News and Investigations
The Cheese Grater’s investigations team works hard to provide you with the latest stories about UCL and the Union. We shine a light on the realities of the UCL experience, covering everything from the inanities of student politics to how the machiavellian manoeuvres of UCL management impacts daily life on campus.
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Ilyas hung out to dry: online society elections will now be opt-out
Tonight at an Emergency Council Meeting, the debate over whether President and Treasurer elections for societies should go online finally came to a boil. The two protagonists of the night…
iPad debate heats up first successful General Assembly in four years
In a historic night for the Union, Tuesday’s General Assembly was the first since 2014 to which enough people showed up for the meeting to actually go ahead, so that…
Here Are Five Shocking Sexist & Racist Tweets By UCL Professor Who Hosted Eugenics Conference
This morning, London Student published an exposé into the London Conference of Intelligence that has been hosted by UCL for the last four years. The host of the conference is Professor James…
Daily Mail sensationalises UCL fundraising
A series of articles in the Daily Mail accuse various universities, including UCL, of using wealth screening companies to target alumni for donations. The Mail alleges that universities accessed and…
Exorbitant student accomodation at UCL East
UCL East students will face central London prices for accommodation in decidedly-not-central London. The primary justification for building UCL’s new campus six miles away from Bloomsbury in the Queen Elizabeth…
Why did only 160 students turn up to that much-hyped General Assembly?
For the fourth year running, last Tuesday’s promised Union General Assembly never took place, because too few students turned up. Though heavily advertised on Facebook as a forum for students…
“Zero Tolerance is just a marketing scheme”: Union hypocrisy fails sexual assault victims
“They make you run around in circles until you give up.” Imagine having a drink with a friend in Phineas. All around are posters and T-shirts advertising the Union’s ‘Zero…
One Man Protest for Anti-Zionist Speakers
Although The Times wrote last week that “hundreds of students have protested against University College London’s decision to host two controversial pro-Palestinian speakers”, when The Cheese Grater rocked up at…
Geography Department sorry for sexist PowerPoint slide
Some lecture slides are impossible to decipher, some contain poor puns, and then there are those which are simply tone deaf. This Tuesday in a lecture given to the Masters…
Why exactly did UCLU need a rebrand?
This summer, the dull purple of UCLU was replaced with the ghastly orange of Students Union UCL, also “not known as” SUUCL. The use of the silly acronym is actively…