Meet the team

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Executive Editor

Aarti Malhotra executive.beaver@lsesu.org

Managing Editor Vani Kant managing.beaver@lsesu.org

Flipside Editor Ambre Pluta editor. ipside@lsesu.org

Beaver Editor Jack Beeching editor.beaver@lsesu.org

Multimedia Editor Vaneeza Jawad multimedia.beaver@lsesu.org

News Editors

Aysha Sarah

Klara Woxstrom

Features Editors

Alan Nemirovski

Bora Bayram

Opinion Editors

Alina Chen

Honour Astill

Part B Editors

Sana Agarwal

Anouk Pardon

Review Editors

Ben Helme

Syed Zaid Ali

Sport Editors

Noah Poll

Alex Bowley

Social Editor

Liv Kessler

Podcast Editors

Lily Whittle

Dillon Loh

Illustration Heads

Charlie To

Anoushka Guli

Photography Heads

Claire Yubin Oh

Oluchi Egbom

Videography Head

Jessy Yang

Vaneeza Jawad Multimedia Editor

The machine forces us to create. To create for consumption. Cool-girlaesthetic. Clean-girl-aesthetic. Vanilla-girl-aesthetic. Messy-Parisian-aesthetic. Rockstar-girlfriend-aesthetic. Downtown-girl-aesthetic. Until every little act (tucking your hair behind your ear, reaching for a lighter, painting your nails every weekend, even if they’re not chipped) becomes an act of identi cation, a little tag that testi es, “I promise

I consume!”, o ering neat compartmentalising means to our TikTok-addled brains.

When a girl speaks and she can sell you anything she learns the best way to hold you between her thumb and fore nger is by telling you what to like and what to love. Jeans, self love, and little pumpkin spice avoured treats? Out. Self help? So cheugy and unnecessary and out. Brought to you by the same little place, what’s in this year is… nothing. In fact, the campiest, most subversive thing you can do at a time where “pink pilates princess” is an actual, real phrase people use to describe their Starbucks order is just… be normal. Scrambling to throw things together for seventy instagram likes (ten of whom are people who know we would be very upset if they didn’t tap the little heart, even if begrudgingly) is not our calling. Savour a regular, unembellished latte. Bench your Dyson Airwrap. Put down the Chanel No. 5. Shelve your half-unread copy of All About Love. And touch grass — Lincoln’s Inn Fields is so lovely this time of year! You have nothing to lose but the neat little label around your ankle. as we churn out the last few remaining issues.

Aarti Malhotra Executive Editor

New year, new term, but the same old issues with our mighty Miss InDesign, of course. It’s almost as if seeing Matty Healy sucking on a fangirl’s thumb live last week wasn’t enough of a welcome into the ‘Winter Term’. But thankfully, while I possess the technical problem-solving abilities of a stu ed pepper, Vani is more than able to make for the

As our team re ected on how things went last term, and what we could do di erently going forward, I couldn’t help but question my competence as a leader. Am I doing enough? Where am I going wrong? Do I have it in me to do more and do better? Or will I let my team down?

But perhaps more importantly, I’ve been forced to think about the kind of legacy we want to cement and leave behind

Frankly, I don’t have de nitive answers just yet. All I know is that I want our team to know that all the hours and weekends they put in for this paper amounts to something much greater than the paper itself. And that their e orts are not unrecognised. And that although I am not entirely sure what other challenges this new term has in store for e Beaver, I’m con dent we’ll take them head on, together.

Bring it on, baby.

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