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The independent Cambridge student newspaper since 1947. Instagram: @varsitycambridge

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Joined September 2009
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@VarsityUK
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7 years
Did @ShakiraSweet1 take a little too much inspiration from The West Wing at #NUSconference #nusnc18 ? 😬
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Cambridge Women's time of 18:43 is better than the Men's time from last year #boatrace2017
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A Cambridge alumnus, and former Varsity writer, was today crowned Britain’s first new monarch in 70 years
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Today marks the start of the new @Cambridge_Uni campaign against sexual harassment, #BreakingTheSilence Read more:
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With most of us at home this term, we want to help students feel a bit more connected to Cambridge, so we've collaborated with @camdiary to create our own photo diary! Check in every Thursday morning for some wonderful pics of the city, specially selected by Sir Cam himself (1/2)
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Rebecca Siddall, a History of Science student and a Long Covid patient, uncovers the secret history of prejudice surrounding post-pandemic viruses
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At a crowded vigil outside Cambridge's Guildhall, Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones were remembered and honoured
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Clare porter Kevin Price resigns from Cambridge City Council over motion to support transgender rights
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Peter Hutchinson, who has been the subject of almost a dozen sexual harassment reports, will resign with immediate effect, and Trinity Hall will undergo a review of its handling of harassment
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8 years
Cambridge graduates have achieved some amazing things, but this really takes the biscuit. #gbbo
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'This should be utterly uncontroversial for any academic who is clearly and truly concerned about climate change'
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A Cambridge professor who kept his job despite 'accidentally' copying a student’s essays faces fresh allegations of verbatim plagiarism dating back nearly two decades
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14 portraits of black Cantabs will be displayed at @theUL . We got an exclusive look at the opening of the new exhibition ‘Black Cantabs: History Makers’ @OurBlackCantabs @Cambridge_Uni @Cam_Assessment @Cambridge_ACS
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Monchi: 'This business isn't about selling players, it’s getting results.' We sat down with @leonsfdo of @SevillaFC .
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Varsity sat down with Maisie Williams to talk bringing her latest play into the digital age, as well as the Game of Thrones cast family
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'We’re victims of the same gatekept power' | Harvey Brown, Paula Lacey, Benjamin Knight, Lucy Carter and Bella Cross argue that vice-chancellors need to come to the table and bring the marking boycott to an end
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8 years
We talk to @WEP_UK co-founder @sanditoksvig about funny women, feminism and manspreading
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Innocent until proven guilty? Sophie Pennie responds to the media’s recent treatment of @L_ArmiTstead #RioOlympics
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The Department of Geography will introduce a scholarship for black and mixed heritage students, commencing from the 2021-2022 academic year
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4 years
The University of Cambridge has today announced plans to fully divest by 2030, with an aim to 'achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions across its entire investment portfolio’ by 2038
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Bella Cross, one of the rally organisers, said 'student staff solidarity is strong, and together we have made the impossible happen'
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6 years
“We’re a minority, the playing ground isn’t level for us and it’s vital that all potential students are given the same opportunity," he said
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5 years
"How aggressively Cambridge of me to lament the UL", writes Imi Phillips
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7 years
Exclusive: @Andrew_Adonis letter in Varsity reaffirms his opposition to high vice-chancellor pay, saying it is a “straightforward matter of morality and justice”
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@ShakiraSweet1 ICYMI: There’s a transcript of both speech sections here:
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@piersmorgan sits down with his favourite Cambridge paper, Varsity
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'Many are facing the likelihood that the completion of their degrees and their graduation may be delayed… Any dispute plainly requires negotiation'
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7 years
Today, Peterhouse became the first Cambridge college to announce it has withdrawn its direct investments in the fossil fuels industry
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5 years
The Cambridge graduate is suing the University for discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. She says that its disciplinary process left her vulnerable and revictimised.
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A Gazan PhD student denounced Vice-Chancellor Deborah Prentice over Cambridge's response to events in Israel and Gaza, at the largest pro-Palestinian demonstration Cambridge has seen
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9 years
“There is a very credible left-wing argument” to leave the EU, says @KateHoeyMP
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Dr Mónica Moreno Figueroa, a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and the discussion chair, said in her introductory remarks: “This event is historic. Two of the most powerful black women speaking and writing today are addressing us here in Cambridge”.
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'The UCU doesn't care about your interests, you shouldn't care about theirs' | Hugh Jones argues the University needs to get tough on strikes
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4 years
Pembroke College will remove investments from funds exposed to fossil fuels, it was announced yesterday (17/02)
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The Cambridge UCU president said that the University's senior management 'have immense influence' and can 'affect the dispute nationally'
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8 years
Varsity Theatre previews Week 2's Corpus mainshow SWALLOW
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2 years
“The biggest strike march Cambridge has ever seen” 📣Why are teaching staff going on strike? Varsity went to the protest on Wednesday to find out…
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“There was a serious risk that Dr Carl’s appointment could lead, directly or indirectly, to the College being used as a platform to promote views that could incite racial or religious hatred, and bring the College into disrepute.”
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Due to technical difficulties during the hustings for disabled students' officer we were unable to bring you this picture of Emrys Travis. So, by popular demand...
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Jeremy Corbyn and Emily Thornberry spotted arriving at Cambridge Station a few minutes ago #BBCDebate
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The ‘Recognition NOW’ campaign, initiated by the Cambridge UCU, is calling for the University to recognise all members of staff within the trade union
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Cambridge is home to some gorgeous cats. Claire Gao gives the inside scoop on where you can meet your new feline friends
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8 years
Cambridge win the 72nd Women's Boat Race in record time!
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'I'm a member of this college... so why do I feel like a hotel guest?' | Emily Lawson-Todd argues that colleges need to stop making students feel unwelcome in favour of profits
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10 years
Was communism more free? Nadya: laughs, "in the Soviet Union there was nothing... Not even tampons" #PussyRiot http://t.co/gbzsGSGuYy
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One fellow objected to what he saw as an attempt to ‘slather the past’ with the ‘moral wisdom of a particular fashionable ideology’
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St Catharine's offered accommodation to 23 women and children escaping domestic abuse over the summer amid increased concerns about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions on those facing domestic violence
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"Students understand just what is at stake for not only for staff, but for themselves. We are reliant on each other. This is a fight that we both win or we both lose."
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My experience with trans healthcare made me realise how little we know about gender, and how important it is to remain open to conversation | Charlie Bentley-Astor
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Lord Woolley, the newly-announced incoming principal of Homerton College, will be the first Black man at the head of an Oxbridge College
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And that's goodbye from the Lent team – signing off with our final print edition #tomorrowspaperstoday
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“It’s been 523 years, but for these ten years, I am the guardian of that community spirit…because I think that’s what the essence of a college is, whilst you’re here”
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Cambridge MP, @DanielZeichner has made clear his intention to fight #Brexit in parliament.
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The new Foundation Year will provide up to fifty students with a new ‘pathway’ into Cambridge across thirteen colleges, with the first year free of charge for successful applicants
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Cambridge have exacted boat race revenge over Oxford in the #universitychallenge final. http://t.co/6qTHoVIegW http://t.co/MAIPYOjFwJ
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Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell becomes the second woman to be awarded the Royal Society’s Copley Medal, the world’s oldest scientific prize, for her groundbreaking work in the 1960s
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Being pooled simply means you were handpicked by a different college, not that you’re a second choice
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“The Seeley Library should not be renamed, for the simple reason that J.R. Seeley deserves to be commemorated”
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