Donuts 4 Darfur

This last week of term has brought much excitement and a fair bit of stress for me personally, as one of my big campus-wide campaigns for this year came to fruition!

You may have noticed the 1000-doughnut-giveaway on Talbot Campus this week - the Donuts 4 Darfur campaign - during which me and many of my friends from the Jewish Society, SUBU exec and RAG were doing our bit for the suffering people of the world by raising money and awareness of the terrible genocide in Sudan that has left 400,000 people dead, created almost 3 million refugees and 80% of the villages in Darfur completely destroyed. Whilst guns are used to kill, rape is being used as a weapon of torture, and the international community continues to stand idly by while it happens.

I thanks those of you who made it to the candle-lit vigil where we made a stand against genocide, and hope that the rest of you will do your bit by visiting www.aegistrust.org to find out more about the crisis and what you can do to help.

I should also take this oportunity to thank Danya Taylor at the UJS and Sophie Leedham of Aegis Students for travelling down from London to speak to us, and also to thank the many of you who donated to Fund-4-Darfur this week. The total raised was in the region of £300, which will go towards humanitarian aid in the region, including the purchase of anywhere up to 20 slow-burning stoves, which will save women from needing to leave the camp and risking rape, torture and murder for firewood to cook on. To find out more about the Fund-4-Darfur Stoves Project, visit www.fund4darfur.org/stoves.htm.

But it's not all depressing stuff today! NO SIREE!
This week was the LAST WEEK OF TERM!!! and of course, the end of the first term brings the much anticipated Dylans v TOFS football match (which it pains me to say Dylans and the Shop lost 2-1 to the Firestation) and the end of term Xmas party in Dylans followed by Bedlam at TOFS!

Whilst compared with last year, the Dylans party was a relatively muted affair, the atmosphere was still electric, and I had great fun running the Karaoke for 2 and a half hours! Thanks to everyone who took part.

Finally, I wish everybody a very happy holiday period. Try not to work too hard!

I'll be busy working on your Environmental Campaign, and as always, I'll keep you posted on how things are going!

Much love,

Dan!

The contuinuing plight of the red squirrel (or something like that...)

So I'm still working hard on improving and promoting the environmental side of your Students' Union, and now everybody seems to be on the bandwagon!

Lots of progress has been made over the last few weeks, and though I don't want to spoil too much of what we're doing to improve our environmental impacts before next term (when all will be revealed), I can tell you that we're very close to completing and ratifying our new Environmental Policy.

Watch this space for more news!


Dan