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Freshers’ Week weather report: Sheffield is exactly how you left it
Grey. That’s the overall prognosis for Sheffield Freshers’ Week 2014. This will not come as a surprise for returning students who will be far from alien to the concept of cloudy, South Yorkshire’s...
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Freshers’ outrage over private taxis
Students have taken to the ‘University of Sheffield Firmers 2014/2015′ Facebook page to express concern over an increase in dodgy taxi’s. Many claim to have been duped into hailing private cabs rather...
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How safe is the Steel City?
With a wave of burglaries and a student attacked in the city centre in the last week alone, it would be easy to think the city is deviating from it’s typically good reputation. According to the online...
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Potter-mad student wins at Twitter
Get excited Sheffield – the one true Hermione of Twitter walks among us. A Potter-mad Sheff student correctly guesses the answer to JK Rowling’s anagram, briefly reaching the heady heights of “twitter...
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‘Vile’ controversial feminist banned from speaking at SU
Top dogs at the Union have banned a radical feminist from speaking at the SU, just days before she was due to appear. Controversial writer Julie Bindel was banned from the Union after a vote by the SU...
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‘Water bottle policy’ top of new SU referenda
In ‘The Big Decision’ vote, students are being invited to have their say on some massively important University issues. The Union’s bottled water policy is among one of the three life-changing votes up...
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Hottest Hallowe’en on record hits Sheffield
A Hallowe’en Heatwave swept Sheffield in the week building up to Friday 31st October, causing the city’s warmest Halloween since records began. The soaring temperatures peaked at 18.8°C, seven degrees...
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Che Guevara’s daughter to speak at SU
Dr Aleida Guevara is to give a speech about the Ebola crisis. Che Guevara’s eldest daughter Aleida, a paediatrician and human rights campaigner, is coming to the SU Auditorium next week to talk about...
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SU club night scrapped after a mere five week run
This year’s new SU night, “SoundClash” has been axed just weeks after being added to the Union’s event roster. The club night which filled the Monday night slot in the SU promised “the biggest indie...
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Oh deer: Outrage after SU reindeer event cancelled over ‘welfare issues’
The annual SU reindeer appearance has been cancelled over animal welfare issues. In the most anti-Christmas scandal to date, the SU apologised for lack of furry friends at Interval Café this year....
View ArticleEh oh! Teletubbies creator top of new uni honorary degrees list
Anne Wood, the mastermind behind classics such as “Teletubbies” and “In The Night Garden” has understandably topped this year’s honorary degree list released by the Uni. Wood and various other esteemed...
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Uni unveils virtual tour video of The Diamond
The video offers the first glimpse of the much anticipated engineering building ‘The Diamond’, and it’s as blingy as you’d expect. Earlier in the week the Uni released a new promotion video or...
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Campus graffiti: A critic’s guide
We explore the artistic offerings round campus, from thought provoking poo charts to delicate dragonfly murals. This charming offering on an otherwise regular lampost takes a turn on the Cubist era,...
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Mike Tyson tweets his shock after huge Octagon boxing brawl
The fight took place on Saturday and erupted into violence between the boxers’ fans and coaching staff, prompting a Twitter response from the boxing legend Mike Tyson. On Saturday night Muheed...
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The 2015 Varsity garms are officially in stock
Every year the SU brings out a new range of garbs available from “Our Shop”, and we potentially love the 2015 collection more than we hate Hallam. The black t-shirt is obviously the one true essential...
View ArticleHallam dunces can’t even spell ‘varsity’– how the hell do they expect to win it?
Varsity final is a matter of hours away and our poly neighbours have made a strong start with a tragically misspelt Twitter hashtag, #HallamVaristy. It’s been trending in Sheffield all day, with both...
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Why is our Summer Social so dire?
2015’s so-called “biggest, wildest and craziest event of the year” is just around the corner, and you can practically taste the anti-climax already. The Summer Social is the SU’s self-styled biggest...
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SU club night scrapped after a mere five week run
This year’s new SU night, “SoundClash” has been axed just weeks after being added to the Union’s event roster. The club night which filled the Monday night slot in the SU promised “the biggest indie...
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Oh deer: Outrage after SU reindeer event cancelled over ‘welfare issues’
The annual SU reindeer appearance has been cancelled over animal welfare issues. In the most anti-Christmas scandal to date, the SU apologised for lack of furry friends at Interval Café this year....
View ArticleEh oh! Teletubbies creator top of new uni honorary degrees list
Anne Wood, the mastermind behind classics such as “Teletubbies” and “In The Night Garden” has understandably topped this year’s honorary degree list released by the Uni. Wood and various other esteemed...
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