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Ocience
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Angela, what was your first day In a
School oi Physics French lab like?
Well I was very nervous, because at
the
tin quartet the time my French was pretty basic, I
s. She had could just about ask for directions to the
:o study
Metro! When I arrived the school was in
s for a year
absolute chaos because the Nobel
Prizes had just been announced and
Georges
Charpak who worked in the
liege,
General
Electricity
lab had received the
in
about prize for physics. There were TV camlife
wst
eras and journalists everywhere.
!y in However, despite all the excitement,
Professor Jacques Lewiner, who is head
of the General Electricity lab, managed
to find time to welcome me to his lab
and to France in a perfect Frenchman's
English. It was such a relief to find a
friendly face, I felt immediately at ease.
The first Iwo weeks in a new place are
always the hardest and it was the first
time someone had actually welcomed
me to the country.
But your French did improve?
"Savour your 21
years and
remember to
always associate
enthusiasm and
research, friendship and competition. "
Georges
Charpak
In the beginning hand signals and
facial gestures were essential and I
soon got in the habit of saying, "oui,
d'accora" to everything I didn't understand, even when somebody asked me
the time! But being immersed in a totally French environment, it doesn't take
long before you start picking it up.
Everyone in lab was very patient and
kind and put up with my "charming"
accent. We all had coffee together
everyday after lunch where we would
discuss anything and everything. And
there was always a "pof in the lab, celebration drinks for someone finishing
their thesis, or for any reason at all! So
r
there were plenty of opportunities for
me to practise my French and a glass
of wine does wonders for your confidence in the beginning.
What were your first impressions of
George Charpak?
I suppose I was initially very much in
awe of him. After all he was a Nobel
Prize winner who can speak five languages fluently (including Chinese) and
here was I, a mere exchange student
from London who was struggling to
communicate in French. So, I was
extremely touched when on my 21st
birthday he wrote me a letter which
said, "Savour your 21 years and
remember to always associate enthusiasm and research, friendship and competition. " Now that I am working directly with him I have got to know him a lot
better. He's extremely down to earth
and very approachable, and he's
always especially charming towards
women.
What work did you do in the lab during
your year there?
During my first year in the lab I was
involved in the confidential design of an
electronic flame detector which was
eventually sold to Air France for use in
their aeroplanes. So my first experience
of research was extremely positive.
What was it like living in Paris?
Like most people I fell in love with
Paris - its elegant buildings, its long
boulevards and even its hassled
Parisians. Having an appetite for good
food, the French way of life suited me
well and all that French flair added a bit
of "/e ne sais quo!' to my relatively
uncultured life.
And how did you like
French men?
I came over to Paris
on that first year with
visions of being wined
and dined by all those
supposedly romantic
French men and sailing
up and down the Seine
with them on a Bateau
Mouche...it didn't exactly work out that way!!!
What advice would you
give someone who was
thinking of studying
abroad?
Allez-y. Seize the
opportunity. The experience opens up a whole
new sphere of opportunity to you. I left Paris
after my first year with
the ability to communicate competently in another language,
a cultural education and numerous lifelong friends and contacts.
Why did you decide to go back to study
in Paris after you graduated from
Imperial College?
I found it very hard to leave Paris at
the end of the year and so I made a
promise to myself before leaving that I
would be back. I looked into the possibilties of doing post-graduate work
there and found that with the contacts I
had made there would be no problem.
What is a D.E.A. and what did you have
to do to get one?
D.E.A. stands for Diplome d'Etudes
Approfondis. It is basically the equivalent to a Masters and in France it is neccessary to do a D.E.A. before being
accepted for a PhD. You have to spend
a year following lectures and carrying
out a research project in a laboratory. I
was able to go back to the lab I had
worked in before and do a project with
the same group.
How did you end up working in
Charpak's lab?
By chance really, luck of the Irish I
suppose. During my D.E.A. I happened
to be chatting to an English visitor to the
lab, Joe Dickinson, about my interest in
medical physics. Unbeknown to me he
had recently approached Charpak with
an idea for nuclear medicine, and
shortly afterwards I was asked to join
the project team as a PhD student.
So, tell us about the heart imager project?
We are in the process of designing a
medical camera to better diagnose
heart disease. The design is based on
Charpak's prize winning multiwire
Science at the heart of Paris
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detector which has revolutionised the
imaging of subatomic particles at CERN
When a patient has heart problems, the
heart can be studied by injecting a
radioactive isotope into their bloodstream which irradiates the whole body
for several days. The advantage of
using the very sensitive multiwire chamber is that we can use a radioactive isfl
substance with a lifetime of minutes.
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This reduces the radiation dose by a
factor of ten which is especially important in the case of children. The project
is a European collaboration with teams
from Italy, France and England.
What is if like working with a Nobel
Prize winner?
"I suppose
the origin of
the big bang
is more
interesting
than the origin of the
problems in
my big
banger!"
Working with a Nobel prize winner
has certain advantages. At a champagne reception held shortly after
Charpak won the Nobel Prize I had the
chance to rub shoulders with the likes
of the Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac,
now the President of France. Since then
Charpak has become quite a personality in France and makes frequent
appearances on TV and radio. I even
managed to get two minutes worth of
fame myself in a documentary film
about his work a few months ago.
Charpak has recently written a book
defending nuclear science which has
provoked many televised debates with
French ecologists. He is astonished thai
we are still petrified, ten years after the
event, by the radiation clouds that
came from Chernobyl but we are Indifferent to the dangerous doses of radiation given to children in French hospitals
every day.
How do you like CERN?
Living in Geneva is wonderful
because of its surroundings. From my
office I have a view of Mon1 Blanc. Ski
resorts are only an hour's drive away so
my weekends are now taken up trying
to master the pistes. With CERN being
situated on the border I am in an interf i l i n g position where my office is in
France and my lab is in Switzerland and
! have to use my passport to get from
one to the other!
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So whafs your next move? Are you off
to Italy next? Or is it back to Paris or
.even home to Northern Ireland?
As there is a collaboration with an
Italian team on the project I have the
opportunity to carry out some research
In Padova near Venice, so Italian will
probably be the next language I have
to learn.
Looking back to that first day in Paris
five years ago, did you ever imagine
you would end up working with a
French Nobel Prize winner?
No I suppose I have been very lucky
and couldn't ask for any more career
wise. Back then I didn't think Nobel
prize winners were people you
socialised with. Now I kpow two! Carlo
Rubbia the famous Italian Physicist who
won the Nobel Prize in 1985 has his
office near mine. A few weeks ago my
car broke down in the car park and he
offered to help push it.which was quite
'noble' of him! Mind you he stopped
short of looking Under the bonnet.. I
suppose the origin of the big bang is
more interesting than the origin of the
problems in my big banger!
