--- Start of the Attached Message --- Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 13:18:59 +0100 From: "Elaine" <elaine.bannon2@mail.dcu.ie> Subject: Drama Soc To: una.redmond@dcu.ie Hi Una I was hoping that this yesterday's meeting might have lasted a bit longer, I was there for 9.30 and there was no sign of you at ten so I called back at the moment you were going into another meeting which was unfortunate timing. I was hoping I could meet with you next Monday morning again about Drama soc's storage problems and hopefully by then I will have been able to get a hold of the relevant people who know who dramasoc have been dealing with in the Library although Ian can tell you that that is an exhausted resource. Its fine to say that if there are plans for the college that there's no changing them no matter what but surely if the situation is desperate and it is, they will have to agree to some form of long term solution. Storage to them may be wasted space but equipment for all of these societies costs thousands of euro that will be wasted if we don't have somewhere to put it all. Short of building another facility for storage, reallocation of the old security hut seems to be the best all round solution for everyone. They wont have to worry about the costs of demolishing it, we wont have to look for somewhere else to put a storage facility on campus and they can still tear down the old bank so that there is no obstruction in the view from the library to the end of the campus. The security hut is not only an ideal storage facility for societies it has potential for so many other uses too that the list is endless. The other solutions to the immediate problem of storage is containers, which have been rejected in the past, a new building which would be grossly expensive to build, rented storage in warehouses which over time would prove costly and in the long run is wasted money because we'd have nothing to actually show for it. I know that the hub itself has the structural capabilities for another floor and I don't know if there are already plans made for it or if is just an option for the far distant future but all these other solutions are so financially unsound that to throw away all the money that has been spent so far and to buy new equipment each year seems the cheaper option. I know I've ranted a little but I am currently on the committees of two of the largest and most active societies in this college, Redbrick and Drama Soc. Redbrick have just got their problem of storage solved and I am now faced with drama soc's delima. We have tried for years to get somewhere permanent to store things and for as long as we are placing equipment in different rooms all over campus the risk of loosing or damaging sets, props, technical equipment grows. I look forward to hearing from you Elaine 0877798442 --- End of the Attached Message ---