From pub crawls to Freshers' events, drinking can feel unavoidable, and sobriety can feel isolating. Here's how to miss out on the hangovers, not the fun
Alica MacDonald's 'Finding Emily' provides an inventive spin on the rom-com for a modern audience thanks to a strong sense of place – and UoM's campus
Russell T. Davies shares insight at Manchester's SCENE Festival about his hit Channel 4 shows exploring queerness, community and adversity
Nowadays we choose cheap thrills over classic knowledge; the book must not die
One of the founders of Kloodle, Phil Hayes, talks to Robert Firth about how they started and the graduate job market today.
We’re giving away tickets for Vevo’s Halloween Party at Victoria Warehouse. Read on for details!
Now we’ve left our teenage years, is it time to stop fretting about how many Facebook likes we have? Charlotte Wheatcroft thinks so
Lauren Wills: Facebook is an egotistical façade perfect for extremism, and it’s going to get worse.
David Brierley and Samuel Gilmore respond to the pressing question about the imposing effects of social media; is it, or is it not beneficial?
After a spate of human rights pages being deleted from Facebook, Lauren Gorton asks whether it is taking its history-making role seriously
In one case a student dressed up as Robin in a University of Manchester politics lecture
Arts Editor Abbie Roberts on the addictive procrastination alternative to social networking and its hidden associations with crime.
The latest internet super-craze “NekNomination” has swept the globe. Give it a rest, says Sophie Lipton
Has the world of social networking distorted our views on happiness and success? Beth Currall thinks so
Dozens of Facebook photos have been used without students’ consent by a controversial website branded “creepy” by the NUS
Ross Graham explores the parallels between Murakami’s evocation of ‘60s students life in Norweigian Wood and 21st century student life…
Facebook pages created for Manchester university students to tell all their shocking stories
Every year students are being scammed, but what is anybody doing about it?
A man who encouraged rioting in Manchester using Facebook has been sentenced to three years in prison
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