Win tickets to World Sevens Series at Twickenham
For the students of London, the sporting season is fast becoming a distant memory, flittering out as the exam season comes crashing in with petrifying pace. Fear not! London Student Sport is at hand with a cheeky little competition to [...]
Take the ride of a lifetime… for charity
It began on a whim, an impulse. Before I knew it the form was completed and my registration pack had arrived. It was not until I was stood in Brussels last July, bike in hand, with 300 miles of road [...]
Men up their game to break University of London record at BUCS
This year’s BUCS Outdoor Athletics Championships was held at Bedford over the long Royal Wedding bank holiday weekend. Universities from across the UK sent their best athletes to this prestigious annual event in the hope of earning an invite to [...]
Promotion slips, demotion teases as it hangs on one match.
ULU’s final lacrosse game of the season embodied all of their matches this year, tense from start to finish, drawing 9-9 against Northampton to save themselves from relegation. With only three points separating 3rd from 7th in SEMLA East 2 [...]
Unions stage campaigns for sport
Over the last couple of years, Students’ Unions have brought to the attention of university administration, that although having Wednesday afternoons free are endorsed, academic study is still often scheduled for that afternoon. Indeed, the contentious issue of keeping Wednesday [...]
RHUL launches Arsenal and Chelsea language lessons
Everyone likes football. Don’t they? Well, at least that’s the basic logic behind a language program recently launched by Royal Holloway, University of London. The college has paired up with Chelsea and Arsenal to teach Spanish and German languages through [...]
Sikh soc saves the children
Chillin’ out maxin’ relaxin’ all cool; they were shooting some b-ball in the sports hall. When a group of guys that just wanna do good, starting raising money in the neighborhood. On the evening of Sunday 6 March, in a [...]
Londoners regain ‘The Bottle’
Each year one London institution humbly partakes in the second oldest varsity in the world. Unbeknownst to many, the origins of this historic match can be traced back to 1902. It is out-dated only by the infamous Oxford-Cambridge boat race [...]
Goldsmiths’ team kettle sends BBC boiling over
An attempt by Goldsmiths’ University Challenge team at making a political statement has been shut down by the BBC. The students had tried to use a large white kettle as their mascot at a studio recording on March 3rd in [...]
London Loves Issue 10
I’m sat editing London Loves in a bedroom that smells of urine. And no, I’m not visiting my great grandmother in a NHS care home. In fact, I’m sat in my own bedroom minutes away from my University campus after [...]
ULU Elections 2012: Three Minutes With…Abs Hassanali
An interview with vice-presidential candidate Abs Hassanali. Click the ‘TV’ tab above to view videos for the other candidates. You can also see their manifestos at www.ulu.co.uk/elections
Interview with The Manic Shine
The Manic Shine are a hot upcoming band. The band’s leader, Ozzie Rogers, hails from the LSE but has chosen the music industry, rather than finance, as his chosen career path.
The second sabbatical interview: an excerpt
In their second interview with London Student, Clare Solomon, ULU President, and Viktoria Szmolar, ULU Vice-President, discuss the current state of the student movement. This excerpt focuses on the momentum of student protest after the Christmas break.