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Issue 88 – Autumn 2024
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The Digestive
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Good morning.
In the week that the clocks turned back (meaning you can now complain about how dark it gets at 4pm) and the Rep Ele...
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As an integral member of the student media community at UCL, the success of The Cheese Grater Magazine depends on ou...
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Good morning and welcome to the launch edition of The Cheese Grater’s fortnightly newsletter, the Digestive.The id...
The Digestive is the fortnightly newsletter by The Cheese Grater, covering the latest campus news, satire, and gossip, every other Monday during term time.
The idea behind the Digestive is to provide students with a consistent and reliable source of campus news outside of our termly print issues. It also means it’s easier than ever to get involved and have your story published!
Each issue will also feature a picture of the week. Readers are welcome to send us your submissions via email at editor@cheesegratermagazine.org or send us a message on Twitter and Instagram.
All stories featured in the Digestive are available online.
News & Investigations
Government to hike tuition fees after Budget fail to mention students
The Government has hiked tuition fees for English students by £285 today just a week after the Budget failed to mention “students” even once.Nick...
Humour & Satire
UCL-themed Halloween costume ideas
So, it’s Halloween and you’ve only just realised you don’t have a costume. Well, don’t panic! I have compiled a list of the greatest UCL-themed Hallo...
My culture is not your costume
Ben Scanlan Sketch DirectorImage by Couleur from PixabayTo whom this may concern, Hi, my name is Jingles, and I’m a proud member of ...
An encounter with the phantom flatmate
Rhi Skelhorn, Shreya Jammalamadaka, and Tvisha MehtaFreya, first year History of Art BAWho are they? What do they do at uni? Maybe they’r...
Dear phantom flatmate
Jasmine Yiu Graphics Editor
Jeremy Bentham returns from the Shadow Realm to haunt UCL students
UCL has issued a ‘DO NOT ENGAGE’ warning to all students regarding the annual appearance of a zombified Jeremy Bentham. Elgin EdisonZomb...
Spooking the market: Scala ticket value skyrockets on Halloween
Scala has finally gone public on the London Universities Stock Exchange, and traders have taken to WhatsApp group chats to buy and sell tickets, gran...
Man in white T-shirt and jeans at Halloween party insists he’s Homer Simpson
At a recent UCL Halloween Party, amongst the Freddy Kruegers’ and Spidermans’ was Biology student Chad Michaels, dressed in a short-sleeved white t-s...
Terrorism Society banned INSTANTLY
Members of the UCL Terrorism Society were heartbroken after the Students’ Union banned all future activity and are rejecting any applications to revi...
Union to merge all political societies
Students’ Union UCL was ‘proud to reveal’ that all political societies have now been conveniently merged into one big society dubbed ‘The Party’....
Chaos after Tory-led freshers’ fair riot
The recent Welcome Fair was infiltrated by the Gilet-wearing Conservative Society, who served biblical amounts of unlicensed alcohol to anyone who co...
Voices & Letters
Jewish Society, wake up!
This is a desperate cry for change from a Jewish student who has had more than enough of the UCL Jewish Society’s underreaction to events unfolding i...
Robert Delaney: I will rebuild student media
On Wednesday, The Cheese Grater sent out a blanket invite to all four candidates competing to be Media Rep – Altay Shaw, Robert Delaney, Maria Kliuch...
Student politics is broken, and it’s our fault
Student politics at UCL has a major crisis of engagement. In last year’s Leadership Race, the Union celebrated a ‘record-breaking’ turnout of… 23.7%....
What is it with the Provost and ‘Disagreeing Well’?
If you are new to UCL, you will probably notice very soon that the Provost has a particular obsession with ‘free speech’ and a little something calle...
The Mailsack: Issue 88, Autumn 2024
Please write to usDear Readers,The Cheese Grater had a brief experiment with a letters column called the Mailsack around ten years ago wh...
Graduation? No thank you.
The portal has opened, but its glow is far from beckoning… Instead, a rather grim, shadowy darkness looms, eager to swallow me up and spit me out ont...
‘It would be a pain if this gets out’: The boy’s club and university rugby
As a chronic eavesdropper, the minute I hear something vaguely interesting it sticks. And when it sticks, I start to dig.Ammara AslamThis...
Is it over for France? Portrait of a nation on fire
It’s difficult to put into words the degree of urgency of the situation.Andrea Bidnic Investigations EditorImagine a world where Nigel F...
Editorial: Don’t be held electoral hostage on July 4
When the choice at this general election is between the Tories and the Red Tories, The Cheese Grater believes that students should vote for an indepe...
On the Provost’s Update
Dayan MustafaIn his attempt to say nothing at all (nothing political, that is) Dr Michael Spence, the UCL Provost, has revealed more than he ...