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T H E N E W S P A P E R O F I M P E R I A L C O L L E G E

ALL THE EDITOR'S MEN FELIX Financing- The Full Story

The Un ion has forced F E L I X to drast ical ly reduce pr int ing

charges and completely revise its own estimates for next

year's expenditure fol lowing accusations of profiteering on

pr int ing jobs.

John Shuttleworth, one of the three candidates in next week's

election for F E L I X Editor , publ ished a campaign broadsheet

" F l L E - X " last F r iday in which he accused successive F E L I X

Editors and Business Managers of mak ing a 500 per cent profit

on offset-litho pr int ing instead of breaking even as people had

been led to believe. He also c la imed that F E L I X was ru led by a

" F E L I X C lub C l i que " .

The L i be ra l C lub newspaper F O R W A R D ! not unexpectedly

took up the story on Ttresday this week and publ ished the

results of their own detailed investigation.

The Pr int U n i t has always charged for paper, plates, extras and machine t ime, the latter be ing the cost of pay ing the l i tho operator. However , F E L I X itself has only had to pay for paper, the other costs being pa id by Col lege.

Th is has given rise to huge profits. Fo r example the F E L I X accounts for the last six months o f l 978 show an income of£l ,521 from offset-litho pr in t ing and do not ment ion expenditure on plates or machine time.

However , when F E L I X Business M a n a g e r Dave Crabbe submitted his estimates for next year he c la imed an income of only £550 on p r in t ing and typesetting jobs and asked for a U n i o n grant of£2,800. A further income of £1,200 from advert is ing meant that the total expenditure by F E L I X was estimated at £4,550.

J o h n Shutt leworth was not the down to the cost of paper plus a

only person to suspect that something was wrong. I C L i b e r a l C l u b had long suspected that charges were too high and U n i o n President M a r y At tenborough had also seen the discrepancy between the accounts and the estimates. She had t a m e e t i n g o f

queried this at I C U n i o n

P u b l i c a t i o n s B o a r d , b u t Publ icat ions Board C h a i r m a n J o h n A l l e n was unable to take up the matter fully before the story broke.

John A l l e n said that he had been aware of the profit being made. H e showed me copies of estimates prepared by Dave Crabbe for both F E L I X and the I C U n i o n Handbook , in wh i ch a £450 sum for p r in t ing the H a n d b o o k d id not appear as income in the F E L I X estimates.

After the pub l i ca t i on of F I L E -X a U n i o n F inance Commi t t ee meet ing cut p r in t ing charges

50p profit marg in for the U n i o n , clubs and societies. Th is w i l l only take effect next session so that F E L I X does not face sudden f i n a n c i a l d i f f i c u l t i e s n o w . Indiv iduals , apart from election candidates, w i l l st i l l face higher charges.

Because the h idden income w i l l no longer be avai lable, F E L I X is now c l a im ing a £3,571 grant from the U n i o n , the true cost of p roduc ing F E L I X now be ing put at £5,321.

A meet ing of Publ icat ions Board on M o n d a y decided to set up an equipment fund for the Pr in t U n i t to pay for new machinery formerly f inanced out of F E L I X profits. Profit from outside p r in t ing and typesetting jobs wou ld enter this fund wh ich w i l l be used firstly to replace the l i tho unit .

Publ icat ions Board also heard that F E L I X had agreed to pay

back £400 into the Publ icat ions B o a r d r e s e r v e a c c o u n t to compensate for overcharging on this year's I C U Handbook .

O n e of the people at the centre of the row is ofcourse the F E L I X Ed i t o r J o h n Harr i s . H e told me that he had cooperated w i t h j o h n Shutt leworth and the other investigations because the matter had been weighing heavily on his conscience for some time. H e had been bothered by it since last term but had not done any th ing "because it seemed easier to perpetuate

the system than to fight to change it".

T o the best of his knowledge J o h n Shutt leworth 's allegations were completely true.

One of the p r inc ipa l accused is D u n c a n Suss, last year's Ed i t o r and formerly Business Manager . H e denied hav ing personally increased the p r in t ing rates at the end of 1976 as he had at that time resigned as Business Manager . But , he expla ined, the charges had gone up because C l i ve D e w e y , t h e n E d i t o r , h a d overspent his budget and was head ing for a £1,000 deficit. The U n i o n had set the high charges to o v e r c o m e C l i v e D e w e y ' s overspending.

H e went on to say that it d id not matter what F E L I X charged clubs and societies because the p r in t ing costs were reflected in the grant they got from the U n i o n and the money was al l coming f r o m the C o l l e g e a n y w a y . P r i n t i n g costs outside Col lege were at least twice as h igh.

T h e surplus cash had a l l been put to excellent use, he cont inued. F E L I X had acquired a camera, p l a t e m a k e r a n d a p h t o -typesetter,ad vastly improved the qua l i ty of work produced and saved the U n i o n from hav ing to go to commerc ia l concerns. H e e s t i m a t e d t h a t t h e n e w equipment was saving the LJnion up to £2,000 per year.

H e denied that F E L f X was contro l led by a F E L I X C l u b C l i q u e po in t ing out that F E L I X C l u b was only a social c lub . H e hoped J o h n Shutt leworth wou ld a p o l o g i s e for some o f his statements.

T h e m a i n outcome of the row is the reduct ion in p r in t ing charges. T h e issue has overshadowed a l l others in the election for F E L I X E d i t o r as both J o h n Shut t l ewor th and D a v i d C rabbe are candidates for the post - the th i rd is C o l i n Pa lmer . J o h n Shutt leworth 's al legations of contro l by a F E L I X C l u b C l i que have been fol lowed by accusations that the U n i o n is t r y ing to take over F E L I X .

Nobody has been accused of personal ga in or cor rupt ion , on ly of ob ta in ing money for F E L I X by covert means. It is' to be hoped that F E L I X has not suffered undu ly and that everyone w i l l benefit from the matter being cleared tip.

R E G U L A T O R P R O P O S A L S A staggering 20 per cent

refectory price rise per year could

result from a new regulator

proposed by Refectory Commit­

tee Chairman Professor Eilon.

But Union President Mary

Attenborough has written a paper

which argues that a much smaller

price rise could cover Increased

wage costs. And the Rector has

said that no new scheme will be

applied until he is fully satisfied

that it is justified.

Refectory Commit tee met on Thursday last week to draw up a formula for a new regulator wh i ch cou ld up prices in line with increases in both food and wage costs, fo l lowing protests by Imperial Co l l ege Un ion over the way the regulator is current ly appl ied.

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Sir , - I wou ld l ike to make a few points on some of the ideas going a r ound I C at the moment ; most of these v iewpoints are not new to the Col lege, but they a l l seem to be more a n d more prevalent at present.

It seems that many I C students c l a i m that h u m a n existence is unre lated to any permanent, changeless standards; i n fact, I th ink they mean that no such standards exist at a l l , but rather that everyth ing is based on the changeable beliefs and practices of society. However , I don't believe that these people have real ly thought out what this means: one inevitable consequen­ce, for example, is that the whole argument about H u m a n Rights becomes a nonsense. It means that we can on ly argue that, since our 'Western ' governments think it's rather nice for people to have lots o f freedoms, then we should a l l try to force this bright idea onto the nasty Russians, Chi l eans , etc! N o w I don ' t believe this is what people mean when they talk about H u m a n Rights : they are r e f e r r i n g to the i n t r i n s i c , ina l ienable rights o f a l l h u m a n beings, rights wh i ch exist without reference to the condit ions under w h i c h anyone might be l i v ing . It's wor th add ing here that these R ights are chal lenged by al l of us in some way o f other, because it is very costly to give everybody

Rights - but that doesn't mean it is good to oppress the weak to reduce this cost to ourselves!

Ano the r idea f loat ing a round is that h u m a n beings are quite unrestricted to do whatever they want , any mora l code be ing more a matter of personal convenience than o f last ing ut i l i ty . But this v iew is quite unworkab le in pract ice. F o r example, men and women can do many things that are posit ively harmful to others -e.g. s tabbing passers-by to death for the sake of it; or two near blood-relat ions can conceive a ch i l d by hav ing intercourse, thereby stor ing up almost certain trouble for themselves, the ch i ld and for society as a whole, just by exercising their ab i l i ty to commit incest.

I f anyone wou ld l ike to l ive in a society where no rules out law ing such anti-social behaviour, then they are unusua l to say the least! W e need to have a certa in amount of laws to protect ind iv iduals and

society - though, of course, people w i l l general ly disagree on how extensive such legislation should be. Some laws w i l l have to extend into the pr ivacy of ind iv iduals (it wou ld be quite impossible to prove many offences i f courts cou ld not d emand a witness to reveal the contents of a secret conversat ion, etc.) - but this need should be assessed in terms of the cost to ind iv idua ls a n d to society as a whole.

Jus t because men and women

are c o n s t r u c t e d ( p h y s i c a l l y , menta l ly and spir i tual ly ) so that they can utilise their resources in different (i.e. confl icting) ways does not mean that one of those ways is not better than a l l the rest. T h e Welfare State can be used or abused, but it was clearly intended to be used properly and so b r ing great relief to a l l sections of the communi ty . It is certain that many people are out to grab what they can , more than their fair share, and so take away from those in greater need. Y o u could say such an att i tude is just as good as everyone accept ing their fair share, but such an att i tude w i l l demol ish the whole concept of the Wel fare State anyway!

M a n y people wou ld say (in so many words) that m a n k i n d is a " cosmic acc ident " . Th i s implies that h u m a n existence, hav ing begun by accident, must continue in a like manner. Thus it wou ld seem foolish to try to do anyth ing definite (i.e. deliberately) since a l l your actions must necessarily be acc identa l ! However , I don't think many f inal-year students are w i l l i n g to accept this - as i f means that their attempts at revision and their success or fai lure in the exams are merely accidents! We l l , I know I 'm not the world 's ideal student, but even I hope to be able to answer questions better i f I bother to do more revision - don't you !

Now , a l l these comments are based on a simple considerat ion of experience of h u m a n life. It has not been necessary to go into any obscure system of phi losophy or beliefs. As it happens, I have personal ly appl ied these attitudes to a system that includes a l l of them; I do not believe that it is possible to prove (scientifically or phi losophical ly ) every aspect of my faith from first principles (otherwise I wou ldn ' t be bel iev ing in anyth ing , I 'd just be accept ing a set of facts) but I do believe that it's very easy to justify my faith, in terms of h u m a n experience and condit ions and the need for a fool­proof solution to our problems. O f course, I often have my doubts about something or other; but I have yet to be dissatisfied w i th any of the reassurances I have found in response to my doubts; a n d it wou ld seem that there are always answers to my questions ( a l t h o u g h I d o n ' t o f t e n understand m u c h about these, because, l ike the rest of human i t y - probab ly more so - I tend to be rather thick: i f I hadn ' t said it, you wou ld have!).

So what is this system of faith that I ho ld to be true? - it is centred a round one man , a carpenter by trade, whose life so fascinates me that I have stared for a long t ime at it. There is no th ing I have found to regret in this man : there is everything I have found that is good, pure and

attractive. T h e claims made by this m a n make it very diff icult to ignore h i m - even i f you think he was m a d , then it's a good idea to th ink out some reasons, just in case you get attracted to the unusua l things he c la imed to be able to offer!

So, why not accept the chal lenge to take another look at the m a n I have mentioned, just in case there might be something of value for your life? (His name is Jesus of Nazare th , and he has quite a few followers, even in IC! ) Yours sincerely,

T o n y Leech

Mater ia ls Science 111

P.S. As I d idn ' t ment ion a certain Book even once, this letter may prove o f especial interest to y t u r readers!

Dea r S i r . - Please a l low me to reply to the letter by K i r s t en Pratt in last week's F E L I X .

T h e letter refers to menstrual extract ion in terms wh i ch make it seem preferable to a ' n o rma l ' abort ion. It is not. A n abort ion is the k i l l i ng of an unborn ch i ld , however it is executed and whether the t ime interval from concept ion is one day, one week or one month . W h e n a woman uses this method of abort ion, she knows what she is doing: if she is pregnant she is per forming an abort ion, k i l l i n g her ch i ld . T h e major difference from a 'no rma l ' abort ion is that w i th "heads being

thrown in buckets of bits of bodies" the end result is more obvious.

K i r s t en Pratt says that "80% of

abortions take place before 12 weeks,

when the baby is about 3" long with its

knees bent up". As wel l as knees bent up the baby also has easily dist inguishable toes, fingers, ears etc. Its appearance is little different from that of a new-born baby; in fact it resembles the new­born baby more than the new­born baby resembles an adult . T h e fact that an unbo rn baby is less developed than an adult is no argument in favour of abort ion, it merely emphasises the fact that life, from concept ion to death, is a cont inuous process of change.

