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.
Pro-Vice Chancellor Elizabeth Heaps has announced that a new Goodricke to Vanbrugh bridge may have to take a different path while the current bridge may be reopened for single file traffic. She gave no timescale or guarantees.
Facilites Manager Keith Lilley said: "This is a major piece of building work and we expect it to be completed by October 2009. In the meantime, the current bridge will be reopened from April, following some essential upgrading."
It was also announced that the Alcuin to Langwith Bridge will be closed for good.
Heaps, said that the result of structural surveys of the other bridges have been received and that all currently opened bridges are structurally sound.
Although Lilley has announced: "There will be further investment in the bridge linking Market Square to the Library so that it is refurbished to the same standard as the Derwent to Chemistry bridge."
Concerns were raised by students that losing a bridge to Alcuin would make it more isolated from central campus.
It's good that they are going to re-open the Goodricke-Vanbrugh bridge whilst working on the new one but the news about the alcuin-langwith bridge is bad.
Not so worried about Alcuin seeming isolated, but still presents the same problems of getting from Alcuin seminar rooms to langwith/physics lecture theatres when one is right after the other. Although at least now a decision has been made and we have been told.
Will refurbishing the vanbrugh-library bridge mean it being closed like the derwent-chemistry one was? because that will be a bit of a pain!
The alcuin situation isn't so bad, what with the chemistry and library bridges, the Goodricke-Vanbrugh bridge would have been a real loss though - good news from the uni for once!
So what are all the Presidential candidates that are promising to get both bridges rebuilt going to do now?
I think focus will shift to who has the most cuddly animal on their shoulder.
"Concerns were raised by students that losing a bridge to Alcuin would make it more isolated from central campus."
Ahh.. quit your moaning. Isolated from campus? What about Halifax that doesn't have a single bridge connecting it to central campus, and is far more out of the way.
"all currently opened bridges are structurally sound". The wentworth-goodricke bridge moves sometimes when you walk over it. not that I'm complaining really, I don't fancy walking round the lake everyday
. #6 it's designed to be slightly flexible. That doesn't mean it's unsound. It's quite fun to get a whole bunch of people jumping on it at once :p
They've all been professionally surveyed recently (as mentioned in the article) - hence the closure of the 2 bridges.
I wish they would at least replace the Langwith/Alcuin bridge with some steps. It's a pain getting from a lecture in Alcuin to one in Langwith right now.
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