TRINITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION STUDIES CONTACT BULLETIN www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/fsp/contac t Monday, 17 February 2003 [email protected] 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 Melbourne, 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 Bert Newton 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 Blue Heelers. 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 musical theatre, starring in card reader. This card also Pomeranz. Great because they rarely agree! The Sound of Music and, currently, Cabaret. 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 Georgie Parker 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.