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 is tipped to be the most difficult election to call since Micky Armstrong beat Robbie Dale, three candidates have emerged as front runners in the presidential race.
Expected to split the YUSU camp is Ents Rep Nadz Kunwar and Women's Officer Laura Payne. Also likely to challenge for the top spot is former Vanbrugh chair Ryan Bennett.
The following are merely the opinions of the author.
Here's a breakdown of what to expect from the big guns.
Ryan Bennett
Nadz Kunwar
Laura Payne
Currently, the above nominations are only "whispers". Candidates are not allowed to use publicity until Week 8.
Can we expect unbiased reporting of the presidential race from The Yorker bearing in mind that one of the candidates is a director of the company?
This article seems pretty unbiased to me.
Chris, bear in mind that these aren't candidates, but rumours of who may be running.
Latest rumour just heard outside the library - "Robbie Dale has secretly been taking a postgraduate course in 'bureaucracy' so he can make a late charge for YUSU Pres".
Chris,
The Yorker's Editorial Policy is to be unbiased in News reporting and allow opinions to be expressed in Blogs. However, these opinions are that of the writers and we are willing to have contradicting opinions expressed by different people.
Nadz Kunwar is a Non-Operational Director and has no say on The Yorker's editorial content.
Thanks for raising your concerns,
Dominic and Ruth
The Yorker Editors
Bennett for chair. End of.
I love Nadz. Yorks answer to Obama...and that, my friend, is end of.
Should I throw in Payne for president, just to round off? 
Dominic I'd like to ask you how you can claim this article does not contain opinion merely unbiased reporting when you state:
Kunwar has the most credible claim to delivering on "What Students Want".
I'm guessing that this is obviously factual reporting.
I’m pretty sure a non-op director of anything just sits on the board of directors providing a non bias edge on company policies etc?
I would hardly think being a non-op director of a company to be any sort of bad point if he was to run. Isn’t that exactly the kind of thing you would want from your yusu president?
As for the non-bias reporting, I guess we will have to wait and see. Obama... Vote McCain 
Whilst the piece has appeared in the news section, the actual news aspect of the article is that Elections have opened. The comments regarding each potential candidate are included in the "whispers" section. They do all however include positives about each candidate, we acknowledge this distinction may not be clear enough. We will endeavour to avoid any such confusion in the future. This article has now been modified to reflect this.
The Yorker Editors
Latest rumour heard outside of B Henry's - "Dan Taylor and John Lewis are striving to become the first ever joint YUSU Presidents..."
I think it's time to get a dose of realism. Of course there is going to be some bias, every human in the world has bias. Do you really think reporters are androids who walk around without seeing the world through class, gender, and background perspectives? The yorker plc, Vision and Nouse are all the same and will all have different motives and agendas. But that is no different from the Times, the Mirror etc now is it?
The difference is that neither Murdoch, Wallace, etc, are actually running for the positions. I expect each article to have some level of bias in it - but this has a more direct conflict of interest. I'll guess we'll wait and see how it happens, and to use Nouse, Vision and The Yorker in combination, rather than The Yorker alone.
Rich Croker for AU President!
Chris, suggesting Murdoch isn't actually running for the position opens up a whole other debate.
Stop being pedantic and accept that the reporters at the Yorker have their tongue firmly in their cheek more often than not.
Who'd have thought that pointing out a potential conflict of interest would be at all controversial...
@#16, you seem to think that I take anything to do with student politics seriously. Let's all chill out with a limerick, shall we?
There once was a [person] from [place]
Whose [body part] was [special case].
When [event] would occur,
It would cause [him or her]
To violate [law of time/space].
@17 and the point of that was???
Anyway Nadz for president, he is FAR better then the rest. At least some type of progress might be made if he becomes president!
Because everyone seems to be taking my passing comment far too seriously and they need to relax!
Anyway, Nadz is the only one in that list I hadn't heard of before today. I'm going to wait to see who all the runners are and their policies are before I decide who to back.
Hey guys,
I think the article was mostly excellently written, but I don't think the statement 'Kunwar has the most credible claim to delivering on "What Students Want" was completly unbias. I met Laura Payne a few weeks ago, I just wanted to say I have never met a person that is so truly passionate about this university and everyone that is a part of it. She really seemed to care about the students, and is clearly in this for more than just taking part in a 'popularity contest' of finding something good to put on her CV.
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