I remember my mum saying ‘this day is for me not for you’ on the morning of my graduation lol. To be fair I wasn’t that arsed and she had paid for my living costs for three years, but she was very highly strung that day god bless her.
Most people will be wearing a smart suit/dress - I think I wore a suit with no tie for mine.
100% this is the way a lot of uni management see universities now.
Currently involved in a marking and assessment boycott to help get better pay and conditions across the sector. Rather than negotiate, university management would rather continue as normal, holding graduations where they give out course completed certificates because they can’t award students a degree classification yet. Graduation is a big money maker for universities.
I’m just finishing a (pointless) Masters, and because of the industrial action (which is fair enough) I’ll be doing the absolute bare minimum for my dissertation, since the bastard might not even get marked, and it’ll be an average score of other work.
Trouble is, someone else might be asked to mark your dissertation instead of your striking supervisor. Cases of PhD students and non-striking staff marking work at other universities.
Also, negotiations between the union and university management are starting up again (potentially).
Anyone in here live in Nottingham? Got a solo exhibition opening tonight at Forth gallery alongside the reopening of Primary and TG. Should be a fun night come say hi and have a can!
Just deleted that question, because I think I momentarily forgot about Elissa Steamer…
Wasn’t it Jamie Reyes though?
Not back in Nottz until Sunday, but would be keen to see this. Can you view it after? Looks sick.
Was it? That would make me feel less dumb for asking what I thought was an obvious question
I don’t know if she was pro at the time but she definitely had footage in videos before Elissa.
Not pro. Had a shoe on Gallaz, I think.
Skateboarding hall of fame says Elissa was the first female professional and the first to have a video part in a major video.
Google says that Cara Beth Burnside was the first woman to have a pro shoe, in 94 on Vans, and also the first to have a professional video part, in 1990. But it’s not a street part, so it probably still was Elissa.
What does that mean though? That she got paid for the part?
Elissa pro part for Baker in 1998 was the first one then.
Gallaz was 00s right?
Jamie Reyes will always be the first ‘pro’ female skater in my mind though cos she was good enough and she was first!
Yeah i guess? It’s before my time so don’t know if she had a board on Santa Cruz at the time, but if she did the that would mean Elissa wasn’t the first women pro anyway, so she can’t have had a board.
I’m which case she was Am and that makes it not a pro part?
She wasn’t on Santa Cruz (Risk-it was the Speedwheels team) she was on Powell. I’m fairly sure she didn’t have a pro board but Powell were probably paying her to skate.
Who had the first male pro part? Aka the first EVER pro part?
Jump Off A Building, surely.
Patti McGee and Peggy Oki were the first women pros.
I didn’t think she was pro for Toy Machine? That’s sick if she was I thought Baker turned her pro.
