CIT Students’ Union MagazineVolume Eleven - Issue Seven

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CITSU Executive Election ResultsThe Executive Elections of CIT Students' Union took place on Thursday 11th March 2010. Thefollowing students have been elected and will take office from 1st June 2010.

Sabbitical• President - John Lane• Vice President Education - Chris Scanlon• Vice President Welfare - Vicki Fitzpatrick

Non-Sabbitical• Communications Officer - Shane Fitzgerald• Entertainments Officer - Gordon Forbes• Projects Officer - Niamh Hayes

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(Left) Pearce Linehan, CIT’s EuroStar ‘Original Song’ winner, who went on to win the IT Factororiginal song section. The IT Factor is the national equivalent of our EuroStar Competition inwhich Institutes of Technologies from across the country compete. Congratulations to Pearce.

(Right) Kate Curran, CIT’s EuroStar ‘Cover Song’ winner who also represented CIT at the IT Factorand received many accolades for her performance.

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Last December the Minister for Education, Batt O’Keeffe, was made awareof the concerns of the Heads of many Multi-Nationals about the disturbingtrend of grade inflation. John O’Hara, Vice President of Google, highlight-ed in no uncertain terms that there was a clear gap between the skills grad-uates have on paper and their actual skills and abilities in the workplace. Toreinforce this point, Craig Barrett, the former Head of Intel Ireland had pre-viously told the Irish Government to stop boasting about a “world classeducation system” and face the truth that our education system was “aver-age”.

Now here is the scary part for us, the students of today. Multi-National com-panies in Ireland are aware that colleges don’t want to fail any students,want to give out as many first class honours as they can so as to look goodin the eyes of their peers and want to be seen as having world class educat-ed graduates. Multi-Nationals are reluctant to hire Irish graduates from cer-tain colleges as they are aware that the quality of graduates aren’t as highas they would like. In fact, there are rumours that several IT’s and one IrishUniversity are on a recruitment “black list”. This is quite worrying, consid-ering that we are an IT, but the specific details of this black list areunknown.

Just to explain this whole grade inflation controversy. Per thousand stu-dents in third level education, the amount of students receiving first classhonours in the last 20 years has doubled. Teachers Unions’ put this down toexcellent teaching, but the view point of employers differs considerablyfrom this. Employers feel it ever more difficult to find graduates with theskills and flexibility that they need in their organisations. Although figuresfor CIT were difficult to come by, since 1994 NUI Maynooth has upped itsfirst class honours output by 700 per cent, while UCCs’ has jumped up 174per cent.

More and more, colleges are willing to give out a pass degree than to seea student fail, lecturers are encouraged to find extra marks where possibleif a student is borderline (gets 49, 59 or 69) and colleges want to see theirstudents come out with better qualifications. Yes, this is all to the studentsbenefit, but is it fair? Is it fair for a student who puts in hours and hours ofwork all year to come out with the same class of degree as someone whocrams it all into the last two weeks? Is it fair for colleges to sell their grad-uates to employers as first class students when really they are borderline?

The Dumbing Down of EducationAlthough this could be justified by great teaching if that was the onlychange, it is not. More and more college places have been opening up everyyear, which leads to CAO points dropping every year, bringing in more andmore “average” students to courses. Not so long ago a threshold wasdropped. You could enter many third level science and technology courses

with less than 300 points. Logic says that as the quality and capability of stu-dents reduces, so will the results. In fact, there seems to have been aninverse relationship here – results rose. Weaker students were receivingever improving grades.

The reasons? Numerous according to most people within the third level sys-tem who look at it openly and honestly. I have heard disgruntled lecturerscomplain about how their syllabi have been chipped away at for years so asto reduce the workload for students and make it more understandable andpassable, but at the end of the day, colleges have a responsibility not justto educate students, but also to make them employable. Lecturers talk ofnot being able to reduce the material anymore as the modules now beingtaught are simply the bare bones of the modules originally envisaged. In anut shell, students are being taught less and thus able to answer questionsbetter,

Employers are also frustrated at the lack of flexibility in graduates – theirability to apply what they learned in college to real world events; lateralthinking and applicability basically. Employers have found that top gradu-ates who should fit right into the job now need training that in previousyears would have been unnecessary.

The culture of education in Ireland also has a lot to do with this. From anearly age, probably first year of secondary school, we are taught to learn byrota. If you don’t understand something, just learn it for the exam and youcan then forget it. The leaving cert is the epitomy of this. Learn things offby heart and once the exam is over that’s it, forget it. By right, there is noway in hell you should be able to cram for an exam for the 24 hours beforeit, but we can. We all have a fair idea of what will be coming up, what’simportant, and we all know the age old saying – “Learn the diagram, knowthe gist of it, sorted”. The flaws of this are picked up straight away whenyou go out into the real world, where you are expected to know what youare talking about. It is only then you realise how important all these differ-ent things are.

Maybe the next Government can turn the Education system around. It maynot be the popular choice, it may not be the easy choice, but it will benefitthose who can work and who can dedicate themselves to their education.This is not a threat to us, if anything it will be a benefit. A better educationmeans better jobs. Three, four or five years of intense study that will bepaid off with better jobs, which in turn should equate to more money. Andwhether it is you as an individual, a MNC located in Ireland or even theGovernment, at the end of the day it is all about the money.

John Lane

GradeInflationShould we be worried?

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NUI Maynooth has re-affiliated to the Union ofStudents in Ireland (USI) at a cost estimated totheir Students’ Union of €33,000 per annum. Arecent referendum saw Maynooth students votein favour of joining the National Students’Union, costing each student €5.

Both NUI Maynooth and CIT disaffiliated togeth-er and stood firmly with UL and DCU in opposi-tion to the Union of Students in Ireland.

