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.
Campus has been hit by a major power cut this afternoon, Monday, December 5.
The Yorker understands that this was caused by a contractor cutting through a power cable with a digger. The university’s IT Services Department confirmed on Twitter “The power failure occurred due to cable damage. The network will be down until at least 5pm.”
The outage, which took down the university network, resulted in students being unable to access services such as webmail, the VLE and internet connection across campus.
In addition, scores of lectures and seminars across campus were cancelled as they were left in the dark.
The University’s website also was affected, as it displayed a “404 Error” throughout the afternoon.
Vanbrugh, Derwent and Langwith are all said to be hit by the problems which resulted in blackouts and a failure in the heating systems.
Heslington Hall was not immune from the problems, with university staff in the building reportedly also suffering from the power outage.
The powercut also affected the work of YUSU, with YUSU sabs being forced to leave the office early owing to a lack of internet access.
Power was resumed shortly before 5pm, although with essay and exam deadlines looming several students were left without access to online resources for most of the afternoon. IT Services added: “We'll be working to get all services up and running over the course of this evening.”
Various other campus organisations were affected, with URY silent whilst they tried to regain power.
The power cut was also twinned with York’s first snow of the academic year, with students walking in for 2:15 lectures and seminars being pelted with snow.
Forecasters have suggested that the chances of significant snowfall in York look slimmer than last year where turbulent weather caused gridlock across the campus and created problems for students trying to get home for the Christmas break.
The City of York council were tonight braced for the worst, with gritter lorries deployed across city.
Library was also chaos; none of the machines working so everything had to be checked in and out via front desk, resulting in massive queues.
What snow?
You weren't walking into campus at the same time as me then, Anonymous! It was snowing and it was very, very cold! Obviously, it didn't stick though...
I'm surprised at the lack of redundancy here. While it might be impractical to have generator capability for large sections of campus, critical IT locations such as main server and switch rooms should have generator backup, and I'd question the reasoning of whoever didn't have every trunk switch cabinet on a UPS... to have a single cable cut take down the entire campus network and the (locally-hosted) websites of the uni and YUSU seems extreme, and avoidable.
ah, only at York...
I think the issue is where the cable was cut. I strongly suspect it was on the Science Park road, by the chimney - they've completely removed a section of road there, replacing it with iron plates over a hole.
Considering it's next to the boiler room, I presume it's a pretty important location. The uni does have backup power (after all, the emergency lights remained lit), but I think that was partly what was severed. Who knows, I'm sure the uni won't say anything about it...
Snow? I was walking through at the time - I just felt sleet, and, in most cases, dirty-greay rain drops!
Cieran, they're also digging down near the Sports Field and Sports Centre, loads of diggers down there yesterday so it may have been that.
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