20th March, 1973

NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE UNION

F R E E ! ISSUE No. 333

FELIX IS

THE WAY

TO LIFE Crusade starts page two

And for the second

RENT time of asking

An Extraordinary General Meeting of Im­

perial College Union has been called for Tues­

day at 1 p.m. in the Great Hall. A petition con­

taining the required 130 signatures was col­

lected last week.

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 hal ls " and "as part of the

Nat ional Grants Campaign . " The motion was

put to the Grants Act ion Committee at its

meeting last Fr iday, and was approved —

albeit by a vote of four for four against. The

votes against were led by John Lane, I C U

President, who wanted clauses 1 to 4 inclusive

deleted. Apparently al l the members present

at the meeting were in favour of a rent strike.

A motion call ing for a rent strike was put to

the first union meeting of this term, and de­

feated. The left-wing factions were dissatisfied

then because the remainder of the grants

motion was passed overwhelmingly, and "we

were left with all the policy but none of the

act ion."

Now lacking publicity, and wi th rapidly de­

cl ining interest in the Grants Campaign, the

motion stands its chance of getting through

only in a meeting l ike this Extraordinary one

where there is l ikely to be a good Soc. Soc.

turnout and few others.

The Motion

CATERING/RESIDENCE

Proposed by Trev Philips

ICU a f f i rms the G A C d e c i s i o n to make one

of the two centra l d e m a n d s of the refec­

tory boyco t t s , Total opposition to the "self

financing policies in refecs. No p r i c e i n ­

c reases no cuts in por t i ons — no clo­

sure of any re fecs .—no r edundanc i e s or

short t ime for staff.

f C U adds ' to th is that " W e mus t make the

state p a y " and " R e f e c boyco t t s a n d other

tac t i cs w i l l be ma in ta ined if necessary as

part of the f ight aga ins t se l f f i nanc ing and

pr i ce inc reases , etc . even if grants are in­

creased."

ICU ins t ruc ts the refec, c ommi t t e e reps,

to ask the co l l ege for a s su rances that there

w i l l be " n o pr i ce inc reases . . . e tc . (as

a b o v e ) " .

If the a ssurances are not f o r thcom ing ICU

to w i t h d r a w a l l representat ives f r om the

refec commi t t e e unt i l a U G M d e c i d e d

o therw ise . ' '

A s a further part of the c a m p a i g n f r om

decent l i v ing s t andards I C U rea f f i rms the

p o l i c y that " t h e D E S mus t pay for a l l

future h a l l s " and so I C U :

i . a sks co l l ege author i t i es to i t emise

separate ly the 3 5 p vo luntary levy on

ha l l b i l l s ;

i i . w i l l g ive fu l l suppor t to any s tudent

e x e r c i s i ng his d i s c r e t i on over payment

of levy.

T h i s un ion recogn ises the urgency of the ac­

c o m m o d a t i o n s i tua t i on in and a r ound Sou th

K e n s i n g t o n , the need as s u c h for more

ha l l s of r e s idence and to f ight aga ins t loan

f i nanc ing ins tead of s u b s i d i e s for a l l f u ­

ture h a l l s of r e s idence . T h i s un ion there­

fore advoca t es a rent s t r ike s tar t ing f r om

the beg inn ing of next t e rm in o r d e r : —

1. to f ight aga ins t loan f i nanc ing of new

h a l l s ;

i i . as part of the nat iona l grants c a m ­

pa i gn .

Day of

Boredom Wednesday's National Day of Action

brought with it even greater apathy and lack

of participation than was apparent at last

year's Autonomy Day of Action. Lecture boy­

cotts were not unsuccessful — attendances

varied between near zero to nearly 90 per cent.

B u t most of those that ried a story straight out

boycotted lectures, predic­

tably, stayed at home in

bed. Attendance at the a l ­

ternative syllabus took un­

t i l half-past ten to reach

the fifty mark, despite hav­

ing such speakers as M i c h ­

ael Duanne, th ex-head of

R i s ingh i l l comprehensive

school, who caused such a

of the N U S Press Service

headlined "500,000 on

s t r ike . " It seems unl ike ly

that the strike wi l l have

any effect on anyone, l§ast

of a l l the D E S , who are

sti l l refusing to do any­

thing about student grants

from next year other than

the £20 increase in under-

rumpus with his novel graduate grants that has

ideas of education in the

early 1960's.

T h e other ma in speaker

was M a r y R ichardson ,

f rom the N U S Execut ive .

Discussion was held on

been scheduled for two

years now. M r . N o r m a n St

John Stcvas, under-secre-

tary of. State at the De­

partment of Educa t i on

and Science, however, has

such topics as the Whi te int imated that he is w i l l -

Paper. Mos t of those at- ing to look into the ques-

tending were from the po l ­

i t ica l ly active sections of

the I C U n i o n Communi t y .

Other parts of the coun­

try saw l itt le better res­

ponse, a l though most

nat ional newspapers car-

t ion of marr ied women's

grants. A t present mar­

ried women receive only

£275 per annum against

the no rma l grants of £480.

subject to a means test on

their parents income.

Page 2 F E L I X M a r c h 20th, 1973

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"

smuggled into the letter

from Mr. Veall, who profes­

ses 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 per­

son 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 argu­

ment: I have q u ot e d

Josephus, the Bible and

Tacitus, can we logically ig­

nore the documents? Really,

it requires far more faith

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 non­

sense".

Once again it seems neces­

sary 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 prob­

lems are far deeper, the

Bible calls this problem SIN.

Very briefly, sin is man's

wish for complete self-

sufficiency, that is, a rebel­

lion against God and our re­

lationship 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.

"All have sinned and fall

short of the glory of God"

Romans 3 : 2.3-

In dying Jesus restored

our relationship with God,

provided we accept his

death for our sins. Further­

more 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 Church­

goer is not necessarily a

Christian, and Christianity is

not the Church that Mr. Veall

has nightmares about (re­

membering Sunday school at

the age of 10), but Christian­

ity is a personal knowledge

of Jesus Christ, the Son of

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

to take things into his own

hands en masse and are

analagous to such moral

mistakes as we find in Red

China where schoolchildren

are indoctrinated to h a t e

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 dark­

ness" 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

he thought suggested that

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

the r e s u l t of sin. So I appeal

to all reading this letter, real­

ise 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 fel­

lowship 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

to write a letter as long as

this again to Felix this Aca­

demic Year.—M.M.

Sir, -

In answer to Mr. Jock

VealTs letter, I think that he

is being not a little silly. He

states that the "arguments"

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 argu­

ments and facts (it is note­

worthy, however, that in

George Orwell's book of the

future, "1984", the regime

of the time changed histori­

cal facts to suit their own

ends). He "stands logic on

its head" by doing this. If

he were to try and find out

the facts and then reject

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 proper­

ly. It was an earlier corres­

pondent who had called Him

this. However, Christ is a

revolutionary in the true

meaning of the word, be­

cause he revolutionises in­

dividual lives. Mr. Veall

appears to be very narrow

in his definition of revolu­

tionary, only taking the

political meaning. A true

revolutionary is someone

who causes a complete re­

versal, which is what Christ

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 confes­

sing that they have been

sinning against God (every­

one does—Romans 3:23),

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 re­

ligion, N O T Christianity. This

is a very common fallacy. It

should be noted that Christ­

ianity is not a religion.

In answer to Mr. Veall's

question "mystical or mater­

ial (prayer or struggle)?", I

have found in the last year

that prayer is a far more

powerful means for instigat­

ing action than belligerent

struggle which only comes

up against a brick wall. How

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 un­

derstand 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

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. Eng.2

Imperial College,

London S.W.7

16 March 1973

Sir,

The only criticism I have

so far received of my letter

published in 'Felix' a fort­

night ago, was that, whereas

I submitted that physical ex­

planations for the miracles

Christ was reported to have

performed were weird, the

critic felt that to say God did

them was far more weird.

His opinion stems, I

believe, from our general

reluctance to consider any­

thing 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

I feel this 'narrow-minded,

materialistic' attitude to be

fundamentally in error.

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 mat­

ter what you are looking at

it will be made of atoms, so

our scientist friends tell us,

and from these atoms, which

in turn are made up of

smaller particles of matter,

our 'physical' universe is

constructed. We are also in­

formed that, although the

matter may be rearranged or

changed in form, it is incap­

able of reproduction, crea­

tion and destruction. You will

by now have guessed what

comes next. Yes, that's it,

the fact that matter does ex­

ist and yet cannot have

created itself implies the

existence of something else.

No, not a Christian God, we

have not got that far yet, but

we can now make two infer­

ences 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 pro­

gressed using simple facts

and deductions which are

available to and, I hope,

understandable by all who

read this letter, and I 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

could have been a friend

asking for help at an in­

opportune moment. Whatever

it was the following basic

feelings will have been pre­

sent. You will have wanted

to help, either because of a

'natural herd instinct' or be­

cause of selfish motives (e.g.

the friend might do some­

thing 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 burn­

ing building, that you would

be putting yourself in dan­

ger. 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 refer­

ence to the normal diction­

ary definition) will generally

tell you to help.

Now the 'herd instinct'

when it comes to unselfish

help is rather weak. One

might say that the drive be­

hind '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 'con­

science' and do not do what

it tells us. But it does not

give up. It keeps on nagging

every time we reject its

guidance.

A little expounding is

now necessary. 'Conscience'

does not appear to be justi­

fied on solely physical

grounds. What, for example,

is the physical reason for

unselfishness? Also a 'con­

science' appears to be a

common possession of all

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

may be or what we believe

'conscience' to be it does not

affect the base and the end.

