Our own backyard

While we ramble on about various serious world environmental problems, we appear to fail to see the mote in our own eye. Gem's point about USC (lack of) environmental awarenss is an ongoing saga. As our campus is increasingly covered in concrete, the concerns by USC management about the uniqueness of our 'wildlife reserve' and the horrors of parking on the verges, ring somehwat hollow. It can be suggested that the 'enviro-Uni' merely pays lip service to its green credentials.

Tokenism is loathsome because it disguises true intent. Has anyone else noticed the tokenism around USC? Freedom of speech, democracy, student representation? Has anyone tried putting up a poster recently? Get real, USC is a business and other considerations are secondary. Other matters, especially if unprofitable, will be attended to only if they are forced kicking and screaming. What do we hear all the time? DEVELOPMENT. Increase in student numbers. GROWTH. USC is a microcosm of the ills of the modern world and we are assisting the problem.

Where is student activism?

How about requesting an environmental audit of USC from SCEC or suggesting it as an honours or other project to a convenor?

Has anyone had a look at the destruction of bush around Claymore Road behind the High School?

It has recently been a delight that the 'roos congregate at the Guild around dusk where there is peace, quiet and long juicy grass one of the few (the only?) places on campus where this is possible.

Mike