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Massive restructur ing of the college day is being cons idered by a col lege commit tee , the ' W o r k i n g Par ty on the Col lege Day ' , chai red by Professor A l a n Swanson.

The Rector , Sir Eric A s h , told Fe l ix that the idea had emerged from a B o a r d of Studies discussion in w h i c h students were represented. He pointed out that the college was 'short of teaching space -lecture rooms, seminar rooms, short of space at lunch , short of t imetabl ing space wi th the n o v e l combinat ions l ike chemist ry and management and four year courses requi r ing language study'.

H e said that the commit tee was to rec ieve feedback from students, and stressed that there was to be no increase in contact hours. He preferred a

' reduct ion on number of lecture hours' and an increase in the number of seminars.

He added that 'classical office hours were a terr ible straitjacket' and 'there was a lot to be said for start ing at 8.30', w h i c h w o u l d ease t ravel f rom afar as it w o u l d avo id the rush hour. He said that staff w h o w o u l d still hit the rush hour could come in earlier and w o r k before the proper day started.

Professor Swanson said that the commit tee was st i l l in the process of asking the departments for their v iews, and that the IC U n i o n President, Paul Shanley, was on the commit tee to express the students' point of v i ew. H e said that the Humani t ies department couldn' t do its

job under the present t imetabl ing constraints. In addit ion departments w i l l have to be cont ro l led to stop them g iv ing more lectures in the extra t ime this proposal w o u l d produce.

H e added that he had wr i t ten to a l l the people w h o might be affected - inc lud ing Rob Northey, Refectories Manager - to ask their opinions .

The change to the college day w i l l be discussed at the U n i o n Gene ra l Meet ing at 1.00 on Thursday 8th N o v e m b e r in the Great Ha l l . Please note that the date in the advert isement on the back cover is w r o n g - the U G M is on Thursday , not Tuesday as pr in ted .

Stick-Up Suzanne Ahmet Resigns T h e Management schools ' plaque was

myster ious ly returned to its or ig ina l posi t ion last Sunday. It was stuck to the w a l l upside d o w n wi th B l u - T a c k , w i t h a carrot attached. A message was left w i th the sign saying that it had c o m e from 'the Phan tom Carrot ' . The perpetrator is thought to reside in Fa lmouth K e o g h H a l l .

It is be l i eved that a member of the Roya l Col lege of Science U n i o n (RCSU) stole the sign be l i ev ing it to be a part of mascotry. T h e R C S U mascot ry team have been unavai lable for comment .

T h e o r ig ina l sign was due for repacement and a new plaque has been on order for some time.

More Thefts A 'considerable amount of theft' has occured this term, accord ing to M r T e r r y Br i l ey , securi ty officer at IC. 'Since the beginning of the te rm there have been 38 recorded thefts .. this is worse than before', he said on Wednesday .

H e added that this week has seen three b ike thefts - a total of £ 6 0 0 . A wallet conta in ing chequebook, d r i v i n g l icence and £ 2 2 0 was stolen from the U n i o n G y m . M r Br i l ey advised that lockers must be used, and added that if anyone is seen act ing suspiciously - for e x a m p l e loi ter ing a round cars o r in departments - the observer should immedia te ly report them on extens ion 3372. A football kit and two footballs were stolen from the Southside bar on Wednesday even ing . Paul Shanley, U n i o n President, said that the kit be longed to a member of Imperial 's 1st team and was insured for £ 3 6 0 .

Suzanne A h m e t has res igned as Ex te rna l Affairs Officer (EAO) to enable her to continue her normal affairs as R C S U President. A letter of resignation was sent to M u r r a y W i l l i a m s o n , H o n Sec (Events), dated the 28th October .

Papers for the re-election of the E A O

Insult Last week the Universi t ies Fund ing C o u n c i l (UFC) rejected univers i ty bids for an increase in Governmen t funding. A lmos t 95% of universi t ies had requested an increase exceed ing the levels suggested. T h e move by the U F C may have been in retal ia t ion for the universit ies fai l ing to meet 'cost-cutting' targets p rev ious ly set by the Government . The decis ion was descr ibed by Sir E d w a r d Parkes as a 'grotesque insult to universit ies ' .

The univers i ty bids may have been an attempt to cove r the cost of the Government ' s p lan to double the number of students enter ing higher education by the year 2000. Student numbers have increased by about 13% o v e r the last two years without an increase in funding.

Sir E d w a r d said that the Government ' s expans ion plans were unrealist ic at the present level of funding and that he be l ieved universi t ies w o u l d not sacrifice the quali ty of educat ion to augment student numbers . He s t rongly denied allegations that universi t ies had secretly col laborated to sabotage the new funding system in w h i c h funds w o u l d be al located to universi t ies that could p rov ide the cheapest educat ion.

Mrs. Curr ie said ' A n y expans ion has to be funded three ways; tax payers, the students and their families, and the universit ies themselves. '

were put up o n the 29th Oc tober on the staircase leading to the U n i o n Office.

W h e n quest ioned about the act ion Ms A h m e t said T d rather do two jobs we l l , than three jobs in a mediocre-fashion ' . Soon after Sir Geoffrey H o w e resigned.

UCLU Loss Univers i ty Col lege Student U n i o n (UCLU) are to lose their G y m , w o r k s h o p and the 'Garage' . This fol lows last year 's wrangles over the affair (Felix, issues 868-870, M a y this year). N ick M c A l p i n e , Publ ic i ty and Communica t ions officer of U C L U , told Fe l ix that the affected clubs had been relocated 'as a short te rm measure ' .

He added that the pharmaceut ica l c o m p a n y 'E i sa i ' had 'donated ' £ 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 to the college for the use of their facilities, but that it was the M e d i c a l Research C o u n c i l (MRC) that was to use the area previous ly occup ied by U n i o n buildings. H e added that 'the picture has i m p r o v e d since we learned more .... w e have all ta lked sensibly and the col lege is ve ry helpful at the moment ' . He sa id that the un ion 'aims to get a long t e rm solution -we are m a k i n g sure that the issue is kept on the boi l ' .

Give Blood If y o u want to help med ica l science but don't want to die first, Ci ty and Guilds Col lege U n i o n (C&GU) w i l l be running a b lood donat ing session in the Southside g y m on Tuesday the 13th November .

Sign up n o w in the Gui lds office or in the J C R this Tuesday (6th November) . A l l of the college are we lcome .

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Non Sabbatical for Fe l ix to be elected

A mot ion p ropos ing the e lect ion of a non-sabbatical F e l i x editor w i l l be put to the U n i o n Genera l Meet ing (UGM) on Thursday 8th November . He or she w i l l w o r k alongside a Print Uni t Manager w h o w i l l arrange the pr in t ing of F e l i x and outside print jobs. The editor w i l l receive an honora r ium similar to that rece ived by the Presidents of C & G U , R C S U and R S M U , equivalent to two terms' rent in Southside.

This solut ion to the lack of a sabbatical Fe l ix editor was produced by an elect ion

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commit tee compr i s ing the Execut ive Commit tee and four others. The Un ion C o u n c i l has agreed to the mot ion being put to the U G M but the Col lege must agree to the change in elect ion procedure. The runn ing of a non-sabbatical e lect ion w h e n a sabbatical post has not been fi l led is a departure from the no rma l sys tem.

If the mot ion is passed papers w i l l go up on the 12th, d o w n on the 23rd. V o t i n g w i l l be on the 3rd and 4th December .

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A Cosmic Ray and Solar Par t ic le detector, part of w h i c h was built at Imperial , was swi tched on b y remote con t ro l on the 23rd October . It is aboard the space probe Ulysses, more than 18 m i l l i o n k m from Ear th . T w o days later Imperial 's magnetometer was made opera t ional by a s ignal that took over a minute to reach the probe.

The magnetometer is a h ighly sensitive magnet ic field detector, capable of measuring fields up to a m i l l i o n times weaker than the Earth's f ield. It w i l l study the large scale structure of magnet ic field lines in the hel iosphere.

A l l of the observat ions of the sun's field have so far been conf ined to the ecl ipt ic plane. The observat ions made wi th instruments from Imperial Col lege and the Jet Propuls ion Labora to ry w i l l p rov ide data to test the three d imens iona l models proposed by theorists. This m a y help us to understand the e leven yea r solar act ivi ty cycle . Rela ted to the Sun's magnetic phenomena this is be l ieved to affect weather patterns on Ear th .

