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Technological University Dublin ARROW@TU Dublin DIT Student Union Dublin Institute of Technology 1998-11 The DIT Examiner : the Newspaper of the Dublin Institute of Technology Students' Union, November - December, 1998 DIT Students' Union Follow this and additional works at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ditsu Recommended Citation DIT Students' Union : The DIT Examiner, November - December, 1998, Dublin 1998. This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Dublin Institute of Technology at ARROW@TU Dublin. It has been accepted for inclusion in DIT Student Union by an authorized administrator of ARROW@TU Dublin. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License The Newspaper of the • Dublin Institute of Technology Students' Union The amlner ..........IteOl.....u. 3 LETTERS LITREACHA 3 Lettuce 2D Editor De4f' Editor, Many thanks to you all for and designated DIT Universi£) Chaplaincy, your Iooe and care. Degree. Due to the unambiguous On entering Aungier R249 Univenity nature of a Universi£), the world St. on a cLcIl and boring Yours, sincerely, Status: wiU recognise DIT Awards and day after a Titleting opera, Nov 12 Margaret BucJde,r. (Sr) The Overall's hence graduate prospects are vast, tions management lecture ly improoed." I decided to take comfort Response in a can of coke and a Wdl three years be enough to packet of Hula Hoops. I want to say a very spe­ Dear Editor, The report denies us improve academic teaching WalkinB down the stairs cial thank you to the stu­ As you may well be VnWersity status; are you dU, standards? to Aungier St. SU Shop, dents and staff at DIT aware, DIT Aungier appointed? "I believe that the quality ofteach, oblWious to ~hing and Kmn St. for their good Street held an internation, "Absolutely not. The DIT is in ing in DIT is fundamentally etleryone, I went to pay for wishes, /lowers and cards al conference on Post· the final stages of the long progres, Ross 0' Daly responsible for the recognition of my purchases. AA, but which I recei"ed during Graduate Research on sion toward University status.The DITSU DIT as a strong educational insti, soon my eyes were widely my recent illness. l'"e Friday, November 20. The report clearly recognises the DIT Overall PresIdent tution. 'Improoement' is not a opend, as there, standing been "ery touched by your conference was organised as a UnitleTSity~level institutIOn. word I would use with regard to before me was the new concern and care. It gWes to highlight new cuWanqs They 1I44Ie outlined a few conditions and our lecturers. We are looking to up..grac/e the . uniform, its whiteness me great hope t&find such and opportunities in al10wed the DIT to be full' prepared after the lecturers and facilitatt increased amounts of blinded me, not to mention ldndness and concern in a research throughout the short time scale of ma,be three .,ears. " Post,Orad and Research work." it's see throueh nature. world that seems to luwe world. Need I say more? little care. It seems ironic, howet!­ What does this mean for past students? What about the apprentices, non-degree er, that undergraduate "I think that this is agreat da., for the 22,000 students and technological aspects of ThanJcing you and all A "ery big thank you to smdents were shown the CU7Tent students to some 4O,OOO,plw past this futut'e Uniwrsit,? inwWed, FT. Meltryn for all the red card for the day, with stuJentj who have been activel, &woMd and "The DIT mission was never to create P. Duming. e.Dr4 work he took on dur­ mcJny projects CIhd assign· in support of this step. All pamus, staff, another traditional University. The retliew ing my abaence. He wq.s ments due in the near senior academics and students alike are group has st4ted the Instttute "wiU be a Bd says. certainly thrown in at the future. standing on the hiU on the down side to the UnitleTSi£), unique in the Irish third level s,s, Apprec:itue the praue. P. , deep end! Welcome promised land. " tern, with a wide ditleTSi£) ofcourses from the rhougft, unlike the 69 moon uel4lyn and thank you! Narf, etc. landing, Ra, Houghton's snmner practical to the highest theoretical level...". A not.happy camper. What win it mean for future students? The new Universit1 wiU pioneer a new age against ltol, in USA '94, and ~ Darrh Vader s untimeI, demise I I'd also like to say "The potential is, that before an, ofour new in the international educational market for cannot claim to haW! mflvericed -come to all the first yetJr