@yorknouse • /yorknouse • @yorknouse • www.nouse.co.uk The Greatest Con Man? Roses 2018 Is it irresponsible to depict problematic Away loss for York as Lancaster figures as "good" people? M.15 claims victory P.28 The UK's best designed student newspaper 2018 Est. 1964 Nouse Thursday 10 May 2018 York gender pay Watkins gap higher than charity national average drive • The University's mean Gender Pay Gap is 19.31 per cent, 5.21 per cent higher than the average kicks off • 62 per cent of the uppermost pay quartile is male, Joseph Silke while the lower most quartile is 63 per cent female NEWS EDITOR nus gap has been warped by the inclusion of eight recipients of YORK'S FULL-TIME Sabbatical Oscar Bentley NHS Clinical Excellence Awards, Officers have begun a campaign to DEPUTY EDITOR given to qualified medical profes- raise money for the Charlie Watkins sionals jointly employed by the Foundation, which will culminate University and the NHS, funded in the team completing a skydive THE UNIVERSITY OF York’s by the NHS with the University this month. The charity, established mean gender pay gap is 19.31 per having nothing to do with the de- in memory of York Criminology cent, a recently released report termination of these awards. This graduate Charlie Watkins, aims to has revealed, higher than the leaves the median of 4.38 per raise awareness of mental health is- national average of 14.1 per cent. cent as a more accurate portrayal sues affecting young people in high- Under new statutory gender pay of the University’s gender bonus er education. Charlie Watkins took reporting legislation, organisa- gap, which in turn is significantly his own life at the age of 22 on 13 tions had to release their gender lesser than the UK average. March last year. pay gap reports by midnight on 4 The report further reveals The recent graduate of the class April, with the University releas- that the uppermost pay quartile of 2017 had landed a job working ing theirs ahead of the deadline of the University is male domi- at York Chocolate Story museum in in March. nated (comprising 62 per cent of the city centre but was let go after The University’s mean gen- the quartile), as opposed to the his participation in four-day filming der pay gap, or the difference lower most pay quartile where for an episode of the matchmaking between the mean hourly rates of males comprise only 37 per cent programme Take Me Out led to him pay for male and female full pay compared to 63 per cent for fe- not turning up for work. In the epi- employees, was revealed as 19.31 males. These findings infer that sode, which was later broadcast in per cent, a slight decrease from the senior roles and highest pay- his memory with the consent of his 2016's 19.71 per cent, while the ing jobs at the University, and family, Charlie expressed regret at median gender pay gap, or the as such the University’s senior failing to find love during his three difference between the median management, are overwhelm- years at the University of York. hourly rates of pay, ranked at ingly male, with the University’s In a statement released last 17.72 per cent, again a slight drop Executive Board itself having a month, the sabb officers announced from 18.61 per cent, however is slight majority of males. plans to fundraise for the Founda- staggeringly higher than the UK In response to these find- tion. York Sport President Laura average of 9.1 per cent. ings, the University says it has Carruthers, who was friends with The report also revealed a 47 resolved to tackle what it calls Charlie, said of the campaign: “We per cent to 53 per cent split of the its “unacceptable” mean hourly want to raise awareness to students University’s staff, however more rate gender pay gap by trying to about mental health issues and raise male employees receive bonuses, understand the barriers to the money for the Foundation who do at 4.59 per cent as opposed to recruitment and promotion of all brilliant work in educating people 3.86 per cent, with a staggering females, by encouraging females about the stigma surrounding sui- overall mean gender bonus gap of to apply for senior roles, intro- cide.” Charlie had long suffered with 73.97 per cent, significantly high- ducing unconscious bias training mental health issues since he was a er than the UK average of 40 per cent. However, the high mean bo- Continued on P. 4 York suffers a 225.5-126.5 Roses defeat, read more in our supplement Continued on P. 7 CONTENTS NEWS Policy Proposals P.3 Policies looks to change YUSU elections Est. 1964 SPARK:York P.7 The community project FEATURES opens to the public A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR... Life in the Stars M.16 always find summer term at University a put into my summer schedule. How social media helped confusing experience. It can be one of the However, in my semi bedridden, semi- I most fun and yet most terrible times of Nouse-office-ridden state there has been one to kill the rockstar the year simultaneously. Let me explain: on thing keeping me motivated. Something that one hand it’s great as temperatures in York has pulled me through the exhaustion of this FOOD & DRINK finally get above 10 degrees celsius. However, paper and its Roses supplement. This mysti- on the other there are exams to revise for. You cal cure to my pessimism and tiredness came Veganism M.19 have no lectures that you have to get up for, to me courtesy of YSTV’s Roses footage, in How veganism can but that means that you have to try and find which a men’s rugby self-tackle was not only a spot in the library. There are some decent comic in itself but has now been made into a save the world events such as Roses and Summer Ball how- spectacular meme (pictured). If you are not COMMENT ever these come paired with the realisation fortunate enough to have seen this event, I that you have now completed a significant will do my best to describe it for you. chunk of your university life and that a lot Following a spectacular side step from Conspiracy Theories P.9 of your mates are going to disappear into the a Lancaster rugby player, the trajectory of a abyss of the real world in a matter of weeks. York tackle was misplaced. Rather than tack- Conspiracies are Asides from being the home of my mid- ling the Lancaster player, the York player in- university crisis, this summer term has been stead plowed into his teammate in spectacu- becoming mainstream particularly confusing for me personally. lar fashion. I’ve managed to actually do some of my de- For those of you who are not particularly gree (Exam Gods please have mercy on interested in rugby and do not quite under- Liberalism P.11 me). Although unfor- stand the hilarity behind this incidence, this tunately I am now is the sporting equivalent of slapping your- Liberalism needs writing this arti- self in the face, or dropping a full plate of cle from the beautifully crafted spaghetti bolognaise onto to fight back comfort of a white shirt. Some may even go as far as say- my bed having ing it’s a literal representation of Brexit’s im- realised that it is very pact on the U.K economy. POLITICS likely that I may have This edition of Nouse contains our Roses glandular fever. If supplement and although this did feel like this is the case it a bit of a self tackle getting this to print, I Rudd Resigns P.16 ARTS means that I will hope that you enjoy its content. If be bed ridden for you don’t then you can have your The Windrush scandal Stage Lighting M.6 up to a month. money back. Something that I claims the Home Secretary Will new EU regulations have to say I didn’t Jacob Phillips kill the West End? Local Elections P.17 The opinions expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of the editors, writers, publishers, or advertisers. Contact [email protected] with letters and complaints. 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