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News
Thieves strike three times in one day
LSE Head of Security Paul Thornbury is urging students to remain vigilant over their belongings, following three robberies that happened in the space of 24 hours. The thefts all happened in the afternoon between the hours of 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. They took place in the communal areas in the Old Building, Columbia House and [...] Read more »
Microsoft COO: China has to change intellectual property rights
In a lecture last Wednesday Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s Chief Operating Officer, presented an optimistic perspective for Microsoft’s future, stressing that it is now “time to get back to business”.
According to Turner, the economic downturn gave Microsoft the opportunity to re-evaluate its expenditure and streamline activities by cutting loss-making operations. The company will invest $9.5 billion [...] Read more »
Sabbs: How have they performed?
General Secretary: Aled Dilwyn-Fisher
In his second and last term as the General Secretary of this Union, Fisher has this to say about his performance:
“As promised, my main focus has delivering ‘no-holes-barred reform… to focus resources on campaigns, societies and sports’ through internal change. I led a full restructure of Union staffing, launching the first collaboration [...] Read more »
How close exactly? Post-election analysis
Last week’s Students’ Union elections were voted on by a record number of students, and the results reflected the strong campaigning pursued by many candidates. In contrast to last year’s elections, in which General Secretary Aled-Dilwyn Fisher triumphed over Peter Barton with a majority of just under 6 per cent, this year’s victor, Charlotte Gerada, secured [...] Read more »
LSE participates in Palestinian Scholarship Scheme
LSE is one of the UK’s ten ‘partner’ universities in the new Higher Education Scholarships for Palestine (HESPAL) scheme, launched by the Government and the British Council last Tuesday. The scholarship programme will see up to 10 academics each year from Palestinian Universities sponsored to complete a year’s postgraduate study from one of the partner UK [...] Read more »
LSE still concerned about new visa system
LSE Academic Registrar has responded to a new report examining the new visa system, promising that the School is working with other universities to come to a solution with the Home Office. In the report ‘Fortress Academy’, former MSc Social and public communications student Valerie Hartwich examines the effect PBIS has had on all UK university [...] Read more »
Features
Measured musings: A virtual right
A recent BBC World Service poll says that four in five people in the world view internet access as a “fundamental” right, with countries like Finland and Estonia having accorded it the status of a human right. Perhaps it is because they can afford to.
The construction of a statistic is never an easy task. The [...] Read more »
Interview experience: Lord Waheed Alli
Talk of pragmatic change and an end to homophobic discrimination
Lord Waheed Alli is not your average peer. He was raised as an Indo-Carribean Muslim, left school at 16, is just 45 and is the only openly gay member of the House of Lords. Despite his outsider credentials, he has been labeled a crony and was [...] Read more »
Qaddafi on the world stage
Last week, Ali Aujali, the Libyan ambassador to Washington, clarified remarks made by leader Muammar Qaddafi, who apparently called for an armed holy war against Switzerland in yet another high-profile invective. Aujali told press last week that Qaddafi was, in fact, bidding for an economic boycott when he invoked jihad against the Alpine nation [...] Read more »
Cheney versus Palin
The lowdown on the recent elections in the Lone Star State
“And he sticks by his guns – and you know how I feel about guns,” wrote Sarah Palin in her letter endorsing Texas Governor Rick Perry for re-election in early 2009. Liberal Texans groaned at the thought of their most despised national politician [...] Read more »
Sport
Jonas & Xisco tell it like it is
Fresh from a landslide defeat in the Peruvian Telecommunications Minister race to minge extraordinaire Hatemonger Rope, worldwide lad of the year Jonas has returned to add much needed spice to LSE’s premier news column. Sean Farrar: “There is an FC rule that FC players cannot run against each other… and yet at the last minute Saville [...] Read more »
Comment
Letters to the Editor – 09/03/10
Madam – I was “this” close to falling off my (new, and very comfortable) office chair through utter disbelief last Tuesday when I read your Editorial (”I’m on the pavement, thinking about government”). Your paper implied that I, like many others, had over promised in last year’s SU elections during my campaign, which, by the [...] Read more »
The philosophy of the welfare state
Investigating the recent impact and future of welfare states in Britain and beyond The ‘welfare state’ is understood to be a widespread transfer of income used, directly or indirectly, in order for the concept of social justice to prevail. Such income transfers increase the wealth of one group in society at the expense of another group [...] Read more »
Photos
Photos with the Beaverman
Photos with the Beaverman taken on Houghton Street during Festival Fair Read more »
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Social
The next Bill Gates?
It is a question we all ask ourselves, one that flits through each of our minds at some point in our lives, ‘Can I be the next Bill Gates?’. It is a question that we think about, smile about, daydream about, but ultimately forget about – for it is one of those unattainable aspirations that [...] Read more »