Maynooth Students to be evicted in the middle of their exams.

dublin | miscellaneous | news report Thursday April 08, 2004 11:56 by David

University puts severe stress on residents of the Student Apartments.

Residents in the Maynooth University apartments face eviction on the 29th of May this year despite the fact that the Summer exams continue until the 7th of june.

Students who approached the residence office found that the residence officer was on holiday and out of contact. She is the only one who has the authority to act on our behalf And it was her responsibility to look after the welfare of student residents.

What we were told is that on the 29th of March the conference center takes control of the university facilities and they rent out the space for holiday makers, conferences and summer students for profit.

The situation as it currently stands is that students have to vacate their apartments before 2pm on Saturday 29th of May. It is possible that they might be allowed to pay $25 per night to be allowed to keep their room until their exams finish, but according to the conference center many rooms have already been booked by outside guests so these students will have to move somewhere else.

Basically the university is putting its students last in favour of paying customers because of a stupid and inexcusable mistake by the college authorities.