Well its only 11 days away that the wave of freshers arrive at Sheffield, a week on Saturday. Not sure of the figures but plus all the 2nd and 3rd years returning to boost the numbers I guess close to 20,000 new and "used" students.

Both Universities have freshers week more or less at the same time so it will be most interesting to see where the focus of activities are this year. Which clubs will triple in door numbers and which wont...which pubs will be rammed wall to wall....and which wont.....there are always subtle changes each year.

I predict a subtle shift away from West St/Division street areas, but possibly not in any huge numbers this year.
I thought Hallam Union were to open the National Centre for Pop music in 2 weeks as well but they are still going to be at the NMB.

Is Freshers definately 18th then ?? I have read 2 dates which contradict each other, ones the 18th and the other the 24th ???

UNIVERSITY kicks off a week on saturday when all the halls of residence frshsers arrive, thats on the 18th.....HALLAM officially start on the 23rd with their freshers week spanning a weekend and into the following week which is really wierd....

So from Saturday 18th for sure.......be PREPARED

The pop centre will re open as Hallams new union in around December time.

Well I am one of those few local freshers (living in Stannington) and as I have half a brain I will hope to find people who do not want to spend all their time in Corp and the many cheasy bars that have cropped up.

First stop of course will be the Classic Rock Bar!

We will get drunker and louder.
And the NMB's floor will be stickier than ever !

Im a local fresher too!

All I care about in regards to freshers week is getting me enroled and getting my NUS card.

Oh and the Freshers trade fair :D

wahoo, 2nd year Hallam student here... local lad too :P

cant wait for random free crap in the union, cheap booze, crazy parties and lovely ladies (even lovelier when your drunk lol) the holidays have sucked, had to travel about to get ****** with my Uni mates!

rock on year 2, may I get pished more times this year than the last! :D

Isn't there more than 20 000 students between the University, Sheffield-Hallam and the College?

And yes it's The University ;)

Originally posted by genesiscouch
Isn't there more than 20 000 students between the University, Sheffield-Hallam and the College?

I'm not sure about the universities but IIRC The Sheffield College is technically the biggest college in europe.

Wilf

:( I can't wait till uni for me next year........

Originally posted by Disco_Cat
The pop centre will re open as Hallams new union in around December time.

My friend used to do the lights at Sheff1 and he was told January.

Hi,

Isn't there more than 20 000 students between the University, Sheffield-Hallam and the College?

Both universities have over 25,000 students each. I do understand that Sheffield College is the biggest in Europe. Sheffield is one of the biggest student cities in the UK.

The pop centre will re open as Hallams new union in around December time.

The new Union should be up and running in January. The first term will run at the present site at the NMB on Pond st.

Dean of Disco

That means we'll be lucky enough to NOT have the new Union until January !

Does anyone know if their will be a student pages this year?

It was always heavily financed by studentcomp.com which has shut down.

What's the best method to use to get Classic Rock Bar leaflets out to the freshers?

Originally posted by DEANOFDISCO

Both universities have over 25,000 students each. I do understand that Sheffield College is the biggest in Europe. Sheffield is one of the biggest student cities in the UK.

Dean of Disco

That's what I suspected. Really it's an unbelievably high concentration of students when you consider the close vicinity of the three inside a small city centre.

Originally posted by Classic Rock
What's the best method to use to get Classic Rock Bar leaflets out to the freshers?

Have a stand at the freshers week fayre in the NMB.

leaflets and/or flyers around the NMB and wherever the Sheff Uni people hang out... also the section near where the main enterance used to be, like accross from where the Registrar Office is/was :)

freshers aint till next week anyways, so you got some time yet :)

Originally posted by Captain_Scarlet
Have a stand at the freshers week fayre in the NMB.

if they do that then you need free items, like lolly pops or something to get our attension! sorry but last year there was that many things we just grabbed bags full of stuff from everyone, quickly looked at leaflets and only payed interest in people giving away free stuff...

we're students, we need free pens or food or condoms :P lol

ahhh...I'd just got used to hearing people talk without every sentence sounding like a question...and then bang, theyre coming back, all the little stewed ants. pah.
;)

The Freshers Fayre will involve you giving away things - ie beer.

I would suggest flyers outside, but also try sponsoring a couple of teams / societies. Warning though....

Insist that they have their meetings each week in teh pub and they can collect the sponsorship money each week. Otherwise they collect, buy replacement kit and then never come back. You could maybe give them a bowl of chips when they come in.

Originally posted by Tony
The Freshers Fayre will involve you giving away things - ie beer.

I would suggest flyers outside, but also try sponsoring a couple of teams / societies. Warning though....

They Fayre doesn't give away beer, or it wasn't last yer, it's all sports centres, bars, clubs trying to make tell new students that they exist, that's what Classic Rock wants to do no ?
They were giving away the usual lighters, flyers, Kingdom Beans, posters, keyrings ...

At Sheffield Beer Festival we are offering students their first beer free if they show their NUS card when they pay admission, basic plan to publicise this is a combination of flyers/posters around Sheffield Uni and mention in the local press. The offer is also in Beer Matters magazine, currently being distributed to pubs across the city (only the ones that sell real ale though..)

The Classic Rock Bar are proud to announce that they stock the Beer Matters magazine. It's on the end of the bar. Come and and 'av it!!

Originally posted by Classic Rock
What's the best method to use to get Classic Rock Bar leaflets out to the freshers?

You should flyer outside Fuzz club on Thursdays at Sheffield University esp their Fresher event, but only if you sell Snakebite and black.

I'll find out when it is for you.

Originally posted by Classic Rock
What's the best method to use to get Classic Rock Bar leaflets out to the freshers?


