Cross Country Team Wether’ The Storm
Last Saturday marked the return of the cross country season for the University, with a good group of runners taking part in the West Yorkshire League. The race took place in Wetherby over a tough undulating course that was 7km for the women and 9km for the men. In the women’s race was made [...]
Review: Vagabondz w/ Loefah, Zed Bias, Dark Sky, Icicle
Vagabondz Loefah, Zed Bias, Dark Sky, Icicle Leeds University Union Saturday 13th October The set up for this night was a little unusual: with Stylus closed down, Mine played host to the headliners, whilst Pulse was taken over by the impressive, up and coming Brotherhood Sound System clique. Although the setting in LUU’s two smaller [...]
Are initiations good for team bonding and morale or are they bullying and unnecessary?
YES: Since becoming a student stories and rumours of sports initiations have been at the centre of Union policy and campus banter. The most notorious of these are of course the rugby initiations with leaked stories of naked runs down Otley Road and excessive alcohol consumption. Even the word ‘initiation’ brings a wall of secrecy [...]
Union lets down disabled students
Despite promising improvements last year the Union has admitted it is still not doing enough to ensure disabled students can access its building. Leeds Student initially raised concerns in an article published last year, after students said they were often unable to get around the Union. At the time the President of Disability Society, Robyn [...]
Police investigate Union finances
West Yorkshire Police has told Leeds Student that they “are working with Leeds University Union” (LUU) in regards to a financial discrepancy within its accounts. In July, LUU launched its own investigation into this discrepancy. As this paper went to print, an email was sent to all students by Antony Haddley, Union Affairs Officer, stating [...]
Union launches investigation into unaccounted for money
Leeds University Union (LUU) has launched an investigation after a sum of money has been discovered to be unaccounted for.
James Blake
James Blake played the Union last Friday, were you there? Because our photo editors were
Sun set for chop
A second attempt to ban The Sun newspaper from Leeds University Union has been submitted to the Better Union Forum. A proposal was made to ban the paper, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News International, in 2009 in protest to the publication’s coverage of the1989 Hillsborough disaster. 96 people died after a crush in the Sheffield [...]
BREAKING NEWS
Over 7,000 votes have now been registered in the race to run LUU. Only 693 more and LUU will have beaten Sheffield’s record. More info to follow soon…