A chairde, We have finally managed to get an email list together for all the class reps, so we will be contacting you every week or so with various bits of information. If you know of anyone who is not receiving the messages sent to this group (or indeed if you are receiving these messages and would rather not), please contact me - supres@dcu.ie. The next Union Council meeting will take place in XG21 next Tuesday, 8th February. There are a number of important items on the agenda so we would urge you all to attend. We are fortunate in that Prof. John Carroll, the Registrar (the most senior academic in the college) will attend Tuesday's meeting. The Registrar's office is responsible for the administration of all exams in DCU, so you will be able to bring any queries your class has regarding the administration of the Semester 1 exams to his attention. He will also brief you on the appeals process and it would be important that you would attend on Tuesday in order to be able to field questions that class members may have regarding appeals or rechecks competently. Prof. Carroll must leave by half six so it is particularily imperative that everyone attend on time. Julian de Spáinn, Campaigns Officer of USI will give a quick presentation on how the national campaign has progressed since the march in October - in particular he will discuss the proposed TD lobbying campaign. The idea is that students would begin attending their local TD clinics and outline some of the problems they, as students, are experiencing - in particular in regard to accommodation problems, the inadequacy of student financial support and the pain in the arse of the capitation charge going up and up every year. It is hoped that if enough students visit TD's (making it look spontaneous of course !!) that they will eventually come to regard these issues as serious matters deserving of government attention. It is likely that the Teaching & Learning Committee will substantially endorse our Framework of Good Practice and we are hopeful that Academic Council will back it next Wednesday (9th February). There will be a meeting of the Constitutional Review Group immediately after Union Council next Tuesday. Rag Week will take place on the week of the 21st-25th February. We contacted all the lecturers early in January to inform them of these dates and implicitly asking them not to schedule assessments during that week. It is up to every class rep to ensure that (s)he speaks to all the lecturers in his/her class to try and ensure that all students are as free as possible to indulge in that weeks activities. More details will be given in next weeks An Tarbh and at the meeting on Tuesday but suffice to say that Rag Week looks shit hot. There will be a workshop on Time Management for all class reps (and people involved in clubs & socs) on Thursday 17th February at six o'clock. Sin a bhfuil uaimse faoi láthair, Dáibhí.