The Lion - Volume 5 Issue 2

Mind Palaces and Eating Right Self-Improvement in The First of Our Featured Sections this Year

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The Second Half of Ben Mercer’s case against Hillary Clinton

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Half of Students Say They Wouldn’t Be At Heythrop If Their Degree Weren’t University of London • “I Would Not have Come to Heythrop if My Degree was Awarded by St. Mary’s” Say Sixty Percent • Less than Twenty Percent Agree that Their Views on Heythrop’s Future have Been Listened To • A Third of Students Don’t Think the HSU Exec Will be Listened to In Discussions Regarding Heythrop’s Future Fergus Cronin Coltsmann Editor-in-Chief The Heythrop Lion October Student Survey closed on Friday 10th October, having launched on Monday 6th October. It received sixty seven responses from students across a broad range of courses and years, including alumni. The subjects covered by the survey included the University of London, St. Mary’s University, how informed students felt about Heythrop’s cur-

rent situation, and Freshers’ 2014.

Out of the sixty seven responses The Lion received to its October Student Survey, 60% of students agreed or strongly agreed with the statement: “I would not have come to Heythrop if my degree was awarded by St. Mary’s University”.

Only 8.33% of students responded that they disagreed with the statement, and a mere 3.33% strongly disagreed, compared to the 41.67% who strongly agreed and the 18.33% who agreed. The remaining 28.33% said that they neither disagreed nor agreed.

Over three quarters, 76.66%, of students said that the fact that their degree was or is awarded by the University of London was influential in why they chose to study at Heythrop; half, 58.33%, strongly agreeing and 18.33% agreeing.

Only 11.67% disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statement.

In response to the statement: “It is important to me that my degree’s awarding body is or was the University of London”, only 1.67% of students strongly disagreed or disagreed, with 91.67% agreeing or strongly agreeing with the state-

ment and the remaining 6.67% neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

Half of students say they would not have chosen to study at Heythrop if their degree was not awarded by the University of London, with a quarter disagreeing or strongly disagreeing with the statement: “I would not have come to Heythrop if my degree was not awarded by the University of London” and the remaining quarter saying they neither agree nor disagree.

When asked how informed they felt about the options open to Heythrop at this point, 29.09% of

students said they felt uninformed.

A total of 38.18% said they felt slightly informed and 27.27% answered that they felt moderately informed. Only 5.46% felt like they were either very informed or fully informed about the options that Heythrop has moving forward past its current financial troubles.

No student said they felt fully informed about the discussions taking place between Heythrop and St. Mary’s University, and only 1.85% said they felt very informed.

Over a quarter, 27.78%, felt (Continued of Page Two)

“Freshers’ 2014 a Success” - Less Than Ten Percent Disagree Less than 10%, a mere 9.62%, of the Heythrop Student body which responded to The Heythrop Lion October Student Survey disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statement “This year’s Freshers’ Week, with events run alongside lectures,

was successful”. Over half of the respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statement, 32.69% and 21.15% respectively; with the remaining 36.54% responding that they neither agreed nor disagreed.

Nearly three quarters of people who

took the survey, 73.33%, said that they attended all of their lectures in the first week of term despite Freshers’ Week being run alongside. Less than 10% said they missed three or more lectures, 8.88% in total. Twice that number said they missed one

or two lectures, 8.89% said they missed one lecture and 8.89% said they missed two lectures.

Just over three quarters of students, 75.56%, told The Lion that they attended all of the Freshers’ Events that they wanted to even though it

was the first week of lectures. This is presumably down from close to 100% in previous years where the only Freshers’ event which students may have skipped would have been the final one(Continued on Page Two)

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Editor-in-Chief Fergus Cronin Coltsmann Managing Editor Megan Skingsley

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The Rugby Club released an apology for the booklet saying, ‘It contained inexcusably offensive and stigmatising language’. This apology came shortly before the Student Union had decided to place an academic year ban on the club from representing LSE at any competition. No individual came forward to take responsibility for the leaflet and so a decision was made to ban the entire club. The General Secretary of the Student Union at LSE hopes that ‘this will enable our community to draw a line under this incident, and focus on the overwhelmingly positive contribution that other sports clubs have on our time at LSE’.

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Bellogate UCL Email Scandal A massive chain of spam emails was circulated around University College London’s student email address following a hacking incident. The first email from the mysterious ‘bello’ appeared in the students’ accounts on 8th October.

The emails were purported to be from the current Provost Michael Arthur, however it has come to light that the email account used was that of a past Provost. The internal email ‘all-students@ucl. ac.uk’ is a thread which connects all 26,000 students. By using this email, the hacker signed students up to receive information from

websites such as UKIP, The One Direction fan club, PornHub and the Sarah Palin Channel. A mass email thread has been established amongst the student body. Each complaint about the spam emails sent to the hacker is being circulated back round the 26,000 student emails on the thread. Students received roughly 3000 emails before it came to light that this security breach had taken place. The UCL Information Services Division “are investigating this problem as a matter of urgency” and has apologised for the emails that students received.

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The London School of Economics’ Men’s Rugby team has been disbanded after it published a leaflet deemed offensive on the 5th of October. The booklet was intended to encourage new students to join the team and was handed out at their Freshers’ Fair. Inside this booklet the club had referred to fellow LSE women’s sports teams as being made up of ‘beastlike women’. It further referred to women as ‘slags’ and ‘mingers’ whilst also making homophobic comments. Many of the students of LSE were outraged at the comments made in this leaflet, as were rival university King’s College, who were referred to as ‘scum’.

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Dispatches From Student Democracy - Motions From The EGM The Heythrop Students’ Union called an Emergency General Meeting on the 23rd of September in order to discuss the future of Heythrop College. This is the first general meeting of the HSU this year and unusual in the fact it was called so early in the year, less than a week into Freshers’. The EGM made quorum with roughly thirty three members present. Im-

mediately prior to the EGM starting, both the Sabbatical Officers of the HSU, President Alex Jozsa and Vice President Matt Holland both gave statements about their personal opinions on Heythrop’s future and the discussions so far. Holland, speaking about the discussions with St. Mary’s, said that he was against it because he felt that St. Mary’s would tarnish

the University of London status currently enjoyed by the College. Jozsa took the opportunity to say “[now] is the time to look forward”, as well as clarifying the situation regarding the negotiations with St. Mary’s, explaining that what was being discussed was a “partnership not a merger”.

Former HSU Vice President Alex Hackett chaired the meeting.

The Motions as they were Proposed and Passed Motion 001 The HSU endorses the retention of the ‘Four Pillar’ Mission of the College.

The Four Pillars were stated as: the training of priests, the education of a wider group of society, partaking in educational outreach, and academic research.

Motion 002 The HSU will not accept a radical change in the identity of the College. The unique identity of the College is one that students enjoy and are attracted by. This identity must be kept in mind and every effort must be made to preserve this.

The motion was opened to a number of amendments by the HSU members present to help define the identity of the College. In the final wording of the motion, the following things were understood to be essential to the College’s identity: the current location of the College, the atmosphere that arises from being a small institution, the link with the Society of Jesus, the secular nature and academic freedom of the courses taught by the College with the exception of those taught by the Bellarmine Institute, the offering of one-to-one tutorials, and the representation of the HSU à la the HSU Executive.

Motion 003 The HSU urges the Governing Body to ensure every effort is made to keep as much autonomy as possible in the partnership.

Autonomy means the College can continue in some form that is recognisable [sic]. This also will ensure that decisions can be made in the best interest of the College for its long-term future.

Motion 004 HSU will only support a partnership arrangement that retains degree-awarding powers from the University of London.

This motion was explained by the HSU Exec stating that they believe that the University of London is highly regarded in terms of employability and academic reputation. To lose this would be a loss to the institution.

An amendment to this motion editing out the word ‘only’ was proposed, the proposer of the amendment believing that the motion in its original form was too strongly worded. The amendment failed, however.

The Curse of The Publicity Office - Akin to Defence Against the Dark Arts Nori MacIntyre, the current Publicity Officer for the Exec, was absent from Freshers’ Week.

MacIntyre has explained her absence, saying: “Over the last few months, and particularly in the first few weeks of term, I have been unwell due to circumstances quite beyond my control, which naturally impacts much of my life – study and work at Heythrop unfortunately no less so. I regret that I was not able to attend Freshers’ Week, as I had hoped to be able to return to Heythrop in good health at the start of term and was disappointed to not fulfil the commitments I

had made and the role I promised.

During the Freshers’ period I made the Sabbatical Officers aware that I would struggle to participate in Union life at the present time and have been immensely grateful for their support and understanding.

I am very sorry that circumstances have resulted in this end, and although it is my hope that matters can be remedied, I owe a lot to the Union’s resolve to have its members at heart: should it not be possible to resolve the situation in the immediate future, I will, of course, be stepping down from my position” In previous years there has been a

joke among the Heythrop Student body that the position of Publicity Officer is cursed. The curse is said to be akin to that of the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts professorship in the fictitional series Harry Potter, as no one has fulfilled a full term in the position for two years. Last year saw Henry Crofts step down from the position early in the year. In the year prior to that, Charlie Yarwood was subject to a vote of no confidence at the first Ordinary General Meeting of the year.

