Archive for March, 2007

Roses Timetable

by nouse | March 30th, 2007

Sports timetable for Roses weekend

The Mules, Fibbers

by Emma Gawen | March 19th, 2007

Time:Monday, March 26th
Location: Fibbers
Price: £4 on the door (£3 with flyer)
Called ‘Bonkers but brilliant’ by The Guardian, in GQ’s Top 20 bands for 2007, ‘A clattering triumph of carefully managed mayhem’ by Time out and ‘an inventive blast throughout’ by Uncut.
Supported by Stereofire + Redgate

Equator with PRIDE

by Admin | March 14th, 2007

Time: Thursday 15th March, 7.30pm
Location: James JCR
Contact: socs197 (at) york.ac.uk
PRIDE are hosting an equatorial themed party, so don your sombraro’s and head along to James JCR from 7:30 onwards for drink, laughter and unicorn Piñata!! BYOB email: socs197

Battle of the Bands Correction

by nouse | March 13th, 2007

‘Clip the Apex’ were not booed offstage, as we suggested (”B.O.B result in question”, March 6th 2007). The crowd were objecting to the announcement of the result, and the article should have made this clear.

Ents tech correction

by nouse | March 13th, 2007

We wrongly reported that Entstech arrived late to the “Club D Funked” event (”Late arrival of Ents Tech disrupts Club D“, March 6th 2007).

Getting it wrong

by Sam Thomas | March 13th, 2007

In the absence of our fine editor, who is taking a well-deserved break from having to deal with newspaper issues, myself and Emma the web editor have been dealing with the huge amount of feedback we’ve had on the last edition. I suppose it’s a little disappointing in a way that most of it […]

Slavery and anti-slavery lecture

by Admin | March 12th, 2007

Time: Tuesday 13 March 5.30pm
Location: P/L001, Physics
‘Wake! Amakosa, wake!’: the poetry of Thomas Pringle (1789-1834), Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society Professor David Attwell, English and Related Literature

Goodricke: St. Paddy’s Party 2007

by Admin | March 9th, 2007

Come along to the best event of the year…

Time:Thursday, March 15, 2007 at 9pm - 2am
Price: £3.50 in advance in YOUR:SHOP, £4 otd
Contact: ents@goodricke.co.uk
McQ’s from 7 will be turned into a traditional irish pub, featuring some IRISH KARAOKE!
Be there by 10.30 to WIN free drinks at the GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS
CHALLENGE! Lots more freebies to […]

Iain Duncan Smith Talk at York

by Admin | March 9th, 2007

“Social Justice and Policy Making in the 21st Century”
Host: New Generation Society
Time: Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: V/045
Contact:info@n-g-s.org.uk
Rt. Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, the former leader of the Conservative party, will be speaking to the NGS at York.
IDS remains at the centre of the Conservative party’s policy-making process and will have an enormous influence […]

James Goes to Leeds, End of Term Party!

by Emma Gawen | March 9th, 2007

James Loves Leeds!
Time: Monday, March 12, 2007 at 7:30pm
Location: Leeds Oceana
Email: chair@jamescollege.com
The second edition in the James Loves Leeds series….coaches leave under the library bridge at 7.30, and return from Leeds at 3a.m.
£6 tickets, selling location tbc
Will buy you: coach transport, vip access, glass of champange, and q-jump.

Distribution of Nouse sabotaged

by Sam Thomas | March 7th, 2007

Nearly a thousand copies of Nouse were destroyed within an hour of its distribution by people intent on preventing its publication. Stacks of copies were found wedged in bins around campus. The newspaper is investigating all possible means of holding those responsible to account.

The pen, it seems, is mightier than the sword

by Heidi Blake | March 7th, 2007

Drum roll, please. This is the first instalment of the Nouse editorial blog, taking you on a literary journey if not quite to the front line of cutting edge journalism, then at least to a nearby cafe where we can have a nice chat and a cup of tea. Blogs will be posted by […]

Anti-Zionist talk on campus leads to religious flashpoint

by Nicky Woolf | March 6th, 2007

York campus became a centre of religious tension last week as Jewish students from around the country arrived to protest at a lecture given by the controversial Rabbi Aharon Cohen (left) of the anti-Zionist sect Neturei Karta, who has been accused of holocaust denial.

OTC criticised for staging mock execution on exercise

by Jamie Merrill | March 6th, 2007

The York detachment of the British Army’s University Officer Training Corps (UOTC) has faced fierce criticism in recent days for behaviour that has been described as “disgusting and ignorant”.

Porters’ lodges to reopen

by Raf Sanchez | March 6th, 2007

THE UNIVERSITY has announced its intention to reopen closed porters lodges on campus, bringing portering back to the October 2006 service benchmark. The announcement comes in the wake of a number of campaigns by both students and academics, as well as an open letter circulated by Nouse bearing more than 1,400 signatures.