Please note - Swinburne University of Technology

The Student Union also provides catering facilities in the Union
Building adjacent to the Contact Centre. Here, students and
staff are tempted with the aroma of homemade treats such as
soup, hot takeaway food including vegetarian, sandwiches,
salads, cakes, pastries, hot and cold drinks and confectionary all
at vety affordable prices. There is enough seating for 100 in the
student dining area and another forty in the glass area. The staff
dining area can accommodate fifty people. The cafe is open
8.00am - 3.00pm, Monday to Friday.
Prahran campus
The Student Union offices and student lounge are located on
Level 2 of Building U. The first port of call for any student
requiring Union services is the Contact Desk. From here students
can book the Student Union meeting room (also located on this
level), borrow one of the many magazines for leisure reading
and find out information about the functions and activities of
the Union. An Education Officer is employed at Prahran to look
after the educational needs of Prahran students and follow up
any concerns of students.
We provide two photocopiers for quality copying at the
cheapest rates on campus. The student lounge is a comfortable
and a pleasant alternative to the other areas on the Prahran
campus. Daily papers are available so students can keep up with
life outside the campus.
There are regular activities for students to participate in, either
by turning up on the day, or more actively by helping with
organisation. These are held both during lunchtimes and in the
evenings, to ensure all students have the opportunity to relax
and mingle with each other. There are a number of clubs on the
Prahran campus and the potential for more, if students are
interested in being involved. The weekly publication of the
Student Union, 'Swine', is distributed right across campus and
Prahran students are welcome to contribute.
For more information visit the Contact Desk at the top of the
stairs off High Street, level 2 Building U, or phone 214 6724 or
2 14 6729.
Sports Association
Executive Officer
A. Tingate, BARec(FIT)
Recreation Coordinator
D. Shanahan, BAppSci(FIT)
Fitness and Health Coordinator
H. Keogh, BAppSci(FIT)
Clubs Development Coordinator
Vacant
Administration and Publicity Coordinator
K. O'Donnell, BAppSci(RMln
Campus Resource Officers
R. Chambers, BBus(Swin)
T. Jilbert, AssDipSportAdmin(Griff)
T. Rehak, BA(LaT), DipEd(Melb1
Receptionist
P. Kennedy
V. Carlin
Swinburne Sports Association is an autonomous body that aims
to promote and encourage opportunities in sport, health and
physical recreation to all members of the Swinburne community.
Every student automatically becomes a member of the
Association on enrolment. Staff at Swinburne are also
encouraged to join by paying a small annual fee.
The Association began in 1969. It is managed by students and
has eight full-time employees across the three campuses.
Recteations
An extensive and exciting recreation program is offered
continually throughout the year. Activities range in commitment
and complexity. The easiest recreations are the free on-campus
'one hit wonders' such as face painting, life games, human fly,
circotron and the twelve storey 'BA' building staircase run.
These 'everyone has-a-go' activities are designed to give you a
break and a bit of fun in between classes.
If you have ever wanted to go ballooning, rafting, learn sailing,
singing, photography or belly dancing then the recreation short
courses may be your style also. The Sports Association offers
over eighty such courses a year which run mostly in the
evenings or weekends for one to two hours per week. Course
costs are significantly subsidised by the Association making it
possible to enrol in an activity which would normally be too
dear.
Clubs
Some twenty different sporting and recreation clubs are
affiliated and supported by the Sports Association. Clubs are
managed by Swinburne students who volunteer to work in a
committee format to plan and prepare activities for their club.
Types of clubs are wide ranging and include the more team
based and competitive sports such as badminton, Australian
rules football, basketball, netball, tae kwon do, soccer and
volleyball to the recreational based clubs such as hang-gliding,
scuba, snowski, sky-diving, bush walking and waterski. The
Sports Association's club structure emphasises a beginner-up
approach so that members of any skill level can have a go,
especially those who thought they wouldn't normally because
they felt they may not have enough background or previous
experience in that activity.
Throughout 1994 the number of clubs continued to grow,
especially at Mooroolbark and Prahran where the club system
began in 1993. Such growth is indicative of the fun, challenge
and enthusiasm obtained by joining a sports club.
Fitness and health
The Sports Association has as one of its objectives the provision
of fitness and health promotion at each campus. The Hawthorn
campus has a weight training, aerobics, nutrition counselling,
massage and fitness testing areas in its Sports Centre. It is
planned that aerobics and weight training will continue at the
Mooroolbark campus in the new Sports Centre planned for
completion in late 1994. Prahran campus will either have oncampus
aerobics or a subsidised membership deal with fitness
centres in the local vicinity to the campus.
By uniting with the Student Health Unit and the Student Union
the Sports Association creates on-camous awareness and
promotion weeks such as Quit smoking, Heart Week, Health
andsexuality, and Women and Equal Opportunity.