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The Lion Survey Results

Heythrop’s Future (Continued From Front Page) -moderately informed, with a third saying they felt slightly informed and 37.04% saying they felt uninformed.

In response to the question: “How informed do you feel about why there are discussions taking place about Heythrop’s future?”, 5.36% of students responded fully informed, 16.07% responded very informed and 30.36% said moderately informed. Just over a third said they felt slightly informed and 14.29% said they felt uninformed.

Over half of respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statement: “I have been invited to partake in the discussions regarding Heythrop’s future”, 44.44% agreeing and 16.67% strongly agreeing. Just over 20% neither agreed nor disagreed, with 18.52% either strongly disagreeing or disagreeing. However, only 18.52% agreed

or strongly agreed with the statement: “My views on Heythrop’s future have been listened to by the College”. Over half of respondents said they neither agreed nor disagreed, and 29.63% either said they disagreed or strongly disagreed.

In response to the statement: “I have faith in the HSU Exec to represent my views and interests regarding Heythrop’s future”, 22.22% of students either disagreed or strongly disagreed, 24.07% neither agreed nor disagreed and 53.7% either agreed or strongly agreed.

However, only 38.89% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statement: “I believe the HSU Exec will be listened to in the discussions regarding Heythrop’s future”. A third of students either disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statement. The remaining 27.78% of students neither agreed nor disagreed.

Freshers’ Week (Continued From Front Page) -on Sunday night due to a lecture the following day.

A total of 29.42% of students said that they agreed or strongly agreed that Freshers’ Week affected their enjoyment of and productivity in the first week of lectures. Over two thirds, 34%, said that their enjoyment of Freshers’ Week was affected by the fact that it was the first week of lectures. In both cases a large block of respondents neither agreed or disagreed with the two previous assertions, 43.14% and 44% respectively.

Despite the positive feedback on Freshers’ Week, over half of students said they would rather that Freshers’ Week was not run along-

side lectures, 26.92% agreeing and 28.85% strongly agreeing with the statement: “I would rather Freshers’ Week was not run alongside lectures”. Only 11.54% of students said that they disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statement, the remaining 32.69% neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

A number of students who left comments at the end of the survey highlighted that they enjoyed the greater variety of events on offer in 2014’s Freshers, which was eleven nights long compared to previous years where the week was eight.

Some students, however, said they felt they were forced to choose between early morning lectures and the previous night’s entertainment.

Two Fordham Students Barred From HSU Events Two Fordham students have been blacklisted from future HSU events. This came about because of their behaviour, and the behaviour of a small minority of other Fordham students, as they became verbally abusive toward club staff and members of the HSU Exec toward the end of the Freshers’ event taking place at EGG on the 19th of September. It has also been reported to The Lion that one student committed an act of vandalism, physically attacking a parked car outside of the club. Approximately seventy Fordham students were attending the event at the invitation of the HSU Exec however roughly five of the Fordham students became highly intoxicated and acted inappropriately. It was unclear at the time whether the HSU Exec was ultimately responsible for them.

The two which have been banned

from future events were reportedly the two most confrontational.

The Exec remains optimistic about the social relationship between the HSU and the Fordham student body, stressing that the vast majority of the guests from Fordham caused no problems. The Fordham student body has been invited to partake in many of Heythrop’s societies and smaller events. It remains the be seen what course of action will be taken by the Exec at the next large off site event to which Fordham students are invited.

There is no formal relationship at this point in time between the HSU and Fordham University. Fordham University is based in New York City and rents apart of Heythrop’s campus as an international campus.

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FEATURED SECTION: SELF IMPROVMENT

A Beginner’s Guide to the Memory Palace: How to Remember Anything Robert Leftwich Head Writer Memory can be tricky; we may remember the names of all the actors to play Doctor Who, but forget our best friend’s birthday and it often seems to work (or not) in mysterious and irritating ways. In this piece I’m going to take you through the Memory Palace technique in the hopes that it will be helpful and in deference to our College’s Jesuit heritage (this technique is associated with a Jesuit priest called Matteo Ricci). Anyone can master this technique with enough patience, and in theory it can allow you to memorise virtually anything. To start with you’ll need the information you want to memorise, for example the names of the first five chemical elements: Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, and Boron. Now you will need to visualise each piece of information along a route that you know by heart, as a character or event (the route can be fictional, but a real location is

easier). If you can clearly visualise the route and associate the information with points along it in your head, you should be able to recall all of the information in that route not only a few minutes or hours later, but months or even years later. To start you off, I’ll describe a route for our small list of elements: You wake up and your bedroom has flooded, there’s water everywhere, someone has built a hydro-electric damn in your bedroom! How rude, it looks like was Jennifer Aniston, the Friend’s star, she’s smirking at you having just ruined your bedroom but at least having your room ruined by a Hydro dam built by Jennifer Aniston should help you remember Hydrogen, our first chemical element. Determined to stay positive you go to your kitchen and start looking for some breakfast, you open the fridge and your House mate has left you a cake for breakfast, amazing! You set it on the kitchen table and try to cut a slice but your knife breaks! On closer inspection the cake is full of

crystals! Healing crystals to be precise, they’re your mate’s new thing to try and lose weight, but unfortunately their Healing crystals have rendered the yummy cake (from now on all cake is yummy and represents the suffix ium) inedible. Helpfully this represents Helium, but you still need some breakfast. Your crystal cake is out but perhaps there’s something else leftover lurking in the cupboards, you open the nearest one to find a lunchbox, you take it out, open it up and this one has yummy cake in it too! You pick up a slice, but to your horror a Slithery snake (snakes slither so represent the prefix lith) that was lurking in the lunchbox grabs the yummy cake foiling your breakfast plans once again, this must be Lithium, the third element in the periodic table, but now you’re late for lectures so you’ll have to grab something during the break. You grab your bag which you responsibly packed the night before and head up the street to your nearest bus stop. When you

get there you notice something incredible, the stop is made entirely of cake! This has been a bad cake morning for you but this one seems to be okay. It’s a strawberry cake, and it is yummy, so you tuck in, and it’s so delicious that you keep just keep on eating. So much in fact that you feel rather ill, this must be our fourth chemical element Beryllium, and now you really feel too ill to go into Uni, so you decide to head to your local doctor. As you slowly head up the street your neighbour approaches and asks you if you want to see his collection of antique library class marks, he really is boring, and if we’re quite honest, a bit of a moron, so at least he gives us our fifth element, Boron before you close the door to the surgery in his face.

If you’ve properly visualised the route and events (the better you picture them the better you’ll remember them), you should now know the first five chemical elements forwards and backwards, and you can extend the route how-

ever you’d like to cover the other one-hundred-and-thirteen known chemical elements. The key is to make the events memorable, so often the more absurd the event the better. Also it’s easier to pick a route you know very well (never use the same route twice, you’ll confuse yourself, so if you used the interior of your house for chemical elements don’t also use it for Shakespeare plays). Bear in mind that you don’t have to be totally faithful in terms of the route’s real life details. So, if there’s no bus stop on your road, just imagine there is one; it’s fine as long as the basic route remains the same and you can remember everything that you might add to it. There’s theoretically no limit to how big your “palace” can be as long as you can remember your way around it, but hopefully this small example will give you a flavour as to how the technique works, and the desire to try it yourself.

go and get a McDonalds and get one of their warm burgers that’s full of something that resembles meat, my breakfast makes it easier to have a cold lunch. Instead of a heart attack on a bun, I eat out of a lunchbox full of healthy food that I enjoy. I load my lunch box with fruit and eat that instead of our faithful vending machines everlasting supply of crisps. Feeling full and having a nice supply of fruit was great, and neither breakfast nor lunch was leaving me feeling lethargic, but dinner was an entirely different problem. There is not enough cheap and healthy food I

can make without buying supplies.

The only way I managed to work past this was with a meal plan. Lasagne, curry and shepherd’s pie all last a long while, are cheap to make in bulk, and taste great. Deciding what I would have on what day, with aid from the food triangle, has made me feel far better. Working on this alone is great, and it’s very achievable, but I also have to thank my amazing flat mate Terry, and our frequent house guest Lucy Lu for being such great cooks. They are kinda like Santa Clause, but with food, and it’s Christmas everyday.

