Students disqualified from Essex union elections
The recent Students’ Union full-time officer elections at the University of Essex resulted in protests on campus after the winners were disqualified. On 11 February, the whole of the Yes…
Guns on campus: worth a shot?
What is your immediate reaction when you hear the words ‘gun’ and ‘US College’ used in the same sentence? For many of us, I’m sure, it draws up awful stories…
Hauntingly Good
The Badger reviews this year’s newest nightclub and live music venue: The Haunt Whether you fancy Sextape, Thursday Night Fish Fry or It Is Still 1985, The Haunt seems to…
A day at the Brighton Science Festival 2011
So the festival is over for another year. It has wowed us with lectures, games and activities from the day devoted to molecular gastronomy “Play with your food” to the…
A student mother pleads: don't close our nursery
The potential closure of the University of Sussex childcare facilities is putting student-parents under considerable stress and is raising key questions about the institution’s vision of diversity. If the university…
How arsenic has integrated itself into DNA
DNA, the founding thing of all living organisms, is a fascinating and complex molecule. Since the discovery of its structure by Watson and Crick in 1953, scientists have done their…
Skeleton regulates male fertility
There are many things without which we could not live. They vary from person to person but one of our ‘essentials’ that no one could live without is definitely the…
Sussex UCU lecturers vote for strike action
Sussex lecturers have voted to go on strike against cuts to their pensions. Members of Sussex UCU, the trade union representing lecturers, tutors and academic support staff, voted 73 percent…
Sussex medical student charged with murder
A medical student from Brighton has been charged with murder alongside another teenager, Harvinder Singh Shoker. Mundill Kaur Mahil, of Maidstone Road, Chatham, Kent and Shoker, from Charlton Park Lane,…
Union activities centre burgled for second time in six months
The Activities Centre was burgled for the second time in six months on Wednesday 2 March, resulting in two stolen laptops and damages to the office worth an estimated £2,000.…
North Laine with a roof on top: open market gets a new look
Plans for a reported £17m redevelopment of the historic Brighton Open Market have been approved. Ideas for a new market were first conceived in April 2006, when the Council’s Policy…
Lib Dem MP Norman Baker egged by students after giving speech on campus
Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, Norman Baker was egged after giving a talk on the University of Sussex campus on Friday 25 February. Two students present at the talk, chased…
Remembering protests past
Cuts, occupations, strikes, suspensions, demos and even riot police. The last academic year at Sussex had it all. This week, one student activist offers a retrospective account of 2010-11 Laying…
We support UCU strike action
“We support our lecturers…the goal is a Higher Education system that values education before commerce” The University and Colleges Union (UCU) are balloting for strike action on job security, real…
Food for thought: Scoop and Crumb
There’s something appealing about an ice cream shop being painted in an ice cream colour. This pistachio delight is just a pebbles throw away from Brighton beach and is one…
Loud students drive grandma to sleep in car
Residents in Brighton and Hove have set up a campaign against noisy students after five undergraduates from Brighton University drove a woman to sleep in her car. The students in…
The Big Lemon bus donates record sum to activities charity
The Big Lemon has announced record donations as part of its ‘Give Something Back’ (GSB) scheme. GSB scheme means that on the first Sunday of the month, The Big Lemon…
Squatters in Taj building, Old Steine, ordered to vacate or face eviction
A group of squatters who have taken over the former site of the greengrocers, Taj, at Old Steine, have been told to vacate the premises or they will be evicted.…
NUS President Aaron Porter to stand down at next election
The National Union of Students is looking for a new leader after its current president, Aaron Porter has said that he will not stand for re-election this coming April. In…
Campaign group fights for more affordable housing on campus
East Slope, one of the oldest and the cheapest living spaces on campus is due to be demolished in the academic year 2012-2013, driving up the average rent on campus.…