SITTING down in the Edge café having just lead a women’s boxing taster session for a group of Leeds University students, Stacey Copeland might have looked a bit disappointed that it was all over. For […]
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
ON the face of it, a Russian sports star failing a drugs test shouldn’t really be headline news. But all the assembled sporting media were shocked by the admission from Maria Sharapova that at this year’s […]
BUCS Results Round-Up
Badminton 1s (M) 6-2 Bangor 1s Badminton 2s (W) 4-4 UCLAN 1s Basketball 1s (W) 33-41 LJMU 1s Football 1s (W) 6-1 Nottingham Trent 1s Football 1s (M) 0-2 Leeds Beckett 1s Football 2s (M) […]
Cheltenham Races: what to expect
FOR four days in March, over 200,000 racing fans from across the world make the historic pilgrimage to Cheltenham to watch the best horses in National Hunt racing. With 28 races spread over the four days […]
F1 gears up for full throttle season
FORMULA One teams have finally had a chance to try out their new cars over eight days of testing in Barcelona in preparation for the Australian GP. Mercedes showed amazing reliability over the eight days, racking […]
Nationals pride for LUU Korfball
LEEDS Korfball first team travelled to the University of East Anglia last weekend to compete in the BUCS National Championships, the top tier of BUCS korfball tournaments. Sixteen teams in total qualified for the finals in […]
Double Victory for LUU Fencers
Fencing Men defeat Liverpool 120-114 Women trounce Keele 135-46 to finish top WEDNESDAY saw a triumphant turn of form for both the women and the men of the Leeds University Fencing Society. The men’s match proved […]
Overlooking Leo: When you can’t be arsed reading 1,225 pages
“Greatest period drama in the last decade?” The overwhelmingly positive reviews of the BBC’s re-imagining of War and Peace have left me somewhat confused. To me, it seemed less an adaptation of the leviathan novel […]
Mental Health A-Z: Q is for Quantity
I’d always hated maths. I despised the boring simplicity of finding the one correct answer; using theory after theory to calculate the size of shapes I didn’t care about. The end of year 11 meant […]
Fresh Meat: Not fresh, just charred
The final run of Channel 4’s undergraduate comedy came lumbering out of the starting blocks onto our screens this Monday past. With stunted pacing, rehashed subplots and an overshooting of the same erratic cynicism that […]
Woman Crush Wednesday: Mhairi Black
Mhairi Black is soon-becoming a household name. She is not only a woman who is an MP- a title worthy of celebrating- but she is also the youngest MP since 1667, back when 13-year-old boys […]
TG Present: A Clockwork Orange
Theatre Group’s decision to take on such a dark, challenging play was a brave one; filled with tough scenes including both physical and sexual violence, the cast confronted these scenes with real maturity, allowing them […]