Updates on our best news stories
As a goodbye from the News team, we looked back through every issue of The Badger this year and selected a few of the best stories we’ve broken. We’ve revisited…
The student voice has made itself irrelevant
Friday 11th March. A freshly-purchased bagel plummets to the ground, its owner’s mouth agape with shock, as a motorcade of two black Jaguars and three police cars comes to a…
Vice Chancellor Michael Farthing speaks out on student deportation case
An open letter signed by 200 members of staff demanding the University contest the Home Office’s recent decision to deport ex-student Luqman Onikosi has received a reply from the Vice…
#DontDeportLuqman is about Luqman and so much more
As a supporter of the #DontDeportLuqman campaign, when I asked what to write for this article about the campaign Luqman replied “What do you want to write about – justifying…
Over 200 Sussex staff members urge university to support student threatened with deportation
Sussex’s senior management team has recently received an open letter from over 200 Sussex members of staff, including numerous academics, requesting that the university support recent MA student Luqman Onikosi…
Why the occupation supporting Luqman Onikosi WAS productive, and why those who think it wasn’t shouldn’t feel afraid to speak out
“Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” John Donne On Friday…
The occupation in support of Luqman Onikosi was counter-productive
On Friday 11th March, I went down to Bramber House to watch a gathering of approximately 200 other students protesting against the Home Office’s decision to deport former Sussex student…
Live report from the Bramber House Occupation
6pm (12th March) Luqman Onikosi himself has released a statement about the university’s response to the occupation in Bramber House: “Thank you very much for all that has participated in…
Save Luqman: University fails to comment on enforcement of Home Office orders on Campus
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…