Where do you see yourself in five years
time?
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Imager project right through to the bitter
end. Hopefully it will be a means for me
to enter the world of nudear medicine
in which 1 have become very interested.
Whether that will be in Paris, London,
Geneva or even Belfast only time will
tell.
Science at the heart of Paris
The Courtyard is a tiny theatre, almost a
converted garage next door to King's
Cross. When I arrived and looked
around, I couldn't help but shudder at
the prospect of what I thought was
going to be a long and tedious evening.
How wrong I was!
Macbeth
The Courtyard
As the theatre is so small, you sit
exceptionally close to the stage which is
on the same level as the audience. The
actors enter some of the time from the
aisle between the seats with the result
that the audience is drawn physically a s ;
well as mentally into the play. Surely
what the Bard originally intended.
Although the quality of the acting is
variable, the supporting actors in particular are to admired for the way they slip
so easily from one character to the
next. Pol Bannon as Macbeth
comes across as a weak man
initially, easily led by his wife. But
after he has completely surrendered himself to power and corruption, he tips over the boundary
and turns into a mad tyrant.
However, the sense that he is a
tragic victim of circumstances,
once embarked on a course no
longer able to wrest himself free is
missing. I cannot fault Jayne
Massey as Lady Macbeth. Her
hunger for power and her
relentless ambitions sent shivers up my spine. She is
utterly convincing as the
mad queen, overtaken by guilt and
unable to
The Courtyard
10 York Way
King's Cross
until 1st March
Tickets: £7/5conc
50p annual
membership
Box Office:
0171 833 0870
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The highlight of the evening
though were the three witches. Mari
Colabelli, Helena Tuckett and Michaela
Cussen. Without any props, no kettle to
crouch around, no wands or cats, they
cackled and hissed and danced and
wove spells, completely overpowering
the audience with the sense of pure,
unadulterated evil. The Voodoo music.
Bongo drums and the weird red purple
lighting only hightened the effect. The
RSC should take a leaf out of their
It well worth pottering down to see
this production. There were only ten
people watching that evening and at
the end, however hard we clapped, it
just didn't seem loud enough. You will
enjoy this intimate theatre and there are
worse ways to spend an evening than
listening to three witches chant: 'Bubble,
bubble, double trouble...'
Emma
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Irma Vep
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From 7th March
until 3rd April
Tickets: £6.50/
5 SO on Mem
Tube: Charing X
Box Office
0171 930 3b47
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Subtle questions involving her sexuality
and a female member of the crew further twist the plot and finally the director
himself, who breaks down and cannot
complete the filming.
A new director is found and the film
completed after having replaced
Cheung with a French actress. The
finale is its premiere. The result is both
dissatisfying and confused - the swapping of directors having a disastrous
affect on the plot and style, its newfound 'French-ness' compromising its
original intentions.
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around the shooting of a
film in the suburbs of Paris, Irma
Vep is a deeply satirical look at modern
French cinema. It is essentially the simple story line of the obsessive director
attempting the impossible - to recreate
the magic of Feuillade's early silent classic l e s Vampires', only using a very unFrench Maggie Cheung (who plays herself), much to the concern of the other
members of the cast.
The director's mental health wanes as
his task is made more complicated by a
mostly unhelpful crew and his own mad
fascination with Maggie. Added to this
are Maggie's own problems concerning
reality - her Latex bodysuit (used on set)
becomes an attraction too great for her
to resist and she finds herself breaking
into another guest's bedroom within the
hotel, living out her role as Feuillade's
own sexy super-villainess Irma Vep.
Fluidly directed from the start, the film
gradually disappoints as the somewhat
flimsy plot begins to damage marvellous performances from Cheung and
Nathalie Richard, a make-up artist.
Improvised in parts and filmed quickly
due to a tightly constrained budget,
Irma Vep is an interesting presentation
of the highly popular resurgence of true
French cinema, but neck-bitingly exciting it is not.
Jimmy C
Under Glass - Huge de la
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Battersea
from 18th Feb
until 9th March
Tickets. C8/6
cone. Pay what
von can on
Tuesdays
Box Ofiice
0171 223 2223
Bouge-de-la is a fairly young
company. Several well-known
people worked together on
this latest project, Under
Glass, amongst them Andrew;
Dawson, currently directing
Wallace and Grommit Alive
on Stage. After selling out at
the premiere in the British
Festival of Visual and Devised
Theatre, their award-winning I
creation returns to BAC. And
guess what! Felix has three
sets of two tickets up for
grabs in the competition
announced at the end of this
article, so read on.
The speciality of Bouge
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de-la is the so-called design led theitre. In other words, a whole host
if surprises await the audience,
from people disappearing
through sofas to emerge from
cupboards to flowers growing
through the walls.
; The set perfectly complements
the story of a young woman
neglected by society, desperately
frying to come to terms with the
eal world. She starts to create her
jown fantasy world, dreaming
bout a beautiful dress, a man
iving close by, the high-life in
general. It is the only way she
can escape from her mundane
and lonely routine.
film and competitioi
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However, enough of the blurb.
In order to have a chance of winning
a couple of tickets to see this visually
stunning show, just answer the following question on a bit of paper and drop
it off in Felix before Friday, 21st
February. And don't forget to include
your name and contact address or
number, so that we can quickly give
you your tickets.
Question: Where was the premiere
of Under Glass?
I wasn't sure if I wanted to go and see
this play because it didn't really sound
like my kind of thing: "An exploration of
contemporary drag and gay culture". I
usually go for things like Les Miserables
or Sunset Boulevard.
The theatre turned out to be a smallish room above a pub in Camden
Town. But as soon as the play started,
preconceptions
were put aside.
The play is a
comedy about
a drag queen
cum rent boy
called Troy
Peron who lives
in Lewisham.
He has very little grasp of
reality. His
main aim in life
is to get rid of
Phil as one of Troy's admirers is Phil's
lover. To add insult to injury, Phil is taking part in a documentary about prostitutes. But Troy desperately wants to
achieve stardom in Hollywood and this
documentary could be the first step of
his journey out of Lewisham.
were one or
two serious
points.
Despite the
size of the
theatre excellent use
was made of lighting.
