 and welcome to this year's first DCU TV news broadcast. I'm Rachel Kelleher and tonight we'll be taking a look at the top news stories that have taken place across both the Glassnevan and St Pat's campuses over the last week. Our first story this evening looks at the ongoing construction of the new Student Union Centre, which is due to be completed in February 2018. Michelle Martin reports. Construction of DCU's new Student Centre is officially underway following the first demolition of a wall last week. The new building is set to be worth 14 million and Student Union President Dylan Kehoe ensures that it'll all be worth the wait. In February 2018 DCU will have the most modern and the best Student Centre in the country. The look and feel of the building. We just got images which will be released quite soon and will be sending around to the student body when we got kind of images of what it will look like and it will be phenomenal. The new building will have an entrepreneurship and innovation suite as well as a student leadership and life skill centre. It will also feature a new radio station for DCU FM as part of an arts and culture hub. In the meantime businesses have relocated what construction takes place and a marquee has been put up for student union and society events. Both businesses and the SC were coping but how is it affecting the students of DCU? It's good to see new facilities being built on the campus. It's a bit of a nuisance at times but it's not too bad. It doesn't get in the way. It's really annoying when you're driving in and you have to wait at the traffic lights and builders and just everything's different and I don't really like it. I think it's good because you see improvements in the campus but it's also there is kind of obstructions in the way you have to go around them so that's about it but I think it is good. I'm Michelle Martin for DCU TV News. Dublin bus have introduced a series of new bus routes serving DCU in order to aid students commuting from Baldoil, Port Marnock and Dumboyne. DCU TV News reporter Emily Crowley spoke to sustainability officer Samantha Fahey regarding the new routes. Dublin bus recently announced three new bus routes to DCU. Already serving the college are the 104 from Plontarf and the 44 from Dundrum. As of Monday the 17th of October DCU will be served by the 31D from Baldoil, the 42D from Port Marnock and the 70D from Dumboyne. So earlier on in January 2016 we did a survey of all of the campuses so all staff and all students and we had two and a half thousand respondents and from the respondents we've calculated that about 5,000 cars a day turned up to park on the 1800 car parking spaces that we have across all of our campuses so 5,000 into 1800 doesn't go and so it was one of the major reasons why we started looking at alternatives for how people get to DCU. It's also one of the major reasons why students choose to go to a specific university is the connectivity to the university so it was really important to start working on how we increase the number of buses that actually come to the university. DCU students have been having mixed reviews about the new bus route so far. I think it's like a great instruction for like all the college students because living in a rural area like I really understand what it's like like to not be able to get a bus regularly like you'd spend maybe three hours waiting on a bus to come by the time it's absolutely ridiculous like I even had to get a car because our bus routes were so like staggered and I think it'd be great for students that be able to commute from further areas so maybe more people will come to DCU which would be like good for campus. I'm really happy because I have to travel from Bald Oil so commuting for me I have to get like a train and then a bus or two buses so if I'm in for nine I have to leave like my house at like 10 past 7 so it's a pain so the new bus that's coming in as the 31d I think for me from Bald Oil so I can get a bus it's only one every morning though so that's also a bit of a pain but at least it's one directory so I just quarter to eight so I get in on time so yeah I'm really happy and I can actually get to college easier so I'm approving. There's one from Leuken which is where I live obviously and it's one of the private bus companies so it's like 37 38 euro a week as opposed to 20 euro a week with Dublin bus so I can either spend an error like an error coming into college I'm just getting two buses or I can get like a 20 minute bus but it's twice the price so that's the dilemma I face so if it was a Dublin bus it would be perfect but it's not so I haven't used it yet but I know people from Leuken who do use and I think they find it real handy because it's just a lot quicker but I haven't done it yet. As well as these new Dublin bus routes JJ Kavana coaches have organised bus routes from Scaries and Newbridge, bus Aaron have organised new bus routes from Trim and Naven while Matthews coaches are still operating from Dundalk to DCU. For more information you can look at DCU's public transport website this is Emily Crowley for DCU TV News. The German themed festival Oktoberfest came to DCU for the first time this year where students all over campus turned up to take part in the