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Conservative giants:

In just a few weeks, the British public will choose the party that is to form Her Majesty’s next Government. While after thirteen years in power, New Labour and Gordon Brown are well-known to voters, David Cameron and his Conservative Party are not. DC (which is what Tory Parliamentarians and activists call him) has been [...] Read »

A dam-busting year for Beavers:

Beavers everywhere have had to change with the times this year. Canada’s history magazine, who since 1920 has been The Beaver’s namesake, changed its name recently to avoid its modern association with a certain part of the female anatomy. Canada’s Beaver may have been killed, but despite repeated attempts on the life of this semi-aquatic [...] Read »

“Blue-Land settlers” pitch their tents on Houghton Street:

The primary intention of this settlement was to raise awareness about Israel’s illegal settlement colonisation of the West Bank and of East Jerusalem. Mira Hammad, one of the event’s organisers and chair of the LSESU Palestine Society also stated that the event served to raise the profile of the society’s ‘right to read’ campaign. During [...] Read »

A dam-busting year for Beavers

News

Goldstone debate comes to the LSE

Last Monday, in the final stage of a lecture series titled ‘The Brahimi Panels’, debate continued at a packed and politically charged public lecture focusing on the Goldstone Report and the Peace Process. The event was chaired by Lakhdar Brahimi, previous UN diplomat and envoy, who chaired the study effort to address the dysfunctions of the [...] Read more »

High hopes for new SRI strategy

The Governing Council approved the Student Union’s draft strategy for an LSE socially responsible investment (SRI). Currently, the Council members and School Officers – those on the school’s governing body – must comply with seven principles when considering investment decisions. They must also declare any conflict of interest they have with those decisions. [...] Read more »

Chaos at election of new Executive Editor

Lack of organisation at the Collective meeting last Wednesday meant that elections for the Beaver’s Executive Editor for the next academic year did not take place as planned. The Collective, the governing body of The Beaver, was set to elect a new Executive Editor of this paper. But the meeting was cut short because the meeting [...] Read more »

Validity of societies’ elections questioned

Some society elections held this week may have been unconstitutional. Section 7.3 The LSE SU’s Constitution states that for elections to be valid, at least 25% of full society members must be present to vote. This has not been the case for many recent elections. Last week’s Women in Business AGM was run with just 15 [...] Read more »

Frustration over delayed works at Rosebery

Refurbishment work at Rosebery Hall has been delayed, dashing some residents’ hopes of having their windows refitted before the Easter holidays. As reported last November, Rosebery will have new windows installed to conserve heating energy. The roof, some doors and other external fittings would be replaced at the same time. Scaffolding was put up and structural [...] Read more »

Union Jack UGM Sketch

Your faithful Jack isn’t what you’d call a numerate person, but this week’s UGM extracted a large quantity of urine when it came to that recurring problem of quoracy. A cheeky cry from an Anti-Racist-via-Israel resulted in ten solid, agonising, minutes of “Learn to Count with Aled-Fishy-Dill”. Even a brief cameo from Amish Paradise (here [...] Read more »

Features

The colour purple

“The Finns don’t even know what prosciutto is”. Thus spoke Italy’s prime minister in 2001, as Helsinki and Parma competed to host the European Safety Food Agency. The following statement caused an uproar among Finland’s media; one of its main dailys even thought it wise to run a mockr full page advertisement in clarification: ‘Prosciutto [...] Read more »

The rational approach to Hare Krishna

As Nash did in his time at Princeton, we will discredit widely held economic truths at LSE through reason. Assume ubiquitous queues for Hare Krishna meals. We posit that non-consumption of this well-intentioned and free food makes complete economic – and therefore absolute – sense. It will save time, (widely accepted to be worth money), as [...] Read more »

A celebrity of the crisis

I don’t have any journalistic heroes, but if I had to pick one, Gillian Tett would probably be it. Trained as an anthropologist, she came to journalism almost by accident. During her work experience at the Financial Times, revolution broke out in Lithuania and the paper needed a Russian-speaker to cover it. She then [...] Read more »

Behaviour and bubbles

What first attracted you to studying at the LSE? I was finishing my undergraduate studies at Harvard and applied for a Marshall Scholarship. Everyone told me to go to the LSE to study with Mervyn King, who ran LSE’s Financial Markets Group back then. Once I was awarded the Marshall Scholarship there was no doubt [...] Read more »

Sport

Taekwon-doh!

LSE Taekwondo team put up a brave fight, but go home empty handed Last Sunday morning saw Kooyeon, Clarissa, Kevin, Robin and me shivering at quarter to seven in Baker Street station, on our way to the 2010 National Championships at the Stoke Mandeville Stadium in Ayelsbury. There is a direct train from Marylebone to Aylesbury, [...] Read more »

Comment

Letters to the Editor – 16th March 2010

Madam – I must say I was shocked, confused, and quite frankly offended to read the sentiments described in a comment piece in last week’s paper (Broken dreams of student politics). The author, who ran the colourful campaign of Ashwin Desai for anti-Racism officer, made sweeping (and incorrect) statements on Islam and Judaism (which he describes [...] Read more »

Women’s week is all very well but…

Dear User of Women’s Hours, As a male member of the LSE gym, I wholeheartedly support your right to women’s only hours. Although I occasionally face exclusion from the gym, I find the inconvenience a trivial price for a lasting reward. Women have been trammeled by discrimination for centuries; without question, this impediment of human [...] Read more »

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