Week One

At the start of the week, we brought you an article on how to make the most of Welcome Week. Now that you’ve registered, made new friends and nursed one too many hangovers, Ellen Smithies is giving us a hand to give Five Final Top Tips for Freshers. So...

Week One is to undergo a number of significant, structural changes as part of reforming the University of Nottingham Students’ Union (UoNSU) Welcome Programme. Teams of ‘Welcome Mentors’ will replace Week One reps and will be recruited by application, rather than being elected to the position. The mentor system...

Most of you will, by now, have seen the footage and extensive media coverage of the recent chauvinistic chants led by Week One reps. You will also, as I have, read the Impact Comment article criticising the resulting disciplinary measures as “too harsh”. As the person who filmed the...

Recently, a video surfaced of a small number of mostly faceless people chanting sexual and explicit phrases that could be construed by some as misogynistic. Publications including Impact, the Guardian and the Daily Mail have published articles on the subject, giving rise to a debate about lad culture on...

The first University of Nottingham Students’ Union (UoNSU) scrutiny panel of the year took place on Thursday 9th October 2014. The purpose of the panel, which is made up of cross-campus elected students, is to ask the full time SU Executive Officers and the part time SU Environment &...

Warning: contains explicit language. A video depicting first year students at the University of Nottingham engaging in an explicit chant has recently surfaced. The chant features descriptions of necrophilia and violence, and can be heard being shouted by students from Cavendish Hall. “We were taught this chant by the...

Nottingham University Television Station (NUTS) has been rebranded and will now be known as Nottingham Student Television (NSTV), following an official announcement yesterday. The television station will broadcast programmes from four areas: entertainment, news and features, culture and sport. NSTV has adopted the slogan ‘black is the new orange’...