festivities. Events coordinator Patter Gill spoke to our reporter Amy Lawler and said how he was pleased with the overall success of the event. DCU's Student Union held its first Oktoberfest last week hosting German themed events in both the Nuba and Marquis over the course of three days. Events coordinator Patter Gill is pleased with the overall success of the event. Generally as a trend over the years events that take place over more than one night haven't been very successful so this is probably one of the most successful of that nature event you can imagine. We sold out Tuesday and nearly sold out Wednesday. Monday was relatively quiet but we knew it would be but at the end of the day it's not about money for ticket sales or anything like that it's about student engagement so we still wanted to put on the third night and the Monday for people that wanted to go and but we knew it would be relatively quiet so we're expecting that. Highlights included a traditional German brass band Drag Queens, Devine Devine and Dolly Grip and Shite Knight a appropriately renamed Scheizer Night. Tickets dropped from five to two Euro on the final night of the festival. However this was pre-planned by the SU in order to boost morale and keep the incentive going. We talked to DC students to find out if they went and what they thought of it. It was good. The Monday night, I didn't want to choose the Monday night. There wasn't that big of a crowd. I would have expected a hope for a lot more of a crowd but then like the band had each other going and even though there was a small crowd we kind of made it our own and we had a bit of a crack. Well I was there last night and it was actually great. Went out with a few buddies of mine and we started chillin' in the marquee where there was a lovely brass band playing. It's just, it's mad dancing to that sort of music. It's a bit different to the modern stuff so it was pretty fantastic. None of my friends went and I just didn't really have much of an interest going and I didn't think, like I didn't hear too much about it. The drag queens were a bit weird but it was funny. I guess something I'd never seen in DCU before. I'm Amy Lawlor for DCU TV News. The Snow Sports Society were forced to hold their annual balloon drop in the marquee this year. Due to the current construction taking place in the hub. This event gives one lucky member a chance to win a golden pass to this year's annual ski trip. However the event, which was a huge success last year, got off to somewhat of a false start. Paul Dwyer reports. A large crowd of students gathered outside the marquee for DCU's Snow Sports annual ball drop. What happens at this event is that a container of colorful balls are hung from the roof and then released. The balls have numbers written on them which correspond with prizes. The main one being a golden pass to Snow Sports ski trip to Andorra. The event, which was a huge success, was held in the hub last year. However due to reconstruction the society had to move its main event to the marquee. As the countdown begun the students crowded eagerly beneath the container. However there was somewhat of a false start. One, two, three, two. Eventually after a number of attempts the balls were in full flow. As the winners took to the stage to collect their prizes a number of distraught students turned violent towards committee members and each other. This is Paul Dwyer, DCU TV News. Great boy. Budget 2017 was released last week highlighting a promising increase in funding to third level education. We sent reporter Lee Mashton out to see what DCU students had to say about the new amendments. The Minister for Education Richard Bruton has said third level education is set to receive its first significant increase in funding after almost a decade of cuts in the 2017 budget. He has said an additional 36 million will be allocated in 2017 and a further 17 million the following year. We asked students whether they would like to see the money best spent. I don't know, I suppose like 36 million between all our universities. I don't know if that's enough right now. All the Irish universities have fallen in the rankings. And they have done slides to the down over the last few years. So I don't know if that will be enough to keep us afloat. So I'd like to go and kind of research on that kind of area. It could probably, I mean being in Dublin anyway I know as a student accommodations a big issue. Accommodation needs to be sorted because people are like being abused by landlords and stuff like that. I think mental health services will need to be improved because for some people who are suffering there's nothing there for them. Another area they felt personally affected by was the incoming sugar tax, as well as the 50 cent increase in cigarette packs. And we're hoping that by raising the price continuously that eventually that will encourage them and even us to stop. Because it's gotten to the point where we're all trying to try and do all the good stuff but hopefully we get too expensive and we won't be able to keep it up. But it's both my family, we'll be involved in convenience stores and that's our end. So the sugar tax is going to have an effect on us in a round of our way. I don't agree with it. I