Hibernia Girl: Liam Egan and The Sunday Times misunderstand how many "native Irish" are Muslims

Hie i like these issues discussed here and i think you would like reading one of my articles in http:www.outtaurspace.blogspot.com about the varsity identity crisis.

Out of your SPACE

Why should people be uncomfortable with their different religious backgrounds?

Out of your SPACE: THE SENILE ADVENTURES OF DR. CHITTY

Out of your SPACE: THE SENILE ADVENTURES OF DR. CHITTY

Confessions of a Crazy Couch Potato: Rhodes: An oppertunity for losers to become "the shit"

Confessions of a Crazy Couch Potato: Rhodes: An oppertunity for losers to become "the shit"
Hey FA

I agree somewhat with your argument. I know one person, in particular, who had a hard time in high school. This completely changed when he came to Rhodes and he now has the audacity and bravado to proclaim, “I’m so popular” at two minute intervals.

This aside, you speak about the issue like it’s something that’s happening to everyone or at least the majority of students. This doesn’t hold up to your argument that Rhodes is an accepting place and you also don’t provide enough evidence that this is a trend on campus. You are making broad generalisations with a scrap of substantiation which is hardly worth pointing out.

If Rhodes is, as you say, so very accepting I doubt all “Girls who used to spend Friday nights at sleep-overs” have turned into “binge drinkers”. You don’t make it clear that you are only speaking about a small amount of girls on campus.
Although I have shown, through my example, this type of metamorphoses from ‘loser’ to arrogant social butterfly does happen I also know many more people who have not changed.

You site only one example of ‘girls’ speaking about how ‘guys’ have changed. This is still far too broad. You should have enlightened us to a specific case on which you could have elaborated in a bit more detail. That would have strengthened your argument.

But I know what you mean all the same.

Greenas

JoURn 2 StreSs

I realise and accept that the Journ Department works the way it does for a reason. I know they can only accommodate a certain number of people in second year and that is why we have to apply and wait patiently to see if we are one of the 120 accepted. I realise this. I really do, but it doesn’t change the fact that people are freaking out right about this time of year because they’re in a position of uncertainty regarding their future.

I know people who have based their studies on journalism and turned their lives upside down to get to Rhodes. If they don’t get into Journ 2 they will be crushed. So what? They didn’t work hard enough, right? Wrong.

I have no idea how this selection process works but it seems slightly, er … strange. I have spoken to people whose vac work has been in order, whose marks were up to scratch and whose journalistic passion was intact and who are currently repeating Journ 1.

Granted these could very well be unreliable sources but where there is smoke there is fire?Perhaps not, but it still evades me when I hear about people getting 60s and 70s throughout the year and not making it.

MuGginG in ThE dRama DepaRtMEnt

Keeping with topic 'psychological trauma', it was one of my friends who got mugged inside the drama department recently. She was going to an exam rehearsal in the middle of the day. She was looking for a space to rehearse with someone from her group at the top floor of the department when one of two juvenile delinquents preceded to threaten them with a knife. The worst thing about this episode was not that my friend lost her phone, ipod and wallet. It was the fact that she was robbed while preparing for an exam inside an academic department.

We are supposed to feel comfortable when we rehearse. We certainly shouldn’t feel frightened of going to the drama department in the middle of the day!The situation was obviously traumatic for my friend. A visit to the drama department will be unsettling for her, to say the least, for a while to come. The fact that other departments have such intense security seems slightly, how do you say, not right eh? At the drama department there isn’t a chipping system and access is not difficult. The security guard outside can only do so much as he/she can’t differentiate between all students and non-students.

I am a tad perturbed at the prospect of spending much of my time in an environment where I don’t feel safe.

EcPSyCholoGy

My last post was about counseling and how I’m not sure looking inward will solve any problems. I recently read a book by Theodore Roszak entitled The Voice of the Earth. It speaks about how our current way of life is completely insane because of how we so heedlessly and guiltlessly destroy the environment. He speaks about a sense of ecospsychology as something we have lost and need to regain if we want to survive on the planet and ultimately become a sane species.

Ecospsychology revolves around a broad understanding and appreciation for one’s surroundings. A consciousness attitude towards nature is advocated because that is where everything we have originates. This ideal of looking outward is exactly what I feel is needed. If people weren’t so self-centred and began to consider not only other humans, but the planet as well, we could perhaps move forward as a civilization. We can’t, as it currently stands, with the masses and masses of money-obsessed people everywhere you turn.

I wonder if the person I know would recover somewhat if she begun to understand this. So I suppose the next problem is how we can get people to understand this concept and embrace a more considerate mentality. Whether this is even possible is debatable.