While locally Varsity - currently offline only - has attracted attention to issues such as rape on Campus, and galvanised some action in response, internationally the trend has been mixed - as reported in The Guardian.
But it's not only student newspapers attracting attention: recently the local version of The Globalist glittered into the light of day, and on this very blogspot, disappointed cult followers of some of our very own student blogs are mourning the quiet patch over the vac when no new postings are appearing on The Mouthpiece or Blogball.