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If you were SU president...

  • 23-04-2010 08:33PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 109 ✭✭


    Considering we had a lengthy thread on the elections…

    If you were SU president what would you try do?

    Mine would be:

    Ensure the entire campus, including res, was hooked up to the wireless network.

    Abolish the €5 charge for overnight guest in res. (Yes, I do live in res.)

    Strive for greater involvement for clubs and soc in larger events like the balls with the likes of Juggle Soc juggling, Music Soc performing and sure throw Drama in there too, ParaSoc having a séance at the Halloween ball etc etc etc…I’m sure you could add several to that list.

    Have events that do not involve alcohol…there are people underage who have been forgotten the last two years.

    And lastly…have a Starbucks on campus that do frappaucinos!



    There are piles more I could think of as that would be a **** campaign but let’s hear your ideas.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭robby^5


    "Labour Camps" for undesirables.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    +1 on the frappucinos, especially in the current weather!

    I would organise a shuttle bus (or rickshaw or cable car or something) from Henry Grattan to the library :cool:

    Have some free (or at least very cheap) events during the day and some evening events that don't involve alcohol! I don't drink and so always feel out of place at a lot of events.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Benny Lava


    I'd sit on my arse, allowing events to be organised poorly and watch the inevitable conflicts from a distance, all while growing a distinct beard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Cy_Revenant


    Subway sandwich bar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,354 ✭✭✭Urizen


    Ensure the entire campus, including res, was hooked up to the wireless network.

    Abolish the €5 charge for overnight guest in res. (Yes, I do live in res.)

    Both of these fall under the accommodation officer of Union Council, and have been discussed at length, both in council and in other threads. The charges pay wages. If you can find someone to work for free, go ahead.
    Strive for greater involvement for clubs and soc in larger events like the balls with the likes of Juggle Soc juggling, Music Soc performing and sure throw Drama in there too, ParaSoc having a séance at the Halloween ball etc etc etc…I’m sure you could add several to that list.

    Clubs & Socs Officer. Also, the newly elected (and extremely handsome) C&S Officer had that on his manifesto. In fact, that's most of it. And founded Paranormal. And is talking about himself in the third person. :P
    Have events that do not involve alcohol…there are people underage who have been forgotten the last two years.

    I like. And I'm sure our new Equality Officer will strive to do this... Since she told me.
    And lastly…have a Starbucks on campus that do frappaucinos!

    ... No comment.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 109 ✭✭Insulting_Bitch


    I do not know the ins and outs of the lines of demarcation within the union and frankly, couldn't care less.

    Just though it might be interesting to hear what other people would like to do.


    Lighten up, I think it's obvious that we are talking hypothetically here anyway.4
    Urizen wrote: »
    If you can find someone to work for free, go ahead.
    You, clearly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Jaysus Urizen, the thread is only a bit of fun.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭TheChrisD


    Subway sandwich bar.

    Om nom nom.

    Although I doubt that one would be brought in, as the drastic drop in business at the hot food counter in Spar would probably put them out of business :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,638 ✭✭✭PeakOutput


    TheChrisD wrote: »
    Om nom nom.

    Although I doubt that one would be brought in, as the drastic drop in business at the hot food counter in Spar would probably put them out of business :rolleyes:

    here in ul we got a subway at the start of this semester the spar still semms very busy at lunch time and there are queues at both so seems to be working well so far


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Noodleworm


    If the spar made their hot food counter into a subway desk too, lost of shops in town have that. They have the room and the facilities, just throw in an oven.

    Id like the abolishment of the 5 euro charge on res too, I think people would be more likely to book guests in. Sometimes theres only a small chance someone will need a place and your unwilling to pay the 5 euro on the off chance they'll need you. knowing res they won't want to part with that extra 5 euro though.
    Same reason why they won't give us wifi, its easier to make sure we pay for internet if its by cable.

    Id like clubs and socs to make sure to have plenty of open events early in the year, so that the first years can see what its like before joining, it'd also let them get to know each other.
    Also I like plenty of inter-soc and inter-varsity events, so socs aren't hiding themselves away.


    Oh- and ONE poster per noticeboard for each event. If your trying to put up one poster and have no room because some other soc or election candidate has 20, it gets irritating.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,448 ✭✭✭Garseys


    Two words: Hub refurbishment.

