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Archive for December, 2008
Decision on Senate House Library’s future
A statement on the future of Senate House Library will be released by the central University of London on Wednesday December 17th. »
Birkbeck living wage
A large crowd of students and staff gathered outside Birkbeck on Wednesday December 3rd to campaign for improved pay and conditions for privatised cleaners and caterers, who are currently earning £5.73 an hour – described by campaigners as “a poverty wage”. »
Water a day for rowing
Saturday 22nd November proved to be a very successful day for UCL Boat Club. It was the day of the Allom Cup, a regatta type event, which all the different University of London Colleges can enter. »
Escape the winter blues in Moscow
Chances are that Moscow hasn’t come up on your list of student holiday hotspots. When Moscow comes up on TV, the images portrayed are dark, cold, miserable and associated with Communism. These assumptions are absolutely normal; for over forty years the western media portrayed the Soviet bloc as being a dangerous threat. However, automatically... »
Homosexuality: halal?
The voices of Muslims who face a conflict between their sexuality and their faith are seldom heard in discussions about modern Islam, but they were given an airing in “Gay Muslims: Out and Proud?” in a packed out junior common room at SOAS. »
Facing Execution
SOAS graduate Hossein Derakhshan, currently held in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran, has “confessed” to being a spy for Israeli espionage agency Mossad. »
Depos-it working?
Despite the introduction in 2006 of the Deposit Protection Service, London Student has discovered that scheming landlords across London are still ripping off vulnerable student tenants. »
Miss SOAS: Miss-take?
“SOAS is for education, not for your ejaculation!” »

