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Month: February 2015

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Artlists: Over/Under

The Arts team continue their new section in which they come up with a theme and then list our film/music/TV/literary preferences according to that particular theme. This week, we delve…

City Venues and the Festival

Curated by the band Wire and One Inch Badge, Drill was a city-festival which took part in October last year (strategically, just when I was holding my breath for the…

Review: Yes, we’re still writing about Drill Festival 2014. This will be the last time, we promise…

Those of you who so much as glanced at the Badger Arts pages last term would likely have realised that we were very, very excited for Drill festival. I must…

Rae Morris Interview

2014 was a pretty incredible year for you, what was the highlight? I think finishing the album was definitely a highlight, knowing it was done. It was a real weight…

Bitter Lake Review

Adam Curtis’ latest documentary, Bitter Lake, examines the roles of America, Britain and Saudi Arabia over the past sixty years in Afghanistan. Taking its title from the location of a…

Students’ Union reverse UKIP decision after online poll

UKIP will be invited to a debate jointly organised by the Students’ Union and Politics Society after 70% of students polled supported a move to invite all candidates. Originally, the…

Gilmore-isms: pop culture and comedy in Gilmore Girls

When most of us who grew up in the noughties are asked of a teen drama we favoured watching, the answer tends to be Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill or…

Happiness is just a 'swipe right' away

Where did you parents meet? School? Gig? Pub? Work? Somewhere which involved one of them crossing the floor and saying ‘hello’, I’ll bet. When you yourself eventually copulate and produce…

A lowdown on the ‘three-parent babies’ debate

On February 3, MPs voted in favour of changing the law on a controversial IVF technique to create babies with ‘three parents’. The new law will allow IVF clinics to…

The ever changing tides of piracy and The Pirate Bay

The last few months have been a turbulent ride for file sharing site The Pirate Bay. For years the site “hid” from the authorities by constantly changing their URL and…

LGBTQ+ first person account: I am Bisexual

Grace Kavanagh provides a personal account of her decision to ‘come out’ as bisexual, detailing her reception and anxieties surrounding it. I have recently come out as bisexual. Although there…

What will the face of feminism look like in 2015?

Last year was, what seemed to be, a very noisy year for feminism. It seemed to be one of the most talked about topics across social media with global trends…

Scientists aim to solve the problem of aging

Many Doctor Who fans will remember the somewhat strange image of The Face of Boe who, and I hope I am not revealing any spoilers for readers, is revealed to…

Sussex Trampolining gives 2015 a jump start

Following our very successful competition in Bristol last November, the Sussex Trampoliners are off to Cambridge the weekend of the 7th February to hopefully win some more gold medals! This…

A Harry Potter degree

Dear Badger, Maybe it’s because I am getting closer to finalizing my degree and I feel the need for personal reassurance and validation; maybe it’s because I am unamused with…

Staff satisfaction with management below universities UK benchmark

ORC International statistics has shown University of Sussex staff satisfaction to be below the “norms of the Universities (UK) benchmark” in over half of the issues surveyed, The Badger has…

Exam cheating halves while plagiarism rises

The number of cases of cheating in exams at the University of Sussex last year is more than half the figure it was the previous academic year. In a Freedom…

Northfield students freeze in "sub-par accommodation"

Enraged Northfield students are demanding compensation for time they spent without hot water and heating, with an online petition attracting over 100 signatures. The petition, set up by a Northfield…

Politics Society criticise Union for leaving out UKIP

The Politics Society has issued a statement condemning the Students’ Union Council vote which has resulted in the Brighton Pavilion UKIP candidate not being invited to attend an event on…

University to increase counselling sessions to cope with demand

More students at the University of Sussex are seeking counselling help for mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety than academic issues. According to the University, the number of one-on-one…