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,...

The experience of the St Andrean woman Please be aware that this article contains references to sexual assault and rape.  “I feel like...