Oxford University student denies racial slur
A student at Oxford University has denied claims that he shouted at an Israeli minister speaking at the Union, using the Arabic words, ‘Slaughter all Jews’. A statement released on…
Societies Festival builds community links
Last week saw the arrival of the first-ever University of Sussex Students’ Union (USSU) Societies Festival, a community engagement project spreading across the city, welcoming the local community to come…
Discover Islam comes to Sussex
Sussex Islamic society is hosting Discover Islam week on campus, starting Monday 22nd to Friday 26th February. The society hopes the line-up of different events will allow students the opportunity…
The Sunshine Underground: Leeds' finest exports raise the alarm in Brighton
If my stint in student journalism has taught me anything, it is to always expect the unexpected. The PR guy promises you half an hour with the band? You’ll get…
Brighton bards
Brighton now boasts an array of Poetry and Spoken Word events on a regular basis. The Badger sent writer Helen Grace to check out the latest offerings It has to…
“Are you allergic to me?!”
Questions are raised in SUDS’ new production Last week I was invited to watch a twenty-minute snippet of SUDS’ (Sussex University Drama Society) week seven production of Blackbird, followed by…
Popular Poetry
A poetry collection called ‘The Scattering’ by Christopher Reid has become the surprise winner of one of Britain’s most prestigious literary prizes, the Costa Book of the Year Award. Reid…
Pappy's Sketches
Pappy’s are hard to define. They effortlessly blend the surreal and the sublime with visual, musical and physical comedy. There is a striking moment when you first realise that there…
Audience Theatrics
Embarrassing stories from the Stalls During a performance of Breakfast at Tiffanys in November last year an audience member vomited over a balcony, showering six people below with sick and…
Live review: Beethoven with Brighton Philharmonic at the Dome
It may be said, with the exclusion of cynics and the ill-informed, that there is not one iota of love and passion missing in the music of Ludwig van Beethoven.…
Twisted Folks: Stornoway meet their public
Stornoway are on the cusp of big things. The Badger chatted to Brian Briggs, the Oxford group’s lead singer, before the band took to the stage, in front of a…
Students set to film documentary about university cuts
Two Sussex students are filming a documentary about the proposed cuts at the university. Carl Salton-Cox, a first-year history and film student, and Kit Bradshaw, a politics student, want to…
UCU proceeds with ballot for strike action
The University and College Union (UCU) has formally initiated ballot proceedings to determine whether academic staff should strike in response to higher education funding cuts and looming job losses. The…
'Terrorists' on Campus?
Counter-terrorism officers have recently identified a number of universities to remain under close scrutiny, the Government has admitted. Special Branch officers are being deployed in institutions deemed ‘at risk of…
Album review: Neil Young, 'Dreamin Man Live 92' (Reprise)
I hadn’t much listened to Neil Young until recently. For Christmas I bought my girlfriend a newly issued live Young recording, and soon realized exactly what I had been missing.…
BNP have 'no confidence' union president
Over 1000 students at Staffordshire University as well as local BNP members have lobbied for a vote of no confidence in Staffordshire Student Union President Assed Baig. The move comes…
West Side Story gets SMuTy
Sunday morning: a time of quiet on campus, a time of slow awakenings, of peaceful (and dozy) reminiscences of the past week, a time to look forward (or not) to…
Massive Attack enthral the Dome
Heligoland was launched after seven years in the making, and the following evening saw Massive Attack kick off their world tour in Brighton, playing to the most varied crowed I’ve…
Album review: F*cked Up, 'Couple Tracks' (Matador)
Is it breaking the rules to include a retrospective of B-sides and rarities in our review of January’s best albums? Maybe it is, but while Fucked Up’s Couple Tracks may…