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Earn Or Learn 10 Things You Can Do Broke Presidents Gift
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Made by students, for students.
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TERM 2, ISSUE 6
CREDITS Editor in Chief Brandon Harry Graphic Designer Tyhe Reading Printery CSU Print Photographer Keelan Hogie Website Hungappa.Rivcoll.com
CONTENTS - Earn or Learn
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- 10 Things You Can Do Broke
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- Uni Food
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- Sleep
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CLASSIC HUNG - Event photos
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Email Hungappa@Rivcoll.com
- VOX Pop
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Facebook www.facebook.com/ hungappa
- CSU Stalker Space
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- Ask Patty
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- Hungappa Fungappa
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- Taste
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CONRTIBUTORS Laura Boyd Jacqui Jacob Kuusu
DISCLAIMER Hungappa is a Rivcoll SRC publication and the opinions expressed within are not necessarily those of the editor, staff or student members. Association by person or companies with ‘Hungappa’ does not necessarily reflect the religious, political, sexual, or racial beliefs of those parties. The editor and Rivcoll SRC do not accept responsibility for any omission, errors, misconceptions or the views and opinions contained in any article accepted for publication. The editor reserves the right to edit or reject any articles submitted for publication.
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LETTER FROM THE SERVICES LETTER EDITOR Dear people of CSU, Good luck everyone with exams and final assessments! I just wanted to say a massive thank you to all of the students and staff who have picked up our new Hungappa and given all the lovely feedback that has been pouring into our inbox’s and emails. I can speak on behalf of the entire Hungappa team when I say that we are extremely humbled by the responses and that we will strive to continue to modernise and change into the publication that you, our students, deserve. We look forward to all your submissions and comments next session and well into the future. I would also like to thank everyone who came to Boy & Bear and made it the massive success that it was. The band, the staff and the organisers had nothing but praise for all in attendance and there are already big plans on the table for next time! I also want to do a huge shout out to Rivcoll SRC for subsidising all of our tickets, making them only $20, which definitely added to the fun of the night. On that, another congratulations to the winners of our Boy & Bear competition, I hope you had an amazing night and got some memorable photos! Just a reminder for everyone to keep an eye out for “Something Big”, it’s coming and it’s coming real soon! Details and dates are just around the corner! Everybody be ready to save the date and lets hope it’s a really SUNnyDAY (way too obvious hint). I am also really happy to announce that in conjunction with your President, Kirsty Sharbine, the President’s Gift will continue as regular entry into our Hungappa, with big-ticket items being given away to students who need them most. We are proud to have given away $300 worth of petrol vouchers to our students last Friday at Friday Unwind and I just would like to thank everyone who submitted, some of your submissions were very touching. We are even more excited that Kirsty has decided that the next gift to be a MacBook Air. If you’d like to win this little treasure please write into us either on Facebook or to our Hungappa email address (found below) and don’t forget to be at Friday unwind just before break to claim!
Hey guys, I’m Tyhe and i’m the Environmental Officer for Rivcoll and the Hungappa’s graphic designer. Hope you’re all enjoying the new look of the Hungappa, and if there’s any ideas on what you think should be in it or how it should look, just let me know. As the Environmental Officer for Rivcoll, i’m also in charge of working out any environmental issues you may have with the uni, or any ideas you think could work. This is for the resident side of things, as well as the rest of the uni. So just swing me an email or a Facebook message if you have any ideas about anything, and i’ll do my best to see what I can do. Good luck for exams and have a relaxing holiday! Tyhe,
I’m also super stoked to say that we are taking applications for the Hungappa Committee! If you are, or you know of anyone who is keen to get involved please come in and see me at the Rivcoll office in building 20 (near Eat@20) or drop me an email and who knows you could have a hand in the next Hungappa! Have a great final fortnight, don’t stress too much and see you at final fling! Brandon Harry Editor In Chief
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PRESIDENT’S GIFT To win a Macbook Air, post a photo on the Rivcoll Facebook page showing us why you need it! Either send through to Hungappa@rivcoll.com.au, or just send through on the Rivcoll SRC Facebook page. Make sure you’re at the crow bar at happy hour on fridays to claim your prize!
