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
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
Tuesday lunchtime saw representatives from the three major political parties gather for a debate on the future of British science. The meeting, held in the Mechanical Engineering lecture theatre in front of an audience largely consisting of academics, was organised by the Save British Science Society and was aimed at
The City & Guilds College Union executive elections took place last week, with the results announced on Friday evening. Vivake Bhalla beat off stiff competition from four other candidates to win the race for President after five rounds of counting, with Aku Patel acceding to the position of Vice-President. Soren
Clubs and Societies Despite cuts in funding, the Union has managed to support and encourage the growth of around 160 Clubs and Societies - so if you are involved in any club or society, the Union is supporting you. There have been many successes including BUSA victories for fencing and
The executive of the Overseas Students’ Committee faced the possibility of a vote of no confidence at ICU Council last Tuesday, after the Union’s Budgets Advisory Group recieved no annual budget from the OSC despite repeated reminders of the approaching deadline for budget submissions. BAG, a subcommittee of the
At Tuesday’s Student Representative Council meeting, a ground-breaking motion put forward by Sarah Corneille, Deputy President (Clubs & Societies), requested the creation of a fifth sabbatical post. In the proposal, the post was given the nominal title "Deputy President (Student Affairs)" The responsibilities outlined for the new
At the beginning of March, mining students in IC’s department of Environmental Resources Engineering heard that three of their four lecturers would probably be leaving. During a meeting held by Professor Rawlings, Dean of the Royal School of Mines and head of department, undergraduates were told that as of
At ULU Council on Monday night, the four sabbatical officers who will represent the University of London’s 82000 students next year were elected. First up were the two candidates for President, where Siva Ganeshanandan (this year’s General Secretary at Royal Holloway Union), beat off Mark Pursey (ULU Chair
Students from King’s College took a detour from traditional fund raising routes during their recent Rag week, by holding assorted Students’ Union representatives from the across the University of London to ransom. The Rag Committee fired off a series of hoax faxes, purportedly from Duncan Rasor, KCLSU president, calling
Friday saw the Queen’s Lawn invaded twice for the launch of two science and engineering initiatives. Science and Technology Week 1997 and The British Association of Young Scientists shared a network of temporary marquees covering the lawn for a number of events and displays. The first invasion was for
Imperial College has run into problems regarding its acquisition of Prince’s Gate gardens, the "secret garden" behind Weeks Hall. The garden was bought by the College last year for an undisclosed sum of money, rumoured to be in the millions, from the widows of the previous owners.
