Another of the recommendations advises “the University prohibit any student from addressing those present in a lecture, seminar or tutorial prior to the commencement of the lecture, seminar or tutorial on any subject matter. A breach of the prohibition may be considered misconduct.”
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“We help thousands of students each year with casework and legal matters,” he said. “It’s entirely absurd to defund the SRC, this is muzzling us and any students dissatisfied with how the university is operating. “When clubs and societies want to advertise events, as per policy, they could get accused of misconduct for giving announcements.”
So don’t do it at lectures. I think this is straying towards heavy handed by USYD but this has been a problem at my institution too. It is absolutely inappropriate to interrupt tutorials/lectures with this stuff. SRC I couldn’t care less about but other political student groups, nah. Before the whole (recent) Palestine issue we’d have some communist (and one or two other) groups at our uni interrupt the start of lectures. Despite the fact the third time I witnessed it a large portion of the theatre was vocally complaining about it. Around the campus as long as you’re not yelling at people or being disruptive sure but anywhere that people are learning or studying, no thanks.