13th September 2020
Quickfire recommendations from our Culture Team. Here are this month’s cultural recommendations to help you kick back after a long day of Zoom seminars and socially distanced lectures … Read a book with: The feminist book club, who focus on feminist authors and books. Previous reads include Beloved by Toni Morrison, Being Emily by Anne ...
13th September 2020
A 2020 graduate shares some words of wisdom for new freshers who feel as though they’re missing out this year. It’s painful being a 2020 fresher – there’s no point in pretending otherwise. You’ve spent the past few years imagining what university will be like, dreaming of an experience as exciting and dramatic as your ...
13th September 2020
Views Columnist Rachel Campbell discusses the unfairness of MyCampus enrollment after it crashed again this year. Enrolment: every year it brings the same issues. Yet this year they are more concerning than ever. As we enter an academic year which promises an unprecedented amount of online teaching and learning, it doesn’t inspire confidence to think ...
12th September 2020
Promotion and relegation binned for student leagues during 2020-21, with recreational sport planning to return to normal in time for Freshers’ Week. British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS), the authority for higher education sport, has announced that there will be no promotion or relegation in BUCS leagues during 2020-21 due to the ongoing effects of ...
11th September 2020
Subcity’s Freshers’ Week 24/7 broadcast provides a welcome introduction for students beginning university in Glasgow during this unconventional time. It’s undeniable that Freshers’ Week will bring an unconventional start to University life for many new students. The continued closure of many clubs in Glasgow, enforced social distancing guidelines in bars and increased emphasis on remote ...
11th September 2020
Despite hopes that Our Ladies would accurately depict growing up in Scotland as a teenage girl, Music Editor Jodie Leith was let down by the teen flick. Debuting at the 2020 Glasgow Film Festival earlier this year, Scottish Catholic schoolgirls-gone-wild “teen” flick, Our Ladies, is not the sort of film you want to watch sandwiched ...
11th September 2020
In response to the switch to online learning, Views Editor Hailie Pentleton discusses ableism at university. I have a joke about requiring access to lecture recordings, but you’ll probably think it’s unfair to other students. We’re all doing our best to embrace the “new normal” social media forewarned of. This way of life includes all ...
11th September 2020
All 4,000 on-campus computers will switch to Ecosia as the default search engine for internet usage from the start of term. The University of Glasgow will soon be making the switch to Ecosia on all on-campus computers thanks to campaigning by the student society University of Glasgow on Ecosia (UoG on Ecosia). According to UoG ...
11th September 2020
In their first editorial, Jordan and Holly make the best of a bad situation. 2020 has been a complete shitshow – and that’s putting it politely. The opening act of the year offered natural disasters that only a biblical rapture could rival all whilst we were edging closer to world war three by the day ...
11th September 2020
Megan Farrimond discusses the importance of translating online activism into action on campus. Being trapped in a social media bubble can make it easy to get caught up in the idea that your activism can only extend as far as through your computer screen, with lockdown making this idea all too real. But as uni ...
