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Semester 2, 2010 Issue 1 The best news, views and art from UB students WELCOME to the very first issue of the new student magazine. Editor Melita Knight Assistant Editor Morgan Stewart We aim to bring you a healthy dose of entertainment, news, Assistant Editor Will Bullow Contributors: lifestyle and advice. Tony Castrignano If you want to know what’s for dinner, let our resident chef, Kaitlyn Chadwick Danielle, tantalize your tastebuds; or if you want to know who is Laura Duke on the ball, read our sports page where Tony and Jess cover all the Lexi Ferreira action, and kick back and relax as Mel tells you all about a UB Kyle Findlay Georgina Gould-Hardwick student star soccer player. Want to know more about UB Annelise Grundell extraordinaire Jimmy Hunt? Then Morgan has you covered. Shane Hartwig Feeling a bit artsy? Check out all the awesome work we have from Andrea Hurley some Camp St students! If you want something a bit local , then Justine Jarrod Jodi Kaine Laura will tell you all about it. For a dose of politics, Kaitlyn is your Pamela Miller girl but if it’s fiction you’re after, Shane’s ‘Big Job’ or Will’s Danielle O’Donnell ‘Burning feeling’ will hit the spot. There’s even a piece of Annelise Jess Wright and various book and film reviews from Pamela and Lexi. Staff Panel Elliot Cartledge- Transition Officer Irene Warfe- Program co-ordinator of Diploma We aim to please, so help put a smile on the Professional Writing and Editing team’s dial by having a read. Lesley Speed- Program co-ordinator of Bachelor of Arts/Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing Jeannie King- Manager Student Support (Student Drop us a line and let us know what you think at Services) [email protected] We also acknowledge the contribution of the Happy reading! Behavioural and Social Sciences and Humanities Mel, Will and Morgan. Society as well as Humanities and Further Education. [Editorial Team] If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they’d all be a lot more comfortable. counted. This doesn’t faze him much, because he enjoys it Contents ‘so that’s [a] major thing’. Student Spotlight Hunt fits into the Uni mould well, so it’s no surprise that he On the Hunt..................................................................................1 strives to help others get as much enjoyment out of Uni life News and Views as he does. When talking about his time at Uni, Hunt states ‘I King of Ballarat.............................................................................2 found I fit in really well, and I saw some people that The Buzz Word............................................................................2 The Ball Park struggled a bit’. This led to him putting his hand up to be a -On the Ball..............................................................................3 mentor for the last two years. -Busy Buns...............................................................................4 -Franckly Speaking..................................................................4 Apart from study, Hunt has a major hand in working and [Hot]ch [Pot]ch promoting with some of the UB sports teams and local clubs -Yummy Pan-fried Chicken and Bacon....................................5 and bars around Ballarat. And as part of this, along with a Let us entertain you few other students, Hunt launched the society Wolf Pack. It -Reviews..................................................................................6 has been a complete success, Hunt admitting that at the Creative Corner -A Burning Feeling...................................................................7 start of the year they had crossed their fingers for at least -Student Art..............................................................................7 500 members, they can now proudly boast at having over -Big Job....................................................................................8 1000. Considering Wolf Pack promotes nights out for Ur Ballarat students, Hunt can ‘definitely see where [the Uni] are -In the know about ‘the Known World’.....................................9 coming from’ in terms of not wanting the uni to have a binge -A Piece of Annelise...............................................................10 drinking culture. Wolf Pack promotes a safe night without losing the fun, designing events that offer deals for students Student Spotlight who aren’t drinking, as well as those who are. On the Hunt Hunt also plays a major part in Uni Games (this year at the Morgan Stewart (Professional Writing and Editing) Southern Uni Games landing When you try to personify who a UB student is, Jimmy himself an opportunity to be Hunt’s name sits at the top of the list. the assistant to the media, The twenty- seven year old sports marketing and special event co- management student has been ordinator); has his own involved with the Uni in countless YouTube channel, one of his ways, and has cherished every parody videos managing to get minute of it, ‘I really enjoy the Uni 80 000 hits; and until recently experience, the community feel had his own website we’ve got out here.’ (ABCbomb), which dealt in shipping out street wear. Hunt’s CV is impressive considering he’s still undertaking study. After When you’re in the Uni community as much as he is, you being fast tracked through the have to be prepared for negativity, but for Hunt, it’s water University’s FAST program in 2007, off a ducks back, ‘Whatever you do, there is always going to Hunt then spent the next two years be people who don’t like it and voice their negative studying a Bachelor of Physical opinions; but I don’t take any of that sort of stuff seriously’. Education. Deciding it wasn’t the path for him, he transferred to sports For now, Jimmy Hunt is happy being at Uni, but as his time management in 2009; not looking here draws to a close he is looking forward to ‘mov[ing] onto back since. As part of his course, the outside world’ and working in event management. Hunt has undertaken a number of Preferably something that allows him to ‘work flat out for a practical placements. In fact, he has few months, and then kick back for a while afterwards,’ he taken on so much that some of the finishes with a laugh. work he’s done isn’t going to be 1 I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.-Oscar Wilde division as an educational institution who can compete with News and Views larger schools. Student issues and opinions. King of Ballarat As the weather and early 8.30am starts become more Kaitlyn Chadwick unbearable, the Hotch Potch team took to the Mt Helen (Professional Writing and campus to find out- What is your ideal lecture time? Editing) The Federal Election for 2010 Kane Stewart- 21, 3rd year Bachelor of promised to be a tight one and Commerce oh boy did it deliver. Both ‘It doesn’t really worry me because I’m parties said on several at Uni all the time. As long as it’s not like occasions that it would go one at 8.30am and one at 4.30pm- So I down to the wire and now have some of the day to do other stuff.’ Australia had a hung parliament; the first in 70 years. As the nation waited for some sort of result, the Ballarat electorate Meg Tasker- Vic. Lit. Co-ordinator, lecturer, made its voice heard with the re-election of Labor MP, tutor Catherine King. ‘10.30am, so everyone’s had time to Ms King won the two party preferred basis and managed to have a nice hot coffee.’ gain a positive swing of 3.8%. It is her fourth term in office, since her victory in 2001 from the Liberal party and she has Adelle Brereton- 18, 1st year BA / Diploma of now been named as a parliamentary secretary. So what does Professional Writing and Editing Ms King have to offer the University of Ballarat and its students? ‘10am is good, because I come from out of town, so it takes about 40 minutes to As a part of a huge incentive for the University, Ms King has get here.’ projects already in the works to improve the facilities UB has to offer. The Education Investment Fund is responsible for Kalen Douglas- 21, 2nd year Bachelor of PE the development of a Manufacturing Technology Training Centre, expected to begin this year and be finished in 2011 ‘9-10am so it’s not too early and you’re and cost the government $18 million. Also a new science awake and can pay attention.’ and engineering precinct/technology and training centre expected to begin this year and be finished by 2012 and costing the government $58 million. Moving from the university facilities, the Better TAFE Facilities program is Nicole Frith- 40, 2nd year BA/ Diploma of currently in production of a new equine centre, which is Professional Writing and Editing slated to be finished at the end of this year and with a cost of $2.9 million, the government will pick up $2.328M of this. ‘I like 8.30am starts, because I’m an Finally, a Teaching and Learning Capital fund has made way early bird. I like to be here early and get for new primary industries training facilities, which are it over and done with so I can go home currently underway and are expected to be finished by the and be with my family.’ end of the year and at a cost of $2.98 million for the Agnel Dsouza - 26, Masters of Business government. Administration These exciting new developments and resources will provide ‘I like the way the Uni caters for all well deserving students the right technology to finish their students. There are night classes so studies and promote the University of Ballarat and its TAFE people can work during the day, and vice versa.’ 2 We can't win at home.