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New Insanity Webstreams

We’ve been working hard to bring you new, higher-quality and easily accessed web streams so you can listen online in your browser or any media player of choice on your desktop, laptop, MP3 player or mobile phone.

And after days of fixing things, we’re happy to announce that this is now available! You can find all the new listening options plus the link to the new player on the listen page.

We’ve also now got the schedule posted to the website, so you can see who is on right now or check out when your favourite shows will be playing.

If you encounter any problems with the new stream, please contact Florian Jensen. If you have a problem that relates to the website or links from the website, get in touch with James Harrison!

Happy listening!

Societies, Media and RAG Ball

Insanity will be attending the Societies Ball on Saturday night (the 13th of Feb) to celebrate what we’ve accomplished this year so far and to present some well deserved awards!

Click through to see the nominations!

If you haven’t got a ticket yet you can grab one today from the SU box office. Come and hang out and support your radio station!

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Voting Closes in Sabbatical Elections

Voting has now closed in locations across campus, after five days of campaigns.

Ballot boxes were closed at midday today (9/2/2010) and the votes will be counted this afternoon.

Results will be announced in Medicine from eight o’clock tonight in an event hosted by Insanity News.

Sabbatical Winners Announced

In an event hosted by Insanity News, the winners of the recent elections have been announced.

Insanity would like to congratulate Rachel Pearson (President), Beth Rowley (Vice President, Education and Welfare), Sarah Rahman (Vice President, Communications and Campaigns) and Victor Garcia (Vice President, Student Activities).

For a full report on the event visit http://theorbital.co.uk and don’t forget to follow @InsanityRadio on Twitter!

Sabbatical Nominations Announced

The full list of candidates for the upcoming sabbatical elections has just been released, Insanity and The Orbital can reveal.

Nominations closed this morning at 9 o’clock, having been open for a week.

The full list of candidates is:

President:

  • Shani-Mari Holidis
  • Scott Hooker
  • Oliver Kerr
  • Alan Chi Loon Lee
  • Rachel Pearson

Vice President (Communications and Campaigns, formerly Communications and Services):

  • Al Dean
  • Somayeh Jafari
  • Sarah Rahman
  • Paul Wrench

Vice President (Education and Welfare):

  • Scarlett Barnsby
  • Stephen Harmer
  • Hardeep Singh Lalli
  • Beth Rowley

Vice President (Student Activities):

  • Jon Bates
  • Victor Nicolaou
  • Claire Nineham

Voting opens at midday on Wednesday 3rd February 2010 and will close at midday on Tuesday 9th February 2010. Candidates will be campaigning across campus, with a team of up to ten people. They also have the opportunity to appear on Insanity Radio at midday on Wednesday to announce their policies and be asked questions by the listeners. Orbital Editor Nick Stylianou and Insanity Head of News/Orbital Society Editor Sarah Honeycombe will host the show. Candidates will also be required to appear at Candidates’ Question Time at 7:30pm in the Students’ Union Main Hall on Thursday 4th February.

Ballot boxes will be placed across campus in locations including Bake ‘n’ Bite, Crosslands and Bedford Library.

For up-to-date news on the elections, keep checking back to insanityradio.com and follow the The Orbital on Twitter at @theOrbitalBUZZ

Additional reporting by Victoria Metaxas

Welcome to Insanity

You’re looking at the brand new Insanity website. We’ve got more planned but we’re starting things slowly with a great new design, regular updates and loads of great info.

Check back soon to hear more from the news team and others, and don’t forget the Insanity Airlines event at Tommy’s Bar at 8PM on Monday.