Archive for the ‘Opinion’ Category
FEATURES: An Indian adventure for a Queen’s student
Monday, November 7th, 2011
An exchange programme for the last 4 years has been running at Queen’s university called the PMI-2: Strategic Alliances and Partnerships scheme. Its aim is to take a group of students to either India or China for academic and cultural exchange, and in the process take part in university life and complete some research. I’m a 24 year old student from Wales just waiting to graduate from a full-time Masters in Social and Community Development, and over the summer I spent a month, along with four other students and a member of Queen’s academic staff, in the Indian southern state of Andhra Pradesh and the city of Hyderabad.
BY JONATHAN EVANS (more…)
Tags: Andhra Pradesh, China, Dharavi, Features, Gown, Hyderabad, India, Jonathan Evans, mumbai, newspaper, Northern Ireland, PMI-2: Strategic Alliances and Partnerships, qub, QUBSU, Queen's, queen's university, Social and Community Development, student, students, The Gown
Posted in Features, Opinion | No Comments »
FEATURES: The Rise of the Quiz Show and fall of the Game Show
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Never a major fan of quiz or game based shows I’ve always considered them as designed to fill the void between daytime talk shows and late night drama. The kind of show nobody really cares about but that everybody probably watches in the time between returning from class or work and making the dinner. And then it occurred to me recently that this wasn’t always the way. There was a time when game shows were primetime viewing, the kind that even brought all the family together in domestic harmony.
BY SARAH MULGREW (more…)
Tags: Blankety Blank, Blind Date, Cilla Black, Features, Game show, Lily Savage, Opinions, Quiz Show, Sarah Mulgrew
Posted in Features, Opinion | 4 Comments »
FEATURES: Attack of the forty foot female spider
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
I thought the biggest spider I’d ever seen was Aragog from Harry Potter, and then he died and the world was a safer place. But then THEY came…
BY SARAH MULGREW (more…)
Tags: Brian Stewart, Charlotte's Web, City Reptiles, E. B. WHite, Features, Opinion, Peter parker, Sarah Mulgrew, Spiders, Stephen Nolan
Posted in Features, Opinion | 1 Comment »
OPINION: Judging Amanda Knox
Monday, October 17th, 2011
If you thought witches weren’t real, think again. They are very real, and capable of the most evil crimes. At least that is what the Italian prosecutor Giuliano Mignini would like us to think. His description of Amanda Knox, the American student charged with the brutal sexual assault and murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher, was more Spanish inquisition than 21st century legal court.
By Romano Mullin (more…)
Tags: Amanda Knox, Features, Romano Mullin
Posted in Features, Opinion | 1 Comment »
SPORT: Is now the perfect time to stage the Open in Northern Ireland?
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Darren Clarke’s magnificent win at the weekend at the Royal St. George course in England has cemented Northern Ireland’s place as the current golfing capital of the world. Three major winners in thirteen months are from the north. Moreover six winners of the last seventeen majors have come from the island of Ireland. Surely the time is right for the Open championship to return to these shores for the first time in over half a century.
BY SEAN ASHFORD
Tags: British Open, Darren Clarke, Golf, Gown, Graeme McDowell, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, rory mcilroy, Sean Ashford, Sport, student, students, The Gown
Posted in Opinion, Sport | No Comments »
OPINION: An open letter to Stephen Farry
Saturday, July 16th, 2011
It’s always been this way, hasn’t it Stephen? You’ve always tried to do a good job, making sure everything was done right so it came out just perfect. Unfortunately being a minister is just like playing sports at school, and this time you were the last one picked for the team.
BY BEN FINCH (more…)
Tags: Ben Finch, DUP, fees, Martin McGuinness, Peter Robinson, Red Sky, Stephen Farry, tuition fees
Posted in Letters, Opinion | 4 Comments »
OPINION: Corporation Tax: Time for Northern Ireland Uncut
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
On May 28th, activists protested across the UK against the dismantling of the National Health Service, and, more broadly, against cuts to public spending, the unfairness of which I don’t have to go into here.
BY ADAM MCGIBBON (more…)
Tags: Adam McGibbon, Gown, newspaper, NI Uncut, qub, QUBSU, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, The Gown, UK Uncut
Posted in Opinion | 3 Comments »
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