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Cambridge women’s hostel to be shut down by council

Whitworth House, a hostel for vulnerable women, is threatened with closure

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Cambridge student faces death penalty in South Sudan

Peter Biar-Ajak has been detained since July 2018

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Bateman challenges Rees-Mogg to a naked debate

The hero this country needs

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Students march through Cambridge to protest ‘corrupt’ university action on Divestment

Daisy Everingham

People were chanting ‘this is what democracy looks like’

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Only seven out of 31 colleges pay all their workers the Living Wage

Student campaigners have published a new ‘league table’ revealing which Colleges pay workers the Real Living Wage

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King’s vote to replace Soviet flag with Wall of Flags

Yet more flag-based news content!

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Uni to receive £100 million donation from ex-student

Daisy Everingham

It’s the largest single donation in the uni’s history

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Why the NUS shouldn’t have scrapped its Trans Campaign

Argument, News, Opinion
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How a short-sighted financial decision has pulled the rug from under the feet of Trans students

Heard something you think
we should know?

We want to look into your case

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Protest sparked by Girton gym’s woman and non-binary hour

Catriona Flesher

The hour was introduced by the JCR midway through Michaelmas

Medwards President responds to student boycott

Catriona Flesher

Dame Barbara said she was ‘saddened’ to hear of the calls to boycott meetings with her

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Medward’s students call boycott of second year meetings with President

Daisy Everingham

The boycott has been called for by the ‘Murray Edwards Student Collective’

BREAKING: University ties to fossil fuel companies revealed

Close financial links between the University and oil companies impacted divestment

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Murray Edwards set to hike up rents once again

Catriona Flesher

The 2.4 per cent rise comes despite Medwards’ current position as one of Cambridge’s most expensive colleges

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NUS proposes to defund its Trans Campaign

Catriona Flesher

The National Union of Students is currently the only national body solely representing transgender students

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Six Cambridge Colleges are now offering discounted May Ball tickets to bursary students

Catriona Flesher & Ellie House

Downing, Jesus, Pembroke, and Homerton have joined Hughes Hall and Wolfson in a bid to make Cambridge culture accessible to all

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Why you Should Care about being Bribed to do the NSS Survey with Hot Drinks

Daisy Everingham

News, Opinion
CAMBRIDGE

It’s not quite worth a uni cafe filter coffee.