Nottingham becomes 29th university to get rid of The Sun from campus
Yesterday Nottingham University students took the decision to remove The Sun and The Daily Star from their campus shops.
The motion, put forward to the Student Union Council by the UoN Feminist Society, was argued by society co-chairs Jo Estrin and Francesca Garforth.
It passed after a randomly selected group of 18 students voted 15–3 in its favour.
University of Nottingham Student Union President Ellie McWilliam confirmed the news on twitter, writing that Nottingham will “stop selling #nomorepage3 in our students union.”
From this morning The Sun and The Daily Star will not be available to buy in Nottingham’s student union shops, until Page 3 is removed.
Francesca and Jo told The National Student: “For us, the tradition of Page 3 promotes a culture which demeans women and represents them as voiceless. We do not believe our Student’s Union should promote and endorse this culture.
“We are really glad that the SU has chosen to take a stand against influences that damage the student body and hope that this will act as a spring board for more positive change.”
They add that their main opposition has been over concerns of censorship, but that they “aren’t calling for a ban, nor can this campaign be associated with censorship. We have passed the motion through our SU’s democratic processes by a majority of 15 to 3.”
The No More Page 3 campaign, which now has almost 174,000 signatures, has found huge support amongst students — so much so that there is a page on the campaign site detailing how students can show their suppoort.
Nottingham is the 29th university to make its feelings about Page 3 clear — the 28 other universities that have so far taken the decision to remove the sun from their shops include top institutions such as London School of Economics, Cambridge, Cardiff, Durham, Edinburgh, Manchester, and various colleges of Oxford University.
There are also increasingly vocal campaigns taking place at Leicester, where Page 3 has been described as “disempowering, sexist and archaic,” and Warwick, which has its own No More Page 3 campaign.