Although CITSU officers have always worked wellwith officers from other colleges, there is alwaysa detachment from the National Organisation.CIT Students’ Union’s Gearóid Buckley stated: Wehave always worked well with other colleges andeven last year were one of the founding collegesof Munster Students Against Fees, a coalition ofall third level colleges in Munster.

Negotiations were ongoing between CITStudents’ Union and USI relating to a feesprotest, when in October last USI walked awayfrom the table. This year we had agreed at a USIConference that all Colleges in the South ofIreland would combine forces for a protestmarch in Cork. However a week before the

protest after everything had been organised, CITStudents’ Union found out through thegrapevine that such plans had changed and theprotest was now going to be called off. Under nocircumstances could we cancel our organisedprotest March. After convincing UCC to join uswe completed our protest. After this incident Ihave not received any further information fromUSI.

We had a meeting with USI President PeterManion and Dan O’ Neill in August regarding re-affiliating, but since then we have not heard awhisper from the organisation. Personally I dis-agree that CIT Students should re-affiliate but Ido believe CIT is due a referendum, it should beup to CIT Students’ to decide.

Whether or not CIT should hold a re-affiliationreferendum is a question for CIT’s class reps todecide. As NUI Maynooth has now re-affiliatedUSI could be back to CIT’s door next year lookingfor an estimated €35,000 of your Union’s money.Watch this space.

Gearóid Buckley

Batt O’Thief’s HeadUp For Auction!The Union of Students in Ireland has put itsfamous Batt O ‘Keeffe paper mache head up forsale to the highest bidder. The decision to sellthe head was made after the reshuffling of theCabinet, when Batt O’Keeffe was replaced asMinister for Education by Mary Coughlan. MrO’Keeffe is now Minister for Enterprise, Tradeand Employment. The reconstruction of hishead, commissioned by the USI in 2008, wasposted on www.ebay.ie with a starting bid of€500. As of going to print there was no bid. Anyprofits from the sale will be donated to thenational charity of the USI, Our Lady’s Children’sHospital in Crumlin. The Batt head has made many appearances atboth CITSU & USI demonstrations, rallies andprotests in previous years, as the organisationsuccessfully campaigned against the re-introduc-tion of college tuition fees, and for many otherstudent causes.

The sale of the Batt head coincides with theelection of the new USI president, GaryRedmond, who is currently president of UCDStudents’ Union. CITSU’s Gearóid Buckley con-gratulated and wished Mr. Redmond well in hisnew role. I have worked with Gary for the pasttwo years and am convinced he will bring abreath of fresh air to USI. He must be applaud-ed for work ethic and enthusiasm as all success-ful national campaign ran over the past year, hasGary’s signature on it in some form.”

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CIT Prize for InnovationAwards 2010On the 19th of March“Entrepreneurs” showcased their businesses duringthe CIT Prize for Innovation exhibition where a total of €10,000 wasawarded to the winning entries. The Cork County and City EnterpriseBoards sponsored the competition and in addition to the cash prizes aperpetual cup will now be on display in the Department of MechanicalEngineering for the next twelve months.

The adjudicators were very impressed with the quality of the work thatwas evidenced from the business plans and display stands. The judgesfound it difficult to come to a decision on the winners and felt that every-one who participated showed elements of enthusiasm and creativity thatare required to start a business. Details of prize winners attached.

There was an additional element to the CIT Prize for Innovation. Secondlevel students from a number of schools around the city and county par-ticipated in exhibition and presented their businesses under the CorkSchools Enterprise Programme.

CIT Prize for Innovation Winners:

1st Prize and coveted title of CIT Entrepreneur(s) of the Year = €4,000Business Name: Hydrostack Department: Mechanical EngineeringStudent Name: Laurence BarrySupervisor: Richard Guinee

Most Technically Innovative = €2,000Business Name: Tip Top Department: Mechanical EngineeringStudent Names: Daniel Henderson, Jonathon Howley,

Ronan O’Donoghue, Aidan VaughanSupervisor: Michael J O’Mahony

Best Business Plan = €1,000Business Name: Keep Me CloseDepartment(s): Electronic Engineering and Business StudiesStudent Names: Colm Harrington, Juan F Martiez,

Allanah Bates, Gary CashmanSupervisors: Finbarr Sheehan

Best Presentation Pitch = €1,000Business Name: MobaliftDepartment Mechanical EngineeringStudent Name: Sarah LindseySupervisor: Sean F O Leary

Most Emerging Space Award (instead of postgrad award)Business Name: MMODLDepartment: Computing and Business StudiesStudent Names: James O Sullivan, John Twohig,

Kathryn BurguinSupervisor: Finbarr Sheehan

Best Exhibition Stand = €1,000Business Name: Ez BaRDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringStudent Names: Barry McKenna, Damien O’Flynn,

Rian Edman, Conor Nevin-MaguireSupervisor: Sean F. O’Leary

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Union AddressFirst of all, welcome back. I hope the Easterbreak was a nice get away from college, wasrelaxing and refreshing and that you are nowall ready for the final push.

To start on a light note, the summer is nearlyhere and another year is nearly complete. Ihope you have all enjoyed yourselves andthat all those finishing first year now are fit-ting in and getting involved and enjoying thecollege life. I wish good luck to all of you fin-ished this year, and please don’t forget all ofus here when you are gone.

I would like to thank absolutely everyone who helped out with the SU elec-tions, which seems so long ago at this stage. I would like to thank everyonewho voted for me – and you are now stuck with me for another yearwhether you want to be or not! I am around the college all the time, and Iwould encourage anyone who has problems, questions or suggestions tofeel free to come and talk to me anytime, be it in the hallways, canteens,or just give me a buzz or drop me an e-mail (all contact info is on the insidecover of the magazine).

