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…
Glued to our screens?
The 21st Century Real Virtual World Jonathan Stefanni-Machado Apple’s highly anticipated iPhone 5 was released on 21 September in the UK, and despite the absence of a midnight launch, it…
University challenged
As a new generation of students’ arrives at ‘liberal-lefty’ Sussex The Badger asks: are they walking into a bohemian wonderland or an institution mirroring an increasingly conservative education system? Harry…
Chemical of the Week: Cummingtonite
Hey guys, I’m Laurie, and I just love Cummingtonite. This chemical, or mineral (WHO CARES, right!?), has SUCH a sexy name and I dig anything that forms its crystals in…
How many degrees of empathy? An interview with Simon Baron-Cohen
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen is a controversial figure. He is an internationally renowned autism researcher and famed for his many popular science books. The general public, at least going on book…
The Noblest of Science
Last Thursday night people across the globe held their breaths in unison, as the winners of the highly coveted, unparalleled and prestigious Ig Nobel Prizes were announced. Each pioneers in…