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[s] Unregisted User :-) wrote on 20:38, 25th Jul 2004: Hi iv got a conditional offer and I applied for accomodation before the dead line and loads of people on here seem to already know what halls they are in. Should I be woried. (Ill panic at just about anything right now!) Cheers No - when your of...

The two main textbooks for first year IR have been either of these two (since records began) Kegley and Wittkopf - World Politics: Trend and Transformation or Baylis and Smith - The Globalisation of World Politics Both can be found at all good bookshops (and Blackwells). Neither are particularly str...

[s] Unregisted User jrat19 wrote on 00:21, 19th Jul 2004: would anybody care to comment on some of the lecturers in the International relations department? A chance for a throwaway comment? Certainly.. Best lecturers Andrea Teti - the only person who could ever make the study of constructivist theor...

The Courier still publishes the graduation lists, or at least did last year. Spot the Taysider...

I thought that the way to undo the curse was to walk three times around the lamp post at the end of the pier during a storm. I can never remember whether you were supposed to walk clockwise or anti-clockwise. Maybe you could try doing that whilst wearing your gown and singing the Gaudie - you cover ...

The University Of St Andrews: Never explain; never apologise; never enough

[s] Linz wrote on 13:43, 15th Oct 2003: I think you'll find that there's a new Lindsay block - they were too lazy to come up with new names for the appartments so they've just transfered them over. Hence the fact mother dear, that I doubt Lindsay has asbestos in the roof any more *grin* My understan...

[s]Prophet Tenebrae wrote on 10:45, 15th Oct 2003:
Wow, the University must be getting pretty lax if they couldn't burn it down in 70 attempts.


Probably because, in the case of Lindsay, like the rest of the DRH blocks, the roof is full of asbestos...

[s] Unregisted User wrote on 18:44, 1st Oct 2003: DRH dining room has just been evacuated and everyone has had to leave their dinner! Perhaps they were TRYING to make chargrilled vegetables - yet another culinary disaster in DRH. Must have been something pretty severe - having sat in the dining room...

Ah yes.... DRH, Rest In Pieces... To this nostalgia trip, may I add... The formerly covered walkways - nothing better for waking you up in the mornings than a thirty second dash in the teeth of a howling gale - and after the covers were taken off, lest they collapse on a more litiguous resident, the...

[s] kayfabe wrote on 19:57, 13th Jul 2003: [i] and then - to top it all off - the E&E Committee he was supposed to be chairing didn't even meet once during his tenure! Actually it did meet - once, and as I recall, was dominated by him trying to explain why the committe hadn't met for seven months pr...

IR Student when... when you listen to the Clash and start to think that 'I Fought the Law' would be an excellent pithy subtitle to explaining Libyan foreign policy as demonstrating the accuarcy of a constructivist explanation of world politics. Also, for me, when you start using 'vis-a-vis' more oft...

Am I the only one who finds it deeply worrying when Robin Cook is the prime example of someone in government taking a moral stand?

Yes, put up the fines for the long loans. Too many times I've recalled something, only to wait in vain because the person figures that the comparative advantage they will gain from having the book is well worth the negligible fine that they will get in the end. Apart from that, buy more journals - b...

CHESS - Coalition (Confederation?) of Higher Education Students in Scotland.

Arghhhhhhhhhhh I am turning into a proto-hack.

It may have escaped rational-minds' notice, but Marco is also VP - Representation. If he feels that there are a group that aren't properly represented, then as far as I'm concerned, he has every right to propose the creation of an LGBT rep. I presume the majority of the SRC agree with him on this on...

It became such when she dared to criticise the prevailing orthodoxy - organisations that are supposedly beyond criticism. Some of the stuff that is being said is frankly incredible in both senses of the word - the candidate is talking about taking them on intellectually, not abolishing them, not thr...

It may be almost a year since you left for the US, but you have lost none of your wit and charm. No, when I still went to deabtes, I didn't speak up, but then, as anyone with the misfortune to sit through one of my presentations - (could be you next year Hendrik!)will tell you, I am no public speake...

Ah, Hendrik, how good it is to hear you once again. You may not be Serjent-At-Arms any more, but it seems you are as keen as ever to put in your tuppence-worth. On the capitalism debate, you are, however, sadly mistaken. Capitalism in the free market sense cannot proceed without some degree of under...

Why don't we just leave all the decisions to bureaucrats, since they obviously know better than all the rest of us how to govern. Or why don't we just keep it to the rich and the intelligent - since the two most obvoiously go together. Disenfranchise those who have what you deem to be the wrong opin...