Summer Ball – UBU President responds: Keep Calm and Carry On

Dress code IS black tie, says UBU President Paul Charlton Details of the event have always been available at the Summer Ball website (http://www.ubu.org.uk/summerball/) Goldney Ball has, ahem, also been outside most years Letter ends wishing Mr. Harper well at the Ball and thanking him for raising its profile The UBU President, Paul Charlton, having [...]

VP Sport wins battle for temporary fans in uni gym

VP Sport Hannah Pollak wins battle for temporary fans in the gym Failing air conditioning reported last Friday Gym temperature at uncomfortably high levels No news on when the air conditioning will be fixed Exercising on the cross-trainer in the university gym in the last week, it has been impossible to run for more than [...]

‘Daddy got me decks for my birthday’ – the rise of the amateur DJ at Bristol University

By Bethany Roberts Everybody knows one of them. They are mostly indigenous to the tribes of Badock and Hiatt Baker (although there are a few Goldney-based exceptions), and are usually spotted wearing tie-dye tops or lurid, ironically hideous t-shirts teamed with skinny jeans and Nike blazers, with a pair of chunky, expensive Bose headphones perpetually [...]

7 ways your social media habits reveal who you are

Here are 7 ways your social media habits reveal who you are, including whether your parents got divorced based on your Facebook likes! (via BuzzFeed)

9 Steps to making friends with benefits actually work

Friends with benefits is a complicated set – up, but if you can get it right thne it truly is a winner. Here’s our guide to making the best of it!

Top 6 tips for public speaking

Thomas Raffael has spoken to audiences of more than 500, reached the final of a major London debating competition, won an award at BathMUN for ‘Best Public Speaker’ and was President of Public Speaking Society 2011 – 12. When you speak to an audience for the first time, it can be one of the scariest [...]

Get your ASS to another library

I did something out of the ordinary today. I went somewhere I have never been before. I entered the unknown. I decided not to go to the ASS library but go to one of the many other libraries open at the university. I ventured to the Medical Sciences library. This was a pleasure to work [...]

Alcohol more harmful than heroin?

The question sounds almost silly. Alcohol more harmful than heroin? Surely not! But that is exactly what Professor David Nutt’s book Drugs Without the Hot Air suggests. Professor Nutt, having a vast wealth of experience in neurology, psychology and especially the effect of drugs, has much wisdom to impart on the subject. The book explores [...]