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Microsoft detail Windows 10, HoloLens and Spartan

The recent Microsoft conference seems to be bringing about a step forward for the company that in recent days has appeared to be struggling for ideas. The catastrophe that was…

Married and ‘Mature’: Life as an undergraduate at 28

Hannah Clifton describes her experience of balancing being a mature undergraduate, studying for a career change and planning a wedding. It is the New Year, the essay deadline has been…

University splashes £264,294+ on failed Campus Masterplan

The University of Sussex has spent over £264,294 in architect fees and legal fees on the Campus Masterplan since its inception in 2012, The Badger can reveal. In reply to…

Life is Strange: Chrysalis – Video Game Review

Life is Strange does a fantastic job of emulating a television show, with a story intriguing enough to be worth playing, but some will find that its format is more…

Sussex named 46th most international university by Times Higher Education

Times Higher Education magazine has named the University of Sussex as one of the top 50 international universities in the world. The magazine placed the University at joint 46th place…

Preview: Blackalicious, The Haunt 05/02

After a ten year hiatus, seminal Sacramento hip-hop duo, Blackalicious, return to the scene with a new album and tour dates. Perhaps best known for their single, ‘Alphabet Aerobics’ (no…

Petition calls for Michael Farthing to resign

A petition calling for the resignation of Professor Michael Farthing from his position as Vice-Chancellor has attracted over 300 signatures in its first couple of days. As of 8pm Monday…

University told to apologise and pay compensation to students suspended over protests

The University of Sussex will offer an apology and award financial compensation to four students who were controversially suspended for their part in the protests against the University’s outsourcing policy,…

Balfour Beatty favorite to win £120 million East Slope contract

FTSE 250-listed infrastructure group Balfour Beatty are poised to be offered the contract for the University’s £120 million East Slope reconstruction project. Balfour Beatty announced this morning that it had…

Why the LGBTQ community shouldn't support "chav night"

Revenge, Brighton’s biggest LGBTQ Club hosted a ‘Chav Night’ on the 22nd January in which promotional media encouraged attendees to ‘celebrate/mock the art of chavdom’. The Facebook event is rife…

Five sexual assaults in five years

Trigger warning: sexual violence The result of a Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed that there has been a total of five alleged sexual assaults reported on the University…

Chancellor announces postgraduate loan scheme

or A move to instate a postgraduate loan scheme by 2016 was announced on December 3 by Chancellor George Osborne in his autumn statement. Students wishing to study for a…

The Paris attacks and liberalism

Tolerance is one of the central tenets of liberalism; it is this value of respect and understanding that has created the multicultural society that British and other people in Europe…

PhD tutors "Exploited"

The Postgraduate Association (PGA) have called on the University of Sussex to end the “exploitation” of Graduate Researchers in the School of Life Sciences, many of whom do not receive…

Skin

Oh my distance relatives, My heart is a bloody mess, Impaled with scraggy dagger, Seeing all these racial and social injustice, On a global scale. I tried to be colour…

Samsung Galaxy Fame Review

My housemate was given his first smartphone for Christmas. An entry-level device, it serves him well without having cost too much, but it didn’t stop us mocking the confused way…

Home is where the Lidl is

Lidl is not a supermarket, it is a way of life Lidl is a tiny rabbit making a burrow It is having warm soup on the coldest day of the…

Review: Perfume Genius @ The Haunt, 26/11

You know how we’re all supposed to have one word (or three) at the ready to describe ourselves with in job interviews and the like? Well, if Perfume Genius were…

SUDS: Cinderella – The Adult Pantomime

Writer/Director Judey Bignell took on a huge responsibility with this piece. She had less than a term to mould a heaving cast and a smart script into the first pantomime…

Students vote in favor of officer role restructure

Sussex students have voted in favor of the Students’ Union adopting the proposed restructure of Full-time and Part-time officer roles. 60 percent of students approved of adopting the restructure of…