Imperial 's other instrument on board, a set of two a tomic particle detectors, w i l l measure fluxes in energetic protons released from the sun in solar flares. T h e instrument, part of a complex of detectors p rov ided by an internat ional consor t ium of scientific institutes, w i l l investigate the w a y in w h i c h the heliosphere, and in part icular the sun, can act as a highly efficient part icle accelerator.

Chaos 'Chaos in B io log ica l Systems' w i l l be discussed by Professor R . M . M a y o n Thursday 7th November . T h e lecture w i l l be held at 1.15 in Physics Lecture Theatre 1. E v e r y b o d y w e l c o m e .

Fire Fire broke out in Berna rd Sunley last M o n d a y w h e n a gri l l caught light. Chr is Donegan , a past wa rden of Be rna rd Sunley, said that a student d iscovered the fire and put out the flames wi th an ext inguisher . He said that there had been a large amount of smoke p roduced w h i c h set of the a larms at a round midnight .

M r Donegan said that the cooker i n v o l v e d had been examined by the Col lege e lec t r ic ian and had been passed as safe. It was n o w back in use.

M r Donegan said that there had been a good response' to the a l a rm . H e

commented that there had been a fire a la rm test o n l y that m o r n i n g at 8.00.

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REVIEWS The F r e s h m a n

Brando! Broder ick! Together at last on the big screen! Mat thew Brode r i ck is the Freshman and M a r l o n Brando is Ca rmine Sabatini w h o bears a start l ing resemblance to., er-m...

Broder i ck is new in the B i g A p p l e and manages to find a w o r m in the first nineteen minutes w h o makes off w i th all his clothes, m o n e y and self-respect. (The latter may not be strictly accurate). His father is as nutty as someth ing ve ry nutty indeed and tighter than someth ing we can't ment ion on prime-t ime F r iday fare. His professor runs a fi lm col lege from his o w n books, w h i c h are compul so ry to the course (sound familar eh kids ?) and so Our Hero has no choice but to take the first job offer he gets.

W h i c h , in the way of such things, is offered to h im by the ve ry self-same crook w h o r ipped him off in the first place. Said v i l l a in introduces B r o d to Brand ; o l ' ' F ive M i l l i o n Dol lars For The First F ive Minutes ' plays an honest Italian impor ter w h o has a poster of Mussol in i for sent imental reasons and a vacancy for a nice lad to run del iver ies at a thousand dollars a trip.

This poses a mora l d i l e m m a for an honest young fresher since he doesn't k n o w the nature of his goods. A t this point, the f i lm, w h i c h has thus far been shaping up as a gentle but obvious M o b comedy takes a turn for the surreal w i t h the unment ionable package. It also grows a good deal funnier, if y o u have a secret hatred of shopping centres and petrol station attendants.

Because this is a Mat thew Broder ick film it ends in gratuitous but not una l loyed happiness. Var ious compl ica ted mora l issues resolve themselve neatly and al l is we l l wi th the wor ld .

The Freshman is nicely made, cer tainly not dull , and both stars give appeal ing and credible performances. It wins big B r o w n i e points from us and we saw Mar ie l l a Frostrup in the audience.

P.S. For those of y o u w h o may not have unders tood the above rev iew, T . A . F . G . M . w o u l d l ike to summarise as follows : It's a good fi lm. It's a light comedy. Go and see it. A N D we saw Mar i e l l a Frostrup in the audience

(P.P.S. W h y don't we get crap films any more ?)

The Amaz ing Fly ing Gerb i l Machine A n d A Bag Of Fish, Please.

The Enchantment The Enchantment (Japanese wi th Engl i sh subtitles) is b i l l ed as an 'ul t ra-modern f i lm noir ' . V e r y catchy, I'm sure. The plot concerns a psychiatrist (played by a r emarkab ly western l o o k i n g Japanese mode l / ac to r—Masao Kusakari) w h o becomes i n v o l v e d w i t h a mysterious (and, quite natural ly, beautiful) patient. She happens to have a serious mul t ip le personali ty problem, , on top of w h i c h she holds great a n d dark secrets in her heart(s) etc, etc.

Unfortunately, though the plot may twist and turn , the fi lm rattles a little too much—it is not quite as smooth as the makers must have hoped. It's not too hot on the noir bit either. Y o u can't just have a load of shadows and say: we l l boys, here's a fi lm noir . It lacks the psychologica l depth, the tension, the atmosphere of the genre.

A l l this apart, however , there are some 'nice bits'. The re is a nice piece of i rony in the opening and closing sequences (the psychiatrist is seen in the first shot of the movie to have near ly cured a taxi-dr iver of his obsession wi th an ex-girlfr iend, whi le at the end it is the kwack w h o is . . .wel l , y o u can guess). T h e relat ionship between the psychiatrist and his gir lfr iend is also quite interesting.

The Enchantment runs at the ICA until November 19.

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D r . F a u s t u s English National Opera, London Coliseum, 20th October.

A cross between '42nd Street', 'The R o c k y H o r r o r Show' and an amateur Gilbert and Sul l ivan? That was one verdict on the E N O ' s r e v i v a l of Busoni 's Doctor Faust. F r o m the momen t the cur ta in rises to reveal Faust si t t ing at a mode rn executive 's desk, wea r ing a mode rn suit and towered ove r by piles of filing cabinets a r ranged like a city skyscraper skyl ine , the audience knows it is in for an updat ing of the s ixteenth century mora l i ty tale to the twent ie th century. In fact the who le design lacks cohesion: ostensibly set in the early twenties, w i th the w o m e n at the court of P a r m a wear ing beaded 'flapper' dresses, the chorus are dressed l ike thirties mafia and He len of T r o y appears to have wandered in from the Cole Porter musica l next door. Mephistopheles ' t ransformation into Faust's stage assistant, wea r ing pink basque, red garter and red stilettos was obvious ly meant to parody the magician's assistant's role , but mere ly ended up

camp. These points w o u l d be mere ly irr i tat ing if it were not that the set itself, dragged out of mothballs for this rev iva l of a 1986 product ion , looks on the point of collapse.

H o w e v e r , the staging does show some nice touches, for example , the tr iangular floor consists of strips of rubber th rough w h i c h heads, hands and bodies can appear and disappear, but w h i c h can also be wa lked across l ike a sol id floor. A n o t h e r d isappoint ing area is the choreography. It was difficult to tell whether s imi lar movements were meant to be unsynchronised or were s imply s loppi ly performed. The E N O are apparently unable to stage conv inc ing look ing c r o w d scenes: the chorus seems to m i l l r andomly , exhib i t ing no emot ion or sense. What is good about this product ion? The orchestra, under the di rect ion of A n t h o n y Beaumont , p lay br i l l iant ly as always, even if they sometimes d r o w n out the singers. A l a n Opie's Faust is excel lent in such a

chal lenging role . H e has m a n y protracted monologues and is on stage for almost all three hours of the opera. G r a h a m Clark , recreat ing the role of Mephistopheles from the or ig ina l product ion, is also a fine performer. The direct ion shows some fine insight dur ing parts of the product ion , but varies be tween frenetic, seemingly pointless act ivi ty and moments of v isual banali ty. H o w e v e r it a l lows the opera's theme, that 'human beings are responsible for their o w n actions a n d may not ascribe even their cr imes and achievements to either G o d or the D e v i l ' , to develop through good use of repeated imagery . This is cer ta in ly not a good int roduct ion to opera for the uninit iated. It is perhaps on ly fit for those w h o w i s h to be chal lenged. This w o u l d have been far better as a concert performance than as a visual mess o n stage. Doctor Faust continues in repertoire until Novmber 15th.

Liz W .

T h e H a n d m a i d ' s T a l e Kate (Natasha Richardson), her husband

her small daughter have just failed to escape from the Republ ic of Gi lead (formerly the U S A ) . Her husband lies dead in the snow, she is sur rounded by a rmed border guards, and her daughter has s tumbled off into the bushes frightened by all the noise.

She ends up wi th many other w o m e n who , for one reason or another, have been rounded up by the pol ice and they are separated into those w h o are fertile and those w h o are not. The fertile w o m e n are sent off to be t ra ined as handmaids—surrogate mothers for couples w h o cannot have ch i ld ren of their o w n because the wife is sterile.

It is the near future. W h a t was former ly the U S A has been taken o v e r by a group of rel igious r ight -wing fundamentalists. 99% of the popula t ion have been rendered sterile as a result of nuclear accidents and chemica ls in the atmosphere. T h e government supports rac i sm and capi ta l punishment (by hanging) for such cr imes as rape, adultery and homosexual i ty .

T h e or ig in for the handmaids comes

Queendom Come By Ellen Galford The author of this book doesn't have a chip on her shoulder, she's got five pounds of K i n g Edwards!

