Archive for February, 2009

Beauty contests: bad for women? The beauty queen

Monday, February 16th, 2009
Beauty contests: bad for women? The beauty queen

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... »

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Beauty contests: bad for women? The protestor

Monday, February 16th, 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.” »

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Go off road trippin’

Monday, February 16th, 2009
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... »

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Asking for it

Monday, February 16th, 2009
Asking for it

One in three students in the UK thinks that a woman is responsible for being raped if she’s drunk. »

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City academy case dismissed

Monday, February 16th, 2009
City academy case dismissed

The case that could have derailed UCL’s controversial city academy project has been dismissed at the High Court.  »

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London Student Issue Nine Out Now

Monday, February 16th, 2009
London Student Issue Nine Out Now

London Student, Volume 29 Issue Nine Play, London Student Volume 29 Issue 9 »

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Alright Flower?

Monday, February 16th, 2009
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... »

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Poll: what did you think of the occupations?

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

What did you think about the student occupations on Gaza? »

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London Student Issue Eight out now

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
London Student Issue Eight out now

Available now on campuses that weren’t closed by snow yesterday, and here online. »

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