UniVerse | Volume 23 | Issue 3

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Revamping with Repstival and QuizQuintin Brad Johnson | UniVerse This year, the Student Representative service at Hertfordshire Students’ Union has been totally overhauled and developed. As stated in the Union’s core principles, the Students’ Union is the ‘Independent Voice of Students’ and this is at the heart of the whole Student Reps programme. As part of this major revamp, the team launched the new look Student Representative Conference, Repstival! The Repstival saw a host of headliners including Vice Chancellor, Professor Quintin McKellar, Sophie Stephens from Citizens UK

and Professor Ian Campbell, Deputy Vice Chancellor. The event was opened by Ross Renton, Dean of Students, who highlighted the importance of being a rep at the University and also focused of the benefits that students can achieve through being reps on their course. It was evident from the amount of senior University staff members present that the Student Representative scheme is a very important part of the university and the overall student experience. Following on from Ross Renton’s opening speech, Sophie Stephens from Citizens UK took to the stage in the Western

Auditorium to give her keynote speech to a packed room of Student Representatives. Sophie is a Senior Organiser with North London Citizens and famously got David Cameron to have a discussion with Citizens UK regarding child imprisonment following issues with the expiration of their visas. Sophie raised some key points about how the student voice can create change at all levels. One key soundbyte that went viral and was retweeted various times at the Repstival was: “If you’re not round that table, you’re probably going to be on the menu.” Cntd. pg2 Brad Johnson | UniVerse

Student Accommodation

Are some students being overlooked? Kealie Mardell & Brad Johnson With new accommodation developed at the university as part of the Estates 2020 Vision, Trident Media can reveal that some students may be being overlooked in out-dated off campus accommodation.

While it was previously believed that students would no longer be housed in Ridgeview Lodge, at the time of writing there are 90 students living there, with others also placed in local hotels this year. The University of Hertfordshire advertises its accommodation on de

Havilland and College Lane, but it is lesser known that there is also off-campus accommodation in London Colney. With previous plans to close Ridgeview put on hold, students are still living in Halls of Residence which fall short of the luxuries and amenities of those of Coales,

Butler, or Fern Hall. On the university’s accommodation website, a price was listed in 2013/14 for Ridgeview, but with no price listed to 2014/15 it appeared that the university did not intend to have students living there this year. Cntd. pg3

News •

QEII Accident & Emergency Shutdown | Page 5

Features • How valuable is your degree? Our writers go head to head | Page 11

Health • Become a bone marrow donor and save a lives | Page 19

Sport • Campus football kick off | Page 23


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