Set in a future w o r l d where the Conservat ive party has created a Blue Re ich , the s tory revolves m a i n l y a round Scot land in general , and Ed inbu rgh in part icular. T h e government has taken the Conservat ive ideals to their i l logica l extremes, cu lmina t ing w i t h such momentous pieces of legislat ion as 'The Sexual Norma l i t y A c t . '

To save the people from their predicament Queen A l b a n n a is brought forward in t ime by her sorceress. A s y o u can imagine she comes from a t ime where things are rather different, par t icular ly in sexual terms.

The P r ime Minister , as ever interested in her publ ic i ty , tries to use her to gain support for the dictatorship style government . Unfortunately A l b a n n a doesn't p lay by the rules, creat ing havoc and m a y h e m whereve r and wheneve r she can.

It is defiantly not for the conservat ive minded and I don't expect m a n y people have read a lesbian love scene? W e l l y o u won' t here ei ther but no subject is taboo and she definatly pulls no punches w h e n it comes to the present government .

A reasonable book but I can't help th ink ing that if she could control her paranoia the author could become a ve ry good wri ter .

Ian Hodge.

from the story in the O l d Testament of Jacob and Rache l . Rache l gave her handmaid to Jacob so she could have a ch i ld for her. This story forms the basis of the ' ceremony ' : a sexual act tak ing place at a t ime w h e n the handmaid is at her

most fertile a n d in the presence of the wife. It is ve ry co ld and impersona l and unsett l ing for a l l three i n v o l v e d .

A l t h o u g h , because of their fertility, handmaids have theoret ical ly got a high posi t ion in society, they are ve ry m u c h beneath wives and are ac tual ly not treated we l l—when they do have a baby they don't even get a chance to see if it's a boy or gir l before the mother has wh i sked it off and c la imed it as her o w n .

Kate , a l though ou tward ly s u b s e r v i e n t -one has to be to surv ive—never gives up hope of f inding her daughter (who, she finds out, is be ing brought up by another couple) and either o v e r t h r o w i n g the government or escaping from the country . She has become i n v o l v e d wi th an underground group w o r k i n g to restore the country .

E v e n though Kate is go ing through a ve ry t raumatic t ime the f i lm never actual ly becomes emotional—it is far too factual and realistic. Read ing about the whole si tuation may seem very far fetched but the f i lm makes it appear far too plausible.

J L W .

Young Guns II

Not no rmal ly a fan of westerns I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Un l ike most sequels w h i c h seem main ly a vehic le for m a k i n g a lot of money on the strength of the or ig ina l film's name, this one did actually appear to have a plot and a purpose.

The fi lm begins w i th a solici tor 's representat ive meet ing an o ld cowboy , w h o calls himself Brushy B i l l Roberts and claims to be B i l l y the K i d . He knows he is dy ing and wants to be pardoned. He says he was pardoned over seventy years before and wants this pardon to be made official. The y o u n g man pooh-poohs this story because he knows the legend of h o w B i l l y the K i d was assassinated and therefore can't be standing before h im now. So the o ld c o w b o y tells h im how it happened.. .

T h e story is ac tual ly based a round fact. One of Bi l ly ' s former friends wrote a book cal led 'The Real Life of B i l l y the Kid '—but it was a failure, a n d a m a n c la iming to be B i l l y the K i d did actually turn up in 1950.

E m i l i o Es tevez as B i l l y the K i d successfully combines characterists of the a rche typal cowboy—spinn ing of pistols and l igh ten ing qu ick d r a w — w i t h a realistic por t raya l of the K i d as a person rather than a legend.

I d i d real ly enjoy this fi lm it is a humourous f i lm wi th a plot and also good d r a m a w h i c h w i l l please people l ike myself. Fo r the western buff there's the obl igatory gratuitous v io lence , frequent shootouts and even a little sex.

J L W .

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Greame chats to the Unstoppable Sex Machine.

C a r t e r I n t e r v i e w MUSIC

'He l lo . Have y o u got a tape recorder? ' He smi led s incere ly and his manner was v e r y poli te. Nice m a n this J i m Bob , 1 thought. I did have a tape recorder so we got on wi th the in te rv iew.

'Is it alr ight if its just me., he's in a bad mood , probably just smash your walkman! . . '

J i m Bob and Frui t Bat, the two members of Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, we re in B r i x t o n p l ay ing T h e Fridge. Prac t ica l ly a home gig (they l ived about two miles away), it comes towards the end of a gruel l ing U K tour.

'It's just his name., his name is Carter and I started taking the piss, about the sex machine , and it just stuck. '

A l t h o u g h J i m Bob general ly sings the songs, both members d e m a n d equal attention on stage, and yet they both lose to the adrenal ine pumped music they thrash out. This is h igh technology guitar pop, set against a manic b a c k i n g tape of drums, keyboards , bass a n d samples. E a c h of their guitars pierce through this melange wi th ove rd r iven riffs of such hype that even the stiffs g roove d o w n .

'Yeah , we l ay the patterns d o w n on a... yeah , good guess, as Ales i s . . ' (a d rum mach ine for those not in the know) ' . .and then go into the studio, add other sounds and the rest of it. W e do use samples but less and less now. '

The way their sound goes together makes it hard to characterise Carter.

' W e l l , w e ' v e been c o m p a r e d to so many , The Clash., even the Pet Shop Boys.' I myself can find no adequate compar i son a l though The Shamen p rov ide a s imilar sort of stage show. Strobes and lights all add to the si tuation to create an audio visual exper ience.

'Yeah , tonight we w i l l use their projectors here. Basical ly because they won ' t let us use our backdrops . Appa ran t l y they ' re not p roper ly fire proofed. W e k n o w because the stage manager set fire to them. He S E T F I R E to them just to p roove a point , wanker . W e ' r e going to set fire to h i m later!' This unique style also gives t hem a universa l audience, f rom the indie biker ' s jacket to the dancey Converse boot.

'I don't th ink it actual ly existed, it was just thought up by somebody . Y o u can't l iken The Happy Mondays to James or The Stone Roses or The Inspirals. There are bands around, l ike The Charlatans, w h o are inf luenced by one of those four and then other bands have copied them. They ' re c o p y i n g the w r o n g ones. '

'The acid thing? Don' t rea l ly have t ime, sometimes dance to it.'

Carter's n e w single, Any Time, Any Place, Anywhere, is the first released since s igning to R o u g h Trade . A l r e a d y it

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is h igh up in the Indie charts at Number 4 and is a l l set to s torm the Gal lop po l l . T h e single has been g iven g o o d reviews and J im Bob tells me that the v ideo is excel lent , though unfortunately is not rece iv ing m u c h airplay.

'We do want to do we l l in the nat ional charts. W e want to go on Top Of The Pops. It's one of our a ims at the moment . ' After ta lk ing to h im, this didn't surprise me. J i m Bob is actually quite a mi ld , conven t iona l chap, despite the impress ion he gives on stage.

It's obvious Carter don't want to be just another hip indie band al l their l ives, and judging by the recept ion from the m i x e d c r o w d at The Fr idge , I don't th ink that w i l l be a p rob lem.

The tour has been ve ry hard w o r k for the two lads and their c r e w (especially 'Fat Bastard ' w h o is hai led w i t h a half full beer cans at the start of each gig) and they w i l l be g lad to w i n d it up this week

in Canterbury . It's then back into the studio to record

the a lbum for Chr is tmas release, at w h i c h t ime another mini- tour is p lanned, vis i t ing on ly their favourite venues.

A s the Top Of The Pops theme blur ted out their entrance, Carter c ame on stage to a rapturous w e l c o m e a n d qu ick ly went about the task of b l o w i n g everyone away .

C lu tch ing m y tape recorder (which hadn.t worked) I watched the steady s t ream of stage divers jump about a round Carter and not iced that Frui t Bat never once stopped smi l ing . H e was l o v i n g it and I thought about what J i m Bob had said. I disagree. I can't imagine such nice people wan t ing to smash m y w a l k m a n !

'Students., no I don't hate them., used to but I real ised it was pointless. ' Wha t about those w h o t idd ly-wink d o w n O x f o r d Street? ' O h yeah , that sort., yeah , they ' re wankers! '

Graeme

R o s e o f A v a l a n c h e Gone are the black sleeves. Gone is the sombre dark base. In comes the M o d e r n Beat and spacey designs IN C O L O U R . Yes, Rose Of Avalanche have gone the same way as the Soup Dragons to achieve commerc i a l prestige...but it works .

