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PresidentHello hello hello,

First of I would like to wish all our students a very happy Christ-mas, and what a Christmas day we have organised for you. Secondly best of luck to you all with the upcoming Semester 1 exams, remember we are here for you so please contact us if you need a helping hand with anything like study tips, and so on so forth. Have a look out for exam de-stress week starting next Monday December 12th, we have plenty on to help calm the pressures of studying.

With the breaking news of the Budget 2012, IT Tralee students are the first in the country set to march to combat the shocking news. We are expecting quite a good turn out as we have invited every student in IT Tralee along with lecturers, parents and second level students and members of the community.

IT Tralee Students’ Union are also fighting very hard on a national level. We have been in-volved in the occupation of government buildings. This is my account - Labours doors were securely locked when we arrived, there was no chance of entry & they sounded the alarm so we ran to dep’ of jobs...all 9 occupied the office but a staff member remained in the room, we couldn’t detain him against his will so we had to allow him to leave, in the process the guards forced through and threatened to use pepper spray, numerous guards entered the room and back-up quickly arrived, the guards removed us from the premises and we dispersed in groups arranging to meet at the department for social protection. The first 4 to arrive saw an opportune moment where the lift was open & made a run for it. They quickly occupied the room and remained there for over 2 hours. After numerous Gardaí arrived the door was bat-tered in and the 4 were arrested and brought to store street Garda station. They have now been released and the case will go to the DPP.

It is extremely important to remember that just because the Budget 2012 has been an-nounced; it does not mean that we are going to stop fighting tooth and nail against these hikes and cuts. The occupation of government buildings was stage 7 of our national plan. It is being kept very secret at the moment, but there will be more and more stages of this escalat-ing campaign, and please rest assured that this campaign will keep going until we get what we want.Michael Thompson,

EducationHi everyone!

I would like to wish all our students and their families a very happy Christmas! With the Semester 1 exams fast approaching, I would like to wish all our students the very best of luck, keep your eye out for Exam De-Stress Week! With the shocking news of Budget 2012, our upcoming protest is now more important than ever! Students of

the North Campus will join forces with students of the South Campus, along with friends, family and members of the community in Tralee and beyond, to march through Tralee to Denny St. to show their discontent with the Government’s Bud-get 2012.

Our well anticipated college Christmas day is due to take place this Thursday, and what a line up we have in store for you! ITTSU College Christmas Day is where you let go for 24 hours of holiday madness! Throughout the day ITTSU brings you free gift give-aways, our infamous iron stomach competition, live music, inflatable’s on campus, juggling, face-painting, our infamous pub pre-party, FULL TILT vs JONNO BRIEN live in Horans! Beer pong and much much more. Please remember that all money raised for the event will be going towards the Raise And Give Week (RAG Week) charities.

If college Christmas day is not enough to help shake off the pre exam blues, please look out for EXAM DE-STRESS WEEK starting on Monday December 12th. We will have loads of ITTSU Exam De-Stress Week packs to give away including pens, pen-cils, stress balls and all the very best stationary for you to use in your exams! We have loads of other de-stressing activities lined up for you over the week, includ-ing FREE use of the college gym, a study guide with loads of exam tips inside, and much more! Look out for the event on Facebook and the posters around the col-lege to see what you can benefit from before your exams.

Niall HartyITTSU Vice President/Education Officer

WelfareHow do you do :)

Hope you are all getting on well with exams and nearly all packed and ready to go for crimbo! Below is just a few bits and pieces as to what has been happening in the world of welfare at the moment.

Firstly on behalf of I.T.T.S.U, We would like to thank every single one of you that have taken part, helped out and donated money to this year’s Movember. So far we have raised approximately 1000 euro, and dona-tions are still coming in.

As a celebration to the closing of Movember, Claude Monte, Bangfm and the bril-liant musicians “Students for Hire“ played on December 1st celebrating the Movem-ber season in style! Thank you :)During November we also ran Mental Health week 2011. Many events took place during the week such as the Vent tent, Freedom of expression , Random Acts of Happiness and much more and it turned out to be a great success.

The term is coming an end many of you are heading away on work placement so I would just like to say the best of luck to you all. For the rest of you, There will be much more happening in the world of welfare from next year on!

- Drink and Drugs Awarness Week - 29th January - 3rd February

- Road Safety Week 5th-10th

- S.H.A.G Week - 27th Feruary- 2nd March

- Rainbow Week(L.G.B.T Society Event) - 18th-23rd March

Hope you all enjoy your time and remember if you have any questions over the holidays you can contact me on welfare@ittraleesu.ieNorth Campus Telephone – 066 719 1685/ mob: 0831122737

Kenneth ReynoldsITTSU Vice President/Welfare Officer

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SocietiesAs it is exam season all is quiet on the societies front. One of the major events that

took place recently was the L.G.B.T Pink training.

Last weekend, the IT Tralee LGBT society sent 24 delegates from the college to Gal-way for the annual USI Pink Training.

This training is of vital importance to anyone that is LGBT or allies/friends also. It gives an amazing insight to the difficulties faced, and offers valuable training to

anyone who needs it in many different areas, including sexual health, Allies Work-shops (for friends of LGBT), coming out workshops and sexual empowerment

workshops. The weekend was a great success for the LGBT society, sending more delegates than ever before and was open for anyone to attend no matter their ori-

entation.

A great weekend was had by all, and a very worthwhile experience. We’re counting down the days until next year’s pink training next year. If you are interested in join-ing the LGBT Society you can contact the Societies Office or email lgbt@students.

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Good luck with your exams and see you all next semester for Societies refresher day!

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Student Assistance Fund(S.A.F)

IT Tralee secures more money for the students that are most in need!There is a budget allocated to the HEA every year for the alleviation of issues surrounding access to education for disadvantaged students. This budget is spread between a number of funds including the student assistance fund. This year for the first time the amount each college receives will be based on the following criteria a) 50% based on total student numbers, b) 50% based on access student numbers e.g. disabled students, student from lower socio-economic backgrounds, mature students etc. to ensure that the fund is targeted at those most in need.

It had initially been envisaged that the Student Assistance Fund would be allocated €5 million similar to last year, however; USI and the HEA have been able to provide another €4 million to the fund for this year by reworking a number of other budgets. The result of this is that the SAF will have a total of €9 million for the current academic year.

Below we have included a table below which outlines how much each college received last year, the additional amount and the amount that will be allocated this year.

This is massive news for students in IT Tralee who are facing extreme financial pressures.

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