Is it just me or.....

tweety28

or is trinnitys rag week so crap compared to other colleges???

all that was going on were the uasually nights out 2 euro dirnkd etc. a few posters and some SU campaigning........

manicmonoliths

yeah it's just you.....


Actually I was a bit disappointed too, you hear stories from other college, (like Maynooth) so I was expecting a lot more!

Boston

Trinity doesn't do rag week.

daisy123

Yeah, after doing my undergrad at Trinity and post grad in Maynooth, I was shocked to hear people getting really excited about rag week out there. We also got a lot of warning emails from the college about noise, litter in the town etc., and that the gardai were being extra tough that week!!! In Trinity, rag week always just kind of drifted by...I don't know why though, maybe because it's smack bang in the city centre, nights out are a more regular thing, so a Bar Extension isn't that big of a deal?? Who knows?

Awayindahils

Most of the porblem with Trinity RAG week is the time of year that it is held. We hold our RAG week in Febraury 'cos thats when most universities hold thier RAG week. However we also hold our SU elections at the same time. SU elections in Trinity are bigger and more promient than any other SU elections in the country. We can have t-shirts and stunts aswell as the standard manifestos and posters. All the people who organise stuff are usually involved in at least one campaign or carefully trying not to pick between friends, or working on the papers during the election. The 300-700 studnets who ensure that things like RAG week get done are already tied up in something. SO for all the ideas that get suggested for how to improve RAG week there is one simple option. Move it. Perferably to Michaelmus term. Have a sign up during Fresher's week, and then have it about week 6 of term.

ilovemybrick

simple response is no it is not just you.

The reason that RAG week is not as big an event is that people do not get involved. The usual 200ish (estimates vary) people who are very involved in things (be it the big societies or the union) are usually involved in campaigning for the SU elections which are mistakenly put on at the same time.

There were a few events run that were not just 2euro drinks nights but you are correct in realising that we don't come close to other universities/colleges/ITs in the scale of the events run specifically for RAG week, that said though the other colleges can rarely come close to the scale of events which are run in Trinity in a normal week. So basically the events are spread out over the year rather than concentrated in one single week.

The fact that we have no single large venue on campus is also a huge hindrance to both ENTS and the societies trying to put on events (not just for RAG week but all year round).

In my usual answer to the question of student involvement in Trinity we are both blessed and cursed by our location. The city centre offers so many distractions and attractions that there is little or no sense of a Trinity Community pervading the campus as people (both students and non-students) don't really see a difference between campus and the surrounding city.For many campus is nothing more than a shortcut both literal and metaphorical.

If people want more things to happen they have to get out and make them happen. If you want bigger ents events join the ents crew, get involved hell even make sure you think about who you elect. The same goes for societies be they big or be they small.

After a long period of involvement in both the Union and Societies it is only now in a period of disillusioned reflection that I have come to realise that you only get from Trinity what you put in. What is worse is that sometimes the efforts one can put in are subsequently ignored or even hi-jacked.

So some people never put the effort in. This apathy killed RAG week years ago and it will take some very very committed people to resurrect something that the majority of the college community no longer cares about.

shay_562

Out of curiousity, what kind of stuff actually happens at "better" rag weeks? Not that ours isn't a crappy non-event ('cause it pretty much is), but what do other colleges do that's so great/different? Just that my experience of purely ENTS-organised events in general is mediocre at best, and there's enough good society-sponsored stuff on every week that one specific week of it seems kinda superfluous...is there something I'm missing here, or what's the huge appeal?

dan719

To be fair, maybe next year's RAG week will be better, if some of the more random ideas suggested by Nick Longworth (our ENTS officer elect) such as Jailbreak are on during RAG week it could be a lot more fun. To be fair, our freshers week kicks butt and yes the timing of RAG week is pretty awkward. Anyone else think though having the SU election campaign in the few weeks leading to Schols is a bit ridiculous anyway though...'Interrupt my lecture will you!'.

444 post, I'm 2/3rds pure evil. Go me.

EGaffney

dan719 wrote: »

Schols

This word is very important when thinking about this time of the year in Trinity student activity more generally - these people are in the library quite a bit around the end of Hilary Term. Remember, also, the geography of the college. I need two hands to count the number of pubs outside Trinity but adjacent to it or across the road from it, let alone within three minutes' walking distance.

That's not to say that organising Rag Week on a large scale is impossible; merely that it may not be worth the effort for the organisers.

Crash

As an aside, i'm pretty sure that if you take an average week in trinity, the number of events on is roughly 2/3 at LEAST that of rag weeks in other colleges. we really are spoiled for choice.

also, on a quick count Ed, we have:

the gingerman, kennedys, the lincoln inn, the blarney inn, porterhouse central, o'donoghues, o'neills (technically they count), doyles, the longstone, macturcaills, o'neills on pearse street, neds on townsend street, used to have mahaffys on pearse st. Oh, and the trinity inn, which is a ****hole. If anyone can name any others on the strip, i'd appreciate it. Cassidys doesnt count, cus its a new trinity pub and more than two minutes walk.