1982_0603_A

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DUCK-BILLED PLATYPUS WINS UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE

IC continued their magnificent run of success in University

Challenge with two more victories.

A coach load of supporters travelled wi th the team to the G r a n a d a

Television Studios in Manchester.

T h e i r first opponents were the al l -male Aberdeen Univers i ty team

who made an impressive start and raced to a 0-45 lead. However. IC

soon settled down and scored 130 points without reply before Aberdeen

levelled the score around the hal l -way mark. T h e n the Aberdeen

challenge petered out and IC ran ahead to victory with a final score of

240 to 175.

The victorious Imperial College team.

T h e next game against the mixed team from R e a d i n g University

was m u c h closer and produced a classic finish. W i t h twenty seconds

remaining I C were five points behind when A l i i n Griffiths correctly

answered " d u c k - b i l l e d p latypus" to a starter for ten. This proved to be

the final scoring answer of the game which IC had narrowly won 180-

175.

T h e w i n n i n g team was T i m Pigden. C o r d o n M a s i e r l o n . A l u n

Griff iths and M a r t i n S. T a y l o r (Captain) . They w i l l be appearing on

L o n d o n Weekend Television on the dates ia l l Sundays) given below:

A p r i l 11; vs New H a l l , C a m b r i d g e

A p r i l 18; vs Aberdeen Univers i ty

A p r i l 25; vs R e a d i n g Univers i ty

They w i l l appear on regional television against New H a l l on

February 14.

H a v i n g now won three consecutive heals IC are in (he dr . iu lor the

knock-out stages of the competit ion.

N o . 6 0 3 Fr iday , J a n u a r y 29.1982

Dear Mark

So we have a m o n g o u r

number in this college, people

who subscribe to the creation

ist v i e w . T h e t h i n g w h i c h

struck me forcibly about both

attacks on my article from M r

j M e r c e r a n d t h e I s l a m i c

S o c i e t y was t h e i r l a c k o f

precision. A p a r t from saying

or i m p l y i n g that they are

against my views, or what

they took to be my views, they

were not very clear about

their thoughts on the subject.

M r M e r c e r took a distinctly

selective and dubious inter

pretation of Genesis I. I have,

of course, pondered on the

order of creation given in G e n

I: 1-26 being the same as that

determined by evolutionary

theory; however I have also

pondered on G e n II: 4-24

• which deals wi th the same

material but gives a different

order.

A n d quite how the Islamic

S o c i e t y c a n say that 1400

years ago the basis of modern

science was revealed leaves

me (almost) speechless. If this

had been the case then surely

there would have been no

need to have spent the vast

effort on the Scientific Enter

prise that has been exerted.

M u c h as it is nice to say that

you were right wi th hindsight,

although the interpretations

of the K o r a n verses quoted

d id seem slightly far-fetched

to me, it is s imply ancestor

worship to c l a i m this. That is

in some way our ancestors

were better, or knew more,

than we are or do.

Both M r Mercer and the

Islamic Society state some of

t h e t h i n g s t h a t t h e y a r e

against, but omit a great deal

and fail to say what they are

for. For example does M r

M e r c e r think that man is an

an imal or not? D o M r Mercer

a n d t h e I s l a m i c S o c i e t y

c o n s i d e r a m a t e r i a l i s t i c

account of evolution is suffici

ent or do they want to add to

it , propose another explana

tion, or not believe in the idea

of evolution at all? Neither

s a i d a n y t h i n g about what

they thought about creation-

ism. What sort of people are

these who attack a coherent

explanation of the develop

ment o f l i fe a n d yet have

nothing to say about what

they think of the problem.

U n l i k e w h a t M r M e r c e r

thinks I have no desire to

forcibly suppress creationism,

since the very inarticulateness

of people like h im is sufficient

to c o n d e m n i t ; I m e r e l y

reserve the right to point out

what these people are saying.

M r M e r c e r also said that I

had accused creationists of

' m e g l o m a n i a ' (a w o r d i n

cidentally that I d id not use;

do I detect a trace of para

noia?). H e did not refute my

charge that creationists were

s e e k i n g to impose a be l i e f

system on society so that they

could control society. This is

o b v i o u s l y M r M e r c e r e n

deavouring to suppress the

truth about the motives of the

creationists, which is quite

apparent to anyone who has

had the misfortune to read

any of their literature.

F i n a l l y M r Mercer stated

that D a r w i n was a Chr is t ian .

In his youth he was, but after

the publ icat ion of his Origin of

Species in 1859 he was hounded

from the church by people as

i n t o l e r a n t as M r M e r c e r

appears to be today. T r u t h is

more important than dogma,

a lesson which M r Mercer

and the Islamic Society have

yet to learn.

Tours sincerely

Frank James

Dear Sir

I r e a d w i t h interest the

article that you published in

the F E L I X supplement last

week by the Islamic Society

and would be grateful if they

would return the complement

by reading this letter.

I am a Chr is t ian and would

also like to think of myself as a

scientist. I took biochemistry

as a first degree and found

that, far from conflicting with

m y r e l i g i o u s bel iefs , it i n

creased my awareness of the

m a r v e l l o u s i n t r i c a c i e s a n d

complexities of life to such an

extent that I find it hard to

understand those who do not

believe in a creator. These

beliefs can only be reinforced

when one considers the vast-

ness of the observable universe

when compared to the insigni

ficant, though al l important

to us, speck of dust that is the

earth.

I am an ardent believer in

D a r w i n i s m and do not find it

conflicts at a l l wi th my belief

in G o d . It is impossible to

demonstrate the existance of

G o d by a scientific method. A

quick look in Genesis 2 (where

the c r e a t i o n is g i v e n i n a

different order to the famous

story in Genesis 1) quickly

dispels the argument that the

B i b l e is r i g h t because the

c r e a t i o n s t o r y f o l l o w s the

order of biological evolution.

It must be understood that

whether or not this is the case

is c o m p l e t e l y i r r e l e v a n t to

true religion and only serves

to draw attention away from

the true focus—God himself.

S imi lar ly I would be most

surprised if a truly devout

M u s l i m found it necessary to

m a n i p u l a t e the sayings of

M u h a m e d to try to demon

strate his awareness of modern

scientific discoveries.

In conclusion I would like

to say that true science whose

ideal is pursuit of the truth

c a n o n l y serve to increase

man's awareness of his G o d

and his incredible feebleness

and insignficance in the face

of the vastness and variety of

that which we know as crea

tion.

Tours, etc.,

A n d r e w L y a l l

Dear Mark

Those people in College

who remember Bernie Smith

w i l l doubtless be delighted to

k n o w t h a t t h e o n e - t i m e

Physics Dep R e p and current

Surrey Univers i ty sabbatical

mega-hack is now the Tory

c a n d i d a t e for N U S V i c e -

President Educat ion , a sort of

national A A O .

Chr is W e b b

Dear Sir

W e would like to thank I C

Boat C l u b for the red -ho t

"boat b u r n i n g p a r t y l a s t

Saturday.

W e are s o r r y o u r boat

couldn't make it.

1 ouis extinguishingly

Chie f Fire Officer and al l the

lads at Putney

.S'ir

The College members of

the 22 C l u b regret that M r

S.J . M a r s h a l l finds it necessary

to put his name to a badly

written collection of lies and

m i s i n f o r m e d o p i n i o n , as

a p p e a r e d i n the s o a p b o x

article in F E L I X 602. The

reason for our regret is not

that we hold M r M a r s h a l l in

any esteem whatsoever, but

that he is an associate of the

R o y a l College of Science, a

title proudly borne by the

majority of our members. W e

do not wish to correct the

lacts here nor to c o n t i n u e

this debate through the pages

of F E L I X . W e wi l l simply

state that any member of the

College wishing to know the

truth about our behaviour or

the spirit of our c lub has only

to ask a club member.

We remain your obedient servants

The College members of the

22 C l u b

E d ' s N o t e : See Ed i tor ia l .

Dear Sir

A n opportunity is arising to

ship many tonnes of medical ,

f o o d , a n d o t h e r e s s e n t i a l

supplies by boat and land

from I C to Poland. Estimated

date of departure is M a r c h 21

with Easter spent in Po land or

Czechoslovakia.

F o r this private and totally

charitable venture to succeed

we need a reliable conscien

t ious a n d n o n - p o l i t i c a l I C

c rew to: o rgan i se s u p p l i e s ;

crew the vehicles; assist in

distribution; return without

p o l i t i c a l or m e d i a p r o p a

ganda.

T h e cargo w i l l be f u l l y

m a n i f e s t e d , a n d the c r e w

m u s t h a v e v a l i d v i sas i n

British passports. W e hope the

trip w i l l be fun, but there w i l l

be some speedy hard graft at

times. Since the reception w i l l

be mixed we hope to take a

mixed crew.

If you can offer any help

please contact C o l i n Cooper

in D o C 2 .

FELIX, January 29, 1982

UGM Report

Inquorate and Insipid

The censure of the Deputy President was the only highlight of

an otherwise mind-blowingly dull UGM on Tuesday.

T h e meeting opened at 1:06pm wi th approximate ly 100 students in

attendance and only three (from six) of the I C U Executive present.

Both the minutes of the last E G M and the President's report were

accepted without undue delay before M r W i l l i a m C o r t a z z i proposed a

m o t i o n of censure on the absent D e p u t y Pres ident M r Barney

M c C a b e . T h i s was passed overwhelmingly alter formal opposition

from M r N i c k Pyne, I C U Welfare Officer, although several U n i o n

Officers later expressed the regret that it hadn't been a motion of no

confidence.

M r M c C a b e ' s report was referred to the next U G M . H e finally

arr ived at the meeting d u r i n g the H o n o r a r y Secretary's report. T h i s

report was accepted, and M r M c C a b e questioned about the absence of

M i k e before those present were subjected to the ch i ld l ike b icker ing of

M r L e d w o l d and M r M c C a b e over the venue of the meeting and the

arrangements for hav ing M i k e present.

F u r t h e r reports were presented by G a y n o r M c K e n z i e ' R S . M U V P ) .

M a r t i n T a y l o r ( E A O ) and M i k e Prosser ( C h a i r m a n of Publ icat ions

Board). In his report M r Prosser stressed that the post of U n i o n

Handbook E d i t o r was still vacant.

T h e n at 1:29pm the q u o r u m was successfully challenged b\ M i -

Br ian Stevens, Chemistry 2, before the proposed bye- law change* and

motion on grants could be discussed.

Field Marshall

The Lord Carver

at IC

F I E L D M A R S F I A L L the L o r d

Carver , C h i e f of Defence Staff

1973-76, gave a lecture entitled

" N u c l e a r W a r in E u r o p e " in the

Blackett Labora tory on Tuesday

luncht ime.

T h i s was the second in a series

of lectures organised jointly by

the College E N D group and the

Humani t i e s Department .

D r a w i n g on his wide know

ledge of the background lo the

nuclear arms bu i l d - u p in Europe ,

he out l ined the reasons behind

the arms race and the various

defence policies in Europe .

A new pair

for Rag A T A N otherwise unproduct ive

U G M (see elsewhere the onl\

constructive item ol business to

be completed was the rati f ication

of M r R o n a l d M c D o n a l d . M a t h s

2 , as R a g C h a i r m a n . M r

M c D o n a l d was the onl\ lullv

proposed and seconded candi

date and he replaces M r Bi l l

D u r o d i e who resigned at the cud

of last term.

M r J o h n M c C a l l i o n . also ol

M a t h s 2 . w a s e t e v t e d R . i s

Treasurer at last Thursday's R a s

C o m m i t t e e meeting. Both he and

M r M c D o n a l d now lace the

sizeable task of getting I C C R.ya

back on the road.

New bar Old front

The new Victorian style bar beneath the Southside Halls of

Residence opened last night after a last minute rush to finish

the alterations.

T h e estimated cost of the alterations is in the region of £20,000, most

of which was secured as loans from four breweries: Watneys , Bass

C h a r r i n g t o n , W h i t b r e a d and S a m Smiths. T o repay these loans the

Col lege are committed to an agreement, whereby an amount is payed

back to the breweries every time a barrel of their beer is sold.

Alterat ions were started in the Chr is tmas vacat ion and as deadline*

were not met by the contrators, it was necessary lor them to work

extremely hard to compete the majority of the work on time.

A n added compl i cat ion for the bar manager M r Ian H a r o l d

M a g n a y , was that the cool ing fan in the beer cellar broke d o w n lasi

weekend. T h i s meant that the real ales served last night would probably

not be at their best, he said yesterday lunch l ime . However , he

antic ipated that the bar would open as promised.

The unfinished bar front pictured on Monday.

Ritual burning at Putney V I K I N G W O R S H I P reared its ugly head at I C on, c .i

Saturday , J a n u a r y 23.

