Rip-Off DCU

Monday morning is a great time for some 'on-the-ground' reportage. The students of DCU were eager to have their say. One issue that came up repeatedly was the price of things in DCU.

To fill you in, in 2006 DCU students got talking about the higher than average prices of consumer products and catering on DCU campus. Several protests were planned to give vent to student's evident frustration. The Student's Union excuted a pseudo-picket on SPAR and the catering establishments on campus. Management declined to address student's concerns. The Union even tried to offer snacks at normal rates from a room in college buildings, but after DCU Admin got wind of it the Union's people were locked out.
The picket was broken.
Or was it. I found this charming vid on YouTube Rip-off DCU campaign vid Ah yes those were the days, their blood was up (too much starbucks I think) and they believed they could change things. The swagger of youth, bah, give 'em a decade in a 9-5 see how marxist they are then, hrrrumph!



So the jig is up. Students without parental support through their DCU experience continue to pack their lunches and drink from the water fountain. But they dream, yet still, of an ice cool Coke and a slice of that delicious strawberry cheese cake they pass every day in the canteen. If only one had the 5.50 price.

Anywho, here's Celina, Darren, Eoin and Richard.



I also enquired as to my fellow student's opinions about blogging. I've been doing this a lot lately, because frankly the term 'blog' is amorphous. Its definition seems to be constantly in a state of flux depending on the evolution of technology which a blog may encompass. Take this blog, for example. Movies, links, feeds, text, pictures; the variety of media that can be brought to bear is limited only by one's imagination. I asked Celina, Richard and Eoin about blogging.