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Pro-Palestine encampment move to St John’s after eviction from Trinity 
Reforms to Architecture degree proposed
Activists were served with an interim court injunction this morning
The College has acquired an interim injunction to allow students to ‘study and take exams without disturbance’
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Under the new plans, students would be able to acquire an integrated BA and MArch in only four years
A honey-sweet roundup of this week’s news from around the city, including demolition delays and a Cantab in the GB Rowing squad
One protester claimed that Trinity’s profits are ‘covered in the blood of children’
Activists claimed the encampment has been set up to challenge the University’s policies blocking ‘meaningful progress on divestment’
The College has acquired an interim injunction to allow students to ‘study and take exams without disturbance’
Guide
How to study when you’d rather cry (and still pass)
Dexter Twycross investigates the living tradition of night climbing
Feature
Elsie Hayward explains why you might like to attend evensong
Interview
Olivia Goodman interviews the team behind upcoming student film Eating Oysters
There must be more to the sciences than exams
Not all state schools are made equal 
The lies we tell prospective students
Lectures are optional so give us the recordings
Calum Murray
Students from working class backgrounds discuss the remaining barriers to inclusion at Cambridge
Anonymous student
An anonymous student warns that, if STEM students are to flourish, their courses must be about more than cramming
Maddie Harding
Maddie Harding argues that if the government wants to achieve growth, they need a broader economic vision
Ffion Edwards
Outreach will fall short until comprehensive schools are set apart from grammars in admissions, argues Ffion Edwards
Katie Nicholson
Katie Nicholson argues that the well-meaning assumption that all Cambridge students suffer from impostor syndrome does more harm than good
April O'Neill
April O’Neill argues that if colleges are going to limit social activites, they must do more to encourage a healthy work-life balance
‘I broke into five May Balls in five days!’: a night climber’s guide to Cambridge
Rethinking gender and representation in the new History Tripos
A walk on the wild side with Cambridge’s hidden nature
Is the condom becoming counterculture?
Dexter Twycross investigates the living tradition of night climbing
Academic Life
Emma Tenzler investigates whether the new History Tripos is living up to its promise of inclusion
Student Life
Eve Nicholls asks what a pre-ordained day of rest can teach Cambridge about burnout, balance, and switching off
Nature
Jonathan Liu reveals some of the hidden weird and wonderful wildlife we share the city with.
Sex and Relationships
Is the condom going out of style? Mimi Ronson explores how silence, pressure, and trust are shaping unprotected sex at university
Faron Smith talks with the creators and players of Guessbridge, the new daily game taking Cambridge by storm.
Feminism
How female students are learning to silence their internal misogynist
Academic Life
Julia Ongking tests the limits of Cambridge’s academic flexibility
Commercial Feature
Commercial Feature
Commercial Feature
Commercial Feature
‘A lot goes on behind the scenes’: on managing The Blue Moon
In conversation with the former President of Clare Cellars
‘Journalism has been in crisis since I joined’: Jane Mulkerrins on her career as an interviewer
Dr Ally Louks on going viral for all the wrong reasons
Tara Buxton reflects on creating queer spaces with the manager of The Blue Moon
Claire Ding and Vienna Kwan sit down with Baron Layard to discuss co-founding the World Happiness Report
A conversation with tech activist turned pioneering politician, Audrey Tang
Mariam Al-Badry meets Bell Ribeiro-Addy, former Shadow Minister for Immigration, to discuss reparations and possible divisions within the Labour party
Quickfire
Claire Ding meets with the former bar president to discuss managing one of Cambridge’s most iconic student bars
Vienna Kwan and Duncan Paterson speak to Carwyn Jones about Westminster, Welsh Labour, and Obama
A mammoth discovery? The science of de-extinction 
What can magic mushrooms do for Parkinson’s disease?
Max Lian discusses the recent announcement from Colossal Biosciences and its controversies
Max Lian fills you in on some of the latest news from the scientific world
Stella Pozzi discusses the new banana that doesn’t go brown and its role in reducing food waste and tackling climate change
As Ozempic accumulates recognition and accolades, Lucy George delves into its nature and potential
Georgina Holmes explains how bipedalism developing in early humans has given us both speech and rhythm
Lucy George explains how ‘shrooms’ have clinical potenital against the neurodegenerative disorder
Blind Date: ‘the whole date was an experience!’
