Evening comrades, Better be prepared to spare a few minutes for this, cause it aint pretty. Just to highlight the stuff that was brought up at the SPC TGM (Term General Meeting, to answer the question), most of which you all probably know already. Firstly, to start on a high ( not that the rest of the email is bad news), it is my great pleasure to say that DCU Drama has been officially allocated the following for the year 2005/2006: Activities: €3,699 Travel:€4,290 Equipment: €11,040 Misc: €400 That's a total of €9229, Yayness! And the musical has a seperate allocation of €4000. That' s considerably more than any other society recieved, the next being about 8.2k, and thats more than the socs ball is being funded (€8,400). Next, the SPC gets approx €175,000 to allocate amongst societies, of which approx €106,000 has been allocated, that means we can apply for lots more funding!!! The exact details of our grant app, and everybody else's will be available from Siobhan from Monday, with all grant app's being published on Life for all college members to see. Regarding funding, Brina (SPC Chair) has said that basically form the start of Semester 2, any events applied for must be post on Life, or no funding will be granted. I aint to sure if this will, or wont happen, but the basic idea is to get people to use the site, especially after so much money has been wasted, i mean invested, in it. Moving swiftly along, the Bics: For those who dont know, the bics will be held in dit this year. Anyway, there was meant to be a meeting re the bics last monday, but it had to be cancelled. This meeting is to be held in a few weeks time, exact date to be decided, and Brain has that one orv two mmebers of each committee try to attend Next, I don't know if we have keys to our noticeboard, but if not a set can be organised by Lisa. Almost there, as many of you may ,or may not know, Drama's locker was broken into during the summer, and cables and some other stuff was taken. Now, the SPC don't know exactly what was in the locker, but have agreed to replace it all, so this is our chance to get a few freebies of the SPC, within reason, NO ROBOT'S!! Our beloved equipment room!! is now going to be shared wit every other society that wants it. We barely have enough room as it is, let alone have more shit thrown in on top of our stuff!! So we have to look for alternative accomadation for our stuff (the old buildongs building), Regarding the safety of our gear, ive been told that the plan is to put cages in the room whereby each society can store their stuff in their respective cage, which will be locked and be accessible to that society only, ie our stuff wont be fleeced by other societies, or at least that's the idea... An equipment council has been set up to deal with the above issues re lockers, cages etc.and is being chaired by Elaine, and Eoin is on it. Last paragraph, and im getting a pain in my arse from sitting in front of the computer for so long. All bookings for the venue are apparently going to be put on Life by Mr. Events Officier who is harder to find than fucking houdini. It's a case of seeing is believing with this one, i think. Ooooh, more thoughts. Stars in their eyes is on next week. When are the tickets going sale, who's selling them, and who's producing the show???? More stuff. Arts week budget has been emailed to you all. As you can see, Stars hasn't been granted all it applied for, im lookin into why, more news to follow One final note, Bob could you email me all the costs that you are putting on your credit card re broadway, just so ill know what is owed to you. Any thoughts comments on any of the above welcomed. Crikey, this email has to be longer that Bob's epic a while back. Over and out......... -- Shane Murphy Treasurer, DCU Drama. Producer, All My Sons Mailto: shane.murphy53@mail.dcu.ie shane.murphy53@gmail.com treasurer@dcudrama.ie Ph: 087 7822628 Yayness!!!