That Girl from Derwent dwells on the value of religion this Christmas.
That Girl from Derwent has learned a few more things about prejudice since moving up North.
That Girl From Derwent reckons if you're going to be offensive, you should find a better reason.
That Girl from Derwent considers why it is that some words have wider implications than others.
More shocking, even, are The Press’s escalating headlines, first that the NYPD (no joke, North Yorkshire Police Department) had searched our own campus lake, that a body was found in the river Ouse, that the investigation was being treated as a murder case, that there is a £10,000 reward involved, and that Lawrence may have last been seen on Melrosegate...
Of course, the most controversy-hungry of us would argue that police searches of uni accomodation is just the first step toward the advent of 1984-ish totalitarian supremacy of the police force. And whilst there is something undoubtedly dubious about the university granting permission for student accommodation to be searched without an official warrant, as reported by Nouse, I would find it frankly suspicious for anyone to refuse the search of their rooms unless they had something illegal to hide. Stay on the right side of the law, would be my answer.
But in the midst of it all, perhaps most striking is the fact that this happened at all.
As a student body we are conditioned to occasionally care about our course, or comment, debate and complain about the ‘politics’ of our own elected representatives or ‘contentious’ issues such as the location of the Summer Ball, but insecurity, disappearances and murder investigations are more than we’ve quite bargained for.
People disappear in films all the time, but in real life – or rather, in our comfortable uni-bubble, the reality of which we may question – we don’t expect such brutal realities to hit: we don’t expect our lake to be searched for evidence of anything else but pollution and scary fish.
So what now? Do we go on, blissfully pretending These Things Don't Happen Around Here, and wait for the next emergency UGM to be called regarding a possible renaming of the YUSU office?
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