Archive for December, 2009

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Christmas away from home

Liv Evans investigates life over the holidays for international students

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Party on in the new dresses

Sequins and embellishments return in full gusto, constellations and panels provide a new take on all over glitz

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Photograph by George LowtherMid-season Review – Hockey

As the BUCS season reaches its half-way point, Adam Shergold evaluates how the university hockey teams have performed so far

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The End of Term Report

As the year comes to a close, so too does a term of BUCS league action. Leigh Clarke and Adam Shergold look at a selection of York clubs and assess how they have fared so far

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Video: YSTV Roundup 3

YSTV Roundup Episode 3 http://ystv.york.ac.uk/watch/Round-Up/ Produced by York Student Television, released under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license

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The reluctant colonialist

Has the British Empire really ended? Laura Connor investigates whether student NGOs perpetuate colonialist ideology

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Photograph by Sam NewsomeThe Mixer

Emily Scott goes dancing, the college football mystery man is revealed and the verdict on College Rugby

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Henry James Foy

Ponder this. Two Russians are walking down a street in Moscow. One is the father of the other’s son. My question: how are they related

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A campus culture of drinking is at serious risk of extinction

Finally, we have our own miniature Carnage to fret over

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Photograph by Sam NewsomeWe can blame a lot of things on York Sport, the weather is not one of them

It is frustrating that this year’s College League Competition has been so badly affected by weather. A number of mouth-watering fixtures have been called off with little possibility of being played unless the competition is extended well into the Christmas holidays. It is incredibly disappointing, especially as the league was building up to a tense [...]

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Social Pariah

*Outside Vanbrugh paradise – it is cold, and wet, and visibility is cruel for a sleepy, squinty, moley little creature like myself, scuttling on my way home… * Cradling my laptop, dark chocolate Bounty in mouth, I glimpse my hip and trendy DJ chum Nik heading off into the distance… “Nik!” I call. No reply. [...]

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Gender agenda: why men deserve consideration too

While issues of women’s inequality have long been rife, men’s welfare issues are at risk of being overlooked

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A warning sign from inside the abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal India. The factory lies derelict 25 years after the disaster [David Graham]Forgotten people of Bhopal still suffering

A new report by the Bhopal Medical Appeal (BMA) has found that groundwater in the Indian city of Bhopal is contaminated

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So-called life: Liam O’Brien

Though its significance may escape (or probably disinterest) you, you are currently staring at the pages of New MUSE. As I write, I am all too aware of this column’s placement on M4, described in some circles – and not without due cause – as ‘The Black Hole’. Deciding upon how best to avoid a [...]

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University of York Clay Pigeon Shooting Club

Sports Editor Adam Shergold spends an afternoon with one of York’s newest clubs, who in just two terms have grown from humble beginnings to target national success

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