Archive for June, 2006
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L’antica Locanda, 33 The Shambles
By Nouse — June 27, 2006
L’antica Locanda is a restaurant that I have wanted to visit for a while, after being given three good independent recommendations. It is hidden away in the Shambles and also doesn’t look like a restaurant from the outside, but a delicatessen. The small seating area is upstairs, which does offer good views of the street below.
Parties and pizza box furniture
By Toby Green — June 27, 2006
A year on York’s claustrophobic campus is enough for most students who eagerly await moving into a house of their own. Toby Green examines this rite of passage Moving off campus is almost like starting university all over again. After finally getting used to the concrete monstrosities and enjoying the brief summer moments, when campus [...]
Thom Yorke, The Eraser
By Nouse — June 27, 2006
Having complained of the restrictions and boring nature of being in a rock band, Thom Yorke has put his experience with electronic music into an attempt to do something new. The only problem with this project is that this new album is far less original than his work with Radiohead from Kid A onwards.
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Michael Baignet, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln
By Amy Milka — June 27, 2006
It seems the country is gripped with Dan Brown fever. I remember my last few years working in a bookshop, watching The Da Vinci Code fly off the shelves, lamenting every copy of the ill-written, trashy phenomenon. I detest the term “summer reading”.
Endangered species disappear as numbers face ‘total collapse’
By Adam Sloan — June 27, 2006
Adam Sloan meets with Stanley Johnson to talk about his work protecting endangered species
More than 16,000 species worldwide are facing the threat of extinction, primarily as a result of human activity.
For 30 years, Stanley Johnson has been campaining for the protection of endangered species. As an MEP between 1979 and 84, he chaired the European Parliament’s committee on the environment and has since written more than ten books on environmental issues.
Shakespeare in the Park
By Amy Scott — June 27, 2006
Amy Scott braves the turbulent elements for some Shakespeare in the Park , while our book reviewers come up with three summer reading suggestions for the beach
SU President Micky Armstrong
By Micky Armstrong — June 27, 2006
The end of another academic year; a year that has seen trials, tribulations, ups and downs. I hope for all of you that you have enjoyed the highs more than you have endured the lows.
It has been a mixed bag within the YUSU as well, we have faced bar closures, the death of one of our first Presidents, Tony Banks, and assessment boycotts, but managed to implement the most vital changes that the Union has seen in its forty year history. Many of you may remember the late night executive meetings over the ‘do they or don’t they’ abstention debate and if some of you thought that officers of the Union were the protagonists, you would be wrong.
Impact of high student usage
By Heidi Blake — June 27, 2006
Energy figures for the year 2004/5 obtained by Nouse show students on campus play a key part in the over-use of energy at the University, and in the generation of harmful emissions. Of the total gas, water and electricity used at the University that year, 33% was used in campus residences. Campus residents alone were [...]
Small, boring and cliquey: why I will miss the University of Dork
By Rebecca Gower — June 27, 2006
I reckon that I’m probably in the minority when I say that I’ve found finishing my degree to be a profoundly depressing experience. It’s down to various reasons, not least the fact that while I had work to do, there was a routine to my life, and I feel rather bereft without it: I woke [...]
United 93
By Nouse — June 27, 2006
Director: Paul Greengrass
With: Christian Clemenson, Trish Gates
Runtime: 91 minutes
This generation will, perhaps, never see an event which can affect the global conciousness as much as the events of 9/11. So shaken was the world by what transpired and so raw were the feelings created, that it has taken almost 5 years for anyone to feel comfortable enough to attempt a dramatisation of that day.
Israeli universities face boycott
By Claire Yeo — June 27, 2006
Claire Yeo looks at the proposed boycott of Israeli insitutions by university teaching unions
It has been relatively under-reported that many of our university lecturers have been actively engaging in an academic boycott targeted against the state of Israel.
Monkey Retorts
By Letters — June 27, 2006
Having read the recent article by Flora Bradwell regarding ‘the joys of alcohol and its place in university life’. I felt it necessary to clear up a few issues on behalf of Fact Monkey. The Social Norms campaign is not intended to jolt students into abstemious living, but to counteract the image of the borderline-alcoholic, hedonistic lifestyle so diligently portrayed via all forms of media. The message of the campaign is clear: the majority of students manage to drink without causing harm to themselves or to others.
It’s your last chance to…
By Rachel Ringstead — June 27, 2006
After years of frequenting the library and Ziggy’s, post-degree life can seem daunting. Rachel Ringstead looks at how to get the most out of your last few days at university, and ease into real life There are many things that a person should do when they finish their degree. However, once the basics have been [...]
York’s thriving local arts scene
By Amy Blackmore and Kirran Shah — June 27, 2006
Hidden amongst the the tacky tourist shops, York harbours a number of more original artistic activities. Kirran Shah and Amy Blackmore explore the options York City is packed with endless sights and attractions; it is possible to spend a week, never mind a day, browsing the galleries and not to see everything. In a search [...]
The Who, Live at the University Refectory, Leeds
By Toby Green — June 27, 2006
After nearly forty years, The Who have returned to Leeds. They were playing at the University’s Refectory, the site at which their seminal Live at Leeds album was recorded, which is regarded by many as the best live album ever. Surviving members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, together with their band, which included Ringo Starr’s son, Zak Starkey, played a set full of hits to an intimate crowd to kick off their national tour.
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