We’ve all been there: you’re leaving McDonald’s when you’re greeted by a homeless person who puts on a mournful face and asks you for some loose change.

He walks purposefully according to a detailed map of the university that he has committed to memory, calling to mind the now familiar routes. Absorbed, he listens to the lecturer as other students take down notes.

After years of torment and derision, the emo subculture seems to have mostly died out. What became of all those emo kids? Well, legend has it that after a brief retreat, they traded in all their black clothing for plunging V-neck T-shirts, oversized non-prescription spectacles and a flannel shirt for every day of the week and re-emerged as urban hipsters.

The Kony 2012 phenomenon continues to make headlines. It has already trended at number one on Twitter and can be seen on just about everyone’s Facebook status. Taking this into consideration, social media is clearly a powerful tool for raising awareness about certain social or political issues. But could Kony 2012 be doing more harm than good? Perdeby investigates.

Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum recently commented that universities produce less religious members of society. Could he be right? Perdeby takes a closer look at this claim.

Abuse in relationships is something that’s widely reported on. Some of us may have even grown up around abusive relationships and we probably thought we wouldn’t see them again until much later in life. However, it turns out that people of all ages abuse each other in relationships – including university students.

Lê jy vir ure in jou bed en skape tel, al is jy hoe moeg? Jy is nie die enigste een wat sukkel met slapeloosheid (ook bekend as insomnia) nie.

What happens when a politician conveniently knows how to hack into a multinational corporation’s database or when a computer programmer suddenly adopts a strong political ideology?

Picture this: it’s a manic Monday morning, you’ve only just managed to leave in time for your 07:30 lecture, when suddenly you realise with a sinking feeling … you forgot your iPhone.

“On the one hand, you have to protect the potential victims and on the other hand, I wanted to be protected from myself. I wanted to live like a normal person.”