The Cambridge Student

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The Cambridge Student (TCS) is the younger of Cambridge University's main student newspapers (Varsity is the other). The newspaper is owned and published by the Cambridge University Students' Union (CUSU) but is editorially independent, although this is sometimes disputed by rival journalists hoping to impugn its reputation.

Founded in May 1999, it distributes around 10,000 copies free to Cambridge students every week during university term time. The paper boasts several Guardian Student Media Awards, and has recently interviewed public figures including United Nations Weapons Inspector Hans Blix, Patrick Stewart and Ian Paisley. TCS was the first newspaper to break the story of the threatened closure of Cambridge's architecture department, which later featured in the national press.

[edit] Editors

The current (Lent 2007) editor is Elly Shepherd.

Previous editors have been:

Michaelmas 2006: Alice Palmer

Lent 2006: Ben Sillis

Michaelmas 2005:
Beth McEvoy and Pamela Welsh

Lent 2005:
Ruth Barnett and Thomas Williams

Michaelmas 2004:
Thomas Williams

Lent 2004:
Tom Stammers and Zoe Strimpel

Michaelmas 2003:
Oliver Duff and Luke Layfield (first issue)
Oliver Duff (subsequent issues)

Lent 2003:
Eve Williams

[edit] External links

• The Cambridge Student website