Archives for Toby Green
Access all areas?
For students with mobility issues, accessibility is central to their university experience, as Toby Green discovers
Archbishop speaks on BAE
The Archbishop of York has spoken of his concern that the University’s investment in BAE Systems and Petrochina could prevent academic research “from being open to the truth”.
University reveals smoking policy
College provosts and Heads of Departments have been given the “legal responsibility” of policing the smoking ban by the University, despite receiving no specific guidelines on how to deal with those that break the law and being warned that if they fail to do so adequately, they will be “exposed to possible legal proceedings”.
The unwanted gift of the gag
Former editor of Nouse Toby Green revisits the vexed topic of YUSU’s muddled media charter
In June 2004, three University of York students attacked fellow student James Pullen in Vanbrugh Bar during the campus music festival Woodstock. Only a couple of months before, a University of York Students’ Union officer had bottled another student in Ziggy’s [...]
The real ‘Ethical Man’
When I was preparing to meet John Cossham on a hot day in May, the last thing I would have expected to see on first entering his house would have been a blazing fire. Tales of composting toilets and appearances on Newsnight with the Ethical Man had led me to believe that this would be a man that would put any of my paltry efforts to live a green life firmly in the shade.
Living green: on a mission to reduce my carbon footprint
Living a ‘low-carbon’ life is the green brigade’s latest idea on how individuals can help halt climate change. Toby Green spends a week trying to limit his carbon emissions to see whether he can make a difference – without breaking the bank
Do too many games spoil the sport?
Complaining about the amount of games in a football season has traditionally been the domain of grumpy old men. Priced out of watching their boyhood team and replaced on the terraces by a bunch of overpaid bankers from the City, they sit in their locals and grumble into their bitters about how the game has changed since the days when they used to watch players such as Stanley Matthews tearing down the wings.
Heslington East gets go ahead
The University of York has been given the go ahead for the controversial Heslington East campus expansion by government minister Ruth Kelly.
Ricky Gervais, you big bully
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are a dream comic team. Toby Green finds out how they get their kicks off-screen.
Football Mens 1sts
York 0 – Lancaster 1
Ten-man Lancaster claimed a hard-fought 1-0 victory in a tense and often fraught affair as Roses 2007 drew to a close.
Although York had already been announced as overall victors, it was a nervous atmosphere and the weight of expectation was reflected in the early exchanges as both sides looked [...]
A proper old-fashioned feel-good event
This weekend has been my first experience of Roses, a fact I’m slightly embarrassed about. Having been too apathetic to attend any games in my first year, and not being involved enough in either the coverage or the playing of last year’s event to warrant travelling to Lancaster, I was surprised by how much the [...]
Toby Green: Drastic measures needed to curb fights
It may come as no surprise to learn this, but as a Tottenham fan the Carling Cup ruckus has pushed its way up to the top of my table of most enjoyable moments of the season, which is more a damning indictment of Spurs’ season than any particular fight-fetish on my part.
Scraping the barrel: why is football cursed with insipid commentators?
We all have our favourite bad commentary quote, an art mastered by the genius that is David Coleman. A God among men, he furnished the bland and generic landscape of sports commentary with such gems as “here’s Moses Kiptanui, the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago”
Campus bars remain in threat of closure
THE HEAD of Commercial Services, Jon Greenwood, has made a plea to students to return to campus bars after a recent downturn has left them running on a deficit. Despite the implementation of the Model 29+ plan in October, under which the seven campus bars are closed for a total of 20 nights over a week, they are still not meeting running costs as a group.
Praying for recognition
Gay Christians have to fight prejudice on two fronts, forced to defend both their sexuality and their religious views. Toby Green explores the issues being played out on campuses, and discovers a group trying to challenge widespread assumptions.
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