These days, demonstrators are having to barge through swarms of not only photo journalists, but thousands of spectators wielding camera phones instead of placards. Could this be spoiling the impact of mass protests against dubious government plans?The situation has clearly got out of hand, with photos perhaps dominating too much of our life, but should these photographers at protests be made illegal? Well, since... »
Archive for March, 2009
Chaos on the Catwalk
Eight members of Goldsmiths Feminist Society were arrested after chaining themselves to the doors at the venue for Miss University London’s final. »
Innocent Penguin Abducted
LSE students are set to march on Strand rivals King’s, claiming that they stole their penguin. »
King’s labelled ‘institutionally racist”
A 25-year-old student at King’s College School of Medicine, has filed a lawsuit against the college in response to what she claims is an ‘institutionally racist’ environment within its walls. »
“Why I was happy to be arrested for protesting”
Loony liberal left, the great unwashed, ugly, jealous. Just a selection of charming comments from the Daily Mail website about the women, myself included, from Goldsmiths Feminist Society who blockaded the Miss University London contest on Tuesday 10th March. »
Miss University lacks Sparkle
When a 46 year-old Mancunian glamour queen is accused of being a police-identified trouble-maker and denied entrance to a beauty contest, you suspect that something isn’t quite right. »
Issue Eleven out now
London Student Volume 29 Issue 11 Play, London Student Volume 29 Issue 11 »
The colour of your skin in 2009
My skin colour is a mix of peachy pink with large red circles on my cheeks. When filling in Equal Opportunities forms I generally tick the ‘Mixed – Other’ box. ‘British and Asian’ seems a little misleading as my Middle-Eastern heritage doesn’t fit the type that most people seem to associate with the term... »
The Show will go on
A talking point since emotions ran high in the student community at heats last year, last week’s final did not disappoint for drama, with picket lines, stink bombs and allegations of assault competing for the punter’s attention with glamorous contestants. »
Sold Short
The plight of cleaners struggling to make ends meet at University of London colleges looks set to continue, with Birkbeck College likely to decline to pay cleaners the wages they need to get by in the capital. »

