FELIX IS THE WAY TO LIFE NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE UNION F R E E !
20th March, 1973
ISSUE No.
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And for the second time of asking
RENT A n Extraordinary General Meeting of Imperial College Union has been called for Tues-
The
day at 1 p.m. in the Great Hall. A petition con-
Day of Boredom
Motion
taining the required 130 signatures was col-
CATERING/RESIDENCE
lected last week.
Proposed by Trev Philips The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the motion below. Basically this calls for a rent strike for next term to "fight against loan financing of new h a l l s " and " a s part of the N a t i o n a l G r a n t s C a m p a i g n . " The m o t i o n was put to the Grants A c t i o n Committee at its meeting last F r i d a y , and was approved
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albeit by a vote of four for f our against. The votes against were led by J o h n Lane, I C U President, who wanted clauses 1 to 4 inclusive deleted. A p p a r e n t l y a l l the members present at the meeting were in favour of a rent strike. A m o t i o n calling for a rent strike was put to the first union meeting of this term, a n d defeated. The left-wing factions were dissatisfied then because the remainder of
f C U a d d s ' to t h i s that " W e m u s t m a k e the state p a y " a n d " R e f e c b o y c o t t s a n d o t h e r t a c t i c s w i l l be m a i n t a i n e d if n e c e s s a r y a s part of the f i g h t a g a i n s t s e l f f i n a n c i n g a n d p r i c e i n c r e a s e s , e t c . even if grants are increased." I C U i n s t r u c t s the r e f e c , c o m m i t t e e r e p s , to a s k the c o l l e g e for a s s u r a n c e s that t h e r e w i l l be " n o p r i c e i n c r e a s e s . . . e t c . (as above)".
N o w lacking publicity, and w i t h rapidly declining interest i n the G r a n t s C a m p a i g n , the motion stands its chance of getting through only in a meeting like this E x t r a o r d i n a r y one where there is likely to be a good Soc. Soc. turnout a n d few others.
Day
of
Action
of participation
than was
apparent at last
year's Autonomy Day of Action. Lecture boycotts
were not
unsuccessful — attendances
varied between near zero to nearly 90 per cent. B u t most of those that
ried
a story
straight
boycotted lectures, predic-
o f the N U S Press
tably, stayed
headlined
at h o m e
in
out
Service
"500,000
on
bed. A t t e n d a n c e at the a l -
s t r i k e . " It seems u n l i k e l y
ternative syllabus took u n -
that
t i l half-past ten to
a n y effect o n anyone, l§ast
reach
the strike w i l l
have
the fifty m a r k , despite hav-
of
If the a s s u r a n c e s a r e n o t f o r t h c o m i n g I C U to w i t h d r a w a l l r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s f r o m the refec committee until a U G M decided otherwise. ' '
i n g such speakers as M i c h -
still
ael D u a n n e , t h ex-head of
thing a b o u t student grants
Risinghill
comprehensive
from next year other t h a n
A s a f u r t h e r p a r t of t h e c a m p a i g n f r o m d e c e n t l i v i n g s t a n d a r d s I C U r e a f f i r m s the p o l i c y that " t h e D E S m u s t p a y for a l l future h a l l s " and so I C U :
s c h o o l , w h o caused such a
the £20 increase in under-
rumpus
graduate
i.
ii.
were left w i t h all the policy but none of the action."
National
brought with it even greater apathy and lack I C U a f f i r m s the G A C d e c i s i o n to m a k e o n e of the t w o c e n t r a l d e m a n d s of t h e r e f e c tory b o y c o t t s , Total opposition to the " s e l f financing policies in refecs. N o p r i c e i n creases no c u t s i n p o r t i o n s — no closure of any r e f e c s . — n o r e d u n d a n c i e s or s h o r t t i m e for staff.
the grants
motion was passed overwhelmingly, and " w e
Wednesday's
a s k s c o l l e g e a u t h o r i t i e s to s e p a r a t e l y the 3 5 p v o l u n t a r y hall bills;
itemise levy o n
ii.
to f i g h t a g a i n s t l o a n f i n a n c i n g of halls; as part paign.
of
the
national
grants
his
novel
to d o
grants
that
any-
has
been
early
years now. M r . N o r m a n St
1960's.
was
Mary
Richardson,
f r o m the N U S Discussion
Executive.
was
John
scheduled for
Stcvas,
under-secre-
tary of. State at the partment
of
two
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on
a n d Science, however, has
such topics as the W h i t e
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held
those at-
tending were f r o m the p o l -
tion
itically
grants.
active
sections
of
the I C U n i o n C o m m u n i t y .
new O t h e r parts of the c o u n cam-
refusing
are
ideas of education i n the
T h e other m a i n speaker
w i l l g i v e f u l l s u p p o r t to a n y s t u d e n t exercising his discretion over payment of l e v y .
T h i s u n i o n r e c o g n i s e s the u r g e n c y of the a c c o m m o d a t i o n s i t u a t i o n in a n d a r o u n d S o u t h K e n s i n g t o n , the n e e d a s s u c h for m o r e h a l l s of r e s i d e n c e a n d to f i g h t a g a i n s t l o a n f i n a n c i n g i n s t e a d of s u b s i d i e s f o r a l l f u t u r e h a l l s of r e s i d e n c e . T h i s union theref o r e a d v o c a t e s a rent s t r i k e s t a r t i n g f r o m the b e g i n n i n g of n e x t t e r m i n o r d e r : — 1.
with
a l l the D E S , w h o
try
saw
little better
ponse,
although
national
newspapers
ried £275
of
married
women's
A t present mar-
women per
receive
annum
only
against
res-
the n o r m a l grants of £480.
most
subject to a means test o n
car-
their parents income.
M a r c h 20th, 1973
FELIX
Page 2
It's convert-the-Editor
week!
"The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life" (2 Corinthians, 3:6)
Sir, Surely Karl Marx would be turning in his grave if he had seen the word "logic" into the letter smuggled from Mr. Veall, who professes to be a follower of Marx (or is it Trotsky or Lenin, Stalin, Mao, etc?). Logic is something we scientists are weaned on, presumably to use, so let us use it. I have never in previous letters to "Felix" used "arguments . . . in support of the existence of this person called Christ" any more than we use "arguments in support of the existence of a- of a person called" Julius Caesar or Henry VIII. Historical fact is not argument: I have q u ot e d Josephus, the Bible and Tacitus, can we logically ignore the documents? Really, faith it requires far more then to be an agnostic than it does to be a Christian! I feel, therefore, it is absurd to call these facts "sheer nonsense" and then to insult the intellect of readers of this newspaper by not giving a coherent reason why they "amounted to sheer nonsense". Once again it seems necessary to clarify the meaning of the word "Christian". Christ came to give us life: "I came that they might have life in all its fullness" John 10 : 10. He died because Man's basic problem is not only distribution of wealth, God is not so myopic as was Marx, he knows our problems are far deeper, the Bible calls this problem SIN. Very briefly, sin is man's wish for complete selfsufficiency, that is, a rebellion against God and our relationship with Him. Man is capable of this SIN because God made us "in his own likeness" (Gen. 1 v 26). God's will is free and so is ours. Normally we choose ourselves instead of God and we cause a separation. fall "All have sinned and short of the glory of God" Romans 3 : 2.3In dying Jesus restored our relationship with God, provided we accept his death for our sins. Furthermore in accepting Christ, He comes into our lives as Saviour and Lord and gives us new life. Now I hope you will have noticed I have not once mentioned Church. This is simply because a Churchgoer is not necessarily a Christian, and Christianity is that Mr. Veall not the Church has nightmares about (remembering Sunday school at the age of 10), but Christianity is a p e r s o n a l knowledge Christ, the Son of of Jesus
The
God. So it is quite possible that large organisations we know as religious often not adhering to their foundations (i.e. for Christianity personal knowledge of Christ and the Bible, God's Word) have made great moral mistakes. These mistakes are mistakes occurring due to man's wish into his own to take things hands en masse and are analagous to such moral mistakes as we find in Red China where schoolchildren hate are indoctrinated to certain races or classes, or as we find in Russia where although a front of religious freedom is portrayed, the Christians I talk about, who confess Jesus as Lord are persecuted. Even Kosygin sees the difference. Perhaps "Religion" in that sense "is the opiate of the people", but "Jesus Christ is the light for all people: And the light still shines in the darkness" John 1 : 5. So Christ presented us with facts, with his sacrifice for our sins, a new life, and life with him forever. It is a free gift from God, from a God who loves us. So what about all the other things Mr. Veall mentioned which that he thought suggested God doesn't love us? He suggests starvation, massive wars, atom bombs, etc. As the Bible explains man's problem is sin and these are appeal the r e s u l t of sin. So I to all reading this letter, realise God does not ask you to believe contradictions, but truths, Jesus said: "I am the way, t h e t r u t h , and the life" (John 14 : 6). God has made it far easier to believe his logic than man's paradoxes. I pray that many more hard hearts in this College will become followers and friends of Jesus Christ and find their true identity. "God is faithful, by whom we were called into the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ, Our Lord" (1 Cor. 2 ix). I remain, Yours in Christ, MAURICE
MOLONEY, Chemistry II.
P.S. — Perhaps Oily you could persuade Ali (don't mind if I call you Ali, do you?) to have a Theological Page next year; it would save wear-and-tear on the mailbag.—M.M. P.P.S. — / promise never a letter as long as to write this again to Felix this Academic Year.—M.M. Sir,
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In answer to Mr. Jock VealTs letter, I think that he silly. He is being not a little states that the "arguments"
Landsnapper
presented the previous week were "sheer nonsense". This is interesting because I did not read any arguments, just facts, and it is necessary to distinguish between arguments and facts (it is noteworthy, however, that in George Orwell's book of the future, "1984", the regime of the time changed historical facts to suit their own ends). He "stands logic on its head" by doing this. If he were to try and find out then reject the facts and them if he can, this would be logical, but just to reject something out of hand just because it goes against his own doctrines is foolishness, especially when Christ has so much to offer. In saying that the previous week's correspondents had called Christ a revolutionary indicates to me that he had not read either letter properly. It was an earlier correspondent who had called Him this. However, Christ is a revolutionary in the true meaning of the word, because he revolutionises individual lives. Mr. Veall appears to be very narrow in his definition of revolutionary, only taking the political meaning. A true revolutionary is someone who causes a complete reChrist versal, which is what does to individual lives when people invite Christ into their lives, first by admitting that they feel a need for Him (everyone does at some time in their lives), then confessing that they have been sinning against God (everydoes—Romans 3:23), one and then asking Christ to come into their life and take full control of it and become Saviour and Lord of their life. In most of the rest of the letter, he writes about religion, N O T Christianity. This is a very common fallacy. It that Christshould be noted ianity is not a religion. In answer to Mr. Veall's question "mystical or material (prayer or struggle)?", I have found in the last year that prayer is a far more powerful means for instigating action than belligerent struggle which only comes wall. How up against a brick he can talk about prayer, I do not know. He obviously knows nothing about its meaning. It is a very complex subject and even very old Christians do not totally understand prayer. As Paul says in Romans, chapter eight,, verse 26: "For we don't even know what we should pray for, nor how to pray as we should, but the Holy Spirit prays for us with such feeling that it cannot
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be expressed in words". Anyone wishing to find out the real facts need only to turn to the Bible. If you still have any problem, ask a Christian (easily found at the Christian Union bookstall on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the JCR, or in the maths library, first floor, 53, Princes Gate on Fridays at 6.30). Yours in Christ, DIGBY
L.
