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Students Housed in Andrew Melville Library
At the beginning of each semester, the University of St Andrews manages the allocation of student housing to first-years. This task presents challenges, which require solutions such as temporary housing. Each year, the University of St Andrews uses temporary housing as a way to manage student accommodation at the beginning of the semester. The University told The Saint, “Short-term temporary accommodation provides accommodation support while alternative, longer-term accommo
Samara Hadi
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Editorial #302
A day prior to the release of The Saint’s first issue of the year, I and the rest of the paper’s executive team took a trip to the Walter Bower House in Guardbridge. There lie stacks of copies of St Andrews’ various university newspapers throughout time. Quorum, Aien, the St Andrews Chronicle, and then The Saint. An issue of Aien published almost exactly 73 years ago, on 16 October 1953, explains the role of the University Rector on the front page: “St Andrews is the only U
Arnaz Mallick
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Editorial #301
Over the course of the previous week, the University of St Andrews has been confronted with an onslaught of media attention. The University was lately ranked the best university in the UK by The Sunday Times, a designation charged with controversy across the academic sphere. More personal to the student body, perhaps, has been the coverage from various outlets investigating the University’s distinct student culture. The National, The Guardian, and BBC’s ‘The Bubble’ have, wit
Alden Arnold and Arnaz Mallick
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Editorial — Freshers' Magazine 2026
It’s once more that time of year where clattering suitcases out-cackle the seagulls on Market Street, where droves of taxis, shuttles, and buses clog this town’s three arteries, and the unseasonably warm air temporarily shelves your woollens. Your week ahead will seem undoubtedly vast — the year, infinite, and the next four incomprehensibly far: it’s Freshers’ Week, after all. In this magazine edition, The Saint, St Andrews’ independent student newspaper, aims to inspire you
Alden Arnold and Arnaz Mallick
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How to Teach the Unteachable: International Relations faculty on teaching contemporary conflicts
International Relations (IR) is rapidly becoming one of St Andrews' main attractions. The growing interest in IR is hardly surprising: pick any country in the world right now, and it’s likely they’re affected by some sort of crisis. Dr Adam Bower has taught a third-year IR module on how international institutions address global concerns for about ten years, but the world he used to teach is changing. “The world has always been extremely complicated and sad,” Bower reflected.
Anna Reznick
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Sport
Sunday I’m in Love (Sunday League Column)
Whilst Premier League fans are embittered by Manchester City’s creative accounting, those wishing for fiasco-free football have turned to the St Andrews Sunday League.
Equal Pay in Tennis: Too Little, or Too Late?
On 1 October 2026, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced that, from the 2027 season, every combined WTA 1000 tournament will award women and men equal prize money.
BALLADS: St Andrews Competitive Dance Society
It’s difficult to get excited about going to a two-hour training session at 7pm on a Monday. For any other sport, slogging my way to Victoria Memorial Hall when the sun had long since set and 80 pages of reading awaited me at home would have been an unappealing prospect. But even the endless spiral stairs that led to the building’s top floor could not dampen my spirits as I entered the dance hall. The cheerful dancers greeting me were learning the basic steps to the cha-cha,
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