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Antbert · 19-02-2009 9:22pm #1

Why was that page ripped out?

I'm simply dying of curiosity.

Aldebaran · 19-02-2009 10:00pm

I'm a bit curious myself. Perhaps it was because the Canteen Correspondent finally admitted to being responsible for the canteen fire?:D

All in all though, this months issue of The Spoke is a bit of a disaster, more so than usual.

Beau · 19-02-2009 11:44pm

I haven't seen it yet but he's not havin a great year, is he? Check out the RAG week posters, they say 2008 but half of the 8 is tippexed out. The poor person who had that job!

kisaragi · 19-02-2009 11:55pm

Hmm... well the response to a letter complaining about the GLBT's effort to get a GLBT rights officer on the committee is missing, as well as the canteen correspondent.

Then the page about Baby Blue Training (GLBT thing), and the Lion's Club is cut out too... I'm dying to know why too!

John · 20-02-2009 12:00am

Youth Defense?

I'm going to blame them for all the mischief on campus.

Rozabeez · 20-02-2009 11:30am

Something to do with a member of The Spoke staff being biased about the elections, nothing incredibly scandelous.

LeixlipRed · 20-02-2009 11:49am

John wrote: »

Youth Defense?

I'm going to blame them for all the mischief on campus.

It's true. Youth Defence stole my helper monkey

Hand_Of_Steel · 20-02-2009 11:56am

Somebody did something that they should have done, and the offending piece had to be removed. :pac:

banquo · 20-02-2009 4:33pm

See my sig.

Antbert · 20-02-2009 5:10pm

kisaragi wrote: »

Hmm... well the response to a letter complaining about the GLBT's effort to get a GLBT rights officer on the committee is missing, as well as the canteen correspondent.

Then the page about Baby Blue Training (GLBT thing), and the Lion's Club is cut out too... I'm dying to know why too!

I thought it was something to do with the GLBT thing too. Like maybe the reply was 'Damn straight they shouldn't have a rights officer. They shouldn't even have rights!' Now THAT would be scandalous.

Disclaimer: I don't agree with that. It was just a scandalous example.

Cool_CM · 20-02-2009 5:24pm

Aldebaran wrote: »

All in all though, this months issue of The Spoke is a bit of a disaster, more so than usual.

I won't even pick it up anymore, surely running it through a spell check couldn't hurt? Also it is alarming the amount of people running for this position who didn't even take the time to run a spell check on their own manifesto...

Antbert · 20-02-2009 5:29pm

Cool_CM wrote: »

Also it is alarming the amount of people running for this position who didn't even take the time to run a spell check on their own manifesto...

ARGH it made my eyes bleed. How hard is it?! I was reading my Spoke in my lab (obviously not doing work) and started marking all the spelling mistakes (I didn't want to do work you understand). It made me sad. Perhaps in the pathetic sense too. But really, it's a publication.

I remember a Spoke a while ago where the editor was whinging about people complaining about the spelling. Oh boo hoo. Use a spellcheck and you'd have nothing to whinge about.

bright_eyes · 20-02-2009 7:00pm

I second that, I dont really like it except the year planner is handy.

banquo · 20-02-2009 7:21pm

Comic sans - the original sin of the amateur.

Antbert · 20-02-2009 7:25pm

It should be noted that there was a distinct lack of Comic Sans this issue. I once wrote an article and shuddered when I saw they'd put it in Comic Sans. How rude.

banquo · 20-02-2009 8:06pm

Yup, only 6 out of 28 pages. Just 23% comic sans is the new record for this year's Spoke.

Dear idiot editor: pick a house style and stick to it. Also, learn how to use Adobe inDesign. Also, less of the Gill sans condensed. Also, have regular leading in the body text, don't mix it up like that. It has adverse effects on my blood pressure.

Please God just let me fix the damned thing already.

