NORTHUMBRIA UNI

[surelynot16]

Think they’re taking the piss? Feel free to use faculties to change for the march & free breakfast meanwhile loads of staff being made redundant or taking severance pay! Ridiculous

He’s on form tonight 🤣🤣

Those gags just keep coming.

Bees posts reminded me a conversation I had with one of my sprogs earlier today. We were sat on a beach enjoying the sun and watching the wildlife including several large bumble bees. We were wondering why they kept heading out to sea.

University hall leases will usually have ended before 19th July. (Some might not have)

Student private rented doesn’t usually start until August.

If they’re general private rented or live at home, they’ll be there.

So if their lease has ended, they may just travel up for the day for the event or stay at a hotel/friends..

Exactly. The fact that it is out of term time is irrelevant.

Most students will not have the faintest idea what the SU is spending their money on but would be mightily embarrassed to know that it includes toddler-level activities like face-painting.

Students from Newcastle are more likely than students from any other city in England to live at home with their parents and attend their local Uni(s) rather than move away.

They already have to put up being associated with the pretentious, patronising twats who are part of any student cohort without this additional stigma.

People of all ages do face-painting for sports events, festivals, marches etc. And it's not unusual to add some handcrafted signs and accessories into the mix. Games are a bit of social bonding that have always been popular at universities, perhaps more visible these days because hard drinking is less so.

These are standard festival type events which will cost the SU relatively little, help students to bond (which is good for their well-being and their studies) and, like so much else on offer, appeal to some more than others. Post-covid, universities are having to put a lot of work into getting students on campus, joining in, speaking to each other. SU events are one arm of this, and it's appropriate that students unions decide what to fund, within the law, sometimes without reference to the university, sometimes in collaboration.

Mostly sensible replies to the thread - i.e. this is not a big deal and nothing to do with redundancies at the university.

This is a SU event not a University event. The SU is a completely separate organisation from the university, with separate finances and sources of funding, so they have nothing to do with staff redundancies.
Universities have almost no authority over the SUs; they can advise, and would intervene if e.g. the SU was planning something illegal on university premises, but generally the SU is its own master.

You mean how the Mens Rights Activists/Male Supremacists - er, sorry, "trans activists" harass a university any time they have a feminist speaker? Or harass feminist rallies?

You men can't take your own medicine back? You really think only your sex has the right to 'harass' people?

If anyone is deranged enough to harass or criticize anyone based on this poster, I hope they won't claim the support of others on this site in doing so. I very much doubt that would happen, though.

That is never going to happen. It is all a product of Chris's fevered imagination.

His strong suit is reporting people he doesn't agree with for no reason.

It can be coupled with his other talent of spouting absolutely bollocks

Looksgood, the likelihood of anybody on here doing any of the things that Christinapple dreams up is zero. Or anybody encouraging or supporting them.

Anyway, even if we were so minded, it's been much too hot for all the energy-sapping 'seething with hate' we are regularly accused of