You make a good point about profits/good vs losses/bad, but I think it's extremely foolish to take the view of "spend all the money we've got until we know what's going to happen in the future". The money "we've hoarded" currently earns the Association around £40,000 per year. That covers the fundin...
Quoting David Bean from 03:07, 27th Oct 2007 ...but if we're talking about something that the Students' Association (or any other body of which I am a member) would be party to...
We're not. It's not always about the union you know. Or co-operatives.
Pigeon Detectives are awesome - I really like their music, and they were great at the may ball! I'm not a great fan of Reggie, but at least we're getting bigger names than previous years - more people have heard of the Pigeon Detectives than the Fall Out boys from last year. To be fair to the PDs, m...
I think you should be able to acquire an evaluation licence (30 days seems to be the norm). You can't use this licence for commercial purposes, but if you can get your website built in time, then you should be ok. There are other wysiwyg editors out there, available free of charge. Most Windows PCs ...
The Union's website is now much better than it used to be - a mate of mine just won the national prize for mucking around on the games, so it can't be bad.
There is still a lot of information that isn't on there but should be, but it's a vast improvement already.
Quoting David Bean from 19:56, 20th Apr 2006 I was chatting to my friend Nils about this kind of situation, and we pretty much agreed that the thing to do is to make sure that you're 100% sound in your reasoning, write it up in full, and then apply for a funded PhD position researching the issue yo...
Quoting David Bean from 20:21, 7th Jan 2006 ...an event that is only going to waste the time of those who attend. So far, the number of those who have replied to our repeated invitations has been, well, a round figure... What?! Introducing the new students to the fantastic and diverse range of acti...