Seeking Volunteers in Manningham
Posted on 02.07.2009Volunteering in Manningham (ViM) coordinates the recruitment, training, and placement of and support for volunteers working in community agencies within the City of Manningham, located in Melbourne's east. Consisting of many particpating agencies, ViM identifies what volunteers want to do and where they wish to work, and then matches them with the appropriate agency.

If you're interested in volunteering, you can register your details on the Volunteering in Manningham website. You can also check out a list of current volunteer vacancies, the types of volunteer work available, and links to organisations involved in the project. Visit www.vim.org.au to view all this and more.

Attention all VU Writers and Artists!
Posted on 28.04.2009SEED is on the hunt for submissions.

We want to publish your work, opinions, thoughts and ideas! We are now taking submissions for Issue Three (Deadlines: articles/artwork – June 20th; advertisements – June 25th). The theme is WASTED—now before you all get too excited, this theme encompasses a whole lot more than getting wasted on a Friday afternoon on booze and drugs. It includes wasted time, wasted life, wasted money, wasted resources, wasted opportunities, wasteful politics, wasted love…the list is infinite. Choose any topic, touch on any subject: just try to relate it (however remotely) back to the theme.

Submit your essays, reviews, fiction/non-fiction pieces, poetry, artwork, etc to: seedmag@hotmail.com

Guidelines are as follows:

Articles

Format: Times New Roman, 12pt, single space

Article word count: 1500 words (flexible for essays)

Reviews, Letters and Opinions word count: between 200-250 words

Any picture you wish to submit with articles will be considered, and should conform to the requirements below:

Artwork

High resolution digital photo or scan minimum of 300 dpi

TIFF and .JPG file format

File title to include a brief description of work


Submissions

All email submissions must have a title and author name in the subject field. In addition, title, author name and contact details must be included in any article, review, poem or artwork.

Writers/illustrators will be notified via email as to whether or not their work has been selected for publication. Submissions will be edited and you may be contacted by an editor throughout the process.

All You Writers Out There
Posted on 03.04.2009Writing Central - General Writing Workshops for All Students and Staff.

This is a wonderful opportunity for all those who love writing or for those who keep their writing cards close to their chest.

Tuesday April 21 will be the first writing workshop for anybody at VU who would like their piece of writing read, workshopped, commented on, etc. Any kind of writing is OK - poetry, short stories, writing assignments, hip hop/rap, lyrics, journalism, plays, early steps towards a novel ...

Anybody is welcome.

All workshops will be held in an atmosphere of friendly support and advice. The sessions will run from 12 to 1:30pm every fortnight (Mondays and Tuesdays). Bring your lunch, come when you can, sit and listen or contribute.

We can probably look at 4 or 5 pieces each workshop. If you have a piece you'd like feedback on send it through to me electronically for photocopying: michael.hyde@vu.edu.au . First in best dressed.

Workshop dates for this semester:

Tuesday April 21. Room 9.106
Monday May 4. Room 3N26
Monday May 18. Room 3N26

Study Abroad??? Find out all about overseas study opportunities.
Posted on 30.03.2009STUDENT EXCHANGE FAIR

Victoria Abroad will be hosting our annual Exchange Fair on Thursday 2nd April at Footscray Park Campus.

The aim of the event is to promote exchange and provide information about our partner universities and how exchange works.

You can meet students and staff from our partner universities, VU students who have returned from exchange, and the Vic Abroad staff.

There will be partner information as well as info on short programmes and travel advice from STA travel.

It’s all about exchange all in one place!

Where: Foyer, Building M

Campus: Footscray Park

Time: 10:30am – 3:00pm

Date: Thursday 2nd April

Need more information? Contact Fiona Ross (ext. 1319) or Joshua Thorneycroft (ext. 1471) or email educationabroad@vu.edu.au

Posted on 27.03.2009On Tuesday, March 31, Australians for Palestine will be screening two films on Palestine at Victoria University: Mohammed Alatar’s ‘The Iron Wall’ and ‘The East Side Story’. The first will be screened at 1.00pm, the second at 2.00pm. The venue is Room A219 at Footscray Park campus. All welcome.

Australians for Palestine (AFP) was set up to campaign for Palestinian human rights and the creation of a viable Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 borders. It brings together people from a variety of walks of life and ethnic, religious and political backgrounds, including Muslims, Jews, Christians and non-religious people. AFP’s mission statement can be viewed at: http://australiansforpalestine.com/aboutus.html

Re: Required Reading
was posted by Brian on the Studying forum'Megan, Hi. Some suggestions. Required readings could be accessible via WebCT or E-Reserve (depending on which one is used by your lecturer). If you have no luck there, you could ask one of the Reference Librarians to help with locating this speech - it might be accessible on the net. Or you could google (search by the title of the speech and use quotation marks). Send me an e-mail if you have no luck. Brian'

Required Reading
was posted by megandarling on the Studying forum'For a topic I have, one of my required readings is a speech in a lecture series given by John Howard. Is there a particular database that might be archived in on the intranet? I've done a bit of searching but come up with nothing at this stage Thanks Megan'

Re: Exams.
was posted by Brian on the Where is....? forum'According to the Examinations Unit, individual exam details such as seat numbers will be released this coming Monday. You can still access exam times through MyVU. Cheers Brian'

Exams.
was posted by missjdaniels on the Where is....? forum'I've logged into myVU several times over the last two weeks and it won't let me access my individual exam timetable. It says - Your Timetable Your individual examination timetable is currently UNAVAILABLE. See details below for availability. This has come up every time I log in and try to access it. What's going on?'