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25th Apr 1997
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IC Rugby lose to St Hils

Er yeah, fuckin’ great match. At least I think it was, somebody jumped on my head during the first scrum and I can’t remember much after that. Erm, Oh! There was this bit where they scored a try right and while the ref was watching this, psycho kicked their

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bis - The New Transistor Heroes

How famous are bis? And what for? Well, let’s list all the tired pop-tastic facts about the Scottish trio. They appeared on Top of the Pops when they were still unsigned. They released their early EP’s (one of them the very famous Secret Vampire Soundtrack featuring the cheery

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Confusion haunts exams in Great Hall

The summer exam season has started with confusion for students and some tutors as the location of hundreds of exams that were timetabled to take place in the Great Hall has been changed at the last minute. All exams from 28th April are to be relocated following the revelation that

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The Lemonheads - Shepherds Bush Empire

Since they broke into the mainstream with It’s A Shame About Ray they’ve given us Come On Feel... and more recently the slightly disappointing Car Button Cloth. It has been a while since the Lemonheads have played live over here, though their previous appearances are still pretty fresh

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Nick Cave - The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave’s career has been a gradual calming down from an original position of incandescent rage. His work from then, whilst still dark and disturbing, was at least focused, certainly musically. Then gradually, more and more songs started to appear that weren’t really about evil at all. Some

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Wednesday 30th April

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

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Hockey babes triumph in final

With afternoon sun showering the pitch in gentle spring warmth, the IC ladies beat Charing Cross in the UL plate final. We started the game well with Two Hands and Lt Warf combining well to inspire fear in the ranks of Charing’s defence. They mounted several blitzkrieg attacks down

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Luscious Jackson - Fever In, Fever Out

All hail the funk! The funk is HERE! And there is no way you gonna stop your ass shakin’, boy! Luscious Jackson offer you an album of tunes slinkier than an eel in a catsuit, with Ronettes harmonies to die for and a heavy seasoning of hip hop. This New

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Wake sees off Union Bookshop

The last day of term before the Easter vacation saw around fifty Imperial College students attend a mock funeral procession intended to mark the ‘death’ of Imperial College Union’s bookstore, the contract to supply academic texts on campus having been previously awarded to booksellers Waterstone’s. Shortly before one

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Westminster Eye - Hamish Common

A letter in the last edition of Felix raised some interesting questions about political bias in this newspaper, accusing my fellow columnist and I of partisan reporting, and hoping we’d all be gagged in the run-up to the election in six days time (I guess it didn’t have

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Monday 28th April

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 5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) Aerobics (beginners), Southside Gym 6pm Felix News and Features meeting Want to write and

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Planet Science

Earlier this month, New Scientist magazine relaunched its world wide web site, Planet Science. The new ‘improved’ look is very different, all the colourful icons that used to welcome you to Planet Science have gone. In their place is an image of the front cover from the latest issue, and

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