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UPDATE: Protestors Lawn-ch Senate House Camp

Protesters have grown tired of their grassroots campaign and called off their lawn occupation after just two nights.

Why The Referendum Matters

It’s not sexy, argues CHARLIE CADYWOULD, but it is important.

Cuts Protesters Arrested

Police have made three arrests after protesters disrupted a Council meeting on budget cuts.

Why has £1 a day for 40 years caused so much outrage?

Why are concerns about the rise in tuition fees are based on emotional association rather than on reason.

Overblown Rhetoric is Political Own Goal

BEN WEISZ asks why sticking by your party regardless of mistakes or, say, horrendous policy reversals is seen as ‘loyalty’ rather than ‘stubbornness’ when it’s not a football team

Another Prick On A Wall

Girton historian Charlie Gilmour was photographed using a Union Flag to climb the Cenotaph during yesterday’s protests.

Lammy Slaughters Oxbridge Over Admissions ‘Whitewash’

Labour MP David Lammy accused Oxbridge of admitting a shocking low number of black, lower class and Northern students.

Uncovered: Occupation Who’s Who

“They’ve got a legitimate reason to not do work; they’ve got the moral high ground; they’ve even got bloody Scottish dancing.” MATILDA WNEK wonders why you were not at the occupation.

Occupiers Release Statement

Exclusive: Arrests And Violence As Demo Turns Nasty

There were two arrests outside King’s today after a student march against tuition fee rises and education cuts turned nasty.

Pissed-Off With The Protest

DAVID SHIPTON: “student protests demonstrate nothing more than the fact that we’re still not ready to move into the real world.”

Fire Extinguisher Fiend Is From ARU

The student who threw a fire extinguisher from the roof of Tory HQ during Tuesday’s protests is an Anglia Ruskin undergrad, it has been revealed.

Tab Tries – Time Travel

TALIA RICHARD-CARVAJAL and MONA EBERT attempted to go a regular day as their 1961 Mad Men-inspired alter-egos, spending 24 hours(ish) without any modern technology whatsoever. Read how they got on here.

Student Mob Marches Over Cuts And Fees

“Record turnout” at protest event amid condemnations of the “corporate whores” and calls for the “end of capitalism”.

Reclaim the Night

300 female students took to the streets to make a noise for a safer Cambridge on Saturday night.

The Purrfect Protest?

MAX FOREMAN on why animal rights protesters should reconsider their cause.

Animal Activists Go Ape at Downing

The Downing Site was mobbed by a group of Animal Rights protesters last Friday.

Raucous Corpus: Students Protest At College ‘Dishonesty’

150 Corpus students took on their college yesterday over rising costs and ‘dishonesty’ from the authorities.

‘Islamophobic’ Talk Cancelled

The Cambridge Israel Society has bowed to pressure from students and staff and cancelled a speaker accused of Islamophobia.