SU Weekly Email 9 – 23rd October 2019

Welcome to your weekly email from your Students’ Union.

Road Safety Day on Tuesday

Road Safety Authority Interactive Shuttle + Roll-Over Simulator 10am-4pm Tues 29th Oct outside Áras na Mac Léinn

• Practice your driving and hazard perception skills on our simulators (car, motorbike, bicycle)
• Take part in the roll-over simulation which demonstrates how it would feel if you were in a car which turned over in a collision.
• Practice the driver theory test.
• Practice safe cycling skills on our state of the art bicycle simulator
• See how driving environments and speed affect your braking distances on the brake reaction timer.
• FREE High Vis Items

Accessible NUIG Events

Tues 29^th Oct

• 11am-2pm: Know Your Rights in Hub Central. Drop in and chat about rights in the workplace, college, and public life.
• 6.30pm: Disability and Emergency in the D’arcy Thompson Theatre. Join Emergency Medicine Soc for a talk on best practice in emergency situations

Weds 30^th Oct

• All day: The Social Aspect of Disability – an online campaign around the impact inaccessibility has on social life and social connections

Thurs 31^st Oct

• All day: What Is an Accessible Campus? Online/in various locations. Keep up with us on the SU social media platforms to tell us and the University what an accessible campus is to you
• 6pm-8pm Murder Mystery with ISL, location TBC. Join the Irish Sign Language Society for their Halloween event with games and refreshments.

More info from su.disability@nuigalway.ie

Sin Issue 4

You can read the latest issue of Sin Newspaper HERE – it includes your chance to win SU Card credit!

Limited spaces left on following Life Skills courses:

• Anti-Racism Workshop
• Disclosure Training with Galway Rape Crisis Centre
• Child Protection Training

Sign up in the SU Office or call 091 493 570 to register with credit/debit card.

FREE Talk: Resistance Training & Nutrition

Free Talk on Resistance Training and Nutrition 7pm-8pm Weds 6th Nov in O’Flaherty Theatre. Speaker: Barry McGuire – Qualified Nutritionist & Personal Trainer. Covering nutrition and training in relation to muscle gain/fat loss/toning up. FREE Tickets available on Eventbrite

What We Are Doing For You?

You can catch up on the work your SU Officers are doing for you by reading through the minutes of their meetings here.

Voter Registration Deadline this FRIDAY

Are you registered to vote? Call down and pick up a form in the SU Office. The deadline to register to vote is this Friday the 25^th of October

Don’t Forget

We have free condoms and free tampons/pads at the SU Office and the SU Engineering Desk. If you need them just ask.

Fees Reminder

The deadline to pay the Student Levy + the first instalment of your fees is Thurs 31st Oct. More Info.

Spooky Table Quiz This Friday

JCI Galway are running a Spooky Table Quiz at 7pm this Friday in Sult with some great prizes. Entry fee €5 per person.

Postgrad Open Day Tues 5^th Nov

The NUI Galway Postgraduate Open Day will take place 12pm-3pm Tues 5^th Nov in the Bailey Allen Hall. There will be over 100 stands on display along with short presentations covering topics such as funding opportunities, applications, and research. This is your chance to meet lecturers and postgraduate students, see what postgraduate programmes are on offer, and to meet staff from Postgraduate Admissions, Career Development Centre, Graduate Studies, Fees Office, and other student support services.

FREE 6 Week Stress Control Programme

Stress Control’ is a six session class which teaches people to ‘become their own therapist’. Each session lasts for 90 minutes (including a break). Stress Control combines Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Positive Psychology and Mindfulness.

USI Mature Students’ Seminar

The annual USI Mature Students’ Seminar will be taking place at Maynooth University 9.30am-5pm Friday the 8th of November. This event is open to all Mature Students. More info and registration here.

Take the Irish National Digital Experience (INDEx) Survey win €300!

You are invited to take part in NUI Galway’s INDEx survey – a national survey to find out more about how you use digital technologies and how this affects your experience of learning. Your voice will contribute to important decision-making around digital teaching and learning within NUI Galway. The INDEx survey takes only 5 minutes to complete. It is open to NUI Galway students until the 3^rd of November. Participation is anonymous and entirely voluntary. There are €300 All4One vouchers to be won each week by NUI Galway students!  

Take the survey HERE 

Upcoming Class Rep Meetings

NUI Galway Arrangements for Bank Holiday Mon 28^th Oct

• There are no classes on Mon 28^th of Oct
• The Students’ Union Office will CLOSE 5pm Fri 25^th Oct and reopen 10am Tues 29^th of Oct
• The Students’ Union Engineering Desk will CLOSE 3pm Fri 25^th Oct and reopen 11am Tues 29^th Oct
• The Students’ Union Cloakroom will CLOSE 6pm Fri 25^th Oct and reopen 9am Thurs 31^st Oct
• The James Hardiman Library will be open 08:30-17:30 Sat 26^th, 10:00-17:30 Sun 27^th and CLOSED Mon 28^th Oct
• The Reading Room will be open as usual.
• The Students’ Union Shop will be open Sat 26^th Oct, closed Sun 27^th & Mon 28^th Oct, open Tues 29^th Oct
• Sult will be CLOSED Sat 26^th, Sun 27^th & Mon 28^th Oct. Reopening 8.30am Tues 29^th Oct.
• Smokey’s Café will be open Sat 26^th and Sun 27^th, closed Mon 28^th and open Tues 29^th Oct.
• The Wall Café will be open Sat 26^th and Sun 27^th and open Mon 28^th 11am-3pm
• The Student Health Unit will be CLOSED Mon 28^th Oct.
• For details about Computer Suite Access check HERE

Contact Us

You can contact the Students’ Union by email to studentsunion@nuigalway.ie with any questions or suggestions you may have. You can also like or follow us on Facebook Instagram Snapchat (@nuigsu) and Twitter.

Our office is located upstairs in the Áras na Mac Léinn building beside Sult and we are open Mon-Fri 10am-5pm.

Our reception desk in the Engineering Building foyer is open Mon–Fri 11am-3pm.