Talk:Durham Students' Union

message: "The union employs full-time trained counsellors to provide students with Welfare advice, and also helps fund semi-autonomous representation groups to help those whose gender, sexuality, race or disability causes them to experience discrimination. A further union welfare service is the provision of the DSU Nightbus, a mini-bus which runs every evening during term time to ensure students can get home safely regardless of their immediate financial state.
DSU also runs a number of commercial ventures, including a shop, a cafe, a bar and a night-club. These operations are intended to make a profit which can be used to subsidise welfare support, student societies and other student services by DSU. The University also gives a grant of money to help meet the cost of running student services and the union's accommodation."
Is the above not a bit too much like a prospectus? Suggest that none of it is really necessary Robdurbar 17:57, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Wording

message: *I've started a discussion on Chriscf's Talk Page as this involve all the union's page. Please go there to provide your opinion if you're interested. -- KTC 16:04, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Students' Union / Association sabs list deletion 

message: As I understand it, DSU provides advice workers rather than counsellors (similar to the Citizens Advice Bureau).  Counselling at Durham University is provided by the University Counselling Service.  Do people agree? Paulleake 23:48, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Counsellors or Advice Workers 

message: Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry states that the Vane Tempest Room is named after Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, who was a Chancellor of the University. I thought it was renamed in the 1980s/1990s after the closure of the Vane Tempest mine (last coal mine in Co Durham or some such).  Does anyone have any information? Paulleake 00:31, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, idea, I put it in the Vane-Tempest article out of assumption (which I guess is probably bad practice :0), but if you know different then I'd remove the assertion. Robdurbar 09:58, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vane Tempest Room 

message: Anyone who has an interest in contributing to Durham related articles may like to look at the discussion going on at Talk:The Bailey Robdurbar 10:20, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bailey/Peninsula

message: Do we really need the rumour about the disbanding of RAG?  I, for one, have heard another 'prank' given as the reason for this, and I believe neither. MrTrev 01:20, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: DUCK

message: The societies have been mentioned but why is there no mention of the DSU Associations?  The LGBTa, etc... They are very significant representative bodies within DSU. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bilionthlostsoul (talk • contribs) 
:What's the difference between a society and an association? --Robdurbar 23:19, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  They have different purposes in the Constitution. A society can be pretty much anything; Associations are for special interest groups (LGBT, Mature, Postgraduate, International, Students with Disabilities, presently, though there's scope to define others.). Societies are defined in F4 of the Orders, Associations in F2. The Associations and their behaviour are defined explicitly in Standing Orders - so for example Standing Orders say what the Postgrad Association is for quite clearly - and this goes hand in hand with more DSU-related power than a random society has. On the other hand, a Society is far less pre-defined. I do hope this makes some sense ... I know in my head what the difference is but am finding it remarkably difficult to explain! --JennyRad 23:37, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Associations 

message: "...under the supervision of architect Sir Ove Arup, whose Kingsgate Bridge, adjacent, opened two years later..." I'm a bit confused. I'd always been led to believe that Arup's studio had a hand in the design, however the building's architects were most definitely Architects Co-Partnership, and, although Arup often collaborated with ACP, I'm unclear whether this was mainly as a consultant engineer (which was Arup's original specialism) or as a designer or what. If his role was more on the engineering side, it may truthfully be incorrect to describe him as the designer, and I think referring to "his studio" is wrong - if anything, it'd be more likely ACP would call him in as a consultant, rather than the other way round. I'm also confused by the timescales - AFAICT, the two buildings must have actually been completed almost simultaneously to fit in with the referenced dates. DWaterson 23:03, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ove Arup

message: I reverted this addition to the article:
In the early '70s a Mini Car was found hanged one morning, from the Kingsgate Bridge. Nobody ever owned up to this, and the debate continues as to how it got there. No photos can be found.
on the grounds that almost every word is wrong:
#It was in the 1960s;
#It wasn't a mini;
#The culprits were identified (I think);
#The method by which it got there is well-known;
#There is a photo.
Nevertheless, is this incident notable enough to warrant a reference on the Kingsgate Bridge page, or is it just cruft really? DWaterson 22:11, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Kingsgate Bridge car incident

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