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Get involved: Langar on Campus

Get involved: Langar on Campus

Join Manchester Sikh Society for their annual Langar on Campus event
They’re behind you! Meet The Pantomime Society

They’re behind you! Meet The Pantomime Society

What can you expect from the Pantomime Society? Chloe Hatton talks to its co-chairs to find out.
It’s not too late to join a Society!

It’s not too late to join a Society!

How joining a university society is easy to do and beneficial to your general student experience in Manchester
The Public Speaking Society takes the stage

The Public Speaking Society takes the stage

Contributor Juliette Flach talks you through why you should join the Public Speaking Society
In conversation with: the Women’s Theatre Society

In conversation with: the Women’s Theatre Society

Ellie Martin sat down with Hana Jafar to talk about the Women’s Theatre Society and the work they do to create an inclusive space in the theatre
In conversation with The Game Development Society

In conversation with The Game Development Society

The Mancunion speaks to Raad Aldakhil and Amad Aslam to find out more about the newly founded HackSoc Game Dev Society
Social media isn’t the cause of mental ill-health

Social media isn’t the cause of mental ill-health

The media seems to express increasing concern over the dangers of social media on mental health, but we’re focusing on the wrong thing

We need to stop neglecting student housing

We can stand by the sad state of student accommodation no longer

Thicc: body positive or objectifying?

Oppressive beauty standards come in all shapes and sizes

Music event to raise money for anti-trafficking society

“Help us fight exploitation while having a good night!” said president of the Students Against Human Trafficking society ahead of upcoming musical fundraiser

Stop trying to sell me feminism

The corporate commercialisation of female empowerment is degrading

Banquets binned while rough sleepers go hungry and food bank reliance soars

To solve the UK hunger crisis, we need to start thinking about food waste

Meet the committee: African Caribbean Society

Ahead of Black History Month, Deputy Features Editor Raine Beckford chats to the committee of the African Caribbean Society about their hopes for the coming weeks

Our homelessness problem

Why we feel guilty, and what needs to change

A student life: UOM Board Games Society

Meet Jon Bebb, one Philosophy student finding the time to balance a PhD with his contrasting role as Social Sec for the UOM Board Games Society

A student life: chair of the Craft Beer society

We chat to Josh Hodge, the University of Manchester’s biggest craft beer enthusiast

A student life: chair of the Polo society

We chat to Jade Fox, the chair of Polo Society, about the group going from strength to strength and her impossible work-life balance

Gigi Hadid, Melania Trump, and the rise of virtue signalling

Romy Biscoe uses the controversy at the AMAs as a window to explore the modern phenomenon of ‘virtue signalling’ and its role in the US election

Introducing the University of Manchester’s UniSlam team 2017

Jake Piazza reviews The Creative Writing Society’s Slam on the 15th of November and introduces UniSlam and Manchester’s 2017 team

A student life: the prince of Panto Society

Emma Shanks caught up with Bradley Pascall, this year’s Social Secretary of UOM’s Panto Society