T h e venue was beside the river at Putney and the event, |

the James Bruce Par ty , had been organised by the Boat

House Commit tee . As an afterthought they decided to burn out

of the i r o l d boats w h i c h h a d been a r o u n d since the last war .

'I'he boat was stripped of a l l useable parts and burnt because il was

wasting boathouse space, unsaleable and unsafe lo row. This is an old

Boat C l u b tradi t ion for boats beyond repair.

T h e r i tua l had been approved by I C U n i o n , the insurance company

and Police. Unfortunate ly the Police failed to contact l l ie lire brigade

who turned up en force (seven lire engines and a lire boat) when

alerted by a passer-by. However , their servies were not needed.

Ftfc to Mti Oik* TAPS

F E L I X in association with T w e n t i e t h C e n t u r y

F o x invites you to a special preview screening

of H a r o l d Becker's T a p s at The Lane cinema,

St M a r t i n ' s Lane on Sunday February 7 at

4pm. T o obtain your tickets, apply in person at

F E L I X Ofl icc , Beit A r c h (max of '2

tickets per caller). There are a

l imited number of tickets, so come

early to avoid disappointment.

Oscar winning actor T i m o t h y

Hutton (starring in his first

role since O r d i n a r y People)

plays Br ian M o r e l a n d , the

highest ranking cadet at the

Bunker H i l l Academy who is

prepared to stop its closure

using force if necessary.

George C . Scott plays

More land 's idol , General

[Harlan Bache, who treats his

cadets like the soldiers he

once lead into combat


Going it alone

On January 4 the Holland Club re-opened for the new term with

its own cook to run the catering service, after Mr Mooney decided

to close his outlet in the building.

Many students entering the Huxley Building from the JCR walkway will

have noticed the entrance to the Holland Club and may have wondered

what this organisation is all about.

The Holland Club was founded to provide social facilities, equivalent to

the Senior and Junior Common Rooms, for the non-teaching staff of the

College. It was based for many years in Princes Gardens and occupied a

house with its own catering and bar facilities.

When the house was needed for alternative purposes, the Club was left

without premises for many years until they were given the extension at

the back of the Huxley Building in October 1976. In these premises the

bar and catering facilities were run by Mr Mooney.

o

It soon became apparent to the committee of 13 that Mr Mooney was

treating the Holland Club badly. The food was often poor and they felt

that as they were providing social facilities (including snooker, pool,

darts, table tennis, etc.) and trying to attract new members, that the food

was a problem. Indeed, they wished to take it over themselves to improve

it.

The first move was to approach several outside caterers for an

estimate. Two offers seemed attractive and were about to be acted upon

when two major setbacks happened.

Firstly large cracks were found in the structure of the building along

with damp patches. As it then became uncertain how long the building

could be used safely, it was impossible to contact an outside caterer.

Then, shortly before Christmas 1981, Mr Mooney announced that he

would be discontinuing the Holland Club service after the end of the

autumn term. This left a bare six weeks to re-organise the catering

arrangements if the club wished to maintain the facility and operate it

from the start of 1982.

Their decision to employ a former chemisty technician, Mr Alfred

Coleman and his wife to run the kitchen. Mr Coleman had previously

been a cook (many years ago) and as a Holland Club member himself

was interested to help. To assist him, volunteers from the Committee

were enrolled to take money and do some of the cleaning.

So far the experiment seems to be a success. When I ate there on

Tuesday the service was impressive. Not only was the serving area

meticulously clean, but the food was hot, served on warm plates and

most enjoyable. The standard of food is certainly equivalent and probably

better than Mr Mooney at his best. There is a mixture of frozen and

freshly prepared dishes which, if maintained and improved, could mean

that the non-teaching staff will have established in three weeks what Mr

Mooney failed to do in five years; provide a catering facility with food of

an acceptable standard which is profitable.

The Holland Club is only open to the members (about 900 of them) and

their guests. So if you know a friendly technician, secretary or other non-

teaching staff member, it might be worthwhile asking them to take you

along.

Mark Smith

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T h i s article will attempt to wake up those

of you who are half asleep. For those of

y o u whose eyelid has flickered slightly

hoping this is a happy alternative to a

Friday morning boring lecture I hasten to

say that this i s not what I mean by "half

asleep", though you will notice when

reading this article that the chances are

you are included somewhere in it.

M y starting point is the recent lecture given

by the D e p u t y S e c r e t a r y G e n e r a l of the

Commonweal th M r E . C . A n y a o k u entitled

" N e w N a t i o n s : M a k i n g I n d e p e n d e n c e a

Reality" (for a summary and comments on

w h i c h y o u wi l l have to wait for the nex t

F E L I X ) . What struck me is that there were

about forty people in the audience. N o w forty

people do not make an unsuccessful lecture,

though they do not either make a successful

one. W h e n coming to this College some years

ago I was aware that scientists are a very dull

lot, but a glance through the activities of the IC

student population gave me some hope. I saw

among other things a Communis t society,

Socialist society, Labour club, Conservative

s o c i e t y , O v e r s e a s S t u d e n t s c o m m i t t e e , a

Christ ian society, Islamic society, IC Women's

association, and so on. I also saw a president

of IC Union being the president of N U S and a

F E L I X Editor being an Editor of Sennet (now

c a l l e d L o n d o n S t u d e n t ) . I f u r t h e r saw a

College committee on overseas students, a

Delhi committee, and even a counselor for

overseas students. In my time a department of

humanities evolved to interrelate scientific and

philosophical thought. I then went on to see

that there was a wine tasting society, a real ale

s o c i e t y , a n a s t r o l o g i c a l s o c i e t y , a W e l l s

society, a stamp club, atheltics and national

clubs, a radio club, a students television and

even a students newspaper in which every

member of College could voice his opinion. I

must confess I was pleased. It seemed that IC

was not producing cold blinkered scientists of

outstanding merit. It was actually producing

scientists of oustanding merit with a balanced

opinion all the advantages and disadvantages

of their scientific work and aware of most of

the positive and negative social consequences

of it. One thing that gave me further hope was

the inclusion in every engineering course of

what was termed "associated studies". At the

time, you see, I was not aware they were

compulsory nor did I realise they needed to

be compulsory.

Slowly but steadily my opinion reverted to

one I had before coming to IC. I am now

convinced that IC is so apathetic that IC

graduates are in the long run a threat to

s o c i e t y . It t r o u b l e s me to t h i n k that the

m a j o r i t y is not in fact d i s o r i e n t a t e d , but

unorientated.

But let me return to the lecture I mentioned

above. It will be seen from the title of the talk

that both M r s S. Will iams M P and M r E. Heath

M P have given lectures on the same topic. For

those of you who are not even aware of these

lectures I am referring to topics steming from

the Brandt Report with which both speakers

have dealt with. For those of you who are not

Scientists Rule KO

by N Lambrou

aware of either the Brandt Report nor the

Alternative Brandt. I confess you have reached

too far in this article—please go back to sleep.

When these two distinguished guests delivered

their lectures they did so in "standing r o o m "

conditions. W h e n their lectures ended they

were vigorously applauded. I had to presume

that their message had got through. Alas , this

was not the case. Some of you may remember

that their message was one of alarm and need

of understanding and co-operation between all

m o d e r n n a t i o n s . T h e a b s e n c e of a large

audience in the Deputy Secretary's lecture

showed that this message had not got through.

W e had with us a very distinguished guest who

had honoured us in agreeing to give a lecture

which would further our understanding of the

developing world and the ideas we have about

it. Where was M r Heath's and M r s Will iams'

audience then? Where were the at least 1,000

s t u d e n t s w h o a c t u a l l y c o m e f r o m t h e

Commonwealth? Where were the Communist

Society members who pledge awareness about

the world? Where were the Labour Society

m e m b e r s w h o p ledge s o l i d a r i t y to e v e r y

thinkable and unthinkable cause? Where were

the Conservative Society members—wet or

dry—whose forefathers created the C o m m o n

wea l th? W h e r e w e r e the re l ig ious s o c i e ty

members who are so touched after disaster

has stricken some unfortunate country?

1 personally cannot answer these questions.

What I can see though is that M r Heath's and

M r s Will iams' audience did not attend their

lectures to listen to what they had to say. They

were simply there to admire sheepishly two of

their leaders. They will also be there to attack

them, somewhere in the flock, if and when

they make what they wiill have been led, rightly

or wrongly, to think of as a mistake.

Y o u may be aware that Imperial College was

originally created to produce scientists and

eng ineers of i n t e r n a t i o n a l ca l ib re w h o s e

ultimate purpose was to spread into the British

Empire and industrialise every remote corner

of the globe. The general idea seems to have

been one in which Britain was naturally on

top in the development of the world with

obvious financial, cultural and political benefit

to everyone concerned. The ideal seems also

to have been similar. Britain would be carry ing .

the torch of knowledge throughout the world,

thus m a k i n g it certa in that history wou ld

honourably judge her. Unfortunately recent

political ideas as well as uncountable occasions

of the action being different from the thought

have s u n k b o t h the idea a n d the i d e a l .

Nevertheless. Imperial College has suffered

the least from all this. It still maintains a high

proportion of overseas students and still has

m e m b e r s f r o m v a r i o u s c o m m o n w e a l t h

countries in its body of governors. What is

now happening at IC seems to be melting away

the last chance for both Britain to prevail and

the ideal of world co-operation (and hence

success) to stay alive. In one world the answer

is apathy (which I see from F E L I X 602 was

pointed out by the then F E L I X Editor fourteen

years ago!). What makes this word even more

alarming is that it crops up in an exclusively

technological college of high standard while we

are living in a technological age!

But don't alarm yourselves (your lecture

hour is still going and your lecturer, however

competent, cannot be more interesting than

the a p p r o a c h i n g w e e k e n d ) . O t h e r s have

suffered the same fate in history. The G r e e k

civilisation, the Roma n Empire and the A r a b

world all collapsed due to this magic word .

There seems no reason why the British Empire

would be able to maintain its peak, even

though students of history have repeatedly

developed sore throats shouting out their

findings. Unfortunately for them and you they

were not scientists so they did not apply

"scientific r igour" in their arguments. It was

just feelings and their predictions were wrong

by t ime f a c t o r s of up to c e n t u r i e s ! I a m

informed they are now trying harder to achieve

more "scientifc" accuracy for it is this, and

only this , w h i c h sc ientists apprec iate a n d

understand. Otherwise, it is their fate to ask

unanswerable questions and thus " tor ture"

themselves. Scientists do not tend to ask such

questions and so proceed to a quieter life

which does not involve any inner passion. I

envy you for your inability to ask yourselves

q u e s t i o n s a b o u t " i d e a l s " , " p u r p o s e " , a n d

"ambit ion" , for you lead, in this way, simple

lives with no questions to burn you inside out. I

also pity you for the same reason for your

problems become petty and out of context,

I would like to end this outburst with a

statistic you may understand. A human being

sleeps approximately 2700 hours per year.

Sacrificing one hour to further your knowledge

about the world constitutes a sacrifice of

0 . 0 0 0 4 % , a l l c a l c u l a t i o n s b e i n g w i t h i n

engineering accuracy.

N. Lambrou

Vice-Chairman, OSC


"I'm certainly stupid

at times An interview with Mr Barney McCabe

C a n y o u o u t l i n e b r i e f l y y o u r r o l e a s D e p u t y

P r e s i d e n t ?

T h e r e i s a b r i e f o u t l i n e i n t h e o f f i c i a l

p u b l i s h e d j o b d e s c r i p t i o n , b u t t h a t d o e s n ' t

r e a l l y a c c o u n t a c c u r a t e l y f o r t h e t i m e I s p e n d .

M y m a i n r e s p o n s i b i l i t y i s t h e U n i o n B u i l d i n g ,

t h e f i t m e n t s , t h e f u r n i s h i n g s , t h e d e c o r a t i o n s ,

e t c . , e t c . , f o r w h i c h I h a v e t h e H o u s e

C o m m i t t e e , w h i c h i s s u p p o s e d t o b e t h e

m a j o r d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g b o d y a n d I'm m e a n t

t o g e t t h e i r d e c i s i o n s i m p l e m e n t e d .

D o y o u d e c i d e o n a l l o c a t i o n o f r e s o u r c e s , i .e .

if s o m e o n e c o m e s t o y o u d o y o u d e c i d e o n

t h e m e r i t s o f t h a t a p p l i c a t i o n ?

