Would you like your campus to be free of sexist advertising? The women’s collective is currently organising a campaign to speak out against and stop sexist advertising on campus. This includes the objectification of women to sell alcohol and head hunting of ‘Jim Beam Girls’ during o’week. Sexist advertising reinforces the misconception that women are objects whose sole purpose is to please men. Newcastle University is not a place for such preposterous and unacceptable fallacies. Get sexist ads off our campus now! Contact the collective for more information.  

Heya kids! How are we all?

Its Ben here, one of your two fabo queer conveners with yet another queer report, and boi do I have a report for ya’ll.

GLO-SO REPORT

Hello and welcome, you may have heard the rumours… and yes, they are true! There is a brand new collective on campus that wants to right wrongs and allow justice to prevail. We are called the Global Solidarity Collective and we are disheartened with the way that the government, wider society and big business see the world and people as exploitable resources to make them big fat profits. 

Queer report 3

There are a few main things the queer collective have been doing and there are also some plans for future events.

Mardi Gras

Where are you gonna run to when the uni tries to shut down the Huxley library (again)? Where are you gonna go when the government want to raise HECS (again)?

These are serious questions, and really, without a means to band together and raise our voice collectively, we (as students) will lose our ability to effectively voice our concerns about issues that affect us……. This is why students all over Australia are defending our rights to our Student Associations (ie. NUSA at our uni).

Travel concessions for International Students could be a reality in the near future.

Dear international students,

on the 23rd of March the International Students’ Department –NUSA was informed by Aristotle Paipetis that the “Administrative Decisions Tribunal of NSW has handed down an important decision concerning the entitlement of international students to be granted travel concessions for the use on public transport in NSW.”

Newcastle University’s Clean Energy on Campus Campaign

You may have seen the amazing banner on display outside the library, or read our signs, or even signed the petitions. Why all the action? Well it is crunch time for the Clean Energy Campaign at Newcastle University.

Ahhh! It's again, Happy Easter all.

Bet you're glad to get time away from the parking parades for a week or two.

Unfortunately no positive outcome to report as yet with ‘ the buses’, express buses that is. Ted Barker – Operations Manager for Newcastle Buses and Ferries, advised that the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie services will be revised in July 2006 by a “planning manager… appointed at this time to address the concerns of the people throughout the Newcastle Region.” 8 March 2006.

The Women’s Collective meets once a week to organise Women’s campaigns and events on campus. The aims of the collective are to raise awareness of Women’s issues on campus, self confidence in all Women and giving Women a voice on campus.

Why a Women’s Collective?

Women do not have equal rights to men. Women have overcome many previous barriers but are still today faced with many issues including safety, control over our bodies, equal pay, equal rights, discrimination, access to education and the list continues. On average one in five Women will experience sexual violence at some time during their life.

RMA... Sunday morning sport... 3:30 autonomy day starts... Block dinners... Awesome network of computers... Valedictory dinners... Walk of shame... Juganaughts... Academic robes at dinner... Fire alarms at 3am... ERA... Recovery days... Cat Room... 5:30 dinner... Battle of the Blocks... IMA... BARA... Teds spread…

If any of these things mean anything to you that means you must live on-campus at Newcastle uni! Living on on-campus we are privileged to be exposed to the most unique uni experience that is available. If you are one of the 1000 people I’m your girl to call if you feel like you need to be heard within the Uni.

Hiya all, and welcome to semester 1 2006.  I’m Sam Miller, late last year I was appointed to the student council in the position of Transport convenor 2006. 

Transport such a vital element of our modern lives. How do you get yourself and your stuff around?  Bus, bike, BMW. Do you walk, car pool or catch a train to campus?  I want to know.

Newcastle University Postgraduate Students’ Association

WHAT’S NUPSA?

NUPSA was formed in 1997 as a separate Association for postgraduate students.

As a postgraduate student you are well aware that the issues you face are very different to those you faced as an undergraduate student. The best way to address your needs is through a Postgraduate Student Association.

Welcome to Opus for 2006, and for all newcomers, welcome to Newcastle Uni too. If you can learn to live with the management under Nick "The Knife" Saunders, your Vice Chancellor, you'll find it's a pretty nice Uni, and definitely one of the best campuses in the country. The Newcastle University Students' Association (NUSA, your student representative body on campus) is a wonderful example of collective organising at it's best, and it produces one of the best designed, and (depending on you...) best written student magazines in the country.

Welcome back to the students who are returning and congratulations to those of you who are starting out. I’m Melissa Schmidtke a 2^nd year Psychology student who is also your NUSA Activities convenor and Vice President for 2006.

What is an Activities convenor I hear you ask, well it is my job to organise and promote activities that are run by NUSA. It is also within my job profile to communicate with all the affiliated clubs and societies on campus.

Hey folks,

Greetings and welcome to the wonderful world that is Newcastle University from your resident NUSA Education Officer! "What the bollocks is an education officer, and more importantly, why the $*&# should i give a $*&# about it?" I hear you ask. And I will reply in an unoffended tone, given that I remember what it was like to wander round the brennan room five times on my first day, wondering why the bloody hell everyone kept telling me the book shop was "right over there" when clearly it wasn't (until I saw the sign pointing downstairs saying "bookshop").