E v e n the first track blights away the g loom, in Your Light's O n , the benefactial purchaser is pleased by a l ibera l dosage of the t radi t ional indie wah-wah and hip beat, man. A s the cover implies , a suitable concoct ion of Loop and Primal Scream, in precise quantities, may total Rose.

M u c h jolliness ensues. T h e vocals may be an acqui red taste, but somebody had to sing. Make It Right is bound to do we l l when released, and they A R E look ing for inspirat ion, honest. It's a happy thing. Suddenly and dauntingly, the m o o d

String A' Beads LP

thickens. The acoustics strike wondrous ly . E v e n the voice is listenable.

O o h , String'A'Beads is the title track and deservedly so. Rose take the recipe and define beat, bends and boppiness. Shake the ce i l ing . The who le is d r o w n e d in unashamed convic t ion , no concessions, no defeat. T h e y seem to cont inue for ever. The rest mere ly glances by, a remnant from their earlier days. H a v i n g failed the bop-beat scene, they n o w trespass on New Model Army acoustics and cliches of typica l loves, lost, held and lost again, sob, sob. The last track, B e True To Your Love is memorab le , but never quite gets there, and ends in a frustration of noise and wah-wah .

Even so, they seem set to destroy any mega-basses still intact after the dance takeover.

SJH

A l i e n S e x F i e n d —Camden Underworld

Alien Sex Fiend, as you might guess from the name, do not boast a reputat ion as the most tasteful of bands. The i r difinitive box-set contains a plastic dog-waste s imulac rum (commemora t ing their first release w h i c h flaunted the real vers ion of same upon its sleeve). This , and the photos w h i c h adorn the gatefold of their double l ive L P , d id no th ing to reassure me, so it was w i t h some trepidat ion that I found myself dragged to their first U K dates for a whi l e .

A t first glance the stage did nothing to quel l m y doubts, swathed as it was in cotton cobweb and amputee Barbies.

Nick Robertson & Slice This acoustic offering shows precious little talent. It ini t ial ly sounds quite pleasant,

Show Me A Sign 12" inspired perhaps by early Housemartins; but the singer hasn't got any th ing of interest to say. The music is hardly or ig inal , m a k i n g each song sound, at best, unmemorab le . In an effort to rel ieve the tedium, Nick deploys g immicks , such as scatting, but his voice is s imply not up to it. The title t rack thus ends up as a complete mess. One song even ends up wi th the o ld p u b - r o c k tr ick of speeding the tempo up and up whi le The Flame sounds l ike a bad copy of a Tracy Chapman song.

Unless the group can develop an or ig inal sound of their o w n (assuming they can find one) they w i l l remain as creators of sl ightly annoy ing background music.

Rel

After m u c h be lch ing of d ry ice and not inconsiderable amounts of audience anticipat ion the band finally took to the stage. The guitarist looks ' normal ' enough. The percuss ion/keyboardis t , c lad in ragged labcoat, is otherwise. Mrs F iend , also on keyboards, is downright attractive in purple velvet . N i k Fiend. . .on stage, at last, is the least pleasant- looking man I have ever seen; whi te faced, tarten-trousered and puke-green Riddler coat.

Thankful ly the stage is too smal l for Nik to engage in his full antics and the music more than makes up for it. ASF play a fusion of H M distort guitar and hard-edged dance percussion a n d keyboard w h i c h went d o w n we l l w i t h the audience, most of w h o m were die-hard aficionados. W h i l e the songs are formular ised to a certain degree there's enough var ia t ion to keep the gig from turning into a straight­forward industr ial dance race, the tempo rising and fal l ing through the B P M scale. Dur ing the hour-and-a-half set most of the old favourites get a dusting off (Gef Into It, Manic Depression and (ugh!) Sample My Sausage) and the newer songs are aired wi th a fair degree of panache for a first time out. EST...Trip to the Moon and Boneshaker Baby both m o v e d the c rowd , the first as a long, drawn-out synth riff and the latter as a straight rock 'n ' rol ler .

If you enjoy dance music w i t h a little more melody and power and y o u can cope wi th cut-price A l i c e Cooper visuals ASF might be wor thy of your attention. Thei r latest a lbum, Curse, is avai lable now, and they tour again next year.

(This r ev iew has been wr i t ten according to the new hip 'n ' trendy editorial policy).

Stone.

U L U A U - N i g h t e r It could have been the most crucia l event in the L o n d o n student calender . It could have been k i c k i n ' . I could have t r ipped out on twelve hours of jol l i ty , music and 50:50 boy g i r l m i x . U L U a l l nighter could have been A C E .

But it wasn't . Not even close real ly. Quite an ant i -c l imax, and all rather upsetting for those who h a d pa id the h igh entrance fee of S I5 . Perhaps this cost was the very reason for the night 's downfal l since essentially the on ly things l ack ing were people.

Those of us from Imperial Col lege had the fortunate oppor tuni ty to start F r iday night off w i t h a visit to the R o y a l Albe r t Ha l l for a free peace concert wi th Sri C h i n m o y . I was feeling pretty me l low so went a long before setting off for U L U . W h e n 1 left the place I was just so re laxed m y essential bod i ly functions were in danger of collapse. A ve ry strange man that Sri C h i n m o y .

Q u i c k l y into the tube and out to Russell Square for the g roovy do. W e a r r ived a round ten thir ty, in just enough t ime to ca tch Milltown Brothers do their set. The i r M a n c u n i a n indie sound was to prove the s tandard for the night, (by heck, y o u should have seen the flares on show! Baggy tops, they were pract ical ly Nana Mouskaris!) but their performance was one of the best. E v e r y b o d y was dead jo l ly at this ea r ly stage.

F o l l o w i n g The Brothers came, among others, Ocean Colour Scene and Flowered Up. The former were personal ly rather disappoint ing, a l though the sound was good. A few songs stuck out as obvious c r o w d pleasers but other more m o o d y numbers just seemed to wash over us i r re levant ly l ike ocean tides. Quite apt.

The f lowery lads from Kings Cross were re la t ively good . T h e y were headl in ing and k n e w it, f launt ing to the seething masses wi th their b rand of scally pop. B y the middle of their act, half the c r o w d couldn' t see the band for the other half we re a l l o n stage do ing their upmost to be aresholes. Flowered Up actually have a Bez (re H a p p y Mondays) of their o w n — a total loony w h o looks l ike one of B i l l and Ben's mates.

B y this t ime it was two-ish and people were t i r ing. W e ' d all had our supper (a jacket potato that I'm sure R S M w o u l d have been interested in) a n d were look ing for some s t imulat ion. The bouncy castle beckoned but the smel l of sweaty feet that had finally escaped from the D M s soon put people off that as we l l . T h e y showed Grease on v ideo , thus inci t ing a bit of s inging en masse, w h i c h

Flowered Up was fun, but when Robocop came on the general concensus was that it was just too loud for five in the m o r n i n g .

The discos started w e l l . There were two, one for the indie b lack jeans D M lot and another for the dancy E-generation.

Breakfast was excellent—croissants, j am and mult iple cups of coffee and at 4 .30am seemed r emarkab ly appetising.

T h e securi ty staff, w h o were ini t ial ly just indignant, had finally succumbed to weariness and n o w couldn' t give a monkeys fuck for the party, the people or the rules that governed them.

Seven o 'c lock a r r ived a n d it was t ime to go. A few hundred had lasted out but those w h o were conscious numbered on ly a few.

O n the w h o l e the night was fun, but not w o r t h the money . L i v e A i d it wasn't . L o n d o n meets Manchester? Perhaps.

P r e f a b S p r o u t Competition Hammersmith Odeon 22.10.90

W i t h the a lbum comes the tour, o r ig ina l ly ti t led 'The Comeback . ' F in i sh ing wi th two nights at the H a m m e r s m i t h Odeon , both of w h i c h sold out, they p roduced a show I w i l l r emember for a long t ime.

Prefab Sprout have never hit the mega market and this showed in the age and diversi ty of the audience, no sc reaming teenagers here.

T h e y p layed tracks from four of their five albums concent ra t ing equal ly on the new and o ld mater ia l .

For me the whole show was one continuous delight, cu lmina t ing in their second encore wi th the p l ay ing of their most famous song ' W h e n L o v e Breaks D o w n ' and f inal ly 'Doo W o p in Ha r l em. '

A wonderful night from a wonderfu l group, they are not to be missed if you l ike music where y o u can hear the words.

Ian Hodge.

W e are g iv ing y o u the chance of w i n n i n g a copy of Prefab Sprout's latest a lbum, Jordon: The Comeback. W e have three copies of the cassette and two of the compact disk, one of w h i c h could be yours if y o u answer all of the fo l lowing questions correct ly .

