Brighton and Sussex students row over no.25 bus

Facebook has become the site of a battle between Sussex & Brighton students. The weapon of choice for both sides appears to the 25 bus; which has long been a lifeline for both universities. The original group ridicules Sussex campus and accuses its students of pomposity: as can be seen its self-descriptive statement “We have all endured their snooty attitudes and ridiculous attempts at retaliation to our chants so I say the time has come to take a stand”.

The petition was soon met with a near identical opposite; which not only uses the same picture of the 25, but copies the above text verbatim. Despite some extremely colourful language: it remains difficult to tell if these “petitions” contain any real malice, or if the whole thing is a bit of harmless banter.

South Downs is declared National Park

The University of Sussex is soon to become the only university surrounded by a National Park.

It was confirmed last week that the South Downs will finally become the United Kingdom’s 14th, and England’s 9th, National Park.
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Through the eyes of the new guy

I believe I speak for many when I say that arriving at Sussex was a surreal and daunting experience. I’d been here before for an open day, but I still couldn’t believe how some people looked so quintessentially like students. Since then my time at Uni has been based around participation in an enormous communal ritual, that same set of questions you know so well by now. “What’s your name?”, “What are you studying?” and “Where are you staying?”. It’s a shame those questions are such massive University clichés, they pop up at the start of every conversation. As a matter of fact I usually ask for names twice.

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