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Bruce Hall News08/09 August was a big month for formal dinners and discussion forums at Bruce, with topics including body art & personal identity, risk & risk taking behaviour, racial profiling & 'post-racial' America, the 'Laws of Networking' dinner (with guests including Bruce alumni and current Bruce law students), and doing business in China. 07/09 South Quad had a make over this month, with a new landscaped wall infront of West wing, replacing the older brick wall damaged by tree roots. 06/09 The Bruce Hall refurbishment project got into full swing this month, with upgrade of the heating and hot water services in the catered wings and repairs to the wall running along the West wing side of South Quad. 05/09 The first inter-Hall Green Shield Competition got underway this year. The premier event took place during May, with all halls, colleges and lodges competing to save the highest percentage of water and electricity compared to May 2008. The month ended with a dinner in the Bernhard Neumann room at Bruce, celebrating in particular the energy and enthusiasm of the green reps whose efforts over two years led to the establishment of the Green Shield. 04/09 After a one year hiatus due to increased risk assessment procedures, IB was back with a devilishly tough run finishing at the ruins of the old Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station. Bruce teams put in a strong performance and finished fourth in a field of eight, the first division team finishing a very close second behind Burgmann's experienced first division.
Bill reminices at the Bruce Hall Alumni Hunt (2007) 03/09 This month Bruce Hall mourned the loss of our first and much loved Warden, Mr Bill Packard OAM just a few days short of his 84th birthday. Bruce Hall residents and alumni were well represented at his memorial service at University House. Warden of Bruce Hall from 1961 to 1987, Bill maintained contact with our college following his retirement and we benefited from almost fifty years of his warm and generous presence in our community. 02/09 The new Head of Bruce Hall, Ms Marion Stanton, welcomed a new generation of residents to Bruce Hall this month. A former resident, Resident Fellow and Deputy Warden of Bruce Hall, Marion has a wealth of university experience as well as a deep commitment to residential life. 01/09 Those of us who remember Caroline Howe will be interested to read of her travels round India in an electric powered car with the Solar Punch Band: http://indiaclimatesolutions.com/road-tour. An amazing, life-changing, world-changing experience! 12/08 As the last residents departed the catered wings, North wing closes for a complete refurbishment, including new beds and carpet and a fresh coat of paint. North has always been one of our most popular wing in recent years, (it has the highest incidence of wireless access, but it's sure to be the most desirable address at Bruce next year! 11/08 As a partner in the Asia-Pacific Learning Community, Bruce Hall students helped to plan a series of events to promote the contributions of Pacific Island communities to Australian life and culture. These included an ANUSA 'Fun Day' of cultural activities, a evening forum with eminent members of Pacific Island communities in Australia, and a university experience weekend for high school students. For more information on Pasifika Australia activities check out the Pasifika Australia website. 10/08 The Bruce Hall Social Justice Group, supported by the Rhetoric Learning Community, held a forum titled 'Cultural Collision: Indigenous People and the Australian Legal System' to mark the end of INDI-G FEST. Other offerings by the Rhetoric Learning Community this month included a robust, challenging and entertaining Devil's Advocate speaker series after dinner, a social gathering for the direct entry Honours students and the compilation of this year's edition of Cross-sections. 09/08 Former Deputy Warden of Bruce Hall and godfather of APEC, Professor Peter Drysdale was the main speaker at a high table dinner focusing on China's investment in Australia. Interest in the theme was high, attendance was capped at 50 and Peter fielded a wide range of questions from the floor, stimulating discussion which continued in the Buttery well after the dinner finished.