W h o featured on ha rmonica on the From Langley Park to Memphis a lbum?

W h i c h of the fo l lowing is not a Prefab Sprout song? a) Doo Wop in Harlam. b) The Devil has all the best tunes. c) Green Isaac. d) On the right hand of God.

W h o are the last four t racks on side one of Jordon about?

W h i c h two members of the band are related and what do they play.

A l l entries should be sent to the F E L I X office to a r r ive no later than Wednesday 31st October . Please specify w h i c h format y o u require, compact disk or cassette.

In the event of more than five correct entrants the winners w i l l be pul led from a hat.

International poet and scientist to visit IC

Science, Art, and Ethics H o w long is now? L o o k i n g back it seemed l ike ages of silence.

I was s tanding at the bar, a pint of bitter comfor t ing my sense of doing, as thought about what I could say. He was an artist, and the other a poet. T h e y looked at me . I said noth ing . T h e y wanted me to speak. 1 had noth ing to say. H o w cou ld I, a student scientist, relate to their ways of seeing and doing.

Miros lav Holub concludes the title essay of his book

a metaphor ica l monumen t to the heroes of science, in his short s tory Argonauts of the Air.

Miros lav Ho lub is a scientist, in the true Wel l s i an sense. He is a prolif ic wri ter of poetry and essays, whilst researching into i m m u n o l o g y in Prague.

Is he an unusual mam? Undoubted ly . A s T e d Hughes, poet Laureatte, has wri t ten

The Demension of the Present Moment and other essays w i th 'In this sense, our ego lasts three seconds. Eve ry th ing else is either hope or an embarrass ing incident. Usual ly both. '

M y embarrassing incident was a feeling of two worlds , the artist and the scientist. The w o r l d of the creat ive imaginat ion and personal statement, and that of the d ry repeti t ive c r amming , measur ing and count ing. Ye t does science really destroy our sense of wonde r and creat ivi ty , whilst art nurtures and expresses it?

This is a question that H . G . Wel l s raised as a student here. In the preface to the student magaz ine he founded and edited he writes d o w n his expectations. He expected scientists to be wri ters and poets. Part of this v is ion of a creative scientist was inspired by his lecturer, the Dean of the Col lege , Professor T . H . H u x l e y . Wel l s was bit terly disappointed and uses the destruction of the Col lege as

Brief Reflection on test-tubes Take

a piece of fire, a piece of water, a piece of a rabbit or a piece of a tree, or any piece of a human being, mix it, shake it, stopper it up, keep it warm, in the dark, in the light, refrigerated, let it stand still for a while—yourselves far from still but that's the real joke.

After a while you look—and it's growing, a little ocean, a little volcano, a little tree, a little heart, a little brain, so little you don't hear it lamenting as it wants to get out, but that's the real joke, not hearing it.

Then go and record it, all dashes or all crosses, some with exclamation-marks, all noughts and all figures, some with exclamation-marks, and that's the real joke, in effect a test-tube is a device for changing noughts into exclamation-marks.

That's the real joke which makes you forget for a while that really you yourself are

In the test-tube.

'Miros lav H o l u b is one of the half dozen most important poets w r i t i n g anywhere ' . But is he an abberation? Is his combina t ion of science and art a freak accident against the nature of these subjects?

This is one a m o n g many questions that Miros lav explores , questions about the nature of our behaviour , what is a sane

Poem printed by kind permission of Bloodaxe Books Ltd

person, ethics and science, disease and society. His personal reflections give a sense of exci tement and wi t whilst t ravel l ing d o w n beautifully guided pathways of d iscovery, full of unexpec ted v iews and destinations. Y e t his grappl ing w i t h the relat ionship be tween truth and meaning places at the heart of his w o r k this relat ionship between poetry and

science. This is a

p r o b l e m he w i l l be discussing on Tuesday November 13 at 1.15pm in the Read Lecture Theatre. It is a unique and exc i t ing oppor tuni ty to listen to a man at the forefront of the explorat ions of the creat ive nature of science. This event is part of a nat ionwide tour organised by the Nat ional Poetry Society.

His theme is one that he shares wi th the late Jacob B r o n o w s k i , scientist, broadcaster and wri ter , whose o w n explorat ions of science took h im to the concentra t ion camp at A u s c h w i t z where his family died. His response illustrates the impor tance of the issues at stake. Issues about the subjects y o u are s tudying, the way

they are taught, h o w y o u perceive them and h o w y o u may approach w o r k in science.

Miros lav H o l u b may change your v iews about science! He cer tainly raises questions at Imper ia l that are sometimes hard to find due to the silence, that Wel ls also heard, of the c r a m m i n g of science t ra in ing.

Michael Newman

WANTED Science articles of general interest for FELIX. If you are interested in a particular aspect of your course then why not write

about it? Fame and fortune beckons and it could favour you! Interested? Come into FELIX and ask for Ian.

Edwina curries favour with students in an.

Unfold ing Future O n Tuesday, M r s E d w i n a Cur r ie , M P , visi ted Imperia l College. Secur i ty was rather higher than as for the s imilar visit by M r Cec i l Pa rk inson , Transpor t Minister , a fortnight ago, w i t h two security men o n the door c h e c k i n g bags.

Mrs Curr ie started by ask ing whether Labour w o u l d w i n the next elect ion, and answered herself by say ing 'they haven't got a chance ' . She cited three reasons w h y she was optimist ic of the Tories retaining a majori ty in Par l iament .

Firs t ly , Labour have a tendency to pile up votes in seats they a l ready hold, rather than seek ing to gain n e w terri tory, and in many of the seats, they need to w i n to cont ro l Par l iament , they are not even in second place beh ind the Tories , thus they need to displace the L ibe ra l Democrats (who she referred to as the Al l iance) .

Secondly, as a Genera l E lec t ion approaches, Labour pol icies w o u l d come under closer scrutiny. She said that people w o u l d find 'many of these unworkable , expens ive or empty promises ' . 'What Labour wants is to satisfy every interest group in our society,

without it cost ing anybody any extra money. '

'If y o u go through po l i cy documents l ike Looking to the Future, w h i c h sounds l ike something Spielberg should have been i n v o l v e d in , and add up what they want to do, and y o u ask whether it is feasible, in m a n y cases the answer is 'Cou ld be'. '

H o w e v e r , she said that these policies could not be ca r r i ed out 'wi thout substantial increase in taxes' .

Th i rd ly , for this reason, she considered that the T o r y pol icies were vote-winners; ve ry few people want to part w i th more money than they have to.

The rhetor ic over, she inv i ted questions. D u r i n g these it emerged that she was s trongly against parents hav ing to support their offspring through college or univers i ty . She said that w h i l e she was at univers i ty , she was on full grant, but the people who had to get some or all of their money f rom their parents had a harder t ime w i t h f inancial worr ies , it be ing more difficult to get m o n e y from them than a local authori ty . She was also strongly against further educat ion

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Edwina presenting a student with their top-up loan.

institutions charg ing tui t ion fees to U K students, say ing that 'We, as a nation, benefit from y o u being students'. She thought that this should be the Government ' s contr ibut ion towards further educat ion. She added, ' L i v i n g expenses are your business'.

H o w e v e r , w h e n quest ioned about Student Loans , and the effect that this w o u l d have o n d iscouraging people f rom poorer backgrounds going to univers i ty wi th the prospect of a large debt at the end, Mrs Cur r i e said that as the current student loan was on ly £ 4 5 0 a year, no one wou ld get far into debt.

This begs the quest ion of w h o is to fund further educat ion. If the Governmen t pays tuition fees, and parents are not to be invo lved , w h o pays the l iv ing expenses? She encouraged people to get hol iday jobs; regardless of the fact that nearly eve ryone does a n y w a y , even if only to placate the bank manager .

W h e n quest ioned about the wi thd rawa l of housing benefit to students, and the effect this had o n d iscouraging students in L o n d o n because of the high costs, she said that the Gove rnmen t was neutral on where students go for their educat ion, but that housing benefit was 'for poor people, not you ' .

She stated that a full grant is more than a single pensioner gets, a n d that it w o u l d be very hard to justify students getting more than pensioners. ' Y o u ' d better stock up on the the rmal underwear and save on heating bi l ls . '

The National Cu r r i cu lum was raised, and in defence of it she said that 'it is an enormous step forward to have one, and to insist that e v e r y b o d y learns their o w n language, can spell , can put syntax together, can add up'. ' Y o u go out and just ask people how to conver t a fraction to a dec imal , they don't k n o w what either of them are, let alone how to do it.'

