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Japanese Voyeurs – Dumb ‘Be careful what you Google for!’, warn Japanese Voyeurs: either you’ll find links to dubious far-eastern ‘adult-orientated’ sites, or the myspace page of the band themselves…

The Temper Trap are a band on the brink of big things. Their dreamily melodic single Sweet Disposition featured in the successful recent indie comedy (500) Days of Summer and…

I was admittedly not in the most receptive of moods to listen to poetry that evening. I was tired from working all day and, because of the short notice nature…

Tues 6th Oct (campus) AUDITIONS – West Side Story – Mandella Hall, 2pm or 5pm For more information see http://ussu-smuts.webs.com/ Tues 6-10th Oct (Brighton) The Hypochondriac – The Royal Theatre,…

Now in the eighth year, the Magners Brighton Comedy Festival is set to be the biggest and funniest festival yet. Britain’s premier event solely devoted to comedy, is this October…

It’s never an encouraging sign when you start to a wish that a play would hurry along or, as I did, nearly doze off. There is potential for The Pillow…

Labour’s annual Brighton conference drew an estimated 1500 protestors last Sunday. A contingent of Sussex University students joined ranks with trade union groups, anti-capitalist marchers and unemployed members of the…

It is 40 years since I arrived as a student at Sussex University in the wake of the global student revolution of 1968, in the year of Woodstock and the…

A music student at Sussex has realised his ultimate dream, playing alongside guitar legend Jeff Beck in a one off master class.

It is clear that something momentous is happening as we shift from print to digital communication: concepts of copyright are loosening; intellectual property rights are under threat - not least…

One of the highest-ranking degree programmes at Sussex will close to new applicants at the end of the current academic year. The University announced last week, without any prior consultation…

Students and staff taped their mouths shut to show their opposition to a management move that the protestors say will “end University democracy”. The protest took place on Wednesday 18…

So what does 'Energy and Environment Manager' really mean? Well, I would summarise my role by saying that I am here principally to champion the whole sustainability agenda for the…

Until three days ago, I didn’t know the ACAS Culture Fest existed. When I walk through library square I tend to keep my head down for fear of being hounded…

Friends is the most repeated show in television history. Whenever there is nothing on, we can all agree to engage in the most common form of televised procrastination and settle…

The Vice-Chancellor Michael Farthing has had a busy year. In the last 12 months he has forced through considerable structural reforms, begun to plan Sussex’s path out of the recession…

Last Friday, Brighton Marina hosted its first Fairtrade indoor market, organised by lovethatstuff, a registered not-for-profit company and a member of BAFTS (British Association of Fairtrade Shops). Brighton Marina is…

In open e-mails to University administration, Sussex House has been accused of using “censorship” as part of a “cover-up operation” by a group representing the victims of Sussex postgraduate Erich…

Cardiff University’s ‘Students Against War’ group recently occupied the University’s main lecture theatre in protest against the university’s investment in the arms trade and the war in Gaza. The students’…

“Porn for the Blind (and other stories)” is a weird, wonderfully dark and very funny take on life’s many absurdities. Let invisible compere M.C. Hamilton and his talented cast take…