13th February 2013
Rory Ogden Director Pablo Larrain’s latest work ‘No!’ documents the events immediately preceding the landmark 1988 Chilean plebiscite, which would ultimately lead to the first democratically elected Chilean government in 17 years. The referendum called for the people of Chile to mandate their incumbent leader, Augusto Pinochet with a further 10 years in office, or ...
13th February 2013
Tom Eaton Quentin Tarantino has always had a knack for mixing genre motifs into unlikely new forms. His latest fad seems to be for historical “Retribution-Fantasy”, transposing a sort of Alien vs. Predator paradigm to the goodies and baddies of the most sensitive historical subjects out there. Django Unchained picks up where the Nazis vs. Jews ...
13th February 2013
David Robertson Happy birthday, English Football Association. The governing body for football in England celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2013. As part of the celebrations, Wembley and Stamford Bridge will host the UEFA Champions League and Women’s Euro Finals and England will play friendly matches against Brazil, the Republic of Ireland and, for the first ...
13th February 2013
Conor Macgregor Roll out the red carpet, tighten the bow ties and take your seats. The 9th Annual Glasgow Film Festival is on the horizon, and this year is set to be its biggest festival yet. In a press launch on the 16th of January, co-directors of the festival Alison Gardner & Allan Hunter announced the line up ...
10th February 2013
Sam Wigglesworth The SRC recently hosted a ‘We Can Stop It’ campaign event, a campaign created by Strathclyde police to change attitudes towards rape, at its annual Welfare Week. The campaign aims to encourage people to start taking responsibility for learning about rape conviction rates and change attitudes towards victim responsibility of rape. It also ...
7th February 2013
Hannah McNeill & Claire Diamond The library at Glasgow University made over £90,000 in library fines between September 2011 and December 2012. Only 3.8% of this money was used to replace lost books. This statistic has come to light after a Guardian (The important national one. Not us – Ed) investigation revealed that 101 of ...
7th February 2013
Sam Wigglesworth The Student’s Representative Council (SRC), in December, took a vote to sign a petition which aimed to remove The Sun‘s page 3. The campaign is run through the website change.org, and is asking Dominic Moran to “drop the bare boobs” from The Sun newspaper and to “stop showing pictures of young women in Britain’s most widely ...
7th February 2013
Bethany Robb Car parts and bike retailer Halfords has struck a deal with the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) to become the first private sector organisation to host cost-effective, practical driving tests, with a hope to carry out said tests on university campuses. Young drivers and students are increasingly frustrated with the long waiting lists for ...
7th February 2013
Louise Wilson Strathclyde police have once more issued a warning to those using cash machines in the West End, following evidence of various machines being tampered with. A student from Glasgow University recently contacted the SRC after a cash machine they had tried to use had devices attached to it. An iPod had been set ...
7th February 2013
Bethany Robb Kathryn Stevenson Recent research has revealed that using social networking websites could be detrimental to graduate job prospects if ‘inappropriate’ photographs appear on pages, with the infiltration of potential employers to the media realm. One in five bosses have dismissed an applicant because graduates have displayed drunken photos on their social media profiles. ...