S t r i c t l y s p e a k i n g , H o u s e C o m m i t t e e a l l o c a t e s

t h e s e t h i n g s , e . g . c u p b o a r d s , e t c . I c a n j u s t

m a k e d e c i s i o n s s t r a i g h t o f f o n s m a l l

p u r c h a s e s — t h e y ' v e a c t u a l l y d e l e g a t e d s o m e

r e s p o n s i b i l i t y t o m e . A n i n t e r e s t i n g p o i n t i s ,

t h a t i n t h e b y e - l a w s , w h e n i t c o m e s t o

a l l o c a t i n g r o o m s f o r s o c i e t i e s o r c l u b s , I'm

t h e o n l y p e r s o n r e s p o n s i b l e f o r t h a t . A lo t o f

t h e d e c i s i o n s t h o u g h a r e o n p r e c e d e n t ,

t r a d i t i o n .

W h y d i d y o u s t a n d a s D e p u t y P r e s i d e n t ?

W h y d i d I s t a n d ? If y o u w a n t a s t r a i g h t

a n s w e r , I s u p p o s e i t ' s b e c a u s e I k n e w I w o u l d

w i n .

W h y d i d y o u w a n t t o w i n ?

W e l l , w e a l l l i k e w i n n i n g , d o n ' t w e ?

W h a t w e r e y o u r o b j e c t i v e s , w h a t d i d y o u w a n t

t o a c h i e v e ?

I t h i n k m y o b j e c t i v e s w e r e n ' t s p e c i f i c a l l y t o

I C U . I h a v e c e r t a i n o b j e c t i v e s w h i c h I c a n ' t

c l e a r l y d e f i n e , w h i c h I w a n t t o a c h i e v e i n m y

l i f e t i m e , a n d I s a w D e p u t y P r e s i d e n t o f I C U a s

m e r e l y o n e w a y i n w h i c h I c o u l d f u l f i l l s o m e

o f t h o s e o b j e c t i v e s . B e c a u s e I k n e w I c o u l d

w i n , I s t o o d .

D i d y o u w a n t t o b e o f s e r v i c e t o I C ?

W a n t i n g t o b e o f s e r v i c e t o f e l l o w h u m a n s ,

y e s , s p e c i f i c a l l y I C , n o , o t h e r t h a n i n t h a t I a m

a s t u d e n t h e r e , a n d t h a t m y j o b r e q u i r e s t h a t I

d o t h i n g s f o r o t h e r p e o p l e . S o , b e a r i n g i n

m i n d t h a t I 've t a k e n t h i s j o b t h e n , y e s , I w a n t

t o d o t h i n g s f o r I C — i t s s t u d e n t s .

D i d y o u h a v e a n y o b j e c t i v e s w h e n y o u

s t a r t e d ? A n y s p e c i f i c p l a n s ?

I'm i n t e r e s t e d i n b u i l d i n g s i n a s e n s e , I l i k e

m a k i n g r o o m s n i c e , s o t h a t w a s o n e o f t h e

n i c e t h i n g s a b o u t t h e j o b . O n e o f t h e a r e a i n

t h e - U n i o n w h i c h I r e a l l y w a n t t o d o s o m e t h i n g

w i t h , a n d s t i l l d o , i s t h e G e n t s b o g s , w h i c h a r e

d i s g u s t i n g r e a l l y , d e c r e p i t , y o u c a n d o l i t t l e

r e p a i r s o n t h e m a l l t h e t i m e — t h e y w e r e

d e s i g n e d f o r u s e i n t h e b u i l d i n g w h e n it w a s

b e i n g u s e d i n a d i f f e r e n t w a y t o h o w it i s n o w .

B e c a u s e t h e y d o n ' t f i t t o d a y ' s f u n c t i o n s

t h e y ' r e n o t r e s p e c t e d a s m u c h a s t h e y o u g h t

t o b e . B u t h o p e f u l l y w e ' l l g e t s o m e t h i n g d o e n

a b o u t t h o s e b y t h e e n d o f t h e y e a r .

A r e y o u s u c c e e d i n g i n t h e t a s k s t h a t y o u ' v e

s e t y o u r s e l f ?

W e l l , I've o n l y o u t l i n e d o n e t a s k w h i c h I s e t

m y s e l f , I s u p p o s e t h e r e a r e o t h e r s . In g e n e r a l

I d o n ' t t h i n k I've a c h i e v e d n e a r l y a s m u c h a s I

w a n t e d t o . In t e r m s o f d o i n g t h e a c t u a l j o b , I

t h i n k I h a v e , I d o n ' t t h i n k I c o u l d d o a n y b e t t e r

t h a n I h a v e b e e n , b u t t h e t h i n g s I w a s g o i n g t o

d o i n a d d i t i o n t o b e i n g D e p u t y P r e s i d e n t , I

h a v e n ' t a c h i e v e d . I h a v e n ' t h a d t i m e , b e c a u s e

t h e j o b ' s b e e n s o d e m a n d i n g .

W h a t a r e t h e m a j o r d e m a n d s o f t h e j o b ?

M a i n l y t i m e . It 's a l l t h e l i t t l e t h i n g s t h a t y o u

h a v e t o d o ?

F o r i n s t a n c e ?

W e l l , I'm n o t o n l y r e s p o n s i b l e f o r s e e i n g tha t

a r o o m i s b o o k e d o u t t o a n o r g a n i s a t i o n , y o u

h a v e t o c h e c k t h a t t h e y ' v e c l e a r e d it u p s o y o u

d o n ' t h a v e t o r e t a i n s o m e o f t h e i r d e p o s i t

b e c a u s e t h e y d i d n ' t c l e a r u p . T h e n y o u f i n d

t h a t t h e y d i d n ' t h a v e a n y c l e a n i n g m a t e r i a l s ,

s o y o u h a v e t o g o o v e r t o c e n t r a l s t o r e s a n d

y o u g e t l o t s o f i n t e r u p t i o n s a l l t h e t i m e . . . . y o u

h a v e t o c a r r y y o u r m o n e y o v e r t o t h e b a n k o r

l o o k a f t e r t h e v e n d i n g m a c h i n e s — a h ! D o n ' t

m e n t i o n t h e v e n d i n g m a c h i n e s . T h e y k e e p

g e t t i n g b r o k e n i n t o . W e ' v e j u s t a b o u t s t o p p e d

it n o w , it d o e s n ' t h a p p e n s o m u c h a n y m o r e . It

h a s n ' t h a p p e n e d s i n c e w e c a m e b a c k t h i s

t e r m , y o u h a v e t o e m p t y t h e m q u i t e

r e g u l a r l y — i t ' s a p a i n i n t h e a r s e , it r e a l l y i s .

H o w m u c h m o n e y d o y o u h a v e c o n t r o l o v e r ?

N o t y o u s p e c i f i c a l l y , b u t y o u , t h e H o u s e

C o m m i t t e e , e t c ?

E s s e n t i a l l y t h e F i n a n c e C o m m i t t e e h a s

c o n t r o l o v e r a l l t h e U n i o n ' s m o n e y , w h i c h t h i s

y e a r i s a b o u t £220,000 b y t h e e n d o f t h e y e a r .

H o w m u c h a r e y o u p a i d p e r y e a r ?

I g e t t h e f u l l g r a n t f o r a p o s t g r a d u a t e s t u d e n t ,

p l u s a f r e e r o o m . T h a t w o r k s o u t at a b o u t £53

a w e e k f o r t h e g r a n t a n d t h e r o o m a b o u t £23.

Y o u ' v e b e e n d e s c r i b e d a s l a z y , i n e f f i c i e n t a n d

s t u p i d , d o y o u a g r e e ? (Quote Nick Morton)

H e c a l l e d m e t h a t ! W e l l , w h e n y o u c o m e t o

i n t e r v i e w i n g h i m — n o f o r g e t i t . W e l l , I 'm

c e r t a i n l y s t u p i d at t i m e s , b e c a u s e I let t h i n g s

a n n o y m e w h i c h I s h o u l d s t a y c o o l a b o u t . I'm

c e r t a i n l y l a z y , a s e v e r y b o d y w h o k n o w s m e

a n d h a s w o r k e d w i t h m e k n o w s . I w o u l d n ' t

d e n y t h a t at o t h e r t i m e s I'm c e r t a i n l y n o t

l a z y — i t r e a l l y d e p e n d s o n h o w i n t e r e s t e d I

a m . A s f o r i n e f f i c i e n t — I w o u l d c o n t e s t t h a t

m o n s t s t r o n g l y — I ' m c e r t a i n l y n o t i n e f f i c i e n t .

I 'm g o i n g t o m e n t i o n j u s t o n e w o r d , a n d

w o u l d l i k e y o u t o g i v e m e a s h o r t a n s w e r . T h e

i s s u e i s p o l i t i c s . P O L A N D .

M a r c o w e n t t o P o l a n d at C h r i s t m a s . U r n , I

t h i n k i t ' s p o s s i b l y g o i n g t o b e a c o n f r o n t a t i o n

p l a c e b e t w e e n A m e r i c a a n d R u s s i a , b u t I t h i n k

t h a t t h i n g s c o u l d h a p p e n if t h e E u r o p e a n

s t a t e s g o t t o g e t h e r a n d s u p p o r t e d t h e v e r y

s t r o n g A m e r i c a n s t a n c e . I t h i n k t h a t t h e

R u s s i a n s a r e l i k e l y t o g o a l o n g w a y t o w a r d s

r e l e a s i n g t h e S o l i d a r i t y m e m b e r s a n d

p e r h a p s i n c r e a s i n g t h e f r e e d o m o f t h e p e o p l e

o f P o l a n d .

He called me that!

Barney (Bernadette to close friends) relaxing in

stunning blue chiffon.

A p a r t h e i d

I don't support any constitutional descrimina-

tion between races, but I t h i n k t h a t t h e

eventual solution in SA should b e o b t a i n e d b y

peaceful methods. I think it m i g h t t a k e a

hundred years but I think a h u n d r e d y e a r s o f

peace with black people from n e i g h b o u r i n g

countries still preferring t o l i v e i n S o u t h

Africa, because they get a b e t t e r d e a l t h e r e

than in their anarchic regime, a n d M h i n k if it

takes a hundred years, it's w o r t h t h e p e a c e

and stability that SA had, b u t I w o u l d l i k e t o

see apartheid obliterated.

F e m i n i s m

Feminism—women's lib. O b v i o u s l y w o m e n

have a certain amount o f . . . . t h e y ' v e b e e n

laughed at as useful m e m b e r s o f s o c i e t y a n d

that is useful in a capacity o t h e r t h a n r a i s i n g

children, etc. I'm quite i n f a v o u r o f e q u a l

opportunities for women a n d m e n . I s t i l l t e n d

to hold doors open for ladies—for w o m e n . I

hold doors open for blokes a s w e l l t h o u g h .

There's a nice bit of traditional c h i v a l r y w h i c h

I like. As a man I don't think I'm d o i n g it t o b e

condescending to w o m a n i t s m e r e l y t o f e e l

that I'm maintaining some n i c e b i t s o f B r i t i s h

heritage. I'm not in favour o f a n y k i n d o f

descrimination against w o m e n . In f a c t I

remember being quite o u t s p o k e n o n t h i s

subject when it came up in s c h o o l .

W h a t d o y o u t h i n k o f t h e 10:1 r a t i o o f m e n t o

w o m e n at I C ?

Well over my time at C o l l e g e , I've s e e n t h e

ratio improve each year, a n d I've a l s o s e e n l i f e

at the College improve, a l t h o u g h t h a t m i g h t

be because I'm more a b l e t o a c c e p t t h e

unbalanced situation. I t h i n k i t ' s a n a w f u l

shame that there are a lot o f m e n h e r e , w h o

will go out of College w i t h a c o m p l e t e l y

wrong view of what women a r e l i k e , s i m p l y

b e c a u s e they have n e v e r l i v e d i n a n

environment with women o f t h e i r a g e — t h e y

might have come from a s i n g l e s e x s c h o o l . I

think the same applies to women; I t h i n k i t ' s a

shame that women come o u t o f t h i s p l a c e

having a lot of attention from b l o k e s h e r e , a n d

they can suffer when they l e a v e , b e c a u s e t h e

outside world is very d i f f e r e n t .

W h a t d o y o u t h i n k o f t h e m o v e f o r p o s i t i v e

d i s c r i m i n a t i o n o f b l a c k s ?

I've not heard it descr ibed a p a r t f r o m

sensationalism in the p r e s s a s p o s i t i v e

discrimination. I don't t h i n k it i s a c t u a l l y .

People who were from d e p r i v e d i n n e r - c i t y

areas had a lack of certain k i n d s o f f o r m a l

qualification to enter I C . The p e o p l e t h a t w i l l

be accepted, will certainly b e a c c e p t e d o n

any other basis.

H o w m a n y h o u r s d o y o u p u t i n a w e e k ?

It varies but I suppose I a v e r a g e 9 t o 5

for a 5 day week, but t h e r e a r e e x c e p t i o n s .


