Comments on: What’s going on at Aber?

By: Matt Umpleby

Matt Umpleby — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:11:55 +0000

“there was also neither an active Jewish nor Islamic society, and there still isn’t”

I’m going to Aberystwyth university in September and I must say that on a recent visit to the town there seemed to be a very large Jewish community, in fact it struck me at the time as i have never seen such a large Jewish community anywhere

By: Paula Farrow

Paula Farrow — Mon, 23 May 2005 00:05:05 +0000

I was completely horrified to read the implications being leveled at the President of the Guild. I have known the individual concerned for many years and the accusations are completely farcical and could not be further from her viewpoint or the truth !

It isn’t then suprising that the author of the letter to Ms Phillips has chosen to remain annoymous or could this just be because the accusations are completely unfounded.

By: bethan jenkins

bethan jenkins — Mon, 16 May 2005 14:05:44 +0000

I am the current president of the Guild of Students and I find the comments made hard to accept about the University and the Guild. They are totally unfounded. I think it’s a lot to do with University/ Guild politics which has always existed, with the people in power always having to justify it and have constant back stabbing( as has happened to me as a socialist and nationalist person from some tories this year) Amnesty’s campaign and the inter pol involement was totally academic and legitimate and we cannot continue to point fingers at people. A time will come when people will be too scared to form an opinion.This cannot happen.

By: Indigo Jo Blogs » Melanie Phillips attacks article she hasn’t read

Indigo Jo Blogs » Melanie Phillips attacks article she hasn’t read — Thu, 12 May 2005 18:05:41 +0000

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By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 May 2005 16:05:32 +0000

Sorry just to add, the article is most likely written by a bitter undergrad that wasn’t given the grade they felt they deserved, interpretted this as bias and discrimination blah blah blah…

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 May 2005 16:05:05 +0000

The article is bollocks, I did my undergrad at aber graduating with a first last year from the interpol dept and consider myself to be firmly on the right of the political spectrum. None of my work was ever marked down because of this and I’ve not encountered it at post-grad level either. The comments made about both the lecturer and President of the Guild are libellous and I hope that they both take legal action, which should be paid for by the university IMO.

By: meg

meg — Thu, 12 May 2005 12:05:52 +0000

hi, i just wish to respond to the accusations levelled at bec, which i find completely scandalous, she is the most open-minded person i know.

By: andrew davies

andrew davies — Thu, 12 May 2005 10:05:55 +0000

Kind of wierd. I never knew so much bitching went on in the ‘union’ part of academia. I was bored by the article and I happen to know the girl in question personally (I study at UWA and she is a friend of mine) and can testify to how peaceful and gentle she is. Difficult to see how anti-semitism can be seen in merely opposing the actions of a government that is doing wrong, such as an illegal occupation. Is it racism against Africans if we disagree with what Mugabe does?

By: Barny

Barny — Thu, 12 May 2005 08:05:07 +0000

I am student at Aberystwyth University alongside the Guild Student. We have spoken together, disagreeing as much as agreeing, but on no occusion did she ever promote anything other than understanding in these discussions, or in the campaigns she promoted. As other comments mention, it is dispicable that someone can spread lies without even the faintest understanding themselves of the person they are belittling, or the issues they contend. In one sense Melanie has succeded in her quest: getting in her name spoken afield, and that of another person’s put to the question. Unfortunately for her, foolisness begets foolishness, and rightcheousness begets righteousness. That is, everyone now knows Melanie is lying scum, and all openly recognise the president of the Guild in question to be anything but what she was accused of.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 11 May 2005 19:05:33 +0000

I have never been to Aberystwyth, but I have known the Guild president for years, long before she ever attended the Uni. The accusation of anti-Semitism is rubbish. This debate has always inflamed accusations on both sides; it seems it’ll never change.