C once rn i ng further points in the letter, the issue is not one of forcing a woman to have a ch i ld or of deny ing a woman the right to decide whether or not she has a ch i l d . In a l l but a very smal l minor i ty o f instances the woman has chosen to take the risk. By the t ime she is pregnant, the woman has exercised her choice; she and the father are fully responsible for the life in her womb, and abort ion is s imply an attempt at negating that responsibil ity, the easy way out. T h e existence of such an escape route does not mean that it s h o u l d be u s e d . I n s t e a d , assistance must be given the w o m a n in a l l ways possible to help her c ope w i t h p r e g n a n c y , ch i l db i r th and parenthood. T h e

father must be made to face his responsibilities to mother and ch i ld . I f after its b i r th , the mother decides that she cannot b r ing up the baby then there are many childless couples who wou ld be del ighted to be able to adopt it. Fo r every ch i ld avai lable for adopt ion there are about 20 would-be adoptive parents.

O n the subject of rape, a terrible cr ime of violence has been commit ted against the woman who may, as a result, be pregnant. Unfor tunate ly , the act of rape cannot be undone; there is no use pretending that it can, even to a slight degree. It is sometimes argued that an abort ion can reduce the t r auma by re l iev ing the woman o fa constant reminder of the horr ib le event. However , to do this involves the k i l l i ng of one person. F r o m another point of view, abort ion is known to be a t raumat ic experience in many cases, and it may add to the w o m a n ' s su f f e r ing . It a lso increases the risk of any further ch i ldren the woman may have of be ing born deformed. T h e major point I wou ld make, however, is that noone has the right to deny that ch i ld a cont inued existence. It is the prevent ion of rape and the c a r e , c o n s i d e r a t i o n a n d acceptance wh i ch must be given a woman who has been raped that are important . For tunate ly , rape is rare and concept ion from it even rarer.

A b o r t i o n should be seen as the k i l l i ng of an innocent h u m a n being for the convenience of others. T h e emphasis should be o n l e s s en ing the a p p a r e n t inconvenience caused by the ch i ld : on remov ing the prejudice against unmarr i ed mothers, the handicapped and the i l legit imate; on p rov id ing the assistance, f inancia l or otherwise, that an unmarr i ed (or unwi l l ing ) mother (or fa ther ) m a y need ; o n improv ing facilities and care for the handicapped; on prevent ing rape; on br ing ing ch i ld ren into a society where they are a l l equal ly accepted, loved and educated and where none of them are made to feel unwanted. A c h i e v i ng such ends w i l l never be easy, but a question is not answered by rubb ing it out. A b o r t i o n is the easy way out, for parents and society: it is not the r ight way. Yours sincerely,

Sean Ke l l y

(Chemistry 1)

Dear S ir , - I wou ld like to make a comment on the ed i tor ia l of the ' m o u r n i n g c l oud ' . M a y I point out that since J a n Cze rnuska is non-existent, his 'threat to the fabric of our society' is probably also non-existent.

I therefore feel that the editor cou ld spend his and his readers' t ime on more wor thwhi l e topics. Yours ,

Jan Czernuszka

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When the cat's away....

By now the "great FELIX scandal" will be common knowledge, and by this time next week it will probably all have been forgotten. Personally, I am very relieved that the story concerning our Litho-charges has come to light and deeply grateful to those who helped me come to the decisions that played a part in its exposure. Although I was bothered about the rates when I was Business Manager it has taken six months of my Editorship to get around to doing anything about it.

Hopefully the situation will improve from now on, but one or two things still need

to be said.

Firstly, there is no danger of the Union taking over FELIX. The Print Unit belongs to the Union anyway: the final say in what is or is not printed belongs to Pub. Board. Production of FELIX has always been the responsibility of the Editor as, I'm sure, it will continue to be.

Secondly, although FELIX, and hence the Union, has gained plenty of new and expensive equipment as a result of the deception, such deceit cannot possibly be justified. It's this kind of "ends justify the means" argument that has perpetuated the fraud for so long. Clubs and Societies have a right to know what they are being charged for, and they should certainly not be used to subsidise this unit. The "We know what's best for you in the long run" attitude is a very dangerous one indeed.

One man show to Democracy

Another complaint that is levelled at FELIX from time to time is that it is a clique. Hopefully, the new FELIX constitution will smash that impression once and for all. Whilst retaining Editorial Freedom, the Editor is now part of a committee which regularly discusses the content and policy of FELIX. Also, this structure will make it easier to attract and retain student volunteers who want to help on the paper, especially during Freshers' Week which is, in any case, a very busy time for the Editor. All in all it should create a more sociable and open FELIX.

Doubtless this will come as a great blow to those who would rather retain power by restricting information or hide behind a host of technical terms. All I can say to them is, tough!

A subscription has yet to be fixed, but as soon as it is FELIX will be open for general membership. Also, papers for next year's committee will be going up next term so if you're thinking of standing....

The Future

Final details have yet to be worked out, but as of July f st there will be three new

rates for Litho-printing as well as the new typesetting facility. But, increased load

on the print unit will inevitably cause delays, resulting in a much longer turn­

around then at present.

Forthcoming Events

After the meaty stuff there are a few events you should know about. There will be a Lunchtime Prom in the Consort Gallery on Tuesday 13th March at 1:00 p.m. The programme includes Vaughan Williams, Bach and Vivaldi, played by the Consort Chamber Orchestra.

Today sees the Grants Demonstration march from DES to Hyde Park. The aims are to stop grants falling below the cost of living, ending of financial dependence on parents and ending discretionary awards. The NUS didn't want us to go on this march, so there's an added i ncentive. Constact Tim Hillyer or Mary Attenborough in the Union Office for further details.

Notification of Meeting

The Annual General Meeting of the Athletic Grounds Committee will take place just before the Results U.G.M. at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday 15th March in the Great Hall. All members of the Union are invited to attend this meeting which ratifies next year's committee.

Vandalism

As a result of mis-use of the College headliner machine during the scramble to produce election publicity, the door to the headliner room will, in future, be locked. Anyone wanting headliner for official Union work only will have to come and see me for the key.

Credits

Many thanks to everyone at IC Radio especially John Allen for so quickly installing a speaker in the FELIX Office. It really makes working at night a lot easier. To "Harvey and the DJ" , who gave us lots of laughs on Wednesday night as well as playing our requests, all I can say is, Paste-downs indeed! Cheers,

John P S . Don't forget to vote!

Dear S ir , - Just because I think tHe Socialist Par ty of Great B r i t a in is a contraversial organisat ion that can provide an interesting and entertaining discussion does not mean I agree w i th it. I wou ld have preferred it i f you had kept my name off the end of the article.

I would l ike to reply to Miss Pratt 's points (the editor has requested me to be brief).

A l t hough it may not appear so superficial ly, men have more to gain from freely - avai lable abort ion than women. A man can easily evade a l l responsibil i ty for looking after a woman and his ch i ld by te l l ing her to go and have an abort ion. T o k i l l her own ch i l d goes against a l l a woman's maternal instincts, however far removed a woman may imagine the foetus to be. H o w many women who do not wish to have an abort ion are bul l ied and p r e s s u r i s e d by b o y f r i e n d s , parents, husbands etc. into hav ing one?

Yes, of course abortions is a t raumat ic experience. Tha t is another reason why organisations like P A T A try to help a woman who wishes to avo id one in every way they can.

T o justify k i l l i ng a person because he isn't really h u m a n because he's 3 " long is as r id iculous as saying someone can be k i l l ed because he is not really h u m a n because he's got b lack skin (or because she's a woman! )

N o matter how good a person's reasons mav be I wou ld not like T H E M to decide to take M Y life no matter how m u c h they may think it is for my benefit.

T h e presence of abort ion provides the powers - that - be wi th a good excuse for not improv ing the condit ions in society for adequate care of the " u n w a n t e d " ch i ld .

W i t h the shortage of ch i ldren for adopt ion in this country it is quite easy for a woman to give her ch i ld to selected foster parents i f she cannot b r ing it up " the way she wants to " . D o you think hav ing her ch i l d adopted is more t raumat ic for a woman than k i l l ing it?

Ne i ther I, nor P A T A , are put t ing any pressure at a l l on Miss Prat t to have (conceive) a ch i l d . It's her choice, not ours. But once the ch i ld is created it is the duty of Miss Pratt and everyone else in society to respect its right to live.

Concep t i on from rape is extremely rare. A n d rape isn't too common either.

Mos t of the other points M iss Prat t raised were dealt w i th in my first letter. I suggest Miss Pratt reads my first letter again.

Barry Aust in

Dear S ir , - I am wr i t ing to thank our Col lege Admin i s t r a t i on and our Student U n i o n for the actions they have taken concerning the

sudden change in the interpret­at ion of the grant regulations, due to wh i ch my local author i ty has now rectified its decision on my el ig ibi l i ty .

I emphasize my gratitude to our Rector for his genuine belie! and support for equal i ty in education, and his concern w i th students' welfare. I wou ld also like to thank our Registrar, M r . M e e and our Deputy Registrar, M r . W a r d , for their sympathy and understanding o f our worries about f inancia l difficulties. M r . M e e has wri t ten and telephoned many times on my behalf. I believe this has had the strongest influence upon the educat ion department.

People who deserve my special thanks are our welfare adviser vnd the President of our U n i o n . Be ing a graduate in law, M i c h a e l A r t h u r has exerted tremendous e f for ts w i t h h is p r o f o u n d knowledge to elucidate expl ic i t ly the m e a n i n g o f ' o r d i n a r y residence' i n his very wel l wr i t ten essay, wh i ch has impressed the education authori ty . Above a l l , it was o u r P r e s i d e n t , M a r y At tenborough, who first brought our grievance to the attention of the Rec tor and the Gove rn ing Body of the College. A lso I appreciate greatly the numerous letters sent and visits pa id to the M P ' s c o n c e r n e d a n d t h e Depar tment of Educa t i on by our President, to whom I sincerely express my gratitude.

F ina l l y , and most impor tant ly , I must ment ion that there are seven students who are sti l l depr ived of a grant, unreason­ably. I have heard that the U n i o n is p l ann ing to take legal act ion on their behalf. I hope this w i l l be successful.

In a word , I a m g lad that our Col lege cares abeut the welfare of its students. I p roc la im the in jus t i c e o f the d i f f i c u l t i e s infl icted upon the students concerned and I request your support in their imminent legal battle.

F.Y. L i

C h e m . Eng. 1

Dear Sir , - Reports i n F E L I X are usually concise, I 'd always thought due to lack of space. E lec t ion manifestos are cut at the 300th word . W h y then was a 1,743 word (1,753 inc lud ing title and credits) piece o f p ropaganda for T h e Social ist Par ty of Grea t B r i t a i n inc luded in last week's issue?

Sure ly this k i n d o f mater ia l is better suited to f l y -pos t ingby the relevant society, (- i n the same way G o d Squad plague everyone w i th St. J o h n ' s Gospels) - at their o w n expense. A l so I 'd like to know if, to make it fair, you propose to pr int s imi lar length 'manifestos' f rom the Conservatives, L ibera ls , Communis t s , Scott ish N a t i o n a l ­ists Party , N a t i o n a l Front ....

Rache l Snee

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W H A T ' S ONI FRIDAY 9th March

DISCO

E N T S D i sco and Bar - 8.30 p.m. Un ion Lower Lounge. 10 p.

FILM

I.C. F I L M S O C . - presents A Man Ca l l ed Horse. 7.00 p.m. M.E. 220.

Members Free. Non-members 20 p.

MISCELLANEOUS

S P E A K E R F R O M T E A R F U N D - 6.30 p.m. Mus i c Room, 53 Pr inces

Gate.

S U N D A Y 11th March

CLUB ACTIVITY

L I B E R A L C L U B - 7 p.m., Stan's Bar, Southside. Informal Meet ing. A l l

welcome.

MISCELLANEOUS

I.C. R A D I O - 8.00 a.m.- Wake Up with Harvey. 11.00 - The Wibbly Wobbly Wireless Show. 1 .00-Groov in . 4.00 - Roundtable . 5 .00 -Fo lk Mus i c . 6 . 0 0 - G o o d evening. 8 . 00 -V i ewpo in t -E l e c t i on Spec ia l . 10.00-Through midnight.

M O N D A Y 12th March

CLUB ACTIVITY

E X P L O R A T I O N S O C I E T Y M E E T I N G - 6.00 p.m. Zoo logy Basement Lecture Theatre - "The Tana River Expedi t ion (1976)" by Nigel Winser (Leader). C O M M U N I S T S O C I E T Y - G raham Dowdal l speaking on the Campa ign against the S U S Law. 6.30 p.m. ICWA Lounge. A l l Welcome.

MISCELLANEOUS

IC R A D I O - 5 . 0 0 p.m. - G o o d Evening. 6.00 - Focus . 7 .00-Viewpoint . 9.00 - Roundabout . 11.00 - Through Midnight.

T U E S D A Y 13th March

C L U B ACTIVITY

RID ING C L U B - 13.00- 14.00. Electr ical Eng ineer ing Dept. Room 1110, Level,11. Information, Book ings and U L U Rid ing C l u b News. 13.00-14.00. Electr ica l Engineer ing Dept. R o o m 1110. Level 11. A l l welcome. I.C. C O N S E R V A T I V E S O C I E T Y A N N U A L G E N E R A L M E E T I N G - 1.00 p.m. Hux ley 644. Elect ions wil l take place for next year's executive. A l l members are invited to attend.

