If you want a Cool FM DJ then go to the Bot. The reason we go to the union on a Thursday is because we want something different, we love the music and the fact that it’s NOT the BOT! I think it’s very clear that the Cool FM DJ in the union completely bombed!!

Maybe the union should contact the GAA to organise a night as their nights out are and always will be a massive success.

What a joke!

We should all get up to some mad stuff in the middle of the night. Pretending to be zombies, walking down a street backwards or anything else to make the people watching the cameras freak out.

Or possibly a mass “film-the-police” in response. They love that. As this guy shows:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/21/photographer-films-anti-terror-arrest

Deci was ousted from his usual slot which he’s been in for a long time in favour of a “celebrity dj”, and the two boys who play Bunatee have lost their shifts entirely apparently. AND there has been an epic cull of bar staffs’ hours?

serious questions need to be asked here.

When I’m out I like music that I can dance to, not the weekly chart fodder.

I normally go to the Radar and then Mandela but went to Sketchy last night cos I knew Sonia Mac wud be a nightmare!

If so, nice one. However I think there are much more important matters to be dealt with than parking spaces. What about more university housing for those of us who decided to leave home for Uni?

Leave the students alone. Thousands of Students are forced into crap housing in slums and then anyone’s surprised when they try and enjoy themselves? I think the Holylands has a great community spirit among the student community.

The cops are filming us with these cameras and then bring cameras out with them and on the vans. But you’re not allowed to film them. Their monopoly is not only on violence it seems.

http://www.facebook.com/belfastholylands

Clearly, this was a disastrous, but hilarious, attempt at trying to make more money.

I wonder how much they paid her? Bet it was more than what they paid Deci.

Well, it failed.

Hell rub it up them!

Bring back Deci to his rightful place!

Also how bad was it? Was there any booing? I know had I been there I would have booed her for ten minutes and went and spent the night in Bunatee!

In conclusion- Sonya Mac- Turd! Deci- Legend!

Charlemane and all you students saying how we car commuters should all just jump on a bus are incredibly short sighted. Not all buses come regularly, not all buses are on time and not all buses pick up from every hole in the hedge. I have a good walk to my bus stop!

Oh and just for your benefit Danny Gillen, if you just open you’re little eyes you’ll see that most of the student population can’t afford a ‘new golf or whatever’ and are grateful for what they can afford. I drive a 1999 corsa, i’m grateful for it and i fund it myself. So stop being bitter about it. If you’re jealous of people with new golfs, go get a job and earn one!

This is merely a light hearted piece of satire which I’m sure the officers in question took with a pinch of salt. It is not intended to be a piece of “pragmatic journalism”.

For a full explanation of the latest spat between The Gown and the Union, see the front page of Monday’s paper.

Catherine Wylie
Editor

http://petition.co.uk/paid_parking_qub

Did you have anything constructive to say about parking in and around QUB?

@Nicci
Yes I do pay rent, bills, etc. I have a student loan but that’s it. I wouldn’t say I’m living like a rockstar but I’m far from starving, can afford a wee drink once in a while!

It is production work like Screwtape and the other shows on last week that have helped the society become more noticed by the SU. And hopefully soon, the hard will have paid off and we will secure a performance space of our own.

Its within reach!

There is a real sense of student comunity in the holylands, I lived on Wellesley last year and didn’t know any of my neighbours. I’ve met loads of my neighbours here, some of them borrow things others just natter on.

And I have no trouble sleeping when there have parties on my street. My 1st year neighbours have invited me over several times for parties and where I’ve declined they’ve offered to keep the noise down.

I do think most ppl would keep it quiet if residents would just ask politely and not go straight to the phone. But they’d have to be dead on to do that.

PS The CCTV seems a bit stupid since I got a leaflet out to the house which pinpointed where they would be, most of the streets aren’t covered and basically the leaflet just seems to show where not to party and where is “safe.”

Obviously signage solely in Irish would be very alienating but I doubt Miss Lynch was suggesting that the English signs be removed – that would be sectarian.

As a matter of fact nationalist students could equally argue that it is sectarian for 100% of the signs to be in English when 50% of the student body claim Irish heritage. I think most nationalists have grown to accept these double standards instead of attempting to gain equality.

Shame really, I love the Irish/English road signs down south and would love to see them cross the border. It would encourage Irish education amoung those that claim Irish heritage, which would be great as the NI education system doesn’t do a good job of encouraging any languages.

However I did consider the GAA thing as it was better and earlier advertised. And because the GAA boys did a good job of grabbing our attention at the SWOT fashion show . I think their participation at SWOT shows that the GAA are prepared to back charitable student organisations.

I don’t think who the exec backed matters at all. They are obviously going to back the event they have the highest stake in. It just seems to me that the whole thing should have been arranged better. Whoever booked last, shouldn’t have.

What I’d like to know is why RAG day had to be moved?

In relation to other people arguing about carparks I think you’re being ridiculous. If Queen’s wanted to make more spaces available they could always make a small multi-story on the new library’s car park site. Something akin to the city hospital’s disabled parking one.

It would be expensive but there appears to be a market for guaranteed spaces. That suggests they could make the money back and eventually profit. But this is speculation and would obviously require proper market research.

However, the major flaw would be that the aesthetics of the new library would be ruined. I believe that this is important to QUB for PR purposes. After all, that’s the reason the library looks like a futuristic church isn’t it?

I find the idea of banning candidates from campaigning in the SU really bizarre – why would you do that when that’s where the Exec are based, and where half of their work centres around?

The rainforest’s worth of posters were all collected by an army of candidates and their helpers on Wednesday night, then recycled – not as good as not printing them but at least they weren’t binned

I ride a bike. Through the park. With a frisbee. And a picnic. And my life doesn’t suck.

@John B. Dick
That’d be John Being a Dick then?

Also you’re saying that one group of people have more right to something than another. How very open minded of you.

I have no use for a park, if I feel the need to throw a frisbee the city centre wouldn’t be my first choice, I’d drive my car to the beach where theres acres of land to play frisbee on. Obviously you wanting to play games and maybe have a wee picnic is more important than me parking my car within walking range of my place of education.

Wise up? Yes, maybe we should just accept it the way it is. Is that what Queens is teaching you? Maybe you should wise up, open your eyes.

Is it not strange that every other big organisation in belfast can afford to buy land and build car parks? I wouldn’t care if it was a seven storey car park, or if it was underground. Did QUB not spend millions on a new sports facility recently? strange that they found the cash and land for that. Nothing against building a new facility, I’m all for development, but why not build a car park under it?