I am really looking forward to next year in my new role as SU President andI intend to work for the interests of the students first and foremost. As I amnot a student currently though, I need you, the students, to keep meinformed as to what is happening on the ground, what you want and whatyou need. I hope to alleviate financial pressures on students where possi-ble, and focus on allowing students to go out and socialise for as low a costas possible.

More seriously, the exams are just around the corner…again. This is thefinal stretch for the year so I would encourage people to put in the effortfor the few weeks that’s in it because no one wants to come back inautumn. The Learning Resource Centre is still running every lunchtime, cov-ering maths, physics and programming, and the library is a great resourceif used correctly.

The exams often place a lot of stress on students, so we are running a“Don’t Worry, Be Happy” campaign from the17th – 21st of May, offeringexam advice, tips, healthy eating and brain food options and lots more. Formore information, please contact our Welfare Officer, Deirdre Conroy.

For those of you looking for accommodation for next year, I have put in anarticle this month to try to help you out. Looking at houses in the summeris the norm, but usually problems with houses only arise in the cold winter.

Hopefully, you will have seen posters for the “Party & Pull @ Punchestown”event for this Wednesday. It’s a national event and a chance to go to theraces. Also, it is a chance for a proper day out before the exams kick off.Colleges from all over the country will be going and it is a great chance tomeet people. Buses will be leaving from CIT (early) that morning and com-ing back that evening too so as you will be back in college the next day.

I will leave ye all on that. Have a great month; enjoy the issue and best ofluck.

John Lane

CITSU Vice President Education Opinion

Batt Scores an F and GetsThe Boot from EducationBatt O'Keeffe is to be the new Minister for Enterprise, Trade andInnovation, replacing Mary Coughlan in the Taoiseach's reshuffling ofthe Cabinet. Although an ex CIT lecturer, Minister O’Keeffe was hellbent on bringing in tuition fees, until his leashed was pulled by theGreen Party last October.

The Minister met with CIT Students’ Union representatives on numeroustimes and was far from honest and truthful. CIT Students’ UnionPresident, Gearóid Buckley stated: “When we met the Minister for thefirst time in his office he was arrogant and typically political. There wasno simple answer to simple questions. Representatives accompanied mefrom other Students’ Unions, and afterwards nobody could draw con-clusions from what answers we received. We were naive and wereplayed by a political mystro.

A number of months later we met the Minister in CIT. We agreed tomeet instead of holding a demonstration. This time he still managed toworm his way out of any controversial statement. He said that the intro-duction of fees was off the programme for government, which was wit-nessed by six CITSU elected officers and an independent student pho-tographer in the room. He clarified this on my request and every news-paper in the country jumped on this as hot news. He denied everythingonce it was published and we even got a phone call from the Minister’sSecretary stating that they would threaten legal action if we did notwithdraw the statement. However no such legal action followed, whichdemonstrates that what he did was wrong and attempted to bully stu-dent representatives.

Education wasn’t his forte but maybe he can do something with his newrole. Brian Cowen did a straight swap with Mary Coughlan moving tothe newly named Department of Education and Skills.

CITSU Welcome Coughlanto Education MinistryCIT Students’ Union President, Gearóid Buckley has welcomed MaryCoughlan to her new post as Minister of Education and Skills.

“By no means it is easy task but I am hopeful deputy Coughlan willbring an open mind to the new world at her feet. This sector has beena victim of a Battman style slash and burn cutbacks since early 2008,and new thinking and ideas are needed. It is not an easy position to bein during this economic climate. I don’t envy her but she cannot closeher office door and read report after report and make decisions onsuch, without meeting those on the ground, such as lecturers, manang-ment and most importantly students”.

He added, ”although she has yet to make any announcements regard-ing the third level sector, we will wait with placards ready. We havewritten to the Minister requesting a meeting and are currently await-ing a reply. It is imperative the views of sixteen thousand CIT studentsare communicated to her.

Our concerns include:• The Student Support Bill• The Grant System• The Registration Fee• Further Cutbacks• Public Sector Graduate Programs

We hope to meet soon and will listen to the raw facts from theMinister, which have been used to justify the elaborate and wide scalecut backs of recent years. Once we hear those facts we will inform theMinister of the harsh realities of life as a student and trying to keep ahousehold on an ordinary families income. If the Minister refuses tomeet with us, we will travel to her Constituency Clinic in Donegal.”

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It’s that time of year again where people are looking for houses before thecollege breaks up for the summer. New apartments and houses bring excite-ment and anticipation, but just be careful and be prepared before agreeingto take a new place. Below I have listed out and explained everything youneed to look out for, be wary of and keep in mind.

HeatingIf you are in a student apartment this should be relatively safe, but if youare moving into a house there is loads to consider. First of all, it is worthmentioning that a lot of the houses in the general Bishopstown area wouldbe over 20 years old, so heating can be a big issue. It is easy to look at ahouse in sunny May and think it will do the job, but as I have seen fromexperience, when the winter kicks in, leaks, poor insulation and dampnessbecome a very real concern.

Gas heating is better than oil. With gas heating, you have a regular, con-stant supply. With oil heating, although you don’t get bi-monthly bills, itworks out costing about the same and you need to keep an eye on oil lev-els. On top of this, when you do order oil, it is a one off large sum you couldbe paying.

Also, check the insulation. Although it may sound funny, ask to have a lookin the attic to see if it is suitably insulated. A poorly insulated can lead tomassive heat loss (and massive home heating bills). It will also be an indica-tion of the general state of the house – if a landlord isn’t bothered insulat-ing the attic, it is fair to assume that other short cuts have been made else-where.

Double glazed windows are also vital. Double glazing dramatically reducesheat loss, drafts and condensation. If you are to go a step further, draft pro-tectors around loose doors can cut heat loss by up to 20 per cent almostinstantly.