R A I L S O C T A L K - J . B . Manson on Civ i l Engineer ing on The Souther n Reg ion. 17.40. Mech Eng 640. Everyone welcome. I.C. P H O T O G R A P H I C S O C I E T Y A N N U A L G E N E R A L M E E T I N G A N D C O M P E T I T I O N R E S U L T S - 7.00p.m. Un ion S C R . For fur therdeta i l so f compet i t ion see FEL IX No. 511.

A U D I O S O C I E T Y - Demonstrat ion by Roger Dr isco l l , entitled "Aud io s ignals and systems". 7.00 p.m. ICWA Lounge. 20 p to non-members, members free. Roger Dr isco i l is a we l l -known personality in the Aud io field, a reviewer and consultant with a scienti f ic training. He is also a lecturer in Acous t i cs at Poly, of Nor th London .

MISCELLANEOUS

S T O I C T R A N S M I S S I O N - "F ina l Se lect ion of IC Univesity Chal lenge Team" . 13.00. J C R , Un ion TV Lounge , Souths ide Hal ls (except Tizard), Souths ide Lower TV Lounge (Nr. Stans) I.C. R A D I O - 12.00-2.15 p.m. Midday S p i n (Broadcast to J .C .R . , A lans Bar and Stans Bar). Evening same as M o n but 6.00 pm That's Jazz .

W E D N E S D A Y 14th March

THEATRE

" T R A V E S T I E S " by Tom S t o p p a r d - 7 . 3 0 p.m. Un ion Concer t Hal l . 75 p. T ickets Avai lable on the Door or in advance from Dramat ic Society Storeroom.

CLUB ACTIVITY

W O M E N IN S C I E N C E A N D T E C H N O L O G Y M E E T I N G - 12.30 p.m. ICWA Lounge . D i scuss ion Meet ing.

T E N P I N B O W L I N G - Meet 2.30 Aero. (opp. Un ion Arch ) .

MISCELLANEOUS

I.C. R A D I O - 6 . 0 0 - G o o d Evening. 6.40-301 Newsl ine. Rest of Evening

same as Monday .

T H U R S D A Y 15th March

FILM

E N T s F i lm - J o e K idd . 6.30. Mech . Eng . 220. 30 p. C l int Eastwood as a Bounty Hunter Hired to shoot Mex ican Peasants.

THEATRE

" T R A V E S T I E S " by Tom S toppa rd -7 .30 p.m. Un ion Concer t Hal l . 75 p. Tickets available on the door or in advance from Dramatic Society Storeroom.

CLUB ACTIVITY

R A D S O C D INNER - 7.30 p.m. Marco Polo Restaurant, King 's Road.

Meet in Shack 7 p.m. See Not ice in Shack for details. M O P S O C L E C T U R E - by Dr. R . C . M . Learner. "Towards a 1000-inch Opt ical Te lescope - The Beg innings of A 15-year Programme". 1-15

pm. Phys i c s L.T.2.

MISCELLANEOUS

R E S U L T S U N I O N G E N E R A L M E E T I N G - 1.00 p.m. Great Hal l , Sherfield Bui ld ing . Results of Sabbat ica l Elect ions and Elect ions of other officers. S T O I C T R A N S M I S S I O N - "L IVE T R A N S M I S S I O N O F E L E C T I O N U . G . M . " - 13.00. J C R , Un ion T.V. Lounge, Souths ide Hal ls (Except

Tizard) Souths ide Lower T.V. Lounge (Nr. Stans) S T O I C T R A N S M I S S I O N - "Live Interviews with Success fu l Elect ion Cand ida tes " 18.00. Union TV Lounge, Souths ide Hal ls (-except Tizard), Southside Lower TV Lounge (Nr. Stans). IC P H O T S O C S H O P - 12.45 - 1.15. Linstead Hal l . Room 532. I.C. R A D I O - same as Tuesday except 5-7 p.m. - G o o d Evening. A S S O C I A T E D S T U D I E S E V E N T - 1.30 p.m. The Mus i c Room, 53 Prince 's Gate. Lunch - hour concert Sergei Bezkorvany (violin) and Phi l ip G a m m o n (piano).

Social

Cu l tura l and

Amusements

Board SCAB

FRIDAY

E N T s D isco

M O N D A Y

F O L K C L U B present Their Mus ic ians Night. D ig out your o ld guitars, whistles and washboards and come along for a good evening. Un ion Lower Refectory 8.00. Admiss i on free.

W E D N E S D A Y

T H E I.C. B ig Band Live In Stans Bar 8 .30-11.00. C o m e and Listen to a select ion of Ja z z from the 1920's to the present day. Admiss i on Free.

T H U R S D A Y

T H E E N T S F ILM - " J o e K idd " . 6.30 p.m. in Mech . Eng. 220. Admiss i on

30 p.

FRIDAY

T H E E N T S Disco.

ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIETY •

present OCTAVIUS CRITCHLEY

from the Health and Safety Exec. speaking on

'Regulation and practial aspects of

Industrial Safety in High

Technology Installations with

particular reference to Radiological

protection.9

T U E S D A Y 13th M A R C H 5:30pm

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DHSS Begging Letter Are you one of the lucky

many who recently received a

begging letter f r om the

Department of Heal th and

Social Security?

What is being asked of you is to cough up in the form of Class 3 or Vo lun ta r y contr ibut ions. I f you pay these it won't entitle you to unemployment benefit or sickness benefit but they do count towards less immediate benefits such as M a t e r n i t y G r a n t , W i d o w s Benefit, Ret i rement Pension, Ch i l d ' s Spec ia l A l l owance and Death Gran t . If you want to pay them there is a special concession for students (and people in prison) in that these contr ibut ions can be paid any time up to the end of the sixth tax year fo l lowing the year your course (or imprisonment) ends.

Ano ther point worth bear ing in m i n d is that it is possible to get the basic pension at the standard rate despite a five year gap in your contr ibut ion record and you are credited w i th contr ibut ions for

the years in wh i ch your 16th, 17th and 18th birthdays fell. So even i f you have faith in the cont inuance of c iv i l isat ion - as-we-know-it for long enough to a l low you to get a pension, so long as you don't have any more t ime off d u r i n g your earn ing life, the fact that your contr ibut ion record for your t ime at college isn't fully pa id up shouldn't mater ia l ly effect your position.

As far as the materni ty grant a n d the d e a t h g r a n t a re concerned, the cost mak ing up your record is l ikely to exceed the amount you wou ld get back even if you d id become eligible for those grants!

If you want to go any further into this fascinating topic I've got lots of relevant leaflets up in the Welfare Centre but i f you decide to send the aforementioned letter to its rightful destination - the wastepaper basket, it is unl ike ly that you w i l l have to regret it.

Michae l A r thu r

Welfare Adviser

Unrest at U L U The University of London Union is going through a stormy time at the

moment, with discussions and arguments continuing over a proposed

new Constitution.

At the moment there are three separate bodies responsible for

running the Union - The Sports Council, The Societies Council and the'

Students' Representative Council.

The two sabbatical officers are elected by and responsible to the Annual Assembly of all three Councils. Therefore they are accountable

to a body which only meets once a year, which is rather undemocratic.

For several years now, attempts have been made to introduce changes to the Const i tut ion which would make the Un ion more like other Unions, with elected executive and sabbat ical officers responsible to one overr iding Electoral Body which meets more than once a year!

Therefore it's been proposed, as a result of much long hard bargaining and d iscuss ion , that constituent col leges shou ld send delegates to a Un ion C o u n c i l which would meet at least 8 times a year, and from wh ich the Executive and Officers would be elected. Also, 2 members of the Executive would be nominated from each of the Sports and Societ ies Counc i l s .

So far, all progress on chang ing the constitut ion has been b locked by the Sports C o u n c i l who are paranoid that they might lose some of their power with the introduct ion of democracy. However, an emergency meeting of the Assembly of Counc i l s was recently cal led, and both sides (i.e. Sports C o u n c i l versus the rest) were keyed up for a battle, but due to some very bureaucrat ic bungl ing and appal l ing Cha i rmanship , the meeting had to be adjourned. It's now been cal led again for Wednesday 21st March , and I hope that this time (it last co inc ided with the Rector speaking at Counc i l ) we can send our full delegation. Our mandate is quite dear, because all that is being proposed is that University Un ion is run along s imi lar l ines to our own Union here at Imperial.

It has become a matter of urgency because the new Statutes of the UR+vfi«rsity al low for student senators for the first time, but we have no means of e lect ing them at present.

Looking for Work Next Year?

There's still t ime to stand for the post of External Affairs Officer for next sess ion, so if you're at all interested, then don't hesitate to contact me to find out about the (enormous!) amount of work involved. Meanwhi le , don't forget about the Grants Demonstrat ion today, especial ly if you're one of the many affected by the means test.

We've just taken delivery of another 1000 copies of Nat ional Student. If there's not any in your department, then they're outside the FEL IX officer

Sheyne Lucock

External Affairs Officer

Mistaken Identity A chapter from the everyday life

of a Union Hack.... Scene: The

waiting room of a health centre

dMtewhere in Prince's Gardens.

Seated, stage left, jean-clad

student contemplating nervously

his imminent encounter with a

hypodermic needle. Enter from

stage right a Health Centre

official. Sees student and

speaks.

"Wait ing for the doc tor? " " M m m "

"Aren't you something in the U n i o n ? " "Yes...Welfare Off icer" "Don ' t be silly, you can't be - I've met Michae l Arthur.. . . "

T h e a b o v e s i t u a t i o n w i l l become all too familiar for the person who iS elected as next year's Welfare Officer. For those of you who don't know, Michae l Ar thur is the "Welfare Adviser " and as such is a full-time Un ion employee; the Welfare Officer is an elected student post.

The Welfare Adviser concerns himself with running the welfare centre (3rd floor Un ion Bui lding) where he gives advice and help on such matters as legal problems, a c c o m m o d a t i o n , c o n s u m e r advice, dentists etc.

j The Welfare Officer represents I.C. students in welfare matters. He checks that the Union and

Col lege Welfare services are being run correct ly and also cons iders ways in wh ich they may be improved. The Welfare Officer works c losely with the Welfare Adviser and so provides him with useful feedback as to the current problems and feelings of the student body.

The job entails: -

(1) Sitt ing on I.C.U. C o u n c i l (3 meetings a term) (2) Cha i rmansh ip of the Un ion Welfare Cttee. (meets every 2-3 weeks on a Tuesday lunchtime). This body exists to d iscuss current welfare issues and is a fruitful source of ideas. (3) Membersh ip of the fo l lowing Co l l ege Cttees (one meeting of each Cttee per term)

Student Res idence Cttee Student Welfare Cttee Medica l Services Cttee Overseas Students Cttee Nursery Steering Cttee

So if you're th inking of standing y o u have until 17.00 on Monday . The paper is up in the Un ion Lower Lounge for the elect ion at the U G M on Thursday 15th March .

Personal ly I have found the job to be fascinat ing - it's amaz ing the k ind of things you find out!

Paul Davey

Welfare Officer 1978-1979

Elk Encounters of

the Election Kind Wel l folks, the t ime has almost come to put your m a r k

against the name of the candidate you most prefer for the

sabbatical officers - and I'll explain exactly the sort o f m a r k

you wi l l be mak ing (At least I hope you ' l l be mak ing - there's no

need to vent your sexual f rustrat ion on the ballot paper). A s I

sa id last week, the voting system used at Imper ia l is called

S T V (standing for single transferable vote). Instead of just

nominat ing one candidate by an X as is done in general and

local authority election you can place al l the candidates in an

order of preference by (believe it or not) numbers 1,2,3 etc.

T h e good th ing about this system is that it does not lead to two candidates, who attract support broadly from the same quarters, ' sp l i t t ing ' their votes and lett ing a 3rd candidate not quite as popular or wel l qual i f ied get elected, it roughly works l ike this: T h e first count sorts out the papers into piles of first preferences for the candidates, and if the leading candidate has got less than half the votes cast (called the quota), then the last person's votes are reallocated i.e. his second preferences are then taken into account and redistr ibuted among the r ema in ing candidates. Th is carries on unt i l (a) the leading candidate has got more than half the votes cast, count ing second, th i rd preferences etc. or (b) there is only one candidate left. - In both cases that person is elected.

W e l l d id you understand a l l that? Y o u ' r e a better person than me if you d id . A l l I can say is that I've definitely made H o n . Sec. the most sexual post there is this year and I w i l l cont inue to play erotic games w i th next year's set of U n i o n officers long alter I've ceased being H o n . Sec.

N o w don't forget - vote M o n d a y or Tuesday - b r ing your U n i o n C a r d - it's your U n i o n . I f you can't be here on M o n d a y or Tuesday ior a good reason e.g. job interviews you may vote in advance, come up and see me in the U n i o n Office, ravage my body lor a couple of minutes unt i l I cry " n o m o r e " and I ' l l see what I can do (even if you don't ravage me).

Cheers,

M i k e E l k i n

P.S. Don ' t forget the results U G M - Thu r sday 15th M a r c h , 1 p.m.,

Great Ha l l , E l ec t i on o fo ther U n i o n Officers and spicey sexual games invo l v ing a l l sorts of bizarre fantasies.

