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The University of Sussex is in 42nd place on the Student Drinking Survey 2011. The release of the Student Drinking survey 2011, compiled by Student Beans.com places 60 universities nationwide.…

The world has gone Gaga. Since her explosion onto the pop scene in 2008 with debut album ‘The Fame’, Lady Gaga has become one of the most influential females in…

People who live along Lewes Road in Brighton have been invited to road shows to discuss proposals to improve the area. The improvements should result in the reduction of carbon…

Charlie Gilmour, son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, is now at his home in West Sussex after his release from prison. He served four months of a 16-month sentence.…

The University of Sussex’s Vice-Chancellor, Michael Farthing, has been appointed the new chairman of the 1994 Group. The group is a collective of leading research universities which promotes high standards…

Concerned University of Sussex students have called an emergency meeting to talk about how they can support a second year Politics student who was imprisoned two weeks ago. Zenon Mitchell…

University Radio Falmer (URF) won a prestigious student radio award at a star-studded ceremony at London’s IndigO2 on Wednesday 9 November. The student station won the Gold Award in the…

Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) was rated highly in the National Student Survey (NSS) this year. The Survey found it had the highest level of student satisfaction of any…

A woman in science, as in any other male-dominated group, is under a certain amount of pressure. It can be as simple as knowing what to wear to work (can…

Thousands of groups have sprung up in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street protest, supporting it and discussing what many protesters see as the failure of the capitalist system.…

Football-inspired charity ‘Afrikit’ was founded by a group of five students from the University of Sheffield in 2009, after one of their friends visited a rural village in Kenya and…

A national day of action is being organised to take place on Wednesday 23 November by the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) student activist group. It follows the…

“The Co-op gives students what they want” by Philip Chartell-Hoyer The new Co-operative supermarket on campus sells everything from milk to dog food, as well as several items banned by…

Steve Jobs died on the 5 October 2011. Soon after this date I felt personally compelled to respond to the sycophantic media coverage (even indulged in by a comment piece…

A second year Politics student at the University of Sussex has been sentenced to 15 months in prison following a charge of violent disorder, after he was arrested at the…

Anyone walking past Chichester 1 in the evening of last Wednesday, 2 November would have been staggered at the interruption of the customary quietude on campus. That evening, an illustrious…

The claws are fully-grown, permission for leave from school has been granted, mummy and daddies wardrobes have been raided, this can only mean one thing – ‘Young Apprentice’ is back.…

Style is a very difficult concept to decipher. Whether someone is ‘stylish’ or not is somewhat relative to the way one perceives themselves and others. For example, the Ugg boot…

The week beginning October 17th 2011 saw two new chapters appear in the bible of Mancunian music. The first – centred around the release of Noel Gallagher’s first post-Oasis album…

The chances are you’ve already heard the premise of ‘We Need to Talk about Kevin’ – it’s the film adaptation of the award winning novel and has just won the…