With regard to your editorial on 7th February. It is damaging to both parties when such poorly researched rubbish is published in your pages. After years of effort, progress is being made in relations between IC and ICSM at St Mary’s. Calling us "those students", "pesky
That are essential for the ourney on For if a story mocks reality, the map is incorrect Our chosen path is treacherous, becomes a sheer cliff Then darkness falls and we are lost And since reality is fixed Though we cling on, the story must be changed But first we
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,
"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
I wasn’t going to mention IC at all this week, preferring a side-swipe at Europe, but a few things cannot go unremarked. It was nice to see that my long-time sparring partner Ian Caldwell got his name in print (mind you, I’ve been helping there for years). I
It is once again that traumatic time of year when you try to lie about how many cards you received to hide your crushing disappointment whilst all the while thinking: it’s come in the second post, or it’ll come tomorrow, but knowing that if anyone cared they would
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
Everything seemed fairly quiet on the medical front a few weeks ago. The BMS was rising majestically and on schedule (after a fashion), and little had been heard from St Mary’s. Then news came of a deal struck by the medics to secure direct funding from College to the
One area of public spending doesn’t seem attract much interest from students, apart from the odd comment that in a modern society we don’t really need one any more: Britain’s Armed Forces. The arguments for a serious rethink on our defence forces are strong. The annual budget
question marks In the Felix of 31st January, the article entitled ‘Waterstone’s on JANET’ suggests that Waterstone’s will be using the academic network JANET for commercial purposes via a campus connection. During the evaluation of the Bookstore tenders, the Centre was asked to specify under what conditions any
"We will protect you, help you see." "Protect us from what?", said we. "From a world of sin and degradation, Torture sod humiliation, Diseases, hatred, open sores, Look at chew and see them pour Their badness into humankind. They capture them and make them blind
‘Medics secure independence’ is a grand headline for a stirring story of triumph in the face of adversity. The medical students of St Mary’s and Charing Cross medical schools have succeeded in ring-fencing up to Ł80,000 a year for the students’ union of the Imperial College School of
