The Beaver the newspaper of the LSE Students' Union

The London School of Economics (LSE) Students’ Union Drama Society raised £1226 last week through ticket sales to The Vagina Monologues, in which nineteen female students were involved. The Vagina Monologues is made up of a series of unlinked monologues performed by a varying numbers of girls. These monologues are based on a interviews conducted by Eve Ensler, in which she asked women about their vaginas, their sexuality and their past sexual experiences.

As part of last week’s Literary Festival, Claire Tomalin, a journalist, and John Carey, Oxford Professor Emeritus, gave a talk entitled ‘Charles Dickens: The Best of Men, The Worst of Men’ to a crowded lecture hall in honor of the bicentenary year of the author’s birth.

Josh Still, the Students’ Union Returning Officer, has recommended to the Democracy Committee (DC) that Jason Wong, a former candidate in the Student Trustee election, be disqualified from running in the Lent Term elections for breaching the Students’ Union’s policy on antisemitism. A motion entitled ‘Stop Anti-Semitism Now!” was officially passed during an Emergency General…

An increasing number of students across the country, disappointed by their failure to obtain either a first or a upper second, are officially complaining to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIA). The OIA, established in the Higher Education Act 2004, is an independent body which deals with student complaints against universities…

Michael D. Higgins addressed a packed lecture hall at the London School of Economics (LSE) on February 21 in his first official trip abroad as President of Ireland. He spoke of an emerging democratic crisis that is pitting government accountability against unaccountable economic forces and spoke of the challenges facing universities in his lecture entitled,…

Violence broke out on Houghton Street last Monday after a protest by the London School of Economics’ (LSE) Palestine Society. Water balloons were thrown at protesters and the situation escalated into a heated exchange which resulted in one participant being punched in the face. The situation arose as members of the Palestine Society formed a…

Hustings for the Lent Term elections were on the agenda at last week’s Union General Meeting (UGM), generating a much larger turnout than usual. Candidates standing for election to full-time Sabbatical positions delivered their manifestos and answered questions posed by the audience. Alex Peters-Day and Mohammed Morley are both standing for election to the position…

Students planning to start their graduate studies at the London School of Economics (LSE) in the academic year 2013/2014 will have an additional hall of residence available for accommodation. The School’s Estates Division announced that a five year nominations agreement was approved by the LSE council. The owner and operator will be Urbanest, a provider…

The student-run LSESU Economics Conference 2012 took place on 25 February.  A variety of current economic topics were discussed, including the European Union, banks, inequality, and growth.  Roughly 350 people attended, about half of which were students of the London School of Economics. Financial Times columnist John Kay disputed the perceived profitability of the banking…

Last week, the LSE Students’ Union Society for the Promotion of Indian Culture and Ethos (SPICE) in partnership with the LSE India Observatory brought India Week to Houghton Street. The event, which aimed to showcase Indian culture and to celebrate the successes of, and address the challenges facing, the country, opened its doors to the…