Sunday 6th July, 2008
Sykes earns £305K
Sir Richard Sykes, Rector of Imperial College, receives the highest Vice-Chancellor pay-packet of a government funded university in the country.
Sussex Uni library under siege
Last week, over one hundred students at Sussex University staged an all-night protest against an alleged decline in standards at the University.
Integrity of faculty elections in doubt
The recent RCSU elections have called into question the Union's constitution rules regarding the proposing of candidates. At hustings, each candidate must have a proposer who may speak on the candidate's behalf.
Crazy RAG week a great success
With another year drawing to a close for ICU RAG, it's time to step back, take off our crazy costumes, count up and look over the year's fundraising efforts.
- Double decker bus fire
- On the evening of Sunday 12 March, a 220 bus caught on fire in Hammersmith. Nobody was injured, but the people on board said that it was definitely a close call.
- Bone marrow donations
- Last week many students braved their fear of needles to give blood, in the hope that they might be a match to donate bone marrow.
- A response to last week's leader
- This year much effort was made to improve evening offerings and the Union has tried numerous successful initiatives.
- Registry underperforming
- I'm writing in response to the student who complained anonymously about the waiting time to get a form stamped in the Registry.
- Money please
- I'm not sure whether this classes as begging or not, but it is for a good cause, so what the hell!