CLUBS AND SOCIETIES

Imperial College Radio

Last term I C U Publications Board granted us sufficient money to

implement a link to Evelyn Gardens , specifically Min ing and Bernard

Sunley Houses. This project has been on the 'back burner' for about

e ighteen m o n t h s n o w , the de lay b e i n g c a u s e d m a i n l y by B r i t i s h

Telecom's tardiness in installing the required music-quality telephone

line. However , this installation has now taken place, and we are currently

in the process of constructing the required line amplifiers and isolation

equipment. Basically we pay for the electronics at our end, and the line

termination circuitry at the Evelyn Gardens end; the houses themselves

pay for the l o u d s p e a k e r s a n d l o u d s p e a k e r a m p l i f i e r s . P r o j e c t e d

completion date is the end of this term (i.e. there's a lot of work still to

do).

The other main subject worthy of note at this time is that many people

still cannot pick up IC Radio. A problem certainly; an explanation follows.

Southside residents are theoretically able to tune in to the medium wave

t r a n s m i t t e r o n 301 m ( 9 9 9 k H z ) . M a n y say they c a n ' t ; i t ' s h a r d l y

surprising considering the number of power lines within the building and

the p r i m a r y b u i l d i n g m a t e r i a l — f e r r o c o n c r e t e (not n o t e d for i ts

transparency to radio frequencies). The best we can offer is to suggest

you site your radio close to the washbasin in your room where the signal

is usually stronger. Unfortunately home office regulations forbid us from

using, say, a 2k linear amplifier (like the one Hamsoc ' s got) and thus

reaching Hammersmith or other such areas. A l l the above also applies to

Linstead H a l l , incidentally.

'A l l this is very spiffy,' you may well say (it's unlikely) 'but what about

programmes?' We l l , this is where Y O U come in. W e are always looking

for D J s ; at the moment there are vacancies (lots) for people at weekends

and late at night weekdays (10:00-12:00pm). N o prior experience is

required—any numbskull can do it (!). W h y not join us? Enquire at our

Southside Office (by the shop) any weekday lunchtime or in the evenings.

A l s o technical people are needed—preferably with some knowledge of

electronics.

SF Soc

Leechlike, the tall thin S F Bulletin

this week gives nothing away, but

instead taps the mental shoulder

of creative members of the society

in r e g a r d to the a p p r o a c h i n g

publication of the magazine some

call N M E 3 , an infamous fanzine

whose origins lie lost in the mists

of two y e a r s ago , a n d w i t h a

bansheepish smile asks that all

people who wish their work to be

considered for its pages have very

little time left to give it to the

editor, be it fact, fiction, artwork

or whatever else their fevered

imaginations can invent. A n d you

thought they d i d n ' t w r i t e s en

tences like that any more. Anyway ,

if you can cabbie together prose

better than the above don't hide

your pen under a bushel, instead

rush your self-expression to Elise

Pechersley, Physics 3, and she will

give it whatever treatment occurs

to her. Y o u have until next Friday,

dog willing. So long, and remem

ber only Batman can climb walls. If

y o u s h o u l d try i t — g o s h — h o l y

broken bones.

The Butler-Soft Brain of Norman

Maine

Community Action

W e l l , y o u M U S T have s e t t l e d

down into College life by now, so,

to all those people who showed

interest at Freshers ' Fair , we've

now got several projects running.

C o m e forward, and show your

selves. C o m e to our meetings at

12:30pm on Monday at the top of

the U n i o n . Free coffee!

W e n e e d h e l p w i t h a n o l d

p e o p l e s ' h o m e ( even ings ) , S t .

Pancras Hospital patients, handi

capped children (Saturday after

noons), soup runs (Tuesday and

Friday evenings), draughtproofing

h o m e s ( W e d n e s d a y a f t e rnoon )

a n d w i t h b a t t e r e d w i v e s a n d

c h i l d r e n ( S a t u r d a y , F e b r u a r y

6—taking them out for a trip).

Ents

A n act of G o d prevented 'Overk i l l '

from playing here last term...was

he trying to tell us something?

F i n d out t on ight in the l ower

refectory—only £1 which includes

a bar, two bands and a hard rock

megasound system; which goes to

show that we cater for A L L tastes!

O n February 14....yes! T H A T

day! W e hope to see you all in the

J C R for a rather special nocturnal

happening—"the I C / I F Valentines

Party" . A superb jazz/ funk band is

being arranged. Yes ! you guessed

it—only £1 a ticket.

M o r e dates for your diary: Feb

19 L inks Carnival with a return

v is i t f r o m the l oveab le F l y i n g

P a d o v a n i s , p l u s m a n y o t h e r

attractions and, of course, every

Thursday evening in M E 2 2 0 (next

to the list of Star Trek) .

Liberal

Last week's Guildsheet writing

about the cut in student grants

claimed that "those who believe

that th ings w i l l c h a n g e u n d e r

a n o t h e r g o v e r n m e n t , h o w e v e r ,

will be in for a shock. " Is there an

alternative to the present govern

ment's disastrous higher education

policy? F i n d out by coming to hear

s h a d o w c a b i n e t m e m b e r a n d

opposition education spokesman,

Nei l K innock M P on Tuesday,

February 2 in ME220 at 1:00pm.

The postponed meeting to elect

N O L S conference delegates and

submit amendments to conference

m o t i o n s w i l l be on T h u r s d a y ,

F e b r u a r y 4, at 1:00pm in the

U n i o n U p p e r L o u n g e . A s a n

added incentive to attend we will

be discussing whether to challenge

t h e N O L S S t a n d i n g O r d e r s

Committee 's decision that one of

our two conference motions was

invalid.

Socialist

Imper ia l C o l l e g e faces c u t s in

expenditure of 20% in the next

three years which will impair the

quality of research and education.

Colleges of higher education and

polytechnics face cuts of up to

16% next year. In other areas,

parents now have to pay for the

e d u c a t i o n of t h e i r m e n t a l l y

handicapped children, thousands

of O A P s d ie of c o l d r e l a t e d

d i s e a s e s , m i l i t a r y s p e n d i n g i n

creases and new scapegoats are .

found (wreckers in industry, bad

teachers in education, blacks and

lefties in street riots); unemploy

ment increases, things are bad

and getting worse.

If you are apolitical then you

don't care about the above, you

don't care about injustice, at least

not enough to get off your aTse

and do something. O u r student

l e a d e r s w i t h t h e i r p o p u l a r i t y

politics don't give a damn, and

when, probably at Easter, staff

redundancies are announced, the

student union will do nothing to

s u p p o r t t h e s t r i k i n g A S T M S

w o r k e r s , p e r h a p s o u r u n i o n

officers should be made redundant

in sympathy.

If you think we should be doing

something substantive to oppose

education cuts; if you think the

time has come for an end to the

union's apolitical stance and a firm

stand against moral injustice, then

c o m e to a m e e t i n g t o d a y at

1 : 0 0 p m i n t h e U n i o n U p p e r

Lounge.

Snooker

A f t e r a n e x t e n s i o n of h o l i d a y

festivities, we finally got around to

playing some matches last week.

The A team had a good away

victory at L S E , beating their A

team 4-1, while back home the B

and C teams were in devastating

f o r m . T h e B t e a m c o n f i d e n t l y

dealt with a three man outfit from

Bedford, just doing enough to win

5-0. It was drinks all round for the

jubilant C team when Holt came

from behind against his opponent

to force home a stunning victory

to out his side one up, as Paul was

in his usual generous mood which

he saves for snooker nights. The

merry-making continued until a 4-

1 victory was ensured, give or take

a few mis-haps along the way.

The open and handicap tourna

ments are progressing nicely, and

h a v e p r o d u c e d s o m e c l a s s i c

matches already. The infamous

Bricknel l gave Tr ipp a scare in the

handicap, potting some balls with

shots that not many people would

h a v e t h o u g h t of , b u t T r i p p ,

r e c o v e r e d in t ime to s q u e e z e

through 2-1. Calvert managed to

overcome a 28 point deficit against

Algy to win a match that everyone

was interested in. Jennings fluked

victory against an unlucky Batorijs

in the open, a n d that m a n Hol t

continues to defy the odds by

marking in the same competit ion.

Keep watching the noticeboards

for more up-to-the-minute infor

mation and results.

Wellsoc

We're back! S o r ry we've been away for the past few Mondays , we've had

problems with lecturers cancelling at short notice. A n y h o w that's behind

us and we're back with a vengence.

Lectures are organised for Monday evenings as usual. Highlights include

a professional magician from the Magic C i r c l e , who will be talking about

the life of Houdini before doing his stage act. Popular demand sees the

return of the Wellsoc hypnotist this term.

•Films. A couple of excellent double bills are lined up. Freaks and

Polanski 's Two Men in a Wardrobe are a really bizarre twosome. The

former has been described as the "weirdest thing ever to escape from

H o l y w o o d " , and was banned in the U K for over thirty years. A lso

Forbidden Planet and its sequel Invisible Boy.

Trips. A visit to the under world is being organised. That is to say, we've

arranged sittings with mediums for anyone who wants to find out about

the supernatural or get in touch with the undead. We've also received an

invitation from the National H . G . Wells Society to visit them in Bromley

and see places of historical interest and exhibitions related to H . G . Wells.

D r o p your name and dept to me, Pallab G h o s h , in Physics U G letter-

racks or, better still, come along to Monday 's lecture.

This Monday we're having a lecture on the 'Psychology of Gambl ing ' by

Professor B o n d , 7:30pm, Elec Eng 408. See you then.

FELIX, January 29 1982

Cypriot

Hello friends and muppets! The

C y p r u s S o c i e t y s t r i k e s aga in !

C o m e to the traditional 'Cypriot

Kafenio ' in the Senior C o m m o n

R o o m in the U n i o n Building at

6:30pm on Friday, January 29,

1982. D o not miss this chance to

p l a y b a c k g a m m o n ( tav l i ) a n d

d r i n k the s t i m u l a t i n g c y p r i o t

cof fee a n d taste t h e , d e l i c i o u s

cakes made by M a r y and Stella. A s

you step in give them a kiss! See

you there! Y e a h !

Kermit

P S : It's all free!

UN Soc

A t last, the society you've all been

waiting for: U N Soc is back with a

vengence. This term we have a

host of provocative and contro

versial films and talks lined up. W e

are starting off next Thursday

lunchtime with a film about drug

abuse (which makes Christiane F

look tame!), this will be followed

by an informal discussion with free

(!) coffee and biscuits. Be there!

Amnesty

The Amnesty International G r o u p

will be collecting donations around

C o l l e g e n e x t T h u r s d a y . T h e

m o n e y r a i s e d wi l l go t o w a r d s

paying off a large debt we owe our

B r i t i s h S e c t i o n , a n d t o w a r d s

furthering our work.

Current ly , the group is trying to

free F i rmin Awadon , a student in

jail in Benin in Afr ica. Despite the

l a r g e l e t t e r - w r i t i n g e f f o r t i n

November and letters since, C o l .

Mathieu Kerekou 's government

remains silent. Whilst in Paris, one

of our members visited the Benin

E m b a s s y t h e r e a n d m e t t h e

Charge d'Affaires. This dignified .

official asked whether our mem

bers knew anyone in England who

would ' be willing to let him stay

with them so that he could learn

Engl i sh—in exchange, he offered

two weeks in France , saying he'd

d o t h e c o o k i n g . ( N o k i d d i n g ,

folks'!)

Seriously, our adopted prisoner

n e e d s s u p p o r t . H e has b e e n

imprisoned for two years with no

charges preferred against him.

Please give a little change to our

collection.

& Guilds

There was no Gui lds article last

week, not because I forgot to write

o n e , b u t t o m a k e y o u m o r e

appreciative of the ones I remem

ber to write! This week there's a

U G M on Thursday at 1:00pm in

M e c h Eng , so come and see Julian

do his marmalade impersonation,

and on Friday there's a theatre

trip to see Amadeus, it's a really

great play so don't miss it, tickets

£3 from the Gui lds Office.

Tickets to D & D are going fast,

so if you want to go, hurry up and

get yours! Finally, if you're into

rugby or soccer and want to play

in your year dept team, see your

social reps, or S lug or Dave in the

U n i o n O f f i c e . H e r e ' s h o p i n g

t h e r e ' l l be a n a r t i c l e i n n e x t

week's F E L I X .

Neil

Saturday, February 13, so if you

want a more representative union,

please consider standing for a

post. Y o u don't have to be a hack,

perhaps it would be better if none

of the officers were, you just have

to c a r e a b o u t w h a t R C S U is

doing. Feel free to ask any officer

about any job.

