Disabled Students' Campaign
Degrading is Degrading Campaign
You may have heard of the Degrading is Degrading Campaign from Varsity, TCS or through various lists and word of mouth. It's a new campaign focused on reforming the degrading process (when a undergraduate student pauses studying due to illness or other extreme circumstance), to turn to from a system that is degrading to one which respects those accessing it. You can find out more about the campaign on the Degrading is Degrading Campaign page and (if you're a Raven account holder) sign the petition.
Events
You can view our all our upcoming events but here are the ones happening soon:
Degrading is Degrading Open Meeting, Tuesday 28th February 7:30pm, Earth Sciences Common Room
This meeting will be a mix of focusing on our hugely successful Degrading is Degrading campaign and planning on how to continue with that, we are hoping to get lots of feedback about the positive moves the University are already making as a result of this campaign and looking a general Disabled Students' Campaign Open Meeting dealing with many things from the campaign as a whole.
Directions to the Earth Sciences Common Room
We will be meeting outside to go into the room, we'll be meeting from 7:25 outside the main entrance to Earth Sciences which as good step free access. Directions to this are: go into the Downing Site from Downing Street. Turn left. There is a big double staircase, with a wooden door underneath it. This is the main door to the Earth Sciences department, and we
If you arrive after we have gone in, you will need to get in contact with us to let you in as you unfortunately can't get in without card access to the department, apologies for that. You can get a number to call by emailing the computing officer who will have email access during the meeting.
There is a facebook event.
Mental Health Network Tuesday 28th February 5:30pm, CUSU Conference Room
Mental Health Network provides a supportive and understanding environment for people to share and support each other, as well as being an opportunity to campaign on mental health issues. Tea and biscuits are provided.
The CUSU Conference Room is in CUSU's offices on the New Museum Site, through the door and it's shortly on the left. There is a lift for wheelchair access we will try and ensure both halves of the door are left open as the normal one side is not wide enough for most wheelchairs. If you'd like contact details incase this fails or want to make us aware of other access requirements or have any other questions please email the Mental Health Representative.
Ways to get involved
Mailing Lists
We have two mailing lists that you might be interested in.
The announce list is low traffic and keeps you aware of when our events and open meetings are, and what the big things going on in the campaign are. Follow the link to sign up.
The discussion list has more traffic as it serves as a place for discussion of the campaign as a whole it is a good way to be fully involved in what's going on in the campaign. It can include discussions about the campaign as well as allowing people to discuss disability related things and organise meetups etc. Follow the link to sign up.
We are on facebook and shall be advertising our main events there so join the group to get invites.
The Committee
You really can get involved in the campaign however much time and spoons you want to put in and the campaign is lead be all the members through open meetings. However there are generally vacant positions within the the exec so if you are interested in joining the committee then do get in touch, the Disabled Students' Officer(s) are good to get in touch about this.
Name Change
It was decided by consensus at an open meeting this term to change our name from the 'Disabled Students' Liberation Campaign' to the 'Disabled Students' Campaign'. This is because the term liberation in our title was based on an NUS model where what CUSU calls Autonomous Campaigns are called Liberation Campaigns, and we've come to realise that, in line with the other CUSU autonomous campaigns, it is not necessary to assert our status as an Autonomous/Liberation Campaign in our title. This decision will soon be brought to CUSU council to be ratified and become official.