    That would include: New layout of SU/Clubs and Socs offices, Clean up of the venue, New Den, Turn old bar into a multifunctional room (similar to the old seminar room) and a Cafe in there too.

    Oh and fixing that pesky DCUfm wheelchair access problem!


    There's other things, just can't think of them now! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭public_enemy


    Put the Mezz into the Den area and have the Seminar room open for societies like in the old days. The loss of that room has had a definite impact on the Hub this year. Or alternatively, fix the Den into an area usable by societies in the way the old Seminar room was.

    Do something, anything, with the USIT office.

    Re-open the Old Bar? :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 868 ✭✭✭stainluss


    Make a big student bar that TCD and UCD would envy. Students would come from all across the city to party...

    Secondly, if I was SU president, I would use it to "the shift" :p

    I may also get more cheap food on campus (bring jamie oliver or KFC in) if my first two policys work, that is.:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭Daysha


    Urizen wrote: »
    Both of these fall under the accommodation officer of Union Council, and have been discussed at length, both in council and in other threads. The charges pay wages. If you can find someone to work for free, go ahead.

    Are you honestly telling me the Campus Res staff are fully reliant on a €5 "administration fee" to pay their own wages?! According to the CV Campus Res made a profit of over €1.5 million last year, I wonder how much that would drop by if the guest fee would drop. Not much I'd imagine.

    We're not asking people to work for free, we're asking for a bit of common sense. And charging people to stay in their own apartment when they're already paying well over €4000 for 8 months rent is ridiculous.

    As for the original question, I heard there are proposals to bring in some sort of loyalty card for people who purchase food on campus and that sounds pretty cool. They have something similar in WIT called the WITcard where you top it up with credit using various machines around campus, and then use the card to pay for food or other supplies with a certain discount. Something like that here would work pretty well I'd say.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    Considering we had a lengthy thread on the elections…

    If you were SU president what would you try do?

    admit that I had no power :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,354 ✭✭✭Urizen


    @phasers - Nyaww, can no one tell when I'm joking anymore? I mixed the humour with the seriousness. Some of these are serious issues. Some of those points ARE allocated to other officers in the Union, . And that Clubs & Socs Officer IS hotter than an Iceland volcano.

    @Daysha - I didn't attend the meetings, I just heard the reports. Both John Murphy and Jackie Fox, as Ed Wel Officer and as Accommodation Officer, have met with Campus Res and discussed this. Apparently, the €5 pays for the person who comes in and reviews applications. I'm not saying I agree with it, but you can see the logic. It's been brought up a lot before too.

    @Noodleworm - Poster thing, THANK you. Really, I'm as likely to look at one poster as I am to look at four beside each other.

    And Subway, WANT!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭gizmo


    Urizen wrote: »
    @Daysha - I didn't attend the meetings, I just heard the reports. Both John Murphy and Jackie Fox, as Ed Wel Officer and as Accommodation Officer, have met with Campus Res and discussed this. Apparently, the €5 pays for the person who comes in and reviews applications. I'm not saying I agree with it, but you can see the logic. It's been brought up a lot before too.
    And therein lies the problem, there is no need to "bring someone in to review applications". With their existing setup there is no reason they couldn't do it during normal office hours with the staff they have.

    That is besides the point though, the issue here is simple. People should be allowed to have guests in their rooms once they've been signed in by security. The old excuse as to why this wasn't possible was that there was an issue with the way the rooms in campus accommodation were classed legally. I can't remember the specifics but the end result was that they couldn't have people in the rooms who weren't the legal occupiers. This issue then disappeared when the new system was put in place, albeit with this new €5 fee.

    The only thing that will fix this is putting a hell of a lot of pressure on Campus Residences over a prolonged period of time. Whether any one officer can do this is debatable of course but over time fingers crossed the situation can be changed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭Katniss everMean


    I don't wanna be president, but one of you such get us a REAL Starbucks, no the french branch..

    Want all the deals starbucks do along with being able to use a starbucks card!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 854 ✭✭✭andrew163


    I'd make the seminar room available to societies again. Turning it into the mezz was a big blow to a large number of socs.

    I'd also tear out the den area completely, split it into two or three smaller, nicer rooms. Make one of them the mezz if people *really* wanted it, make the others into more seminar room-type areas. The problem with the seminar room before wasn't that nobody was using it, it was that there was only one of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,354 ✭✭✭Urizen


    gizmo wrote: »
    The only thing that will fix this is putting a hell of a lot of pressure on Campus Residences over a prolonged period of time.

