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Issue 1081

28th Feb 1997
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Mars Attacks

When U.S. President James Dale (Jack Nicholson) learns that aliens from Mars are coming to invade Earth who should he listen to? General Decker (Rod Steiger) who’s just itching to start a nuclear war or General Casey (Paul Winfield) who is keen to welcome them along with Professor

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Professor Bryan Coles dies aged 71

Bryan Randell Coles FRS, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow of Solid State Physics from 1991 died suddenly on Monday at 2 am. Born in Cardiff in 1926, Bryan Coles attended Cardiff High School and achieved a first in Metallurgy from the University of Wales in 1947. He came to

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Friday 7th March

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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Sunday 2nd March

1pm Wargames (Regular) 2pm Fitness Club (Regular) Aerobics (intermediate), Southside Gym. 4pm Standing Room Only - VillavLiverpool. The biggest matches on the biggest screen. DaVinci’s. 6pm ICU Cinema Imperial College Science Fiction Society present computer-whizz flick Hackers, starring Trainspotting’s Johnny Lee Miller

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Dramsoc ripped-off?

Recent attempts to publicise Dramsoc’s upcoming production of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II have run into difficulties after over forty posters were ripped off the Sherfield walkway notice boards. Speaking to Felix Mike Wyer, Dramsoc’s publicity officer, described how an evening’s work was mysteriously censored overnight. With

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Time Decimalisation

Can you spot the odd one out: 1000 millimetres in a metre, 1000 grammes in a kilo, 60 minutes in a hour? Have our units of time been rendered obsolete in the digital age? Is it time to synchronise watches world-wide, and opt for a global, metric, time scheme? In

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Sabbatical Election Interviews

Felix Editor Jeremy Thomson Questioned initially as to why he is standing for Felix Editor, Jeremy suggested that he is "the best person to do it, from the experience point of view." He stressed that he has been involved with Felix throughout his three years at IC and

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Westminster Eye - Hamish Common

A programme depicting sexual abuse was broadcast on ITV this week. "No Child of Mine" - commissioned by Meridian Broadcasting - depicting the gradual fall of a kind but weak man into a pimp and abuser, with the ghouls of our nightmares reconciled with the family next door.

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Wind-sock win shock for firsts

For once, IC first footballers arrived on time, and with a full team. After UCL’s last pasting by us we expected them not to show, only to be disappointed when they turned up an hour late. Conditions left a lot to be desired with winds of at least one

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Laika - Sounds Of The Satellites

This is an album by one of those bands which people have only ever heard of, not actually heard. However, I think this is a bad thing. They quite succesfully mix the jazzy sound of Portishead with the beat intensive mood of Massive Attack, occasionally throwing in a bit of

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Fourths seconds away from blowing seconds away

With a free date in their busy schedule, IC II kindly agreed to play us, the fourths, in a friendly. The match was delayed while the less proud members of the fourths clammered to get their autographs. When it got underway, it was clear that it was going to be

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Are Imperial College students paying too much for their rent?

The differences between the various Halls of Residence of Imperial College were recently brought to my attention. A resident of Fisher Hall commented to me that on a recent visit to Holbein Hall he had been amazed at the difference between the standards of repair. He gushed on about the

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