For the last four years of my life, I lived as an expatriate US citizen in the small Arabian Gulf country of Kuwait. In Kuwait, I never wore mini-skirts in public and seldom bared my shoulders outside on the street. My high school prom was cancelled half-way through by the police, because girls in... »
Archive for February, 2009
Beauty contests: bad for women? The protestor
Betty Friedan stated: “men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.” »
Go off road trippin’
“Almost arrived. Car poorly” was the ominous text that landed in my inbox at the ungodly hour of 4:30 in the morning. As I walked out into the pre-dawn darkness, I was greeted by the sight of my co-driver pushing our noble steed down the road. One has to love traditional British understatement in... »
Asking for it
One in three students in the UK thinks that a woman is responsible for being raped if she’s drunk. »
City academy case dismissed
The case that could have derailed UCL’s controversial city academy project has been dismissed at the High Court. »
London Student Issue Nine Out Now
London Student, Volume 29 Issue Nine Play, London Student Volume 29 Issue 9 »
Alright Flower?
It’s 6am, and Columbia Road is deserted. There isn’t a violet Verbena, crimson Cyclamen or a deadly nightshade to be seen this early in the narrow street. In fact, there isn’t a single person touting or shouting between numbers one and 162. The doors are locked and the windows barred. It’s as if the... »
Poll: what did you think of the occupations?
What did you think about the student occupations on Gaza? »
London Student Issue Eight out now
Available now on campuses that weren’t closed by snow yesterday, and here online. »

