Issue 0 - Dublin City University

YOUR UNION Alan Flanagan
PROFILE
FULLNAME: Alan Peter Flanagan
NICKNAMES: Alfla, Albag, The
Flange
FAMILY: One brother, one
mammy, one daddy
STAR SIGN: Gemini
HAIR: Very, very curly
LIKES: Wordplay, vaudeville,
frivolity
DISLIKES: Alarms, cinnamon,
shaving
FAVOURITE FOOD: Chicken
curry + Egg Fried Rice
FAVOURITE ANYTHING: Handstands
WORST HABIT: Pretending to
listen
BEST QUALITY: Sense of
humour (?)
“When I was a
fresher... this was
all fields. We used
to gallop to class
on our mighty
steeds, clad only
in brown smocks,
with colourful
feathers sprouting
from our velvet
hats (as was the
style at the time).
O those were the
days, I tell you.”
camPus
DCU SU President
A Fresh Agenda
My name’s Alan Flanagan (Alfla for short) and I’m your
Students’ Union President for the coming year.
Firstly, welcome to DCU: please pick up after yourselves.
I hope you’re hearilty enjoying Orientation
Week and have taken the time to pop up to the Students’
Union. Feel free to gaze at the freakshow that
is the bloodshot and bruised image of a Students’
Union officer during the first week of the year (and
it’s all downhill from here).
Hopefully this week’s events are giving you a
taste of what’s to come over the year, where we’ll
be providing every possible opportunity, day or
night, for you to get to know the bunch of randomers
that have found their way to the heart of
the Northside for the academic year 2007/2008
(and, all things going to plan, beyond).
All of our events are an opportunity to meet new
people and cross paths with personality types
and cultural backgrounds you never thought you’d
come into contact with, so get yourself out there.
A university is for EVERYONE – no matter who they
are or where they’ve come from – and it would be foolish
of you not to take advantage of that by immersing
yourself in the weird and wonderful mix of people
we have here in DCU. Long story short, don’t stick
to the same old gang, because university is where
you meet interesting people with stories so exciting
that you’ll no doubt one day pass them off as your
own.
This year we’ve been unofficially throwing around
the slogan of “Your Union, here to help”. Like myself,
it’s not original and it’s not pretty but it sums up
what we do at the Students’ Union. If anything, and
we mean ANYTHING, is stopping you having the best
possible experience here in DCU, we’re here. To help.
See? Simple.
Al Fla
Stuff I think you should
know as a fresher
•What’s the quickest route from the Tesco front door to the ‘Re-
duced To Clear’ section?
•Is one 750ml bottle of 12% wine at €5.99 better value than three
500ml cans of 5.5% cider at €4.75?
•What in the world is the Harvard System?
•Why is HG35 not in the Henry Grattan building?
•Does anyone else hear that ringing sound?