Student given suspended sentence for blackmail
A 20-year-old student has been given a suspended sentence for hacking into a woman’s Facebook messages and publicly posting naked photos of her. William Wooles, from Great Dunmow in Essex, did not know his victim, but managed to access her sent messages where he found the intimate images she had sent to her boyfriend [...]
Leeds Rhinos Edge Out Wigan
15.03.13 Leeds Rhinos 18-14 Wigan Warriors Leeds against Wigan is usually a physical encounter and this encounter on Friday night at Headingley was no different. The Rhinos needed a response after their poor loss to top of the table Huddersfield at home last Friday, and they got one, although they were made to work very [...]
Union breaks record for biggest student election ever
Leeds University Union (LUU) has broken the record for the biggest student election in British history.
Leadership Race 2013: Candidate Question Time
On Wednesday, the Union hosted the annual Candidates’ Question Time event. The debate, hosted by LSTV’s Andrew Seddon, provided a platform for students running in this year’s Leadership Race to express their views and answer questions. Candidates are running for one of six positions in the student Executive as well as the position of Leeds [...]
Meet the Leeds Student Editor Candidates
Hugo Greenhalgh ‘Think Big, Vote Huge’ Do you think you have as much experience and as much to offer as the other candidates? Definitely! I’ve been writing for three years and edited my own section for a year. I’ve made a real effort to get involved with other sections too, attending their events and writing [...]
LS1 Interviews: foodie and former war writer, Bruce Palling
Currently a prolific food and wine blogger and a columnist for the Wall St Journal, Bruce Palling doesn’t think it is a contradiction that he started his career writing about wars and conflicts. A failed student facing jail for refusing to fight in Vietnam, aged 21, he made his first commentary on Western interventionism. Later, [...]
United societies urge students to vote ‘no’
Leeds University Union (LUU) societies across campus are joining forces, telling students ‘don’t get gagged’. Next week, a Better Union idea to “extend [the] exclusion of hate speakers and fascists to student media” will be voted on across campus. The idea was submitted after Leeds Student printed and interview with MEP Nick Griffin. Rehema Figueiredo, [...]
NUS attempts to censor Leeds Student
2.11.12 A senior NUS (National Union of Students) officer has attempted to censor Leeds Student, demanding an end to the distribution of it’s interview with the BNP Leader Nick Griffin. In an open letter issued on October 26, Aaron Kiely, NUS Officer for Black Students, stated “in publishing this interview the Leeds Student risks giving [...]
Big Debate: The Griffin Interview
Last week Leeds Student controversially published an interview with the leader of the BNP, Nick Griffin. This week Big Debate asks, was LS right to publish the interview? YES: Eleanor Grimwade Let me first and foremost start by emphasising how ardently I oppose, reject, and am repulsed by everything Nick Griffin and the BNP stand [...]
November 2, 2012