Tom Witherow
Tom Witherow: The York tradition that will die hard
Entering the weird world of the graduand via an eight-hour Courtyard drinking binge, you find yourself in an awkward limbo…
Tom Witherow: How to be a York landlord
It’s coming to the end of the year and York’s landlords are licking their lips as another round of ‘independently’…
International student told to use hardship fund to pay library fines
A Masters Student has had to apply for extra funds to pay off a £9 key texts fine
Tom Witherow: How to avoid summertime sadness this term
We all love the summer term. We can sit outside cloudbathing, consume cheap beer by the crate load and, once…
Library fine confusion
A university email caused confusion over whether library fines affected graduation
Tom Witherow: Overheard at… the Cal Soc ball
Includes real-life gems such as “Well of course I live in Chelsea, I don’t want to get stabbed!“
Sexposed: the bedroom habits of York students revealed
LGBTQ Social, FetSoc and WomCom run biggest-ever sex survey of York students
Majority of prominent societies governed by men
Men hold the majority of executive committee positions in political and careers societies
Men less likely to go to university
Women are a third more likely than men to opt to go to university
YUSU and its misdirected welfare fetish
YUSU’s welfare policies have gone too far…in the wrong direction