A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS

Marti Stelling Co-Editor

people are choosing to live at home to study or having to rule out university all together.

In 2020-21, 2.66 million students were studying at UK higher education providers according to UniversitiesUK. With such a high amount of students, universities and cities across the country are now feeling the pressure as record numbers fight to secure places to live.

For students, the uncertainty is a main part of the worry. In York, Adam Bennet, one of the major property companies, has already released their 2023/24 rentals, yet other big companies such as Sinclair Properties, and IG Properties have yet to do so.

This means that current second and third years are unsure on whether to jump and secure a new house, and freshers are stuck not knowing the best course of action. It’s a perfect storm.

Landlords have no easy task. With the government promising help despite not outlining what and the appointment of our new Chancellor.

In other exciting events, our Screen team attended the Aesthetica Film Festival, which you can read all about on our website!

We’ve grown as a society this term, putting a real emphasis on socials. Alongside our weekly post-meeting trips to The Courtyard, we’ve teamed up with other media groups to get to know each other better and build stronger relationships between the groups!

We’ve had our joint Halloween social at York Student Cinema with The Lemon Press, where we dressed up to watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

IT MAY ONLY be November, but I am calling this print our festive edition.

That’s right, you are now legally required to read this edition while listening to Michael Bublé’s Christmas album and baking a gingerbread house.

For me, this time of year means birth- days, Christmas markets, cosy knitwear, and cheesy Hallmark films.

My plans postprint are to finish Lindsay Lohan’s new Christmas film, go ice skating at the Designer Outlet, and walk around York Christmas Market with a very expensive Baileys hot chocolate in hand.

I like to use this space to share a bit about what we have been up to as a paper.

We’ve met weekly as an editorial team to catch up on what’s going on at the University, and to discuss ideas for print and online.

We have provided online coverage of the Royal Visit, strike dates, cost of living,

In our last edition, we implemented the addition of pronouns to our bylines. As a paper, we are fully trans-inclusive and want to normalise asking people for their preferred pronouns.

One of our core values is to make sure every student is represented in student media, and we are proud to give a platform to any student who has a topic they want to share.

Our current editorial team is the most diverse yet, and we are committed to making York Vision an environment where everybody that may be, it is a challenge to produce a reasonable yet realistic figure.

The average rent for properties in York at the moment is £1,580 pcm and with Nimble Fins predicting an average UK houshold to spend £671 on living expenses, prices are regularly increasing at drastic rates feels included and welcome.

On those figures, the average weekly rent per person for a 6 person house should be £177.50, not taking into account council tax or considering that houses of upwards of six tennants are likely to use more energy.

On top of this, landlords want to make profit, especially as many of them have lost out on money this year due to pre-agreed contracts coupled with ever-increasing energy bills.

With the cost of living crisis likely to worsen over the festive period, students anxiety is at an all time high when it comes to financial woes.

In this print, you can read about College Presidents’ mental health being sidelined, and our main story is an interview with Halifax President Issy Davis’ on her horrific experiences with online sexual harassment, a story I am very privileged to have written.

In Opinion, we have a variety of articles ranging from the positives of Open Door, the inability to access prescriptions and the damaging rhetoric of “heroin chic” on women’s body image.

We also have numerous interesting articles such as an interview with Goodricke’s Cost of Living Representative in Features, where the “red nails” TikTok theory is a myth in Lifestyle, and whether the University’s Sustainability grant is enough. Why not make getting involved with campus news your new years resolution?

If you would like to join our growing team, please don’t hesitate to get in touch by emailing vision@yusu.org.

Holiday greetings and gay happy meetings, Marti and Katie