Archives for Jenny O'Mahony
Academics: throw down the text-book and hear this call to arms
Students and academics must work together to rid the University of its new ethical investment problem.
This latest Government mistake may cost them dear next election
The news that York will be prevented from taking on new British students at more than current levels is disheartening after a few good months for the University’s profile.
No child left behind: let’s ensure nursery care for all
As a twenty year-old undergraduate, I have few real responsibilities. Life is blissfully free of concerns beyond my degree and my attempts at holding back the tide of squalor that is always threatening to actually engulf my house.
Do as they say, not as they do
The University’s continued investment in the arms trade tells us more than we might think at first glance
It’s time to put power politics aside
When Anne-Marie Canning took up the YUSU Presidency last year, she spoke emphatically about her desire to improve relations between the Students’ Union and the University.
Student’s film wins four African Oscars
A University of York student has won a prestigious award for his role in a film about cocaine smuggling in Ghana.
Not just emotive rhetoric: a sign of progressive society
The Embryology Bill protects the needs of women and the progress of science.
Video made the political star
Jennifer O’Mahony looks at the students who have harnessed the potential of YouTube as a means of campaigning
Jennifer O’Mahony interviews Sir Crispin Tickell
Jennifer O’Mahony interviews Sir Crispin Tickell on the night of the 2008 Kennedy Lecture
Sir Crispin Tickell on the chances of human survival
Sir Crispin Tickell, the environmentalist and academic, visited the University to deliver the 2008 Kennedy Lecture, hosted by the New Generation Society, on the subject of “Challenges to the Human Future: Prospects and Hazards”. Jenny O’Mahony interviewed him.
Oblivious of our rights and sleepwalking into property contracts
How can we expect landlords to treat us like decent human beings when we act like half-evolved primates?
The Rotters’ Club
Coe’s tendency towards sentimentality and cliché mar the well-developed sense of humour for which he is well known.
Metamorphosis – The Review
Venue: Drama Barn
Rating: * * * * 1/2
Anyone who has read Metamorphosis will tell you that it is one of the most unremittingly bleak pieces of fiction ever written. Imagine my surprise, then, to find that Wright’s production was the catalyst for random bouts of hysterical laughter
Hitch to Morocco fails ratification tests
This year’s Hitch to Morocco will not take place with the backing of YUSU after it was deemed too great a risk to Union liability.
Cuts in funding leave York tutors very well fed
Students at York work to support themselves whilst university staff gorge on our tuition fees.
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