Council may hinder green efforts
Sophie Cole, continues to praise the Union’s ‘Go Green’ campaign but suggests its lasting impact may be jeopardised by Cardiff City Council
So, here we are, a week on from the Students’ Union’s ‘Go Green’ campaign, those who got involved should still be basking in the ‘I took one for the planet’ lime-light; initiatives which were thrust into our student domain included a Cathays wide litter pick, increased recycling bins within University buildings, give-aways of ‘Go Green’ bags of goodness and the elusive bundles of green recycling bin-bags.
And for all of these ‘raising awareness’ tactics one should still be, firmly, on two feet, applauding the efforts of the Union. For the truth is, sustainable living is something we students should be concerned with on a daily basis; however, this is not the reality of the situation.
Living with an obsession
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is considered by most to be a trivial condition barely deserving of the term ‘mental illness’; a condition akin to overconscientiousness, capable of causing no more than minor irritation. Yet it has the potential to take over
People often talk about how hard it is to write. The words don’t come, they say. Their mind goes blank. It’s frustrating. People talk less often about how hard it is to literally write something. To type without backspacing needlessly, deleting and rewriting, deleting and rewriting, addingt letterss to thea end of wordsa,
highlighting text for no reason,
Ein Byd - Rhan 2
Parhad o drafodaeth yr wythnos diwethaf yngly ˆ n â’r papur newydd dyddiol Cymraeg, na fydd erbyn hyn yn cael ei sefydlu.
Yn gyntaf, ymddiheuriadau am yr erthygl a gafodd ei gwastraffu’r wythnos diwethaf. Ysgrifennais erthygl ar hanes y papur newydd dyddiol Cymraeg Y Byd, a gwneud rhyw fath o hwyl am ben y Cymry am beidio â gallu cyrraedd targedau mewn pryd.
I’r rheini ohonoch sy’n darllen y papurau dyddiol ac yn edrych ar y newyddion, mi fyddwch yn gwybod beth ddigwyddodd nesaf. Ond i’r gweddill ohonoch, dyma a ddigwyddodd. Dim ond deuddydd wedi i’m herthygl gael ei gyrru i gael ei phrintio, roedd penawdau’r newyddion yn darllen ‘Ergyd i’r Byd’. Yn syml iawn, ni fydd y papur newydd Cymraeg dyddiol yn cael ei sefydlu o gwbl erbyn hyn.
Give it up for SVC
This week sees the start of Student Volunteering Week. Samantha Curry finds out how getting involved can help you with your future career
With more and more young people heading off to university each year, employers are increasing being given the opportunity to handpick their new recruits from large groups of graduates.
So when approaching the minefield of the modern recruitment world, it becomes clear that you need to offer far more than a display of academic ability.
The Destitution Trap
With immigration remaining an unsolved issue, Owen Davis from the Student Action for Refugees organisation, STAR, explores the severity of the situation and calls for our support
“There are 280,000 refused asylum seekers living destitute in the UK today.”
What part of this statement are you most drawn to? Is it the figure, “280,000”? Is it “refused asylum seekers”? Or is it the word “destitute”? For many, the phrase “refused asylum seekers” is the instant decider. Its hugely negative connotations, created largely by the media, are enough to override whatever else is being suggested. Perhaps if the media had placed anywhere near as much focus on the other key phrase in this statement, “living destitute,” then the opinions of many might be different.
GENERATION Y: VOTE-APHOBICS?
Students are more likely to vote for Big Brother than in a General Election. But is our label as apathetic non-citizens fair? Emma Thomas asks if we are really so
Dubbed Generation Y by political marketing strategists, those of us born any later than 1983 appear to have a genetic malfunction; the inability to welcome the realm of politics into our beer and pizza filled existences.
Behind this popular critical image of the drunken youth who thinks that a seat in the House of Lords is a season ticket in a box at Old Trafford, there is a critical condition. Tabloid critics place us as genetically helpless. According to the Daily Mirror “Medical experts have discovered the reason for teenage apathy – their brains make them lazy”. We cannot lie down and take this Neanderthal label, but we must recognise a problem. The electorate of the future are out of sync with the political system which organises their lives, from bin-day to holiday pay.
‘Eisteddfod’ Rhyng-Gol?
Un o uchafbwyntiau blwyddyn goleg y myfyriwr Cymreig yw’r
Dwi ddim am droedio’r tir peryglus o enwi pob unigolyn o Gaerdydd a brofodd lwyddiant yn yr Eisteddfod Ryng-golegol yn Nghaerfyrddin ychydig dros wythnos yn ôl. Pe bawn yn ceisio gwneud hynny fe fyddwn yn siwr o anghofio rhywun, felly gwell peidio enwi neb er mwyn cadw’r ddysgl yn wastad! O ran cytadlaethau’r corau a’r partïon daeth y Gym Gym i’r brig yng nghystadleuaeth y parti sioe gerdd a’r côr bechgyn.
Ail oedd Caerdydd pan gyhoeddwyd marciau terfynol y diwrnod. Fel y llynedd, daethom yn ail i’r brifysgol oedd yn cystadlu ar ei thir ei hun; Bangor yn achos 2007 a Choleg y Drindod eleni. Bydd unrhyw un sydd wedi mynychu eisteddfod ryng-golegol yn gwybod bod ychydig o ffafriaeth a dweud y lleiaf yn cael ei roi i’r tîm sy’n cynnal yr eisteddfod, ac wrth ystyried hynny, roedd dod yn ail yn ganlyniad da, bron cystal ag ennill i bob pwrpas! Yn ogystal â chanmol llwyddiannau Caerdydd ar y llwyfan dylid clodfori agwedd y Gym Gym yn y gynulleidfa hefyd. Teg dweud ein bod ar y cyfan, yn rhoi perffaith chwarae teg i’r colegau eraill wrth iddynt gystadlu sydd yn fwy nag y gellir ei ddweud am rai o’r colegau hynny, (heb enwi neb – Aber).
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