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  • 09-09-2010 1:44pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭


    I see works going on on Campus - there are diggers and lorries about - does anyone know whats going on??


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 231 ✭✭frser32


    dlambirl wrote: »
    I see works going on on Campus - there are diggers and lorries about - does anyone know whats going on??

    I think they are building a new bus stop, as well as student centre, the new law building is also being built afaik:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭dan_d


    Swimming pool down at the sports centre being built, think there are renovations going on at the architecture/new civil eng building too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    Where have you been? UCD probably has more builders working on it than in the rest of Ireland. Theres the new student res over at Roebuck, the Sutherland School of Law beside Quinn and the new Student Centre


  • Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭Slippers 2


    It's pretty obvious what those things are. The OP might be asking about the digging up of the road between the virus centre and the N11 (parallel to the N11).


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭dlambirl


    Oh I know there is numerous works doing on in UCD at any one time but they seem to be digging up the road and greens, there are a couple of diggers and lorrys - just wondering did anyone know what this was for?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    dlambirl wrote: »
    Oh I know there is numerous works doing on in UCD at any one time but they seem to be digging up the road and greens, there are a couple of diggers and lorrys - just wondering did anyone know what this was for?

    It's all a cover-up, UCD is using Mormons to build a chemical weapons plant disguised ingeniously as a bus stop, new school of law, new student centre and swimming pool. The bastards.:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    They're probably doing it for the thrill of being an obstruction.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,010 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    They're also refurbishing the Science blocks in phases. The Chemistry block currently looks like a chemical reaction got way out of hand. :pac:

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  • Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭YouthNovel


    There's gonna be a whole new science block, theyre doing it in stages. Theres gonna be a cinema in the new student centre sometime next year...gonna be savage


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    Isn't it amazing how they're spending millions on absolute shite, a cinema ffs. I'd put the money into buying an; AMS, CF-IRMS, paying for more journal subscriptions, cheaper colour printing, longer library opening hours and setting up a proper Schols system. But of course a new student centre is a much more pressing issue...:rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 123 ✭✭deereidy


    El Siglo wrote: »
    Isn't it amazing how they're spending millions on absolute shite, a cinema ffs. I'd put the money into buying an; AMS, CF-IRMS, paying for more journal subscriptions, cheaper colour printing, longer library opening hours and setting up a proper Schols system. But of course a new student centre is a much more pressing issue...:rolleyes:
    they're building a cinema? please tell me you're joking. My fees are 1800 this year.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 n7sen


    I really dislike what they have done with UCD, especially the enclosed area near CSBC and science hub. That was my and other people's shortcut to the rest of the uni. As for new students centre, I and people I know rarely use the current one. Same goes for sports centre.


  • Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭YouthNovel


    Yeah theyre building a cinema, A 50m pool, theatre and other things.

    Better library hours would be an obvious improvement.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    deereidy wrote: »
    they're building a cinema? please tell me you're joking. My fees are 1800 this year.

    Oh yeh, and bollocks-face Redmond okayed the student health service charge as well last year.

    It's amazing how basic things like books or journal access are becoming more restricted or harder to get, yet it's acceptable to spend money on a new swimming pool and cinema. Because I can write a thesis on the back stroke while watching Twil-shite...


  • Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭YouthNovel


    I'm just lucky I have a medical card.

    €40 is just stupid when it was free. And a new swimming pool? Improve on what is there, not what isn't.

    On a lighter note, today was my first full day, and I found the secret lakes. Record?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 649 ✭✭✭fillmore jive


    YouthNovel wrote: »

    On a lighter note, today was my first full day, and I found the secret lakes. Record?

    You're a new student, you should be looking for more important things ffs, like the location of Pat Patterson:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭YouthNovel


    Who?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    A cinema? A swimming pool?

    Who the **** comes up with these and how do I get them to stop?


  • Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭YouthNovel


    Why your SU of course. But if you have a problem with it, just go to the SU


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,612 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    Tbh, I don't disagree with the construction of a cinema, but surely they could have given some company that contract? Are 7000 (roughly that many on res right?) lazy college students, who can't afford to drink every night, not a decent prospect for any cinema?

    Like its not like we need SU shops, we have centra. Why can't the exact same apply to a cinema.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    YouthNovel wrote:
    Who?

    Fuckin' hell!:pac:

    You're too young to know but for some of us here he's an urban legend (think Chuck Norris' Irish father).

