{"id":1407,"date":"1986-05-15T15:23:52","date_gmt":"1986-05-15T14:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2017-01-19T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T15:36:40","slug":"may-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/1986\/05\/15\/may-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"May 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>The May 1986 issues of <em>Student<\/em> are now live! Hundreds of students stood for the EUSA elections, writers and photographers for <em>Student<\/em> were awarded for their hard work, and Edinburgh&#8217;s athletes had a day of fun in the sun to end the academic year of 1985\/1986! Read more below&#8230;<\/h2>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/bitstream\/handle\/1842\/18770\/01_05_1986_OCR.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">1 May 1986: EUSA Elections and Sports Union Field Day<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Polls close for the annual EUSA elections, with over 90 posts available and hundreds of students standing for different posts; from the local positions, such as accommodation area, societies, and school convenors, to University-wide sabbatical positions such as President, Deputy President, Secretary, and Treasurer.<\/li>\n<li>Student Housing costs are hiked for the coming academic year, leading to student protests. Pollock Halls raises their prices from \u00a329.65 to \u00a331.65 ppm, and self-catered accommodation goes from \u00a317.69 to \u00a318.88 ppm.<\/li>\n<li>The University hosts its annual Sports Day for all students at the Peffermill Fields, still the home of many University of Edinburgh\u2019s sports teams, clubs, and societies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/bitstream\/handle\/1842\/18770\/01_05_1986_OCR.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">Read the full issue<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/bitstream\/handle\/1842\/18771\/15_05_1986_OCR.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">15 May 1986: Accolades and\u00a0Inaugurations\u00a0Round Out the Academic Year \u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Student politicians are elected into office for the academic year of 1986\/1987<\/li>\n<li>Student officials were forced to remove a band from Aberdeen mid-set in Potterrow, after their performance included a multitude of racist and sexist jokes which enraged the crowd.<\/li>\n<li><em>Student<\/em> won the Glasgow Herald Student Publication Press Award for the second consecutive year, with David Yarrow, Photographic Editor for <em>Student<\/em>, winning an award for being \u2018the best young photographer in Scotland.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/bitstream\/handle\/1842\/18771\/15_05_1986_OCR.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">Read the full issue<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EUSA elections, housing fee hikes, a field day for student athletes and a journalism awards for the Student!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":1410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[23,19,20],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/files\/2017\/01\/15_05_1986_featuredimage.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p52Px1-mH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}