Conservative rock, Google trends, kabuki glamour ...
A list of 50 greatest conservative rock songs.
About the fun of Google™ trends. Such as which countries most often Google™ bad+sex.
A glamorous young actor seems to be resparking interest in kabuki theatre.
Study fails to find any connection between marihuana and lung cancer.
The 30th anniversary of the Judgement of Paris.
May 25th is Towel ( Read more... )
About the fun of Google™ trends. Such as which countries most often Google™ bad+sex.
A glamorous young actor seems to be resparking interest in kabuki theatre.
Study fails to find any connection between marihuana and lung cancer.
The 30th anniversary of the Judgement of Paris.
May 25th is Towel ( Read more... )
Mmm, bit of a beat up for headlines, I think. If you read down to the bottom, you get the real effect (which doesn't make for such a grabbing headline) - the bars will often stay open because they are profitable. What will be lost is the stuff that doesn't make any money - the counsellors and advisors. And having had need of those people in my own time at Uni, I can say that they can the be the differnce between dropping out and sticking with it while at University if you get into problems. Off the top of my head, I can think of 8 people who never would have been able to complete their degree without those student services.
Don't forget, with the experience and cynicism of age, it's easty to forget how dumb and naive 20 year olds can be. Having someone to explain how it all works, give them a bit of legal advice (like no - your landlord can't throw you out of the house with one weeks notice because his daughter wants to live there), point them in the right direction, afirm that they aren't being silly and over-reacting when they don't like the way their tutor touches them up...
The subsidised beer is irrelvent, really. It's the loss of the safety-net that's going to be a big problem. I'll be watching out for the jump in dropout rates and incidence of self harm.
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It's just a shame that most students don't even know those services are even available because the unionists are more interested in making noise at political rallies than they are about helping connect the students paying the union fees with the services they need.
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While I'm all for people having part time jobs while at Uni, I don't think it's productive to expect students to work for a livng whilst studying. It CAN be done, but it's not easy, especially if you're doing sciences; not only that, but it's not exactly easy to find a full time job that lets you be flexible with work times so as to make it to lectures, tutes, etc.
In fact, it's taken me 16 years in the work force to finally get a job where going back to University just part time is even contemplatable.
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And to clarify, I honestly have tried explaining. I'm good friends with at least one student union president. Unfortunately, most union people honestly do seem to think that a student union is a vehicle for radical left-wing politics first and that student welfare is a distant second.
It's one of the reasons politics leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It's meant to be about service and stewardship, but all too often political appointment's are just treated as tools for someone's ambition. Well, there's me being childish and idealistic again, I guess.
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But, hey, Dissent is Evil so not worth even tactical consideration. And I shouldn't be too harsh. Academics are engaged in the same fiscal suicide, just more slowly.
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Unfortunately the attitude student unionists have about conservative students is either "they don't really exist" (because they don't bother confronting unionists or otherwise being noisy for the most part) or "they're simply not worth considering" (because those that do tend to be complete nutballs from the Young Liberals).
Of course, they have a hard time dealing with the idea of myself being a polite conservative willing to deal with them. They keep thinking it's just a phase I'm going through, despite the fact that I've explained that I already used to be a socialist and I'm never going back.
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