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After being horrified by stories about student unions censoring what student publications can print, I set up an investigation. You can find it on Help Me Investigate. For those that have never heard of HMI before read their "about" section. Due to the vast numbers of universities in the UK, I figured it would take too long to do by myself. If you want to help, let me know and I'll send you an invitation.
If you talk to the NUS they may be able to help. True they are in a sense part of the unions that you are investiagting, but they are also 'above' the unions and they seek to make student unions more effective and democratic. They may be totally in favour of a free press because of their founding principles, and with their contacts throughout 95% of higher and further education unions within the UK, they'd be great to have making enquiries for you. They might even, after having completed an extensive survey, decide that there is a need to provide legislation to protect the free press at universities.
Talking to them is probably worth a shot anyway.
I planned on making contact with universities without using the NUS. I wasn't going to involve them until we had all results. Then I'll talk to Wes.
P.S. Still waiting on your email saying that you'd like to contribute to February's issue of the mag...