No Jobs For The Wicked
I registered with Jobshop last year. I had a job for a while, but got too busy with work, so when I needed a job this year I went to the Jobshop. I told them that I’d been registered the year before, and asked if they had any work going. They did. I did the work, got the timesheet, and right now I really, really need the money…
Jobshop, however, have decided that I don’t exist on their systems, and that I need to re-register. That’s all well and good, but they only open until 4 on weekdays, and they don’t open at all at weekends. It’s difficult to get to them in time. Not to mention the fact that I have no idea where my Mum keeps my birth certificate.
Living on the Dark Side
This is in reference to the headline article in the latest edition of gair rhydd, speaking about student housing and the potential pitfalls of letting agencies.
I rent my house through a private landlord, and it’s about as stereotypical a student house as you could wish. We’re reasonably happy, apart from a few issues.
Gone But Not Forgotten
As someone who has been involved in the University’s Act of Remembrance for many years, I was surprised to read Nicola Szostek’s letter (17/11/08) expressing disappointment at a perceived lack of poppies for sale in University buildings.
Security and Portering staff put a lot of effort into selling poppies on campus and have been the recipients of the Cecil Rapport Challenge Trophy Cup for the best sales of poppies in Cardiff for the last two years. This year, poppies were available to students in twenty one locations around the University including the Security Centre, Main Building lodge, various refectories and coffee shops and all residences reception areas. For this the Security and Portering staff is to be thanked for raising the profile of poppy sales on campus.
Up With Morals
Firstly, I’m not a prude. I’m really not. Sex is one of my favourite topics of conversation if you get me one-on-one, and a good cock joke is always guaranteed to make me laugh.
But there is such a thing as going too far in the pursuit of humour. I don’t listen to Xpress Radio as much as I should – last year I worked as a producer on a mainstream show on the station, and I know how much work goes into each show. But last week, while walking through the Union, I was shocked at what I could hear. Elmo, the puppet, describing an orgy with other puppets, while the listeners giggled like twelve year olds.
Taf-Od debate rolls on
I would like the opportunity of venting my frustration at the quality of gair rhydd’s answer to Isaac Parnell in his letter about the Welsh section of the paper, the Taf-od.
gair rhydd cites its inability to have a completely bilingual paper, which is of course entirely true. Time does not allow. It says its compromise is a Welsh-speaking section. This is fine. I don’t think anyone would disagree with the sentiment of the reply; that maintaining Welsh heritage and culture is incredibly important. However, to deny the English-speaking proportion of the readership a translation goes beyond protecting heritage, it starts to look rather like racial discrimination.
Bio-hazards
*I hate to get repetitive, and I know this subject has been debated endlessly, but just why is it that Bioscience students seem to get the raw end of the deal at this university, especially when compared to Humanities students? *
This is mainly a complaint about our facilities. I know that Humanities students have to have lectures all over the place, and that really has to be hard for the poor little mites, but at least they don’t have to cram into a lecture theatre at the museum, or use desks that flip down for each individual seat and like to take the fingers off unsuspecting students.
Poppy Day Forgotten?
Poppy Day Forgotten?
Walking to and from lectures today, (11/11/08 – ring any bells to anyone?) I was actually amazed and slightly disgusted at the number of students wearing a poppy. I counted about 4 (including myself) and I must have passed a few hundred people.
The not-so-great debate?
Dear gair rhydd,
I am writing to inform you of my dissatisfaction with the Great Sports Debate, recently held by organisers from the Invest in Sport campaign. I attended both Project Queue and the debate keen to voice my opinion on such an important issue, yet was disappointed to see a fairly low turnout for both events. Project Queue, which preceded the debate in the Great Hall, provided an adequate protest but clearly even a topical student-centric issue cannot stir the student body from its apathetic coma.
No editorial investment in Invest In Sport?
Dear gair rhydd,
As a postgraduate arriving for my first year in Cardiff, I was surprised at the low level of investment in sport at the University. Therefore, when hearing of the ‘Queue’ protest taking place on November, I was pleased to discover that something was being done from within the Student’s Union to remedy this.
Jumping on the Brandwagon
Dear gair rhydd,
*Does anyone else feel the whole Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross affair has been blown out of proportion? *
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