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Your SU Exec Meet the Team! CIT Students’ Union Magazine Volume Twelve, Issue 1 IN THIS ISSUE: • Your new life at CIT! • Freshers Week Your SU Exec • Sports and Societies • Health Meet the team! • Competitions FRESHERS BALL 2010 THURS 30th SEPT @ LIQUID LOUNGE & CLANCYS 29 Marlborough Street, Cork Room 1 4 FLOORS LIVE performance by Tickets €10 GLEE from Students Union Tribute band and Information Desk Room 2 Doors 9pm UPSTAIRS@ NOTE: Ticket holders can enter via LIQUID LOUNGE Marlborough St and Princes St entrances Hear all the latest chart hits Over 18s event. Room 3 GARDA ID/ Passport or THE TERRACE Driving Licence required Chill out Sounds ROAR Room 4 Karaoke plus the cheesy sounds of yesteryear @ THE BALLROOM FRESHERS BALL CIT Students’ Union, Rossa Ave, BALL Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland. Telephone: 021 433 5274 THURS 30th SEPT Fax: 021 454 5343 Email: [email protected] Web: www.explicit.ie 6 expliCIT Production CONTENTS Design & Advertising - Keith Brown, Philip O’Reilly 4 SPECIAL FEATURE - YOUR NEW CIT LIFE CIT Students’ Union A summary of what to expect at CIT President - John Lane ([email protected]) 6 WELCOME! Vice President Education - Chris Scanlon Some words of welcome form your ([email protected]) Students Union officers 12 Vice President Welfare - Vicki Fitzpatrick 21 RENTING ([email protected]) 10 FEES Your rights as a tenant Projects Officer - Niamh Hayes N ews on grants, fees and education ([email protected]) 22 SPECIAL FEATURE Communications Officer -to be elected 12 FRESHERS WEEK T oo mature for college? ([email protected]) A superb lineup from Monday 27th to Entertainments Officer - Gordon Forbes Thursday 30th Sept 23 PROBLEM PAGE ([email protected]) So, you think you have problems?! Entertainments Manager - 16 COMPETITIONS Mick O’Mahony ([email protected]) Your chance to WIN! some great prizes 24 SPORT K eeping you in touch with the various Print 18 HEALTH sporting opportunites at CIT Barnaville Print & Graphics Ltd. Some good advice about keeping on top of your health 26 GAMES Advertising Opportunities There are some great prizes on offer for CIT has almost 17,000 full and part-time students 19 “Overheard” successfully completed entries delivered with over 1,500 staff. Why not use expliCIT to Snippets from around campus into the Students Union office promote your business to this large audience? Copy deadlines, advertising rates and technical The Students’ Union website www.explicit.ie provides useful information on issues that effect specifications are available from our website www.expliCIT.ie or upon request from the student lives. It also hosts a download section, back-issues of expliCIT, student chat forums, Publications Office. photos of union events, and a search engine to find the information you need quickly from CITSU Online, CIT website, and the entire net. expliCIT magazine is published monthly by CIT The Students’ Union represents and defends its members on matters affecting their rights and Students’ Union. The views expressed in the interests as students of the Institute and as citizens and acts as a channel of communication magazine are those of their authors and are not between its members and the Institute and other bodies. The Union is one of the principal con- necessarily those of CIT Students’ Union. All duits for expression of students’ opinions, and is recognised as such by the management of the articles and pictures are the property of their Institute. All activities and services operate from the Union Offices on the first floor (balcony) of respective owners and should not be reproduced the Nexus Student Centre without their permission. STUDENTS’ Union SERVICES. The ethos of the Students’ Union is to provide quality services on a non-profit making basis to students. Whenever possible, services are provided at a lower price than any other retail outlet on campus or in the local vicinity. The Students’ Union and Office/Retail Outlet is open daily from 9.00am to 5.00pm. The range of services available from the Office include: Computer Storage Media/Lab Coats/Stationery/Mobile Phone Credit,USB keys, DVDs and CDs are all available at exceptionally low prices. We also offer a limited range of stationery items at cost price. Lab Coat and goggles are available from September to December. Mobile phone credit is also available. WE NEED YOU! Send us your thoughts, articles, advice and pictures. If you would like to contribute anything to expliCIT Magazine, please contact Keith or Philip in the Publications Office, 1st Floor, Student Centre or email: [email protected] 3 SPECIAL FEATURE YOUR NEW CIT LIFE STARTS HERE phone discos, Glow-in-the-Dark