    Pat Patterson is really one of those ideas that's dying out, sad in its own way.
    errlloyd wrote: »
    Tbh, I don't disagree with the construction of a cinema, but surely they could have given some company that contract? Are 7000 (roughly that many on res right?) lazy college students, who can't afford to drink every night, not a decent prospect for any cinema?

    Not when you have Dundrum. Close by, pretty good and student discount as well.
    Like its not like we need SU shops, we have centra. Why can't the exact same apply to a cinema.


    SU shops are subsidised and sell nice cheap coffee (under the library anyway). Centra does nice chicken rolls and Wally's hut but I wouldn't do my weekly shop in it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,612 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    You reckon Il Sligo?

    Like you might be right, but I don't think one of my mates living on campus went to DD last year. I can see a lot of them hitting cinema once a week if it was on campus. Of course it would be dead 4 months of the year....


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    A substantial chunk of your increased registration fee is going into this building work.


    You won't be around you used said buildings, however.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    errlloyd wrote: »
    You reckon Il Sligo?

    Like you might be right, but I don't think one of my mates living on campus went to DD last year. I can see a lot of them hitting cinema once a week if it was on campus. Of course it would be dead 4 months of the year....

    You just answered your own question there. Empty 4 months of the year, who takes the hit for that? Because it's not going to be the sabbats or the Brady bunch anyway.
    There isn't enough funding available for PhD students and post docs, and these are the people that run lab demonstrations, tutorials etc... the kind of things that allows courses to be run. Yet, there's money available to not only build a cinema but keep it running.
    At the moment and back when I started (’06) there was a serious issue of courses, subjects and modules being cancelled (i.e. Canadian studies etc...) now with the current budget cuts and the ones due in December and with the deficit UCD is running at, would it not be more prudent to spend the money elsewhere? There is a serious risk of certain modules disappearing, I know in Trinity they aren’t any Geology PhD students starting this year that means there won’t be certain people available for demonstration work, that means a module or two might have to be cancelled. When the money is cut from this one small example such as PhD funding, it impacts undergraduates much worse than not having a cinema or swimming pool.
    I mean, we’re hearing all the time about “knowledge economy” and all that tripe, yet nobody wants to put their money where their mouth is. And then white elephants like a cinema or swimming or tunnel under Leinster House come along, it flies in the face of common sense.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,612 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    Oh sorry Sligo. I was actually suggesting I thought it would be good for someone else to do, cineworld have released multiple press statements regarding their interest in Ireland. I think it would be profitable. I don't agree with the SU building one...


  • Registered Users Posts: 889 ✭✭✭stop


    Cinema & Swimming pool are the type of amenities which look good on paper, the paper which gets sent abroad to attract non-EU students, who pay full whack fees. These are the students UCD wants to attract for the extra cash.


  • Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭Lucet


    Swimming pool is fine with me. UCD is a huge college and it's not like they're wasting money on something that student's wouldn't use. I'd totally would love to jump into swimming pool for an hour or so when I have 3 hours gaps between lectures :). But cinema? Dundrum has a good cinema, there's a cinema in Blackrock, Cineworld finally. Total waste of money imo


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,659 ✭✭✭unknown13


    Lucet wrote: »
    Swimming pool is fine with me. UCD is a huge college and it's not like they're wasting money on something that student's wouldn't use. I'd totally would love to jump into swimming pool for an hour or so when I have 3 hours gaps between lectures :). But cinema? Dundrum has a good cinema, there's a cinema in Blackrock, Cineworld finally. Total waste of money imo

    Sorry to correct you but there isn't a cinema in Blackrock. There is cinema's in Stillorgan and Dun Laoghaire.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    Although these are SU owned facilities they aren't really. The college authorities were involved in the contracting of a managment company for the pool. I think a pool is very important for the sport in Ireland as the biggest university we should have the best sports facilities.

    I dont know much about this cinema but I think people are presuming it will be something like movies at dundrum. I would guess it will be a single screen fit for about 300 persons which may well allow the growth of film studies in the university and perhaps may not even show current mainstream films.

    10% of our fees goes towards this for undergrads. There are far more frivilous ideas in the gateway project than the new student centre.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    El Siglo wrote: »
    Isn't it amazing how they're spending millions on absolute shite, a cinema ffs. I'd put the money into buying an; AMS, CF-IRMS, paying for more journal subscriptions, cheaper colour printing, longer library opening hours and setting up a proper Schols system. But of course a new student centre is a much more pressing issue...:rolleyes:

    Yale could use an international airport


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