Mid-Week Mail, week 6

WHAT IS MID-WEEK MAIL?

Mid-Week Mail is a bi-monthly news and events e-mail for the international students of the University of Turku. Aside from being an important up-to-date news source concerning Student Union, university and student issues, Mid-Week Mail also gives you current information on different events and activities organised by TYY (the Student Union of the University of Turku), the TYY Committees and other TYY affiliates.

INTERNATIONAL SECTOR UPDATE

The TYY international sector has started its actions for 2010. TYY has a new Executive Board member for international affairs and for Media and Communications as well. His name is Ilkka Marja-aho and he is a fourth year International Business student. You can contact Ilkka at tyy-kv@utu.fi. Ilkka works at TYY with the Secretary for International Affairs Anna Kahra: tyy-kvsihteeri@utu.fi. Anna works full-time at TYY and wants to welcome  you all to visit the TYY office. Also check out the TYY webpages at www.tyy.fi/english and join the ESN mailing list at https://lists.utu.fi/mailman/listinfo/esnuniturku.

Wishing you a great start for the new year!

The TYY international sector

In this mail:

• EXECUTIVE BOARD BEGINS ITS WORK
• TOTTISALMI NOW OPEN ON SATURDAYS
• TYY SUPPORTS EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS IN HAITI
• TAKE PART IN PLANNING MEXICO WEEK
• SHROVE TUESDAY – LASKIAINEN 16 FEB
• TYY AND TuKY MERGER ANNIVERSARY 18 FEB
• KINOKOPLA’S MOVIE CLUB FOR SPRING 2010 STARTS
• INTERNATIONAL OFFICE WILL MOVE TO THE FACULTY BUILDING OF THE TURKU SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

EXECUTIVE BOARD BEGINS ITS WORK

The new Executive Board has made itself at home in the office. During the first few weeks, the Executive Board was trained in the following areas: general organisation and office practices, division of work, the Student Union strategy and political paper and the merger of the two student unions. Furthermore, under the guidance of the secretariat, the Executive Board went through the duties of each operative sector of TYY.

The contact information and work of each Executive Board member can be viewed at: www.tyy.fi/in-english/student-union/executive-board

TOTTISALMI NOW OPEN ON SATURDAYS

In addition to its regular weekday opening hours, the student cafeteria Tottisalmi, located on the second floor of FSHS (Kirkkotie 13, 20540 Turku), is now open on Saturdays from 11:30 to 15:30. Please note that you can only enter and exit the building via the back door of the second floor on Saturdays.

All of the Unica cafeterias’ daily menus can be viewed at: www.unica.fi/index.php?node_id=12654

TYY SUPPORTS EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS IN HAITI

TYY has committed itself to uphold and support the goals of the United Nations Millennium Declaration in all its activities. The Millennium Declaration is a political commitment, which focuses on inequality and development problems in the world. According to the UN’s calculations, we can achieve the development objectives of the Millennium Declaration by increasing development aid by 0.7 per cent of the gross domestic product in every country. TYY will direct 0.7 per cent of the 2010 budget to development cooperation.

The destructive earthquake in Haiti on 12 January 2010 devastatingly levelled its capital city of Port-au-Prince. The International Red Cross estimates that about a third of 10 million Haitians are in a dire need of help. The relief work in Haiti is the largest International and Finnish Red Cross relief operation after the tsunami of 2004.

The TYY Executive Board decided at its meeting on 21 Jan 2010 to give €500 from its 0.7 per cent funds to the Finnish Red Cross disaster fund for earthquake victims in Haiti.

TAKE PART IN PLANNING MEXICO WEEK

TYY will be organising Mexico Week this spring which aims at raising student awareness about the situation of the indigenous peoples in Mexico and TYY’s AJAGI development cooperation project. Plans for the week will be made on 11 February at 14.00 in Turku-sali (Rehtorinpellonkatu 4 A, 2nd floor).

SHROVE TUESDAY – LASKIAINEN 16 FEB

TYY and other student unions of Turku organise a joint big Shrove Tuesday -event, Fastlaskiainen, on the Vartiovuori hill on Tuesday, 16th of February from 2-5 pm. Welcome to slide the hill or just enjoy the atmosphere and watch the sliding teams, this is as close to a spring carnival as it gets this time of the year! There is a sliding competition and some Shrovetide buns and hot juice sponsored by Lyyra for the 350 people.

If you want to participate in the sliding competition, gather a group of four people, come up with a sledge of some kind, invent a name for your team and register it to tyy-kulttuuri@utu.fi by Friday the 12th of February. The teams often have a certain theme, dress funny and decorate their sledges or sometimes even build it themselves. The winning team gets prizes, fame and fortune!

You will have a great time, even if there is no snow, so, just come, dress warm and enjoy!
Contact tyy-kulttuuri@utu.fi for further questions.

TYY AND TuKY MERGER ANNIVERSARY 18 FEB

18 February is the anniversary of the signing of the TYY-TuKY merger agreement.

This social event will take place in the second floor lobby of the University of Turku Main Building with a toast and speeches in honour of the merger of the two independent student unions. In addition to this, the TYY flag will be revised with the student union ribbon of Turku School of Economics.

KINOKOPLA’S MOVIE CLUB FOR SPRING 2010 STARTS

Sunday series

Cinema ML Media Liv (Humalistonkatu 7) on Sundays at 6 pm

21.02. Tarantino: Inglourious Basterds (USA, Germany 2009, 155’)
28.02. Miyazaki: Ponyo (Japan 2008, 103’)
07.03. Almodóvar: Broken Embraces (Spain 2009, 129’)
14.03. Bergroth: Last Cowboy Standing (Finland 2009 126’)
21.03. Haneke: Caché (France, Austria, Germany, Italy 2005, 114’)
28.03. Soderbergh: The Informant! (USA 2009, 110’)
04.04. von Trier: Antichrist (Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland 2009, 104’)
18.04. Night Visions Film Festival – film to be announced later
25.04. Webb: (500) Days of Summer (USA 2009, 96’)
02.05. Rohmer: Claire’s knee (France 1970, 105’)

Kinokopla’s season ticket includes all 10 movies for Spring 2010, 25 € / 20 € (students). Single tickets (3 €) require Kinokopla’s member card, 5 €. Tickets are sold in the lobby of the cinema before the films. Please note that films have Finnish and Swedish subtitles. Kinokopla is a film club that is maintained by the Student Union of the University of Turku and is open for everyone.

INTERNATIONAL OFFICE WILL MOVE TO THE FACULTY BUILDING OF THE TURKU SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

International Office of the University of Turku will move this week to the Faculty building of the Turku School of Economics, 1 st floor, (Rehtorinpellonkatu 3, Campus Map K1(H5).

This means that on Monday, February 8 on also International Advisors (who used to sit in the Student Services) will move there.

Please notice that all the services for exchange students will be moved!
 
Opening hours will announced later.