The Swiss: no longer neutral
Last week, the unexpected success of a Swiss referendum to ban the construction of minarets became Europe’s first legislative manifestation of anti-Islamic feeling.
Management says your student welfare just doesn't cut it
In the recent proposals 11 out of 16 Student Advisors are to be made redundant. I am a Student Mentor and part of the Arts mentoring service that Jacquy Paizis,…
A politically pitiful AGM
The Union has become increasingly unrepresentative in recent years. Last year there were allegations and rumours speculating that quoracy had in fact been faked. This year the union lacked quorum…
Cyclists in Brighton face fines
Students bicycling to and from Sussex campus should be aware that police in Brighton are now taking a hard line on correct visibility. In collaboration with the City Council, the…
Dial 'M' For Murder
The story of a jealous and avaricious husband attempting to commit the perfect murder was retold in a subtle, moderately suspenseful production of the Hitchcockian classic, Dial ‘M’ for Murder.…
Psychic Sally
An Audience with Sally Morgan, from start to finish, was not as we had expected. Too accurate at points to be completely dismissed but too inaccurate at others to be…
Everything must go: papas, puppets and pathos
One of the performance editors told me she had a puppet show to review: ‘Of course!’ I said. ‘That sounds like a larf’. But, happily, the ‘puppet show’ formed only…
Short Fiction
Short Fuse, is marketed as ‘a night of short stories’, that takes place monthly at Komedia Downstairs. This marketing is clever: it completely draws the attention away from the importance…
Boycott instead of dialogue?
The fact that students at Sussex have voted for a boycott against Israeli goods on campus during a strongly contested referendum shows that the complicated political situation in the Middle…
Students protest to stop the cuts
Last Thursday the 26th November, ‘Stop the Cuts’ protestors descended on Bramber House to lobby the Vice-Chancellor, Michael Farthing, over the latest proposed cut backs and redundancies at Sussex. The…
The Pink Bear Club
The opening skit of The Pink Bear Club set a tone that the rest of the show lived up to: a tremulous man, wearing only a pair of briefs and…
Cabaret Brecht
Cabaret Brecht; a combination of poems, plays and songs, extracted and adapted from Brecht’s lesser known work, was outstanding. Both comical and political, nonsensical and logical, Cabaret Brecht was accessible,…
The Grass is Greener
‘The Grass is Greener’ is undeniably a slick, polished, well acted and aesthetically pleasing production. The script is competent throughout and funny in parts, and although there are occasional comic…
Blood Brothers
Sitting in my seat before the curtain came up, I was feeling a little apprehensive. Musicals were something I enjoyed as a child, but were increasingly beginning to irritate me…
South Downs is declared National Park
The University of Sussex is soon to become the only university surrounded by a National Park. It was confirmed last week that the South Downs will finally become the United…
Iran condemns Oxford scholarship
The Iranian Embassy has accused Oxford University of a “politically motivated move” following the establishment of a scholarship made in honour of an Iranian student killed during post-election unrest in…
Students protest gay blood ban
On Tuesday 27th October, a procession of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students descended on London in an NUS protest against the National Blood Service’s (NBS) policy of refusing…
AGM Results
Student advice service secured • Support for sport • Stop the cuts • Commitment to environmental responsibility • Bottled water phase out • Youth fight for jobs • No blood…
If We Go On
‘The dark stretches before us. There are people waiting. We would like to show you something, but we are not sure how. We are going to tell you what it…