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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From Issue 1083

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

Books

Hot takes: Murakami

Haruki Murakami has become a household name. Often seen as the frontrunner of Japanese literature in the West, he has also become an increasingly divisive author. Despite criticism regarding his presentation of women, and repetitiveness or banality in his oeuvre, Murakami still emerges as a widely read, well-enjoyed novelist. So

Books

Murakami: movement to survival

A comparative analysis of Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance Dance Dance

News

The at-risk researchers now working at Imperial

Felix spoke to Cara, the charity that offers academics in danger a place in British universities.

News

Major fire near White City campus

Multiple sheds and a lorry were destroyed in a fire on Stable Way in North Kensington, close to Imperial’s White City campus. No injuries were reported. The London Fire Brigade said the blaze was under control by 6:05pm, after an hour and a half of work that involved

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It’s the pits for the lady miners

Runners rule the roost

A sports editorial

Sedentary sport spectacular

Hot takes: Murakami

Murakami: movement to survival

The at-risk researchers now working at Imperial

Major fire near White City campus