Little Mix and Rudimental to headline Summer Ball
The Union has announced that Little Mix and Rudimental will headline its showpiece social event – the annual Summer Ball. Also performing will be number one selling artist Sam & The Womp, and BBC Sound of 2013 nominee Arlissa. Also appearing will be Radio 1 favourite Greg James. The event is expected to attract [...]
Hockey heroines in Channel challenge
A group of girls from the University’s Hockey team have completed a gruelling swim, equivalent to the distance of swimming across the English Channel. The 10 volunteers, downed their sticks for goggles at The Edge, each swimming 136 lengths (6.8km) to raise money for charities including Epilepsy Bereaved. The swim was dedicated to team-mate Emily [...]
Sour grapes for Wine Soc
Relations have fermented between the Union’s Wine Society and the retailer Majestic Wines, after the club was allegedly “banned” from the company’s wine tasting sessions. According to President Alex Fitzpatrick, he received a telephone call “completely out of the blue” informing him that the society was no longer welcome at Majestic’s free wine tasting courses. [...]
Officer’s idea branded ‘undemocratic’
Students have branded an idea put forward by the Union’s Affairs Officer “undemocratic”. Antony Haddley has proposed that the Better Union Forum, where such ideas are voted on, should only assemble when there are at least two submissions, unless the matter is considered urgent. Hester Dart, a Second Year History student said, “I really don’t [...]
Member of hiking society dies on Cairngorms
Update: Updated article here. A member of Leeds University Union’s Hiking Society has died during a hike on the Cairngorms in Scotland. Five other society members from the same party have been airlifted to safety and are believed to be unharmed. The alert was raised on Sunday at around 3pm, after one of the party [...]
Dance | Nine to Five
4/5 stars Riley Smith Hall, Leeds University Union Until February 9 Dance Exposé Society The Dance Exposé show ‘Nine to Five’ takes on the daily grind, piecing its two-hour performance into a narrative that mirrors a regular working day. This particular 9 to 5 is nowhere near mundane however, as Dance Exposé [...]
Boxer Sends Opponent to Coventry
Adam Wood Boxing 01/02/2013 The saying ‘Train hard, fight easy’ takes on a new significance for a boxer when you come back from the Christmas holidays unfit and overweight due to the standard festive binge, with a fight fast approaching at the end of the month. This is the situation I found myself in on [...]
Girls sexually assaulted in Union venues
12.12.2012 Last weekend two cases of indecent assault on female students were reported on campus. Both incidents took place in the Union. Around 4am on Saturday 1 December, police were called to a report of indecent assault on a 20-year-old woman. A Leeds graduate was accused of groping the female student in Fruity. The man [...]
Leeds Handball need the magic touch
Author: Emma Horrell Handball. A word that makes most people think of a foul in football. Until recently, few people in the UK had seen or played a game of handball. The Olympics has drastically changed this. As the host nation, Great Britain entered handball teams in the Olympics for the [...]