Cockroaches infest East Slope

An infestation of “hundreds of cockroaches” was discovered by a group of freshers only days after they moved into their East Slope residence.

The insects, which can transport potentially harmful microbes, were found living in shelving and behind the oven in the kitchen area.

Robin Wooller, who was first to notice the tiny flatmates, told The Badger: “At first we thought they were earwigs so we sprayed the shelf with insect repellent [and] thousands fell on to the worktop. It was horrible.” Robin, who is studying history, says that he is just “glad that it’s getting sorted.”

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War against the HMOs?

Friends is the most repeated show in television history. Whenever there is nothing on, we can all agree to engage in the most common form of televised procrastination and settle down and watch a nice episode of Friends, the show that for ten years sometimes successfully – often hilariously – defined the sit-com genre. Last Tuesday, after somehow finding new laughs in an early episode I must have seen 4 times already, I felt prompted to ask my house-mate: why was there never a successful British Friends?
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Your new Sabbatical team and their promises

Democratic involvement with your union shouldn’t stop with the elections. Here we publish the manifestos of your newly elected representatives so you can hold them to account. Over the summer they’ll move into their new offices in Falmer house, so if they aren’t living up to their promises you know where to find them. Read more

East Slope: not a actually a ‘slum’

Throwing yourself completely into university life must, to some people, be a bit like diving head first into in to a snake pit. I felt a bit like this whilst touring around the fresher’s fair in search of some sociable activities to take part in. Unfortunately there was very little that appealed to me. Frankly, I didn’t feel that dressing up as a pirate and getting ‘jolly’ on rum or some other pirate brew was really for me. I ended up deciding that I liked the people I lived with enough not to bother meeting anyone else.
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Obamania comes to Sussex

US Election results draws excited crowds

In the early hours of last Wednesday morning a packed East Slope Bar was sent into raptures as the announcement came through that on the other side of the Atlantic, Fox News had called Ohio for Barack Obama. The state – one of the closest in the 2008 Presidential election – was a must win for John McCain as no Republican had ever become President without winning Ohio. From this point on the bar became a party as it became clear that it was only a matter of a few hours of waiting before Barack Obama would be declared the 44th President of the United States of America. Read more