Daily Info

Graduation Dinner & Ball 2008

The Graduation Dinner and Summer Ball is your finale event if you are Graduating (or are a guest) this year! It includes a champagne reception, a four course silver served meal, wine on the table, a fairtrade chocolate fountain and all that is included in the Summer Ball ticket, and much more!

You can get your tickets at www.yusu.org/shopping

Lecture on modern physics - 12 May

Monday 12 May

Professor Steven French

The world as structure:
Exploring the implications of modern physics

6.30pm, room P/L001, Physics

All welcome

Making recordings of your band

If you are interested in making some recordings of songs, but going to a recording studio is somewhat too expensive, I am offering a less costly alternative. Go to http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~crr501/ for further details.

Lecture on Hes East archaeology - 22 May

Thursday 22 May

Cath Neal and Steve Roskams, Department of Archaeology

Looking to the future and uncovering the past 6pm, room P/L001, Physics

Find out what has been uncovered by archaeologists on Heslington East.

All welcome.

Free Self Defence Classes for Women

York Jitsu are holding free self defence classes for women on Saturday 1-2pm Weeks 2, 3, 4 and 5 in the Sports Centre.
Join us and brush up on:
Verbal Skills
Assertiveness
Physical Techniques
You don't need to have done anything like this before so feel free to come along and bring your friends if you want to pick up some useful tips and have fun.

Email womens@yusu.org for more information.

Lecture Thursday Week 3

Dr. Paul Clarke will be hosting a lecture on Thursday Week 3 ( at 17.30pm in C/A101 (In the Chemistry department). All are welcome to attend.

The title of the lecture is Chirality, Organic Synthesis and Everything: A Quest for the Origins of Life"

ChemSoc

Breakz Present DJ CLIPZ

DJ and Jump Up Producer Clipz is coming to Ziggys on Friday 16th May. After releases on Full Cycle Clipz had 2 releases which became the biggest selling Drum & Bass tracks of 2007!
Clipz now has a solid reputation as a DJ all across the globe!
Support from Breakz residents till 2:30am.
All this for only £4! £3 members (adv tickets only from Your:Shop / EQ Records)

L Ziggy's, Micklegate
D Fri 16th May
T 2200-0230
£ 4.00(advance price)

www.breakzdjs.com
or search for us on facebook!

RAG Hitch to Pairs Sign Up!

This summer RAG Hitches is going to Paris! Week 7 from the 6th till 8th June, enjoy the culture, food and sights in the city of love.

Sign up for the Paris hitch from Monday till Thursday, week 4 in YUSU reception.

The sponsorship deposit is only £89 which includes

* 2 Nights accommodation in Paris
* Ferry transfer from Dover to France
* Coach transfer from Calais to Paris and from Paris to York
* Possibly a free T-Shirt

Search facebook for "York Rag Hitches!" for more info!

Lecture on health economics - 19 May

Shining steel or bastard science?
Economics and health care decisions

Inaugural lecture on 19 May
by Professor Karl Claxton
Department of Economics and Related Studies
and Centre for Health Economics

5.30pm, room P/L001, Physics
Monday 19 May 2008

All are welcome

Library Survey

The Library runs a regular survey to assess satisfaction levels and find out what improvements our users would like us make. The survey is available online at http://survey.libqual.org/index.cfm?ID=975067 from 1st May and takes around 10 minutes to complete. We are offering a chance to win £100 of Amazon vouchers for participants; leave your email address if you would like to be entered into the draw. Deadline - 31st May. Any questions, contact lib-survey@lists.york.ac.uk.

RAG UGM, Monday week 4

RAG will be hosting a UGM on Monday week 4 from 6pm in L/N/047. Everyone is very welcome to attend!

At the UGM RAG will be deciding on whether or not we open up voting for our five beneficiaries to all York students in an online vote. We will also be discussing the possibility of founding a merchandise position on the committee, and reviewing our constitution generally. Anyone who is interested in the way RAG is organized then do please come along!

Tonight at York Student Cinema...

Enchanted: A classic Disney fairytale collides with modern-day New York City in a story about a princess who is sent to our world by an evil queen. Soon after her arrival, Princess Giselle begins to change her views on life and love after meeting a handsome lawyer. Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?

Tonight in P/X/001, Doors: 6:45pm, Start: 7.30pm. Admission is £3.

Conclude the week with YSC on Friday with Sweeny Todd, starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter.

UGM Motion Deadline

The deadline for Union General Meeting motions is Monday Week 4 at noon. If you've got something you want YUSU to be doing (or not doing!) get in touch with ruleschair@yusu.org...

A home for your unwanted textbooks??