Finally, the soccer sixes are

being held on Sunday, February

14, so how about getting a team

together from your year.

Phil

A t the moment Charles Fuller

and myself are investigating the

possibility of having the annual

dinner which is on M a r c h 19, out

of College. The cost will, we hope,

be under £10, and you will be able

to choose whether or not you

require wine. W e think that this

will give you the best possible

e v e n t , a l t h o u g h s o m e o f f i cers

disagree, but we will welcome any

ideas.

R C S U elections are coming up

soon now. The papers go up on

Just a quick note to tell everyone

a b o u t n e x t m o n t h ' s e v e n t s

( n o t h i n g r e a l l y h a p p e n e d t h i s

m o n t h — e x c e p t the C a k e auc

t i o n e d at t h e M i n e s B a l l w a s

presented to the Chelsea Pen

sioners at the Stanford Bridge

A r m s , and that J e z has lots of new

sweatshirts in , for you to buy at

only £5.50 each!).

Forthcoming Events

RSMU General Committee Meet

ing, M o n d a y , F e b 8, 5 : 4 5 p m ,

.Mining Conference R m . A l l club

c a p t a i n ' s , s o c i a l a n d a c a d e m i c

r e p s a n d u n i o n o f f i c e r s m u s t

a t t e n d , o b s e r v e r s w e l c o m e ( +

R o s s ' s f a n c l u b ! ) . D e t a i l s of

C a m b o r n e weekend at meeting.

Mines Review: Fr iday, Feb 12,

J C R .

Rugby Sevens: Sunday, M a r c h 14

( s e e U n i o n n o t i c e b o a r d f o r

details).

RSM UGM: Tuesday, Feb 16,

12:45pm, G-20. Everyone going to

C a m b o r n e must attend!!

Camborne Weekend: Friday 19 to

Sunday 21, February.

Bookshop News

A s you know L o r d Z u c k m a n is delivering the sixth Jubilee

Lecture entitled 'Nuclear Illusion and Reality'. His book of the

same title is now available in the Bookshop at £4.95.

New Titles

Bahama C r i s i s - D e s m o n d Bagley, Fontana, £1.50

O n y x x - T o n y C h i u , Fontana, £1.75

Nuns and So/diers-Iris M u r d o c h , Penguin, £1.95

Might as well be Dead-Rex Stout, Fontana, £1.35

The Golden Spiders-Rex Stout , Fontana, £1.35

Our Mothers H o u s e - J u l i a n Gloag , Penguin, £1.50

S p a i n - J a n Morr i s , Penguin, £1.75

Horror S tudy -Ol iver M c w a b , Penguin, £1.50

Tools for Thought-C.H. Waddington, Paladin, £1.95

Real Beer in L o n d o n - C a m r a , £1.95

Student Guide to Efficient Study-D.E. James, Pergamon, £2.40

Marilyn L/ues. ' -Joel Oppenheimel , Pepeline Books , £5.95

Feeding the Newborn M a m m a / - E l s i e M . Widdowson , C A r o l i n a

Biology Readers, £1,50

Electron Mi c ros copy -Fr i edr i ch K o p p , Carol ina Biology Readers,

£1.50

The exhibition of publications from the 'International Labour

Office' will be in for another week.

I think my letter re: recommended books in last week's F E L I X

has stirred something!

Rebates Audio

A n y undergraduates who applied

for a rent and rate rebate before

Chr is tmas should consider con

tacting their housing department

a g a i n if t h e y d i d not r e c e i v e

supplementary benefit, unemploy

m e n t b e n e f i t o r a n y e a r n e d

i n c o m e for p a r t o r a l l of the

holiday period.

M o s t local authority housing

departments are assessing student

applications on the basis of their

termly income (approx £53pw)

w i t h o u t a u t o m a t i c a l l y m a k i n g

adjustments for the three week

period when the vacation element

of the grant is £21.15pw. While

many students applying for these

r e b a t e s m a y h a v e b e e n d i s

a p p o i n t e d by the low leve l of

benefit, or even complete lack of it

during termtime, many will find

that they do quality for a reason

able amount during vacation. The

s u m s i n v o l v e d a p p e a r to v a r y

c o n s i d e r a b l y b e t w e e n di f ferent

boroughs, but as yet we do not

have enough information to quote

any figues. Questionnaires have

been distributed to students in the

head tenancies in an attempt to

monitor the situation and it would

also be useful to hear from anyone

in private sector accommodation

who has applied, successfully or

otherwise.

Sue Telling

Student Services

15 Princes Gardens

Ulterior motives aside, I would

love it (as I know you would too) if

I could tell you that you would

really enjoy yourselves if you were

to c o m e to t h i s A u d i o S o c

meeting. Let me enthuse further.

Mike Daniels is a great guy; he,

just like Stretch Armstrong , is

anything that you want him to be,

but most of all he is a young sales

manager of D . W . Labs . "What the

hell are D . W . Labs? " I hear you

asking.

Have you not heard of Gale

Loudspeakers? Haven't you heard

of the Carver C u b e Amplifier?

Wel l , D . W . Labs are the marvel

lous group of people who dis

tribute the two "legends in their

lifetime" products.

M r Daniels will try to explain the

principles involved in dealing with

the hi-fi press and other things

along those lines. He will also be

demonstrating the Carver C u b e

and Gale Loudspeakers to their

limits.

So remember, rather than let

sleeping dogs lie, kick them in

their bellies and come along to this

lecture which is to be held in the

Quiet R o o m , QR002, Sherfield

Building on Wednesday, February

3, at 6:30pm.

A l s o note that on M o n d a y ,

February 15, same time, same

place, same channel , Max Town-

shend, Managing Director of Elite

Electronics will be coming along to

give us a lecture. So live it up.

Industrial Society

This is it! It's the big one!! Today

at 12:50pm, Ian Ross will take a

break from charting the fortunes

of A S L E F , B L and the like to tell ,

us about his experiences as B B C

Industrial Correspondent and his

picture of industry. Al l welcome in

C h e m Eng L T 1 at 12:50pm.

After this, our next event is a

visit to the Thames Barrier on

February 11—basement dwellers

particularly welcome—but we're

s i g n i n g up now, s o if y o u ' r e

interested, contact M . Skeates via

the D o C 2 letter-racks.


All My Sons by Arthur Miller, directed by

Michael Blakemore, Wyndhams Theatre.

Arthur Mil ler , the contemporary American

playwright, is best known for his plays Death

of a Salesman and The Crucible. All My Sons

was his first successful play which immediately

established him as a dramatist of international

stature.

T h e p lay ' s t h e m e , a d i s t u r b i n g but not

altogether surprising one, was conceived in

wartime when voices were publicly declaring

that all human endeavour was united and of

one purpose: the defeat of the enemy. But

Miller sensed that little had changed in reality.

There were some who were working towards

their own ends. In Miller 's words, the play "was

an unveiling of what I believed everybody knew

and nobody publicly said . "

The backyard of the Keller 's house in the

Mid-West in the late 1940s sets the scene of

the play. The war is over, business is booming

and wedding plans are nearing completion. But

an o d d w a r t i m e i n c i d e n t c o n c e r n i n g the

father's business in supplying engine parts for

f i g h t e r p l a n e s is c r u e l l y r e s u r r e c t e d . A

consignment of faulty products caused the

crash of a squadron, and it is with the shock

crash of squadron, and it is with shock that we

gradually realise that the father knowlingly

allowed the parts to be dispatched in order

that his business could continue. This past

event has astonishing repercussions as the

play unfolds. Suspense and tension increase

throughout the drama and these continue in a

masterly way with startling and unnerving

revelations. The characters are most movingly

and convincingly portrayed by a strong cast,

headed by C o l i n Blakely and Rosemary Harris .

Nick Bedding

The Second Mrs Tanqueray by Arthur

Wing Pinero. Directed by Michael

Rudman, The Lyttelton, National Theatre.

Felicity Kendal and Leigh Lawson star as the

i l l - m a t c h e d n e w l y - w e d s in the p l a y , The

Second Mrs Tanqueray by the late Victor ian

dramatist, Ar thur Pinero. T o the incredulity of

his friends Aubrey Tanqueray takes as his

s e c o n d wife one of those w o m e n w i t h a

' d o u b t f u l ' p a s t so b e l o v e d of V i c t o r i a n

dramatists and upon w h o m they could satisfy

their audiences' vast hunger and thirst for

moral retribution. The couple are exiled by

fashionable L o n d o n society to deepest Surrey

where M r s Tanqueray quickly becomes bored.

She also becomes jealous of her husband's

fondness for his daughter by his first marriage

and things get even worse when he tries to

protect his convent-educated offspring from

h is w i f e ' s " l i g h t , c a r e l e s s n a t u r e " . T h e

prickliness of the situation draws blood when

the daughter falls in love with an old flame of

her mother's. This last scene reaches heights

of drama and human unpleasantness of an

i n t e n s i t y a n d a g i t a t i o n that I have rare ly

experienced at a play.

The play today is still capable of horrifying

its audience with its reference to men whose

sexual lives are as bad as those of the fallen

women on whom they prey. The point Pinero

is making is that the man often gets off lightly

while the woman is treated as a promiscuous

and venomous parasite. The first two acts of

the play are rather dull and slow-moving but

the r i v e t i n g a n d h o r r i f y i n g f i n a l act is

successful in remedying this.

Colin Blakely and Rosemary Harris in Arthur

Miller's All My Sons.

US

P a s s the Butler, written by Eric Idle,

directed by Jonathan Lynn, the Globe

Theatre, Shaftesbury Ave.

Lric Idle's first stage play opened at the Globe

Shaftesbury Avenue on Tuesday. It seemed at

first to be another one of those English farces

l ike 'No Sex Please-Tve caught it in the

Mousetrap' shows appealing only to grannies,

the rent man and accountants, but how wrong

I was. If you know that you are first in line for

her will then don't take Auntie to see it, and

don't go yourself if you've had a few glasses of

"Louis san Wogga-wogga" because you'll need

all of your brain cells to appreciate this one (a

bit like the Orest ia and O T T ) .

We are introduced to the family of L o r d

C h a r l e s ( d e c e a s e d - t o - b e ) C o n s e r v a t i v e

Secretary of State for Defence, unfortunately

L o r d Charles lies in an aluminised. computer-

controlled, coffin-like casket upstage and has

about as much action left in h im as an episode

from Crossroads . Most of the family appears

to spend the morning playing a game which

involves counting the day's death-toll in each

of their newspapers the winner being the one

to have found the greatest number (the bad

t a s t e d e p r e c i a t e s f r o m h e r e o n i n ) . T h e

h ighl ight of the s h e r r y , f o l l o w e d by the

termination of L o r d Charles by a ceremonial

switch-off (Described as, " . . .electrocution in

reverse") then sherry to follow. The normality

"fetch the men in the white coats" borderline

begins to get very thin from now on and in the

words of Lady Char les ' Buddhist-vegetarian-

Ox ford U n i son Nigel we become ".. .even

u n c e r t a i n a b o u t H e i s e n b e r g ' s U n c e r t a i n t y

Principle . . . "

We are then confronted by the press, played

by Peter Jones (of Hitchikers Guide to the

Galaxy fame), a Conservative back-bencher

( J o h n S a u n d e r s ) , the m a n d a t o r y P o l i c e

, Inspector played by Terence Bayler (Leggy

Mountbatten in another of Idle's creations,

The Ruttles) a n d the o d d M a l a p r o p i a n

mutterings of Beryl C o o k e as Kitty.

The second half of the play (rivalled only I

think by the N T ' s On the Razzle) led me into

c y c l e s of b e l l y - a c h i n g l a u g h t e r w h e n I

discovered that all was not as it seemed. W e

discover that due to an item in a glass jar on a

shelf in N o r t h Afr ica , Lady Charles (played by

Madge Ryan) is not the Lady Charles that she

at first appears to be, that her twins Hugo and

Anabelle are 39 and 28 years old respectively,

that someone in the house has been leaking

military secrets to the Soviets and two Scottish

paranoids twise the tumblers and unlock a box

full of intrigue that even Pandora could have

resisted.

The cast is superbly suited to the maniacal

humour of Idle, with J o h n Fortune as Butler

(the butler) and Willy Rushton's upper-twit

Hugo blending well into the flow. The action in

the first half did appear a little disjointed, and

some of the timing of the second act needs to

be polished up a little but no doubt when the

cast has settled in to their new surroundings

(the play is a transferral from its success in

Cambridge) Peter Jones ' karate routine and

J o h n Saunders ' rather mechanistic dialogue

will improve the general flow....but remember

Auntie 's will and tuck her up in bed before yuu

leave for the show!

Andy Best

Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, English National

Opera at the London Coliseum.