The fact that we have 'con­

sciences' and that they are

non-physical. In both my

points, of creation and of

'conscience', I am using

only facts which are just as

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 un-

physical force trying to run

a physical universe; demon­

strating that the physical has

not just been created and

forgotten. Although, we

have this situation which

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 Christ­

ianity to see what it has to

say on these points. We read

in John 1:1-5 (R.S.V.):—

..."In the beginning was the

Word, and the Word was

with God, and the Word was

God. He was in the begin­

ning with God; all things

were made through him,

and without him was not

anything made that was

made. In him was life, and

the life was the light of men.

The light shines in the dark­

ness, and the darkness has

not overcome it".

Here we have the creator,

God. We have the power

behind the world, God's

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 dis­

obedience to God's Word.

The realisation of these two

points is fundamental to be­

coming a Christian. 1: God

made us and 'loves' us. 2:

We reject his 'love' and go

our own way and so are sin­

ners.

If we are still to call

Christianity untrue, weird, or

a crutch for the needy, then

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 SLOTA.

Civ. Eng. II.

Other letters page 3

The Landsnapper Sneeze

March 20th, 1973 F E L I X Page 3

'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, ,

I would like to point out

several pieces of misinform­

ation 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 to­

day who would seriously

dispute that fact. On that

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 philoso­

phy of apathy to the plight

of oppressed people.

First of all, we should ask

ourselves what was the

standpoint of Christ concern­

ing 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 formu­

lated by Plato) in that it ad­

vocated selfless love for all

other i n d i v i d u a i l s . The true

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

to them) in that it upholds

and preserves a belief in the

dignity and worth of the in­

dividual. An apathetic lack of

caring for the suffering of

others is diametrically op­

posed to Christian ideology

and the teachings of Christ.

I would agree with Mr. Veall

that often the institution of

the church has failed in act­

ive interpretation and repre­

sentation of Christ's teach­

ings but that in no way

undermines their validity. If

'God Soc' are guilty of apa­

thy that is a failing of 'God

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 ac­

cusation 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 Chris­

tian 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

and his desire to do His will,

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 vice-

versa, and that the facts are

analysed in terms of how

they fit the self. He ignores

specific explicit divine reve­

lation as described in both

Old and New Testaments,

quite apart from natural rev­

elation available to us all

whatever our beliefs.

Finally he makes the age-

old objection to the existence

of an all-powerful being- -the

objection being the existence

of suffering. We are not pup­

pets 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, dis­

tinct 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 sug­

gest, as some Evangelical

preachers do, that the solu­

tion to the world's problems

is dependent on the conver­

sion of the world to Christi­

anity. 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 im­

possible 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 struc­

tures. 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

these teachings and this phil­

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 tak­

ing him. In addition he has

no guarantee that revolution

will succeed; there is a guar­

antee, however, that Christi­

anity will succeed.

Yours sincerely,

ALEC MacANDREW

Civics 2

Sir,—In Jock Veall's let­

ter of last week's Felix, he

criticised the Church as 'al­

ways 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.

Christianity does not mean

wearing a suit and trotting

along to church each Sun­

day, big black Bible under

arm. Christianity is a person­

al relationship vjith God

through Jesus Christ. Christ's

message was one to build a

new social structure NOT by

changing the social environ­

ment but by changing indivi­

dual lives through love. No

matter what the social en­

vironment is, man is basic­

ally greedy thus to change

individual people is the only

solution. This is Christ's rev­

olutionary message for every­

one that He can and will

change y o u r life.

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 dir­

ectly contradicted Biblical

teaching? It is very impor­

tant not to confuse

"religion" with Christianity.

Yours sincerely,

ANNE MERRY

Sir,—To any person who

does not hold a Union Post,

and is not a member of one

of the left wing societies.,

the recent activities of the

Union can only be described

as amusing.

The lack of interest in

Union affairs is supposed to

be due to Apathy. But I want

to suggest that the real rea­

son is that the Union's de­

cisions do not represent the

views of its members.

If only just over 10% of

all students at Imperial Col­

lege are present at an EGM

when a strike motion is

passed, is it really any won­

der that the strike is ineffec­

tive? And it must also be

remembered, in the case of

the recent strike, that the

strike motion was only

passed after a lot of man-

oeuvering 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

more people that are present,

the less likely it is that the

left wing will get their way.

To the average student,

all this manoeuvering is ir­

relevant. Whilst obviously

wanting a grant increase, he

is not prepared to boycott

lectures to get it.

In Elec. Eng. 3, for in­

stance, 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 un­

representative, it is little

wonder that so lew people

thought it worth while to

even vote in the recent elec­

tions. T h e b e s t w a y t o d e f e a t

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

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

Yours sincerely,

PETER ADAMS,

Elec. Eng. 3

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 decided

to mount a campaign for the

purpose of forcing the col­

lege authorities to concede

our claim.

Should no action be forth­

coming 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 emi­

nent psychologists at Hard-

vard that hard loo paper can

lead to impotence and sui­

cidal tendencies amongst

those of tender disposition.

We hope that this letter

has highlighted the fact that

this is a very sore point

amongst students.

Yours TTPGD,

SMITH 8 JONES (Alias)

per pro RCS Loo Action

Committee.

VOTE! . . but in

GLC elections

Lots of people th ink

I C U is powerless and irre­

levant and don't vote.

Lo ts of people th ink I C U

are a waste of t ime and

don't vote. B u t no one in

their right minds could

say that the Greater L o n ­

don C o u n c i l is any of

these things.

The G L C runs L o n d o n

f rom traffic system to de­

velopment plans and as

you l ive here for at least

30 weeks of the year you

should make sure you

have a say in how it is

run.

The A p r i l elections give

you this chance as you can

vote in loca l elections here

and at home.

O f course most of us

w i l l be on vacat ion, but

you can st i l l vote by post

and this can easily be

arranged: either contact

me at 176 K e o g h H a l l

(Maths I) or i f you want

to go straight to the

source contact

G i ve your name, ad­

dress here and vacation

address and we w i l l see

you get your chance to get

the L o n d o n you want.

Th i s applies equal ly to

a l l foreign students eligible

to vote, i.e. C o m m o n ­

wealth, Ir ish, etc.; as stu­

dents we are more at the

mercy of loca l authority

decisions ort housing,

transport, etc. than most

so i t is to your personal

benefit to vote, and now

a word f rom our sponsor.

The Conservatives i n

the last few years have

obviously fai led to solve

any of the ma in problems

facing the city. F o r in ­

stance they have presided

over the greatest rent and

rates explosion i n Br i t i sh

history; the fact that their

leader Sir Desmond P l u m -

mer always manages to

have shares i n companies

developing places l ike

Covent Garden , P i ccad i l l y

and Soho is just luck of

course!

The L a b o u r Par ty offer

no real solut ion, just the

usual doctr inaire minor

image, i.e., be a tenant

of the G L C rather than

Sir Desmond: some choice.

The L ibe ra l Party is

offering a real alternative

to this w i th radica l , ob­

viously sensible solutions,

i.e., cutt ing outside traffic

into L o n d o n , expanding

publ ic transport, getting

people the freeholds of

their homes, e l iminat ing

fear of evict ion and rising

rents, adjusting the basis

of rates to the companies

who make so much money

out of a L o n d o n locat ion

can pay for the privilege,

etc.

However even if you

think a l l the parties are

round the twist and just

want to spoi l the paper,

vote! Whatever party

you vote for the important

thing is voting.

ELECTIONS

BUREAUCRACY Nomination papers are now up for the posts of

President and Secretary of IC Union for the next

academic year, 1973-74. It will be the second time

that this election has been held; a fortnight ago,

only 540 people voted, a shortfall of 480 on the

quorum.

The papers are on the Council noticeboard in the

Union Lower Lounge; names require a proposer and

twenty seconders, and only full members of IC

Union may stand. Both posts carry a 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.

The first issue of FELIX scheduled for next term

is May 8th; however, in view of the elections, it is

quite likely that a special issue may be printed for

May 1st. FELIX will at least produce a special

broadsheet for that day. This extra issue will, as

usual, have space for candidates' manifestos and

photographs; the conditions of insertion are as de­

tailed below:—

Manifestos, which must not exceed 450 words in

length, must be sent to the Editor, c / o the union

office, no later than 1800 hrs on Wednesday, April

25th. These should be accompanied by a passport-

sized photograph, not exceeding 2in square. No

manifesto will be printed unless accompanied by

a photograph of the candidate. Manifestos exceed­

ing 450 words in length will have the 451st and

successive words deleted. " W o r d s " have the same

definition as words on telegrams. (See Post Office

Guide, p. 377). No restriction is made on the con­

tents of manifestos, other than a requirement that

the language used be in good taste and that the

manifesto cannot be construed as potentially

libellous.

OLIVER D O W S O N ,

Editor.

FEL IX no. 3 3 3 . Tuesday , 20th M a r c h , 1 9 7 3 .

Ed i to r : O l i v e r D o w s o n

A s s t . Ed i t o r and Ed i t o r -E l ec t : A l a s d h a i r C a m p ­

be l l .

W i t h the inva luab le con t r ibu t i on of: J o h n

A l l e n , M a r t i n C. B l a ck , Bob Carter , Derek E.

C u m m i n g s , Dave Gr ibb l e , G r a h a m K i n g , M a u r ­

ice M o l o n e y , A l f Perry, M i k e Sou thon , et a l .

