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WOENSDAG 30 JANUARIE 2019
Connect through Vensters HELENE LEONARD
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ensters is an annual event where thousands of first year Maties gather and put their various talents on display for the Stellenbosch community. Stellenbosch University (SU) residences and private student organisations (PSOs) collaborate to bring audiences a vibrant and entertaining performance, which will be connected with the social impact projects all first year students are involved in throughout the year. Each residence and PSO choose their own theme, related to their social impact project, and create a performance that is entertaining while also conveying a message of social awareness. This event encourages students to engage more in critical discussions. Students learn from the “get go” to be more involved in society. Stalls and the food walk in Victoria Street will start doing business from 16:30 on Friday, but the Venster performances will only start from 18:00 and will continue until 22:00. Many SU students support their fellow first years through watching Vensters. Over 40 PSOs and residences take part in this event. First years get the opportunity to showcase themselves on stage and this also creates a space for students to grow in their confidence. Students engage with topical social and economic issues that hinder our society. Through Vensters students from different backgrounds will come to-
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HANDS IN THE AIR Harmonie first years practice their Vensters routine. Photo: Armin Prinsloo gether and learn what each other’s history and heritage is about. Vensters is all about creating an environment where students get challenged with difficult societal problems and, through a festive and entertaining manner, first years are taught what it means to be a citizen in society. According to Cailin Perrie, chair of Connect, Vensters is a “fundraising event where the proceedings go to the participating residences and PSOs”. The money is then used for various
“social upliftment projects”. Perrie further says that the focus of this year’s Vensters is on making good choices to improve society. “Each Vensters partnership was thus challenged to add to the phrase ‘choose to’, for example ‘choose to be sustainable’,” she said. The residences Dagbreek and Nerina chose the theme ‘choose to change the world’, while Venustia and Goldfields will have as their theme ‘choose to be you’.
Through choosing such inspiring themes, students develope a sense understanding of the socio-political problems and ever growing changewithin their society. Vensters officially marks the end of the first years orientation. Senior students have been moving into Stellenbosch and their residences since the 26 of January and are expected to support their fellow first years during Vensters. Lectures for most SU students will start on Monday 4 February.
Ekonomie aan toppunt van die leer SZ MINNAAR
Ekonomie was verlede jaar die gewildste eerstejaarsvak aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch (US). Meer as 2 000 studente het verlede jaar vir dié vak registreer. Aangesien die fakulteit ekonomiese en bestuurswetenskappe (EBW) die US se grootste fakulteit is, is dit geen verrassing dat hierdie fakulteit die eerstejaarsvakke met die grootste studentegetalle aanbied nie. Volgens die universiteit se kan-
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toor vir inligtingsoorsigbestuur is die agt gewildste eerstejaarsmodules deur hierdie fakulteit aangebied. Dié modules is, van groot na klein, Ekonomie 144 en 114, Besigheidsbestuur 113 en 142, Renterekening 152, Inligtingsvaardighede 172, Finansiële Rekeningkunde 188 en Statistiek 186. Matieland is egter nie net ’n handelskool nie. Die gewildste eerstejaarsmodules in die fakulteit lettere en sosiale wetenskappe, die US se tweede grootste fakulteit, was
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verlede jaar Sielkunde 114 en 144. Hierdie twee modules het ook onderskeidelik die negende en tiende plek aan die universiteit beklee wat betref die totale getal studente wat daarvoor geregistreer was. Chemie 144 was die gewildste eerstejaarsmodule in die fakulteit natuurwetenskappe en het die elfde plek van die universiteit se eerstejaarsmodules beklee. Aangesien registrasie nog aan die gang is, kan vanjaar se getalle vir eerstejaarsmodules nog nie bepaal
word nie. • Studente wat geregistreer het en onseker oor enige modules is, het nog kans tot Vrydag 15 Februarie om hulle modules te verander. Enige moduleveranderings wat ná 15 Februarie plaasvind, mits toestemming by die betrokke fakulteitsbeampte verkry word, gaan studente R100 uit die sak jaag. Voorgraadse studente wat nie van e-registrasie gebruik maak nie, kan nog vandag en môre op kampus in Narga gaan registreer.
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