UEA Hockey club hosted an alumni match at the weekend to mark the anniversary of a former teammate’s death, raising more than £800 for a meningitis charity. Mike Covell, a first-year student who played on the team, passed away in December 1997 after contracting meningococcal septicemia. Two decades on, the current team continue with fundraising…
Global
Historic abortion poll in Ireland
In less than a month’s time, voters in the Republic of Ireland will vote in a historic referendum on the future of the country’s stance on reproductive rights. On 25 May, Irish citizens will decide whether or not to repeal part of their constitution, the Eighth Amendment, which outlaws abortion, even in cases of rape…
Editor's column
Try again next time, Essex
Last Wednesday saw UEA teams victorious for the sixth year in a row, taking the Derby Day trophy back to Norwich once more. It was a tense day, with some fiercely contested matches, not to mention pitch-side rivalries sometimes slipping from friendly banter into physical scraps. The Media Collective also went to Colchester – working…
Editor's column
Talking panic, peer pressure, and pay gaps
Welcome back to the last term of the academic year! Entering into my final term at UEA is a scary, as well as exhausting and exciting, prospect. If you’re a third year like me then your Easter break will have been filled with dissertation writing, job applications, and a general sense of existential dread that…
Main Stories
“What happens on tour, stays on tour…”
Whilst on tour, a sports club allegedly issued a list of rules to new members. These included instructions to lick the floor, finish a drink even if something was dropped in it, and complete any challenges. Sport clubs participated in an annual tour trip, this year in Croatia. Appearing to be from the UEA Netball…
Arts
Superstructures
‘Superstructures: The New Architecture 1960-90’ promises to “shine a light” on the architectural developments seen at the cusp of the twentieth century, and link these designs to their Victorian predecessors. Utilitarianism is at the crux of the works on display; blueprints and paintings of factories and offices feature heavily. Other mediums, such as models and…
Arts
Photojournalism: documenting suffering
“A picture can tell a thousand words” isn’t something, as someone in the industry of words, I usually think about. But behind the genericness of the statement, there is a truth. The writer Susan Sontag wrote in the 1980s that “today everything exists to end in a photograph,” and almost forty years later, this is…
Features
Stimulants keep students up all night
“They’re good. They help you focus.” Modafinil, the latest kid on the smart drug block, is attractive to many students. It’s not illegal to buy, and available relatively easily online if you don’t already know the right people. Staying awake and thinking clearly can sometimes be elusive habits for students; smart drugs promise a panacea…
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