Curtin University of Technology Student Guild
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[edit] About the Guild
The Curtin Student Guild is the student representative association at Curtin University. The Guild started as the WAIT Student Guild in November 1968. In addition to student representation the Guild manages most of the food outlets on campus, runs the Guild Tavern, the Second Hand Bookshop, Concept Store, Curtin Student Guild Childcare Centre and the Copy and Design Centre. The Guild funds many of the student clubs and societies on campus. The Guild also runs a number of events throughout the year, most notably are the Beach Bash held in semester one and Oktoberfest held in semester two. The Guild publishes Grok, the campus magazine which has the largest distribution in the country. The Student Guild is governed by students through the Guild Council. Student representatives are elected to their positions by students in annual elections held in September and run by the Western Australian Electoral Commission. The official spokesperson of which is the Guild President. The 2006 Guild President is Kate Meenan.
Postgraduate students are represented by Curtin Student Guild Postgraduate Student Association. CUPSA is a department of the Guild. Other departments include ISC (International Students Committee), Women’s, Queer, Indigenous, and Part Time and Mature Age.
Funding to the Curtin Student Guild will be greatly reduced when the Voluntary Student Unionism legislation comes into force on 1 July 2006. The Curtin Student Guild has already experienced State imposed VSU from 1994-2002.
For more information, see the Guild website.
[edit] Current members of the 2006 Curtin student guild
| Guild Members | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Position | Ticket | |
| Kate Meenan | President | Labor Left | |
| Laura Stevens | Education Vice-President | Unaligned Left | |
| Reece Wheadon | Activities Vice-President | Labor Right | |
| Rebecca Higgie | General Secretary | Labor Right | |
| Eric Pang | Int. Students Convenor | [NLC] | |
| Wendy Ping | Postgraduate President | ? | |
| Robert Affleck | Student Councillor | Labor Right | |
| Esther Low | Student Councillor | Labor Left | |
| Alex Nietrzeba | Student Councillor | ? | |
| Euntaek Lee | Student Councillor | ? | |
| Laura Money | Student Councillor | ? | |
| Laura Tracey | Student Councillor | ? | |
| May Tang | Student Councillor | ? | |
| Samatha Ho | Student Councillor | ? | |
| Phillip Dundas | Student Councillor | ? | |
| National Union of Students of Australia | |
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| Universities: ANU | Adelaide | Ballarat | Bendigo | Canberra | Charles Darwin | Curtin | Edith Cowan | Flinders | Griffith | James Cook | La Trobe | Macquarie | Melbourne | Monash - Caulfield | Monash - Clayton | Murdoch | New England | New South Wales | Newcastle | Queensland | QUT | RMIT | South Australia | Southern Cross - Coffs Harbour | Southern Cross - Lismore | Southern Queensland | Sunshine Coast | Swinburne | Sydney | Tasmania - Hobart | Tasmania - Launceston | UNSW COFA | UTS | Victoria | Western Australia | Western Sydney | Wollongong | |
| Current Factions: Australian Liberal Students Federation | Grassroots Left | Independents | National Labor Students | National Liaison Committee | Socialist Alternative | Student Unity | |
| Former Factions: Australian Labor Students | Left Alliance | Love and Rage | National Broad Left | National Organisation of Labor Students | Non-Aligned Left | Small + Regionals | |
