Rag Week!

septicated mutant

This week in Carlow has been a utter disgrace. I am a local resident, and I live in Southern Gardens. I realise that this is an estate heavily populated by students. However, the scene that my husband and I and my young family were subjected to this week, was truly horrendous! Young drunken louts streaking through the estate, their crown jewels on displace for all this see. This well endowed young man proceeded to wave his private parts in my front window as my kids looked on. A pathetic act, enter my garden and with no dignity performing an act that no young child nor adult should be forced to endure.

This is just a sample of the on-goings that I witnessed to date during the week. I can only imagine what is to come this evening, already there are signs of what is to come this evening in Southern Gds. Consequently, I would raise the issue that the college should consider the future Rag week!

Furthermore, Carlow IT should think long and hard about the conduct of it's students. Students seem to have very little focus on their undertaken courses and I would ponder the issue whether the courses that are being provided have any actual substance and end goal to them.

This rant is long overdue as I have for the past 3 yrs been exposed to these truly unnecessary and horrific occurrences! The guards have already been notified of my displeasure and will hopefully deal with the possible disturbances that may lie ahead this evening.

Shame on you Carlow IT and your students, if you can call yourselves that!

Pllaaayyeerr

septicated mutant wrote: »

This well endowed young man proceeded to wave his private parts in my front window as my kids looked on.

Your full of crap i live in southern gardens and its been a very quiet week. Another troll

septicated mutant wrote: »

Furthermore, Carlow IT should think long and hard about the conduct of it's students. Students seem to have very little focus on their undertaken courses and I would ponder the issue whether the courses that are being provided have any actual substance and end goal to them.

Very similar to crap being bandied about on the useless courses thread that was started last week

septicated mutant wrote: »

Consequently, I would raise the issue that the college should consider the future Rag week!

You are entitled to your opinion however the charitable cause who benefit from the significant income of these week would suffer dramatically, although drunken behaviour can be excessive the local people of carlow are generally the ones causing the issues.

I sniff a troll though

septicated mutant

Why didnt you ask him in? Your full of **** i live in southern gardens and its been a very quiet week. Another troll

My kids and husband were in the house, timing was not suitable. Do not make assumptions Player, youknow what they do...

I would ask the OP what is the nature of his business in Carlow?

From here we can debate the issue that has insensed me soooo much. Making assumptions....facts must be calibrated and gathered prior to doing so.

Pllaaayyeerr

septicated mutant wrote:

**** off, this is a serious username

Private mail of this Ilk wont be tolerated. I will be informing a Mod.

septicated mutant

I don't know what your talking about.

Pllaaayyeerr

septicated mutant wrote: »

I would ask the OP what is the nature of his business in Carlow?

Your the OP!

If you want to debate the issue thats no problem, where abouts in southern garden do you live, why havent you reported this to the residents association?

Im a member of the resident association and this is the least disruptive RAG week in a long time. The college needs to be commended for engaging with us this year.

septicated mutant

I am also a member of the residents association. I live <snip>

Mod Edit: Please don't post up name and address publicly. Its too dangerous.

Pllaaayyeerr

septicated mutant wrote: »

I am also a member of the residents association. I live <snip>

I have informed <snip> of your comment. Report to Mod

Thread closed i think

septicated mutant

What are you trying to ruin a legitimate thread for, you belong with the rest of them dimwiths that I will mention in 1 minute.

septicated mutant

Poll added...

ShayK1

Didn't I ban you already? Or was that somebody else?
Its such a small town I can't always remember.

Please take up your issue with Carlow Garda Station or IT Carlow Students Union.
www.Boards.ie can't help you on this one I'm afraid.

mesosplody

septicated mutant wrote: »

the rest of them dimwiths

It's spelled dimwits.

norburren

Don't know about Southern Gardens but the town late at night and early mornings a disgrace.Monday night, Tuesday morning particularly bad and now the Rag Ball tonight. Rubbish bins emptied on Dublin St this morning and how is moving traffic cones and bollards so funny.

What about our recession, where do they get all the money to drink.

As for the money raised for Charity, what about the cost of the clean up, Gardai and health service costs. Who pays for that oh ya of course the tax payers.

Students cope on you are not funny when drunk in the early hours of the morning.

daithimac

is mary martin running sock puppets on boards.ie lol

septicated mutant

Spot on Norburren! Its a bloody disgrace!

entropi

Ok I'll do something I rarely do: feed the troll.

How dare you accuse every single student of acting the same way of some who you probably think tarnish the whole of Carlow. I live close to Southern Gardens, I'm a student in the IT too, and have always tried my best to live and study in a proper way...and most people I know there would be the same, and have never acted like you describe in that first post. You cannot tar everyone of us with the same brush, quite simply because you do not know us.