Proudly brought to you by your Rivcoll SRC President, Kirsty Sharbine.
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TV CLUB
Which Club? TV Club! Come one come all, and join a fun exciting club coming directly to you from TV Land! TV Club is a club run by Television Production students for Television Production, Acting and Design for Theatre and Television students from all years. Our focus to help support our students wherever and whenever we can! Your membership will get you all of these things for our special member prices: • Practice Studio Sessions: A great social and educational program where senior students run studio practice sessions for first year students at night. These nights are lots of fun with second and third year students sharing their own little tips and tricks with the first years while having fun using the studio equipment until you are all professional! •
Fundraisers: We hold fundraisers to provide financial assistance and resources to 3rd year students for their major projects!
• Our social events: we hold fun and social events regularly (sometimes alongside other clubs at CSU Wagga Wagga!). These are a great chance to let your hair down and socialize with other students from TV Land and the whole campus! Here in TV Club, we encourage you to increase your technical skills and increase your number of friends! TV Club is about having fun and supporting your fellow TV students!
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EARN OR LEARN By Laura Boyd
Last week, I made four litres of vegetable soup. It cost me ten dollars, and I found the recipe in a book my mother recently gave me as a gift, titled ‘Cooking On A Budget’ (she’s got my back). I’ve been eating it for every meal, and when it runs out, I will make another four litres. I’m not on a liquid diet for weight loss, and I’m not vegetarian. But last week, I read about the new ‘earn or learn’ scheme, and I panicked. I determined that if I still want to have a roof over my head in six months, I should decrease my weekly grocery budget from $25 to $15 if possible. Enter the soup. I’m also giving my past self a huge high five, for getting a pap smear a few weeks ago at a bulk billed doctor. Once the new budget comes into effect, I probably won’t be able to afford the $15 it will cost me to visit said doctor and have my cervix probed.
support their 22-year-old child. Not everyone has this luxury. So why wasn’t I on welfare? Surely that would have solved the problems such as the time I needed new tires and couldn’t afford them, and nearly skidded off the highway into a truck? Well I’m glad you asked. Even though I live three hours away from my parents, even though I study full time, even though my underpants are full of holes (not the sexy kind, the sad, seven year old cotton kind), I wasn’t considered independent. I hadn’t made enough money since leaving high school. The funny thing is, once I turned twentytwo, Centrelink could not have made it easier for me to receive benefits. My claim took about fifteen minutes (compared to the two hour attempts I had made in the past), and suddenly it was ‘goodbye parents, hello semi-financial independence!’.
Before you tell me to ‘get a job/stop dole bludging/stop overreacting’, let me tell you my story.
Until this year, I have relied on my parents and my two jobs to support me. My degree demands so much of my time that there simply aren’t enough hours in the week for me to work, unless I learn how to survive on one hour of sleep every three days. I consider myself lucky, because I have parents who are more than happy to 6
Until my workplace closed down. Until every job I applied for rejected me without even offering an interview. Apparently, educated young people with years of experience in the workplace aren’t particularly desirable, even at Woolworths. Now, I am completely and utterly dependent on the government. Those savings I painstakingly stored away for years? Spent on a car and a holiday, like the selfish student I am.
EARN OR LEARN Every time I receive my benefits, I want to cry with relief, because it means that I can afford to eat meat. The week of pay that I once used to pay for the medication I require for my mental health can now be set aside for fun indulgences like coffee and socks. So when the government announced that they would raise the age for young people to start receiving the ‘Newstart Allowance’, I felt sick. And when they floated the idea of students repaying their debts once they start earning minimum wage, I started wondering how I could possibly earn a living as a prostitute with the aforementioned hole-y underwear, because this is the only feasible employment prospect I face right now, amidst rising levels of youth unemployment. On behalf of the young people who will spend sleepless nights hyperventilating over the fact that they need to ask their parents for money again, because they’ve spent yet another month unemployed, and the students who are working three jobs at the expense of their education so that they can pay the internet bill in order to finish their assignments, I’d like to thank the government for making us even more underprivileged than we already are. I’d also like to know where we should send the bills for the kilograms of anti-depressants we will all no doubt need to survive the rest of the Coalition’s time in government.
