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UCL medics glass attendees at debauched sports ball
It is with a heavy heart that Soc Bitch must announce that RUMS Sports Teams are at it again. Pandemonium ensued at last night’s RUMS sports ball when partygoers were…
Union Council bans iPads for sabbatical elections
Voting opened today in elections for Union sabbatical and part-time officers. This year will be the first in which campaigners are forbidden from approaching students with electronic devices and encouraging…
UCL may adopt IHRA definition rejected by Students’ Union
At a heated Union members’ meeting on Monday 21 January, students voted by a margin of 212 to 78 to reject the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)…
Has scrapping hardship bursary disadvantaged UCL’s worst-off students?
In a year when UCL accommodations are less accessible to the most financially insecure students due to the scrapping of the Accommodation Bursary and Hardship Fund, UCL now appears to…
UCL shirks responsibility for internship from hell
A report has been passed to The Cheese Grater alleging serious safeguarding failures on an internship attended by over 10 UCL students last summer: the Toshin Global English Camp, run…
Men’s Rugby has been disaffiliated
It is with no small amount of schadenfreude that Soc Bitch can announce that UCL Men’s Rugby has been disaffiliated from Students’ Union UCL. It’s been a trying year for…
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 Party, is not run by UCL students, but by the old-school Trots…
Why is UCL’s WiFi so bad?
This academic year, it has often been impossible for students to access WiFi in UCL libraries. Though eduroam functioned fine before the summer, since the start of September, coverage has…
The show is over for Magic Society
UCL Magic Society has been disaffiliated from the union after a failure to conjure up enough card-carrying members spelled disaster for the group. The unfortunate illusionists had no ace up…
Inheriting Galton: The people working to make UCL less racist
“If we had Muslims or people of colour holding the same conference … we would have seen counter-terrorism police on our doorstep the next day.” SU UCL BME Officer Ayo…