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How to support girls to grow up with healthy attitudes towards body image and sexuality will be discussed at a public lecture in Temora on Tuesday 18 October 2011. Lecturer in philosophy and ethics at Charles Sturt University (CSU), Dr Emma Rush will give an overview of what researchers and experts have to say about the risks associated with the sexualisation of girls and explain the government’s response. “A generation ago we didn’t see fashion and gossip magazines, padded bras and cosmetics pitched specifically at the primary school market,” she said. “While sex appeal has been used to sell products for a long time, in the last decade or so imagery directly inspired by pornography has also become much more prevalent in fashion and advertising. The increasing pressure on girls to meet very narrow appearance ideals at younger and younger ages is of significant concern to experts in child health and welfare.”  The free lecture, Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls, will also identify resources for parents and professionals who work with girls. 

Final year business students at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst will present business and marketing strategies to the marketing director of the Royal Australian Mint as part of end-of-session assessments this week. Mr Andrew Mashman, adjunct lecturer in marketing, communications, and project management from the University’s School of Business said students in the business strategy and the marketing strategy units in the Bachelor of Business (Management) and Bachelor of Business Studies will deliver group presentations to the Mint’s marketing director, Ms Felicity Mullens between 2pm and 4pm on Wednesday 12 October. The Mint’s market research manager, Ms Judith Steiner, will also attend. “The presentations by six teams will focus on presenting a high-level big-picture rationale about why The Mint exists, and how it can continue to exist in a world where the use of coins is dropping,” Mr Mashman said. “Bachelor of Communications (Public Relations) students from the School of Communication and Creative Industries at CSU in Bathurst will also deliver separate individual public relations presentations to CSU staff on what could be encountered in countries like Indonesia, China, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia and Burma. Many of the public relations challenges in the Asian region have to do with the operation of aid agencies, for example. The presentations help prepare our students for the continued and growing role of Australia in Asia, specifically in the communications and strategic management of stakeholders.”

Photography students from Charles Sturt University (CSU) are putting their creativity, skill and talent on display with an exhibition of large-scale photography at the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. f4 is the culmination of study for the  final year Bachelor of Arts (Photography) and Master of Arts Practice (Photomedia) students. Photography and digital imaging lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Industries at CSU in Wagga Wagga, Mr James Holcombe said a diverse range of photographic styles and subject matter are on show. “This exhibition celebrates the accomplishments of all the students, and broadcasts their success to the wider community,” he said. Previous graduates of the CSU Bachelor of Arts (Photography) course have been successful in several national photographic competitions, including finalists in the National Photographic Portrait Prize.

Work has been conducted on the Charles Sturt University (CSU) Farm in Wagga Wagga to improve the space for native fauna and flora. Earlier this year, CSU signed what is known as an incentive Property Vegetation Plan with the Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority (CMA) as part of the CMA’s Climate Change Corridors Project. Under the plan, two native vegetation corridors have been created on the University’s farm. Between May and July, preparation works were undertaken at the two sites including ripping of the ground to allow water to penetrate deep into the soil profile and to enable adequate root development, the spraying of weeds along the rip lines and the construction of hundreds of metres of new fencing to prevent stock from trampling the new plantings. Then in mid-August, approximately 3 500 native trees and shrubs were planted in the two corridors. Acting Energy Manager at CSU, Mr Chris O’Connor said, “As these plants establish themselves over the coming years, these native vegetation corridors will significantly enhance local biodiversity. They will also support Charles Sturt University’s target of having 20 per cent of our land allocated to biodiversity by 2015.”

A Charles Sturt University (CSU) history researcher will address a meeting of local and family historians in Coonabarabran, NSW, on Saturday 22 October as part of his nationwide quest to locate relatives of Australian miners who went to the Klondike goldfields in remote north-west Canada at the end of the 1800s. “My talk is mainly about David MacGregor, a ‘Klondike Stampeder’ known to have come from the Coonabarabran area, who is quite possibly the grumpiest Australian who went to the Klondike,” said Dr Rob McLachlan, an adjunct senior lecturer in history at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU in Bathurst. “MacGregor has left us a remarkable account of his Klondike experiences in letters he wrote from Canada to family and friends,” Dr McLachlan said. “In them he displays a strong prejudice against Canadians and their country, yet he stayed on for 20 or so years. I hope the talk will reveal some present-day relatives who will come forward with more information about MacGregor. I would also like to hear of other Australians who may have gone to the Klondike.”

The largest group of staff from Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Orange will gather for Ride to Work 2011 at Bill’s Beans café on Wednesday 12 October. More than 15 staff members will leave their vehicles at home for the event. Lecturer from the School of Biomedical Sciences at CSU in Orange and bicycle enthusiast Dr James Wickham has organised local support for the event and is thrilled that other staff members will join him on what is his daily ride to work. “Charles Sturt University supports sustainability and, even though our offices are some of the furthest from the CBD, we have a large number of staff members who ride regularly to work in any weather conditions.” The group will leave Bills Beans café at 8.15am and plan to ride into the CSU front gate at 8.30am.

Charles Sturt University (CSU) academic Dr Cilla Kinross will welcome the public to the first Wetland and Streambank Field Day on Saturday 22 October as part of her work with the Summer Hill Creek Care group and the Central West Catchment Management Authority (CMA). Topics will include identification of wetland and riparian, or stream bank plant species, frog monitoring, rehabilitation techniques and weed control.  “People will get the chance to get their hands dirty and help plant wetland species while learning about how and what to plant in the wetlands at their place,” said Dr Kinross from the School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences at CSU in Orange. Specialists will be on hand during the day to answer questions. The day will start at 9.30am with morning tea and run until 2pm.  Lunch will be provided and will have a ‘wetlands’ theme of duck soup and watercress salad plus a barbecue. “We encourage everyone to bring their gumboots and a hand trowel as it will be a hands-on kind of day.”

 

The newly formed Orange Equestrian Club (OEC) will hold its first sporting event at the Equine Management Centre at Charles Sturt University (CSU) on Saturday 15 October. “We’d like to encourage the Orange community to join the Club,” said Bachelor of Agricultural Business Management student at CSU and OEC treasurer, Mr Dennis Kunz. “Orange has a strong equine presence and, with the establishment of this group, we hope to offer more competition and educational events for the community.” The OEC sporting day will include barrel racing, bending, flag racing, apple bobbing and an egg and spoon race. “It’s a fun way to let people know about the Club and to announce details of the OEC Dressage and Showjumping Clinic to be held on Saturday 19 November with internationally renowned instructor Ms Megan Joerg.”