Star Letter: Student voice
I just heard on my return to York that despite everyone’s best efforts, the University has only granted a ‘temporary extension’ to current bar opening hours and, come next summer, they will push through their plans to cut hours down anyway, when there aren’t any pesky students to get in the way.
How can the university continue to trample all over the students even after such unifying action as we saw in the last few weeks of last term, lead by the “Save the Bars” campaign? Am I alone in thinking that a university should be run for the benefit of its staff, students and the fields of research it partakes in? Not conference guests and those wanting to make money off the back of students that are already amassing debt.
We need to make sure we keep the pressure up on the powers that be, so that we are not just winning minor victories, as we have seen so far, but making a real lasting difference, and imprinting our stamp onto the face of this University.
As a body of some 10,000 students, we have seen that with unified action that is well organised and swiftly executed, we can have an effect. I applaud the SU’s organisation of the campaign last term and hope it will continue.
Hayleigh Barnett
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