Will the Eugenics Inquiry learn from past mistakes?
At a town hall meeting on 1 March, students and staff came together to debate and testify to UCL’s complex relationship with eugenics and scientific racism. Last year’s revelations about…
UCL shifts blame for unpaid security staff
Last November, UCL switched security contractors from CIS to Axis. The roster of security officers at UCL has changed little, but the messy transition has caused them huge problems. Holiday…
UCL shirks responsibility for internship from hell
A report has been passed to The Cheese Grater alleging serious safeguarding failures on an internship attended by over 10 UCL students last summer: the Toshin Global English Camp, run…
Men’s Rugby has been disaffiliated
It is with no small amount of schadenfreude that Soc Bitch can announce that UCL Men’s Rugby has been disaffiliated from Students’ Union UCL. It’s been a trying year for…
Low-paid Senate House workers hung out to dry
Activists are back at Senate House after UoL reverses outsourcing decision. The University of London has reneged on its promise to bring outsourced staff in-house. In spring this year, during…
Inside the Panopticon: UCL surveillance creates a hostile environment for Tier 4 students
Recent changes to the attendance monitoring policy for Tier 4 students in several UCL faculties are generating opposition from staff and students. It is alleged that the new policies not…
UCL medics glass attendees at debauched sports ball
It is with a heavy heart that Soc Bitch must announce that RUMS Sports Teams are at it again. Pandemonium ensued at last night’s RUMS sports ball when partygoers were…
Provost thoughts
This appeared in CG 66.
The search for the next Provost begins
Michael Arthur will be stepping down as Provost at the end of September 2020, and the search is on for his successor. The Cheese Grater reviews the candidates. Michael Arrr-thur…
Giving head: Jeremy Bentham speaks
Greetings and salutations, guys, girls and everything in between. For those who don’t know me, I’m the shrivelled up, bollocky-looking thing you pass in the cloisters. You may not think…
UCLove plagued by suicide threats
Content warning: mentions of suicide, depression, anxiety, self-harm and eating disorders, but no detailed or graphic descriptions. Although UCLove was created as a space for calling out library crushes, it…
Academics against outsourcing boycott Senate House
Campaigners from the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) are stepping up efforts to end outsourcing at the University of London (UoL). They are calling for a boycott of events…
AGMs in “the worst” shocker
It’s AGM season which means it’s time to make fun of jumped-up students who act like they’re hiring an international executive, not electing someone to run pub crawls. Soc Bitch…
Election balls
Adverts on social media, a ball pit in South Cloisters, and a promise of £500 to the society with the highest percentage of voting members were not enough to boost…