Sunday May 20, 2012

Occupy Mile End Park

Tower Hamlets

Walking out of campus and across Mile End Park, one cannot help but notice the campers who have taken up a home there. The camp is made up of Occupy London, who have pitched tents in the park since the first of April. 

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Photo: Matthew TK Taylor

Football as an Art form? Surely not?

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Alex Keble takes a look at the Beautiful Game and considers its place in the life of an arts student. 

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Obama’s Re-election: A Party Divided

Features

A look at the race for the Republican Presidential candidate.

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Low Productivity Breeds High Creativity?

Science

When working we may prefer a particular time, some of us get more work done than others. We might favour early mornings, late nights or something closer to middle of the day depending on the survey. So what about the rest of the day? 

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CCTV - Does the Big Brother Approach Work?

Tower Hamlets

Tower Hamlets operates around 280 CCTV cameras on the public, local campaigners have discovered. According to Big Brother Watch, within four years this equates to £3 million spent by the borough on cameras.

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Photo: Lloyd Ramos

The Drapers Refurbishment Reviewed

Drapers

Arts Editor, Millie Jefferies gives her marks on the latest Drapers Bar revamp.

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"The Word ‘Election’ Isn't Appropriate Here"

Features

 

Features editor, Omer Hamid points a finger at Vladimir Putin's election policies.
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Fee Hike Could Cost British Universities £5.66bn

News

The rise of tuition fees, and decline of applications, could negatively affect the economy, as well as undermine the world-class reputation of British universities, UCAS reveals.

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Elections? What Elections?

Comment

Fresher, Keumars Afifi-Sabet, adopts a cynical perspective of the QMSU elections.

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QM Professor hails successful “partnerships” for HIV Project UN award

News

“All of the partners are equal in standing irrespective of if one provides the money or the funding and employs the people with that funding, [it] doesn’t detract from the fact that all the partners in this programme were equal partnerships” Julian Gold told QMessenger when explaining a project, created in 2008 in order to provide nutritional treatment for HIV and AIDs patients in Champasak Province, he co-directs.

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Technical colleges promise next generation of secondary education

News

This autumn, Hackney will open London's first University Technical College . This new wave of colleges, catering for students aged 14-19, have been built with the aim of tackling high levels of youth unemployment.

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What Will The Olympics Mean To Us?

London Olympics 2012

Olympic Games and Local Area Columnist, Bethany Moffett, provides her first installment, questioning the impact of the 2 week event on the Tower Hamlets area

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City Bonuses "Wrecked The British Economy", says QM Professor

News

The problem of city bonuses extended beyond moral issues and are a matter of bad business practice according to a QM professor.

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Can Ken Step Back Up?

Mayoral Election 2012 Special

After Ken Livingstone's visit to QM, Edward Clibbens explains why he's London's top pick this May

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Are You Backing Boris?

Mayoral Election 2012 Special

James Deacon lauds the Tory Candidate for May's election

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Reading Week: Quality TV Time

Features

QMessenger writers tell us what they'll really be doing this reading week.

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Police Privatisation?

Comment

In the face of large scale opposition and an embarrassing backtracking on Andrew Lansley’s NHS reform bill you may have thought the Coalition may have taken note that the country is not entirely in favour of privatisation of public services, apparently not.

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"If you decide that you would like to convert to Christianity, then that's good for you"

Religion

Arts Editor, Lauryn Murdoch, offers a complimentary vision of religion as a faith.

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Tweeting More Addictive Than Smoking

NEWS, TECH

Chicago University Think Tanks have revealed the shocking impact of social network giant, Twitter.

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ULU election results announced; turnout of 1.2 percent

News

The University of London Union (ULU) election results have been announced.

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Campus is "wide open" say security guards

The restructure of Queen Mary security services could leave the campus vulnerable according to officers

 

A member of Queen Mary security staff has alleged that the ongoing reorganisation of the security service will leave the campus “wide open”.
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Is Lib Dems' Paddick the Unexpected Man With The Plan?

Mayoral Election 2012 Special

James Deacon wonders whether we can forget Thick Clegg and vote Brian Paddick in May's mayoral election.

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"Aren't You Happy To Live In This Great and Mighty Democracy?"

Comment

Self-confessed Liberal, Ruth Irwin, slams Britain's supposedly power-crazed government

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Students: 'no' on assisted suicide

Med students surveyed are against reform

MPs should not change the law on assisted suicide in favour of terminally ill patients, despite a report released this month by The Commission on Assisted Dying, according to a survey of QM students. 

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Break in sees students lose £2.4k of equipment

QMessenger has lost £2400 of video equipment belonging to their TV division

 

QMessenger Media Group (QMG), the student media division of Queen Mary Students’ Union (QMSU), has fallen victim to a burglary this week, with approximately £2400 of video equipment belonging to QMTV stolen.

 
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