By Seamus Toomey<\/p>\n
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This was a question asked of UL students during a survey last semester.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fun idea and has provided some interesting insights into what you the students want from the SU and C&S.<\/p>\n
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So what would you guys do as president for a day, well from lengthening your term and becoming a dictator to unmasking the reptilian overlords you the students had some pretty interesting answers.<\/p>\n
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The more conservative and probably most useful (as well as most boring) answers included:<\/p>\n
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So what are they going to do about this, what are C&S going to do?<\/p>\n
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They\u2019re getting you presidency of course, All of you!<\/p>\n
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Ok not really but what they are doing is trying to incorporate all of these things to make C&S better for you and them.\u00a0 Sponsorship for the Wolves brand is the best example, if we get sponsorship then we get more money which we can spend bettering clubs and societies and funding your activities.<\/p>\n
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So why don\u2019t we already have this?<\/p>\n
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Well there are a couple of problems, for one not every Club or Society uses the Wolves brand, another problem is we have to actually advertise the sponsor successfully.<\/p>\n
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Now there is a solution but it requires cooperation between C&S admin and the members.\u00a0 So what am I proposing, I\u2019m saying let\u2019s use the Wolves logo more often.<\/p>\n
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OK so I can hear the UL Vikings (American Football) shouting at me already but hear me out.<\/p>\n
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First off you can keep your name Vikings, even keep your logo, but just use the wolves\u2019 logo more often and its sponsorship along with it.\u00a0 If we can ensure that all clubs and societies use the logo, sponsorship won\u2019t see one society advertising to a couple of hundred people they\u2019ll see 70 clubs and societies advertising to thousands.<\/p>\n
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Now that sounds much more appealing to them but what\u2019s in it for us?\u00a0 Well that\u2019s easy this way we get another thing we asked for, equal support.\u00a0 If C&S get one lump sum for sponsorship of all clubs and socs then they can spread that money evenly.<\/p>\n
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The alternative is only a few clubs such as GAA, Soccer and Rugby get sponsorship (clubs that already get massive funding) and smaller clubs that don\u2019t have enough publicity get nothing.<\/p>\n
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Ok so now we\u2019ve got our money what do we do with it?\u00a0 Well what else do you think; we\u2019re going to buy loads of stuff like equipment and facilities!\u00a0 If we can acquire more facilities or at the very least accessibility to more facilities we can hold more activities for our ever growing range of clubs and socs.\u00a0 So that\u2019s another two now we\u2019ve got 4 out of the 6.<\/p>\n
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Equipment sharing and inter UL competitions.\u00a0 Both of these are pretty easy in my opinion, the only barriers are possible insurance issues.\u00a0 After that it\u2019s just a matter of saying \u201chey everybody, scavenger hunt, first one to bring me back 3 street cones, a trolley and a Garda hat get this swanky UL hoody\u201d\u2026or you know maybe a nice friendly soccer, rugby, badminton and chess tournament to see who really is the King of Clubs.<\/p>\n
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My point is, some things are difficult to get and we are trying, we can\u2019t give everyone free membership to every club and society as finance is an issue but we can manipulate things to deliver an improved more enjoyable college experience because seeing the response in the survey has shown us that C&S are important to your happiness.<\/p>\n
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All suggestions made are purely hypothetical suggestions and not indicative of current developments in C&S.<\/p>\n