MONDAY MONDAY JUNE 14TH 2010 THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NESPAPER SINCE 1947 ISSUE NO 719 | VARSITY.CO.UK VC Alison PAUL SMITH Richard made a Dame Queen’s Honours lst recognses several senor Cambrdge academcs Laboratory and Director of the I ADAN Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative (WiSETI), The Vice-Chancellor of the Univer- Dame Donald has a specifi c interest sity of Cambridge and two other in promoting women’s careers in sci- leading Cambridge academics were ence. In 2009 she was awarded the among those commended in Satur- L’Oreal/UNESCO Women in Science day’s Queen’s Birthday Honours Award for Europe in recognition list. of her work in the fi eld of protein Professor Alison Richard, who has aggregation and cellular biophysics. worked as Vice-Chancellor for seven In 2006, on being appointed head of years and is the fi rst woman to have the Athena forum, she commented, held this position full-time, has been “I hope [this] acts as an encourage- appointed Dame Commander of the ment to young women thinking of British Empire (DBE) for services pursuing scientifi c careers without to Higher Education. giving up family life.” As an undergraduate, Richard Professor Colin Humphries from studied Anthropology at Newnham Selwyn College gained a knight- College. She then went on to pursue hood for services to science. Sir an academic career, spending thirty Colin is founder and director of years at Yale. During her time the Cambridge Centre for as Vice-Chancellor, Dame Gallium Nitride. The Richard has introduced Centre is develop- needs-based bursa- ing energy-effi cient ries, a key part of the lighting which, if ongoing challenge widely adopted, to widen access to could potentially Cambridge for stu- save the amount of dents from poorer energy equivalent backgrounds. to seven power sta- She has empha- tions. Using similar sized the importance technology, he is also of Alumni in the future of developing a new way to May Ball season starts wth a bang at Robnson the University, celebrating purify water and to kill hos- elebrations for May Week began on Friday night with Robinson’s spectacular fi rework display Cambridge’s 800th anniversary by pital superbugs. raising £1 billion in donations from The Honours list does not only Cringing out across the city. Elsewhere garden parties, dinners, balls and concerts have been past students. reward intellectual endeavours. springing into life. Queens’ began its festivities on Friday with an outdoor cinema screening of Professor Athene Donald, another Three women in Cambridgeshire The Rocky Horror Picture Show projected onto the side of the Erasmus building, and carried on highly infl uential woman in Cam- received an OBE: Catherine Craw- the party with its annual outdoor mega-bop, ‘Bounce’, last night. The Union, The Wyverns, and bridge academia, was appointed ford, executive of the Metropolitan the Marguerites and Hippolytans all held their famous garden parties over the weekend, and Dame Commander of the British Police Authority, Former News there were other events and balls at Emmanuel, Hughes Hall, Downing and Murray Edwards. Empire (DBE) for services to Phys- reporter Susan Davies, and domestic Festivities continue tonight with balls at Clare, Jesus and Trinity. ROBINSON BALL REVIEW PAGE 5 ics. As Deputy Head of the Cavendish abuse campaigner Gaynor Mears. Fashionp8-9 The Weekend’s Ballsp5 Featuresp10 -11 Play your Robnson May Ball, Hughes’ Hall Classcs blogger cards rght Mary Beard wth 40s May Ball and Emmanuel June Event revewed ntervewed classcs nsde 2 Monday June 14th 2010 News Edtors Charlo e Runce & Natasha Peseran YESTERDAY IN PICTURES wwwvarstycouk news@varstycouk Got a good pcture Emal t to edtor@varstycouk VARSITY PHOTOS JULIA CAROLYN LICHNOVA onpaper Ball Revewsp5 Our coverage of the Cambrdge May Balls begns wth Robnson’s ‘Fole d’une Nut’ Fnd out what our revewer thought nsde Featuresp10-11 Volleyball at the Wyverns Garden Party Bouncy castle fun at Kng’s Read our ntervew wth ROBERT LEADBETTER classcs blog supremo Mary Beard, and peruse the Varsty May Week archves Revewsp13 Magg Hamblng’s ‘The Wave’ goes under the spotlght, along wth the Footlghts Tour Show Sportp16 The World Cup has begun and so has Varsty’s World Cuppers – check t out on The St Margaret Socety of Queens’ May Week concert the back page JULIA CAROLYN LICHNOVA VARSITY PHOTOS onlne Secret Dary of a Ball- crasher Love them or hate them, ballcrashers are a fact of lfe Varsty condones nothng they dvulge n ths totally made-up Punts on the Cam Revellers at the Wyverns’ Garden Party blog JULIA CAROLYN LICHNOVA Gamng The E3 tradeshow n Los Angeles kcks o next week, and Varsty