Articles by Raf Sanchez
Editor (2007/08)
Raf has written 85 articles for Nouse
Brown will find a way to Labour on
By Raf Sanchez — June 9, 2009
By all accounts Gordon Brown is clinging to power by his chomped-down fingernails
A father’s grief
By Raf Sanchez — May 12, 2009
For seven agonising weeks Peter Lawrence, father of missing chef Claudia, has fought to keep his daughter’s disappearance in the news. Raf Sanchez meets him
Police search for two Asian men as hunt for Claudia enters eighth week
By Raf Sanchez — May 12, 2009
Police are looking for two Asian men allegedly trying to open the door of missing University chef Claudia Lawrence’s house a week before her disappearance.
Roses 2009 LIVE: Friday
By Henry James Foy, Adam Shergold, Criss Noice, Raf Sanchez, Dan Hyde and Sian Turner — May 8, 2009
Live coverage of the opening day of Roses 2009
‘Find Claudia’ website launched
By Raf Sanchez — May 2, 2009
The father of missing University chef Claudia Lawrence has launched a new website appealing for information about her disappearance.
Police appeal to Asian students to solve murder enquiry
By Raf Sanchez — April 15, 2009
Police have appealed to Asian students to help identify the body of a murder victim dumped in a canal.
Vision needs to face facts: they don’t use any
By Raf Sanchez — March 10, 2009
An unattractive habit of mumbling is developing in Vision’s opinion pages.
Bushby forced to abandon ‘no salary’ pledge
By Raf Sanchez — February 27, 2009
The presidential candidate has been forced to drop a promise to not accept a salary if elected following a ruling that the policy would be “social bribery”.
Marriage of convenience for the GSA
By Raf Sanchez — February 10, 2009
It has by any standards been a rough year for the Graduate Students’ Association (GSA). Of three sabbatical officers elected in the summer, two resigned before even taking up their posts, leaving a beleaguered Internal Officer to run the organisation single-handedly, organise fresh elections and salvage her PhD
We must redress the balance in our charter
By Raf Sanchez — January 20, 2009
The YUSU Media Charter, which sets out the relationship between campus media and the Union, is a document much maligned but also much misunderstood. At its core, as with most things, is money. All campus media outlets are heavily reliant on the Union for funding.
Skin Deep
By Raf Sanchez — January 20, 2009
Skin Deep is an operetta written by British comedy-heavyweight Arnando Iannucci (The Day Today, In the Thick of It). His target is the (arguably already over-satirised) world of Hollywood and plastic surgery
Graduate Student Association in ‘chaos’
By Raf Sanchez — November 25, 2008
The Acting President of the Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) has admitted the organisation is in “chaos” after University officials intervened to force it to rerun its October elections, following high numbers of complaints.
Society budgets slashed after ‘closed-door’ YUSU meeting
By Raf Sanchez and Anjli Raval — October 29, 2008
Campus societies have accused YUSU of “closed-door decision making” after budgets were cut dramatically last term.
Raf Sanchez
By Raf Sanchez — October 16, 2008
Nouse‘s Editor has his say In case you haven’t noticed, things in the world aren’t going that well. Every day the photo editors of national papers struggle for some new way to illustrate the scale of human suffering caused by the credit crunch. “A distraught stock broker bursting into tears as he realizes he’s out [...]
So what did you do over the summer?
By Raf Sanchez — October 15, 2008
The summer is normally a time for rest and relaxation, but these York students show us that there’s a world of opportunity avaliable to young people