Remember landlords are legally obliged to provide a copy of the BER ener-gy rating cert and I would strongly recommend requesting this. It is ratedfrom Rating A1 (the best attainable) to G (run away as fast as you can!)

Rent ScheduleAt the moment, houses are plentiful, and rent prices are usually negotiableto some extent. Although the student apartments can average out at €100+per week, there is no way a house should cost you this much. House rentsshould seldom go above €80 per week. I have lived in houses all overBishopstown and speaking from experience, if it is above this you are beingripped off! Houses are available from just above the €60 mark, and theseare houses that do not come with compromises. Also locate vacant housesfrom different sources. The CIT Accommodation Office publishes itsAccommodation list usually around the end of April / start of May, but checkout websites like daft.ie and myhometorent.ie. These sites are constantlyupdated and offer great value.

How and when you pay rent is very important. Do you pay weekly ormonthly, and is it paid in cash, through standing order or by lodgement.However it is paid, a receipt (or paper trail) should always be received.

This is simply proof of you paying, and could come in very useful whenapplying for grants in future years or if anything goes wrong with the

house. It is advised that you keep a rent book, but if you don’t get this far,at least collect and retain receipts.

House AppliancesThe most vital appliances in a house or apartment are a washing machine,dryer, dishwasher and television – in that order! A washing machine anddryer are absolutely necessary. A dishwasher is also a convenient luxury.Very often dishes pile up faster than you can imagine, despite everyone say-ing – “Oh, I’m really clean and tidy” before moving in. And what is the bestadvantage of a dishwasher? Being able to hide dirty plates. A television is agiven these days as is a microwave, but just be doubly sure that they are allpart of the agreement all the same. Also, a television licence is the respon-sibility of the tenants, not the landlord.

A large freezer or even a chest freezer is so handy. A small compact freezeris not practical if more than two people live together. This may not be a dealbreaker, but is definitely worth considering. Also make sure there is ahoover in the house!

ParkingIn recent years, parking all over Bishopstown is becoming a bigger and big-ger issue. In Eden Hall and Parchment Square, parking is provided free ofcharge, whereas Deans Hall usually charge an annual fee. If you are livingin an estate and need to park outside your house, a RESIDENTS PERMIT isnow required. The City Council requires quite a bit of back up documenta-tion for same so you are best checking out www.corkcity.ie/roads/trafficdi-vision. Do not forget about this or you could be clamped or towed for park-ing outside your own house. Visitors also need to be careful, so clear up anyambiguity with the landlord before settling any agreement.

Refuse CollectionIf you live in a house you will probably be well aware of this. To get yourbins collected you have two choices. Cork Corporation Refuse Service col-lects bins for an annual fee of €300 plus €6 for each collection. Recycling istaken for free. These are taken every second week i.e. One week refuse,next week recycling. Private companies like Greenstar operate at a chargeof €329 for the year, with flexible payment options: Quarterly, Half Yearlyor Annually and also Monthly by Direct Debit. They also collect refuse everysecond week, recycling three times a month, and a glass bin collection oncea month (very handy for students). It is the tenants’ responsibility to lookafter the bin charges, not the landlords.

NeighboursLike it or lump it, you are stuck with your neighbours, so it’s a good idea toat least try and keep them sweet. There are a lot of elderly residents aroundBishopstown, so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE be considerate. If you are planningon having wild house parties and partying on until the early hours on a reg-ular basis, you are better off living in a detached house. If you live adjoinedto someone, you cannot realistically expect to have loud parties and musicplaying in the early hours of the morning. Also, keep in mind that althoughyour ears might have a ringing in them at half two in the morning and youneed to shout, your neighbours are asleep. Keeping neighbours sweetallows you a bit more freedom if you ever do push the boundaries, andmakes people slower to call the Gardai – but of course students of CITrefrain from such behaviour!

I hope this helps on the house search. Visit the Accommodation Officeupstairs in the Student Centre if you have anymore questions. Best of luck,

John Lane

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Style for Cents!

Ciara’s College look is casualyet smart. The jeans are agreat staple for your summerwardrobe and the detailing onthe tank top adds a bit ofglam.

The whole look is feminineand is set off with the funkystudded flat shoes and thechrome “Chanel-esque” bag.

Nothing is more important toa man than comfort in col-lege. So we paired a buttontop long sleeved t-shirt with acomfy casual zip up hoodie.

The jeans are a smart combatcut and are worn with “Vans”style slip on trainers. Thetrainers come in a variety ofdifferent prints.

Casual College: • Scarf – €3 • Chain – €3• Bag – €7• Shoes – €11 • Cardigan – €12• Jeans – €17• Top – €7

TOTAL: €60

Casual College:

• Jeans – €17 • Trainers – €6• T-Shirt – €4• Shoes – €11 • Hoodie – €15

TOTAL: €42

by Deirdre Conroy

I guess what they say is true; “when you look good, you feel good!” But I thinkyou shouldn’t have to spend a fortune to look good. So I went out and about look-ing for fashion for less for you guys! Inevitably, I found myself in Penneys, WiltonShopping Centre.

I have always been a huge fan of this shop. They are always up to date with thetrends and at a fraction of the cost of other high street retailers.

So I rounded up two lovely CIT students to model for me, Ciara and Jamie, and offwe went to see what we could rustle up at this student friendly store!

We decided to piece together one dressy outfit and one casual “college” outfit foreach model. All our ensembles are 60 euro or less, from head to toe! Here’s whatwe came up with.

(The broke students guide to fashion for less!)

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This outfit is definitelyChanel inspired, incorporat-ing this season’s hottestcolour of “dusky pink”.

The look also has another ofthe season’s trends with theshoes having a lace finishdetail.

Finally, what better way tofinish off a classy look likethis than with some fauxpearls.

Jamie’s channelling his innerJustin Timberlake with thisfunky look.

The black and white shirt is aplay on the average style witha lined hood attached.