think that the sugar tax is not going to solve the problem. I think the problem is a lifestyle problem. It's a better education of trying properly, how to be healthy. I don't think putting the tax on it is going to make a lot better difference. Liam Ashton, DCU TV News. DCU and Actus travelled to Toronto, Canada last month to compete against 35 other national champions in Anactus World Cup. Reporter Andrew Burns spoke to Chair Jack Kane and other members of Anactus to see how they got on. A relatively new but successful society, DCU and Anactus travelled to Toronto last month to compete in the Anactus World Cup. I sat down with the society's Chair Jack Kane and other members of the society to figure out what Anactus is all about. Anactus is an NGO to 36 countries around the world and basically we're students who are free time to help marginalise groups of society basically through social entrepreneurship. Well Anactus run all over Ireland, all over the world and in each university there's Anactus groups and basically once we all work through the year, at the end of the year there's a big national competition and each college goes and represents their team and then there is Milton the winner and DCU won this year and that's what gave us the opportunity to go to Toronto for the World Cup. Our team presented really well and it was a tough competition because the standard's so high in all the other countries but Team Ireland were great. We have four projects at the minute and we decided to choose two of them, we only get 17 minutes to present so we picked two, one is Head Start that we've had now for four years that is weekly dance, travel, music and art classes for people with international disabilities that is powered by volunteers and we still run it every Tuesday here on the Class 11 campus in Henry Grapplin we just go down for two hours and dance and do outplay and stuff and we have loads of fun. The other one was a brand new project from last year, it was called Prison Break where we took a rehabilitated ex-prisoner and we set up for him to run fitness classes for students out in the park and that was just a way to help them reintegrate into society with so many prisoners, just end up flying back into the trap and go back into prison. Farmer prisoner Kiran spoke about how Enactus helped him It meant that I had extra few crates for both players and I was able to go and see my kids which was great, you know I could only get job seekers and them and some of the dog I'd never felt George coming here I'd never felt George at DCU College and that's a big hurdle to get over it just gives you a lot of confidence you don't feel that you can be a natural self The real thing we notice about Enactus is that relatively it's really new in Ireland this is only the sixth year it's been here I just in comparison this is like the 21st year it's been in places like Kazakhstan, so we find that the competition is really intense between the Irish institutions and then when we go to World Cup but some of these projects the other countries have have been going longer than Enactus has even been going in the country so the next stage really for Ireland is to be able to put projects in place that can run over five, six years and through multiple teams so that when they get brought to World Cup they can make a bit more of an impact with the big hitters Hopefully Enactus can advance even further next year This is Andrew Burn for DCU TV News And finally, our last story of the night focuses on a more serious matter With over 16% of all Irish students saying they have had an unwanted sexual experience whilst in college, universities across Ireland have introduced sexual consent workshops to increase awareness Kira Moran reports 16% of students have had an unwanted sexual experience while in college in Ireland A survey conducted by the Union of Students in Ireland has found a high case of sexual assaults among third level students across the country Of those surveyed, only 3% have reported the assault to the Gardie We spoke to a college student who told us about her experience of being sexually assaulted It was just one night when we were at one of our friends everyone was drinking and it was just drunk and I couldn't I didn't know what was going on and what was happening around me and one of the guys said come on I'll take care of you I was oblivious to what was actually going on and he said kissing me and touching me and I didn't even remember this until the next day when I was texting my friends apparently we had sex with friends when I talked to them and told them how I felt and how I felt like I was actually raped they laughed With students transitioning into college social life many have various ideas of what sexual consent is I think sexual consent is no one throughout your whole encounter that the person is happy with what's going on and that they're okay with everything that is they're doing together It's mutual agreement between two people something that you feel in this day and age you really wouldn't have to think twice about I feel like it's kind of hard to explain put it into words what it is but you just know if somebody wants to go ahead and do something with you they'll make that obvious and if they don't