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

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.

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which is it

by jh

Thu Apr 08, 2004 12:39

so are they conference centres or colleges

When they come..

by simple simON

Thu Apr 08, 2004 13:56

...you say no, resist it, squat the lot, its only for afew days and is the kinda thing where even your 'average joe soap/ 'ordinary' student ' on res will support as it directly affects them...

Step One....posters and leaflets on res.

Step two. A meeting.

Step Three. threaten them by outlining your plans to resist and refuse to leave till exams are over.

Step four; press relase to shame college in media nationally..oh the bold college, dont they care about students? Human interst, find a heartbreaking story...

Reuslt one; they give in at first sign of student organisation.

Result two; they dont, but nonetheless you resist and they have not got sufficent focre to evict, you win and sit in your gaffs studying for exams...ladadiada...

Result three; you do nothing and get fucked over in the middle of exams.

Timetable.

A basic poster in word; 15 minutes

photocopying it 100 times for res; 20 mins

postering; half an hour

meeting; an hour

press release; half an hour

equals longer stay on res, for free too

that should work

by commentator

Thu Apr 08, 2004 16:30

Agree with all of the above. Even if they could get "sufficient force" chances are that they would not want to evict because that *would* make news whereas a press release might be ignored.

One other strategy worth pursuing on the side would be to make it clear that if you are evicted and your exams suffer as a result that you'll take legal action. Colleges are *really* nervous of lawsuits. Best would be to get together lots of people affected, and chip in for a solicitors' letter along those lines.

What did you agree to?

by Anti-Idiotarian

Thu Apr 08, 2004 16:36

Check your tenancy agreements with the college, guys. Did you sign an agreement based on a tenancy terminating on Mary 29th? If so, then you are presumed to have known what you were getting yourself in for. You have every right to complain about the exam timetable, but not a leg to stand on regarding the eviction. Next year, read the small print.

Good ideas

Thu Apr 08, 2004 17:07

Easier said than done however.

the main problems are.
1. the new student apartments have electronic key access and these are set to expire at 2pm on the 29th of May. We would have no way of getting into the building or into our apartments. (there might be a solution but i'm not sure what it is)
2. We have already paid a substantial deposit which would be put at risk if we broke the lease and most students could not afford to suffer this loss.
3. most of the students are not in the slightest bit radical and will see resisting as too risky especially in the middle of exams. It will be very difficult to pursuade a sufficient number of students to occupy the flats..

I'm not trying to be defeatest.. will have to organise a few meetings and maybe send out a few press releases before then because the college will be closed for easter

well...

by simple simon

Thu Apr 08, 2004 18:40

Its the same in UCD, electronic doors, use something to hold the doors open then, why don't ya?

look...

Thu Apr 08, 2004 18:44

' most of the students are not in the slightest bit radical and will see resisting as too risky especially in the middle of exams. It will be very difficult to pursuade a sufficient number of students to occupy the flats..'

this patronising shite is to the detriment of political activism, are you an enlightened being that stands above the heads of other students and can analyse their oppression, mano mano, that most be depressing since according to you the buggers are never going to do anything about it.

Try organising and see how it goes, you'd be bloody surprised at how ired up people can get when they are being deprived of a home in the middle of an erxam period.

The stress of moving is far more of an inconvenience than the annoynomity afforded in a mass refusal to leave.

All deposit backs or rob the place fucking blind, burn it down, do something, think you can win on this.....

Tenancy Agreement?

by Former Student

Wed May 05, 2004 13:18

Don't the students have a tenancy agreement with the college and isn't there a termination date?

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