TRINITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION STUDIES CONTACT BULLETIN

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Monday, 17 February 2003 February Extended Program February Main Program begins Tuesday, 18 February 2003 Welcome to Trinity College! We hope you will February Program Course find Trinity to be a challenging and exciting place Information to be. During your time at Trinity, we hope you Wednesday, 19 February take full advantage of the excellent range of 2003 academic and support facilities available to you, February Program Subject and participate in the many activities and events Selection on offer. February Program Camp We look forward to meeting you, and helping Friday, 28 February 2003 you achieve success in the year ahead! February Program Fair Dinkum! Friday, 14 March 2003 July Program T-shirt Design Competition deadline Set A Course For Sunday, 30 March 2003 It is important to participate in all your Daylight Savings Ends Orientation activities. Not only is it a useful and necessary introduction to Trinity College Recycle! and , it is a wonderful chance to make friends and meet your teachers and other Help us to save the Trinity staff. planet by putting The camp you will go on from Wednesday your clean used to Friday is a great way to break the ice with paper in the boxes your new peers, and every camp will be full of provided in fun activities. Make the most of your time classrooms, or in there. the blue VISY bins In the second week of Orientation, make located in all sure you attend the information sessions, which Foundation Studies buildings. give you valuable information on studying in Australia, computers and Trinity’s computer labs, and the services and support available Inside this issue: to you at Trinity. Welcome February Students 1 Clubs & Societies 2 Use Your Student Diary! Room Changes 2 February Program Students Crash Course in Aussie TV 2 You will receive a Student Diary in your Orientation Bag. It is Fire Safety at Camp 3 full of useful resources and information to help you manage Fair Dinkum! 3 your time, and it also contains a comprehensive A-Z Information Guide with information about many aspects of your Meningococcal Appointments 3 life in Foundation Studies. It also contains maps of the College and University campuses. We hope you will make full use of it July T-shirt Design Competition 4 this year!

1 Clubs & Societies Crash Course in …

Attention Dance Clubbers! You’re in a new country and you turn on the TV. Aussie TV Personalities The accents are different, and the All students who signed up You Should Know About faces are unfamiliar. How do for Hip Hop classes on you know what’s what? Sandra Sully Wednesday nights, please see Here’s our quick guide to Known only as ‘Sandra’. Anchor Ashwinny at lunchtime on the local programming: for on Channel Ten’s Late News Thursday, 20 February or Friday, on weeknights. A legion of

21 February to pay for your classes. devoted Sandraphiles cherish her

There are still some places left for humanity and warmth. Retains other students, so if you're wanting to Rove Live! (Ten, Tuesdays, 9.30pm) calm attitude despite her join please see Ashwinny on the above Talk show hosted by the clean-cut and broadcast being delayed by the show just before (see Rove Live!) days. gently funny Rove McManus. A lot like The Late Show with David Letterman: celebrity guests, stand-up comedy, gag segments, live Known as ‘Moonface’. Has been Room Changes music. Benefits from being one of two major on TV since it was invented. Now talk shows, so most visiting international relegated to hosting Good Morning celebrities make an appearance to promote Australia, featuring Belvedere the July Program Students Taste Tester, who tastes the their movie/album/other. The Charles Pearson Features the popular ‘What The…’ dishes on the cooking segment Theatre is unavailable in segment (sort of like Letterman’s Top 10 and comes up with a rhyme to describe it. the week commencing 17 List, but different). Live format often means February. Consequently: show finishes up to half-an-hour late. The Wiggles · Tamar's HOI lecture at 1.45pm Their website describes them as Neighbours (Ten, Weekdays, 6.30pm) Monday, 17 February will be held in ‘children’s entertainers that have A soap, but this is not The Young and The the Prince Phillip Theatre rewritten the book about how Restless. Has been on forever, and screens in children can be entertained with (Architecture, Building 133, No. 2 60 countries around the song and dance’. Four men known in your Student Diary), and world (insanely popular in by the colour of their skivvies · Raymond's Maths 1 lecture the UK). Features the (turtleneck shirts), who sing and 1.30pm Friday, 21 February will be daily dramas of the dance about hot potatoes and held in the Wright Theatre residents of Ramsay St, spaghetti being tasty. (Medicine, Building 181, corner Phenomenally successful. where nothing outrageous

