From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Curtin Student Guild is the student representative association at Curtin University. The Guild started as the WAIT Student Guild in November 1968. In addition to student representation the Guild manages most of the food outlets on campus, runs the Guild Tavern, the Second Hand Bookshop, Concept Store, Curtin Student Guild Childcare Centre and the Copy and Design Centre. The Guild funds many of the student clubs and societies on campus. The Guild also runs a number of events throughout the year, most notably are the Beach Bash held in semester one and Oktoberfest held in semester two. The Guild publishes Grok, the campus magazine which has the largest distribution in the country. The Student Guild is governed by students through the Guild Council. Student representatives are elected to their positions by students in annual elections held in September and run by the Western Australian Electoral Commission. The official spokesperson of which is the Guild President. The 2006 Guild President is Kate Meenan.

Postgraduate students are represented by Curtin Student Guild Postgraduate Student Association. CUPSA is a department of the Guild. Other departments include ISC (International Students Committee), Women’s, Queer, Indigenous, and Part Time and Mature Age.

Funding to the Curtin Student Guild will be greatly reduced when the Voluntary Student Unionism legislation comes into force on 1 July 2006. The Curtin Student Guild has already experienced State imposed VSU from 1994-2002.

For more information, see the Guild website.