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Win a one night stay at the luxury boutique Varsity Hotel, or a month's free pass to the Glassworks spa and gym - all you have to do is to become a fan of our facebook page http://facebook.com/varsityuk, AND that of the hotel http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_164697793555431 You must 'like' both for your chance to win! The Varsity Hotel & Spa is a luxury 48 bedroom boutique hotel on Quayside, opposite St John's College... Continue Reading

Do you want to hire a Hummer Limo?  Sort of inexplicably, we’ve been advertising them on www.varsity.co.uk for years, so if you don’t, maybe we should rethink our mass psycho-manipulation technique.  But it should stand out now, anyway, as it’s just about the one part of the website we haven’t changed. It’s not been a luxury ride – apart from getting some VIP treatment (by proxy) at the Cambridge Wine Merchants from a nice m... Continue Reading

The Thursday before last, I came out of an hour and a half class in my college and subconciously gravitated into Sainsbury’s (occupational hazard of being a Sidney student).  As I checked my phone in the checkout, queuing to buy things that I didn’t particularly want or need, I saw the BBM icon deceptively smiling at me, beguilingly turning out to be the harbinger of this news: “Char McQueen’s dead”. Not realising that ‘Char’ wa... Continue Reading

One of my male housemates told me the other day, in a conciliatory manner, that he “quite likes” fashion because “sometimes it’s pretty”.  Now, as an English student and Gossip Girl glutton, I’m fairly accustomed to my interests being considered trivialised and discounted; notified that they’re not merely insignificant but even ridiculous.  So you may not get the point of poetry, or believe in Chuck Bass as a psychological creatio... Continue Reading