November 2020 – The College View

DCUSU host Trade Union Week

November 27, 2020

“Know your rights, know when you’re being treated fairly and unfairly in a job, know there are unions you can join that will support you,” said Lucien Waugh-Daly, DCU Student Union’s Vice President for Academic Affairs, when asked for what he wanted students to take away from Trade Union Week.

Campaign launched to change proposed legislation relating to revenge porn

November 27, 2020

The campaign launched after a discord server containing thousands of intimate photos belonging to Irish women was allegedly discovered.

“It’s a Brothel. I’ll end you.”

November 25, 2020

Ireland has a long negative history when it comes to sex, sexuality, the body, and women.

National crisis for Ireland if the DUP ease restrictions in the North

November 25, 2020

Widespread transmission can only be kept at ease in Ireland if the North and South are working together to combat the spread of Covid-19. Unfortunately, there is no sufficient co-operation between the DUP and the Irish government in tackling the virus.

Climate grief: Mourning for our planet

November 25, 2020

There’s a sense of impending doom on the youth, their lives will be directly affected by the climate crisis and the older generations and those in power are appearing to do little about it.

Ireland’s youth are let down by barriers to higher education

November 25, 2020

Students and their struggles are not highlighted enough in the media. It is barbaric that the fourth wealthiest country in the EU somehow can’t scrounge enough money together to pay student contribution fees.

Goodbye Trump, is it goodbye SNL ?

November 25, 2020

For some viewers, SNL’s response to the Trump era and their political sketches grew tiresome, fairly quickly. So, in a post-Trump era, it is naive of us to expect SNL to move on.

I’m in Wales, get me out of here

November 25, 2020

Although the show has had a major change, Ant and Dec have come back to television screens across the UK and Ireland with the same enthusiasm as every other year.

The art of Feng Shui

November 25, 2020

To break it down “feng” means wind and “shui” means water. In Chinese culture, water and wind are associated with good health and so, feng shui came to mean good fortune.

Methadone clinic patients still facing stigma two decades on

November 25, 2020

Methadone clinics were first set up in 1988, with a lot of backlash and stigma surrounding them. Two decades later, patients still face the same stigma.

Why premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a valid excuse for feeling under the weather

November 25, 2020

While the exact symptoms experienced vary widely from person to person, the effects can be both physical (such as bloating, cramping, tenderness of breasts) and emotional (such as irritability, depression, anxiety) in nature.

DCU Drama comes out with show of monologues

November 25, 2020

This promising production is guaranteed to appeal to every audience member and is bound to be an unmissable performance of remarkable theatre.

Can a Netflix series do justice for Assassin’s Creed ?

November 25, 2020

The announcement of Netflix’s new Assassin’s Creed series raised speculation of the adaptation, following the poorly received 2016 film.

Enter Stage Left, Princess Diana in The Crown

November 25, 2020

Her appeal is global partly due to her stellar charity work which William and Harry continue to this day.

Wild Mountain Thyme: Have Irish stereotypes always been this bad?

November 25, 2020

Wild Mountain Time presents a stereotypical image of Ireland, with poor accents and confusing time frames.

Spotify doesn’t care about you

November 25, 2020

This heinous undervaluing of music is disgusting, to say the least, however, Spotify has a great solution to help out!

Zainab Boladale voted onto DCU’s Governing Authority as she hopes to be the voice for students

November 25, 2020

Former DCU student Zainab Boladale was appointed to DCU’s Governing Authority on Friday 13th November.

Kylie dances her way through the pandemic

November 25, 2020

With all of the chaos and distress of 2020, especially amid the Coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, Kylie Minogue’s “Disco” is a glimmer of hope that life will return to normal again.

2020’s best true crime podcasts

November 25, 2020

The brief insight we receive into the person’s background, paired with the intricate detail she describes the facts in humanises the case.

Jameela Jamil: iWeigh and the revolution against shame

November 25, 2020

Amidst the distorted, rose-coloured world of social media, Jamil is a refreshing beacon of light blazing through all of the toxic beauty standards and damaging filters of the web.

Graduating from university during a pandemic

November 25, 2020

Every autumn, Dublin City University graduands, their families and DCU faulty, gather at the Helix to attend the annual graduation ceremonies and celebrate one of the most rewarding days of a student’s educational career.

What the 14.4 per cent gender pay gap means for women

November 25, 2020

This year the Equal Pay Day falls on the 9th of November meaning women in Ireland are effectively working for free from this date due to the 14.4 per cent gender pay gap.

Former Young Greens Chairperson speaks out against “massive culture of harassment”

November 25, 2020

“There’s a massive culture of harassment but it’s not just sexual,”

Anti-LGBT+ bullying StandUp Awareness week takes to Irish secondary schools

November 25, 2020

StandUp Awareness week is running this week in a number of schools across Ireland.

Oscars diversity guidelines place barrier on free storytelling

November 25, 2020

New inclusion standards consist of: at least one main character being “from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group,” the storyline must be centred on one of the following: women, LGTBQ people, a racial or ethnic group or the disabled, and finally 30% of cast members must be from at least two of these four categories.