JAMES.
Civ. Imperial London 16 March
Eng.2 College, S.W.7 1973
Sir, The only criticism I have so far received of my letter published in 'Felix' a fortnight ago, was that, whereas I submitted that physical explanations for the miracles Christ was reported to have performed were weird, the critic felt that to say God did weird. them was far more His opinion stems, I believe, from our general reluctance to consider anything outside our physical realm coupled with our enormous capacity to ignore things which are not SEEN to affect us at the moment. I would like, in very basic and simple terms, to explain why this 'narrow-minded, I feel materialistic' attitude to be error. fundamentally in If you were to look up from this letter you would see something. Perhaps some people, or a wall . . . a grass field, or maybe, just air and clouds should you happen to be up in a balloon. No matter what you are looking at it will be made of atoms, so tell us, our scientist friends and from these atoms, which in turn are made up of smaller particles of matter, our 'physical' universe is constructed. We are also inthat, although the formed matter may be rearranged or changed in form, it is incapable of reproduction, creation and destruction. You will by now have guessed what comes next. Yes, that's it, the fact that matter does exist and yet cannot have itself implies the created existence of something else. No, not a Christian God, we have not got that far yet, but we can now make two inferences about this 'Thing'. It is non-physical; it defies at least the physical law of 'no self creation'. Also it created the physical universe. We have up to now gressed using simple and deductions which available to and, I understandable by all read this letter, and I
profacts are hope, who shall
endeavour to extend this method to a second line of thought. Consider now the last time you REALISED someone was in need of your help. Maybe, you saw someone staggering along carrying more than they could manage, or it friend could have been a asking for help at an inopportune moment. Whatever it was the following basic feelings will have been present. You will have wanted to help, either because of a 'natural herd instinct' or because of selfish motives (e.g. the friend might do something in return). Conflicting with this will have been any of a whole host of 'negative emotions'. For instance, you will have realised that you will be inconvenienced, that you would be spending time on something unbeneficial to you, and in the case, say, of rescuing someone in a burning building, that you would be putting yourself in danger. Thirdly your 'conscience' (I use this word because it will conjure up to the reader roughly the sort of thing I mean, but I reserve the right to modify my meaning of 'conscience' without reference to the normal dictionwill generally ary definition) tell you to help. Now the 'herd instinct' when it comes to unselfish help is rather weak. One might say that the drive behind 'preservation of species' is small compared with that behind 'preservation of self. So one would then expect help to be rarely forthcoming without selfish motives. Yet help does come quite often. 'Conscience'? More often though we ignore our 'conscience' and do not do what it tells us. But it does not give up. It keeps on nagging time we reject its every guidance. A little expounding is now necessary. 'Conscience' does not appear to be justified on solely physical grounds. What, for example, is the physical reason for unselfishness? Also a 'conscience' appears to be a possession of all common men. Furthermore, stop and think about what the world would be like if we were all ruled by our 'consciences'. I feel it would be a better place, but whatever you think, it would be GUIDED CONSTANTLY towards one final state. Notice that no matter how incomplete the method of deduction above we believe may be or what 'conscience' to be it does not affect the base and the end. 'conThe fact that we have sciences' and that they are non-physical. In both my
points, of creation and of 'conscience', I am using as only facts which are just evident and available to the reader as they are to me. Surely now our suspicions must be aroused. We have, from earlier, an un-physical 'Thing' creating a physical universe. We have an unphysical force trying to run a physical universe; demonstrating that the physical has not just been created and forgotten. Although, we this situation which have may be insufficient in itself to warrant action, it should definitely awaken us in our attitude to the non-physical. Let us now call up Christianity to see what it has to say on these points. We read (R.S.V.):— in John 1:1-5 ..."In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not that was anything made made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it". Here we have the creator, God. We have the power world, God's behind the Word, not only manifested in the world and ourselves, but also written in The Bible. And we have the Word's constancy both of purpose and of perseverance. See also Genesis 1:1, 1 John 1:1; Rev. 19:13; John 17:5; Col. 1:16; 1 Cor. 8:6; Heb. 1:2, John 5:26, 9:5, 11:25. 12:46, 14:6. Then in Romans 3:23 (R.S.V.):— "Since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God". Here we have our disobedience to God's Word. The realisation of these two points is fundamental to becoming a Christian. 1: God made us and 'loves' us. 2: We reject his 'love' and go our own way and so are sinners. still to call If we are Christianity untrue, weird, or then a crutch for the needy, consider atheism. For that we need to reject facts we know and experience daily. We need eventually td reject our very existence, so do not associate atheism with logic. Yours in Christ, ROBERT Civ.
SLOTA. Eng. II.
Other letters page 3
March 20th, 1973
FELIX
VOTE!
'The Fool says in his heart, "There is no God" They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none that does good' (Psalm 14) Sir,
,
out I would like to point several pieces of misinformation in Mr. Veall's letter, published last week. For the existence of a historical figure called Jesus there is sufficient evidence; there are few historians today who would seriously that fact. On that dispute point there is little need to elaborate. Even Mr. Veall seems to accept it, despite his statement to the contrary, as he went to great lengths to assert that this figure (who never existed in his opinion) advocated a philosoplight phy of apathy to the of oppressed people. First of all, we should ask ourselves what was the standpoint of Christ concerning the oppression of the masses. The message that Christ brought was one of love for others — a love which was radically different from anything before it or since (including the Greek tradition of Eros as formulated by Plato) in that it advocated selfless love for all individuails. The true other message of Christianity has always contained an ideology based on sharing, and it goes beyond socialism and the trade union movement (although it is not opposed in that it upholds to them) and preserves a belief in the dignity and worth of the individual. An apathetic lack of caring for the suffering of others is diametrically opposed to Christian ideology and the teachings of Christ. I would agree with Mr. Veall that often the institution of the church has failed in active interpretation and representation of Christ's teachings but that in no way undermines their validity. If 'God Soc' are guilty of apaof 'God thy that is a failing Soc' and not of the Christian ideal. As much as anyone I wish to see a liberation of the under-privileged people. The Christian message, if properly interpreted, asks us to get off our pampered back-sides and do something about it. It would be that much easier if the motivation for helping arose from a genuine belief in the sanctity of man and his individual worth. Christianity is not concerned solely with the 'after-life'; its concern is here and now as well. Secondly Mr. Veall's accusation of egoism might fairly be levelled against the mystical Eastern religions but it is a fundamental error to attack the Judeo-Christian tradition on this point. In Eastern mysticism the desire is for the self to be absorbed in the Universal Being. As far as Christian theology is concerned, once you have accepted God's existence, then one's personal acts are directed by His will, w h a t e v e r i t m a y b e . The true Christian is theocentric rather than egocentric, and 'you' becomes more important than 'I'; he acts as ha does, not through any fear of divine punishment {if you don't do as I tell you to, I'll take the goodies away) but because of his love for God will, and his desire to do His and his love for people as good, God-created rational beings; and he does this whatever the consequences now or hereafter. Mr. Veall also implies that God is created by man, not viceversa, and that the facts are analysed in terms of how they fit the self. He ignores specific explicit divine reveboth lation as described in Old and New Testaments, revquite apart from natural
elation available to us all whatever our beliefs. Finally he makes the ageold objection to the existence of an all-powerful being-the objection being the existence of suffering. We are not puppets on strings to be made to dance at the whim of the Creator, because He did not make us so. We are rational creatures with free-will, distinct from one another and from God, capable of loving and creating beauty; capable also of hating and hurting others. It is theologically and politically dangerous to suggest, as some Evangelical preachers do, that the solution to the world's problems is dependent on the conversion of the world to Christianity. We have got ourselves into a mess and we are capable of getting ourselves out. From a Christian stand point it is easier to get things sorted out, but it is not impossible to solve a natural problem by natural means. Revolution is not an end in itself, it can only be judged good or bad by the end it is aimed at, and the means it uses to get there. The ends of Christianity contain and go far beyond the ordeals of social revolution, and its means are more efficient in that it changes people, as well as systems and structures. Mr. Veall has made the very common mistake of equating and judging Christ and the Christian philosophy by the actions of the Church as an institution. Perhaps if he made a closer study of philthese teachings and this osophy he would find that as far as the social aspect is concerned, they lead very much in the same direction that his 'revolution' is taking him. In addition he has no guarantee that revolution will succeed; there is a guarantee, however, that Christianity will succeed. Yours
sincerely,
ALEC
MacANDREW Civics
Nomination papers are now up for the posts of
GLC elections
I agree with Mr. Veall that the 'great hastions of religion' have committed terrible deeds which they s a i d were done in the name of God. How could these have been done truly in God's name when they directly contradicted Biblical teaching? It is very important not to confuse with Christianity. "religion"
that this election has been held; a fortnight ago, only 540
Sir,—To any person who does not hold a Union Post, and is not a member of one left wing societies., of the the recent activities of the Union can only be described as amusing. The lack of interest Union affairs is supposed be due to Apathy. But I to suggest that the real son is that the Union's cisions do not represent views of its members.
