Archive for January, 2009
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The sound of things to come
By Laura Hulley — January 20, 2009
Laura Hulley peers into 2009: will it be all girls, glitter and the end of indentikit indie?
Nouse playlist
By Nouse — January 20, 2009
Laura Hulley: Bloc Party – ‘One Month Off’: Yet another standard Bloc Party single: danceable, likeable, but unnervingly ‘safe’.
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
By Tom Killingbeck — January 20, 2009
Here, in the depths of winter, it’s invigorating and refreshing to hear a record as warm, sunny, and interstellar as Animal Collective’s new offering.
Bon Iver – Blood Bank
By Estella Adeyeri — January 20, 2009
Bon Iver kick-started the new year with their EP Blood Bank, which provides a flawless follow up to their widely acclaimed 2008 album For Emma, Forever Ago, which received 5/5 reviews in MOJO and Uncut.
“If York doesn’t make a success of the next 10-15 years, it will be down to itself”
By Henry James Foy — January 20, 2009
Henry James Foy talks to newly-retired Registrar and Secretary Sally Neocosmos about five years at the heart of Heslington Hall
Balsamic onion and parmesan sausage rolls
By Edward Fisher — January 20, 2009
The French generally find our cuisine either bland or shocking. So when my French bar-mates asked me to make a selection of canapés on more than one occasion, I knew I was on to a veggie winner.
Alley Cats
By Gina Heslington — January 20, 2009
Ceramic cats gaze down at you from the fireplace as you sit in this cottage-kitchen style restaurant and muse at the novelty of this side street peculiarity. Buried down one of York’s many alley-ways, location has to be this venue’s most endearing charm, as food is most definitely not its forte.
The Victoria Pub
By Becky Thumpston — January 20, 2009
With skyrocketing gas bills preventing you from even attempting to heat your poorly insulated and single-glazed student house, the prospect of a snug, warm pub becomes increasingly alluring.
Cantor salary jumps £16,000 as University income rises
By Jim Bulley — January 20, 2009
Recently released financial statements for the year ending July 2008 report a 16% rise in the University’s total income, while Vice-Chancellor Brian Cantor saw his salary increase by almost 8% – twice the rate of inflation.
Further assessment delays lead to Economics criticism
By Laura Connor — January 20, 2009
The Economics department is facing further student criticism this term, after third-year students were told during the Christmas break that their exam scripts had been held up by external examiners
Funding allocations for research universities threatened by cuts
By Laura Connor — January 20, 2009
Results from the recent Research Assessment Exercise that confirm York’s position as one of the top British universities could have considerable influence over the research grants awarded to the university in the coming year.
York top of 1994 Group in RAE results
By Sian Turner — January 20, 2009
The prestigious Russell Group of UK universities have come away with the highest ratings in the recent Research Assessment Exercise.
At a good university, teaching and research are indivisible
By Prof. Alistair Fitter — January 20, 2009
Just before Christmas, we got the first results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and the news was excellent for York.
Courtyard ‘detrimental’ to future of college events
By Clive Pullman — January 20, 2009
Tension between YUSU and college JCRCs looks set to rise after news that the social calendar of the union’s new bar, The Courtyard, is already saturated with planned YUSU events.
Indochine
By Andy Parker — January 20, 2009
I would pay to privately rent this place, but as it happened I got it all to myself. The lack of clients however, was not a reflection of the quality of the food, but more a reflection of the obscurity of its location.
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