@yorknouse • /yorknouse • @yorknouse • www.nouse.co.uk Ed Balls: Speaking Out York Elects Finn Judge catches up with the ex-Shadow Nouse exit poll suggests 71% Chancellor, author and dancer M.4 of students voted Labour P. 8 The University of York’s longest-running student society Nouse Est. 1964 Sponsored by Tuesday 13 June 2017 Referendum on Working Class Officer in YUSU policy package • Vote on the creation of a new Part-Time Officer position due to be held early next term • Motion for new Interfaith Officer "dismissed out of hand" after YUSU's consultation process However, such a move has Finn Judge been fiercely debated among DEPUTY EDITOR the student body as rumours of the referendum's arrival became more apparent. A graduating English stu- THE END OF this term's policy dent, who wishes to remain process for YUSU's Policy & Re- anonymous, spoke to Nouse of view Group (PRG) has, after re- her own opposition to the pro- ceiving "divided opinion", made posal: plans to put to referendum the "Whereas being LGBTQ question of whether the Stu- or BAME is fairly easy to pin dents' Union should create the down, what even constitutes be- Student designs put on a show at the Northern Youth-run fashion show for 2017's York Festival of Ideas P.6 new part-time position of Work- ing working class is hugely divi- ing Class & Social Mobility Of- sive, and I can only imagine the ficer. position creating conflict as peo- Alongside these plans was ple squabble to decide whether the establishment of a new abili- somebody is actually working ty for liberation networks to elect class or not." Drug abuse at Big D leads to and send their own delegates to These new moves come in network-themed NUS confer- spite of the PRG rejecting pro- ences - coupled with a decrease posals for YUSU to state its sup- in the amount of sabbatical of- port for the NUS Liber8 cam- higher security at next event ficers automatically enlisted to paign, as well as the creation of attend conferences. a Part-Time Interfaith Officer The idea of establishing a position. blow-out, 'Big D'. Nouse about the drug use that per- Working Class Officer, as pro- The Liber8 campaign in- Luke Rix-Standing The measures will see more meated the event. One third year posed by YUSU's Community & cludes eight core campaign areas, members of campus security attend Derwent attendee commented: "We Well-being Officer Dom Smith- the first of which is to "fight fees EDITOR the event, who will regularly search saw people taking drugs several ies, would be to represent stu- and cuts" - entailing a call for free students for substances - previ- times during the event, and we saw dents from lower socioeconomic education and a boycott of the ously only students with bags were loads of people inside who were evi- backgrounds on matters of ac- National Student Survey (NSS), SECURITY SERVICES are set searched, and only sporadically. dently on something. It wasn't hard cessibility to opportunities on which, given the recent election to dramatically increase student Nouse understands that the possibil- to work out." campus, as well as to provide an of the Conservative-led govern- searches and personnel at next ity of a police presence was discussed Another third year Derwent stu- effective campaigning voice re- ment, is set to be linked to the week's 'Beach D' Derwent event, af- at length, although the idea has re- dent told Nouse: "I think drugs are garding issues such as the cost of ter substantial drug use was discov- portedly been shelved. living at university. Continued on P. 5 ered at last week's notorious campus Several students have spoken to Continued on P. 6 CONTENTS NEWS IMAGE: THE BBC Central Hall P.5 The new renovations with years left to run Est. 1964 SABBs in Review P.7 The outgoing Officers FEATURES A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR... say their goodbyes Ed Balls M.4 I remember my first Editor’s Note. Quill enough it can become monotonous, but in hand and brimming with nascent enthu- routine is made of up of many of the simple Politics, his book and siasm, I penned my initial ravings at least a pleasures and frustrations that have made week before production week even started. the University experience the rollercoaster FILM Strictly Come Dancing Bounding into my first section meeting, the that is has undeniably been. late nights and steamrollering stress-a-thons I’ve relied on pop culture references seemed a speck on the horizon; a challenge to throughout my brief and inglorious stint in Jack Nicholson M.14 be risen to without a backward look. student journalism, so I might as well end The team explore City Nine months and seven each-gruelling- with one: “life moves pretty fast, if you don’t COMMENT in-their-own-way production weeks later, stop and look around once in a while, you Screen’s JN season I’m sitting in the office dishevelled, dead- might miss it”. eyed, huddled over my YUSU-branded coffee So in this increasingly emotional fare- late on a Sunday night, while the Sub-Editors well, I can only say that’s its been a blast. It argue over the capitalisation of the phrase doesn’t feel like it right now, but the photos Mental Health P.10 general election. With roughly 20 minutes that adorn the wall of ‘Nousetalgia’, and the The University has to write my last Editor’s Note, under the in-jokes that I will take with me out into the dawning realisation that soon I, like all my world (“does the shoot have a fold in it?” simply not done enough predecessors, will be yesterday’s Nouse, I feel *chuckles unproariously*) are far more im- my transformation is complete. Wide-eyed portant than a week of sleep. And to provide Platonist to jaded burn-out, whose voice can a shameless plug for my unfortunate succes- often be heard informing the corridors of sor, if you’ve ever had any interest in student Socialist Meming P.11 Grimston House that they are “too old for journalism, then come to our by-elections at this shit”. From Forrest Gump to Dirty Harry. the end of this week. Who knows, you may Left must stop lionising Serpico a the beginning of the movie, to Ser- end up misanthropic, exhausted, and funda- Stalin and Mao pico at the end. mentally fulfilled. But it is only now, staring down the bar- Editing a student paper is, and always rel of what I’ve been loosely terming ‘my free- will be, beset by delusions of grandeur, but POLITICS dom’, that I realise that I will miss Nouse and it is not something you can do by halves, so miss it badly. I am temporarily reminded of forgive this tired Editor for his disgraceful that Passenger song that dominated 2013, self-indulgence. So long Nouse. Thanks for MUSIC “you only know you love her when you let her the memories. Paris Agreement P.16 go”. Trite perhaps, but as true as a truism can be. The Donald’s preference King No-One M.12 When you’ve done something for long Luke Rix-Standing for Pittsburgh peaks The York buskers The opinions expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of the editors, writers, publishers or advertisers. playing at Reading Contact [email protected] with letters and complaints. 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