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St Cuthbert’s Society JCR has received condemnation after a comment was posted from its official Facebook account that has been described as “Sinophobic” and  “outdated and malicious”. The comment was posted under a Facebook status about the cancellation of St Cuthbert’s Society summer ball. Responding to a question of why it had been cancelled, the JCR account claimed that it was “because somebody in Wuhan ate a bat in late 2019”. The ball was cancelled by the University, in consultation with local health bodies, four hours before the first buses were due to leave for the ve...

In a court hearing yesterday, Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens pleaded guilty to charges of kidnap and rape against Durham University alumna Sarah Everard. He was arrested as a primary suspect following the discovery of her body in Kent in March 2021. He also accepted responsibility for her subsequent death, but did not plead guilty for murder. Medical analyses have shown so far that she likely died from compression of the neck. Ms. Everard was walking home from a friend’s house in Clapham the night she disappeared on 3rd March 2021. She was reported as missing by her boyfriend t...

When speaking to Laura, a recent anthropology graduate, it was clear to see that working with Medical Herstory has had a huge impact on her. The not-for-profit organisation aims to advance gender health equality and does this through three portfolios of patient advocacy, medical education, and undoing stigma. As a volunteer, Laura is part of the undoing stigma project and publishing team, she writes and edits online content, contributes to the newsletter, trials workshops, and is the representative of the organisation to Durham University due to her roots at St. Cuthbert’s Society. “Wit...