The leather bomber is a stealat only twenty euros.

Dressy Evening:

• Dress - €17 • Chain – €3• Bag – €7• Shoes – €19 • Bracelet – €3

TOTAL: €49

Dressy Evening:

• Jeans - €17• Trainers - €6• T-Shirt - €3• Shirt - €11• Jacket €20

TOTAL: €57

(The broke students guide to fashion for less!)

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The Financial Crisis explained:

Sean is the proprietor of a bar in Dublin. He realises that virtually all of his

customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to

patronise the bar. To solve this problem, he comes up with a marketing plan

that allows his customers to drink now, but pay later.

Sean keeps track of the drinks in a ledger (thereby granting the customers

loans). Word gets around about Sean's "drink now, pay later" marketing

strategy and increasing numbers of customers flood into Sean's bar. Soon he

has the largest sales of any bar in Dublin.

By providing his customers freedom from payment demands, Sean gets no

resistance when, at regular intervals, he substantially increases the prices

for wine and beer. Consequently, Sean's gross sales volume increases mas-

sively.

A young and dynamic under-manager at the local bank recognises that

these customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases Sean's

borrowing limit. He sees no reason for any undue concern, since he has the

debts of the unemployed alcoholics as collateral.

At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert traders figure a way to make

huge commissions, and transform these customer loans into DRINKBONDS,

ALKIBONDS and PUKEBONDS. These securities are then bundled and traded

on international security markets.

Naive investors don't really understand that the securities being sold to

them as AAA secured bonds are really the debts of unemployed alcoholics.

Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb, and the securities soon

become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation's leading broker-

age houses.

One day, even though the bond prices are still climbing, a risk manager at

the original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment.

He so informs Sean. Sean then demands payment from the alcoholic

patrons, but being unemployed alcoholics, they cannot pay. Since Sean can-

not fulfil his loan obligations he is forced into bankruptcy. The bar closes

and the eleven employees lose their jobs.

Overnight, DRINKBONDS, ALKIBONDS and PUKEBONDS drop in price

by 90%.

The collapsed bond asset value destroys the banks liquidity and prevents it

from issuing new loans, thus freezing credit and economic activity in the

community. The suppliers of Sean's bar had granted him generous payment

extensions and had invested their firms' pension funds in the various bond

securities. They find they are now faced with having to write off his bad

debt and with losing over 90% of the presumed value of the bonds. His

wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family business

that had endured for three generations, his beer supplier is taken over by a

competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and lays off 150 work-

ers.

Fortunately though, the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective

executives are saved and bailed out by a multi-billion Euro no-strings-

attached cash infusion from their cronies in government. The funds

required for this bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on workers who

have never been in Sean's bar.

We have all seen and heard about the “deepening economiccrisis” over the last few months and years, but how many of usreally know what its all about – other than the fact that thecountry is up s**ts creek and our paddle, aka our Government,isn’t suitable to be used in water.

In a nut shell, our banks have gone bust, and are more finan-cially strapped than any student in the college. OurGovernment who used to have “giveaway budgets” haveoverlooked the fact that they really should havesaved some money for leaner times, and the EU arelooking on us disfavourably, but at least Greece isworse off so we’re not getting the brunt of their anger.

To understand this, we need to apply the logic that we areasked to develop in college, and ask why. Why are the banksbust? Why are houses now so cheap? Why are we in this situ-ation? For months and months, commentators, journalists andall kinds of officials have been trying to explain why, usuallyleading to more and more confusion and boredom amongthe general public, myself included.

Then, late one Friday evening Ireceived this e-mail, which cleared itall up for me.....

Punch Drunk Guide to theIrish Financial Crisis

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The Management & Staff of the RochestownPark Hotel would like to wish all students toCIT the best of luck with their exams.

Thank you for once again making us yourNumber 1 Ball Venue for 2010

So (hopefully) you can now see where it all went wrong.

It wasn’t the barman or the proprietor i.e. the lenders, it was

actually the fat cats who decided to spread and trade worth-

less bonds across markets into investment funds, pension

funds, and all other investment mechanisms. If the fault had

been picked up early (that the loans initially given out weren’t

to secure borrowers) then we wouldn’t be in the mess we are

in today.

Admittedly, Ireland wasn’t the original cause of the collapse.

Ireland is only a drop in the ocean, but since we are so reliant

on other countries for trade, what happens abroad affects us

massively. Originally stemming from America and American,

banks gave huge mortgages to people who obviously could

not afford the repayments, then the Irish Banks followed suit

by giving every part-time developer who wanted to build

estates, apartment complexes and shopping centres mort-

gages. At the time, everybody was making money, getting on

the property ladder, wearing Dolce & Gabbana and eating

organic Nova Scotia smoked salmon, so no one wanted to lis-

ten to the nay sayers, who came in the form of economists

George Lee and David McWilliams.

Currently, we are looking towards NAMA to help get our

banks up and going again. NAMA is to buy up any debts in

excess of five million from the banks at discounted rates, to see

what value it can recover from these. We found out on the

30th of March last that NAMA is to cost the Irish taxpayer a

minimum of €43 billion, and anything up to €75 billion, with

over half of this being pumped into Anglo Irish. The Irish State

will now take ownership of Irish Nationwide, Anglo Irish and

in essence, EBS. The Government has insisted that they will

manage these at arms length, so as to keep control of the

reigns but allow the “professionals” to actually run the banks.

In the 80’s, America had its own NAMA-esque system, which

although unpopular at the time, proved to be quite profitable

in later years. If we leave one of our banks go officially bank-

rupt, Ireland may as well be starting from scratch again. When

America allowed some of its banks to collapse, the domino

effect was catastrophic, but America is a giant economic force.

