‘News’ Archives
Staffordshire Union come under fire with local hate crime
Looking at this photograph, with a swastika spray-painted on the window and the obvious sprayed on the floor, you would assume that this article is about something in the distant past. In actuality it happened just under a week ago in Staffordshire. Some local students, with rumoured ties to the British National Party (BNP) and English Defence [...]
RadioHudd secure future of station by cutting elections for controller
RadioHudd have won at least half of their battle to ensure the continuity of the station after its current managers, the team who set it up, graduate this July. Matt Christie, Head of Programming at the Huddersfield student station, voiced concerns that, if the new position of Radio station controller was elected from the student body, someone [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
University and Union closed due to snow
The University of Huddersfield and it's Students' Union (UHSU) was yesterday closed due to snow by Vice Chancellor, Bob Cryan. An email, sent to all students and staff explained that the University was to be closed at 1pm to allow anyone on campus to travel home safely. The recent snowfall has brought about temporary closure of organisations [...]
Huddersfield Student newspaper to launch new website in new year
The Huddersfield Student newspaper is to release a new version of its online counterpart, Huddersfield Student news live. The new design of website, to be launched on New Year's Day 2010, will give the website a more categorised, newspaper look and feel and will make it easier for users to find stories that interest them. The design, adapted [...]
