A fresh new perspective
Dear Badger, I recently helped out a friend, who is building a straw bale house in his back garden, with a large group of enthusiastic friends who were up for…
Ban on Israeli Goods
Dear Badger, Ever since starting here at Sussex I couldn’t help but notice the absence of certain products like Coca-Cola and Pineapples in our union shops and the campus co-op.…
Aspects of Homesickness
Eva Mendez The first weeks at a new university can be a time of excessive partying, a time of engaging in activities you have never tried before, a time of…
Campus Halls Cup-date
Richard Mashiter, Activities Officer The Student’s Union is proud to present this year’s new cup, the Campus Halls Cup. Be proud of your halls and battle it out throughout the…
Great Expectations
Sports Committees On the eve of the new BUCS 2012/2013 Championships, we catch up with Committee members from Sports Clubs at Sussex about their hopes for the new season. Chris…
Would you risk your health for sport?
James Hope Given the wide range of sport clubs at Sussex, everyone should be able to find something that suits them, it may just mean diving outside conventional sports. It…
Registrar: no student consultation
Controversy has arisen surrounding plans to outsource a number of services at the University of Sussex, after it was revealed the Registrar, John Duffy, admitted that no students were consulted…
Phillippa Gregory's 'The Kingmaker's Daughter'
Hannah Cooke The widely perceived image of Richard III is a murderer, tyrant and usurper of the English throne. In Phillippa Gregory’s most recent novel The Kingmaker’s Daughter, she humanizes…
No eligible bachelors for me?
Anton Smirnoff It wasn’t nerves about meeting all those guys, really, just concern that I wouldn’t be able to keep that spag bol down. Having Metallica’s Ride the Lightning banging…
BNOC (big name on campus) – Kit Bradshaw
Amy Bracewell One person can, it seems, be in two places at once. Our very own Communications Officer, Kit Bradshaw appears to have attended all Freshers week events and can…
Academic Armchair – Dr Justin Rosenberg
There’s an almost tangibly electric atmosphere that floods the corridors of Arts building C. Dr Justin Rosenberg, professor and head of International Relations at the University of Sussex, has agreed…
Moan Zone – iHad enough
Lucy Hartland The iPad is the latest and seemingly unnecessary fad to be sweeping campus. Firstly, I don’t understand why people insist on using them to take lecture notes. It…
Creatures of the Night – not a fairytale ending!
Glenn Raymond The Freshers of Sussex are now fully embarked on their hedonistic epic of depravity and self-depreciation. Tall tales run wild, of such great magnitude, you could not make…
Chemical of the Week: Arsole
“My friends don’t call me “Rim Job” for nothing. I love everything about Arsole, but especially its ring-like structure. Let the chemistry begin…”
Science: Love/Hate
Will Lawn “Bitches, bitches, physics makes us all its bitches”. Of Montreal have got it spot on, we really are physics’ bitches. We spend all day, every day obeying its…
Sussex in South-East Asia: An Interview with Dr. Alan Stewart
Charlotte Alldis It has been ten years of hard work from Dr. Stewart and his Sussex-based team, but finally the Conservation Project in Papua New Guinea is well under way.…
Drugs Live: Science or Circus
W.T. Who’d have thought that not only would the 21st Century bring about the completion of the human genome project, the discovery of the Higgs-Boson, but also people gurning their…
Predestined and Prolonged (fragment)
Byron Taylor I am the face of your futurity, I am the scope of your skill The hemispheres of your head. I am the leaves that Sweep your spirit’s streets,…
My games maker experience
Ashni Lakhani The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games was a sporting event that people all around the world stopped to watch. World records were broken and feelings of national…
A Clockwork Orange: A history of ultra-violence
Charlie Jones When A Clockwork Orange burst onto the world cinema stage in 1971 it became an instant cult classic; shocking its audience with its brutal monochrome vision of a…