The JCR: A disgrace

Cantab.

Cantab. wrote: »

I don't care what the SU get up to at their little meetings (nor do most students given the "election" turn-out).

What does bother me is that the Fellows allow an organisation with a dubious track-record to propose the student board member.

The GSU at least are some-what intellectual and have moved away from this promiscuity-pack and "awareness campaign" mentality. They publish a journal, organise respectable gatherings (such as walks in Howth or wine receptions), operate a decent enough common room, talk serious business at Board meetings and are a gateway for employers looking to employ trustworthy students on a casual basis.

The SU are nothing more than a gateway for the Trinity Arch Hotel looking to organise €3 a drink piss-ups on a Tuesday night.

kearnsr wrote: »

Then you shouldnt be allowed to bitch about it

Nor should someone who has played a pivotal role in the deterioration of their organisation be allowed to bitch at a College Board meeting in the name of the general student populace.

godtabh

Cantab. wrote: »

Nor should someone who has played a pivotal role in the deterioration of their organisation be allowed to bitch at a College Board meeting in the name of the general student populace.

But at least they are participating. You cant have it both was, You either do something about it or put up and shut up

Cantab.

kearnsr wrote: »

But at least they are participating. You cant have it both was, You either do something about it or put up and shut up

No. The College simply take away the rep and have elections separate from the SU.

A few more years of the current trend, and that's the way it's going to go.

Pet

Cantab, I really really love how you love the current GSU president.

Perhaps you should look into the society on whose committee he sits. Still have the same opinion?

Thought not.

AlanSparrowhawk

oh that hodson? that chap's a dote.

do any of the universities in ireland do it better than tcd wrt common areas?

godtabh

Pet wrote: »

Cantab, I really really love how you love the current GSU president.

Perhaps you should look into the society on whose committee he sits. Still have the same opinion?

Thought not.

Whats this all about?

Boston

It's not really fair to be discussing the personal life or privately held views of the chap, especially as they don't relate to, nor interfere with, his position within the GSU.

John

Sounds like TCD has really changed. Where were all these pill-popping orgies organised by the SU a few years ago? I just remember occassional music nights and table quizes. How things change!

godtabh

Boston wrote: »

It's not really fair to be discussing the personal life or privately held views of the chap, especially as they don't relate to, nor interfere with, his position within the GSU.

Wait he is in the GSU?

Boston

kearnsr wrote: »

Wait he is in the GSU?

Ronan Hodson is president of the GSU and the person too whom Pet is making reference.

caffrey

John wrote: »

Sounds like TCD has really changed. Where were all these pill-popping orgies organised by the SU a few years ago? I just remember occassional music nights and table quizzes. How things change!

I Think there are actually very few on campus table quizzes etc in comparison to maybe 4 years ago. ever since the buttery got its revamp there have been no football matches shown, few if any gigs, few table quizzes, blah blah blah, which leaves the piss ups etc, I am not sure about the pill-popping orgies but I think they are refering to .......better read the stickies.

godtabh

Boston wrote: »

Ronan Hodson is president of the GSU and the person too whom Pet is making reference.

Makes no sense to me

godtabh

caffrey wrote: »

, few if any gigs,

werent these banned after some drunken fights a couple of years ago (maybe 4-6 years ago)

Pet

Makes no sense to me

Sigh. Let's play reading comprehension, shall we?

Take Cantab., holder of some ridiculously outdated views, and an individual who is alarmingly bereft of critical thinking skills in certain areas. When it comes to certain types of individual [let's just say, for ****s and giggles, homosexuals], in particular, he is quite outspokenly moronic.

Then,

Cantab. wrote:

By the way, I think that GSU Hodson fellow is very good.

Pet wrote:

Cantab, I really really love how you love the current GSU president.

Perhaps you should look into the society on whose committee he sits. Still have the same opinion?

Also,

Boston wrote:

It's not really fair to be discussing the personal life or privately held views of the chap, especially as they don't relate to, nor interfere with, his position within the GSU.

I haven't discussed or even mentioned anything that isn't knowledge in the public domain or which a quick Google wouldn't proffer.

Agent Smith

John wrote: »

Sounds like TCD has really changed. Where were all these pill-popping orgies organised by the SU a few years ago? I just remember occassional music nights and table quizes. How things change!

They musnt have liked us John, we never heard of them

godtabh

Pet wrote: »

Sigh. Let's play reading comprehension, shall we?

Take Cantab., holder of some ridiculously outdated views, and an individual who is alarmingly bereft of critical thinking skills in certain areas. When it comes to certain types of individual [let's just say, for ****s and giggles, homosexuals], in particular, he is quite outspokenly moronic.

Then,





Also,



I haven't discussed or even mentioned anything that isn't knowledge in the public domain or which a quick Google wouldn't proffer.

With out knowing the people how was any one supposed to figure that out?

Pet

By reading the thread. And perhaps a quick Google of the people involved. Surely that's not beyond you?

John

Agent Smith wrote: »

They musnt have liked us John, we never heard of them

Must have been an "everyone that doesn't hang out on the top floor of house 6" party. Bastards.

Boston

Pet wrote: »

I haven't discussed or even mentioned anything that isn't knowledge in the public domain or which a quick Google wouldn't proffer.

Didn't say you did pet, in fact I didn't even quote you, so its beyond me how you took my comment to be referencing you. From kearnsr's question it did look like the discussion was going that way though, hence my response.

Regardless, just because information is in the public domain doesn't mean it should be open for general discussion. How much information about your private life would be returned by a quick google search?

Jimdw

I like brining my own food in JCR. Don't like their service besides the tables they provide. I've seen some nasty things while they were doing their rolls. :-O