1st February 2010
James Maxwell takes a disorientating New Year’s trip around three of Japan’s biggest cities A re-routed trip after my Amsterdam transfer was cancelled. 26 hours on three planes, from Glasgow to Dubai (where they have palm-trees in the waiting lounges) Monday morning, to Seoul airport on a baking Tuesday evening and arriving finally in Tokyo’s ...
1st February 2010
Harry Tattersall Smith When Rhona Martin cast the immortal stone that gifted Britain an Olympic gold medal, not only did it signify our first Winter Games victory since 1984, it rejuvenated a society disgruntled by the omnipresent image of the Adonis Athlete. The triumphant curling team of 2002 resembled more a gaggle of jovial housewives ...
1st February 2010
James Lush Glasgow University Tennis Club enters 2010 with the men’s first team on the verge of a place in the BUCS Premier North division, where they will face the likes of Loughborough, Manchester and Stirling. Following an unremarkable 08/09 season which was blighted by injuries and the decimation of the previous team following graduation, ...
1st February 2010
Joe Mclean gets spiritual as he learns to fight with body and soul with the Kempo club Not all martial arts are the same you know — take it from me, I now have personal experience. They may sound alike and even dress the same, but they are fundamentally different. Upon my arrival at the ...
1st February 2010
Clare Toner Glasgow University Hockey Club took a giant step towards promotion after a gruelling victory against fierce rivals East Kilbride Avondale in a pulsating match at the Garscube. Glasgow looked like they would have to settle for a draw, but Harry Tattersall Smith lashed in a late winner to snatch a crucial victory. With an ...
1st February 2010
Biomedical research receives $3m Gates grant Glasgow University has been given a $3million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to further the development of research into sleeping sickness disease. The sum will be used to develop new models to test the ability of drugs to treat the fatal disease — also known as ...
1st February 2010
With a general election looming, Craig MacLellan looks to the future with Secretary of State for Scotland, Jim Murphy MP When people asked me what kind of child I was like at school, I liked to pretend that I was a rebel. Alas though, I was a very well behaved wee boy — a teacher’s ...
1st February 2010
Nick Sikora Six members of University staff have been recognised in this year’s New Year’s Honours list, being awarded two CBEs, two OBEs and two MBEs, respectively. CBEs were awarded to Professor Peter Kennedy, head of the University’s Clinical Neurosciences division, and Professor Karen Vousden, Director of the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, who both ...
1st February 2010
Anna Murray Two senior directors at the Student Loans Company (SLC) have resigned following a damning external report into the problems encountered in the last year. Wallace Gray, information and communications technology director, and Martin Herbert, marketing and customer services director, both resigned their posts at the end of December. The report, which examined the ...
1st February 2010
Daniel Stern & Jonathan Pryce The Guardian offers a taster of the city’s newest street style blog, Les Garçons de Glasgow. Glasgow, famous for its shopping, fashion and experimental style, has had one thing missing til now – something that every other self-respecting city from Tokyo to Tel Aviv, from Berlin to Barcelona has. Can you guess ...
