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Happy Summer Cartmel!
Yup, there’s only a matter of hours left to go before we all head off home for about three months to go on holidays, see our friends, and generally enjoy the flowers and sunshine. Ahh…
However! Before the term got out, the JCR had planned the event of the year in the format of [...]

Even before the first corset-clad girls and suited-up boys started filing into Cartmel’s Moulin Rouge Extrav, it seemed bound to be a success. The bands were arriving and the finishing touches were being put on the lavish decorations – we were ready for what promised to be the most amazing night on campus. We weren’t [...]

You may be surprised to hear it, but the election of two BNP candidates into the European Parliament this month marks the swansong of the party in British politics. For students, and for the larger population, this result was regarded as an absolute disaster. There is no need for me to point out to you [...]

Elections are something we seem to have no end of at university; with the JCR, Sabb and Non-Sabb elections all taking place throughout the year, we are used to seeing almost constant campaign posters, banners and flyers adorning every available surface on campus. And it was time in week 8 of this term to open [...]

Well would you look at that? Cartmel college has in fact become so popular that videogame developers SCEI have chosen a griffin as a character in their new title The Last Guardian.
It’s an unfortunate fact of the series the game falls in that most often the lead characters suffer enormous heartbreak or death, so the [...]

It’s been a long and hard-working year for Cartmel’s Carter Shield performers which has seen success, annihilations, injuries, controversy and laughs. Here’s the story…
The Michaelmas term began with controversy in the dodgeball department leading to Cartmel not qualifying for the semi-finals. Korfball and volleyball were also unsuccessful for the Griffins but a solid set of [...]