you'll know too Consent is not feeling pressured to do something that you don't want to do and also knowing that you I don't know Sexual consent means both parties understanding each other's intentions and both people obviously giving each other permission and having a swell time while doing so In order to increase this awareness some third level institutions have introduced sexual consent workshop at the campus including Dublin City University Over the next eight weeks DCU will be running these classes which focus on impairing students and making them aware of what sexual consent is The classes will also teach students how to recognise sexual assault and how to deal with it There are hopes that these classes will be turned into an academic module similar to those in campuses across the UK and the US The model is called the Intervention Initiative which was devised by the University of West England They have about 32 people attending now They have to attend every workshop in order to complete the program The University is where it's been implemented as a compulsory part of attending university Reported cases of sexual assault have actually decreased longitudinally by 44% With high numbers of students of the college age group reporting to sexual assault treatment units across Ireland the importance of sexual consent workshops is highlighted A lot of our attendance is here in the Rotunda and in most sexual assault treatment units The highest age group is 18 to 25 year age group which is college people I think raising awareness and discussion around consent is hugely important for people DCUTV News recognises the seriousness of the issues discussed in the previous video and would like to encourage anyone affected by these issues to contact the numbers provided Now let's take a look at some of our sports news Over to you Paul Thanks Rachel The Malkal Ireland between Dublin and Mayo took place on St Pats campus two weeks ago Both teams were clinical in their finishing But in the end the dubs were crowned Malkal Ireland final winners Lee Mashton reports An indication of what's to come This week Dublin played a male in a Malkal Ireland final on St Pats campus The teams were made up of a mixture of students across all campuses and a combination of rules of the ladies and men's football games Academic Affairs Officer and Referee James Dunhu explained the idea behind the match We felt like the thing that we wanted to really push was that we can have a vibrant campus on each of the campuses and it's student led so we sat down and we talked about what we could do and we felt like hand out free stuff was just basic but we felt that we'd do something that's really student led and all our final weekend obviously we saw an opportunity because mass numbers from Mayo and Dublin in the college and it went really well we're really happy with it day time music and stuff in Queens because we think the day time stuff is good for commuters and stuff like that so we're really happy with it After a considerable half time lead for Mayo the Dublin students fought hard back to win the match with the aid of a Mayo own goal Both captains said a few words after the match it was the Dublin team who were smiling bringing home the coveted Hamburg Wire Cup Actually it was a tough one to be honest we knew we were going to get a good game for Mayo like they were going to be hard hitting but we started off fairly poorly I had to say with a slow start Mayo got on top early but now we picked it up in the second half and the goal has really made a change to the whole thing so no it was a good game, Mayo we had a great game we're just relieved to have the right side of the result It went pretty good I mean the curse that followed us the whole way we scored an all goal but look that won't get us down Mayo are magic, Mayo madness and Mayo are back, come on Mayo This is Liam Ashton with DCUTV In hurling DCU had a comprehensive victory over St Pat's college last Thursday in St Clairs St Pat's were hindered by a number of injuries sustained during the match which allowed DCU to win comfortably in the end William Doane reports DCU have put back to back victories together in the senior hurling league following comprehensive victory over neighbour St Pat's Owen Connery pounced on a mistake to score the game's opening goal before scores from AJ Murphy and Liam Fahey put DCU further ahead St Pat's were still within a chance at half time but they were relying too heavily on their plays balls St Pat's lack of creativity from play will begin to cost him dearly as DCU upped the intensity DCU began to assert their dominance in the game with a St Pat's puck out being a recurring scene throughout the second half St Pat's battled on but DCU's class shone through goals from Joe O'Connor, Jason Byrne and Owen Connery added to DCU's impressive scoreline DCU finished with a flourish to leave the final score at DCU 419 St Pat's 11 points DCU's next outing is against UCD on October 26th where they hope to replicate their winning start. William Doane DCU TV news, Glass Neven That's all your sport, back to studio Thanks Paul, that's all for this week tune in again to our week 8 broadcast for more campus updates That's it from me, I'm Rachel Kelleher with DCU TV news