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When I saw Luke McManus’ piece, Does the Political Correctness of Students’ Unions Undermine their Decisions? in the online edition of the SOAS Spirit, I almost stopped reading there and then. The juxtaposition of an attack on the ‘Political Correctness’ of unions with a picture of the train tracks at
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Amos To Double Cuts, Despite Financial Surplus
Jonny Morrison, BA Politics In an address to staff on Thursday, SOAS director Valerie Amos had laid out plans to increase cuts to the school budget by 117%, from £3million to £6.5million, by removing post-graduate growth targets and taking into account recruitment for this academic year. This comes
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An Ode To Choir-Singing
Clotilde Yap, BA Chinese (Modern and Classical) When I first joined the University of London chamber choir, I thought I had just made a big mistake. As I was outside the room, waiting to go in for my audition, I realised I hadn’t properly sung with a choir for
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October UGM: What's New?
Caitlin Shewell-Cooper, BA English and Swahili The first UGM (Union General Meeting) of this academic year took place on Thursday 8th of October in the JCR, packed full of students. For those who aren’t familiar with this part of student union democracy, UGMs occur once a month and
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Ex-Guantanamo Detainee Blasts Government Prevent Strategy
Sophie Bush, MSc Development Studies Former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg has condemned the government’s ‘anti-terror’ strategy, labelling it a ‘toxic brand.’ He was speaking to students and members of the public at an event held at UCL and coordinated by SOAS’ Decolonising Our Minds society. The controversial strategy,
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No Blame for Valerie Amos in Cuts Controversy
Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish Since last Thursday, a controversy has been raging within the walls of SOAS. Students who shy away from SOAS politics are being brought into the fold with the leak of two documents by an anonymous source within the university, revealing plans to cut at
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SOAS Speciality Library Fights to Keep Doors Open
Caitlin Shewell-Cooper, BA Swahili and English A new campaign run by a group of SOAS anthropology students is raising money to support the Helen Kanitkar Library, an invaluable resource for anthropology students that is under threat due to a lack of adequate funding. Unless you study Anthropology it is
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Young Adult Literary Community Unites to Support Refugees
Caitlin Shewell-Cooper, BA Swahili and English Disgusted with the UK government’s response to the refugee crisis in Europe, author Patrick Ness began an online fundraiser that united the Children’s and Young Adult literary community and raised £600,000 for Save the Children. Ness is no stranger to
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Sanctuary Creates New Controversy with Dinwiddy Renovations
Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish Sanctuary Students, the company contracted to manage SOAS’ private-student halls Dinwiddy and Paul Robeson, has stirred the feelings of the Students’ Union yet again as they unveiled the product of their new renovations, a ‘large studio’ in Dinwiddy which are priced at £245
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Students’ Union Refuses to Comply With SOAS Prevent Working Group
Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish The Students’ Union have refused to comply with a secret working group set up by university administration to explore the implementation of the Prevent strategy within SOAS. As of the 11th of September, the university’s official Prevent strategy claims that SOAS lacks ‘any
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SOAS into Senate House: What's Happening?
Caitlin Shewell-Cooper, BA Swahili and English In 2012 SOAS were granted preferred bidder status on the North Block of the University of London building Senate House. Building work began in Summer 2014, and since then work has continued on a new block for SOAS which will mark a new