Log of claims campaign launched on La Trobe

Log of claims campaign launched on La Trobe

BY CHRIS ATKINSON

MELBOURNE — Drawing inspiration from student campaigns at the University of Western Sydney, Bankstown, and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, students at La Trobe University launched a "log of claims" campaign here on May 25 in an attempt to reverse disastrous planned cuts at the university.

Thirty students and staff, chanting "no ifs, no buts, no fees, no cuts", rallied against cuts to the arts faculty which will abolish a number of courses and cut funding and staff.

Students at the action, initiated by the campus's Resistance club and supported by the Save Arts Coalition, resolved to involve their classmates in drafting a list of improvements to university facilities and courses to be formally put to the vice-chancellor Michael Osborn later in the year.

From GLW issue 407