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If only just over 10% of all students at Imperial College are present at an EGM when a strike motion is passed, is it really any wonder that the strike is ineffective? And it must also be remembered, in the case of the recent strike, that the strike motion was only passed after a lot of manoeuvering by the left wing to get the vote taken at a time when the meeting was just quorate. Any realist must admit that once the meeting is quorate, then the that are present, more people the less likely it is that the left wing will get their way. To the average student, manoeuvering is irall this relevant. Whilst obviously wanting a grant increase, he is not prepared to boycott lectures to get it. In Elec. Eng. 3, for instance, there was at least a 90% attendance at the 9.30 a.m. lecture. A handful of pickets and a mere 50 people (approximately—count taken at 10.30 a.m. in the Great Hall) at the teach-in hardly suggests that the college is enthusiastically behind its Union. When those present at Union meetings are so unrepresentative, it is little wonder that so lew people worth while to thought it even vote in the recent elections. T h e best w a y to defeat the militant minority is simply to ignore them. Yours
sincerely, PETER
ADAMS, Eng.
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Sir,—You may or may not know that a recent Royal College ot Science Union General Meeting mandated the college authorities to provide soft lavatory paper in RCS for humanitarian reasons. Now several weeks later no action has been taken. We have therefore to mount a campaign purpose of forcing lege authorities to our claim.
decided for the the colconcede
Should no action be forthcoming the sanitary facilities of RCS will be brought to a constipated halt. A small taste of what is to come will be experienced by the higher echelon of RCS tomorrow (Wednesday). Recently in America it has been proved by several eminent psychologists at Hardvard that hard loo paper can suilead to impotence and cidal tendencies amongst those of tender disposition. We hope that this has highlighted the fact this is a very sore amongst students. Yours
letter that point
TTPGD,
SMITH Yours
8 JONES
(Alias)
sincerely, per ANNE
MERRY
President and Secretary of IC Union for the next academic year, 1973-74. It will be the second time
Elec.
Christianity does not mean wearing a suit and trotting along to church each Sunday, big black Bible under arm. Christianity is a personvjith God al relationship through Jesus Christ. Christ's message was one to build a new social structure NOT by changing the social environment but by changing individual lives through love. No matter what the social environment is, man is basically greedy thus to change individual people is the only solution. This is Christ's revolutionary message for everyone that He can and will change your life.
ELECTIONS BUREAUCRACY
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letSir,—In Jock Veall's ter of last week's Felix, he criticised the Church as 'always coming down on the side of the old reactionary social structure'. Surely Mr. Veall was referring to the organised Church which is not necessarily synonymous with Christianity.
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Committee.
RCS
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Action
L o t s of people t h i n k I C U is powerless a n d irrelevant a n d d o n ' t vote. L o t s of people t h i n k I C U are a waste of time a n d don't vote. B u t n o one i n their right m i n d s c o u l d say that the G r e a t e r L o n d o n C o u n c i l is any of these things. T h e G L C runs L o n d o n f r o m traffic system to development plans a n d as y o u live here f o r at least 30 weeks of the year y o u shoul d m a k e sure y o u have a say i n h o w it is run.
people voted, a shortfall of 480 on the
quorum. T h e papers are on the Council noticeboard in the Union Lower Lounge; names require a proposer and twenty seconders, and only full members Union may
stand.
Both posts carry a
of
IC
sabbatical
year. The papers come down at 5 p.m. on Friday. The Hustings will be held at a union meeting on the first Thursday of term, 3rd May, and polling will be on the following Monday and Tuesday, 7th and 8th May. T h e first issue of FELIX scheduled for next term is M a y 8th; however, in view of the elections, it is quite likely that a special issue may be printed for May
FELIX will at
1st.
least
produce a special
broadsheet for that day. This extra issue will, as
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Felix Diary Tuesday 20th 07.00 12.35 12.45 13.00 13.00 13.30 17.00 17.40
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E d i t o r of F e l i x g o e s o n h o l i d a y . I.C. C a t h o l i c S o c i e t y : M a s s C h e m i s t r y 2 3 1 . S T O I C Televison Service: Feature film: " E v e r y H o m e S h o u l d Have O n e " starring M a r t y F e l d m a n a n d J u l i e Ege. J C R a n d South S i d e . EXTRAORDINARY UNION GENERAL MEETING. GREAT HAL^. R C S Mathematical and Physical Society Film show, "Treasure T r o v e " , " W e s t Coast C a r g o " , P h y s i c s Theatre 3. " T h e Insect W a r " (Horizon f i l m from B B C TV, 1 9 7 0 , running time 50 minutes) Physics Theatre 3. Educational Technology Committee. College Block 329. Second Orchestra Informal C o n c e r t s Concert. Concert H a l l , R C M . I.C. R a i l w a y 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 F i l m s h o w i n c l u d i n g t r a n s p o r t c l a s s i c s " G i a n t s of S t e a m " , " T h e E l e p h a n t W i l l N e v e r F o r g e t " (all w e l c o m e , a d m i s s i o n free). M e c h . E n g . 6 6 4 . I.C. W i n e t a s t i n g S o c i e t y . T a s t i n g of P o r t by D i e n h a r d a n d C o m p a n y ( s m a l l c h a r g e for n o n •members). S e e n o t i c e b o a r d s for l o c a t i o n . S T O I C T e l e v i s i o n S e r v i c e : R e p e a t of 1 2 . 3 0 t r a n s m i s s i o n . S o u t h side. I.C. T r a n s c e n d e n t a l M e d i t a t i o n S o c i e t y . I n t r o d u c t o r y t a l k : E l e c . E n g . 606. Holland Club Bridge Club, 15 Prince's Gardens. Holland Club Art Society, 15 Prince's Gardens. I.C. P h o t s o c : C h e e s e a n d w i n e p a r t y , i n c l u d i n g s h o w of c o m p e t i t i o n e n t r i e s a n d w i n n e r s , p r e s e n t a t i o n of p r i z e s a n d s h o r t A G M ( e v e r y one w e l c o m e , a d m i s s i o n free). P h y s i c s 6 3 0 . I.C. C h r i s t i a n U n i o n I n t e r n a t i o n a l E a s t e r R e c e p t i o n i n c l u d i n g a f i l m o n t h e E a s t e r S t o r y , r e f r e s h m e n t s a n d e n t e r t a i n m e n t (all w e l c o m e ) . P h y s i c s l e v e l 8. W i n e Hall Dinner (Black tie), College Block. I.C. S y m p h o n y O r c h e s t r a C o n c e r t . W a g n e r , " D i e M e i s t e r s i n g e r " ; W e b e r " C l a r i n e t c o n c e r t o N o . 1 " ; B r a h m s , " S y m p h o n y N o . 2 in D " . Conductor, A n d r e w Stowell; Soloist, Roger F e l l o ws (admission 25p). Great Hall. I.C. C a t h o l i c S o c i e t y : s h a r e d p r a y e r , 5 3 C r o m w e l l R o a d .
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I.C. W i v e s ' C l u b : V i s i t to the C o l l e g e A r c h i v e s a n d t h e D e p a r t m e n t of H i s t o r y of S c i e n c e a n d T e c h n o l o g y ( l u n c h e o n w i l l be a v a i l a b l e in 1 7 0 Q u e e n ' s G a t e , p r i c e 8 0 p ) . M e e t C o l l e g e B l o c k e n t r a n c e hall. A d v a n c e d C l a s s in H e b r e w . E l e c . E n g . 1 0 0 9 . B e g i n n e r s c l a s s in H e b r e w . E l e c . E n g . 1 0 0 9 . Holland Club Photographic Society. Print c r i t i c i s m. Elec. Eng. 209. I.C. I s l a m i c S o c i e t y . M e e t i n g a n d d i s c u s s i o n . C o l l e g e B l o c k 0 0 2 . I.C. A r t C l u b . R o y a l C o l l e g e of A r t . Second Chamber Orchestra Concert. Concert Hall, R C M .
"GB" T h e W e s t m i n s t e r T h e a t r e is u n i q u e — f o r its p r o d u c t i o n s f o r t h e M o r a l R e - A r m a m e n t M o v e m e n t (yes, f o l k s , M R A ) are f i r m l y i d e o l o g i c a l l y d e d i c a t ed. My own personal attitude t o w a r d s M R A is not u n l i k e m y a t t i tude towards the S u s s e x County Cricket C l u b — deep respect and h e a r t y a p p r o v a l of its a i m s , w h i l e l i m i t a t i o n s of t i m e a n d e n e r g y p r e c l u d e the f u l l e s t d i s c i p l e s h i p . T h u s the n e w R e v u e " G B " c a n n o t , i n d e e d m u s t n o t , be j u d g e d o n the normal, purely theatrical, grounds—for it n e v e r p r e t e n d s to o w e a n y t h i n g but p a c e to the m o d e r n , p o s t - " B e yond The F r i n g e " , satire. The sketches are, often, extremely funny, a n d t h e rather s t a n d a r d p o i n t s are m a d e w i t h a f r e s h n e s s that, in s o m e p l a c e s , c o m p a r e s w e l l w i t h a n y t h i n g that the Frost-Cooke-Rushton heritage prod u c e d . But even when a sketch falls s h o r t of t h i s ( a n d it w o u l d be v e r y m i s l e a d i n g of m e to p r e t e n d that m a n y d o not) there is a l w a y s something there—the supremely positive a t t i t u d e b e h i n d the w h o l e e n t e r p r i s e . S o m e of the s o n g s s e e m e d rather as if t h e y h a d b e e n r e j e c t s f r o m " T h e Desert S o n g " — b u t the g o o d ones w e r e very g o o d — ( " C r i c k e t , Transp o r t or N a t i o n a l H e a l t h , / y o u c a n a l w a y s rely o n the Commonwealth" s i n g s a n i m m i g r a n t ) , — a n d t h e y alt m a k e a p o i n t of s o m e k i n d . S o w h e r e , a s k s the s h o w , s h o u l d "GB" go? There is n o c l e a r - c u t a n s w e r , a n d the s h o w n e v e r p r e t e n d s
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C a n ' s m u s i c is v e r y d i f f i c u l t to d e s c r i b e . N o t in a n y d e r o g a t o r y s e n s e , I c a n o n l y c a l l it a p u l s a t i n g d r o n e , w o r k i n g round a very loose basic structure. O n e t h i n g I c a n be s u r e a b o u t is that i t ' s d e f i n i t e l y mood m u s i c , a n d in g e n e r a l there w a s a very i n t e n s e c o m m u n i c a t i o n b e t w e e n the b a n d a n d ' ^ a a u d i e n c e . E a c h of their n u m b e r s w e r e very l o n g ( a b o u t half a n h o u r ) , c o n t a i n i n g s e v e r a l h i g h s , a n d , not b e a r i n g a great d e a l of r e s e m b l a n c e to t h e i r a l b u m t r a c k s , nor b e i n g i n t r o d u c e d , I w o u l d be a b r a v e m a n to try a n d l i s t a l l the titles, though perhaps " A l l e l u j a h " w a s recognisable. O n e t h i n g that I f o u n d s u r p r i s i n g w a s t h e s h e e r l e n g t h o f t h e i r set. V e r y f e w b a n d s n o w a d a y s a r e prep a r e d to p l a y for o v e r t w o h o u r s , s o C a n deserve full credit for giving v a l u e for m o n e y . G.J.K.
been
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ROBERT
CARTER.
i . C . A r t C l u b . R o y a l C o l l e g e of A r t . Choral Class and First Orchestra Concert. Walton, " B e l s h a z z a r ' s F e a s t " ( a d m i s s i o n free but t i c k e t r e q u i r e d ) . C o n c e r t H a l l , R C M .
