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.
The Commercial Services may have plans to close B Henry's as soon as the end of this term.
Further information, however, is still being waited on.
Alcuin Chair Erik O'Connor said: "We are still in the process of clarifying whether a decision has actually been made to close B Henry's, if so, who has made it, and why haven't we been consulted."
The specifics of the plan are yet to be released. It is expected that the situation will be clarified over the next few days.
It is unclear at this stage what will be done with the space if the bar is closed.
Nonetheless, Alcuin JCRC have stated its strong opposition to the proposal of a closure.
O'Connor said: "College bar provision remains a crucial part of student life at York."
Societies and Communications Officer Rory Shanks said: "We will be working closely with the College in the next few days to clarify the situation with such bar provision and in the meantime, fully support the sentiment that the venue is important to student life."
An Extraordinary JCR Open Meeting, to explain the current situation, will be held at 6.30pm on Thursday 30 October in the JCR.
The meeting also aims to serve as proof to the university that students want to keep their bar open.
If B Henry's is closed it will become the third failed bar, following the close of Halifax and Langwith bars at the end of last term.
Derwent, Goodricke and Vanbrugh bars however are set to see longer opening hours. All three will be open seven days a week by the end of the year.
Well, campus drinking is slowly being crippled by commercial services, I'm livid. A 24 hour licence application for OUR own YUSU bar will give us the possibilities and ownership we deserve, and yet the same body that is attempting to stifle this licence latterly puts a pure gambling machine in Goodricke's JCR after they gain control of it as well as shutting down two other campus bars in some of our most spirited colleges.
There are times this university is a joke, FIGHT FOR YOUR COLLEGE BARS. Alcuin - KICK UP A FUSS.
Commercial services haven't helped their bars at all. Colleges and YUSU have constantly supported campus bars with events, advertising and the like. When has anyone seen adverts, posters or anything at all in accommodation and around the porters lodges for B-Henry's? I certainly havent. Colleges should not be the only body to proactively support their bars. Commercial services run the bars as businesses...so start acting like a business and use marketing, it's a key part of any business and one of the most valuable. Phil Kember needs to help the bars to help themselves, not leave it to colleges...although we've done a bloody good job and B-Henry's has gone from strength to strength in the last 18 months!
ALCUIN UNITE! SAVE B-HENRY'S!
B Henrys effectively caters for alcuin freshers only. Vanbrugh bar sells more drinks and has more room for meeting up, nobody goes to alcuin in the evening unless they live there, and town has become more attractive with the new late bus and lots of drinks deals and variety. Shame, as a summer's evening at a B Henrys open mic night wasn't a bad way to spend some time.
Sad to see another bar go, but if it does, we need to ask serious questions about the college system itself, and how relevent colleges really are to modern student life. The differences are so stark now between mighty derwent with its big events and huge space and alcuin with its small, barely open bar and no dining room. And langwith and vanbrugh with a quarter of the population of halifax. Centralising management, budgeting and events might not be too crazy an idea in the future.
Does alcuin really need a 2-day a week bar, except to host JCRC events?
Only demand will answer that question.
Location Location Location.
The big mistake was when the university moved Alcuin Bar to its current location a few years ago. It used to be closer to the library and to Vanbrugh, making it a central hub in the way Vanbrugh bar is today. Where it is now, it's never going to be a central hub, students won't go out of their way to get there, and many freshers simply don't know where it is or when it's open.
exactly the point matthew why commercial services should help themsleves. Freshers from around cmapus don't know where it is or when it's open: why not? Because there is no publicity telling them so. Why isn't there a sign by the Library (not a directional sign only), or posters in ALcuin accomodation, or posters around campus at all informing students of its location and of the fact that it is the only bar on campus doing cocktails...?
I was under the impression that Alcuin bar was actually doing quite well? Even in my time here, it has improved beyond all recognition and the work of Alcuin JCR in achieving this is fantastic. I hope it doesn't close!!!!!!!!!!
hear hear!
Why do only two paragraphs have more than one sentence? I like the quick, sharp, and hard-hitting nature of short paragraphs that the Yorker news section employs. However, surely single sentence paragraphs is taking it too far. Most students have an attention span that can cope with three, sometimes even four sentences.
I lost you after the second sentence didn't I?
Damn it.
You win.
comment deleted by the author If it turns out to be true - and the University do intend to close Alcuin Bar - then I urge everyone to rally behind Alcuin JCRC and fight this decision.
Our University continues to drag itself backwards with a series of calamitous decisions based on the sole objective of penny-pinching. Our facilities, compared to other Universities, are a disgrace.
We’re told everything will be rosy after Heslington East, our very own Wembley-stadium fiasco, is finally built – but we’ll all have long-gone by then and it continues to amaze me that the University show such contempt to the current students.
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