Tuks Brewery hosted a beer tasting event for select guests last week. During this event, the guests were taught about the finer points of beer tasting, while sampling five of the brewery’s own beers.

On Monday 17 October, the Department of Student Affairs held the opening ceremony for the newly-renovated Roosmaryn building on Hatfield campus. Roosmaryn is now the new headquarters of Student Affairs.

A group of UP students hope to start a new student society next year based on the Bahá’í faith. The Bahá’í students on campus currently hold interfaith devotionals every alternate Wednesday at 6pm in the courtyard of the law library on main campus. At these devotionals, students read and discuss holy writings and scriptures from all religions. They now aim to now start an official student society at UP.

“The IEC are the ones who laid the complaint with the IMB. So in that court (the IMB hearing) it was IEC versus AfriForum, not SASCO versus AfriForum.”

The recent events surrounding pre-Spring Day parties and Spring Day have caused students to question the future of student life in residences. Throughout the year Perdeby has covered stories about the tension between res student culture and UP management. This has raised questions such as: will there be pre-Spring parties and a Spring Day bash next year? What other aspects of student life are under threat?