I.C.
f r i e n d s for q u i t e s o m e
A BOOK
time now
that H o m e
are a
fine b a n d , a n d I'm not n o r m a l l y o n e to j u m p o n t h e b a n d w a g o n just b e c a u s e John Peel,
S o , w h i t h e r " G B " ? If I k n e w , I wouldn't be writing reviews for ' F e l i x ' , — but for a n y o n e w h o c a r e s , t h i s s h o w c o u l d be v e r y i m p o r t a n t .
Saturday 24th I.C. C a t h o l i c S o c i e t y : O u t i n g to C h i c h e s t e r .
CONCERTS AT I've
I have deliberately avoided ment i o n i n g the c a s t b y n a m e , for I s a w a n e a r l y p r e v i e w in w h i c h t h e y h a d n o t yet f u l l y s e t t l e d i n t o t h e i r m a t e r ial, and any comment I might make w o u l d be o b s o l e t e b y the t i m e t h i s a p p e a r s in p r i n t . B u t t w o p e r f o r m ances, even now, deserve mention on any basis. Michel Orphelin, the French mime, does his " T h e Fisherm a n " mime with a marvellous Gallic f l a i r , — a s w e l l a s o n e or t w o o t h e r neat c a m e o s ; a n d M i k e F i e l d s d a n c e s very w e l l throughout. H i s " B e h i n d the B a r r e l of a G u n " s o n g , — s u n g , g u n in h a n d , d a r t i n g f u r t i v e l y b e t w e e n p a t c h e s of s h a d o w , w a s the m o s t s t r i k i n g p i e c e of the s h o w , a n d rec a l l e d the o m i n o u s v i o l e n c e of " W e s t Side Story".
Friday 23rd 12.45 I.C. I s l a m i c S o c i e t y C o n g r e g a t i o n a l P r a y e r s — J u m a C o l l e g e B l o c k 002. 19.30 " T h e N e w V a s e " — a Chinese film, w i t h speaker on C h i n a ' s resista n c e to S o v i e t I m p e r i a l i s m , O r g a n i s e d b y the C P B ( M - L ) ( S o n i a H o c h fel.Jer to y o u ) . A t 1 5 5 F o r t r e s s R o a d (nr. T u f n e l l P a r k t u b e ) .
I.C. C a t h o l i c S o c i e t y B i b l e S t u d y G r o u p . F a l m o u t h 1 1 8 . I.C. S t a m p C l u b . C i v . E n g . 4 1 2 . " T h e Crab N e b u l a " (Horizon film from B B C TV, 1 9 7 1 , running t i m e 5 6 m i n u t e s ) . P h y s i c s T h e a t r e 1. " T h e Z o o " b y S u l l i v a n . P e r f o r m e d by I.C. O p e r a t i c S o c i e t y w i t h Orchestra (admission free). Union Concert Hall. Lunch-hour C o n c e r t : Recital b y A l b e r t Ferber (International Concert P i a n i s t ) . P r o g r a m m e to be a n n o u n c e d . L i b r a r y : 5 3 P r i n c e ' s G a t e .
N o t h a v i n g b e e n to a c o n c e r t for three w e e k s I w a s b e g i n n i n g to f e e l that s o m e t h i n g w a s l a c k i n g in m y l i f e , so S a t u r d a y n i g h t I s a t e x p e c t a n t l y w a i t i n g for C a n to a p p e a r . I n s t e a d I w a s g r e e t e d by the a t t e m p t s of s o m e p e a c e freak in the a u d i e n c e . I w a s q u i t e r e l i e v e d that for m o s t o f the set h e r e s t r a i n e d h i m s e l f to leaping about.
that there i s . A l l t h e m o d e r n v i c e s get the p a s t i n g t h e y r i g h t l y d e s e r v e — the g r e e d of the C a p i t a l i s t ("It t akes t h e w a i t i n g o u t of w a n t i n g " e x p l a i n s a n a r m e d b a n k - r o b b e r ) , the h y p o c r i s y of t h e " F r e e d o m Fighter" ("Thou has p r o v o k e d me into provoking thee"), the Commercial Christ ("Jesus Christ, Superstore") and inf l a t i o n ("It's not that w e w a n t m u c h , / W e just want m o r e " ) . But anybody who goes expecting a cut-and-dried a n s w e r to N a t i o n a l D e s t i n y w i l l be disappointed.
B o b H a r r i s a n d a l l the m u s i c p a p e r s s a y so a s w e l l .
Perhaps
Basic Christianity by Stoti. Published by
John R.
W.
Inter-Varsity Press.
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T h e rest of t h e i r set w a s rather s i m i l a r , m o s t l y fast n u m b e r s , o c c a s i o n a l l y w i t h a s h o r t s p o t i n t h e m i d d l e for W i s e f i e l d t o d e m o n s t r a t e h i s e x p e r t i s e . T h e o n l y s m u d g e to t h e i r n a m e I t h o u g h t w a s w h e n they a s k e d if a n y o n e liked
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T h i s i s a b o o k w i t h , in o n e s e n s e , n o t h i n g n e w a n d in a n o t h e r s e n s e everything new. It t e l l s of facts k n o w n 1 , 9 4 0 y e a r s a g o yet ones w h i c h are c o n s i s t e n t l y m i s c o n s t r u e d g e n e r a t i o n after g e n e r a t i o n . It i s a b o o k d e s i g n e d to be a n i n t r o d u c t i o n to a p e r s o n , that p e r s o n b e i n g J e s u s C h r i s t . Stott r e c o g n i s e s on the first page the d e f e r e n c e between the " e s ablishment c h u r c h " and Christianity. T h e chapters are categorised under four m a i n h e a d i n g s : C h r i s t ' s P e r s o n , Man's Need, Christ's Work, M a n ' s R e s p o n s e . A n y o n e d a r i n g to r e a d t h i s b o o k c a n n o t f a i l to r e a l i s e that the life a n d d e a t h of J e s u s is far m o r e than the b e s t r e c o r d e d f a c t i n h i s t o r y , a n d that t h e R e s u r r e c t i o n m u s t not be a p p r o a c h e d f r o m the v i e w p o i n t that it is i m p o s s i b l e , u n l e s s y o u a r e , as M r . S h e r l o c k H o l m e s w a s , prep a r e d to a c c e p t t h e i m p o s s i b l e . T h i s b o o k is v e r y c h a l l e n g i n g , a n d o n l y a very b r a v e or f o o l i s h m a n w o u l d d i s m i s s it w i t h o u t a t h o u g h t . It is a " m u s t " for p e o p l e w h o w i s h to d i s c u s s C h r i s t i a n T h e o l o g y a n d J e s u s C h r i s t , but w h o are ignorant of the f a c t s .
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FEEIX HNAKCIAEEY
Summing up by Derek E. Gummings This week sees the last article in the FELIX FINANCIALLY series which has been appearing in FELIX for almost a year. The purpose of it all, above all else, was to make an attempt to discuss some of that we are all the practical financial problems likely to run into at some time during our lives — and to discuss them in non-technical, down-to-earth style. And in this, we have been able to call on the expertise of our columnist and lecturer in social studies, Derek E. Cummings (a man of whom it has often been said . . . but never proved!) We think one of the best things to be said about FELIX FINANCIALLY and its impact is to record the fact that its disappearance from these pages has been received as good news in certain quarters. For our approach to the subject has been, to say the with that of some of the more least, at variance entrenched interests in the business. Cummings' commonsense advice has often been provocative and always to the point. So, who better to sum up what FELIX FINANCIALLY has tried to say? I s u p p o s e it i s i n e v i t a b l y true that f or a l a r g e n u m b e r of y o u at I m p e r i a l C o l l e g e , t h e e n d o f t h i s s e r i e s of F E L I X F I N A N C I A L L Y w i l l p r o v o k e a m a s s i v e roar of i n d i f f e r e n c e . I'm t h a t m u c h a r e a l i s t , y o u s e e . I f u l l y u n d e r s t a n d that not everyone f i n d s the subject of finance t h e m o s t r i v e t i n g t o p i c in a w o r l d w h e r e t h e r e a r e s o m a n y other things to worry about. A n d I also u n d e r s t a n d that w h e n you're s c r a t c h i n g about trying to stretch a m e a g r e student grant until the e n d of term, such remote things as mortgages a n d house purchase have limited a p p l i c a t i o n . On the other h a n d , I d o n ' t think I have been w a s t i n g m y t i m e . A p a r t f r o m t h e fact that I h a v e b e e n a b l e to h e l p a c o n s i d e r a b l e n u m b e r of s t u d e n t s w i t h d i r e c t a d v i c e — a n d that t h e r e a r e t h o s e a m o n g you w h o n o w o w n their o w n property as a result of s u c h a d v i c e — I b e l i e v e m a n y of t h e t h i n g s I have been trying to s a y are of s u c h b l i n d i n g l y o b v i o u s t r u t h t h a t t h e y w i l l , in f a c t , c o m e to m i n d when you yourselves are faced with the problem of o r d e r i n g y o u r l i v e s i n t h e great o u t s i d e w o r l d . W h a t I have been attempting is to clear a w a y s o m e of t h e i l l u s i o n s a n d f a l s e h o o d s w h i c h litter t h e p a t h o f a n y o n e w h o g e t s e n t a n g l e d i n the n e c e s s i t i e s of m o d e r n l i v i n g . . . I m e a n s u c h m u n dane things as b u y i n g insurance, getting a house, p r o v i d i n g f or a f a m i l y a n d s o f o r t h . A n d , let's f a c e it, m o s t of y o u a r e g o i n g to b e i n v o l v e d in s u c h things, however remotely distant they m a y s e e m at this moment. M o n e y is going to be even more important to y o u t h e n t h a n it is n o w . A n d w h a t I h a v e b e e n sayi n g o n t h e s e p a g e s f o r t h e p a s t y e a r is t h a t y o u h a v e to be c a r e f u l a n d t h i n k b e f o r e y o u s p e n d it. A b o v e a l l , b e s u r e y o u n e e d t o s p e n d it b e f o r e y o u s t a r t l a s h i n g it a b o u t . T a k e i n s u r a n c e , f or e x a m p l e . It's o n e of t h o s e s u b j e c t s w h i c h r e a l l y m a k e s m y h a c k l e s r i s e . I hate to s e e p e o p l e b e i n g c o n n e d into b u y i n g i n s u r a n c e a n d believe m e , never have s o m a n y people been s o h e a v i l y c o n n e d by s o f e w . If y o u h a v e n ' t a l r e a d y b e e n a p p r o a c h e d b y a n insurance s a l e s m a n, you most certainly w i l l before l o n g . T h e y ' l l u r g e y o u to b u y t h e stuff f or a m u l t i t u d e of r e a s o n s — f or p r o t e c t i o n , a s a n i n v e s t m e n t , as a safeguard against a rainy d a y , a s a k i n d of m a g i c f o r m u l a f or d o u b l i n g y o u r m o n e y . M o s t o f it i s j u s t s o m u c h toffee. It's a p o u n d t o a p i n c h of m a n u r e that y o u d o n ' t n e e d it — for any reason. Not yet, anyway. T h e t i m e t o b u y i n s u r a n c e is t h e d a y y o u n e e d it a n d n o t a d a y b e f o r e . Y o u ' l l n e e d it w h e n y o u start a f a m i l y w h o m y o u w a n t to p r o v i d e f o r in t h e e v e n t of y o u r d e a t h , or p e r h a p s w h e n y o u b u y a h o m e a n d w a n t to s e c u r e that. B u t if o n e of t h o s e p o l i c y - w a v i n g h u s t l e r s c o m e s a l o n g a n d t e l l s y o u h o w y o u c a n i n v e s t in i n s u r a n c e f o r a f e w p o u n d s a y e a r a n d h o w the insura n c e c o m p a n y w i l l d o u b l e y o u r m o n e y in t w e n t y y e a r s — f o r g e t it. H o w e v e r g o o d it l o o k s , i t ' s a lousy investment. After a l l , inflation is d o i n g m u c h better at h a l v i n g t h e v a l u e of y o u r m o n e y faster t h a n a n y i n s u r a n c e c o m p a n y c a n d o u b l e it.