She thought that there was something w r o n g wi th the nat ional ethos whe reby people w o u l d m u c h rather become apprentices rather than go to univers i ty , and w o u l d emp loy accountants rather than engineers in industr ial management . H o w e v e r , w i t h the increas ing unity w i th Europe, she hoped that the respect for engineers in the U K w o u l d increase, as on the Cont inent . She suggested that students should 'get good qualifications, be ambit ious and get into management , or found y o u r o w n business' and then in t ime it w o u l d be possible to push salaries for engineers up.

No cont rovers ia l questions were put to Mrs Curr ie , and this was not because of the machinat ions of ConSoc: Mrs Cur r i e selected questions at r andom (unless She memor i sed a l l ConSoc ' s faces!). The re wasn't even a reference to eggs. C o m e on Socialists and Communis t s , where were you? Af ra id of being conver ted?

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ICU Ents Friday Night—The Muscle Shoal.

B J P r e s e n t s . . IF FELIX

Hope you all enjoyed the gig on Fr iday last, Spirit of Ecstacy—those of y o u w h o came, tell your friends how to have a good time. O n c e again any comments or suggestions w i l l be welcomed—see us

last week's but different bands, obviously (you're not stupid, are you!!). W e have the effervessent Muscle Shoal plus support from the Cuckoos. The Muscle Shoal play their annual show, wel l they have p layed

probably wouldn ' t bel ieve me. So come along and see for yourself. A s for the Cuckoos—well the name speaks for itself. The price is £ 2 . 0 0 in advance, SI w i th ents cards and £ 2 . 5 0 on the door. Tickets

a round or drop us a line in the Ents pigeonhole, this applies to tonight's event as we l l as all events.

Tonight , once again, is one of our Lounge events. O n a ve ry similar ve in to

every year since I've been here and they are great. 1 could tell y o u about their haunt ing melodies and excel lent harmonies these four lovable mop tops from Moptop T o w n can generate but y o u

can be obtained from the U n i o n Office or from the friendly hands of the Ents kids. O h , by the w a y , tonight there is also the great Ents disco in full effect and a bar extension unti l 12 o 'clock. See y o u there.

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S p o r t Football IC VI-5 QMC IV-4

IC 6ths scored five goals to total 17 in on ly three games w h e n they k n o c k e d Queen M a r y & Westf ield Col lege 4ths out of the U L U cup on Saturday. The game p roved ve ry tough wi th bo th sides suffering a number of injuries, most of w h i c h were caused by D a v e Buckle w h o left players from both sides sprawled a round the park. Star IC defender Yasser H a m d i was taken to hospital w i th a badly cut lip after a col l is ion in the first half.

Goals from Dave Phil l ips and A k i o Iwase helped to make the score 2-2 at half t ime but Q M W scored two quick goals early in the second half. IC keeper Mar t in A the r ton kept shout ing in order to make up for the lack of the large c r o w d that a team of this s tandard deserves. His shout ing was rewarded w h e n two goals from K e i t h Corde i ro and one from A n d r e w Stanni land in the last 20 minutes left Q M W w o n d e r i n g what had hit them.

ULU Six-A-Side Sunday 21 October , W i m b l e d o n , IC II began their annua l p i lgr image to Motspur Park for medals and g lory . IC's qualifying group compr i sed C H X , R F H , Golds I and U C II.

U C II p rov ided IC wi th an excellent aperitif as IC w o n 1-0. M A b d o scor ing the decisive goal and T Hulber t , the fish­l ike keeper, do ing what fish-like keepers do best.

R F H p r o v e d a nasty p r a w n cockta i l : IC wi th D Cook scor ing twice in a 2-1 v ic tory . Next on the menu was Golds I, a team full of U L U players a n d tournament favourites. H o w e v e r IC were very hungry and devoured Golds I and spat out their bones w i th contempt, w i t h goals from S Watson and N L e o n a r d in a 2-0 w i n . IC

' wrapped up their group, against C H X , 2-0 w i t h S Bar ry scor ing twice.

The quarter f inal , against Kings II, was w o n at a trot, S Bar ry scor ing the winner to set up a semi-final c lash w i t h Golds 1 w h o had s o m e h o w sneaked through v i a the backdoor .

IC dished out a second he lp ing and k n o c k e d them out of the tournament . D Cook scored the winner w i t h N L e o n a r d scor ing arguably the goal of the tournament . IC had marched ' Imperiously ' into the final but, sadly, RCI ended their dreams. Fortune was against IC as a l u c k y goal , inspi red goa lkeeping and fading light den ied IC the r eward their play undoubtedly deserved.

It was a complete team effort.

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Sailing The Firef ly Class Inland Championsh ips were held at the Wel sh H a r p last Sunday (October 21). IC Sai l ing C lub entered two boats into the event, notable for the ve ry strong w i n d w h i c h resulted i n the majority of competi tors gett ing a touch damp. The first race unfortunately saw one team go s w i m m i n g after ro l l ing a bit too far whilst runn ing , and the other near ly joined them, fi l l ing up their boat in the process. In the afternoon the teams general ly sa i led better, apart from a comple te ly successful attempt by one of our boats to r am one of the competi tors by r icoche t ing off a motor launch, and were eventua l ly r ewarded w i t h 13th and 16th place. A v ideo was made of the

Canoe So far this te rm, the Canoe Club has had two trips.

The first w e e k e n d trip of the year i nvo lved seven of last year 's members going up to Swaledale in Nor th Y o r k s h i r e to take part i n a chari ty paddle on behalf of the Samaritans, M.S . , and Guide Dogs for the B l i n d appeal .

A we l l organised event was rather spoiled by the fact that it hasn't ra ined up there for some t ime and there was no water in the r iver . After the first day's paddl ing and dragging of boats over rocks, we dec ided to head for wetter parts.

After a w i l d goose chase Nor th to the River Tees w e ended up o n the R ive r Ure , near R i p o n , compe t ing for a scrap of r iver wi th a l l canoeists w h o ' d realised that this was the on ly spot of whi te water available in the area.

Last w e e k e n d we headed for Symond ' s

Cross Country The rest of London ' s students were but a hedgehog in the path of the IC steamroller at the first col leges ' league match, held at Par l iament H i l l over five miles. Strong men were m o v e d to tears as the Imperia l warr iors s w a r m e d over the field to w i n the first d iv i s ion and gain th i rd place in the second and ladies divisions. Resplendent in all whi te w i th Captain M a r v e l himself, Pau l Nor throp, taking it by the scruff and runn ing away wi th the ind iv idua l honours by a considerable marg in . B e h i n d h i m a flank of home talent had formed, w i th a s tunning freshman performance from Dave Johnstone landing h i m in third and gaining v i c to ry over F r a n k Dudbr idge and A l e x Gaske l l (5th and 8th) both of w h o m returning wi th a vengeance from the abyss of phys ica l injury. F o u r in the top ten was the best performance by IC in

event w h i c h w e w i l l try to show later in the term, possibly at the bonfire party on N o v e m b e r 3.

O n the w e e k e n d of Oc tober 27 and 28, the IC Sai l ing C lub entered a team into the Foot T r o p h y , one of the major team racing events in Br i ta in . The new squad found itself s t ruggling against m u c h more exper ienced teams, but. managed to ra l ly itself for a resounding v i c to ry against the Univers i ty of L o n d o n second team.

A l t h o u g h hard ly a br i l l iant result for us, the chance to see some of the country 's best teams in act ion should pay off in our c o m i n g matches against other universit ies.

Ya t in South Wales for the first of our Freshers ' trips. W i t h warn ings of gales and floods, we set off enthusiastically on Fr iday evening .

The weekend ' s paddl ing consisted of a leisurely paddle in the W y e Va l l ey , l o o k i n g at the scenery and hav ing the oppor tuni ty to pract ice a few skills. There was also the chance to p lay on the rapids of the Ya t itself. The weather was great, and a good t ime was had b y al l .

The Col lege club is p redominan t ly whi te water, a n d we have a number of exper ienced paddlers w h o are w i l l i ng to teach beginners, or people who 've done just a little bit. W e have p o o l sessions for this, but a better w a y is to come on a trip.

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l i v ing memory , and to r o u n d off the team Car l Edwards grunted his w a y to 19th in his first league race after six years at Col lege . His infectious enthusiasm extended into the second team; B i l l Skailes, Dan M c Q u e e n , Ian Wi l l i ams and J i m Watson a l l enjoyed massive improvements on previous placings to launch the B-team p romot ion challenge, w i th Duncan O ' D e l l and D a v e Budgett m a k i n g fine debut contr ibutions. In the women ' s section a savage w a r n i n g was issued to the w o r l d as a full Imperial team was f inal ly assembeld and attained thi rd rank. Spearheading the posse was Edwige Pitel w h o finished thi rd and promised more ; He len Mac in tosh and K e r i W a r d e n - O w e n , 10th and 20th, also showed posi t ive attitude as they prepare to represent U L in Japan.

