Posted on March 23, 2010 by Editor
It’s a good feeling to know that if you tune into 89.7fm at any time of the day, anywhere in Grahamstown that your ears will be graced with a good DJ and a rocking playlist of songs. Unfortunately this is not the case for the next few weeks. Rhodes Music Radio regrets to inform its [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2010 by Editor
“To me, it’s really so simple, that life should be lived on the edge. You have to exercise rebellion. To refuse to tape yourself to the rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge. Then you will live your life [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2010 by Editor
Campaigns aimed at preventing alcohol abuse are fairly commonplace and are believed to be very effective in discouraging drinking amongst students. However, a recent study of 1200 undergraduates performed at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management (NKSM) in Illinois, USA, suggests that these sorts of campaigns can actually exacerbate the problem of alcohol abuse. In the [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2010 by Editor
If we peek through the curtain of poverty we’ll find that very few people will have their basic rights on Human Rights Day. Human Rights Day is set in remembrance of those who died fighting for what they believed in, fighting for the future of their youth and fighting for freedom. Here in Grahamstown we [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2010 by Editor
The Dirty Skirts was a crowd-puller on Wednesday evening at The Union when students showed up in numbers to get rocked by the band. With their tightly fitted skinnies and t-shirts, The Dirty Skirts entertained students with electric guitars, drums and accompanying vocals which could be heard a mile away. While the crowd was singing [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2010 by Editor
Attention on the quality of Grahamstown water has left talk of the drought ‘high and dry’. Although there has been rain in the last three weeks, it has not nearly been enough to fill our surrounding dams. Settler’s dam has reached an all-time low of only 6%. This equates to only three meters in depth [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2010 by Editor
The 6th of March 2010 was meant to be the highlight for many Rhodents, but most who attended the much-awaited ‘Lounge Around’ gig were disappointed. Instead of a line up of some of South Africa’s most popular DJs it was rather a night filled with much frustration. “I have a lot to say about that [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2010 by Editor
University Vice-Chancellor Dr Saleem Badat facilitated an engaging public forum in light of the recent concerns about Grahamstown’s questionable water quality. The aim of the talk, which was held at the University’s Barrat lecture theatre on Monday 8th of March, was to inform the public about the state of affairs as well as to ultimately [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2010 by Editor
Travis Carlyle prides himself in adding “flair” to even the most mundane of things. This week Travis talks about the SOS buttons found on the Rhodes campus… They are the silent guardians of our night time escapades, the vigilant warriors against things that go bump in the night… they are the mystical SOS buttons We [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2010 by Editor
The Rhodes University swimming pool was the place to be last Saturday as it played host to an entire day of inter-res waterpolo. Experienced and inexperienced waterpolo students united to form an entertaining yet competitive inter-res sporting event. With sweltering temperatures reaching the mid-thirties, most of the students participating were overjoyed, expecting a relaxed and [...]
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