Posts Tagged ‘students’
NEWS: McGibbon and Lo urge students to be extra vigilant after alleged rape
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
VP Welfare Adam McGibbon and MLA Anna Lo have spoken out about the latest alleged sex attack in the University area. Police are investigating an alleged rape which took place on Saturday morning. It was reported that a woman was viciously attacked by two men in an alleyway between Cromwell Road and Ireton Street between 12:30am and 1:30am. PSNI are currently appealing to anyone who was in the area at the time to come forward.
BY KERRI-ANNE CAMPBELL
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REVIEW: Toy Story 3
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Flashing back to the roots of the Toy Story narrative, we are treated to all the same aspects of warm and heartfelt storytelling that makes its predecessors such treasured classics. With a day-care nursery as the main setting of this plot, there’s the opportunity for Pixar’s creative minds to have a lot more fun developing so many new characters and re-working those who have already found firm places in our hearts. Amongst the newly introduced are a clown called Chuckles, the sinister Lotso Hugs bear who smells of strawberries but is far from sweet, a gambling octopus, a monkey with cymbals who takes the role of surveillance, and Big Baby the heavyweight.
BY LAUARA SHEARER
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REVIEW: Gainsbourg
Monday, July 26th, 2010
If the name Serge Gainsbourg doesn’t ring a bell, then you might recognise one of his most famous musical achievements via Jane Birkin’s sensual whisperings, ‘Je t’aime, oh oui, je t’aime’. France’s iconic maverick is brought to the silver screen by graphic novel artist Joann Sfar in a style that is in a word sublime. Bringing to life the innermost workings of the visionary Gainsbourg’s mind and madness, Sfar has created a masterpiece.
BY LAURA SHEARER
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REVIEW: Predators
Monday, July 26th, 2010
The beginning of Predators is promising, whether you’re familiar with the character or not. A sense of fear is sparked immediately upon the estranged groups’ arrival to the densely unchartered jungle terrain. The dramatic tension from the typically thematic music relates to both the jungle and the unknown, with the combination of higher metallic moans and grumbling jungle drums certainly createsing a wonderfully heavy atmosphere. It’s the perfect introduction to the fast paced action adventure thriller. It doesn’t take long to develop the weak and stereotypical personas of the group, and thus it is obvious from the outset that the main focus will be on the fight and escape sequences.
BY LAURA SHEARER
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REVIEW: Breathless
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Jean Luc Godard’s ‘Breathless’ was recently re-released and played in the QFT. Having seen both it and Jim McBride’s poorly reviewed 1983 remake recently, I began to wonder which was better. Godard’s original is regularly hailed as the masterpiece of the French New Wave, slick and cool, while full of subtext and vigorously innovative. To many, McBride’s decision to remake ‘Breathless’ was sheer egotism, on a par with Werner Herzog’s well-meaning remake of Nosferatu. You have to admit, it’s a brave thing to remake a highly regarded masterpiece and, like Herzog, McBride pulls it off.
BY MATTHEW MCKERNAN
Tags: Breathless, Gown, Matthew McKernan, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, The Gown
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COMMENT: Violence on the Twelfth – Treat the cause, not the symptoms
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
The Orange Order’s Twelfth parades have again been marred by violence. Rioting occurred on Belfast’s Ormeau Road on the twelfth itself and disturbances in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast continued days afterwards. This has rightly been condemned by the police, by Assembly members from both sides of the community, and has been attributed to “dissident republicans” by Sinn Fein. Duncan McCausland, Assistant Chief Constable of the PSNI, has promised that “significant arrests” will be made. Two men, aged sixteen and twenty, have already appeared in court over their involvement in the riots.
BY BEN FINCH
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NEWS: Mixed reactions to graduate tax proposals
Friday, July 16th, 2010
In a major speech yesterday, Business Secretary Vince Cable has suggested that the current top-up fees system should be replaced with an alternative graduate tax. This graduate tax would see students pay a marginally higher income tax than non-graduates. While details have not yet emerged, student leaders hope that the Cable proposals will mirror those of the NUS ‘Blueprint’. In this document, the NUS outlined a similar idea, where the more a graduate earns, the more they pay back – but even then it is a small percentage at 2.5%.
BY EMMA GALLEN
Tags: Emma Gallen, Gown, graduate tax, Lorcan Mullen, Nathan Anderson, newspaper, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, The Gown
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INTERVIEW: Guns N’ Roses guitarist Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal
Friday, July 16th, 2010
It’s official, Guns N’ Roses are lined up to play their first ever Belfast gig. Formed in 1985, Guns N’ Roses became one of the defining rock acts of the late 20th Century, selling over 100 million albums worldwide. However, tensions within the band would see the original line-up slowly crumble away, and by 1997 vocalist Axl Rose was the sole remaining original member. Despite this, Guns N’ Roses soldiered on with a new line-up and in 2008 made their comeback with the highly anticipated album Chinese Democracy. Speaking with The Gown, Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal, who joined the band in 2006, talks about Guns N’ Roses coming to Belfast, playing Chinese Democracy material live, how he got started on guitar and more.
BY ANDREW SCOTT
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COLUMN: The Auld Wan – When she walks she moves so fine…like a flamingo
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
The Manfred Mann song came to mind as I went down past the Lanyon Building one day last week at lunchtime on an errand. The hundreds of graduands, and wives and girlfriends thereof, stalking across the lawns and pavements in their 10 centimetre heels (I’m a bit of SI unit man myself) in their multicoloured best – while the men marched around awkwardly in the suits they hope will impress at those first interviews.
BY THE AULD WAN
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NEWS: Heaney opens McClay Library
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Seamus Heaney officially opened the McClay Library on Tuesday 6th July during a black tie ceremony attended by various dignitaries associated with Queen’s University. The new library has been named after late benefactor Sir Allen McClay, and has been described by Lady McClay as an appropriate way to remember Sir Allen. In December 2009, The Gown reported on QUB’s failure to notify Heaney that the library in his name was no longer open.
BY BEN FINCH
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