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		<title>Sussex staff set terms for first round of industrial strike action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Sussex announced last week following an Emergency General Meeting that they will go on strike this Thursday 18 March, and again in the summer term. It was also decided that there will be a lobby of the university senate meeting on Wednesday 17.

The decision on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/news/sussex-staff-set-terms-for-first-round-of-industrial-strike-action/</link>
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		<title>Management back-tracks over student suspensions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday 10 March, six students formerly suspended from the University of Sussex had their penalisations modified so as to permit them to continue with their academic studies.

Around 600 students rallied outside Sussex House last Thursday 11 March to protest against management’s decision to suspend six students following the previous week’s occupation. Photo: Sam Waterman
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/news/management-back-tracks-over-student-suspensions/</link>
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		<title>Stop the Cuts in pictures</title>
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		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/uncategorized/stop-the-cuts-in-pictures/</link>
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		<title>Gay-friendly Christian group will rate churches in Sussex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A newly established gay Christian group, Changing Attitude Sussex, is aiming to make churches in the local community more gay-friendly.
Changing Attitude claims they are: &#8220;Drawn by God’s love to work for the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the Anglican Communion.&#8221;
Last month, over 70 people attended the group’s first meeting, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/news/gay-friendly-christian-group-will-rate-churches-in-sussex/</link>
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		<title>Sussex UCU votes for strike action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday 3 March, the University and College Union (UCU) at Sussex voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in their fight to save jobs and services at the university.
Turnout totalled a record 80.9 per cent, the highest the union has ever received in a ballot.
The union said the unprecedented turnout was indicative of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/news/sussex-ucu-votes-for-strike-action/</link>
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		<title>University calls police on students who protest outside Sussex House against university cuts</title>
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Last Wednesday 3 March at 12.30pm students occupied Sussex House for five hours in protest against proposed course cuts and job losses. Police in a convoy of vans were called onto campus to contain the occupation and the accompanying rally. 
University management seek to reduce the budget for 2009/10 by £3m on a turnover of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/news/university-calls-police-on-students-who-protest-outside-sussex-house-against-university-cuts/</link>
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		<title>Objectification: no ifs, no butts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The power of the media to shape people’s perceptions of sexuality and gender dynamics are becoming ever more influential. Can we legitimately claim that all forms of sexual representation have an adverse affect on these perceptions?
The ‘Motion against the Objectification of Women Students’ proposing to ban “lads mags” and nude sports calendars on campus in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/comment/objectification-no-ifs-no-butts/</link>
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		<title>No stupid surveys, thanks very much</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a third year student and oppose the local and national cuts being made to the higher education sector, there’s something simple and really effective you can do to help the movement – don’t fill out the National Student Survey (NSS). The motion for the boycott was passed at this year’s Annual General [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/comment/no-stupid-surveys-thanks-very-much/</link>
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		<title>Brighton is named UK&#8217;s &#8216;ghost capital&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brighton and Hove has been named the UK&#8217;s ‘ghost capital’, according to a recent report published by the Argus. 
Ghostly spirits are said to be roaming the narrow, cobbled streets of Brighton, including murder victims and drowned sailors from years gone by.
Organisers of the first ever World Horror Convention said Brighton will be the only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/news/brighton-is-named-uks-ghost-capital/</link>
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		<title>These New Puritans: Southend&#8217;s prodigal son breaks his silence and speaks to The Badger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Badger caught These New Puritans in sound check before an eagerly anticipated Brighton show – fresh from releasing much-lauded sophomore album Hidden, we sat down to talk shop with Jack Barnett, lead singer.

