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 innovative business project was put in doubt after YUSU refused to help out the entrepreneurs.
Project leader Jones said: "We didn’t get any support from our own union, which we thought would come without really asking.
"We thought they’d be bending over backwards to help us as we’d be helping fund student activities as they do."
YUSU told the team that they couldn't afford to expand ticket selling service in Your:Shop to include another ticket type.
We didn’t get any support from our own union, which we thought would come without really asking.
As a result the students have turned to Commercial Services for help - but Costcutter have asked for 10% commission on every 100 tickets.
Currently the Facebook group for the lottery has 121 members - over 1000 short of the required amount.
Jones said that the team were in talks with a second year student in Oxford university instead.
He said: "Maybe we'll get something going in Oxford, as they seem to be more receptive to the idea of a lottery than York has been."
Sam Bayley, YUSU Communications and Societies Officer said, "YUSU has given its support to the York Student Lottery as it would with any ratified society."
"However, it had been made very clear from the start that selling tickets in Your:Shop would not be possible, due to the extra workload that it would place on staff."
"YUSU works to support all of its societies but has obligations to its businesses such as Your:Shop, which contributes to Union activities."
The York Student Lottery was set up as a society by enterprising management students to raise money for charity and other students. Charities could receive up to £4000, and three winners would receive £245 each draw should the lottery go ahead.
So, have YUSU outright stopped the lottery idea, or have they just said they're not going to sell the lottery tickets in Your
? Why can't the York Student Lottery people sell their tickets in Vanbrugh stalls, as countless other societies do?
Chris,
We've simply said the tickets cannot be sold in Your due to the sheer number as well as necessary data collection issues.
We have ratified the society therefore giving them the green light to work on campus...
Sam Bayley
YUSU Socs & Comms Officer
The Your in fact means Your : Shop above.
This article is pretty misleading then. I guess the York Student Lottery people want their cake and to eat it.
but the article says that the lottery people wanted to sell them in your shop, and the article lets YUSU explain their reason for not being able to, surely its fairly explanatory?
The headline "YUSU says no: campus lottery faces the guillotine" is fairly sensationalist and implies that YUSU have stopped the York Lottery from operating, which really isn't the case. They can still sell tickets, just not in Your : Shop, and by the sounds of things this has always been said by YUSU, so the society relying on that is foolish.
James Jones here, part of York Student Lottery.
First of all apologies for a delayed response, I have had some exams to sit so I hadn't checked this yet.
Secondly, Sam, apologies for this extra fuss which you didn't need to have to deal with.
Thirdly, I would like to point out that York Student realise and thank YUSU for their support for the lottery, and that only when I made comments to Ruth, the writer of this article, about YUSU's support not existing, this was ONLY in reference to the sale of tickets in Your : Shop. This is unfortunate for the lottery because this would have been easier for us as a society, and easier for those who wished to purchase tickets to do so - since they could do this at their own convienence.
This is the main reason therefore why we do not wish to sell tickets at vanburgh - simply because we do not believe that we will achieve ticket sales to keep the lottery going through this means alone.
I agree with the above comment - we can only hope that headlines may be clearer in the future...
I believe that my comments have been taken out of context and that the relations between the lottery and YUSU have portrayed as problematic, which they are not, as Sam said, it was outlined from day one where we stood, and even though we have pressed on particular issues such as selling tickets in Your : Shop, we knew our position in the end, but it was still worth a shot to explore selling in your shop further.
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