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.
A Langwith Lecture room has been renamed Hendrix Hall, following the supportive motion passed at the final YUSU General Meeting last year.
The motion entitled “Commemorating the Hendrix gig of 1967 and the Portering protest of 2002” mandated YUSU to lobby the university to rename L/N/028, and also to hang copies of the York Vision article about the 2002 Portering protests in the Vanbrugh concourse.
Myles Layram, who proposed the motion, described the gig as “one of the most surprising facts about the history of the university”. He felt that renaming the hall would “help to give the university a stronger sense of its own history”.
Tim Ellis, YUSU President told the Yorker that he had spoken to Elizabeth Heaps, the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Estates and Strategic Projects, who, after consent from the Vice-Chancellor, sanctioned the name change.
Responding to comments that this was an issue too small for YUSU, Ellis said: “While I agree that there are arguably more important issues which I spend the majority of time dealing with, this was something that I had been mandated to do by the student body and feel that it is our duty as elected officers to fulfil active policy."
Stelhan Ariyadasa-Sáez, a third year politics and international relations student however argued: “The man played one gig in the hall, several decades ago. The whole experience was over and done with in a night, and things promptly went straight back to normal. The man was just a musician!”
To be honest I think Basshunter Hall would have been a better alternative.
Or Chesney Hall? >.>
Congratulations to Miles (is he going by Myles now?), though. Well deserved victory and a welcome change to the university to honour someone who was great who *didn't* give money to the uni. Other than Sally Baldwin, I can't think of any other recent examples.
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