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The Ultimate Bike Theft Protection Guide
Scared that your prized cycle might get pilfered? Follow TED HILL’s advice and you will never fear for your bike’s safety again.
Dr Dick: A load of May Balls
DR. DICK is the Tab’s new advice columnist. This week he helps a girl considering whether to offer a May Ball ticket to her not-quite-boyfriend.
Tab Columnists: What’s in your Room 101?
Our lovely Tab Columnists reveal their deepest fears and phobias.
Diary of a Reluctant Virgin: Week 3
This week ELLIE SLEE takes a break from her search for love in the Bubble to go on a ‘relaxing’ weekend away with friends…
The Tab Guide to Sainsbury’s Wines
CHARLIE DOWELL reviews Sainsbury’s budget wines for your own swapping enjoyment.
Essential Choons
With Week 1 now like, so last week, MAYA HAMMY provides some essential choonage to congratulate you on all your hard work.
The Tab Meets: Rae Morris
JESS HOYLE has the opportunity to interview the truly remarkable musician Rae Morris.
College Swap: Newnham VS Robinson
HENRIK WETTER-SÁNCHEZ becomes a honorary girl for the evening while TILDA MALLINSON explores a red brick fortress.
The Sidgwick Papers
Mr. Nicholas Nickel and Mr. David Copperwire record their observations on a bold journey of discovery into a corner unknown to the scientist: The Sidgwick Site.
Fit College: St John’s VS Peterhouse
Fit College is back! This week it’s a David and Goliath clash between super-sized St John’s and puny Peterhouse.
How to Survive the Worst Year of Your Life
MORWENNA JONES talks about her experience of degrading and how Cambridge does not always provide the right answer.
A New Junction
Your tunesmith-in-residence MATT TEALE is back. This time he wants you to consider a trip to the Junction.
Diary of a Reluctant Virgin: Week 2
Innocent flower ELLIE SLEE continues her desperate attempts to get laid.
Welcome Break
JOSH MARKS raves after a masterclass in the unpredictable and the downright hilarious.
Don’t Whine about the Wine
Cambridge colleges spent £3m on wine last year, and you should shut up about it
Phil Wang & Jonny Lennard
JOSH MARKS and WILLIAM STARK try to agree after an evening of hits, and a couple of misses.
Model Village + Mammoth Penguins + Mega Emotion @ The Portland Arms
JESS HOYLE heads to The Portland Arms for Model Village’s album launch.
The Canon: A Literary Sketch Show
HANNAH MARCUS and ALEX LAAR enjoy a patchy evening of literary humour.
Meet Your Lent 2014 Columnists
All be standing: the LENT 2014 columnists have finally arrived! Stop blub-mourning the end of Sherlock and welcome your new playmates with open arms and fervent heart. Best columnists ever in the world or your money back.
Student activist detained and deported from Israel
Activist and Northumbria student, Gary Spedding, deported from Israel and banned from entering the country for ten years after being branded a threat by Israeli officials.
Was Cambridge Worth It?
With Lent around the corner, Fucked Up Fresher TONY HARCOURT evaluates your Michaelmas for you.
Sunday Serial New Year’s Day Finale: Endings and Exeats
What a journey it’s been, since that fateful day the stranger arrived at The Sleepy Corridor. Embrace your NYE hangover and join OLD DAL in the season finale…
How to Get a Kiss on New Year’s Eve
ADRIAN GRAY and JESS FRANKLIN offer their advice on how pin down that elusive kiss tonight.
Merry Christmas From The Tab
The Tab’s Cambridge team are at home eating right now, but you can keep track of the latest student antics on tab.co.uk.
One Small Step For Man… One Giant Leap For Leeds Uni
An incredible feat: Two students are going to space and they’re not even pre-drinking…
11 More Things the Union Should Ban
First ‘Blurred Lines’, now The Sun has gone too. From banter to cash machine dawdlers, here are 11 more things LUU should ban
Tab Guide to Speed Daters
JOSIE PARKINSON guides your nervous, sweaty hand through the perils of speed dating, and the characters waiting for you out there…
5 Most Horrific Supervision Fears
“It’s just a supervision? What are you afraid of?” Well here are the five biggest things.
How To Survive Outside of The Cambridge Bubble
Christmas fast approaching, the sturdy haven of Cambridge will again soon shatter into the horrors of The Real World. Here’s how to shake off those red trousers and survive outside the bubble…
5 Impressions of Cambridge From An Outsider
SUSANNAH SAVAGE doesn’t go to Cambridge. Upon visiting this weekend, she noticed a few peculiarities that she felt needed addressing…
Specs And The City Illustrated
Join FLO SCORDOULIS on the bubble’s streets for an ogle at some of the best local spectacles. You’ve been framed.
Tab Meets The Masterminds Behind Life, Fez and Lola’s
What happens when you put the managers of three of Cambridge’s biggest (read: only) night-spots in one room under interrogation? SOPHIA VAHDATI finds out
Why We Bared Our Bums
Following criticism from certain quarters that our best bum awards are “sexist” and “irresponsible”, three of the participants issue their rear-sponse.
Further Confessions Of A Fucked Up Fresher
TONY HARCOURT, of Fucked Up Fresher Fame, returns with the dark tale of his first swap…
Diagnose Your Week Five Anxiety
Feeling blue this Week 5? JACK EMMINS can’t make you better, but he can lead you to a panic diagnosis…
Tab Tries Trick-or-Treating
Lost the urge to knock on your neighbours door with an empty bucket and a scream mask? For Halloween TOM FAIRBAIRN revisited the pleasure…
Sex in the Cam: Week 3
This week in SEX IN THE CAM, our author encounters a near-miss threesome. If only it weren’t that time of the month…
Tab Parties Out At…..Shuffle Nights’ Freshers’ Week!
We went searching for meaning in Oxford’s clubs and this is what we found.
Why I Cried in Freshers Week
Most of us blubbed during Freshers. Read on for a collection of brave testimonies…