Aida is the "grandest of the grand operas" and

usua l ly r e q u i r e s m a n a g e m e n t w i t h g r a n d

determination (and grand amounts of money)

to stage. However . English National O p e r a

with its avowed aim of tackling operas which

are said to be impossible to stage has achieve

remarkable success with this production.

Verdi 's favourite theme, the triangle conflict,

b e t w e e n the C h u r c h , the S ta te a n d the

Individual, finds expression in Egypt's glorious

p a s t - the ancient Egypt of the P h a r a o h s .

Radan'ies. chosen by the god Isis to lead the

E g y p t i a n a r m i e s i n t o b a t t l e a g a i n s t the

invading Ethiopians, has fallen for A i d a , an

enemy slave in the Royal Household who,

unknown to him, is daughter of the Ethiopian

K i n g . Although it may be felt that the plot lacks

credibility (even though many of the details are

in fact histor ical ly accurate) the immense

appeal enjoyed by this great work of V e r d i lies

in its rousing music and visual splendour. The .

m u s i c is o f ten t r e m e n d o u s l y m o v i n g a n d

stirring, especially in the G r a n d M a r c h . In life

Verd i earned the nickname 'papa dei cor i ' ,

f a t h e r of the c h o r u s e s , w h i c h r e g u l a r l y

inflamed the patriotism of Italian audiences.

The grandeur of ancient Egypt is spectacularly

captured in the stage designs and especially in

•the c o s t u m e s of the p r i e s t s , p r i e s t e s s e s ,

m i n i s t e r s , o f f i c e r s , g u a r d s , c o u r t i e r s ,

populace, slaves and prisoners, who swell

E N O ' s huge s tage . G i a n t heads of g o d s ,

expansive facades of hieroglyphs, off-stage

choruses, dancers and herald trumpeters add

to an incomparable visual and musical feast to

be found on no other L o n d o n stage.

(Further performances are on February 4, 9

and 12. Standby tickets are available.)


What's On Friday, January 29, 1982

•IC Angling club meeting, 12:30pm, Southside Bar

Lounge.

•BUNAC weekly club meeting, 12:30pm, Green Com

mittee Room.

•Ian Ross talk on 'Life as BBC Industrial Correspon

dent', 12:50pm, Chem Eng Theatre 1. Free!

•Lucia (Cuban film), 6:30pm, Union Dining Hall, 50p for

members of OSC clubs, £1 others.

•Christian Union fellowship meeting, talk, prayer and

praise, 6:30pm, Music Rm, 53 Princes Gate. Followed by

coffee and biscuits.

Saturday, January 30

•Cross Country club; University college five mile race at Parliament Hill, see noticeboard for details.

Sunday, January 31

•IC Angling club, R. Thames, Canbury Gdns, Kingston

(near Power Station), from light till late. Meet there

(travel details at Friday's meeting).

•Wargames Club meeting, 1:00pm, Union SCR.

Monday, January 1

•Hang-gliding club meeting, 12:30pm, above Southside

Bar.

•Badgesoc meeting, 12:45pm, lounge above Stans—

Southside.

•Introductory talk on Transcendental Meditation,

1:00pm, 341 Huxley.

•TM soc meeting, 5:30pm, Huxley 411. Group med

starts 5:40pm.

•Astrosoc lecture on 'Quasars and Active Galaxies',

6:30pm. Physics LT2. Free to members.

•Wellsoc present 'The Psychology of Gambling* by Prof

Bond, 7:30pm, Bee Eng.

•Dancing club advanced class, 7:30pm, JCR.

Tuesday, January 2

•Boardsailing club meeting, 12:30 and 6:15pm, Southside Upper Lounge.

•Catholic mass and lunch, 12:30pm, Chem 231. •Neil Kinnock MP speaking on 'Education Cuts: the Labour alternative*, 1:00pm, Mech Eng 220. Free. Staff and students welcome.

•STOIC programme 'Imperial College at Si I wood Pk— a programme about Silwook Pk, 240 acres of Imperial College near Ascot, Berkshire, 1:00 and 6:00pm, JCR, Southside, TV Lounge, Southside, Beit, Linstead, and Weeks Halls.

•IC Amnesty group meeting, 5:30pm, Green Comm Rm (top floor, Union Building). •Dept of Humanities presents 1. Nuclear War in Europe? Pt 3 UK Defence-the Neutrality Option, the Hon Alan Clark MP, 1:30pm, Blacket Laboratory Theatre 1. 2. Man, Mind and Spirit Pt 3 Spiritual Feeling in a Scientific Age, Edward Robinson, head of the Religious Experience Unit, Manchester College, Oxford, 1:30pm, Read Theatre. •Wine tasting society meeting, 6:00pm, Union SCR. •General meeting and film strip 'Guess who's coming. to breakfast?*, 6:30pm, Green Comm Rm . •Can a Z - 8 0 pass A Level maths? A talk on handling' symboic algebra on computers by Prof J. Fitch, coauthor of a recent scientific American article on same, 7:00pm, LT145 Huxley. Free. Includes a demo of a symbolic algebra system on a micro! Organised by IC Microcomputer Club.

•Dancing club beginners class, 7:30pm, JCR.

•ICCAG Soup Run, meet 10:30pm Falmouth Kitchens.

Wednesday, February 3

•Wargames club meeting, 1:00pm, Union SCR.

•Consort Chamber Orchestra, 1:00pm, Great Hall,

Sherfield Building. Programme: Haydn Symphonies Nos

6, 7, and 8.

•Astrosoc observing meeting, 3:30pm, 'Waveguide',

Physics Building (level 1). Free to members.

•IC Trampoline soc meeting, 5:30pm, Courtauld Hall,

Queen Elizabeth College, Campden Hill Rd.̂

•Mike Daniels of D.W. Labs lecturing on 'Dealing with

the hi-fi press', 6:30pm, Quiet Rm 002, Sherfield.

•Dancing club intermediate class, 7:30pm, JCR.

W e d n e s d a y , J a n u a r y 20

F o o t b a l l

IC I vs Bedford (Cup) 3-0(H)

IC II vs LSE III 1-2(A)

IC III vs LSE II I-2(A)

IC IV vs Guys II 2-1(H)

IC V vs Barts II 12-1(H)

R u g b y

IC I vs LSE 22-12(H)

IC II vs LSE 30-6(A)

B a d m i n t o n

IC I vs UC 9-0(A)

V o l l e y b a l l

i t : vs Hatfield Poly 3-0(H)

S a t u r d a y , J a n u a r y 23

F o o t b a l l

IC I vs St. Thomas Hosp 8-0(A)

IC II vs Kings 0-0(A)

IC VII vs St. Thomas II 2-1(A)

H o c k e y

IC I vs Ashford l-l(A)

IC II vs Ashford 2-2(H)

IC III vs Ashlbrd 1-3(H)

B a d m i n t o n

IC I vs U C L 8-l(H)

Ladies vs U C L 4-5(A)

B o w l i n g

IC vs Brunei Univ 0-IO(H) R u g b y

0-IO(H)

IC I vs I CI. 20-12(H)

IC II vs L'CI. 8-13(A)

IC III vs UCL 27-18(H)

Volleyball F o l l o w i n g t h e i r c o n v i n c i n g w i n a g a i n s t

H a r r o w the previous week I C met Hat f ie ld

Polytechnic last Wednesday looking for a w in

to m a i n t a i n their position at the top of the

league. A bit of extra spice was added to the

match due to the fact that through a lot of

" b a c k - s t a b b i n g " and rule bending and with

the help of a stubborn organiser Hat f ie ld had

had Imper ia l e l iminated from the K O C u p ,

thereby r u i n i n g their chances of doing the

double. Imper ia l , however, gained sweet

revenge, absolutely dominat ing the match

from the first serve and never once looking

like losing. T h e set scores were an impressive

15-3, 15-5, 15-2. In a l l it was a good team

performance, possibly their best of the season

from a determined I C side, which made

Hat f ie ld look far worse than they actually

were.

T e a m : Peter W., Andy, Peter R., Man, Peter

D-L, Xada, Paul, Chris (referee), Renia and

Francois (scorers). J

Rugby

Badminton T h e match was played in a cold d a m p gym

wi th no changing rooms and no refreshments.

T h e o p p o s i t i o n w a s n o t p a r t i c u l a r l y

formidable even though some of their team

played for U L U . O f the games in the match

there is l ittle to say except tha^we thrashed

them every time w i t h very little sweat lost.

O u r team was one of the strongest this

season w i t h S. W i l l i s , O H u l l l e t , H . K . W o n g ,

I. B u l l , T . L a i and G . Adamson .

Seconds Q u e l jeu de rugby. L e deuxieme quinze> de

I C R F C , dans la premiere moitie, ont marque

deux essais. U n d'apres J o h n Cot ton , l 'autre

d'apres T i m C a r r . Hui t - zero . Nous n'avons

pas joue bien et a mi-temps notre capitaine,

Steve Be l l , est dit Dans la second

moitie , nous avons joue tant mieux des deux

c q u i p e s . L e p a c k ont gagne le b a l , et

1'arriere-defense etes couru le bal par-dessu:

la ligne de L S E . C i n q essais font marqut

d'apres M y l e s Thompson , B i l l C h a p m a n

N i c k B r u m m e l , J o h n C o t t o n et Dave M c G e e

M i c k Winsor a transforme un. S i , le dernier

but faisait trente-six. l is ont marque un essai

de penalite a la tin.

L a equipe: M. Thompson, X. Brummel, It*.

Chapman, G. Pike, M. Winsor, M. Simmons, J.

Paxaio, S. Bell, C. Cole, D. McGee, J. Cotton, P.

Verily, T. Carr, A. Ralph, E. O'Connor.

Ed's . \ ote:

N e parlez pas Iranglais, s ' i l vous plait !

Thursday, February 4

•Amnesty Group collection, around College. Cash

goes toward further our work and paying a large debt we

owe to Al British section.

•Scout and Guide Club lecture on 'An Alpine.^

Summer', 12:30pm, Mines 303.

•UN Soc Film 'The Victims' a film about heroin

addiction in the world's major cities, followed by informal

discussion with free coffee and biscuits, 12:45pm, Huxley

340, 20p (members free).

•Christian Science group meeting, 1:00pm, Seminar

Rm, Level 2S, Botany.

•STOIC presents NEWSBREAK, 1:00 and 6:00pm

usual places.

•Dept of Humanities presents:

1. Film: The World at War (Thames TV)

Pt 13 Japan, 1:15pm, Great Hall.

2. Lunch hour concert with Concertante of London

(wind ensemble and speaker), Walton's Facade, 1:30pm,

Music Room, 53 Princes Gate.

• Consoc presents Leon Brittan MP speaking on

'Cutting Public Expenditure', 1:00pm, Chem Eng LT1.

All welcome.

•Introductory talk on Transcendental Meditation,

1:00pm, Huxley 341. All welcome.

•Gliding club meeting, 5:30pm, Aero 254.

•Ents megafilms 82 'Star Trek-the Motion Picture',

6:30pm, ME220, 50p.

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§ Rugby

Thirds In this first match of 1982 nine players made

their debute for the T h i r d s . F r o m the w a r m -

up a strong team spirit was established and

was evident throughout the match , easily

m a k i n g up for the disadvantage of being a

player short—he was ref- ing. F r o m the k i ck -

off it was clear that the smaller, l ighter I C

pack of only seven men was going to have a

h a r d j o b w i n n i n g c l e a r possession a n d

defending against a large U C L team. T w o

superb tries, invo lv ing m u c h passing gave I C

a half-t ime lead of 15-6, hav ing conceeded

two penalties.

Throughout the second half the superior

weight and numbers of U C L forwards began

to take effect. I C won very little possession

and spent m u c h of the t ime defending hard .

Despite this, a fine try was r u n from w i t h i n

our own 22 invo lv ing the entire team in a

br i l l iant display of passing and support for a

touch down under the posts. I C conceeded

two tries in the d y i n g minutes of the match .

A fine team performance throughout a fast

c l e a n e x h a u s t i n g g a m e w a s t o p p e d by

pinpoint goal k i c k i n g by M . H u d s o n .

T e a m : J. Cougton, C. Dobson, M. Hudson (1

try, 4 conversions, 1 penally), M. Patterson. C.

Boyd-Moss, P. Hughes-.Narborough (1 try), J.

Taylor, A. Marks, M. Shepherd, E. Handford, J.

Poullney, J. Mulligan (2 tries), P. Overs, J.

.Vorley, S. Kirby.

Badminton

Firsts This t ime the match venue was w a r m , dry

and had lots of refreshments (Jaffa cakes!).

