The Radish

Gary Hughes

Anonymous — Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:45 pm

Author: Anonymous

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:45 pm

What a nob he was

Flag Flying - racism?

Anonymous — Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:03 pm

Author: Anonymous

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:03 pm

if i thought it was necessary to reclaim the flag from fascists, which i don't, i'm not sure it would matter whether or not the guild flies it.
the vast majority of people are able to see that a union flag does not denote racism and xenophobia, and the few that aren't make me far more inclined to fly it anyway.

Climate Change Draft Bill

steven — Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:12 pm

Author: steven

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:12 pm

As part of my new role with Friends of the Earth (for which I'm not getting paid, so don't be too happy for me), I'm very much pushing the Big Ask campaign, which is calling for a stronger climate bill. The draft from the government isn't strong enough - we want an 80% reduction in CO2 emissions (3% a yaer until 2050), annual reports to hold government to account, and to include aviation and shipping in the total targets.

FoE have helpfully created an online form to help you submit your response to the draft bill nice and easily - it can be found, along with more info, at http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/press_for_change/climate_bill/.

It would be a great help to the world if you could take ten minutes out of your day to put your thoughts down (if you haven't already) and send this off, so we can let the government know that we want serious action. The idea is then to work on getting MPs to support individual amendments to the bill to achieve these strengthenings.

Making music

Georgy Porgy — Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:49 am

Author: Georgy Porgy

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:49 am

does anyone on this forum make music?

play instruments?
electronic music/digital production?

what genres?
to what standard?

i'm in a couple of bands and make electronic beats, just looking for hook-ups, collaborations, jamming and general feedback and chatter....

The Uni and City

Georgy Porgy — Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:07 am

Author: Georgy Porgy

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:07 am

higuy wrote:

what course do u plan to do?

Birmingham is a great city - as good as any outside london

Personally I disagree. Birmingham is nowhere near as good for going out and most musical sub genres / scenes as any other major city outside London. I prefer Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, and Nottingham, also the uni itself is overrated.

Having said that i have really enjoyed my time here at the Uni and the cliche really is true - it's what you make of it. Some things may not be as thriving as you hoped, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy what there is, or even do something about it.

As for Brum being a dangerous place, i don't think you have anything to worry about. Unless you go looking for trouble you won't find it. As a student, your biggest worry should be burglary and theft, and any student area will always be a magnet for that sort of thing so Brum is no worse than anywhere else.

Birmingham Vintage Fashion Fair

bionicwaldorf — Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:51 pm

Author: bionicwaldorf

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:51 pm

just got my tickets through for this

www.birminghamvintagefashionfair.co.uk

Sunday 25th at the Great Hall, 10 till 5

loads of menswear as well apparently, just spoke to the bloke

nice suit for me I reckon

Are you a bigot?

bionicwaldorf — Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:46 pm

Author: bionicwaldorf

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:46 pm

same here

try political compass though, that's quite a good one

google it, as can't find the url

Funny NUS spoof site

bionicwaldorf — Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:44 pm

Author: bionicwaldorf

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:44 pm

very good spoof

Charity Debate for Breast Cancer Research

pmqs — Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:36 pm

Author: pmqs

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:36 pm

you only need to write this once for everyone on radish to see it

UK universities will become like US - anonymous VC

hannoir — Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:45 pm

Author: hannoir

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:45 pm

You could be right. But because peoples debt is going to be getting greater it means that their loans are going to take longer to repay - therefore meaning that the govt will still be short of cash. But I'm not sure I'm following your logic really anyway. Then theres the people that emigrate and therefore don't pay their loans back.
Or do you want a labour economics analysis of why people go into education?

Question about Guild elections (which start 27th Feb)

Teapotboy — Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:40 pm

Author: Teapotboy

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:40 pm

Yeah noone got told about VPA though.

Is it just me or is this being buried?

Enlightened_Bystander — Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:59 pm

Author: Enlightened_Bystander

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:59 pm

There was some discussion about the BAE/Saudi investigation being dropped, but my 'glourious leader' got heavily beaten back by Tony far too easily. This is the first I've heard of actual charging, but I've not had my ear to the ground on, well much other than the vital arena of Guild politics recently...

Racism in Big Brother?

Pyro — Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:57 pm

Author: Pyro

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:57 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cAxbkkzPms

pushy penguin's predicament

Pushy Penguin — Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:35 pm

Author: Pushy Penguin

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:35 pm

It sounds quite trotskyist, comrade steven

pushy penguin's proposal

SimonM — Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:00 am

Author: SimonM

Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:00 am

Let's send the IT guy a link to this thread and ask him if he would post his plans and perspective. Actually, I'm going to do that now.

Simon's email wrote:

You may be aware of the unofficial University of Birmingham message board at http://www.theradish.org.uk/. We've been having a discussion on use of free and open source software at the Guild, and a few people have been considering the idea of writing a Guild Council motion in order to steer Guild IT policy more in that direction. There are a number of opinions either way but we seem to have reached a bit of a consensus towards the end of a thread.

It'd be great if you could take some time to read through the thread and post your thoughts on the matter, both from your perspective and with regard to current IT policy. We've decided to hold back on the motion for the moment.