The Cambridge Student

This article contains discussion of sexual harassment. Over the past year we’ve been investigating OSCCA (the Office of Student Conduct, Complaints and Appeals), the university-wide body to which reports of sexual harassment are made. Rather than a legal procedure OSCCA is a body formed of university employees who decide whether …

I still remember the first time I borrowed from my local public library. It was a summer during primary school, the kind of summer which never seems to end; when the (vaguely) sunny days melt one into another but September never feels any closer. A trip into our nearest town …

A story of two unlikely romantics, desperate for love but unable to see the possibility of it right in front of them, She Loves Me is a charming waltz through a 1930s Budapest parfumerie, where romance and comedy join hands to bring Amalia Balash and Georg Nowack together at the …

‘Do you ever read something and have a very clear vision that there’s so much of life about which you know nothing? Are you ever just smacked in the face with your own ignorance and naivete?’ It’s 8:20pm on April 6, 1994. An aeroplane carrying the President of Rwanda is …

Dressed in a well-fitted monochrome blazer and skirt, with shards of red nails and lips, and an immaculate billow of cotton white hair, you would be forgiven for thinking Eva Clarke is your typical stylish grandmother. And she is – though she was also born on 29th April 1945 in …

Over the course of the past few months, I have made the most of being potentially one of the last British students eligible for Erasmus funding to study abroad in Paris. In the Ecole Normale Supérieure, no less, France's grandiloquently named answer to Oxbridge. Over the years, this venerable establishment …

These words continue to resonate long after the interview has come to and end. Dustin Lance Black, Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director, is confident that we’re living in a time where storytelling is one of the most potent skills in changing culture. Stories pull at our heartstrings, and if you …

In France, it is fair to say that civil servants enjoy a greater level of prestige than is generally afforded to their British counterparts. Over here, grey suits and faceless cinder-block buildings tend to dominate public imagination, with pen-pushing in general seldom deemed a glamorous occupation. Yet as I open …

‘When did you know you were a girl?’ Silence fell as Caitlyn Jenner posed this question to the audience. ‘That’s what a trans person goes through 24 hours a day, 365 days a year’, she adds. ‘That’s what goes through their heads, trying to understand who they are.’ I listen …

Late in the afternoon of 29th October, a man identified only as Piotr S. passed away in a central hospital in Warsaw, Poland, after being in a serious condition for 10 days as a result of suffering 60% burns over his body. The 54 year old’s health had deteriorated fast …

What links blue tac, bacon and baked beans, aside from a speculative attempt at alliteration on the part of the writer? Traipse around a French supermarket and you may just hit upon the answer. Or not, since it is their very absence that forms the basis for this particularly petulant …

Cambridge theatre is staging Rights of Passage from the 17th October in Corpus Playroom, a play uncovering the voices of LGBT asylum seekers with a script based solely on interviews. I listen to the author Clare Summerskill, also LGBT activist, comedian and PhD student researching the role of the contributor …

Emma Thompson took the time to speak to TCS during her visit to Cambridge, talking about her admirers, her writing process, and her opinions on ageism in the film industry. As a Cambridge alumna herself, Thompson spoke both at her old College, Newnham, and then at the Cambridge Union, before …

Coming up with a good theme for a May Ball is often a thankless task, with only the finest of margins separating originality from pretentiousness. Fortunately, however, the Selwyn committee were right on the money with their seaside theme, transporting the college back fifty-odd years to a time when Margate …

Cambridge eased to victory in under twelve overs after a ruthless bowling display saw Oxford reduced to just 74 runs. Losing the toss on a flat track in perfect batting conditions, the chances of Cambridge picking up their first win since the competition began in 2011 certainly appeared slim.

An eventful opening day to Easter Bumps 2017 saw plenty of action all across the divisions as over 150 crews battled it out on a congested River Cam. First contested in the 1820s, the bumps format lends itself particularly well to the narrow nature of the River Cam as it …

“The endless cuts made by the Conservative government can't go on” I'll be voting for Labour in the election. There are two reasons for this: first, I think Daniel Zeichner has been a great MP for Cambridge and has not ignored local issues in his campaign in favour of spouting …

Here's one for the pub-quizzers amongst you: amongst the main football leagues in Europe, which country has the highest attendance rates? England, the home of football? Or perhaps Spain, where you're hard-pressed to find a taxi driver who doesn't have something to say about his local equipo? Neither, in fact. …

Despite some very tight scores and excellent performances across the board, Cambridge found themselves on the receiving end of a 4-0 loss to their Oxford counterparts. It was the first time in over 10 years that none of the four teams that make up the general classification failed to record …

With his powerful arms, strong jaw and dislocated shoulder, Elliot Teboth has much in common with the conventional boxer. However, his nickname is anything but conventional. Departing from the long-held tradition of intimidating one's opponent by choosing a fearsome moniker like 'Hurricane' or 'Bonecrusher', Teboth opts for the slightly more …

Meeting Katie Hopkins, the self-proclaimed “biggest bitch in Britain”, I sit down expecting a dog with a bite. What I get instead is an overly-energetic puppy. I can't count the number of times she showers the room with 'darlings' and smiles. Does she really believe the hot air that comes …

A last-gasp conversion from fly-half Craig Peter Winfield was enough to secure the silverware for Selwyn, running out 30-28 victors in a highly entertaining encounter at Barton Road. Full-back Jack Fernon thought he had won it for Hughes Hall, running through under the posts to take the score to 28-27 …

Snooker. For a sport that identifies itself in such innocent terms — think tight waistcoats, polite applause and John Virgo getting excited whenever the cue ball goes within six inches of a pocket — it is perhaps surprising that there should be such a fractured relationship between certain players and …

John Mulvey and BUCS (British Universities and Colleges Sport) 10-mile champion Seb Dickson took gold and silver respectively as Cambridge riders swept the field away at last Saturday's race, held in the Cambridgeshire countryside. However, it could have been an entirely different story for Mulvey, who had to forgo the …

This Sunday 2nd April, Cambridge and Oxford are set to battle it out on the Thames in the annual Boat Race, last year watched by some 250,000 spectators lining the 4.25 mile course from Putney to Mortlake. The 72nd meeting between the two women's crews will see Cambridge trying to …

For a second year in a row, Italy did not muster a single point from any of their Six Nations fixtures. However, they could not have come much closer than with their performance against England, during which they wreaked havoc for the first 70 minutes by exploiting a particular loophole …

"Unlike most nations, we no longer "own" our language. The Anglish/New English project is intended as a means of recovering the Englishness of English and of restoring ownership of the language to the English people" Whilst you would be forgiven for thinking this statement comes straight from the latest UKIP …

Selwyn dug deep late on to clinch a 3-2 victory against title challengers Jesus in a delayed Saturday afternoon kick-off. Playing in front of their own fans, Jesus continued their impressive form of late with a strong start against a Selwyn team for whom defeat would plunge them into a …

You don’t forget a Stephanie Childress performance. On stage she is calm and collected, and hours of technical practice translate into effortlessness. I meet her in the slightly cramped downstairs Costa in Cambridge, and I’m shocked she seems nervous. ‘I better think about what I’m saying’, she tells me. Childress …

Earlier this month, it was revealed that rugby style “sinbins” could come into the eleven-a-side game as soon as 3 March, when IFAB, the FA’s law-making body, next hold their AGM at Wembley. Presented as a measure looking to encourage fair play, there are doubts as to the effectiveness of …