Successful candidates will have a guiding influence over the strategic direction of the USU and in turn how campus life will look like for all students.
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No matter how you vote, Honi implores you to interrogate the policies and promises of the Board hopefuls, and for you to hold them to account if they are elected.
The University of Sydney Union (USU) has implemented plans to expand its 2021 program for distributing sanitary products across campus using Student Services and Amenities Fees (SSAF).
The Board discussed the USU’s deficit in September, a new agreement with the University to give the union deductible gift recipient status, and the USU’s 2025 SSAF applications.
It is entirely possible that the 40% requirement is taken by universities as a mandate to provide nothing more – it becomes a ceiling, not a floor.
What emerged was an interesting blend of the SRC and USU. Funding for direct activism is rare, but the funding of social events often creates a platform for change.
In an indirect way, the SSAF we pay serves as salves to our loneliness, if we know where to look.
Manning Bar has recommenced daytime trading for the first time since 2018, offering expanded social events and free student meals every Thursday.
The Liberal government denying funding to universities and student unions is the real threat to democratic speech.
The Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge is considering ways to block student unions that “impede free speech” from collecting SSAF…