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2 The Founder | Wednesday 23 February 2011 The Founder The Independent Student Newspaper of Royal Holloway, University of London Email: editor@thefounder.co.uk thefounder.co.uk For the latest news, reviews, and everything Holloway, get online Follow us on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook! The Founder is on Twitter: twitter.com/rhulfounder ...and on Facebook: facebook.com/TheFounderNewspaper ...and online: thefounder.co.uk tf editorial team News Editor Tom Seal Comment & Debate Nick Coleridge-Watts Features Editor Kate Brook Film Editor Daniel Collard Arts Editor Julia Armfield Editor-in-Chief Jack Lenox Editors Tom Shore & Edward Harper Pictures Julian Farmer Amy Taheri Music Editor David Bowman Sport Editor Johanna Svensson Sub-Editors Heather Rimington Julia Armfield Designed by Jack Lenox, Edward Harper, Tom Shore, Tom Seal & Cordelia Masters The Founder is the independent student newspaper of Royal Holloway, University of London. We distribute at least 4,000 free copies every fortnight during term time around campus and to popular student venues in and around Egham. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Editor-in-Chief or of The Founder Publications Ltd, especially of comment and opinion pieces. Every effort has been made to contact the holders of copyright for any material used in this issue, and to ensure the accuracy of this fortnight’s stories. For advertising and sponsorship enquiries, please contact the Business Director: advertising@thefounder.co.uk Web www.thefounder.co.uk Email editor@thefounder.co.uk The Founder is published by The Founder Publications Ltd and printed by Mortons Print Ltd Third Holloway student attacked in two months All copyright is the exclusive property of The Founder Publications Ltd No part of this publication is to be reproduced, stored on a retrieval system or submitted in any form or by any means, without prior permission of the publisher © The Founder Publications Ltd. 2011, London House, 7-11 Prescott Place, London SW4 6BS Thomas Seal News Editor Another RHUL student has been attacked near Egham train station, prompting the college to issue a safety warning. The incident took place Thursday January 27 at approximately 6pm near the junction of Rusham Road and Station Road. There, the male student was accosted from behind by three men, who, after being refused his phone, struck him and ran off with his bag. This follows two incidents at the end of the Autumn Term. The College issued this statement: ‘Whilst Egham remains a very safe area we take the safety and security of our students extremely seriously and advice on personal safety is regularly emphasised by the college and Students’ Union. Personal safety alarms are made available to students and we have been reiterating the importance of sticking to well lit routes home, not walking alone and using the college bus service where possible.’ Of the three suspects, one was described as black, one as Asian and one as white. The first was said to be wearing a black Nike tracksuit and to be about 5ft 7ins. The second was wearing a dark blue Nike tracksuit and was described as being around 5ft 11ins. The first was described as being about 6ft and wearing a white hoodie. All were said to speak with southern accents. DC Ash Mullem, the lead detective of the investigation, called the attack ‘vicious and cowardly.’ The local Neighbourhood Sergeant Iain Weaving advised RHUL students ‘to walk in groups and try to avoid walking alone in the hours of darkness and to report any unusual or suspicious activity to police’. However, there are some areas for students - for example Kingswood - which are simply not accessible by lit paths, which causes frustration and worries for some students, and often precipitates the route being attributed the nervously-joking label of ‘rape alley’. Photograph: Thomas Seal Englefield Green ‘second most burgled place in Britain’? Vikki Vile A road located in Englefield Green has incorrectly been listed on a new crime-mapping website as the second most crime ridden spot in the country in an embarrassing blunder for a new website, in the first week it has gone live. The new website, www.police. co.uk went live on Tuesday, February 1st and has been designed to allow the public to see the number of recorded crimes in the area they live, ranging from anti-social behaviour to burglaries. The site was featured in many national news reports during the first week of February, with much attention focusing on an apparent crime “hotspot” on a rather unremarkable looking road in Preston which topped the list in the whole of the United Kingdom for reported crimes. In the case of student heavy Englefield Green, the site suggested that Kingswood Close was the second most burgled street in the UK, although, when later contextualised it became apparent that the somewhat surprising ten recorded incidents referred to on the crime map, referred to the one same incident which in reality took place at Kingwood Hall on December 22. Robert Nield, Runnymede Neighbourhood Inspector added, Continued on page 3 »