Healthy Eating at University James Leighton Third Year Undergraduate At the start of the academic year I decided to eat healthily and The Lion asked me to write about my attempt at this goal. Sadly they refuse to pay their writers, but they did promise to feed me and my many egos, so I agreed. I found eating healthily at university isn’t easy. Many a time I’ve been forced into cutting down my milk and tea budget to afford a meal (and by milk and tea budget I mean alcohol budget). Somehow I reached my third year despite having been

subjected to two years of Heythrop hardship: the decision between booze and food. This has been made more amazing because for the past two years I didn’t choose food. With multiple low budget eating decisions, my diet quickly became slimier than Nigel Farage’s campaign policies. I had been left with a slowly growing gut and a realisation that I needed to change my eating habits. Having resolved to make a healthy decision at last, I cut out two pints a week, and spent my savings on that oh-sounaffordable fruit. After my diet change it dawned on me - fruit

wasn’t too expensive, and that I could eat well if I thought about my purchases. This was working wonders for my health but the twenty four hour McDonalds opposite and the row of fast food joints on the way to my flat had become my archnemeses. I knew if I entered one of those shops my diet would slip back into a horror show faster than Nick Clegg breaks a promise. I found a few useful tricks to help me stick to my diet; always eat breakfast, always pack a lunch, and create a meal plan at the start of the week. When it gets to one o’clock and there are a hundred offers to

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A Word From the Exec...

Jacob Tong Events Officer

Declan and I get asked why we chose to run for Events Officer a lot, a major concern being that we had no experience or clue as to how to plan or run events. We both believed that experience was not needed as long as we had enthusiasm. Thankfully, enthusiasm for the College and events is something that comes very easily to both of us, and so we got voted in, leading to our time at Heythrop taking a turn down a very busy path.

Throughout last year, Dec and I took it upon ourselves to discover as much of London as we could, traveling here, there and everywhere. Seeing sights we believed were some of the best in London and from these places that we stumbled upon we got see a whole different side to the city.

This somehow became our inspiration for doing events. When strolling around the capital, we noticed bars, pubs and clubs, which lead us to thinking things along the lines of; “Oh Heythrop

could have an event there”. From there we started to think about how we could change events at Heythrop and bring in new, as well as exciting, events that would engage students more than ever.

Now six months on from taking the role, Freshers’ Week has gone by extremely smoothly, including the addition of a new Freshers’ Ball and also a fantastic pub quiz and comedy night. We have so much more to come, too, which is quite refreshing knowing that it will not stop, but also quite nerveracking as Dec and I learn all the skills we need along the way.

All of these events haven’t just appeared from thin air; they have taken time to plan and sort out with help of Vice President Matt Holland as well as every other union officer and fresher parent, which turns out is a job for life, rather than a week - just ask Domenico. For their help and anyone who continues to help make our events the best they can be, we say thank you very much.

After such a successful Freshers’ Week there is a lot to look out for

on the events front during the term. As some Freshers may not know the bar is only a year old and we are trying out what events or nights work best in the Students’ Union. Due to the fantastic work over the summer from the President and Vice President, the union was fortunate enough to get the bar open for at least 2 days every week for the whole of October. We advise you to use it and tell us how we can improve it for you.

With the opening of the bar on a more frequent basis, we have also had upgrades throughout the common room and basement as a whole, including a new 50 inch TV with BT Sports to showcase football matches and other sporting events throughout the year (See the full list on posters around the bar).

For any American readers we have access to ESPN for highlights and occasionally live coverage of the MLS, MLB and NBA matches. The common room has also welcomed a new ping pong table, and we now have an air hockey table which is floating about, sometimes here and sometimes there. Now you may go

on a marathon of bar games in the common against your mates.

Among these new additions to the basement is a Non-Sabbatical Officers office. The Exec hopes the creation of this space will lead to building better communications between the Union’s officers and the student body. Office hours are soon to be published and displayed to let every student know when they can see each individual officer on official time. Whether you want to discuss a private issue that could be helped by visiting the Male or Female Welfare Officers or a worthy cause that deserves attention that could be aided by the Campaigns Officer, this new office will allow you a comfortable setting to express your opinions, problems and suggestions on college life.

The Exec is also happy to announce the opening of our student gym in the REC room. From £15 a term you can have access to a gym in college three days a week. Why not try it out this term and get the winter body you’ve always wanted?

We also have a fully qualified gym instructor to come in and show you

how to use everything so newbies have no excuse for not getting in tip-top shape.

As for the future of events at Heythrop, proudly brought to you by the ‘Declan and Jacob Events Team’ there is much to look forward to.

Later this month it’s Halloween!

We hope to bring you one of the best Halloween parties Heythrop has ever seen. Start planning fancy dress ideas now folks because it really is going to be an all-out affair. Already in the pipeline is the annual Law Society Pub Golf Tournament, where the winner gets a FREE two day hangover! You can’t beat prizes like that in all honesty.

There is a lot more stored up our sleeves for the coming term and year, with events hoping to grace the Heythrop common room such as an American Night, get your beer pong on, and a Confetti party, which won’t be what it sounds like.

Who knows, we may also throw a b-day bash for the old College herself. To see what Declan and I are planning for you and what we’re up to over the coming months, follow @DJevents2014 on Twitter.

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“COMMENT.”

Trojan Horses Big Deal Robert Leftwich Head Writer In response to our Comment Editor’s piece about the Trojan Horse scandal (Volume 5 Issue 1) involving eighteen Birmingham schools, I read the official government report on the subject, penned

by Peter Clarke (CVO, OBE, QPM), as well as the BBC’s coverage of the incidents. From this, I have some objections to the points raised as well as a counter-argument to the point of view that these occurrences are inflated, “Islamophobic” scare-mongering. To start with, it should be worthy of note that none of the schools involved in these events were registered Faith Schools. So, even if their actions were comparable to those of a faith

school, as state schools with no official religion, they shouldn’t have been enforced in the first place.

The report itself is too long to fully detail here, but is well worth reading if you have the time and inclination. Now to address the original article more fully point by point.

The first major theme of the article seems to be that Ofsted is exaggerating the problem due to “Islamaphobia”. From the report (which was done by the Department of Education, not Ofsted) it seems that information was collected as impartially as possible with the inquiry investigating by speaking to a range of people including “current and former headteachers and teachers; current and former school governors; central and local government officials; trade union

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officials; Members of Parliament; Peers and others” It seems from this that the enquiry had very few preconceived opinions and gathered a great deal of information from everyone involved, this seems to imply that calling Ofsted “Islamaphobic” in order to dismiss these events seems disingenuous.

Also contrary to the claims of the article, the majority of governing staff schools are women not “rich white Christian men” this according to a 2011 government report on gender in public sector roles that found that there are more women in all staffing positions in British schools. Even if they were white Christian men, it seems a rather bigotted assumption that this would cause them to be antiislamic. And this to me seems to be

The Timeless Photographer Rachel Atkinson First Year Undergraduate I went in with an open mind and half an hour later I exited in awe.

I have never put much thought into taking a photograph; the composition, angles and lighting have never been a real focus to me. And I think it is safe to say that not many people do; they seem to care more about the ten second addition to their ‘life story’ on Snapchat than the feeling people get when looking at your work of art.

This exhibition transports you to another world, a world where decadence and glamour are everywhere, oozing out of every perfectly captured photograph. If only it were possible to jump into the frames, I would be trying my utmost to be amongst those wearing the next ‘red red’ lipstick or telling every woman how to wear hats this season. Alas, me and countless others had to make do with simply admiring Horst’s work.

Horst, in his amazing sixty-year career, has created images that redefine technique, fashion and pho-

Why They

tography. The Victoria and Albert Museum did a perfect job of exhibiting his prints: the well known and the unseen. The exhibit took you through his various influences, styles and designs including; haute couture, surrealism, stage and screen, travel, patterns from nature, fashion in colour, nudes and platinum-palladium prints. Not only was it clear that Horst was unbelievably talented but it was also clear how much our attitude to photography (in my eyes) has changed.

How many of us truly take the time

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the root of the original article, assumption that those who criticise a practise rooted in an Islamic group or community are bigots. It seems to me that if a wide variety of unconnected people involved in these schools have submitted complaints and evidence (some of which are detailed in the report) to the effect that schools were being radically changed in order to instill the kind of Islamic ethos that teaches that women and gay people are inferior and that teenagers cannot have relationships with each other (one child had their phone confiscated and professionally unlocked in order to evidence this “crime”) and that Islam is the only religion worthy of devotion then there is a strong implication that something deeply unsavoury was occuring at

these schools. It seems very ad hoc and disingenuous to dismiss this as media scare-mongering in order to distract us from rising house prices, at least while the day to day lives of Katie Price and Paris Hilton continue to make the news. There may well be people in government who dislike the idea of Muslim faith schools - statistically speaking, there probably are - but I see no evidence that would justify conflating that kind of bigotry with a seemingly legitimate concern that schools that are supposed to be comprehensive and inclusive have been dominated and are instilling in the children in their care a conservative form of a religion that their parents did not consent for them to be converted to or brought up in.

to lay out a shot or change the settings on our cameras? Never mind how many actually use a ‘proper’ camera - phone cameras, I’m afraid, don’t count here. Perhaps our attitude stems from our ability to easily delete and retake a photo, the delete button making it all too easy to disregard the unworthy.

Even when we have a commendable picture it is questionable that it will ever make it to ‘print’, countless images lost to a digital realm.

After 20+ likes on Facebook/ Instagram we become disinterested.

After the Horst exhibition, the

beauty and the fascination behind each print makes me want to grab a camera, pick the perfect scene, coincidentally have flawless natural light and create a masterpiece!