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LETTERS Scribblers' Corner Spotty

Dear Sir, First the reply , from Saleem Choudhery ,

to m y previous letter. 1 indicated that the A r a b Nations were perhaps 400 hundred years less mature cul tura l ly . It also appears that they are less menta l ly mature. In rep ly to the reply; what do y o u think 'per capita ' means? If you ' re going to invade our allies, and study at our Universi t ies , perhaps y o u had better learn our language.

But to this week ' s letter. What is the RCS p lay ing at? Last year three guys stood for President, al l three failed their year. So this year to fill the vacated space, they held some new elections! This p roduced two candidates. One has lots of exper ience , but is not yet registered, has failed her year , and w i l l be in the RSM having d ropped out of physics into Mater ia l Science! The other guy is the opposite; arrogant, no exper ience

What's O n A N UP-TO-THE-MINUTE EVENTS GUIDE.

FRIDAY Yacht Club Meeting 12.30pm Huxley 413. Rag Meeting 12.40pm Union Lounge. Friday Prayers 1.00pm Southside Gym. See Islamic Society. C.U. Prayer Meeting 5.00pm 413 Maths. Christian Union Meeting 6.00pm 308 Computing. Swimming 6.30pm Sports Centre. New members always welcome to join in fun fitness training. Fencing Club Training 6.40pm Club training. Water Polo 7.30pm Sports Centre. Come along and join in one of the most physically demanding sports ever inveted. Southside Disco 8.30pm Southside.

SATURDAY Boat Club 9.00pm Putney Boathouse Rag's Leukaemia Research Pub Crawl 7.00pm Meet in IC Union Snack Bar. Kung Fu Club 4.30pm Wu Shu Kwan in Southside Gym.

SUNDAY

Hacks whatsoever , got 80% and is just do ing it for C V points! I'm not sure w h i c h one is worse. N o w that the one i n the R S M has got in , two out of three of the RCS exec are in the R S M ! ! People in the RCS seem to be either spotty idle failures or spotty workahol ics .

I on ly saw the maths vo t ing station, but it consisted of a b lack box , a hack, and a chair . No one was encouraged to vote; there was no sign, no 'hello have y o u voted yet?' nothing. W o u l d y o u go up to a hack and ask h i m what he was doing? I'm not sure I'd want to k n o w . The RCS compla in of apathy amongst their students, but what about the hacks themselves? It's no wonde r that none of their elections are quorate; ie 300 people (out of 1,500) have to vote for it to be quorate so that it is a fair representation. If it's not quorate it has to be ratified by a U G M (which are never quorate

Sunday Service 10.00am Anteroom Sherfield Building. See West London Chaplaincy. Catholic Chaplaincy 11.00am 53 Cromwell Road. Wargames 1.00pm UDH. A l l welcome. Catholic Chaplaincy 11.00am 53 Cromwell Road. Bike for Fresh Air 12.00pm Battersea Park. Join the campaign for clean air and better conditions for cycling in London. Assemble at the British Genius Site in Battersea Park. Food Music and Stalls. Ride to Trafalgar Square at 2pm. Kung Fu Club 4.30pm Wu Shu Kwan in the Union Gym. Boat Club 9.00pm Putney Boathouse.

MONDAY RockSoc Meeting 12.30pm Southside Upper Lounge. Come and hear the latest (beer optional). A l l abnormalities welcome. Environment Soc 12.45pm Mech Eng 703. British Antarctic Survey with Dr Shanklin. Basketball Club 5.30pm Volleyball Court. Men's Team. Keep Fit 5.30pm Southside Gym. Rock 'n' Roll Lessons 6.00pm JCR. Intermediate. Swimming 6.30pm Sports Centre. New members always welcome to join in fun fitness training. Flesh Gordon 7.00pm

themselves) w h i c h only the hacks attend, so it's no w o n d e r the hack w o n .

A m o n g s t the R C S general populat ion the w o r d 'hack ' is used as an insult. It donotes a b u n c h of self-perpetuating degenerates. A n d it's hard ly surprising w h e n the hacks count the vote. Before y o u ment ion it M r Hack; who ' s to say that members of staff aren't pro-hack? Is it any wonde r that they have this image if the elections are not w e l l publicised, are subsequently not quorate, and then ratified by an even smaller minori ty!!

Guilds is exce l len t ly run and very popular . The President is top of her year, the Vice-President is top 12. Perhaps this is not a coinc idence . Most people at Imperial are here to get a degree (except for, apparent ly, the RCS hacks), and so long as they think that be ing an RCS hack means be ing spotty and fucking up your degree none of them w i l l get

Union Lounge. IC Science Fiction Soc. Rock n Roll 7.00pm JCR. Beginners Water Polo 7.30pm Sports Centre. Come along and try one of the most physically demanding sports. Latin American 8.00pm JCR. Beginners/Improvers

TUESDAY C.U. Prayer Meeting 8.30pm Chaplain's Office Riding Club Meeting..... 12.30pm Southside Upper Lounge. Come and see how it feels to have 16 hands between your legs. Radio Modellers 12.30pm Southside Lounge. Cathsoc Mass 12.30pm Mech Eng 702. Followed by lunch. Sailing Club 12.30pm Southside Lounge. Radio Modellers 5.30pm Student training workshop, Mech Eng. Keep Fit 5.30pm Southside Gym. Amenesty International 5.30pm Clubs Committee Room. Weekly meeting. Social Ballroom 6.00pm JCR. Beginners. Judo 6.30pm Union Gym. Latin American 7.00pm JCR. Bronze Medal Class. OpSoc Rehearsal 7.30pm Union Building. 'Kiss Me Kate'.

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i nvo lved . W h i c h means more hack elections, and more apathy. Catch 22. C o m e on RCS. Fuck the hacks. Eve ryone at Imperial is intel l igent but if you can sort out your degree, y o u c a n be a good President, as Miss M c C l a y proves .

Perhaps in the next e lect ion in February the union w i l l publicise its o w n elections, and encourage people to vote. If the RCS students see that the elected execut ive were vo ted in by , perhaps, half the student body , they might have a little more faith in their un ion .

If M r Briant had the exper ience then he wou ld , in m y i r re levent op in ion , have made an excel lent f igurehead, if on ly to encourage others (perhaps less b ig headed). I hope he sticks a round ti l l February .

Yours, Athena. PS. M a y b e a nuke could 'miss' Iraq and

hit the R C S U ?

Accurate Quotes!

Dear Chris, In reply to Ul tan McCar thy ' s letter of

26.10.90: W h e n I wro te the art icle concern ing

Cec i l Pa rk inson I took great care in be ing as accurate as possible; especial ly as far as quotes were concerned (now that students are poore r than ever I cannot afford to be sued for l ibe l by the

WEDNESDAY Keep Fit 12.30pm Southside Gym. Cycling Training l.OOpm Meet at Beit Arch . Wargames l.OOpm UDH. Al l welcome. Micro Club Meeting 1.15pm Top floor NW corner Union Building. Every week. ICSF Video Buy at HMV 1.30pm Meet in Science Fiction Library. Rowing Club 2.00pm Putney Boathouse. Basketball Club 7.30pm Volleyball Court. Women's Team Kung Fu Club 7.30pm Union Gym. Wu Shu Kwan.

THURSDAY Fencing Training 11.30am Intermediate & advanced coaching. YHA Meeting 12.30pm Southside Upper Lounge. Postgrad Lunch 12.30pm Chaplains Office (10 Princes Gardens). See West London Chaplaincy. Fencing Training 12.30pm Beginners Training. Fencing Training 1.30pm General. Gliding Club Meeting l.OOpm Aero 266. Come and arrange a trial flight. A l l newcomers welcome. Keep Fit 5.30pm Southside Gym Midweek Service 5.30pm Chaplains Office (10 Prince's Gardens). See

Conserva t ive Party). After m y article was publ ished in F E L I X (on Oc tobe r 19) I spoke to many people (ranging from Conservat ive to normal) , a l l of w h o m said that the art icle was fair and accurate. I therefore take strong objection to being cal led a liar b y M r M c C a r t h y , who in a subsequent letter to F E L I X states that he was not even present to hear M r Park inson speak. Ei ther he is psychic or M r M c C a r t h y was told by one of his rel iable and total ly unbiased ConSoc friends (he neglected to ment ion that he is the treasurer of ConSoc) that 1 misquoted M r Park inson .

