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TALLEYRAND
and staff were forced to isolate, travel home, and study from wherever they were holed-up - hiding from the virus. It was an anxious time, with the stress of GPAs and degrees adding an additional burden. The variance of support from course to course shows that the level of engagement with students came from individual schools, not UCD.
Blame can never be placed on the victim or the circumstance. It lies with the perpetrator alone. While University College Dublin is not to blame for horrific assaults committed or the Covid-19 pandemic, the support and response shown by the university to students’ suffering is nothing but shameful. These two situations are incredibly different, but both are examples of students and staff being abandoned in the aftermath of a traumatic event. I think what jolted the university population to attention was the realisation that it wasn’t only students suffering, but high-profile professors also. The idea that no-matter your station or situation the
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CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND-PÉRIGORD
Greetings, mortals!
It is I, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, the greatest bishop who ever died. Once more tired of revolutionary politics and womanising, I have returned to my old haunt, the UCDSU offices. It may confuse you younger readers, who may think student politics are below a figure such as I. But, wretched reader, consider this: where better to go to find the scandalous, the salacious, and the downright stupid than UCDSU?
Anywhere, it seems. I may be a ghost, but even I find this campus dead. My spies told me 40% to 100 % of students were meant to be on campus this Trimester. Surely my intel can’t be more out of date than my views on women?
I jest, of course. My views are far more outdated than that. Now, about this union. Starting with the least important, Sarah Bitchalek is getting pissy. Apparently, she has been busy all summer planning fun events and pretending to help the Clubhouse reopen, just so her boyfriend can pretend to be interesting, and now she’s angry that her job is even more irrelevant and useless than Ents is in a normal year.
Leyton Grey, whose job, whose only and sole job, is to campaign against and complain about UCD, has chosen to spend all their time campaigning against and complaining about UCDSU. A fine career move, to be sure, but not exactly what beardy pays them for.
