THE GARDENS POINT CAMPUS CLUB
This Campus Club, situated on Level 3 of the Community Building, provides a pleasant social atmosphere for mixed drinking. It trades between the hours of 12 noon to 4 pm. and 5 pm. to 10 pm., Monday to Friday.
The Club is open to any person who in the past has been or who is currently involved with the activities of the QIT. It was formed with the basic aim of providing a social facility to QITstudents and staff. The Club is run by professional staff under the guidance of a Management committee.
CREDIT UNION
The College Credit Union, situated on Level 3 of the Community Building was established by college staff and managed by them to serve the particular needs of all members of the college sector whether staff or student.
QITUNION
The Aims of the Queensland Institute of Technology Union -
The basic aim of the Union is to involve its members in all activities which are associated with campus life, to represent its members on the various boards and committees, and to provide services and facilities to its me.mbers.
Union Council -
The QIT Union Council comprises the President, five Executive Directors and up to thirty-five Representative members elected from the various schools. Elections are held annually.
Union Council meets every four (4) weeks during semesters. All members who wish to attend Council meetings are cordially invited to do so. Even though they are not Council members, they may ask questions of any of the Director, Student Representative or Academic Board Representatives.
Union Facilities and Services -
Since the Union has a major say in the day-to-day operations of the Community Building and provides large grants to subsidise Clubs and activities, the facilities available to you as members are both beneficial and varied.
Union Office (Level 3, Community Building) which is staffed full-time to provide continuity of service to all students, 9.00 am. to 6.00 pm.
Union Shop (Level 2, Community Building) sells a large range of calculators and other goods and is a market place for student made products. The shop is open 8.00 am. to 6.00 pm.
QIT Travel: The Students Union and World Travel Headquarters set up a full travel agency on campus. It operates between the hours of 10.00 am.
and 6.00 pm. Monday to Friday.
Record Shop: A record shop is located on Level 3 of the Community Building.
Discount List: A wide range of discounts is available to Union Members.
A list of organizations offering such discounts is available from the Union Office.
Billiard, amusement machines and table tennis facilities are available for Union members use in the Games Room on Level 1 of the Community Building from 8.30 am. to 6.00 pm.
A Gymnasium operates on the 1st Level, Community Building, hours 8.00 am. to 8.00 pm.
The QIT Union Child Care Centre's facilities are available in the old Bakehouse and operates from 8.30 am. to 5.15 pm. Phone 221 6993.
General Information -
For all enquiries about Union activities, services, clubs and societies and complaints ring Union Office on 221 3144 during office hours. Answers that are not available immediately are provided on a call back basis.
Alternatively a personal call at the Union Office will find staff available to service any difficulties.
A Contact Service is available on the Ground Floor of the Community Building. This office helps provide employment, accommodation and general information for the students.
The Uniori Newspaper PLANET provides general information and also acts asa forum fora wide range of topics of student interest. All members of the Union are free to contribute any articles, poetic masterpieces etc., to your newspapers.
Clubs and Societies -
Since the formation of the Union there has been a gradual increase in the number of Clubs and Societies. These are listed below:
AQITLS (Law Students) Health Science Students Assn.
BAPTSA (P/T Architecture Students) IPMAS .
Baseball Club Karate Club
BSA (Business Students) Labor Club
Built Enviro.nment Students Group Overseas Students Association
Bushwalking Club QOSS (Optometry)
Chemistry Students Association QPODS (Podiatry)
Chess Club Peace and Justice Group
Child Care Club Rowing Club
Christian Fellowship Sailing Club Communications Students Assn. Soccer Club Computing Studies Social Club . Softball Club
Cricket Club Surveying Students Association Debating Society Table Tennis Club
Dramatic and Visual Arts Society Underwater Club Engineering Students Club Volleyball Club
Gamers Guild Waterski Club
Geological Society Women's Collective
Golf Club Yoga Club
These clubs are funded by the Union. Any enquiries regarding the Clubs may be made at the Union Office.
The success of all Union ventures is dependent on the continuing involvement of members.
President . . . Ken Fussell Director of Admin/Finance . . . David Williams Director of Student Seruices . . . Jane Folliott Director of Activities ... Michael Powell Director of Sport . . . • . . . Steven Pyman Director of Education . . . Susan Sheppard
COUNSELLING CENTRE
The Counselling Centre is an autonomous professional service depart- ment of the Institute playing an integral role with both the academic and administrative staff in promoting the personal and educational develop- ment of students on campus.