/Patiently awaits election day

Antbert · 21-02-2009 2:23pm

Are you going to also put interesting articles in The Spoke? I guess that's not really the editor's fault. I have noticed that most of the posts on this forum are wittier than most articles in The Spoke.

banquo · 21-02-2009 3:51pm

Actually AFAIK they have to turn away some articles every month.

So yes.

Anyone read Geoff Greene's interview?

Rozabeez · 21-02-2009 9:46pm

I love that guy !

banquo · 21-02-2009 9:53pm

It's a funny interview, but I wouldn't vote for someone who's funny for the sake of it. The job requires a lot of ideas and organisation.

Rozabeez · 21-02-2009 10:00pm

He's definitely got the ideas, not sure about the organisation!

JBoyle4eva · 21-02-2009 10:41pm

Anyone think there'll be any hanging around on Monday morning? Never got to get one on Thursday.

banquo · 21-02-2009 10:47pm

Ah yeah, I'd say there'll be plenty.

The guy · 21-02-2009 11:09pm

JBoyle4eva wrote: »

Anyone think there'll be any hanging around on Monday morning? Never got to get one on Thursday.

There were tons in the SU on thursday.

banquo · 21-02-2009 11:12pm

Somewhere in the SU there's a bin with 14,000 torn out pages in it.

Rozabeez · 21-02-2009 11:53pm

A paper bin, hopefully.

banquo · 22-02-2009 12:12am

Probably with Richard Duffy stuffed in upside down, also.

Cool_CM · 22-02-2009 2:02am

banquo wrote: »

Probably with Richard Duffy stuffed in upside down, also.

One can only dream:pac:

banquo · 22-02-2009 2:16am

Should take a pic of it and make it the next cover. Or make him get all 14,000 pages together and spell out in huge letters I WILL NOT USE COMIC SANS EVER AGAIN.

pakblue · 28-03-2009 11:39am

Apparently this is what was ripped out of the spoke.

Letters To The Editor
Posted February 20th, 2009 by communications
Issue: Who Will Be Your Next President?
To the editor -
I am writing in response to the GLad To Be article in the December issue of The Spoke. They say that one of their major campaigns for the year is the addition of an LGBT Rights Officer onto the Student’s Union Executive next year. I do not understand why this is a Societies issue, when the Union Constitution is an issue for the Constitutional Review Committee to deal with, not a Society. The GLad To Be is a social network for all students, and it is the duty of the elected SU officials to see that the rights of all students are looked after. Issues of discrimination or hate crimes fall under the remit of the college, as those are legal, rather than social issues. If the current officers responsible for handling LGBT Rights issues are not comfortable with that task, then the training they are given needs to be adapted, rather than adding a new position to deal with someone that is covered in at least one Sabbatical Remit. Implying that the officers elected to fulfill those positions are failing to do so is an insult to the Union and the suggested solution is simply introducing a dangerous precedent.
If every minority group is eligible to have a Rights Officer sitting on the Student Union Exec, the Executive could potentially double in size in the next few years. The LGBT community has no more and no fewer rights than the rest of the student body, and this proposal is setting them above the general population, which is something that undermines the concept of a Rights Officer.
I urge the members of the Constitutional Review Committee to consider all sides of this issue when voting, and to respect all NUIM students’ rights.
Sincerely,
A Concerned Student

http://nuimsu.com/spoke/who-will-be-your-next-president/letters-editor

I have to say I fully agree.

LeixlipRed · 28-03-2009 12:02pm

Why was it ripped out?

pisslips · 28-03-2009 2:15pm

WTF?

I've rarely read a more rational and well put argument.

LeixlipRed · 28-03-2009 5:22pm

Not a moob in sight either. Disappointing given the events of the part week

pisslips · 28-03-2009 7:35pm

I have no idea what happened in the past week......a recession?

LeixlipRed · 28-03-2009 11:43pm

3 recessions, 2 recoveries and a monkey did a poo. But it was a cute monkey so that one's touch and go on the positive/negative news scale. The Sunday Mirror had a ten page pull out on it though. Possibly for the monkey to wipe its bum with. Who knows?