If only Horst were still alive to not only share his wisdom but also help us change our attitude to photography. For now we will have to make do with the current viewpoint and hope that through his work we find inspiration.

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To Play the Queen Ben Mercer Comment Correspondent During the time I have spent writing this, the second part of the précis of a case against Hillary Clinton, an American friend and sometimes correspondent - and a potential Clinton voter - posed me three questions, which can be fairly summarised as follows: 1) Is it not both unfair and irrelevant to focus so much of my argument on Clinton’s personal life?

2) Is it not the case that her tenure as Secretary of State has given her the experience necessary to manage the office of President?

3) Would it not be good for the United States to elect its first female president and, more broadly, is she not likely to be better than anyone (Bachman, Bush, Cain, Christie, Paul, Ryan, etc.) running as a Republican?

The sentiment of these questions is more important than the content because it mirrors that expressed by the supporters and defenders of Bill Clinton throughout his tenure as president, and because we are likely to see similar arguments proffered by the votaries of Hillary Clinton. They, like their forebears in the nineties, will almost certainly claim (with hurt in their eyes and pain in their voices) that those who hold and express views like my own are demonizing their preferred candidate who, let’s not forget, “has done so much for us!”

My first response went something like this: If you can look at the charges put by myself and others and still hold the view that they are vulgar personal attacks, and that they bear no relevance to Ms Clinton’s political career and aspirations, then that is very much your problem, and you will likely be rewarded with exactly what you deserve; nothingness with a hint of nastiness, or nastiness punctuated by nothingness.

That said, and in case my answer be deemed too evasive or dismissive, I intend to incorporate more detailed answers to these questions within the points that follow. If by its conclusion the reader feels that any of the above have been left unanswered, then either I have failed in my task, or you have failed in yours.

So, without any further meandering: 6) The Brothers Rodham.

“If my sister doesn’t end up with the nomination, I gotta take a look at who I’m gonna vote for.”

So said Tony Rodham to a reporter from the LA Times, who found him stewing over a pint at a bar opposite the Washington hotel which was playing host to the Democratic rules committee.

To the uninitiated, this might seem a trivial anecdote; an expression of

brotherly bias, and nothing more.

To those on the Clinton staff, a Rodham brother mouthing off to a journalist is seen as a minor crisis.

Never mind that his preferred candidate, should Hillary not get the Democratic nomination, was John McCain or Bob Barr (both Republicans, and the ease with which a Clinton or a Rodham can make the transition from Democrat to Republican is a theme which runs throughout both houses); the Rodham brothers are bad news. If one looks through newspaper archives or on the internet, one is struck by how many gaffes and scandals and sinister dealings with which Tony and Hugh Rodham are associated. That their plans and designs almost always end in failure is testament to their incompetence, for which the United States owes a debt of gratitude to nature, which has been so unkind to them.

One of the most amusing and wellknown episodes came when the brothers put their collective brain to the task of creating and orchestrating what we are obliged to call a ‘get rich quick’ scheme. This involved the peculiar and, at first glance, innocuous enterprise of growing hazelnuts in the former Soviet state of Georgia, and exporting them to the West.

In a feat befitting of a comic relief duet, this banal venture caused a major diplomatic scandal.

The brothers had, more by accident than design, embroiled themselves in the complex world of post-Soviet politics. The Clinton administration had gone to considerable efforts to support the then-president of Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze, who was accommodating of US interests in the region.

The Rodham brothers, apparently ignorant of this delicate state of affairs, bypassed the government of Georgia and went instead to the president’s great rival, the proRussian Aslan Abashidze (a man who more closely resembles an egg than a lion). Abashidze took the opportunity to flaunt what he claimed was the personal support of Bill Clinton, which unsettled Shevardnadze, and this in turn compromised relations between the US and Georgia.

Tony Rodham seems to have acted as the puppet of a disreputable Georgian gentleman named Vasili Patarkalishvili. This is the man responsible for the conception of the hazelnut plan, the founder of a bank which opened just long enough to take hundreds of thousands of dollars before closing (with the money still somewhere inside), and who attempted to use Tony’s influence to arrange a meeting between Bill Clinton and the then-mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, with the aim of winning Luzhkov’s support for another shady scheme involving smart debit

cards. Luzhkov, incidentally, was rumoured to have links to mobsters, and allegedly had an American businessman murdered.

Hugh, meanwhile, has been accused of using his influence to negotiate a lucrative tobacco settlement, and both have been accused of acting as covert lobbyists for various interest groups, taking a significant amount of money in the process.

7) The Issue of Race.

No, I’m not talking about the ‘race card’ supposedly played by Obama on Bill Clinton. He can claim otherwise, but the former president (who later attempted to deny saying what, thanks to the internet, we can still clearly hear him saying) betrayed another less-than-clean aspect of his character.

The Clintons have never been shy of deploying race as a tactic. Bill Clinton did it in 1992, making overtures to minorities and then veering sharply away to reassure the rednecks. (The execution of Ricky Ray Rector served a double purpose: it made him look tough at a time when his credibility was threatened by the Gennifer Flowers affair, and it appealed to the more stupid and sadistic of his voters in the most visceral way possible. “Look, I’m not too pro-black; here I am supervising the execution of a black man.)

Bill Clinton’s record on this is perhaps worse than that of his wife, but we must remember that he was officially a part of her campaign team. The whites-only golf club might have been forgotten by the voters, but we have no reason to abandon our doubts about his character in this regard.

Hillary Clinton adopted a slightly more nuanced approach, making the occasional reference, but rarely doing anything more explicit than implying or insinuating that Obama was and is too black to be a president.

Take this, for example: “Sen. Obama’s support among working, hardworking Americans, white Americans, is weakening again,” she told the paper, citing as evidence a recent Associated Press story on voting trends in Indiana and North Carolina. “I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on.”

And Bill eventually began towing the less conspicuous line, saying this in North Carolina: “I think it’d be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country. And people could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics.” That said, his unprompted comparison between Obama’s victory and those of Jesse Jackson in the 80s

does not really deserve to be called a ‘veiled reference’.

8) Under Fire in Bosnia?

Despite her appeals for clemency and understanding (because the campaign trail is long and tiring, whilst the office of president is, presumably, a breeze by comparison), Ms Clinton did not simply ‘misspeak’ when she fabricated a record for herself in Bosnia.

Here is one version of her claim, from a speech at George Washington University in 2008: “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

If you are going to lie in an attempt to boost your credentials, it is probably best to choose something that is hard to prove or disprove.

It is certainly not a good idea to lie about a trip on which you were accompanied by an entire camera crew from the broadcaster CBS, the singer Sheryl Crowe, and the comedian Sinbad.

The CBS footage has been uploaded to Youtube and juxtaposed with the comments made by Ms Clinton as seen above. It makes for an amusing watch but, for those readers who do not have instant access to the internet, here is a brief description of what actually occurred, written by Michael Dobbs of the Washington Post’s ‘The Fact Checker’ blog: “As a reporter who visited Bosnia soon after the December 1995 Dayton Peace agreement, I can attest that the physical risks were minimal during this period, particularly at a heavily fortified U.S. Air Force base, such as Tuzla. Contrary to the claims of Hillary Clinton and former Army secretary Togo West, Bosnia was not “too dangerous” a place for President Clinton to visit in early 1996. In fact, the first Clinton to visit the Tuzla Air Force base was not Hillary, but Bill, on January 13, 1996.

Had Hillary Clinton’s plane come “under sniper fire” in March 1996, we would certainly have heard about it long before now. Numerous reporters, including the Washington Post’s John Pomfret, covered her trip. A review of nearly 100 news accounts of her visit shows that not a single newspaper or television station reported any security threat to the First Lady.

“As a former AP wire service hack, I can safely say that it would have been in my lead had anything like that happened,” said Pomfret.

According to Pomfret, the Tuzla airport was “one of the safest places in Bosnia” in March 1996, and “firmly under the control” of the 1st Armored Division.

Far from running to an airport building with their heads down, Clinton and her party were greet-

ed on the tarmac by smiling U.S. and Bosnian officials. An eightyear-old Moslem girl, Emina Bicakcic, read a poem in English. An Associated Press photograph of the greeting ceremony... shows a smiling Clinton bending down to receive a kiss.”

Well, her head was down. But, flippancy aside, I draw the reader’s attention to what I wrote in the first part of this case. (It’s called A House of Lies and it can be found in the previous issue of The Lion (Volume 5 Issue 1), or on my blog).

Hillary Clinton is at least partly responsible for the Clinton administration (temporarily) reneging on its promise to end the campaign of rape, murder and genocide carried out against the Bosnians under the auspices of Ratko Mladic and Slobodan Milosevic. That Clinton had the gall to repeatedly lie about her role in Bosnia, and to try and claim the country, its people, and the atrocities committed against them as political capital to further her own cause is, to put it politely, egregious in the extreme.

9) Dodgy Donors & Farcical Financiers.