During scene changes, a video was
shown, which I think is an inspired idea
that ought to
be more widely
adopted. The
acting was
excellent. The
story teemed
with different
sorts of characters - straight,
drag, camp;
and each was
portrayed with
an accurate
but amusing
touch. As the old biddy next door rightly
says, Troy is more likely to appreciate
her old dresses from the 40's and 50's
than anyone else. "An exploration of
drag culture" is a bit too serious as a
description of this play.
His life revolves around collecting
designer labels, comparing himself to
Madonna and acting the Hollywood
star. In fact, he is a complete bitch. No
wonder the the play is called "Vicious".
I thought I would feel out of place
going to see a play about drag and gay
culture, but it wasn't aimed exclusively
at gay people. The whole play was
extremely humorous, although there
Vicious
Etcetera Theatre
I really enjoyed watching such a well
acted comedy. You actually feel part of
it, probably because you're sitting so
close to the stage. I would definitely recommend this play to anyone. Okay, so
Camden might be a bit out of the way,
but it's worth it.lt was nice to be able to
drink a pint during the play. And the
actors were so friendly and down-toearth when I talked to them afterwards.
Sapna Trivedi
Etcetera Theatre
Oxford Anns
265 Camden
High St.
until: 23rd Feb
Tube: Camden
Town
Tickets: £8/6
cone
Box Office:
0171 482 4857
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The idea of a TV show
based on the antics of a
pair of teenage
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eels - Dovocalnesomeone at some point. Even so, a
for the soul
series was born with the main topics
A strange little
being "chicks 'n stuff", but the idea of
-:ong with even making a film surely defies belief and
seems even more pointless. And there
is the point with MTV's Beavis and Buttgood track
head. They are so pointless it's cool,
Expect maw
uses of the word they're so so stupid that it doesn't
quirky in future become an issue, and sometimes it's so
base that, unless it was them doing it, it
reviews.
would not be funny.
The film soundtrack has them slightly
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grown up and with a 70s throwback
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applied to them. The first song, indeed,
is a classic shaft-esque 70s wah-wah
funk version of the TV theme. It careers
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A fully comprehensive
popular music catalogue
on one CD ROM is a great
idea. No more searching
through dusty back copies
of Record Collector, no
more doubts about
mansun - she
whether you're missing any of your
makes my nose idol's obscure releases, instant searches
bleed
for tracks, musicians and labels.
it's not up there
Unfortunately, this CD isn't it.
with Wide Open
The alledged 337,000 entries are well
Spaces but with
hidden
by a terrible front-end. The
some storming
search engine is woefully slow and
guitars and a
pointlessly picky (Beatles, not The
good chorus it
comes highly
Beatles). Even on my reasonably fast
rec emended.
computer sporting an eight speed CD
ROM drive, a search for tracks containALEX ing "Stairway to" took about ten minutes.
There's no stop button, and the software
somehow manages to freeze Windows
while it seeks. It's also inflexible - for
example, you can search for a musician's name to find the bands they
RockBase Plus
along with typical Beavis and Butthead
type songs. The metal score (albeit very
early stuff) is well represented by AC/DC
and Ozzy Osbourne and newer razor
sharp post grunge rock is here in the
form of the Butthole surfers.
There are some tracks that art atypical
of the B&B mold and the worst offender
is LL Cool J with Ain't Nobody. First question: "How did this ever get to number
one?" This is dismal, terrible, disgusting.
Not only for the fact that the original was
so well done by Chaka Khan and that
he has destroyed it, but also Cool J's terrible lyrics. There is also an Englebert
Humperdink track, Lesbian Seagulls
which was surely only added probably
due to people with the IQ of the teenage
duo snickering discreetly to the title.
Is this a cool album? Definitely not
what you'd expect from a Beavis &
Butthead album, anyway.p)
Alok
joined, but you can't find out the lineup
of a particular group.
The content is patchy after about
1993, even though ifs supposed to
cover up to 1996. The Database had no
entries for 'musician Liam Howlett', had
never heard of artists Bis, KLF or Ash,
and had only one album entry for
Radiohead (Pablo Honey] and no singles. There is no guide to the value or
cost of releases, and special releases
such as limited editions and bonus discs
are missing.
Occasionally, a search will strike a
chord, and wads of obscure releases
and muso information appears. These
moments are sadly rare and the work of
author Terry Hounsome (of Rock Record
and Single File) is inaccessible and
underused. A good programmer could
easily make a success of this package.
Until then, hold on to your old Record
Collectors, pop pickers.
Jeremy Thomson
It seems that these days everyone's
harping on the jungle, Drum 'n Bass
music bandwagon. What first started out
as a British underground dance phenomenon has now hit the charts. Of
course, I don't need to remind you that
there is a queue of well known artists
waiting to churn out this new commercial material, particularly David Bowie,
U2 and Depeche Mode.
But what of the real the real Jungle
crews? And this is where Suspect
Package slips in. You are unlikely to
have heard of many if any of these
artists unless you are a true afficionado
of the genre. Although not entirely
underground, with Lemon D, Dillinja and
Decoder, who's scathing track Fog is
tipped for big things, there is a slightly
alternate feel to the D&B produced.
The album may be entitled Hard
Leaders 01 but this is more to do with
the name of the record
label rather than the contents of the record. The
beats are nowhere
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near as hard and hectic as the Drill and Bass sound being
formed currently by the likes of Aphex
Twin, with the soft synth piano melodies
floating through several of the tracks. All
the essential Drum 'n Bass factors are
present, it's just that some of the tracks
seem to be ambient noises layered over
the top of these typical hard beats,
Juniper by Regulate has a loop that
sounds like warped tribal chants with
Decoder seeming to have accidentally
recorded a coffee percolator in the
background.
This all makes for an appealingly
pleasant Drum 'n Bass sound and a
very good album. Jungle is massive,
rewind selecta'.(8)
Ramzi
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Cosmic Comedy Club
The Comedy
Store, in Leicester
square is oft hailed as the place to go
for those searching for laughs and a
riotous night out, but it is far from the
only option. Situated in darkest
Hammersmith is the Cosmic Comedy
Club, just ten minutes walk from the
tube.
Despite the drab looking exterior,
once inside it reveals itself as a warm,
cosy venue bustling with activity, beers
and, of course, comedians. Downstairs
provides seating to the multitudes as
well as reasonably priced beer (£2 a
pint] and food. Meanwhile, upstairs is
an over looking balcony, ideally suited
for a large, raucous posse of students.
During February, Tuesdays and
Thursdays are the nights to go. With student priced (that is to say, free!) entry
they provide a cheap night out which is
guaranteed to amuse. This
is when brave newcomers
try their luck at stand-up.
hallo sagoo - turn
Eight or so newbies try to entertain a
bin fiya
blood thirsty crowd in ten minute slots.
