Who checked their email today? If you didn’t, I’d suggest you scroll to the bottom of this post.
Campus, it seems, is too satire-free. Moment of Zen and The Sketch, for years the staple diet of the University’s wit-addicts, are no longer satisfactory. ‘Banal campus news’ is all Vision and Nouse can muster, it appears – [...]

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In the week when campus hacks are buried under essays and exams it’s difficult to find any news to write about. My own exam isn’t until Friday evening, so I’m allowing myself this quick break from the monotony of political theory to take a look at what’s going on with our favorite campus politicians.

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Big D organisers have confirmed that dance act Simian Mobile Disco will headline this year’s event, with support from Scratch Perverts and Utah Saints.

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Star snowboarder Marlies Neuner achieved third place in a field of phenomenal snowsports talent at Alpe D’Huez over the Easter holidays, picking up York’s first-ever BUCS points in a national competition.

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The reason that I started this blog 10 days early was so that I could introduce some of the people that I will be meeting and interviewing whilst in the Middle East.
Unfortunately the mounting pressure of approaching exams has meant that I haven’t been able to justify taking a break to write. Fortunately I [...]

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Tom Scott once famously said that campus as a three-year memory. And he’s right.

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Well what a let down that was. I spent 5 weeks waiting, hoping, watching, refreshing – though I knew McCluskey’s ‘Off for Easter’ story would taunt me throughout – until 00.01 this morning to see the brand spanking new Yorker site . Alas! Where are the ‘exciting new developments’ I was promised?! Such a tease; [...]

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A place in the semi-finals of the qualifying competition for the Futsal FA Cup proper is within reach for York firsts after a 7-5 win over bitter rivals Teeside last night.

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Sports Editor Adam Shergold looks ahead to the coming season for York women’s cricket team.

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The father of missing Goodricke chef Claudia Lawrence has apologised following an unauthorised search of University accommodation by North Yorkshire Police.

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A potential sighting of Claudia Lawrence on the morning after she disappeared has sparked a fresh appeal from North Yorkshire Police

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Welcome, unsuspecting reader, to the first post of “Celebrity Spotting”, a blog intended for some light relief and sarcastic banter aimed towards those bastions of moral conduct, celebrities.

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The search for missing University chef Claudia Lawrence has been upgraded to a murder case by North Yorkshire Police.

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Big plans are underway, OTR hears, for the recently-neglected York University Media Awards. Rory Shanks, campus media lover and YUSU spin merchant, has set his sights on a crowning event for the journos of the Uni.
After last years’ shambolic organisational attempt from Nicky Woolf, who – drunk – was practically ordered to take on the [...]

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The blog will be following my travels in Israel and the Occupied Territories during Weeks 2 & 3.

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