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Hope Not Hate misses the point

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

The words of warning etched into the wall at the exit of the Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust exhibition are “all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”. »

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U-C-Library Hell in exam term

Monday, May 25th, 2009

A lack of plugs, not enough desks and just two toilets; UCL students studying for their exams are fuming about the lack of facilities in the College’s Main Library. »

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There is a God: and He’s angry!

Monday, April 27th, 2009
There is a God: and He’s angry!

… and taking it out on the buses. »

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Party’s Over

Monday, March 16th, 2009

As Britain sinks further into recession vacancies for graduates are set to fall for the first time since 2003. »

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Under their thumb

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Under their thumb

UCL Union passed a motion at the AGM that will see UCL staff appointed to the board of trustees, the body that approves or rejects motions approved at Union meetings. »

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Don’t tremble at Trimble

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Don’t tremble at Trimble

  Last week Gail Trimble captained Oxford’s Corpus Cristi team to victory in University Challenge. The  26 year old  classics student has been hailed by the independent as “a relentless juggernaught of intellectual Blitzkrieg. »

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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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Last Train Out of Belsen

Monday, January 19th, 2009
Last Train Out of Belsen

Between 1943 and 1945, 50,000 Russian Prisoners of War and a further 50,000 inmates died in squalid conditions at Bergen- Belsen concentration camp, Germany.In 1931, Rudi was born into a Jewish family in Berlin and lived there with his parents and his older brother Paul until he was four years old.  In 1933, the... »

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Oh dear… potential supervolcano eruption may cause mass starvation!

Monday, January 19th, 2009
Oh dear… potential supervolcano eruption may cause mass starvation!

A UCL Academic has warned London Student that a large subterranean part of Yellowstone National Park in the US may explode obliterating, at a stroke, an area the size of Yorkshire. »

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Facing Execution

Monday, December 1st, 2008
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. »

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