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.
Both motions had close to 300 votes, with 297 voting on the motion against YUSU President Ngwena and 294 voting on whether or not to censure current Welfare Officer Humphrys. The Ngwena motion saw 105 students vote for, 143 against and 49 abstained; 97 students voted for the censuring Humphrys, with 150 against and 47 abstained. The motion was submitted at a time when Ngwena and Humphrys are standing for re-election, as President and Academic Affairs Officer respectively.
Layram submitted the motions as he believes Ngwena and Humprhys have gone against a YUSU mandate to fight YUSU cutbacks. He accused the two Sabbatical Officers of giving university management approval to cut portering hours, and also suggested that they have not campaigned hard enough against the cuts. Ngwena and Humphrys spoke together at the UGM to defend themselves, arguing that they had done what they were able to in the “Save Our Porters” campaign. Current Academic Affairs Officer Charlie Leyland also spoke in their defence.
The motion “CAMPAIGN TO REINSTATE PORTERING HOURS: SECOND STAGE”, which was also proposed by Layram, was passed with 187 votes for, 94 against and 27 abstained. The motion contains a proposal outlined by Layram, which would see rent increased by 7.5p per week in exchange for evening student-porter shifts. YUSU are now mandated to lobby university management to adopt this solution.
The motion “Moving forward with the Portering Campaign”, submitted by current Campaigns Officer and Academic Affairs candidate Jason Rose, was also passed. This motion will mandate the union to continue campaigning for 24/7 portering, and sabbatical officers must also campaign for temporary student porters to cover shifts in Derwent and Vanbrugh lodges until 24/7 portering is achieved. 210 students voted for this motion, with 51 against and 28 abstained.
A number of other motions were submitted at the UGM, but none of them reached voting quoracy. These motions included one from Amy McKessy, who called proposed changing the YUSU constitution so that students who do not self-define as disabled are able to run for the position of YUSU Disability Officer. No students put themselves forward for this role in the ongoing YUSU elections, but McKessy said she would have if she hadn’t been prevented by the self-definition ruling.
Yet again a problem with quoracy for some motions! And it'll get even more difficult when there are another 600+ students added in a couple of years. Next year's D&S (and Lewis next term) will have to put some effort into getting people more involved in UGMs...
As the censure motions failed to reach quoracy, does that mean they'll get automatically resubmitted at the next UGM?
Jamie, the censure motion reached quoracy. They failed because more students voted against censure than for it.
Thanks #3. I wasn't sure, for some reason I thought that quoracy was higher than 300.
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