The Badger: You played in Brighton a couple of years ago, how has your live show evolved since then?
Jack Barnett: Well it’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/arts/these-new-puritans-southends-prodigal-son-breaks-his-silence-and-speaks-to-the-badger/</link>
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		<title>Mouse trap universe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The atmosphere is electric. All eyes are on eight-year-old Louise, to whom I have bestowed the momentarily ultimate honour of being master of ceremonies. A countdown worthy of mission-control cuts through the excited murmurs; my inner ten year old boy squirms with excitement. Will it work?  Louise flicks the all-important trigger and the ultimate machine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/news/badger-science/mouse-trap-universe/</link>
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		<title>Stop the cuts, start the music!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, 25 February, protestors braved the wind and rain to make a stand on student cuts in Library Square. At 1.15pm, representing the 115 threatened jobs at the University  of Sussex, a band of protestors took to the square to promote ‘Stop the Cuts, Start the Music!’ to get their voices across in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/news/stop-the-cuts-start-the-music/</link>
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		<title>Life after office: power, politics and profit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Later this year, most likely in May, Gordon Brown faces the prospect of handing in his P45 and beginning the search for a new job. He, along with the reams of other politicians who have found themselves unemployed over-night, will have a number of options open to him. He could take up the quiet life in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/uncategorized/life-after-office-power-politics-and-profit/</link>
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		<title>What next for Stop the Cuts? An open letter to the Stop the Cuts Campaign, from the Stop the Cuts Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fellow students, staff, and interested parties,
We know the cuts are bad, we know they are only the beginning (a few more million next year, and after the election – who can predict?). We know that they need to be stopped. We know that there is something wrong with the way this university is managed. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/comment/what-next-for-stop-the-cuts-an-open-letter-to-the-stop-the-cuts-campaign-from-the-stop-the-cuts-campaign/</link>
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		<title>Want an honest Press? Boycott newspapers!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate newspapers. Unless I can have my say in them. So aside from The Badger, the only one I have any grain of respect for is the Financial Times, not because I’m in it (yet), or because I’m a dirty capitalist (I’m not), but because it consistently provides well sourced articles with minimum emotive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/comment/want-an-honest-press-boycott-newspapers/</link>
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		<title>NUS no-platform policy is hypocritical</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few hours before the deadline for this comment piece, I was going to write a piece slating the NUS’s no-platform for the BNP policy. I started writing it, but then realised that this hot potato was too complex to give justice to here, so I’m going to write a piece slating the NUS instead.

What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/comment/nus-no-platform-policy-is-hypocritical/</link>
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		<title>Gay is the new black: Why it is wrong to think BME and LGBT identities are mutually exclusive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
This week is Diversity Week across campus and to mark it we are having our main event for Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender History Month, “Invisible To Invincible”. This Thursday we will be looking at minority groups within the LGBT community, in particular focusing on Black and Minority Ethnic, and faith groups.

We are lucky enough [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/comment/gay-is-the-new-black-why-it-is-wrong-to-think-bme-and-lgbt-identities-are-mutually-exclusive/</link>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s &#8220;rudest place names&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When locals in West Yorkshire won their battle to reinstate the place name ‘Tickle Cock Bridge’ last week, The Times readily welcomed the news by compiling a list of Britain’s top 30 rudest place names.
‘Cocks’ in Cornwall won the coveted title, closely followed by Worcestershire’s ‘Minge Lane’ and ‘Bell End’, which came second and third [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/news/britains-rudest-place-names/</link>
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		<title>Universities “should cater for over-50s”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent Universities UK report has suggested that British universities must offer more courses suitable for people aged 50 and above.
The study, ‘Active Ageing and Universities’, proposes that as the baby boom generation fast approaches the age of retirement, there should be greater incentives offered to those in their twilight years to regain access to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/news/universities-%e2%80%9cshould-cater-for-over-50s%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Man charged over Elm Grove stabbing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 40-year-old man appeared in court last week charged by police with the murder of Brighton resident Gordon Stalker, a founder of the Lewes Road Community Garden.
Stalker, 51, was found bleeding in the hallway of his shared house in Elm Grove on the morning of Monday 15 February. Post mortem results found he died as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebadgeronline.co.uk/uncategorized/man-charged-over-elm-grove-stabbing/</link>
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