Cool_CM · 29-03-2009 12:27pm

That was left in the spoke, it was Duffy attempting to form a feeble argument against this letter that was ripped out, you can see the first few lines of his reply have been black markered. Idiot.

banquo · 29-03-2009 12:50pm

You all had your chance!

JBoyle4eva · 29-03-2009 11:04pm

banquo wrote: »

You all had your chance!

Huh?

BuroniKiisu · 30-03-2009 11:14am

JBoyle4eva wrote: »

Huh?

Bit of the Simpson's episode where Homer becomes in charge of Springfield's waste disposal.

Michellenman · 30-03-2009 3:37pm

Banquo ran for VP of communications and development, that was him telling us we should have voted him in!

mp3guy · 30-03-2009 3:49pm

That issue of the spoke and all the others for the rest of the year would've been no different had he been voted in, no?

JBoyle4eva · 30-03-2009 10:13pm

Michellenman wrote: »

Banquo ran for VP of communications and development, that was him telling us we should have voted him in!

I know who Banquo is :P I just didn't get what the Simpsons image meant. I do now;)

PrivateEye · 31-03-2009 11:31am

Graphic design.
Serious business.

banquo · 31-03-2009 12:52pm

PrivateEye wrote: »

Graphic design.
Serious business.

Should have been my campaign poster.

Ostrom · 31-03-2009 12:57pm

Alright, thats it.

I'm going on lunch now, over to Pugin via the arts block to pick up a copy of the spoke (hopefully a fresh rack copy, not a solied blue-chairs copy) to read.

Opinions to follow

PrivateEye · 06-04-2009 7:32pm

efla wrote: »

Alright, thats it.

I'm going on lunch now, over to Pugin via the arts block to pick up a copy of the spoke (hopefully a fresh rack copy, not a solied blue-chairs copy) to read.

Opinions to follow

Bump for great justice.

Whatyathink?

Rozabeez · 06-04-2009 10:18pm

BOOOOOORING!

Ostrom · 06-04-2009 10:25pm

PrivateEye wrote: »

Bump for great justice.

Whatyathink?

I couldn't find one!

I assumed this wouldn't get any more comments until the next issue, so...I left it alone.

I did have some rather nice fish though, with those yummy thin chips.

Ok, opinions to follow next issue. I'm not a fan anyway.....

PrivateEye · 27-04-2009 8:36pm

A fittingly bad issue to bow out on for the year, and something I'm going to show to all Comms/Devs hopefulls next year and then say "..but nothing like this, ever again- promise?"

Comic Sans, pixelated pictures, 'What ____ Club/Soc Had For Breakfast' spacefiller articles, bad interviews (tragically often with good subjects) ,and the fact there was not a dissenting/questioning voice in the house (the fact the thing has been reduced to a love-in is one of the main problems with it, student journalism CAN have a pair of balls if it wants to) were just some of the problems with it.

I wouldn't show that to a student from UCD, DCU, NUIG, TCD or any university with even a half-decent newspaper. In fact, why is it not a newspaper- it even looks ridicolous.

So, to bid it farewell with another MS Paint job.... (As I'm sure it was itself)

allandanyways · 27-04-2009 8:51pm

have yet to pick up a copy for myself, but saw someone using it to dispose of their used teabag earlier in the arts block, so it musn't be anything spectacular. Older boardies, was the Spoke ever any good? I'm in second year and can't really ever remembered being wowed by it.

Teabag! · 27-04-2009 9:01pm

allandanyways wrote: »

have yet to pick up a copy for myself, but saw someone using it to dispose of their used teabag earlier in the arts block, so it musn't be anything spectacular. Older boardies, was the Spoke ever any good? I'm in second year and can't really ever remembered being wowed by it.

I was not disposed of in the spoke today

though i was in the arts block today around 4.30 ish,

my advice is dont bother picking it up, its like the daily mail without john waters....

and much much worse....

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