Student Centre

I got one of the information packs in the Arts Block but only because I saw them when I went to pick up a copy of the Piranha. They definitely didn't make enough of an effort to hand them out to everyone, most people I know had no idea that we were even having a referendum until they were handed the ballot paper!

Voted no because they wanted us to pay extra money for services that we already have! The centre would have had a coffee shop (we currently have four on campus), a bar (have one of those), a gig venue (we have two theatres and the Atrium as it is), student union offices (house six, anyone?), society rooms (most have them, or have use of rooms for their meetings), an SU shop (don't we already have 2?), a student common room (JCR?) and computers (there's plenty of space elsewhere on campus for more of them).

Sure, it'd be handy to have em all in one building, but for the millions they plan on spending on it, couldn't they focus on improving what we already have?! The Library could do with extra funding, as could the Health Service. Or they could use to fix the broadband that keeps crashing...

Ahoyhoy wrote: »

In fairness this was funding for the health service, a new location for them would be pretty epic. There was also going to be a respite room for the disability service - I know a few people who were really looking forward to that. Plus it would mean that a whole host of services would be way more accessible for any students with disabilities.

In that case, wouldn't it be better if they put the majority of the funding into that alone? If the referendum was for building a new Health centre, or for giving the disability service more space, then I'd have voted yes. But this was just a small part of it. I don't think that much money should go on providing facilities (shops, cafe, more couches) that are already there, covered by the reg fee.