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50
stories from
the last 50 years*
(*SCAN wasn’t established until 1967, but you’ll allow us a little artistic license won’t you?)
Steve Start
News Editor
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O
ver the last 50 years SCAN has been engaged in reporting student comment and news during which it has been a front-runner
for student politics and change. Like the University the paper has changed dramatically since its founding - evolving from a
typewritten pamphlet in 1967 into a full-blown 64-page broadsheet by 2013. This article picks out 50 of the most noteworthy
stories from the University’s rich history and is in dedication to Marion McClintock who has kept our University archives in
proper and correct condition since joining Lancaster in 1968. I also personally thank her for accommodating me so kindly as I sifted
through countless issues of University news. There are some real crackers in this lot, so I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did.
2014 – University union members strike 2010
twice over claims of unfair pay and threaten to engage in a marking boycott.
– Lancaster University students
join 52,000 peaceful protesters in London
against the new £9,000 tuition fees to be
brought in by 2012.
2013
– University’s global strategy
stumbles as foreign campuses are reported
to have poor teaching standards.
2012 – The University erects a wind turbine to reduce emissions by 30 percent
over the next three years and hopes to
provide 11 to 17 percent of the University’s energy.
2009 – Controversy over proof that the
LUMS Placement Office has been meddling
with students’ CVs.
2008
– Outrage at summer culling of
campus bunnies at the order of highranking University official.
2011 – Lancaster University collaborates 2007
with Guangdong University of Foreign
Studies (GDUFS) to set up a campus in
China and to make it the first university in
the world to have campuses in both India
and China.
– University unveil £450,000,000
investment plan that includes a new sports
centre and LICA building.
2006
– The Sugarhouse undergoes massive £400,000 renovation including the extension and upgrade of the sound
systems in the Front and Main
rooms as well as rennovations
of the restrooms.
2005
– The sextet of student protesters known as the
‘George Fox Six’ are prosecuted and found guilty of
aggravated trespass after
staging a protest to disrupt
a Corporate Venturing Conference in the George Fox
Building.
2004
– After poor performance building contractor Jarvis is dropped
by University Partnership
Programme (UPP)’s £120
million building programme after pressure
from University and Union.
2003
– Cartmel and
Lonsdale College move
to South West Campus
upon the creation of
over 2,000 new student
rooms.
1992
– Lonsdale bar is broken into by
thieves who steal £1,000 cash and £4,000
worth of stock.
1991 – Student joyrider manages to burn
out three cars next to the John Creed
Building after trying to hotwire one of
them.
2002 – Student landlord sets up a ‘Big
Brother’ house with cameras throughout.
Students will live rent free for contracts of
three-month periods and are expected to
entertain viewers for at least an hour a day
in footage that will be streamed online.
2001
– Students empty £30,000 pond
installed by the University in late 2000
with buckets, siphons and an electric pump
in protest against its safety.
1990 – Students involved in a riot at the
macy at Bailrigg House.
site of an unsuccessful acid house party. At
one point the 200-strong crowd trapped
15 police officers inside the abandoned
warehouse and a car was overturned near
the Sugarhouse.
1995 – Spar arrives on Tower Avenue.
1989
2000 – 10 Lancaster Rugby players are 1994 – Chancellor’s Wharf is opened as
involved in a huge fight with 12 students
calling themselves “The
fia”. The fracas occurred
at 4am and there were
allegations that some
of those involved
possessed knives. 10
security members and
porters are called to
the scene along with
eight police officers.
Asian Ma-
first Lancaster University city based residences.
1988 – Students get their sticky fingers
on college bar wares as 300 glasses and 37
bar towels go missing in just three weeks.
1988
– County College social events
banned after students trigger fire alarms at
six consecutive events.
1987 – LUSU Christmas party cancelled
1999
– Campus
pirate radio station
‘Phantom FM’ opens
and claims to be
broadcasting from
Bowland Tower.
as only seven tickets had been sold with
1986 – Following recent leaks of highly
active plutonium vapour from the giant
Sellafield Nuclear reprocessing plant at
Seascale in Cumbria, University Officials
begin to voice concerns about levels of radiation on campus.
1985 – Remnants of a homemade bomb
are found in Alexander Square after it exploded at 1:15am. The resulting bang was
heard up to half a mile away.
1984
–Biology labs are temporarily
closed as a radioactive isotope, caesium, is
dropped on the floor by University Safety
and Radiation Officer.
1983 – Lancaster University is invited to
of the apartheid state.
1980
–
President of
the Students’
Union is attacked and
punched to
the ground
by
members of the
Socialist Worker
Student Organisation,
after voting against
a
£100
donation
to sponsor
the Right to Work
marches.
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