P a g e 6

R E V I E W S I "The Deer hunter" (X, director Michael

Cimino) is such a film that its theme is establ ished in its opening shot. A massive juggernaut thunders past the camera out of shot; in the background are the blast furnaces of a Pennsy lvanian steel mil l . As surely as the juggernaut arrives so wil l the effects of Vietnam, and not just on those who are enl isted.

Robert de Niro plays Michae l , who along with c lose friends Nick and Stephen, is scheduled for a tour of duty of Vietnam. Before they leave their loves and a communi ty steeped in ethnic solidarity and comradship , they go on one last deer hunt together. M ichae l emerges as the leader, hard stubborn and rational. "One shot is what it's

all about; the deer has to be taken with one

shot". The piano playing afterwards, as they relax is s lowly but surely drowned by the sound of hel icopter b lades . Then in a marvel lous edit we cut to the horrors of war and the waste of human life.

E r n e s t H e m i n g w a y w r o t e in h i s introduct ion to the anthology 'Men at War' the fol lowing "...when you have read this you will

know that there are no worse things to be

gone through than men have not been,

through before". The three, now reunited,

Robert de Nero as Michael

swap the horrors of war for the horrors of a Viet C o n g prisoner camp. With rythmic edit ing of c lose-ups, a game of Russian Roulette is performed; The prisoners as pawns and the captors as gamblers. The barrel is spun and clasped. With one bullet in the gun the prisoner holds it up to his temple. If it goes off, you witness an explos ion and the r ipping apart of the human head. S u c h is the f i lm-powerful and direct.

This game is the underly ing thread throughout - culminat ing in Michae l trying to save Nick. In a chaot ic Saigon, he faces Nick across the other side of the table having bought his way into the game. 'Remember

Nick, is this what you really want? It only

takes one bullet, remember Deer Hunting'.

It is no co inc idence : whilst we witness a gun firing into a temple, it is war that is destroying the minds of the young men.

T h e Deer Hunter ' is about the way war affects the ind iv idua l and changes his life. Back home, Michae l , in the second deer hunt and the sp lendour of the scenery, cannot even bring himself to kill the deer. Meryl Streep, already widely praised for her portrali of Nick 's girl friend Linda, sums everything up when she says 'Did you ever think it would

turn out like this?'

Michael in the horrors of Vietnam

Director Michae l C imino , this being only his s econd venture as writer-director of a major motion picture, gives u s a s c o p e o f time and place. Interlaced is a steel mill town, with a stark skyl ine that juts up from the wooded hills, and the battlefield of Vietnam. Only Michae l survives intact from the horrors, pul l ing together the strands of his life.

Robert de Niro, as the hard-l iving/hard­work ing steelworker achieves a brilliant performance. No other actor goes into such met iculous detail to capture a character. A l so outstanding are Chr is topher Walkin, as Nick who loses contact with his background, Meryl Streep who made her film debut in ' Ju l i a ' , and J o h n Savage who plays Steven: 'It has nothing to do with whether we should

or should not have been in Vietnam. It's just

about guys who are touched by War'.

The film is a sad indictment for the human race but a tribute to the courage of the individual. Nick tells Michae l before they leave 'Don't leave me over there' and he didn't: except that Nick was dead. A destroyed mind was blown away by one sho t -that's what it's all about.

Roger Stotesbury

TENPIN BOWLING T H E A l T O S O U T H A M P T O N

After spending a couple of weeks

struggl ing to arrange a team of nine to

bowl at Southampton last weekend,.

hectic activity at the last minute (OK

I ' m exaggerating) meant that two

teams travel led down on Saturday. Was

it wor th the journey and al l the hassles?

Overa l l , yes, w i th the first t eam coming

away w i th a few trophies and some

good ind iv idua l performances.

T h e Sou thampton Tr ios were based on teams of nine; six men and three ladies. Every one bowled one series in either a men's or ladies' tr io a n d then another series in a mixed tr io (two men and one lady). La te entrants (ourselves) and late arr ivals (not us for a change) made lane al locations difficult for the organizers, but on the whole they coped we l l , despite numerous machine breakdowns a n d stoppages.

M o s t o f the L o n d o n teams found problems in adap t ing to the lanes at Bitterne. Th i s is a c o m m o n hand i cap for those who generally

bowl at To lwo r th , where the conditons on the lanes are different from just about every other centre in Br i ta in . In part icular , Edga r F u n g took a couple of games to control his hook and find a good l ine, ro l l ing a 74 first game. It was not unt i l the sixth and final game that T u b b y Woo , w i th a 230, and B r i an M a c G o w a n , w i th a personal best 226, reached their best; w i th E d m o n d Ng's tournament high-game of 235, L o n d o n had the best three ind i v idua l games of the tournament, an excellent achievement.

T h e t e a m b o w l i n g w a s m o r e d isappoint ing, apart from the A l team w i n n i n g the men's trios section convincingly . T h e team of E d m o n d N g , w i th a 588 series, A lber t W o n g , and T u b b y Woo , w i th 533, wel l deserved their victory, emphasising the strength of London ' s first team. E d m o n d Ng 's 588 series was the second best of the day, but an inconsistent second series, i nc lud ing a 99 game, took away any hopes of v ictory in the men's tournament average compet i t ion. Howeve r T u b b y Woo , w i th a fine 557, g iv ing a tournament average of 182 came second, the w inner averaging 189.

T h e uneven team bowl ing brought the L o n d o n A team only th i rd place, wel l beh ind Southampton and Burne l . T h e B team came n in th and last and w i l l refuse to discuss this result w i th anyone.

learns: London A: Edmond .\~g, Albert Wong,

Tubby Woo, Roland Hsie, Joe ,\'g, Danny Law,

Ida Eok, Louisa Lau, Ruby Wong.

T o t a l p infal l : 8047

London H: Brian MacGowan, Peter Churchyard,

Edgar Fung, Tim Hillyer, Joe Wong, Jackie

Ladder, Su Tick, EuFu Salavalian, Dela Wong

To ta l p infal l : 6737

M o r e g o o d n e w s : i n the E x c e l Champ ionsh ip , the House C h a m p i o n s h i p of the Char r ing t on Bowl , To lwo r th , held recently, Tubby W o o came th i rd and R o l a n d Hs ie came sixth, two excellent performances.

T h e I n t c r - C C U championship w i l l be held on Wednesday 21st M a r c h and w i l l be run on a trios basis. Each C C U w i l l have two teams, one made up from bowlers in the C l u b , the other from C C U stars. T h e C l u b A G M w i l l be held the same day at To lwo r th , so the min ibus w i l l leave a little earlier. M o r e details next week.

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D a y B y D a y f l A ROUND-UP O F LAST W E E K ' S N E W S J ^ J f |

Wednesday 28th Computer Shakespeare

A n o ld hypothesis states that if a c rowd of monkeys were to tap endlessly and at random on typewriters they would eventually write the complete works of Shakespeare.

Dr. Wil l iam Bennet, professor of physics at Yale University, has thrown fresh doubt on the hypothesis. He calculated that if a tri l l ion (1,000,000,000,000) monkeys were to type 10 randomly chosen characters at the rate of one a second it would take, on average, more than a tr i l l ion t imes as long as the Universe has been in existence to arrive at: "To be or

not to be, that is the question."

Dr. Bennet believes that with the use of rules based on the frequency with which letter combinat ions occur in a given language a computer programmed to simulate the hypothetical monkeys cou ld achieve in minutes some startl ingly intell igible, if not quite Shakespearean, passages.

Dur ing one all-night run he was presented with the output, ' T o dea now nat to be will and

then be does doesorns calawroutrould."This is the nearest the computer reached to achieving the celebrated passage in Hamlet.

Thursday Ist Steam train marks Paddington anniversary

The 1929-built G W R 4-6-0 c lass locomotive

K ing George V left Paddington Station for

Didcot to mark the 125th anniversary of

Paddington station.

Thousands turned out to watch it make a nostalgic day trip with 600 enthusiasts on board. A brass band gave it a send-off as crowds waved from bridges, footpaths and stations.

The K ing George made the 53 mile trip to

Didcot but an overheated axle-box meant

that it cou ld not make the return trip to

Paddington.

Beggar dies leaving over a quarter of a million

A legless beggar known as "Edd i e the Monkey M a n " because of the monkey he used to help him panhandl ing on the streets of Washington for more than 30 years, died in Flor ida leaving an estate of $691,000.

In 1972, another beggar accused him of using the money he earned on the streets to buy property in F lor ida. Eddie said at that time, "If I had money and property do you

think I'd be sitting out in the cold all day? If

you think begging is a good life ....just try it."

Friday 2nd Devolution Referendums

Ministers appeared ready to accept that there now is no possibi l i ty of pressing ahead with devolution even in Scot land where 32.9 per cent voted Yes. A s for Wales, which produced a derisory 11.8 per cent Yes vote, the issue is a dead duck.

Traffic wardens back to normal working

After five months of free parking, motorists

wi l l have to begin feeding parking meters.

1,300 traffic wardens employed by the

Met. Po l ice will return to full-time work.

They have been work ing to rule s ince last

October over a 9-and-a-half per cent pay

c la im. The wardens dec ided today to resume

normal work while their case was sent to

arbitration. Dur ing the dispute wardens have

banned overtime and refused to issue t ickets

and reset meters.

Editor to be chosen for MAYFAIR

It is something of a record in Fleet Street that for five years there have been no editorial vacancies in a certain magazine but M A Y F A I R - "entertainment for men" is perhaps an understandable except ion.

No fewer than fifty appl icants have appl ied for the job of editor. Journal is ts , from veterans of what someone cal led the second oldest profession to bright eyed young men c lutch ing shorthand certificates have all shown interest in the job.

The present editor, Mr. Kenneth Bound ,

sa id that the part icularly success fu l appl icant

will "be groomed to lead MAYFAIR into the

eighties "'

"/ don't think there are many people who

can conceive of a job part of which is to sit in

an editor's chair and decide whether a young

lady has the right figure or not to model. It is

an interesting diversion."

Saturday 3rd Second referendum in Scotland?

The Prime Minister is being urged to cons ider a daring plan to keep his government alive. He has been asked by pro-devolution M P s to give voters a second referendum in Scot land. Their grounds are that the electors were not able to understand the ins-and-outs of devolution.

Coronation Street vote

Disaster wil l strike at the Rover's Return and viewers were asked who they would like to see out of the programme. 362 said Albert Tat lock shou ld go because he was an old misery. 24 sa id all of them should get the chop and 2 voted Jor the cat.

Sunday 4th Carter calls in 5ada

A last effort to save the camp David agreements has been made by President Carter. He is urging President Sadat of Egypt to come to Washington for talks with him and Mr. Beg in before the Israeli Pr ime Minister leaves the USA .

Mr. Beg in spoke today of President Carter as "an honest man" and "my friend" but he also determinedly refused to descr ibe him as an honest broker. He encouraged the view that Mr. Carter is suppor t ing the Egypt ian side in negotiations which Mr. Beg in cont inues to descr ibe as "in a deep crisis".

Indian and Pakistani medicine men to be

studied

A three-year study into the activities of Indian and Pakistani medic ine men among Britain 's immigrant communit ies is to lead to a recommendat ion to the D H S S that they should be regulated but tolerated.

The man in charge of the project, Professor Stanley Davis, believes that " H a k i m s " and "Va i d s " perform services that cannot be directly replaced by Western medic ine.

A herbal preparation cal led Reserpine taken in India for centuries, is now being used by Western doctors as an effective treatment for hypertension and migraine, whi le a medic ine cal led Vinchrist ine, prepared from the periwinkle, is now being used to alleviate leukaemia.

Monday 5th Storm breaks over nurses pay

Britain's nurses were offered a 9% rise - a pay offer virtually identical to that made to workers who did their best to disrupt the Health Service.

The first reaction from the nurses, who last

month refused to take any act ion that would

harm patients, was disgust and anger.

No more Scotch Whiskey for Amin

Britain banned, this evening, the 'whisky

airlift' that has pumped suppl ies of S c o t c h to

President Idi Amin . Amin 's shattered army

are poised for a fight-to-the-death counter

attack in Southern Uganda on forces intent

on overthrowing h im. The Department of

Trade order forbids all air cargoes leaving

Bri ta in for Uganda from now on.

Elton John named top British singer

Capi ta l Radio awarded 31 year-old El ton J o h n the title " Top Brit ish Singer" . El ton was embarrassed and said that 'new wave' s inger and writer Elvis Coste l lo should have won.

Kate Bush was named best Brit ish female

singer and best Bri t ish newcomer.

Tuesday 6th Vietnamese agree to peace talks

Vietnam agreed to meet C h i n a for peace negotiations. However, Ch inese troops must be withdrawn from Vietnamese So i l before talks can begin.

C h i n a c la imed an "important victory" over a "swell-headed and extremely arrogant"

Vietnam. C h i n a termed its act ion in Vietnam a defensive counter-attack against repeated ki l l ings and shoot ings of Ch inese border guards and civi l ians.