Beguiling
eastern
Ifs an amuse or be abused world up on
vocals combined
the stage, and the audience soon lets its
with western
feeling know when an act fails to deliver
rhythm science
the funnies. Having said that, the atmosin a seductive
phere is friendly, and all the acts are
mix. Vaguely
given a fair hearing.
ceminiscient of
These nights start at 9.00pm , but you
Ofra ftaza
Features a good
should turn up by 8.30pm for a decent
reworking from
seat (but not in the balcony, that's my
the Grooveridei
spot!) Other nights show more established comics, but at the cost of hard
SID
earned cash, about £8. Well worth a
look in, even if the acts fail to amuse,
you can heckle them off stage.
Dave
Hammersmith
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Blur
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at number one. Now after a year and a
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marstaray-know half and Oasis having gone ballistic in
terms of affecting the culture in this
where to find
country and commercial sales, Blur have
you
decided to enter back into the game at
Not an intriguing tune, fust a o timely moment. The Britpop monster
regurgitation of they must confess to creating that has
everything we've engulfed the whole of guitar based indie
heard over the
music thankfully seems to be running
last couple of
out of steam. Blur have returned and
years from the
ore prepared to define another direction
bands of so
in indie music that is in direct contrast 1o
called 'Noelrock'
our beloved Britpop.
They have given us four albums
before this one/initially a 'baggy' album
from the early 90's with the unforgettable There's No Other Way. Next came
Modern Life Is Rubbish with the wonders
of For Tomorrow and Chemical World.
Following this they turned from being
middle class Essex boys io East London
tiger-on the rose
Cockney lads with working class roots
Moog's syntheand unleashed Parklife which brought
sisers. Beach
Boy-esque har- the start of the ruin to the indie music
scene.
monies and a
This album is another long one and
plastic sound.
opens with the crunching fuzzy guitar of
Proof that you
can get a record Graham Coxon on the intro to
deal on a few
Beetlebum which is not exactly one of
bad haircuts
their finest moments but is still uncomalone.
mercially catchy. Song 2 which unsurprisingly is the second song, is a dead
space-dark
ringer for an Elastica song and their
clouds
influence is clear throughout the album
Looney tunes
(and it would be odd if it wasn't). This
meets Quentm
song also screams The Offspring at you,
Tarantino. and
which shows the first hints of how musiI'm not sure
cally changed Blur have become. At the
who comes off
worst. Let those time of Parklife they detested the whole
dark clouds drift American grunge phenomena and as a
into obscurity.
result spurned the first seeds of Britpop
but now it seems as though they are
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heading closer to it. The whole album
Music
reeks of laziness, a "slackerness" as Blur
would say, but is it innocent or intentional? Those of you who are even only
slightly cynical will be justifiably suspicious considering the huge turnaround
in attitude and music. The majority of the
songs all have a heavy feeling of lethargy that weighs you down till you reach a
total state of apathy. The lyrics provide a
perfect example of this such as in Death
OtAParly where Damon's tired voice
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croaks above the organ laden track,
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"Another night and I thought well well,
and to another party to hang myself
gently on the shelf. Blur have decided
to go anti-pop in You're So Great which
comes complete with crackling in the
background just like an old record and
has Damon straining to sing "while
Graham plays an acoustic guitar in
into electric bit:
give the track c
However ifs n<
gloom, the alb
pop gems like
(what is their ft
M.O.R. while C
blast of noise c
all of a minute
have had a fet
ok Inside America
Hon with the US?) and
nesc Bombs is a sonic
j distortion that lasts for
id a half. Damon must
i for loudspeakers
when recording this album with more
than half the tracks succumbing to one,
especially so on Movin' On which kicks
into a typical jump along Blur song
except for Damon sounding worryingly
like the lead singer from The Fall. The
final track on the album is entitled Essex
Dogs, so maybe they're finally owning
up to their roots, leaves you with Damon
speaking through it like a grim poet,
"You know you'll get a kick in tonight, the
smell of puke and piss, the smell of
puke and piss."
You come away from this album feeling slightly down, and drained of any
energy you may have had beforehand.
Slackerdom is upon us, agaia(6}
Jason
Pavement are growing up, their music is
maturing album by album. But don't run
for the hills quite yet - they haven't
turned into (urgh) the Counting Crows or
their earnest check-shirted ilk, not by a
long way.
There's a lot less of their naively wayward fooling around on this album, and
much more reliance on conventional
song structures; you know, choruses
and that. This would be due to the presence of erstwhile REM producer Mitch
Easter, who ensures the band's promotion from lo-fi to at least mid-fi. Whether
this is necessarily a good thing is debatable depending on you point of view;
being better able to hear what's going
on has been the undoing of several
bands in the past.
Recent single Stereo serves to dispel
any worries with its daft lyrics (about
baseball, I think) and discordant guitars
that mutter and shriek by turns; ifs no
Range Life or Summer Babe though.
Shady Lane follows, a whimsical slice of
countrified American and Pavement
This is the Cranes who have been
around for a while, but this is their first
release for several years. Ifs well crafted
and the songs compliment one another
nicely.
They start off simply with little more
than an acoustic guitar and the singer's
voice. As the album progresses the guitar becomes heavier and the drums
more incessant. The album evolves as
you go through it, although it never
becomes deep or pretends to contain
any hidden subtleties.
The lead singer, Alison Shaw, has a
melodic munchkin's voice, which while
cute, must give her no end of trouble
when trying to get into clubs ("But I am
over 18...etc"). In some songs she does
manage to develop a sorrowful ethereal
style.
Unfortunately,
that's it for good
bits for a while,
the middle part .
ALBUM
Brighten The Corners
of the album is
mostly just
'nice' mid- tempo songs that slip past
unnoticed except for the odd spate of
shouting or a funny gee-tar solo, none
of which do much.
Ifs not until Embassy Row \ha\
Pavement get interesting again, and
happily they stay that way. Steve
Malhouse almost raps his way through
the lazy Blue Hawaiian, We Are
Underused \s (whisper it) anthemic and
(shout it) brilliant while Starlings of the
Slipstream is lovely. And thafs about it.
So on this evidence, Pavement are still
a wit above most of their contemporaries, but this album lacks the flashes
of genius that ensure they stay that
way.(7)
KS Pulaski
tone which adds some
depth to the otherwise
limited feeling of the
album.
