1st November 2016
Creative Conversations has joined the new trend of weekly lunchtime events circulating Glasgow. Hannan Seyal & Kirsty Hebdon Writers Funded by the Ferguson bequest, Creative Conversations is the brainchild of the University’s creative writing department, headed by Professor Louise Welsh and Colin Herd. It strives to offer the opportunity and space to bring people together. ...
1st November 2016
Charlie Heywood-Heath Writer During her time as Home Secretary, Theresa May made no secret of the fact that she opposed the current visa system that often means overseas students, in her eyes, “overstay their welcome” after graduating. In a post-Brexit climate, May’s endeavours to further her “visa crackdown” sends an intensely negative message to international ...
1st November 2016
Joshua Gualtieri Writer The prodigious BBC Radio 4 debate programme “Any Questions?” was broadcast live from the GUU debating chamber to Radio 4 listeners on Friday 14 October. The panelists debated numerous issues including a Scottish Brexit, a second Referendum on Scottish independence, and the immigration status of foreign students at British universities. Jonathan Dimbleby ...
1st November 2016
Luke Shaw Deputy Culture Editor -Film Gallery spaces can be alien and confusing: full of the disposed contents of the minds of many, they are filled with paintings, photographs, sculptures and screens. Sometimes, in the midst of these alien objects, there are things that appear innately intriguing, or exude the siren call of familiarity. For ...
1st November 2016
Georgina Hayes Writer At the beginning of each semester, students will hear a familiar message from many of their lecturers: “we do not record our lectures, because we feel that you should attend them in person.” The justification for this that students should aim to attend all of their lectures, and to many this seems ...
1st November 2016
Fiona Paterson Writer “Positive discrimination”. It’s a tricky business. Say these two words individually and everybody is fairly content in their understanding of the implications; combine them and watch as people’s faces contort in expression of the sudden argument that springs up inside them. It is exactly this kind of confusion and conflict that can ...
1st November 2016
Agnes Checka Culture Editor Braw Butches, held in Glasgow Women’s Library on the 1 October, was an event celebrating butch identity and female masculinities. Aside from shedding light on the struggles of being a butch woman, it subtextually points towards a bigger problem of representation. BOOTWMN (Paige Gratland, Sam McWilliams, USA/Canada, 2015), a 10 minute ...
1st November 2016
One of the founding clubs of Scottish football, Glasgow University Football Club will celebrate its 140th anniversary next year. John Gorrod Sports Editor Fielding four teams every week – the Ones, Twos, Threes and Under 21s – it is one of the most popular clubs at the university. Stuart Grieve, the head of GUFC, believes ...
1st November 2016
Finished with Netflix’s latest hit? Here are a few things that might pique your interest. Luke Shaw Deputy Culture Editor (Film and TV) Box Set culture has very much been a “thing” for a the best part of a decade now. TV is king, and binge watching is totally acceptable, even desirable. With sights laser ...
1st November 2016
Compulsory sexual consent classes provide neccessary spaces for discussion. Tsveta Rafaylova Writer With the University of Oxford making sexual consent classes compulsory for all new undergraduate students and a number of University of York freshers walking out of theirs, the debate surrounding the usefulness of such workshops on university campuses has become prominent in the ...
