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The power of the media to shape people’s perceptions of sexuality and gender dynamics are becoming ever more influential. Can we legitimately claim that all forms of sexual representation have…

If you are a third year student and oppose the local and national cuts being made to the higher education sector, there’s something simple and really effective you can do…

Brighton and Hove has been named the UK’s ‘ghost capital’, according to a recent report published by the Argus. Ghostly spirits are said to be roaming the narrow, cobbled streets…

The atmosphere is electric. All eyes are on eight-year-old Louise, to whom I have bestowed the momentarily ultimate honour of being master of ceremonies. A countdown worthy of mission-control cuts…

Last Thursday, 25 February, protestors braved the wind and rain to make a stand on student cuts in Library Square. At 1.15pm, representing the 115 threatened jobs at the University…

Later this year, most likely in May, Gordon Brown faces the prospect of handing in his P45 and beginning the search for a new job. He, along with the reams…

Fellow students, staff, and interested parties, We know the cuts are bad, we know they are only the beginning (a few more million next year, and after the election –…

This week is Diversity Week across campus and to mark it we are having our main event for Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender History Month, “Invisible To Invincible”. This Thursday…

When locals in West Yorkshire won their battle to reinstate the place name ‘Tickle Cock Bridge’ last week, The Times readily welcomed the news by compiling a list of Britain’s…

A recent Universities UK report has suggested that British universities must offer more courses suitable for people aged 50 and above. The study, ‘Active Ageing and Universities’, proposes that as…

A 40-year-old man appeared in court last week charged by police with the murder of Brighton resident Gordon Stalker, a founder of the Lewes Road Community Garden. Stalker, 51, was…

An Oxbridge student, who describes herself as “a closet nympho currently shagging my way through the half-term hump”, has set up an anonymous risqué online sex blog. The student has…

For those of you familiar with the programme “Brass Eye”, the current media portrayal of Mephedrone can seem absurdly similar to the fictitious drug ‘Cake’. If you are misfortunate enough…

A student at Oxford University has denied claims that he shouted at an Israeli minister speaking at the Union, using the Arabic words, ‘Slaughter all Jews’. A statement released on…

Last week saw the arrival of the first-ever University of Sussex Students’ Union (USSU) Societies Festival, a community engagement project spreading across the city, welcoming the local community to come…

Sussex Islamic society is hosting Discover Islam week on campus, starting Monday 22nd to Friday 26th February. The society hopes the line-up of different events will allow students the opportunity…

Brighton now boasts an array of Poetry and Spoken Word events on a regular basis. The Badger sent writer Helen Grace to check out the latest offerings It has to…

Questions are raised in SUDS’ new production Last week I was invited to watch a twenty-minute snippet of SUDS’ (Sussex University Drama Society) week seven production of Blackbird, followed by…

A poetry collection called ‘The Scattering’ by Christopher Reid has become the surprise winner of one of Britain’s most prestigious literary prizes, the Costa Book of the Year Award. Reid…

Pappy’s are hard to define. They effortlessly blend the surreal and the sublime with visual, musical and physical comedy. There is a striking moment when you first realise that there…