The Founder | Wednesday 23 February 2011 News 3 » continued “Although only one property was broken into this was a building with multiple occupants. In total the offenders gained access to ten rooms within the one building and as there were ten separate victims.” The Englefield Green error was not the only stutter in the launching of the new website. On the day of its launch, so many people logged on throughout England and Wales that the site remained crashed for much of the day, however a spokeswoman for the site insisted, “we are delighted with the response which shows how popular this information is with the public.” flickr/Stuart Grout Egham not on the level? Stuart Stone Network Rail and Egham’s Chamber of Commerce have called for improvements to be made on Egham’s level crossings after they failed on two separate occasions. Of Egham’s three level crossings - one located parallel to Rusham Road on Station Road another in Pooley Green, intersecting the B388 and the third on Prune Hill - two have failed in the past year. On 8 November last year the level crossing at Pooley Green failed after a barrier was jammed after a piece of the barrier became dislodged. Another of Egham’s crossings failed on 27 January this year where it was discovered that the barrier had been bent out of shape. The line was kept open in spite of the failed barrier due to the fact that the sirens and warning lights were still fully functioning. Meher Oliaji of Egham’s Chamber of Commerce claimed that people had risked their lives by continuing their journey either by car or on foot under the static barrier and stated that investment was needed to ensure that the technology didn’t fail in the future. Network Rail issued an apologetic statement to anyone whose journey was affected by the incident, and reiterated that that drivers and pedestrians should always abide by the warning lights and sirens even when a barrier had failed. Courtesy Nigel Cox Aaron Porter ‘just a Tory too’ in latest protest Amy Norman Yet even more demonstrations have been lead by students recently in opposition to the rise in tuition fees and cuts in public spending. The protests, held in London and Manchester, were largely peaceful on this occasion but nonetheless the police made several arrests. In London, thousands of students marched through Whitehall and Westminster to oppose the government raising tuition fees to a maximum £9,000 per year, which Cambridge University has since announced it will be charging. Many of the protesters showed solidarity with the Egyptian protesters by wearing badges and joining demonstrations outside the Egyptian embassy. Students stopped at Topshop on the Strand to shout abuse aimed at Sir Phillip Green. The students were angered by the Topshop owner’s tax arrangements and chanted “pay your tax”. Once again a small group of protesters attempted to break into the Conservative’s Millbank headquarters, yet any trouble remained limited after a handful of people were arrested. Events at the Manchester march proved to be a bit more dramatic, with tensions rising within student groups and causing internal divisions, especially with regard to the National Union of Students. Many students have been calling for a more active approach from the NUS and even a more militant leadership, opinions that came to the forefront at the march. Aaron Porter, president of the NUS, had to have a police escort remove him from angry crowds who were calling for his resignation. Mr. Porter was meant to be speaking at the protest and request unity within the NUS after dividing opinions on the conduct of demonstrations and sit-in protests caused problems, yet the students turned on him and said he is “just a Tory too”. When the NUS vice-president Shane Chowen tried to address the crowd, he was greeted with eggs and oranges being thrown at him by a small group of protesters. RHUL’s Levi asks: was Mozart Nazi art? New evidence shows Mozart’s music may have been appropriated by Hitler’s propaganda minister Goebbels Emily Lees When one thinks of the music synonymous with the Third Reich, the name, which usually springs to mind, is Wagner, however Royal Holloway’s Reader in Music and Director of Performance, Erik Levi shines light on the use of Mozart’s music within the Nazi regime. In his new book, Mozart and the Nazis, Levi uncovers the Nazi plot to delete the contribution to Mozart’s music, by the Jewish librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. Levi explains; “Mozart’s life and work had become grossly manipulated by the Nazis to support their ideological aims.” Levi continues to show how the propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels declared Mozart to be the greatest German genius, and with the 150th anniversary of Mozart’s death taking place in 1941 a vast celebration of his works was undertaken to perpetuate further German superiority. The celebrations came to a crescendo in a week long festival in Vienna, Mozart was immortalised in speech after speech from highranking Nazi officials and honoured with a formal Nazi burial. Mozart encompassed a German ideal which the Nazi’s very crudely used to push forth their racialist ideals, another master manipulation which can now be seen thanks to the work of Erik Levi.
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