There really is only one certain way of making sure your money increases in value, and that's to put it in the land. A n d I don't mean dig a hole and bury it, I mean invest in property — buy a house. It is a b i g r e s p o n s i b i l i t y t o t a k e o n , I k n o w . B u t t h e v a l u e of p r o p e r t y is a l w a y s g o i n g u p w a r d a n d w i l l a l w a y s c o n t i n u e to d o s o s i n c e l a n d p r i c e s inevitably f o l l o w the b a s i c responses of s u p p l y a n d d e m a n d . A s M a r k T w a i n s a i d : " B u y land — they ain't making a n y m o r e ! " N o w , if y o u t a k e t h o s e a r g u m e n t s t o heart, I f e e l I'll h a v e a c h i e v e d s o m e t h i n g . J u s t d o n ' t let y o u r self b e c h i p p e d a n d s w i n d l e d into putting your m o n e y i n t o s o m e t h i n g t h a t g i v e s y o u a l o u s y ret u r n — e v e n if it is d r e s s e d u p i n t h e c l o t h e s o f o n e of o u r b i g i n s t i t u t i o n s . F o r w h e n it c o m e s to m o n e y , t h e a d v i c e t h e a c t r e s s g a v e to t h e b i s h o p still holds good — namely, for heaven's sake, be careful I W h i c h b r i n g s m e to t h e other s i d e of t h e a r g u m e n t . H a v i n g t h e m o n e y , it m a k e s s e n s e t o p a r t w i t h it o n l y after p r o p e r c o n s i d e r a t i o n . B u t w h e r e d o y o u get t h e e l u s i v e stuff? Y o u w a n t a b a n k l o a n or a m o r t g a g e ? H o w d o y o u go a b o u t i t ? W e l l , t h e a n s w e r is to s h o p a r o u n d f or t h e m . T h e y a r e t h e r e , b u t i t ' s u p to y o u to f i n d t h e m a n d get t h e b e s t d e a l y o u c a n . S o m e o f y o u m a y r e m e m b e r that d u r i n g a c o u p l e of m y s o c i a l s t u d i e s l e c t u r e s , I b r o u g h t a l o n g a bank manager a n d a mortgage company manager. T h e y h a d a lot i n c o m m o n . B o t h w e r e g o o d b l o k e s , b o t h u n d e r s t o o d s o m e t h i n g of t h e p r o b l e m s s t u d ents a n d graduates face, both h a d cont rol of large a m o u n t s of m o n e y — a n d both w e r e of a n e w type of m o n e y m a n . B o t h a r e p r e p a r e d to b a c k t h e i r h u n c h e s . If t h e y hear a g o o d a r g u m e n t a s to w h y t h e y o u g h t to part w i t h t h e i r m o n e y — e v e n f r o m a s t u d e n t — r t h e y a r e m o r e o f t en t h a n n o t w i l l i n g to p u t t h e i r m o n e y w h e r e i t ' s n e e d e d . There aren't too m a n y about like t h e m . Institutions, banks, mortgage houses a n d insurance firms a r e s t i l l r i d d l e d w i t h m e n w h o p l a y it a l l s t r i c t l y b y the rule-book, w h o w o n ' t take a c h a n c e . If you have one of t h e m as a bank manager — the kind of man who writes you a letter when you're three pence overdrawn—you're in the wrong bank. Get out, and shop around. Even if you've only a couple of quid to put into your account, go and sort yourself out a manager who makes understanding noises. O f c o u r s e , i t ' s true that b a n k s a r e s t a r t i n g t o f a l l o v e r t h e m s e l v e s to get s t u d e n t a c c o u n t s . Y o u c a n h a r d l y s e e into a b a n k w i n d o w t h e s e d a y s for b i g posters telling you h o w w e l c o m e you are a n d h o w c h e a p it is to b a n k w i t h t h i s o r t h a t b a n k . B u t b a n k s are r u n b y t h e i r m a n a g e r s . R e m e m b e r , i t ' s t h e m a n y o u ' r e after, n o t t h e n a m e o n y o u r c h e q u e b o o k . T h e s a m e is true of m o r t g a g e c o m p a n i e s . T h e i r m a n a g e r s h a v e a g o o d d e a l of a u t o n o m y , t o o . It's w e l l w o r t h l o s i n g a l i t t l e s h o e - l e a t h e r t o f i n d one w h o is p r e p a r e d t o l i s t e n . A n d , a b o v e a l l , r e m e m b e r that n o t h i n g is i m p o s s i b l e . T h e m e r e t h o u g h t of b u y i n g a h o u s e a n d b u r d e n i n g y o u r s e l f w i t h s e v e r a l t o n s of b r i c k s a n d m o r t a r a n d t h e n e e d to go o n m a k i n g t h e repayments may w e l l seem beyond y o u . But it's not necessarily true. A s I s a i d e a r l i e r , there a r e a n u m b e r of s t u d e n t s at i m p e r i a l C o l l e g e n o w , w h o h a v e d o n e it a n d w h o have t h e r e b y g i v e n t h e m s e l v e s a h e a d start i n t h e s c r a m b l e to a c h i e v e f i n a n c i a l s e c u r i t y . T h e y l i s t e n e d to a d v i c e a n d , I k n o w , t h e y t h i n k it w e l l worthwhile. W h i c h b r i n g s u s to the other p o i n t . It is n e a r l y a l w a y s w o r t h y o u r t i m e a n d effort to s e e k a n d f i n d good advice about your financial problems. U n f o r t u n a t e l y , t h i s a g a i n i n v o l v e s y o u in ferrett i n g a b o u t f or it. A f t e r a l l , there a r e a lot of s h a r k s in t h e f i n a n c i a l s e a a n d a m a n in s t r i p e d p a n t s a n d a b o w l e r h a t c a n s t r i p y o u of y o u r m o n e y just as q u i c k l y a s a m a n in a m a s k h o l d i n g a s h o t g u n . T h e r e are b a n d i t s of a l l k i n d s w a i t i n g f o r t h e u n wary. The b i g institutions thrive o n them. They make t h e i r m o n e y o u t of p u b l i c i g n o r a n c e . A n d o y t h e p u b l i c , I m e a n y o u s o m e t i m e in t h e f u t u r e : a n d b y i g n o r a n c e , I m e a n n o t k n o w i n g w h a t is b a s t .
s a f e s t a n d c h e a p e s t f or y o u a n d y o u r f u t u r e d e p e n d ents. I h a v e a d i s t i n c t l o a t h i n g f or p e o p l e a n d o r g a n i s a t i o n s — great o r s m a l l — w h o t r a d e o n t h i s l a c k of k n o w l e d g e . T i m e a n d a g a i n , i n t h e s e c o l u m n s and. in p u b l i c , I have c a s t i g a t ed insurance c o m panies Who sell the public policies they don't need, b a n k m a n a g e r s w h o treat t h e i r c u s t o m e r s l i k e m o r ons a n d the others in m y o w n profession w h o grow fat b y p l a y i n g a l o n g w i t h t h e s y s t e m . I hope that o n e d a y s u c c e s s i v e generations w i l l change the s y s t e m , a n d I believe they w i l l . B u t w h i l e it p e r s i s t s a n d y o u h a v e to o p e r a t e w i t h i n its l i m i t s , t h e n b e s u r e t h a t y o u m a k e it w o r k to y o u r a d v a n t a g e . A n d t h e o n l y w a y y o u c a n beat a n y s y s t e m is t o k n o w h o w it w o r k s a n d h o w to a v o i d its m o s t dangerous pitfalls. I h o p e I've h e l p e d .
The World needs you! Start this year—volunteer for V.S.O. Why Volunteer? D e v e l o p i n g c o u n t r i e s c o n s t a n t l y a s k for m e n a n d w o m e n t r a i n e d in a w i d e v a r i e t y o f p r o f e s s i o n a l s k i l l s , to h e l p t h e i r o w n n a t i o n a l s . In a d d i t i o n , v o l u n t e e r i n g p r o v i d e s c o m m u n i c a t i o n to t a k e p l a c e b e t w e e n t h o s e i n t h i s c o u n t r y a n d t h e i r c o l l e a g u e s in t h e h o s t c o u n t r y . Thus the volunteering, whilst making a significant contribut i o n to a c o u n t r y ' s d e v e l o p m e n t g a i n s i n p e r s o n a l experience of a n e w culture. W h o is needed? University graduates (like yourselves) neering a n d science subjects.
