Issue 59

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In This Issue Investigations: • UCL spying on its alumni • Never ending NUS referendum Issue 59 – Winter 2017 cheesegratermagazine.org

Humour: • Tales from abroad • The Tab’s new direction

Soc Bitch: • Medics fight for right to vomit

is just a marketing scheme Sexual assault victims failed by Union’s hypocrisy over two years, she is still haunted by an event that occurred in “They make you run around in freshers’ week. She didn’t even circles until you give up.” realise how much it was holding her back until she started havImagine having a drink with a ing panic attacks and her grades friend in Phineas. All around are dropped a year later, leading to posters and T-shirts advertising her consider dropping out. the Union’s ‘Zero Tolerance to Sexual Harassment’ pledge. Lit- This student had been sexually tle do you realise just how much assaulted by a committee memthis pledge has failed her. ber of her prominent UCL arts society. She had been pressured Although she’s been at UCL for and forced into a position of Iona Jenkins & Jason Murugesu

fear, panic and extreme discomfort. Working with this student, The Cheese Grater has investigated the process of reporting sexual assault to SU UCL. It has revealed a Students’ Union which is under-equipped, understaffed, and unwilling to support targets of sexual assault and harassment. Continued on Page Three


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