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FEATURES
REGULARS
8 | Tips and Tricks for GP2016
Everything you need to survive Lincoln’s biggest event of the year!
14 | International Night
Food, Fun & Entertainment
16 | LUSA Board Elections Have your say on who represents you on making a change
18 | Gumboots have been Banned from LU
A satirical look at banning gumboots on campus
COVER
DESIGNED BY
MEALZ WOULFE
4 | Letters from LUSA
7 | Sweet As/Stink One
22 | Aunty Flat-tac
26 | Live Well Week
FUN STUFF
6 | Stuff worth doing
19 | Pot Sticker Dumpling
20 | Rio Olympics Re-Cap
Review
No sport, all scandal
32 | Flat of the Month
23 | Refreshing Lincoln:
What it means for students
34 | Where were you when?
24 | LU Sport
Lincoln cleaning up in the rugby
40 | Gloriavale
30 | LUSA Clubs
What some of the Clubs have been up to
45 | Procrastination Station
EDITOR
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CONTRIBUTORS
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42 | Snapchat
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RAM Issue 7 | 3
Refreshing Lincoln University:
What it means for students
In the mid-semester break our Vice-Chancellor, Professor
Robin Pollard announced that “the University has
initiated a transformation process to strengthen its
foundations for the immediate future and for future
organisational options” but what does this actually mean
for you, as your average student?
To put it pretty simply,
not too much at the
moment. You’re
still going to have to
go to class, do your
assignments, go to
Garden Party, pass your
exams, and have a good
time at Uni.
What it does mean is
that LU is looking at
what can be done to
make itself better, and
get better outcomes
for everyone: students, staff, the government and New
Zealand Inc. It’s been said before but Lincoln needs to get
back on track, and stop losing money – as you probably
know there’s only so long Mum and Dad will let you get
away with spending their money.
We know the University is going to increase programme
attractiveness and flexibility which makes your
qualifications worth something, and making Lincoln a
better place to study for everyone.
Everything, the good and the bad, will all be available
at www.lincoln.ac.nz/refreshing. So when somethings
going on, or been proposed all the information will be out
there for everyone to see. You can even have your say on
what’s going on, which is even better!
The bottom-line is nothing has been decided yet, but
whatever gets proposed LUSA will make sure it’s in the
best interests of you, LU Students.
What’s The Hub?
Part of it is that sweet new set of
buildings that’ll be up on that Lake
Lincoln (aka the Hilgendorf demo site).
But it’s bigger than that. It’s about
collaboration between education,
research and industry. AgResearch,
Landcare Research, Plant & Food
Research (all Crown Research Institutes),
DairyNZ, and Lincoln University are all
involved.
Options at the moment
include working together
with other institutions and
organisations in some of
the stuff we do. We know
we’re doing great things and
The Hub will only make
that better, so it’s about
time we let some other
people share in the glory of
having something to do with
Lincoln. Everyone seems to
reckon that will help us out
in the long run too!
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