Want to earn some money to make it through the crazy budget changes!? Just send through your articles or artworks for some extra cash and we’ll do our best to publish them. Budgeting is hard enough, so we’re here to help out.
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Things To Do When You’re Ca$h Strapped
Liquid Diet
Literally EVERYTHING tastes good in soup form, and part of this deliciousness is owed to the fact that you know you’ve saved some serious dollars. Start experimenting with soup, and you’ll wonder why you ever ate solid food!
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Wear a beanie
Someone once told me that body heat exits via the head. This seems like a legit fact, so save money on heating by wearing a beanie this winter! Also, you can get away with washing your hair once a week, because no one can actually see your hair. Luckily for you, beanies are super hip, so everyone will think you are just a fly hipster, while in actual fact you are keeping warm AND saving money you’d otherwise be spending on that pesky shampoo.
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By Laura Boyd
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Stop wasting your downloads
We’ve all had our download quota run out at some point in time (enter the scary email from the uni warning you of unspeakable punishment). And there is nothing worse than sitting on the computer at 5pm, incapable of watching the latest episode of Game of Thrones, because every other punk is trying to do the same. But little did you know, reader, that for the cost of a cup of coffee you can use someone else’s wifi! That’s rightmany of the café’s in town have free wifi, and in my book, one coffee equates to approximately five hours of internet mooching.
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Don’t pay for air conditioning
Instead, drape a wet towel over your fan. Yes, it may be loud, but when you eventually adjust to the sound of a jet engine in your ear, you’ll be enjoying the sweet, sweet air temperature you have created. #lifehack.
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Don’t pay for heating either
Heating bills are a killer, especially when you don’t live on campus and instead live in an igloo, like me! Stop paying for your bills, and follow this little gem of advice: take two hot water bottles, fill them with boiling water, shove one down your shirt and keep the other on your lap. Yes, you’ll be mocked and you may get slight 1st degree burns, but you’ll be laughing all the way to the bank, my warm friend!
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Legs are free, petrol is not. It may take you forty-five minutes to get anywhere, but you can just spend the time grinning about all those coins you aren’t going to spend on petrol!
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Visit Sam
If you haven’t already built an altar worshipping Sam’s Warehouse, you should. Why? $2 toothpaste. That’s why. That place has the goods. I can’t guarantee that any of their products work effectively, and I have a feeling the laundry liquid is actually just hair gel, but you can’t argue with the savings!
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Vinegar is your new friend
Invest in your legs
Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card
Did you know that there is a place you can go, where you can rent DVD’s FOR FREE?! It’s called the library, and it is a place on wonder. And just in case you needed something else to stimulate your brain, you can read this age-old invention called a book. It may even keep you entertained for hours.
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Cut your own hair
Did you know that vinegar literally cleans everything? It is the miracle elixir of life. So stop paying for expensive bleach to clean out the smell of an after grog bog! Embrace vinegar. Yes, the stench will make you want to vomit…but you can just use even MORE vinegar to clean that up, too! Everybody wins.
