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
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
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
It was muddy, it was cold and it was shite, but the ladies firsts were out there on a grass pitch at Royal Holloway to fight for a place in the final of the UL plate. Half time approached with no goals scored but that’s not surprising as half
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
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
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
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
The normal routine of the Chemistry Department was disrupted last week by an incident in the RCS1 building. At 11am last Thursday the Tilden Laboratory, on the second floor of the block, was ripped apart by an explosion. The source of the explosion was traced to a fume cupboard in
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
"Infotainment" is one of those vogue words that, along with "information superhighway" and "cyberspace" have always made me cringe. Whereas the latter are not within the scope of this column, "infotainment" is already hitting our television screens and newspapers, with an array
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
