Archive for the ‘Opinion’ Category
COMMENT: Exploiting indebted student drivers?
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Finding a parking space around Queen’s is a nightmare. Students who have saved and paid to learn the valuable skill to drive, and paid to insure and tax their cars, are being forced to abandon them in their driveways because it is simply impossible to find a space to park around Queen’s. This is an accepted grievance for student commuters who are getting up hours before lectures just to park. However, rumours of the introduction of paid parking around the city centre campus will not only frustrate local businesses but force indebted students to fork out even more to receive a university education.
BY SARAH WRIGHT
Tags: Gown, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, Sarah Wright, student, The Gown
Posted in Opinion | 18 Comments »
LETTER: Re Holylands
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Liaison,
It is officially BBQ season (again!). The sunshine encourages excess alcohol from lunchtime onwards. The streets, that BCC spend so much of Belfast tax/ratepayers money cleaning, are a mess of papers, bottles, broken glass, litter, broken furniture and the remnents of fires/BBQ’s etc.
Some fine examples of this constructive behaviour can be seen at:-
(*streets in Holylands)
Tags: Gown, holylands, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, The Gown
Posted in News, Opinion | 15 Comments »
COMMENT: Clubs and societies face challenges at QUB
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
The Refresher’s fair helped to boost the membership of the newest clubs and societies at Queen’s. The Lacrosse Club for instance, recruited 20 new members. The ranks of other new clubs, including the Boxing club, the Softball club and the Ultimate Frisbee club, have also grown. The new groups seem to be doing well despite certain setbacks, such as problems concerning facilities and training times. In the case of the Ultimate Frisbee Club, the problem lies with the fact that few seem to have heard of the club, or indeed the sport. Although the new clubs have teams with vast potential, they face financial challenges.
BY CATHAL MCGUIGAN
Tags: Cathal McGuigan, Gown, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, The Gown
Posted in Opinion | 9 Comments »
LETTER
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Dear Gown,
Feedback. Can you afford to ignore it? Well, apparently my tutors can afford to ignore it. And ignore me.
Tags: Gown, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, The Gown
Posted in Opinion | 2 Comments »
COMMENT: Club complains about Refreshers’ Bazaar disorganisation
Monday, February 15th, 2010
The Re-Freshers’ Bazaar: An opportunity for students to have a look at the various clubs and societies on offer at Queen’s, and to join those they have an interest in. It would help thought if students were told where it was!
UPDATE: Response from VP Clubs & Societies Paul Courtney.
BY CATHAL SKELTON
Tags: bazaar, Belfast, cathal, courtney, Gown, newspaper, paul courtney, qub, Queen's, queen's university, re-freshers, skelton, student, students, The Gown
Posted in Opinion | 12 Comments »
COLUMN: News through tinted glasses
Saturday, February 13th, 2010
This is the first installment of a fortnightly column by Daniel Hendry, taking a light hearted glance through the news pages.
Well what a few weeks it has been in that crazy world that is celebrity. There have been more scandals than in a Boris Johnson trip to Liverpool! The common denominator behind many of the scandals has been that of lewd extra-marital affairs.
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Posted in Features, Opinion | 2 Comments »
COMMENT AND OPINION: Sectarianism isn’t over
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
The recent revelations concerning the two meetings between the DUP and UUP, hosted by the Grand Master of the Orange Order Robert Saulters, attended by a representative of the British Conservative Party, and centred on the possibility of a unionist electoral pact, have raised several significant issues. Despite their apparent failure, and the subsequent downplaying of their importance by both the UUP and the Conservatives, the talks reiterate the fragility of the Stormont Executive and the persistence of tribalism in the “new” northern society. What comes out of the DUP and UUP getting together with the Orange Order and deciding how to thwart Sinn Fein is the familiar sign that politics and religion remain intertwined in unionism’s highest levels, a mutually beneficial relationship that also resulted in the prominence of the parade issue in recent discussions on the devolution of policing and justice.
BY PADRAIC GRANT
Tags: Gown, newspaper, Padraic Grant, Queen's, queen's university, student, The Gown
Posted in Opinion | 2 Comments »
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