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S – Circa Circa’s Helpmann Award-winning ensemble creation, “S” is a full-throttle ride to the limits of the human body. Based on the 19th letter of the English Alphabet, “S” fuses group acrobatics with intimate emotions. Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz was inspired to create an abstract work of power and joy – inspired by the curves, symmetries and plurality that are all attributes of this one letter. On a floating white diamond stage, seven extraordinary acrobats bend, fly, contort and hang – sometimes alone, and others in a tangle of bodies. Dramatic acrobatics, athletic aerial acts and powerful solos are all infused with raw immediacy and beauty. “S” features the world-renowned Circa ensemble with the intoxicating music of the Kronos Quartet to create a symphony of bodies. “Sometimes sweet and sensuous, sometimes dark or wild, “S”, brilliantly mixes dance and circus… this acrobatic ballet of great beauty celebrates the human body in all its glory.” - Canoe, Montreal With work that has toured to 26 countries across six continents since 2006, the company is relevant across cultures, audiences and venues. It’s the appeal of something that is skillful but hasn’t forgotten that to be human is, in the first instance, to feel. Where other companies tend to add elements (story, character) Circa’s work is a stripped back circus of the heart. It finds new emotional landscapes inside what is generally considered to be a spectacle. From a review by Jay McKee that appeared in Stage Whispers: S is a combination of ballet, gymnastics, tumbling, contortion, and mystique. The ensemble of five females and three males never leave the stage empty, even when new equipment is needed; that need inspires yet another startling moment in this tightly choreographed eighty minutes. The abstruse musical score entrances and establishes the mood changes of the show. Their human illustrations of things we learnt at school are amazing. Remember, in science, the line of metal balls hanging in contact; you drew the end one back, let it go and the ball on the other end shot out? They do a human version. Likewise, a man supporting an artist in a precarious balance is wiped out by another flying artist … and the top artist transfers instantaneously to a different supporter without losing balance. Even anatomy is challenged: In an adagio sequence, a man roughly grabs one leg of a supine woman, shoves it up behind her shoulder, stands on it, then walks across her body! Sadism? You bet it is. For goodness sake, don’t try any of these tricks at home. Health and Safety in the Workplace has no place here. You may not draw breath until the curtain call. Circa is amazing, Australian and internationally acclaimed. Be proud. 11
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UNI FOOD Okay, so if you were to walk over to your pantry right now and had a look inside, what would you find? Chances are there is probably a half empty bottle of vodka, some dry pasta and probably several packets 2 min noodles. I’ve been at uni long enough now to realise that this stereotype is around for a reason, those small and simple little packs of carbs are pretty ubiquitous on and off campus. As common as they are, do you really know which ones are the best? Have you ever sat down and waded through that soupy and terrible sea of MSG? Well I have, and I did it for you, and 25 bucks, but mostly for you. I went and spend 10 bucks of my own money buying a couple of different types noodles so I could find the best (or less crap) of the main options on the market. Shall we start our tour at the most expensive end of the scale?
1. Maggi Fusion Singapore noodles These come in an individual plastic cup and they have the word ‘Fusain’ in their title, so you know, they look super fancy, and you pay for that fanciness, they come in at $1.79 a serve. So for $1.79 you get the plastic cup (which you could totally reuse) and some vaugley Asian smelling, anaemic looking noodles. I have to say, the packaging is the most exciting thing about this meal, it tasted like spicy cardboard. The noodles were so greasy, I am also sure that you should avoid contact with your skin. So, final thoughts? Well, it was easy to make… Just add the boil water! I could easily do that drunk, which I would have to be to force down more than one mouthful.
2. Fantastic Chicken Noodle Chow Mein I can quite honestly say that the only Fantastic thing here is the brand. This is another one that comes in a cup and apparently that means it gets to be twice the price of anything else. They are expensive and it looks nothing like chow mein (trust me, I know, I work in a Chinese restaurant), but on the plus side, it come in at $1.69/serve, which was good for a second or two of laughs. You need the laughs to get through the meal, it kinda looks like worms floating in a cup of weak coffee… 18
3. Maggi 2 minute noodles – Chicken Mmm, a classic. These dehydrated gems come in a pack of 5 and cost $0.80 a serve; you can feed yourself dinner for a week for less than the cost of a doctor’s visit under the new budget! On the plus side, it smells like chicken salt and has green flecks of something in it, so it might be healthy! Sadly, it does require boiling water, a bowl AND a microwave, so the convenience factor takes a nose dive with the price.. The noodles are also kinda weirdly slimy and I needed to down a litre of water because it tasted like I tried to eat the ocean.
