24th September 2012
Craig Angus Did you wake up today and think ‘holy fuck, where did the last few years go?’ Well I did, and yesterday, and the day before. Not to worry though; the quarter-life crisis is as common as it’s sister crisis – the famous (or should that be infamous?) mid-life crisis. Young folks all over ...
14th September 2012
Oliver Milne Travel Dublin, a tourist board official may inform you, is closer than you think. Flights from Scotland take less than an hour. Ryanair fly from Prestwick to Dublin Airport multiple times a day and if booked sufficiently in advance at ludicrously cheap prices. If you prefer to drive or cycle, ferrys cross regularly ...
13th September 2012
Oliver Milne Razvan Balaban, the SRC’s Vice President for Learning & Development, was booed by GUU Freshers’ Helpers at Monday morning’s Freshers’ Address. Balaban – whose role as V-P L&D is to ensure a successful Freshers’ Week – was booed during his speech at the event which is attended by all the student body presidents, ...
12th September 2012
David Robertson 29 gold, 17 silver and 19 bronze – it was quite an Olympics for Team GB. With medal winners from every corner of the United Kingdom, London 2012 will be remembered as the Olympics when athletes overcame statistics, history and personal hoodoos to lift Team GB to third in the medal table behind two ...
10th September 2012
Eryn Katsikea “For a long time nothing, and suddenly one has the right eyes” – R. M. Rilke Meditation is a peculiar thing. It is a breathing exercise, a little like a concentration exercise but really none of those things. It is a practice of mindfulness, that is to say a state of mental hypersensitivity, ...
10th September 2012
Kate Hole Calling all freshers lazing around hungover, rising only from your slumberous pits to moan of how you are, indeed, ‘sooooo hungover’. Yes, you’ve left home and found your freedom, but while you you’re making the most of that, make sure you don’t miss out on getting involved in clubs, societies and opportunities at the ...
9th September 2012
Emma Baxter Founded in 1867, Glasgow University Boat Club is one of the oldest, and most prestigious, sports clubs at the university. Fast-forward to the recent Olympics held in London and rowing has proved itself, once again, to be at the pinnacle of British sport. In the past ten years GUBC has produced athletes that have ...
8th September 2012
Joseph Trotter Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3 PEGI: 18+ Release: 31st August Developer: Team 17 Publisher: Mastertronic Worms have a pretty crappy existence. Chased by moles, harried by birds, torn by children, they are nature’s whipping boys despite allegedly being able to live on once split in two. Although they have fared better in the world ...
5th September 2012
Jassy Earl The term ‘boutique’ has been chucked around the press so vehemently in the past few years its difficult to really know what it means. Every year audiences are heading for a rapidly proliferating multitude of small, intimate festivals set in the valleys, woodland clearings and lake edges of the countryside to soak up ...
4th September 2012
Oliver Milne Student’s debt to the University has hit £3.8 million as the Uni introduces debt repayment plans and sends thousands of emails demanding cash from students who owed nothing. According to the minutes of a meeting of the University’s Finance Committee on the 30th of May, at that time 2,370 students were in debt ...