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 Elections drew to a close before anyone noticed it had started, our journalists were busy dotting around campus, chasing stories from protests to electoral misconduct. Others sat in the media office going through planning documents – and they say journalism is dead. Here are the headlines this week.
The UCL Art Museum is being ‘evicted’ by the University in a ‘hugely sensitive and problematic’ move that has angered students, academics, and museum staff alike, writes Nick Miao.
The Institute of Education has renamed its Drama Studio after a woman for the first time in its 122-year history, writes Robert Delaney.
Apathy ensues as this year’s Students’ Union Rep Elections draw to a close with the lowest voter turnout in three years, writes Seth Harris.
Pro-Palestine activists have in recent weeks carried out disruptions at UCL careers fairs to highlight the University’s ties to companies complicit in genocide, writes Rhi Skelhorn.
UCL’s Provost Michael Spence was paid just over half a million pounds last year, making him the third highest-paid university boss in the UK after LSE and Oxford, i News reported last week.
Police attended an incident at Byng Place last Thursday after reports that a lone counter-protester attacked the Palestinian encampment, writes Rhi Skelhorn and Ekin Kesoglu.
Students’ Union UCL was ‘proud to reveal’ that all political societies have now been conveniently merged into one big society dubbed ‘The Party’, writes Gizel Adin.
Members of the UCL Terrorism Society are heartbroken after the Students’ Union banned all future activity and are rejecting any applications to revive the society, writes Elgin Edison.
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