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What sort of work? V . S . O . s o b j e c t i v e is to s u p p l y s t o r t a g e s i n m a n p o w e r of d e v e l o p i n g c o u n t r i e s . F e w v o l u n t e e r s a r e e n g a g e d on relief w o r k ; most w o r k on projects w h e r e their k n o w l e d g e a n d s k i l l c a n be p a s s e d o n t o o t h e r s . F o r t h i s r e a s o n m o s t v o l u n t e e r s are i n v o l v e d in s o m e f o r m o f i n s t r u c t i o n e i t h e r in c l a s s r o o m s , technical institutions, or informally. In a l l c a s e s v o l u n t e e r s a r e i n v o l v e d in r e s p o n s i b l e work w h i c h needs doing cannot be supplied from l o c a l r e s o u r c e s , it tests t h e i r a b i l i t y a n d c h a r a c t e r , a n d in return g i v e s t h e m a v i v i d i n s i g h t into a n o t h e r c o u n t r y a n d its p r o b l e m s . Where is the work? In d e v e l o p i n g c o u n t r i e s of the w o r l d , in p a r t i c u l a r t h r o u g h o u t A f r i c a , in the I n d i a n s u b c o n t i n e n t , S . E . A s i a a n d the C a r i b b e a n . V . S . O . ' s p r i m a r y c o n c e r n is to e n s u r e that a v o l u n t e e r is p o s t e d to a j o b w h e r e h i s q u a l i f i c a t i o n s a n d skills have full scope, but also tries to c o m p l y w i t h a n y s o u n d l y b a s e d p r e f e r e n c e expressed b y the volunteer. Is there supervision of work? V o l u n t e e r s s u r v i v e o n t h e i r o w n merits, b u t a d vice by the B r i t i s h C o u n c i l a n d the v o l u n t e e r s ' pers o n a l V . S . O . c o n t a c t is at their d i s p o s a l if r e q u i r e d . For how long? A n offer of t w o y e a r s is e n c o u r a g e d , a m i n i m u m of o n e year is a c c e p t a b l e .
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When? M o s t v o l u n t e e r s f l y o u t in A u g u s t / S e p t e m b e r , t h o u g h a n u m b e r g o o v e r s e a s in J a n u a r y . What are the terms of service? V.S.O. provides equipment and household allowa n c e s — t r a n s p o r t to a n d f r o m p r o j e c t — m i d - t e r m g r a n t of £60 f or 2 n d y e a r v o l u n t e e r s — m e d i c a l a n d a c c i d e n t insurance — a resettlement grant of b e t w e e n £ 1 0 0 - £ 1 7 5 a c c o r d i n g to l ength of service. H o s t c o u n t r y p r o v i d e s free a c c o m m o d a t i o n — m o n t h l y s a l a r y at l o c a l rate for y o u r q u a l i f i c a t i o n or f u l l b o a r d p l u s £3 p e r w e e k a l l o w a n c e — f r e e m e d i c a l care. Is there any training? Selected volunteers attend two courses during J u l y / A u g u s t , one c o n c e r n e d w i t h country of posti n g , a n d the other o n p r o f e s s i o n a l s k i l l s . Lastly V . S . O . ' s aims 1. T o h e l p d e v e l o p i n g n a t i o n s s o l v e t h e i r e c o n o mic, technical and educational problems. 2. T o b u i l d f r i e n d s h i p s b e t w e e n B r i t a i n a n d d e veloping countries through w o r k i n g together. 3 . T o p r o v i d e the o p p o r t u n i t y of w i d e n i n g s y m pathies a n d understanding through service overseas. If you are interested, contact: V.S.O., 14 Bishops Bridge Road, London W 2 6 A A , Tel. 01-262-2611; or g e t in t o u c h w i t h u s : Pat G o r m a n , M i n . I; J o h n B r a n c h , E . E n g . P G . ; G r a h a m K e r w i n , P h y s i c s 1; w h o a r e a l l r e t u r n e d v o l u n t e e r s at p r e s e n t at I.C.
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T h e other d a y I h a d the unfortunate experience o f seeing this film at a press showing, i n the c o m p a n y o f o u r D a i l y Newspaper critics. It is h a r d l y surprising that so m a n y d a m n i n g film reviews are churned o u t n o w a d a y s — t h e audiences at press shows are so bored. It i s most embarrassing to be creased u p w i t h laughter a t a funny b i t o n l y to l o o k r o u n d at I a n C h r i s t i e ( ' E x press') a n d friends l o o k i n g o n i n stony silence.
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B u t I d i d enjoy this film—a nice M o n d a y m o r n i n g escapist film.'It is a b o u t a G e r m a n count n i c k n a m e d B l u e b e a r d because h i s beard is that c o l o u r d u e to a flying accident i n W o r l d W a r O n e . H i s speciality is D O U B L E F O R I.C. a c c u m u l a t i n g one gorgeous l a d y after another, then d o i n g a w a y w i t h them i n various interesting ways. H e I.C. m a d e i t a h a t - t r i c k of c u p wins o n Saturday, 10th shoots one, guillotines another, drowns yet another i n M a r c h , b y beating B i r k b e c k 2-0 at M o t s p u r P a r k . T h i s red wine, etc.—the list is almost endless. Since h e is a w a s the last m a t c h of a l o n g series w h i c h has seen I . C . h u n t i n g m a n he also has to keep his trophies i n h i s unbeaten since m i d - N o v e m b e r , a n d taken t h e m t o the W o u l d anyone w h o was i n the U n i o n b a r o n the f a m i l y deep-freeze deep i n his Schloss. E v e n t u a l l y h i s league a n d c u p d o u b l e — n o t b a d f o r a side that lost its first f o u r games. evening of Saturday, M a r c h 1 7 t h , a n d w h o s a w a n latest wife discovers them, so he puts her i n as w e l l (alive), b u t n o t before he tells a l l about his previous A r r i v i n g p r o m p t l y a t the g r o u n d (well it was a c u p - incident i n v o l v i n g the b a r staff, please contact M a r t i n loves. H e n c e the film. final) the lsts were met w i t h the b a d news that the 3 r d C . B l a c k i n the U n i o n Office. team h a d lost the upper reserves c u p 2-0 to B i r k b e c k T h e plot isn't u p to m u c h — n o r the acting; except 2 n d . T h e 3 r d h a d b e n u n l u c k y to concede a deflecfor a few character parts ( R a q u e l W e l c h as a n u n , f o r ted goal at a time w h e n they were i n complete c o m example). B u t w e are supposed not to notice a l l that m a n d a n d they never r e a l l y recovered f r o m this. c i r c u m s t a n t i a l r u b b i s h , b o m b a r d e d as we are b y o n e T h e first few minutes of the U . L . Challenge c u p lovely l a d y after another i n v a r y i n g degrees of undress. final were t y p i c a l c u p f o o t b a l l w i t h a l l the players r u n I must a d m i t I was overcome (so was I a n C h r i s t i e ! ) ; ning h a r d a n d the b a l l oscillating f r o m e n d to end w i t h even so, it is meant to be a c o m e d y (not that I c a n I m p e r i a l College U n i o n peacefully passed away o n great frequency. N e i t h e r side was at ease o n a n u n u s u a l expect anyone to take i t seriously) a n d there are some T u e s d a y , 7 t h M a r c h , 1973 at 5 p . m . t h r o u g h complete l y b u m p y M o t s p u r p i t c h b u t B i r k b e c k seemed to settle witty b i t s — l i k e o n e over-affectionate wife w h o insists d o w n q u i c k e r t h a n I . C . a n d their midfield were t o o l a c k of interest, m o u r n e d b y m a n y o l d friends. T h e o n m a k i n g h i m choose between her breasts " C i n n a m o n " often a l l o w e d r o o m to p i c k the b a l l u p o n the halfway a n d " J a s m i n " , half suffocating h i m i n the process. B u t w a k e w i l l be o n Wednesday, 21st M a r c h i n the U n i o n l i n e a n d r u n at the I . C . defence. Several of these runs i n the end w e discover just w h y B l u e b e a r d does k i l l a l l B a r (after the R u g b y C l u b D i n n e r ) . h a d I . C . i n trouble. I find i t h a r d to r e c a l l w h y none these nice wenches, a n d I must stress that this reason of these early attacks p r o d u c e d shots o n the I . C . goal. T h e functions of I C U n i o n have been t a k e n over b y is a p r o b l e m that affects a l l m e n alive today. A s I . C . settled d o w n the g a m e became more even a n d the C o m m u n i s t P a r t y . Y o u r s seriously, B i r k b e c k were given a taste of things to c o m e w h e n notify h i m of the result.
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M a u r i c e Hastings d r o v e a 20 y a r d shot just over the bar. Shortly after this a t hrow i n o n the right, produced a m u d d l e i n the B i r k b e c k defence a n d gave Steve Bates a chance t o p u t I . C . a h e a d — a chance w h i c h he took w i t h great certainty.
