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Message in a bottle: Commerce welcomes 500 new students
The University of Wollongong will welcome more 500 first-year Commerce students at Orientation today with a message in a bottle.
The global economic crisis has encouraged the Dean of Commerce Professor Shirley Leitch to challenge students ‘to inspire socially innovative commerce’.
Professor Leitch will welcome students on Orientation Day with an empty, recyclable water bottle to symbolise the impact their studies and actions will have on the planet.
“I believe in the power and promise of our students to be a force for positive change,” she said.
“In the coming decade these young minds will help influence business to take its social responsibilities seriously.”
According to Professor Gary Noble from the Faculty of Commerce, 29 billion plastic water bottles are manufactured in the United States each year, using the equivalent of 17 million barrels of crude oil. Eight out of 10 of these plastic water bottles end up as landfill. An estimated 11% of total landfill in the US is from plastic water bottles.
Following on from the water bottle theme, the Faculty of Commerce is hosting an Amazing Water Race to help its students get to know the University and each other during O-Week.
Students will navigate their way around the University ponds and collect prizes by correctly answering questions that are essential for first year Commerce students to know.
Enrolments for Commerce are higher than last year across the all the University campuses and for international students.