the was successfully contained.” Letters 8 Porter’s Lodge and, as we were re- In a further message to undergrad- Cambridge scientists have been given the go-ahead for a pioneering porting it, a third year student was uates, JCR President Adrian Pascu- arctic survey into the effects of global warming on the North Pole Comment 10 reporting that he’d gone back to his Tulbure said: “I’d like to stress how ice cap. Ice trials led by Dr Joao Rodrigues of the Department of room after dinner and found this man important it is that we keep College, Idler 11 asleep in his bed. and College houses, as secure as pos- Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics successfully tested “This was in S block - on the other sible. Lock your rooms, even if you’re equipment in northern Canada at temperatures of below minus Reviews 27 side of the building from A block, just popping out for a few minutes.” 30 degrees Celsius. His team members will tow this equipment where the fi rst laptop was taken. He He added, “Although last night was 2000 kilometres from the north coast of Alaska to the North Pole in said, ‘This is a completely random very well-controlled and handled, we The Anorak 35 guy – I’ve no idea who he is and he defi nitely don’t want a repeat.” February. Hannah Price Chief News Editors: Katherine Faulkner, Katy Lee and Camilla Temple Friday November 23 2007 2 NEWS [email protected] varsity.co.uk/news In Brief Tourism An “electronic guidebook” scheme for technologically minded tourists is to be launched in Cambridge at East- er next year. “Pocket Cambridge” will allow tourists to download au- dio tours and information to mobile phones that have a wi-fi function. 3G mobiles will also be able to access the service. The inventor, Mark Oakden, hopes that GPS technology will soon enable users to download informa- tion relevant to their exact location as they are walking. Us- ers will also be able to download tours featur- ing music and sound effects from the internet onto mp3 play- ers. Dora St John Oxford Vice-Chancellor steps down Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor will be leaving the university, it was an- nounced last weekend. Dr John Hood started his tenure in 2004 and has said that he does not wish to continue after he has complet- ed his five year term in Septem- ber 2009. He has had a notoriously difficult time in the position. He is the first vice-chancellor in the university’s history who has come from outside of the university’s academic base. He was brought in to solve the university’s financial problems, but has had trouble maintaining support for his proposed reforms. Last year Hood made a proposal to introduce a number of external GUARDIAN UNLIMITED members to Oxford’s council and to separate academic and financial Varsity scoops Guardian Student Media Award boards. This was defeated in the university’s Congregation by 730 Ex-Varsity Editors Joe Gosden and Jonny Ensall collect the award for Student Publication Design of the Year with Adam Edelshain, votes to 456. Alex Glasner Business Manager for 2006-2007 . The award was presented by writer and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli New uni ranking The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development is Security professor Postgrad funding is planning to produce the first inter- national comparison of how success- fully universities teach. The new slashed by government scheme will test students when slams ID cards they leave university to discover how much they have learnt during Daniel Zeichner, Labour Parlia- ment of having “sneaked out” the Clementine Dowley Mike Kielty their course. Shanghai’s Jiao Tong mentary spokesperson for Cam- news of the funding changes over University began to rank universi- The UK’s leading expert on elec- bridge, admits that ID cards will Students and University officials the summer. ties in 2003 and the Times Higher tronic security has said that plans not be 100 per cent efficient. But have reacted with concern to the Cambridge University authori- Education Supplement began their to introduce ID cards “will make he claims that “the new biometric news that the government is divert- ties have reacted with concern to the study in 2004. The difference is no difference at all”. ing £100m a year away from the fund- news. Professor Richard Taylor, the that these studies both reflect ‘in- Professor Ross Anderson, Pro- ing of postgraduate students. University’s Director of Continuing puts’, such as the quality of the staff fessor of Security Engineering at The new arrangement means that Education and Lifelong Learning, and the amount of research taking Cambridge University’s Computer “To insist on new funding for students taking post- welcomed the government’s focus on place.