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Technological University Dublin ARROW@TU Dublin DIT Student Union Dublin Institute of Technology 1995 The DIT Examiner: the Newspaper of the Dublin Institute of Technology Students' Union Special Edition, April 1995 DIT Students 'Union Follow this and additional works at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ditsu Part of the Communication Commons Recommended Citation DIT Students' Union: The DIT Examiner, Special Issue, April, 1995. DIT, 1995 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 e xamtner• The ~~~aper of the Dublin Institute of Technology Student • Union April'95 DIT Mountjoy Held DIT's second The rise and rise of USI's annual its annual fashion institute wide sports John Travolta congress was held in show recently in day took place at continues wlthhls the Ardilaun Hotel, Jury's Hotel. As the ALSAA sports latest film, the Galway. It was a · usual, it was a high complex. Last action fest Broken most interesting class affair and not year's event was Arrow. We check It and revealing without its bizarre always going to be a out. weekend. moments. hard act to follow P~ge ~ PAGE 7 P~~E9 PAGE 12 USI Elections efficient cam-r-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------·- he new President of USI will be T Colman Byrne, currently Overall paign, play­ President of DITSU. He will be joined ing the need on the incoming executive of USI by for change another DITSU officer, Helen Ryan, card heavily. who was elected Welfare Officer. Helen No mean is presently the Site President of DIT speaker him­ Kevin Street's Students' Union. self, he deliv­ In the end , after a vigorous campaign ered a well by both candidates, fv!r Byrne won the received election quite handsomely, by 100 votes speech on to Bob Jordan's 55. Mr Jordan is the Thursday Deputy President of USI. This is the evening, the first time in five years that the mantle of first - of Presid.ent has not been passed from one Congress. USI candidate to another and will be The reception seen by many as a vote for change. Mr was an indi­ Byrne believes that this was crucial to his cation that victory. the election "I ran my campaign on that. It needs had swung change, needs energy, new blood, but I his way. wasn't asking people to vote against Nevertheless, someone else, I was asking them to vote when Frank for me." He said that that he did not Crummey think he would win by such a margin entered to but professed himself 'delighted' with announce the such a result. Mr Jordan, of whom out­ outcome of the elections, going President Colm Keaveny spoke thetensioninL---------------~------------------------------------------------------------------·~ very fondly in his speech on the final Congress hall day on Congress, said that he will now In the other contests, Ms Noeleen be bowing out of Students' Unions poli­ was remarkable, palpable. The winner in but still the moment her election was the Presidential election was the last to officially announced, and the massive Hartigan, presently USI's Welfare tics, as he had promised himself if he Officer, was elected Deputy President; be announced and when it was cheer that went up, proved too much failed in his attempt to become presi­ Malcolm Byrne, UCD, was elected announced that Byrne had received 100 ~and she too wept. The pressure was off dent. Education Officer and Dermot Quaine, votes (the quota was 78), his supporters and she could relax for the weekend. "I'm going to get · a job," he told the Limerick RTC, was elected Union had heard all they needed. They She said she was delighted with the delegates at the Aridilaun Hotel in Development Officer. Kelly O'Dowd cheered, champagne was uncorked and overwhelming 'yes' vote. Her priorities Galway where Annual Congress was was elected Women's Rights Officer at Byrne was held aloft. for the year will include tackling the held this year. Mr Jordan accepted defeat graciously, housing difficulties which face students Women's Congress. This election had been a tough one to Mr Byrne's priorities for the coming offering a handshake to a tearful My each year. "'The introduction of taxes call and few were prepared to pin their year will be consolidation of current Byrne. Most of the DITSU delegation for landlords means that they are going colours to a particular mast, at least not membership of USI - there were plenty and various others who had supported to reflect that in their rent increases so publicly. Bob Jordan had tradition going of warnings at this year's Congress that the Byrne campaign, then repaired to their may be a housing crisis. We'll be for him; he is