If I d id misquote, I d id so complete ly unintent ional ly . M r M c C a r t h y may like to k n o w that in future F E L I X w i l l endeavour (where possible) to keep tape recordings in such situations to resolve any subsequent differences of opin ion be tween conce rned parties.

Last ly I w o u l d l ike to congratulate M r M c C a r t h y in m a k i n g fun of the complete lack of security dur ing M r Parkinson 's visit; he may have s tumbled upon an anti-terrorist po l icy that is m u c h more effective than the government ' s present one; let's l augh at serious lapses in security and maybe the I R A won' t b low us up. I think that M r McCar thy ' s attitude in this matter shows a comple te lack of sensitivity towards families w h o have lost relatives in terrorist activit ies. Just one example is the compara t ive ly recent murder of Ian G o w M P . I'm sure that his family w o u l d not find his letter all that amusing.

Kaveh Guilanpour.

West London Chaplaincy. Social Ballroom 6.00pm JCR. intermediate. Judo 6.30pm Union Gym. Social Ballroom 7.00pm JCR. Beginners. FilmSoc: Dead Poets Society 7.30pm Mech Eng 220. Latin American 8.00pm JCR. Gold medal class. Southside Disco 8.30pm Southside. ICCAG Soup Run 9.15pm Meet Weeks Hall Basement to take food to London's homeless.

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Dear FELIX, Murray ' s apologies accepted. But next

t ime someone in author i ty wants our posters taken d o w n ask us. 1 w o u l d m u c h rather take d o w n all icsf posters myself, than have t hem r ipped d o w n and b inned . W e then have to print more , wast ing t ime, money and paper (which we waste to m u c h of already).

A n d as for the other times w h e n the w a l k w a y s have been c leared for no apparent reason, I consider t hem as acts of vanda l i sm. E v e n if the Col lege c leaning staff are responsible.

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Tuesday Nov 6. • G U I L D S UGM—Fri Nov 2, 1pm in Mech Eng 220. Featuring elections for our new publicity officer. Bring your Union card. • RECORDS, CDs for sale-recent Wedding Present, Inspirals, Cramps, Stephen Daintree and other Reading Fest bands. Ring Sarah on 3515. • IT'S JUST round the corner I can hardly wait To give on to my mum • BEIT HALL—storage rooms being cleared of items left prior Sept 1990. If not claimed by Nov 2. Housekeeper. • MISSING: If anyone has seen the runaway piano from the ground floor of Sherfield, could they please let us know where it is. The West London Chaplaincy, ext 3035. • W O U L D you like to join 700 students from all over Europe for a huge New Year's Party in Luxemburg. Contact Nick Manzi, Mech Eng 3 through the Mech Eng pigeonholes asap.

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Tonight at S i l w o o d Park there is a grand f i rework ex t ravaganza . This even ing promises to be a good one, not on ly have Ents laid on a few bangs and flashes, there w i l l also be a disco, l ive music by the band 'fetch', a free barbeque (once y o u have pa id for your ticket!), and most important ly , a late bar. T h e cost for such a wonderful even ing is a mere £ 3 , tickets avai lable from the U n i o n Office. If y o u need a lift £2 w i l l buy y o u a return coach ticket. The coaches are l eav ing at 5.30pm from outside Beit Quad , re turn ing sometime in the evening, t ickets must be bought from the U n i o n before 1.00pm today.

If y o u don't m a k e it to S i l w o o d there are plenty of other displays in L o n d o n this weekend:

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M O N D A Y - t h e 5th! Battersea Park. Bonfire l ight ing 7.30pm. F R E E Hammersmith Ravernscourt Park. Gates O p e n 6.00pm. £ 1 . 0 0 Kensington and Chelsea Maxil la Gardens. Gates O p e n 6.00pm. F R E E Thames Barr ier (pier 7) at 10.15am - daylight fireworks!! F R E E Wandsworth Battersea Park. Bonf i re l ight ing 7.30pm. F R E E Westminster, C h u r c h of St.John and St.Michael. 6.30pm, w i t h Jazz. F R E E

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I b o w m y head in shame for the inclusion this week of a humungous typographica l error. O n the back page in big letters, the U G M is adver t ised as happening on Tuesday 8 November . It should of course read Thursday , before y o u sharp eyed devils wri te me lots of letters on the matter. A l so conta ined in this issue is another typo of some considerable amusement (well I thought it was funny). No prizes but a pat on the back if y o u can spot i t . . .and a slagging if you find and tell me of a real ly mundane one. U L U G U C

W i t h their usual style and panache ICU travel led to the U L U Genera l C o u n c i l this week wi th var ious matters, heckles and wi t ty retorts i n mind .

I was amused to hear of the verba l tackl ing of the U L U V P (Services), Desmond Qui l ty . W h e n speak ing about the U L U A l l - N i g h t e r , he was asked by Benjamin Turne r about the size of the loss made on the night. Q u i c k as a flash

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he returned the sharp b l o w of 'about two grand less than yours did! ' Not o v e r w h e l m e d by this apparent defeat, Benjamin went on two consolidate his stand by interrogat ing the V P further. Regard ing the event he t ightened the thumb screws and asked w h y the matter had not been inc luded in his wri t ten report. He was told that the report had been pr inted before the matter had been discussed by the Exec . W h y then, Benj cont inued, had he not added it as a ve rba l report. Desmond had no good acerbic response to that one! and was instructed that he should b r i n g the matter up at the next meet ing. Nice one Benjamin. Box A d s and Collators

If anyone wishes to place box ads in F E L I X they are most w e l c o m e to do so. The arrangement is for the respective people to organise some help for the Thursday night col lat ion of F E L I X . A l t e rna t ive ly the group can pay for the advert isment or s imply settle for a free Smal l A d or What 's O n inclus ion.

Union Publications Board, and is printed by the Imperial Business Manager: Jeremy Burnell, Advertising Manager:

A box ad was put in last weeks issue for the Chinese Society, for w h i c h a m i n i m u m of three collators were requested. O n e lonely chap turned up and no blame on h im, but the rest of the society owes me some w o r k (or money!). If neither is for thcoming next week then no ads of any k i n d w i l l be inc luded unti l l their debt is repaid. Y o u have been warned! Credits: Printer/Bandleader: A n d y Thompson . Typesetter: Rose Atk ins . News Editor: T o b y Jones. Reviews Editor: A d a m T. Music Editor: Sarah. Features Editor: Ro land F lowerdew. Science Editor: Ian Hodge . Photography: R icha rd , K a v e h Gui lanpour , D a n H o m o l k a and myself! The Team: A d a m Har r ing ton , James Grinter , Je remy, Richard , St .John Har ro ld , and H u g h Ea land . The Collators: R ichard , Ian, James, Toby , and A d a m . A n y b o d y else that turns up w i l l get a credit next week .

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President —Paul Shanley

CYCLE CODING Monday 5th to

Tuesday 6th November 10am-4pm

Anteroom—Main Dining Hall

Have a coded serial number stamped on YOUR crank shaft.

CYCLES &

CARS For Remembrance Service

F r o m 7am Fr iday 9th to Sunday evening , cars, b icycles and

motorcycles w i l l be R E M O V E D by the Pol ice from A L L roads and publ ic

areas a round the R o y a l A l b e r t Ha l l . This includes Pr ince Consor t Road and

parts of E x h i b i t i o n Road and Queensgate.

The U G M on N o v e m b e r 8 w i l l n o w be held at the m a i n Kens ington site, at 1pm in the Great H a l l . The main i tem of debate revolves a round proposed changes to the Col lege day.

A W o r k i n g Party, on w h i c h 1 sit, has been set up to make recommendat ions . These w i l l p robab ly inc lude one or more of the fo l lowing .

• Start ing the day earlier • F in i sh ing the day late • Lengthen ing the lunch hour • M o v i n g the l unch hour • H o l d i n g an even ing session

Some suggestions are m o r e probable than others—the most l ike ly one is to ex tend the day to finish at 6 .30pm.

In order to report back to the W o r k i n g Par ty in t ime for its next meet ing on N o v e m b e r 9, I need feedback from everyone at the U G M .

It is possible that these changes may be implemented next term—it thus affects everyone . Please turn up a n d voice your op in ion .

3—Ots Stand up and be counted

UNION GENERAL MEETING

Tuesday 8 November 1.00pm Great Hall

To be discussed: • Changes to the College day

*Use of Harlington Gravel money ^Merger of ICU and Mary's Union

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