"Employ us, we were on Neighbors!"
One of the hardest things to see in my degree is the amount of talented people being diddled by university bureaucracy. My degree has suffered much raping and pillaging from the hob nobs that run this joint in the past several years. To this end it has been canceled, the last intake was my year, and we will all be graduating come summer (sans those sado-masochistically undertaking a honors year). The cancellation of the Bachelor of Creative Arts is all part of the bigger picture apparently (its what the promotional information is telling us). Our University wants to be swanky and cutting edge so damn bad, unfortunately they also have money issues in abundance and those issues kind of work in opposition to the whole best university in the galaxy blueprints. So in trying to disguise the mass lay-offs and course culls they deem necessary to tighten belts around campus they tacked these actions onto a movement which is now called the Melbourne Model, my uni can multitask betch! You should google the Melbourne Model, the internet will provide the answers I cannot, I'm not smart like the internet...
Anyway I think I was making a point of some sort...oh yeah, so we have a bevvy of beautifully talented peeps in Creative Arts. Actors, photographers, movie makers, art makes, makers of beautiful things in general and you know what, they deserve all the breaks. They deserve the support of the uni, they deserve the love. I'd give it to them (and I do, only in appropriate ways) but my love ain't gonna put food on the table. We have only a handful of dedicated teachers left who do provide great mentorship but they're stretched thin, we outnumber them. We need more staff, we needed them when we began our course, we didn't need the subsequent cuts which happened after we started.
It has gotten to the point that for our final semester instead of separate classes for film, print making, painting, photography and other crafty arty things there is one class with the lot of us tossed in and left to tread water. Its hard and it totally sucks and it makes me mad. If I had know things would get like this when I began my course (and we were made to believe otherwise) I question if I would have spent the time and money I did to get my piece of paper come graduation.
This is boring, isn't it? Questioning bureaucracy is boring aint it, even if you throw in savvy youthful words like totally and aint. I guess that's the problem, people get bored with fighting for the things they deserve. Sad.
Would a picture make this interesting? Demonstrate why we Craties (creative arties) deserve more than we got?
I took these last year...make of them what you will.