The other musicians are capable
enough but nothing special. Even
though their songs are well written by
the standards of indie pop, the want for
emotional drive, will consign this album
to the black hole of mediocrity. Angel
Bell stands out for its cow-laughingthrough-a-kazoo like sound effects but,
again, the instrumental sections fail to
hit the spot.
What we have here is the
Castlemaine XXXX of the music world;
' listenable, fun but ultimately watered
down and forgettable.(6)
Dave
SINGLES
comet gainstrength
Bright 'n'brassy
indie pop from
these girl-boy
chancers. Part
Urusei Yatsura
part Bis, But
fundamentally
fantastic anyway
and a band
worth investi-
SFTW
mam
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ALBUM
Population Four
Music
daft punk-da
funk
A frenetic rush
of cartoon style
sound powers
this Gallic
instrumental
techno tune
right into your
memory where
it gets lodged
and just won't
MICHAEL
Cinema Guide
Virgin Fulham Rd
£6.20. £4 students
Mon-Frt
Ransom
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Dnn> Pet Them.
A Fish called Wanda is the second most
successful British film ever, and so it
comes as little surprise that they have
5.55 9.05
reteamed the same players to try and
Evita
wrestle the record away from Four
12.20 3.15 6 20 9.15
Fierce Creatures Wedding and a Funeral. Thus, we have
Fierce Creatures not a sequel but involv1.40 4.00 6.30 8.50
101 Dalmations ing all the same actors and writers.
Mega-tycoon Rod McCain (Kevin
12.30 300
Kline) has recently acquired Marwood
Trees Lounge
Zoo, and he expects at least a 20%
1.30 4.10 6.40 9.10
return on any investment or he will close
it down. Enter Rollo Lee (John Cleese) as
the zoo's new director who believes he
can make this profit margin by stocking
1079/M
the zoo with only fierce creatures, animals billed as violent, man-eating
predators because violent entertainment
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is what he thinks people want.
Unsurprisingly, at the thought at getting
Virgin Chelsea
£6.20. £4 students
Mon-Fri
Ransom
12.40 3.25 6.15 9.20
Sleepers
fill
115 3.55 635 9.20
Fly Away Home
12.05 2.15 4.35 7.00
Extreme
Measures
9.30
Evita
915
101 Dalmations
1.05
In love and War
3.45 6.30 9.15
Michael
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Mathlda
12,30 2.50 5.00 7.20
rid of all the cute, cuddly animals the
keepers (including, Michael Palin, and
Ronnie Corbett) revolt. Meanwhile, Willa
Weston (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Vince
McCain (Kevin Kline again) arrive with
plans to turn the zoo into a theme park.
They proceed to make the situation even
worse by using blatant and unsubtle
advertising techniques, such as Bruce
Springsteen sponsored tortoise, to raise
profits.
However, Wilma begins to see the
zoo as more than just an opportunity
and begins to develop an understanding of the relationship the keepers share
with their animals. Meanwhile, Rod
McCain thinks that the zoo isn't going to
make the 20% (because Vince is
embezzelling) and comes to visit with
plans to turn the zoo into a golf course
for the Japanese.
Though the actors are the same as in
A Fish called Wanda, the parts they
played are not similar to their roles in
Fierce Creatures. Michael Palin, for
example, hardly had any lines in Wanda
(because of his character's stutter) but in
Fierce Creatures his character (Bugsy
Malone) never stops talking. Kline again
gets to play the bad-guy but this time
his character(s) have no redeeming
qualities and you can't help but wish for
one of the previous endings where he
dies earlier. Speaking of endings, the
reason why we have had to wait such a
long time for this film, despite principal
photography finishing mid 1995, is that
the ending was reshot twice as a result
of the reaction of test-audiences.
(Admittedly there was a nine month
delay because Palin was off on one of
his around the world trips.) However,
the ending as it stands now, despite the
reshoots isn't very appealing. The problem not so much lies with the denouement itself but with what precedes it.
The plot is very cluttered with too many
storylines and is constantly changing. The
fierce creatures idea
of the title only lasts
for about the first third
of the film before
Kline's character comes along and
implements his scheme. As a result the
Cleese character goes through a complete role reversal from initially being the
villain to being the main protagonist and
essentially the saviour of the zoo by the
end. Its not just Cleese who seems to go
through significant changes the script
also calls for many of the other roles' to
change. Thus, it is little surprise that it
was difficult for the film to
come to a satisfactory conclu
sion given the mess that is
made earlier. Part of the
problem stems from trying to incorporate too
many different characters
(not even counting the ani
mals). As a result the
film is too loose, and
with Cleese's character seemingly
doing a u-turn half
way through, the film
lacks a core around
which the rest of the char
acters and scenes can
play. In addition there
is also the impression
that several of the
scenes have been
included
because they are funny rather than
being especially necessary for the plot.
Not that I want suggest the film isn't
funny - it certainly does contain some
very funny scenes - it just
seems that at times
humour has been put
ahead of developing the
plot logically
Many of the best jokes
revolve around Cleese,
and he carries them off
brilliantly. There is more of a Basil Fawlty
in this role, which is what he does best.
However, despite Cleese's, not unsubstantial, presence he can't support the
film on his own. The corporate
sequences with Curtis and Kline are fairly lame, and the Rod McCain character
is just crude and unoriginal. The film
only truly shines when Cleese is on
screen, and although he does have a lot
of screen time, the difference is noticeable.
Fortunately, most of the
cast have a strong background in comedy and
they help to lift not only their
roles, which for most of them
are fairly irrelevant cameos,
but also some of the less
funny scenes into something more respectable.
Providing you don't go
expectation of
Pythonesque levels of
genius, Fierce
Creatures, despite its
faults, still is a very
amusing and highly
enjoyable film, which
is almost worth going
to see for Cleese alone.
