Maybe the right is right. Perhaps we, on the student left, are snowflakes. There are certainly some uncanny similarities, and not, as one individual wrote, without a flake of irony, that “when we come together we become a mighty blizzard.” Many of us evidently feel fragile enough to mandate non-contact with anything aside other snowflakes. […]
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Idea calls for ‘Almost National Union of Students’
The Guild is set to bring a motion to the NUS National Conference which calls for it to be renamed the ‘Almost National Union of Students’ (ANUS), after Shadow Council refused to veto it. The motion was first proposed by a Student Idea, which said that the rebrand was required “due to drop outs of […]
“Southampton is better off out”: an alternative NUS stance
I remember my confusion a few months before university when I applied for a NUS card to find out Southampton wasn’t on the list. Before I arrived, I assumed all universities were members. I heard a lot about why Southampton wasn’t affiliated in my first year, and how dramatic the referendum the year before […]