Allow me to start with a clumsy analogy, but one that I’m sure you’ll get: imagine you’re renting a  flat with friends, and one morning, dangerously close to Christmas, you’re walking out of your room still groggy, and you find your landlord cordoning off part of your flat. As he readily lets you know, he decided to sell your living room.  You’re in shock for a second, but only for one,  since although this is incredibly upsetting news,  it’s also surreal, downright nonsensic

I hate to break it to the 5% of people on campus who aren’t aware of the frequent scabies epidemics and mono outbreaks, but, sadly, they do exist. For many reasons, people try to keep their symptoms on the down-low, causing outbreaks of these diseases on campus. This is a part of living on a campus where hooking up is as easy as it gets (but, hey, it's okay if this isn’t the case for you). It is due to the uneven gender ratio, the relatively short walks of shame, being fresh

With around 800 people pressed into around 65.000 square meters, our campus often feels less like a  university and more like an elegant, slightly chaotic experiment in applied mathematics. The  experiment features a residential community, three academic buildings that double as housing, a quad that everyone must cross, and a population density that guarantees  you will run into someone you  know within seconds of leaving your room. In a closed system like this, probability b

The oversimplification of social media gender archetypes I, an Instagram Reels user, tend to lag behind a bit when it comes to internet trends. That’s why, when I first arrived at UCU, I didn’t understand what people meant when they joked about ‘performative males’. I quickly learned, however, that a performative male is an internet meme referring to a man who performs feminism, progressivism, and emotional sensitivity as a means to trick women into liking him. This man carri

The Boomerang Winter edition has finally arrived, and that means we’re swiftly moving towards the end of the first semester of 2025/26. A great moment to look back and reflect! Although a lot has happened in the past months, one thing mainly caught my, among many others’, attention. There seems to be a significant mismatch between campus’s perception of the UCSA and their own. This creates distance between them and the other students. Let me start by emphasizing that UCSA des

by Anonymous TW: Sexual assault Since I was young, probably around the age of 13, I have been made aware of the disgusting hold the male gaze has on myself, my friends, the media, and the resolve of the Western world. Intertwined with the patriarchy’s governance, the male gaze tears into my back until I bleed. One vivid memory that I feel I carry unwillingly, attached like a parasite, is when I moved to a British School and was made to wear a school uniform. Rolling up my sk