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NUS vote for national demonstration in Autumn
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Student Officer elections postponed until September
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Amnesty International protest against Shell operations
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Book review: Hurricane Lane, Michelle Vinall
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DVD Release: Into The Abyss – Out Now
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Gig Review: Lostprophets, Southampton Guildhall
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Southsea Fest 2012 lineup announced
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Premiership dream ends for hockey girls
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Lecturers strike over pension reforms
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Portsmouth student competes at Olympic Stadium
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Cheerleaders cap successful year with another trophy
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Four things to do in Paris… and they won’t cost you a penny!
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The True Cost of Free Music
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Avengers Assemble: Earth’s mightiest heroes join forces
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Gig Review: Bombay Bicycle Club, Portsmouth Guildhall
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Gig Review: One Night Only, Wedgewood Rooms
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Students abseil down Spinnaker Tower for charity
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PR guru Max Clifford talks to University students
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DIY Fashion Fix: Tie-dye
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Hockey take Club of the Year at AU Awards
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Team Plum sails to home success
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Interview: Of Mice & Men
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Get Drunk. Read Dickens. Analyse.
As a third year, a good portion of my time at university is spent toiling over books in the library, making sure my work is as good as it could be. Or it would be, if I wasn’t anti-library to…
A not-so-Merry Xmas for the EU toiling masses
During the recent Belarussian presidential elections, the EU flag was flown as a symbol of freedom and democracy. In Europe, it is being burnt by angry demonstrators. With the sovereign debt crisis gathering pace on the bloc’s periphery, austerity measures…
Education for education’s sake
Following news of the academic year shift, Grant Clarke argues the university should not seek to make students “employable”
Education is a right, not a privilege
So I was reflecting on the fights going on against increasing tuition fees and education cuts and something struck me. Those who advocate the view that I’ve used as the title for this article don’t really believe it. Let me…
Readers’ Letters: Director of IS responds & “poppies as propaganda”
I was very saddened to read in Issue 48 about Emily Venables’ frustrating experience with computers in the Library. When Emily visited, we were updating software on some PCs. At the same time and very unexpectedly we had a fault with the entry system, which prevented us from lending fifty laptops. Our supplier fixed this the following day, but meanwhile students struggled to find free PCs.
Poppies as propaganda
I read with dismay Greg Barker-Devereux’s letter in Pugwash [News] (‘About time to wear your poppy’ 3 November 2010). Barker-Devereux argues that the red poppy is a symbol of respect that we should all pay to ‘our fallen’. Many of…
Why I am an atheist
I was lucky enough to receive an e-mail to edit for the paper, titled “I’m an agnostic, but…”, in which the writer explains how he is embarrassed by hardcore atheists like Richard Dawkins.
Don’t drink the water
Over the last eight months and twelve issues of Pugwash News, on these very pages, I have explained many things. But, today, this day, the most important mystery in humanity will be explored. It is, of course, the mystery of the success of bottled water.
Memory fades…
Can you remember what you had for breakfast? You probably can. I can’t. My memory pretty much resembles a sieve, filtering out all the need-to-know facts, and leaving behind the useless nuggets of information, such as what time my favourite TV shows are on.
I’m not agnostic, but…
Arrest the Pope? Whilst it’s something I admit I would find refreshing and might make Charles Manson do a little salsa dance in his grave, I’d also like to see Richard Dawkins thrown in jail with him.