Posts Tagged ‘queen’s university’
NEWS: Students protest at Stormont as MLAs debate Browne (updated)
Monday, November 1st, 2010
Over 300 students travelled to Stormont this afternoon to pressurise local politicians into keeping the cap on tuition fees. Despite pouring rain, students from Queen’s, University of Ulster, St. Mary’s and Stranmillis College turned out to make their voice heard. A petition with 10,000 signatures was presented to the local Assembly this afternoon by SDLP MLA Pat Ramsey and motion calling for the rejection of the Browne report is to be debated at 4.30pm.
BY BEN FINCH
Tags: Adrian Kelly, Ben Finch, Browne, Ciarnan Helferty, Gareth McGreevy, Gown, newspaper, Pat Ramsey, qub, Queen's, queen's university, Stormont, student, students, The Gown
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Fourth Gown issue of 2010-2011 available now
Monday, November 1st, 2010
The fourth Gown edition of the academic year is now available across Queen’s campus. If you have any views on the stories covered, please leave a comment below.
Tags: Gown, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, The Gown
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OPINION: Saturday night on the settee
Monday, November 1st, 2010
In deciding to write about television I envisaged myself as a Charlie Brooker-esque figure, ruthlessly cutting through the nonsense to be found on what that stern-faced critic has described as ‘the idiot box’. With this in mind, I scanned the schedules, searching for the most idiotic show I could find, ready like the great man himself to angrily compare that show to as many unpleasant nouns as possible. When I recently read that Brooker had decided to bring his enormously popular Guardian column ‘Screen Burn’ to an end, I assumed the decision had been taken on hearing that I had stumbled upon his winning formula.
BY MATTHEW MISKIMMIN
Tags: Gown, Matthew Miskimmin, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, The Gown
Posted in Opinion | 6 Comments »
REVIEW: Down Down Deeper and Down: Ireland in the 70s & 80s by Eamonn Sweeney
Monday, November 1st, 2010
Down Down Deeper and Down is essentially a chronological account of Ireland’s woes, and at times successes, throughout the ’70s and ’80s with little analysis of events. Nevertheless this is a period which has arguably received somewhat limited coverage from academics. The most today’s younger population may have gathered from this period may have came from RTÉ’s Reeling in the Years series, but herein lies a grand story of battles, political as well as social, and the account of how Ireland began to improve its economic standing, at least until recent years.
BY CONNOR DALY
Tags: Connor Daly, Down Down Deeper and Down, Eamonn Sweeney, Gown, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, The Gown
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PREVIEW: Mystery Jets at the Speakeasy
Sunday, October 31st, 2010
The Mystery Jets are back on tour on the back of the release of their third album, Serotonin. They have been gigging all over Europe and the US after the festival season ended and are landing into Belfast to play the Speakeasy at Queen’s Students’ Union on Tuesday 2nd November.
BY DANIELLE NEESON
Tags: Danielle Neeson, Gown, Mystery Jets, newspaper, qub, QUBSU, Queen's, queen's university, Speakeasy, student, students, su, The Gown
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FEATURES: Pumpkin soup for All Souls
Sunday, October 31st, 2010
All Souls’ Day is thought to be a remembrance by churches of their dead loved ones. In the Catholic Church, the living will pray on behalf of those souls believed to be in purgatory. The focus being to purge all souls of sin, in order for them to enter Heaven.
BY AMIE MCKERNAN
Tags: Amie McKernan, Gown, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, The Gown
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OPINION: Conservatives by name or by nature?
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
Throughout its history the Conservative Party has taken on the role of the anti-party of British politics. An anti-ideology party based firmly on maintaining the established order, conservatism representing a characteristic inherent in human nature, and whether one supports them or not their electoral success cannot be disputed. However, with the recent spending review and the new direction which leader David Cameron has taken the party, has the Conservative Party become the opposite of what its name suggests and instead become a reformist party?
BY SEAN ASHFORD
Tags: Gown, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, Sean Ashford, student, students, The Gown
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