$25.91 non-refundable levy
Email: info@prcsa.ca
Website: www.sadleirhouse.ca
Situated in an elegant and spacious redbrick Queen Anne style building just north of Parkhill and George, Sadleir House is a cultural and educational facility for the University and Peterborough community. Sadleir House has space for performances, meetings, discussions, studying, reading, creativity, adventure, learning, growing and general absurdity. Organisation offices, event space, common rooms, performance space, libraries - there's a little of everything inside of Sadleir House.
Located in downtown Peterborough, Sadleir House serves as an important bridge and meeting place between the University and Peterborough communities. The licenced Dining Hall hosts regular events (like live music) throughout the year and functions often occur in the Harry Hobbs Memorial Library. Students are encouraged to check the website often to find out what's happening.
All students are welcome and encouraged to become involved with the groups and activities of Sadleir House. Opportunities to become involved in the governance of Sadleir House are available to students through student-specific seats on its Board of Directors. Election to the Board occurs each year in the winter semester; students are encouraged to contact Sadleir House for further information. Ultimately, it's your House - so spend some time getting to know, and hopefully love, Sadleir House.
$9.77 non-refundable levy
Email: editors@trentarthur.ca
Website: www.trentarthur.info
Arthur is Trent University's student and community newspaper. Arthur strives to be valuable and constructive by providing information and analysis, and by giving a forum to individuals and groups that have little or no access to other forms of media.
Arthur is published weekly, 25 times during the school year. It has a circulation of 3000 copies and is distributed free of charge in the city of Peterborough and on the Symons and Traill College campuses. Volunteering at Arthur is a great way to be involved in the community, learn valuable skills and meet new people. Volunteers contribute to all aspects of the paper, including writing, photography, cartoon drawing, art submissions, co-hosting Out of Print, Arthur's weekly radio show as well as the opportunity to sit on the Board of Directors.
Arthur also offers part-time employment opportunities for international students and those eligible to work under the Ontario Work Study Program. Every week, volunteers and staff meet to brainstorm story ideas for the upcoming week's paper. Arthur staff members are also available to assist volunteers on an individual basis. This year's editors are Teresa Cheng and Kate Taylor - please contact them for more information or to get involved!
$18.50 non-refundable levy
Email: yearbook@trentcsa.ca
Website: www.trentu.ca/yearbook
The Trent Annual is one of the oldest student organisations at Trent, capturing moments of Trent's vivid and colourful student life in a student produced yearbook. Student submissions are always sought. Alternatively, if you love photography, design and layout, paid positions at the Annual are available for you to indulge your zeal for photography and design and leave your mark on Trent's history. Email if you have any questions, suggestions or contributions in mind, or if you wish to obtain copies of past and present editions. The Annual looks forward to hearing from you and having YOU in the yearbook.
$18.42 non-refundable levy
Email: info@trentradio.ca
Website: www.trentradio.ca
Each year students new to the Trent community become a vital part of Trent Radio. It's a great way to learn about the Peterborough-area community and to share your ideas, music and meet new friends. Trent Radio has a fantastic World Music and Local Music Archive with new releases to explore. Along with regular programming, Trent Radio welcomes the production of Radio Project Days, facilitates the creation of Radio Dramas, provides promotion of local events, interviews touring artists and is always open to new ideas. The radio station was created by Trent students with the goal of producing exceptional radio. In addition, it was intended to be shared with the broader community. If you are interested in any aspect of Trent Radio, visit Trent Radio House at the corner of George Street and Parkhill. Programme Proposals and Proposal Guides are available on the website.
$12.25 refundable levy
Email: opirg@trentu.ca
Website: www.opirgpeterborough.ca
Research, Education and Action on Social and Environmental Justice Issues: OPIRG is a resource centre providing students with activist skills training, a variety of social and environmental justice volunteer opportunities, links to the Peterborough activist community, and links to other student activists across Canada. OPIRG seeks to address power imbalances prominent in our society and the connections between them (eg. environmental racism). Most of OPIRG's volunteers are members of working groups' collectives of people who work together toward common goals on a particular issue. Students can join existing working groups or start their own. Past working groups have included: Anti-Racism, Fair Trade Trent, Peace, Students Against Sweatshops, Friends of All Creatures Everywhere and many more. OPIRG also provides an emergency food cupboard through the Kawartha Food Share program. The cupboard is open to everyone in the Peterborough community, and is available during office hours. Contact OPIRG for more information.
