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Label volunteer writer Leah Langley discusses Scotland’s high win over England in the Six Nations Tournament, being their first win at Twickenham in 38 years. Saturday February 6th saw the return of a much awaited Six Nations tournament that everyone could tune into and enjoy. England were facing Scotland and viewers were on tenterhooks to see who would be taking the victory. England were favourites to win, however, it wasn’t meant to be as Scotland turned up ready to win and they weren’t prepared to let anything get in their way. The match was nothing short of historic as it…
Recently, I attended a meeting at the start of which I was asked to provide a short introduction to who I was and what my role entailed. It was a struggle. Not because I didn’t know what I did, but because it was so difficult to concisely verbalise what I do and how it impacts the membership that elected me as President. At the Students’ Union, the ‘Executive’ comprises 5 Executive Officers (President, Vice President, Education, Sport, and Welfare & Diversity) and 6 Section Chairs (Action, Athletic Union Clubs Officer, Enterprise, Media, Rag, and Societies). Nine out of these 11…
Over 500 student disciplinaries have been issued by Loughborough University so far this academic year, an investigation by Label has found. Since the first campus ban issued on the 15th September, there have been 500 “minor” student disciplinaries related to COVID breaches – including “not wearing a face mask” in designated areas on “more than one occasion” or being “found in a property” where you are not the “permanent resident”. According to a Loughborough University spokesperson, there have been “two major student disciplinaries” relating to COVID breaches. A major breach could be either “repeat minor offences”, or a “single act that…
Loughborough University followed the national trend last year in awarding 6% more First Class degrees than in 2019, in the largest grade inflation at the University in recent history. New data has revealed that 1155 First Class degrees were issued to Loughborough’s 2020 Graduates, up from 960 the year before. The number of students receiving Second and Third Class degrees decreased as a result, with just 30 students receiving a Third, or ‘Pass’, grade. The increase in First Class degrees has led to 88% of Loughborough students graduating with a First or Upper Second Class (2:1) degree, 6% above the…
Returning Label volunteer Leah Langley describes the steps that Hawaii has taken both in 2018 and 2020 in order preserve its diverse marine life. A Hawaiian court has closed a loophole that has allowed for industry to illegally extract more than half a million marine animals form Hawaii reefs in the last two years. The campaign for this change has been spearheaded by scuba diver, Rene Umberger, who is all too aware of the deadly nature of aquarium fishing. In 2014, Umberger went on an expedition to document the devastating destruction that fishing activities had caused off the Kona Coast…
Volunteer writer Maciek Anielski gives us a rundown of the ongoing events surrounding the r/wallstreetbets subreddit and it’s so-called ‘attack’ on Melvin Capital The Dominant Narrative It’s likely that in the past few weeks, you’ve seen someone talking about Reddit’s war on Wall Street. Melvin Capital, the hedge fund targeted by r/wallstreetbets, a subreddit, has lost 53 percent in asset value while the shares of a video game retailer, have skyrocketed from approximately $40 per share on January 20th to an astonishing peak $513.12 on the 28th of the same month. Politicians, journalists, and redditors alike, rushed to paint the…
Volunteer Writer, Amie Woodyatt, explores Netflix’s smash hit series, ‘Bridgerton’ Warning: spoilers ahead. Not that it needs a warning. Frankly it’s glaringly obvious that Daphne Bridgerton and the Duke of Hastings are going to get together just by watching the trailer. I still enjoyed watching them fall in love though; I am a romantic at heart. Bridgerton is now Netflix’s most watched original series ever, being watched by 82 million households in just a month, so if you haven’t seen it… Then I suppose that’s valid, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. One genuinely refreshing and wonderful thing to see…
Volunteer writer Leah Langley explains who Alexie Navalny is, and why he’s in the news so often Alexei Navalny is a Russian opposition leader, a politician, a lawyer, and is perhaps best known for anti-corruption activism. Navalny is the leader of the Russia of the Future parts and he also founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). He is known globally for organising demonstrations against the Russian government and for advocating reforms, in contradiction of corruption in Russia, by running for office. President Vladimir Putin does not address Navalny by name and is said to fear him more than any other…
The Government has published two new options for post-18 university admissions, both of which suggest pushing the start of University terms back by a month. The review suggests moving the start of term back to some point in October, which could possibly push the Loughborough term back into early November, as Loughborough is a university notorious for it’s late-starting terms. This would allow for students to receive offers (and possibly choose universities altogether) after they have taken their A-Levsls or equivalent qualifiactions. The change comes after under-fire Education Secretary Gavin Williamson called the current system, where students receive offers before their results…
Volunteer writer, Amie Woodyatt, reviews one of Netflix’s new smash hit shows, ‘The Queen’s Gambit’. d4 d5 c4 In two moves Beth Harmon (played by Anya Taylor-Joy) had my heart. And it didn’t take long before she had the heart of almost every man she encountered. Netflix’s 2020 hit mini-series takes us on a drug-fuelled, alcoholic joy ride in the wild world of competitive chess. Titled as the stages of a chess game, each episode moves through the stages of Beth’s journey towards her toughest match at the Moscow Invitational against the best player in the world, Vasily Borgov. The…