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Revealed: New concert scam targeting UCL students on WhatsApp
UCL society group chats have been inundated with ticket scams for artists like Sabrina Carpenter
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Rep Elections: Vegan campaigners field undercover candidates for NUS rep
At least five candidates running for NUS delegate were part of a secret conspiracy to control the agenda at this year’s National ...
Trouble for UCL Labour amid ‘lack of clear leadership’
The UCL Labour Society is off to a rocky start to the new academic year as its handful of remaining members complain about the ‘l...
Tory Soc suspended again
The UCL Conservatives have outdone themselves by beating their record of getting suspended by the Union just two weeks after they...
‘Union Funding Barely Keeps Us Afloat’: UCL Water Polo and the SU
Robert DelaneyThe first rule of water polo is to keep your head above the water. Yet, the UCL Water Polo Club is struggling t...
InEffective UnAltruism: The Problem with UCL’s Effective Altruism Society
Thais Jones & Aniela BichotThe first time a student hears the term “Effective Altruism”, they tend to assume the best. An...
Chun Buckets Everywhere: How Initiation Ceremonies Ruin the Freshers Experience
This article was awarded Best News Story at the 2023 Student Publication Association Awards and Best Media Piece at the 2023 Stu...
Why we need the 93% Club at UCL
It is no secret that state-school students have faced, and continue to face, significant barriers when accessing higher education ...
What exactly is the Not Cool Club? In conversation with the club’s president
The Not Cool Club at UCL has gained a lot of traction. All around campus the walls are covered in black and yellow posters promoti...
Socialist Workers Party secretly run student society
The Cheese Grater can exclusively reveal that UCL Socialist Worker Student Society (SWSS), affiliated to the Socialist Workers Par...
Here’s How Many Societies Opted-Out of The Union’s Shambolic Online Elections
The controversial plan to move AGMs online appears to have been much ado about nothing, with the majority of UCL’s 268 societies o...
Second Time’s The Charm For Ex-IDF Speaker
Back in 2016, UCL won international news coverage when an event with Hen Mazzig, hosted by UCL Friends of Israel, was disrupted by...
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 ...
The indomitable ISoc election machine
UCL know that there is one person who guarantees electoral success: the President of the Islamic Society (ISoc). In this year’s sp...
RIP Pi Newspaper (2007-2012)
In an email sent this morning to all members Pi's president outlined proposals to scrap Pi Newspaper, merging some of its content ...
