Government regulations may stop Students’ Union Israel boycott
The University of Sussex Students’ Union may be prevented from continuing its boycotting of Israeli goods under new government procurement guidelines. It is speculated that the regulations could affect student…
Period Pride celebrated on campus
The first National Period Pride Day was declared by NUS on Thursday and the University of Sussex took part in a unique way. A section of Room 76 was dominated…
Cameron must be pressed on Britain’s involvement in Yemen
Yemen, at present, is in the midst of a civil war which, since it started last March, has cost nearly 6,000 lives and brought about a humanitarian crisis in what…
The Co-exist society: For all faiths and none
On 13 November 2015, Europe went into a state of shock at the news of the terrorist attacks in the centre of Paris. The attacks also pointed towards other wars,…
Supporting Sanders can be a feminist choice
‘There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support each other’ says Madeleine Albright, former American politician and the first woman to serve as the US Secretary of…
Should controversial personalities be muted by petitions? A lesson for Trump and Roosh V
Over the past few years online petitions have gained great popularity within the UK. The scheme of collecting signatures in order to achieve change and justice has proven successful on…
Controversial Mail columnist Peter Hitchens to debate on campus
Author and Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens will argue against the legalisation of cannabis in an event jointly organised by the Debating Society and The Badger. The event is…
University’s proposed investment policy change is “progress”, say anti-fossil fuel campaigners
Fossil Free Sussex, a student group lobbying the University to drop its fossil fuel-related shares, demonstrated in Library Square on 12 February by criss-crossing the area with red ribbons. The…
Campaign to save Sussex student from deportation
Recent Sussex MA student Luqman Onikosi is fighting the Home Office’s decision to deport him to Nigeria following their rejection of his leave to remain application, which was made on…
EXCLUSIVE: Sussex head of sport ‘would love to offer’ free access to sports facilities
Sussex University’s head of sport, Karen Creffield, has told The Badger that she would “love to be able to provide” free access to sports facilities to all students. Creffield, who…
Peter Kyle MP: Labour’s New Politics drives me up the wall
Local MP Peter Kyle has launched an attack on the Labour leadership at a Sussex campus Q&A on February 4. The Badger has acquired a recording of the event which…
Sussex students support junior doctors in strike
Students from Brighton Sussex Medical School (BSMS), alongside other activist groups, attended a picket outside the Royal Sussex County Hospital on 10 February in part of a nationally coordinated protest…
Student to make ‘full recovery’ after hit and run at Old Steine
A Sussex Masters student has been discharged from hospital following a hit-and-run in Brighton just over a fortnight ago. Dave Duce, a 21-year-old Masters student, was left seriously injured having…
Tributes for Sussex student killed in collision
A Sussex student has been laid to rest after dying in a car accident over Christmas. Louise Clancy, 22, had been studying English and Sociology at Sussex on exchange from…
The Jungle
Rebecca Pearson Temperatures of below 5 degrees, mud up to your ankles and the putrid smell of faeces and slightly gone off meat combined; bad for even a single day,…
Reinventing the Barbie
Josie Mortimer, Jessica Kraft and Ludovica Fioravanti analyse the reinvention of the Barbie doll. Since her conception in 1959, Barbie has ruled girl-world, and has long been considered the standard…
Dry January: ‘a secular penance’?
Since time immemorial, our partially evolved and imperfect species have marked and charted the passing of our days not simply by the cycles of the moon, or the changing of…
Cameron and Brussels: progress or hot air?
Mr Cameron’s latest round of diplomacy in Brussels has confirmed once again that nothing is straight-forward in the city of compromise. Cameron has been offered a hybrid version of the…
Cecil Rhodes: Erase history or contextualise it?
Last week Oriel College at the University of Oxford released a statement asserting that the statue of politician, colonialist and benefactor Cecil Rhodes will remain on the building’s high street…
Sussex restricts free speech, survey claims
The University of Sussex has ‘some of the most stringent, broad restrictions on speech and expression’ in the country, according to a university free speech survey. Spiked’s 2016 Free Speech…