NEWS»

In reaction to figures revealing that the number of students leaving during their first year has dropped, Students’ Union President Dave Halls stressed the particular importance of supporting Freshers’ as they adjust to life at Surrey. He stressed how the Union recognises that coming to university will be the first time that many students have lived away from home, and the pressures of studying at a higher academic level may cause students to leave early.

4th Dec 2012 Read more...

FEATURES»

April is one of the most highly anticipated months of the year for students; not only do we get a month off to enjoy home comforts such as baths and free heating, but we receive the second instalment of our student loan. Christmas has long since drained the last of our money, and we’ve spent the last couple of weeks before the holidays scrounging baked bean cans and stale crackers from the back of our cupboards.

27th Apr 2013 Read more...

SOCIETIES»

  Over the last few months, we have become able to observe a dangerous pattern forming in the condemning of Turkey’s Government, not only of the press, but of individual citizens, for the crime of their free speech. Politically labelling itself as a ‘democratic’ constitutional republic, we perhaps do not expect the extreme repressions of free speech and freedom of press that have recently been reported, which evoke the question, is Turkey reaching a point of crisis? In what seems like an act of dark irony, six members of the PEN Turkey group have actually been charged with ‘insulting the state’ and were subsequently called in for questioning on the 10 The members of PEN Turkey are sentenced in accordance with Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, which perhaps, here, requires analysis.

1st Mar 2013 Read more...

SCIENCE & TECH»

  Now, we all love a brain teaser to stimulate our minds and get that ‘feel-good’ satisfaction. Funnily enough, so do our human-like friends Chimpanzees, according to some new research at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire.

4th Mar 2013 Read more...

ARTS»

  It would seem amiss of me to begin this issue’s review without touching upon the unusual chain of events which preceded it. On his 66 Previous readers may have noticed that I often have two conflicting states of mind in respect of the attempts by long-established rock musicians to recapture the sound of their early career.

21st May 2013 Read more...

SPORTS»

  Arsenal          1 – 3   Bayern Munich Porto               1 – 0   Malaga AC Milan       2 – 0   Barcelona Galatasaray   1 – 1   Schalke 04   The big game from the first night in the second week of the last sixteen of the Champions League occurred in London. Arsenal were thoroughly outplayed for long periods, particularly the first thirty minutes of the game, and Bayern looked both highly dangerous in sustained periods of possession and on the break.

4th Mar 2013 Read more...

OPINION & ANALYSIS»

Over a year ago Denmark introduced what I believe was one of the greatest tax inflations ever; a tax to food with added saturated fat. This was the best incentive to increase health, reduce obesity, and to save money.

22nd Nov 2012 Read more...

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