Bangor University Students’ Union April 2016 English Language Issue No. 254 Newspaper FREE @SerenBangor seren.bangor.ac.uk NEW SPECIES OF LEMUR VARSITY 2016 COACHELLA FASHION Bangor University Accommodation Best In UK by EMILY RIMMER port, silver for courses and lectures, Professor John G Hughes, the Uni- this year’s Whatuni Student Choice If you would like to get involved and which was up from seventh last year. versity’s Vice-Chancellor, welcomed Awards. Student experience is such an keep Bangor University on it’s win- he 14th of April saw the ‘Wha- e biggest award of the night was the news saying: “ is is the second important aspect of university life, we ning streak visit the Whatuni website tuni Student Choice Awards’ winning gold in the accommodation year in a row that Bangor University are really proud to play a signi cant below: come round for another year. category. has won a national Whatuni Award. role in it for both current and future http://www.whatuni.com/awards T e awards were hosted in London Ken Gri th, Head of Residences, I’m delighted that the University students.” with special guest presenter and co- said: “It has been a tremendous team has again won a category award, and median Jimmy Carr announcing the e ort over the last few years as we have achieved top ve placings in a number results on the night. also opened our new St Mary’s stu- of other categories. is win re ects e awards are special because they dent village, increasing our portfolio our focus on providing an excellent are voted for by students and only stu- to nearly 3000 rooms. What is impor- education and all-round student-cen- dents. is year over 25,000 votes from tant is that our high quality and ser- tred university experience. I’m grate- 125 universities were veri ed, making vice standards have been maintained ful to our students for their support, that 5,000 more votes than last year. throughout and that our students have and very pleased that they appreciate Overall, 39 universities were o cial- acknowledge this with their voting. their time in Bangor. I would also like ly nominated into categories that re- We are well placed to give next year’s to thank all our sta for their fantastic ect the aspects of student experience intake the best student experience in e orts.” including: city life, student support, their halls.” e Whatuni awards follow on from clubs and societies, accommodation, Bangor also placed forth for clubs another successful year for Bangor international, student union, univer- and societies, seventh in the interna- University with the university retain- sity facilities, course and lectures, job tional category and tenth for univer- ing it’s title of ‘best in Wales’ and one prospects and nally university of the sity facilities. of the top ten universities for student year. Bangor was nominated in seven One of the highlights of the awards satisfaction in the National Student out of the ten categories with each cat- has to be reaching the number four Survey. egory consisting of 10 nominees. spot for university of the year. We have Simon Emmett, Managing Director Bangor University swept up winning risen three places from last years re- Whatuni.com, added: a total of three awards on the night. sults when we nished as seventh best “Bangor University has had a strong Review collection for the 2017 Wha- Prof. Carol Tully (Pro Vice-Chancellor -Students) & Jeanette Wilson (Accommodation Manager) Bangor won bronze for student sup- university in the UK. endorsement from their students in tuni awards are already underway! 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I can honestly say I am so proud to be a part of Bangor on Comment 7 40 such a monumentous day for the university and for the students who Politics 8-9 put in so much e ort throughout Science 10 the day to make it a win for the university. We saw a huge turn out in Environment 12-13 students this year to cheer on all the sport teams. Union 14-15 Seren was there again this year covering all things Varsity, keeping Societies 16-17 you up to date on scores and the latest action from all the games. We Breaktime 19 had a great day running around Feature 20-21 Bangor and experiencing all the di erent sports (as most of us had Lifestyle 22-23 no idea of the rules to some of the sports). We had 18 reporters covering Fashion 24-25 for Seren who were live tweeting and updating the scores as they TV 26-27 happened. Of those reporters we also had a team of photographers who Film 28-29 took a massive 5,600 photos onthe Music 30-31 day. e day was rounded o with sunshine and a cider at the Bangor Gadgets 32-33 University football stadium to rally 22 33 on the men’s football team, who did Travel 34-35 us proud by beating Aberystwyth 2-1. It is fair to say it has been a chaotic Sport 36-40 couple of weeks leading up to this issue as dissertation deadline are looming ever closer. I can o cally rub it in all the other third years faces 24 and say mine to nally out of my hair and I couldn’t be happier. But I wish all of you the best of luck with yours and hope you get the results you want. Seren still has one more issue in May which will be lled with events like the Seren Business Awards, AU dinner , SU dinner and the 30 anticipated Summer Ball. As the academic year is coming to a close we will soon to holding our annual AGM in which we elect our members for next years team. If you want to be apart of Seren next year the AGM will be on the 5th May in PL2 at 6:30pm. We are also holding a recruitmenmt day on the 27th April to get people familiar with Seren and what we do, so if you are thinking of joining Seren please come along and talk to us :) I would like to wish everyone the best of luck on their revision for the exam period approaching!! THE TEAM CONTRIBUTORS ----- Dan Turner Sian Taylor Editor-in-Chief Emily Rimmer Gadgets Editor Christian James-Watkins e views presented hereina er L.J Turner Jess Ramanouwski Deputy Content Editor Kayla Jones TV Editor Annie Patel do not represent the views of Seren Morgane Viala Rebecca Steele News Editor Marine Dessaux Film Editor Seb Ellis Bangor, Bangor Students’ Union or Emma Debney Charlotte Howe-McCartin Deputy News Editor Morgane Viala Music Editor Finnian Shardlow Bangor University. Tiarna Armstrong Ana Khan Politics Editor Adam Barnes Fashion Editor Hannah Youd ----- Joe Heaford Sash Deacon Comment Editor J.P. Bebbington LIfestyle Editor Emma Jewkes Claire Duncan Kirrie Moore Science Editor Jack Greenhalgh Food & Drink Editor Heddwen Bethan Creaney Archery Committee Lewis Angel Environment Editor Azat Kalybay Travel Editor Bethan May People and PLants Society Connor Teeling Books Editor Jordan Glendenning Sport Editor Joe Caine Gadgets Editor Jamie Tompsett Charlie Wilson #254 4 Seren | April Issue 2016 NEWS “ is Bangor Girl Can” by MORGANE VIALA which celebrates active women up and such as Olympic athletes Jessica Ennis is Girl Can. England identi ed that it is fear of down the country who are doing their or Victoria Pendleton, might not be Sport England looked into various judgment that prevents many women n Wednesday 27th April at thing no matter how well they do it, the best way to encourage normal pieces of research by universities and from doing exercise. 12.00, to celebrate ‘ is Girl how they look, how red their face gets, women because their tness levels other sports foundations. ey found “Any woman will tell you about the Can’, Canolfan Brailsford will or even how sweaty they get.