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CIT Students’ Union Magazine Volume Twenty One, Issue 3 FREE COPY PLEASE CIT SU TAKE ME! Positive Mind &5-7 Nov Body 2019 IN THIS ISSUE: • Positive Mind & Body 2019 Timetable • The Latest Sports & Societies News • Great Competitions - Hard Cash On Offer! and much more... Your Union Your Voice GET €50 AND UN-CANCEL YOUR PLANS Get €50 when you open a KBC Student Current Account, so you won’t need to live like a student. KBC.ie Terms & Conditions and eligibility criteria apply. Other fees and charges, including non-euro fees and charges, will apply. For full Terms & Conditions, eligibility criteria and fees & charges see www.kbc.ie/students. KBC Bank Ireland plc is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. CONTENTS 4 CITSUOFFICERS’ 13 #FANCYFOLLOWINGCIT ADDRESS 14 LIVE CIT, LOVE SOCIETIES 5 A NEW STUDENT HEALTH Volunteer Abroad Info Evening APP IS OUT NOW! 15 ENACTUS WORLD CUP GET €50 6 PHOTO GALLERY Report from California Business & Science Ball 2019 16 LIVE CIT, LOVE SPORTS Roundup of recent events 9 POSITIVE MIND & BODY AND UN-CANCEL WEEK 18 COMPETITIONS Simply deliver your crossword, Timetable of events quiz and Suduko entries into the 10 CORK DRAG RACE 2019 Students’ Union Shop, 1st floor, 12 FLYNNERS FLYING Student Centre, for your chance COLUMN to WIN hard cash! YOUR PLANS Last issue winners: Suduko: Andrew Corkery, BIS YZ Quiz; Clodagh Keane, BBus Yr 3 Crossword: Clodagh Herlihy, ECEC Yr 3 Get €50 when you open a KBC Student National Startup Award so you won’t need to Winners 2019 Current Account, 3rd Level Spinout Category Gold Award - live like a student. StrydeTech - CIT represented at the awards by Muireann Hickey (StrydeTech Team Leader and Manager) and Jonathan Mullane (StrydeTech Technologi- cal Design Specialist and Commercial Advancement) National Start Up Award recipients (Left to Right) Paul Glavin - MD Glavloc, Jim Morgan - Lab Technician CIT, Andrew Macilwraith – Visiting Lecturer CIT, Aisling Barry – Glavloc, Gary O’Sullivan – NSAI, and Des Walsh – Head of Civil, Structural, & Environmental Engineering CIT. CIT Students’ Union, VP Education Aisling O’Mahony Advertising Opportunities Bishopstown, Cork. [email protected] CIT has 17,000+ full and part-time students with over 1,500 staff. Why not use expliCIT to promote Tel: 021 433 5274 VP Welfare Cian O’Driscoll [email protected] your business to this large audience? 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For full Terms & 3 Conditions, eligibility criteria and fees & charges see www.kbc.ie/students. KBC Bank Ireland plc is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. As part of S.H.A.G.* Week, CIT SU facilitated a Tea Consent Party on Wednesday 2nd of October in the Main Corridor. Run in conjunction with Safe City and The Sexual Violence Centre under the campaign name: Ask Consent. This event attracted great engagement with Ger Kiely, of Safe City attending, as did Chief Superintendent Barry McPolin of An Garda Siochána and Stevie G of RedFm who narrated. STUDENTS’ UNION OFFICERS ADDRESS EXCESSIVE HEAT IN One of the biggest highlights was the event in conjunction with us. the #AskConsent Campaign which THE 1974 BUILDING This was a great success raising we ran in conjunction with Safe City €637.37 in the Bishopstown Cam- We are aware of the ridiculous heat Cork and Sexual Violence Centre pus and a further €169 in NMCI inside the 1974 building; we have Cork. This Campaign was run as Ringaskiddy. This brings us up to a raised this issue with the appropri- a Tea Consent Party with the anal- total of €806.37. ate people within the college. We ogy that consent is as simple as have received a mandate from Class tea. Great to see so much staff and The CIT Cancer Society continued Reps at union council to take what- senior management along with stu- fundraising by running the cloak- ever action needed to get the current dents engage in this. Special thanks room at the Business and Science heating situation to an appropriate to Stevie G of Red FM who was the Ball and raised €526 which they plan level. We will keep you updated as narrator and also to CIT Students to contribute to the CIT Breast Can- to how our talks with management Services Company who sponsored cer Awareness Month. progresses. the Tea and Coffee. The great work of this campaign MTU So all round this