Odeon
Kensington
£6.30, £3.70
before 5pm
Monday-Friday
Ransom
3.50 6.40 9.30 LNS
Fri/Sat 12.20
Evita
9.10 LNS Fri/Sat 12.10
JExfireme
Measures
9 25 LNS Fri/Sat 12.10
The Long Kiss
Goodnight
LNS Fr/Sa 12.20
Matilda
Sat. Sun 1.30
Flirting with
Disaster
4.40 7.00
101 Dalmations
1.20
Fly Away Home
1.10 3.50 6.30(NotFrl)
Michael
Preview Feb 14th 6.45
In Love and War
1.35 4.15 6,55 9.35 LNS
Fri/Sat 12,15
She's The One
2,10 4.35 7.05 9,35 LNS
Fri/Sat 12,05
Shine
1,55 4,30 7.05 9,40
spooky
Chelsea Cinema
£7, £4 concession
(1st perf. only)
Minema
111 L o v e a n d W a r
£6.50/ £4 Matinee
Mon-Fri
Sandra Bullock has made a couple of
The Proprietor
poor career moves since she shot to
3.30 6.30 8.50
stardom after outshining Keanu Reeves
in Speed. In Love and War, however,
UCIWhlteleys
£6.25/ £4 before shows that given the right role she can
5pm Mon-Fri/ £3 be more than just a pretty face Richard
Artenborough's latest film is based on
before 3pm Satthe experiences of a youthful Ernest
Sun
Hemingway, one of America's most
Ransom
influential novelists, during first World
12.453.304.00 6.15
War Italy After volunteering to work with
6.45 900 9.30
Fly Away Home the Red Cross, Hemingway (Chris
O'Donnellj is injured whilst bravely res11.30 2.00 4.30 7.00
cuing a wounded soldier, and is taken
Evita
to a hospital where he is nursed back to
6.55
health by Agnes von Kurowsky (Bullock).
She is also a volunteer from America
SFTW
and, despite her being eight years his
senior, he fails in love with her and
doesn't rest until she gives in fo his boyish charm.
The film focuses on Kurowsky's
choice between the budding author and
Extreme
a mature Italian tor c
Measures
mam
9.20
Flirting with
Disaster
9.50
Sleepers
9.05
101 Dalmations
11.20 1.45
Matilda
11.40 1.50 4.20
Fierce Creatures
12.30 2.50 5.10 7.25
9.45
Harriet the Spy
11.10 1,30 3.20 6.00
8.45
In Love and War
12.5 3.20 6.00 9.15
hearted nurse eager to keep her options
open and experience life to the full. She
is understandably hesitant to risk it all
for an immature kid she is not sure she
even loves, and whose only vision of the
future i s " You'll be making the old place
spick-and-span, while I write great
words." The viewer is made to understand her dilemma and share her
doubts about the romance, even to the
point where the audience no longer
wants the relationship to go ahead. This
is heightened by a slightly dodgy performance from O'Donnell who is clearly a
beginner when it comes to character
acting.
In Love and War is unpredictable and
doesn't rush the plot; it is over an hour
before there is even a kiss. Unlike similar films it is not embarrassingly corny,
excluding perhaps the inevitable line
"Little did I realise that this time would
change my life forever." There is not
enough detail for it tc be ruv.Md-' • - . •
true biography but the content is
thoughtful enough to make up for this.
There are also some memorable scenes
which help to raise it above the average, such as when a tranquil grassy hill
on a Summer's day is suddenly
engulfed by thousands of fighting soldiers:
. So long as you don't mind a film in
which the main characters are called
Aggy and Ernie it is well worth seeing for
those interested in relationships. Chris
The Fzighteners
THE ONE
Cunningly timed to be released on
Valentine's Day, She's the One, is the
story of the 'fighting Fitzpatricks', an IrishAmerican family of men wrestling with
infidelity and their muddled philosophies
on life and love. Mickey (Edward Burns)
is content to be a lay-about, care-free
bachelor until one day he picks up Hope
(Maxine Bahns) in his cab and within 24
hours they are married. His older brother, Francis (Mike McGlone) is a successful Wall Street stockbroker, married to his
college sweetheart Renee (Jennifer
Anniston) but is having an affair with
Mickey's ex-fiancee Heather (Cameron
Diaz). Both of them are in their own way
trying to follow their father's (John
Mahoney) misguided advice to 'do what
makes you happy first', but this only
leads them to clash more than once
especially when Mickey finds out about
Francis and Heather. Neither of the
brothers believes that the other can be
happy. Francis doesn't understand how
being Mickey can be content to be
decent yet poor, while Mickey can't
understand how being mean and selfabsorbed but rich is the route to happiness either.
Although very similar to Edward
Burns' first film
except on a
slightly larger
budget, he
has fortunately managed to
maintain
much of the
charm and wit
which made
his debut so
enjoyable. By
keeping the
budget low
(by Hollywood
standards) and by writing, directing and
starring Burns has managed to keep his
autonomy to make the film he wants.
Although there is nothing especially
original in his writing per se, the intelligence and wit of writing nevertheless
comes as a welcome change to much
of the brainless idioticism of much of
Hollywood's fare. Fortunately Burns, like
Woody Allen is a New Yorker and consequently the humour is considerably
sharper and more intelligent than the
Dumb and Dumber school. However,
much of the humour comes from the
characters reactions to the situations in
which they find themselves and these
scenarios tend to come across as a bit
contrived at times. For starters, who
would want to have an affair if they
were married to Jennifer Anniston? This
also gives the feeling that the film moves
from scene to scene without the characters developing in between. ,
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Empire
£7.50/£9/from
£4 before 5pm
Mon-Fri
Fierce Creatures
12.00 2,15 4.30 6.45
9.00 LNS Fri/Sat 11.30
Harriet the Spy
12.00 2.10 4.20 6.30
8.45 LNS Fri/Sat 11.30
The Frighteners
1.30(Not Sun) 4.00 6.30
9.00 LNS Fri/Sat 11.30
Attention alt
Film makers
Despite the bigger names of Diaz,
Anniston and Mahoney they manage to
blend seamlessly into Burns' world and
Anyone interthey let the three leads from Bums' first
ested in helping
picture (Bahns, McGlone and Burns him- to make a microself) take much of glory.
budget feature
Therefore, She's the One is art enjoy- film, we especially
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even if it is
nothing
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romantic
comedy.
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Rim
Our annual inter-varsity competition with the Camborne
School of Mines is the second oldest match in the country,
and we want your support.
Out of the historic rivalry felt between the two
schools, a competitive event was organised. Originally only
rugby was played, the prize being "The BOTTLE", a large
bottle made out of tin. Over the years football, hockey
(mens and womens) and squash have been added.
This year the event is a home fixture and is spread
over two days, with squash being played on Friday 21st, at
the IC Sports Centre between 8:00 and 10:00 pm and the
other games on Saturday 22nd February at the sports
ground at Harlington, with coaches leaving at 9:00 and 0:00
am.
Every year Camborne come, they are well supported
which makes Saturday an excellent day out, with beer flowing freely.
The RSMU invites all members of I.C. to come along,
support your college and watch us beat Camborne.
The cost will be £7 and includes a free T-shirt and travel. If you want to go, sign your name outside the RSMU
Office (on the ground floor RSM building).
