Having graduated from ECA in 2020, the ‘daunting covid year’ as she put it, Molly has since continued her rug tufting and weaving in the most extraordinary of ways. Now charged with themes of flashbacks and nightmares, Molly’s work combines her experiences of complex PTSD, with the realities of being an artist and living aside […]
CW: Mention of sexual assualt. A couple of weeks ago, Mahsa Amini was visiting Iran’s capital city, Tehran. Whilst there, she bumped into the Iranian state’s ‘morality police’ who took her into custody for not wearing her hijab in an ‘appropriate’ way. A few days later, she was fighting for her life in an intensive […]
Concern about the future of print journalism is not a recent phenomenon. Its impending demise has been lamented since the onset of the television age in the 1950s. Nonetheless, the rapidity of change within the industry which has taken place since the turn of the 21st century is difficult to overstate. Major publications such as […]
Dear Editors, I can’t believe it’s already April and that I’ve been EiC for two months. It’s a surreal feeling to think that we’ve done so much in so little time. But honestly, when does it not feel like that at The Student. Editors come and go, EiCs are the same. I just hope that in […]
It goes without saying that the style of The Student newspaper has changed significantly over the years. But its aim as a publication, to provide a platform for the student voice and bring refreshing, current news stories onto our campus, still resonates with its writers and editors who produce the paper today. This piece from […]
As well as being highly entertaining, this week’s archive requires more thoughtful analysis. In the modern age, the idea of putting up flags to showcase how this university is the “Empire in little” seems nonsensical. It’s as if the writer were trying to boast the riches of the Empire much in the sense of the […]
On 11th September 2019, The Student Newspaper and The Debates Union joined forces in the Teviot Debating Hall to present a discussion panel on the interesting and notably urgent issue of media skepticism. The panel consisted of Dhruti Chakravarthi, Deniz Yalçin, Magdalena Jablonska, Elsa Hesslow, and Jason Woods, with Nathanael Clifton acting as Moderator. The event began with audience involvement where headlines were read out for which the spectators then […]
The Student sat down with incoming Editors-in-Chief, Grace Lavender (former Comment Editor) and Rufus Bouverie (former Features Editor), to discuss their plans for the paper, the content they’re looking forward to seeing and where they hope to be in five editions time. When did you first start at The Student? R – I started in […]