Archive for June, 2009
The Nouse Top 50
We asked students who they thought had made an outstanding contribution to life on campus this year, and received a record number of nominations. We have put them together here in the hope of giving mention to those people whose contribution to York deserves recognition.
Global Focus
The Nouse Politics Team take you through the latest happenings in the world.
Henry James Foy
What will undoubtedly win through is inaction, leaving us all £300 out of pocket, and giving the new tenants something other than their ogre-like new landlord to worry about
Will Heaven
Time to leave Neverland
God, it’s happened. By the time you read this column in Nouse – my last for this newspaper, by the way – I will have my degree result. Yes, I have sweated my way to Langwith College, clutching my library card. I have jostled with other terrified third years, scanning the noticeboard [...]
The XY chromosome: the editor
God this is going to be a FIT edition. You can just tell, there’s so much energy in this room (admittedly most of it’s coming from me, but no matter), that with some fucking dedication and teamwork we’re going to make some magic. It’s all about that whiteboard, page, tick, page, tick, and I [...]
Charlotte Hogarth-Jones: Social pariah
“OMG you’re like soooo blind!” “I know, please take my glasses off, you’ll make the screws fall out.” “No wayyyy mannn this is SO WEIRD. So like, can you not see me now?” *thrusts moist palm dangerously close to my lovely soft face* I dodge the lurching hand, simultaneously resisting the urge to snatch back [...]
Performance aesthetics
Every time I have cyber sex I crease up
This morning at 5am I was still on Facebook surveying my options. Why are all the boys here so small? I had gone through the entire football, rugby and rowing firsts looking for something sporty, to galvanise me out of my relationship with my sanguine, colourless boyfriend. [...]
The BNP
The BNP’s election to the European Parliament was met with nearly universal outrage. Holly Thomas talks to Labour MP Ann Cryer, BNP Candidate Ken Booth and a BNP member at the University of York to find out how it happened
Drawing on experiences: Karrie Fransman
Henry James Foy talks to the up-and-coming cartoonist about her comic life
Living in Harsh Times
Liam O’Brien interviews Jodie Harsh about her endeavours in the world of London celebrity
Political Edge
In terms of Commons chit-chat, this is pretty groundbreaking stuff…
Modafinil: the new wonder drug?
A pill that makes you super-productive, and sleep comletely redundant. Is there a catch? Holly Thomas and Tom Hobohm talk to students who’ve tried it
Blunkett: “A new type of politics”
David Blunkett was a controversial Home Secretary under Tony Blair. Peter Campbell meets him to talk about Parliament after the next general election and how politics needs to be changed in the future.
“He was the soundtrack to my life”
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