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Parts of My Identity Criticising the FREE Take a Bard copy Parts of my eatre 22 identity Dragging Coming out as a gay myself into recovery Indian man Arts 24-25 Features 11 Behind the lens with White Lies Music 20 No. 863 Friday 22nd February 2019 varsity.co.uk Cambridge’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1947 Graduate Union Cambridge family calls for action facilities provision on postgraduate like a student ‘lottery’ ‘housing crisis’ Charlotte Lillywhite Senior News Correspondent with most PhD students renting for a For student parents, choosing colleges Charlotte Lillywhite whole calendar year. In Cambridge, and living in Cambridge can present Senior News Correspondent single room rent ranges from £400 to unprecedented challenges due to cur- £740 per month across colleges – and ac- rent University and College provision of A report compiled by the Cambridge Uni- cording to the report, most postgraduate family facilities. e University operates versity Graduate Union (GU) has called funding schemes o er a maintenance the Childcare O ce, which provides in- on the University to “alleviate” the hous- stipend of which more than 50% usually formation on a variety of issues relating ing pressures that many postgraduate goes towards rent. to family life in Cambridge, as well as students at Cambridge face, through e NUS recommends that no more three workplace nurseries for student “standing up for housing, fair rent and than half of income be spend on rent. parents. However only six out of the no hidden charges”. e report cites the Big Cambridge University’s 31 Colleges o er accom- e GU’s report states that the Uni- Survey 2018, which saw high numbers modation to families: Queens’, Gonville versity must “talk to Colleges to reduce of postgraduate students report low lev- & Caius, Girton, Churchill, St. John’s, and rent,” and “build more purpose-built els of satisfaction with issues relating to Trinity. ree college nurseries currently student accommodation” with the help their accommodation. Only 45% were serve six colleges. of the City Council. satis ed with the value for money of Daria Mitko is a Master’s student e report stressed that while un- their accommodation, while just 43% studying law, and lives in Cambridge dergraduate housing has been a point felt that the house prices in Cambridge with with her husband and two-year- of widespread debate and discussion were fair. However, 64% of students re- old son. She had to switch to Caius ater within Cambridge, issues related to post- ported feeling satis ed with the quality it emerged that the original college she graduate housing are oten overlooked. of their accommodation, and 67% were was accepted into, Hughes Hall, does not It highlights the burden housing can content with the impact living in col- provide family accommodation. add to graduate students’ nancial dif- lege or at the University has had on their Feeling that student parents are “an culties, with many either partially or student life. underrepresented minority in Cam- entirely self-funding their courses. e GU’s report also criticises the bridge”, Mitko ran for the role of Parents’ e overall average weekly rent for decline in a ordable rooms for post- and Families’ O cer at Caius MCR. She UK students stands at £147 per week, graduates, highlighting the rise of studio sought to work with her college to make according to a NUS-Unipol Accommoda- rooms, which have doubled their stock it “more inclusive” for families, and to tion Survey 2018. is consumes more ▲ e Graduate Union report stressed that postgraduate housing issues are than half of most postgraduate grants, Full story Page 6 ▶ oten overlooked EDWIN BAHRAMI BALANI Continued on page 7 ▶ Inside ● In conversation with Eva Schloss Pg.2-3 ● Student politicians prepare as CUSU elections approach Pg.10 2 F 22 F 2019 News FEATURES Coming Eva Schloss out as a gay Indian man. One student’s ‘People can experience. Page 11 ▶ never get what OPINION Turning Point UK is no joke. e organisation is moving closer to it was really the mainstream. Page 17 ▶ like, but you FEATURES So, you graduated. Now what? Page 14 ▶ must convey vulture Magazine your story’ Embracing drag on King’s Jacob Arbeid speaks to the Holocaust Parade. e practice is survivor about her life, and the importance a tool for recovery, one of education in perserving memory student says. va Schloss is an extraordinary in Amsterdam, in the same apartment woman. That epithet gets ❝ block as the Frank family. ey spent Page 24-25 ▶ thrown