Lond>n
GO(de
Along the Thames pub walk
0171 624 3978, Blackfriars tubelexit 31
.7pm;£3.50 cones.
St James's - Londons Clubland 0171 794
9219. Green Park tube. 2.30pm; £3 cones.
Old city pub walk - chaucer to dirty dick's
0171 624 3978. Liverpool St tube. 7.15pm;
£3.50 cones.
Friday14thFebruary
Diary Dafes
lpm Hamsoc (Regular}
Top Floor, Union Building
1pm Photo Soc (Regular)
Southside Lounge
1.10pm Islamic Soc (Regular)
Friday Prayer, Southside Gym.
(Brothers and Sisters)
1.15pm Labour Club (Regular)
Southside upper Lounge
5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular)
STEP Aerobics (advanced), Southside Gym
7.30 pm Tamil Society Valentine Special
The Event of the Century celebrated with
wicked dance, hip hop and swing. Get down
to the souful sounds with your loved one.
Girls - half price admission. Tickets available
from committee mebers, or contact Jason via
the Felix office. SCR
8pm ICU Cinema
Startrek - First Contact
8pm - 1am Valentine Ents
Write me all the cards now !! A very special
action packed Valentine's night.. kicking off
at 8pm with Bust-A-Gut Comedy Club, featuring Vladimar McTavish, Dame Sybille &
Frankie Boyle, plus Open Mic slot. All yours
for just £2.50 / £2.
Then put on your pulling pants for an orgy
of pleasure with the Pop Tarts. Free lovehearts, slow dancing, lots of records with the
word "love" in, the special SMOOCH Cocktail
bar, all this is free before 9 or a £1 after.
Free Women's Minibus Service
First run at 12.00 midnight
Last run at Union closing time
Saturday15thFebruary
Diary Dafes
8pm ICU Cinema
Michael Collins
Sunday16thFebruary
Diary Dafes
1pm Wargames (Regular)
2 pm Fitness Club (Regular)
Aerobics (intermediate), Southside Gym
6pm ICU Cinema
Michael Collins
8.30pm ICU Cinema
Matilda
Monday17thFebruary
Diary Dafes
12.30pm Artsoc (Regular)
SCR, Union Building
12.30pm Ski Club Meeting (Regular)
Southside Upper Lounge
12.30pm Fitness Club (Regular)
Circuit Training, Southside Gym
2pm Deadline for Diary, Soc. Pages
The last chance to get your Diary dates or
Clubs and Socs entries in this week
5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular)
Aerobics (beginners), Southside Gym
6pm Felix News and Features Meeting
6pm IC Methsoc (Regular)
All faiths welcome, Basement 10
Princes' Gardens.
6.30pm Fitness Club (Regular)
Aerobics (intermediate), Southside Gym
7pm IC Stnfonia (Regular)
Great Hail, All players welcome
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Diary Daf es
12 pm Cothsoc (Regular)
Mass and lunch, Leon Bagrit Centre,
Lvl 1 Mech Eng
12pm-2pm Tair Trade' Stall (Regular)
Union Building Foyer. Fairly traded goods
tor sale. Stationary, Coffee, Tea & Chocolate
12.15 Yoga Soc (Regular)
Yoga Classes, Southside Gym
12.30pm African-Caribbean Soc (Regular)
Weekly meeting, Rm G02, Materials
dept. RSM
12.30pm Parachute Club(Regular)
Southside Upper Lounge
1pm Audio Soc (Regular)
Brown Committee Room, Union Building
1pm Sailing Club Meeting (Regular)
Southside Upper Lounge
3pm Pakistan Soc (Regular)
Basketball in the Union Gym. anyone welcome
5pm Circus Skills Soc (Regular)
Table Tennis Room, Union Building
5.30pm Radio Modellers Club
MechEng Main Workshop (Rm 109), e-mail
[email protected]
5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular)
Aerobics (advanced), Southside Gym
6pm Bridge Club (Regular)
Clubs Committee Room, Union Building
7pm Canoe Club (Regular)
Canoe Club Store in Beit Quad, or at the
swimming pool at 7.30pm
7pm icsf present STRANGE DAYS
ICU Cinema, Concert Hall.
7.30pm IQ (Regular)
Brown Committee Room, Union Building
8pm ICCAG (Regular)
Soup Run for the hornless
Meet Weeks Hall Basement
Eight Day Guide
Wednesday19thFebruary
1pm Con Soc
Rt Hon Virginia Bottemley MP visits
2pm Photo Soc
Lessons, Darkroom
5pm Fitness Club (Regular)
STEP Aerobics (intermediate), Southside
Gym
6pm Orienteering Club (Regular)
Training in Union Gym. All welcome
6.30pm Chess Club (Regular)
Club and Brown Committee Room, Union
3rd Floor
7pm Shaolin Kung Fu Nam Pai Chuan
Beginners Welcome, Souhside Gym
7pm IC Symphony Orchestra(Regular)
Great Hall
Free Women's Minibus Service
First run at 12.00 midnight
Last run at Union closing time
Dtgry Dafes
12.30pm Islamic Society (Regular)
Sister's Circle, Prayer Room, Southside
12.30pm Third World First
Lloyds and Midland Boycott Campaign.
SCR, Union Building
12.45pm Sporting Motorcycle Club
Southside Upper Lounge
1pm Wargames (Regular)
Table Tennis Room, Union Building
1pm IC Rifle and Pistol Club (Regular)
Join up and shoot. Check on range door
for deatils about safety induction. Sports
Centre
1pm Fitness Club (Regular)
Aerobics (beglnner/intermediatel,
Southside Gym
Eight Day Guide
SIS
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Sheffield Building,
*
Imperial College,
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London
Tickets
Cultural Slut
Food 1 aii & D sco - £10
Food Fair & Disco - £6
Available al Luntlitinies (12 1pm) m .ICR
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5T/J
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TRAVEL
L°nd°n Guide
Radiation leak
Toxic waste fun for all. Lots Road Power
station, Fulham. 0171 371 4505. £10 cones.
Invasion of Earth
hostile takeover of entire planet by minds
infinitly greater than our own. 8.45am. Any
tube. Free admission, first 10,000 get free
'Heat ray' induced death.
