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Cambridge

The ‘boring prude defence’

Calling someone a prude is a lazy refusal to scrutinise what mainstream culture says and does, argues Hannah Wilkinson

Newspapers

Student journalists should be innovators, not imitators

Martin Bottomley thinks student journalists are wasting an opportunity to push journalism forward

LGBTQ Flag

NUS campaign redefines ‘woman’

“LGBT Campaign Conference passes motion to make democracy a little more inclusive”

Margaret Thatcher

NUS National Conference cheer Thatcher’s death

Cheering and applause reportedly followed from around 30 or 40 delegates

beer

‘The Tab supports lad culture’

Founder Jack Rivlin’s Telegraph article condemning NUS report is typical of the student tabloid’s style, writes Ronnie Rowlands

McDonalds

McDonald’s ‘takes the fun out of Happy Meals’

McDonald’s replaces Happy Meal toys with educational pamphlets – an attempt to feign social awareness, argue Tom Steadman and Kerry McIntyre

News of the World

Lord Hunt: “The PCC hasn’t got a very good record of doing anything to control the media”

The head of the Press Complaints Commission said he “did not agree with all Leveson’s conclusions” during a talk at the University of East Anglia

Mobile phone in car

‘Driving laws unfairly punish young people’

Surely it would be better to have a nation of young, well educated and skilled drivers, muses Oliver Maurice

National Women's Day

Women should fight for their own voice, not protest to silence others

We should campaign for a platform for women – not make the debate about men, writes Tommy Shane

Poppy

SU President refuses to recognise Remembrance Service

University of London Union president Daniel Cooper snubbed ceremony and would not lay a wreath

Handlebar moustache

‘Movember’: the problem with charity fundraising

‘Shave yourself the hassle’: Johnny Singer looks at the problems of raising money for charity

Hertford College, Durham University

Disgruntled Durham third-years charged extra during Freshers’ week

Durham University colleges are charging students £20 a night for accommodation during Freshers’

Exam papers

Cambridge science students win re-marking battle

Several results were changed from thirds to firsts

Exepose

A skewed view of uni life: why ‘low quality’ student tabloids undermine good journalism

Tom Payne, editor of Exeter’s Expose, argues student tabloids detract from the serious issues raised by broadsheet papers