The Latest Online Issue from The Cheese Grater.
Issue 84 - Autumn/Winter 2022.
If you would like a print issue then please check the campus bins, or optimistically the recycling bins. If you actually wish to read a print issue of the magazine, then grow up. We print like 50 and they all end up thrown away by the end of the day anyway.
Investigations.
IWGB Security Strikes
In a statement made in November, UCL claimed outsourced security staff were “employed under the same terms and key conditions as ...
UCL Admin
If you’ve ever had to change your modules, inquire about extenuating circumstances, or even been through the enrolment process at...
2022 UCU Strikes
On the 24th, 25th and 30th of November, universities saw the biggest strike turnout in higher education, estimating over 70 000 a...
EA
The first time a student hears of the term “Effective Altruism”, they tend to assume the best. An act of altruism is an action th...
Satire & Humour
The UCL guide to being a covert Oxbridge reject
Lucy Reade 1. Only tell people four of the Universities you applied to on UCAS: During the conversational hell that is Fresher...
Naked Yoga: A Belligerent Ode to the Pussy
Mathilde Turner For the first time in my rapidly lengthening life, a month and a half ago, I moved north of the river to Pimli...
Straight out of Tottenham (Court Road)
Lucy Reade I’d been living in London no less than a month when I had my first harrowing experience with knife crime. I was up ...
Rejected Dissertation Titles
Seth Robinson Medicine: Exploring correlation between constellatory alignments and patient deaths in the ICU: Am I a psychopat...
Society Bitch
The Bitch is back. Please direct complaints to the contact tab.
What is it with all you horny, deviant sex pests?
Welcome to all of you enthusiastic freshers and commiserations to the depressed second and third years. It’s time for freshers' f...
Women's Wrongs | Zine
A Mully’s Love Story xoxo
I woke up one wasted Saturday afternoon, in my freshers flat. The city wore out its mid-November lu...
Why men love me
I am 5’2, petite & super easy to pick up I am skinny (but I have a fat ass) I am blonde (...
Nevertheless, she blossomed
Artist - Riddhi Kanetkar
Pandora’s Box
Artist - Iona Jenkins
Voices
Hong Kong’s Banana Breakthrough
It’s finally happening. After three years of 21-day quarantine policies, dine-in restrictions, and mask mandates, we citizens of ...
Umair Mehmood, The Underdog Story: How QR Codes Led to Welfare Wednesdays
Vivianne Zhang Wei Lack of awareness about the Students' Union elections is a persistent problem at UCL, but one candidate in ...
No More 3 for 10 Jagers?
Anna Maria Papaoikonomou, Zine Editor I can’t ever go back to my first two months of university. Not because I had a particula...
Sabbatical Officers Hustings: Thoughts from the Chair
For seven hours last week, I sat on stage with candidates for all six Sabbatical Officer positions and had the chance to question ...
Cartoon of the Week.
For no apparent reason other than this was the only cartoon produced throughout the entire week.