Regrets of someone scared to do anything
The not-so-perfect guide to getting through your exams
A complete Cambridge student’s guide to people watching
Notebook
Gabrielle El Saraway reflects on her first year
Blind date
Engineer Steven meets engling Arabella
Guide
How to study when you’d rather cry (and still pass)
Guide
Jess Gotterson shares her comprehensive guide to brunch, for the days college brunch doesn’t quite cut it
Quiz
Janella Scott encourages you to procrastinate revision and find out which social media you are
Guide
Zainab Miah gives us advice on living with difficult flatmates
For the love of evensong
Varsity’s exam season reading list
Is Wendy Cope’s poetry worth the social media craze?
The ethics of display in the Fitzwilliam Museum
Review
Rachel Jones unpeels Wendy Cope’s ‘The Orange’
Feature
Elsie Hayward explains why you might like to attend evensong
Reading list
Varsity‘s Arts team provides some remedial texts for exam season
Opinion
Holly Higham asks how museums hierarchise history
Opinion
Otto Bajwa-Greenwood surveys the impact of Salman Rushdie’s controversial novel on British multiculturalism
Opinion
Apeike Umolu reveals the hidden meanings behind portraits at Queens’
The power of study-wear
Degree-influenced dressing
Red lipstick and high heels: do men have their own power formula?
Wearing animal print well
Feature
Robin Zubek explores how our clothing choices can influence our motivation to seize the study day
Feature
Sofia Iudintseva examines why men do not have anything equivalent to heels and a red lip
Feature
Arshika Parann examines how our degree alters our fashion choices
Feature
Niamh Walters discusses the resurgence of Rococo fashion
Opinion
Georgina Holmes explores how minimalism can appear to be an investment, but it’s actually the same as any other trend
Guide
Flossie Bullion advises on how to best wear animal print, in order to convey the ways in which it was worn in the classical ages
Sinners is not another vampire movie
Meet the minds behind Eating Oysters 
Review
Jacob Smith explores the impact of Göransson’s soundtrack in the recently released Sinners
Interview
Olivia Goodman interviews the team behind upcoming student film Eating Oysters
Review
Jacob Smith asks whether the latest season of The Last of Us lives up to the game
Review
Daisy Simpson revisits Good Will Hunting almost thirty years after its release to find out what it can teach us now
Review
Amanda Ljungberg returns to The White Lotus after the finale to assess whether it lives up to its previous seasons
Feature
Lara Davis reflects on the current resonance of Black Mirror Season 7 as she balances seasonal escapism with exam stress
Keeping time with the algorhythm
Feature
Freya Compton on the soothing power of music to send us to sleep
Opinion
Giulia Reche-Danese explores the potential and pitfalls of finding new tracks through the algorithm
Opinion
Ethel Cain is a voice of hope in charged times writes Seun Ige
What's On?
Hectic exam term? Daisy Cooper rounds up the Cambridge non-classical music scene (!) for the next month and a bit
Live Review
Daisy Cooper reviews punk band Panic Shack, and considers the existence of the ‘Radio 6 dad’
Feature
Ruby Wooller looks back on Yussef Dayes’ Royal Albert Hall show
Comedy in crisis: Half-Baked doesn’t quite rise 
Why is there not a theatre studies course at Oxbridge?
The Rule of St Mary: monasticism meets MASH in the Corpus Playroom
Emma: handsome, if not always clever 
Review
Leon Rake finds Half-Baked rich in effort but short on substance, a one-woman show with more fizz than form
Opinion
Kate Woodman interrogates the reasons behind the lack of a theatre degree at Oxford and Cambridge
Despite grappling with some engaging ideas, Josh Pritchard isn’t quite convinced by this surrealist adaptation of Austen’s life
Review
Millie Wooler finds both highs and lows in Me and My Year of Casual ‘Monasticism’
Review
Elena Brown Moreno is strongly compelled by this sophisticated exploration of contemporary politics
Preview
Shan Tan-Ya talks comedy, Catholicism, and creative catharsis with the team behind this fringe-bound show
The Quiet Death of the FA Cup
In conversation with CUAC’s President ahead of a truly historic Varsity match 
English football
Max Eshelby examines the decline of the world’s oldest football competition and what can be done to save it
Table Tennis
Milly Kotecha reports from the University Sports Centre on the dramatic twists and topspins of the 2025 table tennis Cuppers final
Oscar O’Neill takes a look at the unorthodox career of footballer Jamie Vardy
College Football
Tarkan Ateş reports from Grange Road on an exciting tussle between Newbroke and D.E.W. in the 2025 football cuppers final
Interviews
Tara Buxton talks with Jess Poon about all things athletics ahead of this weekend’s Varsity match
College Football
Joss Heddle-Bacon reports from Grange Road as Trinity Hall Vs Jesus went right down to the wire
Is Cambridge really accessible?
Students from working class backgrounds discuss the remaining barriers to inclusion at Cambridge