Being a Fresher is a time most students will never forget. Some parts are also a blur that we will never remember (we do have the knack of killing off a few brain cells from […]
News | Police review Mezz licence
A formal application to review Mezz’s license has been made by West Yorkshire Police. Following the release of Tequila’s ‘Freshers’ Violation’ video, police claim there is “evidence that young males are being encouraged to engage […]
News | Students call for Tequila to shut after rape promo
Popular Leeds student club night Tequila has been blasted for releasing a promotional video condoning rape and sexual violence. At the time of going to print 1,400 people had signed an LS petition calling for Mezz […]
Drinks | Gingerbread Lad – Perfect Pre-Drinks
You might be used to having a crate of beers or a standard cheapest-vodka-you-can-get and coke as your pre-drinks, or if you’re a fresher you will be soon, however pre-drinks for a night out don’t […]
Food | Cupboard Essentials
You’ve crash-landed into the mad house that will be your home for the next year and find yourself surrounded by equally giddy freshers itching to shake off their parents and lose their inhibitions just as […]
Books | How to be an Intellectual – A Freshers Cheats' Guide
Having fraudulently claimed that you’ve read Anna Karenina and The Communist Manifesto on your UCAS, the reality of a summer void of reading has hit home. Fear not. We’ve complied a Freshers edition of our […]
Lifestyle | Fend off Freshers' Flu
It’s Freshers’ Week, and you’ve spent the past few days (and nights) drinking, making new friends and establishing the cheapest place to buy vodka. Unfortunately, the combination of a new environment, heavy drinking and an […]
Snap-Happy
There’s an incredible social pressure to enjoy your Freshers’ Week more than everybody else enjoys theirs (even if you’re not a Fresher), and this enjoyment is always measured relative to the number of photos that […]
Making Freshers' Week More Inclusive
Looking back on this year’s Freshers’ week, most of us will remember a crazy, fun and enjoyable experience. Yet there are some people who will have had difficulty finding their place in all the excitement. […]
The Soapbox: Fourth Year and still 'Fresh'?
‘Fourth year and freshaaa than evaaa’ was the name of my team in the Old Bar Pub Quiz last week. This is not only embarrassing, but factually incorrect. Freshers’ week for an old timer like […]
The Soapbox: My Lessons from Freshers'
When I think back to how I felt three years ago, just about to start my degree, the thing I’m most struck by is how nervous I was. I’d heard the horror stories about student […]
Feeling Fresh
So it’s that time of year again and as a fully-fledged Leeds students we have been brought in to help you little freshlets settle in to lovelyLeedsland, as patronising as we may sound while doing […]