So O-week has been and gone. A huge lot of impressionable first years. The best chance all year to build up an e-list, a club, a collective.
For the most part, I think the SRC did well. Being next to the Arc Membership tent was helpful in channeling students towards the SRC (especially given the quite astounding rate of membership this year). Probably would have been better if the SRC stalls hadn't been so far back from the main walkway, but you can't have everything.
A few things stood out.
Thanks to the Indigenous Officers, I discovered the incredible tastiness of emu and crocodile.
Wheelchair basketball is incredibly fun.
The Ethno-cultural and International Students departments look to have made an excellent start on rebuilding their collectives - there were lots of people going up to them throughout the week, signing petitions and having fun. It may well happen that Ashraf Alfian Alias, currently an Undergrad Councillor (A), will become co-International Students Officer.
Queer made a great start to the year, which then culminated in the splendour that is Mardi Gras.
A few other things, on a less positive note.
The Education Officer, Helen Samardzic, seemed to have only been around for part of the day on Monday. Not much for the rest of the week. Later on, several undergrad councillors were trying to collect names for the Education e-list for her. But while all the other collectives got lots of sign-ups and enquiries, there simply wasn't anything from the Education Department.
The Cofa Representative, Beck Hynek, was on Kensington campus all day on Tuesday. This might not seem like a bad thing. She was meeting students. But... Tuesday was the COFA O-Day. From the looks of it (and from hearing from a few COFA SRCers), she seems to have no interest in the campus she represents, and no interest in working with the SRC she chairs.
Not happy Jan.
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On a completely other note, classes have started up again at UNSW. Plus I'm four weeks into my Tafe course. So I won't be posting here all that often, usually with either general info stuff (the 7 or 8 topics I raised a few weeks back) or with breaking news. But stay tuned nevertheless, since there still will be occassional posts here.
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(especially given the quite astounding rate of membership this year)
ReplyDeleteYeah, there is a slight difference between 149 and 69. Plus when you mention 69 in a sentence your more likely to get a response from people :p
Membership's already well past the total for all of last year, and we're only two days into classes.
ReplyDeletethat is good to hear and an interesting stat as well
ReplyDeleteIt remains to be seen how all this problems you have mentioned will unravel in next week's meeting, do you not agree?
ReplyDeleteFor 'failing in one's duty', dissolution of posts, or individual dismissal at the very least, is not such a wild idea. I have done it before. In fact, I have dismissed a whole government...
You should well know I have, Mister Thomas.
John Kerr's back from the dead? How odd. And considering you started off with Whitlam, a strange shift in photos.
ReplyDeleteI would be rather surprised if this was brought up at the upcoming SRC meeting. Maybe it'll happen, but I'll believe that when I see it (or, more likely, am told about it afterwards).