Memes

Students: are memes the new site of class struggle? Discuss | Education | guardian.co.uk: ""Leeds what? Leeds what?" the DJ demands, and is answered by guttural chants of "Yooooo-naaaay, Yooooo-naaaay". Immediately a counter-call drifts across the sticky dance-floor: "Met, Met, Met". There's a bit of good-humoured shoving, the sort you did at gigs when you were 13, then the music gets louder and everyone returns to the serious business of dancing.

This ritual is played out every freshers' week in the nightclubs of Leeds. The line between students form Leeds University and Leeds Met is drawn from their first excitable night out. It's not aggressive, but it's definitely there – are you old redbrick, or are you new ex-poly?

The tension crystallises at the annual Varsity match. There is something about being packed into the tiered, spherical shape of a stadium, clutching your plastic glass of warm beer, that makes all manner of abuse socially acceptable."

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