4. Indomie Mi Goreng Fried Noodles These guys are a favourite for a reason, you can eat them in a lazy way, with just the boiled water and microwave, or you can get fancy and add egg and meat and other schmancy things. If you try hard enough, you can even pass it off as stir-fry. These packets of carby MSG are just 63 cents a serve! The noodles have a really decent texture, even if they do smell kinda fishy, all in all, not a bad trade off…
5. HomeBrand Chicken Instant Noodles These bad guys are by far the cheapet option on the list, at $0.99 for a 5-pack, these bad boys are less than 20 cents a serve! Of all of the noodles we tried tonight, these were oddly my favourite. The only con we came up with was that you had to provide your own bowl. They don’t look great, but they taste alright and are super, super cheap and we all know that that is the main thing. Now go forth my educated friends and eat until your hair falls out and you die of excess sodium consumption! I need to lie down… I don’t feel so good…
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BOY & BEAR WINNERS! A big congratulations to all those who won our double passes to Boy & bear! We hope you all enjoyed it, and i’m sure we’ll run more competitions like this, so watch this space! Also, thank you to everyone who went to the event and made it such an amazing night! It was definitely one of the biggest nights of the year, and it was all thanks to you guys.
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SLEEP! You run for the other side of the Hill – you’re late. Once again. A fine layer of sweat covers your face, but you couldn’t care less. You have one mission. Only one. Not to be late. To be sitting in the lecture hall looking pretty and carefree, not like you did ten rounds with a hippo. What do you have to miss out on, though? The extra fifteen, twenty minutes that will make you look relaxed or using those minutes that you lost that morning by cramming a little more work in before your sweet lover – your bed – calls your name? You know what you’d pick, what anyone would pick in the same situation – sleep. Sweet, sweet sleep. It’s one of the things that you value most in this world, but as uni takes over your life, it is the one thing that you and many others never get enough of. It does get even harder to make that mad dash over the Hill in winter, because all you want to do is pretend you’re a bear intent on sleeping the colder months away without a worry in the world. Sleep makes sure that you’re functioning by at LEAST noon, right? Hence why early classes are such a killer to you. These class times expect you to break a very loving relationship that you have developed with your bed, but you know that you have to break. That you have to crack because there’s going to be a vital lecture on that huge assessment that is coming up which you’re actually trying to push away. You don’t want to leave. Nor face the cold, icy world that awaits you outside the warm embrace of the block you live in. You’d rather curl up on the lounge and watch 90s’ shows all day with a constant cycle of hot chocolates to match. You know that can’t happen, though. You wish it would now. That the world would just stop, even for a few hours. You feel yourself careening into new and exciting places, but for now, all you want to do is sleep. To forget about the assessments and the study that is looming behind you which you know you have to do, even if for an hour or two. You know it can’t, that it won’t, but still. Probably harks back to procrastination, but sleep is needed for you to function happily. Perhaps coffee prompts you to act a little more human in those early morning hours that you know you would be crunching some serious z’s; gaining frequent flyer points aboard a plane heading for the city of dreams. You can be anything you want in your dreams (even though you won’t remember them when you wake up). Who cares, though? Sleeping makes you happy, as it does to so many other people. It makes you feel human. It is literally the best thing at the end of a long day dealing with different things that life throws at you. That ability to stretch out and go to sleep… Oh wait. You left the light on? What an idiot. Worst moment. You just got comfy and this happens. WORST MOMENT! You can’t even yell at someone to turn it off for you. You
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groan knowing nothing can be done and pull of all the blankets that you spent meticulously arranging so that you would be in a cocoon of warmth and love. You shuffle to the door, grumbling an incoherent string of words that doesn’t make sense even to you and flick the light off. The room plunges into darkness, thank goodness! Now. All you have to do is navigate your way across the obstacle course that you left in your wake. Seriously. It happens. You can’t believe it. Surely you could have shoved stuff out of your way so that there was a clear, unhindered path back. But alas. You didn’t. What a genius, huh!? You shake your head in disdain, not allowing yourself to be defeated by turning the light back on. That would defeat the purpose of the trip in the first place! You know that there is clothes strewn all over the floor, shoes having a part to play in the havoc that is about to occur. Oh, and don’t forget the coat hangers that you forgot to pick up. Wow, really? You think this is tough? What about that dastardly office chair that you know is there but just can’t see because of its inherent