This past summer, I worked in a resort with an entirely European staff. Since we were in New Hampshire, USA and I was one of two Americans working there, it was a cultural experience for me. I am a small-town girl form New York. New York the state, not the
Sound familiar; Inconceivable simultaneous oneness and difference? One of the deep truths of the Vedas. Well here we are to ‘Bust ‘em out!’ Yes, we’re finally here - the society you’ve been waiting all your life for! The one to answer those psychedelic questions like "What the
Is there any food you would consider 100% safe to eat? No sooner has one food scare passed before another is affecting our supermarket choices. The battering of public confidence by salmonella in eggs, the crisis over BSE in beef and deaths in Scotland due to Escherichia coli has finally
This week we turn our eye to film resources on the web. First off is the Internet Movie Database at http://uk.imdb.com/ This heaven for online film-buffs was started as a growing archive of reviews of Hollywood films but has grown into something far superior. According to its
According to GMTV’s Mr Motivator, "Exercise makes you feel good". Adele Collins looks why we need a healthy body for a healthy mind. "One in ten people will suffer from mental illness at some point in their life," declares MIND, the mental health organisation. Mental
Since October ICOS has been working towards five performances that will last less than two and a half hours each. The result of these many hundreds of hours of rehearsal will be next week’s run of "Sweet Charity". So you’ve seen the posters and the full
Unfortunately, Something for the Weekend’s store of great gear to give away is temporarily exhausted this week, so you shall have to make do with some of the amusing answers that came in for our Classroom Clangers competition in SftW 1075. First up we have Simon Buckle of the
Following our successful weekend away in the English Riviera, we shall be presenting a selection of slides to our regular discussion workshop next week. Anyone is welcome to come along and participate in reliving a memorable weekend and experience first hand some Dave G’s classic forays in and around
In an effort to redress the imbalance in student funding created by the Government in recent years, the NUS have proposed a system of graduate taxation. The scheme was one of many detailed in ‘Funding Our Future’, a policy statement produced by them and described as: "a hypothecated tax
It has been suggested that Imperial is a bad place to be gay. However, this attitude is closer to an outdated stereotype than the truth. There is homophobia here (as there is everywhere), but it does seem to have decreased from what it once was. Even last year, as soon
What do you mean you didn’t know? Look, for the last time I’ll tell you - Yahoo! stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle! ....Anyway, whatever it stands for, it’s getting even better, as "The world’s most popular online guide to the Internet"(TM)
A new martial arts club has opened at IC, the art of Ju-Jitsu has never previously been taught on campus. Barry Harte is a 1st Dan Black Belt instructor in Goshin Ryu Kempo Ju-Jitsu and also has many years experience in other related martial arts. Goshin Ryu is an extremely
