{"id":11529,"date":"2025-09-01T07:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T06:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=11529"},"modified":"2025-09-01T07:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T06:29:16","slug":"rcsu-exec-interview-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/rcsu-exec-interview-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"RCS(U) Exec Interview: 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2024\/07\/Simon-Singh-RCS-Exec-March-1986.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11557 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2024\/07\/Simon-Singh-RCS-Exec-March-1986-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was quite a full studio back in March 1986 when STOIC interviewed the following year&#8217;s RCS(U) Executive Committee (seen on the right from Felix dated March 1986). Well, almost all of them as it was minus Judith Hackney on the day. Notable of course is the appearance of Simon Singh who had been voted in as RCS(U) President. Simon has gone on to greater things after leaving Imperial and you can find out more on his own <a href=\"https:\/\/simonsingh.net\/simon-singh\/boring-biog\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you wade through the archive of Felix you&#8217;ll find loads of references to Simon including some criticism of his role as President. This was in <a href=\"https:\/\/f001.backblazeb2.com\/file\/felixonlinearchive\/issues\/pdfs\/felix_757.pdf\">Felix dated December 1986<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<em>The Royal College of Science Union will be holding an &#8216;Extraordinary General Meeting&#8217; today. The meeting has been called at the request of more than 50 members of RCSU, who have signed a petition criticising President Simon Singh&#8217;s leadership of the Union<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But all of this didn&#8217;t stop him from going on to better things after Imperial. So,\u00a0 if you take the &#8216;rough with the smooth&#8217; it seems you can come out on top in the end.<\/p>\n<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\/iwPjfw-PzM0?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>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw September 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Singh, after leaving Imperial, has gone on to greater things such as writing best selling books and appearing on TV&#8230;.but he was on STOIC, back in 1986!<\/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":[279898,975,89],"class_list":["post-11529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-people","category-student-events","category-student-life","tag-rcs","tag-student-union","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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