There has been no reliable information from Pek ing on the progress of the Ch inese withdrawal .

Prince Philip teaches Russia a lesson

Pr ince Phi l ip inspected the M o s c o w O l y m p i c equestr ian facilities today. He pointed out that there weren't enought seats for the dressage events.

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President

President

CANDIDATE: Sheyne Lucock PROPOSER: Paul Fairbairn There are many areas where more union

work needs to be done.

O n accommodat ion, Col lege should part w i th its ^ m i l l i o n or so invested in stocks and shares and purchase property lor turn ing into student residence wi th the resulting income from rents rep lac ing the invested income. Th is would go a long way to solving our accommodat ion crisis.

O n indoor sports, Col lege should oiler land free for bu i l d ing a new University of L o n d o n Indoor Sports H a l l (either Northside or next to Chemistry ) . Th is would provide facilities for sports such as badminton and basketball .

O n refectories, cont inued pressure should be put on Col lege to operate a better and cheaper service, and I believe the U n i o n ought to consider runn ing a snack bar itself

O n tuition fees, the Col lege should set up a hardship fund to cover hardship arising from increases, wh ich would also cover al l areas of f inancial hardship.

O n careers, far more people should be encouraged to make use of the Prestel careers data service at College, and we should rectify the fact that the Univers i ty is presently understaffed wi th regard to full-t ime careers advisors.

O n entertainments, we should ensure that we can use the Great H a l l regularly for concerts.

O n . a c a d e m i c s t a n d a r d s , s ome departments should look far more closely at appl icants ' ind i v idua l aptitude for par t i cu lar courses, to try to cut down failure rates.

I have sat on both the Academic and Exte rna l Affairs Committees, and been C h a i r m a n , IC Postgraduate Group

( I 'm a Botany PG ) . A m o n g other things, I 'm now Cha i rman , IC Un ion Counci l and on the College Governing Body.

Vote for the person w i th most experience and abi l i ty to deal w i th a variety of un ion work and w i th the enthusiasm to investigate the widespread needs of I C students. I hope you wi l l agree, that is me!

Sheyne Lucock

CANDIDATE: Chris Fox PROPOSER: Dave Walls

C H R I S F O X is ...

R C S U President I C U V i c e President I C U Representative on; Gove rn ing body F inance and Execut ive Refectory committee Athlet ics committee

A n undergraduate student of Chemistry

T h e reason I think that 1 should be elected President of I C U is that I have proven experience in adminis t rat ion coupled wi th awareness of A L L sides of college life g iv ing me a balanced view of the U n i o n .

I C U , whilst representing IC students at a college (and Nat ional ) level, has, per iodical ly taken itself too seriously. Social life IS

important . But no single facet is A L L important .

I am the only candidate capable of taking this v iewpoint wi th enough perspective. I

can make I C U more representative o f

IC students.

T h e issues wh ich I feel have part icu lar importance and relevance to students are; Wel fare Accommoda t i on Refectories

IC Ents Fees Grants Emp loyment

A l l these have different problems and impl icat ions and no one should be dealt w i th to the exclusion of any other.

As well as dai ly adminis t rat ion and representation I believe that the U n i o n should enter more fully into the services-type role. Possible areas lor this expansion are;

Foreign Exchange Week - A separate scheme, run on the same lines as Fore i gn Students Week in R S M , but open to a l l I C students. Th is could not be set up in one year but I wou ld like to start this as a long term project.

J C R Stalls - I would like to encourage more and different stall holders offering genuine reductions.

Discount Scheme - Th is has been suggested as a job for the D P whom I w i l l support and help in this difficult venture.

I ask you to support my campaign .

V O T E CHRIS F O X - 1

For a more Representative. Ba lanced.

Tang ib l e I C U . Ch r i s Fox

V O T E IN THE S A B B A T I C A L E L E C T I O N S

N E X T M O N D A Y A N D T U E S D A Y .

B A L L O T B O X E S IN A L L D E P T S

-RESULTS

UGM ON MARCH

B R I N G Y O U R U N I O N C A R D ^

15th & ELECTIONS

OF OTHER OFFICERS.

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FELIX Editor

CANDIDATE: John Shuttleworth PROPOSER: Mick Berry

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T h e last two editors have worked hard to equip the Office w i th the facilities needed to produce F E L I X independently and at a high standard w i th var iat ion of typeface, layout and appearance. T h e next Ed i t o r must produce a newspaper worthy of these efforts and expenditure.

T o do this efficiently and effectively more people must be welcomed to work on F E L I X . I believe the interest is there but • encouragement has been lacking. It's necessary for an Ed i t o r to spend some t ime each week on organising and co-ord inat ing his stall'.

Most regular contributors have said they intend to get more involved next year. No -one w i l l be discouraged.

If only a few people contribute regular ly the paper seems the same every week and gets crit icised for lack of ideas and variety.

A l l the present F E L I X stall ' wou ld be happy to work with me next year and this is a good base to bu i ld on.

I have experience wi th the equipment in use and the techniques used in product ion, and I feel confident thai I would do well if I found myself in charge.

Bar r ing any majoi breakdowns I can't see why F E L I X should slip below I (> good pages. I wouldn ' t relish leaving out a m article merely because spa ' e is tight. I don't foresee too much problem with layout provided things are organized properly and I know I 'm capable of do ing this. It's not noimc to be easy and I intend to earn my Sabbat ica l by eonsciencious hard work and dedicat ion with drive, imag inat ion and enterprise.

Y o u ' d be shocked to find F E L I X change, so I ' l l warn you it w i l l be different but I ' l l keep some of the " t r a d e m a r k s " of this sear since I see next session as a cont inuat ion and not a restart.

I 'm looking forward to being Y O U R Ed i to r so don't disappoint me.

John Shuttleworth

...A

FELIX Editor

CANDIDATE: David Crabbe PROPOSER: Duncan Suss

I f elected. I w i l l pursue policies wh i ch make F E L I X reflect the varied interests and activities of a l l I C students. T o do this, I w i l l introduce:

- more student and department news;

- regular 'events' features;

- supplements on post-College life e.g. house

purchase, careers, holidays

I believe in full use of inventive layout, cartoons and photos to produce a v isual ly appea l ing F E L I X : nobody enjoys reading a paper that looks bor ing.

Informat ion is needed for news and features, and I have already approached clubs and Dep . Reps, about the possibil ity of a " F E L I X R E P R E S E N T A T I V E " in each c lub and department. These ambit ious, but realistic, ideas require staff, so I w i l l make the Office atmosphere more sociable. Cheers!

Dav id Crabbe

T o p e r f o r m th i s d e m a n d i n g j ob successfully, the Ed i t o r must have certain essential abilit ies. H e must he technical ly competent; he must understand fully the

operat ion of Offset L i t h o and the anc i l la ry equipment and the product ion of F E L I X -everything. H e must be able to attract a n d keep staff throughout the year. It is also useful if he is a competent wri ter and is fami l iar w i th many of the personalities of U n i o n and College.

I believe D A V I D C R A B B E fulfills these cr i ter ia far better than any other candidate . In his three years at Imper ia l , he has been F E L I X News Ed i t o r (1976 - 77), last year's IC U n i o n Handbook Ed i t o r (which made ful l use of the new equipment , was the biggest yet. and had the most inventive designs of any recent U n i o n Handbook ) and is1 current ly F E L I X Business M a n a g e r (which involves mak ing sure F E L I X doesn't overspend). D a v i d has also attended C o u n c i l and U G M ' s and is a member of Publ icat ions Board . H e has not only experience and proven ab i l i ty , but ideas, inventiveness arjd dedicat ion. I am absolutely certain that

IT'S B E T T E R T O

V O T E F O R C R A B B E

Duncan Suss

F E L I X Edi tor 1977-78.

Hon. Sec.

CANDIDATE: Roger Stotesbury PROPOSER: Jo Armitage I 'm keen to see next year a well organised,

effective and widely supported U n i o n . It is the role of our U n i o n to look after our welfare, interests and to provide the opportunity lor an active social life.

Th i s comes down to a concern lor each ind i v idua l and what each of us looks for in our years here. I sec the H o n . See 's role as one of two-way communica t i on a n d organisation. Hence as wel l as coord inat ing U n i o n Affairs he should be approachable and socially active. H e must be on hand to carry out the dai ly work required in the office but also anxious to cont inual ly widen the scope and outlook of the U n i o n .

The know ledge I have gained as this year's I C U Academic Affairs Officer w i l l be invaluable. Throughout I have shown the sense of purpose and personal involvement needed to get results. As my work dealt w i th

all areas of Col lege I 'm also aware of the dependence on communica t i on . M y two years here have given me the belief that our Exec, must be personally interested and concerned in a l l aspects of college life. As editor of the A l te rnat i ve Prospectus I've shown I 'm capable of that!

T w o points! Publ ic i ty for U G M ' s must go hand in hand w i th encourag ing everyone 10

submit motions; U G M ' s must be maae wor th attending. Secondly I wou ld take an interest in any problems facing C lubs and Societies offering assistance where ever possible.

What I can oi ler as H o n . Sec. is based on a clear insight of what the job entails. 1'hus, I know very wel l of the rout ine tasks and the dedicat ion needed to carry them out efficiently w i th m i n i m a l fuss. I have the experience, in i t iat ive and enthusiasm to do the j ob wel l .

Roger Stotesbury.

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IDEAL HOME EXHIBITION

S P R I N G S H O W

I u s e d to t h i n k t h a t the c u c k o o

h e r a l d e d t h e a r r i v a l o f s p r i n g b u t

t h i s y e a r i t ' s T h e " D a i l y M a i l Idea l

H o m e E x h i b i t i o n " , n o w at E a r l s

C o u r t a n d c e l e b r a t i n g s eventy one

y e a r s o f f a m e .

It 's c e r t a i n l y w e l l w o r t h a v i s i t ; to

s ay tha t t h e r e i s p l e n t y to see i s a n

u n d e r s t a t e m e n t , i n s h o r t i t ' s got

e v e r y t h i n g .

H o m e i m p r o v e m e n t s a n d l a b o u r -

s a v i n g f ea ture s t r o n g l y w i t h f u r n i t u r e ,

d e s i g n a n d d e c o r .

T h e r e a r e sec t i ons d e v o t e d to

g a r d e n i n g , l e i sure , f ood a n d d o m e s t i c

e q u i p m e n t p l u s e x h i b i t i o n houses , o n e

o f w h i c h has r o o m s se l ec ted f r o m those o f

i a v o u r i t e T V stars s u c h as E r n i e W i s e

a n d B r u c e F o r s y t h .

P r o b a b l y mos t use fu l ( i f y o u h a v e a n y

m o n e y left) is a s e c t i on d e v o t e d to

i n v e s t m e n t e tc . Its g o o d to see a l l the b i g

savers i n a c o n f i n e d space a n d p r o v i d e s

a n exce l l en t o p p o r t u n i t y to ' shop

a r o u n d * .

L a b o u r - s a v i n g i n v e n t i o n s o f s p e c i a l

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

a t t a c h m e n t to e n a b l e it to r e m o v e a l l the

t h i n g s it r emoves a n y w a y o n l y m o r e

e f f i c i en t l y : a d e v i c e t o k e e p gas c ooke r s

c l e a n a n d a r o p e tha t doesn t n e e d kno t s .

A view of 'Acorn Magna' with cricket on the common

G o a n d v i s i t A c o r n M a g n a , T h e

N a t i o n a l T r u s t M o d e l V i l l a g e . I t ' s t r u l y

a m a z i n g , a n d so r ea l i s t i c to a n y o n e w h o

has l i v e d i n a v i l l a g e . E a c h o f the

b u i l d i n g s is m o d e l l e d o n s o m e w h e r e i n

th is c o u n t r y a n d yet they a l l b l e n d

t oge the r so that y o u ' d n e v e r k n o w .

T o u r i n g the houses is t i m e c o n s u m i n g ,

t h o u g h not to be m i ssed s ince it g ives a n

e x c e l l en t o p p o r t u n i t y to v i e w idea ls i n

t h e i r p l a c e . I feel I m u s t c r i t i c i s e the p o o r

l i g h t i n g o n the s ta i rcases t h o u g h , as 1

t h i n k the r e is a n o v e r r i d i n g safety f ac to r

w h i c h has been i g n o r e d .

y Y o u m a y not a l l be i n t o r e v o l u t i o n a r y

g u t t e r i n g or w a t e f s o N a e * * . ( t h o u g h

s u r p r i s i n g l y I fojjfnd UiTerrl i n t f c gu ing ) .

B u t 6 ^ r M r a H i v e ^ i r r a / t i l e s fere H o u n d to

impress!***" •> I /

T h e r e ' s lots for e v e r y o n e a n d w i t h

robo ts to t a l k to, p l e n t y to eat a n d d r i n k

a n d a l l y o u r f ab . R a d i o s t a t i t t i s p r esen t

excep t I . C . (why? ) . It exofceds m e r e

' w i n d o w s h o p p i n g ' . /

A d m i s s i o n is £1.20 a n d , fift :r 5 p . m . ,

d o w n to 95p. S o n i p a l o r g to the

e x h i b i t i o n i n its n e w i d e a l l ion e at E a r l s

C o u r t (one s top f r o m G l o n c e iter R o a d

T u b e S t a t i o n ) . T h e s h o w oner s at 10 a m

a n d you get t h r o w n o u t a\i9 p r n ^ o n l y

d o n ' t go S u n d a y 'cos the dXors w i l l be

l o c k e d . | \

b y J o h n S h u t t l e w o r t h j j

SOCIETIES'

STOIC BBC Struggle to Follow STOIC

Initiative!!!

