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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…
We Talked To Striking Lecturers Standing In The Cold
It’s hardly the weather for the picket line. All around campus, small pockets of UCL academics are picketing as part of the national UCU strike. Larger groups, such as that…
How UCL Risked The Immigration Status of Vice Wardens For Years
Earlier this year, an international student and former Vice Warden of UCL accommodation shared her story with The Cheese Grater. Her tale exposes a system that cares little for international students…
The Cheese Grater At Risk Of Closure
Following SUUCL’s much maligned decision to cut all funding to The Cheese Grater this term, editors, contributors, readers and clairvoyants have condemned the move, claiming that it represents a grave…
A.A. Gill, Back From The Dead, Comes To UCL
Venue: Digital Engagement in Archaeology: Strategies and Evaluation Methods Conference, South Cloisters Price: Free Set in UCL’s resplendent south cloisters, this conference promised much in the way of classical cuisine.…
What Is UCL’s Favourite Spoon?
The Cheese Grater held an exclusive interview with UCL provost Michael Arthur to put an end to the ceaseless debates and bitter arguments over the question on everyone’s lips: What is…
Sheikh It Off: Inside UCL’s Decision To Leave Qatar
Since its inception in 2012, UCL’s campus in Qatar – a country where apostasy and homosexuality are punishable by death – has been a running sore for UCL management. This…
Hurl! Hurl! Hurl! (To Everything There Is a Season)
One of UCL’s cleaners (not underpaid or undervalued by UCL or students at all!) shares their experience… When you get to my age, you really learn to hate the young.…
Only 22% of UCL’s Highest Earners Are Women
“UCL was the first university in the UK to admit women” – surely this has been forced down every fresher’s throat by now? What they don’t put in the brochure,…