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CIT Students’ Union Magazine Volume Nineteen, Issue 5 Before After 6 - 8 FEBRUARY Your Union SAFETY Your Voice WEEK 2018 CIT POSTGRADUATE FAIR 2018 Tuesday 20th February 11am - 2pm Student Centre, Bishopstown Campus Before After 6 - 8 FEBRUARY WEEK 2018 SAFETY WEEK 2018 Crashed Cars on Campus all week RSA Shuttle Bus and Roll Over Car (Outside Library) MAKE SURE TO POP OVER TO THE INFORMATION STANDS IN THE MAIN CORRIDOR FROM 11-3PM EACH DAY WITH DAILY FREEBIES FROM CIT SU. CONTENTS Don’t Text & Drive Don’t Drink & Drive NEW 4 S U OFFICERS’ADDRESS 10 BAD GIRLS Don’t Drug Drive CIT Musical Soc’s new production 5 USI NOTICEBOARD Please Don’t! 6 #MYSTORYMATTERS 12 LIVE CIT, LOVE SOCIETIES Real stories, real people . Profiling The Enactus Society Part of Safety Week 2018 13 CIT ALUMNI SUCCESS 18 CROSSWORD 7 TEN TOP TIPS FOR Get a taste of CIT student success in Hard cash on offer! the real world! SAFE DRIVING 19 SPOT THE BALL Part of Safety Week 2018 14 SU ELECTIONS 2018 WIN! meal vouchers for Captain 8 GAME OF ENTREPRENEURS Thinking of running for one of the America’s and Cork’s newest prestigious SU posts? Full details here. restaurant, WOWBURGER! Part two of a three part series offering details of CIT’s prize for Innovation 16 EXAM RESULTS FAQ Last issues winners: 9 FLYNNER’SFLYINGCOLUMN 17 STUDENT RACEDAY Spot The Ball Kelly Herlihy, BS3, 6 - 8 FEBRUARY Crossword Kasey Kenny, SC1 An ode to Delores O’Riordan Tickets on sale very soon! BRACE YOURSELVES, RAG WEEK IS COMING! #CITRAG18 Crashed Cars on Campus all week 26 Feb - 2 March 2018 COMING SOON! Down Syndrome Centre Cork has been selected as the main beneficiary of Rag Week 2018. They are a in aid of ... new Charity in Cork but are affiliated with the well- established Down Syndrome Centre in Dublin. CIT Students’ Union, VP Education Stephanie Kelly Advertising Opportunities Bishopstown, Cork. E: [email protected] CIT has 17,000+ full and part-time students with Tel: 021 433 5274 Stephanie Fogarty over 1,500 staff. Why not use expliCIT to promote VP Welfare your business to this large audience? Web: www.explicit.ie E: [email protected] Our copy deadlines, advertising rates and techni- Email: [email protected] Projects Officer Sam Power cal specifications are available from our website E: [email protected] www.citsu.ie and upon request from the Publica- Rob Shaw tions Office in hardcopy or via email. CITSU Communications Officer @cit_su E: [email protected] expliCIT magazine is published monthly by CIT Students’ expliCIT Production, Design & Advertising Entertainments Officer Shauna Hickey Keith Brown, E: [email protected] Union. The views expressed in the magazine are those of E: [email protected] their authors and are not necessarily those of CIT Students’ Sam Dawson Mick O’Mahony Union. All articles and pictures are the property of their CIT SU President Entertainments Manager respective owners and should not be reproduced without E: [email protected] E: [email protected] their permission. 3 Don’t Text & Drive Don’t Drink & Drive Don’t Drug Drive Please Don’t! 6 - 8 FEBRUARY SAFETY WEEK 2018 STUDENTS’ UNION OFFICERS ADDRESS Hey guys, #SHOWMEYOURMENTALHEALTH MUNSTER TECHNOLOGICAL This is our newest campaign brought to you by Welcome back for Semester Two we hope you all UNIVERSITY UPDATE our VP Welfare. We want to see what you do to had a peaceful and relaxing Christmas and are We have been sitting in on a number of meetings keep yourself positive throughout the semester. Buzzing for what 2018 has to offer. and information sessions about the Merger be- We want you to send us your selfies on snap- tween CIT and IT Tralee and will be meeting with chat, Instagram, Facebook and twitter. Use the IT Tralee Students Union in the coming weeks SAFETY WEEK hashtag and you can appear in our monthly to discuss the impact it will have on students in With Safety Week kicking off our Semester 2 magazine and be in with a chance to win some both colleges. Again we will keep you all updated campaigns we have a full programme of activi- free goodies! with new information but feel free to pop into us ties and information. Whether you are a driver, with any questions you may have and feel free to cyclist or a pedestrian make sure you know your ACADEMIC CALENDAR make use of the online resources on this topic. bit on Road Safety. We will also be covering gen- eral safety throughout the week to ensure you WORKING GROUP get the full safety experience and breakdown. Your Vice President Education along with the Best of luck with semester two and we hope to We