The IT's faculty are always concerned about the conduct of it's students, and of the impact that this might have on local residents. We DO realise that not every house around the college is for students, so take that into account when you get that brush back out.

If you have an issue with the behaviour of some students, try the guards, the security that patrol around SG, residents association or even the IT itself.

royston_vasey

"Your full of crap i live in southern gardens and its been a very quiet week. Another troll".

If this individual lives in Southern Gardens then he/she will be fully aware of the behaviour that occurred Sunday and Monday night. I'm sure that the Gardai and the private security firm patrolling the estate - paid for by a couple of landlords - would also dispute your contention; c.60 anti-social orders handed out on Monday night serves to prove my point.

Of course maybe it the residents who are "full of crap" assuming they are entitled to peaceful living in their house: I was personally informed on Sunday night that I should expect this behaviour because of where I live and also the fact that it was ragweek! This proves the mentality that exists amongst students with regards to ragweek and the abject failure of the IT and students union to re-brand it as Raise And Give week.

Just a little tip to the guys in the students union and the IT - instead of lecturing on change management how about practising it and you could start with changing the culture that exists within your environment.

Lukekul

I live in southern gardens and thought it was a pretty quiet week, but then I didn't see any nudity. I have seen some broken bottles about but thats kind of par for the course in any estate with plenty of students. I thought the gardi did well enough, doing runs through every few hours.

royston_vasey

Lukekul wrote: »

I live in southern gardens and thought it was a pretty quiet week, but then I didn't see any nudity. I have seen some broken bottles about but thats kind of par for the course in any estate with plenty of students. I thought the gardi did well enough, doing runs through every few hours.

In fairness the streaking incident occurred prior to ragweek and was dealt with by the gardai.

If you walked the estate you would have seen broken glass, discarded bottles and can as well as litter discarded all over the estate. For you to view this as acceptable speaks volumes as to the disregard you have for the area and also for the residents within the estate - you are aware littering is not acceptable in a civilised society and carries a mandatory fine? It is also a sad reflection upon the induction process carried out by the IT and the students union.

For your information, you should have been presented with a Charter of Behaviour - from your landlord -prepared by the residents association that details the forms of behaviour that are deemed unacceptable within the estate.

Lukekul

Thank you for telling me what i think is acceptable, I am very grateful.

The one week during the year when every student go's out and has a good time and you call them wasters?... What a joke, what do you expect? Every college has a rag week, just put up with it.

Oh and the IT won't be able to cancel Rag Week. Good luck to you.

royston_vasey

Mak_United wrote: »

The one week during the year when every student go's out and has a good time and you call them wasters?... What a joke, what do you expect? Every college has a rag week, just put up with it.

Oh and the IT won't be able to cancel Rag Week. Good luck to you.

Can you please highlight for me where I have termed students as wasters?

In respect to your second point, the purpose of ragweek is to raise monies for charitable causes, it is not suppose to be a week whereby students have carte blanche to get inebriated and behave irresponsibly.

royston_vasey

Lukekul wrote: »

Thank you for telling me what i think is acceptable, I am very grateful.

Why would you be grateful if you already acknowledge that it is acceptable, it's only confirming your intrinsic beliefs.

I think you were trying to be smart and if so it is not me telling you how to behave it's the law. I think you will also find that the IT's student charter advises you on how to behave in a sociable manner. This world is just a great big Nazi-fest.

royston_vasey

Pllaaayyeerr wrote: »

Your the OP!

If you want to debate the issue thats no problem, where abouts in southern garden do you live, why havent you reported this to the residents association?

Im a member of the resident association and this is the least disruptive RAG week in a long time. The college needs to be commended for engaging with us this year.

I doubt your credentials as I know for a fact that you can't be in the residents association and the residents association of Southern Gardens in no way will be commending the IT following the incidents that have occurred this week; the residents association are in fact pursuing an opposing course of action.

Your statements are fabricated and I would thank you not to be making statements on behalf of an association that you have absolutely no connection with.

I trust you will now also withdrawn your "troll" remarks directed at the OP.

You didn't even create the thread m8.

Why u trolling?

royston_vasey

As a resident of Southern Gardens I am not going to permit lies to be spread on here by somebody masquerading as a fellow resident, hence I'm not a troll and I have already indicated who the troll is.

Now that I have addressed your point will you please answer the question I posed to you yesterday or are you going to continue trying to deflect attention from it?

Da Bounca

All of this over a few streakers. Lighten up.

I my friend said the OP called students wasters. Go to college and learn to read.

Nolaner

Da Bounca wrote: »

All of this over a few streakers. Lighten up.

yeah you's all need to lighten up we all ran around green road in our boxers yodelling!!! its all just a bit of fun =D

royston_vasey

Mak_United wrote: »

I my friend said the OP called students wasters. Go to college and learn to read.