If this was to happen in Ireland, there could be a rip in the fab-

ric of space and time in which Ireland would fall into, albeit

along with all its bankers, politicians and bureaucratic assis-

tants.

Anglo Irish Bank currently stands head and shoulders above

AIB and BoI in terms of dodgy dealings. The bailout for Anglo

Irish currently stands at €30 billion, and could reach €40 billion.

It had lent billions, where common sense should have stepped

in and stopped it. To make matters worse, corruption and

deceit was rife even from the top where the CEO had report-

edly tried to cover up losses and misdealings, which has made

the problem even worse. Anglo Irish was nationalised to pre-

vent it from collapsing, and a number of pay increases to mid-

dle level staff were announced late last month to the frustra-

tion of most of the general public. Although AIB and BoI need

€7.4 and €2.7 billion respectively, they are trying to raise this

via the issuing of bonds and selling foreign assets. It is believed

BoI should manage this comfort-

ably, and whatever shortfall AIB

has after the selling assets, theIrish taxpayer mustmake up the bal-ance.

We are now paying for ourmistakes. Ireland’s NationalDebt at the end of January2010 stood at €75.97 BILLION. This is an

incomprehensible sum of money, which had risen

by €25 billion in the previous 12 months, and coin-

cidentally, nearly the mirror value of NAMA.

But if anyone does have a few hundred thousand to

throw around, now is the time to buy! House prices are

after bottoming out. Anyone who has bought a house

in peak times, well…you are now facing negative equi-

ty (your house being worth less than you actually paid

for it) until about 2020 according to the most recent

reports. You can now even buy a castle,

Kilkea Castle, for €16 million at the

moment. Crazy money I know, but listen

to what you get. It’s a castle hotel with

99 bedrooms, an 18-hole championship

golf course, clubhouse, an ultra-presti-

gious wedding venue and about 140

acres of land. Five years ago a large semi-

d in D4 could nearly set you back this much!

So now, what’s next? According to the CSO, the unemploy-

ment rate is now 12.6%. In recent years, unemployment

was hovering around 4%, which, according to economists,

is considered full employment. We now see queues outside

the Cork Dole Office, stretching over the bridge and

around the corner. This was unimaginable a number of

years ago. The most frustrating thing is that nearly all of

these people want to work.

For those leaving college this year, do not despair. Reports

from the ESRI say that the economy is picking up, but it

will be the end of 2010 before any improvement can actu-

ally be seen. We will recover, and life does go on, but it is

very easy to get disheartened, having studied for nearly

20 years and then coming out the far end to ‘not so great’

opportunities. This challenge will harden your desire and

aspirations and make you push yourself even harder.

Unfortunately, the Celtic Tiger was hunted to extinction

by everyone’s greed and everyone wanting a bit of him.

He will never return, but lets leave his memory live on and

learn that when we want something it is more than

attainable, and the only person who can get something

for you is yourself.

John Lane

Cit Society Awards 2010

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Dr Brendan Murphy, President, CIT; presenting Gaisce Silver Awards to Aoife

Gleeson and Mary Sheahan

Dance Society members at the Cork Institute ofTechnology Annual Student Societies &

Activities Awards Ceremony

Jennifer Cotter, Individual Award, Headway Society

Karen Buckley, Individual Award, Chairperson,Dance Society

Fire juggler at the Cork Institute of TechnologyAnnual Student Societies & Activities Awards

Ceremony

Richard Crowley, Individual Award,CIT CFC Radio Society

Urban Art Society, Crawford College of Art &Design, recipient of the Best New Society

Award

Guest Speaker John O'Shea, GOAL; receiving adonation to GOAL

International Students Society, Society of the Year Award

Brian Mullins, chairperson Floppy Soc, SupremeAchievement in Society and College-wide

Activities Award

Photographic Society, recipient of the BestEvent for it's event Vertical

Photos by Neil Danton - www.neildanton.eu

s we knuckle down and hit the books before exams in May, the worldoutside of CIT will soon become a reality for many CIT Students.Everyone is aware that there is a recession, but what is really going

on. Well lets start with something simple like NAMA (National AssetManagement Agency), yes simple.

In the midst of the economic collapse of 2008, many Irish banks and build-ing societies found themselves in the position of having lent money andprovided mortgages to individuals and corporations that now looked as ifthey may not be able to keep up their repayments. Many of these debtorswere involved in property development, and with the bursting of the prop-erty bubble found theirportfolios to be worth muchless than the value of theloans which they had takenout to finance their devel-opment. As a consequence,the chance that the bankswould get back the moneythey had lent became moredifficult to assess.

This left many of the banksin a difficult position. Aspart of the normal function-ing of a commercial bank, ititself can receive loans fromlarger international finan-cial institutions. However,with huge amounts of theIrish banks’ money tied up in“bad” loans that it was notclear would ever be repaid,lending to them became ariskier proposition for theseinstitutions, due to the pos-sibility that the banks mayfind themselves lacking infunds to repay such loans (orindeed may collapse alto-gether). The banks there-fore found it more difficultto raise money to help themcontinue in their day-to-daybusiness, and so could nolonger afford to providefavourable loans and mort-gages to individuals andbusinesses throughout thecountry. This was deeplydamaging to the economy,and so the Governmentdeveloped the NAMA plan.

The objective of the plan isto relieve the banks of thepressures of these bad loans, and so to free up money which the banks canthen lend to individuals and businesses. This is achieved by purchasing thebad loans of participating banks using taxpayers’ money. These bad loansare transferred to the ownership of NAMA, a government body, which con-tinues to pursue the holders of these loans and mortgages in the hope ofhaving them repaid; the money collected by NAMA in this way is thenreturned to the state.