Thursday20thFebruary
Diary Dafes
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12pm Amnesty International (Regular)
Southside Upper Lounge, e-mail s.trivedi or
[email protected]
12.30pm Fitness Club (Regular)
Body Toning (beginners), Southside Gym
1pm Con soc Meeting (Regular)
Southside Upper Lounge
1pm Fell Wanderers (Regular)
Southside Upper Lounge
1pm Gliding Club
Room 266 Aero. Eng (Follow signs from
L o n d o n GOicte
10 am World of Adverts
Piccadilly Circus Tube. Open air display of
thirty years of advertising at Piccadilly Circus.
Free admission.
aero foyer)
1.10pm RAG Meeting (Regular)
dB's
5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular)
Aerobics (intermediate), Southside Gym
6.15pm IC Choir Rehearsals(Regular)
New Members Welcome, Mech Eng 342
8pm ICCAG (Regular)
Soup Run for the homeless
Meet Weeks Hall Basement
2 pm Budgie demonstration
Lincoln Inn Field Mews. London Minature
Avarists Association give 'flying' tour of British
frontroom birdlife. £4, £2.50 cones. Chancelry
Lane Tube.
Friday21stFebruary
Diary Dafes
1pm Hamsoc (Regular)
Top Floor, Union Building
1pm Photo Soc (Regular)
Southside Lounge
1.10pm Islamic Soc (Regular)
Friday Prayer, Southside Gym.
(Brothers and Sisters)
1.15pm Labour CLub (Regular)
Southside upper Lounge
1.30pm Felix Reviews and Science meeting
5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular)
STEP Aerobics (advanced), Southside Gym
Free Women's Minibus Service
First run at 12.00 midnight
Last run at Union closing time
Eight Day Guide
SOMETHING DIFFERENT
THIS SUMMER?
So, what are
you going to do
this summer?
Get a naff job in
your home town? Not very exciting is it?
Perhaps you might like to do something
different ? Well, last summer I made that
choice and I spent three months in
America working at an American summer camp. There are many types of
camps all over the States and I was at a
Girl Scout camp in Ohio in the mid-west.
I'm not denying that it was hard work,
but it was one of
kayaking down the creek. It was also a
chance to try and make a small difference to the children's lives. Many of
them came from under-privileged backgrounds and camp was their only holiday of the year,
L O N D O N FAIR - Feb 15th l C M p m
something that they
the most rewarding
experiences of my
a n d Feb 16th l l - 4 p m , at: K e n s i n g t o n all looked forward
life.
T o w n H a l l , H o m t o n Street
to throughout the
| year They looked
My camp, Camp
Wakatomika (all
A l l applicants s h o u l d b r i n g as fol\ up to the counselright, it's a stupid
lows:
| lors and I think that
name) was a small * 2 passport sized photos.
they saw us as
camp with only
* 2 character references from employ-; walking encyclopenineteen counseler/college (originals, on headedI dias considering
lors. Half were
paper, dated w i t h i n the last 12
[the number of
English and half
months).
questions they
were American.
•Certificates - teaching, sporting, pro-1 asked us - the most
No-one had met
fessional etc.
common being "Is
before camp start- *£40 first deposit, payable o n l y i f
this poison ivy?", as
ed, but after the
you apply (a further £178 is due at a they held up a
staff training week
later stage for medical insurance etc), sample!
we got on brilliantly
I'd like to think
and felt like we'd
j All applicants must be aged 18 or over
that the children
known each other land available by June 1997 and until
who were in my
for ages. When the ! approximately 20 August 1997 (9 weekscare have as many
training week was
minimum)
happy memories of
up the kids arrived.
For further details write for a brochure
last summer as I
As you can probaI to: Camp America, 37A Queens Gate. do. As well as havbly imagine, I was
London. 5W7 5HR.
ing a brilliant time
a little nervous at
(albeit tiring), I
the prospect of being in charge of
found that the experience taught me a
American children but I was happy to
great deal about patience and underfind that my preconceptions about
standing, along with the enjoyment of
American kids were wrong. The children
living in the countryside for three months
all loved our accents as did the
after spending my entire life in cities.
American staff and trying to copy our
If you are interested in working at a
accents was a popular past-time.
summer camp in America this summer
The camp gave me opportunities to
go along to the London recruitment fair,
try new activities, for example trail-riding
where there will be 200 camps repreon a very unpredictable horse, and
sented.
;
clubs and socs
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vmsm
Sensuality, Woman at
the Window, Traffic,
Santorini, Untitled No
66.... These are some
of the exciting titles you might see
accompanying those brilliant phoContact:
tographs our exhibition has to show off!
Kelly
Androutsopoulos The enthusiastic members of the photographic society will exhibit their weird
at
[email protected] and wonderful work on the 10th March,
or Gary Purchase,for two weeks only. (See example, right)
They have been inspired by top phoat
[email protected]. uk tographers in the world, namely
Mapplethorpe, Blumefield and different
American photographers. After being to
so many exhibitions and on various field
trips, the results of their work seem to be
electrifying. If you want to be one of the
artists exhibiting work, it is not too late to
join our society. The deadline for entries,
to members only, is on the 14th
SFTW
February. We still provide lessons if you
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are keen and have no experience. On
the other hand, if you prefer to analyse
and appreciate excellent work just come
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along to our premiere on the 10th March
and judge for yourself. It will be a stimu-
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Fellwanderers
Last weekend the Fellwanderers left
dreary London behind as we shot up the
M l to Derbyshire. Our Youth Hostel was
in the village of Hathersage, just below
Stanage Edge. Clear skies on Saturday
morning meant that it was a shorts day
for most of us, even though there was
frost and ice on the ground. We started
our walk from the Derwent reservoirs
and headed for the square plateau of
Kinder Scout. The top consisted of
strange rock formations, and a landscape of dark peaty mud. Patches of
snow lying in the miniature valleys
added to the excitement, although the
combined mud and snowball fight
never really got going, and there were
lating night, accompanied by
refreshments. Alternatively, you can
view the photographs on our new web
page, but at a much later stage. Looking
forward to seeing you all there!
We meet every Friday at the South
Side Lounge at 1:00 and lessons are on
Wednesdays.
no acceptors to the challenge of a mud
wrestle with Oily.
JDur evening meal was a delicious
sweet and sour chicken with rice and
noodles, to coincide with the Chinese
New Year. A mini pub-craw! visiting two
of the three pubs in the village rounded
the evening off perfectly.
Sunday was a bit cloudy, but the rain
held off as we spent the morning walking along the Burbage Rocks, and then
down into a river valley. In the afternoon
w e explored the grounds of Chatsworth
House, ancestral home of the Duke And
Duchess of Devonshire. Our journey
back to London was only interrupted by
arrived at IC at a bizzarely early 9.30pm,
clubs and socs