
Manchester’s best of Yik Yak
These are actually funny
From Brian Cox to the uni wifi breaking, we’ve managed to pull out some gems from this week.

Didn’t realise there could be somewhere worse than BaaBar

Hope he doesn’t get anything wrong

Why is it called squirrels

Gollum, is that you?

Why so expensive?

Do you even uni?

I go to manc and I do ket

Shout out to the shit uni wifi

Do they even know where Finland is?

Life is worth living x

Still counts right?

Me et al., 2015

At least you tried

Salford Uni offers students £1,000 in rent rebate even if they have a private landlord
And students living in halls can get up to £1,200!

Manchester Uni deletes Insta post telling students to see lockdown ‘as a retreat’
The post gave students advice for coping with their mental health in lockdown

UoM isn’t charging halls rent until the end of lockdown
This will apply to students who are unable to travel back to Manchester due to restrictions

UoM explicitly rule out blanket ‘no disadvantage’ policy for this term
This was announced in response to SAFER’s letter of appeal

A man has been charged with sexually assaulting female students in Fallowfield
He was sent to court this morning

Parklife set to return in September 2021
It will take place over the weekend of the 11th to 12th September

Over 80 Manchester students were trapped in a halls lockdown party
Firefighters had to break the flat door down with a sledgehammer and an axe

Manc student house given closure order after throwing 70-person house party
It is now a criminal offence for any visitors to enter the property

Manchester Rent Strike wins up to £900 rent reduction for all students in halls
They will each get a 30 per cent reduction for semester one’s rent

Geography students demand UoM introduce no-detriment policy for this year
‘The current policies in place are completely unacceptable to support students’

Student sets up organisation to bring together Manchester action groups
The Student Consciousness Movement is to act as an ‘umbrella organisation’

Dyslexic student says she’s been ‘mostly ignored’ by uni disability services
‘I wish DASS were better organised and more considerate of each individual’s unique needs’

Nancy Rothwell apologises for not contacting ‘racially profiled’ student
Last night she said she had written to the student involved

Manchester University has already spent £835,000 on security this year
They’re projected to spend £118k more on security this year than last

UoM SU blasted for giving staff ‘poverty’ furlough wages
One student employee usually works 94 hours, but is getting furlough based on just six hours’ pay

Manchester Uni offers students two-week rent reduction, rent strikers say is ‘insulting’
215 students have been withholding over £300,000 in rent

Meet Manchester’s latest up and coming artist: Goteki 45
‘Amidst everything the government is telling us to do, I think creatives are really working hard to still make sure they can support themselves and each other’

‘They said I look like a drug dealer’: Manc student ‘racially profiled’ by uni security
The university has suspended security guards and is investigating

In pictures: The week of Manchester student protests
An insight into the Fallowfield protests which saw ‘hundreds’ attend

Pandemic forces uni student’s contact hours down from 28 to 1.5 a week
And yet the Russell Group says that safety net policies aren’t ‘necessary’ this year

Ranked: Who in Bridgerton lives in the most expensive home?
The Duke and Duchess’ castle is worth £200million in real life

Girls share bad experiences of male GPs proving some just don’t understand women’s bodies
‘It took me five years to get an endometriosis diagnosis’

They should all be in jail, but who is definitively the worst person in Glee? Vote here
UK
You can’t spell terrible without Terri

Only someone truly stuck in 2006 can get full marks on this mid-00s indie lyrics quiz
Brb just driving to 505

Would the Duke of Hastings actually marry you? This quiz will let you finally find out
Sorry in advance if the answer is no x

Stephen Bear has been arrested for revenge porn
He was brought into questioning when he arrived in the UK this morning

Take this RuPaul lyric quiz and we’ll tell you how well you’d lip sync for your life
Are you headed for the Drag Race Hall of Fame or sashaying away in week one?

How did the police catch the Night Stalker? The evidence that finally led to his arrest
A six year old girl helped pick him out of a police line up

17 reactions that prove we’re all feeling the same watching Night Stalker on Netflix
Ok, the nightmares are real

Only the saltiest of seadogs can correctly guess the lyrics in this The Wellerman quiz
Soon may the wellerman come!

Inside the Cecil Hotel: The notorious location of LA’s most mysterious unsolved crimes
It’s the hotel where the Night Stalker stayed during his killing spree

Episodes of American Horror Story feature the Night Stalker Richard Ramirez
And in real life the killer stayed in the hotel from AHS: Hotel

Florence Given has finally spoken out again, four weeks on from her original statement
She hired two lawyers to check for plagiarism

Which Bridgerton style scandal would you be embroiled in? Take this quiz to find out
Lady Whistledown has some gossip, and it’s all about you

Ok so what actually is this ‘Drivers License’ song everyone’s crying about?
Honestly, the memes are enough to make me break down

Here are 29 more Bridgerton memes, all worthy of your hand in marriage
I will spend the rest of my days enjoying these

It is time to unfollow influencers who are flouting lockdown rules
Going to Dubai for a holiday during lockdown is not essential and I’m sick of seeing it