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By Courtney Greatrex
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he infamous Goldsmiths Students’ Union club night, Club Sandwich will move Thursdays after reading week following consecutive unsuccessful Wednesday nights.
First year design student and Stretch loyal Oliver George Lake was shocked at the idea of changing Club Sandwich to Thursday, but agreed that it makes sense. He said: “It’s kinda better though because you have a break between club sandwich and pub quiz”
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Th is news comes after a general meeting that took place before on 11 February in which students had the opportunity to share their thoughts about the future of the Students’ Union bar, The Stretch. The bar, which reported a deficit of nearly £40,000 last financial year is looking for strategies to improve profitability and become more appealing to students.
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The Stretch manager, Saner Gursel told The Leopard that the decision to change the club night’s day came: “as we are always listening to the feedback from students, we have decided to trial moving the ‘infamous’ Club Sandwich to Thursdays to bring us in line with national trends and refresh our
Goldsmiths comedy co-president, Megan Landon highlighted that Thursdays are usually the day of Comedy nights at The Stretch, however was positive about the move. She said: “It means we’ll have to move our future events, although may work in our favour if people turn up on a Wednesday thinking its Sandwich but stay for the comedy anyway. “ A member of the Goldsmiths thirds Football team highlighted that those sports teams, who generally play on Wednesdays would be left feeling “homeless” after their games. He said: “it leaves players without a place to go on a Wednesday night.”
ucu threatens marking Boycott By Zak Thomas
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he UCU has threatened university management with a marking boycott if the national pay dispute is not resolved by April 28, following months of inconclusive industrial action. The boycott would mean that members of the union would
not mark students work, communicate marks to their employers, give feedback to students or attend examination board meetings. The union has said that the marking boycott still could be avoided if “serious” negotiations could be agreed upon, but have become driven to the measure by a lack of response from the negotiating body (UCEA).
Graduation disruption? Thomas Henri, Goldsmiths UCU President told The Leopard: “Th is form of labour withdrawal negatively disrupts two of the core functions of the university - assessing students academic achievement and awarding degrees. “I’m sure many students will be perturbed to hear that their assessment and potentially their graduation might be dis-
rupted by this action but it is the employers who have forced our hand to this tactic. “I would ask students to address their concerns to the college’s management as to why they are not prepared to negotiate a fair pay award for the rank and fi le staff. I would also like to reassure students that as soon as the dispute is over, we will work tirelessly to get the marks processed as quickly as possible.” ...Continued on p. 3