Archives for Letters
Response from Andrew Collingwood
In response to your story of 13 February, I would like to reiterate my regret that one of the 246 pictures of York Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s public activities posted to the Facebook group has caused offence.
Toby’s Green credentials
Dear Nouse,
As a long-standing member of University staff, I related to a lot of what Toby Green said and am one of Heike Singleton and Willie Hoedeman’s campus Energy Champions. That does not just mean turning light and equipment switches off. We compost and recycle everything possible.
Jo Birch
A little more rust in the ironwork
In response to Nouse editor Heidi Blake’s weblog, published at http://www.nouse.co.uk/?cat=65
“Crusading student journalists on a valiant expository mission”.
I’ll be honest, I?don’t even understand half of these words.
Here’s one for the Nouse dictionary:?PRETENTIOUS.
“The Stig” (via website)
Nicky Woolf Goes Way Back
The new campus is coming! New buildings! New facilities! New colleges! A massive increase in student body taking student numbers up to an eventual target of 3,000!
No, that was not a mistake. There was a time, back in the halcyon days of free love and flower power, when the campus we may soon be calling ‘old campus’ was brand-new and exciting.
An unfounded ‘racist university’ crusade
Dear Nouse,
I used to have a lot of respect for your newspaper, but your last issue left me exasperated. Your editorial attacked the ’sensationalism’ of a certain rival publication regarding their story about disappearing, potentially fraudulent international students who had used enrollment at the University as an excuse to be allowed into our country.
Resolving cultural rifts
Dear Nouse,
I was saddened to hear that there are international students who have experienced uncomfortable and negative behaviour from York residents.
Star Letter
Dear Nouse,
I was very interested in the article about single parents at the University of York. I am a third year mathematics and education student and I have a five year old son. I have been at the University for the last five years and although I have received a lot of support from my supervisor, it has not been the case from the University itself.
Taking away the ‘tingle’
Dear Nouse,
Oh I’m an old (little bit older) resident of C Block too, and I’m devastated to read this and discover that my old home has bitten the dust!
Trouble in paradise
Dear Nouse,
I am sick to the back-teeth of my flatmates. They are inconsiderate and unhygienic with regards to washing pots, pans and themselves. I have a sneaking suspicion that one of them stole a cape from Medieval Re-enactment Society, and he currently wears it shamelessly round campus.
More please…
Dear Nouse,
I would just like to say how much I enjoyed your last edition of Muse. Nicky Wooolf’s night behind the scenes in Ziggys was a great read and the photos were fantastic. Perhaps though he could return on a Saturday and offer us an extended tour.
Star Letter
Dear Nouse,
All the posters on campus definitely brighten the place up but how much notice is being paid to them by those who make the decisions? I’m not sure, but I would imagine very little.
I think if the students are to win this one then we will need to hit them where it hurts. [...]
The real macaw
Dear Nouse,
Re: Muse, p. 13, under ‘Meet the Bands’. You refer to Vudu Guru’s “manic jungle trumpeting… sounding like a strangled maccaw.”
Correction: It’s manic jungle tromboning. Also, I think ‘maccaw’ is spelt with one ‘c’.
Matt Fuller
“Parrot”, Vudu Guru
Gross intrusions
Dear Nouse,
Why am I recieving unsolicited political emails from a University society (Nouse) to which I do not belong? As a member of a political society on campus I am aware of dire consequences should we so misuse the university email system, apart from the fact that I find it a gross intrusion into my [...]
Isn’t it (meant to be) ironic? Don’t you think?
Dear Nouse,
Does Heidi Blake have any idea what a bone marrow transplant is? Obviously not or she would not publish such rubbish as this:
“He told me he was contacted by a mother who asked him to find a healer for her young son who needed a bone-marrow transplant.
‘I saw with my own eyes the spirit [...]
Star Letter
Dear Sir,
The criticism of the “Chav D” event in the recent article “Stop chavving a laugh” (January 23rd 2007, p. 12) is underpinned by one fundamental, and unfortunately incorrect, assumption. It supposes an equivalence between a relatively new creation, the “chav”, and a much older concept, the “working class”.
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