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Before her role as ReachOut Australia’s Director of Operations, Jancu was UNSW’s Scholarship Manager and served on the University’s Board between 2010 and 2012.
Grace Wallman, Board Director, asked the board to “avoid the two bad apples approach […] as the USU can’t pretend it doesn’t exist in our community, we really just need to frame out minds [that] this is part of a larger systemic issue”.
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.
Art history exists on a continuum, the Union’s collection both conforms and challenges the contours of Australia’s artistic landscape.
The September meeting discussed the USU’s plan to incorporate, collaboration across other student unions, and decolonising USU owned buildings.
Though it is impossible to predict how discussions will play out, Honi has dug into the members’ political positions, and previously expressed opinions on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) schemes, and thoughts on Zionism.
Despite being a University famed for its vociferous activism against American involvement in Vietnam, previous generations did not detect Honeywell’s controversial legacy.
The proposal has sparked an internal debate inside the USU and would be the largest governance change in the Union’s history.
A five-way race is unprecedented and would foretell a crowded New Law Building and colourful t-shirt-heavy Taste Baguette line in the months to come. Whether just power-hungry or hankering for tangible change, one of these contenders will control the richest faculty society in 2025.