Bd says: Univemt1 status, recruits graduate in four -,ears time, they will ~." whaT! prooiding educational the decision on the fresh shop, students and to wish you a be graduating, not with a DlT InstItUte of ~atrire. ~ time in l<etlin St. Technology Degree, but a fuR' recognised Students benefit from foreign tax back scheme 1993 you can now get your cash back right away. It's important to know that even ifyou don't have any papers, ESS can still reclaim your tax for you by obtaining replecemen papen. All you need is your em. loyer's name and address. The processing fee for the service is 12.5% of the refund value for US, C and UK refunds, and 16.5% for 0 d German refund. If are not entitled to a refund . no fee. Don't wony, fee is n due until the rebutd has been processed ere is no out of hand. So, ifyou're short on cash and you've w abroad, ESS can be contacted on CallSave 1850 66 88 66. , on at http://www.s.ie. The office I d Y. 67a6959 x: 670 Web: ://ww. emait: ess.ie NUACHT 4 T11()11121S Felle's Sauna Trauma... One must presume that the thought of spending a Friday night in a dimly lit room full of steam with a fridg~ full of beer and absolute vodka, and a group of nude 20 year-old Finnish women appeals to most Irish men, and vice versa. All over Europe, a new craze called 'sauna parties' is starting to spread from the Scandinavian countries, where traditionally, student parties have always included an air of naturism. Examiner European Correspondent, Thomas Felle, went to a sauna party in Helsinki, Finland to examine just what we are missing. Sauna's are, and have been synonymous with Finnish life for many centuries. Finnish people use the sauna in the same way many Irish use the pub, as a means of relaxing and meeting mends. It is inherent with Finnish culture as a way in which people meet and greet each other, especial­ ly in the Finnish countryside. It is almost impossible to find a house that does not have a sauna built-in. Very often, the sauna serves an even greater practical purpose, especially in winter when tem­ peratures fall below -20 degrees Celsius for more that five months of the year. Larissa Bruun, student at the University of Helsinki, explains just what the fascina­ tion is with saunas. ''From When children are very small, they are introduced to the sauna by their parents.·1t is quite natural for mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers to sauna together, (naked) as well as mends." She explains that because Finnish people are so neutralised to the idea that being naked with other people is normal from an early age, they have a much greater respect 'or the naked body. "It feels so wonderful sauna. ''That is the last thing <<;In anybody's to swim naked, or to bathe naked on a mindwhen you are in a sauna. Anyway it's beach. Saunas are just as wonderful, and it just too hot to have sex." However, she Aids Day makes sense then, that students should admitted the odd sexual encounter in the want to have parties in saunas." shower after a sauna, when, she says, she When asked if she understood why other is most relaxed. nationalities are embarrassed by the idea Irish students, generally, are most used to of being naked with others, she said she saunas in association with health dubs and swimming pools, and temperatures of ··It feels so wonder­ about 80 degrees Celsius. However, it is quite common to have temperatures of 120 ful to swim naked, degrees Celsius in Finnish saunas, espe­ or to bathe naked cially for older people. Sauna parties are usually about 80 degrees Celsius, however, on a beach...•• Finnish people add quite a lot of water to the steamers, which makes it feel much hotter. It is also quite common to add did. "A lot of it has to do with the mentalI­ scenting oils as well as absolute vodka, ty of people. The human body is the most and beer to the steamers, which makes for natural thing in the world, and w· it an interesting fom of intoxication. would be impractical to walk around naked in Finland all the time, because it is So will D'Aungier Zone be hosted from a so coW, it is great to go to a sauna with sauna in the near future? Will the Point be your friends, and bond wi them. filled with steam to facilitate the Something 'Queensboro Rules' just does­ Christmas Ball? WJ11 th RAG trip be to n't allow for." Finland? Who Knows, b;I if yeu are in However the Finn was defensive when Finland in the near future, you might wan asked if she had ever enjoyed sex in a to try it.

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