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L<\/span>ike many students from the north, Lucy Morville says she felt \u201cculture shock\u201d at being surrounded by southerners when she arrived at university. But she said the shock was even greater because it wasn\u2019t what she expected when she enrolled at the University of York<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI hadn\u2019t travelled much down south before university, and I was like, \u2018Oh my gosh, they\u2019re all from London and Cambridge.\u2019 It was such a shock to me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m from Burnley, in east Lancashire, and I was surprised there were so many people at York who weren\u2019t from the north, because I thought more people would do the same thing as me and stay local.\u201d<\/p>\n In her first year, Morville found herself living with 16 students but only one from the north. So she and her friends set to work to revive York\u2019s Northern Society<\/a>, offering events including a northern-themed fancy dress pub crawl that included northern icons Wallace and Gromit and the Gallagher brothers, with Morville dressed as a Pendle witch<\/a>.<\/p>\n In spring, the society is holding a \u201cYorkshire Olympics\u201d of events including black pudding throwing. The society also means students from different parts of the north are learning more about each other\u2019s regions, she said.<\/p>\n