Your friends are all pre-drinking for the night ahead. They’ve been playing ring of fire in the kitchen for the last half hour but you’re still in your room. Perhaps you’re studying your ceiling contemplating […]
How to beat the creative block
It’s nearing the end of term; deadlines are looming and the days are only going to get shorter. If you’re anything like me, then you’ll resent the fact that you spend the vast majority of […]
Campus Watch: University of Reading students roam the streets dressed as ‘pikeys’
The University of Reading has issued a statement condemning the behaviour of a group of students who dressed as ‘pikeys’, a derogatory term for the Gypsy or Traveller community. Dozens of students set off fireworks, […]
‘TEFCO’ protest against university reform proposals
On Monday afternoon, Leeds Union activists ran a stall outside Essentials in a bid to register students for NUS’s forthcoming national demonstration. The apron wearing, tin can wielding campaigners petitioned under the banner ‘TEFCO’ in […]
NUS holding demo against higher education changes this weekend
This weekend in London the NUS demo will take place and University of Leeds is taking students along. For this event, the NUS has joined forces with the University and College Union. Higher education is […]
Leeds Engineering Building evacuated after ‘respiratory irritant’ leak
The Engineering Building on the University of Leeds campus has been evacuated and cordoned off by fire services and police following a chemical leak. West Yorkshire Fire Service reported that they were called to the […]
New café to open in Edward Boyle Library
Great Food at Leeds have announced that they will be opening a café in Edward Boyle in early 2017. The café will be on level 9 and called ‘The Book Club’. Great Food at Leeds announced the news […]
Degrees of Privilege
Meenakshi Parmar asks whether a degree is in fact a privilege or contributing to an increasing sense of wealth disparity. Income inequality in the UK is alive and blossoming, with the top 10% of society […]
Students swarm campus for a jar of Laidlaw honey
After a year of toil, the fifty thousand British bees of Laidlaw Library’s roof garden have yielded their first batch of honey. The occasion marks a successful year for the university’s bee programme. In a […]
Campus Watch: Wisconsin University shocked by charge of student serial rapist
Alec Cook, a 20-year-old student at the University of Wisconsin, was charged with sexual assault and false imprisonment against five women last week. The disturbing details that have since been released have shocked and horrified […]
Campus Watch: Mourning of famous tree in Sydney campus
Australian students awoke on Sunday morning to the news that ‘Jacaranda’, “the most famous tree in Australian education” had collapsed. Jacaranda (a purple jacaranda) was the university’s most treasured flora, featuring in “thousands” of wedding […]
Campus Watch: Beauty contest banned due to ugly behaviour
A beauty contest held at Keio University in Tokyo has been banned after allegations were made against the organisers. It has been claimed that the group was forcing minors to drink and that male members […]