40th Anniversary of the Student Union Building

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Student Union Building.

On November 8th 1968 the SUB opened its doors to students. There was a great celebration that spanned the entire weekend. Over the years we have been fortunate to receive wonderful gifts such as the signage on the building and the wall of nostalgia (located on the second floor of the SUB).

This year we are hoping to have a facelift to the building and have the exterior of the SUB worked on (not overhauled because that would be expensive but just touching up a few areas and washing the walls so they are restored to look how they did 40 years ago).

Our Vice President Student Life, Kris Osmond, and his Events Committee have been working very hard at planning a giant birthday celebration for our wonderful SUB. The event is taking place on Friday November 7th and will end at 1am in the Grawood (we plan to do a New Year's Eve type countdown to ring in the actual birthday - November 8th).

For more details on the event please visit our facebook group.

ANSSA Student Assembly

This past weekend (Oct 24-25) the Alliance of Nova Scotia Student Associations held their fall 2008 student assembly.

Each of the four member schools (DSU, SMUSA, ASU, St,FX SU) selected 5 students to attend the student assemblies. The DSU's delegates were:

Amy Florian (VP Education Commissioner)

Kaylyn Fraser (DSU Councilor, Student Senator)

Yannick Tremblay (DSU Councilor, Graduate Student Senator)

Robert LeForte (member of the DSU)

John Hillman (member of the DSU)

The student assembly covered several policies that the ANSSA executive director and the board have been working on. The student assembly is in place to approve policies and the direction that they would like to see the ED and board members take.

The policies and strategy topics that were discussed were:

- differential tuition policy

- international student policy

- election strategy

- plan or perish campaign

We also were given a presentation on the new ANSSA website (to be launched soon) and how it will be much more interactive for board members, student assembly delegates, and member schools' students.

For more information on ANSSA please contact our Executive Director:

Kelly Wilson - ed@anssa.ca

NEW Sexton Campus Office

The DSU is proud to announce that we have opened our NEW Sexton Campus office!

The grand opening took place on Friday October 17th at 1pm (I have pictures but my camera is having some issues so I will have to post them later).

There were about 20 students, staff, executive, and even the Vice President Student Services (Dr. Bonnie Neuman) came to the event. We had an official ribbon cutting and snacks for everyone.

The office will work to provide a space on Sexton Campus for students to be able to find out what the DSU is doing, to bring their concerns to the DSU, and to benefit from several of our services such as the Dalhousie Student Advocacy Service and the DSU Health and Dental Plan.

The TRoom, Sextant, Sexton Campus Entertainment Director, Sexton Campus Director, Sexton Campus Office Manager, and the DSU Executive will all be having office hours out of the new office as well.

The office is located in the J Building just across the hall from the gym and the new DSEUS office, inthe link between the security desk and the TRoom.

I have committed to working at least 5 hours a week at the Sexton Campus office (goal #8).

My office hours for this week on Sexton will be:

- Thursday: 10:00am - 1:00pm

- Friday: 11:30am - 1:30pm

If there are any DSU services or anything else that you would like to see provided in the office please contact our Sexton Campus Director, Janet Conrad.

Presidential Review Committee

Dalhousie University's President - Dr. Tom Traves, is currently in the process of being reviewed by the Presidential Review Committee. Dr. Traves has been with the university for 13 years. He is currently in his 3rd term of being President and when he started this terms he decided not to do it for the full term. However, he has recently brought it to the attention of the Board of Governors of the University that he would be interested in extending his term by 2-3 years.

I have been selected by the student Senators of the university to be the student representative on this committee. At the last council meeting, councilors were asked to go back to their constituents and gain feedback on what they would like me to take forward to the committee in terms of the student opinion on if the President should have his term extended.

I am waiting for feedback to come in from our councilors and will be attending my first meeting of the committee on Friday.

If you have any comments you would like to bring to my attention on this subject please contact me asap!