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.
"YUC" or York University Campaigners is a hot-pot of all the politically active societies on campus, who may picket together on key issues. If successful, the group could have as many as 500 society members at their disposal.
Chris Swann, YUSU Policy and Campaigns officers said: "A smaller version of YUC operated independently from YUSU last year, and we found that by pooling together with other societies our campaigns were much more effective than they would ever have been had we done them as separate societies."
Over the past few years campaigning coalitions have become more popular. In 2004/5 at least three student societies participated in a "Die In" on campus, campaigning against the university's arms investment. Last year a reactionary campaign to "save the porters" united members of senate, York Vision, environmental campaigners and socialists in chained protest.
Already plans are underway for creative campaigns over poverty issues to take place in Week 2.
If anybody actually activates a 500 person campaign on campus it would be the funniest thing ever.
If you could get 500 politically aware students to agree on a contentious issue it wuold be a miracle!
On some issues, politically active students seem to be very much in agreement - Iraq, Guantanamo, anti-war with Iran, stopping AIDS? I might be stereotyping here, but I reckon the vast majority of campaigning students, particularly here in York, are fairly liberal and so have broadly similar interests.
(Oh, and, add to that list poverty, which I didn't see but is mentioned at the end of the article)
comment deleted by a moderator Hell, getting 20 campaigners together is pretty good going. We know that. The point isn't that everyone agrees but that people get a chance to hear about stuff they want to campaign for or against, and to share experience, ideas and enthusiasm. If it works it'll be great. If it doesn't at least it was tried.
On an entirely different note, why is everyone posting anonymously on here? Is there a blacklist I haven't heard about?
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