Vision can reveal that Club Salvation will bid to regain an official YUSU club night for the 2013/14 academic year after a year in the wilderness.
The former student favourite lost its regular Tuesday night spot to the newly refurbished Kuda for the current year, but they are keen to return to the line-up, with YUSU admitting they are open to the possibility.
Salvation enjoyed a two year stint as YUSU’s official Tuesday night between 2010 and 2012 and ran weekly themed nights, including foam parties, popcorn parties and various fancy dress nights.
The venue is built over two floors, with the bottom floor traditionally playing chart music and the top floor blasting out rock music or cheesy pop.
It proved popular for its large, covered smoking area and shisha pipes, and the possibility of a return to the YUSU fixture list has excited some students. Third-year Crime and Criminal Justice student Megan O’Kane told Vision: “I’m glad to hear that Salvation might be an official YUSU night again, I just wish I was going to be there to experience it.”
Not everyone is so enamoured however. First-year Philosophy student Helena Horton said: “The only place worth going out in York is Willow, so I really couldn’t care less if Salvation is an official club night or not.”
YUSU has run three official student nights for the past two academic years after Monday night Fibbers turned out to be a huge flop back in 2010/11.
Union President Kallum Taylor confirmed that there would be “at least three” official nights again next year, and mooted the possibility of there being an official York Sport night, most likely on a Wednesday, though any plans are in their very early stages.
Taylor added: “We’ve invited all willing participants to propose bids for the official club nights next year and we look forward to hearing their case to make next year better for our students. Salvation will be part of this, and it’ll be interesting to see what they can bring to the table this time.”
‘First-year Philosophy student Helena Horton said: “The only place worth going out in York is Willow, so I really couldn’t care less if Salvation is an official club night or not.”’
I know it might seem like everything that happens around UoY needs Helena Horton’s opinion published but this adds absolutely nothing to the story. Also, has she ever been to Salvation on an official student night? Most likely not, because she is a first year and there haven’t been any YUSU nights there since she decided to grace this university with her presence.
You realise Helena is just a student as well, right? With quotes from students in papers you can really just replace the name with ‘X, first year student.’ I can’t imagine she was chosen to give a feminist tilt on the story, and judging from your dismissive response, you almost seem disappointed that that’s the case, heaven forbid you’re denied an opportunity to attack her – although, it seems like you’ve found a way regardless.
I imagine it’s probably useful to have a first year student’s opinion because they will be most affected by the change in official clubnight. Here, she is expressing a (popular) opinion that Willow is the best club, and that she doesn’t care about Salvation. I imagine, most first years don’t care about Salvation because it -as you pointed out- hasn’t been an official club night in their time. Therefore, really, Helena’s quote is pretty apt and adds to the story.
At the end of the day, a quote is a quote, they’re not chosen or made up to illustrate a point, it’s just an example of a student’s opinion on the issue of the day.