Official Bitch about daily life in NUIG!

Aglomerado

Squeeonline wrote: »

Please tell me that the university hasn't made a grievous error. It should be Smokey's, shortened from Smokey Joes back when it was a little hut near the old engineering building and you could smoke inside.

Or so I've been told.

That hut (now Aras Failte) used to be Peggy's cafe, which closed circa 1996. I think I was in there once as a GIB. Smokey Joe's will always be the area outside the McMunn theatre which used to be swathed in smoke and coffee aromas. I don't know who Joe was but I will always call it that.
Maybe Joe was Mussolini's real name?

mc25

So is the library website down for anyone else or is it just me?

Mr. G

mc25 wrote: »

So is the library website down for anyone else or is it just me?

I can access it.

nuac

Aglomerado wrote: »

That hut (now Aras Failte) used to be Peggy's cafe, which closed circa 1996. I think I was in there once as a GIB. Smokey Joe's will always be the area outside the McMunn theatre which used to be swathed in smoke and coffee aromas. I don't know who Joe was but I will always call it that.
Maybe Joe was Mussolini's real name?

Wasn't that Ma Creavin's ( late fifties )?

It was small, but she kept the footfall moving by "inviting" those who were there too long in her view to get out e.g ( shouted - "Ye second meds in the corner - ye are here anhour, get back to work "

When I got to UCG as Gib in 1956 I went to first Lit and Deb debate expecting to hear debates that would transform the world. The first debate I heard was a passionate one about the proposed increase of coffee/tea in Ma Creavin's from three pennies to four pennies a cup

jogdish

I hate the swipe card access to the library - I know it keeps out non students, but I just hate the though of forced information gathering.
Would be fun if every student FOI ' d the library computer system for a print out of all the enter/exit times - purely to screw with them nothing else.

Mr. G

jogdish wrote: »

I hate the swipe card access to the library - I know it keeps out non students, but I just hate the though of forced information gathering.
Would be fun if every student FOI ' d the library computer system for a print out of all the enter/exit times - purely to screw with them nothing else.

How much logging are on the library access control?

True. But I find it annoying when non-NUIG students use the PC labs, especially because they are loud and when it's full. ISS stormed into the PC labs a few times last week looking for IDs as someone complained. Rightly so.

To be honest, I'm thinking of sending a data request to NUIG just to piss them off

Cathalog

jogdish wrote: »

I hate the swipe card access to the library - I know it keeps out non students, but I just hate the though of forced information gathering.
Would be fun if every student FOI ' d the library computer system for a print out of all the enter/exit times - purely to screw with them nothing else.

I'm genuinely curious - why would you be upset with NUIG knowing the times you enter/exit the library?

WallyGUFC

Cathalog wrote: »

I'm genuinely curious - why would you be upset with NUIG knowing the times you enter/exit the library?

I'd say if you're borderline pass/fail and you haven't been in the library at all they'll fail you. That sounds plausible :cool:

jogdish

Cathalog wrote: »

I'm genuinely curious - why would you be upset with NUIG knowing the times you enter/exit the library?

Because, one day I could walk into the building and the next day without anyone asking me I must swipe in. Is there a web page or some documentation to show who stores the data? where? for how long?
Like another poster pointed out, do you really want a system where staff can look at enter / exit logs for library use ? Bad enough they make freshers swipe into certain lecture halls.

wmirl

WallyGUFC wrote: »

I'd say if you're borderline pass/fail and you haven't been in the library at all they'll fail you. That sounds plausible :cool:

That sounds like it'd be too much work to organise for NUIG. Regardless, that wouldn't be a valid metric for deciding grades, not everyone uses the library. Exam board meetings where they discuss students are sometimes based on lecture attendance and if the lecturers have seen a visible effort from the student.

jogdish wrote: »

Because, one day I could walk into the building and the next day without anyone asking me I must swipe in. Is there a web page or some documentation to show who stores the data? where? for how long?
Like another poster pointed out, do you really want a system where staff can look at enter / exit logs for library use ? Bad enough they make freshers swipe into certain lecture halls.

http://www.nuigalway.ie/data_protection/
http://www.nuigalway.ie/information-solutions-services/ictpolicies/

Any logging data like that wouldn't be available to the general staff. It'd fall under ISS, most likely.

