

Queue All the Time, Tickets Occasionally: Are Concerts Still Worth the Hype?
Alisha Reeve Harry Styles. CREDIT: Johnny Dufort. If you’re friends with a Harry Styles fan, chances are you’ve already heard about the disastrous ticket fiasco that has occurred over the past week. During the artists’ presale for his ‘Together, Together’ tour, fans were left disappointed, upset, and furious over the crippling prices they were expected to pay. For the UK leg of his so-called world tour, tickets had cost between £44.10 and £466.25 (at least, before the good ol
Alisha Reeve
13 hours ago


A New Research Initiative Launching This Semester
STAIR (St Andrew’s Impact Research) is a 6-week research initiative equipping students with both the tools and the confidence to catalyse a high-impact career. Inspired by programmes at Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge, you will work in a small team on a research project, looking at pressing global issues, led by an experienced mentor. Why Apply? There are a multitude of reasons to apply; here are a few of our most convincing: Entry-level research experience contributing to real
Sylvie Plaskow
2 days ago


Peared Up: St Andrews’ Dating Culture Cured?
When Gemma Collins said, "It’s hell in there. It’s horror. You have to be a certain type of person to survive," you’d think she was talking about the dating scene in St Andrews. Hell, horror, and a pained existence encapsulate what many singletons experience here – a trilogy of suffering born not just from abstinence, but from actually going on dates. The issues are obvious. Sixty percent of students are female, so there are simply more women than men. As one student noted,
Eilidh Paterson
4 days ago


What Does it Mean To Be an Artist?
By Sabrina Stevenson For much of his career, Michelangelo was not considered an artist. Painters and sculptors of the Renaissance period were instead classified as artisans, or skilled craftsmen. Art was a technical skill, crafted over decades of hard work in workshops with no expectation that anyone would even know your name. Yet, with the rise of humanism in the 16th century, artists started to be recognised for their intellectual and creative capacities as well, finally do
Sabrina Stevenson
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