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Issue 1077

31st Jan 1997
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Student staff rally for campaign

Part-time student staff of Imperial College Union met in dB’s on Wednesday, to hear Union executives outline their plans for the future of the organisation in the light of the loss of the bookstore. Union Manager Mandy Hurford and Events and Marketing Manager Mark Horne addressed a large audience

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Monday 31st 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 SftW Deadline The last chance to get your Diary dates or Clubs & Socs entries in this week. 5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) Aerobics

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Letters to Felix

I am writing to complain about the planned closure of the library in the mornings in two weeks in February. As this fortnight coincides directly with the week of the second year Biology and Biochemistry exams and it also covers the week that the final year Biologists have been granted

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...and on...

The fourths are now officially top of the league. With all the other Imperial football teams struggling we are surely the best football team in Imperial. This will be confirmed when we win BUSA(!), and sooner still beat the IC seconds in a challenge match in few weeks time. Chris

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Danger! Excitement! The sabb elections are back!

The annual round of Imperial College Union Sabbatical Elections are nearly upon us once again with papers for nominations going up on Monday. Nominees for the four sabbatical posts must sign up on the papers with a proposer and twenty seconders before they are taken down on Friday 14th February.

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Wednesday 31st 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 details about safety induction, Sports Centre 1pm Fitness Club (Regular) Aerobics (beginner/intermediate), Southside Gym 1pm ConSoc

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Braque: the Late Works - Royal Academy of Arts

Georges Braque was one of the greatest influences on the development of art in the twentieth century. Together with Picasso, he was the founding father of Cubism, an art form which moved away from imitating nature and rejected traditional perspective and conventional space. Braque is particularly well known for his

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Un Coeur Qui Bat

There is a scene in Your Beating Heart which sums up why so many cinema fans in this country stay away from foreign, and particularly French, films. We see a couple in a grotty back-street Parisian café giving each other prolonged meaningful stares. This lasts for a full minute until

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Mary’s cruise through to Semis

As the sun struck the lush green fields of a sleepy Chislehurst on a Tuesday afternoon you could cut the atmosphere with a cliché. The two rival camps of supporters gathered to cheer on their respective teams. While UCH ran out looking around nervously, Mary’s stormed out - focused

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IC Skiing Team excel - at last

Despite a lot of bad luck in the past few races, the IC Ski Team came fighting back last Saturday evening with a strong team performance. Dan Figueras Niero, Rufina Emo, Nick Hursemax, Alex Cherdel and Xavier Grosliebe travelled up to Hemel Hempstead to participate in the "Huskies"

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The Weekly Poem

he couldn’t hang the picture he couldn’t eat the cracker, he forgot his name. He hid in the cloakroom where he wandered for hours with a clock as his sole companion Oh, his personality was impossibly inflated and with a bang! he tiled the walls with his thoughts

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Tuesday 31st January

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

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