Besides, I'm sure you ticked the same box saying you accepted the Terms and Conditions of attending NUIG during registration. While I haven't read them myself (shocker!), I'd say the answer to your question is buried somewhere in there.

Squeeonline

wmirl wrote: »

That sounds like it'd be too much work to organise for NUIG. Regardless, that wouldn't be a valid metric for deciding grades, not everyone uses the library. Exam board meetings where they discuss students are sometimes based on lecture attendance and if the lecturers have seen a visible effort from the student.

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I think you missed the posters sarcasm.

It shouldn't matter a damn where you studied. You could have sat in s'macs for the whole year reading nothing but the menus, and if you passed your exams without cheating then you deserve the degree like anyone else.

Mr. G

wmirl wrote: »

That sounds like it'd be too much work to organise for NUIG. Regardless, that wouldn't be a valid metric for deciding grades, not everyone uses the library. Exam board meetings where they discuss students are sometimes based on lecture attendance and if the lecturers have seen a visible effort from the student.



http://www.nuigalway.ie/data_protection/
http://www.nuigalway.ie/information-solutions-services/ictpolicies/

Any logging data like that wouldn't be available to the general staff. It'd fall under ISS, most likely.

Besides, I'm sure you ticked the same box saying you accepted the Terms and Conditions of attending NUIG during registration. While I haven't read them myself (shocker!), I'd say the answer to your question is buried somewhere in there.

Probably Buildings or Security

challengemaster

Looks like NUIG have changed the website.... again! I wonder will it function any better now

shruikan2553

challengemaster wrote: »

Looks like NUIG have changed the website.... again! I wonder will it function any better now

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

NUIG website functioning....lol

Ficheall

Ugh. What a horrible-looking yoke. Not that its predecessor was much better.

Do those three ladies know that they're plastered on NUIG's homepage? :-/

sammyjo90

my god its awful, still exactly the same if you go into a few pages though. I'm not there anymore but how long has Donal been Dean of science? !

Squeeonline

New website looks a little easier to navigate. Before there were tons of menus which confused the hell out of me whenever I was looking for something.

I'd usually go to google site:http://www.nuigalway.ie "search term" to get anything.

This website is also responsive and will work just as well on mobile devices.

It's going to take a lot longer for the other pages on the site to catch up. e.g. http://tto.nuigalway.ie/en/news

When will designers learn that if someone is looking for keywords, ALL CAPS is horrible WRT the menu. Makes scanning much harder. That's why road signs are supposed to be mixed case.

Mr. G

challengemaster wrote: »

Looks like NUIG have changed the website.... again! I wonder will it function any better now

Nothing ever works right here. I think it's an improvement on the other one though :rolleyes:.

I overheard library staff and others not being able to access the student email as the tab was gone. In fairness you can just google it.

Ficheall

Mr. G wrote: »

I overheard library staff and others not being able to access the student email as the tab was gone. In fairness you can just google it.

Any time I wanted to access NUIG stuff I had to use Google. Even if that's an easy option, it's still ridiculous.

Squeeonline

Ficheall wrote: »

Any time I wanted to access NUIG stuff I had to use Google. Even if that's an easy option, it's still ridiculous.

You couldn't bookmark things?

Mr. G

Squeeonline wrote: »

You couldn't bookmark things?

But you shouldn't have to. There should be a tab on the top right like before. E.g. for clubs I Google it, you would hardly bookmark every club.

Ficheall

Squeeonline wrote: »

You couldn't bookmark things?

I never bookmark anything! :eek:
(Except for research papers and stuff that I convince myself I'll go back and read later...)

Aside from email and exams stuff, I never really used the nuig website anyway. But when I did have to try to find a form or something.. urgh...

Squeeonline

if you visit it frequently, then it'll come up when you start typing in studentmail.whatever in your URL bar. I bookmark a ton of stuff but regularly visited things don't need it.

LoonyLovegood

Googling "nuig thingIdesperatelyneed" tended to work quite well for me, tbh

Mr. G

Anti abortion chalked on the concourse outside the library.

That's going to cause controversy anyway.

ethernet

Mr. G wrote: »

Anti abortion chalked on the concourse outside the library.

That's going to cause controversy anyway.

Wonder if it's THAT Mayo family stirring ****e as usual...

shruikan2553

Mr. G wrote: »

Anti abortion chalked on the concourse outside the library.