08/08 The Bruce Hall Art Show showcased the work of our talented artists, including drawings, paintings, ceramics, jewelry, collage and photographs. With the theme of Seasons, first prize went to Ruth Byrne's wonderfully fleshy pots, their sides decorated with blossoms. In other good news from this month, the women's soccer team continued to improve during the semester, with the highlight being a hard faught nil-all result against the John XXIII team. The men's team made it into the final, where they went down against Burton and Garran Hall. 07/08 Bill Packard, first Warden of Bruce Hall, was guest of Honour at the Bruce Hall Alumni Winter Feast. Alumni from the 60s through to the 90s attended the dinner, which was preceeded by a tour of the Hall and a display of photographs from across the decades. 6/08 As the month drew to a close we farewelled the ever increasing number of Bruce students leaving for a variety of international education opportunities, including summer school programmes at Yale and Oxford and exchange programmes in the US, Netherlands, China and Denmark. We also recieved our first international interns for the year, including two from Yale and two from Oxford. It is wonderful how many of our students have benefitted from the close ties the ANU has with so many other universities. 5/08 This year's Diversity symposium focused on sexuality. Speakers from a range of agencies spoke about different facets of sexuality and culture, sparking an evening of thoughtful and wide-ranging discussion that was a real highlight of the semester's programme. The following week, residents attended the Ally information evening - Ally is a network of staff and students which promotes a safe and inclusive environment for GLBTI students and staff at the ANU. 4/08 Place seven bands, several tonnes of food, drink and equipment and over 700 people in South Quad for over 5 hours and what do you have? The second Inter-Hall Band in the Quad Night (or the Big Night Out). The evening wouldn't have been so successful without the efforts of almost 50 volunteers from Bruce Hall, who helped set up, sold tickets, poured drinks, cooked bbq, painted faces and helped clean up. Our own Bruce Brothers band came a close second to John XXIII College and ended an excellent night with a selection that had the crowd on their feet. We reached out to our Alumni this month, sending a newsletter to all our alumni registered with the ANU Alumni Office. The newsletter will include information about alumni events, college events to which alumni are invited and profiles. Past Bruce Hall alumni include Professor Ross Garnaut (1964), now Distinguished Professor of Economics, Australian National University and Vice Chancellorial Fellow and Proessorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Most recently, Professor Garnaut was commissioned by the Commonwealth Government to undertake a review examining the impact of climate change on the Australian economy and potential policies to counteract those effects.
Darren Boyd, Coombs Photography 3/08 Earth Hour was celebrated across campus on Satruday the 29th of March. Bruce Hall and the Sustainability Learning Community took part in many ways, including playing a leading role in preparations for the day, providing a task force of volunteers on the day and into the night (including our choir, which performed outside the Hall for the first time) and switching off as many lights and electrical appliances around the Hall as possible during the evening. Even the Buttery was in darkness!
Photograph: Stuart Hay - ANU Photography 2/08 This year Bruce Hall had the privillage of hosting the Hon. Gough Whitlam as our invited speaker at our Commencement Dinner. Mr Whitlam spoke of the responsibilities of universities such as the ANU to governments and the people of the nation, as well as his long-standing ties to the ANU. He and his wife, Mrs Margaret Whitlam, were very generous guests and devoted much of their time at Bruce Hall to coversation with students who were very grateful for their kindness and consideration. 1/08 The year began on a very busy note as strong growth in applications for places at Bruce Hall meant a steady stream of visits by prospective students and their families. 12/07 After hosting two Yale students mid-year, Bruce resident Ed Boydell spent the summer on a green internship at Yale. Besides having a wonderful time, he hopes to bring back some new ideas and strategies for Bruce as well as the ANU campus. Other Bruce Hall residents are studying over summer in Amman, Copenhagen and Hong Kong, or travelling and visiting friends from Bruce in Japan, China, the US, Europe and all places in between. 11/07 Thanks to the hard work of some of our American residents, we celebrated Thanksgiving this year. A pot-luck meal featuring an enormous turkey provided by the Bruce Hall chefs, the evening brought the academic year to a close in grand style. 10/07
09/07 08/07 On Wednesday, 8th of August, Bruce Hall ran an Alumni Hunt to begin re-establishing contact with our alumni. Bill Packard came to dinner and entertained the audience with tales of the early days of the Hall. Are you a Bruce Alumni? We'd love to hear from you. Update your details here: http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/alumni/. If you are an Alumni of Bruce Hall, but not an Alumni of the Australian National University, please email our front office enquiries.bruce@anu.edu.au. 07/07 Bruce Hall hosts two green interns from Yale this semester as part of our work in the Sustainability Learning Community. The students will be working on projects in the ANU Green office as well as being full members of the Bruce community. Other SLC activities this semester include the Hall acting as a research site for a grey water treatment plant. Water from the showers in North wing is being treated and recycled to flush toilets in North. We're also taking part in a pilot project which eventually aims to convert all organic waste on campus to compost. All of the food waste from the Bruce Hall kitchens is now delivered to the 'HotRot' composter instead of landfill. 