will have Info stands in the main corridor and President have been sitting on a working group get a chance to speak to you all throughout the even some freebies to giveaway. So make sure to to change the academic calendar to get the most semester, and have some fun along the way es- come over and see what we have for you. out of the year for students. At the moment there pecially during RAG week. are three options available which will be worked on further by this working group before anything RAG WEEK is finalised. We will keep you updated with any Sam Dawson, Steph Fogarty, Steph Kelly, The team here in the office have been super busy progress. Sam Power, Shauna Hickey & Rob Shaw getting prepped for this year’s RAG Week and PaddyWagon_Advert47142_Layout 1 13/08/2015 11:30 Page 1 hope to get as much support as possible from YOUR SU Executive the students and staff of CIT to make sure this RAG week is the best one yet. Keep an eye out for upcoming promo for our RAG Week events. ASK FOR ANGELA We have been working alongside bars and col- leges in cork as well as the Gardaí in Cork to keep you all safe on your nights out. This initiative is to ensure people feel that there is someone to turn to if they are beginning to feel threatened or uncomfortable in a situation or even if the person is not who they said they were. We will keep you all posted in the coming weeks on how this is progressing. EXAM DESTRESS Exam Destress Week was a great success with many students availing of the free massages, the puppy room and of course the munchies to keep the hunger pangs away during study time. We would like to thank you all for your participation throughout this week, we had a great time and we hope you did too. 4 UNION COUNCIL BLOOD DONATION MEETING THURS 1st FEB CLINIC 1pm, Venue TBA The EXAM HALL (CHECK CIT SU FACEBOOK AND TWITTER) MELBOURNE BUILDING, CIT All Class Reps Welcome to Attend MON 12th FEB, 1.30 - 5pm & FREE PIZZA FOR ALL! TUES 13th FEB, 12 - 3.30pm Website: giveblood.ie Phone: 021 480 7400 Your Union Your Voice USI Noticeboard POSTGRADUATE VOICE: WELLBEING MONTH SEXUAL HEALTH AWARENESS A USI SYMPOSIUM On January 29th we will be kicking off USI’s AND GUIDANCE WEEK The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) is de- first ever Wellbeing Month! We will have Then from February 12th - 16th we have our lighted to launch a new conference for 2018 four weeks covering various topics and two 2nd national Roadshow for Sexual Health focused on engaging postgraduate stu- national roadshows! Awareness and Guidance Week. We will be dents and the issues they face, both locally covering topics such as consent, contracep- and nationally. Postgraduate Voice: A USI #CHATSFORCHANGE ROADSHOW tion, STI’s and more! We will be celebrating Symposium aims to ensure that postgradu- On January 29th - February 1st we have Valentine’s Day in Maynooth University and ate students are being listened to by their our annual Chats for Change Roadshow will be giving away thousands of condoms representatives, and presents an important which is celebrating its 5th Anniversary. throughout the week! opportunity to bring together students, Chats for Change is all about looking af- Follow us on twitter and search for #gettingit Students’ Unions, institutional staff, govern- ter your mental health. Having a chat can to see what we are up to. ment and other agencies to discuss the is- make a big change, and know there are lots sues that matter to postgrads. There will be of support services out there that are more ALCOHOL, DRUGS AND than happy to help. a range of workshops, speakers, exhibits, GAMBLING WEEK and panel discussions on the day. You can HEALTHY LIVING WEEK Finally from the 19th - 23rd February we will find out more and register for the event here: be covering addiction, with information on https://usipostgraduate.eventbrite.ie From February 5th - 9th we have our Healthy Living Week which will have lots of Alcohol, Drugs and Gambling. There will be information online covering a different topic #TRANSHEALTHCARENOW: information online on diet, exercise, mind- fulness and being healthy and well! We are each day and where to go if you need any The Union of Students in Ireland supported a help or support regarding these. protest calling for an immediate improvement also teaming up with Video Doc which is an in healthcare services provided in Ireland to online doctor service which will be offering free consultations to all USI affiliated stu- If you would like any further informa- those who are in the transgender commu- tion on any of these, please don’t hesi- nity.