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USA UNLIKELY TO DUMP THE GUN
Amy Parsons On the 14th of December 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza made Newtown, Connecticut the centre of global attention when he shot and killed his mother, twenty children and six adults in the...
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FREEDOM OF SPEECH MUST BE DEFENDED
On the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington, riots erupted across the Middle East in response to an obscure, poorly made film produced in the U.S. called ‘Innocence...
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Afghan women’s rights: essential for peace.
When I returned to University to embark on my second year of study I was met with the revelation that I am a Feminist. At first I was frightened, horrified, and shocked. Then it struck me that my new...
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Richard the Third: Unearthed
Article by Naomi Green and Richard Green Coined as a ‘research adventure’ by Vice-Chancellor Robert Burgess, the revelation that the remains found in a Leicester City Council car park were in fact...
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‘Pie and Policy’ Debate to Provide Food for Thought (and Actual Pie)
Campaigning power house Sean Kelly-Walsh has called for a new ‘Pie and Policy’ event; a vastly popular university wide debate in which members of all student groups are invited to participate. Previous...
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Momentum Gathering for ‘Inanimate Carbon Rod’ for NUS President
The sensational national campaign to elect an ‘Inanimate Carbon Rod’ as President of the National Union of Students (NUS) in this April’s election has reached a new level of attention this morning, as...
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French Military Interventionism: making up for history?
Simon Youel In the minds of the Simpsons generation, France assumes the role of a nation of cheese eating surrender monkeys, eternally discredited for her inability to halt Germany’s blitzkrieg in the...
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Event: UOL Refugee Week
The UOL International Relations and United Nations Societies are hosting an awareness week to highlight the plight of refugees worldwide. A word from one of the organisers Whilst organising Refugee...
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Uprooted: The Syrian Conflict and the Refugee Experience
By Iqra Mazhir, President of the UOL International Relations Society The Arab Spring has, for some, marked an era of “revolutionary change”. The uprisings that started from a small town in Tunis to the...
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Human Trafficking Must End
By Pete Marlow, President on the Leicester University United Nations Society (LUUNS) Promises are meant to be kept. But throughout the world, and in Britain, people have had promises of a better life...
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LUST DISCOVER LOST 1980s IMPORT TV SHOW IN UNION ARCHIVE
LUST, the student run television station at Leicester, have unearthed an old TV show ‘Lüst en Translaçionne’ in the little known Union vault under the Square. The discovery of the ancient cassette...
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GENDER SEGREGATION BY UOL ISLAMIC SOCIETY
Search for ‘University of Leicester’ on The Guardian’s website and the most recent news story, posted 15 April, is a report that an inquiry has been launched after the University of Leicester Islamic...
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WOE-RUM: UNION PARLIAMENT HALTS AFTER NOT ENOUGH MEMBERS SHOW UP, VOTES ‘YES’...
Parliament halts shortly after 9pm after just HALF of all Proposals addressed. Proposal for Union to support Graduate Tax passes after fierce debate. Available to watch here. Union Parliament met with...
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ENGI-TEARS: ENGINEERING SCORES LOWEST ON LEICESTER STUDENT VIEWS SURVEY,...
Engineering hits bottom in 4 out of 5 departmental categories from Students Views Survey. Geology and American Studies outstanding performance. Economics also lags consistently below average. Students...
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Campaign to Release Leicester’s Abdul Ghafar Rajabali Gains Traction With...
An online campaign to release local Abdul Ghafar Rajabali, currently being held and awaiting removal to Afghanistan on Wednesday, has gained massive support from the local community, including many...
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‘Well Leicester’ Well Popular
‘Well Leicester’, a song written by unsigned local ’90s band Victor, has gained over 14,000 viewers on Youtube at the time of writing. The song focuses on many famous landmarks and Leicestercians, with...
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EDL want Leicester March to go within 50 Metres of University
The English Defence League (EDL) are planning to hold a march in Leicester that could take them within 50 metres of the University. The EDL’s Facebook event for the march has cited a desire to finish...
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Calls for the Union and University to Scrap the Sun and ‘Lads Mags’
Several notable officers in Union Parliament are attempting to introduce an emergency Proposal (available here) that would see the Students’ Union block the sale of ‘material of a sexual nature’ –...
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Should the Union adopt an Open Platform policy?
Debates surrounding Freedom of Speech tend to be highly contentious: on one hand, they enshrine people’s right to criticise governments, companies, political ideologies and religions, while on the...
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What’s On: The Rise of UKIP – Debate Tonight!
A debate has been organised to discuss the rise of UKIP following the local elections, in which the party gained approximately 26% of the vote. The debate will follow some of the broader themes of the...
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