e MAGGI 1 * No. 194 WAS THERE 1 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16 x 1963 0 Lord Snowdon sees Southside as it may be one day. Left to right: Sir Patrick Linstead, Lord Snowdon, H.R.H. Princess Margaret, Richard Sheppard (Architect). FORTHCOMING EVENTS October TONY WAS THERE- INDEX U.L.A.F. League Games begin. Wed 16th On Tuesday 8th October, Her Royal Highness, Princess Margaret Comment and Counter Planting of memorial tree in with Lord Snowdon visited the College. The weather was absymal Comment—-Page 2 Princes Gardens Thu. 17th when Princess Margaret, wearing a wine-red velvet two-piece with "Daily Herald" Brass Band Fest- a mink hat, arrived at the main entrance to South Side. After Colcutt—Page 5 ival in the Albert Hall being welcomed by the Chairman of the Governing Body, Sir Roger Makins, and the Rector, Sir Patrick Linstead, presentations were Editorial—Page 4 Sat. 19th made including Dave Watson, the Union President. Commemoration Day Service, Spannerama—Page 3 Ceremony and Ball Thu. 24th The Royal Party then entered the dining hall which had been Sport—Page 10 U.L. Cross-country v. Cambridge suitably prepared for the occasion—red carpet (coconut matting), Sat. 26th a dais decorated with flowers, a floor freshly polished and a few Who's Who—Page 6 U.L.A.F. Cup—1st round students peering through the glass partition which separates the Cameron Interviewed—-Page 7 Wed. 30th dining hall from the union lounge. Among those present were many Morphy Day and Boat Club dignitaries both from within the College and without, other residents and Late News Supplement Dinner Wed. 30th from Princes Gardens and a few students. 2 F E L 1 X COUNTER . BUT WHERE building Her Royal Highness un- COMMENT WERE THE STUDENTS ? veiled a plaque commemorating COMMENT the occasion. by F. D. Fuchs by the Editor The Chairman in his welcom- It is only by comparison with The issue of 'N.U.S. is one ing speech drew attention to the SLOVENLY STUDENTS other London colleges and uni- which most of the College is interest shown in the College by This visit was an important versities that the uniquely immat- glad to see closed. To drag it the Royal Family. Recently the part of the College Calendar and ure, intellectually castrated and back from the depths in which Queen Mother, Prince Philip and it is to be regretted that not archaic nature Of the attitudes it rests so soon after it was con- now Princess Margaret have more students were present in and customs of Imperial College demned is tedious, and to sug- visited the College, also the the Common Rooms which Her stand out clearly. Perhaps this is gest that the Executive was res- Queen is our visitor. He stated Royal Highness visited ; whether why the Executive is always so ponsible for its condemnation is that the South Side building "re- this was due to lack of know- determined to preserve our iso- merely childish. presents a reinterpretation of the ledge of where Princess Marga- lation, for instance from N.U.S. If Felix is to be compared social pattern embodied in an ret was to visit, the confusion with the newspapers of other col- Oxford and Cambridge College caused by the visit, the weather, The first issue of Felix this leges, then we must also take or a normal University Hall of or apathy it is difficult to tell. session, the first introduction into account such apparently Residence." He then invited Those students who turned up most freshers will have to I.C. trivial matters as facilities, staff, Princess Margaret to declare the did not have the common dec- was graced with not one, but and support. Felix is recovering building open. ency to take, their hands out of their pockets when Her Royal two photos of our president. from a move which very nearly MEN OF THE FUTURE Higness walked past them—as Both were of almost identical reduced it to a typewritten sheet; Her Royal Highness in her poses, identical clothes, back- at present it is in the hands of was obvious by a photograph in speech said how the lucky the a well-kown National newspaper. ground and facial expression. a rejuvenated staff, and the College was to have acquired This fatuous waste of space future is bright; but destructive this site in the West End of In retrospect, was this visit should be compared with Univ- criticism can do nothing but London. She hoped that distin- worth the £4,000 spent on it ? ersity College's guide to freshers harm; The essential role of a guished people who had lived in N. J. W. which contained a feature on the staff in reporting beyond the bar Princes Gardens in the past 1963 Campaign on Education