well liked and a fine, some people are unhappy - improve­ the hotel bar to continue the celebra- for some sort of relief for people who witty speaker but going against him was ments ro the grants system and the stu­ a certain sense of dissatisfaction with tions, which went on long into the rent to students." dent summer jobs scheme, the legitima­ night. She says that USI will also be closely USI, made abundantly clear when this cy and effectiveness of which most stu­ Minutes earlier, Helen Ryan, who is monitoring the operation of the students year's officer board report was voted dents now seem to accept. presently Site President in DIT Kevin summer jobs scheme and will fight for against. His opponent, Colman Byrne, "We have to adopt what the students Street's Students' Union was elected USI the retention of the £200 extra available is an ambitious young man who enjoys a have said. Now we have to make it bet­ Welfare Officer. She ran uncontested to students on the scheme whose parents good dog fight. He ran a strong, highly ter, to improve it." and so was virtually assured of election are unemployed. So apart from being the largest ~~he D IT Examiner students' union in the country DITSU, DIT Kevin Street, Kevin St., Dublin 8. Ph/Fax: 4783154 email: [email protected] What has Difsu ever done for me? Here You Go Again Well we organise and provide: + FRESHERS/ ARTS/WELFARE/RAG WEEKS It is hard to believe that some students in the DIT are beginning their exams + COMPREHENSIVE SUBSIDISED ENTS. this week. Scary, isn't it? Only yesterday it was September and the year stretched + FREE WELFARE ADVICE ahead with exams nowhere in sight for many of you. Suddenly, there they are, + FREE FINANCIAL ADVICEo looming as only exams do. The next month will be rough, it's as simple and bru­ + HELP WITH COURSE PROBLEMS tal as that. The pressure will be considerable, whether you are a first year or a + HELP WITH GRANT PROBLEMS final year student. and, naturally, the exams are very important; you have worked hard to get to this point and it is understandable that you may think that every­ + HELP AND RESOURCES FOR CLUBS AND SOCIETIES thing hinges on how you perform over the next few weeks + FREE STUDENT NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES But, do not let them take over your life. Certainly, give it you best and com­ + REPRESENTATION WITHIN THE COLLEGE, WITHIN DIT mit yourself to them but do not forget to take time out to relax for a moment: gc GOVERNING BODY AND NATIONALLY for a walk, go for a drink, go to the cinema, do something. The exams will offer + CAMPAIGNS ON ISSUES LIKE STUDENT HARDSHIP, more than enough pressure without you fretting and worrying when you're not ACCOMMODATION AND SAFETY, LIBRARY actually sitting one or studying for the next one. The students' union is still around; the year isn't over yet. If there is anything FACILITIES, CATERING bothering you and you don't know quite where to 'turn, drop in and simply ask; + RAISES THOUSANDS FOR CHARITY THROUGH RAG WEEK that's what they're there for. There is little point in bottling things up, especially + 2ND HAND BOOK SERVICE 0 at this time of year. The solution may be simpler than you think. +PUBLISHES fREE YEARLY HANDBOOK AND WELFARE MANUAL The executive of DITSU and the DIT Examiner wish all of you the very best + DETAILED ACCOMMODATION LIST AT START OF EVERY YEAR of luck in the coming weeks. + INTEREST FREE WELFARE LOANS + USIT CARDS + CHEAP PHOTOCOPYING + SU SHOP WITH WIDE RANGE OF PRODUCTS AT COMPETITIVE Letters to the Editor PRICES + SECRETARIAL SERVICE, PAST EXAM PAPERS AND FAX SERVICE Dear Editor The Editor Replies +POOL TABLES AND VIDEO GAMES ' . + PAYPHONE IN SU OFFICE 0 I found your recent front page arti­ I do not accept that the front page + CONDOM MACHINES IN TOILETS cles concerning DIT Rag Week more articles referred to were propagandist, related to a propaganda machine rather and I am not too sure what is meant by + FRESHERS, HALLOWEEN, CHRISTMAS, RAG, EASTER, LAST than the newspaper of the 25,000 stu­ 'propaganda machine'. The DIT CHANCE BALLS dent of the DIT Examiner is designed as the newspaper + FASHION SHOW As a sabbatical officer and President of the DIT Students' Union and there­ +BEER PROMOTIONS of a site college and one who was not in fore, naturally, part of its brief is to pro­ + CHEAP PASSPORT PHOTOS favour of a DIT Rag Week, I found that mote and advertise DITSU events, be + FRESHERS WELCOME PACKS the views of students of DIT Aungier they the DIT Sports Days, individual Street as indicated a recent class repre­ fashion shows or DIT Rag week.

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