Functions
The SRC focuses its work on lobbying the university to uphold student rights and maintain fair and accessible education, rather than directly providing services. This sets it apart from the University of Sydney Union, which administers Clubs and Societies, provides food services, and runs the Manning, Holme and Wentworth buildings. However, the SRC does exercise control over certain student services: its caseworkers give free advice on legal issues, Centrelink and conflicts between students and university administration, and it runs a second-hand bookshop. It also publishes Honi Soit, Australia's only remaining weekly student newspaper, as well as Growing Strong, the Women's handbook and the Orientation Handbook.
The SRC is also home to broader political campaigns organised around its mass-member collectives, which are highly involved in the movements for free speech, free education, women's and queer liberation and compulsory student unionism. It has collectives in the areas of Education, Women's, Queer, Environment, Humanitarian Aid and Anti-Racism, and co-ordinates its activism with the National Union of Students.
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Famous quotes containing the word functions:
“The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that there are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brain that is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious—to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.”
—Edward T. Hall (b. 1914)
“The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)