READ Book Project York redistributes educational resources from UK schools to schools in Tanzania. We focus predominantly on the collection of Year 7-11 textbooks, however, this year we are also taking university textbooks as we will also be visiting the Open University and Regional Library so we can take University Level textbooks for the students there. If you have any books you can donate, please look out for the collection boxes around campus, or email us on: york@readbookproject.org.uk

Lecture on Ibn Haitham (Alhazen) - 15 May

Thursday 15 May

Professor Mohamed El-Gomati, Department of Electronics

'Ibn Haitham (Alhazen), the founder of modern scientific methods'

6.30pm, room A/TB/056, Seebohm Rowntree Building

Abu Ali Al-Hasan Ibn Haitham, known in the West by his latinised name, Alhazen, was born in Basra, Iraq in 960 AD. In developing the practice of testing a hypothesis by experiment, he endured imprisonment and the loss of his possessions.

Tonight at York Student Cinema...

Tim Burton's Sweeny Todd: Based on the hit Broadway musical which tells the infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp), who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonam-Carter).

Tonight in P/X/001, Doors: 6:45pm, Start: 7.30pm. Admission is £3.

On Monday, let YSC transport you back to the summer of 1985, with the irresistible - and now classic - blockbuster, Back to the Future.

Top-up your print credits online

Paying for print credits used to mean making a trip to the Computing Service Information Desk. The new online print credit payment system means you no longer have to leave your workstation when you need to top up.

Available 24/7, topping up now just requires clicking through an online payment process. Your print credits will be instantly topped up and you will be able to print straight away.

Go to the print credits system at www.york.ac.uk/payments/student/print.htm to begin...

Come and sing with the York Glee Singers

We're a friendly student run choir looking for new members! So whether you're soprano or tenor, alto or bass, we'd love to see you at our rehearsals!

We meet every Wednesday at 7:30pm in L/047, so why don't you come along and find out more!

Email us at gleesingers@yusu.org to find out more!

Live and Large

Langwith and Band Soc are bringing you ‘Live and Large’, a night full of live music, featuring Make it Better Later, Half a Dog, Juliet Bravo and York’s finest Kinki Indie DJs. Happening Friday 9th May, 9:00 – 1:30, in Langwith Bar and JCR. Tickets are on sale in Langwith JCR and Derwent Bar, 12-2, Monday til Thursday for £3.50, with 50p discount for Band Soc members. Tickets will also be available on the door. Corkys and Sambuca will be on sale for just £1! ID/NUS will be required.

PRIORITY TICKETS for Summer Ball extended

Priority tickets for the biggest event of the year, SUMMER BALL, have been extended until MIDNIGHT on SUNDAY 11TH MAY 2008.

You can get yours online now at www.yusu.org/shopping

Belt Up Theatre - MORBID CURIOSITY

Britain is under surveillance. Terrorism is rife.
Beneath a dark and broken London, in the basement of a sinister government facility, is the morgue...In this paranoid dark comedy there's only one question to ask yourself: will you get out alive?

Thursday 8th, Friday 9th, Saturday 10th, Sunday 11th of May in the Drama Barn. Performances start at 7.30pm. Tickets onsale Week 3 Wed-Fri on Vanbrugh Stalls and OTD. ₤3 Thurs, Fri-Sun ₤3.50/₤4.50 (DRAMASOC MEMBERS/NON-MEMBERS)

RAG Toybox - The Official Roses Party

Toybox; the next RAG event & official ROSES celebration on campus on Sat 10th May in Vanbrugh from 9 - 1.30. A brilliant fun-packed night out with a lifesize buckaroo, party bags, fantastic drinks deals & toy cocktails. Lots of great prizes, a lucky dip, plenty of fancy dress options and James Grey DJing. All in the name of charity!
Plus, a raid during the day - raising money in fancy dress - to make it a full day of Barbie and soulja boy fun!
Tickets £4 available in Your:Shop or £5 OTD

Athletic Union Elections

Notice of Elections

Nominations for the AU elections will open on Thursday Week 5 at midday.

Positions available:
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
Tournament Secretary x3
Events Officer
Communications Officer
Referees Co-ordinator
Volunteer Co-ordinator
Ordinary Member x2

Thursday 8th May: Notice of Elections
Thursday 15th May 12pm: Nominations Open
Thursday 22nd May 12pm: Nominations Close

Voting: Friday 23rd May - Wednesday 28th May online at www.yusu.org

Viking Raid 3 - Tickets ON SALE NOW!!

The much sought after VIKING RAID 3 event tickets are ON SALE NOW! It is set to take place on MONDAY WEEK 6, touring round different establishments in the city in some lovely t-shirts, ending in (what will be) the refurbished TRU Nightclub and Gallery Nightclub! Buy your tickets today - they're sure to sell out fast as with the previous two sellout events - at www.yusu.org/shopping Enjoy!!

BLOOD DONOR SESSIONS

Will be held on Monday 12 and Wednesday 14 May at the National Centre for Early Music, St Margarets Church off Walmgate and on Thursday 15 May, here on campus, in the Dance Studio at the Sports Centre - 10.45am-12.30pm and 2.15pm-4.35pm.

Page Created: 16th Jul, 2007
Last Updated: 3:43pm on 13th Aug, 2007 by Matt Burton