The P r e s i d en t ' s P i e ce w a s not wr i t t en by J o h n

Lane. A d d i t i o n a l mater ia l by var ious wr i t e r s

f rom an idea by G o d and J o c k V e a l l .

P r i n t ed by F. Ba i l e y and S o n L td . , Durs l e y ,

GL11 4 B L .

A d v e r t i s i n g c on t rac t ed by Un i v e r s i t y P ress

Representa t i on . The Fe l i x office is on the top

floor of the U n i o n b u i l d i n g , a d d r e s s : Imper ia l

Co l l e g e U n i o n , P r ince Consor t R o a d , London

S W 7 2 B B . Te l ephone 0 1 - 5 8 9 5111 ext 2 2 2 9

( P O ) , 2881 ( inf . ) .

The Ed i to r l i ves at 5 5 G r a h a m Avenue -

London W 1 3 9 T Q , Te l ephone 0 1 - 5 6 7 8 7 2 1 .

P u b l i s h e d by the Edi tor for and on behal f of

the Imper ia l Co l l e g e U n i o n Pub l i c a t i ons B o a r d .

A l l r ights reserved . © 1 9 7 3 .

FEL IX is a founder member of the London

S tuden t Press A s s o c i a t i o n .

P a g * 4 F E L I X M a r c h 20th, 1973

Felix Diary Tuesday 20th

0 7 . 0 0 Ed i tor of F e l i x goes on ho l i day .

1 2 . 3 5 I.C. C a t h o l i c Soc i e t y : M a s s C h e m i s t r y 2 3 1 .

1 2 . 4 5 S T O I C T e l e v i s o n Se r v i c e : Feature f i lm : " E v e r y H o m e S h o u l d Have

O n e " s tarr ing M a r t y F e l d m a n and J u l i e Ege. J C R and Sou th S i d e .

1 3 . 0 0 E X T R A O R D I N A R Y U N I O N G E N E R A L M E E T I N G . G R E A T H A L ^ .

1 3 . 0 0 R C S M a t h e m a t i c a l a n d P h y s i c a l S o c i e t y F i l m show , " T r e a s u r e

T r o v e " , " W e s t Coas t C a r g o " , P h y s i c s Theatre 3 .

1 3 . 3 0 " T h e Insect W a r " (Ho r i z on f i l m f r om B B C TV , 1 9 7 0 , runn ing t ime

5 0 minutes ) P h y s i c s Theatre 3 .

1 7 . 0 0 Educa t i ona l T e c h n o l o g y C o m m i t t e e . Co l l e g e B l o c k 3 2 9 . S e c o n d

Orches t ra Informal C o n c e r t s Conce r t . Conce r t H a l l , R C M .

1 7 . 4 0 I.C. R a i l w a y Soc i e t y A n n u a l Genera l M e e t i n g and F i l m s h o w i n c l u d ­

ing t ransport c l a s s i c s " G i a n t s of S t e a m " , " T h e E lephant W i l l Never

F o r g e t " (a l l w e l c o m e , a d m i s s i o n free) . M e c h . Eng . 6 6 4 .

1 7 . 4 5 I.C. W i n e t a s t i n g Soc i e t y . Tas t ing of Port by D i e n h a r d and C o m p a n y

( sma l l charge for non •members) . See not i ce boards for l o ca t i on .

1 8 . 0 0 S T O I C T e l e v i s i o n Se r v i c e : Repeat of 1 2 . 3 0 t r a n s m i s s i o n . Sou th

s i d e .

I.C. T r ansc enden ta l M e d i t a t i o n Soc i e t y . Introductory ta lk : E l ec . Eng .

6 0 6 .

H o l l a n d C l u b B r i d g e C l u b , 15 P r i n c e ' s Ga rdens .

H o l l a n d C l u b A r t Soc i e t y , 15 P r i n c e ' s G a r d e n s .

1 8 . 3 0 I.C. P h o t s o c : Cheese and w ine party, i n c l u d i n g show of c ompe t i t i on

entr ies and w i n n e r s , presenta t ion of pr izes and short A G M (every­

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 .

1 9 . 0 0 I.C. C h r i s t i a n U n i o n Internat ional Easter Recep t i on i n c l u d i n g a f i lm

o n the Easter S tory , re f reshments and enter ta inment (al l w e l c o m e ) .

P h y s i c s leve l 8.

1 9 . 3 0 W i n e H a l l D inne r (B l ack t i e ) , Co l l e g e B l o c k .

2 0 . 0 0 I.C. S y m p h o n y Orches t r a Conce r t . Wagne r , " D i e M e i s t e r s i n g e r " ;

Webe r " C l a r i n e t conce r to N o . 1" ; B r a h m s , " S y m p h o n y N o . 2 in

D " . C o n d u c t o r , A n d r e w S t o w e l l ; So l o i s t , Roger F e l l o w s ( a d m i s s i o n

2 5 p ) . Great H a l l .

I.C. C a t h o l i c Soc i e t y : shared prayer, 5 3 C r o m w e l l R o a d .

Wednesday 21st

10.30

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14

18

18

19

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3 0

3 0

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3 0

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I.C. W i v e s ' C l u b : V i s i t to the Co l l e g e A r c h i v e s and the Depar tment

of H i s t o r y of S c i e n c e and Techno l o gy ( luncheon w i l l be ava i l ab l e

in 1 7 0 Queen ' s Gate , p r i c e 8 0 p ) . M e e t Co l l e g e B l o c k entrance

h a l l .

A d v a n c e d Class in Hebrew . E l ec . Eng . 1 0 0 9 .

Beg inne rs c l a s s in Hebrew . E l e c . Eng . 1 0 0 9 .

H o l l a n d C l u b Pho tog raph i c Soc i e t y . Pr in t c r i t i c i s m . E l e c . E n g . 2 0 9 .

I.C. I s lamic Soc i e t y . M e e t i n g and d i s c u s s i o n . Co l l e g e B l o c k 0 0 2 .

I.C. A r t C l u b . Roya l Co l l e g e of A r t .

S e c o n d C h a m b e r Orches t ra Conce r t . Conce r t H a l l , R C M .

Thursday 22nd

1 3 . 0 0 I.C. C a t h o l i c Soc i e t y B i b l e S tudy G r o u p . F a l m o u t h 1 1 8 .

1 3 . 1 5 I.C. S t a m p C l u b . C i v . Eng . 4 1 2 .

1 3 . 3 0 " T h e C rab N e b u l a " (Ho r i z on f i l m f r om B B C T V , 1 9 7 1 , runn ing

t ime 5 6 m i n u t e s ) . P h y s i c s Theatre 1.

" T h e Z o o " by S u l l i v a n . P e r f o rmed by I.C. Opera t i c Soc i e t y w i th

Orches t r a ( a d m i s s i o n f ree ) . U n i o n Conce r t H a l l .

Lunch -hour Conce r t : Rec i t a l b y A l b e r t Ferber ( Internat ional Conce r t

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 ibrary : 5 3 P r i n c e ' s Gate .

"GB"

The W e s t m i n s t e r Theatre is un ique

— f o r its p r o d u c t i o n s for the 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 rmly i d e o l o g i c a l l y ded i ca t ­

ed . M y o w n pe rsona l at t i tude

t owards M R A is not un l i k e my a t t i ­

tude t owards the S u s s e x Coun ty

C r i c k e t C l u b — deep respect and

hearty approva l of its a i m s , w h i l e

l im i ta t i ons of t ime and energy pre­

c l u d e the fu l l es t d i s c i p l e s h i p .

Thus the new Revue " G B " cannot ,

indeed mus t not , be j udged on the

n o r m a l , pure l y thea t r i ca l , g r o u n d s — -

for it never pre tends to owe any th ing

but pace to the m o d e r n , p o s t - " B e -

yond The F r i n g e " , sat i re . The sket­

ches are, o f ten, ex t reme ly funny, and

the rather s t anda rd po in ts are made

w i th a f r eshness that, in some p l a c e s ,

c ompares w e l l w i t h any th ing that the

F r o s t - C o o k e - R u s h t o n her i tage pro­

d u c e d . Bu t even w h e n a ske t ch fa l l s

short of th is (and it w o u l d be very

m i s l e a d i n g of me to pre tend that

many do not) there is a l w a y s some­

thing there—the supr eme l y pos i t i ve

at t i tude beh ind the w h o l e enterpr ise .

S o m e of the songs s e e m e d rather as

if they had been rejects f r om " T h e

Deser t S o n g " — b u t the good ones

were very g o o d — ( " C r i c k e t , T rans ­

port or Na t i ona l Hea l th , / you can a l ­

ways re ly o n the C o m m o n w e a l t h "

s i ngs an i m m i g r a n t ) , — a n d they alt

make a po int of s o m e k i n d .

So where , a sks the s h o w , s h o u l d

" G B " go? There is no c l ear -cut

answer , and the s h o w never pre tends

that there is . A l l the mode rn v i c e s

get the pas t ing they r i ght ly d e s e r v e —

the greed of the Cap i t a l i s t ("It takes

the w a i t i n g out of w a n t i n g " e xp l a ins

an a r m e d bank- robber ) , the hypoc r i s y

of the " F r e e d o m F i g h t e r " ( " T h o u

has p rovoked me into p r o v o k i n g

t h e e " ) , the C o m m e r c i a l C h r i s t

( " J e s u s C h r i s t , Supe r s t o r e " ) a n d i n ­

f lat ion ("It 's not that w e want m u c h , /

W e just want m o r e " ) . But anybody

w h o goes expec t ing a cu t - and -d r i ed

answe r to Na t i ona l Des t iny w i l l be

d i s a p p o i n t e d .

