Sport

Pride cometh before a swim

19 Mar 1997

Some of the finest swimmers ever to grace Imperial College are set to break the national BT swimathon time this week. The team of 5 have to swim under an hour for 5km (which means averaging a gruelling lmin l2secs per 100 metres). Coach Norman Jones is confident the team will rise to the occasion and outperform any previous teams.

The team is also hoping to raise some sponsorship to be added to the BT swimathon good causes, for more information contact Norman Jones (Sports centre) or Andrew Westhead a.westhead@ic.ac.uk. <\c

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19th Mar 1997

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It’s the pits for the lady miners

We played Charring Cross earlier this term. We didn’t like them then. We really don’t like them now. Their act of generosity in donating a player to strengthen our side to an impressive count of nine participants, was soon forgotten as the umpiring became blatantly biased. The umpire

Runners rule the roost

A generally good performance from IC cross-country, enhanced by the hot pants worn by the King’s College women, was marred by the retirement of Gaffer at the start of the second lap. His pink dress was too uncomfortable. Yellow-arse, love-life now intact and Flasher, enjoyed a pre-race drink at

A sports editorial

This week’s sports pages see a welcome contribution from the chess and bridge clubs. Perhaps this will encourage more of the "alternative" sports clubs to write material as well. This weekend sees the swordsmen going for national BUSA glory, and the football firsts and fourths furthering their

Sedentary sport spectacular

A tense Saturday afternoon of card play crowned the resurgence of IC Bridge Club. ICBC has come second for the past 2 years in the annual London intercollegiate teams competition, The Chelsea Cup, making victory this year especially sweet. Congratulations to the first team of Dom ‘the Bat’ Goodwin, Joynur

Culture

Everybody Scream: a review

A look at Florence and the Machine’s extraordinary new album.

Societies

Campus’N’Culture Podcast

This debut episode of the Campus N Culture Podcast features a generation of ACS Presidents – Tani Akinmoladun, Blessings Mwanza, and Victor Ofodile, who led Imperial’s African Caribbean Society in 2023/24, 2024/25, and 2025/26, respectively. Baba Odumeru, the current Vice President of Events, explores their journeys through

Lifestyle

We're all failing sleep

University students vs sleep: the eternal struggle.

Editorial

International fees: short-term manna, long-term trap.

The UK government seems determined to enact a 6% “levy” (more polispeak to avoid the electorate-angering “tax”) on international fees, which would, according to the Imperial President Hugh Brady, cost Imperial an estimated £26 million to the College. “We have lobbied hard against this and will continue to do so,

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It’s the pits for the lady miners

Runners rule the roost

A sports editorial

Sedentary sport spectacular

Everybody Scream: a review

Campus’N’Culture Podcast

We're all failing sleep

International fees: short-term manna, long-term trap.