The B B C are at present exper iencing industrial unrest due to their staff's oppos i t ion to E N G (Electronic News Gather­ing). Unti l recently most of the B B C ' s n e w s m a t e r i a l w a s recorded on film, but they have started to record news on video tape (ENG) and this is threatening some of their employees with redundancy (e.g. Fi lm process ing staff).

S T O I C have been using E N G for several years now without e x p e r i e n c i n g a n y i n d u s t r i a l unrest, except, possibly, on co ld Saturday morning rag col lect ions.

The new co lour television for the Southside Lower TV Lounge has arrived and wil l be installed as soon as possible.

Next Weeks Programmes ....

Tuesday 13th: Final se lect ion of IC University Chal lenge Team.

Thursday 15th: Live Transmiss ion of Elect ion U G M .

For Further Details See "Whats O n " . •'• ..„

£10 Yes, that is the pr i ze for

the best photo i n ou r

" P h o t o s o f C o l l e g e "

c ompe t i t i on .

Co l l ege B l ock want

co l our slides o f a n y t h i n g

connected w i t h Co l l ege ,

its life a n d times.

Cop ies o f the chosen

pictures w i l l be taken a n d

kept by the college for

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David Cobham Won't Like Your

Lab Report

Well, probably not. Anyway, David is really interested in what you think of his new fi lm.

This latest full- length feature film is T a r k a The Otter ' - rev iewed on S T O I C a fortnight ago. It depicts the life story of Tarka, and as such is the first fi lm to totally involve animals as the stars.

Because of this, it has been assumed by the media to be a 'Chi ldrens F i lm ' - wh ich is in fact totally untrue.

To correct this, and to see what sensible, mature students think of it, David has sent us 70 free t ickets for a promot ional showing, so this is your chance to see the film free and talk to the man who produced and directed it.

The showing wil l be on Friday

16th March at 127, Waldour Street

(Rank Films Distribution Centre).

A reception has been organised before (7.00for 7.30) and afterthe film.

Z o o l o g i s t s or s i m i l a r are especial ly we lcome as David is particularly interested in howthey view the fi lm.

To get your ticket, drop into the TV studios (Elec Eng 208) on the walkway at lunchtime, or contact Paul Johnson Elec. Eng. 2.

Last weekend, members of I.C.

Radio Society operated their

short-wave station, G5YC, in the

ARRL DX contest; the aim of the

event being to contact as many

American and Canadian amateurs

as possible in a 48-hour period.

This involved a lot of hard work for

all involved; ana being up at rather

unsociable hours for the few

keener members of the club

willing to volunteer for the early

morning shifts.

U n f o r t u n a t e l y , t e e t h i n g troubles with their new 2 kilowatt linear amplif ier forced the station to operate at reduced power for the first 12 hours of the contest. This meant that the society was not in the running for the top p l a c i n g s , b u t t h e y w e r e nevertheless able to make a very respectable 1,222 contacts.

In spite of the difficulties, the event was a great success , with

radio condi t ions at their best for many years: mainly due to the approach ing sunspot max imum. The exper ience gained by the society 's newer operators shou ld prove useful for next year's contest, in which they hope to be more competit ive.

S igna l reports received from Amer i can stations were always excel lent, and it wou ld seem that the c lub has now regained its Former reputation of being "the strongest s ignal out of Europe . "

The contest was well covered by col lege media, with "up to the minute" coverage by I.C. Radio, and video taping by S T O I C , to be used in a fo r thcoming programme f e a t u r i n g t h e a c t i v i t i e s of R A D S O C .

The society 's next important event will be the operat ion of a demonstrat ion station at I.C. Fete.

Russell Whitworth

showing , a n d the or ig ina ls

w i l l be r e turned to the

authors .

A l l y o u have to do is

m a r k you r entries w i t h

y o u r name , depar tment

a n d year, put them i n a n

enve lope addressed to

N.G. Tooby a n d h a n d

them in to the Phys ics

messenger before 13th

March.

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SOCIET8ES' PAGE

AFRO-CARIBBEAN SOCIETY

The t ime has come for the

election o f a new Executive

Committee , to as it were,

break new ground in the

provis ion and direction o f

events related to the culture

a n d e x p e r i e n c e s o f the

Af r ican-Car ibbean students

at I.C.

Theftnindalion has been la id in

terms oi support from embassies willing J<> l o a n ' fi lms, and an

interested membership; help Irom

outside the Col lege and much more va luable mora l support i rom w i th in . Y o u r a n decide

where the growth in activities, communica t i on , in format ion etc. w i l l be. by at tending the forthcoming A n n u a l Genera l Mee t i ng and electing your officers to do the job.

T h e meet ing in R o o m 508,

Electr ica l Engineering Dept.,

is on Wednesday 14th M a r c h

and starts at 12.40pm (snacks

provided).

I hope you enjoy yourself at the A C S Disco tonight in the J C R . It starts at 8pm. see you there.

Haro ld Wi lson

C h a i r m a n

T A L E S O F SANJ IT T E E L O C K

O n c e upon a t ime, on the third ftoor of the Un i on bui ld ing, there lived a little man. H is name was Tiptoes, the laughing gnome. Tiotoes led a lovely life. He misspent his youth (well, his t ime at IC anyway) by p lay ing snooker from dawn to dusk. Then , one day, two devils f rom the land of Maffstoo came into the snooker lounge, and made his life a misery. Within moments , the fluky shots of one of these tormenters, Rastus Od inga Od inga O d i n g a (who c o m e s f r o m M a u r i t i u s , no t 'Maurit ious ' ) , a n d the cheeky comments of the other, U L U Champ , soon made T iptoes into a festering cr ipple. N o more was he the laughing gnome. Instead, the snooker table became a battle­

ground, each pocket being just smal l enough to keep him for a m a s s i n g b i g b r e a k s . H i s l a n g u a g e d e t e r i o r a t e d . H e became short-tempered (though whether he was ever long-tempered is to be queried!)...

If you would like to see this v ic ious little dwarf losing his temper (probably at meforwr i t ing this article), and you are a member of the snooker c lub, why not come up on Wed. 14th March to the Snooker c lub's Annua l Genera l Meet ing at 1.00 p.m. in the Un ion TV Lounge .Nominat ion papers for next year's committee are now up in the snooker lounge, and wil l be taken down on Mon. 12th March at 1 p.m.

Rastus Od inga Od inga

DEBSOC ELECTIONS A b r i e f g l ance at the U n i o n L o w e r L o u n g e N o t i c e B o a r d

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

to l i gh t the - D e b s o c N o m i n a t i o n s P a p e r s !

W h e n y o u (as a D e b s o c M e m b e r ) s t a n d for the f o l l o w i n g

posts, he r e is a p p r o x i m a t e l y w h a t y o u a re l e t t i n g y o u r s e l f i n for:

C h a i r m a n

Does everything he/she can' t get anyone else to do. Th i s involves a large amount of chasing people up - e.g. committee members and prospective speakers. The cha i rman of Debat ing Society also sits on the social, cu l tu ra l and amusements board ( S C A B ) and gets invo lved as a n ' impar t i a l co-ordinator ' in such things as 'Wel fare D a y ' and I C U events such as last years N . U . S . Debate. Th is j ob may wel l be easier next year now the society has a heal thy membership a n d the committee has wel l defined roles. The job is difficult but reward ing and satisfying when a debate is a success. Have a G o !

M i c k Ber ry

Vice C h a i r m a n

Does most of everything that the C h a i r m a n instructs h i m to do. Has to be prepared to deputize for the C h a i r m a n and do various tasks to ensure the smooth r u n n i n g of the society. These tasks inc lude a l l those of the C h a i r m a n and so it is essential that you get on wi th next year's C h a i r m a n . If interested and you feel that you could do a good j ob then why not see me, a n d stand for the post.

Dave Haddon

T h e O the r M a j o r Posts are!

Hon Sec

T h e H o n Sec is responsible for tak ing the minutes of meetings,

he lp ing the treasurer collect memberships and wr i t ing letters to

prospective speakers.

Publ ic i ty Off icer

Debsoc requires a lot of publ ic i ty lor events and therefore a good

publ i c i ty officer. If'you are w i l l i ng to donate time to such a high posit ion

in Debsoc then don't hesitate to stand.

Other Posts

There are eight other posts you might desire to stand for, wh i ch are

self-explanatory from their titles.

Papers are now up in the U n i o n Lowe r Lounge so j o i n now (contact

M . Berry Maths II or come to our M o n d a y meetings at 12.30 Huxley

348) and stand for a post in Debsoc.

H o p i n g that you w i l l push the membership into three figures (we

almost did).

W o u l d a l l members please contact The H o n Sec (Barry Aust in -

Physics II) before Wednesday 14th M a r c h .

Dave Haddon

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CITY AND GUILDS E l e c t i o n p a p e r s f o r the E x e c , p o s t s a r e n o w d o w n a n d

p r o f i l e s a r e g o i n g u p . F o u r o f the p o s t s a re c on t e s t ed ,

w i t h t w o c a n d i d a t e s s t a n d i n g f o r e a c h . T h e y a re ,

P r e s i d e n t , V i c e P r e s i d e n t , A c a d e m i c A f f a i r s O f f i c e r a n d

H o n o r a r y J u n i o r T r e a s u r e r . T h e p o s t s o f H o n .

S e c r e t a r y , E n t e r t a i n m e n t s C h a i r m a n , O l d C e n t r a i l i a n s

R e p . a n d P u b l i c i t y O f f i c e r have one c a n d i d a t e e a c h

a l t h o u g h i t i s p o s s i b l e tha t o t h e r c a n d i d a t e s m a y s t a n d

d o w n to these po s t s .

I f y o u w a n t to k n o w m o r e a b o u t the c a n d i d a t e s c o m e a l o n g to

the E l e c t i o n R a g C o l l e c t i o n th is S a t u r d a y , the 10th o f M a r c h ,

a n d y o u c a n see t h e m a l l i n f ancy dress a n d ask t h e m lots o f

e m b a r r a s i n g ques t i ons .

A l l th i s is i n p r e p a r a t i o n for the E l e c t i o n U n i o n M e e t i n g the

f o l l o w i n g T u e s d a y , the 13th M a r c h , w h e n the H u s t i n g s a n d

E l e c t i o n s t a k e p l a c e . T h e E x e c , y o u vo te i n th i s y e a r c o u l d be the

cause o f the success o r f a i l u r e o f G u i l d s as a U n i o n n e x t y ea r , so

d o c o m e a l o n g a n d vote .

N o w to less serious things, O n Saturday the i n t e r - C . C . U . M o n o p o l y took place to wh i ch 35 Gu i l d smen , 11 r.c.s. and no miners turned up and spent most of the day dashing round a l l the real places on the monopo ly Board , solv ing clues and col lect ing for R a g . I was thoroughly knackered even though I gave up at 2.00 p.m. Gu i l d s col lected ,£149 wi th more cans sti l l to come at the time of wr i t ing .

The E lec t i on Bar N ight on Sunday was a thoroughly boozy and noisy affair w i th plenty of yards drunk (not necessarily well), boat races raced a n d songs sung.

By now the i n t e r - C . G . U . S w i m m i n g G a l a w i l l be over. I f we won,

congratulat ions to those who took part, if we lost commiserat ions. I ' l l

have more to say about that next week.

F U T U R E E V E N T S I N G U I L D S : -

Sat 5th M a r c h : - E L E C T I O N R A G C O L L E C T I O N . Meet 10.00

a .m. in the Gu i l d s U n i o n Office.

Tue 13th M a r c h : - E L E C T I O N U N I O N M E E T I N G .

T h u r s 15th M a r c h : - M E C H . E N G . S O C . F I R S T A N N U A L

D I N N E R . Guest speaker, D r . Boaz j a r r e t t . Tickets £4.50 from K e i t h

T u m e in the C and G U n i o n Office.

T h u r s 22nd M a r c h : - G U I L D S J . C . R . P A R T Y . Tickets 50 p f rom

S i m o n Lea . H u n k

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I.C. WATER POLO CLUB On Tuesday 20th two I.C. teams turned up

to play in the ULU League at Malet Street.

I.C. 1 was to play G u y s Hospital and I.C. 2 was

to play St. Thomases.

I.C. 1 was the first to play. We got off to a fast start with Phi l ip Mil ls scor ing a goal with a hard shot from the left wing. G u y s however, with tight marking and accurate passing, were able to level the score almost immediately. I.C. repeatedly pushed forward, but were foiled by tight marking. In the second and third quarters, Guys scored another coup le of goals after rapidly breaking from their men. Dave Roberts played well in goal, but had difficulty s topping the " C a n n o n Ba l l " shots that were produced by G u y s centre forward. In the last quarter after a hard push forward by I.C., Dave Dunstone got fouled very hard and was awarded a penalty which he got. G u y s scored the last goal to bring the final score to 2:4.

