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In this article, volunteer Label writer, Catriona Fida, explains the art of the ‘side hustle’ and gives an insight into her own. ‘Side hustling’ has become a massive phenomenon within the last few years. If you aren’t pursuing an extra-curricular passion alongside your main hustle, you’re seen as not doing enough or at best, the bare minimum. My main issue with the term ‘side hustle’ is that it implies if you aren’t making money from your passion then it is a waste of time and energy. Of course, I understand that for many the appeal of a side hustle…
On Day 3 of this year’s Exec Elections campaigning , we sent Jack down to the President and Vice President Q&A to speak with this year’s candidates.
Label Editor Anna Cooper, sat down with the candidates running to be your next LSU President, to find out more about their ideas! Callum Parke What are the main points of your manifesto? Communication – improved face to face and virtual communication. I want to engage students as much as possible and make sure that they can see what the exec does and so they know where to go if they have issues. We’re thinking to start exec office hours so having an hour every week where there will be a drop-in session so they can come into the office and…
Watch your Exec Elections Executive Officer candidates be interviewed by the infamous Ed Radford, live from 3pm!
Label’s Head of Social Media, Leah Langley, discusses why the news does not keep its focus on environmental disasters for long. We have access to a vast amount of news streams 24 hours a day and yet it seems that environmental disasters disappear from our sources as quick as they appear. Why is this? Several studies have shown that the media in the US, and the UK, significantly understate the strength of the scientific data surrounding climate change. In previous years, the biggest reports were made in 2017 following Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the 205 United Nations (UN) Paris Climate…
Watch your Exec Elections Sectional candidates be interviewed by the infamous Ed Radford, live from 3pm!
Label’s Amie Woodyatt interviews Loughborough University Vice Chancellor Bob Allison on the 2020 LSU Elections. Presenter: Amie Woodyatt Camera Operator: Helen Forrest Editor: Amie Woodyatt, Rahul Mathasing Executive Producer: Joshua Gray
Media volunteer Amie Woodyatt immerses us into a live performance from Twin Peaks in Nottingham. The sky is a violet shade of blue; white and red lights flash as planes coast between clouds; I take one last sniff of the outside air, laced with traces of cigarette smoke and chips, and step into The Bodega. A spaceman in a jar is stamped onto my hand before I make my way up the stairs into the smoky attic bar. Merch meets us as we walk in. Who let the tuna drive? Drink in hand, we grab a shiny square of black…
The Exec Elections have started, and the candidates are away! Take a look at the highlights of Day 1 of campaigning!
Returning volunteer, Chloë Morgan, shares what it is like to be LGBTQ+ in 2020. It’s that time of year again. No, stop thinking with your stomach – I don’t mean pancake day. And no, not Valentine’s Day either. Although it is linked to the L word. But a different kind… It’s time to celebrate ‘the gays’, and everyone else in between! It’s time to celebrate everyone who falls under the rainbow; or, in other words, the LGBTQ+ umbrella. That’s right, February is LGBTQ+ History Month. But what does it even mean to be LGBTQ+ in 2020? Being LGBTQ+ is a lot…