I have de l ibe ra te l y a v o i d ed m e n ­

t i on ing the cas t by name , for I s a w

an ear ly p r e v i ew in w h i c h they had

not yet fu l l y se t t l ed into the ir mater­

i a l , and any c o m m e n t I m ight m a k e

w o u l d be obso le te by the t ime th i s

appears in pr int . Bu t two pe r f o rm­

ances , even now , deserve men t i on on

any bas i s . M i c h e l O r p h e l i n , the

F r ench m i m e , does h i s " T h e F i sher ­

m a n " m i m e w i t h a mar v e l l ous G a l l i c

f l a i r , — a s we l l as one or two other

neat c ameos ; and M i k e F i e l d s dances

very w e l l throughout . H i s " B e h i n d

the Bar re l of a G u n " s o n g , — s u n g ,

gun in hand , dar t ing fur t i ve ly be tween

pa tches of s h a d o w , was the mos t

s t r i k ing p iece of the s h o w , and re­

ca l l ed the o m i n o u s v i o l ence of " W e s t

S i d e S t o r y " .

S o , wh i ther " G B " ? If I knew , I

w o u l d n ' t be w r i t i n g r ev i ews for

' F e l i x ' , — but for anyone w h o cares ,

this s h o w c o u l d be very impor tant .

ROBERT CARTER.

1 9 . 0 0 i . C . A r t C l u b . Roya l Co l l e g e of A r t .

C h o r a l C l a s s a n d F i r s t Orches t ra Conce r t .

F e a s t " ( a d m i s s i o n free but t i cket r equ i red ) .

W a l t o n , " B e l s h a z z a r ' s

Conce r t H a l l , R C M .

Friday 23rd

1 2 . 4 5 I.C. I s lamic Soc i e t y Congrega t i ona l P r a y e r s — J u m a Co l l e g e B l o c k 0 0 2 .

1 9 . 3 0 " T h e N e w V a s e " — a C h i n e s e f i lm, w i t h speaker on C h i n a ' s res is t ­

ance to Sov i e t Impe r i a l i sm , O r g a n i s ed by the C P B ( M - L ) (Son ia H o c h -

fel.Jer to you ) . A t 1 5 5 For t ress R o a d (nr. Tu fne l l Park tube ) .

Saturday 24th

I.C. C a t h o l i c Soc i e t y : Ou t ing to Ch i ches t e r .

C O N C E R T S A T I.C. Not hav ing been to a concer t for

three weeks I was beg inn ing to feel

that s ome th ing w a s l a ck ing in my

l i f e , so Sa turday n ight I sat expec­

tant ly wa i t i n g for C a n to appear .

Instead I w a s gree ted by the at tempts

of s o m e peace freak in the aud i ence .

I w a s qui te r e l i eved that for most

of the set he res t ra ined h imse l f to

l eap ing about .

C a n ' s m u s i c is very d i f f i cu l t to de­

s c r i b e . No t in any derogatory sense ,

I can on ly ca l l it a pu l sa t i ng drone ,

w o r k i n g r ound a very loose bas i c

s t ruc ture . One th ing I c an be sure

about is that i t ' s de f in i t e l y m o o d

m u s i c , and in genera l there w a s a

very intense c o m m u n i c a t i o n be tween

the band and ' ^ a a u d i e n c e .

E a c h of their numbe r s we r e very

long (about half an hour ) , c on ta in ing

severa l h i ghs , a n d , not bear ing a great

dea l of r e s emb lance to their a l b u m

tracks , nor be ing i n t r oduced , I w o u l d

be a brave m a n to try and l is t a l l the

t i t l es , though perhaps " A l l e l u j a h " w a s

r ecogn i sab l e .

O n e th ing that I f ound surp r i s ing

w a s the sheer length of their set.

Ve r y f ew b a n d s n o w a d a y s are pre­

pa red to p lay for over two hours , so

C a n deserve fu l l c r ed i t for g i v ing

va lue for money .

G.J.K.

I've been te l l ing m y f r i ends for qui te s ome t ime n o w that H o m e are a

f ine b a n d , and I'm not no rma l l y one to jump on the b a n d w a g o n just because

J o h n Pee l , Bob Har r i s and a l l the m u s i c papers say so as w e l l . Perhaps

if any of them were at the concer t on Sa turday they w o u l d n o w be l i eve me.

One th ing is for sure is that lead s inger M i c k S tubbs d o e s a better job

now than w h e n he w a s a m i l k m a n . He had to pay £20 w h e n he gave up

to put his books s tra ight .

In open ing their pe r f o rmance H o m e have j o ined a s t i l l s m a l l l ist of g roups

w h o do more than beg in by just w a l k i n g on stage. Instead they p l ayed a

passage f r om (I be l ieve ) S t r a v i n s k y ' s " R i t e s of S p r i n g " , s t rode on stage

at the tumu l t of the c r e s c e n d o and leapt s t ra ight into " D r e a m e r " , a f ine t ight

number , w i t h Laur ie W i s e f i e l d ' s gu i ta r p l ay ing s o u n d i n g r emarkab ly l ike that

of Afbert Lee.

The rest of their set w a s rather s i m i l a r , mos t l y fast numbers , o c c a s i o n a l l y

w i t h a short spot in the m i d d l e for W i s e f i e l d to demons t ra t e h i s exper t i se .

The only s m u d g e to the i r name I thought w a s w h e n they a s k e d if anyone

l i k ed rock ' n ' r o l l , and de l v ed into " R o l l Over B e e t h o v e n " . Sure l y they

have enough g ood mater ia l of the ir o w n w i thou t th is need l ess i n c l u s i o n ,

w h i c h is usua l l y left to the amateur g roups .

H o w e v e r they r edeemed themse l ves after th is and f in ished w i t h two

numbers ro l l ed into o n e — " W e s t e r n F r o n t " w i th W i s e f i e l d chang ing o

s i d e gui tar , and S tubbs to p iano , f o l l o w e d by my favour i te track " L a d y of

the B i r d s " , the voca l s w e l l d e ve l oped , as throughout , for their k i n d of

m u s i c .

P r e v i ous l y , Bees M a k e Honey p layed for about twenty m inu tes before

be ing j o ined by F rank i e M i l l e r , and w a r m e d the aud i ence qui te w e l l .

G.J.K.

A BOOK Basic Christianity by John R. W . Stoti.

Published by Inter-Varsity Press.

T h i s is a book w i t h , in one sense ,

no th ing new and in another sense

every th ing new. It t e l l s of facts

k n o w n 1,940 years a g o yet ones

w h i c h are cons i s t en t l y m i s c o n s t r u e d

genera t ion after genera t i on . It is a

book d e s i gned to be a n in t roduc t i on

to a pe rson , that pe r son be ing J e s u s

C h r i s t . Stot t r e cogn i s es on the f i r s t

page the d e f e r e n c e be tween the " e s -

ab l i shmen t c h u r c h " a n d Chr i s t i an i t y .

The chapters are ca tegor i sed under

four m a i n head ings : C h r i s t ' s P e r son ,

M a n ' s N e e d , C h r i s t ' s W o r k , M a n ' s

Response . A n y o n e da r ing to read th i s

book cannot fa i l to rea l ise that the

li fe and death of J e s u s is far more

than the best r e co rded fact in h is tory ,

and that the Resur rec t i on mus t not

be app roached f rom the v i ewpo in t

that it is imposs i b l e , un less you are,

as M r . S h e r l o c k H o l m e s w a s , pre­

pared to accep t the imposs i b l e .

T h i s book is very c h a l l e n g i n g , a n d

on ly a very brave 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 thought .

It is a " m u s t " for peop le 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 facts .

March 20th, 1973 F E L I X

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PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY COMPETITION

T h e s e are s ome of the w i n i n g pr ints f r om th i s

y ea r ' s Pho tog raph i c Soc i e t y c ompe t i t i on . Over a

h u n d r e d entr ies we r e r e c e i v ed a n d near ly £20 has

been a w a r d e d in pr ize money .

There is a chance to see a l l of the entr ies , i n c l u d ­

ing s l i d e s , at 6 . 30 p .m . today in P h y s i c s 6 3 0 , w h e n

Pho t soc is h o l d i n g a -w ine and cheese party. A n y

m e m b e r of the Co l l e g e is w e l c o m e to a t tend a n d

entry is free.

COMPETIT ION WINNERS

Slides

(a) Landscape

(b) O p en

1. V a s c o n c e l l o s (C i v . E n g . P G )

2. N . Bur re l l (Met . 3 ) , " T r a e n e " .

M e r i t : N . B u r r e l l .

1. A . B u g l a s s ( C h e m . P G ) .

2. W . P inney , ( M i n . 3) " S a l t

F l a t " .

3 . P. Kee l ing ( C h e m . 1 ) . " F u n g i

on Fa l l en T r e e " .

M e r i t : A . B u g l a s s , N . BurreM, P.

G . C r a w f o r d , V a s c o n e l l o s .

Prints

(a) Por t ra i t 1. Z . S z y d l o ( C h e m . E n g . P G )

" A n i a II".

Me r i t : A . B u g l a s s , W . Ernst .

(b) S tudent l i fe Me r i t : Z . S z y d l o " M e k n e s 1 9 7 1 " .

