Sam Crutcher’s neurodiversity activism aims to “stick a dynamite under LSE’s neurotypical ignorance”
(Content warning: Suicide attempt, discrimination) In early January 2021, Sam Crutcher, then a second-year social policy student, introduced an SU…
Postgraduate Officer Election – Meet the Candidates
By Natasha Porter and Lara Weibecke Election season at LSE is now underway and there are currently 14 posts up…
Suyin Haynes: ex-Beaver editor and current EIC of gal-dem on LSE, working at Time Magazine, and telling underrepresented stories
When Suyin Haynes started at LSE, she didn’t see herself as the type to become a journalist. Graduating in 2016…
Tuition fee rebates: How SU proposals would make LSE grads pay tens of thousands more in loan repayments
Note: This article was published in Issue #913 as incomplete, this is its full version. Throughout the pandemic, students have…
Sexual assault at LSE: What has Hands Off achieved?
By Bora Bayram In light of the recent murder of Sarah Everard, sexual assault and women’s safety are issues that…
An overwhelmed Moodle server, missing emails, and exam stress: January Online Economics Exams
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay This year’s January exams were radically different from previous years. Although it was not…
‘We don’t like that we’ve had to organise. We were desperate.’ The next fight for student activists
By Jack Beeching In a 2014 piece for the Guardian, the late David Graeber wrote: “If ever a ‘reform’ has…
Gaffes, Governance, And Social Media: The Fates of LSE Societies
It’s 3pm on a Wednesday — almost precisely the middle of the week — and a clutch of students are…
A question to the community: Do corporations have a place in Pride at LSE?
By Beatriz Silva and Yasmina O’Sullivan What do the NYC Pride March and a pre-pandemic Wednesday outside of the LSE…
LSE’s poorest students fell behind last year. New exam policies face an urgent task.
LSE’s low-income and working-class students fell behind last year, even as gaps faced by other disadvantaged groups narrowed. With many…
