Gonville & Caius Students' Union

Gonville & Caius Students' Union

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GCSU Sports Summary : Michaelmas 2011

Women's Badminton
Caius Women's Badminton have had a great Michaelmas term, winning 5 out of 6 matches so far. With 1 more match to go this term, we are looking towards being promoted into Division 1 next term!


Women’s Basketball
Newly promoted to first division, placed 4/5

Peer2Peer is a welfare scheme in Cambridge University that trains students in order for them to support their peers in a meaningful and responsible way. Peer2Peer supporters do not give advice or seek out problems, rather they respond to requests for help and empower the person they are supporting to come to their own decisions. The training teaches the supporter the communication skills required to do this, amongst other things.

Present: Roma Kanabar, Boris Hackett, Pragesh Sivaguru, Prem Jareonsettasin, Elunyd Bradshaw, Jess Holland, Kirsty Gray, David Zhou, Rosie O’Dea, Alex Hawkins, Astrid Bulmer, Shaneil Patel, Maya Grantham, Sarah Daniel, Martin Iacoponi, Gordon Beck, Pippa Horton and Philippa Deacon.

Apologies: Adam Hussey, Charlie Hansom

Announcements:

We want to know your views on Brunch in Caius! This way we can present the results to college and push for any changes that are in high demand. Filling in the questionnaire need only take a minute, and all feedback is anonymous.

Just click the link below to access the survey:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGtIMHFfYmU2aHY0Mkx...

Good News! The previously successful trial of FilmSoc's DVD Rental scheme means it will now be available permanently. To use the system all you need to do is...

1. CHOOSE a DVD from the list online.

2. COLLECT your DVD from the library, room 6 (halfway down the library on the right, DVD box is on the lowest shelf on the right as you enter).

If you've ever had a computer die on you, you'll know how stressful it is worrying about whether the last few month's worth of documents are safe or not. Some people back up their documents in the holidays when they are at home, but students quite regularly have accidents during term (coffee spillages, dropped laptops, etc etc) which means they can sometimes risk losing up to a term's worth of work.

The GCSU strongly recommends that students back up their documents regularly. You can do this in a variety of ways:

1. Use an external hard drive (or USB Key, iPhone, even a friend's computer...)
2. Each student gets 500MB of storage on the Cambridge PWF network (which can be increased if necessary). Details of how to access the PWF from your machine can be found at http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/pwf/remote/
3. www.dropbox.com offers 2GB of free storage, with an added 200MB for every member you refer. Dropbox has the advantage of making your documents accessible from any machine with internet-access! Just watch the bandwidth as it can rack up quite easily if you frequently make changes to the contents of your Dropbox folder!
4. Your faculty may offer students storage - just email your faculty to find out what's available

Are you confident, chatty, and keen to support Caius?

Present: Roma Kanabar, Kirsty Gray, Bruno Sussat, Boris Hacket, Jess Holland, Elunyd Bradshaw, Martin Iacoponi, Pippa Horton, Sarah Daniel, Catherine Egleton, Charlie Hansom,
Rebecca Lawrence, Philippa Deacon, Adam Hussey, Maya Grantham, Shaneil Patel and Gordon Beck.

Apologies: Alex Hawkins, Prem Jareonsettasin, David Zhou

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