Thanks to Adam Lynch for bringing this to my attention. Also find the video report from Midlands Today here. Students criticise staff on net A university has written to all its students threatening them with disciplinary action for comments made about staff on the internet. Keele University said the remarks on Myspace and Facebook were […]
Fraternity. It is not a word I think most people would use every day, or even know what it meant. A quick freedictionary.com search yield the following: fra·ter·ni·ty play_w(“F0301600”) (fr-tûrn-t)n. pl. fra·ter·ni·ties 1. A body of people associated for a common purpose or interest, such as a guild. 2. A group of people joined by […]
Right, Well it is done. The bane of my Easter is complete. I don’t claim it is any good. This isn’t a “Andy’s posted his dissertation online to show off” moment. It’s just here if you’re interested and fancy giving it a read. I’d just skip to Chapter Two if I was you. Any typos, […]
… it’ll be on the internet instead. For any students interested in the media I suggest you take your sweet behinds down to The Political Quarterly section of the Blackwell Synergy website and download Vol. 76 Issue S1 using your Athens user names. Be sure to check out the introduction by Jean Seaton and articles […]
The electoral commission come to town How apt it is that the electoral commission decide to come to town the week of the union elections. But are people more likely to vote in national or regional elections than they are in union elections. Probably not. I think the figure floating about from previous elections is […]
I can’t quite believe this.I am truly gob smacked.This surely can not be real. Highlighted to me by Vicky Spain who spotted it in a Guardian article, here are some examples of the contrast between the “liberal anti-American” wikipedia and the “pro-Christian pro-American” conservapedia. DinosaursWikipedia“Vertebrate animals that dominated terrestrial ecosystems for over 160m years, first […]
Once again another HIGNFY featured clip, once again from Newsnight with Jeremy Paxman, but once again well worth the post. [edit] Oh sod it, I just found another one from a couple of months ago. Aside from being a complete evil bastard to our boys on University Challenge he ain’t half funny. And some people […]
Below are two images that caught my attention this evening. The first is Nick Turner’s image from http://www.artnotoil.org.uk/ which depicts the silhouette of a man holding a petrol pump to another man’s head emblazoned from behind by the BP logo. The second image is the Pulitzer prize winning photo of South Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc […]
I was listening to BBC Radio 4 this evening on my walk back from uni, as you do, and the show PM was talking about the controversy raised in Parliament recently about David Cameron questioning the Prime Minister during PMQ about his successor [watch PMQ here, its about 9mins 30 secs in]. That was all […]