Dear gair rhydd,
Like many other students, I’m eagerly anticipating the chance to get suited and booted for the Summer Ball this term.
I queued for half an hour (the champagne was a nice touch) to buy my ticket on the first day of sale.
I was shocked to find out last week, however, that postgraduate students will be afforded a “VIP Postgraduates Only Marquee” at the Summer Ball according to www.cardiffstudents.com.
What basis is there for this VIP area being opened up for the possibility of the students’ union attracting postgrads who just wouldn’t go? While we’re at it, why don’t we make a VIP area for international students or, even, students from one school of the University because that’s what this initiative is equivalent to doing.
Surely, the Summer Ball is meant to be about uniting the students, especially the new graduates, of Cardiff University.
Having a VIP Postgraduates area does nothing to help this.
Postgraduates complain that they aren’t included in the university community and that the undergraduate drinking culture doesn’t appeal to them but nothing will change until each group works towards each other.
So postgrads, leave Grad bar, come down to The Taf for a drink and stick around outside the VIP area.
Us undergraduates don’t bite.
Disgruntled second year