$5.40 non-refundable levy
Primary Contact: Tom Colucci
Secondary Contact: acqueline Pennock
Officers: Javin Lau
Email: tuefrt@trentu.ca
The Trent University Emergency First Response Team (TUEFRT) is a student-run, volunteer organisation that provides pre-ambulatory first aid care to all medical emergencies on Campus.TUEFRT operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the Symons Campus during the academic year and at Traill College during special events. TUEFRT volunteers receive valuable training and extraordinary experience. To be on the team volunteers must pass a thorough 3-day tryout process which involves simulated medical emergencies and a series of trainings. The Team will arrange training for all volunteers on Automatic External Diffbulator, Standard First Aid - Health Care Provider, and Emergency First Responder. For Trent students interested in joining the Team, the tryout process runs once in September and once in January. Visit our website to apply. For all medical emergencies on campus please call 748-1333.
$5.14 refundable Trent Pubs levy
Email: ceilie@trentu.ca
Website: www.trentu.ca/stuuorg/ceilie
Located in Champlain College, just past the Bookstore and the TCSA office, you'll find your all-ages student pub. Open Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays, the Ceilie is a great place to spend those few hours between classes. This student-staffed pub offers free pool, TV, fooseball tables, a reasonably priced menu, daily features from the Seasoned Spoon plus the ONLY licensed patio on campus. Every Thursday night, the Ceilie rocks a wicked themed party with live DJs, promos and prizes! To keep updated on Ceilie events, join the Ceilie Facebook Group or check out the events listing on our website. Trent has three other student pubs available for special events: the Cat's Ass Pub in Otonabee College, Crawpaddies in Lady Eaton College, and the Trend, downtown at Catharine Parr Traill College. Student groups can organise their special events by making arrangements in advance with Conference Services.
$5.28 refundable levy
Primary Contact: Julie Cosgrove
Email: kwic@trentu.ca
Website: http://www.trentu.ca/kwic
Find alternative information on global issues in the free lending library, or curl up on our comfy couch for a quiet read at the KWIC Global Education and Resource Centre. Get involved with global education events, workshops, conferences or working groups throughout the year. KWIC hosts TCCBE research projects, student employment opportunities and alternative placements for education students. Drop by or call - everyone is welcome!
$5.13 non-refundable levy
$4.11 refundable levy
Primary Contact: Mary-Kate Whibbs
Secondary Contact: Joe Wood
Officers: Amanda Seville
Email: trentabsynthe@gmail.com
Website: www.absynthe.ca
Absynthe is Trent University's alternative student voice, and a vehicle for you to get your opinions out to the community. Established in 1999, Absynthe works to provide a forum for people to write about what interests them. Not just a newspaper, Absynthe covers stories, debates, campus happenings, creative writing, and anything in between. The paper is submission-based and is intended to give everyone an opportunity to say what's on their mind. As a result, each issue provides a current and unique snapshot of student life. Production staff are always looking for printable submissions from anyone who wants to speak out, via regular columns or otherwise. Absynthe is what you make of it - contribute today.
$6.07 non-refundable levy
Primary Contact: Kayember Tshikele
Email: info@trentwusc.org
Website: www.trentwusc.org
World University Service of Canada (WUSC) is a non-governmental organisation that aims to foster human development and global understanding through education and training. WUSC is a network of individuals and local committees at post-secondary institutions who believe that all peoples are entitled to the knowledge and skills necessary to contribute to a more equitable world. The Trent WUSC Local Committee is a campus-based group of students, faculty and staff dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding of international development issues on campus and in the community. It facilitates the objectives of WUSC by promoting the awareness of refugee issues through educational events and activities. The Local Committee also participates in WUSC's Student Refugee Program (SRP). Each year the Local Committee sponsors one refugee student to study at Trent, thereby enabling the student to gain an education which has been denied to them because of war, political repression or persecution in their home country. Since 1978, WUSC's SRP has enabled over 850 student refugees to resume their studies at Canadian universities and colleges. The Local Committee is always looking for volunteers to help organise educational events and help manage the SRP. Contact the Local Committee to find out about volunteer opportunities, events and the possibility of participating in WUSC programs overseas.
$3.08 non-refundable levy
Website: www.kawarthasexualassaultcentre.com
The Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre (KSAC) is a not-for-profit, charitable organisation established to provide sexual assault services and public education to the community. It is dedicated to providing immediate, free, confidential services to victims/survivors of recent and historical sexual assault. Services include a 24-hour crisis line, individual and group counselling, advocacy, accompaniment, outreach services and public education. The Centre offers community events such as Take Back the Night (an International Women?s Day program) and is a member of the co-ordinating committee for Week Without Violence. KSAC was founded in 1977 at the request of the Trent University administration, following a number of sexual assaults reported on campus. Students developed a steering committee and liaised with the broader community and other rape crisis centres. As a result, Peterborough Rape Relief was established. The relationship between Trent students and the Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre has remained strong throughout the years. Women 18 years and older interested in volunteering should call and speak to Theresa.