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W i t h the season almost over a n d the courts tending to cut u p rather easily, the 3 r d t e a m voted to take a w e l l deserved respite f r o m the tensions of the league title race a n d conceded a c r i t i c a l m a t c h b y arranging a fixture w i t h K i n g s b u t n o t telling them about i t . T a l k s of a team h o l i d a y i n M a j o r c a originated at about this time b u t i t was estimated that funds w o u l d just a b o u t p a y f o r the refreshment before the journey so this idea was discontinued. Instead, the I l l r d s were left to face the intense challenge of n o m a t c h f o r a fortnight. M e a n w h i l e the I V t h s h a d shot t o the t o p of their league b y w i n n i n g a l l their matches b y default and the 1st team squad (pronounced: morons) h a d been depleted b y i n t r o d u c i n g a M r . G e o r ge w h o into A t half-time a n e u t r a l observer w o u l d p r o b a b l y have their midst so soon after h i s s t r a p a d i c t o m y operation. said I . C . were l u c k y t o be leading a n d h e ' d have been T h e seconds, t o o h a d n o t been i d l e — u s i n g their time right. B i r k b e c k h a d played the better f o o t b a l l (or more of it) a n d were o n l y a goal d o w n because the I . C . de- to consolidate their lead as 2 n d i n d i v i s i o n one d u e to a series of accidents w h e n they w o n several matches. fence h a d kept them o u t a n d because the q u a l i t y of I m p e r i a l players i n front of goal is such that they don't W i t h C h r i s A t k i n s o n i n such fine f o r m this season n o t to m e n t i o n the others i n the 2 n d t e a m because t h e y ' l l need to b e asked twice t o score. It w a s clear though that I . C . w o u l d have to get the ball to their forwards take u p too m u c h space it's only the splendid w o r k of m u c h m o r e often i n the second h a l f than they h a d i n C h r i s F o r k d o d g e r i n the lsts that i s keeping them i n 1st place above the 2nds (that's w o r t h a pint isn't i t , the first. Chris?). B i r k b e c k p u t a l l they h a d i n t o the first twenty m i n Beside's the U L U matches, I C Ists beat C a m b r i d g e utes after the i n t e r v a l a n d the I . C . defence found the C o c k e r a l s each year a n d this year was n o exception, going h a r d . T h i s time however, the midfield p u t their but apart f r o m this the members of the b a d m i n t o n m i n d s to h e l p i n g the defence. T h e t a c k l i n g of Pete L o n n e n a n d especially Steve Bates c o u p l e d w i t h the as- c l u b are quite nice r e a l l y — e s p e c i a l l y R h o d ( O o h , what a give-away!!). tute passing of J o h n K e l l y soon threw B i r k b e c k back. B u t I . C . c o u l d still n o t find their forwards w i t h a n y O n T h u r s d a y last, the b a d m i n t o n c l u b annihilated great a c c u r a c y a n d the 1-0 lead l o o k e d very fragile the boat c l u b at darts b y P games to q where P is greatw h e n B i r k b e c k b r o k e f r o m defence. er t h a n q b u t they forgot to b u y o u r d r i n k s a n d d i d n ' t O n the touch line Steve W e l l s began to w a r m u p w a n t a boat race i n the U n i o n B a r . A real boat race o n the T h a m e s was discussed though. a n d he w o u l d surely have c o m e o n h a d I . C . not scored a second. A corner w a s half cleared a n d f a n B e l l T h e final team placings for the e n d of the season pushed a first-time b a l l through t o B y r o n S m i t h whose seem almost certainly to b e : — l s t s captained b y D a v e h i g h cross fell, a little fortunately, into the f a r corner W a r d ; 1st i n d i v i s i o n 1. 2nds n o t captained b y C h r i s of the goal. T h e g o a l itself w a s l u c k y b u t the i n i t i a l A t k i n s o n ; 3 r d i n d i v i s i o n 1, 3rds n o t captained; 2 n d i n pass was a fine e x a m p l e of a football b r a i n at w o r k a n d d i v i s i o n 2. 4ths captained b y M a u r i c e F l a n a g a n ; 2 n d the difference between B i r k b e c k ' s keeper a n d ours was i n d i v i s i o n 3. 1st m i x e d team, b o t h 1st i n d i v i s i o n s 1 w e l l shown b y h i s p o o r positioning. a n d 2 respectively. 2 n d m i x e d team, b o t h 1st i n d i v i sions 1 a n d 2 respectively. W i t h the result n o longer i n d o u b t the last few m i n utes l a c k e d the atmosphere of the previous eighty. F o r the 2 n d consecutive year I.C. lsts are through T h i s was I.C.'s t h i r d c u p w i n i n a r o w a n d shows just to the final of the U L U B a d m i n t o n c u p a n d are, i n h o w w r o n g people c a n be w h e n they try to predict the fact, favourites to w i n . fortunes of a team at the start of the season. The A l s o , the Ists have w o n their league f o r the fourth league t r o p h y w i l l also grace I.C.'s trophy c u p b o a r d consecutive year losing only one m a t c h — i n 1971. T h e this year after absence of four seasons. m i x e d team, however, have slumped a l a r m i n g l y reC u p T e a m : G . E d w a r d s , R . K i l , M . M a n n i n g , I. B e l l , cently a n d crashed to their first defeat i n 2 years w h e n they lost 7-2 to U L — t h i s however does n o t affect the I. Postlethwaite, J . K e l l y , P . L o n n e n , S. Bates, B . league placings. S m i t h , M . Hastings, W . M i l n e . S u b . S. W e l l s . A s so often before I . C . began to i m p r o v e once they were ahead. 1'he defence became m u c h m o r e stable a n d B i r k b e c k d i d n o t seem to k n o w h o w to take a d v a n tage of the large M o t s p u r p i t c h . T h e I . C . defence has never been slow a n d B i r k b e c k s l o n g t h r o u g h were just not accurate enough to tell. T h e I.C. midfield was l o o k ing good, b u t o n l y g o i n g f o r w a r d . W h e n called u p o n to h e l p defence they seemed lost i n the m i d d l e of the p i t c h A s a consequence o f this B i r k b e c k managed to get several l o n g range shots a t the I . C . goal. O n l y one of three w a s o n target a n d C e r w y n E d w a r d s d i d w e l l to p u s h this r o u n d the post.
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ALL FINGS FOUL AND FUNDERFUL A l l Things Bright and Beautiful ( A A ) . A B C U n i o n C o n c e r t H a l l , L a s t Tues., W e d . , T h u r s . Just what was the F e l i x film c r i t i c d o i n g at a n I . C . play, y o u m a y a s k , when about 3,500 people d i d n ' t bother? H e went there because he knew a few people i n it, w h o were very insistent about selling h i m a ticket o r two (perhaps if I h a d been the Theatre C r i t i c , I might have got i n free). W e l l , the play was a N o r t h e r n comedy, full of n o r t h ern h u m o u r (he said in his best h o m e counties accent) w h i c h was not lost o n the very receptive audience, w h o p r e s u m a b l y were a l l friends of the cast, persuaded to come a l o n g a n d see M i k e o r Denny, a n d pay 25p f o r the pleasure. S t i l l , the cast, conditioned to audiences of 50 o r so, by T h u r s d a y were n a t u r a l l y apprehensive, until they realised h o w nice the audience was, w h e n they w a r m e d up. T h e play is as m u c h about R o r y , the son, (who is never seen—only heard) as about anyone. C e n t r a l i n the plot is a stolen lectern i n the f o r m of a large eagle, w h i c h is a n allegory 1 suppose of ' A l l things B r i g h t a n d B e a u t i f u l ' , the things the Hesseltine f a m i l y has never h a d . T h e y live i n a s l u m a n d are soon to be rehoused, w h i c h supposedly w i l l solve a l l p r o b lems, especially f o r 'Queenie' ( M r s . Hesseltine), w h o l i k e the rest i s ' W a i t i n g f o r G o d o t ' . ( T h a t w a s the o n l y theatre-critic cliche 1 c a n remember.) However, everything seems to go wrong. T h e y are allocated a flat miles o u t of t o w n not a house close b y as they expected, a n d this, w i t h the b r o k e n , h a l f painted eagle supposedly represents their dead-ended existence. V e r y sad. V e r y , very sad. I.C. acting contrives to amaze me. A s usual some people are better than others, but none very b a d . I l i k e d P e n n y P i k e ' s stand-offishness, M i k e Stranger's bearded dogmatic d o m i n a n t Hesseltine senior, a n d C a r i n a as Queenie o r was it Queenie as C a r i n a ? — s h e w a s very realistic, perhaps t o o realistic. Steve G r o v e s d i d a nice cameo role at the end a n d seemed to enjoy it. I n fact I t h i n k a l l the cast enjoyed themselves—enough said. I f the cast enjoyed i t a n d so d i d the audience, w h o a m I to criticise the artistic content ( w h i c h was not lacking)? M I K E 'SERGEI' SOUTHON.
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W a k i n g u p o n a Sunday m o r n i n g w i t h t w o hours sleep and thick fog is not the best w a y to g a i n enthusiasm for a day's excursi on to B r e n t f o r d M a r k e t . N e v e r theless, b y 10 o ' c l o c k three courses were l a i d out, the fog was lifting, a n d the c o o l m o r n i n g a i r w a s t h i c k w i t h the tension of o u r seventeen a r r i v i n g c o m petitors. S i x of these were C e m i a n (so where are y o u a l l , y o u sciving, cringing, lazy G u i l d s m e n ) . T o m a k e these events m o r e successful we need y o u a l l , a n d anyway, it's great f u n .
Y e s , Saturday was the date of the motorcycle section " B u r n to B r i g h t o n " . T h e a c c o m p a n y i n g picture shows the gang w a i t i n g to start off i n E x h i b i t i o n R o a d . N o t i c e the keen looks of a n t i c i p a t i o n , the alert minds w a i t i n g for the task ahead, the challenge of the open r o a d , t h e : — oops, got carried away again. B r i g h t o n was exactly where w e expected it to be, w h i c h is just as well as w e c o u l d n ' t have gone a n y further w i t h o u t aqualungs. E v e r y o n e m a d e it there a n d b a c k w i t h o u t incident a l t h o u g h o n e b i k e was o n l y put together at m i d n i g h t the day before. A f t e r the success of this ' B u r n ' w e are going to attempt a long-distance " B u r n to the B r o a d s " (no apologies) o n the weekend l l t h - 1 3 t h M a y . See y o u then, B r u c e Cross.
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I C retained the inter-collegiate hockey c u p o n W e d nesday at M o t s p u r P a r k w i t h g o a l s — o n e in each h a l f — f r o m M a r k T a t c h e l l a n d Steve T u c k e r . I C h a d to m a k e one change f r o m the side that beat B a r t s i n the semifinal when J a z M i s s a n was required to play f o r Spencer in the L o n d o n L e a g u e o n the same afternoon. H o w e v e r , his replacement, A l a n B r o w n , played very w e l l considering that he was prevented f r o m p l a y i n g his n a t u r a l a t t a c k i n g game. P l a y i n g up the slight slope i n the first half G u y s immediately took c o n t r o l of the m a t c h a n d v i r t u a l l y c a m p e d i n the I C half f o r the first fifteen minutes. I n fact, they had a great chance to score i n the first few minutes after a neat piece of d r i b b l i n g o n the right but Sid B o u l t o n d i d well to cut out the final pass. I C m a i n l y relied o n q u i c k breakaways d u r i n g this period a n d even managed to find the net after a great r u n b y J o h n S c h o f i e l d — w h o managed to find acres of s p a c e — b u t i t was d i s a l l o w e d when three players crashed into the net w i t h the b a l l . A f t e r this play became more even a n d f r o m another b r e a k a w a y o n the left I C opened the scoring. M a r k T a t c h e l l received the b a l l o n the wing, c u t inside a n d slammed it into the net after r o u n d i n g the goalkeeper. I n the second half G u y s continued to d o most of the a t t a c k i n g but fine defensive w o r k , b y S i m o n T y r r e l l and Steve T u c k e r in p a r t i c u l a r , u s u a l l y broke up the danger on the edge of the circle. I C ' s second goal came f r o m a short corner m i d w a y t h r o u g h the second half after a deliberate foul stopped D i c k W h i t t i n g t o n i n the twenty-five. T h i s w a s magnificently struck by Steve T u c k e r and went i n v i a a G u y ' s stick. G u y s pressed strongly until the final whistle but they failed to capitalise o n the few chances that were created. I n fact d u r i n g the m a t c h they h a d seven short corners whereas I C o n l y h a d the o n e — b u t shots were o n l y m a d e f r o m two of them.