ability to blend in with the darkness surrounding. You already know that it will you trip you up the first chance it gets if you don’t tread carefully. Sheesh, your room is a maze not a room! And in all of this, all you want to do is get back to the other side of your room to your bed so that you can finally close your eyes and drift off into a world that is free from the stress of assessments and study that pervades your waking hours. You have to get across; otherwise you’re never going to get any sleep. You put your hands out, weaving your way through. Your feet occasionally brush against the clothes, and your left foot hits a shoe for six. You cringe with the sound it makes, hoping that you didn’t wake your neighbour up with the amount of noise that you’re making. That feeling you get when you find the safety of your bed? Pure, unsolicited delight. You dive into bed, pull all the blankets back over you and settle in for the sleep ahead. It’s the best thing in the world – good ‘ole sleep. You love it too much to let it go completely because it helps you to function in a way that coffee just doesn’t. You’d rather make that mad dash over the Hill, foregoing the breakfast you know you should have, just to get an extra few minutes of precious, precious sleep. Here’s to you, sleep! xoxo.
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My Wagga Experience A home away from home... When I heard of the Murrumbidgee River as a major feature in Wagga Wagga before coming to Australia, it sounded like a word in my native tribe “Tiv” in the middle belt of Nigeria. I am from the Tiv tribe of Benue State in Nigeria known for its high speciality in Agriculture, thus given the title, “Food Basket of the Nation” due to the fact that it is a state that produces so much food enough to feed even the whole nation. One of the two prominent rivers in Nigeria also shares the same name as my state. On arrival in Wagga Wagga, I actually noticed again something similar in culture to my tribe- hospitality. Back home we are known to welcome strangers a lot with a saying that a stranger is a messenger of blessings. This was an afternoon tea by the Mayor of Wagga Wagga who hosted us Australia Award Scholars as ambassadors of our various countries and referred to us as individuals who can be expected to make a substantial difference to our countries. Studying abroad was a dream I conceived right from childhood but never knew how it will be a reality until my coming to Australia. My tribe the Tiv, are predominantly peasant farmers who produce mostly crops as well as rear animals on a subsistence basis, the major crop being yam, a tuber, and rich in carbohydrate. Therefore studying animal science is a fulfilment of acquiring knowledge in livestock production that will help me to contribute to my immediate society in the improvement of livestock production. This is also in line with the Nigerian governments’ Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA), which aims at treating the agricultural sector as a business than a development programme. Thus focus is running it along value chains. This is in fulfilment of one of the millennium development goals of eradicating hunger and poverty I obtained a Bachelor of Agriculture degree in Animal production from one of the three special universities of Agriculture in Nigeria, known as University of Agriculture Makurdi, which incidentally is the capital of my state in Nigeria, Benue. On graduation, I taught Agricultural Science as a subject in secondary school before joining the federal ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development as a Livestock Development Officer.
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By Jacob Kuusu
I was fortunate to be selected among the few that were to study in Australia on scholarship and thus Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga. Wagga boasts of an incredible multicultural academic environment that is suitable for study. It is closer to nature with full traces of the Indigenous Australian heritage. CSU has many regional campuses and about 35,000 students in total with many being Distance Education students. Even studying oncampus, I have also had the opportunity to attend a residential school and met the Distance Education students. Wagga Wagga has the four seasons. Winter is always a challenge but a heater and warm clothing will be of succour. Summer can also be can also be extremely hot but a hat and sunglasses will reduce the impact of the sun’s rays CSU has satisfied my expectations of an academic environment where every student is expected and motivated to excel with sound teaching methods. From the highest placed to the lowest staff, students welfare is a priority. Wagga Wagga is a suburb compared to places like Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra etc., but it is rather an ideal place to study with less distractions. It also has places of interest that nature is preserved such as the Botanic Garden, Civic Centre, Museum Riverina, etc. I have already acquired a lot that I would impart to other people upon completion and return back to Nigeria. CSU has further aroused my desire for more knowledge which I hope to after contributing to my country’s livestock sector. CSU is a place I will strongly recommend to anyone considering studying in Australia because of the quality of education available and the multicultural international representation which will help in faster integration and experience.
