Auckland Student Movement

Auckland Student Movement

AuSM (Auckland Students' Movement @ AUT) is the Students' association for students at the Auckland University of Technology, in Auckland, New Zealand.

The association owns and operates the campus' student bar "Vesbar", as well as providing services to the students and organising major events on campus such as the two-week long Orientation festival which occurs at the beginning of each academic year. The President of AuSM for 2007 and 2008 is Jan Herman, [ [http://ausm.org.nz/representation/executive/president.html Jan Herman] ] taking over from Paul Stewart who was president in 2005 and 2006. The General Manager is Sue Higgins who has been with the organisation for over 8 years.

The purpose of AuSM is to represent and serve its students through a range of services, including an advocacy and legal information, events, lodge bookings, discounted bus and train tickets, and student job search.

Mission Statement

"The Auckland Student Movement exists to provide a support network for its members, to be their voice at all levels and provide services to improve the quality of student life at Auckland University of Technology." [ [http://www.ausm.org.nz/ AuSM website] ]

Executive Council

[ [http://ausm.org.nz/representation/executive/council.html/ Exec Council] ]
*President - Jan Herman
*Vice-President - Andre D'Cruz

Office Holders

*Pasifika Affairs Officer - Veronica Ng Lam
*Postgraduate Affairs Officer - Wilson Siringoringo
*Sport & Recreation Officer - Shane Potter

Faculty Reps

*Applied Humanities Faculty Rep - Sameer Sood
*Business Faculty Rep - Jono Srhoj
*Design & Creative Technologies - Kizito Essuman
*Health & Environmental - Emma Ryburn

Vacant Positions

*International Affairs Officer
*Maori Affairs Officer
*Te Ara Poutama Faculty Rep

Debate Magazine

AuSM also provides a student magazine called Debate [ [http://ausm.org.nz/debate/view-magazine.html Debate] ] Debate is published once a week during the semesters, which is almost 30 publications annually.

The chief editor for this magazine is Ryan Boyd [ [http://ausm.org.nz/debate/editorial/ Ryan Boyd] ] . Debate also employees part-time editors, and on occasion AUT students themselves write for debate.

Clubs

AuSM supports and provides some funds for about 40 affiliated clubs [ [http://ausm.org.nz/component/option,com_uhp2/Itemid,23/ AuSM Clubs] ] within AUT University that are cultural, faculty, religious, social and sport clubs. Some of the biggest clubs are Society of Student Engineers (SoSE) [ [http://www.sose.org.nz SoSE] ] , The Breakfast Club [ [http://www.breakfastclub.org.nz Breakfast Club] ] and Chinese Students Association [ [http://www.autcsa.co.nz Chinese Student Association] ]

The current club's coordinator is Ryan Waite

Vesbar

Vesbar [ [http://www.vesbar.co.nz Vesbar] ] is owned and operated by AuSM for it's students. Vesbar is opened during the semester weeks of university, excluding summer school.

Vesbar also the venue to many functions including hypnotist shows, and the paper, scissor, rock national competition [ [http://www.vesbar.co.nz/gigs.html Vesbar Gigs] ] .

Vesbar's current manager is Zane Chase.

External links

* [http://www.ausm.org.nz/ AuSM]
* [http://www.vesbar.co.nz Vesbar]
* [http://www.aut.ac.nz AUT]

References


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Auckland University of Technology — Infobox University name = Auckland University of Technology (AUT) image size = 200px motto = mission statement = To foster excellence, equity and ethics in learning, teaching, research and scholarship, and in doing so serve our regional, national …   Wikipedia

  • Student Life (university ministry) — Student Life is the university ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ in Australia and New Zealand. Campus Crusade for Christ International was founded in 1951 by Bill Bright at the University of California, Los Angeles. Student Life Australia… …   Wikipedia

  • Technische Universität Auckland — Vorlage:Infobox Hochschule/Mitarbeiter fehltVorlage:Infobox Hochschule/Professoren fehlt Technische Universität Auckland Gründung …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Occupy movement — Part of response to the late 2000s financial crisis, subprime mortgage crisis and impact of the Arab Spring …   Wikipedia

  • List of Occupy movement protest locations — Protesters during day fourteen of Occupy Wall Street (September 30, 2011) The Occupy Wa …   Wikipedia

  • Liste des villes occupées par Occupy movement — ██████████44  …   Wikipédia en Français

  • White Ninja (webcomic) — Infobox Comic strip title= White Ninja caption= author= Scott Bevan and Kent Earle url= [http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/index.shtml White Ninja] rss= atom= status= Ongoing syndicate= publisher= first= last= genre=Comedy / Surreal rating=… …   Wikipedia

  • Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship — is an evangelical ministry to tertiary students with branches on every university campus in New Zealand, as well as some polytechnics and other tertiary institutions. With a firm commitment to evangelism and mission, the four principles which… …   Wikipedia

  • education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… …   Universalium

  • ZIONISM — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the word and its meaning forerunners ḤIBBAT ZION ROOTS OF ḤIBBAT ZION background to the emergence of the movement the beginnings of the movement PINSKER S AUTOEMANCIPATION settlement… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”