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In this 8
page edition Individual Achievement Awards
UPDATES FROM THE Nominations are in!
SABBATICAL OFFICERS
INDIVIDUAL Bringing Excellence to Student Senior Resident of
| PAGE 2 & 3 ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS Led Liaison in Academia the Year Award
Elisabeth Simon Panos Georgiou (International House)
WHAT’S GOING ON? Best Newcomer Laleh Mohabbat Frances McGonigle (Hazel Farm)
Matt Cheetham Hong Phuc Vu (Surrey Court)
GRAPEVINE Yash Agarwal International Student Award
| PAGES 4 & 5 Tony Hanson Olivier Rey Part Time Staff Award
Laleh Mohabbat Brett Hosking Owen Ellender
Michael Anton Lauren McCabe
KNOW YOURSELF REVIEW James Bristow
Laleh Mohabbat
| PAGE 7 Outstanding Contribution Madiha Latif Best USSU Welfare Amenity
to Student Democracy Zhongyu Zhang LGBT Society
ELECTION REVIEW Gareth Giles PostGraduate Association
Paul Follows Outstanding Contribution to the St. John Ambulance LINKS
| PAGE 8 Greg Scott Student Community
Luke Jeffries
NIGHTLINE RETURNS Student Media Award Laleh Mohabbat
| PAGE 6 Sarah Horsley Farquan Khan Student Awards ‘07
James Bristow
Owen Hindley
Joshua Bates
James Bristow
Thursday May 10th
VOLUNTEERING Joshua Bates Darryl Tott Seasons Restaurant
| PAGE 8 Tony Hanson 7pm
Matt Cheetham
Grapevine.
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www.ussu.co.uk/events
Updates from the Sabbs • Boris Johnson event was coordinated with the University usage of the facilities. this has been complimented by sitting
Union President: Greg Scott
and the assistance of the Conservative Society. on the design board for the new Surrey Centre for Sport,
the £35 million sports complex the University is building
• New website gone live! Check it out at www.ussu.co.uk.
• NUS Southeast regional campaign for greater loans for on Manor Park, helping to ensure that we can get the most
Minor works still needed to update all pages, but overall it’s a
students in the SE of England. possible use out of this new facility.
significant improvement to before.
•Worked to streamline Sabb roles and responsibilities to
allow each sabb to better do their job for next year and to
VP Sport & Recreation: When not sitting on University boards, I have been
ensure all initiatives of the Union were covered by an elected
Nick ‘Manakin’ Short endeavouring to find sponsors for the sports clubs. Rather
than chase curry houses and my Dad’s mates, I have,
representative.This lead to an increase from 4 to 5 sabbaticals
Starting any job where your with the help of the USSU marketing Dept., been putting
for next year.
goal is as vague as “To make together mail-outs and presentations in order to chase
Sport and the Union better high level corporate sponsors. This has been supplemented
• Working with University Marketing on launch of the new
than when you started” by negotiating a cross University clothing contract with
University Brand.
gives you fantastic scope for Airosport in order to create one cross club look and brand.
developing ideas, but can be My idea has been to have every club rolling out each week
• Involved in University restructuring efforts to ensure that
daunting, as the magnitude of in identical, tracksuits and kit so the Surrey can turn up at
students are not negatively affected in the shift from 8 Schools
manifesto promises dawns. The fixtures and tournaments looking like one big team, and use
to 4 Faculties.
first three months were spent sponsorship to make them as cheap as possible.
rapidly learning the ropes, with
• Working group for National Student Survey. Currently
issues as diverse as national Despite the long hours and hard work, I have thoroughly
43.5% of final year students have filled it out. That’s good, but
representation at the British enjoyed this year, and despite the end being in sight, with my
not good enough. The Union’s goal is 80%, and we hope to
Universities Sports Association successor having already being elected, there is still lots to
achieve that in the next 3 weeks.
in Cardiff, attending N.U.S. training in Hertfordshire, sitting do to continue pushing the boundaries of sport here at the
on the executive boards for the Surrey Centre for Sport, University of Surrey.
• Working group to improve freshers induction to University
the Students’ Union and UniSport, preparing for September,
upon arrival in September.
the Freshers and the start of the BUSA leagues.
• Working group for under 18s to ensure appropriate
Since September, I have concentrated on rationalising and
attention given to these students.
the practices of sports clubs in order to make running the
clubs less arduous and give committees more time to work
•Working group for a new campus card to improve the
within the club rather than get caught up in red tape. This
capabilities of what the current card can do.
required the Activities Office to have more information
about the clubs, their members and their needs and led to
• Updating rules for granting funding requests to clubs and
the coaching audit, the membership forms and an activity
societies.
review. Much of my time this year has been spent representing
student sporting interests to the University, sitting on the
• Event calendar - first time non-traded activity included in
bi-weekly UniSport managers meetings, negotiating student
this printing.