Team: D. Dunstone, P- Mills, D. Roberts, B.

Bradley, D. Papacostantinov, B. Davies, N.

Buckland.

I.C.2 now played their game against St. Thomases.

The IC forwards pushed forward from the throw in, and Pat Porter was able to score from a good pass complete ly taking the goal keeper off his guard. I.C.'s next goal was also scored by Pat wi th a long shot from the right wing.

St. Thomases gained possess ion of the ball and scored a lucky goal. They were, however, complete ly out p layed and were not given another opportunity to break. As if to stress that I.C. were very m u c h in control Pat scored his third goal of the match by neatly p lac ing the ball through the goal keeper's hands.

In the s e cond half of the game Dave Roberts scored after sw imming up the left wing. IC's last goal was scored by Dimitri Papacostant inov with a flick shot from in front of the goal. The final score to a well-deserved win by I.C. was 5-1.

Team: P. Porter, D. Roberts, D.

Papacostantinov, B. Davies, M. Cherry, B.

Bradley.

O n Thursday 22nd I.C.1 played another game in the U L U League against University Col lege.

The goal scor ing was opened by Dave Dunstone with a strong swim up the poo l and a hard shot in goal . U .C . pushed back but were prevented from scor ing by good marking by our backs. Dave scored I.C.'s second goal after an accurate pass from the back. In the second quarter U .C . put a lucky shot past Dave Roberts who was playing in goal for the first two quarters. However almost immediately Phi l ip Mil ls scored after breaking off his man. I.C. was playing well as a team with tight mark ing and cover ing back, because of this play U .C . were given little opportunity to score.

In the third quarter U .C . pushed forward and scored with a very hard and accurate shot wh i ch left our goalie s tanding. I.C. pushed back immediately with another goal scored by Ph i l ip T h e score was pushed up to 5:3 by the end of the third quarter, our other goal being scored by Dave. In the final quarter

CROSS COUNTRY CLUB As Sunday paper sports readers may have

seen, Mike McLeod won the National Cross

Country Championships at Luton last

Saturday and Gateshead won the team race.

What the papers didn't tell, however, was of

the fortunes of the I.C. team. Now read on.

In an epic race in wh ich Steve Ovett could come no better than 6th and Brendan Foster only 19th, the mighty Stu Litt lewood astounded everyone to finish a magnificent five hundred and fifty ninth. Steve Webb, of somewhere in the Blackett Laboratory and captain of Hercules Wimbledon, was shunned by his own c lub and so chose to run for us, contr ibut ing 617 points to the team score. Bryan Ac fo rd failed abysmal ly in his attempt to beat Brendan Foster, but nevertheless just about f inished in the first half of the field in 833rd place. Geoff Sherwood, running in his first National, successful ly broke the four figure barrier to be 987th. March P ickard, having competed in a 55 (five five) mile charity race in Manchester earlier in the morning (!), arrived minutes before the start and pushed his day mileage to 64 whilst f inishing 1034th.

Meanwhi le , R ich Harr ington and Pete J o h n s o n were having a private battle to see who cou ld f inish closest to the number on their vest. R i ch (1321) won by being 1317th, and thus completed the I.C. scor ing team, and Pete (1323) was a c lose second in 1334th. Our team total of 5347 points (only 5149 behind Gateshead) was sufficient to leave us in our usual posit ion of about 100th.

Mark Thwaites, compet ing in the Jun i o r race against many people a year older and vastly more exper ienced, completed the tough 6 miles course in 443rd place. Unfortunately, s ince Mark was our only compet i tor we were unable to repeat last year's performance when we f inished the last complete team.

Once again the selectors have ignored the potential wealth of talent that we possess in the c lub, and chosen the first 9 finishers to represent Eng land in the International in I r e l a n d . W e m u s t o b v i o u s l y c l a i m independence for I.C. and thus send our own team.

This report was brought to you by your on -the-spot team of observers - Steve Kirk (Team

Manager), Maurice Wilson (Team Recorder)

and Ian Morton (Photographer).

T A B L E TENNIS By the t ime this report is pr inted, I

shall undoubtedly have been beaten at

the R.C.S. Pressy Elections and be just

the T . T . Publ icity nobody again ah,

well, on with the show and al l that

T w o weeks since the last report ( l u cky j ohn Harr is ! ) due to lack of matches, but the two results from a fortnight ago are: -

C U P M A T C H (away)

I.C. IV v D E P T . O F E M P L O Y II 4-5

The fourths d id extremely wel l against a team two divisions higher (having beaten D

.of E in the previous round) but were just edged out of the cup this time. Ruther fo rd won three matches and Lamber t one.

I.C. v F U L H A M V (Home) 3-6

Ano ther defeat for the thirds means that they w i l l be the least successful I .C. side this season - guess who plays for the thirds! Last week, a disaster for the 2nds against G A I X S F O R D IV . the top team in D i v . V . H a d the 2nds won. they wou ld have gone top, but they lost 5-4 away, w i th Tye and Ruther ford w inn ing two games each. O n the

bright side however, second place (and hence promotion) is v i r tua l ly assured now.

I.C. 1 v T H A M E S W A T E R A U T H . 8-1

Another rampag ing w in for the firsts keeps their hopes of promot ion very healthy, w i th only a handful of matches to play. ( You can dp it K u m a r ! ) .

F a r less successful were I.C. IV v

B A R B I C A N II (Home). Th is 5-4 defeat seriously impa i r ed - nay, has almost certa inly destroyed, their promot ion hopes unless a couple of m inor miracles occur - l ike the thirds beat ing B A R B I C A N in two weeks time.

Also last weekend saw a smal l I .C. contingent (plus several U . L . U . players from I.C.) in the Thames Po lytechnic O p e n Championsh ips .

T h e most successful player was K a r t i k L a k h a n i (Chem 2) who reached the quarter­f inal of the men's singles, but Ruther fo rd , Stean and Singarajah were less fortunate, be ing e l iminated in rounds two or three.

Here 's hop ing I haven't drowned at the S w i m m i n g G a l a ,

Super M o r o n

Dave scored yet another goal for I.C. to make the final score 6:3. I.C. w inn ing a well played game, and hopefully starting a long str ing of wins yet again.

7eam: S. Taylor, D. Dunstone, P. Mills, D.

Roberts, N. Buckland, S. Hadden, B. Bradley,

J. Grove.

O n Friday 2nd March I.C.2 played a Middlesex League match against Hounslow.

The match started with a couple of I.C.s players not present. In the first quarter Houns low seemed to have played all their own way, they scored three goals by breaking through I.C.'s sl ightly d isorganized defence. However, in the second quarter IC pul led together as a team and stopped most of Houns low 's breaks at goal. Houns low,

however, still managed to score one goal with a good pass and flick in front of our goal .

In the third quarter after the arrival of Dave Chadwick , I.C. played an attacking game. Dave opened I.C.'s scor ing after a swim up the pool and a shot into the left of the goal. He scored another two goals in rapid success ion with fast and aggressive play. Houns low were awarded a penalty halfway through the quarter due to a sl ight misunderstanding, and with that, pushed the score up to 3:5.

In the final quarter Dave was awarded a penalty wh ich he got and Houns low managed to score one more goal to make the final score 4:6.

Team: D. Chadwick, M. Cherry, P. Porter, C.

Dale, E. Iverson, B. Bradley, B. Davies, D.

Papacostantinov, S. Madden.

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3FOOTBALL I R U G B Y

IC IV: LAKIN GOAL CLINCHES POINTS

A goal in the dying seconds by IC IV wonder-captain Phil

Lakin was enough to ensure victory on Saturday by 24-0 against

Q E C II.

With four points at stake, the team felt that we needed an early

breakthrough and indeed this happened when Steve Marten

was fortunate to score in the fifth nano second of the (until then)

hotly contested league game.

Utility man, Steve Veats, surged through shortly afterwards to

sneak a second goal under the unfortunate Q E C goalkeeper.

Real is ing that if Steve Veats can score so can anyone, player

manager Paddy O'Kel ly made a (very) deliberate run into the

penalty area and blasted a third past the depair ing keeper.

Q E C came c lose to scor ing

when Lakin mis-headed a

'c learance' and only a bril l iant

save by agi le Barry Witts in

goal foi led his attempt at

scor ing.

Further goals were added

by u n s t o p p a b l e J a m e s

Rowley - the IV's top scorer -,

Nei l Cat ford, making an

i m p r e s s i v e d e b u t a n d

powerful Dave Higgs on loan

from IC II.

By half-time the score was

11-0 but the team were

warned, by ruthless manager

O'Kel ly, not to s lacken in the

second half. A target of a

further 11 goals was set and

the fourths started again in

mean mood, search ing for

more goals.

Goa ls were f lowing freely

until O 'Ke l ly dec ided that he

wanted a hat-trick and that he

wasn't go ing to pass to

anyone until he got it. There

then fo l lowed a long period of

missed chances until f inally

he put his third goal away.

Goalkeeper Barry Witts was

switched with two-goal hero

Steve Veats and rose to the

outfield chal lenge by scor ing

a goal from a solo run starting

in his own half of the f ield.

Somewhere in between,

James Rowley had managed

to amass 5 goals and Steve

Marten an incredible 6! Nei l

Cat ford also f in ished off his

debut hat-trick and the score

was 22-0 when we real ised

that all four defenders had

failed to score. Hard man Bi l l

Caffyn (who before the match

had cast doubts on our ability

to win - well done Bill!) made

his way to a spot 30 yards from

the Q E C goal and waited for

the ball. The Q E C defence,

not wishing to incur his wrath,

passed the ball to him and he

thundered the ball in to the top

corner of the net for the 23rd

and best taken goal of the

game. Phi l Lakin stole in for

the al l- important 24th and

soon after, the ref blew the

final whistle.

It should be pointed out that

the 2 non-scor ing de fenders -

Gi les Brereton and Neil Morr is

- had decided that it would be

too embarrassing to score

only one goal so they dec ided

not to bother and were

content to contemplate the

meaning of life for most of the

match.

This is believed to be by far

the biggest league victory in

U L U history so well done IC IV

for winning their own place in

the annals of U L U soccer .

The fourths would also like to

point out that in achiev ingth is

result they scored one goal

every four minutes which

disproves a theory by ' the old

man of footbal l ' J o h n Healy

and his right hand man poet-

Laureate A l Cab le that no IC

IV player cou ld run the length

of the pitch in less than five

minutes.

Scorers: Steve Marten (6),

James Rowley (5), Paddy

O'Kelly (3), Neil Catford (3),

Dave Higgs (2), Steve Veats

(2), Phil Lakin (1), Bill Caffyn

(1), Barry Witts (1).

Team: Witts, Morris, Caffyn,

Veats, Lakin, Brereton, Higgs,

Catford, O'Kelly, Marten,

Rowley.

IC 1st XI 2 GOLDSMITHS 0

IC went into this game

needing a win to keep up their

challenge for the p remie r

div is ion title and this was

expected to be a difficult

game. Go ldsmith ' s are also

well placed in the league and

on Saturday (10th March )

contest the cup final with

R H C .

I C took some t ime to settle but managed to wi thstand G o l d ­smith's early attacks. After about hal f an hour the game appeared to be stagnat ing wi th neither side getting the upper hand . T h e n G r a h a m R i c k a r d received the bal l on the left wing, j inked past a couple of Go ldsmi ths ' defenders

I.C. WIN IN FINAL I.C. Ist 23

GUY'S HOSP. 1st 9

I.C. Rugby travelled to the U .L .U . ground at Mo t spu r Pa rk to

take on Guy 's in the F ina l of the Gutteridge Plate Compet i t ion

and after a mediocre per formance emerged clear winners by

the above scoreline.

O n inspecting the pi tch we were amazed to find that the lines had been la id down over the lines of a football p i tch. Th is left criss-crosses of white chalk everywhere and part icular ly-bad was the tr\ line where two lines ran paral le l one yard apart mak ing it difficult to know whit h was the correct l ine. Th i s was to play quite a role in the match.

I .C. began disastrously - be ing it looked as i f I .C. were going to

6 - 0 down w i th in five minutes but managed to pu l l things together somewhat after Dave L i l l e y had s c o r e d a n o p p o r t u n i s t t r y fo l lowing their_full back fumbl ing a ch ip by Ronn i e H o w a r d . Th i s was qu ick ly followed by a penalty goal from the boot of M a u r i c e Cotter .

N o w that I .C. were in the lead for the first t ime they produced some of the best play seen in the match. Th is cu lminated in a fine team try finished off by Peter G o r i n g after some excellent back up play. Before this E d d y Budgen had put over a really 'monster ' drop goal.

T h e second ha l f saw Guy ' s immediate ly increase their score wi th a penalty kick and for a t ime

crack.

