---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dara Gilroy <daragilroy@gmail.com> Date: Oct 9, 2006 12:34 PM Subject: ISDA To: isdasecretary@gmail.com, aoibheannmccann@gmail.com, uccdramat@gmail.com, eoinwinning@gmail.com, info@duplayers.com, chair@duplayers.com, tech@duplayers.com, treasurer@duplayers.com, lennonra@tcd.ie, ditdrama@gmail.com, dramsoc_nuig@yahoo.ie, robmcfeely@gmail.com, dbsdramafilmsoc@yahoo.co.uk, netanyar@hotmail.com, players@quplayers.co.uk, gthompson13@queens-belfast.ac.uk, ghutton01@qub.ac.uk, gills_mt@yahoo.com, gthompson13@qub.ac.uk, isda@ucddramsoc.com, auditor@ucddramsoc.com, chair@dcudrama.ie, joeykavanagh@gmail.com, elo@dcudrama.ie, dramabob@gmail.com, lennylen@gmail.com, x00007551@itnet.ie, 0438456@student.ul.ie, limbobee@hotmail.com, martin.french@spd.dcu.ie, martin.french@spd.ie, paul4oreagan@yahoo.co.uk, natefogarty@hotmail.com, leigh.harborne@gmail.com Dear ISDA people, it's time to get the ball rolling as regards this years council. now i know that this e-mail is irrelevant to some of you so the first thing i'd like all of you to do is reply telling me whether or not you should be receiving these e-mails and also if you'll be able to send a representative to attend the first meeting of the year in DCU this Saturday the 14th. if this e-mail is irrelevant to you perhaps you can forward it to the person who should be getting it for the coming year or even send me their address so that i can create a complete list of ISDA reps? if i don't receive a reply telling me otherwise i will assume that you are no longer involved with ISDA and you will stop receiving e-mails from me. as regards the meeting in DCU, Joey has sent me some directions which i hope will be of some use and as some of you may already know 3 o'clock is the time that we settled on at the last meeting. The best way to get DCU is by taking a bus from Dublin City Centre. There are a number of buses that leave from outside 'Dr Quirkey's Good Time Emporium' which is located on Upper O' Connell Street (you'll come to it if you walk up towards The Ambassador from the Liffey on the left hand side). The buses that will bring you to DCU are the 4, the 11/11A/11B, the 13/13A or the 19A. All of these routes will eventually bring you to Ballymun Road and you should get off the bus here just after you pass the Esso Station. DCU is located on the opposite side of the road. If you keep walking straight after you pass through the gates, you will come to DCU's student centre, 'The Hub', on the left-hand side. This is where the meeting is set to be held. he even sent some maps which you'll find attached. on the subject of the meeting itself i'd like it every college made an attempt to send not one but two reps to the meeting, it's still up for discussion but i'd like it if those two reps were then the only two members of their particular society who could then sit on the council and vote on the council. in theory they needn't both attend the first meeting or indeed any meeting (as long as one of them does) but if we could get their names and contact details that'd be great. your college might want to have it's chair as it's second rep, in UCC's case they've opted for a first year rep in order to train them in to ISDA and i believe that Trinity have simply opted for 2 members of their existing commitee. it's up to your own society to decide. please note that attendance is of the highest importance to me and that while i recognise that there may be a genuinely good reason for not attending i will be proposing penalties for colleges that miss meetings without a reason at every opportunity and that includes the first meeting. i'd also like you all to note that i will be proposing some changes to the ISDA constitution and for you all to be prepared for this. some of these changes will be big and warrant discussion with your respective societies while others will be small and i expect them to be either accepted or rejected by the end of the meeting. to allow for some kind of preperation i've enclosed a copy of the constitution with the sections i believe should be changed highlighted. that would appear to be all for now, feel free to contact me either by e-mail or phone - 0877403094 - should you have any questions. and if you've any trouble getting into or around DCU Joey's number is 0857322505. Dara Gilroy -- msn: jaykavana@hotmail.com ph: 085 7322 505