    And hopefully next year's officers will continue what was started.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭Green Hand Guy


    Definitely agree with bringing back the seminar room. Turning it into the mezz was probably the most insane idea I saw this year. The hub hardly offered much space for Clubs and Socs activities as it was.

    The old USIT office should definitely be used for something. Maybe a second equipment room? The current one is generally too full of sets, gym mats and unicycles to be able to reach anything.

    Maybe the pool tables should be gotten rid of (a lot of them are missing balls and they tend to attract local skangers) and the whole area turned into some kind of space for Clubs and Socs stuff.

    Also, more non-alcoholic union events would be very welcome. I'm sure there are other non-drinkers out there who would appreciate it as much as I would.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,787 ✭✭✭g5fd6ow0hseima


    Definitely agree with bringing back the seminar room. Turning it into the mezz was probably the most insane idea I saw this year. The hub hardly offered much space for Clubs and Socs activities as it was.

    Im sure that move was debated into the ground in this forum (I never bothered looking into it), but yeah, I fully agree that it was a stupid idea, and to me personally, the only retionale behind bringing it there was to suit a certain few people. I quite liked the old location, where I could buy a coffee and tip on up and mess about on the internet. I made the point of not bothering to go to the mezz this year.
    The old USIT office should definitely be used for something. Maybe a second equipment room? The current one is generally too full of sets, gym mats and unicycles to be able to reach anything.

    Also in agreement here. I only ever saw it used once, which was when student cards were up for collection at the beginning of the 08/09 year. It could definetly be used for many things.
    Maybe the pool tables should be gotten rid of (a lot of them are missing balls and they tend to attract local skangers) and the whole area turned into some kind of space for Clubs and Socs stuff.

    I take it you're referring to the tables other than those owned by the Pool soc?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    Maybe the pool tables should be gotten rid of (a lot of them are missing balls and they tend to attract local skangers) and the whole area turned into some kind of space for Clubs and Socs stuff.

    Since when have the pool tables been attracting local skangers?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭Tiroskan


    Im sure that move was debated into the ground in this forum (I never bothered looking into it), but yeah, I fully agree that it was a stupid idea, and to me personally, the only retionale behind bringing it there was to suit a certain few people. I quite liked the old location, where I could buy a coffee and tip on up and mess about on the internet. I made the point of not bothering to go to the mezz this year.

    Funnily enough, I don't remember really seeing it mentioned anywhere. But I'm the same. I think I've been in there once this year and I think we lost more by moving it from the canteen than we gained from it being moved to the hub. And I really miss stuff being on in the seminar room :(


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS



    Maybe the pool tables should be gotten rid of (a lot of them are missing balls and they tend to attract local skangers) and the whole area turned into some kind of space for Clubs and Socs stuff.
    Nonsense, I play on them all the time, just have to count the balls to make sure they're all there.

    Don't know where you're getting attracting local skangers from.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭TheChrisD


    Obviously you've never been in there late at night putting equipment back that you had to lug all the way from the Henry Grattan building because the room that you used to use was turned into an Xbox mezzanine...


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    TheChrisD wrote: »
    Obviously you've never been in there late at night putting equipment back that you had to lug all the way from the Henry Grattan building because the room that you used to use was turned into an Xbox mezzanine...
    Fair enough, that's a security issue though

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    I've been out in DCU at all hours and I've never encountered local skangers around the place as you put it, that's a very false image of DCU and one that really doesn't do much in the way of quashing some ignorant views of people that don't even go there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,787 ✭✭✭g5fd6ow0hseima


    I usually take the same view as yourself regarding how its percieved by stupid ****wits from the 'larger' colleges but I've recently came to notice a few skangers walking about the place, and this being my third year here. About two weeks ago during the middle of the day I seen two 'malnourished buds' walking by the new bicycle rack on the green and one of them gave the back wheel of a bike a tug to see if it had been changed.

    Then a few days later, I seen the gards get out of their squad car and apprehend two knackers on bikes. They wernt taken away, but they were spoken to for a few minutes. I can only presume the gards were called, as this was up at the astroturf pitches.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    Unless it's a recent development, I've never noticed it before, it's still far from the amount of scum that have to be hauled out of trinity by the security guards. Just grates on me when people ask oh so sneeringly "how's Ballymun?" :rolleyes:


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