Month: March 2015

All four current sabbatical Officers battling for re-election were successful in their bid to retain office, after 4,725 students cast their votes in the 2015 Students’ Union Executive Elections. Incumbent…

Controversial genetic testing company 23andMe announced this month that they intend to create drugs from spit samples. Whilst this sounds gross on the surface, the area of scientific research this…

You would feel uncomfortable if your face is ‘photoshopped’ onto someone else’s body. How about if you wake up one day and found your head stuck onto a body from…

Last month it was revealed that Eddie Redmayne would be playing artist, Lili Elbe, in The Danish Girl. But Elbe is not only famous for her art; she was also…

Vicky Grantham discusses the prevalence of Feminism in light of International Women’s Day, especially through social media. Hundreds marched in support of International Women’s Day in London with many donning…

This thing called a dissertation… Six thousand words for literature students. Eight thousand words for linguists, philosophers, and historians. TWELVE thousand for engineers. What is this madness? “But it’s your…

Dear Badger, The other day whilst browsing the web, my screen was suddenly over-run by a pop up advertisement that was a promoting a twenty-one day plan for a bikini…

Four Sussex students were left shocked after finding a dead body in a house they were viewing in Brighton last week. Police were called to a house in Vere Road…

There are several kinds of annoying student drunks. The emotional one; the exhibitionist; the loud, obnoxious ‘this one time…’ kid; the determined-to-get-some-tonight drunk; the aggressor; the bailer (‘but I’ve got…

The synopsis of the recent Channel 4 documentary, Being Bipolar, explains that “psychotherapist Philippa Perry explores the dramatic rise in bipolar diagnoses, looking at the condition from the perspective of…

A Sussex based researcher is presenting a study at a major IT conference, suggesting that girls program computer code with more complexity than boys. Dr Judith Good, reader in the…

I never see my student loan, it all goes straight on rent and bills, bills, bills; and because of this, I’ve had to keep up part-time work throughout the course…

Appropriate Behaviour begins and ends with a twenty-something woman on a subway train. The woman’s name is Shirin, a bisexual Brooklynite with Iranian origins. Throughout the comedy, we come to…

Do you remember that scene from Harry Potter where Voldemort’s face pops out of a book in the restricted section, wailing in Harry’s little unassuming face? Imagine Voldemort’s scream but…

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Badger contributor Jack Stockdale recaps some of her favourite female characters in films in the last five years. Winter’s Bone, dir. Debra Granik Set in…

Can you drive? Well done. Seriously, it took me four times to get my license; by the fourth time my instructor basically said: ‘well, you’ve got nothing to lose’. Easy…

Rats have been seen running around Stanmer Court residence on campus causing alarm amongst students. Staff at the residence hall said that they are doing all that they can to…

So the Oscars have finished again for another year. For better or worse, they are the biggest awards in cinema, and as ever drew plenty of speculation, anticipation, and glamour.…

Dear Badger, When did you last read a book? How many books have you read this year? Have you ever borrowed a novel from the library? If you don’t read,…

Students voted for the Students’ Union to become an accredited living wage employer in December 2014. However, paying the living wage of £7.85 plus holiday pay would cost the Students’…