It has been a positive season for men’s Rugby Union, with something on offer for each of the four teams at this late stage in the season. The wet weather of late has led to […]
Leeds Athletics team made of Steel
THE Leeds University Athletics team was one of many Northern universities to compete in the Steel Cup Competition on Wednesday. Other competitors such as Leeds Beckett, Sheffield Hallam and Loughborough promised a day of tough rivalry […]
Sheffield Prove Too Tough For Gryphons
Watching a BUCS Table Tennis fixture is like watching no other sport you have ever attended. At Leeds, in the late-afternoon light of the Cromer Terrace Fitness Suite three games take place simultaneously over the […]
LGBT History Month: Role Models Matter
SPORT has a special way of bringing people together. The Christmas Truce of 1914 is a powerful and moving image – uniting two entirely different (and seemingly irreconcilable) groups together in the most serious and high-pressured […]
Gender Fluidity And Fashion’s Part To Play
The clothes we wear can help to construct (or perhaps more crucially deconstruct) the gender binaries that we as consumers of fashion have come to so rigidly prescribe to. But how far is gender fluid […]
South Asian Designers to Know
SABYASACHI MUKHERJEE The Kolkata born designer’s philosophy is ‘Personalised imperfection of the human hand’. Using a range of textiles from dye to block printing, intricate embroidery and his ability to apply a fresh twist on […]
LURUFC Players Banned After ‘Inappropriate’ Social Media Activity
Three members of Leeds University Union’s Rugby Union Club have been handed a one week ban from matches and social events for ‘inappropriate’ behaviour on social media, with one of these members found to be […]
Bisexuals in Love
The Gryphon talks to students, Emma and Joe, about bisexual acceptance at university, gender roles, and gender-blindness. When I came out as a bisexual woman at the age of thirteen, I did not realise how […]
What does ‘Love’ mean to Leeds?
The Gryphon focuses on the notion of love and speaks to students from varying sexual orientations on campus in the week running up to Valentine’s Day to find out their perspectives on love. As we […]
Transforming the Media…
The Gryphon explores transgender representation in the media and the work that still needs to be done. Before the sixties, few, if any, films had been made about transgender people. However, with the recent release […]
Campus Watch: 12/2/2016
Students demand action after spate of muggings Over 4,000 students at Birmingham University have signed a petition campaigning for greater police presence after a group of muggers attacked students four times in one week, with […]
The Digest: 12/2/2016
Continuity IRA claim responsibility for two Dublin shootings The Continuity IRA, a hard-line republican group aiming to carry on the original IRA mission, have claimed responsibility for the shooting of another man in Dublin on […]