Onlne’s gamng blog has a roundup of the hghlghts onTV A pano on a par of punts by Kng’s was part of a fundrasng event for Help the Heroes, a charty for wounded servcemen and women Got a news story Emal t to news@varstycouk Fx up look Sharpe Stylsh fella extraordnare James Joel Massey & David Pegg edtor@varstycouk Nathan Brooker dgtal@varstycouk Charlotte Runcie news@varstycouk Sharpe talks us through the Balls Natasha Pesaran news@varstycouk Rhys Jones comment@varstycouk Joshua Games sport@varstycouk prep process, and warns of the Lara Prendergast features@varstycouk Augustina Dias theatre@varstycouk Jessica Jennings revews@varstycouk Julia Carolyn Lichnova games@varstycouk Seven Deadly Sns Fiona Vickerstaff, Richard Moore, Anna Herber & James Wilson senorreporter@varstycouk Helen Mackreath & Emma Mustich large@varsty couk Phillippa Garner vtv@varstycouk Richard Rothschild-Pearson & Fred Rowson vtv@varstycouk Alan Young vtv@ varstycouk Lauren Arthur & Angela Scarsbrook subedtor@varstycouk Dylan Spencer-Davidson desgner@varstycouk Michael Derringer vTV archves Michael Derringer busness@varstycouk Dr Michael Franklin (Chair), Prof. Peter Robinson, Dr Tim Harris, Mr Chris Wright, The complete VarsTV Mr Michael Derringer, Mr Elliot Ross, Mr Patrick Kingsley (VarSoc President), Miss Anna Trench, Mr Hugo Gye, Mr Michael Stothard, Miss Clementine Dowley, Mr Robert Peal, Mr Christopher Adriaanse, Miss Emma Mustich, Mr Laurie Tuffrey, Mr Joe Pitt-Rashid, Miss Helen Mackreath, Miss Avantika Chilkoti & Mr Paul Smith archves are avalable onlne Mssed the Cndes Stores fnale NEWSPAPERS Varsity, Old Examination Hall, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RF. 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ISSN 1758-4442 NEWSPAPERS SUPPORT RECYCLING News Editors: Charlotte Runcie & Natasha Peseran Monday June 14th 2010 3 [email protected] www.varsity.co.uk NEwsS Clare members warned about punting News in Brief College history of river accidents leads Senior Tutor to advise caution this week JULIA CAROLYN LICHNOVA Cambridge raises £1 Laura VALe billion Students at Clare College have been Cambridge has become the first warned of the dangers of drinking university outside the United near the Cam this May Week, after States to raise £1 billion in a previous years’ celebrations resulted fundraising campaign. in serious injuries. Thanks to the donations of In an email to students last week, more than 45,000 alumni, the Clare College Senior Tutor Dr Patri- amount has been achieved two cia Fara advised students to stay years ahead of schedule, and out of the river during post-exam does not include more than festivities. £250 million extra in pledged May Week, and the infamous bequests. Suicide Sunday in particular, is often University Vice-Chancel- celebrated with outdoor parties by lor Professor Alison Richard the river and previous alcohol-fuelled welcomed the funding, claim- antics have included jumping onto ing that it would help to sustain bridges from punts and throwing the University’s “international friends in. pre-eminence.” The email stated: “I realise that The money raised will be to warn you about punting and the used to “encourage applicants river may sound over-protective and regardless of their financial boring, but during the last five years, circumstances” as well as to two members of Clare have been in The river Cam contains several hidden hazards including submerged punt poles, shopping trolleys and bacteria fund new buildings for research intensive care and nearly died after Dr Fara warned of the main the same email twice was surpris- to curb people’s fun, but it’s probably and student accommodation, accidents on the river.” dangers including sharp objects ing and mentions that it is not just quite a sensible suggestion.” and attract new academic staff. May Week drinking can often below the surface, such as old bicycles students who jump in the river, “but It is not just Cambridge students lead to trips to Addenbrooke’s. In and supermarket trolleys, and infec- also local kids”. whose river-based adventures have Union elections a Varsity survey published recently, tious organisms that may cause fatal Some students considered the made the news in recent years. In one third of respondents said that illness. warnings excessive. A third year November 2009, members of King’s Elections for the Cambridge they had injured themselves while The email has received a mixed Caius student commented, “Going College London Boat Club were seen Union Society Lent 2011 drinking and the danger is particu- reaction in Clare College. One first in the river is an integral part of jumping naked into the Cam during Committee will be held today.