candidates for REPRESENTATIVES of the 84th SRC
BI
BJ
Policy statement
Policy statement
Heavy Petting Zoo and the need to preserve the integrity of the collection. We want to work with the University to: • Digitise the library collections – easier to access on and off campus, cheaper to store. • Open the library for longer to reflect how many students actually study. • Provide more spaces for students to study around the campus – we’re sick of walking around for hours to find a desk! A Sustainable VOICE for our Campus The SRC has a proud history of campaigning for environmental issues. We want to put some more pressure on the University to walk the walk. We can work to green our campus through: • Implementation of green campus infrastructure Vote [1] Your VOICE for Women for SRC! Vote [1] Your VOICE at NUS! V ote [1] Tim Matthews for President!
Rebecca Barrett Law
Heavy Petting Zoo Remember that time you were 7, at the Easter Show petting zoo, stroking the wool of a newly born lamb? ZOO does. Remember the tiny ducklings, waddling after their mother? ZOO does. Remember how that little piglet squealed as it wallowed in the mud? ZOO does. ZOO wants to bring this excitement to SRC this year – but now you’re all grown up, and ZOO is too. Welcome to the Heavy Petting Zoo. Think lambs, ducklings and piglets, but sexy. So nothing really like lambs, ducklings and piglets. Unless you’re into that. ZOO will bring some maturity to the fun you felt as a kid. ZOO will make you laugh, ZOO will make you excited, ZOO might even make you love. Unleash the heavy petting Zoo
James ODoherty Arts/Law
Curriculum Vitae
Arts
Curriculum Vitae Eleanor Rye Science Curriculum Vitae Eliza Forsyth Arts/Law
Curriculum Vitae
Our SRC this year has been sidetracked by partisan bickering. We think that students on this campus deserve better. We deserve an SRC that works around the clock to bulk up student services, not the CVs of student politicians. We deserve an SRC run for students, not just by students. The fact that so many students don’t recognise the value of the SRC is an indictment of the representation we’ve had in the past. We’re different. We’re a group of students who drink your coffee, go to your parties and know we deserve a better SRC. We know we can do this through: • A broad coalition of real student representatives with a diversity of views, experiences and policies. • Making SRC officers more accountable: firm commitments at the start of their term, create an officers blog, regular reporting to the student body.
Curriculum Vitae
Your VOICE for Fair Education
Arts
Anne Gribble
An Independent VOICE for REAL Student Representation
Arts(Meco)
Caitlin Still
2011, Development Officer, USU Debates 2011, Chair, SULS Social Justice Committee
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• Engaging more students in the collectives: more transparency, better advertising, running bigger campaigns to engage the University community
Kira Spucys-Tahar
Curriculum Vitae
Your VOICE for Science
Curriculum Vitae Gareth Austin Arts/Law
Curriculum Vitae Lane Sainty Arts
Curriculum Vitae
Education advocacy is the most important work that the SRC does. Our SRC is our voice to the University bureaucracy. The VOICE team wants to drag the University kicking and screaming into the twenty first century to provide a higher quality education for all students. We want to be your voice to tell the University the hard truths that we need them to hear. We want: • A 21st Century Campus: Readers available free online, reliable WiFi, more powerpoints in lecture theatres. • All our lectures recorded online. • Semesterly printing and photocopying allowance.
Claire Ferguson
• A freeze on fee increases.
Curriculum Vitae
• Funding allocated to Undergraduate students to continue improving the quality of your education.
Science
A Student VOICE in Student Housing Access to affordable housing is a massive problem for some students. Many students can’t afford the current housing options, and some “low cost” options (such as Sydney University Village) are constantly increasing rental prices. The University is presently
looking into building new low-cost student housing. The VOICE team believe that your voice has previously been missing in these negotiations. We will to work to: • Collaborate with the University find a fix to the student housing crisis. • Get a roof over your head at a reasonable rate. An International Student VOICE We want to hear the voices of all students. International Students face some of the worst treatment by the University administration. The University has a legal requirement to provide a minimum standard of services for International Students – but we know that University of Sydney can do better. The VOICE team believe that: • The SRC should provide the language support services cut by the University this year. • Proposed International Student fee increases are totally unreasonable. • The University should increase the availability of specialised counselling services for International Students. Your VOICE for Better Library Services Our student body engaged in an extensive and productive discussion about library services in the last year. The VOICE team have some innovative ideas for how the University can balance concerns about student study spaces, and the need to preserve the integrity of the collection. We want to work with the University to: • Digitise the library collections – easier to access on and off campus, cheaper to store. • Open the library for longer to reflect how many students actually study. • Provide more spaces for students to study around the campus – we’re sick of walking around for hours to find a desk! A Sustainable VOICE for our Campus Vote [1] Your VOICE for Science for SRC! Vote [1] Your VOICE at NUS! Vote [1] Tim Matthews for President!
Kade Denton Agriculture
Curriculum Vitae Alexander Meekin Science
Curriculum Vitae 67 Honi Soit