{"id":10940,"date":"2024-06-01T09:58:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T08:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=10940"},"modified":"2024-06-01T09:58:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T08:58:20","slug":"rcsu-mascot-raid-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/rcsu-mascot-raid-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"RCSU Mascot Raid: 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For the first edition of Lunchbreak in January 1978, James Sinclair had something exciting to talk about with the then recent (late 1977) RCSU raid on QMC&#8217;s (Queen Mary College) Leopard mascot (Mary the Leopardess). In the studio he spoke with Pete Maltbeck (President of RCSU) about what had happened. STOIC were also quick off the mark with some location footage of the mascot being removed from the RCSU office to an unknown location. Sadly, once again, this is during a time period of missing copies of Felix (1977-1978) so I can&#8217;t get any further information on the outcome of the raid.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Unusually, this was a live edition of the programme and I suspect that this was because term had only just started. One amusing thing is that just after James Sinclair starts talking you can hear the old <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/ic-for-sale-1969\/\">college bells<\/a> strike 1pm, the approximate time of the transmission.<\/p>\r\n<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/saZXnnyZELQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw June 2024<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mascots, and raids to take mascots, occupied a lot of news at Imperial in the 1970&#8217;s and 80&#8217;s, and this is yet another example with a 1977 RCSU raid on QMC&#8217;s mascot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3921,80,295168,82],"tags":[295170,279898,212,975,89],"class_list":["post-10940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-people","category-student-events","category-student-life","tag-mascots","tag-rcs","tag-stoic","tag-student-union","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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