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Issue 1081

28th Feb 1997
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Wednesday 5th March

12.30pm Islamic Society (Regular) Sister’s Circle, Prayer Room, Southside 12.45pm Sporting Motorcycle Club 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

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Rugby ref ruck-up

Well, we have some good news and some bad news. Good news - we won. Bad news - we lost! The referee! Where was he? This lack of an official referee resulted in us forfeiting the game and so we have now been knocked out of BUSA. True to the

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Thursday 6th March

12.30 pm Amnesty International (Regular) dB’s, e-mail s.trivedi or ns.trasi@ic.ac.uk 12.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) Body Toning (beginners), Southside Gym 1pm Consoc Meeting (Regular) Southside Upper Lounge 1pm Fell Wanderers (Regular) Southside Upper Lounge 1pm Gliding Club Room 266 Aero. Eng (Follow signs

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Skiers have a (snow) ball

On Saturday evening, two football fans (Nick and Gilles) joined three other eager skiers (Cait, Ruffina and Dan) after the Man Utd-Chelsea game for a race at Hillingdon ski centre. This was the final stage of the Huskis race series, and the evening started with individual racing. Gilles (Ginardelli’s

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RSM hockey babes score

We’ve scored a goal (courtesy of Sarah). Finally. About bloody time. And they were second division and we’re only third. With the determined defending from Piv, the endless effort from Alex and Ros, the strong reliability of Squid and Estella, the astounding vocal support from Emma (she’s

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Runners and riders rule relay

In an unprecedented amalgamation of the cross-country and cycling clubs, Gaffer (Demetrius) and Tazman (Tarik) took part in the infamous Evans Ghoulie Grind duathlon on Sunday. Waking up at five in the morning and forsaking their usual fine, hale and hearty breakfasts, the two athletes headed for Guildford in their

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Voting made simple

The Single Transferable Vote (STV) used in Imperial College Union elections is a more sophisticated, and some would say more complicated system, to the nationally used first past the post policy. STV allows students to specify not just their first choice of candidate, but also their second, third and fourth.

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Monday 3rd March

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 The last chance to get your Diary dates or Clubs and Socs entries in this week 5.30pm Fitness

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National triumph for pot-heads

After a good run of recent wins Imperial College Union’s Snooker team set off for the BUSA Nationals in Warwick with high hopes. In the first day’s singles tournament Alex, Jon and Vay all reached the last sixteen, but back problems forced Alex to pull out and posed

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Friday 28th February

1pm Hamsoc (Regular) Top Floor, Union Building 1pm Photo Soc (Regular) Southside Lounge 1.10pm Islamic Soc (Regular) Friday Prayer, Southside Gym. 1.15pm Labour CLub (Regular) Southside upper Lounge 5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) STEP Aerobics (advanced), Southside Gym 9pm Bust-A-Gut comedy An evening of mystery and magic -

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New Election favourite after Kheir withdraws

The result of next week’s Imperial College Union Sabbatical Elections hangs in the balance today, following the shock withdrawal of one of the two Presidential candidates. Omar Kheir, considered by many as the favourite for the job, confirmed his withdrawal from the elections yesterday leaving Samantha Baker standing agianst

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When God Wanted a Son - New End Theatre

When God Wanted a Son, part of the New Jewish Plays Season at the New End Theatre was one of the strangest plays I have ever seen. Not least because the theatre was originally constructed in 1890 as the mortuary for the now defunct New End Hospital, but also because

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