Is UberPOOL uber safe?
Luisa Barrientos
Uber has recently launched UberPOOL, a new option to make rides cheaper and cut down on emissions and mileage. From a ‘keep the planet healthy’ point of view, this sounds…
Comment and Opinion
Bring on the house parties, I refuse to go out in Kingston’s night clubs
Maria Delgado Gonçalves
I HAVE refused to go out to night clubs in Kingston for the past couple of years and to this day I am still happy about my decision. A range…
GPA comment
Ida Akerstedt
Whilst some students work hard from the start, some students only do the bare minimum and focus their efforts into their final exams – because first year doesn’t really matter…
Facebook deletes ‘maybe’ button
Nikita Jadav
Facebook has decided to scrap the ‘maybe’ button on event pages, angering commitment-phobes everywhere. Facebook has replaced the ‘maybe’ button with a new ‘interested’ button. The change of wording is…
Are students too lazy to protest?
Julia Canas-Martinez
Over the past few weeks, students have been taking to the streets to do what students supposedly do best – protest. From large-scale protests like the Million Mask March which…
Paris backlash: a war of ignorance
Harriet King
When the Charlie Hebdo shootings happened earlier on this year, 26 mosques around France were subject to attacks by gunfire, grenades and pigs heads. Two weeks ago, a day after…
R.I.P Movember
Samuel Jarrett
Wait, hold on! Is it the third week of November already? I guess Instagram must be glitched. Where have all the shameless excuses of mustaches gone? This absence of bum…
I didn’t change my Facebook profile to the French tricolore
As I was scrolling down my Facebook feed on Sunday I saw dozens of photos turned red, white and blue to show solidarity with France. After the terrible attacks in…
Are tampons really a luxury?
Tampons are a necessity for any female who has reached puberty. We cannot help getting our periods and we need the protection. So how is it that a necessity is…
Mindfulness and Meditation: how it can change a students life
I am the type of person whose brain works over time. It is constantly trying to overthink, analyse and stress about 100 different things simultaneously. This has made it difficult…