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.
With the motion to attempt to bring Dr Dre to York finally passed it now becomes a question of getting him to play at Central Hall.
On the 24th February the motion ‘We believe that YUSU should be mandated to try their utmost to bring Dr Dre to York to play Central Hall’ passed by 865 for to 265 against. It has now become the prerogative of the student group, headed by Richard Costello, to get Dr Dre to actually come to York and perform.
Costello, speaking to The Yorker, knows he has a tough road ahead of him and is determined to make the Dr Dre motion a key issue in the upcoming YUSU elections and proposes to ask each new candidate how they intend to hold up the demands in the motion.
The next major step for Costello is holding those YUSU officers, mandated in the motion, to account. Costello made it clear that, even if Dre is unobtainable, ‘a much bigger battle has been won, the battle for YUSU to take music seriously.’
Costello indicated that communications, he received, from an anonymous source in the YUSU that Dre’s agent had been contacted. The contents of this communication revealed that Dre may no longer be touring, but if YUSU were able to provide a budget Dre’s agent would be more than happy to communicate with acts such as 50 Cent and Vanilla Ice as to their availability to perform in York.
However, the validity of such a source is questionable and, as Costello informed us, even if this is true, as disappointing as it is, YUSU will be more willing to improve on York’s music scene in the future. Costello ended on an optimistic note saying ‘I have always been ambitious for the York music scene, as a result of this motion passing I now feel that YUSU are as well.’ It all remains to be seen how much of an affect this motion will have in the near future on York’s dire music scene.
If so an NWA reunion should definitely be on the cards!
Can this be edited please? It's got some glaring grammatical errors.
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