(c) O p e n 1. Z . S z y d l o ( C h e m . E n g . P G ) ,

" S t e l l a P l a g e " .

2. A . B u g l a s s ( C h e m . P G ) .

M e r i t : A . B u g l a s s , 2. S z y d l o .

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B a r

'Ania II" by Z . Szydlo (Chem Eng PG) 1st portrait

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by A . Buglass (Chem PG) Merit Portrait

Page 6 F E L I X M a r c h 20th, 1973

FEEIX HNAKCIAEEY

Summing up by Derek E. Gummings

This week sees the last article in the FELIX FINAN­

CIALLY 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

the practical financial problems that we are all

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

least, at variance with that of some of the more

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 suppose it is inev i tab ly true that for a large

numbe r of you at Imper ia l Co l l e g e , the end of th i s

ser i es of FEL IX F I N A N C I A L L Y w i l l p rovoke a mas ­

s i ve roar of ind i f f e rence .

I 'm that m u c h a real is t , you see. I fu l l y under­

s t and that not everyone f i nds the sub jec t of f inance

the mos t r i ve t ing t op i c in a w o r l d whe r e there are

s o m a n y other th ings to w o r r y about . A n d I a l s o

unde r s t and that w h e n you ' r e s c r a t ch ing about t ry ing

to s t r e t ch a meagre s tudent grant unt i l the end of

t e rm , s u c h remote th ings as mor tgages and house

pu r chase have l im i t ed a p p l i c a t i o n .

On the other h a n d , I don ' t th ink I have been

w a s t i n g my t ime . Apa r t f r om the fact that I have

been ab l e to he lp a c o n s i d e r a b l e number of s tudents

w i t h d i rec t a d v i c e — a n d that there are those a m o n g

you w h o n o w o w n their o w n proper ty as a resul t

of s u c h a d v i c e — I be l i eve many of the th ings I

have been t r y ing to say are of s u c h b l i n d i n g l y

o b v i o u s truth that they w i l l , in fact , c o m e to m i n d

w h e n y ou yourse l v e s are f a c ed w i t h the p r o b l e m

of o rde r ing your l i ves in the great ou ts ide w o r l d .

W h a t I have been a t t empt ing is to c l ear a w a y

s o m e of the i l l u s i ons and f a l s ehoods w h i c h litter

the path of anyone w h o gets en tang l ed in the

necess i t i e s of mode rn l i v ing . . . I mean s u c h m u n ­

dane th ings as b u y i n g insurance , get t ing a house ,

p r o v i d i n g for a f am i l y and so for th . A n d , let 's face

it, most of you are go ing to be invo l ved in s u c h

th ings , however remote ly d i s tan t they may s e em

at th is moment .

M o n e y is go ing to be even more important to

you then than it is now. A n d wha t I have been say­

ing on these pages for the past year is that y ou

have to be care fu l and th ink before you spend it.

A b o v e a l l , be sure y ou need to s p e n d it be fore y ou

start l ash ing it about .

T a k e insurance , for e xamp l e . It's one of those

sub jec ts w h i c h rea l ly makes my hack l e s r ise . I hate

to see peop le be ing c o n n e d into buy ing insurance

a n d be l i eve me, never have so many peop le been

so heav i l y c o n n e d by so few.

If you haven ' t a l r eady been app roached by an

insurance s a l e s m a n , you most ce r ta in l y w i l l before

l ong . T h e y ' l l urge you to buy the stuff for a m u l t i ­

tude of reasons — for p ro t ec t i on , as an investment ,

as a sa f eguard aga ins t a ra iny day , as a k i n d of

m a g i c f o rmu la for d o u b l i n g your money .

M o s t of it is just so m u c h toffee. It's a p o u n d to

a p i n c h of manure that you don ' t need it — for

any r eason . No t yet , anyway .

The t ime to buy insurance is the day you need

it a n d not a day before. Y o u ' l l need it w h e n you

start a f am i l y w h o m you want to p rov ide for in the

event of your dea th , or pe rhaps w h e n you buy a

home and want to secure that.

But if one of those p o l i c y - w a v i n g hust lers c o m e s

a l ong and te l ls you how you can invest in insur­

ance for a f ew p o u n d s a year and h o w the insur­

a n c e c o m p a n y w i l l doub l e your money in twenty

years — forget it. Howeve r good it l ooks , i t 's a

l ousy inves tment . A f t e r a l l , in f la t i on is d o i n g m u c h

better at ha l v ing the va lue of your money faster

than any insurance c o m p a n y c an doub 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. And I don't mean dig a hole and

bury it, I mean invest in property — buy a house.

It is a b ig r e spons ib i l i t y to take o n , I k n o w . Bu t

the va lue of proper ty is a l w a y s go ing u p w a r d a n d

w i l l a l w a y s con t inue to do so s ince l and p r i c es

inev i tab ly f o l l o w the bas i c r esponses of supp 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

a in ' t m a k i n g a n y m o r e ! "

N o w , if you take those a r guments to heart, I fee l

I 'll have a ch i e v ed s o m e t h i n g . J u s t don ' t let your­

se l f b e c h i p p e d and s w i n d l e d into put t ing your

money into s o m e t h i n g that g i ves you a lousy re­

turn — even if it is d r e s s ed up in the c l o thes of

one of our b i g ins t i tu t i ons . For w h e n it c o m e s to

money , the a d v i c e the ac t ress gave to the b i shop

s t i l l ho l d s good — name l y , for heaven ' s sake , be

care fu l I

W h i c h b r i n g s me to the other s i d e of the a rgu­

ment . H a v i n g the money , it m a k e s sense to part

w i t h it on l y after proper c ons i d e r a t i on . Bu t where

do you get the e lus i ve stuff? Y o u w a n t a bank loan

or a mor tgage? H o w do y ou go about i t?

W e l l , the a n s w e r is to shop a r o u n d for them.

T h e y are there, bu t i t ' s up to you to f i n d them and

get the bes t dea l you c a n .

S o m e of you may remember that d u r i n g a coup l e

of m y so c i a l s tud i es l ec tures , I b rought a l ong a

bank manager and a mortgage c o m p a n y manager .

They had a lot in c o m m o n . Bo th were g ood b l okes ,

both unde r s t ood s o m e t h i n g of the p r o b l e m s s tud ­

ents and graduates face, both had con t ro l of large

amounts of money — and both were of a n ew type

of money m a n . Bo th are prepared to back the i r

hunches . If they hear a good a rgument as to w h y

they ought to part w i t h their money — even f r om

a s tudent — r they are more often than not w i l l i n g

to put their money where i t 's needed .

There aren ' t too many about l ike t h em . Inst i tu­

t i ons , banks , mortgage houses and insurance f i rms

are s t i l l r i d d l e d w i th men w h o p lay it a l l s t r i c t l y by

the ru le -book, w h o won ' t take a chance .

If you have one of them 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.

Of course , i t 's true that banks are s tar t ing to fa l l

over themse l ves to get s tudent a c coun t s . Y o u can

hard ly see into a bank w i n d o w these days for b i g

posters t e l l i ng you h o w w e l c o m e you are and h o w

cheap it is to bank w i t h th is or that bank. Bu t

banks are run by their managers . Remember , i t 's the

man you ' r e after, not the name on your cheque

book. T h e same is true of mor tgage c o m p a n i e s .

The i r managers have a g ood dea l of au tonomy , too.

It's we l l wo r th l o s ing a l i t t le shoe- leather to f i nd

one w h o is prepared to l i s t en .

A n d , above a l l , r emember that no th ing is impos ­

s ib l e . The mere thought of buy ing a house and

burden ing yourse l f w i t h severa l tons of b r i cks a n d

mortar a n d the need to go on m a k i n g the repay­

ments may w e l l s e em beyond y o u . But i t 's not

necessa r i l y t rue .

A s I s a i d ear l ier , there are a number of s tudents

at imper i a l Co l l e g e now, w h o have done it and w h o

have thereby g i ven themse l ves a head start in

the s c r a m b l e to ach i eve f i nanc i a l s ecur i t y . They

l i s t ened to adv i c e and , I know, they th ink it w e l l

w o r t h w h i l e .

W h i c h br ings us to the other po int . It is near ly

a lways wor th your t ime and effort to seek and f i n d

good adv i c e about your f i nanc i a l p r ob l ems .

Unfor tunate ly , th is aga in invo lves you in ferret-

t ing about for it. A f ter a l l , there are a lot of sharks

in the f i nanc i a l sea and a man in s t r i ped pants

and a bow le r hat can str ip you of your money just

as q u i c k l y as a man in a mask h o l d i n g a sho tgun .

There are band i ts of a l l k inds w a i t i n g for the u n ­

wary .

The b i g ins t i tu t ions thr ive on them . T h e y make

their money out of p u b l i c i gnorance . A n d oy the

p u b l i c , I mean y ou some t ime in the future : a n d

by i gnorance , I mean not k n o w i n g wha t is bast .

sa fest and cheapest for you a n d your future depend ­

ents .

I have a d i s t i n c t l oa th ing for peop le and organ isa ­

t i ons — great or s m a l l — w h o trade on th is lack

of know l edge . T i m e a n d a g a i n , in these c o l u m n s

and. in p u b l i c , I have cas t i ga t ed insurance c o m ­

pan ies Who se l l the p u b l i c p o l i c i e s they don ' t n e ed ,

bank managers w h o treat the i r cus t omers l ike mor ­

ons and the others in my o w n pro f ess i on w h o g row

fat by p l ay ing a l ong w i t h the s y s t e m .

