Fiona Lavelle takes in the Chinese New Year event at the Grand Opera House
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The Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) are culminating a two week intensive program of cultural celebration with the Lunar New Year Gala this Saturday. Taking place in the York Grand Opera House, the event will showcase Si-chuan traditional drama face swapping, Tibetan dancing and Shao-ling Kung Fu among other acts.
As one of the few colleges with a complete JCRC team, Derwent College demonstrates the power of its college spirit yet again. Famed for its themed socials, especially Big D in Summer term, Derwent College has already taken important steps to maintain its reputation.
Foreign forms of identification accepted by immigration officers but not for door staff at the Lowther.
New Vanbrugh College chair, Tahir Shetty has big shoes to fill. Under his predecessor Dani Fill, Vanbrugh saw a successful JCRC direct the college very smoothly. Already criticized by YUSU for the explicit images used to advertise P.O.R.N.O., will Tahir live up to the challenge?
A second year politics and philosophy student was one of the hundreds of demonstrators rounded up by Danish police at the United Nations Climate Change Conference last month. Victim of a new law which allows detention for up to twelve hours without pressing charges, the student was held for seven hours in a cage, simply for being present at a demonstration.
The so-called, “Big Freeze” has set in. With the BBC embarrassed about their prediction of a mild winter” and chaos across the country, here in York, the frozen lake and snow-covered walkways can make campus a dangerous place to be.
New Facebook group “Overheard at York” is quickly becoming a popular medium for sharing embarrassing conversations overheard at the University of York. Students are encouraged to post anonymous anecdotes for the perusal of over one thousand current members.