F l o w e v e r , the o p p o s i t i o n was not m u c h

changed from the last meet ing though their

pa i r ing had changed a n d we, without our

two E n g l a n d Y o u t h stars, sti l l produced a

handsome 8-1 victory. W i n g and B a l l had a

difficult t ime w i t h their first pa i r but won in

three sets. However , there was no trouble

f r o m t h e i r f i r s t p a i r a g a i n s t L e e a n d

A d a m s o n who squashed them 15-0, 15-10.

Unfor tunate ly , our th i rd pa i r were beaten by

their first pair .

O v e r a l l , it looks as if we are wel l on our

way to w i n n i n g the mens F'irst D i v i s i o n for

the second time in four years! (F'ull athletic

colours for a l l the first team!)

T e a m : H.K. Wing, I. Ball, T. Lae, G.

Adamson. S. Chiany and L. Tup.

^ Hockey

Firsts This was our first game for a couple of

months because of the weather. (It's been

snowing a bit!!) So, despite a distinct lack of

match practice a n d fitness, added to an

appa l l in g p i t ch , I C p layed a surprisingly

reasonable game of hockey. Ashford 's pre-

match over-confidence due to their superior

league position was soon thwarted by a good

team display by I C .

Ashlord ' s goal came in the first hal l after J .

C l a r k e , whilst in possession of the b a l l , tr ied

to be too casual when confronted wi th about

hal f the opposition. F r o m this slight set-back,

I C increased their pleasure but had to wait

unt i l m i d - w a y through the second hal f for A .

G a r m s to score a well-deserved goal after a

dazz l ing solo r u n .

G a r m s scored a winner wi th only a few

minutes to spare, but their umpire disal lowed

the goal because he was biased.

A l t h o u g h we weren't p l a y i n g at H a r l i n g -

ton, our goalkeeper, R . Slatter, was still able

to keep himself amused, in between his usual

display of aerobatics, by watch ing trains and

the odd jet.

In the changing rooms, his only comment

on the match was: " I couldn ' t quite read the

lettering on the Luf thansa 727 that flew

past ."

A l l the team played wel l , etc., etc.

T e a m : Slatter, Clarke (Capt), Parker (match

report writer), Franklin, Riley, Bell, Ayers, Rao,

Farmer, Garms, Bateson.

Seconds R e m e m b e r i n g last term's league match in

which the qual i ty of u m p i r i n g decisions was

matched only by the total lack of sportsman

ship in the Ashford team, we approached this

game w i t h some relish. Ashford , obviously

delighted wi th the prospect of their umpire

r u n n i n g the whole game, a l lowed us to play

wi th eleven men , a move they regretted from

the start. Inside the first five minutes M a n g a t

Bansal a n d A n d y Stroomer combined down

the right, a bye-l ine cross prov id ing the first

goal from M a n g a t . After two s imilar attacks

we went two -n i l ahead, T i m M i t c h e l l do ing

his best to miss from close range but finally-

forcing the ba l l home. Just before half -t ime

a n incident occured w h i c h wou ld b r i n g tears

to the eyes of any cricketer who has ever

forgotten his box! Fortunate ly , the v i c t i m

was a n Ashford player , a l though sympathetic

winces wou ld be seen on both sides!

In the second half, d o w n to ten men a n d

t i r ing we had to cope wi th strong Ashford pres

sure. T h e defence was bolstered by J e r e m y

Rhodes in his comeback game after five

years away from the sport. Needless to say, he

looked perfectly at home in the team a n d

together wi th Pete C u n n i n g h a m and Roger

Roessink held out u n t i l late in the game when

Ashford scored twice to force a draw. F a r be

it from me to allocate any responsibility but it

was really a l l S i m o n G r a y ' s fault for h i t t ing

(he post in the first half!

T e a m : Butter, Roessink, Cunningham,

Whitehead, Rhodes, Gray, Pitkethly, Stroomer,

Bansal, Wylie, Mitchell.

Thirds Ashford were a very friendly bunch , except

for the big C F w i t h the pathetic beard and

Tony who kept coughing to put off Pete

(watch his eyes) Sharpe. C r a i g and M a r t i n

sported pos t -Xmas bum-f luf f—even G a r m s

has more hair and Ch r i s Jones p layed a

scorcher and deserves m a n of the year a w a r d .

E d started his captaincy w i t h a goal (why so

many c iv i l engineers w i t h power in H C ? ) .

T h e ladies asked me to include this note

about their match :

O n Saturday we played hockey. F'irst we

got on the coach, then we played, then

M a i n l y scored a goal! T h e n we got changed.

.Next we had tea, then we went home.

T e a m : Jones, Sharpe, Cattell, Witter, Shindler,

tavlor, Allen, Benham, McGuire (Capt).

(£j Football Sevenths F r a n k Bogey -Ro l l a is the m a n to b lame for

the c u r r e n t r a s h of u n o r t h o d o x m a t c h

reports.

U p unt i l now the G l a n v i l l e - l i k e insight.*

into the tact ical ploys adopted by opposit ion

(ie shouting offside every time the b a l l enters

the St T h o m a s ' half) was enough to satisfy

the reader. However , now they want to be

entertained.

Consequently I w i l l just say T o m D o n o v a n

and guest striker A n t o n scored.

People in the know reckon this was the

second best sport ing performance of the year

so far. T h e 20-12 defeat of Wales being the

maiiihy-W i t h the recent thaw I C were able to sail

their first match of the term against C i t y

Univers i ty at Q u e e n M a r y Reservoir . T h e

first race started badly but a team effort

brought I C up to 2, 3, 4 only to lose due to a

coll ision on the finishing line. In the second

race M i l l s sailed two C i t y boats a r o u n d the

wrongside of the start mark and then showed

a clean pair of heels, I C w i n n i n g 1, 2, 4.

K e n n e d y and M i l l s repelled a l l attackers

w i t h c lose m a r k i n g i n the t h i r d to let

Bennett a n d D a l t o n ski l l ful ly slip through

into a comfortable second place to give I C a

2, 3, 4 w in and the match .

T e a m : Bennett, Bullet, Dalton, Kennedy,

Mills, Tounghusband.

Bowling T h e bowl ing team suffered a d i sappo int ing

home defeat at the hands of league leaders

Brunei Univers i ty last Saturday.

T h e r e w e r e a n u m b e r o f e x c e l l e n t

i n d i v i d u a l performances for I C , i n c l u d i n g

personal h igh scores for N e i l G r i m w o o d

A n d y Davis , K e v i n Short a n d M a r k Stanley ,

h i g h games by K e v i n S h o r t (191), N e i l

G r i m wood (174) a n d M a r k Stanley w i t h a

magnificent 202, the best ever score by a n I C

C team player, a n d good games from A n d y

M c M u l l a n '(221) and Bobby T h o n g (190),

but the strength in depth of the B r u n e i team

proved too m u c h for the I C bowlers.

T h e A , B & C teams a l l managed to take

oAe game from their opponents, the C teams

victory in the th i rd game being the first

inflicted on Brune i C this season, but this was

not enough to give I C any league points a n d

t h i s s e r i o u s l y h a m p e r s o u r c h a n c e s o f

qua l i fy ing for the quarter - f inal stages of the

U C T B A tournament .

A T e a m : Ray Cook, Martin Harrison, W'ai

Cheong Man, Andy McMullan, Jimmy Tang.

B team: Andy Davis, Dick Hooper, Kevin

Short, Bob Thong, Chris Wells.

C team: Neil Grimwood, Jeffrey Quinn, Dave

Smith, Martin Smith, Mark Stanley.

Ladies team: Marie Cheong, Sue Hills, Seli

Kazemian, Flaine Scott, Alison Walker.

Next game is away to Portsmouth Po ly on

Sunday , w i t h our final southern zone m a t c h

at Southampton tak ing place next Wednes

day.


Sour Cream

I must say that I am surprised by the response

of the 22 Club to Mr Marshall's Soapbox

article (see letters page). That they choose to

defend themselves is not surprising, but to try

and defend the sordid actions of Mr

Thompson by denying matters of indesputable

fact is unwise. As a witness to the event which

prompted Mr Marshall's article I am in a

position to assess the factual content myself. 1

could not have printed such allegations if I had

not been able to confirm their validity.

As for his own interpretations and

conclusions about the results of such actions, I

for one agree with his main point, i.e. that the

indulgence of excesses in public can only serve

to damage the reputation of the College as a

whole. Those people who are proud of the

RCS (as the 22 Club members undoubtedly

are) should try to prevent such excesses from

re-occurring by not supporting the loud and

abusive behaviour which inevitably leads to

such events.

The fact that the need was felt to write such

an article must surely indicate that there really

is a problem. It's no use denying it, so why

bother.

Bored Stiff

I'm not surprised that Tuesday's U G M was

inquorate. Fristly the Exec News produced

last week was hardly inspiring. The one motion

which was included proved to be pointless and

totally uninspiring, which would hardly

encourage people to attend.

It was stupid to censure Barney McCabe

for late arrival, and not take advantage of the

situation to question his ridiculous report.

What about a no-confidence motion next time,

instead of this weak "censure" approach all the

time?

I think it is indicative of the failings of this

year's Executive that UGMs so far have had to

rely on Rag Mag motions to maintain quoracy.

If there are no worthwhile motions it is either

because a stimulus from them is not there or

that they are incapable of proposing motions

themselves. The primary example was the

token opposition to the recent increases for

Halls and Houses this term. Despite the fact

that ICU Council has policy against mid-

sessional increases, not one of the Executive

considered stiff opposition to the rent

increases or even a rent strike. When I asked

Nick Morton why he didn't consider a rent

strike he said "Nobody proposed one." If we

cannot rely on the President to lead, who will?

Big Equipment

On Wednesday Mr Pallab Ghosh walked into

the FELIX Office and proudly announced "I'm

after 8mm equipment." He was somewhat

perplexed by the convulsions of laughter

which ensued and proceeded to explain that

he was talking about equipment for the Film

Society which may be set up next year. If you

are interested in starring in, producing or

directing films meet above Southside Bar,

Tuesday, 12:30pm, with a view to reforming

Film Society.

Republic Day Celebration

Don't forget that India Society are haying a

Republican Day celebration and .disco in the

J u n i o r C o m m o n Room at 7:00pm on

Saturday, February 6, 1982. Tickets are £1.50.

It sounds like fun, so make a note in your

diary!

Credits

People I forgot last week: Matt, Rich and Paul.

My thanks once more to all those who

helped this week: Soheel, Ramzi, Peter, Martin

S., Steve, Eddie, Lesley, Paul, Pallab, Mo, Jez

and the other collators, Maz and Ian.

Rotary Club Appeal

Some years ago the Rotary International was

asked to assist in the formation of a service

oriented association for young people and as a

result a number of Rotoract Clubs were

subsequently formed linked to and sponsored

by local Rotary Clubs. The age limits for,

membership were between 18 and 28 and the

intention was that apart from association

participants should involve themselves in

charitable and local community ventures.

Mr Hunt, the Manager of the Imperial

College branch of National Westminster Bank,

is a local Rotarian and understands that

interest has been shown on forming a Rotoract

Club based on Imperial College. Will anyone

seeking further information please contact him

on phone number 581-2881.

There's a certain mathematical precision

about the way my barber works: he offers any

of seven different styles and for each he cuts

off a certain number of grams of hair according

to the following.

Long and shaggy (the 'Marco Ledwold' look),

26 grams cut off.

Long and not-so-shaggy (the 'Nick Morton'),

27 grams cut off.

Short and sophisticated (the 'Barney

McCabe'), 36 grams cut off.

Short and very sophisticated (the 'Mark

Smith'), 37 grams cut off.

Pan-American (clipper right over the top),

47 grams cut off.

Short back and polish (the 'Eric Brown'), 54

grams cut off.

The complete Dave Gayer, 55 grams cut off.

After a fairly brisk day's trade last week, he

swept up just 150 grams of offcuts. What range

of styles had his customers requested?

Solutions, comments, criticisms to me at the

FELIX Office, please. There are a bumper set

of prizes this week. The winners drawn at

random at 1:00pm on Wednesday will receive

£5 (donated by Mend-a-Bike), a voucher for a

free cut and blow dry (donated by Jingles,

Gloucester Rd especialy for this puzzle), and a

pair of free tickets to the film Taps (see page

3).

Last Week's Solution

The Hon Sec must be enthusiastic, dedicated,

cheerful and friendly.

The prize was won by Richard Fox, Chem

Eng 1.

'Next week's Ents film is Star Trek-The It appears that Star Trek 2 is on the way,

Motion Picture. The film has some and will be shown in the cinema rather than on

interesting sequences, especially the effects television (as has been suggested). Paramount

work which was completed in record time by now say that both William Shatner and

Douglas Trumbull. Leonard Nimoy will star again.

