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Issue 1082

7th Mar 1997
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V-Tol: Marc Murphy - Interview

Marc Murphy is the young artistic director of an up-and coming dance company, V-Tol. The company has been around for just six years, but has already enjoyed considerable success, touring not only in Britain but also abroad. They are even hoping to take their current production ‘By Force of Fantasy’

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Chess checks in

Imperial College played Crowthorne in the national handicapped rapid play championships. With an Average ELO of 2250 we were heavily outgraded, and therefore needed only 2.5 / 8 to win. Imperial College scored exactly 2.5 / 8 and so go through to the next stage. The results were: Matt Piper

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Mary’s sucked dry by vampires

The scene is set - one of the oldest rugby competition in the world and St. Mary’s are in the final, as they have been for the last twenty years (having won the thirteen of them). The crowd was hyped and in good voice for the match of the

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Monday 17th 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 5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) Aerobics (beginners), Southside Gym 6pm IC Methsoc (Regular) All faiths welcome, Basement 10 Princes’ Gardens. 6.30pm Fitness Club (Regular)

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Hubble's heir

Your working life began on 24th April 1990. You have traversed unexplored regions, travelled millions of miles, been battered and abused in the course of your duties to enlighten the human race about the mysteries of the universe, and now they’re considering retiring you in the year 2005. They

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Monday 10th 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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Friday 14th 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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The Latest Score

In one of the most important weeks for English sport in recent history, things have so far gone badly wrong, the effective deciding match of Five Nations has been lost and one of our remaining three football teams in European competition has thrown it away. Saturday completed a pretty miserable

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Blood & Wine

Alex Gates, Jack Nicholson’s character in Blood and Wine seems to have it all, an attractive wife (Judy Davis), a sexy Latin mistress (Jennifer Lopez), a red BMW convertible and impeccable taste in wine. But the wine merchant’s finances are stretched to the limit, his marriage is in

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Bomb Squad defuses Queen’s Lawn hoax

A bomb scare disrupted Wednesday lunchtime when a parcel, believed to have been an explosive device, was placed on the front desk of the Sherfield Security reception. The incident, described later as a "silly student prank", necessitated the mobilisation of the Bomb Squad. The drama began when at

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Sedentary sport spectacular

A tense Saturday afternoon of card play crowned the resurgence of IC Bridge Club. ICBC has come second for the past 2 years in the annual London intercollegiate teams competition, The Chelsea Cup, making victory this year especially sweet. Congratulations to the first team of Dom ‘the Bat’ Goodwin, Joynur

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Suzanne Vega - Nine Objects Of Desire

Five years after her last album, ‘99.9F’, Suzanne Vega has finally released another. In the ‘80s, Suzanne Vega was one of the first singer songwriters to write about sensitive issues such as child abuse. Many have since come to expect a lot more depth to her songs. The album

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