Archive for the ‘Opinion’ Category
COMMENT: Ever heard of ‘Bongo’? It has probably heard of you…
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Most of us wouldn’t think twice about the details we put up on our social networking sites, be it Facebook, Bebo or Twitter. However, are we careful enough about what we choose to divulge online?
BY RUTH MAGENNIS
Tags: Bebo, bongo, ebay, Facebook, Gown, newspaper, Paypal, qub, Queen's, queen's university, Ruth Magennis, student, The Gown
Posted in Opinion | No Comments »
COMMENT: The library of the future?
Monday, November 16th, 2009
We no longer have to apologetically wave our student cards in the direction of the staff member at the front desk. Thanks to modern technology we can wave them over a scanner, then wait ages for it to respond. Revolutionary times. When we’re old and wizened we can say, “I was there”.
BY MATTHEW OKOT
Tags: Gown, Matthew Okot, New library, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, The Gown
Posted in Opinion | 7 Comments »
COMMENT: The high price of fitness at the PEC
Monday, November 9th, 2009
In theory, a university Sports Centre like Queen’s PEC should be making its facilities as accessible as possible to students, due to the fact it’s a university sports centre.
BY EMMA CREEN (more…)
Tags: Emma Creen, Gown, newspaper, pec, qub, Queen's, Queen's Sport, queen's university, student, The Gown
Posted in Opinion, Sport | 7 Comments »
COMMENT: A student recalls her work experience with Cinemagic
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
How many of us who have chosen to venture down the road of an arts degree have had to face that unavoidable question of, “What are you going to do after…teaching I suppose?” As an English Literature student of Queen’s I can say I have had that question posed to me on many occasions .
My response was always a rather unconvincing, “No..I’m not really sure”.
However ladies and gentlemen, I had a break through this summer thanks to work experience. I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to work within a PR office for Cinemagic in Belfast. I really cannot emphasis the benefits of work experience, not only do you get a clear insight into a profession but you also learn a thing or two along the way.
BY SUZANNE MCDONALD
Tags: Cinemagic, Gown, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, Suzanne McDonald, The Gown
Posted in Arts + Entertainment, Features, Opinion | No Comments »
COMMENT: Christmas is early…again.
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Every year, as soon as Halloween is over, suddenly it’s Christmas time. Starbucks have their limited edition mugs, Boots have their 3 for 2 on Christmas gifts, and yet again we hear “All I Want for Christmas is You.”
BY EMMA GALLEN
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NEWS: Noam Chomsky gives free talk in Belfast
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Last night Noam Chomsky gave a free talk to a packed St Mary’s College in Belfast, presented by the Féile an Phobail festival. Professor Chomsky, perhaps the world’s most pre-eminent linguist (a popular maxim describing Chomsky as being “to linguistics what Einstein was to physics”) but more famously the most prominent American political dissident writing today, has written over 70 works on topics ranging from left-wing political theory to criticism of American foreign policy.
BY PADRAIC GRANT
Tags: Gown, newspaper, Noam Chomsky, Padraic Grant, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, The Gown
Posted in News, Opinion | No Comments »
COMMENT: Crisis of Cars
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Every university has its problems and Queen’s is no different – low attendance, too much alcohol to name but a few. However, it could be said that one of the major problems for Queen’s University students, especially those who drive, is the never ending struggle with traffic, parking, and public transport. One must deal with the traffic jams, one way streets which are easily blocked and being constantly late to class. Many would say that it is a student’s responsibility to leave home in plenty of time but how can one predict that an ambulance will be parked on University Street for half an hour? It n’t be practical to leave two hours early (depending on where you live) on the off-chance that there will be a problem!
BY MELISSA DEVLIN
Tags: cars, Gown, Melissa Devlin, newspaper, parking, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, The Gown
Posted in Opinion | 2 Comments »
OPINION: “Mother Teresa is from Germany” < Jade Goody
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
I don’t know about you but I don’t give a genuine shit about Cheryl Cole. I don’t’ care that Jordan’s new boyfriend (let’s see how long he lasts) is a tranny who likes to wear lycra every other Monday evening, or that George Clooney really REALLY likes oranges.
Except I DO care. I do care very much and deep down so do you. Why?
I haven’t the foggiest to be honest and yet I can guarantee you that any night I have to sit in the library tucking into a good old human rights journal for a class the next day, I’d far rather be reading the freshest, most disgustingly stupid and intrusively malignant copy of Heat Magazine. Christ only knows why…
BY ORLA MACKLE
Tags: Celebrity, Cheryl Cole, George Clooney, Gown, Jade Goody, Jordan, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, Simon Cowell, student, The Gown, The XFactor, Whitla Hall
Posted in Opinion | 3 Comments »
OPINION: The BBC were WRONG to have Nick Griffin on Question Time
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time has provoked a huge amount of controversy. The BBC, along with members of the BNP, have argued that as the BNP acquired two seats in the European parliament it deserved to have its say on one of the main political programmes in the UK; after all, the BBC’s broadcasting mandate requires it to give equal prominence to political parties above a given level of representation.
However, Nick Griffin represents a different breed of politician. Griffin was a former member of the right wing supremacist group ‘The National Front’, and he is the first person to be allowed on Question Time who has been investigated for inciting racial hatred.
BY JANE BROWN
Tags: bnp, Gown, griffin, newspaper, nick, qub, Queen's, queen's university, question, student, The Gown, time
Posted in News, Opinion | 4 Comments »
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