Letters to the Editor

Dear Alex Feakes,

I read with interest your editorial in Felix 7.2.97. There is no indicaton that ring-fencing will be of detriment to ICU funding, it merely allows Charing Cross and Westminster Students’ Union and our counterparts at St Mary’s to run the facilities for students, at their present sites, who will have no contact with Imperial College since teaching of the new course at IC doesn’t start until 1998. Although, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School merges with the established ICSM in August of this year there will be no change to student requirements at the Charing Cross site for the time being. Ring fenced funding in the interim period is a perfectly logical solution to maintaining basic recreational facilities for students off the IC campus. If your suggestion is to ignore the needs of this considerable body of students I must value your comments for less than the paper they are written on.

Yours sincerely,

President of Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School SU

Dear Editor,

A couple of weeks back in Felix (issue 1077), I read the editorial article about the library closure and the rebates received by Weeks Hall residents.

What gets me, is that the College may of agreed to rebate the residents, but to my knowledge they haven’t actually paid out any money. I’ve spoken to the person who organised a petition and was at the forefront of the fight against the noise, ans she knows nothing about the rebate!!!

I’ve put together a few signatures of key people (petition organisers) and residents from the lower floors of Weeks who know nothing about the rebate, this is to add some weight to my letter.

Shinri Szymko, Mech Eng II

The letter is then signed by the following:

TR Thompson, RJ Rust, S Cross, D Haboubi, AR Southern, E Coombs, G Paesano, P Newton, P Curnow, G Tucker, James Hodges