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Issue 1076

24th Jan 1997
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Weekly poem

Three Milk Bottles for the Embassy to the Sultanate of Oman Every morning, coming out of the ground Amidst the rush of nigh-colliding bodies, To meet the trivial daily run Of spectral insufficiencies, At a brisklike pace, that looks so full of purpose, My mind, though, will meander through the

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Christmas comes late for Cross-Country's Benny Boy

A fantastic performance from Benny-Boy secured another victory for IC’s mens’ team. Jennie, with her graceful flowing strides, won the womens’ race as usual, with Bethan, Dawn, Ruth and Christina coming fourth, fifth, eleventh and fifteenth respectively. Gaffer improved on his positions with eighth place and Fishy Fishick finished

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The Duchovny Files

At the age of six, David Duchovny proudly announced to his father that he "wanted to grow up to be a bathtub". Three decades later, over ten million viewers tune in to BBC1 every week to watch him play Fox Mulder in the award-winning series the X-Files. As

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Wednesday 29th January

12.45pm Sporting Motorcycle Club (Reg) Southside Upper Lounge 1pm Wargames (Regular) Table Tennis Room, Union Building 1pm IC Rifle and Pistol Club (Regular) Join up and shoot. Check on range door for deatils about safety induction, Sports Centre 1pm Fitness Club (Regular) Aerobics (beginner/intermediate), Southside Gym 2pm Photo

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Editorial

Like many of Imperial’s students who are coming to the end of their final year here, I am engaged in a long, drawn out struggle to discover what it is that I shall be doing after the summer is over. The options are quite varied, and the yawning chasm

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Friday 31st January

1pm Hamsoc (Regular) Top Floor, Union Building 1pm Photo Soc (Regular) Southside Lounge 1.10pm Islamic Soc (Regular) Friday Prayer, Southside Gym. (Brothers and Sisters) 1.15pm Labour CLub (Regular) Southside upper Lounge 1.30pm Felix Reviews and Science meeting 5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) STEP Aerobics (advanced), Southside Gym

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Leaky library's power cut

Rain water leaking through the Library roof late Wednesday evening caused a localised power cut in the main library and Sherfield buildings, and triggered a general evacuation of College buildings. All alarms on the College main site sounded at around 10 o’clock on Wednesday causing a general evacuation of

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A natural speaker

Professor Wolpert author of ‘The Unnatural Nature of Science’ gave a lunch time lecture at Imperial College on January 15th about some of the key issues raised in his book. When asked about his recent experience on Desert Island Discs, Lewis Wolpert replied, "I listened to the tape about

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Letters

Your editorial in Felix 1075 on the bookstore situation asks "to what lengths would you have been prepared to go". I ask what lengths can the Union go to now? There are several good book shops in Kensington High Street, and a great deal accessible by public transport

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Monday 27th January

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 Aerobics (beginners), Southside Gym 6pm IC Methsoc (Regular) All faiths welcome, Basement 10 Princes’ Gardens. 6.30pm Fitness Club

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Satellite

You may wonder why there is such a large article on some five piece called Satellite who blatantly are nearly totally unheard of. Well, firstly they are going to be playing at our very own union tonight as part of the ‘Common People’ indie night and secondly they are one

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