doylema3 wrote: » Title sorta speaks for itself really. I mean, i always see poster about their event and saw them trying to get everyone that walked past to sign up on C&S day, but i'm at a loss when it comes to what they're all about. with ones like drama, dance, game etc their name says it all, but entrepreneurial and social soc isn't a big help. anyone know?
robby^5 wrote: » I don't think anyone could argue that you might as well drop Entrepreneurial from the title for a good description of what E&S do. Basically it's a society whose main aims are to socialise, which is ridiculous since that is the primary goal of every society first and foremost. If it was the Entrepreneurial soc then that'd be fine, but "social soc" gives them a very very broad spectrum of what they can run (which is evident in the types of events they actually do run) which sort of defeats the whole purpose of having a variety of different socs imo.
Fiftysix wrote: » In all fairness, every society is a "social" society. Do games soc members come to events and hide behind blankets and not talk to each other?
Matthewthebig wrote: » they act like cúnts
robby^5 wrote: » Yes thats what I said, being social is the primary goal of every soc. What I'm saying is that being a "social soc" is a pathetic excuse to exsist since every society aims to be social BUT the big difference is they arrange social events around their specific activites, so gamessoc meetup and play games, drama produce plays, artsoc get together and do various art projects etc etc. E&S just seem to do whatever they feel like. Does the mystery trip have anything to do with being Entreprenurial? Does the Iron stomach have anything to do with being Entreprenurial? I'm sure they do run Entreprenurial events but lets be honest, people are just joining up for these big once-off events and for the discount card, which is what E&S is known for. But I would be interested to see a full list of events from last year to see how many entreprenurial events they actually ran, I'd be confident saying there would be considerably less Entreprenurial events than anything else. See what I'm saying is their reason for existence is vague at best, it just seems they really arent focused on being an entreprenurial society and are just there to be a social society, which is just lazy.
douglashyde wrote: » Not to keep running to E&S help here, but I would have to disagree that they are "lazy", the size and frequency of their events would take hard work to arrange and run.
douglashyde wrote: » However, I would also say that it is quite a shallow society with no real loyalty or continuous participation among most of its members, but none the less, it's a society that students want and join, otherwise, why such large membership!
douglashyde wrote: » My problem is, they seem to get better treatment within DCU, at least they didn’t have their own TENT this year!!!!! Or did they?? Didn’t see one anyway!!
Sanitarium wrote: » They are called E&S (Entrepreneurial & Social) because they get a very large grant from the college just to have Entrepreneurial in their name. They run about one entrepreneurial event every year (last year was a talk from Bill Cullen) and thats it. They blow the rest of the money on social events.
PuddinBum wrote: » Their mystery trip is to Amsterdam thats all I know.
aDeener wrote: » not much of a mystery so
public_enemy wrote: » The tale of origin that I've heard is that initially they wanted to call themselves simply "The Soc", and only stuck on the E&S stuff after they realised that this wasn't allowed by the SPC. Ostensibly it's a business and party society and to be fair, they have ran a few business talks and competitions in the past, as well as the more obvious purely social events, but they do seem to be possessed of a little arrogance and self-superiority at times with some of their actions. There has also been plenty of suspicion regarding their financiers and the influence of certain brand names on their activities, but I'm pretty sure they've been audited and come out clean. As much as I may personally resent their whole ethos, I do have a healthy respect for their initiative and effort. They've really shaken up the whole clubs and socs scene since their inception and definitely raised the bar for society advertising and recruitment methods.
