After months of bitter campaigning, yesterday the U.S. finally went to the polls to choose their 45^th President. Last night, as polls closed and counting began, legions of students joined Wessex Scene and Surge at The Stag’s to eagerly await the results. After a nail-biting night, we can now announce that Donald Trump won with 278 against 218 electoral college votes!

A big thank you to Wessex Scene and Surge for their overnight coverage of the results, and to everyone who joined them for the occasion.

Don’t forget to let us know what you make of the results – … Read the rest

We have been rolling out our new brand identity this week across our campuses.

We started by changing the buildings’ external signs, before heading out on a roadshow to WSA and Avenue to showcase the new brand and give you a chance to ask us any questions.

Today marks our official Highfield launch of Union Southampton. Please stop by the Redbrick from 11:00 to chat with us about the brand and for an opportunity to get creative by putting your own stamp on the new face of the Union.

We are now Union Southampton, or simply, the Union. ‘Us’ will … Read the rest

We’re very excited to have added a University of Southampton student and member of ComedySoc to our line-up for this coming Tuesday’s Comedy Central in The Bridge.

Comedy Central is a fortnightly live stand-up event organised in collaboration with the TV channel of the same name, where some of the biggest names on the UK comedy circuit perform.

Xanthippe Waldron, who is a student and an active member of ComedySoc as joined an already exciting line-up that includes US comic Dave Fulton, Romesh Ranganathan and compere for the evening Diane Spencer.

Xanthippe will perform a five minute showcase … Read the rest