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 motion "For A University Ethical Investment Policy" has been passed with results of 304 for, 86, against, and 10 abstentions.
The motion was proposed by YUSU’s Environment and Ethics Committee. As previously reported by The Yorker, it called for an Ethical Investment Policy at the University of York.
John Nicholls, one of the Environment and Ethics Officers, said of the result: "Everyone who was involved in helping to put forward this motion is delighted to see it pass with a comfortable majority."
Nicholls added that the Committee will pressure the university to adopt an ethical investment policy swiftly. They hope to increase awareness of the arms trade by putting on "an eclectic night of music and jamming" in collaboration with other societies in February.
The Committee hope to persuade the university to adopt an ethical investment policy at the University Council meeting at the start of March.
Commercial Services have agreed to keep B Henry’s open until the end of the current financial year on a break even basis. It was also decided that further meetings were needed to decide upon improvements to be made during the coming term.
Alcuin Chair Erik O’Connor was present at the meeting where this decision was made. He stated that the JCRC had already began to plan a full set of events for next term to make sure that the incoming committee have something to work with.
O'Connor said: "The next committee needs to ensure that it puts on events that are appealing and advertised to a campus-wide audience."
He added that the future of the bar really did depend on people and that "there really can be no clearer message to the university than the one we send by regularly visiting campus bars to have a drink."
During excavations on York’s Heslington East site, the remains of what is being called the oldest surviving brain in Britain were found in a skull.
This is the second significant find on the site, following the discovery in September of the skeleton of a man who is believed to have been one of the first victims of tuberculosis.
The York Archaeological Trust have described the land the skull was found in as being made up of prehistoric fields, trackways and buildings dating back to 300BC. The skull is thought to be at least 2000 years old and was possibly a ritual offering.
The brain has been given special conservation treatment and will be handed over for expert medical observation. The results of a CT scan at York hospital showed "startling clear images of the skull's contents".
A consultant neurologist at the hospital, Phillip Duffy, said: "The mystery lies as to how brain tissue, which usually decays rapidly after death, could have been so well preserved and for such a long period of time."
It would be interesting to know how they dated it. Many radiometric dating methods such as carbon-14 and potassium/argon dating are known to be extremely unreliable even with stuff of known age such as lava flows, but they're still in widespread use.
Slow news week ey?
How exactly is this a slow news week? I'm pretty sure this skull business made national news. Also, I don't see how B Henrys and a UGM aren't student news...
#3, I agree, people complain too ----ing much. the skull Did make national news and was found on the Uni grounds. And if the other two articles dont qualify as campus news then nothing does.
No no, #2 is entirely correct, a news story which combines national and campus news must mean a slow news week.
What's more YUSU's censorship of Campus media is *not* news, either.
Seriously-- what *is* a "slow news week"? is that a euphemism for "nothing scandalous has happened"? This kind of attitude fosters precisely the kind of sensationalistic journalism that should be avoided.
The skull made international news - http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/12/12/york.oldest.brain/index.html
Its clearly a slow news week when nothing new happens, the only new piece of information is the continued opening of B Henry's. The ethical investement policy and the skull are old news.
The ethical investment policy was covered by its own article last week, and the skull was covered by national and international newspapers, again, last week. Its stuff we already know. Whats the point in rehashing it all back together in a "news round up".
We live in a University with only just over 10,000 students. It's hardly surprising that some weeks there isn't an awful lot of news to report. The Yorker, and all the other campus media, exist to keep people up to date with what is going on, which this does very nicely. Also, #7, a motion being put in is very different to it passing, and so it needed to be reported. Yes, there isn't much to say about it, hence, I guess, the fact it was put in with other articles.
comment deleted by the author #1 "It would be interesting to know how they dated it. Many radiometric dating methods such as carbon-14 and potassium/argon dating are known to be extremely unreliable even with stuff of known age such as lava flows, but they're still in widespread use."
LOL! The "evidence" you use to support this comes from a creationist propaganda website that states:
"By definition, no apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record."
#10: perhaps you should try to counter the evidence itself instead of trying to discredit the source.
The fact is that these dating methods have dated things of known age wrongly (such as lava flows in the last century dated millions on years old using potassium-argon dating).
re: your quote, it is taken out of context. they are not using their belief in scriptural accuracy as evidence that radiometric dating is inaccurate. It should be noted that all science and proofs relies on core assumptions that must be taken on faith. Non-creationists tend to have assumptions such as uniformitarianism, and in many cases the absolute non-existence of God, which greatly affect the interpretation of the same facts.
James is right, #10. Whilst I don't share some of his beliefs, ad hominem arguments are flawed arguments.
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