Issue 58 – Autumn 2017 cheesegratermagazine.org
In This Issue Investigations: • UCL Scientists & Fake Tracheas • Why did the union need a rebrand?
Humour: • Dalmation Man • Sad Fresher Tales
Soc Bitch:
• Comedy Club Racism Shambles • Netball For Gender Equality
Sheikh It Off: Inside UCL’s Decision To Leave Qatar Royal Familes, Slavery Scandals & Museum MAs Weronika Strzyżyńska
Since its inception in 2012, UCL’s campus in Qatar – a country where apostasy and homosexuality are punishable by death – has been a running sore for UCL management. This will come to an end in 2020, however, following the university’s decision not to renew its
contract with the Qatari Founprogrammes, educated approxidation. mately 300 students and suffered at least two major, public scandals. But to call UCL Qatar a campus is an overstatement. With apWith this track record, one may proximately 85 students, the tiny wonder what UCL, which makes establishment is located on the no financial contribution to their second floor of the Georgetown Middle Eastern satellite, hoped to University building in Doha. gain from their close partnership with the Qatari government. In its five years of operation, UCL Qatar offered four Master’s Continued on Page Three