Sheffield University
http://www.shef.ac.uk/union/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=265&a=1733

Hallam University
http://www.hallamunion.com/introweek/default.asp

These are the links for the two Uni’s Fresher activities, any event here will be a high concentration of students but you should target on the ‘alternative nights’ Sheffield's is Fuzz Club on Thursday 24th and Hallams new night is Re-Volt starting on Wednesday the 29th of September.

Plug yourself as a venue for new bands and their should be lots of interest from students. Get in touch with each Unions rock Society and see if you can sort out some cross promotion.

Originally posted by Classic Rock
What's the best method to use to get Classic Rock Bar leaflets out to the freshers?
Aw Buffy, come on - It'll be bedlam:headbang:

Originally posted by Disco_Cat
The pop centre will re open as Hallams new union in around December time.

So much for the Council promising it would be "something we can all use".

I used to work for Sheff Uni student Union entertainments and they were getting very tough last year on flyer people outside the Union adverising anything other than Union run events. All the reps for the big clubs were being shifted by security and they were patrolling the concourse. It is their aim to keep students in the Union and pay to go to Union events and not other clubs or bars. As they own the whole concourse area they have the right to expel anyone flyering for rival clubs or bars. It was quite funny last freshers week(2003) to see all the flyer teams marched off by security.....they were all getting a bit militant about it.

I think the student invasion may have already started - in safeway on eccy rd yesterday there were quite a few youngsters with parents filling trolleys with 'essentials'!! I had to laugh when one of them at the checkout tried to smuggle a bottle of vodka passed the paying parent, was rumbled by said parent and told to put it back "i said id buy you essentials...not pay for your first lunchtime **** up!!" grmbled parent. sulky teenager stomped off muttering ......... !!!

Aw bless, we were all young once! Yonks ago, when i was a student nurse(in london) we all lived in the nurses home which had in its confines a social club.....the number of times we would stagger home at 2/3/4/5am, totally smashed, grab a couple of hours kip and then run across the road to the hospital to start our early shift at 7.30!

I wish them well in their studies and partying....life is too short not to enjoy it!

sue :D

Originally posted by goldenfleece
I used to work for Sheff Uni student Union entertainments and they were getting very tough last year on flyer people outside the Union adverising anything other than Union run events. All the reps for the big clubs were being shifted by security and they were patrolling the concourse. It is their aim to keep students in the Union and pay to go to Union events and not other clubs or bars. As they own the whole concourse area they have the right to expel anyone flyering for rival clubs or bars. It was quite funny last freshers week(2003) to see all the flyer teams marched off by security.....they were all getting a bit militant about it.

I guess the issue is not just the idea of customers being poached, it's the fact that at least half the flyers will be thrown on the ground, left for the union staff to sweep up - the club/bar flyer team never clean up after themselves!

I'm glad the students are back, the pubs in town are a bit dull and empty without them.

And they spend a fortune in Sheffield so they must be good for our economy.

Good for the economy without a doubt...I wonder how mnay clubs would shut down....and bars for that matter....if both uni's closed. I think it would be disaster....

Originally posted by goldenfleece
I used to work for Sheff Uni student Union entertainments

I was chair of the committee many years ago (well maybe not that long ago, 2001), it was a great laugh.


Originally posted by goldenfleece
They were getting very tough last year on flyer people outside the Union adverising anything other than Union run events. All the reps for the big clubs were being shifted by security and they were patrolling the concourse. It is their aim to keep students in the Union and pay to go to Union events and not other clubs or bars. As they own the whole concourse area they have the right to expel anyone flyering for rival clubs or bars. It was quite funny last freshers week(2003) to see all the flyer teams marched off by security.....they were all getting a bit militant about it.


It is like that every year, there was an investigation into the permission rights for the concourse. However because the University has allowed public access for so many years, the concourse is not allowed to made a private area. Security guards can ask club representatives to move on however they can not force them.

Originally posted by goldenfleece
Good for the economy without a doubt...I wonder how mnay clubs would shut down....and bars for that matter....if both uni's closed. I think it would be disaster....

I think they also keep most of the "fashionable" shops on Division Street in bussiness.

Originally posted by nick2
So much for the Council promising it would be "something we can all use".

What would you like to be able to use it for?

does anyone know when Hallam start giving the NUS cards out to 1st years/"used" students?

Originally posted by dave1814
does anyone know when Hallam start giving the NUS cards out to 1st years/"used" students?

You'll be given your Hallam Union NUW card on the day of enrolment.
They'll be papers to sign, payment details to give away, and you'll have to swear allegiance to Hallam :D .
Same day you might a couple of welcome lectures in the Pennine Lecture Theatre or in Adsetts Centre 6619 & 6620 with a goody bab which includes cards for bars, Mcdonald's student card, and leaflets on Uni.

You won't get your card before !

Originally posted by Skatiechik
[B]I was chair of the committee many years ago (well maybe not that long ago, 2001), it was a great laugh.

Hey, I was a Union DJ for ages, well 1993 to 2001. I was the first ever POP TARTS DJ in September 94 and did that for 4 years, also had the dubious pleasure of being Loveshack DJ for one year. Then they moved me to Bar One DJ because I was too old (LOL)

oh my god!

You must have the worst record collection ever! ;)

Originally posted by boyface
oh my god!

You must have the worst record collection ever! ;)


Oh all that stuff went up in the attic a few years back. ALl the Wham, Madonna, Spice Girls,etc,,all laid to rest. (not missed that much)

Was it the first day students get their NUS then? i cant remember, you see i finished uni at hallam this year and now my NUS card has expired and i can find any decent ones on the net ;) i wanted to know the very latest ALL the new ones get issued because I quite fancied going out on the sat. and i could just tell them I hadnt collected mine yet! :bigsmile: