23.11.12 Leeds University has received nearly £1m from companies involved in the arms trade. On the back of a Freedom of Information (FOI) request the University was asked to provide information about the amount of […]
United societies urge students to vote ‘no’
Leeds University Union (LUU) societies across campus are joining forces, telling students ‘don’t get gagged’. Next week, a Better Union idea to “extend [the] exclusion of hate speakers and fascists to student media” will be […]
NUS branded ‘incompetent’ as thousands march on London
National Union of Students’ (NUS) President Liam Burns was pelted with eggs and thrown out of his own rally during the ‘Demo 2012’ demonstration in London on Wednesday. At a rally held at the end […]
Love Life Lamentation
When I came to university I was seeing a girl, technically an ex, in a fairly emotionally sound set-up that involved mutual respect and, to me, a healthy level of emotional nourishment. When we came […]
Motivation (the lack of)
My continuous mantra is as follows: Now, at 3pm, having done nothing but exist pointlessly all day, is not the moment to start work. After several pre-essay weeks of this it’s begun to occur to […]
Campus chalk stunt for Palestinian deaths
Travellers through the Red Route were confronted with a macabre spectacle this week, with the outline of over a hundred bodies drawn in chalk outside the Roger Stevens building. The outlines were sketched to raise […]
Pretend Friends?
The other week, I did my good deed for the year. I helped out a lad who was wandering in the midst of Hyde Park after being abandoned by his friends. People baffle me sometimes. […]
A Spill Too Far
The investigation was inconclusive, the fine inadequate, and the lesson has not been learned. Last week, a $4.5 billion fine was handed to BP, following the explosion of one of their wells in 2010 in […]
Uni awarded share of £60m funding
23.11.12 Business Secretary Vince Cable has launched an initiative which will see Leeds University granted a £2.3 million share of a £60 million national investment fund. Leeds is one of 31 universities across the UK […]
Vote No to Censorship
As many people will be unaware, an idea has gone to referendum that would extend the Union’s ‘no platform’ policy to student media. Other than the proposal being evidence of the extent to which campus […]
Student paralysed in rugby friendly
23.11.12 A third-year Politics and Economics student has been left paralysed after a POLIS (Politics and International Studies) society rugby match. 20-year-old Daniel Cowley broke his neck in the accident, which took place on the […]
Police boss wins with zero votes
23.11.12 Students have given the thumbs down to Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC) as turnout in one student area was zero per cent. At the polling station situated in Bodington Hall, where 1, 055 eligible […]