15th March 2018
Georgina Hayes Views Editor Professors are often surprisingly gracious and understanding when you tell them you’ve had to take a mental health day Your alarm goes off, the sun rose hours ago and you’d rather die than get out of bed. It’s midday, you’ve already hit snooze for two hours straight and if you don’t ...
15th March 2018
Liam Dowd Social Media Editor 50 years on from the decriminalisation of homosexuality, what’s really changed? The end of 2017 marked 50 years since the 1967 Sexual Offences Act was approved, decriminalising homosexual acts between men over 21 years of age in England and Wales. Scotland would not legalise homosexuality for another 14 years (1980) ...
15th March 2018
Hamish Morrison Editor Clairification: Cafeteria services housed in the Main Building, along with the outdoor areas are unaffected by the lockdown. A group of students, Glasgow University Strike Solidarity (GUSS) have occupied the Senate Room, resulting in a lockdown of the University’s Main Building. The occupation has been coordinated with students at Strathclyde University who ...
15th March 2018
Michaila Byrne Writer A comprehensive look at the motivations and attitudes surrounding the strikes In the coming days strikes are expected to affect around 60 universities over a four-week period. Affected universities include Queen’s Belfast, Brighton, Cardiff, UCL, Oxford, Manchester and Glasgow. As part of this national dispute, the University of Glasgow can expect to ...
15th March 2018
Ruairidh Campbell Writer Outrage culture is a phenomenon that appears unable to shy away from the headlines recently, particularly when set in a university context. A combination of extreme overreaction and a populist mass body now often creates situations whereby individuals are sometimes unfairly met with calls to resign despite on the face of it ...
