29th January 2019 - The Glasgow Guardian



An ode to mayo, cheese and chocolate: a vegetarian’s experience with Veganuary

29th January 2019

Holly Jennings Writer Living with two militant vegans, a beige food addict (someone whose diet revolves around ham), and a lapsing vegetarian, it’s easy to not know where I stand on the food industry spectrum. For thirteen months I’ve been a vegetarian, and for the last three of those I’ve been contemplating veganism. Going to ...


Brexit: Your rights explained

29th January 2019

Georgina Hayes Editor We’ve teamed up with the University to answer some burning Brexit questions you may have With Brexit looming and uncertainty spreading, The Glasgow Guardian has teamed up with the University of Glasgow in an attempt to explain your rights as a student or staff member all in one place. Whether you have ...


Glasgow University Give Blood Society launches its third annual Blood Battle

29th January 2019

Isabella Eastwood Writer Glasgow University Give Blood Society (GUGB) has launched its third annual Blood Battle. The competition, aiming to increase the number of students donating blood, has grown exponentially since its inception. Numbers have more than doubled, with up to 200 people participating in 2018. This amounts to up to 600 lives saved. In ...


Scottish Government expands initiative designed to end period poverty

29th January 2019

Jen Bowey Deputy Editor The Scottish Government has announced that it is putting £4m towards furthering an initiative to provide free sanitary products throughout the country. In a bid to end period poverty in Scotland, free sanitary products have already been provided in many schools, colleges and universities since August 2018. Now the government intends ...


QMU still doesn’t have its own sexual misconduct policy

29th January 2019

  Hamish Morrison & Georgina Hayes News Editor & Editor The agreement does not elaborate on what qualifies as “serious unacceptable behaviour”, nor does it make clear how perceived “less serious” cases will be handled The Queen Margaret Union has not followed up on its own internal policy review, which QMU President Mata Durkin announced ...


No support for Living Support: LSAs let down by University contracts

29th January 2019

  Tara Gandhi Investigations Editor “It is the attitude from above that we are a resource to be used to exhaustion” A Glasgow Guardian investigation has revealed that students believe the University of Glasgow is increasingly taking advantage of its Living Support Assistants. In the past six years the University has been gradually increasing the ...