Campus Bulley
Putting York back on the map
The University of York is famous for a number of reasons
Read More — 4 commentsBack by unpopular demand
Yesterday afternoon I walked across the road from my house to Spar to buy some bread, cheese, a bottle of cranberry and raspberry flavoured Drench and a a Rocky bar, a walk only 10 meters long. As I went on my way I was stopped no less that 147 times by invasive well-wishers, all with [...]
Read More — 18 commentsCovert Ops in Hes East
“Yeh you can go up there” the guy laying the paving told me, “just don’t step on any of the gravel.” This was fine by me. I clearly couldn’t go up here, in fact, I’m fairly confident Hes East is a closed site. Clearly my blasé attitude, long winter coat and notepad hadn’t alerted the [...]
Read More — 10 commentsRally the Troops
In Halifax we resent other colleges their bars. As we sit in JJs drowning our sorrows in cans of Strongbow and bottles of Jacques we picked up at (the ironically named) Costcutter we pretend like we don’t mind. We pretend that JJs is fine as a common room. We’re Halifax, we proudly proclaim, we have [...]
Read More — 9 commentsA question on organisation (and a few shameless plugs)
Happy Summer! I hope you’re all having fun in the sun (unless you live in Basingstoke, in which case, much like me, you’ll be confined inside waiting for the rain to stop). I won’t keep you for long, just one quick question. Can someone please explain to me exactly how the new YUSU oganisation works. [...]
Read More — 12 commentsWhere are all the tree huggers?
My housemate Cat is a tree hugger. She’s an Environmental Geographer, a proper eco nut. Only 20 minutes ago she came into my room to transport a poor lost caterpillar onto the tree that thrusts itself through my window. She even likes spiders. Case in point. There’s nothing wrong with being green. Admittedly I often [...]
Read More — 8 commentsShow me the money
Apparently there is a series of posters on the wall of the SU bar at UEA. These posters inform students exactly where every last penny they just forked out for a VK Apple is going to go. It shows them how much of the money will go to bar funds, how much will go the [...]
Read More — 4 commentsAll work and no play for Team YUSU. Sort of.
In the week when campus hacks are buried under essays and exams it’s difficult to find any news to write about. My own exam isn’t until Friday evening, so I’m allowing myself this quick break from the monotony of political theory to take a look at what’s going on with our favorite campus politicians.
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