In our first bid to gage student opinion and find out what we can do to help you, we have started a petition about the 'A' bus.
'A' Bus
The 'A' bus was run last year by Unilinx through Alumn Chine, The Triangle Westbourne and town, taking students to Uni. On Monday 28th September this service was cancelled leaving students who had chosen these areas to live in due to the good bus links, not knowing how to get to Uni. This angered lecturers also as students were turning up late, if at all, to lectures. It also annoyed the drivers of other unilinx buses as more students had to take the Lansdowne bus route, making them more crowded. Most importantly though, students were riled about this issue and so far over 500 students have signed the petition to get the 'A' bus back.
Scott and I walked around uni to get students' opinions...
Please go to http://www.subu.org.uk/content/197615/subu_news/ and watch the News story from the 2nd October 2009 for what the students think about the busses and more.
El Pres had a meeting on Friday 2nd October with the estates manager about the bus situation. James and Alan (SUBU General Manager) have been invited to a meeting this week with two of the heads of Wilts and Dorset, the estates manager among others, to get an idea of what the next move will be and James is confident that something will be done.
Students are also getting heavily involved in this debate, showing their passion that they want this A bus back! Iain Walshe did an interview with us and set up a facebook group which now has over 400 people signed on. Jonno Clarke has also got the local newspaper involved, the Echo, giving them a press release about the outraging situation.
Sexual Health Clinic
You will also see in the video above that the Sexual Health Clinic in Talbot House is closing down in December due to lack of funding. We are also carrying out a petition on this and will be gaging student opinions. I had an interview on Friday 2nd with Youthnet regarding the effect sof secual helth and alcohol on students around the country and what services both BU and SUBU oprovide for sexual health. They also tried to get an interview with the sexual health clinic in Talbot House, but there were too busy to have time for this. In my opinion if the clinic is busy then this is obviously a service that students will and are using, so funding is needed to be found to keep it open. Funding has stopped from the PCT (Primary Care Trust) due to financial problems.
So what do you think? Do students need a sexual health clinic on campus that is easily accessible or would you be happy to travel 4.5 miles from Talbot Campus to the GUM clinic in Bournemouth Royal Hospital? Sign the petition in SUBU if you don't want the clinic to close!
Sign the petition at - http://subudemocracy.bournemouth.ac.uk/
Freshers' Fair
Freshers' Fair saw the Nerve TV screen and Stage manned by Clarke and the Nerve crew; jason, Emily and Jacqui.
This year has been described as the best in the last few years! What a result. See what went on...
http://www.subu.org.uk/news/index.php?page=article&news_id=95315
SUBU is sad to see two of it's very valued and hard workers leave, Gio (who is coming back!!) and Izzy. We are glad to see the arrival of Zhara though in place of Gio and hope she is going to have an amazing year! The Leadership Prgramme has had massive reaction this year and most of the places for the next two weeks are booked up. If you want to take part in the Leadership Programme and get an accreditated award please book in early to avoid disappointment. Check out the website and the timetable - www.subu.org.uk/leadership
Hannah
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