06/07 This year's Great Green Debate, held on World Environment Day (5th of June), focused on the timely topic Securing Our Water Future: Social Change or Technological Innovation? Panel members included Professor Quentin Grafton Crawford School of Economics and Government, ANU), Senator Rachel Siewert (Greens Senator, WA), Professor Patrick Troy (Fenner School of the Environment, ANU), Dr Tom HAllon (Director, Water for a Healthy Country Flagship Research Program, CSIRO) and Ms Wendy McIntyre (Australian Research Centre for Water in Society). The panel was chaired by Professor Will Steffen (Director, Fenner School of the Environment, ANU). A formal dinner in the Bernhard Neumann Room was followed by a panel discussion in the Dining Hall, to which all members of the ANU were invited. The evening was organised by the Sustainability Learning Community and was a great success. 05/07 The Bruce Hall choir gave its first public performance at Showcase 2007, a celebration of visual arts, performing arts and digital arts at Bruce Hall. Attended by Faculty from the School of Art and the New Media Arts Centre, the evening included a variety of jazz, classical and operatic works, the choir, an exhibition of ceramics and drawings and an extensive showcase of digital images, photography, video and animations. 04/07 This month Bruce Hall hosted the first Inter-Hall Band in the Quad. Based on our traditional O-week 'Band in the Quad' and organised by the Inter-Hall Social Committee, IBitQ night included bands from Ursula, Johns, Burgmann and Fenner as well as Bruce Hall and hundreds of residents from all the Halls and Colleges had a great night in South Quad. 03/07 This year Bruce Hall's div 7 indie Inward Bound team included our Head of Hall, Neil Rodgers, and President of our Common Room Committee, Steve Wenzel. After a long night, the teams came in to the end point to applause from the big Bruce contingent who turned out to cheer them in. Well done to everyone who was part of the event, including teams, all the other runners who trained during the term, scrutineers, drivers, div-BBQ and the end point cheer squad.
02/07 Bruce Hall escaped with minor damage after a massive hail storm struck Canberra, and especially the ANU, on Tuesday night (27th February). Residents manned mops, buckets and towels to prevent flooding in the Foyer, Library and Senior Common Room and catch leaks in the recently refurbished Bernhard Neumann room.
Justice Michael Kirby was our guest speaker at this year's
Commencement Dinner. His speech was widely anticipated and the Dining Hall was
filled with over 300 attending dinner on the 21st of February. 01/07 Ms Rebekah (Beck) White was awarded the Tillyard Prize at graduation in December 2006. The Tillyard Prize is awarded for contributions to the campus and Canberra communities. Graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in Psychology, she also was awarded the University Medal in the same ceremony. Beck made huge contributions to the Bruce community in her time in the Hall, including serving as Resident Tutor in 2005, contributor to Cross-sections, Academic mentor and InwardBound team member. We wish her every success in her postgraduate studies. 12/06 As the University year ends, many of our residents are leaving for exchange or other study programmes abroad. This year's destinations include the Netherlands, Germany, America, Vietnam and Japan. We wish everyone the best of experiences and look forward to your return to Canberra at the end of your studies. 11/06 The second volume of Cross-sections, Bruce Hall's Academic Journal, was launched by Bruce Hall Fellow Professor Simon Haines at a cocktail function on 25th October. Congratulations to everyone involved in producing another excellent compilation of academic writing and artwork produced by members of the Hall over the past year. Many thanks to all the academic staff who generously served as mentors and referees for this year's journal.
10/06 The final Packard Society Dinner for the year was held on the 10th October. With a theme of "Reconciliation: Would 'Sorry' be enough?", the programme included a formal dinner in the Bernhard Neumann Room and a discussion after dinner in the Dining Hall. Open to the ANU community and wider community, speakers included Mal Brough (Federal Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs) Chris Evans (Leader of the Opposition in the Senate), Jason Glanville (mameber of the Wiradjuri nation and policy and programs director of Reconcilliation Australia), Larissa Behrendt (Professor of Law and Director of Research Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology, Sydney), Robin MacNamee (Legal Research Officer, National Centre for Indigenous Affairs) and Sylive Ellsmore (non-Indigenous co-convenor of ReconcilliACTION Network). The evening was a great success, with spirited debate continuing late into the evening. The new Head of Hall, Dr Neil Rodgers, has taken up his appointment at Bruce Hall this month. This is not Neil's first experience of Bruce Hall and the ANU: he has previously been Head of Burton and Garren Hall and also served as acting Head of Bruce Hall for a brief period in the late 90s. Neil brings a wealth of experience to the role of Head of Bruce Hall and we look forward to a great year in 2007. 09/06 Snow Day was a great success this year with activities ranging from skiing, snowboarding, bushwalking, snowball fights and relaxing over coffee and hot chocolate. |
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