/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000aa1ca7 rename

Student Impact is the student newspaper for the University of Bath, England. Student Impact was...

Student Impact is the student newspaper for the University of Bath, England. Student Impact was created from the merger of two former publications at the University of Bath, Spike and Sponge. Sponge was the University of Bath Students' Union paper, which had been running for the previous 30 years, while Spike was a student-run magazine concentrating mainly on film, music and book reviews. In December 1999, following controversy over an article in Sponge entitled "How to stuff your bird at Christmas", the Students' Union took the decision to stop the publication of Sponge. Spike had been struggling from a lack of contributors and funding for some time. The Students' Union Media and Communications Officer, Peter Secchi, together with founding Editor Arthur Lewis, put out the first issue of Impact on February 14 2000. The paper runs on a fortnightly basis, with a print run of 2,000. The newspaper is in six sections, News, Comment, Features, Science, Entertainments and Sport. It is produced on a voluntary basis by the 10 editors and over 100 contributors. The online site for Student Impact, impact Online (created by Ben Braine), was shortlisted in 2003 for the Student Website of the