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.
Kunwar had 37% of The Yorker vote, which was open to all registered members of the website and was closed before official voting opened on Monday.
As for his competitors: Laura Payne took second place with 28% of the vote; Mad Capt' Tom had 27%; whilst the ever-elusive RON had 5%.
The vote shows the race to the SU could be one of the closest in recent years.
Respective Facebook groups show the opposite result, with Tom having 606 members in his "1000 strong for Mad Capt'n Tom: We want a Pirate SU President" whilst his competitors trail with Kunwar having 332 members and Payne with 327.
106 votes were cast on the poll over a 3-day period.
Voting for positions is now open here with results announced on Friday evening at the Results Night event hosted in Derwent.
Should be a good events! Last year was fun.
Laura and the Pirate shouldn't be too woried by this - it's an online poll of only 106 people, so is unlikely to be representative. There is only one poll that counts, and we don't get to see the results of that until Friday!
The URY poll puts the Mad Cap'n in first, Laura in second and Kunwar in third with only 6% of the vote, so I agree with anon#2 that all of this doesn't mean much at this stage!
Go Nadz!
Lets all hope for the pirate 
Go Mad Cap'n Tom!
One serious candidate. Payne for Prez!
Go Nadz!!! Vote Pirate!
Go Nadz!
Only one candidate will change things for the good...
His name is Nadz
I don't think many people are actually going to change their voting preferences based on isolated calls of "Go Nadz!", "Support Payne!", "Yay Pirate!" and so forth. Oh, hang on, "Go Nadz" is also a play on words. How amusing.
Or not.
Go RON!
everyone at this uni loves to get so serious. Lets face it, the whole elections thing to most people is just a big popularity contest farce. When people are voting on a position they dont really care about - the candidate best have put up a good picture up - because you just know we'll always vote most attractive! Go Payne! Go Nadz! Yey Pirate! Vote in this years popularity contest!
The poll was exactly right for the GFH issue. 51%-49% and in that only 99 people voted. I think 100 people on The Yorker is actually a pretty reliable source. Either way, it is sure to be close.
Dan Taylor
In reply to numbers 10 & 12... Go Nadz!!
Let the best person win...
This is a good sign for Laura. Nadz is a director of The Yorker, meaning obviously most people working for it both support him and voted in the poll, so the fact that he only managed 9 more votes than her is promising.
It was said before and it will be said again #16...hardly anybody at The Yorker knows Nadz; he doesn't come to many meetings and if he does he doesn't make his presence known thus any support will almost certainly be for his policies rather than a personal bias.
If Kunwar has difficulty attending meetings and making his presence known for a company he's a Director for, does that really bode well for being SU president?
Chris, of course he attends meetings for the Yorker - the Directors meeting, sitting alongside Olly Ward, Dan Ashby and the others, but no, he doesn't go to all the news, sport, lifestyle, arts, food and drink meetings, otherwise he'd never get anything done.
Also, he is a Non-Operational Director, who offers advice, the fact that no. 17 points out he does go to some meetings, more than points to his commitment to something he believes in, free media.
He, of course, goes to the necessary meetings (like the general one) but doesn't stand up to talk to the writers like, say, the editors hence the 'doesn't make himself known' comment. No-body said anything about 'having difficulty', that really isn't an issue.
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