Campus Voices

Don’t get sick from the viral elections bug

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The Linc’s dubious authenticity correspondent, Maken Eetup, explores the use of viral videos in this year’s election: and presents his own idea of how to promote the vote.

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Accommogeddon is only the beginning

Despite the name, it might be tricky to get a festival feeling for the freshers in cabins. Photo: Jonathan Cresswell

Maken Eetup, cardboard box correspondent for The Linc, gives his unique and harshly worded take on the accommodation situation in the city.

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Lincoln charging £9,000 is ‘a flat-out mistake’

Jack Dobson-Smith led various campaigns against the hike in tuition fees in 2010. Photo: Carly Norton.

Lincoln joins the 9k club, but is university worth paying that much? Jack Dobson-Smith argues that although university is a choice, Lincoln made the wrong one.

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It’s time to vote for a better vote

The Lincoln “Yes to AV” campaign kicks off at Lincoln Cathedral. Photo: Marcell Grant

To AV or not to AV? Scott Wheeler considers why it’s worth saying yes to AV in the upcoming vote.

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Littering with leaflets? Leave me alone

Littering the atrium is not the way to get people to vote for you. Photo: Jonathan Cresswell

As the SU candidates are trying desperately to impress and get your vote, Suzy Aldridge wishes that they would just leave her alone and stop making a mess.

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Shoved out of your home? Make your own.

Now those Pavilions contracts have been thrown in the bin, it's time to come up with alternative solutions. Photo: Jonathan Cresswell

The Linc’s Questionable Advice correspondent Maken Eetup gives his take on the accommodation situation in Lincoln.

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Let’s kick our state funding addiction

Are you addicted to state handouts?  Photo: Mike Hodges

The Spending Review didn’t go far enough and should have been the time to cut Britain’s addiction to benefits, argues Mike Hodges.

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Clegg is a liar and he will pay at the ballot box

Nick Clegg told people has gone back on his pre-election promises on tuition fees. Photo: Liberal Democrats

Scott Wheeler thinks Nick Clegg lied to his Sheffield constituents, many of whom are students, about his stance on tuition fees — and that he’ll pay for it come 2015.

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Cutting universal child benefit is scathing and ideological

David Cameron announced that the Coalition will be cutting child benefit for the rich. Photo: The Prime Minister's Office

Scott Wheeler thinks the planned cut to child benefit for the better off is actually an attack on the poorest in society.

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Are we worthless?

Are we doing society a big disservice by taking unpaid work? Photo: Duncan Cumming

The 2012 London Olympics are to be run with the aid of 70,000 volunteers who are to be paid nothing. Mike Hodges thinks this is wrong.

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