A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
Dan Coen, Alcuin Campaigns Officer, told the Yorker: “Alcuin is not an island and doesn’t want to be, but with this closure, the university is feeding that erroneous perception.”
Students are suffering the negative consequences of the bridge closures around campus.
This issue is set to persist as bridge replacements are unlikely to occur in the near future.
One Alcuin student said: “It’s a considerable inconvenience that only serves further to alienate Alcuin students who are already on the outer limits of this so-called campus university.”
YUSU president Anne-Marie Canning is continuing her efforts to stop the demolition as well as encouraging the repair of the Goodricke-Vanbrugh bridge.
Coen said that the lake is "being turned into a moat" as a result of the closure of the Goodricke bridge.
Students have called the issue "a very big deal" and one which "the university has taken far too long to resolve".
With the increased university fees as well, as the recent news of the Vice Chancellor enjoying lavish business trips, many students are disappointed that more has not been done by the university to resolve the problem.
If you want to see where the Vice Chancellor stayed on his jolly up (sorry important trip) to New York, vist:
http://www.radisson.com/hotels/nynyeast
It was actually around a douzen top uni officers that went there. Even the most basic rooms feature a 32" flatscreen tele, pay movies and a marble bath.
Alcuin still have two bridges (one newly refurbed) and a new set of steps next to the bus stop.
So not quite an island yet.
It's incredibly frustrating not to be able to reach the English department without making a detour via chemistry or vanbrugh. I also have many emotional attachments to that bridge. And they had better not cut down all the beautiful blossom trees which are the prettiest thing on campus comed april. I will chain myself to them if they try it.
The University loves its trees, which is why Alcuin Freshers have to put up with one in their marquee.
Frankly, I could not care less. Students just love something to get on their high-horse about and once the bridge has been gone for 2 weeks, people will have forgotton its there. Get of your lazy arses and walk.
No.5 - we do walk anyway - it's a bridge not a moving walkway.
The issue is the inconvenience knocking it down will cause in terms of time - if you have a seminar in Alcuin and then have to be in physics for a lecture straight after it takes about 5 mins longer to go over the library bridge to vanburgh - there's no way you're going to arrive before half past
No.5, no.6 is completely right - it's not about having to walk further it's about being able to get around campus on time for lectures and seminars - and the same goes for the goodricke-vanbrugh bridge. It can hardly be to the university's benefit if students are missing classes because they have to take a 5/10 min detour!
What do you study? Social policy? Jesus, I worry about the students of this University sometimes. I have an ingenious idea. Why not leave 5-10 minutes later?
Do you perhaps mean earlier? and its the point of having to go from one class that finishes at quarter past to another that starts at quarter past
"Students love something to get on their high horse about". We're constantly getting stiffed by this place you prat no 5. Demolishing those bridges with no replacement flies in the face of the design of campus. The walking routes are intended to ensure science and arts students aren't segregated, and that's why the departments are spread out in the pattern they are. One of the few remaining attractions of this concrete monstrosity is that it's supposed to be easy to get around and now even that is going.
This place isn't a university it's a business and they're desperate to squeeze every penny out of us for as little as possible. That's why we need to be on our high horse continuously. I'd like to give you a kick up the arse.
John Lewis is proposing a university-wide scheme to build a replica of the Golden Gate bridge out of match sticks.
I love that bridge - I used to use it loads when I lived in Langwith. And those trees are really really pretty.
But who or what is John Lewis? Isn't John Lewis a department store?
The ignorance of Matthew Pallas.
I cycle pretty much everywhere and the closure of the Vanbrugh/Goodricke bridge has been a massive inconvenience - when it first closed I assumed it was purely on a temporary basis, in fact it's probably meant to look that way with all the open days we're having at the moment.
I'm shocked to learn of the demolition. Obviously the money that would be spent on bridge repair/replacement is going towards Heslington East - the exciting new development that will bring lots more white, middle-class, conservative students and their parents' money to York. Honestly, the university officials remind me of that latest Natwest advert on TV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-p7HkX5Yk
I can understand demolishing the bridges if they're unsafe - but the fact that there don't seem to be any plans to re-build them is appalling! Never mind the new Hes East development - if people can't get around main campus what's the point?
Absolute outrage!
It is a bit of a moot point to complain about the luxury hotels our Vice Chancellors stay in. Lets face it these are men of quality who have worked in the highest levels of academia, media and business, so we cant really expect them to stay in poxy hotels after decades of hard work, we wouldnt expect that either! That said, it is absurb to be at the head of an academic institution and not pay any heed to the views of students or those in student government who were elected by them- student welfare should be the guiding principle of every academic institution. We arent asking for any luxuries here, but as Andy Dolan rightly said the university is planned in such a way that bridges arent only a convenience they are a necessity. Furthermore, what about disabled students who will really struggle with the longer journeys?
It is a bit of a moot point to complain about the luxury hotels our Vice Chancellors stay in. Lets face it these are men of quality who have worked in the highest levels of academia, media and business, so we cant really expect them to stay in poxy hotels after decades of hard work, we wouldnt expect that either! That said, it is absurb to be at the head of an academic institution and not pay any heed to the views of students or those in student government who were elected by them- student welfare should be the guiding principle of every academic institution. We arent asking for any luxuries here, but as Andy Dolan rightly said the university is planned in such a way that bridges arent only a convenience they are a necessity. Furthermore, what about disabled students who will really struggle with the longer journeys?
Dan Coen
It's been such a hassle not having use of the bridges for the past week or so. I might be complaining about having just an extra 5 or 10 minutes onto my journeys from place to place, but I don't think that means the issue is a trivial one. This is a university campus inhabited by thousands of students who need to get around quickly and easily. The original campus planners obviously thought this, or they wouldn't have bothered putting the bridges in in the first place. It is simply not acceptable to remove the bridges when it is possible to put new ones in.
I wonder what their contingency plan would be if the Central Hall bridge were to become irreparably damaged by a storm or something, or if there were a major incident on the north of campus that required everyone to evacuate to the South...
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