parties, contemplation room, canteen, bistro, nu- uniform parties, ladies nights and fancy merous shops, student centre, computer dress events, just to mention a few. labs… The list goes on. When students come from other colleges to visit, they Freshers week is run by the Students’ are often in awe of all the facilities CIT Union, and is a great chance to get to has. know your Students’ Union Officers! RAG Week Independent Study Yeah… Truthfully, it sucks. But you can’t RAG week is usually run in Semester have fun without putting in a bit of work. Two. RAG (Raise and Give) Week is dedi- Its all about striking a balance. I am a firm cated to raising money for charity, and if believer in the more you study, the more we happen to have a little fun along the you should take time to blow off steam. way, what harm? Again, entertainment is Here is a note to first years: You will no- run on campus, this time with the aim of tice that the students in third and fourth raising money, so there is usually a lot of year that are seen out in the fundraisers (waxings, shavings, gunging) nightclubs most, are also Student Life as well as great competitions and priz- the same students that es. The annual RAG Ball is always fancy If you have never experienced it before, are seen in the library dress, so start thinking early! life in third level is the experience of a the most. Independent lifetime. If you are coming straight from study is all about set- school, you will have more freedom than Exams ting aside time and you could imagine. If you are return- keeping on top of your ing from the big bad world, you will see They are inevitable, and exams are just work. A few hours in how relaxed the college environment is part of the system. You can’t have all fun the library, even just compared to the workplace. Students without some work. Exams in third level one evening a love the third level experience, and get are designed to be challenging and right- week, will make just as much enjoyment and satisfac- ly so. You are here to learn how to make life so much tion from both the educational and social yourself valuable to companies so chal- easier for you sides of the third-level coin. Here is a list lenging exams just mean you need to up come exam time. of the highs and lows of college to get your game. you ready. Independence Facilities Freshers week For all of you who have just moved out of The facilities available in CIT are second home for the first time, please be care- During the first week in CIT, the college to none. Whether you choose to use ful… Independence and freedom are like runs inductions for all first year students. them or not, however, is completely up to cocaine – highly addictive. You will get This is to show them the campus and you. We have a gym, sports hall, running so used to doing your own thing in your what amenities and facilities are now at track, astro turf pitches, GAA and rugby own time. And this is exactly what you your fingertips. Soon after is Freshers pitches, tennis courts, library, theatre, should do. You are now your own boss. week – a week dedicated to integrat- ing first years into the social side of the college. Entertainment is provided every day is the Nexus (also known as the Stu- dent Centre), and usually consists of co- Freshers Week is run by the Students’ medians, hypnotists, and all that kind of Union, and is a great chance to get to stuff! There are also prizes handed out every day and themed nights. In the last know your Students’ Union Officers! few years these have included Head- “ 4 ” Mammy won’t be telling you what time to be home and lecturers won’t be chasing you for projects. The initial inebriation is amazing – go wild, get drunk, make mis- takes. It is only by making bad decisions that we learn what not to do again. Sports and Societies The hub of the social life in CIT. Get in- volved with something. From Karate to Kayaking, Simpsons to Sustainable En- ergy, there really is something for every- one. Last year, the two most notable new activities were Mixed Martial Arts and Urban Art – what a genuinely intriguing mix. Sports and Societies Day is Tues- day 21st of September. I cannot stress enough what an important day that is! Nightclubs Students have a reputation for one thing- drink. And rightly so. Its not an unfound- Classes and Lecturers fore the deadline to print them off. Get ed stereotype. Nightclubs may not be stuck in and enjoy them. Projects are a for everyone, but they are some craic! For the love of God, just go to class!!! I good practical way for you to learn so This year, CITSU are running their official know your bed is warm, I know its cold embrace it and enjoy.
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