Editorial Team
INFORMATION CO-ORDINATOR | LAURAN CARTER
| l.carter@surrey.ac.uk
WELFARE SUPPORT CO-ORDINATOR | KATHY JONES
DAVE Review
This has been a record breaking year for the DAVE Thursday 10th May to be presented with a certificate.
| katherine.jones@surrey.ac.uk Project; 53 sessions, 605 participations and an overall
ACADEMIC SUPPORT CO-ORDINATOR | PAUL COWARD satisfaction rating of 87%! DAVE is taking a break now – but will be back in October
| p.coward@surrey.ac.uk with new sessions, revamped resources and a new
STUDENT ACTIVITIES MANAGER | AMY FAWCETT DAVE Extra was launched with an Advanced Negotiations training team! Keep checking www.thedaveproject.co.uk
| a.fawcett@surrey.ac.uk Skills Course delivered by Mac Derwig, University for details.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO-ORDINATOR | HELEN JACKSON Treasurer, followed by Enterprise with sessions on
| h.jackson@surrey.ac.uk Delegation Skills and Sales Skills. If you are interested in joining the DAVE Training
Team contact a.fawcett@surrey.ac.uk for more
UNION PRESIDENT | GREG SCOTT The DAVE Training team of Alex Ushamirskya, Daniel information.
| ussu.president@surrey.ac.uk Jones, Natacha Thomas, Nadine Lorenz, Tom Knight
VP EDUCATION & WELFARE | GABBY SHOLK and Nicola Ewens delivered over 95 hours of training
| ussu.edwelfare@surrey.ac.uk between them and received a satisfaction rating of 93%
VP SOCIETIES & CULTURE | THAYANA DE PAULA for their support and help during the sessions - another
| ussu.societies@surrey.ac.uk record for DAVE!
VP SPORTS & RECREATION | NICK ‘MANKIN’ SHORT
| ussu.sports@surrey.ac.uk Any student who has achieved a Bronze, Silver or Gold
ID Award will be invited to the Annual Student Awards on
Your Union
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VP Education & Welfare: Schools/Department to allow the issues within schools to faced a lot of bureaucracies that no one knows that exists.
Gabriella Scholk be solved as quickly and efficiently as possible. If you are However it got much better during the year. Apart from
interested please e-mail me, however there are a limited that I worked as much as I cold to get some of my targets
• The ‘Know Yourself’ campaign number of available. done! I loved to be able to be involved with so many different
has finally come to an end, students, to be able to get involved with the different cultures
and hopefully has touched a • Welfare Standing is now up and running (Thanks to the that we have on our campus. Further more one of my big
few people and made some Ethics & Equal Opportunities Officer!) and we are currently achievements it was the International week, Gala night we
re-evaluate themselves. The trying to piece together all the welfare amenities different were extremely busy we sold out, also organising Chinese
Extending Opportunities Art needs, in order to really stream line any issues that might New Year it was very interesting. Bringing back RAG to our
Display was a huge success, come up or work together to create events that some might campus after two year, the feeling of helping was fantastic,
as was the Laughter Hour want to. however it was hard to organise because we haven’t got in
that was hosted by the Health the USSU the mentality of charity as we should so I had jus
Centre. The art can still be seen on our web page along • Nightline is going to be re-launched next year, so if anyone a small number of people helping me!! And finally feeling that
with the information of the past events (www.ussu.co.uk/ is interested please contact me. Everyone has to undergo this Students union has lots of potential I am organising a
knowyourself) If you have any feedback about the campaign training. Next year Nightline promises to be a well managed RAG evening in conjunction with Brunel on the 4th of May
– positive or negative, please let us know. More campaigns and well established group with a real presence on campus. on the Pirates evening lots of surprises the students will love
are in the planning stage – if anyone has any ideas, opinions, it!!!
thoughts or genius groundbreaking creative ways to engage • The University is currently writing a Gender Equality Thank you for the opportunity that the all of you gave me to
the student population, please contact me. Scheme and are looking for student input – there is currently tray and fight for all the students, thank you Zoë Riding, Amy
a questionnaire on www.survey.surrey.ac.uk/ges2/ Fawcett, Debora Cody, Helen Jackson, for all the support on
• Along with the Postgraduate Students’ Officer and the my journey in the union. I did tray a lot to change things; I
Student Experience Exec member, I am trying to create a VP Societies & Culture: hope the new VP Societies and individual development will
‘ad hoc’ group of dedicated students to tale the place what Thayana De Paula carry on fighting for all the students.
is intended to be the UG and PG CSRCs ( Cross School
Representation Committees ). The CSRCs are meant to be a My Year has been very busy with louts of ups and downs!!! Thank you very much
direct line from the VP Education & Welfare and the different When I arrived in the union I had lots of plans, however I Thay
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