I hope that one day s u c c e s s i v e generat ions w i l l

change the s y s t e m , a n d I be l i eve they w i l l .

Bu t w h i l e it pers i s ts and y ou have to operate

w i t h i n its l im i t s , then be sure that y ou make it w o r k

to your advantage .

A n d the on l y w a y y ou can beat any sys t em is to

k n o w h o w it w o r k s and h o w to a v o i d its mos t

dangerous p i t f a l l s .

I hope I've h e l p e d .

The World needs you!

Start this year—volunteer for V.S.O. Why Volunteer?

Deve l op ing count r i e s cons tant l y ask for men a n d

w o m e n t ra ined in a w i d e var iety of p ro f ess i ona l

s k i l l s , to help their o w n nat iona ls .

In a d d i t i o n , vo lun tee r ing p rov ides c o m m u n i c a t i o n

to take p lace between those in th is count ry a n d

their co l l eagues in the host country . T h u s the

vo luntee r ing , w h i l s t m a k i n g a s i gn i f i can t c on t r i bu ­

t ion to a count ry ' s deve l opment ga ins in pe r sona l

exper i ence of a n ew cu l ture .

Who is needed?

Un i v e r s i t y g raduates ( l ike yourse l ves ) in eng i ­

neer ing and s c i ence sub jec ts .

What sort of work?

V . S . O . s object ive is to supp l y stortages in m a n ­

power of deve l op ing count r i es . F e w vo lunteers are

engaged on rel ie f wo rk ; mos t w o r k on pro jects

where their know l edge a n d s k i l l c an be passed on to

others . For th is reason mos t vo lunteers are i n vo l v ed

in s ome fo rm of ins t ruc t i on e i ther in c l a s s r o o m s ,

t e chn i ca l ins t i tu t i ons , or in fo rma l l y .

In a l l cases vo lunteers are invo l v ed in r espons ib l e

wo rk w h i c h needs do ing cannot be s u p p l i e d f r om

loca l r esources , it tests their ab i l i t y a n d character ,

and in return g ives them a v i v i d ins ight into another

country and its p rob l ems .

Where is the work?

In deve l op ing count r i es of the w o r l d , in par t i cu lar

throughout A f r i c a , in the Indian sub cont inent , S .E .

A s i a and the C a r i bbe a n .

V . S . O . ' s p r i m a r y conce rn is to ensure that a

vo lunteer is p o s t e d to a job where h is qua l i f i ca t i ons

and s k i l l s have fu l l s cope , but a l so tr ies to c o m p l y

w i t h any s o u n d l y based pre ference expressed by

the vo lunteer .

Is there supervision of work?

Vo lun t ee r s surv i v e on the i r o w n merits, but a d ­

v i ce by the B r i t i s h C o u n c i l and the vo lun tee rs ' per­

sona l V . S . O . contac t is at their d i sposa l if r equ i red .

For how long?

A n offer of two years is encouraged , a l though

a m i n i m u m of one year is accep tab l e .

When?

M o s t vo lunteers f ly out in A u g u s t / S e p t e m b e r ,

though a number go overseas in Janua ry .

What are the terms of service?

V . S . O . p rov ides equ ipment and househo ld a l l ow­

ances — transport to and f r om project — mid - t e rm

grant of £60 for 2 n d year vo lunteers — m e d i c a l

and a c c i d en t insurance — a reset t lement grant of

be tween £ 1 0 0 - £ 1 7 5 a c c o r d i n g to length of ser­

v i ce .

Hos t country p rov ides free a c c o m m o d a t i o n —

month l y sa lary at l oca l rate for your qua l i f i ca t i on or

fu l l board p lus £3 per week a l l owance — free

m e d i c a l care .

Is there any training?

Se l e c t ed vo lunteers at tend two courses du r ing

J u l y / A u g u s t , one conce rned w i th country of post­

ing , and the other on pro f ess i ona l s k i l l s .

Lastly V .S .O . 's aims

1. To help deve l op ing nat ions so lve their econo­

m i c , t e chn i ca l and educa t i ona l p r ob l ems .

2. To b u i l d f r i endsh ips be tween Br i t a in and de­

ve l op ing count r i es through w o r k i n g together.

3 . T o prov ide the oppor tun i ty of w i d e n i n g s y m ­

pathies and unde rs tand ing through se rv i ce overseas .

If you are interested, contact:

V . S . O . , 14 B i s h o p s B r i d g e R o a d , London W 2 6 A A ,

T e l . 0 1 - 2 6 2 - 2 6 1 1 ;

or get in t ouch w i th us :

Pat G o r m a n , M i n . I; J o h n B r a n c h , E .Eng . 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 are a l l re turned

vo lunteers at present at I.C.

M a r c h 20th, 1973 F E L I X Page 7

I.C. wins

Football

Cup-Final DOUBLE FOR I.C.

I .C. made i t a hat-tr ick of cup wins on Saturday, 10th

M a r c h , by beating B i rkbeck 2-0 at Mo t spur Park . Th is

was the last match of a long series wh i ch has seen I.C.

unbeaten since mid-November , and taken them to the

league and cup doub le—not bad for a side that lost

its first four games.

A r r i v i n g prompt ly at the ground (well it was a cup-

final) the lsts were met w i th the bad news that the 3 rd

team had lost the upper reserves cup 2-0 to B i rkbeck

2nd. The 3rd had ben un lucky to concede a deflec­

ted goal at a time when they were i n complete com­

mand and they never real ly recovered f rom this.

The first few minutes of the U . L . Chal lenge cup

final were typical cup footbal l w i th a l l the players run­

ning hard and the ba l l osci l lat ing f rom end to end wi th

great frequency. Neither side was at ease on an unusual­

l y bumpy Mo t spur pi tch but B i rkbeck seemed to settle

d o w n quicker than I .C. and their midfield were too

often al lowed room to pick the ba l l up on the halfway

l ine and run at the I .C. defence. Several of these runs

had I .C. i n trouble. I find it hard to recal l why none

of these early attacks produced shots on the I .C. goal.

A s I.C. settled down the game became more even and

B i rkbeck were given a taste of things to come when

M a u r i c e Hastings drove a 20 yard shot just over the

bar.

Shortly after this a throw i n on the right, produced

a muddle in the B i rkbeck defence and gave Steve Bates

a chance to put I .C. ahead—a chance wh ich he took

w i th great certainty.

A s so often before I.C. began to improve once they

were ahead. 1'he defence became much more stable

and B i r k b e c k d id not seem to know how to take advan­

tage of the large Mo t spur pitch. The I.C. defence has

never been slow and B i rkbecks long through were just

not accurate enough to tell . T h e I.C. midfield was look­

ing good, but only going forward. W h e n cal led upon to

help defence they seemed lost i n the middle of the pi tch

A s a consequence of this B i rkbeck managed to get

several long range shots at the I.C. goal. O n l y one

of three was on target and Cerwyn Edwards d id wel l

to push this round the post.

A t half-t ime a neutral observer would probably have

said I.C. were lucky to be leading and he'd have been

right. B i r k b e c k had played the better footbal l (or more

of it) and were only a goal down because the I.C. de­

fence had kept them out and because the qual i ty of

Imper ia l players i n front of goal is such that they don't

need to be asked twice to score. It was clear though

that I .C. wou ld have to get the bal l to their forwards

much more often in the second hal f than they had in

the first.

B i rkbeck put a l l they had into the first twenty m in ­

utes after the interval and the I.C. defence found the

going hard . Th i s t ime however, the midfield put their

minds to helping the defence. The tack l ing of Pete

L o n n e n and especially Steve Bates coupled wi th the as­

tute passing of John K e l l y soon threw B i rkbeck back.

B u t I .C. could st i l l not find their forwards w i th any

great accuracy and the 1-0 lead looked very fragile

when B i r k b e c k broke f rom defence.

O n the touch line Steve Wel ls began to warm up

and he wou ld surely have come on had I.C. not scored

a second. A corner was half cleared and fan Be l l

pushed a first-time ba l l through to B y r o n Smith whose

high cross fel l , a little fortunately, into the far corner

of the goal. The goal itself was lucky but the in i t ia l

pass was a fine example of a football bra in at work and

the difference between B i rkbeck ' s keeper and ours was

wel l shown by his poor posit ioning.

W i t h the result no longer in doubt the last few min­

utes lacked the atmosphere of the previous eighty.

This was I.C.'s th ird cup w in in a row and shows just

how wrong people can be when they try to predict the

fortunes of a team at the start of the season. The

league trophy w i l l also grace I.C.'s trophy cupboard

this year after absence of four seasons.

C u p Team: G . Edwards , R . K i l , M . M a n n i n g , I. Be l l ,

I. Postlethwaite, J . Ke l l y , P. Lonnen , S. Bates, B .

Smith, M . Hastings, W . M i l n e . Sub. S. Wel ls .

R . J . K .

Election Results The results of elections are announced at a U n i o n

Meet ing A F T E R the election procedure has been ra t i ­

fied by the meeting.

Under no circumstances w i l l the names of winning

candidates be published before this conf irmation as

this w i l l become the conf irmation (or otherwise) of

office of a part icular person. •

Candidates are entitled to nominate an observer to

be present at the counting of votes. If a candidate is

not present at the count the Re turn ing Officer may

notify h i m of the result.

Important! W o u l d anyone who was in the U n i o n bar on the

evening of Saturday, M a r c h 17th, and who saw an

incident invo lv ing the bar staff, please contact M a r t i n

C . B l a c k i n the U n i o n Office.

