In 2010 it won the NUS Award for Best Student Media. The Yorker is an online publication set up by students as an independent company in 2007; it was nominated for the Guardian Student media awards after running for only a few months, though has not published since 2023.
York Student Cinema (YSC), operating since 1966, show 3 films a week, using an industry standard Christie CP2000 digital projector and a full size CinemaScope screen in one of the largest rooms on campus. It has won the BFFS film society of the year award several times, and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2016.
In 2019, the History of Art department began publishing Aspectus, an annual research journal edited by current postgraduates within the department.
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The university teams play in black-and-gold colours. York is a member of British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) and has 65 teams participating. At the end of the 2013/14 BUCS season York came 38th out of 145 participating institutions.
As well as BUCS every summer term the university take part in the Roses Tournament, a sports competition against Lancaster University, which is the largest inter-university tournament in Europe. The venue of the event alternates each year between York and Lancaster, and involves numerous sports clubs, including the conventional (football, hockey) and the more unusual (octopush, ultimate frisbee). As of 2015 Lancaster are leading York with 30 wins to 28, with one draw in 1974.
The university has also previously also been in the White Rose Varsity Tournament. This started in 2005 against York's other university, York St John University. York won all six of the tournaments held. In 2011 attempts to try and increase the competitiveness of the competition saw York St John replaced by the University of Hull. York won all 3 tournaments against Hull, which resulted in it being scrapped in 2013.
In 2014 a new tournament, "College Varsity", was created, which was held between the colleges of the University of York and the colleges of Durham University.
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