21st November 2017
Zara Ali Writer Scotland’s most comprehensive study of hate crime against LGBTQ+ people found 60% have been the victim of hate crime multiple times, and 20% have experienced it more than ten times. The report on the survey of 1,445 people in Scotland was published by the Equality Network, a national charity working for LGBTQ+ ...
21st November 2017
Rachael Bunyan Reporter The University of Glasgow launched a Mental Health Action Plan in October in response to the escalating mental health services crisis at the University. In response to rising levels of mental health issues among staff and students, the Mental Health Action Plan is designed to provide support to all staff and students ...
21st November 2017
Alice Tully Contributor A thousand-odd people are here to see Vulfpeck, and the 02 ABC is almost buzzing. The atmosphere is tangible as the crowd waits for their favourite Michigan-based funk group to take the stage. The lights dim. Someone doing an impression of Hollywood’s favourite voice-over artist Redd Pepper takes a mic, booming each ...
20th November 2017
Jess Simpson Deputy Culture Editor – Books Fans of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy have a lot to be excited about this coming month with the release of the first instalment of his companion trilogy The Book of Dust. The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage has been hotly anticipated since Pullman revealed ...
20th November 2017
Amy Shimmin Writer Amy Shimmin highlights the significance of diversity in relation to the University’s Equality Champions Whenever representation is discussed, I can’t help but remember Whoopi Goldberg recounting the moment she first saw Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek. Her elation has since been quoted many times: “‘Come quick, there’s a black lady on television ...
19th November 2017
Adam Nicholson Deputy Culture Editor – Film My nature, being a trifle romantic and tinged with a little pragmatism, meant that my encounter with a $30 million art film was inevitably going to be a curious one. Truly, I applaud the daring, but can’t help being conscious of the looming financial disaster that is trying ...
19th November 2017
Leora Mansoor Writer Leora Mansoor reviews Glasgow’s meat-free alternatives In a Glasgow Guardian article from earlier this year, Luke Shaw describes the hunt for the perfect burger as “the kind of task Sisyphus would be given nowadays as a philosophically astute punishment”. While an astute observation to make, lacking in his statement was any awareness ...
18th November 2017
Andreea Bocioaga Writer Is the University careers service doing enough to help students find a career they actually want? So you’ve discovered the University has something called a Careers Service, whose only purpose is to shepherd lost students from the state of teenage leech into the world of fulfilled employment. The prospect of finding a ...
18th November 2017
Selena Drake & Harry Vizor Deputy Editor & Features Editor Kevin McBeth talks to the Glasgow Guardian about how he found employment following his MSc in International Finance and Economics Policy Continuing our interviews with recent alumni about how they got their jobs, we know what you’re all thinking. Where are the finance people? Do ...
16th November 2017
Jess Owen News Editor Recently, the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) sent an open letter to the University of Glasgow Senior Management Group (SMG) highlighting a list of urgent concerns over the increased numbers of students on campus. In their letter the SRC pointed out that the University has accepted 1,200 more students than the previous ...
