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Preview: Earth Week

Earth Week comes to the Students’ Union for its third year, with a schedule of events to promote environmental awareness

Safe and senseless: Why university safe space policies trigger me

Ryan Khurana, the organiser of Milo Yiannapoulos’ upcoming talk, gives his view on why safe space policies have no place in universities

Students’ Union launches nightly shuttle bus service

Students will be driven from the Alan Gilbert Learning Commons straight to their front doors in an attempt to help students feel safer in the city at night after increasing reports of sexual assaults in the last year

Students walk out in support of refugees and international students

The NUS organised a day of action which included students walking out of lectures to show solidarity for refugees

University of Manchester Cycling Club’s 24-hour bike ride

The University of Manchester’s Cycling Club are increasing in numbers and doing their bit for charity, raising funds for Maggie’s Centres

Hull Union apologises for ‘sex act game’ during sports club night

Outrage as union club night, hosted by DJ Lee Watson, “exploited and degraded” women during a game to win a free ticket to sports tour

“Black History Month reminds me how important voice is.”

Ariel Nash reflects on what Black History Month means to her and the powerful potential of the BME movement in art and culture

Review: Black History Month student-staff networking event

Diana Khasa reviews one of BME MCR’s Black History Month events

Student rep election results announced

A round up of the newly elected Student Officers; the highest election turnout in the university’s history

Sussex’s student newspaper seized by union

Sussex University’s student newspaper, The Badger, dismisses Union regulation demands

Check the Exec!

The Mancunion profiles the members of the Students’ Union Executive Team and takes a look at what you can expect from the Union in the forthcoming year

Scrapped grant “essential” to more than half of low-income students

Students from the poorest households will now graduate with £13000 more debt than before the Conservative Budget

Students’ Union success recognised by NUS

The University of Manchester Students’ Union was given awards for both employee engagement and green impact

UKIP policy to “treat the weak humanely”

UKIP candidate for Manchester Withington, Mark Davies, has referred to disabled people as ‘weak’ and has said that women who ‘go away’ deserve to be paid less

Live: Students’ Union Exec election results

The Mancunion is covering the announcements results of the Exec elections live from Club Academy

2015 Union Executive elections: The candidates

Votes in the Student’s Union elections may be cast until Thursday the 12th at 3pm. Go to MyManchester and click ‘Vote Now’. More information about all candidates can be found on the Students’ Union website

Plaque declaring alliance with Pro-Palestinian education moved

Students are outraged as the beginning of second semester meets the removal of the ‘Palestine and the Right to Education’ plaque from Manchester’s Students’ Union

Students’ Union to undergo £6 million refurbishment

The project will involve expanding both the North and South wings of the building, and upgrading the building’s utilities

Exec Elections Hustings Live

The Mancunion liveblogs the unofficial hustings for this year’s Exec Team elections

Review: Vagina Monologues

The eye-opening and thought-provoking performance never lost its humour, despite the seriousness of the content, writes ‎Aimée Grant Cumberbatch