That's going to cause controversy anyway.

Lets have another vote. Third times the charm!

Cocolola

It appears to be Life Soc who've done it (see their Events section) :rolleyes:

mrkiscool2

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Lets have another vote. Third times the charm!

Can't. It's been 2 years since the last one, an amendment to the constitution last year is that a referendum to change a specific part of the constitution can only happen every 3 years. So, a referendum on abortion can only happen every 3 years.

Mr. G

Cocolola wrote: »

It appears to be Life Soc who've done it (see their Events section) :rolleyes:

They only have 1 committee member, didn't know they still existed. I remember their stand on Socs day.

Squeeonline

That one committee member has been on campus and causing trouble since 2007 at least. The particular Westport Baptist Church are their own batch of crazy. Combined, they do a great job for the pro-choice campaign as no one wants to be associated with them.

Mr. G

I see trouble ahead.

Squeeonline

Mr. G wrote: »

I see trouble ahead.

Don't need to be mystic meg to figure that out. Just wait until they put up incredibly offensive posters and hurl abuse at passers by again.

shruikan2553

mrkiscool2 wrote: »

Can't. It's been 2 years since the last one, an amendment to the constitution last year is that a referendum to change a specific part of the constitution can only happen every 3 years. So, a referendum on abortion can only happen every 3 years.

Thank **** for that. Think I remember it being voted on twice, one year after another before they changed it.

Mr. G

By OD you mean over dose? I heard an ambulance/squad car just didn't look out the window.

mademoiselle_r

The female toilets in the Arts building are a disgrace. Toilet paper everywhere and people not bothering to flush after use. Not to mention the "out off order" sign haha /grammar nazi.

Squeeonline

Mr. G wrote: »

By OD you mean over dose? I heard an ambulance/squad car just didn't look out the window.

any update on what happened with this?

mrkiscool2

Well, it seems if you criticise someone speaking at Lit and Deb then they get really annoyed.

Nailz

mrkiscool2 wrote: »

Well, it seems if you criticise someone speaking at Lit and Deb then they get really annoyed.

What's all this then?

Lapin

Bloody hell it's like Crossmaglen during the troubles out there today.

What's with all the helicopters?

Squeeonline

Nailz wrote: »

What's all this then?

Dont know as I'm not around any more, but my guess is that someone was rude to a guest of the university.

There are polite ways to disagree with people, and if you are down right rude to a guest you deserve all the derision you get.

mrkiscool2

Nailz wrote: »

What's all this then?

There was a post on facebook giving out about the fact Suey Park was speaking about social and hashtag activism, it also called her a racist. The auditor of Lit and Deb then had a go at the poster for the post. Kind of ridiculous!

Lapin

Seems a tad disingenuous to have a pop at the Lit & Deb committee on a thread like this due to a spat that took place between yourself and the auditor on your own Facebook page.

HugsiePie

mrkiscool2

Lapin wrote: »

Seems a tad disingenuous to have a pop at the Lit & Deb committee on a thread like this due to a spat that took place between yourself and the auditor on your own Facebook page.

Don't think so. For a society that prides themselves on accepting multiple viewpoints and encouraging debate they are extremely insular and don't take any criticism levelled against them well! Also, pretty sure that being hypocritical is worse.

Cathalog

No WiFi in the library this weekend due to scheduled maintenance. In the middle of study week - are you having a laugh?

Great scheduling there.

Also, thanks to the exam's office for deciding to 'schedule' one of my exams bang in the middle of the solar eclipse next Friday. /s

LoonyLovegood

Anyone know if the wifi 'upgrade' (hah!) is running ahead of schedule?

The Lost Sheep

Exam timetables are out....

The exams period for this semester is two and a half weeks. I have 4 exams and ISS have set them all for within the first 5days of the exams period including one on each of the first 3 days of exams and one 4.30 exam with a 9.30 exam the following day.

HugsiePie

To the fúckers on my left; STFU....i you wanted a hour and a half break why not leave the study area and chat as opposed to pissing of everyone around you, there is literally a chillax room right outside this suite....

pmasterson95

HugsiePie wrote: »

To the fúckers on my left; STFU....i you wanted a hour and a half break why not leave the study area and chat as opposed to pissing of everyone around you, there is literally a chillax room right outside this suite....

You always know its exam season when daftest things make people mad!