Sussex uni union opposes falmer

[reuters]

I just got back from Sussex uni UGM, its this NUS thing where they pass motions on what the union should be doing, they voted in favour of a motion to oppose the falmer stadium. They doing this based on environmental issues, the amount of carbon that will be created by the extra traffic, the fact that the uni is opening up 1800 car parking places for the fans on match days. They seem to think we will go on their campus because they have cheap beer.
They want us to look at other sites including water hall, they are going to try and get the uni to oppose the stadium as well, as they think they have been too neutral on the situation.
Finally they have this crazy idea that we want to use their fields to train they don't seem to understand that there is nowhere else to train!!
Bloody environmental hippies!!

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

is it a uni of GAYS or something?

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

Why does it seem that everybody in Sussex is against Falmer except the Brighton fans? Bloody ridiculous it is, don't they think you have waited long enough?

 

[CHAPPERS]

It's a shame it's got nothing to do with them.

I wish I had been there.

 

[tedebear]

eh? I thought the Uni were infavour?

I'm confused!!

 

[CHAPPERS]

eh? I thought the Uni were infavour?

I'm confused!!

This is the students who are, funnily enough, about three years too late to do anything about it.

 

[Rookie]

the uni are in favour but the Union have never been in favour basically because its a hippy uni. Not really anything to worry about as has never effected the process before hand

 

[tedebear]

Ahh right thanks you two!

 

[Barrel of Fun]

They doing this based on environmental issues, the amount of carbon that will be created by the extra traffic
Falmer offers the best facilities for sustainable transport. If they are only worried about their atmosphere, then that is prime NIMBYism.

the fact that the uni is opening up 1800 car parking places for the fans on match days.
Providing valuable revenue for the Univeristy that has had to close departments etc.

They seem to think we will go on their campus because they have cheap beer.
I think they will find that it will be impossible, for non-students, to use the University facilities

They want us to look at other sites including water hall, they are going to try and get the uni to oppose the stadium as well, as they think they have been too neutral on the situation.
Good luck to them.

Finally they have this crazy idea that we want to use their fields to train they don't seem to understand that there is nowhere else to train!!
I think it would be great having a professional team training on your facilities. I used to go and watch Oxford United train on Magdalen College's grounds.

Bloody environmental hippies!!
Hardly, if they are advocating building the stadium on sites that are not classified as brownfield

Thankfully, it is not up to them and I don't think they will have much clout with the powers that be. Time to invade their forum again.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

seeing as a fair number of them will leave the city after uni, quite frankley, they can f*** off

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

The University themselves (the people who hold the lectures and pay for the library books and do research into bats and stuff) are in favour.

It's just a bunch of student eejits who are on a bit of a knee-jerk environmentalist bent.

We could try expressing our opinions -- politely -- on here

http://forum.ussu.info/

 

[tedebear]

seeing as a fair number of them will leave the city after uni, quite frankley, they can f*** off

he he he

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

The University are in favour - they stand to get some brand spanking new buildings and some dosh!

This is the students - and since when did students know anything about anything?

Oh, except 1962 - 1965 when I was a student.

That's different

 

[Tooting Gull]

To slightly paraphrase Sir Robin Day:

"Why should the good people of Sussex listen to you 'here today, gone tomorrow three-year drinking holiday student activist fuckwits' rather than, for example, Brighton and Hove council who actually have a stake in the future provision of facilities in our county?"

 

[Man of Harveys]

Stereotyping our opponents as "inbreds" or "hippies" is pointlessly counterproductive, really. I had a long and very annoying chat with an urbane and otherwise intelligent Sussex student who could spout fluent Nimby drivel along with the best of any the gnarled olde rusticke village idiots that supposedly inhabit Falmer.

Except the LibDems LDC, of course. They really are all ****s.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

http://forum.ussu.info/showthread.php?t=31&page=1&pp=10

This was the thread from a year or so ago.

I am a morph of HB&B --> BB&B.

 

[Rookie]

Finally they have this crazy idea that we want to use their fields to train they don't seem to understand that there is nowhere else to train!!
Bloody environmental hippies!!

we already train there, so don't really understand that one. Kuipers always used to be in the gym (he still might for all I know). Thats why training has to be moved on a wednesday as the Uni teams use the pitches

 

[Pigsy]

Good disguise Barrel!

 

[tinx]

The stupid thing is the students who are there currently will have left and be nowhere to be seen by the time Falmer is built.

 

[Silent Bob]

They doing this based on environmental issues, the amount of carbon that will be created by the extra traffic, the fact that the uni is opening up 1800 car parking places for the fans on match days.

Why do they think that this will be different at any other site? It would be worse!