i'm class rep - ah wtf do i do?

Crash

yeah so a mate of mine convinced me to put my name in for class rep.
only person to do it. so i got an email there the other day saying

"CONGRATULATIONS YOU BE DA CLASS REP UNF UNF!"

or words to that effect. so wtf do i as a class rep have to do?

RuggieBear

go to the odd dept meeting and stick it on your CV....That is all

The Shol'va

What? I wanted mud slinging! :P

sleepingbeauty

hehe i know a guy who was class rep last year...he did fcuk all and had a great time with all the free tickets to events etc granted there are like 5 reps for science rather than just the one so he could get away with it, but im sure you wont have to do too much, as RuggieBear said you will have to 'represent' your class at some meetings but it should be grand

Andrew 83

Basically it involves going to about one meeting a term for each department and for your faculty and bringing up any student issues at that meeting. There's then Student Council about once every three weeks which is like a student parliament with all the class reps. Then finally you can organise class parties.

Boston

Muhaa fool

strawberry

If you don't go to any of the council meeting they'll probably fire you and then you'll be free!

claire h

You do a funky dance, is what you do.

And get patted on the head for being such a respectable pillar of the community.

Nietzschean

meh u can do anything from nothing to actually organising class nights out and repesenting yer class at SU meetings, up to yerself really...... They impeached someone from being a class rep in 2nd year engineering last year iirc for doing nothing...

ApeXaviour

blankcanvas wrote:

hehe i know a guy who was class rep last year...he did fcuk all and had a great time with all the free tickets to events etc granted there are like 5 reps for science rather than just the one so he could get away with it, but im sure you wont have to do too much, as RuggieBear said you will have to 'represent' your class at some meetings but it should be grand

Heheh, yeah that was me in 1st year..
It was fun sellin tickets and complainin to lecturers but it lost it's novelty value pretty quick.

PS: back from mayo

Plunky

congrats crash!.. btw i got transferred over to TCD from the Zoo...

Nietzschean

zoo?

Crash

He was a UCD'er

psychology in trinners then? i'll give yeh a buzz during the week

SkyLynx

SkyLynx wrote:

meh u can do anything from nothing to actually organising class nights out and repesenting yer class at SU meetings, up to yerself really...... They impeached someone from being a class rep in 2nd year engineering last year iirc for doing nothing...

Huh? What you talking about? One of the reps resigned.

Most reps find the departmental meetings of more importance, btw.

And congrats crash, i'll be seeing ya at class rep training on saturday then?

Oh, and Skylynx, there's a vacant rep spot in your class as you said before... (cough) (cough)

Annasopra

Daithi or Ruth should be able to point you in the right direction

Nietzschean

Ace_Rimmer wrote:

Oh, and Skylynx, there's a vacant rep spot in your class as you said before... (cough) (cough)

ugh but that sounds like effort!...........

And resigned, impeached, same diff...

strawberry

Johnnymcg wrote:

Daithi or Ruth should be able to point you in the right direction

Daithi's a sweetheart, pick him, pick him!

Crash

God grace you're such a groupie :P

ixoy

Essentially just listen to your class and see if they have any (valid) complaints. I did it in 4th year in kollege and it's pretty easy. A couple of times, for example, we'd have too many assignments at the same time, so I'd get a week's extension by telling one of the approachable lecturers - generally worked.

I was also responsible for organizing the final pissup.. which worked out fine thankfully due to people's universal desire to visit the pub.

I did have one serious issue, involving an invalid question on a final exam which gave me a headache (and a lecturer a slap) but most of the time it was nothing serious.

I didn't get invited to departmental meetings though - that was for the faculty rep. And I didn't get free stuff.... Oh and you can, if needs be, miss the SU meetings...

Pink_Legend

hey,so what did u think of training and student council?i thought was alrite,not very bitchy at all(bit disappointed!!!!!!!).will def go again.

ApeXaviour

Haha I remember that back in the day.. boooring

Crash

heh, i dunno, SU council involved many interesting questions including "will Andy Byrne be able to repeat again" and so forth

Agent Smith

who the fúck is andy byrne?

sleepingbeauty

he's the chair...i hope he is back next time, i really liked the way he tried to speed things up- even though some people certainly didnt seem to be impressed i was, the quicker the better

Ah sure wait til a really meaty motion comes around. Last year the Coke issue was debated a lot, and was then defeated by a fairly large margin.

And if Andy Byrne isn't chair for next council, there are plenty of names flying around of people who want it...

Nietzschean

Yeah with all u SU hacks on here ye want to get us coke back into the su shops?

Why?

Nietzschean

you should know by now i need my caffine fix

sleepingbeauty

uh sky im thinking youll have to survive without your caffeine, that sounds like work to me, and i wouldnt be wanting to spark debates cos that = lonnngg meetings besides wasnt that for very strong reasons last year? anyway im totally off coke at the mo, for some reason i really dont like it anymore...i go through phases... :rolleyes:

Nietzschean

like myself, go thru phases of wayyy too much coke..not on much at the mo, but for my end of exams i want my caffine....