The Arts and Social Sciences Library will be open 24/7 during the Summer Term revision period.  The opening hours have been extended between 26 March and 15 June, including Easter vacation and Bank Holidays.   The move to extend the opening hours of the library have resulted after pressure from students. Complaints that the library [...]

February 22nd, 2012 Read more

The Bristol Wheel has opened in the centre of Broadmead, offering panoramic views across Bristol from 60 metres high. The observation wheel attraction, which was used over christmas last year in London’s Hyde Park, is expected to attract up to 50,000 people in the first month of opening.   The wheel is composed of 40 [...]

February 21st, 2012 Read more

Last night we began to receive allegations, both as formal complaints via email and through Twitter, that an article published in Epigram #247 entitled ‘A bluffer’s guide to Sunday league football clichés’ was plagiarised. Unfortunately, I was out of contact when this came to light. I met with my deputy editors and with Tom, and [...]

February 21st, 2012 Read more

Students voted to improve access to Bristol through contextualised offers and admissions targets at the Annual General Meeting of the Students’ Union this month. The motion voted to the top of the priority ballot and thus discussed first called for stronger enforcement of contextual offers of places to students from underprivileged backgrounds. Proposer Josephine Suherman [...]

February 20th, 2012 Read more

The UBU AGM saw a return to debates about the stance of the university on abortion. At the AGM, Alexander Chau, proposed a motion to repeal UBU’s pro-choice stance, which became UBU policy after the October Student Conference.   Chau’s motion called for the AGM to mandate all UBU officers to adopt a neutral position [...]

February 20th, 2012 Read more

A victory for hard-pressed students was revealed at the AGM two weeks ago with the announcement by Students’ Union president Gus Baker that the University are set to reinstate bursaries. The U-turn comes after campaigning by the Students’ Union and the revelation in Epigram 243 that the axing of bursaries was set to leave Bristol [...]

February 20th, 2012 Read more

A group of squatters have been evicted from a former school of English building having lived there for over eight months.   Five bailiffs entered the property in Lower Park Row after the police had received several phone calls from local residents to complain about noise levels and parties held late into the night.   [...]

February 20th, 2012 Read more