However, some regional and local groups have adopted the gender balance principle and emulated the Principal Speaker structure, including the LSE Students ' Union Green Party, who have a Female and Male Co-Chair.

The Beaver is the weekly newspaper of the London School of Economics Students ' Union at the LSE.

The London School of Economics Students ' Union ( sometimes referred to as LSESU ) is the representative and campaigning body for students at The London School of Economics and Political Science ( LSE ).

Founded in 1897, LSE Students ' Union is one of the oldest Students ' Unions in the UK, and often regarded as one of the most politically active in the country-a reputation it has held since its origins, when it held fortnightly political debates known as the ' Clare Market Parliament '.

After the First World War, the Students ' Union expanded the range of societies and sports clubs its offered, aided by then Director of the LSE, William Beveridge, who expanded the LSE estate, including securing the Berrylands sportsground at New Malden, Surrey.

The political nature of the organisation continued in the 1930s, when the Communist Party were banned by the School from being active at LSE and a communist Students ' Union President was expelled and deported.

LSE Students ' Union made international headlines in the late 1960s during the well documented LSE student riots in 1966-67 and 1968 – 69 ,.

There has always been a great rivalry between the LSE Students ' Union and Kings College.

Students from LSE stopped MP Enoch Powell speaking at Kings by occupying the lecture theatre and blowing whistles, followed by a small section of Kings students retaliating by leading a violent attempt to steal election ballot boxes during the 1983 officer elections.

The LSE Students ' Union, and particularly its Palestine Society, has become famed for campaigns in solidarity with Palestine and Palestinian students.

In late 2009, the LSE Students Union passed a resolution to twin with the Islamic University of Gaza and support the Right to Education for students in Gaza ..

In 2011 the Students ' Union successfully ended LSE contracts with Israeli water company Eden Springs and was chief sponsor of a successful motion at the University of London Union to institute a boycott on companies guilty of " violating Palestinian rights.

The LSE Students Union was central in the demonstrations against cuts and a trebling of fees in 2010.

The campaign at the LSE was named the " strongest organising drive of any campus in two decades " by the leadership of the National Union of Students ( NUS ).

In 2009, LSE began a £ 35m project for to build a new building that will house the Students ' Union.

Students from the college regularly gain places at the Sutton 13 universities ( Cambridge, Imperial, Oxford, LSE, UCL, York, Warwick, Bristol, Nottingham, St. Andrews, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Durham ) and around 85 % of students enter into some form of Higher Education.

during the 1960s ; he was President of LSE Students ' Union during the famous protests in 1967.

* Catalogue of the papers of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, London Union, held at LSE Archives

In 2008-9, the priority campaign of the Union was to save the on-campus nursery from closure, and in 2009-10 it campaigned to force LSE to allow students to have resits in their examinations.

The Union was chiefly responsible for LSE agreeing to convert all £ 300, 000 it had received from Gaddafi into scholarships for Libyan students and forcing LSE Director Howard Davies to resign in March 2011.

Off campus, LSE owns a sportground, known as Berrylands, in New Malden, Surrey, where the Athletics Union ( AU ) sports clubs play.

* Catalogue of the Federal Union papers held at LSE Archives

Former LSE Director John Ashworth speculated that discord between those in favour and those against the serious study of eugenics led to Beveridge's departure from the school in 1937.

As this questioned the right of the administration to close LSE against the wishes of lecturers and students, the move led to 3, 000 students occupying.

One of the organisers of these demonstrations was the well known radical left wing LSE student Tariq Ali.

At the LSE he took an MSc in 1968 where he joined in student demonstrations popular at that time.

" and " University occupations also took place at Manchester, Sheffield, Cambridge, Colchester Sixth Form, Brighton, SOAS and UCL and the LSE in London.

In 1986, LSE students occupied the Old Building for 7 days, to protest against LSE investment in South African companies supporting the apartheid regime, following a decade of earlier such occupations and protests on US campuses.

As an example, if one was trying to profit from a price discrepancy between IBM on the NYSE and IBM on the London Stock Exchange, they may purchase a large number of shares on the NYSE and find that they cannot simultaneously sell on the LSE.

A recent fund-raising scheme, called the " Campaign for LSE " raised over £ 100 million in one of the largest university fund-raising exercises ever seen in Britain.

In February 2011, LSE had to deal with controversy regarding the authorship of the PhD thesis of one of Muammar Gaddafi's sons, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, and also a £ 1. 5m donation to university.

The book is one of a series of long essays by respected contemporary Darwinian thinkers, which were published under the collective title Darwinism Today ; the series was inspired by a course of ' Darwin Seminars ' which took place at the LSE in London in the late 1990s.

The book is one of a series of long essays by respected contemporary Darwinian thinkers, which were published under the collective title Darwinism Today ; the series was inspired by a course of ' Darwin Seminars ' which took place at the London School of Economics ( LSE ) in the late 1990s.

-According to an EdUniversal ranking from 2011, the school is " universal " ( highest grade ) and ranks as the 24th most influential business school worldwide, right behind LSE ( 21st ), Cornell ( 22nd ) and NYU ( 23rd ) but ahead of University of Toronto ( Rotman, 25th ), IESE in Spain ( 25th ), Northwestern University ( Kellogg, 28th ), University of Chicago ( Booth, 33rd ), all but one Canadian school, and ahead of other international schools like ESSEC, ESCP-Europe, IE Business School, Dartmouth ( Tuck ) and even the prestigious University of Pennsylvania ( Wharton ).

On the LSE one can always buy and sell stock: each stock always has at least two market makers and they are obliged to deal.

Crick's lectures at LSE displayed the freshness of his language – one might approach a subject, he once said, ' with an eye well-dressed with knowledge ' but this is only one of many Crickian metaphors – and his humour.

At the end of 2008, Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh officially opened in Lincoln's Inn Fields a new £ 71 million state-of-the-art building housing the LSE's Departments of Law and Management, being the first time that LSE has re-located one of its major academic departments to actual frontage on the park.

Following a motion passed in March 2011, the priority campaign for 2011-12 will be for an ethical investment policy after the recent LSE Libya Links scandal, as well as a one person, one vote system for electing a new Director after Howard Davies ' resignation.

He joined the school at a particularly important ferment: while the university had abandoned its social democratic and Fabian roots, its professors and students were heavily influenced by a liberal reformism which, in the words of one commentator, was “ a widely shared belief that the irrationality of war and suffering could be eliminated by the judicious application of humane rationality specifically manifested in the form of a generous and intelligent welfare state .” Reflecting upon his time as the LSE Porter notes that he was most animated by “ a concern for ethical principles in social life .”

In 1961, Ralph married Polish-born Marion Kozak, one of his former students at the LSE.

These lectures, organised by the LSE Events office, are open to students, alumni and the general public.