On 3/16/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
For those not familiar with Australian student union structures, the student life on campus is usually run/supported/funded by a Student Union, which is not really a union in the traditional sense. The university itself usually tries to keep itself quite separate, probably to avoid students doing silly things that would tarnish their reputation...
This sounds pretty much like the British model. I've no idea what other countries do, but the rule I learned is: if it involves wine and cheese, it's Faculty; if it involves beer and the kind of girls who don't stand around eating cheese, it's Union.