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- Here's Johnny
Johnny Lechner is now in his thirteenth year at university. The National Student has been following the life of the perpetual student.
31 Oct 2006 12:07:39 +0000 - The shape we're in
After moving on from having small dogs as accessories the latest celebrity craze is to be super skinny. But after the death of a model who dieted on nothing but green leaves and Diet Coke earlier in the year Helen Earnshaw asks is size 0 a step too far?
6 Oct 2007 18:03:12 +0000 - Student Gumball Rally 2006
In September whilst people across the country were battling their way through the clearing process, finishing off their summer jobs and generally preparing and packing for the new academic year, 500 students drove across Europe in the first ever Student Gumball Rally. Nathan Millward was one such adventurer.
6 Feb 2007 18:05:28 +0000 - If you didn’t win an Ig Nobel prize, and especially if you did; better luck next year.
The Ig Nobel awards are attracting greater attention from the press each year and are quickly approaching the somewhat stuffy and more prestigious Nobel awards for column inches.
6 Feb 2007 18:06:05 +0000 - The Silent Killer
Students moving into a new home for the first time should immediately check the residence’s appliances to prevent possibly fatal consequences from carbon monoxide poisoning.
6 Feb 2007 18:06:39 +0000 - ThemTube
YouTube founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley are practically swimming in Google shares, but as the site gets increasingly commercial what is the future for the YouTube YouTubers? Ian Phillips examines the promotional degradation of an internet phenomenon.
6 Feb 2007 18:07:19 +0000 - Students do the strangest things
Reporting the various happenings in studentland, we have encountered some weird, wonderful and down-right stupid stories. Here are our highlights from the world of student strangeness and stupidity in recent years.
6 Feb 2007 18:07:47 +0000 - Kitchen Nightmares
The student kitchen can be a distressing and unsettling place - a room capable of spawning great anguish in early encounters of communal living. We invited students and graduates to brave the horrific flashbacks and share their memories of that legendary first-year kitchen.
6 Feb 2007 18:08:14 +0000 - Let justice be done...
A new television series, ‘The Innocence Project’, follows a team of ambitious law students fighting for justice where they believe miscarriages of justice lie uncorrected. The series has parallels with real-life ‘innocence projects’ in America and in this country, but how far does fiction meet fact? JONATHAN KENNEDY investigates…
6 Feb 2007 18:08:34 +0000 - A career in conservation
Are you passionate about the natural world? Do you have a love of plants and animals? Are you prepared to commit yourself to protecting species and ecosystems.
6 Feb 2007 18:08:58 +0000 - Trials and tribulations
Just like the part-time bar job, the summer shifts in the factory or the weekend retail work - taking part in clinical trials has become an established source of student income. 19-year-old student David O’ Donnell has taken part in many such trials and around about now was due to take part in a high dose trial of a drug currently only known as TGN1412.
6 Feb 2007 18:09:30 +0000 - Pro-test press officer Iain Simpson outlines why he supports scientific
Animal testing hasn’t had a great press. For many people, it seems to conjure up mental images of photogenic bunny rabbits having shampoo poured in their eyes whilst evil scientists dance around cackling with glee. So why do I support it?
6 Feb 2007 18:10:11 +0000 - Penaran Higgs from the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection explains why she is against testing on animals
Anyone reading recent coverage of the pro-vivisection demonstration in Oxford would imagine that the issue of animal testing rages between scientists and animal rights activists who are all in favour of violence!
6 Feb 2007 18:11:44 +0000 - Animal rights time-line
The animal rights movement began in earnest in 1963 with the formation of the Hunt Saboteurs Association, which put its members between the hunters and their quarry in protest at hunting with dogs.
6 Feb 2007 18:12:17 +0000 - ‘If simple ‘belief’ is allowed into the discussion the development of understanding is in a very dangerous place.’
In recent months one particular debate has been at the centre of scientific teaching in the United Kingdom. There is growing support and pressure to include ‘creationism’ as part of biology syllabuses, with an increasing number of science students challenging Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution in favour of creationist ideas.
6 Feb 2007 18:13:25 +0000
