Archive for May, 2005
The Madness of King Ronald
I am increasingly convinced that advertising is subject to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle – it is possible, I am sure, only to know the current state of an advertising campaign or the direction in which it is moving, not both simultaneously.
Print Edition Archive: 10/05/2005
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Roses Photos
The photos from the Roses weekend have been uploaded to our new on-line gallery. You can check them out here.
Parties and media turn blind eye to real issues
For any interested observer, the election season is always a particularly stark illustration of how British political culture works. All the normal mechanisms for the filtering and framing of issues are suddenly intensified – the “major” issues are presented in stark relief, and everything else is pushed to the margins.
Lecturers, staff and students hit out over planned ‘Heslington East’
THE UNIVERSITY’S plans to expand on Heslington East have provoked a backlash from academics both within the campus and in the wider community.
The plans, which favour an expansion on an unprecedented scale to the east of the village of Heslington, were recently approved by the Councils planning committee in a lengthy and bitter meeting lasting over nine hours.
The city that hides behind the Red Lights
Coldplay named a song after it, Ian McEwan set his Booker Prize winning novel there and Angelina Jolie keeled over in one of its tattoo parlours. Yes I’m talking about Amsterdam; the city where anything goes.
The British culture of drinking to get drunk
Distinct from alcohol dependency, or going on non-stop drinking benders lasting several days, binge drinking is a socially accepted part of British culture.
Why students will pay a high price for the Gap Year with a conscience
Sam Fugill discovers that travelling and trying to save the planet could cost the earth
It’s good to talk, but better to do
Wasn’t the morning of May 6th wonderful? Not you realise, because I was particularly interested in the fact that Labour get to act on more recommendations of independent advisers, but because there were prime photo opportunities while the gaggles of hacks tried to fish their smug smiles out of the gutters.
No one cares what you think (at least not in my opinion…)
Could someone tell me quite what the point of a blog is? As far as I can see, their purpose is to fly off and roost alongside campus Tory election candidates, in a land where hard work meets with no gain. But not only that, where one starts with the full knowledge that your work will be entirely fruitless. Bizarre.
My thank you to York campus
Local MP, John Grogan, is surprised he still has a job
At about 4am on Saturday 7 May I awoke with a start. My first thought was “When is the election count?”. My second thought I savoured in my mind for as long as possible “The count happened yesterday – I won!”.
It’s a case of one for all but two for some
Would York University students exploit Labour’s new loophole? asks Sam Fugill
Meet your new parents, the York Student Union
Toby Green finds it abhorrent that the Student Union proposes trespass as a policy for a better university
The Student Union want you to think that they are focused on your personal privacy. But now they want to go into your room without asking. To me, that smacks of hypocrisy, bad planning and a disregard for the rights of students.
Imagine the scene: you pop out of your room for five minutes to make a cup of tea, and return only to find John Rose, unaccompanied by Security Services, rummaging through your undergarments in order to find valuables to stick their shiny new red stickers on.
Campus East is open to business
Heslington East should not be controversial. All of the arguments (of which there are some good ones) against University expansion are quashed by a bottom-line that undercuts all other bottom-lines; Heslington East is good business.
Not sincere or flattering at all
It’s a poor man’s ‘Catch Me If You Can’, but instead of millions of dollars, it’s thousands of pounds. For “globetrotting between Manhattan and Paris”, read “A1 and M50 to Bristol via Birmingham”.
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