Archive for January, 2010
HSLive website to face the knife once more
Just a quick note to say that the Huddersfield Student website will once again be undergoing a facelift. Thanks to a little help from our Fashion Editor we've managed to locate someone who knows what he's doing when it comes to websites. I'm pleased to announce that, towards the end of this academic year - date TBC - we will be launching, in [...]
The Tories: the ‘modern and hip party’ or just a stylistic facade?
In my never-ending quest to stay objective and call contemporary politics as I see it, combined with the modern culture of social-networking, a while back I became a fan of the ‘Conservatives’, ‘the Labour Party’ and the ‘Liberal Democrats’ fan pages, to get up to date news in my Facebook news feed from each of the parties. Granted the [...]
A decade of politics
2000 The Millennium Dome Epic Fail. The Millennium Dome, the project that was Tony Blair’s mark for the new Millennium, opened with chaos as visitors has to queue for ages just to get inside the building which was soon to fail completely, and not because of the Millennium Bug. Luckily, it is now one of the best places to be for watching live [...]
Welcome to 2010: the year of your first general election
It’s the start of a new decade, and in the political realm it is the year where we are going to have the first general election that the majority of you reading this will be able to vote in. So what are the choices? Well, we’ve got the choice of voting Labour and keeping in a party who saw us go through the recession worse off than the [...]
Huddersfield student drinking game faces glare of international media
Two Huddersfield students were yesterday facing the glare of the national media as a game they created was said to mock the Holocaust. Nicholas Rowley and Anthony Pike's "Hitler" drinking game involves references to World War II and the Holocaust which veterans have described as an insult. The story has since been picked up by BBC, Sky News [...]
Earlier draft sent to print
Though the January issue of the newspaper is receiving good feedback from all who have spoken to me, and though I am happy that it is looking good and starting to contain more news and features that our readers have asked for, there are a number of errors in the edition that need to be addressed. In an editorial confusion, the penultimate draft [...]
They may take our lives, but they will never take our Freddos
We all love chocolate don’t we, and what’s the best chocolate around? That, of course, would be anything made by Cadbury’s. Other than the chocolate they produce, the other great thing about the Cadbury’s is that it is British. But for how much longer? About half way through last year the evil overarching company from America, Kraft, [...]
Union starts push for ‘Garden of Anton’ plan
Plans to grass over the Students' Union car park proposed by former Huddersfield Student Editor Anton Jidkov have taken a further step towards becoming reality. A motion put to Union Council in October, proposed by Jidkov and backed by the newspaper, was debated and discussed and finally passed unanimously into SU policy. The policy, altered [...]
RadioHudd scraps internet logins
RadioHudd, the Students' Union internet-based radio station, is getting rid of the login pages that stop anyone without a University username and password from listening in. Matt Christie, Head of Programming at the station, told a meeting of its DJs in December "That log-in page...we're going to get rid of that." The move follows calls from [...]
CAB seating not in full swing until summer
The University have announced that they are aware that the new stone seating outside the Creative Arts building will not be able to be fully utilised until the summer months. The seating, an investment the University have said cost £65,000, has been met with largely negative student opinion. "It's hard to navigate," said one passerby. "And [...]
