As momentous announcements go, the news that the University’s expansion plans are going ahead can be filed firmly under foregone conclusions. All the indications were that the path had been cleared for a new campus and that the bureaucratic hurdles in the way were largely formalities.

There are plenty of bad arguments being made against the University’s Heslington East venture. Take, for example, the argument for the preservation of old trees. The Heslington Parish Council is concerned about ‘three particularly important ancient lime trees’ whose future is threatened by alterations to the road network. Worse tragedies have befallen the nation.

The University must moderate financial decisions with humane judgement.

What links Petrochina and BAE Systems? The University of York has invested in both.

Easing the ecological burden of our carbon footprints.

You all know what they say about men with big feet. Large shoes? Roomy socks?

Last year, the University of York received £1145 from the council for recycling waste. This money (£5 per tonne of waste recycled) is an incentive provided by the council to increase recycling.

Yet, rather than rejoicing at the recycling of a whopping 229 tonnes of waste, we are forced to ask the question: where is this money?

The new campus is coming! New buildings! New facilities! New colleges! A massive increase in student body taking student numbers up to an eventual target of 3,000!

No, that was not a mistake. There was a time, back in the halcyon days of free love and flower power, when the campus we may soon be calling ‘old campus’ was brand-new and exciting.

Dear Nouse,

I used to have a lot of respect for your newspaper, but your last issue left me exasperated. Your editorial attacked the ’sensationalism’ of a certain rival publication regarding their story about disappearing, potentially fraudulent international students who had used enrollment at the University as an excuse to be allowed into our country.

Dear Nouse,

I was saddened to hear that there are international students who have experienced uncomfortable and negative behaviour from York residents.

This week: The monumental battle of the University Titans

An anonymous mole from the panelled corridors of Heslington Hall reports a bitter feud between the University’s Chancellors, Vice and Dyke.

For four years, the government of Sudan and rebel groups have been engaged in a bloody conflict affecting 4.5 million people in the Darfur region of Sudan.

According to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), some 400,000 people have died in Darfur since 2003.

Sean Bucci, a man jailed by the Boston Police Department for the possession of drugs, has taken revenge on his undercover police informant by setting up the website whosarat.com.
The online database, where members can post the name and description of a known ‘snitch’ or ‘rat’, reveals the identity of the individual publicly; either in a written document or in conversation.

Anjli Raval and Jenny O’Mahony speak to Lord Anthony Giddens, academic and political advisor, about politics after the Blairite regime.

“What is the difference between Tony Blair and God? God does not think he is Tony Blair.” This was how Anthony, Lord Giddens—leading academic in Sociology and advisor to Tony Blair—began his lecture.

Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen was the focus of a conference hosted by the PEP club on the theme of ‘Identity, Community and Justice’ at the King’s Manor on May 23 and 24. Sen’s ideas on the subject were brought forward as a starting point for discussion, with leading academics invited to speak. In addition to Professor Sen, the list included Professors Akeel Bilgrami, Kaushik Basu, David Miller and Lord Bhikhu Parekh.