Unfortunate management students might be forgiven for not appreciating it, but there’s something touchingly ironic about a department that hopes to train the movers and shakers of the future, yet appears to have little idea what its lecturers are getting up to. A business guru with even the shakiest credentials could surely diagnose some serious [...]

Once is an unfortunate mistake, but twice is downright careless. Students have sent clear and repeated messages that they do not want sweatshop-made clothes being sold by their Union, and have voted to pass a Sweatshops and Ethical Merchandise policy to this effect. And yet once again, it appears that Union officers are interested in [...]

Our exclusive interview this edition with Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Cantor provides a rare insight into the opinions of a man who, despite remaining firmly behind the scenes, exercises more power in this University than anyone else, not only over its day-to-day running but its long-term future. As the chief architect of the Heslington East [...]

Each edition of Nouse makes its way to print only through the Herculean efforts of a huge number of people, and this has never been truer than for this edition, by far the most ambitious the newspaper has attempted in over forty years of publication. It therefore seems particularly appropriate to acknowledge the efforts of [...]

We can’t allow the University to disenfranchise us by barring sabbatical officers from their boardroom

Has anyone else noticed the changes currently challenging our otherwise comfy university existence?

Failings in the management department are symptomatic of a wider trend towards machine education

The results of the Student Satisfaction survey are in, and conclude — in a fantastic case of understatement — that Management is ‘needing improvement’. This will come as no suprise to the most students, with Management notorious for contact time of “two hours a week on average’.

Playground fights aren’t the way for religious societies to spread the word.

Imagine this scene. In a school playground, two young boys are fighting. One’s Muslim, the other Christian. After ending the scrap, a teacher recieves this explanation: “Miss”, cries the Muslim boy, “he said my religion’s based on lies and that I will go to Hell when I die!”

This week:?Even the fittest ducks have feelings

I know I’m unique an’ all, but I don’t feel like I ‘fit’ in anymore. Once upon a time there were two of us ruddys. We could have taken over the world with our offspring; mini golden ducks could have horded the banks of the lake, grouped in clans of sparkling feathers.

There’s more to life than left and right

I am not a fan of small spaces. It’s not a phobia, but I can’t easily be lured into areas that restrict my movement. Lifts and I have had a somewhat turbulent relationship, and it is a rare occasion that I can be coaxed into one.

Pond dwellers, porters and ‘racist’ universities: the devil’s advocate-eye view on a year of controversy

Journalists are the lowest form of pond life. This is not an exercise in puritanical self-abasement: I absolutely mean what I say. We whinge, we pick holes, we are often inexcusably self-righteous.

YUSU’s shabby ethical policy shows some things merit saying more than once

So why exactly does Nouse find itself repeating the same stories ad nauseam? Why is there yet another piece about the ethical implications of T-shirts or security on campus?

Someone has to play the straight man on campus, and it might as well be us

I am writing this on my recycled, sustainably sourced hemp computer, sporting my favourite “Save the Dolphins” T-shirt as a pile of bras smoulders quietly in a corner.

Nouse would be a lot less fun without its cheeky little brother

Vision and Nouse, as many people on campus may be aware, are bitter rivals. Nouse call Vision a contemptible tabloid, Vision pun our name into NoUse. Nouse call Vision insensitive and clumsy, they call us boring hypocrites.

You’ve heard from Nouse’s writers. But what about the other 10,000 of you??We sent our intrepid Features Editor to find out what campus had to say about our efforts this year.

From what my spies – sorry, sources – have been telling me, Nouse has built up something of a reputation for itself on campus. Apparently, I’m told, as well as having opinions about the stories inscribed on the pages of this ‘ere university rag, our readers also make judgements about those of us that wield the pen.

Former editor of Nouse Toby Green revisits the vexed topic of YUSU’s muddled media charter
In June 2004, three University of York students attacked fellow student James Pullen in Vanbrugh Bar during the campus music festival Woodstock. Only a couple of months before, a University of York Students’ Union officer had bottled another student in Ziggy’s [...]