T h e f i n a l of the U L U U p p e r D i v i s i o n Reserve C u p was held at M o t s p u r P a r k o n Saturday, 10th M a r c h , k i c k off 11 a . m . I C were represented this year b y the I l l r d team as the I P s h a d been k n o c k e d o u t i n a n earlier r o u n d . T h e I l l r d s had reached the f i n a l b y beating I C V ' s i n the semi f i n a l (plug for the V ' s ) . T h e opposition was supplied b y B i r k b e c k I P s who had beaten B e d f o r d I P s i n their semi f i n a l . A s m a l l faithful band of supporters w h o h a d m a n aged t o k i c k their mistresses o u t o f bed early enough to c a t c h the c o a c h leaving at 10 "a.m. turned u p to So w i t h scrutineering, expertly handled b y C h a r l e s w a t c h the m a t c h . L a m o n t , a n d w i t h f a r m o r e t h a n the u s u a l cries of B o t h teams started nervously, p a r t i c u l a r l y i n defence. 'Its too tight'??? T h e tests proceeded, after, of course, I C had the best of the opening exchanges w i t h G e o f f a demonstration r u n by Boanerges himself. G i l b e r t o n the right w i n g p r o v i d i n g the most trouble for the opposition. T h e B i r k b e c k goalkeeper Tests 1, 2 a n d 3 happened before l u n c h , w i t h plenty p a r t i c u l a r l y unsafe d r o p p i n g ldng shots a n d centres of action, d r a m a t i c wheelers to the fore, a n d t h a n k tantalisingly near the o n rushing I C forwards. A f t e r fully few c r u m p l e d bollards. C o m p l a i n t s of m i n i s losabout 30 minutes of the first half B i r k b e c k went ahead. i n g o i l pressure on, after a l l , a test that .was designed w i t h that i n m i n d , were graciously rejected a n d the A long through b a l l d o w n the m i d d l e caught the I C o n l y reverse spin I saw, w a s guaranteed to b e u n i n - defence i n some confusion, the B i r k b e c k centre f o r w a r d tentional. E v e n b y l u n c h , the c o m p e t i t i o n w a s hot. chased the b a l l a n d his shot h i t R o b Y o u n g o n h i s b a c k a n d unfortunately the b a l l went straight t o a T h e t o p three places being closely contended b y ' O u r ' B i r k b e c k f o r w a r d w h o made no mistake i n p u t t i n g Tony Raine a n d 'Their' D o n A r i s and A l a n Winter. the b a l l into the net. T h i s goal h a d a b a d effect o n W i t h three l a d y entrants, things were getting quite I C , they seemed to lose concentration and were l u c k y heated i n these quarters too, not to m e n t i o n the saloons to go into half time o n l y one g o a l behind. class. T h e y hadn't regained their concentration w h e n a T h e afternoon saw the r e m a i n i n g s i x tests a l l of few seconds after the restart the B i r k b e c k forwards w h i c h appeared to r u n smoothly, a n d the b o y racer forced a corner o n the right. T h e corner w a s t a k e n brigade were h a v i n g a w h a l e of a time o n the further a n d the B i r k b e c k centre half w h o h a d c o m e i n t o regions o f the market. D i d anyone n o t d r i v e anyone the penalty area u n m a r k e d h a d a fine header, h e else's car? headed the b a l l into I C ' s s i x y a r d b o x where a B i r k b e c k f o r w a r d h a d another free header o n to t h e T h e results speak for themselves, a n d t o be fair bar, the b a l l rebounded to same f o r w a r d for yet another to everyone, I w i l l not c o m m e n t o n i n d i v i d u a l performfree header this time into the net. ances, but congratulations to T o n y for t a k i n g the overT h e I l l r d s might w e l l have been expected t o f a l l a l l awards a n d A l a n W i n t e r and N i g e l Price (Cemian) apart after this further setback but led by their c a p for the class awards n o t forgetting D a w n H i c k m a n tain I a n H y s l o p they fought b a c k . T h e y managed to top lady although, to be fair, for being she has h a d infinitely m o r e experience t h a n o u r t w o w i n m o r e balls i n m i d f i e l d . T h e y p r o d u c e d some ferocious t a c k l i n g — o n e p a r t i c u l a r " t a c k l e " by I a n H y s l o p l o c a l lasses, w h o b o t h showed s t r i k i n g sportswomanearned h i m a fierce lecture f r o m the referee. I C brought ship. o n their substitute B o b D a y f o r J o h n G i l e s i n t h e hope o f getting m o r e penetration u p front. T h e y also S o i t leaves m e t o t h a n k a l l the entrants, marshals moved u p A n d y J a c k s o n to play h i m centre f o r w a r d , a n d spectators w i t h special thanks to M i k e D r u r y m i d f i e l d and centre h a l f at the same time. for sharing the organisation a n d extra special thanks to M r . R a i n e f o r d o n a t i n g the t r o p h y w h i c h spends its T h e I l l r d s fought b a c k superbly, b u t were u n a b l e first year i n the capable hands of his son T o n y . to f i n d a w a y t h r o u g h the B i r k b e c k defence that h a d John Baird. to resort t o a l o t of pushing, shirt p u l l i n g and sometimes knee h i g h tackles t o stop them. T h e y were u n RESULTS able to score and the f i n a l score was 2 — 0 to B i r k b e c k Driver Car IPs. It was not a b r i l l i a n t game of football w i t h b o t h 1st O v e r a l l — T o n y R a i n e — S p i t f i r e teams struggling to string more than t w o passes t o gether. B i r k b e c k deserved to w i n b u t I C were a b i t O v e r a l l Places u n l u c k y n o t to score a goal. Class 1 — M i n i s a n d Imps 2 3 4 9 14 16
1 2 3 4 5 6
A l a n Winter Don Aris M a l c o l m Ridge H u g h Tyler Mart Clemour Miss J . Dequin
5 7 8 10 12 13 15 17
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
N i g e l Price J i m Briggs John Coxon Pete W i l k i n s Miss D . H i c k m a n Pete C r a m b Perry N e w t o n Miss C. Penhorwood
6 11
1 2
Martin Edwards Les Wilkins
M i n i 850 M i n i 850 M i n i 850 M i n i 850 Wolseley H o r n e t 998 Wolseley H o r n e t 998
Class 3 — S a l o o n s u p to 1300 F i a t 850 A n g l i a 997 A n g l i a 997 A u s t i n A 4 0 948 A n g l i a 997 F i a t 750 F i a t 750 A u s t i n A 4 0 948
Class 4 — S a l o o n s over 1300
T h e c u p was presented to w i n n i n g B i r k b e c k captain b y Peter M e e , Registrar of the College and President of I C F o o t b a l l C l u b . T h e s m a l l band of supporters made their w a y d o w n the road to the p u b l i c b a r of the E a r l Beatty, to prepare themselves for the afternoons game w h e n I C 1st were d u e to extract revenge o n B i r k b e c k 1st i n their final ( I C w o n 2—0). T h e losing l l l r d made its way to the pub to celebrate reaching the final. (P.S. It's r u m o u r e d that a certain y o u n g l a d y is banned f r o m p l a y i n g cards w i t h the football c l u b after a somewhat flukey w i n at Stop the B u s when p l a y i n g against vastly m o r e experienced players). The Illrd team:— M . C l a r k , A . Johns, A . W i l k i n s o n , I. H y s l o p , A . J a c k s o n , R . Y o u n g , C . H i g h a m , A . Peterson, G . G i l l bert, R . S m i t h , T . M i l e s . Sub.: R . D a y .
O l i v e r D o w s o n , E d i t o r of F E L I X , has now per-
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manently vacated his r o o m i n Weeks H a l l . F r o m his return f r o m vacation o n A p r i l 25th, he w i l l be l i v i n g at 55, G r a h a m A v e n u e , E a l i n g , L o n d o n W 1 3 9 T Q (Telephone 01-567 8721). Because this
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means it w i l l be m o r e difficult to get i n touch We
regret t o announce the sad demise
of the 1 C
with L o r d B e a v e r b r o o k
II, new stringently a d -
m i x e d hockey team's two-year-old unbeaten record. It
hered t o office hours w i l l be instituted, i n c l u d i n g
passed quietly away last Sunday afternoon at Shenley i n
every lunchtime f r o m 12 to 2 except T u e s d a y a n d
the presence of N o r t h e r n Polytechnic. Despite a n early
Saturday;
T h e w h o l e I C side played w e l l , the o n l y b l a c k m a r k being against I k i K u l l a r for losing his temper m i d w a y t h r o u g h the first half.
attempt at artificial respiration b y A l a n B r o w n , t w o
4 to 7; a l l d a y o n Sundays (well, 10 t o 8) a n d
late h a m m e r blows finally put the last nail i n the coffin.
M o n d a y mornings f r o m 9 to 11. A f u l l list w i l l be
T h e last rites were administered by Reverend G r a h a m
published i n the first F E L I X of next term and w i l l
Team: Sid Boulton; Simon Tyrrell, Dave Browne; D a v e R i c h m a n , A l a n B r o w n , Steve T u c k e r ; D i c k W h i t tington, I k i K u l l a r , J a g G a h i r , J o h n Schofield, M a r k Tatchell.
Popple. T h e w a k e the same evening was a t t e n d e d — a n d
also be stuck o n the office d o o r (3rd floor, U n i o n
enjoyed—by:
Chris, B o b , Julie, Blossom, A l a n , Anne,
Jenny, W B 2 , V i l l i s , W B 1 , L i n d a .
building).
T h u r s d a y a n d F r i d a y evenings
from