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.
In what could be the fastest sell-out for a campus event, eager students bought all 1,000 tickets within 18 hours of them becoming available.
The first 300 tickets were sold between midnight and 11am and the last 700 between 11am and 6pm, with a reported 10 tickets per minute being sold in the last few minutes.
Chair of the Big D committee Chris Kummelstedt told The Yorker that he was not surprised by the event’s popularity: “I think people are quite excited by the acts that are coming and also the fact that the event has been running for 40 years.”
Big D is scheduled to include performances from Pendulum DJ MC Verse, Chesney Hawkes, as well as local York bands such as Magic P and the Innuendos.
The summer festivities will feature a fairground, with bungee running and a laser maze. There will also be an "amorous chill out lounge" which will aim to provide students with an area with “calmer music to sit and chat”.
Despite Big D's enormous pre-event popularity Kummelstedt doesn’t anticipate the event becoming larger in the foreseeable future: “I don’t think that it will grow. It’s the perfect size. The venue is maxed out as it is. We want to stay as a college event as we don’t want to compete with YUSU.”
Kummelstedt told The Yorker that 80 more tickets may become available by Week 6 if the venue capacity will allow for it.
I missed out by 7 minutes, now I'm stuck with bloody Alphabeat at Gradball... 
...or COPOWT at Alcuin's 40th!
alcuincollege.com/forty
1000 tickets? I thought it was 1200, as reported by the Yorker, 03 May:
"In fact, they only need to sell 950 out of the 1200 available tickets to cover the cost"
Surely if this is the case and there were only 1000 ticket there will be very little left over to give to charity after the costs have been covered. In fact it's less than £1000 to give to charity when they wanted to get at least £3000.....
Anon 3 - From my memory I remember the last two big D's had fundraising things going on all night, so maybe they'll raise a bit from them.
But it does make you think, perhaps they could have charged a little more?
Fundraising for this years Big D has already begun and hopefully we'll match last years fundraising total of roughly £600. As Deloitte is a sponsor that means at least £1000 will be given directly to charity.
Alphabeat, Taio Cruz, Booty Luv, Bjorn Again, Wasted Little DJs at Summerball...
#4... charge more! Are you on glue my friend? £18 is surely enough to see one drum and bass act and a bloke who has one song that he can't even sing anymore because it's too high for him. I'd personally rather buy 1,800 penny sweets.
Fundraising for charity comes from a variety of sources. I believe one of the main problems is that ticket costs/revenue can not go directly to charity as no one is allowed to make people donate to charity - and somehow donating from ticket revenue constitutes this... or so I hear.
Charity money will come from things raised in the build up to Big D, from on-the-day fund raising and also from Sponsorship: note the event is sponsored by Deloitte. I believe that that money goes straight to charity more or less due to the daft rules governing donation/tickets/etc.
Basically, Big D is on course to raise a very respectable amount for charity from what I hear.
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