hardly requires explaining. That would be replaced by important and many references to U.C.'s half Felix was devoted to the men of the future. Her Royal SOCIOLOGIST AT I.C. participation in affairs outside President apart from being gross Highness then declared the Professor A. H. Halsey, emin- the four walls of the college bar. distortion, has no bearing on the building open. In reply the ent sociologist and broadcaster, way he is elected. At a Union Rector thanked Her Royal is Head of the Department of The cult of the President debate three years ago, the Highness for coming and also Social and Administrative Stud- evidenced by devoting half Felix motion that the President be drew attention to the position of ies at the University of Oxford. to him is a reflection of the way elected by the Union was sound- the site. His series of five General Studies he is elected. By removing from ly defeated. The arguments then Princess Margaret then went lectures called "The Social the presumably unfit body of the have lost none of their power. on a tour of the building during Structure of Contemporary union the power of directly elect- It seems fit that Council, who which she met amongst others Britain" started yesterday with ing their president, they are ex- appreciate the duties and res- the Wardens, the Architect, two a talk on the nature of industrial cused the bother of thinking ponsibilities of a President rather students, Hugh Davis and society. Future topics will in- about his actions. Not having more clearly than the average Howard Moore in their rooms clude Education, Social Change, been directly elected he seems to student, should elect him. There the University with regular part- and the Family in Britain. have no direct connection with is thus little danger of the popul- and Mr. Mooney. On leaving the P. A. Riding common union members, and be- ar hero being swept into power, comes invested with a kind of as happens occasionally in the Papal infallibility. The real constitutent colleges. The Presi- danger of this is not so much dent actually suffers the same that the President may do some- human and material temptations thing silly or wrong. It is that in as does the Pope—there is little this and many other facets of evidence for the infallibility of college life, students are discour- either. To mention antiauthorit- aged from forming maturely arian scepticism and original sceptical attitudes to the "powers thought in the same sentence that be" and from any kind of implies a warped sense of valu- original thought. es; I comment no further. joins the brilliant, witty, irreverent Observer writers— DAVID FROSTamon g them Michael Frayn, Paul Jennings, Katharine Whitehorn, cartoonist Feiffer—who take nothing for granted except the intelligence of their readers. EVERY OTHER WEEK IN s PQ BO F E L I X 3 Re: UNION MEETING So Mines have a Chemical Engineer as president then. Ho! Ho! And he came along to our Union Meeting disguised as a Mines president. After stripping down to his essentials he humbly requested leave of absence from the Guilds Union. He further indicated his desire to exchange R.C.S. for Bedford to provide fresh openings for social intercourse. Year rep. elections followed and a corpse was brought up .wrapped in candlewick shroud. He was resuscitated by the Kiss of Life Method and was promptly elected 2nd year Aero' rep. He shuffled off, and replaced his trousers. Mike Cox was measured for his Maroon and Grey Guilds Coat, using a micrometer and a plumb line. Rod 'Monty' Jones (I. C. and Bar) gave a lucid tactics briefing for Morphy Day. He also proposed a minor assault on London Transport to include a punch- up of 300 6d tickets. He suggested training might be necessary. He warned us of the danger of R.C.S. men who wet themselves and implied that they should be hung out to dry. At the end of the ROYAL VISIT meeting about 200 ULU handbooks were rapidly distributed on When I looked out of my —Departmental—. mass and instantaneously Bob then Boomalacked. window on Tuesday (Royal Column I Visit) morning, I chanced to notice the flag pole which had This column is being started been erected for the visit, gainly as a regular item; contributions painted in Guilds colours. It from departments are welcomed. looked most tastefully done, but Professor R. A. L. Black has an OMO man had washed it been appointed the new Head of shining white again by 2.00. I Department of Mining and Min- wonder if it was a Guildsman eral Technology at the R.S.M. who designed the chairs used for Professor Black is not new to the seating of guests at the the R.S.M.