It operates to assist students with concerns related to their normal development needs - problems with personal and social functions, educational difficulties, and decision on future career and personal planning. As well it offers programs designed to aid the development of personal maturity and effective patterns of living, working and studying.
These include human relations groups, job hunting skills and career planning workshops, stress management groups, interpersonal com- munication workshops, and study skills and reading efficiency programs.
Complementing these are a range of. general welfare and guidance services, including accommodation, financial aid, course and career information. The Centre also provides contact with many other agencies in the community which offer services to students.
Services are provided by professionally qualified staff. Facilities include consultation rooms, a group room, a Relaxation Training Room, an Educational skills clinic, and a library of Career and Welfare information.
The service is free and available to both day and evening students, currently enrolled at the Institute and to those intending to enrol in the future. All consultations are STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
The Centre is located on the Lower Ground Level of the Community Building. Telephone: 223 2383. It is advisable to make an appointment, especially for part-time students, but feel free to call in at any time.
STUDENT HEAL TH SERVICE
The Student Health Service is a FREE service available to both full-time and part-time QIT students and is located in the south-west corner of Old Government House - opposite the Library, Main Entrance.
A nursing sister is in attendance from 8.30 am to 4.30 pm. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and from 10.00 am. to 6.00 pm. on Wednesday.
Appointments may be made for consultation with a Doctor, who will be in attendance for 31h hours each day. The hours are as follows:
Monday: 10.00 am. to 1.30 pm.
Tuesday: 9.30 am. to 1.00 pm.
Wednesday: 2.30 pm. to 6.00 pm.
Thursday: 9.30 am. to 1.00 pm.
Friday: 10.00 am. to 1.30 pm~
Students are welcome at the Health Service for discussion and treatment of all conditions pertaining to their well being including:
First Aid and Dressings
Psychological Problems (in Liaison with Student Counselling Centre)
Skin Care and Conditions Gynaecological Complaints
Contraception - Advice and Counselling Vaccinations
Hearing Tests Health Education
All records are, of course, STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
To facilitate treatment in a crisis, sufferers of recurring conditions (asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, etc.) are requested to make themselves known to the nursing sister.
A Recovery Room is available for patients needing temporary bedrest.
The Service is on telephone 223 2321 and this number should be called in all cases of emergency.
Medical Officer . . . Dr. L.B. Johnson, MBBS(Qld), DOH(Syd).
Sister ... · •... M. Gough The facilities and services of the Optometry, Podiatry, and Weight Control Clinics in the Schoof of Health Science are also available to students.
Optometry, ext. 2352, 'U' Block Podiatry, ext. 2609, 'A' Block Weight Control, ext. 2352, 'U' Block
CHAPLAINCY CENTRE AND CHAPEL
Chaplain ... Rev. Dr. Noel Preston The Chaplaincy Centre is Ecumenical and available to members of all faiths to make the drop-in-room the centre point of worship, discussion, clarification and search. The Centre will foster and encourage formation and growth of religious study groups.
The Centre exists to help staff and students take a great deal of responsibility for their own decisions and be free enough inside to use this power to give and to serve; and in so doing, to discover Christ in their neighbour and Christ's living-dying-living power in themselves.
The Centre seeks to strengthen the Christian Community at the Institute and enable it to express its spirituality forcefully and in a generative way.
To develop a Eucharistic Community the Chapel is always open for private prayer. Eucharist (Mass) service times will be advertised on notice boards in the Chaplaincy Centre.
The Chaplain is available to help free staff and students from pressures that weigh them down and assist them to make their own decisions in their personal life.
Parental and personal problems, questions in faith and prayer will be counselled in strictest confidence.
The Chaplain (co-ordinating for other churches) is available on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at the Centre. Telephone: 223 2111 ext.
2700 or appointments may be made with the secretary at the Counselling Centre ('V' Block) ext. 2383.
The Chaplaincy Centre is temporarily situated in 'V' Block. There is a chapel for private devotions and worship and a drop-in-room for private reading and rest available at all times.
CAMPUS INTERVIEW PROGRAM
The Campus Interview Program is conducted annually by the Institute with the two-fold purpose of assisting final year students to gain employment and of creating an awareness in them of career oppor- tunities. The program is held over a three week period, normally in September.
Employers who participate in the program are provided with Secretarial assistance during the period of their attendance and pre-arranged individual or limited group interviews take place in amenible surroundings.
Employers who consider a September date inapplicable to their needs are encouraged to make alternative arrangements.
Full details of future Interview Programs may be obtained through the QIT Admissions and Administative Services Section.