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.
Billed as a “night of mayhem”, under fire bar crawl Carnage returned to York’s bars on Sunday night for the first time this year. Hundreds of students from both of York’s universities made it out to hit a route of Varsity, Vodka Revolutions, Orgasmic, Parish and Tru.
There had been considerable controversy over the event in the wake of a similar event in Sheffield, after which a student had been pictured urinating on a war memorial, with the story reaching national newspapers. The Sheffield Hallam fresher was told last week that he potentially faced jail for outraging public decency, with the presiding judge suggesting that the event was culpable as well.
In the run up to Sunday night YUSU President Tim Ngwena released a statement saying “Were [sic] disappointed to see Carnage coming to York once again”. The event was condemned in local newspaper York Press with former YUSU president and Labour candidate for the 2010 York outer constituency, James Alexander arguing that the event “put students at unnecessary risk and cause nuisance and antisocial problems”.
The NUS has recently called on the government to ban future events and YUSU is not the only student union prohibiting the company to advertise on campus. Carnage has responded to the criticism by pointing out that when organising the event, they ask bars to provide free soft drinks to those involved.
Despite fears, however, the night appears to have gone smoothly. North Yorkshire police have released a statement saying "officers monitored the event throughout the evening and although some incidents of disorder were reported elsewhere in the city none were connected to the event”.
Carnage stewards were told not to make any comments to the media, but one told us that he saw “no trouble from any of the students and there were no incidents at all,” adding “there was a camera crew from somewhere at the start, but they left fairly soon once they realised nothing much was happening”. In his words it “was just a big bar crawl”.
However the apparent success of the event is unlikely to change YUSU attitudes towards Carnage and with the current negative publicity of the company, it looks as if it may be some time before they return to York’s streets.
The front page of the Carnage tshirts say "The students of York are proud to present..." I'm pretty sure the people organising it are a commercial venture with nothing to do with the students of York...
Surely this shows the need of 24-hour portering?
I loved carnage which most people can probably see from the picture.
Is it really any different to the YUSU's Viking Raids?
YUSU's Viking Raids are run by the SU, stewarded with a large number of people, covered by insurance and risk assessments and all sorts of other precautions that are there to specifically ensure that nothing could go wrong. Carnage, on the other hand, has less of these controls in place and also has an incredibly dodgy background when it comes to safety etc.
I for one am shocked - who thought the conduct of the students would be more down to the calibre of people themselves than the company organising the event? Pissing on a war memorial quite obviously isn't the fault of a vile, drunk person, but of a company who allowed that person to get drunk, an activity I'm sure he wouldn't otherwise partake in.
The point is that in the Viking Raid, the SU is accountable for those actions but Carnage completely isn't.
Carnage is made by the students who attend, it doesn't have a great deal to do with the organisers.. The people on the york one were really sound, so there wasn't any trouble. I saw more violence and aggro from locals and sqauddies, but that was just because it was a weekend.
Also, what sort of 'safety' is observed during the myriad of other student drinking events... centurion? ring of fire? Or should we have a 'responsible' person in a reflective jacket at every student event/ houseparty to make sure we're safe? Nanny state anyone?
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