Gair Rhydd

I know what you did...

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Fed up of doing the same old bar/shop/office work during the long summer months? Christofer Lloyd talks to Jobs and Money about doing something a little bit different

Three months, fifteen weeks, 105 days; a big void in the student calendar.

Respite between semesters of intense work. Well, for the liver at least. Simple.

The Wind of Change

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Sophie Cole reviews the impact of rejecting of renewable energy and the future consequences that it could have on the planet

As the students of today and the leaders of tomorrow, we are saturated in the most environmentally conscious of eras. Living among the green discourse, everywhere we turn there is an advert, a product or an individual mentioning global warming, climate change and carbon foot prints, encouraging us to adapt our lives to the needs of the planet for future generations to come.

With Cardiff University services including fair-trade produce, recycling facilities within home schools and the union, and energy efficient computers, it is pertinent to acknowledge the appeal and commitment of many students to sustainable living.

Drinking Dangers: Drowning into Oblivion

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‘Boat races’, ‘golf’ and ‘doubles’ are all student games, but none of them are played anywhere near a sports pitch. Ceri Isfryn explores what competitive drinking is doing to the student body...

My belly feeling like a washing machine – I can handle. Feeling like someone’s taking a sledgehammer to my head – I can just about handle. But the Red Bull jitters, I simply cannot.

Don’t get me wrong, I love pound a pint night at the Woody as much as the next Cathays resident, but one too many Tuesday morning has gone by where I’ve been confined to my bed with the J word following a night at Vodka Island.

“Ma’i’n Braf!”

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Mae rhai pobl yn dueddol o siarad am y tywydd pan nad oes ganddynt ddim byd arall i siarad amdano. Mae arna’i ofn fy mod i’n euog o hynny’r wythnos yma!

Bydd pawb wedi sylwi bod y tywydd wedi bod yn anarferol o braf yn ddiweddar, os fydd hynny’n wir o hyd erbyn i hwn gael ei argraffu sy’n gwestiwn arall! Efallai mai fi sy’n dechrau drysu ond mae hi fel pe bai’r haf yn dod yn gynt bob blwyddyn! Ymddengys bellach fod hi’n ddisgwyliadwy bron iddi fod yn haul poeth trwy’r cyfnod arholiadau gan wneud adolygu ar eu cyfer yn orchwyl gymaint anoddach. Ac yna, wedi’r arholiadau orffen fe ddiflanna’r haul i rywle am flwyddyn arall, gan fod yn ddigon digywilydd i beidio gwneud ymddangosiad yn y ‘Steddfod hyd yn oed!

Gigs y Steddfod

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Gyda’r flwyddyn brifysgol yn brysur ddod i ben does dim llawer o amser i fynd tan yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol sydd wrth gwrs eleni yn cael ei chynnal yma yng Nghaerdydd.

Wythnos ryfedd iawn yw hon i unrhyw ddilynwr o’r Sîn Roc Gymraeg. Trwy’r flwyddyn mae gigs o safon yn gallu bod yn bethau prin. Ond yn yr Eisteddfod weithiau rhaid dewis rhwng dwy neu dair o gigs da sy’n digwydd yr un noson. Felly, os am osgoi penbleth ar y maes yn y prynhawn, mae misoedd o waith paratoi yn allweddol! Nid yw rhestr gigs Cymdeithas yr Iaith wedi ei gwblhau eto ond gellir taro golwg ar arlwy Maes B.

Cardiff Student Media Awards 2008

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The best and the brightest of Cardiff’s student media gathered at the Park Place Hilton Hotel last weekend for the Cardiff Student Media Award 2008.

This year’s awards ceremony was bigger than ever with 39 awards in total.

University: Brainy bargain or reality rip off?

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As the cost of a degree leaves an ever-damaging dent in the student bank balance, Christofer LLoyd investigates whether university is still a valuable life experience or just an expensive waste of time

University. Home to all things outlandish, everything amoral and an overriding sense that if it feels good, do it. Sex, drugs, rock and roll, Funky Ass Disco Dancing, Custard Wrestling: You name it, it’s all here. Uni is a place of infinite opportunities to take advantage of and countless black holes for less wary students to disappear into, all hidden under a blanket title of “education”.

Yet no one seems to question the superficialities of 21st century British students, seeing university as a default stepping stone between school and er, honest employment, whatever that is. You know, that bit between being young and dying.