This is a weighty issue, and I am running out of space. For the bulk of the information, I suggest that the reader looks up the relevant senate reports and other documents relating to Whitewater and the 1992 campaign finance scandal (in which the Chinese government attempted to buy influence in the United States by donating a considerable amount of money, through various individuals and businesses, to the DNC and, more specifically, to the Clinton administration. Many Chinese nationals suspected of involvement in this case fled the country to avoid having to appear in front of the US senate.

It is also worth noting that, on his last day in office, president Clinton opted to pardon over 450 individuals, including the likes of Mark Rich, Edgar Gregory and Vonna Jo (their pardons were solicited, funnily enough, by Tony Rodham), Susan McDougal (connected to the Whitewater scandal) and his own brother.

10) Unanswered Questions.

I turn to Robert Scheer of The Nation to sum this up. On the NSA: “Did Secretary of State Clinton know that such massive spying on the American people was going on and, if not, why isn’t she grateful that Snowden helped to enlighten her? With her scurrilous attacks on Snowden, Hillary Clinton is either a fool or a liar.”

I also refer the reader to the question of Benghazi, and then-Secretary of State Clinton’s role in the affair.

And, alas, I am out of space.

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Lad Culture Sophie Jbouri Second Year Undergraduate

It’s no secret that there is a major problem within our generation.

This week alone we have seen LSE’s Rugby club hand out leaflets calling women ‘slags’, ‘mingers’ and ‘sloppy birds’. Is this political correctness gone mad or is it a more frightening misogynistic streak within our generation’s men?

This September, we saw Emma Watson address the UN. She was speaking up for feminism and a man’s role to help with women’s fight for equality. My question is this: is this, and any other pleas for help from various prominent figures, actually making any difference to the current attitudes of

particular groups of young men?

We live in a culture, fortunately not prominent within Heythrop itself, where women are seen as fair game to insult and ridicule, all in the name of ‘banter’. Whilst having a laugh and joke is not something to be criticised, these words and insults aimed at women can become quite threatening. This behaviour is not limited to universities; this culture is everywhere we look. Facebook and other social media sites are overrun with male-focused entertainment, for example, ‘The Lad Bible’. It is so-called communities such as these which influence and subtly encourage our young men to act more like these so-called ‘men’, who take it upon themselves to encourage banter, which in extreme cases can trivialise sexual

assaults, harassment and homophobia. It is the way that women are portrayed on this and other websites that arguably encourage men to perpetuate these views.

As any girl will notice, it is becoming harder and harder to have a night out without being verbally abused when turning down a man.

We are also increasingly having to speak of a nonexistent boyfriend in order to be rid of unwanted attention. The only way that certain young men accept a rejection is by mentioning your ‘boyfriend’, as if a woman’s personal choice is not worth anything anymore. The tendency to ignore a woman’s worth in more than just looks is becoming more and more prominent in student life. For example the horrifying Freshers’ event: a ‘Pimps

and Hoes’ club night, which some universities allow to continue. In certain clubs, pressure is put on young women to get on stage and ‘perform’ for free drinks. Whilst you might argue that this is the choice of the woman, it can be very difficult to object to this whilst under the influence of alcohol and being pressured by large crowds to do so. This pack mentality spreads all the way into a majority of male social groups. It could be said that the fact that there is constant pressure amongst young men to act in a certain way in order to meet people and gain friends is incredibly damaging to society as a whole. It needs to be stated that this is not how all young men act, but the fact that this culture is becoming increasingly more prominent is very worrying.

If we wish to rid ourselves of this problem then a significant male role model ought to speak up about how damaging this is. Not only to the women that it effects, but also to the way it must be affecting young men who are stuck within this kind of pressure. We can come to the conclusion that there has been little to no change within this sphere, and society not acknowledging how serious this problem could become is eventually going to encourage more and more young men to act this way. Men need to be fighting against this culture and if not we will be seeing the effects of this within generations to come.

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Culture Music: Lower Than Atlantis Launch Party Satchi Mahendran First Year Undergraduate With the 6th of October seeing the release of Lower Than Atlantis’ 4th album, the selftitled piece shows a transition from the bands post-hard-core punk roots into more melodic indie rock; having signed with Sony Music Entertainment in April of this year, the band is making a big step out with this album. It is far more varied than anything they’ve produced in the past, with front man Mike Duce explaining “There’s only so far you can go with four blokes playing guitars, bass and drums. And now was the time to do whatever the f*ck we wanted.” But they haven’t completely strayed from their origins, with sounds of their previous albums still evident in songs such as ‘Here We Go’ and ‘Number One’; with the heavy guitar and drums their fans have become accustomed to. However, their experiment adding more electro sounds, resulting in ‘Ain’t No Friend’ and ‘Just What You Need’, has been widely taken as a success; resulting in a stunning sound and music potentially more accessible to a wider fan base than their previous work.

The opening track on this album ‘Here We Go’ was dubbed as Zane Lowe’s hottest record in the world on the 2nd of June and, with a raw rock and roll video to go alongside, it doesn’t fail to live up to this acclaim.

To bring in the new album, the band held a signing at HMV Oxford Street with a stripped back acoustic set in the loft of the store, the ‘HMV363’,

with a stage just big enough to

wristband holders, The Atlantis

fit the quartet and the iconic

didn’t disappoint. Lower Than

neon HMV sign glowing in the

Atlantis pint glasses and coast-

background. With the band’s

ers filled every table. The band

undeniable upwards trajectory,

wandered about chatting to

the opportunity to see them

friends and fans alike, revelling

in a setting this intimate is

in their most successful day to

unlikely to come around again

date with their album shooting

any time in the near future. The

to 7th in the charts less than

band opened with ‘English Kids

24 hours after having been

in America’ and the sound of

released.

Duce’s voice enchanted the 80

This ecstasy was evident as they

or so lucky audience members.

took to the stage, noticeably ap-

The silences whilst Duce tuned

pearing more comfortable than

his guitars between songs were

at their earlier performance.

filled by his awkward jokes with

Now surrounded by family,

the audience and his fellow

friends and fans, they gave a

band mates’; demonstrating

faultless upbeat performance;

their down to earth nature,

letting loose and showing their

which they describe in ‘Crimi-

rock and roll soul hasn’t gone

nal’ as ‘broke thugs getting ma-

anywhere. This culminated in a

jor label love’. Highlights of the

raw unforgettable performance

acoustic set included; ‘Emily’

of ‘Here We Go’, with the band

- a love song about a dog with

jumping around the stage and

a video that’s not to be missed;

everyone in the pub following

their cover of ‘Am I Wrong’ by

suit.

Nico & Vinz that they recently

Lower Than Atlantis can be

performed on Radio 1’s Live

seen frequently in this poten-

Lounge and has widely been

tially career defining year, as

received as an improvement

they head to KOKO on the 8th

on the original; and one of the

of December as part of their

band’s all time classics ‘Another

headline tour and then join A

Sad Song’ from their second

Day To Remember on their ‘All

album ‘World Record’. Duce

Signs Point to Britain’ tour.

performed the track solo with

The recording of their acoustic

just his guitar and the rest of

gig at the HMV363 is avail-

the band watching on from the

able on the HMV website and

side of the stage, with grins on

their cover of ‘Am I Wrong’ will

their faces, admiring the pure

be featured on the next Live

class of their front man.

Lounge album.

After the show and album

The Atlantis has now returned

signing, the race was on as

to being The Monarch but it

the celebrations carried on in

is still a great location for gigs

style at the Sony album launch

and comedy acts and, if you

party at The Monarch, Cam-

don’t like paying to get into

den (dubbed The Atlantis for

club nights, head down there

the night.) The only catch was

on a Friday evening when all

that only the first 50 wristband

you require for free entry is to

holders from the earlier signing

bring a pineapple along with

were to be permitted entry. En-

you.

tering within the mid 30s of the

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A Review of Frehser’s 2014 Rhiannon Jones-Hopkins Second Year Undergraduate

the distance between each

When thinking of Freshers’

Whether by accident or inten-

Week, images of the obligatory

tion it was a tame affair but it

drink-addled bodies rolling

lent very well to meeting new

from bar to bin naturally spring

people and making new friends.

to mind. Everyone who has

I left with a considerably lighter

experienced one speaks with

bank account and a blister I

a mixture of pride and long-

have since named Alex Josza.

ing when they regale their own

I can’t speak about the day

fresher adventures. Misty-eyed

events as I didn’t make it to any

they tell you how the survived

apart from the Freshers’ Fair,

on nothing but Hobnobs and

where I signed up to so many

Jägermeister, and can now

societies my e-mail inbox now

down a pint in under five

resembles a Wall Street trading

seconds. How life-long friend-

floor. But the evening events

ships are forged in the girl’s

were excellent. The club nights

bathrooms, unfortunate nick-

tend to blur together, dancing

names are earned and regretful

and drinking were a priority,

amorous liaisons occur. After

and in a collective fugue state,

hearing the stories I person-

night bus routes were routinely

ally approached the upcoming

forgotten and 24/7 McDonalds

week like I was training for a

frequently abused.

marathon. By which I mean I

If it sounds shambolic, it

dutifully consumed question-

wasn’t. It was obvious it had

able alcohol and refrained from

been lovingly crafted by our

sleep in the weeks leading up to

Student Union who deserve our

my initiation into student life.

collective gratitude for making

But Heythrop was bound to

it the success it was. For a small

be different. Surely a small

college I think we did exceed-

college full of enlightened,

ingly well, the community spirit

philosophically-inclined young

was alive and well, meaning

minds wouldn’t succumb to the

everyone always got home safe

cliché? Well I can confirm, if by

and no man was left behind.

nothing else than the persistent

The (first ever) Freshers’ Ball

Freshers’ flu that has everyone

rounded it all off beautifully

coughing and sniffling during

and there is pictorial evidence

lectures, that it was in some

(thanks to Facebook) that at

ways a typical Freshers’ week.

least at the beginning of the

With a pub crawl, club nights,

night we all scrubbed up very

Comedy Central, bowling, and

well.