$3.08 refundable levy
Website: www.oxfam.ca
Oxfam Canada salutes the students of Trent University for their generous contribution to the struggle against poverty and injustice in more than 20 countries in the developing world. Your student levy enables Oxfam Canada to work in relationships of solidarity and partnership with more than 100 community counterpart organizations in the Horn of Africa, Southern Africa, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
Oxfam strives to build a more just, equitable and compassionate world, both through our work overseas and our ongoing advocacy campaigns in Canada. Oxfam Canada believes that the most important action to end global poverty and injustice is to secure global women's rights and ensure equality. We work on Essential Services, Sustainable Livelihoods, Women and HIV/AIDS, ending violence against women and promoting women's leadership in communities and during disasters.
If you would like more information about how to join Oxfam Canada as a member, or how to become a volunteer in our campaign and advocacy work, please visit the 'What You Can Do' section of our website or contact our Public Engagement Officer in Ontario, Victoria Harnett, victoriah@oxfam.ca.
$3.08 non-refundable levy
Email: theatretrent@trentu.ca
Website: www.theatretrent.ca
Theatre Trent is an executive body that administers money for theatre projects. There are usually three funding deadlines: one in October/November, one in January/February and another in April/May for summer projects. Theatre Trent also provides links to the Peterborough theatre community. We have a storage space at Sadleir House where donated and purchased costumes and props are available for re-use. Those interested can join the executive or submit funding proposals for ideas and shows. Application forms and more information are available on our website. Please contact us to get involved.
$3.08 non-refundable levy
Primary Contact: Dan Dietzel
Email: trentfilmsociety@gmail.com
Website: www.trentu.ca/trentfilmsociety
The Trent Film Society (TFS) is a student-funded group that highlights exceptional (and often neglected) films from around the world. Focusing on cinema as an experimental art, the TFS showcases both contemporary and historically innovative works, including international, avant-garde and independent films. By contextualising each film before the screening, the TFS aims to make its selections accessible to, and dynamic for, seasoned cinephiles and casual filmgoers alike. In addition to weekly screenings in the community, the Trent Film Society maintains a film theory library at Sadleir House, as well as an extensive resource website; screens local shorts before main features; sponsors the films of other student and community groups; and holds regular special events (like "Filmic Feasts" and the annual Community Film Night). Email TFS for weekly screening reminders, and keep an eye out for posters and cards throughout the year.
$2.92 refundable levy
Email: seasonedspoon@trentu.ca
Website: www.trentu.ca/seasonedspoon
The Seasoned Spoon is a student driven, not for profit, co-operative café located in the Senior Common Room of Champlain College. We serve healthy, organic, locally-grown and affordable food.
The Spoon strives to increase awareness of food issues through workshops, conferences, community-based education courses, as well as paid and volunteer work opportunities. Come to the Seasoned Spoon for a unique food experience and the opportunity to learn about community and food issues.
The Seasoned Spoon is open Monday-Friday from 8:30-3:30 while classes in session.
$2.57 non-refundable levy
Primary Contact: Matthew Bujaki
Secondary Contact: Michelle Leblanc
Officers: Samuel Quinn & Sophie Gibbs
Email: trentmusic@gmail.com
Website: www.trentmusic.ca
The Trent University Music Society (TUMS) serves as an umbrella organisation for smaller music oriented groups within the University. The Society currently endorses the Madrigal Choir, Trent Jazz, and the Concert Choir, and hosts a variety of events throughout the academic year, and a final concert each semester. TUMS encourages students to organise their own music-oriented events or groups by providing them funding via an application process which occurs twice each year. Watch for postings around campus with info on practice times for endorsed groups and opportunities to get involved with the TUMS Executive. New faces are always welcome!
$2.06 non-refundable levy
Email: trentccc@nexicom.net
Website: www.trentu.ca/org/tccc
The Trent Child Care Centre is a non-profit organisation which provides high quality, regulated child care for 52 children from six weeks to five years of age. One third of the spaces are designated for the children of Trent students. On-campus child care is especially important because it allows students who are parents to focus on their studies while their children are cared for in a safe, secure and stimulating environment. It allows mothers of very young children to continue to breastfeed their child during the school day, and it helps to reduce travel time and minimise transportation issues. The student levy is a key piece of its funding as it helps to fund the infant program. The Board of Directors is committed to returning a portion of the levy to Trent student parents who have a child enrolled in the program. Each student parent receives a $75 Book Award which they can use to order children's books from the Scholastic Book Club.
