The Ripple (newspaper)
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The Ripple Today
The Ripple is the Students' Union student magazine at the University of LeicesterUniversity of Leicester
The University of Leicester is a research-led university based in Leicester, England. The main campus is a mile south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park and Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College....
. The monthly flip-over free magazine editions have a potential readership of nearly 10,000 students. The current editor is Emma Kempson, who is deputised by Hayley Symington.
It includes sections dedicated to Features, Opinions and Debate, Current Affairs and University News, and it also contains sections for Music, Reviews, Warhola, Fashion, Grapevine, Travel and Sport. The Ripple has had a number of interviews with high-profile people in the 2010/2011 academic term, such as Corinne Bailey Rae
Corinne Bailey Rae
Corinne Bailey Rae is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist from Leeds, who released her debut album Corinne Bailey Rae in February 2006....
, Professor Green
Professor Green
Professor Green , better known by his stage name Professor Green, is a British rapper. He was signed to The Beats, a record label run by Mike Skinner and Ted Mayhem, until 12 February 2008, as the label went under. He won the inaugural JumpOff MySpace £50,000 battle rap tournament in July 2008...
, Scroobius Pip, Aaron Porter
Aaron Porter
Aaron Ross Porter is the former President of the National Union of Students in the United Kingdom; he was elected with a 65% majority and took office in June 2010 for one year.-Background and positions held :...
, Peter Soulsby
Peter Soulsby
Sir Peter Alfred Soulsby is a British Labour Party politician and the current Mayor of Leicester. He was the Member of Parliament for Leicester South from 2005 until he resigned in order to contest the new post of mayor in April 2011...
MP and perhaps most famously Sven Goran Eriksson.
History
The Ripple was founded by Malcolm BradburyMalcolm Bradbury
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE was an English author and academic.-Life:Bradbury was the son of a railwayman. His family moved to London in 1935, but returned to Sheffield in 1941 with his brother and mother...
under its original name The Wave. Past editors include Doreen Susman (1955–56), Brian Abbs (1957–58), Marc Heal
Marc Heal
Marc Heal is an English musician. He was one of the most prolific and influential Industrial music artists in the 1990s, mixing metal and techno with more traditional Industrial sounds...
(1983–84), Andrew Biswell
Andrew Biswell
Andrew Biswell is the biographer of Anthony Burgess. He is a lecturer in the English department of Manchester Metropolitan University.Biswell wrote his doctoral thesis on Burgess's fiction and journalism. His biography, semi-authorised by Burgess's widow, is entitled The Real Life of Anthony Burgess...
(1993–94) and Aaron Porter
Aaron Porter
Aaron Ross Porter is the former President of the National Union of Students in the United Kingdom; he was elected with a 65% majority and took office in June 2010 for one year.-Background and positions held :...
(2005–06) and Laura Blumenthal (2010-11).
Notable section editors have included current Future Publishing head of music titles Chris Ingham.
The Ripple in the News
In early 2006 the BBCBBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
revealed that the word "moony
Mooning
Mooning is the act of displaying one's bare buttocks by removing clothing, e.g., by lowering the backside of one's trousers and underpants, usually bending over, whether also exposing the genitals or not...
" was first used in print by the Ripple as part of the slang used during the 1987 RAG week, and led to the Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary , published by the Oxford University Press, is the self-styled premier dictionary of the English language. Two fully bound print editions of the OED have been published under its current name, in 1928 and 1989. The first edition was published in twelve volumes , and...
attributing the paper as the source of the word. This was then followed by a feature on the Ripple as part of the BBC show Balderdash and Piffle
Balderdash and Piffle
Balderdash and Piffle was a British television programme made by Takeaway Media for the BBC. Presented by Victoria Coren, it was a companion to the Oxford English Dictionary's Wordhunt, in which the writers of the dictionary asked the public for help in finding the origins and first known citations...
, screened on Easter
Easter
Easter is the central feast in the Christian liturgical year. According to the Canonical gospels, Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. His resurrection is celebrated on Easter Day or Easter Sunday...
Sunday, 16 April 2006.
The Ripple received national press attention again in November 2006 after speaking out against an attempt by the National Union Of Students to restrict sales of a number of lad mags in the students' union shop.
External links
- LeicesterStudent.org – The Ripple
- http://www.leicesterunion.com/ripple/ - Ripple Magazine Online
- The Ripple through the ages