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In the midst of university mayhem, many students may find it difficult to de-stress, relax, and take a few minutes for themselves. Finding the time to get outside of the…

Sussex Pride 2019

Sussex Pride celebrations were held on Wednesday 27 February. The event was part of the wider series of events for LGBTQ+ History Month 2019. People attending the Pride march met…

Bon voyage- Language Café’s new home

The Language Café is a social event that runs weekly throughout term time and allows students to learn a new language and improve their current language skills. The Café has…

Women’s Rugby Varsity match cancelled

The Women’s Rugby match between the Sussex and Brighton teams has been cancelled amid safety concerns for players. The Varsity series between the University of Sussex and the University of…

SU elections – voter turnout lowest in a decade

The results are in for this year’s Students’ Union election, which saw 40 candidates running to be elected representatives of the student body at Sussex. Of the total 19,025 students…

Local community benefits from Sussex University

The University of Sussex has joined 29 other universities by signing the Civic University Agreement. Universities have signed this agreement to do more for their local communities. The Civic University…

Chris Riddell Illustrates for Students at University of Sussex Library

Brighton illustrator Chris Riddell visited the University of Sussex on Thursday 29 November with a busy day of drawing in the library. With an ardent passion for literature, Chris seemed…

The Stanza rebrands as Offshoot

With The University of Sussex’s popular online magazine, The Stanza, rebranding this year under the new name Offshoot, they have many new plans in the works. I had the chance…

Future of Pharmacy Degree Uncertain

The month-long Pharmacy MPharm consultation has now ended. The consultation over whether the course should be discontinued lasted from October 9 to November 9, with the final decision being decided…

Studying Abroad: From USA to France

So you know you want to study abroad, but there are too many amazing countries to choose from? Here we compare two major countries, across two different continents to spotlight…

Of Tears and Joy: An Honest Adventurer

A personal and raw account on living in Japan, offering advice on studying abroad. Much to my dismay, after five minutes of incoherent miming, the answer is simply ultimate confusion.…

SU Oktoberfest Cancelled

Sussex Students’ Union has cancelled their Oktoberfest event, citing low ticket sales. They issued the following statement about the event: “It’s with regret that we have to announce the cancellation…

Sussex Festival cancelled

The Students’ Union have cancelled their highly anticipated end-of-term event Sussex Festival: Desert Island Disco, which was due to begin on Saturday May 12th. The Students’ Union had organised the…

Students’ Union President Gustafsson and Liberate the Debate respond to the cancelled event

These comment pieces represent the opinions of both the Students’ Union and Liberate the Debate with regards to the recent cancellation of the Society’s freedom of speech debate. Students’ Union…

Union obliterates the debate – unwritten requirement used to shut down free speech debate

Written by the News Team. Student society Liberate the Debate’s most recent event was cancelled over a lack of compliance with the Students’ Union’s (USSU) requirement for a neutral chair…

SMuTS presents ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ review

Excitement and anticipation were running high Wednesday evening at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) for the opening night of Sussex Musical Theatre Society’s (SMuTS’s) Spring production: Jekyll…

SU Election coverage – Dead Slate: all women elected for third consecutive year at Sussex

The results are in for this year’s Students’ Union election, which saw 30 candidates running to be the full-time elected representatives of the student body at Sussex. The results for…

East Slope protestors had heating cut off and toilets removed during Occupation

Students occupying the half-built East Slope accommodation complex had their access to toilets removed, the heating shut off in sub-zero temperatures and a dog handler sent onto site. The occupation…

Unexploded Ordnances – Curing historical amnesia and saving the world

In her 1980 paper ‘Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference’, feminist writer Audre Lorde calls the myth of the “generation gap” one of the primary tools of repressive…

SMuTS presents Jekyll & Hyde

Sussex Musical Theatre Society (SMuTS) are presenting their Spring show this week premiering on Wednesday 21 March. The production is a musical theatre adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 gothic…