Articles by Nicky Woolf

Muse Editor (2007/08)
Nicky has written 72 articles for Nouse


Fusion: In Motion – Preview

This year’s Fusion: In Motion takes the world of cinema as its starting-point. Split loosely into sections such as Horror, Romance and Sci-Fi, the show combines modelling and choreographed posing with a wide variety of dancing, from tap and ballroom to breakdancing, robots and Soulja-boy’s.

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Sweet plan, idiot

I can see exactly how it happened. It would have been in the YUSU office, about 2:15 in the morning.

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Sweet Charity

Their music merged seamlessly with the complex and ambitious choreography of Sarah Betteridge to create a show that both sounded and looked extremely professional.

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Anonymous: Inside the war on Scientology

A mysterious online collective known only as ‘Anonymous’ has declared war on the Church of Scientology. Nicky Woolf tracks them down to find out why, and how.

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How to buy a used car

Buying a car doesn’t have to be expensive or even much hard work. Venetia Raineyn and Nicky Woolf drive you down the road of chassis numbers, engines and MOTs.

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Election Sketch

As the candidates hoist their sails and begin their manoeuvring, the electorate prepare for another swashbuckling, colourful-poster-fest of an election campaign.

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The Maids – Preview

On paper, Sally Daniel and Anna Pinkstone’s production of The Maids had all the ingredients of a comic farce.

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Sweet Charity

Sweet Charity is the Central Hall Musical in York this year. Nouse caught up with some of the cast for a chat. Nouse: What is Sweet Charity about, and what makes it special? Michael Slater (Director): What makes Sweet Charity special is that it’s an incredibly rich mixture of song, dance and music. You tend [...]

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Mark Collett, Stormfront and Facebook: Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century

Nicky Woolf investigates the ways in which anti-Semitism has adapted to the post Holocaust, post September 11 age of Facebook, White Supremacy forums like Stormfront and BNP activists like Mark Collett.

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Yes

Yes, it is a lot of money. We pay £36,000 for the privilege of NUS membership, a membership which, on the face of it, doesn’t mean much more than an expensive, fairly pointless ID card and a lot of dull press-releases on purple-headed letter-paper. But those are not the real things that the NUS does [...]

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James Cromwell: King Lear, Babe and the Black Panthers

Actor, activist and self-styled philosopher James Cromwell has starred in everything from 24 to Shakespeare. Nicky Woolf talks to the man himself about bringing the Bard to life and fighting for justice for the innocent, whether human or porcine

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Going undercover with a cover girl

The glamorous, jet-set world of international modelling is one far removed from the tribulations of student life. Or is it? Nicky Woolf talks to someone who has found a way to balance both and stay sane

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New clubs and bars to be built at Barbican

Building work on a new club, bar and restaurant development at the Barbican centre in Fishergate is due to begin on December 4.

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Debate: Should we stay or should we go?

Is NUS affiliation really all it’s cracked up to be? And can it possibly be worth £32,000 a year? Nicky Woolf and Francis Boorman debate what we ought to do…

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Freshers? Nuts, all of ’em

Freshers’ fury Professor Cantor made a big mistake; it would be calmer in Iraq than here. A plague has descended upon this place. There are hundreds, nay, thousands of freaky little fresher-things running around messing up the place with their parents and their trolleys of luggage and their beer packets and their vodka cans and [...]

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