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.
Over 95% of emergency calls to Campus Security were answered within 15 seconds, it has been revealed.
At around 8pm, the first sign of trouble was an alert in IT services that a sharp rise in temperature and humidity was affecting an IT data centre in Berrick Saul, forcing them to shut down the IT systems. Just after 10pm, they announced the problem, stating on twitter that “a number of services are currently unavailable due to a data centre being affected by flooding” (@UoYITServices), before finally announcing just before 11pm that they had managed to restore “most network services”.
A University spokesman told The Yorker that it was the result of “a failure of a flexible coupling in the heating system” that led to “a release of water vapour into the plant room which is next one of the IT data centres… which shut down the air conditioning in the data centre, triggering a rise in temperature and humidity. When the air conditioning was restored, we brought services back online as quickly as possible.”
Though the University has now confirmed that “most key services were operational by 23:00hrs on Sunday [and] the rest were restored on Monday morning,” there is still criticism coming from students who were affected by the cuts.
One anonymous politics student said, “I was finishing off my essay when the VLE stopped working. This was really annoying as the list of all the sources I had used was on there.” Explaining the depth of the problem, he added, “the department has an entirely electronic hand-in system, and I have two essays to submit, both worth twenty credits.”
Another student defended the university, saying, “it’s hardly something that they could have predicted, and they got computer people in on their day off to fix it in a couple of hours, which I’m very grateful for. It could have been a lot worse.”
Though many students were affected by the outage, the Yorker is yet to receive any notification of students feeling that it affected their grades.
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