FIGHTING FATIGUE 10 tips for fighting driver fatigue. The signs of fatigue are pretty clear – yawning, daydreaming, trouble keeping your head upright and even difficulty remembering how you suddenly got to that set of traffic lights. Yet, while these signs are obvious, most of us seem to ignore them – believing we can make it that last few kilometres home without nodding off. But given fatigue plays a major role in 30 per cent of fatal crashes, there’s no excuse for getting behind the wheel while drowsy. Here are some tips to help.
1 A 10-to-15-minute nap is shown to immediately improve alertness for about an hour. However, a 30-minute snooze fails to produce the same results, as your body will then start to enter into a deeper sleep. So find a safe place to pull over for a short siesta
2 Eating a light meal or a fresh snack can help prevent fatigue; however, heavy meals and fatty foods can have the reverse effect as your body has to use too much energy to digest them and they contain chemicals that make you drowsy.
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4 It’s not just a long road trip or pulling an all-nighter that causes fatigue. Many of us have racked up a huge sleep debt, where we haven’t gotten enough quality rest over a period of days, weeks or months. Missing out on even a little sleep each night will eventually impair your mental performance, ability to focus, reaction times – and naturally – your driving ability.
5 Don’t let the interior of the car get too hot or stuffy as this can make you drowsy – ensure there’s fresh cool air circulating.
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6 Be aware of the effects of any medications you’re taking and ask your GP or pharmacist for advice.
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7 Get enough quality sleep – this will not only reduce your risk of crashing but will also give you more energy throughout the whole day. Most people require at least seven to nine hours.
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Avoid driving during high-risk times. Midnight to 6am and 2pm until 4pm are statistically the riskiest periods as they coincide with low-points in what scientists call our circadian rhythms – an unchangeable 24-hour body clock that rules all of us.
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On long trips, try to share the driving with another rested passenger and make sure you stop for at least 15 minutes every two hours.
It’s also important to avoid travelling long distances after a full day’s work and to limit driving to a max of eight hours a day.
DID YOU KNOW? After being awake for 17 hours your driving skills are about the same as someone with a blood alcohol content of 0.05. While 24 hour is the same as 0.1, double the legal limit.
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CSU Stalker Space To that person or place that you want to creep on or whinge about!
VOX POP If you could meet anyone past or present who would it be and why?
To the guy who served my pasta bolognaise at eat@20 - such a sweetheart and so cute!
- IWantMoreOfThatPastaSauce
Bryan Reberger: Definitely Ellen Degeneres. She is such an inspiration to the LGBT community and she can always make me laugh.
I want Boy & Bear to touch me… - IveFallenAtYourFeet To the boy at Eat@20 who said, “all my best work is half-arsed” thank you, you’ve just described my entire degree. - DueTodayDoToday To the hotties in the Rivcoll Office, you’re hot… - TotesNotRivcoll The other day I fell down after tripping on a stair in building 14, to the girl who laughed, can I have your number? You’reeeee cuuuuuteeeeeeee.
Samuel Barron: Either Neil DeGrasse Tyson, or Bill Nye, because Science.
- IFellForYou To the boy I saw to a 7am walk of shame last Thursday. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! - HAHAHAHAHA To the guy at Boy & Bear who told me to hit you up. Baby I’m hitting you up! - CanIHaveYoNumber
Leah Ellis: 1 00% honey boo boo.