Th is was not to be because a further try and conversion by Cot ter elevated the score beyond Guy ' s reach. Th i s was another good try w i th a d u m m y scissors put t ing J o h n Chance l l e r through and leav ing Cot ter to finish off. Just after this M a u r i c e added another penalty to notch up the above total.

However , the score wou ld have been more i f yours truly had not downed the ba l l on the soccer l ine when seemingly through to an easy try.

Thanks very m u c h to a l l those who came a long to support us, by the way!

S. Townsend

before hammer ing a superb shot into the roof of the net . I C d e f e n d e d t h i s l e a d w e l l throughout the second half, o c c a s i o n a l l y t h r e a t e n i n g to extend their lead w i th quick, incisive moves. Towards the end of the game the pressure on the I C goal began to mount w i th Go ldsmi ths ' ga in ing a number of free-kicks w i th theatrics that r e a l l y w a r r a n t e d O s c a r n o m i n a t i o n s . I C d e f e n d e d bravely, Tsoukkas m a k i n g two par t i cu lar ly noteworthy saves, but in the last five minutes they conceded a penalty when Ru t t y was adjudged to have fouled an o p p o s i n g f o r w a r d . H o w e v e r Go ldsmi ths ' were incapable of conver t ing even this opportuni ty into a goal, and in the dy ing minutes of the game R i c h a r d added IC 's second goal w i th another terrific shot.

Team: Tsoukkas, Rutty, Reeve,

henrick, Price, Clarke, Black,

Johnson, K. McPhail, Kenrick,

Brindle.

IC 1st XI UCH 0

IC overcame their recent

loss of three points to R H C in

a double-header (notice how

defeats are never reported),

with a good win over a rather

poor hospita l side. Th i s result

leaves t h e m with an outside

chance o f winning the U .L .

league, though it is now

e s s e n t i a l t o w i n t h e

rema in ing games. H a v i n g

already defeated this t eam 5 -1 earlier this season IC were

not expecting too m u c h

difficulty and this overconfi-

dence showed in the early

part of the game.

Some good moves were put together from tbe start w i th R u t t y at tempt ing to score by boot ing both ba l l and goalkeeper into the net. U C H came back wel l and Tsoukkas had to make an extrovert d i v ing save to push away a shot from the U C H centre forward. IC ' s early confidence began to wane as the game moved on wi th no score in their favour. However after half-t ime the game changed complete ly as the I C players realised they now had the w ind at their backs (not a reference to P h i l Br indle 's tu rd fetish). It was not long before the first goal went in as Paver , remember ing at last to keep his head down when he shoots, r i f led home a low, hard shot to give the U C H keeper no chance. After this first goal the opposit ion folded up and I C began lo play w i th a lot more confidence. Fu r the r goals came from Br ind le (2) and Johnson , though the final score should certainly have been higher than 4-0.

Team: Tsoukkas; Rutty, Reeve,

Paver, Kenrick, Black, Johnson,

Davies, Rickard, Brindle, Stevenson.

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contd. from front page,

A l l agreed that increased food costs shou ld ' now apply only to the " food e lement" in the meal price - about 0.56 per cent. The difference Of op in ion arose over the ca lculat ion of the wage inflation element.

P r o f e s s o r E i l o n ' s s c h e m e involves a 1 per cent rise each month to cover an al leged 20 per cent increase in labour costs. However, Mary At tenborough has sa id that his method does not account for increased turnover in the refectories reducing the increase in labour cost per meal.

She has proposed a 0.2 per cent monthly pr ice rise with a 1.3 per cent increase at the beginning of

the f inancial year on 1st August . This is based on an 8 per cent wage settlement.

Mary At tenborough told a FELIX reporter that she thought Professor Ei lon 's scheme was absurd. Pr ices cou ld go up by 10 per cent in 5 months, wh i ch was far more than necessary. |

She was angry that the meeting was not al lowed to vote on the new scheme as Professor Ei lon said it was Executive act ion. But the Commit tee d id vote against any termly price rise for next term.

The Un ion is taking no further act ion until the Rector makes known his views on the new regulator.

F E L I X C O N S T I T U T I O N FELIX is an IC Union Society as

well as a newspaper, following the

U n i o n P u b l i c a t i o n B o a r d ' s

acceptance of a five-page FELIX

Constitution last Monday.

According to the Constitution

proposed by FELIX Editor John

Harris, the objects of the Society

are:

a) to aid the Editor in the

production of the paper

b) to provide for social activity

among those who help on the

paper

c) to make available to its

members knowledge and use of

the facilities of the Union Print

Unit.

T h e E d i t o r a n d B u s i n e s s Manager, current ly the only officially ex ist ing FEL IX posts, wil l *be ex-off icio members of the i

FEL IX Commit tee wh ich wil l inc lude eight other members elected at the FEL IX Annua l Genera l Meet ing early in the summer term. The Editor and Bus iness Manager wil l cont inue to be elected by the Union .

The Commit tee posts wil l be H o n o r a r y S e c r e t a r y , S o c i a l Secretary, News Editor, Sports Editor, Reviews Editor, Pho tog ra 1

phic Rep., Media Rep. and one ordinary member.

The Soc ie ty is a separate entity from the " F E L I X C l u b " to which members have to be elected by the exist ing membership.

Several people have we lcomed the introduct ion of the FELIX Const i tut ion and expressed a hope that it will provide the framework for more students to become involved in FELIX.

H O N S E C I N H O S P I T A L At 7.38, last Friday morning, Pete Hoddinot (RSM Hon. Sec.) fell 20 ft.

through a wired cast glass skylight, above a storeroom in Mines, and

landed on a pile ot asbestos which helped to break his fall. A few years

ago a French boy died falling through the same skylight.

Pete was late for a trip to an open-cast coa l field organised by the Min and Met Society. He had been told that astuf fed goat had been hidden on the other side of the wall that runs alongside Pr ince Consor t Road. He vaulted over the wall and crashed through the wired glass.

Peter Bamford 'phoned for an ambulance and was the first to reach Pete. Mr. Hoddinot 's face was covered in blood and there was a large piece of glas protruding from just under his eye. Pete was in a state of shock and was worr ied because he couldn't see. However Mr. Hoddinot, renown for his strength on the rugby field, soon managed to recover from the shock.

Pete was sent to St. Stevens hospital and had an operation last Tuesday. After a short spell in intensive care he is now high-spirited and eager to come back to col lege. He is expected to have left hospital by the time FEL IX is publ ished and has had many visitors .... "almost all of

RSM" and several staff.

College Secretary Gives Lecture Mickey Davies, the College Secretary, who has been at IC

since 1962 is to retire on 30th June this year.

O n Tuesday he gave an entertaining retirement lecture

entitled " In the company of scientists" in which he reminisced

about the years he has spent in the College.

In some respects things had changed little, he said. In 1962 I C U n i o n

was outside N U S , in 1979 likewise. Comp la in t s about Mooney ' s chips

were the same then as now.

In 1962 the Col lege budget was £3 m i l l i on whi le in 1979 it had arisen to £27 m i l l i on , he cont inued. T h e 1978-9 income from tui t ion fees alone was greater than the total Col lege income in 1962.

O v e r the years he had seen an increase in staff and student involvement in the Col lege and more democracy. "Indeed we are now

living in a time of more democracy and less money which some would say is not a

very good combination".

T u r n i n g to the future he expressed concern over the College's income

and a desire for more flexible adminis t rat ion.

H e concluded his talk w i th a quotat ion from W . H . A u d e n : "When in

the company of scientists I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into

a drawing room full of dukes."

NEWS IN BRIEF M O R E S T R I P P E R S

T h e W o m e n in Science and Techno logy group is to picket M i n e s Revue on Thursday because there w i l l be strippers on the b i l l .

A l t h o u g h both a male and female str ipper w i l l be featured the women feel that the presence of a male str ipper on this occasion w i l l make no difference to the way in wh i ch such events degrade women. W o m e n are sti l l being treated as sex objects, whereas a single male stripper w i l l not change the att i tude of men towards each other. In any case two wrongs do not make a right, say W i S T .

A W i S T spokeswoman pointed out that the advertisments for the Revue depicted only a woman, w h i c h showed what the event organisers were real ly th ink ing about.

T h e Revue w i l l be in the J u n i o r C o m m o n R o o m and the women w i l l be p icket ing outside before the 8.00 p .m. start. T h e group have picketed R C S S m o k i n g Concer t for the last few years in protest against the presence of strippers there.

C A N N A B I S - I C U I N F O R M S

G O V E R N M E N T

U n i o n P r e s i d e n t M a r y A t tenborough has wri t ten to the H o m e Secretary M e r l y n Rees in forming h im of I C U n i o n ' s d e c i s i o n to s u p p o r t t h e legalisation of cannabis.

In her letter she pointed out that there is no evidence that smoking pot is harmful , and expressed a hope that "the

Government will take note of the

feelings of Ihe millions of people who

have tried cannabis and suffered no ill

effects".

M a r y ' s letter follows a decision at a recent U n i o n M e e t i n g to s u p p o r t the l e g a l i s a t i o n o f cannabis and affiliate to the "Lega l i se C a n n a b i s " campa ign .

I C U C L A I M S M O R E M O N E Y

Imper ia l Col lege U n i o n is to ask Col lege for a £134,000 grant next session to pay for r u n n i n g the U n i o n and a l l its clubs and societies.

Th is figure represents a 16.5 per cent increase on this year's grant and was arr ived at after d e t a i l e d c o n s i d e r a t i o n o f estimates submitted by a l l U n i o n bodies.

N E W S C H O L A R S H I P

T h e W o r l d Univers i ty Service has proposed a new scholarship to enable a " t h i r d w o r l d " student to study at Imper ia l Col lege.

T h e scholarship wou ld be tenable for a one-year M . S c . course. T h e Col lege wou ld waive tui t ion fees, a n d money to cover the student's l i v ing costs wou ld be raised from academics. T h e Col lege Deans have suggested that the Rec tor and U n i o n President M a r y A t tenborough l aunch an appeal .

I C U n i o n raised £500 for the W o r l d Univers i ty Service at the beg inning of the session when students were invi ted to donate 50p when col lect ing their U n i o n cards.

M P T O H E L P I C U

Geoff Edge, L a b o u r M P for A ld r idge Brownhi l l s , has agreed to arrange a meet ing between r ep r e s en ta t i v e s o f I m p e r i a l Col lege U n i o n and personal advisers to Educa t i on Secretary Shir ley W i l l i ams in response to I C U ' s tu i t ion fees campa ign .

U n i o n P r e s i d e n t M a r y At tenborough 's home is in M r . E d g e ' s c o n s t i t u e n c y n e a r B i r m i n g h a m and she lobbied h i m last M o n d a y as part of the Un ion ' s campa ign .

M r . Edge, a member of Labour ' s T r i b u n e G r o u p , used to work for the Depar tment of Educa t i on and Science. H e w i l l try to fix the meet ing as soon as possible.

A p a r t from tui t ion fees, M a r y A t tenborough intends to raise the question of" the Government 's general att i tude towards overseas students and the prob lem of the ord inary residence def init ion.

I C U O N G R A N T S M A R C H

I C U n i o n is to part ic ipate in N U S ' s grants march today and provide a float despite N U S ' s decision not to a l low I C U to take part as an organisation.

A n Ex te rna l Affairs Commi t t ee meet ing on Wednesday decided to ignore the N U S ban, imposed because I C U is no longer a member. T h e float w i l l depict the grant problems of overseas postgraduate students and the means test. A coach w i l l be leaving the U n i o n A r c h at 1.15 p.m.

R C S E L E C T I O N S

T h e election for the top posts in R C S U n i o n held on Tuesday this w e e k h a s b e e n d e c l a r e d inquorate. A n R C S U n i o n M e e t i n g today is to decide whether to ratify the results.

THE ROYAL S C H O O L OF MINES PROUDLY PRESENTS T H E "

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* m a l e & f e m a l e s t r i p p e r s

^ t r a n s v e s t i t e c o m p e r e

* s k e t c h e s

^ c o m e d i a n

* f i l m — t h e

b a w d y a d v e n t u r e s

o f t o r n j o n e s

TICKETS £1 IN THE J.C.R.

T H U R S . 1 5t h

M A R C H START 8.00 p.m.

TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM A L L C C U OFFICES & BARS

- IMPERIAL GAMES -

To be held, at the " WEST LONDON STADIUM " on the

I afternoon of Wed. 25**April.

I Come and run on a TARTAN TRACK . transport to and from

the stadium will be provided.

R.C.S. v C.&G. v R.S.M.

Events :-

Men - 100,200,400,800,1500, 3000 m.

110 & 400 m. hurdles,

2000 m. steeple chase & 2000 m. walk 3

long, tr iple & high jumps 5

shot, discus & javelin >

4x100 m. ,4x400 m. & 4x400m.x1 pint relays.

Women- 100,300,800 m. ;

jumps & throws if required.

Further details may be obtained from :

Pete Barry , room 625 Huxley Building t int. 4319 ) .

Coach will leave for stadium at 1 pm. Special arrangements

for transport will be made for those students having exams,

in the morning of the 25*t Will these students please give

their names in to Pete Barry or to any X-country club

official so that we may know how many to provide for .