Travel Diary: Detroit
There is something uneasy about Detroit. It is a feeling that has attached itself to the crumbling brick and glassless windows. It has attached itself to the abandoned, in place…
“Unimpeachable Machismo”: Is Male Contraception More Distant Than Ever?
As sexual equality skulks reluctantly upon us, not yet here but at the very least foreseeable, an oft forgotten issue has reemerged with the news that a contraceptive gel for…
The Imaginary Boundary: a State Between ‘Girl’ and ‘Woman’
It is Monday. I have recently had my hair cut – it was at Bluetit and it was expensive, a birthday present. It is a new seminar group, this being…
Tinder: A Build Up Of Inevitable Disappointment
You have probably re-downloaded it for the seventh or eighth time. Every time you delete it you tell yourself, “never again”. Last time you finally drew the courage to send…
Healing Crystals: Spiritual Enlightenment or Voodoo Tat?
Look around you when you’re next out in Brighton. Inevitably, at some point, you’ll cast your eyes across a shop with a figure of Buddha thrust right in the front…
Jewish Society responds to the Vice Chancellor’s statement
The following statement was sent to The Badger by JSoc, Sussex’s Jewish student society. We are happy to publish it as indeed we are always happy to publish letters written…
I’m Jewish and I refuse to let Tickell speak for me
The following open letter to Sussex’s Vice-Chancellor was sent to The Badger. We are happy to publish it as indeed we are always happy to publish letters written by students…
Swastikas found on Sussex campus
A poster on campus has been defaced by swastikas. The poster, advertising a talk by Yoav and Horit Herman Peled, was titled “the religionization of Israeli society”. Inciting racial hatred,…
Cut the Rent protest: activists occupy Sussex House through sit-in
15 activists from Cut the Rent have occupied Sussex House. Performing a sit-in protest over what they regard as unreasonable actions by the university. The protest took place during a…
Cuts to youth services reversed: campaigners rejoice
Brighton and Hove Council have reversed the decision to cut youth service funding after a campaign led by the young people affected. Council minutes suggested proposed cuts would have been…
So left we’re right (but wrong)
Dear Badger, As ironic, tongue-in-cheek, edgily aesthetic right-wing vaporwave stickers are plastered around our campus, it’s time to address the deep, varied roots of the problem. It’s Trump. It’s Milo…
We need to talk about right wing opinions
Dear Badger, A few weeks ago a poster advertising a meeting for faculty members entitled “dealing with right wing attitudes and politics in the classroom”, appeared on campus. This has…
Results for SU election announced
The results are in for this year’s Students’ Union election, which saw 20 candidates standing to be the voice of the student body at Sussex. Turnout for the elections was…
Go Green Week: a full range of campaigns
Fossil Free Sussex staged a protest urging the university to make good on its promise to divest. The University committed to divest in April 2015 but no further action has…
NSS yes: Engineering students brush off boycott
Engineering students have chosen not to boycott the National Student Survey (NSS), a University spokesperson confirmed. The spokesperson said: “students within the Engineering department are choosing not to boycott the…
University fees and a time of brusque change
For the second week running our front page revolves around one of the central elements of our university exprience: fees. Loans, paying for our education, and financial fears have become…
An academic’s response to the Vice-Chancellor
The following open letter to the university Vice-Chancellor was sent to The Badger. We are happy to publish it as indeed we are always happy to publish letters written by…
Tuition fee rise fiasco: confusion continues
Sussex is set to raise tuition fees for all continuing home and EU undergraduate students as well as new students in 2017/18. However, to students without a thorough understanding of…
Sussex embroiled in ‘right wing attitudes’ discussion
A Sussex Centre for Conflict and Security Research (SCSR) poster advertising an “informal discussion” on “how to deal with right wing attitudes and politics in the classroom” has sparked controversy.…
Tony Blair strikes again
Dear Badger, Tony Blair strikes again, but at least these strikes are not lethal; tame almost, in comparison to the misery caused through the blood on his hands. Every time…