Royal Pde and Grattan St). really happens. Hi-5 Younger version of the Wiggles. The Secret Life of Us (Ten, Mondays, 8.30pm) Lisa McCune Leeper Library Hip drama shot in St Kilda, so if you head Long-time star of Channel Seven’s down there on a weekend you stand a cop drama . Has won Photocopying at the Leeper chance of getting on camera. Charts the the Gold Logie – Australia’s equivalent to an Emmy – too lives of a group of twentysomethings as they July students can use up money many times to remember. look for love, sex, romance, and success. on their student cards, but Resulting overexposure seemed will then be given a new The Movie Show (SBS, Wednesday 8.00pm) to embarrass her, and she retired card to continue Long-running movie review program hosted from television. Has recently been photocopying on the new by critics David Stratton and Margaret doing , starring in card reader. This card also Pomeranz. Great because they rarely agree! and, currently, . works at the University libraries. Watch them bicker (in the most civil way You cannot use the 2002 card in possible, of course) about the latest The new Lisa McCune. the new reader. mainstream and arthouse cinema releases.

Rage (ABC, Fridays & Saturdays, 11.45pm) Lee Lin Chin Save Water SBS news anchor more famous for Music program in the vein of MTV – but no her funky spectacles and wannabe Australia is in the midst of a Britneys and Christinas, more Massive rockstar hair than her skills as a drought and water restrictions Attack and Missy Elliot. Goes all night (and newsreader. Catch her on the are in force. Some simple ways there are no ad-breaks on the ABC). If you World News and see why. that you can help to save water include: like Top 40, there’s always Video Hits (Ten, Eddie McGuire · Turning the tap off when brushing Saturday mornings). Nicknamed ‘Eddie Everywhere’. your teeth. TV Trivia You will recognise his face soon · Using the half-flush button on your enough. Hosts a multitude of toilet. TV was introduced to Australia in 1956, programs on Channel Nine, · Taking shorter showers. with colour TV arriving in 1975. There are including Who Wants to Be A Be aware of how much water you use, approximately 7.1 million TV households in Millionaire?, The Footy Show, and a and eliminate any use that is wasteful. Australia: that’s 99% of the population. host of specials. Has so far failed www.savewater.com.au to give away million-dollar prize. Favourite word: sensational.

2 Fire Safety At Camp Student Cards

February Program Students Student Cards for the following

Summer is bushfire season in Australia. This year it combines students are now ready for collection with a severe drought that makes conditions very dry. When from Student Services, 199 Grattan Street: you are at camp, make sure you follow all instructions regarding fire safety. HO Thomas Handy This means: HU Ling

· using your common sense KANG Chin Chin Cecilia SALEHI Ahmed Tawfiq Hasan Ali · not lighting any open flames · smoking only in designated areas · disposing of cigarette butts in the bins provided at all camps

Your cooperation will ensure that everyone has a safe and fun trip to camp! Vaccinations Again

While there is no compulsion for those under 20 years of age to have the free Menningacoccal vaccination, we do recommend that you do have one. Vaccinations are now being given at The puzzles below are visual representations of common phrases and clichés. 12.30 and 3.30 each working day from To get you started, the one on top is ‘history repeats itself’. Can you solve now on until everyone has been the others? vaccinated. You must make an First person to send two correct answers to appointment by signing one of the [email protected] wins a prize and a mention in next sheets that are to be found in Room 2 week’s bulletin! FSC or at Grattan Street. You must also collect a Health Service form from one of these locations, complete it and take it together with your Medibank Card to the appointment at the Student Health Service (#18 on the map in the back of your diaries). If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact Say Chin in Room 2 FSC by phoning 9348 7525 or by emailing: [email protected]