Blag Club, there was something

I will therefore keep my

to distract you from looming

wristband for years to come

lectures on offer every night.

and bring it out like a medal.

Looking back, wearing heels

I will now join the misty-eyed

on a pub crawl was perhaps

majority when telling others of

a stupid idea. But as it turns

my Freshers’ week. And on that

out I could have been wearing

note I would like to remind my

buttery soft leather boat shoes

fellow first years that although

and still come home with raw

Freshers’ week is over, we are

feet as it was more of a pub trek

freshers for the rest of the year.

than pub crawl. A pub pilgrim-

Therefore, I am off to the bar

age, if you will. As I dutifully

- after I do all my reading for

sloped off from pub to pub,

next week’s lectures. Of course.

grew longer and longer. By the time I arrived at the next bar I had walked off my last drink and was begrudgingly sober.

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edited by Jordan mant Restaurant: Meat & Shake Katie Milne Second Year Undergraduate Sometimes it can be incredibly expensive to find somewhere nice to eat in London, especially if you don’t know where to look. Recently, I took a trip to Tooting, after hearing good things about up and coming burger restaurant ‘Meat&Shake’. Going on a Saturday evening I was concerned that I may have to queue, as the restaurant only has 15 tables, but I was seated immediately and during my meal I did not see any guest wait for longer than 2 minutes for a table.

Giving that the menu is so small I was surprised by how hard it was to choose my main,

as each of the 7 burgers on the

sautéed onions. Although I only

of course, just as important

of sauce which, for a student

menu (not including chicken

had a bite of it, it left a positive

and the 12 varieties of unique

(unaccustomed to fine din-

or vegetarian options) was its

impression and I have no doubt

milkshake concoctions did

ing), is rather charming. My

own unique delicacy. I settled

that any of the other exciting

not disappoint. Although the

half of the meal came to just

on The Von Longhorn while my

options on the menu would do

milkshakes may look expen-

over £17 which, for what

partner chose The Luchador.

the same.

sive (£5.80 was the mid-range

you get, is definitely worth it

Both were delicious and the

We ordered two sides - sweet

price), they are served to you

and cheaper than a lot of the

portion sizes definitely war-

potato fries served in a sizeable

in what is essentially a small

other ‘burger joint with a twist’

ranted the price. My burger

pot and onion rings piled high

bucket and the staff are more

sort of restaurants popping

contained aioli, salad, Mon-

on a plate. ‘Meat&Shake’ cer-

than happy to provide you with

up over London. Check out

terey cheese, sautéed onions,

tainly does not scrimp on pres-

a plastic cup, lid, and straw if

the menu at meatandshake.

turkey bacon, matchstick fries,

entation. The sweet potato fries

you are not able to finish your

com and see if it piques your

an onion ring, Stanton sauce

were all wonderfully crispy,

drink within the duration of

interest. If you don’t mind

and of course, most impor-

which is uncommon in any

your meal. They, of course, also

venturing from Kensington a

tantly, a melt-in-the-mouth

restaurant as sweet potato is

have a selection of the typical

little, ‘Meat&Shake’ is a great

medium-rare beef burger. All

harder to cook. The onion rings

soft drinks if you don’t want to

find that hasn’t yet become so

combined, this made for a

were cooked right through and

spend the money or don’t fancy

popular that the bill comes to

delectable (but messy) taste

did not have any rubbery rem-

a milkshake.

more than your weekly food

experience. The Luchador was,

nants once you bit through the

The meat is also all halal - if

allowance or you can’t even get

as its name suggests, a Mexican

batter. Indeed, both side dishes

this is a requirement for you, is

in the door. I would definitely

inspired burger, with a concoc-

were just as impressive as the

cooked to your exact

recommend going, and soon.

tion of salsa, jalapenos, nachos,

burgers.

specifications, and is served

sour-cream, guacamole and

The second part of the title is,

next to a flower and a swish

I’ve recently experienced. The

references are also present

as a poke at London culture -

Plus with a show each day,

four main actors are obviously

throughout the show. The

everyone should hold their Oys-

and two shows on Fridays and

incredibly talented; blending

whole team are Japanese and

ter cards ready for that part!

Saturdays, there is no excuse

gymnastics, ballet, new-age,

the band have no problem at

To conclude, I would HIGHLY

NOT to enter their strange, yet

forced-perspective, traditional

poking fun at their ‘unconven-

recommend Siro-a if you want

bright world.

Japanese theatre and Mime.

tional country’, with Japanese

a truly new and enlightening

All of this is complimented

Sumo wrestlers and Pokémon

theatre experience for just £20

Playing at the Leicester Square

perfectly with visually-stunning

making an appearance, as well

(cheap for London standards!)

Theatre until January 11th.

Theatre: Siro-A Michael Bailey First Year Undergraduate Siro-a really is performing for a new age of theatre. When you enter the small, dimly lit room, the first thing you see are… the performers! They were dressed completely in white (with face-paint to match) and with new-age, tron-like glasses on.

These incredibly friendly and welcoming performers greeted the small crowd: “Hello, hello, please come for a photo for the show” (to which I had to oblige) - completely breaking down the wall between the stage and the audience. Even when the show started there was no secret door for them to sneak out of, they just walked right up to the stage, waved, then exited through a sheet.

The next hour has to have been the most stimulating

video that the performers interact with constantly, accompanied with very ‘video game/ new age’ electronic music. Half way through the show there is even more audience participation (again, I of course bolted up to the front whilst elbowing small children and old women out of the way). It was simply saying a single word which, after a few people had added their part, broke into Pharrell’s ‘Happy’ that was auto-tuned live to match things people had said. A simple, yet amazing and hilarious, piece.

Many cultural and spiritual

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Culture

D

Film: Autumn Fillers and Winter Warmers ..

Gereon Kramer First Year Postgraduate When Autumn starts, the days get colder and rainy and it is a good time to visit the cinema to watch one of the new upcoming movies. Besides the big Blockbusters, “The Hunger Games - The Mockingjay: Part 1” and “The Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies”, here is a list of movies you might not want to miss.

The Best of Me Genre: Romantic Opens: 17th October Michael Hoffman directed the film adaptation of the book of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. Dawson (Young: Luke Bracy, Old: James Marsden) and Amanda (Young: Liana Liberato, Old: Michelle Monaghan) fell for each other at school and had a wonderful time together. Now, 20 years later, they meet again and renew their relationship.

A wonderful book transferred into a romantic movie for cold days in October.

Alexander and The

Meanwhile, the film music is

and Joel Edgerton (Zero Dark

man 2), told in a wonder-

Terrible, Horrible, No

composed by Hans Zimmer.

Thirty, The Great Gatsby) as

ful movie about one of the

Good, Very Bad Day

Get fascinated by the universe

Ramses are the main characters

greatest scientists of all time.

Genre: Comedy, Family

and this movie.

in this not always biblically ac-

It is a film which fascinates

Opens: 24th October

The Penguins of

curate, but still very interesting,

you by the great ideas of

Alexander has a run of bad luck

Madagascar

Hollywood-Blockbuster.

Hawking, which reduces you

while his family seems to be the

Genre: Animation, Comedy

The Theory of Everything

complete opposite. But then,

Opens: 5th December

things begin to change and he

Perfectly known from three

Historical

Madagascar movies, Skipper,

Opens: 1st January

finds out that all of his family members have their own very bad day. This is the start for a wonderful comedy. A Walt Disney Family Film, which gives you exactly what you would expect of it.

Interstellar Genre: Science Fiction, Drama

Rico, Kowalski and Private now get their own movie.

Their mission is to fight the villainous octopus, Dave (John Malkovitch) who is attempting

world in their own special way.

Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and astronaut, Brand (Anne Hathaway), who try to find a new planet for mankind because it is getting impossible to live on the earth anymore.