$2.06 refundable levy
Website: www.trentu.ca/biology/tna
The Trent University Nature Areas Committee (NAC) reports to the Facilities and Ground Committee, and ultimately the Senate and the Board of Governors, on the use of the Trent University Nature Areas (NAs). At present, the NAs occupy about 55 per cent of the Symons Campus (some 518 hectares in all) and represent 40 per cent of the “green space” in the City of Peterborough. The student levy permits the University, through the NAC, to undertake (in part) the hiring of student workers and financing student research in the NAs. They may plan events such as tours led by naturalists and general outdoor activity days. In the past, the levy has provided funds for research by students in the NAs and for prizes in nature area photography contests. In summer, levy funds contribute to maintaining trails (eg. signage, mowing and grading) and boardwalks, as well as photocopying and printing maps. The work of the Nature Areas Committee is enhanced by the levy, which is the most significant ongoing source of funding for the NAs. The NAC and the University community as a whole are most grateful to students at Trent for their support of the University's Nature Areas
$2.06 refundable levy
Primary Contact: Christa Collantes
Secondary Contact: Nora Niddery
Officers: Shannon Smyth & Sarah Morrow
Email: fc@trentu.ca
Website: www.trentu.ca/tsfl
Volunteers for Frontier College at Trent University assist children, youth and senior citizens throughout Peterborough to improve reading and writing skills and to share the joys of reading from October to April each year through a variety of programs outlined below: Tutoring Program - Tutors help learners improve literacy-related skills while making reading and writing understandable and enjoyable. Community Reading Circle Program - Volunteers attend a weekly reading circle to read to a group of children, helping to make reading enjoyable. Senior Citizens Outreach Program - Volunteers visit elderly individuals in retirement/nursing homes and help them continue to enjoy reading despite conditions and impairments that might otherwise prevent them from doing so. Homework Club - Students meet with children at a local elementary school and provide assistance with their studies.
$2.16 refundable levy
Email: just@trentu.ca
Website: www.trentu.ca/just
The Journal of Undergraduate Studies at Trent (JUST) is a bi-annual publication that aims to create space for exchange of quality undergraduate research from Trent University. By giving the Trent community access to the research of its scholars, JUST facilitates discussions on all aspects of academia. One of the most notable features of JUST is its commitment to interdisciplinary research which is central to the Trent experience. JUST welcomes well-supported, well-reasoned essays and research from disciplines in the humanities and sciences. Only manuscripts written while the author is enrolled as an undergraduate student at Trent University are eligible. Upon graduation, authors have one year to submit manuscripts. Please don't hesitate to contact JUST if you are interested in submitting a manuscript or becoming a member of the journal's staff.
$2.06 non-refundable levy
Primary Contact: Ian Allan
Officers: Katie Paroschy & Robyn Smith
Email: sustainabletrentu@gmail.com
Sustainable Trent is a student driven initiative supported by university-wide participation. The objective of Sustainable Trent is to make Trent University more environmentally, economically and socially sustainable, as well as providing education and awareness on a variety of issues. Sustainable Trent was created to encourage members of the university community to take action on the issues that are important to them. Some of the programs Sustainable Trent has launched or are working on developing include: Lug-a-Mug, the Graduation Green Pledge, composting through the university's Physical Resources Department, a Provincial Sustainability Conference and opportunities for students to propose projects of their own and receive funding to implement them. Sustainable Trent welcomes new members, ideas and projects! Please contact us!
$2.06 non-refundable levy
Primary Contact: Muhammad Raza Sheikh
Secondary Contact: Shani Victorin
Email: tisa@trentu.ca
Website: www.tisatrentu.org
The Trent International Students' Association (TISA) was established to represent international students at Trent, by helping international students share their culture with the rest of the Trent community and also bridging the gap between people from different walks of life. TISA also acts as an umbrella organisation for all of the international organisations registered at Trent in its attempts to facilitate all international events on campus. Every year, TISA organises a number of events that give international students the opportunity to express and share their views, concerns, issues and opinions at Trent. The list of the regular activities includes World Affairs Colloquiums, Cultural Outreach, International Dinner, TISAlymics and the TIP/TISA Formal. TISA is also committed to providing financial assistance to individuals and groups and each year allocates a significant amount of its budget for bursaries, emergency funding and group funding.