To my blockies, I know one of you are leaving hair all through the showers… and we all know what kind of hair that is! This needs to stop! - PubesInMeToes To the tall blonde/brown boy who lives in cottages and drives a hilux, talk to me one day? ;) - Kirsty Sharbine
Submit your creepy thoughts to us on Facebook or email. xoxo
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Ashleigh Reef Knott: A udrey Hepburn Beautiful person, dedicated humanitarian, wonderful actress and impeccable style.
So there’s this person I want to sleep with on campus where I live, just the other block, but I’m too nervous to let the block see them or me do a walk of shame? - Ain’tnohoe On campus, the walls have eyes and ears! Nighttime is a great time because you hide under the cover of darkness when you sneak off to each other’s blocks. Try and disguise your meetings with a book and a laptop, tell others you’re studying for an exam and that you need to do an all nighter to do some cramming! Patty x Every time I have sex my hunger triples for 2-3 hours afterwards. I can’t stop having sex because I love it, how can I manage my hunger ques! -Alsoain’tahoe Alsoain’tahoe, Sounds like your metabolism is on fire! This is not necessarily a bad thing. The solution isn’t to eat less or to watch what you’re eating but instead, you’ll to step up, if you’re going to ride that pony, ride it like it’s the Melbourne Cup! Did you know that the Llama will spend 1 to 2 hours going at it? A bit of Llama sutra in the sack and you’ll be burning the joules off in no time no matter what you eat!
Dearest RedTubeIsMyFav, I do not see an issue here. Have you ever done your assignment to a TV show or movie? I recommend Pirates and an HDMI cord to your TV. Sit back, laptop out, and you can be productive while watching some of the best movie productions known to man. Patty x
I’m not obsessive, but a while ago I got some free uni condoms, the banana benders. They are legit a great flavor. I cant help it. If I’m alone I just sit there, chewing on them while I do my work in my room. HELP!? - Yum Sounds as though you have discovered the greatest calorie free snack! What are you worrying about? Now you can procrasta-snack as much as you like! Strawberry shockwave and even Cockoholicks Delight! Patty x
Patty x
Every time I try to start an assignment I end up looking up porn, how do I stop myself? -RedTubeIsMyFav
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HUNGAPPA FUNGAPPA
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TASTE
INGREDIENTS
METHOD
- 1 cup sushi rice
Step 1
- 1/4 cup Obento mirin seasoning
Rinse and drain rice 3 times or until water runs clear. Place rice in sieve over a bowl. Set aside for 10 minutes to drain. Step 2 Place rice and 1 cup cold water in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cover. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low. Simmer, covered, for 12 minutes or until water has been absorbed. Remove from heat. Stand, covered, for 10 minutes. Step 3 Transfer rice to a large ceramic dish. Using a spatula, stir rice to break up lumps. Gradually add seasoning, lifting and turning rice, until rice has cooled. 29
CLASSIFIEDS Black fully mounted 16.5” Wintec 500 Dressage saddle with CAIR for sale. Well looked after and is kept covered all the time. 2005 model but looks practically new. $450 Ono. Contact: 0411 100 046
Several rooms available in Fitzmaurice St, central Wagga. Beautiful balcony over looking the Main Street and rooftop views over looking the river. University accommodation living, with all extras included, yes internet too. $145/week Contact - 0405144408.
CAMPUS YOGA! Do you enjoy Yoga? Or need a quiet activity to use as further procrastination...I mean... study break... to help destress? We’ve got just the thing for you! Student Yoga classes are happening every Tuesday morning in the Hampden’s TV Room (452/101) at 7.30am! Pre-book for $35 or pay $10 per class on arrival. A 5 week program has already started, with 2 weeks left to go, however another one will start up afterwards! For more information, join the facebook group ‘Yoga Classes Wagga CSU’ or follow links from the CSU Wagga ResLIFE events facebook page. Email Jo at hello@divinewellbeing. com.au to pre-book for the next 5 weeks! Evening classes are looking to start SOON so make sure you keep your ears and eyes peeled for more information! Namaste. Are you trying to sell something? Do you need help contacting people or getting your message out? CLASSY HUNG is for you! It’s free for all students to use, but be quick there are limited spots!
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