SEVERAL international students have been defrauded of substantial sums of money this term with up to £15,000 being taken in each incident by someone who is also thought to be a student at the University.

A FIRE BROKE out in Derwent during the early hours of Tuesday morning, causing “severe” damage to a kitchen in B Block.

The fire was discovered by a Derwent Porter, who “fought the fire bravely”, at around 2am.

THE STUDENTS’ UNION have suffered early problems with their new online voting system, with eight of the first nine UGM proposals not reaching the quoracy.

THIS YEAR’s NEWLY elected JCRC Chairs come to their positions in the new year with a fresh range of ideas and approaches.

Langwith Chair Lucy Wickham’s unusual proposal was “not to promise anything”, on the basis that if she included no policies in her manifesto, everything she did achieve would be “a bonus”.

THE ‘ASK YUSU’ facility on the SU website is being used to harass SU Officials, the Union’s Executive Committee heard last month.

Micky Armstrong, the SU President, told the committee that the some of the questions being asked were “ridiculous” and amounted to “personal harassment”.

POLITICS STUDENT AND one of the new Goodricke Ents Representatives, Andreas Masura ran a Make Rubbish Events History campaign during the recent JCRC elections.

SECURITY SERVICES ARE reported to be concerned that campus key cards may be in the possession of non-students after thefts in the Chemistry department.

THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY made almost £70,000 in fines from students, staff and borrowers last year, but despite promises from the Student Union Ed Campaigns Officers, the University still doesn’t have a 24-hour library service.

According to Elizabeth Heaps, Head Librarian of J.B Morrell library, library fines raised £67,764 last year, and that as part of the library’s earnings are “not linked to anything specific” but generally used as funds for library resources.

A SUSPECT HAS been arrested in connection with the robbery of three Halifax residents last week.

The crimes were committed in quick succession during Thursday and Friday in houses J, G and F of Lindley Court Halifax College.

The total value of the items stolen, which include a wallet containing £40 cash, a purse and mobile phone, was estimated at close to £300.

YORK UNIVERSITY PUT up a brave performance, losing against stiff opposition in the form of Cambridge’s Churchill college in a recently televised University Challenge broadcast.

The team made up of Olly Chadwick, Jenni Southern, David Hopkins and Peter Cabrera went out in the first round play-offs losing 170 points to 120 against Churchill college which Olly described as “crazy insane nerds”.

THE REVELATION THAT the Students’ Union staff Christmas dinner is to be subsidized has ignited controversy as normal York students are made to pay for their Christmas balls.

YUSU will pay a large part of the £18.95 a head bill for Christmas dinner at the Judges Lodgings.

RIGHT- WING EXTREMISTS have overshadowed the appointment of the new Archbishop of York, Ugandan born Dr John Sentamu, by announcing plans to stand for York City Council.

The inauguration, at the end of last month, of the new archbishop broke conservative church tradition, featuring leopard skin clad dancers and a cruise into York to wave to members of his new diocese.

A POSTER advertising Goodricke’s Rehab club night has once again sparked controversy on campus, and resulted in the SU introducing penalties to enforce restrictions on publicity passed earlier this year.

The poster, which depicts a female nurse posing in a tight PVC uniform, “contains all the same imagery” as one used to publicise Rehab in January, which also engendered many complaints and precipitated the introduction of publicity regulations by the SU.

Nouse invites campus political groups to vent on an issue of their choice. This edition, Freesoc on overconsumption

Call it a swap shop, a free-cycle, a bring-and-take stall, or a small, happy revolution of a Saturday lunchtime, but an event by Freesoc saw the redistribution of approximately twenty-five CDs, twelve items of clothing and many more books, magazines and bric a brac.

Bekki Field questions the legality of the alleged CIA practise of ‘extraordinary rendition’ in Europe

Allegations have been mounting against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since it was revealed that there have been approximately 300 CIA-operated flights to Eastern Europe in the past three years. They have been labelled ‘torture flights’, secretly transferring terrorist suspects abroad in order to torture them.