No the OP hasn't referred to students as wasters and it was your contention that I used the term. I suggest that you pay heed to your own advice

royston_vasey

Nolaner wrote: »

yeah you's all need to lighten up we all ran around green road in our boxers yodelling!!! its all just a bit of fun =D

I'm sure the householders in Green Road where cheering you!

TomTom

I think if this sort of a topic is going to be discussed here it needs to be a little bit more mature. Referring to people as trolls or branding all with the one brush is no good for debate.

Students are by there very nature going to rebel, party and cut free as for many it is their first time living independently and in a way being the only person responsible for their own actions. As a result of this they will drink heavily, streak and act massively irresponsibly. This is by no means the correct way to behave but it is and has always been the norm in student towns. The phrase boy will be boys is around a lot longer than we are.

On the other side of this, residents of an estate or town have the right to live in their home free of this sort of behavior. The mix in college gardens may not be ideal for some and while college students don't see it, it does not make their actions correct. A persons home is their castle so to speak and nobody should have any right to make them feel uncomfortable for living there.

I may sound like I am contradicting myself but what I just want to lay down is that this debate can continue but it needs to be far more mature. No posting of personal info such as address or locations. No direct targeting of individuals. Such actions will result in a ban.

ShayK1

RaleSlimShady1 permanent ban from IT Carlow Forum and I'll be looking for a site ban of all your usernames.

Goodbye!
ShayK1
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MonTheBiffy

This post is actually pretty funny. Some of the BS is hilarious. Royston especially. Keep it up. I'm dying to hear more

royston_vasey

"....but the main reason for the email was the issue of anti-social behaviour,” added Helena Johnson, IT Carlow Student Services Office.

“Following reports of a large amount of anti-social behaviour, we sent an email reminding students not to partake in such behaviour,” added Helena.

http://www.carlow-nationalist.ie/tabId/369/itemId/8807/Primal-fear.aspx

duffman13

2 lines in a local newspaper about the crazy anti-social behaviour of students, hardly worth posting. I really thought this was a relatively queit Rag week, I dont live in southern gardens so couldnt really comment on it.

In comparison to whats been going in Galway this week Carlow I.T. looks like a college for choir boys

http://www.galwaynews.ie/17985-disturbances-reported-rag-week-begins


Galway City thread:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056195539

Although this doesnt make anti-social behaviour more acceptable in Carlow i think a realistic view should be taken by some of the posters in this forum.

Marshall Bruce Mathers III

Post Removed by moderator and user banned

tomottosam

Just to say ive only noticed this thred now, im a student ere in carlow, i live in southern gardens, from my view the estate wasnt that loud only for a small period during the days of rag week while we were playing football in the street but apart from that even at night the estate was quiet enough, ive been to 2 other rags weeks before in other college towns which were an awful lot louder and wilder thans carlows this year

Im a mature student here in Carlow. Yes there is always one or two that wont handle their drink but to suggest scrapping rag week is totally bizarre to say the least. i wonder would half the jobs and the businesses exist in Carlow town had it not been for the college? And Carlow's anti social problems go a lot further then the students i can tell you that.

MonTheBiffy

Just be glad you don't live in Galway City Royston or you have choked on your croissant at the scenes up there/ Lighten up old timer

patdshaker

Id love to know how much the crime rate drops during the summer months not a lot I bet especially when you consider that there are about 5,000 students in the I.T. (One person got his head smashed in during the week unacceptable , yes it is but not a lot) The amount of 15-17 year olds that I saw out on RAG week was shocking I think I must of saw at least 50/60 who were definitely under-age so Carlow I ask you while you were busy watching the students where were your children and how much anti-social behaviour did they partake in

Nead21

patdshaker wrote: »

The amount of 15-17 year olds that I saw out on RAG week was shocking I think I must of saw at least 50/60 who were definitely under-age

organising Rag Week the same week as the Midterm Break wasnt the brightest of ideas! :rolleyes:

patdshaker

Nead21 wrote: »

organising Rag Week the same week as the Midterm Break wasnt the brightest of ideas! :rolleyes:

True it wouldnt have taken much to find it out

pigeonbee

I am a atudent at IT Carlow... (not carlow IT) and I think that this thread post is disgraceful. Talk about tarring everyone with the same brush! I do not live in southern gardens but I have many friends who do and will be living there this coming term and the fact that you have seen one or two hooligans has no reflection on the whole of the student population at the college. charities greatly benefit from everything we do during rag week, students work hard and deserve a week to let loose and I for one will stand up against anyone who tries to irradicate RAG week because of a few busy neighbours that have nothing better to do than complain and stereotype students. If you dont like it thats not our problem.

ShayK1

Please don't drag up old threads.

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