‘Fair Dinkum’ is an Aussie term meaning ‘true’ or ‘genuine’, but it can be used in many ways. At Trinity, Fair Appointment Times Dinkum! is a showcase of the clubs, societies and extra- curricular activities available for you to participate in Meningococcal Vaccinations during your time at Trinity. Not only will you have the chance to check out Trinity Lists of appointment times activities, but there will also be music and food and other for students who have fun entertainment! Trinity has a wide range of clubs and signed up for organisations catering to all kinds of interests. A numbers meningococcal vaccinations have been of Melbourne University organisations will also be at Fair posted at the Main Office at Wynne Dinkum!. Come and find out what they’re all about! Cottage, Grattan St, Lygon St, Swanston Fair Dinkum! takes place on the Bulpadock at Trinity St and FSC for their reference. College, at 12.45pm on Friday, 28 February. There Please go to the Student Health will be sports and other demonstrations available for you Service, 138-146 Cardigan St, Carlton to watch or participate in. The Bulpadock is on the main (No. 18 on the map in your Trinity Trinity College campus - refer to the map in the back of Student Diary) at time listed. your Student Diary. Come along and have a fair dinkum You must take 2 things with you: time! 1. Your Medibank Private card 2. A Health Service form which you must collect from either FSC Room 2 or the Grattan St and complete before going for your vaccination. If you have any queries, please contact Say Chin at 9348 7525.

3 BACK PAGE www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/fsp/contact Summer Sun Sense Are You Moving?

Overexposure to the sun can be harmful. Here are a few Remember that if you change your address or tips on how to avoid sunburn: telephone number that you must notify Trinity immediately by filling in a yellow Change of · Try not to go swimming between Address form (available from FSC Room 2, 11am and 3pm—the sun shines brightest at these times Grattan Street, Swanston Street and Wynne · Always wear sunscreen when Cottage). This is a requirement of your you’re out in the sun. student visa. Sunscreen is easily available in If you are under 18 years of age, you must get Felicity’s Australia at supermarkets and chemists. Simply apply it to permission to move before you sign any contracts and exposed skin 15 minutes before going out into the definitely before you actually move. If you are under 18, this sun, and reapply every few hours or after is also a requirement of your visa. You must check with swimming or exercise. Felicity before you make any arrangements to leave your old · If you do happen to get sunburned, try this accommodation or lease any new accommodation. inexpensive remedy: spray some vinegar (yes!) on the sunburned area. The vinegar is cooling and will Check out www.movepost.com.au for plenty of help your skin to repair. information to make moving easier. Now enjoy and have lots of fun this summer!

Locker Hire

Books too heavy? Lockers are available for hire at 199 Grattan Street. The hire fee is $10 for one semester and $15 for two semesters. Wouldn’t it be great to see hundreds of your peers wearing a t-shirt designed by you? Students who would like a locker, please see Vincent or Ashwinny at Student Services, So get creative! It doesn’t matter if you’re Grattan St. doodling with a pencil or working on Photoshop - it just has to be innovative and Leeper Library Opening Times relevant to Trinity and to the July program.

Past t-shirt designs can be viewed at Grattan St. July Program Students The winning designer will receive a free t-shirt, plus the neverending kudos The Leeper Library will remain open each Tuesday and Thursday until that come from having the entire program wearing his or her design!

8.00pm throughout February to The competition is open to all July program students. Designs should be help you get access to reserve materials. The Sports Oval gate will submitted to Student Services at Grattan St by remain open until 8.00pm. Friday, 14 March, 2003.

Contact Bulletin Student Diaries 2003

The Contact Bulletin is filled with important and useful July Program students who have not information regarding your life at Trinity. It is distributed already done so may pick up their to you during your 11am class on a Monday, and is also Student Diaries for 2003 from Student available in all student common rooms, and on the web. Services at 199 Grattan Street, between Please read it carefully. 12.30pm and 1.30pm. Students must www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/fsp/contact produce their Student Card, and can only collect Diaries for themselves. Coming Soon to your Contact Bulletin … · Trinity Staff Profiles · Melbourne Secrets · And Lots more…

Comments, enquiries, and feedback can be emailed to There are no strangers here, only friends we have yet to meet. [email protected] William Butler Yeats

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