26/04/2013 Hugo Greenhalgh Sports Editor A sigh of relief echoed around Leeds on Thursday afternoon as it was announced that Danny Cipriani had been discharged from hospital after being hit by a bus in Leeds. […]
Leeds quash Scottish invasion
26/04/2013 Freddie Mickshik On a warm but windy day down at Weetwood, Leeds’ 1st XI took to the field for their season opener against a strong Scottish Universities side. The track was, as ever, hard […]
Perez pushes Jenson’s buttons
David Grant Bahrain GP Sebastian Vettel became the first multiple winner of the 2013 Formula One season in typically dominating fashion in the fourth race of an already enticing season. Sunday saw the German three-time […]
Paws for thought
Calum Gunning Lions 2013 The British and Irish Lions tours are always a magnificent spectacle and four years ago we were treated to three epic encounters between World Cup winners South Africa and a Lions […]
BTL: The Luis S**rez Saga
Joe Bookbinder In other news Luis S**rez proved the haters right once again as he re-enacted a scene from Jaws. Of course, there is nothing wrong with that, we’ve all been caught replaying scenes from […]
BTL: The Managerial Merry-Go-Round
Jack Arscott Between the Lines As the managerial corpses pile up, the Barclay’s Premier League shows no sign of slowing down. The days may be over when clubs would splurge silly money on languid Spanish […]
1 in 7 Hyde Park houses “unsecured”
As many as one in seven homes in Hyde Park and Woodhouse are left unlocked. Officers from the local Neighbourhood Policing Team inspected over 300 properties in the student area, in an effort to highlight […]
‘That’s what she said’: ‘lad culture’ on our campus
In March 2013 the NUS issued a report called ‘That’s what she said: women’s experiences of ‘lad culture’ in higher education’. Based on interviews with 40 female students, it was prompted by the NUS Hidden […]
Comment: “Our campus has not escaped the ‘lad culture’ identified by the NUS”
‘Lad culture’ is epitomised by websites such as ‘UniLAD and ‘the Lad Bible’ through offensive and misogynistic photos and jokes, and has been linked to the amount of harassment and assault experienced by students. The […]
RADICAL: LS speaks to ex-Islamist Maajid Nawaz
Co-founder of the Quilliam Foundation, an organisation that challenges extremism, sharp-suited Maajid Nawaz is now worlds away from the torture facilities of Mubarak’s Egypt, where he found himself incarcerated in 2002 for his work with […]
‘Learning To Be Funny’ – Students and Comedy
With the Tealights just having dropped the curtain on their second show, and student-led comedy nights cropping up across campus and beyond, Charlotte Duffield questions the significance of university in helping young, budding comedians propel […]
The Eating Out Scout: NY Burger Kitchen
Think stereotypical American food done averagely and you have it here, food in baskets, gingham check paper, fried everything, burgers and beer. NY Burger Kitchen at the end of Call Lane is Leeds’ new burger […]