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Photo Diary app wins York prize

Friday, 20th January 2012

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.

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Students warned about loans scam

Thursday, 19th January 2012

YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.

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Queen Comes to York

Wednesday, 18th January 2012

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.

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Flooding Triggers Network Outage On Eve Of Exams

Saturday, 14th January 2012

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.

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O'Connor wins Alcuin by 52 votes

Wednesday, 5th December 2007
Alcuin is the latest college to have elected their new committee, with Erik O'Connor taking over as Chair.

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437 people voted in the elections, which saw O'Connor beat his nearest competitor by 52 votes

O'Connor said: "I’m extremely happy I won, and I can’t wait to get started. I’m very happy with the results, and this will be another good year for Alcuin."

His first challenges as Chair will be to organise the Week 2 event. "My first priority is that we’ve a Week 2 with Goodricke, and then I've a few ideas around sports, and then it's time to start representing the college at Senate."

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O'Connor seems to be approaching his position with an 'if it ain't broke' attitude. He said: "In terms of bar strategy we’ll continue, as the JCRC have this year, pushing the bar, and providing the same great events as so far. I have one definite policy, which is to do another bar Olympics as in Freshers Week, to boost both sports and the bar."

The Alcuin Committee for 2007-8 are:

Chair: Eric O'Connor

Vice-Chair Welfare & Support: Tom Langrish

Vice-Chair Business & Services: Edward Durkin

Treasurer: Michael Batula

Secretary: Collette Kerrigan

Ordinary Officer: Pat Sholl, Annie Duffield

International Student Officer: Fiora Feyertag and Katherina Averspery

IT Officer: Lloyd Sparkes

Sports Officer: Paul Guest, Ivan Lourie, Elizabeth Hollins, Matthew Bowyer

Merchandise Officer: Rose Tomlins, Sophie Barclay and Joseph Muzalewski

Equipment Officer: William Gardner

Bar Officer: Lawrence Ninol, Jim McNulry, Thomas Gibby and Callum Taylor

News Officer: Ben Martin and Ing Chua-Lee

Social Secretary: Rebecca Milne, Elizabeth Woollard and Alice Harvey

Communications Officer: Edward Twitchett

Entertainments Officer: Sam Daniels, Sally Pigott, Elizabeth O'Dwyer, Suzie Ellis, Annie Smeen and Jenny Thomson

Campaigns Officer: Daniel Coen and Reza Newton

LGBT Welfare Officer: Harriet Thomson

Male Welfare Officers: Hamish Champion, Johnathan Matlock and Martin Adam-Leah

Female Welfare Officers: Kat Turner and Katie Marshall

The official committee handover is 4pm Friday, Week 10.

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#1 Alex Richman
Wed, 5th Dec 2007 7:37am

"Entertainments Officer: Sam Daniels, Sally Pigott, Elizabeth O'Dwyer, Suzie Ellis, Annie Smeen and Jenny Thomson"

does this mean no milfs and dilfs night?!

#2 Anonymous
Thu, 6th Dec 2007 5:31am

Flergen de blurp, den blerp floppen tern chock tarn.

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