12.12.2012 Last weekend two cases of indecent assault on female students were reported on campus. Both incidents took place in the Union. Around 4am on Saturday 1 December, police were called to a report of […]
VC resigns to take top UCL job
11.12.12 Michael Arthur is to step down as the Vice-Chancellor of Leeds University. As of September 2013, Professor Arthur is to leave Leeds and begin work as the new President and Provost of University College […]
Student in violent daylight robbery
6.12. 12 Police are appealing for information after a 19-year-old man had his jaw fractured during a robbery. The incident occurred on Monday at around 11.45am close to Lovell Park Heights in the Little […]
Traders sell students dangerous highs
30.11.12 Dozens of Leeds traders are supplying students with dangerous ‘legal highs’, an investigation by Leeds Student has found. This paper has uncovered that a number of stalls in Leeds Kirkgate market and some local […]
Bailiffs repossess Headingley home
30.11.12 Students have been forced out of their home after they were threatened with eviction. Four students, living in a property on Chestnut Avenue, were visited by bailiffs who told them that they were being […]
‘Mad’ Government policy leaves empty places
30.11.12 The Vice Chancellor has slammed government policy as “completely mad”, after Leeds was forced to begin the year with 500 unfilled places. Intake for 2012 had been estimated at 5,000 students, but Vice Chancellor […]
Uni receives money from arms dealers
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 […]
Campus clashes over Gaza violence
16.11.12 Clashes broke out on campus yesterday after protests by the Palestinian Solidarity Group (PSG) and Zionist Israeli students spiraled into chaos. Students from PSG and the Jewish Society (JSoc) organised separate protests in different […]
ERASMUS threatened by cuts
16.11.12 Thousands of students could have their chances of studying abroad thrown into jeopardy, if EU Budget plans go ahead. Although the 2013 EU budget is still in negotiation, funding for the Erasmus student exchange programme […]
Students warned party drugs cause bladder failure
Increasing numbers of young people in Leeds are being diagnosed with bladder disorders after using party drugs such as ketamine and methadone. Health workers in Leeds have revealed that new cases of […]