Carnage On Campus

A VISION INVESTIGATION can exclusively reveal that Carnage bar crawl T-shirts were being sold – against University regulations – on University Property, specifically in Vanbrugh Stalls, a society promotions area, which explicitly rules out ‘selling for profit’.

Owned by Varsity Leisure Group, a profit making company, Carnage has already come under fire from YUSU who in November stated that they were, “disappointed to see Carnage coming to York once again”.
However, the University appears to have failed in stopping Carnage sales reps as they abused Vanbrugh Stall regulations, flogging off Carnage T-shirts on the Friday of Week 3 from 1pm-3pm at Vanbrugh Stalls. They have even set up a Facebook event to advertise their sneaky antics.

One third year onlooker told Vision, “It was very puzzling. We all know that YUSU have frequentlt condemned them in the past but they were still sitting there happily selling off these t-shirts. I thought: how in the world were they allowed to sell tickets, when Vanbrugh stalls are strictly for use by student, non-profit organisations?”

Unsurprisingly, through its investigations Vision has learnt that Carnage was never actually given permission to sell T-shirts anywhere on University property. In fact the person in charge of Vanbrugh Stalls, Vanbrugh College Administrator Georgina Heath, protested “there was NO advanced booking for this group” and that “as a non-student organisation we would not book stalls to them”.

Vanbrugh provost David Efird has also expressed his discontent, declaring that he was “shocked that Carnage would abuse this service so flagrantly”, heroically adding that, “ I, myself, pass by the Stalls regularly, and I will keep a very sharp eye out for Carnage. Should I find them there, I will ask Security to escort them off the Stalls”.

Georgina Heath additionally stated that, “Having looked at the Facebook group you [York Vision] mentioned, the people who have posted messages about selling T-shirts at York University are actually students here”.
Vision can in fact confirm that the Facebook event set up to publicise the sales of Carnage T-shirts in Vanbrugh stalls, were in fact set up by University of York students, who for legal reasons cannot be named.
YUSU has hit out against these actions claiming that they are, “disappointed that Carnage York are breaking the advertising and marketing regulations on campus”. One Sabbatical Officer even told us that his kitchen was filled with carnage posters, and that he “ripped them down” whenever he saw them.

When we presented our findings to Carnage, the organization reacted unapologetically, refusing to answer any of our questions – instead their entire statement read, “Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention.” When Vision asked for clarification of this, Carnage cowardishly remarked, “You appear to have misunderstood. We have acknowledged your email”.