©bt tuarp Imper ia l College U n i o n peacefully passed away on

Tuesday, 7th M a r c h , 1973 at 5 p .m. through complete

lack of interest, mourned by many o ld friends. The

wake w i l l be on Wednesday, 21st M a r c h i n the U n i o n

B a r (after the R u g b y C l u b Dinner ) .

The functions of I C U n i o n have been taken over by

the Communis t Party.

BADMINTON W i t h the season almost over and the courts tending

to cut up rather easily, the 3rd team voted to take a

wel l deserved respite f rom the tensions of the league

title race and conceded a cr i t i ca l match by arranging

a fixture w i th K ings but not tel l ing them about it.

Ta lks of a team hol iday in Ma j o r ca originated at

about this t ime but it was estimated that funds wou ld

just about pay for 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 no match for a

fortnight. Meanwhi l e the IV ths had shot to the top of

their league by winning a l l their matches by default

and the 1st team squad (pronounced: morons) had

been depleted by introducing a M r . George who into

their midst so soon after his strapadictomy operation.

The seconds, too had not been id l e—us ing their time

to consolidate their lead as 2nd i n div is ion one due

to a series of accidents when they won several matches.

W i t h Chr i s A t k i n s o n in such fine f o rm this season not

to mention the others in the 2nd team because they ' l l

take up too much space it's only the splendid work of

Chr i s Forkdodger in the lsts that is keeping them in

1st place above the 2nds (that's wor th a pint isn't it,

Chr is? ) .

Beside's the U L U matches, I C Ists beat Cambr idge

Cockerals each year and this year was no exception,

but apart f rom this the members of the badminton

c lub are quite nice real ly—especial ly R h o d (Ooh, what

a give-away!!).

O n Thursday last, the badminton c lub annihi lated

the boat c lub at darts by P games to q where P is great­

er than q but they forgot to buy our dr inks and didn ' t

want a boat race in the U n i o n Bar . A real boat race on

the Thames was discussed though.

The final team placings for the end of the season

seem almost certainly to be :—ls t s captained by Dave

W a r d ; 1st in div is ion 1. 2nds not captained by Chr i s

A t k i n s o n ; 3rd in d iv is ion 1, 3rds not captained; 2nd in

div is ion 2. 4ths captained by M a u r i c e F lanagan ; 2nd

in d iv is ion 3. 1st mixed team, both 1st in divis ions 1

and 2 respectively. 2nd mixed team, both 1st in d i v i ­

sions 1 and 2 respectively.

F o r the 2nd consecutive year I.C. lsts are through

to the final of the U L U Badmin ton cup and are, in

fact, favourites to win .

A l s o , the Ists have won their league for the fourth

consecutive year losing only one m a t c h — i n 1971. The

mixed team, however, have slumped a larmingly re­

cently and crashed to their first defeat i n 2 years when

they lost 7-2 to U L — t h i s however does not affect the

league placings.

K E I T H T H O M P S O N , Me t . I I .

BLUEBEARD ' B luebeard ' (X ) Continentale, Tot tenham Cour t R d .

R i c h a r d Bur t on , R a q u e l We l ch et. a l .

The other day I had the unfortunate experience of

seeing this film at a press showing, i n the company of

our Da i l y Newspaper critics. It is hardly surprising that

so many damning film reviews are churned out nowa­

days—the audiences at press shows are so bored. It is

most embarrassing to be creased up wi th laughter at

a funny bit only to look round at Ian Christ ie ( 'Ex­

press') and friends look ing on in stony silence.

B u t I d id enjoy this film—a nice M o n d a y morn ing

escapist film.'It is about a G e r m a n count n icknamed

Bluebeard because his beard is that co lour due to a

flying accident in W o r l d W a r One. H i s special ity is

accumulat ing one gorgeous lady after another, then

doing away wi th them in various interesting ways. H e

shoots one, guil lotines another, drowns yet another i n

red wine, etc.—the list is almost endless. Since he is a

hunting man he also has to keep his trophies i n his

fami ly deep-freeze deep i n his Schloss. Eventual ly his

latest wife discovers them, so he puts her in as we l l

(alive), but not before he tells al l about his previous

loves. Hence the film.

The plot isn't up to m u c h — n o r the acting; except

for a few character parts (Raque l We lch as a nun, for

example). But we are supposed not to notice a l l that

c i rcumstant ia l rubbish, bombarded as we are by one

lovely lady after another i n vary ing degrees of undress.

I must admit I was overcome (so was Ian Christ ie ! ) ;

even so, it is meant to be a comedy (not that I can

expect anyone to take it seriously) and there are some

witty b i t s—l ike one over-affectionate wife who insists

on mak ing h i m choose between her breasts " C i n n a m o n "

and " J a s m i n " , half suffocating h i m in the process. B u t

i n the end we discover just why Bluebeard does k i l l a l l

these nice wenches, and I must stress that this reason

is a problem that affects a l l men alive today.

Y o u r s seriously,

S E R G E I .

ALL FINGS FOUL

AND FUNDERFUL A l l Things Br ight and Beaut i fu l ( A A ) . A B C U n i o n

Concert H a l l , Last Tues., Wed. , Thurs .

Just what was the Fe l i x film cri t ic doing at an I.C.

play, you may ask, when about 3,500 people d idn ' t

bother? H e went there because he knew a few people in

it, who were very insistent about selling h im a ticket or

two (perhaps if I had been the Theatre Cr i t i c , I might

have got in free).

We l l , the play was a Northern comedy, ful l of north­

ern humour (he said in his best home counties accent)

which was not lost on the very receptive audience, who

presumably were a l l friends of the cast, persuaded to

come along and see M i k e or Denny, and pay 25p for

the pleasure. St i l l , the cast, condit ioned to audiences

of 50 or so, by Thursday were natural ly apprehensive,

unti l they realised how nice the audience was, when

they warmed up. The play is as much about Rory , the

son, (who is never seen—only heard) as about any­

one. Centra l in the plot is a stolen lectern i n the fo rm

of a large eagle, which is an allegory 1 suppose of ' A l l

things Bright and Beaut i fu l ' , the things the Hesseltine

fami ly has never had. They l ive in a s lum and are soon

to be rehoused, which supposedly w i l l solve a l l prob­

lems, especially for 'Queenie ' (Mrs. Hesseltine), who l ike

the rest is 'Wa i t ing for Godot ' . (That was the on ly

theatre-critic cl iche 1 can remember.) However, every­

thing seems to go wrong. They are allocated a flat

miles out of town not a house close by as they expected,

and this, w i th the broken, hal f painted eagle supposedly

represents their dead-ended existence. Ve ry sad. Ve ry ,

very sad.

I.C. acting contrives to amaze me. A s usual some

people are better than others, but none very bad. I l iked

Penny Pike 's stand-offishness, M i k e Stranger's bearded

dogmatic dominant Hesseltine senior, and C a r i n a as

Queenie or was it Queenie as C a r i na?—she was very

realistic, perhaps too realistic. Steve Groves d id a nice

cameo role at the end and seemed to enjoy it. In fact

I think a l l the cast enjoyed themselves—enough said. If

the cast enjoyed it and so d id the audience, who a m I

to criticise the artistic content (which was not lacking)?

M I K E ' S E R G E I ' S O U T H O N .

Page 8 F E L I X M a r c h 20th, 1973

burning

Yes , Saturday was the date of the motorcycle section

" B u r n to Br i gh ton " . The accompanying picture shows

the gang wai t ing to start off i n E x h i b i t i o n R o a d .

Not ice the keen looks of ant ic ipat ion, the alert minds

wait ing for the task ahead, the challenge of the open

road, the :— oops, got carried away again.

Br ighton was exactly where we expected it to be,

wh ich is just as well as we couldn' t have gone any

further without aqualungs. Everyone made it there

and back without incident al though one b ike was only

put together at midnight the day before.

A f ter the success of this ' B u r n ' we are going to

attempt a long-distance " B u r n to the B r o a d s " (no

apologies) on the weekend l l t h - 1 3 t h M a y .

See you then,

B ruce Cross.

h o c k e y U N I V E R S I T Y O F L O N D O N H O C K E Y C U P F I N A L

I C 2 G U Y S H O S P . 0

I C retained the inter-collegiate hockey cup on Wed­

nesday at Mo t spur Pa rk wi th goals—one in each ha l f—

f rom M a r k Tatche l l and Steve Tucker . I C had to make

one change f rom the side that beat Barts i n the semi­

final when Jaz M i s san was required to play for Spencer

in the L o n d o n League on the same afternoon. However,

his replacement, A l a n B rown , played very we l l consider­

ing that he was prevented f rom playing his natural

at tacking game.

P lay ing up the slight slope i n the first half Guys

immediately took contro l of the match and vir tual ly

camped i n the I C half for the first fifteen minutes. In

fact, they had a great chance to score in the first few

minutes after a neat piece of dr ibb l ing on the right but

Sid Boul ton d id well to cut out the final pass.

I C main ly relied on qu ick breakaways dur ing this

period and even managed to find the net after a great

run by John Schof ie ld—who managed to find acres of

space—but it was disal lowed when three players crashed

into the net with the ba l l . A f ter this play became more

even and f rom another breakaway on the left I C opened

the scoring. M a r k Tatche l l received the ba l l on the

wing, cut inside and slammed it into the net after

rounding the goalkeeper.

