Author: LSU Media

Sports Editor, Jasmine Trapnell sat down with some of the Executive Officer candidates to help students get to know them a bit more. Below you can get to know Rachel Wan, who is running for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer. Rachel Wan (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion candidate) describes herself as observant, silly-at-times, and passionate. Over her time at Loughborough Wan has been involved with lots of societies: Vice-Chair of Chinese Society, Eastern South-East Asia ambassador of the International Students’ Network (ISN), ISN Chair, and International Officer for LSU. When I asked Wan what inspires her, she responded her manager from…

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Sports Editor, Jasmine Trapnell sat down with some of the Executive Officer candidates to help students get to know them a bit more. Below you can get to know Julian Saade, who is running for Sport Officer. Julian Saade (Sport Officer candidate) has been actively involved in sport at Lougborough ever since his first year, from playing IMS hockey to now being a member of AU Powerlifting and Weightlifting’s committee. When I asked who it is that inspires him, Saade responded that it would definitely be his friend who was also his boxing coach at school. Saade’s manifesto describes in…

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Sports Editor, Jasmine Trapnell sat down with some of the Executive Officer candidates to help students get to know them a bit more. Below you can get to know Ben Clubb, who is running for Sport Officer. Ben Clubb (Sport Officer candidate) describes himself as fun, driven, and hardworking. During his time at Loughborough Clubb has been involved in multiple sports: he is a committee member of snow sports, played IMS rugby and is also the current LSU Sport Officer. I asked Clubb who inspires him most, and he responded it is his Mum, as she always gives her time…

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Sports Editor, Jasmine Trapnell sat down with some of the Executive Officer candidates to help students get to know them a bit more. Below you can get to know Lizzie Adamson, who is running for Sport Officer. Lizzie Adamson (Sport Officer candidate) described herself as proactive, enthusiastic, and approachable. Over her time at Loughborough she has been very involved in many different sports programmes. Adamson is a member of the AU Lacrosse team and also coaches the women’s Lacrosse 4th team, as well as being the fixtures secretary for Lacrosse too. On top of this, Adamson also coaches athletics, participated…

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Exams are over, and you can get back to doing what you do best… getting feral in the union. But remember when you said you were going to actually attend your lectures this year? Tia gives her tipsy top tips for dodging that nasty hangover! So imagine, it’s Wednesday night, you’re going out, but you’ve got a 9am tomorrow morning. We all love a night out, but sometimes we must remember there’s ‘uni’ and ‘university’. Here are some tips to have a wild night while trying to avoid waking up vowing never to drink again. 1. PreventionMake sure you eat…

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Lily Bass takes a look at the rise of Andrew Tate, a misogynist influencer, and how destructive these types of men are in our society. He was nowhere until he was everywhere. Andrew Tate, former Big Brother contestant and a man who has recently been detained in Bucharest on charges of rape and human trafficking, quickly established fame last year by offering lifestyle advice to men which advocated male supremacy and violence against women. Among his violently misogynistic views is that women are significantly more attractive at 18-19 years old than they are at 25 years-old because they’ve ‘been through…

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Label volunteer Lorenzo Lo Vaglio looks into how Chelsea FC signed Enzo Fernandez for £106.8m but also cannot afford to heat their women’s pitch… As introduced, Chelsea FC is retaining a lot of attention as these news stories seem to collide from an equal opportunities perspective. Indeed, some may ask themselves ‘How’s it possible?’. However, before kicking up a fuss, I think is important to know every detail (and I’m not referring to Enzo Fernandez’s transfer). First, Chelsea manager Emma Hayes stated that what happened ‘is not on Chelsea Football Club’, which means she tacitly implies that the blame is…

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Following the busy exam and deadline period, Laura Gray Nunez reflects on the ways in which she copes with the stress of studying. Exam period can be stressful, especially for people who suffer from anxiety. However, there are many tips, techniques and habits we can develop to make it less stressful and to be able to focus, be healthy and happy during exam and revision periods. Procrastinating or getting easily distracted is not a difficult habit to fall into, but here we have some tips on how to approach exams in the best way in order to remain calm, healthy…

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Loughborough Students Gymnastics Club (LSGC) once again impressed at the BUCS Gymnastics Nationals on the 4th and 5th February at New College in Leicester. Sports Editor Jasmine Trapnell delves into the success of the weekend. Bringing home a total of 24 individual medals including 11 golds – LSGC performed outstandingly! The women’s team even brought home the BUCS Champions title once again for the 4th year in a row! The standout performances from the women’s team were from Tara Donnelly, who placed first overall in women’s grade 1 and from Kirsten Evans who placed 1st overall in women’s grade 2.…

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Sports Editor, Jasmine Trapnell, sat down Loughborough’s best women’s hockey goalkeeper: Marcia LaPlante, and shares what she learnt about LaPlante. Marcia LaPlante is our Loughborough Women’s Hockey 1st team goalkeeper, originally from New Brunswick, Canada and is a masters student studying Social Science Research. We started by, of course, discussing sport and more specifically, hockey. But I wanted to find out what LaPlante’s favourite sport is apart from hockey, but she stuck to her Canadian roots and exclaimed it has to be ice hockey, stating that she technically plays field hockey, so it is different! When talking about her team,…

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