needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . december 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message macquarie university campus experience type public company industry students union founded 2008 as u mq headquarters sydney australia area served macquarie university parent macquarie university website http www.campuslife.mq.edu.au campus experience is the student organisation at macquarie university and is a wholly owned subsidiary company of the university . the organisation manages macquarie university s non academic services of food and retail entertainment sport and recreation student groups child care and student publications . the organisation also houses an elected student representative council . campus experience was officially launched in january 2008 under the name of u mq and is the result of the merging of the three previous student organisations which were the union which for several years operated under the name students at macquarie or s m the students council generally known as musc and the sport and recreation known generally as musr . contents 1 macquarie university students council musc 2 end of musc and merger 3 publications of musc 4 musc collectives 5 see also 6 references macquarie university students council musc edit the macquarie university students council musc was the organised student body of macquarie university trading under macquarie university union ltd muul . it comprised many parts with the representative council elected by undergraduate students as its main body . later students of the private sydney institute of business and technology sibt were also included . during its history it was also representative of post graduate students until the creation of macquarie university post graduate representative association . as well as the council there were clubs societies collectives departments and publications that made up the whole musc . these clubs societies departments and collectives all had various degrees of autonomy from the actual council . the council itself was the governing body of the musc and was answerable to the student population . in its early days its engagement reached out to a large percentage of students . the council had a number of activist collectives open to all students around its key areas of operation . the number of focus of the collectives changed over time . the council also provided consumer type services to its members including legal aid and academic advocacy . musc was created to provide a voice to students at the main campus . for much of its life it was controlled by far left student politicians and fellow travellers . citation needed when under the control of the far left musc built alliances with non student organisations and movements . during 1973 the musc worked with the builders labourers federation blf a union whose members now make up part of the construction forestry mining and energy union cfmeu to organise one of the first pink bans . 1 similar in tactic to the green ban the pink ban was recommended when one of the residential colleges at macquarie university robert menzies college ordered a student to lead a celibate life and undertake therapy and confession to cure himself of his homosexuality . the blf decided to stop all construction work at the college until the university and the college master made statements committing to a non discriminatory university environment . musc was successful in engaging with the blf again in 1974 when a woman at macquarie university had her nsw department of education scholarship cancelled on the basis that she was a lesbian and therefore unfit to be a teacher . citation needed in 1979 an alp dominated musc successfully organised a student referendum which saw musc disaffiliate from the australian union of students . this was part of a national campaign against the australian union of students which involved a wide range of political groupings ranging from liberal students to the communist party of australia marxist leninist . in its later years musc established a women s department . the women s department was an autonomous department of the musc . a women s collective operated through the department and was open to all women students . it operated to effect change in the lives of women on campus and in their everyday lives . the women s department was elected separately to the musc council by women students only . end of musc and merger edit during 2007 macquarie university faced a restructuring of its student organisation after an audit raised questions about management of hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds by student organisations 2 3 at the centre of the investigation was victor ma president of the macquarie university students council musc . vice chancellor schwartz cited the need for the urgent need to reform macquarie s main student bodies . 4 the federal court ordered on 23 may 2007 that macquarie university union ltd muul would be wound up . 5 following the dissolution of macquarie university union ltd the outgoing student organisations were taken over by the university . in january 2008 the merged student organisation adopted the u mq brand . the role of student representation was ultimately taken on by musra macquarie university student representative association in 2009 with the first elections being held that year . by late 2009 the u mq brand was dropped in favour of the current name . publications of musc edit arena was the newspaper of musc from 1968 to 1999 . the editor was originally appointed by the council . however from the mid 1970s the editor or editorial team was directly elected by the student body . it was not unusual for the editorial team that was elected to be of a different political persuasion to the majority of council . hogben toad was the weekly publication of musc that alerted students to the activities of the week and near future . this publication was later superseded by a publication of the macquarie university union . alternative calendars were produced from 1976 to 1997 and once more in 2002 . they were the result of surveys of students about the subjects they had taken . orientation handbooks were also produced annually . muscateer was the new publication name for arena given to the paper by a council in the early 2000s . this council was aligned to the student unity faction at macquarie university . editorial control was taken by the same faction around the same time . after the change of name very few editions were produced . in 2005 muscateer ceased being published . there were allegations that this decision was made to further the political ambitions of president victor ma 6 the current student publication is grapeshot . musc collectives edit the education collective was formed to allow all students to participate in the council around issues affecting tertiary education . the education collective not only took up issues affecting students at the macquarie university campus but also issues that affected access to tertiary education generally . the environment collective focused on local and global issues about the environment . it often used direct action as a tool to bring about change . locally this included many members of the collective climbing the trees in the middle of where the m2 motorway was to be built . the sexuality collective took up lesbian gay bisexual transgender intersex and queer issues . the collective was also instrumental in establishing a permanent queer space on campus is 2001 . the international solidarity collective engaged with issues of international importance . the collective focused it works on fighting imperialist actions such as anti us bases campaigns through to the recognition of the democratic elections in burma . see also edit australian student politics national union of students of 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