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For your own safety please be careful when arriving or leaving Res by

making sure to use the foot path and make use of the pedestrian crossing

and not walking in the middle of the road.

It is illegal to have open alcoholic containers on public property and

streets in Victoria so remember for the next night out leaving from Res as

police conduct regular drive throughs and checks around the Deakin

campus and Res.

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Name: Jacob de Kunder

Nickname: Dikky, DK

Age: 22

Hometown: Korumburra

Course: Bachelor of Secondary

Teaching/Arts (English/Media)

Favourite food: Mexican

Favourite movie: Gone Girl

Favourite sporting team: Carlton Blues

Most memorable moment on res: Formal Dinner 2014

Dream job: Rock star

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it

be?: Jamaica

If you could have dinner with any one person, who would it

be?: Bob Marley

What 3 things would you choose if you were stranded on a

deserted island?: Guitar, radio and food.

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If you have an appropriate joke or limerick that you’d like featured in the bulletin, send it through to

Amy: amylong@deakin.edu.au

Be the first to resi reception to answer the following question correctly

and win yourself a movie voucher!

Q. What is the Resi guest policy—How

many guests, how many nights?

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Poster Design Competition – Are you a creative person who likes to make posters? Then the Deakin Smoke Free poster competition is for you. We are looking for people to design a poster that promotes a healthy, smoke free Deakin. We want it to be sending a positive message, have a catchy line/image, perhaps with a focus on the littering that smoking causes. Please have you designs emailed into bsradmin@deakin.edu.au by 5pm Monday 23rd March. The winner will receive two free movie tickets. If Smoke Free Deakin like the poster and want to use it over at campus, the winner will re-ceive and extra two tickets (four in total).

The winner of the YMCA Fitness app

competition is Abbas Ali. Congratula-

tions Abbas, you have one a free

membership to the YMCA gym for tri-

mester 1.

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Due to health and safety requirements as per the residents handbook

and your signed lease agreement, all common areas must be kept

clear to facilitate cleaning and all rooms must be cleaned at least once

a week.

Our housekeeping staff MUST clean Studio rooms once a week and

Shared Apartment twice a week. This will allow the cleaners to clean

your room thoroughly and to the standard that we expect and you de-

serve!

It is mandatory for regular cleaning to occur unless there are excep-

tional circumstance ie. Illness. If this is the case please email reception

at bsradmin@deakin.edu.au BUT cleaning still needs to occur and an-

other time arranged with cleaning staff for later that day.

The regular cleaning not only keeps your room/Deakin’s assets re-

spectable and in good working order, it also aids in the prevention of

illness outbreaks in a small community area.

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Rural Finance Scholarships offer agri-students funding of up to $6,000 per year.

The Scholarship program is open to vocational, undergraduate and postgraduate students who

demonstrate a career commitment to agriculture including farming, consultancy, research, technologi-

cal and other related services.

Eligibility Criteria

Students must:

Demonstrate Victorian residency over a three-year period prior to the application date

Be in the first or second year of an undergraduate degree at a tertiary institution in Victoria*

Be under 26 years of age as at 1 January 2015

Demonstrate a career commitment that will benefit agriculture.

Studies may include, but are not limited to: agriculture, business, food science, forestry, applied sci-

ence, horticulture, and veterinary science.

The application form can be either printed and completed in hand writing or completed online.

Applications close 31 May 2015.

Visit ruralfinance.com.au or phone 1300 796 101 to apply

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Issue 1

Hello Ressies and welcome to the first official Real Board Rambler! What is the Real Board Rambler? It is a companion article to the Real Board on Res! event run every Monday night during the year. My goal with the event is to introduce Ressies to modern board gaming. In these articles I will highlight the ‘Game of the Week’ and occasional-ly discuss other board game topics. I hope this inspires some of you to come down on Monday night to try some-thing different. In this first issue we will be looking at a light card game for 2-5 players called Guillotine. In Guillotine, players assume the role of an executioner during the French Revolution. Through a series of three days (rounds), each player tries to collect the most valuable heads of nobles in a macabre bragging competition. The gameplay is very simple. Each player may choose use an action card from their hand, they then take the head of the noble closest to the chop-ping block, and draw a new action card. Although the theme may be a little dark, the cartoonish artwork, and hu-mourous actions taking place, make the game light heart-ed and fun. What I like about Guillotine is how the mechanics of the game and the theme influence one another. The noble cards are lined up just like a queue with your action cards interfering with that queue. You can cut in, skip, and fall back, just as people would in a lineup. The line faces a neat little accessory, a folded cardboard guillotine. This provides a focus for the game, and a mechanic where taking the head of a noble next to the guillotine is taking a noble from the queue, meeting their grisly end. However, with that little teaser, I must wrap this first article up. Hopefully some of you can come down on Monday night to join in some games. Don’t worry if you feel a little lost, I will always be there to help guide you and find something you will enjoy. Maybe a little game of Guillotine? Also feel free to provide any feedback you have for the Real Board Rambler on the Suggestions and Feedback sheet in the Sign Up folder at Reception.

Until next time, enjoy your games!

Game Master Darren

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Red Frogs will be conducting their free Pancake Night on Monday 16th

Global Fiesta – The Whitehorse Community Chest is looking for some volunteers to

help out at the Gumboot Toss at the Global Fiesta at Box Hill Gardens this Sunday

15th March. The day runs from

10:30am-5pm and it would be greatly

appreciated if anyone could spare

two hours (or more) to help supervise

the Gumboot Toss, sell drinks and

snacks etc.

If you are available this Sunday and

would like to help, please contact An-

na Gordon at info@whitehorsecommunitychest.org.au or 0411769838.

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Please direct any queries to Reception at bsradmin@deakin.edu.au

or via extension 17671

Sri Lankan Devilled potatoes (ala thel dala)

Serves 6

Ingredients

6(1.2 kg) large potatoes, peeled, cut into 3 cm cubes

80 ml(⅓ cup) vegetable oil

1red onion, thinly sliced

1long green chilli, thinly sliced

15curry leaves

1 tsp black mustard seeds

1garlic clove, crushed

3 tsp dried chilli flakes

¼ tsp ground turmeric

1tomato, finely chopped

Method

Cook potatoes in a pan of boiling water for 10 minutes until almost cooked. Drain. Set aside.

1. Heat oil in a large, heavy-based pan over high heat. Add onion, chilli,

curry leaves and mustard seeds, and stir for 2 minutes or until onion

starts to soften slightly. Reduce heat to medium, then add garlic, chilli

flakes and turmeric, stirring to combine. Add tomato, season generously

with salt, then cook for 2 minutes or until tomato begins to break down.

Increase heat to high, add potatoes and cook, stirring, for 10 minutes or

until potatoes are cooked and coated in spices; add a little water if the