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CUSU Who-SU?
Calling commenters of The Tab. For one term only, CUSU are yours. Ask them anything you like.
Spoof News is Good News: Week 1
SUE DENIM brings you all the breaking news that you don’t need to know, but really want to.
Tory Boyz
JACK YATES thinks that good acting doesn’t entirely redeem a lukewarm script in Tory Boyz.
Charlie Palmer – Stop arguing about pointless shite
CHARLIE PALMER is here with some vital advice that could just save all of your friendships from destruction and ruin.
Tales of My Greedy Punt – Week 1
Our new sex columnist MAISY MINT dives straight into the moist mound of her salacious misadventures.
Holly Lunt – I hate exam term
In her first column, keen fresher HOLLY LUNT tackles the evils of Exam Term.
We Need to Talk About Harassment
After yesterday’s survey, MATTHEW VAN DER MERWE reckons we don’t take sexual harrassment seriously enough, and thinks it’s time we got on and sorted ourselves out.
The Sunday Serial: Episode 1 – Blackmail
The Sunday Serial is BACK and bursting with carnal encounters, CUSU and corruption. Join our heroes here as their adventure begins…
May Ball Blog 2014
Rumours, reports, reactions, royal appearances: get it all here. The Tab May Ball Blog is BACK in full force.
When will Cambridge be a responsible investor?
JIA HUI LEE, CUSU Education Officer, thinks we should take our responsibility more seriously.
Trees-on at Selwyn
DERMOT SMAMS gives you the full lowdown on the biggest excitement of the term so far.
Meet the Easter term Columnists
From identical twins to hilariously unique surnames, our shiny new columnists have it all…
Dystopia: The Musical! (a sketch show)
From executive producer Michael Bay, a brand new sketch show-cum-musical by Footlights regulars, coming soon to a Corpus Playroom near you.
Why I handed the Union a giant cheque for ‘Sod All’
JESSICA O’DRISCOLL-BREEN explains her motivations for taking part in CDE’s notoriously angry protests.
Sexual Assault in Cambridge: A chance for students to speak out
CUSU Women’s campaign are running a survey about sexual harassment and assault.
Women’s Blues Basketball sweep away their competition
Cambridge Women’s Blues Basketball complete a hugely successful season by winning the Conference Cup.
Sod rowing: Brains over brawn as we win University Challenge
A mere 24 hours of Varsity glory for Oxford came to a crushing end on Monday night, as Trinity College took the University Challenge title with 240 points to Somerville College’s 135.
BOAT RACE: LIVE BLOG
Follow LIVE the trials and tribulations of the 160th Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, here.
How I learned to stop worrying and love the Easter Vacation
MORWENNA JONES wants you to quit your complaining and embrace the Easter Vacation for all its flaws.
Biggest Day in the Sporting Calendar
“Win or lose, the Boat Race is a life-defining moment,” George Nash. Follow it LIVE on The Tab.
The Tab Meets: The Next Miss Cambridgeshire?
Who Knew? Will Murray Edwards be home to the next MISS CAMBRIDGESHIRE?
BOAT RACE EXCLUSIVE: President Discusses Hopes And Fears
Boat Race competitor and President of the Cambridge University Boat Club STEVE DUDEK speaks exclusively to The Tab ahead of Sunday’s showdown.
Snobby Oxford way below Cambridge in state school admissions
Oxford’s state school admissions continue to fall, whilst those at Cambridge are on the rise.
Willy Fails to Perform
BREAKING – After ten weeks of sweat, toil and tears, Prince William has achieved a meagre third-class result at Cambridge.
What An Oardeal: Defeat in Women’s Boat Race
Brutal Oardeal as Women Rowers crash to boat race defeat, reports ADAM CRAFTON.
King’s students scream ‘fuck off’ at Osborne
Tories abandon plans to sleep in student beds after their visit to Cambridge is met with fury.
Bear faced
NO MAKE UP: Auto-correct helpfully donates £3 to ‘Save the Polar Bears’ instead of Cancer research
Hiding behind a mask
ELEANOR COSTELLO thinks there might be something a little more sinister to the #nomakeupselfie trend…
Cambridge doesn’t need Feminism because…
KATE ERIN takes a sideways glance at the phenomenon that is Cambridge Feminism
Mystic Malcolm: your horoscope by subject
MYSTIC MALCOLM brings dubious news of the future. What will your fate be?
I, Too, Am Cambridge – What Next…
Over the last couple of weeks, the ‘I, Too, Am…’ campaign has catapulted to Buzzfeed and Facebook fame. But is it really all it’s cut out to be?
Possibly the most powerful nerdgasm ever
Already bored of the holidays? OLIVER TAYLOR has turned the entire Cambridge experience into a video game…
Narcissism – Facebook’s Very Own Cancer
No make-up selfies seem to be the new Nek-nominate, but for WILL KELLET the implications are a lot darker.
Why you shouldn’t be a banker
No matter what wishful thinking might tell you, there is no way that banking can be an ethical choice, says JACK TATTERSALL.
Continuum!: A New Sketch Show
HANNAH MIRSKY gives three stars to this pleasant mix of slightly half-baked sketches.
Diary of a Reluctant Virgin: Week 8
It’s her last column – will ELLIE SLEE finally achieve some kind of catharsis?
Weed smoking hippies or water born nomads? Tab meets: the river dwellers
CHARLIE DOWELL explores the moorings of the Cam and meets its colourful floating inhabitants.
Cambridge’s Most Eccentric Professors – Part 2
BEX SENTANCE rounds up some more of our most wonderfully weird academics.
University of Bristol in decline
Latest university rankings see Bristol fall from the top 100 globally.