Friday 25th July, 2008
The faces of next year
John Collins, former president of the City and Guilds College Union, has been elected President of Imperial College Union.
King's student suspected of attacking Union staff
A male youth attacked Union staff at approximately 22.40 last Thursday, 2 March. The attack took place in Beit Quad as senior Union staff were attempting to escort the assailant from the premises.
Students at Imperial "unable to write English accurately"
Dr Bernard Lamb, a reader in genetics at the Biological Sciences department of Imperial College, made national news this week after revealing that overseas students are significantly better at spelling and grammar than their British counterparts.
More thefts in Ethos
There have been at least two more thefts from the lockers in the Ethos sports centre. Two weeks ago Felix (1345) revealed the insecurity of the PIN code operated lockers, and we were reassured by College that the lockers are safe.
Shooting near College
A man has been detained in custody following an armed robbery at a South Kensington jeweller on Tuesday.
- Racist lecturer investigated
- Frank Ellis, a lecturer in Russian and Slavonic studies at Leeds University, faces loosing his job for supporting a theory stating that black people are inferior to whites.
- Strike triggers marking boycott
- Lecturers up and down the country took strike action this week over continued pay disputes. A national rally took place on Tuesday at Westminster with fewer than 100 lecturers in attendance.
- Imperial students lose the vote
- The vast majority of Imperial students will not be able to vote in the upcoming University of London Union elections. In previous years, all Imperial students have been made eligible to vote automatically and were emailed a login and password.
- Google wobbles as its winning run may be over...
- The are few people besides the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve who can make billions disappear with a few words, but when Google's finance director George Reyes stood in front of an audience of analysts last week his remarks immediately knocked 13 per
- LloydsTSB lags as UK Banks post record profits
- Whilst the performance of the UK banking sector is only just eclipsed by the fortunes of the oil majors, UK banking plc has recently delivered a spate of record profits, with the big five, including HSBC, RBS, HBOS and Barclays, predicted to have generate