Lot's Wife Edition 6 2015
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oB REPoRTS 5<br />
Environment & Social Justice Officers<br />
Lauren Goldsmith & David Power<br />
‘over the holidays the ESJ collective had an inspiring<br />
experience at the Students of Sustainability conference in<br />
Adelaide on Kaurna countriy, learning from environmental<br />
activists from all over Australia. Members also attended the<br />
southeast Fossil Free Universities convergence, in which<br />
every Fossil Free campaign in the state was represented,<br />
where activists honed their campaigning skills and learned<br />
from the successes of other groups.<br />
It’s an exciting time for the environmental movement,<br />
with the University of Warwick in the UK (Monash’s partner<br />
university), recently committing to fossil fuel divestment.<br />
With the movement growing globally at a fast pace, we’re<br />
hoping Monash will take the opportunity to become the first<br />
Australian University to take a stand and fully divest from<br />
the fossil fuel industry.’<br />
Queer Officers<br />
Viv Stewart & Jarvis Sparks<br />
Claire in Versailles, having fun.<br />
Welfare Officers<br />
Rebecca Adams & Jesse Cameron<br />
Heya Monash!!!<br />
Here is hoping that you are all settled back into the regular<br />
grind of the semester. We know that you have it in you to kick<br />
butt!<br />
Us Welfar-ians have been hard at work getting preped<br />
for the coming semester. After just rounding off the second<br />
semester book fair we are getting especially for week 4 of<br />
semester. Boy oh boy do we have some treats for you! Yoga!<br />
Free Food! Healthy Eating Workshops! More Free Food! Plus<br />
the return of the Welfare Ball, renamed as the Misfits Ball! It’s<br />
only $10, and you get a whole heap for it!<br />
Best of luck for the semester and we will see you around!<br />
Jesse + Bec<br />
Women’s Officers<br />
Ellen Flach & Sophie Vassallo<br />
As the semester rolls on we’re busy making things bigger<br />
and better as we continue through the second half of the<br />
year! We’ve been working on a whole range of eclectic things<br />
over the last few weeks. our discussion groups are back<br />
and running weekly in the women’s room, our consent<br />
campaign has started popping up around campus and Blue<br />
stocking week (by the time this is published) will have come<br />
and gone! But that doesn’t mean that we’re not working on<br />
more and more amazing projects! We are still accepting<br />
submissions for dissent, our annual department publication,<br />
with this year’s theme being ‘future’; somewhat apt as this<br />
year we’re moving to a completely digital format. We’re also<br />
currently promoting the National Union of Student’s ‘Talk<br />
About it Survey’ which aims to gather information about<br />
the experiences and hurdles of women students in higher<br />
education. on top of that we’re also working on bring back<br />
skill shares for semester two and have been working with<br />
the Queer department to bring back Q2 - a group for queer<br />
and questioning women - for semester two. There’s heaps to<br />
look forward to in the Women’s department :) As always, the<br />
women’s room, and all our events, are open to all people who<br />
identify as or with women and we hope that your uni days are<br />
going well!<br />
Disabilities and Carers Officer<br />
Andrew Day<br />
Well after a rejuvenating break we’re back at you with more<br />
this semester!<br />
We’re running a morning tea event on every Tuesday at<br />
10:30 so feel free to come along and help yourself to some<br />
free nibbles and drinks.<br />
We’ll also be hitting the pavement for the National Union of<br />
Students National day of Action on August 19 - we’ll be there<br />
to protest the Abbott Govt. and its plans for Higher Education<br />
which would see generations of student carers and students<br />
with disabilities locked out of the tertiary education system.<br />
Feel free to come along for the fun!<br />
If you’re interested in hearing more feel free to like the<br />
facebook page and send us a message, we’re always glad to<br />
hear from you.<br />
Activities Officers<br />
Tahnee Burgess & Jake Krelle<br />
Hey dudes,<br />
Looking forward to semester two, activities is back running<br />
hump days every Wednesday on the Lemon scented lawn<br />
feeding hungry students so come down and see us for a free<br />
snag! This semester you can look forward to our "boat that<br />
rocks" boat cruise in week 6 with drinks starting at $1.50, an<br />
intimate comedy evening later in semester, oktoberfest in<br />
week 7 and of course AXP which is coming back with more<br />
awesome drink specials, cocktails and fun! Keep your eyes<br />
peeled for a few on-campus activities such as box wars and<br />
jumping castles for some between class fun!<br />
Cheers.
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