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 ...
14th March 2018
Max Kelly Sports Editor Glasgow University have won the Glasgow Taxis Cup for the eighth consecutive year. Their win of the intervarsity tournament in which the University’s teams compete in sixteen sports against city rivals Strathclyde and Glasgow Caledonian (GCU) was announced at Scotstoun following the conclusion of the Badminton tournament. Strathclyde won events such ...
13th March 2018
Priscille Biehlmann Writer Elections matter, and voters should have a say in how they work, according to the Scottish government. The government has launched an online consultation survey to ask citizens for their opinions on proposed reforms to election laws. It says it will use the results of the online survey to draft policy. “Modernisation ...
13th March 2018
Anonymous Edit: An earlier version of this article claimed that the society failed to adequately sign-post for the use of strobe lighting in its production of Bat-Boy. The editors have now been informed that this was in fact not the case and warning was given in accordance with the Health and Safety Executive’s official advice. One ...
12th March 2018
Isabel Thomas Writer The upcoming Mind Your Mate mental health workshops organized by the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) have sold out. These workshops were originally launched in January by the SRC and were intended to increase mental health awareness amongst students and staff. Two workshops, both also sold out, have taken place on 31 January ...
12th March 2018
Beth Carter Writer Upon enrolling for my undergraduate degree in Glasgow, I soon acknowledged the perks for the people of Scotland. Free water, free higher education, free prescriptions; and perhaps most importantly for a young woman of the age of 19, free NHS smear tests from the age of 20. These examples ticked all the ...
11th March 2018
Isabella Eastwood Writer A night of energy The Go! Team took to the QMU stage at the beginning of February. the Brighton band have been energetically gracing us with a healthy mixture of indie-rock, old-school hip hop, and garage rock since the early 2000s. A constant revolving door of artist and sounds, the band is ...
11th March 2018
Amy Shimmin Writer “As consumers, we have the right to choose how we reward products and businesses. If their reporting contradicts our values, then consciously not funding these publications can be our collective response.” Whenever people ask me where I’m from, they’ll often follow my response with “oh, it’s so similar to Glasgow!” Generally, I ...
9th March 2018
Jamie Riley Writer As the lights suddenly dim, the crowd at the SSE Hydro releases its usual roar of anticipation – yet there is an odd restraint to it; an uncertainty which speaks through the cheers. Even when Lamar finally makes his appearance, marking his first performance in Glasgow since 2013, the audience seems unusually ...
