Audience Theatrics
Embarrassing stories from the Stalls During a performance of Breakfast at Tiffanys in November last year an audience member vomited over a balcony, showering six people below with sick and…
Students set to film documentary about university cuts
Two Sussex students are filming a documentary about the proposed cuts at the university. Carl Salton-Cox, a first-year history and film student, and Kit Bradshaw, a politics student, want to…
UCU proceeds with ballot for strike action
The University and College Union (UCU) has formally initiated ballot proceedings to determine whether academic staff should strike in response to higher education funding cuts and looming job losses. The…
'Terrorists' on Campus?
Counter-terrorism officers have recently identified a number of universities to remain under close scrutiny, the Government has admitted. Special Branch officers are being deployed in institutions deemed ‘at risk of…
BNP have 'no confidence' union president
Over 1000 students at Staffordshire University as well as local BNP members have lobbied for a vote of no confidence in Staffordshire Student Union President Assed Baig. The move comes…
West Side Story gets SMuTy
Sunday morning: a time of quiet on campus, a time of slow awakenings, of peaceful (and dozy) reminiscences of the past week, a time to look forward (or not) to…
Gradual Decline
The Gradual Decline of a Previously Tight Family Unit in the Face of Economic Hardship: A Comedy didn’t cross the line of good taste so much as stamp, spit and…
Protests against cuts at Sussex gain momentum
The latest Stop the Cuts rally ended in occupation last week. Students gathered on Monday 8 February in rain and snow to rally against job and course cuts proposed by…
Senior management read post-graduate's private email
A postgraduate English student at the University of Sussex has revealed he felt “intimidated, bullied and compromised” by senior management after being called to a meeting to address a group…
USSU push for National Student Survey boycott
The University of Sussex Students’ Union (USSU) has urged all final year undergraduates to boycott the National Student Survey (NSS) in protest of the proposed cuts to jobs, courses and…
The evolution of the Gay Soc at Sussex
I came to Sussex as an undergraduate in 1977 at a time when Gay Liberation in Britain was only a few years old. As an 18 year old I was…
Caroline Lucas MEP supports Sussex students occupying Bramber House in protest against the cuts
Caroline Lucas, MEP and leader of the Green Party in Brighton has announced she fully supports the occupation of students at the University of Sussex as they protest against financial…
Is Brighton better off with Nancy? Why Labour could be the best option for Brighton’s voters
For years, I resisted the urge to join the Labour Party. Why? It’s not that I wasn’t interested in politics and campaigning. In my pushchair, I was wheeled between demonstrations…
Fight now or forever hold your peace
When you say cut-back, we say fight-back. And when we say fight-back we mean it, a mantra weightier than mere words. Words dance upon the paths of action and we…
Why Sussex is supporting LGBT history month
Every February the UK marks and celebrates the contribution that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered individuals have made throughout history. In the fields of science, entertainment, literature, politics and many…
Academics and MPs denounce cuts at Sussex
Britain’s higher education system is recognised across the globe as a gold standard, second only to the US. Eighteen of our universities rank in the world’s top 100. Comprising just…
Brighton and Sussex students row over no.25 bus
Facebook has become the site of a battle between Sussex & Brighton students. The weapon of choice for both sides appears to the 25 bus; which has long been a…
David Cameron's face is butt of the joke
A group which mocks the Conservative Party’s £500,000 poster campaign has received massive popularity online receiving 90,000 visitors in the first two weeks. The Conservative Party have kicked off a…
Oxford University bans Spotify
Oxford University sparked controversy recently when they banned all their campus students from using the popular music-sharing website Spotify, citing the network-slowing bandwidth of the site as the main reason…
Pillow fight breaks out in Library Square
The University of Sussex’s Library Square turned into a fluffy battlefield last Monday afternoon as a 40-person pillow fight took place in aid of RAG week. At 2pm, a whistle…