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Issue 88 – Autumn 2024
Click the front cover to read Issue 88 of The Cheese Grater, UCL's Publication of the Year 2024. Limited copies now avaliable across campus and at our Welcome Fair stall.
News & Investigations
Down Your Union: New Sabbs in Focus
By way of introducing readers to the new sabbatical leadership at the Students’ Union, The Cheese Grater has taken the great risk...
Kiss goodbye to the Main Quad until 2026, says UCL
In a blog post titled ‘Improving experience and accessibility for our campus’ central spaces’, the University has announced its p...
No free speech for UCL’s outsourced workforce
Despite his repeated claims that the ‘right to protest, debate, and challenging ideas is fundamental to our role as a university’...
Access denied: UCL fails disabled student on graduation day
At the Faculty of Arts and Humanities graduation on Tuesday (3 September), one student was forced to receive their degree certifi...
Humour & Satire
Cycle rickshaws: the good, the bad, and the bedazzled
It’s the dead of night. Freshers week is finally upon you; after a long, listless summer. You drag yourself home, back from a clu...
Top five spots on campus to have a breakdown in (tried and tested)
Has the thrill of Freshers been replaced by the eldritch horror that is Turnitin, or worse, UCL Accommodation? I’ve been there to...
Diary of a Med Student: Strike Day #62
Dear Diary,Today was yet another disappointment. The consultant did not notice me yet again, not giving me any additional job...
So, the Woman You Were Interested In Tells You She’s A Lesbian
Marian JagoSo, it happened again. You started talking to someone you really liked and she seemed to really like you, so you f...
Society Bitch
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Society Bitch: Issue 88, Autumn 2024
Welcome back, my dear gossip guzzlers. I know you’ve missed me, but I certainly haven’t missed you. It’s been a long summer a...
Soc Bitch: Issue 87, Summer 2024
The Bitch-er Takes It All!My darling gossip gobblers, did you miss me? I suppose you haven’t seen me in print since my victor...
Voices
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...
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 li...
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 aro...
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...
Cartoon of the Week
Henry has been cartoon of the week for so long that no one remembers the context anymore. His tormented existence is a testament to the chronic staff shortage at the Graphics Team. We are begging you to draw for us.