This approach was considered by the government to have a number ofadvantages in addition to freeing banks to lend. In order to maintain thehealth of their balance sheets, the banks would have required the bad loansto be repaid promptly in line with the original agreements between thebanks and the debtors. As NAMA is backed by the resources of the state,however, it can afford to delay or space-out repayments of the loans if nec-essary, making it more likely that NAMA will recover a good percentage of

the value of the loans. This, combined with the fact that NAMA purchasesthe loans from the banks for a substantial discount, makes it likely in thegovernment’s opinion that NAMA will actually have turned a profit for thetaxpayer by the projected date for the wind-up of the scheme in 2020.

What they said:

Brian LenihenNAMA will ensure that credit flows again to viable businesses and house-holds by cleansing the balance sheets of Irish banks. This is essential for eco-

nomic recovery and the genera-tion of employment. It will ensurethat we avoid the Japanese out-come of zombie banks that arejust ticking over and not making avibrant contribution to economicgrowth. NAMA will ensure thatcredit flows again to viable busi-nesses and households by cleans-ing the balance sheets of Irishbanks. This is essential for eco-nomic recovery and the genera-tion of employment. It will ensurethat we avoid the Japanese out-come of zombie banks that arejust ticking over and not making avibrant contribution to economicgrowth.

What the opposition said:

Fine Gael Leader Enda Kennysaid “the Government's plansamounted to 8.5 on the RichterScale and that the aftershock willbe felt by future generations.”

Labour's Joan Burton describedthe re-capitalisation and transferof assets to NAMA as socialism forbankers and developers. She saidthe Irish taxpayer was seeing thecosts and consequences of cronyIrish capitalism.Sinn Féin Finance SpokesmanDeputy Morgan said theGovernment was throwingmoney into the banks that couldbe better spent elsewhere.

CIT Students’ Union President, Gearóid Buckley acknowledged that itis action to get the country back on it’s feet but fears that NAMA has mort-gaged the future of the country’s youth.

“Whether NAMA will be good or bad for Ireland, it will inevitably play arole in the future of the state thus it has the potential to be a hangover forfuture budgets, which I pray will not hand excuses to any Minister forFinance to inject further cutbacks on the third level sector.”

NAMA to politicians is like what RAG Week is to students. This year’s nation-al and local news has been dominated with the four letter word, a wordwhich will grow further legs and arms over the coming years, but for nowyou have it simplified.

Kevin McCarthy & Gearoid Buckley

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Congratulations toLadies Football Club

H.E.C. Lynch Shield FinalCIT 5:14 AIT 5:14 (AFTER EXTRA TIME)

Penalty Shoot OutCIT 3 AIT 2

Congratulations to Irene Hogan, her selectorsClaire Hurley, Edel Scanell and Nicola Nagleand all the players of the CIT Ladies FootballClub who won out a thriller in DCU onSaturday 20th March.

The team was captained by Ursula Day(Masters Student in Business). Gillian O Brienof 1st year Recreation and Leisure and currentCIT Bursary Recipient was awarded player ofthe match for her outstanding display at Mid-field.

Goalkeeper Ann Marie Ryan of ConstructionManagement was the hero of the day with afantastic final save to secure victory.

Keith Ricken

On Saturday March 13th 2010, Cork Institute ofTechnology hosted the Irish schools and Irishintervarsity cross country competition, afterhosting the South Munster schools cross countrychampionships on January 29th.

The course was set out around the playing fieldsand finished in front of the GAA stand.Hundreds of athletes from secondary schoolsand colleges from all over Ireland descendedupon CIT to compete in the eight races whichtook place, six schools races and two collegeraces. Although Dublin City University took thegold for both the Men and Women’s races, wecan be extremely proud of the 18 CIT athleteswho battled their way to complete their race.

The day was enjoyed by all as the weatherremained dry which prevented the usual out-come of cross country races – muck up to yourshoulders!! The facilities received the approvalof the president of the Irish schools athletics,Michael Hunt, who told me personally that theywere one of the best facilities for cross countrythey have had in twenty years.

That evening, all of the college athletes gath-ered in the River Lee Hotel (formerly Jury’s) onthe Western Road for a lovely meal and awardspresentation. The meal was followed by a nightof celebration in Gorbys Nightclub, where allathletes received concessions into the club.

Congratulations to all athletes who competedon the day. Tributes are due to all of the officialswho helped to ensure that the day ran smooth-ly. A special thank you must go to Mark Dineenand Ian O’Sullivan for their extra special help inorganising the entire event from the races to thegreat night out.

We would like to wish the best of luck to our CITathletes travelling to Dublin to compete in theIntervarsity track and field competition on April23rd and 24th. This competition is being hostedby Trinity College Dublin.

For information on upcoming events visit the CITAthletic Club page on Facebook.

Barbara McAllister

CIT host Cross Country Competitions

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Weather-wise 2010 so far has been quiet unco-operative, but there has been some glimmers ofhope. The NMCI Sub Aqua club’s underwater cal-endar started in February with a refreshingsnorkel in Oysterhaven. All who attendedseemed to enjoy the event and the big first diveof the year has been conquered.

This first day out was proving to be quite illusive.Between instructor’s personal commitments andMother Nature having a laugh, our previousattempts were rendered futile. Not this timethough! In the days previous all seemed to lineup, it was feeling a little surreal. Normally it isn’tthis tricky to organise a day out, but then again,you never know what the Irish weather systemwill throw at you.

In preparation for the day, the old gear bagswere filled and the lunches made. Some wetsuitsneeded to be dusted off and some missing onesneeded to be found. In all our cases, our nearestand dearest needed to be reminded, that we arenot insane. It was a nice hardy frosty morninginland but the temperatures rose steadily as weapproached the beach, getting up to an amaz-ing 3° Celsius. We felt like our sanity pleas werecoming back to haunt us. Imagine the local’sopinions of these pasty white “individuals”squeezing themselves into their wetsuits. Wethink their thoughts would fit into two main

categories, either “they’re not right in thehead” or “they over did it on the Christmaspies”. Looking as brave as we could we walkeddown the slipway towards the water only tohave the brave look shown up as a completefaçade when we squeaked as the initial waterhit our bodies. But the squeaking is only a phase.Once we’re in its all toasty. The water was 7°C. Itmade us appreciate good wetsuits.

