To ring in the New Year (and decade!) BTSB invites you to look away from the future ahead of us and turn back to 2009! How did the last spin around the sun fare against the others?

2010. The big twenty-ten. This year marks the end of an era, the post-millenial decade filled with wonders. Our decade was one of sweeping political changes, technological breakthroughs and changes in the ways we perceive and think of the world and ourselves. Or at least that’s what Hollywood promised us. Join us in taking a look at the expectations that Hollywood set for us during the last ten years and how reality once again disappointed …

Free coffee and biscuits caused a rampage
“The staff of the English Department, in an unprecedented act of foolishness and with complete lack of foresight, decided to offer the languishing student body something to cheer them up and maybe carry them through the harsh, cold winter months: coffee and biscuits. In a rampage one bystander described as ‘hauntingly similar’ to the Job Offer Riot of 2008 (when the department advertised one minimal pay opening as a …

That time of the year is upon us once more. The time when a jolly old elf in a red suit makes his rounds giving presents to all the children around the world.

If by some miracle you’ve managed to not notice that Christmas is fast approaching, well… it is. And many of my fellow students are heading home for some traditional food, traditional snow (if home is north enough) and traditional presents. If you’re going home by plane (which is unlikely, I’m simply pretending to keep up an xmassy theme), here’s what you shouldn’t do.