The wee matter of Rhodes

13 April 2015

Prof Andy Buffler
Department of Physics

"With the application of a little intuition, a few idealisations, and a pencil and paper, take a moment to calculate the approximate number of water molecules that would have passed out of Rhodes' body in his urine over his lifetime, which reside right now in your own body. I will post my own estimation in the next edition."

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Volume 34 Edition 03

13 Apr 2015

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Front page

A people's history of struggle

Special Focus

You said it: Voices from the University Assembly

What matrix made Rhodes?

Opinions

Knowledge worth valorising

Debate is a university's lifeblood

The wee matter of Rhodes

Preparing for the long walk to transformation

Statute of liberty? Transformation on our minds

Collective identities, shared spaces

History can't be unmade

Potent symbolism

A journey less travelled

Remembering a brutal past

New articulation for the site

It's not about Cecil

Baggage of the past

Curriculum must educate racists

The struggle of memory against forgetting

Listen to black voices

The politics of aesthetics

Heritage that hurts

Until the lion has its own storyteller

White liberalism shouldn't forget

An inconvenient truth

Last laugh on Rhodes

Heroes are temporary

False mantle of radicalism

Galvanise transformative energy

A sustainable solution

Editorial

Past tense, present imperfect: now what of the future?

Front page extra

Rhodes falls

Photo Essay

Removing Rhodes

News

Rhodes makes way for transformation

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