Staff Continue to Receive Pay as Campus Shuts for Business
Businesses on UCD campus and around Ireland have abruptly shut down due to the university shutdown, which has affected their staff. This is one of many disruptive changes on campus…
Opinion: Modernity has become Individualistic – Coronavirus Allows us to Change
Our lives have changed in the last two weeks. COVID-19 started as a far-away problem, something we felt completely and utterly far removed from as we continued to live our…
Rent Increases take “Secondary Priority” due to “COVID-19 Concerns,” says Students’ Union President.
In light of recent events surrounding COVID-19, we interviewed Joanna Siewierska, UCD Students’ Union’s President, on the current plans from the Union and what they are doing to help students.…
UCD Cancel All Traditional Exams as Doubts Mount over Colleges Returning by March 29th
In an email sent out to all current students, UCD Deputy President and Registrar, Professor Mark Rogers announced that the university “will not be running our traditional examinations in the…
UCD Residences to Remain Open – University Invites Displaced Students to Apply for Accommodation
UCD will honour all existing rental agreements and extend any that are necessary. Students who cancel their rental agreements will receive a rental rebate. Off-campus students may apply for on-campus…
Avengers: Age of Unrealistic Body Expectations – Why Men Shouldn’t Model Themselves on Hollywood Facades
The issue of the male body-image is a consistently overlooked and ignored subject. At a time of ripped role models, gym-junky influencers, and hordes of photoshopped advertisement campaigns, how are…
Discovering My Working-Class Voice – On Accents In Poetry
When we think of the arts, we may think of the privileged, of those who can afford failure. This is the reality that working class children grow up with –…
UCD Severely Restricts Building Access
From today, buildings in UCD will operate using “out-of-hours” protocols, in a move that is set to severely restrict movement on campus. The protocol requires staff and students to request…
“It’s like a ghost town.” – Scenes from an empty UCD campus.
Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, UCD has closed its doors for teaching… for the most part. There are still plenty of buildings open. I took a stroll around Belfield campus to…
“Who am I going to be in this?” – Helping those in need during the COVID-19 crisis
It’s amazing how quickly we begin to adjust to the ways that our lives are changing. Two weeks ago, I didn’t know what ‘social distancing’ was. Yesterday, I turned to…
University Presidents Ask Students To “Play Your Part” In Fight Against Covid-19.
This afternoon, university presidents from institutions across the country took the “unusual decision” to email students addressing the coronavirus pandemic that has put much of the world on lockdown. After…
How to Tolerate Your Family While UCD is Closed
Coronavirus. That’s it. That’s the article. Or at least, that’s how the entire internet feels at the second. Insanity looms over us all, as we scroll through conspiracy theories that…