In the second half Guys continued to do most of the

attacking but fine defensive work, by S imon Tyrre l l and

Steve Tucke r in part icular, usual ly broke up the danger

on the edge of the circle.

IC 's second goal came f rom a short corner midway

through the second half after a deliberate foul stopped

D i ck Whi t t ington i n the twenty-five. Th is was magnifi­

cently struck by Steve Tucker and went in v ia a Guy ' s

stick.

Guys pressed strongly unt i l the final whistle but they

failed to capitalise on the few chances that were created.

I n fact dur ing the match they had seven short corners

whereas I C only had the one—but shots were only

made f rom two of them.

The whole I C side played wel l , the only black mark

being against Ik i K u l l a r for losing his temper midway

through the first half.

T eam: S id Bou l t on ; S imon Tyrre l l , Dave Browne;

Dave R i c h m a n , A l a n B rown , Steve Tucker ; D i c k Whi t ­

t ington, I k i K u l l a r , Jag Gah i r , J o h n Schofield, M a r k

Tatche l l .

motoring W a k i n g up on a Sunday morn ing w i th two hours

sleep and thick fog is not the best way to gain enthu­

siasm for a day's excursion to Brentford Marke t . Never­

theless, by 10 o 'c lock three courses were la id out,

the fog was l i ft ing, and the coo l morn ing air was

thick w i th the tension of our seventeen arr iv ing com­

petitors. S i x of these were C e m i an (so where are you

a l l , you sciving, cr inging, lazy Gui ldsmen) . T o make

these events more successful we need you a l l , and

anyway, it's great fun.

So w i th scrutineering, expertly handled by Charles

Lamont , and w i th far more than the usual cries of

'Its too t ight '??? The tests proceeded, after, of course,

a demonstration run by Boanerges himself.

Tests 1, 2 and 3 happened before lunch, w i th plenty

of action, dramat ic wheelers to the fore, and thank­

ful ly few crumpled bol lards. Compla ints of minis los­

ing o i l pressure on, after a l l , a test that .was designed

w i th that i n mind , were graciously rejected and the

only reverse spin I saw, was guaranteed to be un in ­

tentional. Even by lunch, the competi t ion was hot.

The top three places being closely contended by ' O u r '

Tony Ra ine and 'The i r ' D o n A r i s and A l a n Winter .

W i t h three lady entrants, things were getting quite

heated in these quarters too, not to mention the saloons

class.

The afternoon saw the remaining six tests a l l of

which appeared to r u n smoothly, and the boy racer

brigade were having a whale of a time on the further

regions of the market. D i d anyone not drive anyone

else's car?

The results speak for themselves, and to be fair

to everyone, I w i l l not comment on ind iv idua l perform­

ances, but congratulations to Tony for tak ing the over­

a l l awards and A l a n Winter and Nige l Price (Cemian)

for the class awards not forgetting D a w n H i c k m a n

for being top lady although, to be fair,

she has had infinitely more experience than our two

local lasses, who both showed str ik ing sportswoman-

ship.

So it leaves me to thank a l l the entrants, marshals

and spectators w i th special thanks to M i k e D r u r y

for sharing the organisation and extra special thanks

to M r . Ra ine for donat ing the trophy wh ich spends its

first year in the capable hands of his son Tony.

J o h n B a i r d .

R E S U L T S

Dr i ve r C a r

1st O v e r a l l — T o n y Ra ine—Spi t f i r e

Overa l l Places

Class 1 — M i n i s and Imps

2 1 A l a n Winter M i n i 850

3 2 D o n A r i s M i n i 850

4 3 M a l c o l m R idge M i n i 850

9 4 H u g h Ty ler M i n i 850

14 5 M a r t C l emour Wolseley Hornet 998

16 6 Miss J . Dequin Wolseley Hornet 998

Class 3—Saloons up to 1300

5 1 Nige l Price F ia t 850

7 2 J i m Briggs A n g l i a 997

8 3 John C o x o n A n g l i a 997

10 4 Pete W i l k in s A u s t i n A 4 0 948

12 5 Miss D . H i c k m a n A n g l i a 997

13 6 Pete C r a m b F i a t 750

15 7 Perry Newton F i a t 750

17 8 M i s s C. Penhorwood A u s t i n A 4 0 948

Class 4—Saloons over 1300

6 1 M a r t i n Edwards Wolseley 1.5

11 2 Les W i l k in s Wolseley 1.5

IN M E M O R I A M

We regret to announce the sad demise of the 1C

mixed hockey team's two-year-old unbeaten record. It

passed quiet ly away last Sunday afternoon at Shenley in

the presence of Nor thern Polytechnic. Despite an early

attempt at arti f icial respiration by A l a n Brown, two

late hammer blows finally put the last nai l in the coffin.

The last rites were administered by Reverend G r a h a m

Popple. The wake the same evening was attended—and

enjoyed—by: Chr i s , B o b , Jul ie , B lossom, A l a n , Anne ,

Jenny, W B 2 , V i l l i s , W B 1 , L i n d a .

f o o t b a l l The f ina l of the U L U Upper D iv i s ion Reserve C u p

was held at Mo tspur Park on Saturday, 10th M a r c h ,

k i ck off 11 a.m. I C were represented this year by

the I l l r d team as the IPs had been knocked out i n

an earlier round. The I l l r ds had reached the f inal by

beating I C V ' s i n the semi f ina l (plug for the V ' s ) .

The opposit ion was supplied by B i rkbeck IPs who had

beaten Bedford IPs i n their semi f inal .

A smal l faithful band of supporters who had man­

aged to k i c k their mistresses out of bed early enough

to catch the coach leaving at 10 "a.m. turned up to

watch the match.

B o t h teams started nervously, part icular ly i n defence.

I C had the best of the opening exchanges w i th Geof f

G i lber t on the right wing providing the most trouble

for the opposition. The B i rkbeck goalkeeper

part icular ly unsafe dropping ldng shots and centres

tantalisingly near the on rushing I C forwards. A f t e r

about 30 minutes of the first half B i rkbeck went ahead.

A long through bal l down the middle caught the I C

defence in some confusion, the B i rkbeck centre forward

chased the ba l l and his shot hit R o b Y o u n g on his

back and unfortunately the ba l l went straight to a

B i rkbeck forward who made no mistake i n putt ing

the ba l l into the net. Th is goal had a bad effect o n

IC, they seemed to lose concentration and were lucky

to go into half t ime only one goal behind.

They hadn't regained their concentration when a

few seconds after the restart the B i rkbeck forwards

forced a corner on the right. The corner was taken

and the B i rkbeck centre half who had come into

the penalty area unmarked had a fine header, he

headed the ba l l into IC 's six yard box where a

B i rkbeck forward had another free header on to the

bar, the ba l l rebounded to same forward for yet another

free header this t ime into the net.

The I l l r d s might wel l have been expected to fa l l

apart after this further setback but led by their cap­

tain Ian Hys l op they fought back. They managed to

w i n more balls in midf ie ld. They produced some fer­

ocious tack l ing—one part icular " t a ck l e " by Ian H y s l o p

earned h i m a fierce lecture f rom the referee. I C brought

on their substitute B o b Day for John Gi les i n the

hope of getting more penetration up front. They also

moved up A n d y Jackson to play h i m centre forward,

midf ie ld and centre hal f at the same time.

The I l l r d s fought back superbly, but were unable

to f ind a way through the B i rkbeck defence that had

to resort to a lot of pushing, shirt pu l l ing and some­

times knee high tackles to stop them. They were u n ­

able to score and the f inal score was 2—0 to B i rkbeck

IPs. It was not a br i l l iant game of footbal l w i th both

teams struggling to string more than two passes to­

gether. B i rkbeck deserved to w in but I C were a bit

unlucky not to score a goal.

The cup was presented to winning B i rkbeck captain

by Peter Mee, Registrar of the College and President

of I C Foo tba l l C lub .

The smal l band of supporters made their way down

the road to the publ ic bar of the E a r l Beatty, to

prepare themselves for the afternoons game when I C

1st were due to extract revenge on B i rkbeck 1st i n

their final ( IC won 2—0). The losing l l l r d made its

way to the pub to celebrate reaching the f inal .

(P.S. It's rumoured that a certain young lady is

banned from playing cards wi th the footbal l c lub after

a somewhat flukey w in at Stop the Bus when p lay ing

against vastly more experienced players).

The I l l r d t e am :—

M . C l a r k , A . Johns, A . Wi lk inson , I. Hys lop , A .

Jackson, R . Y o u n g , C . H i g h a m , A . Peterson, G . G i l l -

bert, R. Smith, T . Mi l es . Sub.: R. Day.

Ol iver Dowson, Ed i t o r of F E L I X , has now per­

manently vacated his room in Weeks H a l l . F r o m

his return f rom vacation on A p r i l 25th, he w i l l

be l i v ing at 55, G r a h a m Avenue, Ea l i ng , L o n d o n

W13 9 T Q (Telephone 01-567 8721). Because this

means it w i l l be more difficult to get in touch

with L o r d Beaverbrook II, new stringently ad­

hered to office hours w i l l be instituted, inc lud ing

every lunchtime f rom 12 to 2 except Tuesday and

Saturday; Thursday and F r i d a y evenings f rom

4 to 7; a l l day o n Sundays (well, 10 to 8) and

M o n d a y mornings f r om 9 to 11. A fu l l list w i l l be

publ ished i n the first F E L I X of next term and w i l l

also be stuck on the office door (3rd floor, U n i o n

bui lding) .