$2.54 non-refundable levy
Email: thutchinson@trentu.ca
For over a decade organic vegetables have been grown in Trent's rooftop gardens on the ERS building. This, combined with the new one-acre field garden is now producing food for the Seasoned Spoon Cafi and the Peterborough community, primarily for Food not Bombs. The food grown in these gardens is given to these groups for free, and as such, your levy fee provides invaluable support towards maintaining garden infrastructure and offering meaningful summer employment for a garden coordinator. In addition to growing food, the on-campus gardens are valuable learning spaces for research, for workshops and for providing students with more informal opportunities to learn gardening skills. The gardens are part of the Food and Agriculture emphasis program at Trent, run through the Environment and Resource Studies department. If you are interested in doing a project with the garden through the TCCBE or simply in volunteering, we would love to hear from you!
$1.54 refundable levy
Email: trentqueercollective@gmail.com
Website: www.trentqueercollective.webs.com
The Trent Queer Collective (TQC) is a group of queer and queer-friendly people who work to:
The term queer is an umbrella term that includes, but is not limited to, two-spirited, transgendered, genderqueer, transsexual, intersexed, lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, and questioning identities. Queer-positive folks are welcome too! The TQC's activities range from social gatherings, to providing safe space and discussion groups, to political activism. Students are encouraged to get involved in whatever aspects of the Collective they are most interested in. Come to film nights, discussion groups, coffee houses and workshops. Organise your own initiative - address biphobia, form a coming-out support group, plan a social event or just volunteer in the office. The opportunities are endless.
$1.03 refundable levy
Email: pcap@riseup.net
Website: www.ocap.ca/pcap
The Peterborough Coalition Against Poverty (PCAP) is an anti-poverty organisation committed to the idea that people are powerful when they organise themselves collectively to resist political-economic systems and regressive government policies that exploit and oppress poor, working and homeless people. PCAP uses direct action advocacy to struggle in solidarity with low-income people and families who are under attack to ensure access to the services and resources that they are entitled to.
PCAP can assist in dealings with social services (e.g. OW, ODSP, EI), social service agencies (e.g. food banks and shelters), housing and landlord issues, police harassment, squatter's rights and poor bashing. PCAP opposes all forms of oppression that are connected to poverty; whether it be racism, sexism, ableism, ageism, queerphobia, transphobia or discrimination based on creed. PCAP fights acts of oppression which hurt low-income people. PCAP is a community group, not a student group, but students are always welcome to join the fight. PCAP is continually looking for people to help with direct action, administration and advocacy.
PCAP's general meetings, which are open to all, are held on the second Wednesday of every month at 6pm. A free meal is provided. Assistance with childcare and transportation is available. Contact PCAP for more information. Students wishing to have their levy fee refunded must contact PCAP before October 31, 2007.
$0.51 non-refundable levy
Email: shinerama@trentcsa.ca
Website: www.trentu.ca/shinerama
Shinerama is the nation's largest fundraiser conducted by post-secondary students, with more than 50 participating colleges and universities. Through shoe shining, car washes and other fun activities, Shinerama raises money for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to fund research initiatives.
Cystic Fibrosis is a genetically inherited disease that affects mainly the lungs and digestive system. Cystic Fibrosis is diagnosed in infancy, and - due in part to the dedication of students over the years - the life expectancy of someone living with the disease has climbed to over 35 years. Since 1998, Trent Shinerama has been the final event of Introductory Seminar Week (ISW) where students go out into the city of Peterborough to shine for donations. Trent Shinerama isn't limited to this day alone - if you want to get involved, new members are always welcome on the campaign committee, and each year in the winter term a Campaign Director is hired to organise and run the fall Shine Day. Get involved with something great and SHINE ON!
$1.03 non-refundable levy
$2.06 refundable
Email: activeminds@trentu.ca
Active Minds is a health advocacy group on campus working as a liaison between the students and the services offered here at Trent. Our mandate is to offer support to students and inspire their pursuit of greater satisfaction out of life in the areas of mental health, fitness, academics, spirituality, finance, and social life and to effectively change the conversation about mental health. We believe that by capitalizing the power of peer outreach, we hope to fill our emphatic belief that today's youth CAN make positive global change. Projects for the year 2011 include: Strategic plan and the launch of a regular Farmer's Market on Trent campus, website development, workshops, and so much more!
$3.08 refundable
$13.11 non refundable
$5.14 non refundable
$3.85 refundable