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.
As the Easter holidays began, police reported a missing person linked to the university – Claudia Lawrence, a chef from Goodricke College. 35 year old Claudia is described as white, around 5ft 6in tall, slim with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen on Wednesday 18th March at 3.11pm; Claudia was due to arrive for work at 6am the following day, but failed to turn up.
A search of Claudia’s house revealed that she does not have her purse, passport, credit cards or any spare clothes with her. Police believe all she has is her mobile phone, house keys and a small, Karrimor rucksack, which she used to carry her things to work.
Detective Superintendent Galloway has said it is North Yorkshire Police’s biggest operation since the week-long hunt for quadruple murderer Mark Hobson in July 2004. A Facebook group titled “Missing Person – Claudia Lawrence” currently has over 24,000 members.
For more details, see The Yorker’s Claudia Lawrence timeline. Anyone with information to help the inquiry is asked to phone North Yorkshire Police on 0845 60 60 247 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Three third-year students, Will Tribble, Rocco Sulkin and Joe Burgess, produced and filmed two one-take one minute videos that have since become a national success.
The videos, filmed on the university's football field, recount the stories of Forest Gump and Kill Bill in one minute. The videos have had more than 2 million views on YouTube combined. They have also appeared on both ITV Calendar and GMTV.
Tribble told The Yorker: "To be honest we weren't expecting a reaction. My last most popular video had about 12,000 views and I thought that was great. It would be nice if this translates into the kind of genuine success where people give us money to make things, I keep saying that if anyone has a budget and wants us to make them a music video they should contact me, but so far I've had no responses."
See the videos here.
As of Monday 20 April, the university library has extended its opening hours until midnight on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Library opening hours are now 8am to midnight Monday to Friday and 10am to midnight Saturday and Sunday.
This is the second extension of opening hours this year, with the opening time of 8am during the academic year starting in January. A third extension of additional evening opening times outside of term time will begin in the summer.
Director of the University Library and Archives J. Stephen Town said that this package of three additional opening times was “a response to student requests developed in consultation with YUSU”. In terms of moves towards a 24 hour library, Town said: “We recognise the need expressed for 24/7 opening and these extensions move us towards that goal. We hope to implement 24/7 by the time the Library extends into the Computer Science building."
As reported in York Press, the City of York council has backed the University of York’s application to build a biomass boiler to serve the new Goodricke College being bult on the site.
The biomass boilers, which will be fuelled with woodchips sourced from local suplliers, will be in place until the rest of the campus is complete and a central energy hub is installed. This is a response to a previous meeting where the planning committee demanded that the university ensure that ten per cent of its energy came from renewable sources.
However the plans for the boiler have caused controversy amongst local councillors. Hull Road councillor Roger Pierce said the boilers would be “an environmental eye-sore and a lot of green nonsense”.
A spokesman from the Green Party said the university should have been more proactive in its initial plans, and Ruth Potter of the Labour Party said the university had missed an opportunity to lead the way in green energy.
The chair of the university's People and Planet group, Alex Green, said: "Any attempts that the university makes to use more sustainable sources of energy should be celebrated.”
However, Green added: “In a world facing the possibility of catastrophic climate change, using only 10% renewable energy, for only some of the campus, seems a bit of a token gesture. What we need is a bigger commitment by the university to more sustainable methods of energy generation and sustainability."
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