On Tuesday 28 April, the St Andrews Students’ Association hosted an All-Students Forum (ASF) in the Old Union Diner from 6:30-8:30pm to discuss, among other topics, the removal of the role of the Rector’s Assessor from the organisation’s Draft Laws. The discussion consisted of a 21-slide presentation by current Rector’s Assessor Cam Brown and served as a comprehensive breakdown of the Rector’s Committee and role of the Rector’s Assessor within the Union’s structures. The discussion...

University students and staff were informed via email on 14 January, that a fire had broken out in the University’s New Technology Building on the North Haugh. A little over an hour after the original email, Vice-Principal Communications Niall Scott followed up to announce that it was “now under control.” Scott said that “we do not yet know the cause of the fire.” A Fire Brigade, consisting of firefighters from St Andrews, Cupar, and Tayport are currently at the scene, having been called to...

How a culture of performance and ignorance creates monsters I once overheard someone say, “I just don’t really care about what goes on in the world.” It was delivered with a shrug and charged with all the drawling absentmindedness of a modern-day Marie Antoinette who, from her high tower, drowns out the plight of the masses far, far below her Flabelus-adorned feet. Although in the case of Marie Antoinette, she was genuinely, wholly, and completely ignorant. Our three-street aristocrat,...