27th November 2017 - The Glasgow Guardian



St Andrew’s Day torchlight parade to take place in West End

27th November 2017

Cecilia Rostboell Norberg Writer On Thursday 30 November, a torchlight parade will walk through the West End to celebrate St Andrew’s Day. Organised by the West End Festival, the parade will begin at the Queen Margaret Drive football pitches, where the procession gathers at 6pm. Afterwards it will walk through the West End and end ...


Academic trigger warnings are an act of empathy

27th November 2017

Madelin Otterbein Writer We can’t assume everyone has the same privilege Recently, in a Cambridge undergraduate English literature class, students were issued a “trigger warning” prior to reading William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, a play involving copious amounts of violence, including rape and murder. Other warnings were issued for Blasted, a play by Sarah Kane that ...


Radio 4’s In Our Time broadcasts from University of Glasgow

27th November 2017

Roisin McCarthy Investigations Editor In Our Time has come a long way, quite literally. Students at Glasgow University were offered the chance to come and watch a live broadcast of Melvyn Bragg’s programme as it marked the beginning of its twentieth series. This is the first time the show has ventured outside of London, a ...