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Design of student centres creates new standards

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2001 / May 17 2001: Design of student centres creates new standards

Everyone who thinks that third-level students are a cosseted, self-indulgent and smugly middle-class bunch who couldn't give a hoot about social issues should refrain from visiting the new student centres at UCD and DCU. Because these splendid facilities will only confirm their prejudice.In fairness, every university needs a student centre to accommodate numerous clubs and societies, offices for the students union, multi-purpose spaces for gigs, debates and the like and, of course, somewhere to eat and drink. And in UCD's case, Belfield has been waiting for just such a facility for nearly 35 years.

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