Bloemfontein Campus a Safer Place with Access Control at the Gates
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Official staff newsletter of the UFS JULY | ISSUE THREE/2014 • JULIE | UITGAWE DRIE/2014 Amptelike personeelnuusblad van die UV Safety first: Bloemfontein Campus a safer place with access control at the gates - By Leonie Bolleurs In a process to ensure the safety of students and staff on the Bloemfontein Campus, access control measures are being implemented. Access control at Gate 2 (Badenhorst Street) Access control at Gate 3 (Wynand Mouton Services. This can be your driver’s licence, and Gate 4 (Furstenburg Street) Drive) and Gate 5 (DF Malherbe Drive) passport or identity document. - The approved form must then be handed in Access control will be enforced at the five Except for Gates 2 and 4, the rest of the gates at the card division on the Thakaneng Bridge. different gates on the campus. The first on campus will still be open as is currently As soon as you have paid for the card (the phase comprises Gate 2 and 4, which will be the case, until the next phase of the access cost of the card is still to be determined), a equipped with card readers. The first phase control project is implemented. The next card will be issued to you by the card division. will be implemented at the beginning of gates to be equipped with access control are - Cards will be valid for one year, subject to August 2014. Only persons with valid cards Gate 3 and Gate 5. Access control is expected certain terms and conditions. (staff and student cards) will be able to enter to be implemented from the end of October and leave through these gates. Existing staff 2014 at these two gates. All visitors to the campus will be referred to and student cards are already equipped with the Visitor’s Centre at Gate 5. This includes, microchips, which will be read by the card Gate 3 is earmarked for use by official card among others, parents, family and friends of readers at the gates in order to activate the holders. This includes students, staff and students, as well as conference delegates. It booms. people doing business on campus. Parents is estimated that the Visitor’s Centre will be dropping and fetching their children for completed at the end of September 2014. At this stage, staff and students will have to sports, as well as service providers to Visitors will sign in at the Visitor’s Centre swipe their cards against the card reader at the UFS, such as architects and building and, depending on the business they have on Gates 2 and 4 or hold it not further than 20 contractors, may apply for valid cards (those campus, they will only be allowed on campus mm from the reader for the boom to open. people will have to provide proof that they for a certain period of time. Card holders will therefore have to physically have business on campus). stop in front of the boom in order to get Access control at Gate 1 (Nelson Mandela access to the campus. The procedure for non-personnel to apply for Drive) a card is as follows: From 2015, staff and students will be able to - Application forms will be available at The entrance at Gate 1 of the Bloemfontein buy cards equipped with a microchip that Protection Services at the Bloemfontein Campus in Nelson Mandela Drive will be allows the cards to be read from several Campus, as well as online on the university’s widened. An extra lane will be added for metres away. Card holders will then no website. The forms must be completed incoming and outgoing traffic. longer have to swipe their cards against the and submitted to Protection Services for card reader or have to stop; the boom will approval. The project is estimated to be completed at open automatically and they will be able to - Applicants for cards must provide proof the end of October 2014. drive through. of identification to the staff at Protection Various activities took place on our campuses recently. Some of them are, from the left: The Africa Day Memorial Lecture, presented by Prof Takyiwaa Manuh, the 1000/33 NSH Stride team during their arrival in Cape Town, the Inaugural Lecture of Prof Helene Strauss, Head of the Department of English, Library Week, and Open Day on the Qwaqwa Campus. elcome to another exciting edition of dumela. The months 2014 of June and July have been and continue to be exciting, with EE R FROM THE H various activities and developments on our campuses. We T Wlook at the upcoming access control and added security measures being put into place on the Bloemfontein Campus and improved transportation Editor services for students on the Qwaqwa Campus. 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Ons argument was dat, as studente in tot by 5 Mei 2014. elk geval moet gaan stem, kan hul maar net -Deur Duard Grobbelaar 2014 Herwinningsprojek begin binnekort IE R D HOW TO IDENTIFY YOUR RECYCLABLES ie universiteit is ernstig oor die behoud van GAWE T die omgewing. Met die herwinningsprojek wat COOLDRINK & WATER BOTTLES, MILK einde Junie 2014 op die Bloemfontein-kampus BOTTLES, ICE-CREAM TUBS, JUICE BOTTLES, YOGHURT TUBS, SHAMPOO Dgeïmplementeer word, voeg die UV die daad by die woord. JULIE | UI & DEODORANT BOTTLES, STRAWS, PLASTIC PROTECTIVE PACKAGING. Volgens Gerard Hoogendoorn van die Departement Fisiese Hulpbronne sal die mela u 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 projek ‘How to identify your recyclables’ op twee van die wandelroetes op d PETE HDPE V LDPE PP PS Other kampus bekendgestel word. Die een roete strek tussen die George du Toit- administrasiegebou en die taxistaanplek en die ander een strek vanaf die UV- Sasol-biblioteek tot by die parkeerarea by die CR Swart-gebou. UNBROKEN BEER, WINE & SPIRIT 3 BOTTLES, COOLDRINK GLASS BOTTLES, Honderd van die ongeveer tweehonderd sementasblikke op die wandelroetes JAM JARS, OIL & VINEGAR GLASS sal as herwinbaar geklassifiseer word en sal geïdentifiseer kan word aan ’n groen BOTTLES. deksel en deurskynende sak. Die kampusgemeenskap sal dan alle plastiek-, GLASS NO MIRROR PIECES glas-, papier- en blikvullis in dié asblikke kan gooi. Alle vuilgoed sal met die Kovsies Go Green-trok opgelaai word en by ’n OFFICE PAPER, NEWSPAPER, sorteringsaanleg in Hamilton afgelaai word. Van daar word die gebaalde MAGAZINES, CARDBOARD PACKAGING, materiaal na herwinningsaanlegte in plekke soos Johannesburg en Pretoria POST-IT NOTES, ENVELOPES, vervoer. Vullis wat a.g.v. volume nie deur die sorteringsaanleg hanteer kan NOTEBOOKS, EXAM PADS, TOILET ROLL word nie, sal ook by die munisipale stortingsterrein gestort word. PAPER TUBES. NO SERVIETTES & TISSUES Personeel sal ook in hul eie kantore die geleentheid kry om deel te neem aan die herwinningsprojek. In plaas van een asblik per kantoor, sal elke kantoor met COOLDRINK & BEER CANS, ALUMINIUM twee asblikke toegerus word. Die nuwe asblik, ’n swart plastiekasblikkie met ’n ‘How to identify your recyclables’-plakker op, sal bestem wees vir herwinbare CANS, COFFEE TINS, MILO TINS, materiaal soos op die plakker aangedui sal word.