FELIX is published by the Editor for and on behalf of the Imperial College Union Publications Board, and is printed by the Union Print Unit, Prince

Consort Road, London SW7 2BB (589-5111 ext 1048 int 2881) Copyright FELIX 1982 . Editor: M A Smith, Advertising Manager: S M Giblin.

CONTACT WEEK '82

The West London Chaplaincy operates primarily through a number of small groups in Imperial College, the Royal College of Music and Queen Elizabeth Col.ege. In Imperial College there is a Chaplaincy group which meets regularly each week (usually over a meal) in most departments and halls of residence.

During Contact Week a team of people whose photographs you see below are coming to the colleges as guests of the Chaplaincy groups which meet there. They will be living in halls of residence and working with the groups that meet there and in the various departments. The aim of the week is to deepen the life of the Chaplaincy groups, to invite others to become involved in the groups and to encourage wider discussion and debate within the halls and departments. A number of informal discussions involving the Contact Week team members will be taking place throughout the week in most halls and departments in Imperial College and in the other two colleges. There will also be a number of events arranged on a College-wide basis (see programme).

Peter Crick is acting as c o

ordinator for the team at their

morning sessions during Contact

Week. He has been on Contact

Week before in 1979. He is Rector

of Denham, a large parish on the

edge of London going towards

Oxford.

Andrew Doughty w a s b o r n in

B e r m u d a . H e s t u d i e d t h e o l o g y at

K i n g s C o l l e g e L o n d o n , s p e n t a

y e a r i n I n d i a a n d i s n o w c o m

p l e t i n g h i s f i n a l y e a r o f t r a i n i n g

f o r t h e A n g l i c a n M i n i s t r y a t

W e s t c o t t H o u s e , C a m b r i d g e . H e

w i l l b e a t S e l k i r k , T i z a r d a n d I C

C h e m i s t r y d e p t .

David Dadswell is from Widnes

near Liverpool. He did a French

and Italian degree at Oxford and

is now studying theology at

Westcott House in Cambridge in

preparation for ordination in the

Church of England. He will be

with Garden Hall and IC Physics

dept.

Ian Paton studied history and

then trained as a teacher. He is

now in his f i n a l yearof theology at

Westcott House. He enjoys music

and art, sailing and playing

squash. He is interested in the

use of silent prayer in Christian

worship. He will be with Beit and

Weeks Halls and IC Civ Eng.

Brian Frost i s a M e t h o d i s t l a y m a n .

H e h a s w o r k e d w i t h C h r i s t i a n

A i d , p i o n e e r e d a n E c u m e n i c a l

C e n t r e , f i r s t i n N o t t i n g H i l l , t h e n

a t S t . J a m e s , P i c c a d i l l y , a n d f o r

t h e p a s t t h r e e y e a r s h a s b e e n

g e n e r a l s e c r e t a r y o f t h e C h u r c h e s

C o u n c i l f o r H e a l t h a n d H e a l i n g .

H e h a s w r i t t e n b o o k s a n d a r t i c l e s

o n w o r s h i p a n d s p i r i t u a l i t y a n d a

n u m b e r o f p o e m s a n d s o n g s . H e

i s a l s o i n v o l v e d i n w o r k i n g w i t h a

B r i t i s h / I r i s h g r o u p o n a n e w

t h e o r y o f p o l i t i c s c a l l e d " T h e

P o l i t i c s o f F o r g i v e n e s s " . H e will

b e l i v i n g at t h e C h a p l a i n c y H o u s e

i n C a s t e l l a i n R o a d a n d w o r k i n g in

R C M .

Maria Schleger studied history at

LSE and then did some research

in art history for about two years.

She is now part-time Pastoral

Assistant at the University Church

of Christ the King in Central

London and also works part-time

for a publishing firm. She lives

with three students in a small

community in part of the Chap

lain's flat at Christ the King. She

will be spending the week at the

Stamford Brook C h a p l a i n c y

House and with the IC Elec Eng

group.

Sister Jennifer is a m e m b e r of t h e

A n g l i c a n C o m m u n i t y o f t h e H o l y

N a m e , b a s e d a t M a l v e r n i n

W o r c e s t e r s h i r e B e f o r e j o i n i n g

t h e c o m m u n i t y S i s t e r J e n n i f e r

s t u d i e d at t h e R o y a l C o l l e g e of

M u s i c . S h e w a s fo r a w h i l e a

m e m b e r o t t h e N e w c a s t l e U n i v e r

s i t y C h a p l a i n c y S h e w i l l b e

w o r k i n g i n Q u e e n E l i z a b e t h

C o l l e g e a n d l i v i n g in Q u e e n M a r y

H a l l .

Tom Moffatt w a s b o r n a n d

b r o u g h t u p in O x f o r d , b u t w e n t t o

u n i v e r s i t y i n C a m b r i d g e . H e d i d

h i s t h e o l o g i c a l t r a i n i n g in B i r

m i n g h a m a n d t h e n t w o c u r a c i e s

in S o u t h L o n d o n . H e i s n o w v i c a r

of D o r m a n s l a n d n e a r E a s t G r i n -

s t e a d . M a r r i e d w i t h t h r e e c h i l

d r e n . P l a y s a lot of s p o r t e s p e

c i a l l y r u g b y w h i c h h e a l s o

r e f e r e e s . H e w i l l b e w o r k i n g in

E v e l y n G a r d e n s H a l l s a n d in t h e

R o y a l S c h o o l o f M i n e s .

Brian Shlpsides i s f r o m L i v e r p o o l .

H e s t u d i e d E n g l i s h at R e a d i n g

U n i v e r s i t y a n d t h e n s p e n t t w o

y e a r s t e a c h i n g in a s c h o o l f o r t h e

c h i l d r e n o f m i s s i o n a r i e s o n t h e

h i l l s o f S o u t h e r n I n d i a . H e is j u s t

c o m p l e t i n g h i s t h e o l o g i c a l c o u r s e

at W e s t c o t t H o u s e in C a m b r i d g e

a n d w i l l b e o r d a i n e d i n J u n e . H e

w i l l b e w o r k i n g w i t h t h e C h a p

l a i n c y H o u s e s in N e w K i n g s R o a d

a n d B l o e m f o n t e i n A v e n u e a n d

w i t h C h e m E n g in I C .

Adrian Botwright, a f o r m e r

t e a c h e r , is n o w in his final year of

s t u d i e s at W e s t c o t t H o u s e before

o r d i n a t i o n i n t o t h e A n g l i c a n

M i n i s t r y . H e w i l l b e w i t h t h e

F o r m o s a S t r e e t C h a p l a i n c y

H o u s e a n d t h e IC post-graduate

C h a p l a i n c y g r o u p .

Charles Hedley is a L o n d o n e r . H e

s t u d i e d p h y s i c s at L o n d o n U n i

v e r s i t y b e f o r e t r a i n i n g f o r o r d i n a

t i o n i n t h e C h u r c h o f E n g l a n d . H e

s p e n t t h r e e y e a r s a s c u r a t e of

C h i n g f o r d i n E s s e x a n d is n o w

c u r a t e of S t . M a r t i n s - i n - t h e - f i e l d s

in T r a f a l g a r S q u a r e . H i s p r e s e n t

w o r k i n v o l v e s d e a l i n g w i t h a l l

c o m e r s t o T r a f a l a g a r S q . e s

p e c i a l l y t h e s i n g l e h o m e l e s s . H e ' s

i n t e r e s t e d i n f e l l - w a l k n g , m u s i c

a n d s q u a s h . H e w i l l b e in L i n s t e a d

H a l l a n d I C M e c h E n g .

Sister Valerie h a s b e e n a m e m b e r

of t h e A n g l i c a n C o m m u n i t y o f t h e

S i s t e r s o f t h e C h u r c h f o r t e n

y e a r s , a n d is n o w d e p u t y s u p e r

i n t e n d e n t o f t h e C o m m u n i t y ' s

C h i d r e n s ' h o m e f o r c h i l d r e n in

t h e c a r e of t h e l o c a l a u t h o r i t y . A

s c i e n c e t e a c h e r b e f o r e j o i n i n g

t h e c o m m u n i t y , s h e i s k e e n l y

i n t e r e s t e d i n t h e r e l a t i o n s h i p

b e t w e e n r e l i g i o n a n d s c i e n c e .

S h e w i l l b e l i v i n g i n Q u e e n

A l e x a n d r a H o u s e a n d w o r k i n g

w i t h I C P h y s i c s g r o u p .

Robert Flelden is t h e R e c t o r o f a

g r o u p o f s e a - s i d e v i l l a g e s o n t h e

L i n c o l n s h i r e c o a s t . B e f o r e o r

d i n a t i o n h e s p e n t s o m e y e a r s

w o r k i n g in a b a n d a n d t h e n d i d

y o u t h w o r k w i t h t h e Y M C A . H e

w a s a l s o A s s i s t a n t P e r s o n n e l

M a n a g e r o f a l a r g e h e a v y e n g i n

e e r i n g w o r k s in L i n c o l n f o r a

t i m e . H e is m a r r i e d w i t h t w o s o n s ,

o n e o f w h o m , P e t e r , g r a d u a t e d in

c h e m i s t r y f r o m I m p e r i a l C o l l e g e .

H e w a s a m e m b e r o f t h e C o n t a c t

W e e k t e a m l a s t y e a r a n d l i k e d u s

s o m u c h h e d e c i d e d t o c o m e

b a c k a g a i n . H e w i l l b e w o r k i n g

w i t h t h e H o l l a n d R o a d C h a p

l a i n c y H o u s e a n d I C M a t h s d e p t .

Tim Harris s t u d i e d u r b a n g e o

g r a p h y at B r i s t o l U n i v e r s i t y t h e n

w a s r e g i o n a l s e c r e t a r y f o r t h e

S t u d e n t C h r i s t i a n M o v e m e n t i n

L o n d o n a n d t h e S o u t h E a s t f o r

t w o y e a r s w h i c h i n v o l v e d t r a v e l

l i n g t o c o l l e g e s a n d u n i v e r s i t i e s

t h r o u g h o u t S E E n g l a n d . H e

w o r k e d f o r a f e w m o n t h s w i t h t h e

Y o u t h U n i t o f t h e B r i t i s h C o u n c i l

of C h u r c h e s a n d n o w is o n e o f

t h e L a y T r a i n i n g T e a m e m p l o y e d

b y t h e A n g l i c a n D i o c e s e of

S o u t h w a r k . H e l i v e s o n a C o u n c i l

e s t a t e i n D e p t f o r d i n S E L o n d o n ,

a m u l t i - r a c i a l a r e a w i t h a h i g h

l e v e l o f v i o l e n t c r i m e a n d r a c i a l

t e n s i o n . H e w i l l b e s t a y i n g in

F a l m o u t h / K e o g h a n d b e w i t h

M e t h s o c .

C O N T A C T W E E K P R O G R A M M E

S a t u r d a y , J a n u a r y 30

7 : 3 0 p m R e c e p t i o n a n d b u f f e t t o w e l c o m e t e a m m e m b e r s , S o u t h s i d e

S e n i o r C o m m o n R o o m . I m p e r i a l C o l l e g e .

S u n d a y , J a n u a r y 31

1 0 : 0 0 a m C h a p l a i n c y C o m m u n i o n S e r v i c e w i t h P r e a c h e r R e v P e t e r

C r i c k , C o n v e n o r o f C o n t a c t W e e k T e a m , C o n s o r t G a l l e r y , S h e r f i e l d

B u i l d i n g . IC .

T u e s d a y , F e b r u a r y 2

1 : 3 0 p m A l e c t u r e ' S p i r i t u a l F e e l i n g in a S c i e n t i f i c A g e ' b y E d w a r d

R o b i n s o n , R e a d T h e a t r e , S h e r f i e l d B u i l d i n g , IC .

6 : 0 0 p m W o r k s h o p o n ' C h r i s t i a n i t y a n d S c i e n c e ' , U n i o n D i n i n g H a l l , IC .

T h u r s d a y , F e b r u a r y 4

6 : 3 0 p m W o r k s h o p o n ' S p i r i t u a l i t y , M e d i t a t i o n a n d H e a l i n g ' , S C R ,

A t k i n s B u i l d i n g . Q E C .

S a t u r d a y , F e b r u a r y 6

7 : 3 0 p m P a r t y , C a b a r e t . . . f u n . . . c o m e a n d d o y o u r ( y o u r g r o u p ' s ) p a r t y

p i e c e , L i n s t e a d D i n i n g H a l l , IC .

S u n d a y . F e b r u a r y 7

1 0 : 0 0 a m S p e c i a l C o n t a c t W e e k C o m m u n i o n S e r v i c e l e d b y C o n t a c t

W e e k t e a m . C o n s o r t G a l l e r y , IC .

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