Contact Service

Moves to set up a student Information and contact service were made at a meeting of the National Affairs Student Welfare Subcommittee on 4 May.

Twenty students and several members of the counselling staff discussed what service might be provided by students to combat loneliness on campus.

They debated whether the resources of Teenaid could be used in a university environment.

The meeting felt, however, that the campus community is largely 3 closed one with its own problems. Students turned to the counsellors and chaplains, or rang Teenaid, when they realised there was a crisis.

The service needed was "preventative rather than curative" Miss Swatland (Student Counsellor) said.

A committee of five students under the chairmanship of Mr. Peter Cullen was set up, with counselling staff as ex-officio members.

They are trying to secure an office in the Union, where students can supply information to others about life on campus.