around a lot today, nearly four years hidden before they Ebut the 89-year old Holocaust Schloss were betrayed. e family was taken to survivor and step-sister of Anne Frank Auschwitz, where her father and brother Catherine Lally & Vivienne Hopley-Jones [email protected] stresses Maia Wyn Davies & Stephanie Stacey [email protected] has lived a life truly beyond the limits perished, while Schloss was put to ex- Isobel Bickersteth (Senior) & James Dickinson (Deputy) of ordinary human experience. She has that we can cruciating work in the camps. [email protected] traversed half of Europe in the century Ater eight months, the camp was Joe Cook [email protected] Mark Curtis [email protected] when the continent tore itself apart, and and shoult liberated by the Soviets; Schloss was Jess Ma & Kiran Khanom (Senior); Elizabeth Haigh & Oliver was subject to torture, starvation, and reunited with her mother and they Rhodes (Deputy) [email protected] still invite Belle George, Katy Bennett, Charlotte the death of her brother and father at the returned to Amsterdam. For decades, Lillywhite, Victor Jack, Chloe Bayliss, Molly Killeen, Kyoka Hadano, Hannah hands of the Nazis. And yet Schloss has survivors Schloss refused to tell her story: like Bowen, Nesta Smith & Diana Stoyanova emerged as one of the most important many survivors, it was simply too pain- Amy Batley & Sarah Orsborne investigations@varsity. like her to co.uk advocates for Holocaust education today, ful. Yet in 1986 at a Holocaust memorial Nicholas Harris, Eve Lynch & Cait Findlay (Senior); Charley with an undiminished passion for justice talk, ‘as event, she was prompted by the now- Barnard & Bethan McGinley (Deputy) [email protected] and indeed a erce sense of humour. unlikely gure of Ken Livingstone to say Zak Lakota-Baldwin & Marco Oechsner [email protected] Marcus McCabe & Sophie Zhang [email protected] Eva Geiringer was born in Vienna in long as a few words, and since then she “hasn’t Lois Wright [email protected] 1929. is was the Vienna of Freud and they’re still ever stopped talking”. She co-founded & Lillian Crawford & Madeleine Pulman-Jones lmandtv@ Zweig, a cosmopolitan city which had the Anne Frank Trust UK and has writ- varsity.co.uk Miles Ricketts & Alex Spencer [email protected] become a haven for native Jews and Ger- around ten several books about her experiences, Helena Baron & Cie Jen Wong [email protected] man-Jewish refugees alike. is changed including one she promised to her late Alex Jacob & Jess Beaumont [email protected] in 1938 with the German annexation of – which brother Heinz. Emily Blatchford [email protected] William Ross (Senior) & William Robinson (Deputy) Austria. A growing climate of militant won’t be I’m sitting with her in a lobby at the [email protected] antisemitism forced Schloss’s – then Cambridge Union, a few minutes before Edwin Boadu & Steven Edwards [email protected] Geiringer’s – family to ee across Europe: very long’ she is set to give a talk. Encouragingly, & SWITCHBOARD Daniella Adeluwoye & Raphael Korber Ho man [email protected] rst to Belgium, before nally settling ❞ the chamber is packed: there is not a Lucy Fairweather & Iris Pearson [email protected] single seat let, and students crowd the Zébulon Goriely [email protected] - Hannah Kossowska-Peck (Chief); Alex Parnham-Cope, Hania upper deck. I ask her what life was like Bar, Poppy Kemp, Beth Noble, ea Trollope-Metcalfe, Esmee Wright, Georgia before, in the brief interval between her Burns, Pia Engelbrecht-Bogdanov, Ruth Moss, Aimee Wragg, Daniel Maghsoudi arrival in the Netherlands and the Nazi ◀▲ Eva Schloss, & Edwin Bahrami Balani [email protected] Sarika Datta [email protected] invasion. As someone with Dutch Jewish step-daughter to Alisa Santikarn [email protected] origins, I’m keen to gain an understand- Otto Frank, was Edwin Bahrami Balani [email protected] ing of what life was like before the war. born in 1929 in Caitlin Smith [email protected] Noella Chye, Rosie Bradbury, Merlyn omas & Devarshi She fondly recalls playing on the swings Vienna, Austria Lodhia [email protected] with Anne Frank, and the weekly mar- to a Jewish Dr Michael Franklin (Chairman), Prof Peter Robinson, Dr Tim kets at the Jordaan, a once working-class family. Harris, Michael Derringer, Caitlin Smith, Noella Chye, Louis Ashworth, Anna Menin, Daniel Gayne, Ellie Howcrot neighbourhood now known for its art THE CAMBRIDGE © VARSITY PUBLICATIONS LTD, . All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be galleries and hip eateries. 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