Student’s Union
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Climbing and Mountaineering Society (HUMS): Interview with Connor (Social Sec)
Why should people be interested in getting involved with your society? We’re really just trying to get more people active, both outdoors and in other settings. It’s just a really good, full-body activity to do. All of the walks that we do, all of the trips away that we do to North Wales and the Lake…
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Men’s Football (HUFC) Society: Interview with team
Ahmed, William, Kieran, Ethan and Hamza Why should people be interested in getting involved with your society? A: Good group of people, if you like football get involved, if you like a fun night out after you win get involved. W: Sport, especially football is a team game great way to get to know people. …
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Palestine Society: Interview with Misbah (Vice President)
Why should people be interested in getting involved with your society? Our society is about welcoming culture and making people aware of what’s happening in the world. It’s about making sure that people understand the purpose of the Palestinian culture and what the Palestinians believe in; their rights and history. Obviously everybody knows what’s going…
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15p REUSABLE CUP INITIATIVE
By Sean Ford During the summer the Students’ Union was recognized for their sustainability and green initiatives. They have attained a “Good” Green Impact award. The Students’ Union joined the award-winning programme in 2021 and they have made progress towards becoming a more sustainable organisation and creating long-lasting social change on campus. In partnership with…
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SU Election Live Blog
For those who haven’t been living under a rock or camping out in the library to get those deadlines met, it will be no surprise that the annual SU elections have been taking place at The University this week. You’ve been asked to vote, seen more green and blue than a day out at Teletubby…
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SU Elections – Candidate Question Time 2014
Yesterday evening the 2014 Students’ Union elections burst into life at a Candidate Question Time. In front of hundreds of students and a live radio audience candidates running for the roles of VP – Communications & Democracy, VP – Education, VP – Wellbeing & Equality, VP – Student Activities and SU President were grilled by…
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Refreshers Week
by Kevin Lawson It’s big, it’s loud, it’s back…it’s Refreshers’ 2014! We spoke to thousands of you during Freshers’ Week, kept quizzing you right through Term 1 and you told us that you wanted a big welcome back in the New Year. Well…when you say “jump”, we say “how high?”. Our daytime programme guarantees to…
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Hold Off On Your Housing
Every year the Students’ Union Advice Centre deals with a huge number of cases where students have rushed into signing for properties without properly thinking it all through or making any checks and then live to regret it because the property is unaffordable, they’ve fallen out with their housemates or the property is unsuitable. And what they don’t…
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Hawks Complete Charity Lift for Life
The Huddersfield Hawks American Football Club don’t do things by halves. For their latest charity fundraising effort they set themselves the target of lifting over 1 million kg in one day. Club media exec Dean Scicluna explains why: “Every October the NFL has a campaign to raise money for breast cancer research. As a club…
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VP Communications & Democracy – NHS Charges for International students: Unfairness or Xenophobia?
In July 2013 the Government offered a proposal to charge foreigners for using NHS health service in England. The following proposal was also decided to solve the net cost loss of £12 million invested in treating foreign nationals in the UK. To follow, the UK Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt announced that: “It is a national…