All the hopes and expectations of great visibilitywere quickly dashed when we tried to lookthrough the water. It was a slight hindrance butnot catastrophic to the snorkel. We got to play,practice skills, examine the bay and watch thebirds. Diving down to around 3 meters the visi-bility improved. Fish were seen scattering. Thebay cliffs are quiet beautiful, it’s a sight that usdivers rarely take notice of, but also a sight thatis seen by few. While out bopping up and downyou really appreciate the power of the sea.Oysterhaven is a sheltered bay but when youlook out to sea you can see the large wavescrashing off the cliffs in the open water. Takinga longer route back to the shore we came acrossvolumes of shallow water with improved visibil-ity, here we were able to see some of the life inthe bay.

Arriving back to the slipway we were exhausted.We had travelled quite far. With 3°C air temper-ature you don’t wait around when gettingchanged. Following this, it was into three layersof fleece as fast as possible, yes it’s a race!Feeling revitalised and refreshed there is noth-ing quite like sitting down to nice cups of warmtea and sharing stories. We stayed chatting foran hour afterwards. A couple of more days outlike this are planned and then Easter is when thereal fun starts. That’s when the newest of theclub members will grab the scuba gear and headinto the deep for the first time.

NMCI Sub Aqua Club Update Hello from the CIT Gaisce Society. This year hasbeen a great year for us, with the society grow-ing and many great nights out! If you have notheard of the Gaisce ‘President’s Award’ before,let us tell you a bit about our society…

The Gaisce - President’s Award is Ireland’s veryown National Challenge Award. This year marksthe 25th Anniversary of the Gaisce Award andone of our members Christine (currently a mem-ber of the Chaplaincy/Student Support Team)received her Gold Award on the 12th April.

The Award is made up of three different levels –Bronze, Silver and Gold. Each type has four dif-ferent personal challenge areas you must com-plete to earn an award, and each level has dif-ferent requirements for the challenge.

The Four Challenge areas are:1. Community Involvement2. Personal Skill3. Physical Recreation4. Adventure Journey

(A Residential Project is required for the GoldAward!)

Members of our society for their CommunityInvolvement have helped to set up societieshere on campus, organise Fashion shows andgot involved with Charity and Youth Groups. Forthe Personal Skill Challenge members havelearned sign language, how to play the guitar,and how to drive. For the physical recreationchallenge members have got involved in martialarts and boot camps.

The adventure challenge is a great way for us asa society to come together and complete thechallenge. Over Easter we went to Killarney forthree nights and walked part of the Kerry Wayand climbed Mangerton Mountain. It was defi-nitely challenging but also a great laugh to com-plete as a society!

For anyone interested in joining the society or ifyou want to learn more about the Award, call tothe Societies Office or look out in the “What’sOn” for our next meeting. See you around cam-pus!

Mary Sheahan PRO & Christine Nolan Treasurer

CIT Gaisce Society

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We hope you all enjoyed your Easter break. This is just a quick update to letyou know, what the ISS did so far this semester and what we are planningto do in the next few weeks.

The weekend before Easter, the International Student Society went on atrip to Galway which 56 people attended. Before arriving in Galway onSaturday, we stopped en route to visit Bunratty Castle. There we had a guid-ed tour and some free time, which gave us the possibility to explore the cas-tle, its folk park or just have lunch in one of the cozy pubs there. The viewfrom the castle’s towers was amazing!

Later that afternoon, after nearly two hours drive, we arrived in Galway,where we checked into the hostel and then started to explore the city insmaller groups. Later that night, we met to enjoy Galway’s pubs and clubs.

After a rather short night, we met early on Saturday morning again, to goon a tour around Connemara. We stopped at Kylemore Abbey to visit theabbey itself and the surrounding grounds. These included a chapel andbeautiful Victorian Gardens. We stopped a few times along the way for lotsof beautiful pictures!

After meeting to go dancing on Sunday night, we left Galway early to goback to Cork. On the way however, we stopped off at the Burren NationalPark to take some pictures of the Cliffs of Moher. There, we nearly gotblown away by the heavy wind and soaked by the rain however we thank-fully made it safely back to the bus- albeit some a bit wet!

We stopped for lunch in a small town along the way, where we were ableto change into dry clothes as well as filling our stomachs with lots of deli-cious food. In the evening, we finally arrived back in Cork.

Everybody enjoyed the trip and we all got the possibility to explore some ofIreland’s most popular visitor attractions like the Cliffs of Moher andConnemara. We also learned some aspects of the Irish culture and historywhen visiting the castle and the abbey as well as Galway City.

The Galway trip was only one of many different events we organized, andalready we are planning on doing more. Other events included a WelcomeBack Party in the Old Oak, where we welcomed our new members and wel-comed back our old ones. We also had an International Dinner, to which theentrance fee was a dish from the member’s home country. This gave every-body the possibility to enjoy different dishes from various nationalities,including French, Polish, Turkish, Czech, Spanish and German. Furthermore,we returned to the Greyhound Track again this semester, as our membersenjoyed going there so much last semester- and again, we had lots of fun,and some of our members even won some money ☺.

Some of our upcoming events include Q-Zar, regular movie nights, andanother party. Every CIT student is welcome to join us for our events!

If you want to know more about the International Student Society, just visitour website: https://sites.google.com/site/isscit/, our facebook page ISS CIT2009/2010, or send us an e- mail to isscit@gmail.com.

Also look out for our posters with which we will advertise all upcomingevents!

KatrhrinISS PRO

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