Good morning and welcome to the launch edition of The Cheese Grater’s fortnightly newsletter, the Digestive.
The idea behind this newsletter is to provide students with a consistent and reliable source of campus news outside of our termly print issues.
We recognise that students often feel disconnected from UCL, and it is our hope that this newsletter will address this problem by keeping you in the loop about things happening on campus in an informative and digestible way.
Every other Monday from today onwards, readers can expect to see the Digestive in their inboxes and on our Instagram. All stories featured in the Digestive are available in full on our website.
Without further ado, here are the headlines this week.
The UCL Labour Society is off to a rocky start to the new academic year as its handful of remaining members complain about the ‘lack of clear leadership’.
Outsourced cleaners at the Cruciform were finally offered parity in pay and conditions, five years after it was promised by UCL, but not before its subcontractor made one last attempt to ‘squeeze profits’.
The UCL Conservatives have outdone themselves once again by beating their record of getting suspended by the Union just two weeks after they returned to campus.
The Students’ Union appears confident that students will return to its bars despite raising the price of pints to cover increased spending on staff wages.
The final three candidates in the Conservative leadership race have come down to American crypto finance mogul and prison inmate Sam Bankman-Fried, former This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield, and a Sack of Potatoes, writes Elgin Edison.
As UCL reinstates strict immigration control across all campus entry points, Online Editor Robert Delaney writes about life in the Bloomsbury police state.
Picture of the week
By Katelyn Liu
One year on: Protests at the gates of UCL on 7 October marking one year since Hamas’ attack on Israel and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine that ensued.
