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.
Most students carry a notepad and cheese sandwich to work. Not so with Nezih Savaskan and Andrew Fensom, two York students who have convinced the army to lend them assault choppers, glocks, machine guns, 5mm handguns and M16s.
The film-making soc duo have embarked on filming the first action-thriller made in the university - " The Heist".
Co-producer Nezih Savaskan said: "We just wrote them a letter and that was it. Student actors are going to be handling the guns and in the choppers with an army supervisor to hand. They've been really good about it."
Currently the film-making team are operating without any funding but are still confident they can finish the film. Heavily influenced by films such as "Heat", "Collateral" and "Ocean's 11" the 20-minute film is described as a high-octane thrill-ride.
Savaskan said: "You can expect a thrill ride with lots of adrenaline. It's about a highly-trained team of criminals who try to break into a security complex of a technology company."
The film will be screened in City Screen just before Christmas this year. Students will be able to buy DVD of the film or download it from the internet.
Savaskan and Fensom are both members of film-making society and plan to go on into film-making next year. Fensom is moving to Singapore to work in the media while Savaskan will be doing a masters in music technology.