Nolan managed to cast many stars for the movie like Michael Caine and Matt Damon.

you up by the love of Stephen and Jane. The movie already

The Story of Stephen Hawking

won a prize at Cannés Film

(Eddie Redmayne, Les Miséra-

festival and is definitely a

bles) and his wife Jane (Felicity

candidate for the Academy

Jones, The Amazing Spider-

Award

Wind” and their leader, Classi-

This masterpiece by Chris-

tells the story of the scientist,

sclerosis (ALS) and cheers

support by the group “North fied (Benedict Cumberbatch).

premiere in London. The movie

against amyotrophic lateral

to destroy the world. They get

Opens: 4th November

topher Nolan will have its

Genre: Drama, Romantic,

to tears about the great fight

Together, they try to save the Good entertainment guaranteed. Just smile and wave, boys!

Exodus Genre: Action Opens:26th December After the Noah movie, the next story from the old testament finds its way to the screens.

Christian Bale (known from the Batman trilogy) as Moses

Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything

Film: Lucy Howard Mensah Second Year Undergraduate

unwitting drug mule! However,

proceeds, she moves past using

Philosophy, with the idea that

the supporting cast fail to

this is not your run-of-the-mill

ten percent of her cerebral ca-

one is linked to nature and all

entice the audience of Lucy.

cocaine but rather a blue drug

pacity (according to the movie,

beings around them and how

Morgan freeman is charming

that when ingested heightens

that is the average human use)

similar we are to nature. Besson

in his role as professor but

Luc Besson, known for his

the human cerebral capacity.

to twenty, thirty and so on

emphasises this point through

does little in explaining his

mouth-watering production

Lucy is blackmailed and threat-

until she reaches a hundred.

short, powerful clips of either

scientific theory. Lucy is not

of action, and science fiction

ened with harm to her friends

The more that Lucy learns

nature (i.e. a cheetah hunt-

a blockbuster thriller and, in

thrillers such as Transporter,

and family, which leaves her

about humanity, the more she

ing its prey, as Lucy hunts for

my view, not one of Besson’s

Taken and The Fifth Element,

with only one choice; to carry

finds herself acquiring strange,

her captures), our prehistoric

best science fiction movies

again grips the audience with

the drugs via the package being

superhuman, Godlike powers

ancestors (who would only use

but it will appeal to a wide

his eye-catching science fiction

surgically implanted in her

such as having the capability to

a minute part of their cerebral

audience. It would, however,

movie style. Lucy stars Morgan

belly. Prior to Lucy getting

interact with animals, change

capacity) and how humanity

be a rich thought-provoking

Freeman alongside Scarlet

aboard the flight, a member of

her hair colour in an instant or,

has evolved over time.

reward for science fiction

Johansson, who takes on the

the Taiwan gang attacks her

even better, the ability to stop

Nonetheless, Scarlet Johans-

movie lovers or even philoso-

role of the female protagonist

causing the package to rupture.

bullets. #Iwantsome!

son transports the minds of

phers who are curious on the

that finds herself in the middle

This releases a deadly dose of

Throughout the movie Luc

the audience to the curios-

region of ‘what is reality’ and

of a drug transaction in Taiwan.

the drug into her system. Yet,

Besson provides the audience

ity of the capabilities of the

one of Stephen Law’s favour-

The deal goes wrong and the

she does not die. As the movie

with an intriguing view on

mind at its peak. However,

ites - ‘creationism vs science’

next thing she knows she’s an

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culture

TV: Bins, Bottoms, Beards, Builders… oh and Cakes!

Jenny Moran Academic Affairs Officer The Great British Bake Off 2014 has had its fair share of scandals and controversies.

From ‘Bin Gate’ to Norman’s honest bakes, the nation has been entertained by the characters and personalities of the contestants and judges alike!

Mary and the male judge, along with Mel and Sue, have once again failed to disappoint.

The biggest scandal, which made Bake Off hit the headlines, was ‘Bin Gate’. Iain’s anger and frustration when Dianna took his Baked Alaska out of the freezer, causing him to launch the semi-melted slop into the bin caused a complete split of opinion. Sue Perkins’ tweet, informing us that Iain’s baked Alaska was only out of the freezer for 40 seconds (which was not enough time for the ice cream to melt), put few minds to rest; there was still a cry of sabotage from many viewers about the unfortunate bincident. It does seem suspicious, as it is hard to compre-

hend why someone would take

bakes were his own demise,

and inventive baker) out of the

- especially as the contestants

a pudding containing ice cream

even though they were the

water with an almost faultless

are people you could bump into

out of the freezer. However,

reason he captured the nations

week! Her quiet confidence and

on the street. The programme

it caused many uncalled for

hearts. Norman stuck to his

calm exterior allowed her to

attracts such a wide variety of

comments - especially via twit-

guns, making simple bakes

sail through the final and claim

people, not just age-range but

ter - towards Dianna. What

and refusing to take the advice

the Bake Off trophy. Although

personality-wise. From Dianna

may seem like a feeble issue

of the judges of making them

not a clear winner from the

to Luis to Jordan, they are all

(though, not compared to last

more complicated and elabo-

start (however consistent she

so different, yet we can relate to

year’s Custard Gate) saw the

rate. His invention of shaking

was), she was an amusing addi-

most of them in some way. This

show reach a record of 10.5

a bag of icing over his tart to

tion to the tent due to her blunt

draws us into the programme

million viewers - unfortunately

give it a nice finish also became

and no-nonsense approach,

and captures the nation. We all

still less than half the viewers

a talking point. Norman’s

along with the odd slip up such

love a good competition but the

of Eastenders’ most watched

stubborn attitude and honesty

as referring to Paul as ‘the male

gentle nature of the Bake Off,

episode! However, clearly with

made him a nation’s favourite,

judge’. The Bake Off tent would

where the worst criticism you

Bake Off, it is what seems like

especially after admitting that

also not be the same without

can get is a soggy bottom, also

the little things which attract

he had his first custard tart 20

the input of Mel and Sue. Noth-

allows us to watch with ease

the most attention.

years ago and thought it was

ing was more entertaining on

and enjoy the content rather

Mary Berry’s outrage and

exotic! He was not the only one

this year’s Bake Off than the in-

than getting TOO frustrated

disgust, portrayed through her

with his own methods. Nancy,

nuendoes slipped in by the duo.

with the judge’s attitudes. It

glaring death stare, at Enwe-

the Bake Off winner, decided

From “to be commended on

also brings people together,

zor’s shop bought fondant

to quicken the prove of her

your nuts by Mary Berry, wow,

as a programme loved by kids

proves this point exactly. As

Lincolnshire Plum bread by

you’ve had a great day” to “stop

through to grandparents! It

much as making fondant may

popping it in the microwave - a

touching your dough balls”, the

sparks discussion in families

seem like a faff, it is expected to

method deemed ‘dangerous’ by

comments of Mel and Sue will

and friends, and can even

be endured for the high stand-

Paul Hollywood. However, this

always be appreciated.

be appreciated by a group of

ards of the Bake Off; unfortu-

clearly worked in her favour

But why does the nation love

university students gathered

nately a realisation Enwezor

and did not prevent her from

The Great British Bake Off so

in a house with a cat and some

did not come too before his

being popular with the judges.

much? As much as the witty

cake! But really, it all comes

regrettable downfall. However,

Her most impressive week, the

remarks and controversies

down to the fact that if we want

Enwezor was not the only one

finale, saw her blow Richard

definitely help, the chaos of a

to be on Bake Off, we can, and

who made bad decisions about

(the five times star baker win-

task that we can all undertake

it’s not too much of an unreal-

their bakes. Norman’s honest

ner) and Luis (the intricate

seems to attract our attention

istic goal!

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The Creative Commons A Creatively Compiled Collection Dinner with a Philosopher: Martin Heidegger Rebecca Pyke First Year Postgraduate

starts with the mystery of what

However, Heidegger’s life and

is meant when it is uttered that

philosophical career is marred by

something ‘is’ or ‘being’. To fully

his involvement (which is debated)

understand Heidegger’s philoso-

with the Nazi party. This led after

On the 26th September 1889

phy it is best to read the original

the war to him being forbidden to

in Messkirch, Germany, Martin

text. However, to put it simply,

teach until 1949.

Heidegger was born (or, as in his

within ‘Being and Time’ is the

Although his affiliations remain

work, ‘thrown’).

idea that being is time. This basic

a source of debate, Heidegger’s

One of the most influential writers

idea is driven by unlocking Sein

philosophy has and remains to be

associated with phenomenol-

(being) through Dasein (human

a great influence over many other

ogy and existentialism, his most

existence). To live an authentic life

subjects; such as architectural

famous work ‘Being and Time’

is therefore to project our “being-

theory, literary criticism, theol-

(1927) catapulted him into the

towards-death” as the nature of

ogy, psychotherapy and cognitive

canon of contemporary European

our human life is held by tempo-

science.

Philosophy.

rarily existing between our begin-

This leads to the question, if you

The nature of Heidegger’s work

ning and end. Our being then is a

invited him to dinner what would

follows a train of thought which

process of becoming.

you cook?

The Sound of Silence

Bean and Thyme Soup What to do:

1 onion, peeled and sliced

Heat saucepan with oil and add

Less than 30 mins prep and 10-30

1 tbsp sunflower oil

onion and apple, cooking for 3-4

mins cooking time.

