SUB ry, voted by me as having the worst name for a student organization ever, is the name of the religious sect of the Department of English student body. If you’ve checked the HYY calendar, you’ve probably read the description for SUB, which explains that we organise parties, game nights and other fascinating stuff that makes you yawn like never before.
Elections for the board of 2008 took place a week ago. New members joined, new …

“[Linguistic diversity] constitutes one of the great treasures of humanity, an enormous storehouse of expressive power and profound understanding of the universe. The loss of hundreds of languages that have already passed into history is an intellectual catastrophe in every way comparable in magnitude to the ecological catastrophe we face today as the earth’s tropical forests are swept by fire. Each language still spoken is fundamental to the personal, social and — a key term …

Recent research sheds a poor light on the popular extra-curricular activity of being a board member in a student union or organisation. When only ten years ago such student activity was greeted by staff and students alike with praise and gratitude, student boards are now condemned as being obtrusive breeding grounds for know-it-all attitudes and full of socially incompetent suck-ups, whose only way of finding a friend is by mail-order or kidnapping.
“The change happened overnight,” …

Yes, it has finally come to this. After a month and a half of solid typing and retyping, my pallid complexion and hunched shoulders leave little room for speculation, I’m locked in the crypt with my master’s thesis, and the only way out is through.
Despite the title, the last thing anyone needs is a horror story. The thesis is a big enough bogey man for most students already. The point of these posts is to …

Student Severely Beat Up After Being Found Using A Calculator
“The police are investigating the case of S. Tuary, a German philology student who was roughed up bad on Thursday afternoon. Eyewitnesses to the assault claim that Tuary was seen using a calculator only minutes before the mugging. These so-called ‘calculus crimes’ have become an alarming trend in campus violence lately, and even though the habit of using science equipment and solving math problems is frowned …