Articles written by the Felix team
After such glowing praise from Sam the other week, reviewing Sidi Bou Said’s latest album "Obsessive", I’m almost reluctant to say it - mostly ‘cos I’ll receive a clobbering, and he’s dead hard - but, they really can’t cut it live. Slightly fresher
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
The first part of this collection of three short stories started out as a short on its own but writer/director Hal Hartley decided it would be interesting to explore the theme in further detail. So he filmed the second and third parts using the same basic story as the
12pm Cathsoc (Regular) Mass and lunch, Leon Bagrit Centre, Lvl 1 Mech Eng 12pm-2pm ‘Fair Trade’ Stall (Regular) Union Building Foyer. Fairly traded goods for 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
Nick Jenkin’s letter (this issue) and Nitisha Singh’s letter (last issue) about my editorial in 7th February’s Felix raise a number of points worth answering. Firstly, I would counter Nick’s claim about my editorial being unpatriotic with charges of hypocrisy. Secondly, with today’s financial strictures,
Well, Planning and Management Information Services is a new part of university administration, responsible for liaison with funding charities and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, HEFCE, and therefore for roughly 50 million pounds worth of grant that we get every year, and making sure that we maximise it.
"Red tape makes poor swaddling" was the rather picturesque description Tuesday’s Times leader gave to the problems couples face in adopting children. This followed a Government announcement that couples refused the chance to adopt a child will be able to appeal. Couples will be able to see
Hunter. S. Thompson is surely an ideal to which every student should aspire. Drug crazed mayhem followed wherever he went and every position of authority given him was abused in a way that all students should applaud. Fear and loathing reads like a talking book for blind drug fiends. It
Although the fourth’s unbeaten run had seemed to last as long as the Hundred Years War it was inevitable that it would end. Halley’s comet may only come round every eighty-one years but we shall return to conquer again as soon as Saturday in our next league match.
To many people David Bowie has turned into the alien that he would have us believe he was in the 70’s. Rock’s strangest and most influential personality has turned 50 whilst still appearing to remain a healthy 30. However since Ziggy, Bowie has had a turbulent time; a
As the sun crept up on Saturday fifteenth, the IC cross country club flickered into action. Yellow-arse rejoiced about the perfect blue sky for half an hour, whilst others nursed their hangovers or cracked open another beverage. One hundred-and-fifty foreigners were left to sleep in the Southside Gym as we
For his eighth novel Julian Barnes has changed mode, writing a collection of short stories commenting on our centuries old relationship with the people of France. The stories are light and well written, and try to place the changing thrift we have with our Gallic neighbours firmly in its historical