1 tin butter beans, drained

minutes until ingredients begin to

Serves approx. 4.

1 cooking apple, cored and

soften.

Suitable for Vegetarians and is

chopped

Add the thyme and beans season-

Gluten-Free (however double

3 sprigs fresh thyme

ing well.

check for allergens).

240ml/8fl oz cider (for a more au-

Pour in cider as well as stock,

thentic taste use a German Cider

and simmer until ingredients are

This dish is nutritious and savings

such as Mossman and Frankfurter,

tender.

Hohl, Maintaler or Blauer)

Take out thyme springs, add

340ml/12fl oz vegetable stock

parsley and then liquidise until

2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley

smooth.

Salt and pepper, to season

friendly. A man of simple tastes, this dish would appeal to Heidegger who would write and live in his spiritual hut on the slopes of

Peter Ian Staker

the mountain Todtnauberg in the Black Forest.

From Heythrop College

are you a semi-talented and inventive cook?

Or a talented and semi-inventive poet? submit to the lion!

food for thought

What you’ll need:

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Horoscopes

*

POWERFUL, INTENSE, CHAOTIC! These are our keywords as we move to through October, into November. The biggest astrological news is that Mercury is still in retrograde; causing difficulty with communications- from power cuts to delays and misunderstandings. Some of us will also see old issues beginning to resurface. This causes many of us frustration and confusion as our problems remain, no matter how hard we try to fix them. Our sensitivity is also heightened, leading us to read into things, more so than usual. On the bright side? There is no better time to reflect and re-organize! Old behaviour patterns and strategies are no longer working, urging us to either make a change or embrace the change. Think OUTSIDE of the box!

Aries

Taurus

Gemini

Cancer

Leo

Virgo

Mar 21 - Apr 19

Apr 20 - May 20

May 21 - Jun 20

Jun 21 - Jul 22

Jul 23 - Aug 22

Aug 23 - Sep 22

Impulsive, impatient, and when angered, downright IMPOSSIBLE! Not one for thinking things through, it is particularly important for you to think carefully before you speak, as your fiery temper could get the better of you… AGAIN! Mercury retrograde affects communications in relation to your health and career, delaying negotiations and appointments. You may also feel a lack of support, from those you would usually look to for a helping hand - but it is fundamental to act, rather than react. Take some time out to re-evaluate problematic situations. THINK!

Patient, practical, and admirably PERSEVERING! Solid as a rock, and somewhat predictable, this retrograde will force you to become one with the thing you struggle with most… CHANGE! During this time, you may struggle with personal relationships and finances. It is important to resist the urge to speculate and judge as the results could be very misleading.

There is a change coming, whether you like or not, and you have two options. You can struggle against the tide, or you can go with the flow.

(Hint: choose the latter.)

Change doesn’t have to be hard. EMBRACE IT!

Curious, quick-witted, and to put it nicely, CRAZY! You’re naturally flexible nature works to your advantage during Mercury retrograde.

This affects communication with family, as well as the way you present yourself to the world. This will impact you more than most, as Mercury is your ruling planet. Now is not the time to make significant decisions and it would be wise to take a PAUSE. You may feel frantic about what to do and where your life is heading, so avoid taking on too much. Remember that this feeling won’t last forever.

Until then, do what you do best- ADAPT!

Sympathetic, supportive, and oh so SENSITIVE! Still waters run deep, and this is particularly true for you. Just like the crab, your tough exterior protects your vulnerable interior. This retrograde affects impacts your personal communications, as well as the past, hence you may feel like your past is coming back to haunt you.

Your usually intuitive nature is not something to rely on for now. Instead it is advisable to be LOGICAL when dealing with matters of the heart. Review the past, but don’t live in it. Old wounds are not yet healed, so don’t repress; instead, EXPRESS!

Bright, bold, and at worst BIG-HEADED! The retrograde affects your personal finances and friendship groups. As a born leader, you can use this Mercury energy to create progressive changes in your personal life… just NOT YET! Use this time to evaluate your options, and plan, rather than act. Keep in mind that not everyone means what they say - no one is out to get you, despite what you might think. Don’t let other people’s negativity dampen your flame. Rise above it and trust in your own personal power. It won’t be long until you get another chance to SHINE!

Poised, picky, and in one form or another, a PERFECTIONIST! You may feel misunderstood at this time, as Mercury affects your mannerisms, and presentation with regards to public affairs. Mercury also rules your sign; hence it will impact you a lot more. You have the tendency to OVERANALYSE situations - doing this now can make you seem like you’re victimizing yourself.

You would do well to draw on your logical side, to see the bigger picture. There’s an important decision you will need to make shortly.

There’s only one thing to do.

FOCUS!

Libra

Scorpio

Sagittarius

Capricorn

Aquarius

Pisces

Sep 23 - Oct 22

Oct 23 - Nov 21

Nov 22 - Dec 21

Dec 22 - 19 Jan

Jan 20 - Feb 18

Feb 19 - 20 Mar

Intellectual, idealistic, and famously INDECISIVE! Mercury retrograde affects communications about travel and education, as well as past issues you may have thought were already dealt with. You’re even more UNSURE than usual, and this may make you want to just bury your head in the sanddon’t! Others will see you as distant and unfocused, but little do they know that you have bigger problems to worry about. There’s something nagging you in the back of your mind, and it’s doing so for a reason. You need to work patiently to figure this out. Don’t forget to SMILE!

Passionate, persistent, and secretly obsessively POSSESSIVE! Always wanting to control the situation, Mercury retrograde and all its obstacles can throw you off.

This is especially true with regards to communicating with those closest to you.

Thankfully, you are a MASTER of change, and you are willing to develop yourself.

Allow yourself some seclusion to reflect, if you feel overwhelmed by these challenges. Others may think you are being standoffish, but only you truly know how you can cope with these energies. Breathe and allow yourself to TRANSFORM!

Philosophical, free-spirited, and unpredictably FIESTY! Due to your laid back nature, your life revolves around an endless series of changesyou make the most of this, as long as nothing hinders your FREEDOM! Mercury retrograde affects communication with your close partner and career, so you may find yourself in a number of tricky situations. You don’t have the best judgment at the moment, so hold your tongue for the time being, or you could unintentionally do some serious damage with your bluntness - sorry - ‘honesty’. What to do? THINK!

Reliable, resourceful, and sometimes to their detriment - RESPONSIBLE! Mercury retrograde affects communications for you, in terms of opinions, law and your career. You may have the tendency to hold back saying something that’s bothering you; as you’re always trying to do what’s best for everyone. Deep down, you know you should be thinking about YOURSELF. While you will have to say something eventually, it’s best to wait just a little longer, until Mercury goes direct again. The necessary transformation will take place soon. PREPARE!

Unpredictable, understanding, and irritatingly good at seeming UNEMOTIONAL! This retrograde will get in the way of personal communications as well as finances.

Whilst you may attempt to use your ECCENTRIC character to hide your feelings about this, it’s important you don’t try to hide it from yourself. Honesty is the best policy, and it’s imperative that you’re honest with yourself. Re-think your personal relationships and re-think what you do with your time and money. Evaluate your life as a whole, and figure out what matters most. One word - PRIORITIZE!

Compassionate, conflicted, and unaware that they are so CONTRADICTORY! Both the sinner and the saint, you find yourself confused, even on a good day! This Mercury retrograde can get the better of you but only if you let ityou’re not as helpless as you may think. Communications to do with partnerships and family life are affected here.

As such a SENSITIVE soul, you may have the tendency to take harmless comments to heart. Don’t take it personally and avoid becoming passive aggressive towards those you care about. Rise above it all and SELF-REFLECT!

* All events predicted in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real events, past or future, is purely coincidental.

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Societies Sports and

Introducing: The Heythrop Chess Society

Jack Lane President of ChesSoc

for you. Think again! Not only will

Hello fellow students of Heythrop,

So if you’re interested in learning

you’re very probably not aware of the new Heythrop Chess Society and that’s okay because you are now! As of yet there are no set dates to which we will religiously adhere to and meet upon. However, this is not to say that this will always be the case. Now, it’s more than likely that some of you are currently thinking that you don’t know how to play chess and therefore this society is not one

we play chess but we also have the cunning ability to teach you chess. a brand new (to you) and enjoyable game look us up on Facebook or contact me via email (Jack.

Lane@Heythropcollege.ac.uk).

The society will be available to all levels of player, from entry level to grandmaster-been-playing-yourentire-life level. It’s also important to remember that it’s just a game, it really doesn’t matter if you’re not very good - you will learn and hopefully enjoy doing so.

The Heythrop Netball Society Hannah Simpson President of NetSoc This year we are very excited that Heythrop has a brand new Netball team, which is in the British University and College Sports (BUCS) league. This year we hope to train hard as a team and hopefully move into the next division. How-

ever, our main focus is to have fun whilst keeping fit. On Wednesday 8th of October we had our first training session which was well attended despite the rain. We are a very friendly society and if you feel like you want to play, join our facebook group: ‘Heythrop Netball Society 2014/15’ for more information.