Cambridge Alumni Magazine
Issue 87 — Easter 2019
Features
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Summer Podcasts
Wondering what to listen to as you relax on that sunbed? Academics and alumni share their recommendations.
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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Douglas Adams at Cambridge
Douglas Adams came up to St John’s in 1971. Seven years later, the first episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy aired. As his archive goes on display at St John’s, CAM asks Adams’s Cambridge friends and collaborators about his comic genius.
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Complexity. Beauty. Mystery.
The world of single-celled organisms is mostly still to be discovered, says Dr Ross Waller.
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Why Tax Is Good
Tax. It might not seem sexy, but tax policy – who, when and why the state taxes – is at the heart of determining the character of a society. CAM delves into the history and the politics of taxation
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Into the Blue
New research has found that students who take part in sport enjoy better mental health and wellbeing.
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Down The Rabbit Hole
Larping. Cosplay. Dungeons and Dragons. Whether a response to the digital world or a new kind of performance, playing – for adults – is back.
Regulars
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‘An extraordinary, almost exotic work’
Composer, Jonathan Dove (Trinity 1977) shares the sounds which shaped his student days at Cambridge.
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All The Best: Widening Participation at Cambridge
The Vice-Chancellor’s announcement of £500m Student Support is a bracing moment of irreversible commitment, writes Dr Mark Wormald of the Senior Tutors’ Committee.
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From Cambridge to the World
In Yorkshire and Macedonia, in New York and Mongolia, alumni volunteers are critical to the work done by University groups across the globe.
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Inbox 87
Read the letter from the Editor for CAM 87 and all your emails, letters, tweets and posts in response to CAM 86.
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‘Books remind us that unexpected things can make a huge difference’
Psychologist and Fellow Emerita of Newnham, Dr Terri Apter reveals the reads which have had the greatest influence on her life.
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‘Thank God we’re in week seven!’ is the last thing you want to hear on research leave
Dr JD Rhodes is the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Film and Screen and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.
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Here Comes The Band
The Cambridge University Brass Band have it all: pancakes, costumes and Uptown Funk.
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Only by understanding our past can we shape our future
Research into the University’s historical links with slavery helps us to reduce inequality today, says University Vice-Chancellor Professor Stephen J Toope.
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Josie Rourke: Room D19, Murray Edwards
Josie Rourke (New Hall, Murray Edwards 1995) and fourth-year Modern and Medieval Languages student Annabel van Daalen discuss crockery, cutlery and culture shock.
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Campendium: Easter Term 2019
Greek texts, picky butterflies, and the first Performance of a lost Liszt.