was a great cam- equals a sum total of €1,332 be- Aaron has been attending week- paign and we look forward to your ing donated to Irish Cancer Society ly meetings with the MTU project continued support and engagement from CIT. sponsors, discussing the upcoming with the rest of our campaigns. merger with IT Tralee. Aaron is stress- UPCOMING EVENTS ing the importance that students are PINK DAY 5th to 7th November - at the forefront of the newly formed October was Breast Cancer Aware- Positive Mind and Body. entity. He has asked the MTU pro- ness Month and CIT wanted to con- 19th November - ject team to organise “town hall” tribute our bit. Sincerest thanks to Mens International Day. style meetings to keep the students CIT Cancer Society and the Batch- Yours sincerely, of CIT consulted on the process. He elor of Business in Marketing stu- has been asking for this consultation dents who organised and promoted YOUR SU Executive to take place for the past eight and a half months, but still there has been little effort made by the college to properly consult students. S.H.A.G.* WEEK Sexual Health and Guidance Week took place between the 1st and 3rd of October where all workshops and stands attracted great engage- ment. On the 4th October we had a workshop and stand in CIT CCAD where there was also strong en- gagement from students. Our Sex- ual Health and Guidance workshop will be visiting CSM and NMCI in the month of November so watch our social medias. 4 The ‘Student Health Matters’ App “Student Health is available for iPhone and android and is free to download from the Matters” App Store and Google Play. The App and Interactive interactive eBook is available to Health Guide access from the ISHA website and CIT health centre webpage. Search The Irish Student Health Association ‘Student Health Matters’. (ISHA) has announced all third level students may access a new ‘Student Health Matters’ App and Interactive eBook that provides students with The Medical Centre is situated at The access to reliable and relevant health Student Centre, Bishopstown Campus. Available to all of our full-time students information in one place, at the touch including those in the CIT Cork School of a button. of Music, the CIT Crawford College The “Student Health Matters” new STUDENT HEALTH of Art and Design and the National Maritime College of Ireland. Open to App and Interactive Health Guide MATTERS students during term time and provide provides students with easy access The College Students Health Guide a comprehensive range of services to information on how to stay healthy suitable for students’ needs. Tel: 021 4335780 during their college years and where Student IrishHealth Matters Student Health Association (ISHA) 0 to get support when they need it. The All the hyperlinks in this eBook are active. Click on the links for further information. Email: [email protected] content, based on Irish healthcare in- formation and services, was created by a team of health professionals at ISHA and Expert Self Care Ltd, a spe- cialist mobile health information app CIT: QUICK STOP developer. The Student Health Matters App and BREAKFAST SHOP! Interactive eBook was developed because many students struggle with looking after their health. Rather than googling their health questions, which can be unreliable and confus- ing, students can now access trusted health information and links to many useful websites in seconds. Cost €5 The ISHA App and eBook provides: Tickets available links to the HSE database of over 600 medical conditions and treatments Date: in advance and covers topics including; Healthy diet, physical activity, smoking, alco- W ed 20 Nov hol, drugs, your mental health, sex- Lots of raffle ual health common illnesses, health 8.30 - 9.30am topics A-Z, head injury and concus- and spot prizes! sion, vaccinations, the importance of Venue: sleep, first aid box and information and links on where to get medical West Atrium help and advice; and contact details for health and medical services avail- able at College Health Centres. The Irish student population contin- ues to grow year-on-year and with it, IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW OUR PRESIDENTS, the demand for student health ser- vices in third-level education. There YOU AIN’T SEEN ‘MUFFIN’ YET! were 231,710 students in third-level In aid of: education in Ireland in 2018.