Holocaust Memorial Day at Sussex
A Holocaust Memorial Day event was held by the Centre for German-Jewish Studies on February 6 2019. The ‘Torn From Home’ programme took place in the Jubilee Lecture Theatre at…
Celebrating LGBTQ+ month
LGBT History Month is up and running in the UK, and there are a whole host of LGBTQ+ events happening on campus and around Brighton. The first UK LGBT History…
Stansted 15 avoid immediate jail sentences
A group of protestors, known as the Stansted 15, have avoided immediate jail time after sentencing at Chelmsford Crown Court. Three of them, Edward Thacker, Alistair Tamlit and Melanie Strickland,…
Direct Action Everywhere: DxE protests continue
DxE is an international network known for their nonviolent direct action for so-called ‘animal liberation’. Members of the Brighton branch of DxE gathered in the Western Road Waitrose supermarket wearing…
Pharmacy course scrapped
Members of the University of Sussex Senate, a University decision-making body of academics, have claimed that the University Executive Group (UEG), a group of University higher management, demonstrated “A disregard…
Review: Live Score of Fantômas by Amiina, Saturday 17th November 2018, CINECITY event
“It’s like a first generation Die Hard,” Magnús Trygvason Elíassen, the drums of Amiina, exclaimed to the audience in his introductory spiel, receiving a full house of laughs. Nothing welcomes…
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Viennese Gala review
New Years Eve saw the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra’s flagship event for the year: a Viennese Gala featuring no less than nineteen pieces. A well crafted programme and the sonorous tones…
Brighton Chefs get to final 16 in National Burger Awards
Two former chefs at Brighton’s premier wine bar-cum-restaurant Plateau have reached the final 16 in Casual Dining’s National Burger Awards, proving their cookery is a well-marbled cut above the competition.…
Sussex Professor’s Research makes History
Research from Sussex into child mental health has been named as on of the UK’s best scientific breakthroughs for its impact in shifting the Government’s approach to the issue. The…
Male graduates ‘Kant’ earn much…
A study from the Department for Education and the Institute for Fiscal Studies has concluded that male philosophy students at Sussex are the lowest earning graduates post-graduation. The report shows…
NUS Faces Bankruptcy
It has been revealed that the National Union of Students (NUS) is facing financial difficulties. The organisation, which represents the majority of UK students in further and higher education, has…
Censoring Climate Change
Why, at the time when we need people to engage with what’s happening to the world around us, was Iceland’s advert banned? With so many terrible and destructive things happening…
Sussex Cheerleaders Save the World
Sussex Cheer Squad stands in solidarity with rape victim whose own underwear was used against her in court, holding a protest and charity event at Pryzm for Rape Crisis England…
Red card for Sussex as netball player injured
A member of the University of Sussex Netball Club dislocated their hip due to a leak in the Sports Centre roof at the University of Sussex. This caused the floor…
FDHs: Hong Kong’s most vulnerable demographic?
An account of the lives of foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong Every Sunday, Hong Kong’s central district is transformed by the Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDHs), most of whom are…
Christmas Tree Ceremony to take place in Library Square
Those who come within proximity of Library Square will have noticed that Sussex University’s Christmas Tree has been erected. Workers laboured throughout the day on November 17 to install and…
Menstruation in the third world
Even though menstruation is a natural cycle affecting millions and millions of people every month there is still so much silence surrounding the topic. The Badger has been attempting to…
Toxic: Oxford Word of the Year
Toxic has been announced as Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year 2018. The word was selected from a shortlist that also included: gaslighting, incel and gammon. The Oxford Word of…
Late Again B&H Protests
The Sussex student campaign Late Again B&H continues to protest the unreliability of Brighton & Hove buses services to and from University. Between the universities of Brighton and Sussex, student…
Auschwitz graffiti discovered on Sussex campus
A phrase used on the entrance sign at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp has been discovered on a chalkboard on East Slope’s building site. The words ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’, meaning ‘work sets…