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Students Too Thick to Have Opinions on NUS Worthy of a Referendum Right Now, Says Man With No…
Not much good will come from a referendum on being affiliated with the NUS, as students just aren’t that well-informed, the President of YUSU announced today. Rather than holding the referendum on whether to stay associated with the NUS — a referendum that YUSU is constitutionally obliged to hold every three years — the President said that YUSU will […]
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Intercepted Message from the President
Intercepted Message from the President Students, take note! The Lemon Press’s crack team of h̶a̶c̶k̶e̶r̶s̶ data journalists have intercepted this hush-hush communiqué between our President and the staff of our chief c̶e̶n̶s̶o̶r̶ patron, YUSU… Dear colleagues, As we approach the last term of the academic year, I thought I should give you a short update […]
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Should I Join a Society?
You don’t seem to have a choice nowadays. Social contract this, social contract that. Slap me on the theoretical arse and call me Jean and Jacques, I ain’t never seen no contract. When did I ever consent? Did they take a hiccup for a yes and dribbling for a no? ‘There is no such thing […]
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The Second Instalment of ‘The Diary of a Mature Student’, by Emma Ayre
The Old Bird: The Realisation that the University of York is Working Against the Aged. On Wednesday I set off with first year student gusto from the library to the biology block for my English literature seminar. I managed to arrive 5 minutes late for a lecture about Brexit. The slow realisation that I got […]
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The First Instalment of ‘The Diary of a Mature Student’, by Emma Ayre
The Old Bird: Compelled to Write in the Hope of Reaching at Least 1 of the 256 Mature Students on Campus. You are alone. Yes, don’t be fooled into thinking you will be lucky enough to bump into anyone within a 5-year radius of your age, now that you’ve pushed yourself off the monotonous train […]
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New Sabb Team Take Office
Credit: York University Student’s Union YUSU’s new sabbatical team are now officially in office, so we reached out to some people for their reactions: ‘I’m just so happy, and so proud, and so excited; best of luck to them. I even made them some sandwiches for their first day.’ — Their Mothers, collectively ‘Sabbs? What are they?’ — Koen […]
