Campus Affairs

NUS reform: Is momentum building?

The National Union of Students is intended to be the national advocacy body for student unions like UWA’s Guild, bringing together each university’s student union to form a single body that can speak on the national stage. However, the NUS has faced sustained criticism for years for its entrenched and volatile factionalism, abuse and misconduct by delegates, and ineffectiveness.
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The inaccessible reality of the national Education Conference

For the first time in 10 years, the NUS held its annual Education Conference in Perth. Being hosted by our neighbours at Curtin University, several members of the UWA Student Guild Council attended. The majority of us were eager to hear from other students about the problems they face on their own campuses and the solutions they put in place for lessons we could apply. Instead, we were met with incessant fighting between different political factions.
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Modern sculpture: Seventy-five years since the Leps hoax

Seventy-five years ago today, the staff and students of UWA were treated to a lecture by the esteemed Monsieur Jean Leps. Leps was an up-and-coming Alsatian-American avant-garde modernist sculptor who had only recently burst onto the fine art scene with the release of his book In My Little Finger by Sprunz and Scribner, a New York publishing house. In a stroke of good fortune, the St George’s College Fine Arts Society had managed to procure his services for a brief lecture in Winthrop Hall.
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