SRC Nomination Day this Tuesday (22nd July)! Don't miss this opportunity!

Correction (20/7/2008): The nomination forms are sold at RM15 (non-returnable) and the deposit for nomination will be RM30 (will be returned after the election).

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SRC Nomination Day is on 22nd July (this Tuesday). The nomination forms are being sold in STAD office for RM15. If you are interested, get the forms soon.

For more info, click here or here.

If you have any questions pertaining to the nomination procedure, requirements, or anything at all, kindly ask your questions in the comment section of this blog and we will be happy to help you.


Thank you.


"Actuality in Action, Integrity in Principle"


Regards,

Students' Representative Council 2007/2008
Multimedia University
Malacca Campus

IT Services Fee Issue

Dear all,

Good day! For your information, the IT Services Fee for Malacca campus has been reduced to RM 50 (for non-hostel residents) and RM 75 (for hostel residents). Besides this, the bandwidth will be increased to 100Mbps for Malacca campus, an increament from the initially announced 34Mbps. As for Cyberjaya campus, the bandwidth will be higher, at 150Mbps. Therefore, they will be paying RM 75 (non-hostel residents) and RM 100 (hostel residents).

The compilation which consists of official letters from SRC, presidents of component societies, petition, online petition, suggestions, unfiltered printout of the comments in SRC Blog, etc had been presented to the President's Office.

FYI, the SRC has been dissolved but we still welcome comments and feedback on this issue, and hopefully we can negotiate further. Other issues are welcome too.

Before signing off, we would like to once again thank all who supported us in everything, especially to oppose the imposition of IT fees, and some other issues regarding to welfare of the students. It was really nice working with all of you and all your contributions certainly made an impact for the betterment of students' welfare in the university!

Thank you and all the best!


"Actuality in Action, Integrity in Principle"


Regards,

Students' Representative Council 2007/2008
Multimedia University
Malacca Campus

SRC Complaint and Feedback Booth

Dear all,

Please be informed that the Students' Representative Council 07/08 will be opening our "SRC Complaint and Feedback Booth" during the Clubs and Societies Registration Week. Details as follows:

Date: 9th July 2008
Venue: SRC Booth, CLC Concourse
Time: 10am-4pm

Please do come to us to make your voices heard. Besides this, we also need your feedback on the recent imposition of the IT Fees, so that we can understand your needs better, and then present it to the higher management.

Thank you.

'Actuality in Action, Integrity in Principle'


Yeo Kheng Keen
Chairperson
Students' Welfare Division
Students' Representative Council 07/08
Multimedia University
Melaka Campus

Tel : +6016 302 8227
Fax: +606 2313253

SRC General Election 2008/2009 Announcement

Dear Students,

Please refer to attachments for SRC General Election 2008/2009 announcement for Melaka and Cyberjaya Campuses.

Only students who fulfill the following qualifications shall be eligible for nomination to the SRC:

1. Students who are of good moral character as required by the University Rules and Regulations;
2. Students who, by their leadership qualities, serve as good examples to
   others;
3. Students who have never been found guilty of disciplinary offence that carries a minimum fine of RM 100.00 or which will subject the offender to a suspension;
4. Students who have never been promoted on probation;
5. Students who have obtained a CGPA of not less than 2.7 at the time of nomination;
6. All candidates who stand for the election must have completed at least two semesters in MMU except for FOSEE seats;
7. Students who are NOT going for industrial training for that academic year.

Allocation of SRC seat 2008/2009

CYBERJAYA CAMPUS

Code	TERRITORIES	Seat	Total
GC1	GENERAL	04	04
FC1 FC2 FC3 FC4	FACULTY F. Creative Multimedia F. Management F. Engineering F. Information Technology	02 02 02 02	08
CC1 CC2	COLLEGE Male Female	02 02	04
IC1	INTERNATIONAL	02	02
	Total		18 seat

MELAKA CAMPUS

Code	TERRITORIES	Seat	Total
GM1	GENERAL	05	05
FM1 FM2 FM3	FACULTY F. Business & Law F. Information Science & Technology F. Engineering & Technology	02 02 02	06
FM4	FOSEE	02	02
DM1	DIPLOMA	01	01
IM1	INTERNATIONAL	02	02
	Total		16 seat

Thank you.

Student Affairs Division (STAD)

Click here for the attachment

Don't want to pay the IT Services Fee? Then voice out your dissatisfaction during the dialogue session with MMU President on the 9th of July!

Update (9/7/08): Venue changed to Main Hall

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Dear all,

There will be a dialogue session between all students of MMU Malacca and the MMU President next week where the main topic of discussion would be the imposition of the IT services fee (RM100). Details of the session are as follows:

Date: 9th July 2008 (Wednesday)
Time: 9am
Venue: Main Hall

If you do not want to pay the fees or disagree with the imposition then we suggest that you attend this session and voice out your dissatisfaction. This may be the only chance for all students to make their opinions known so use it wisely. Come up with constructive suggestions and back you claims with facts and figures whenever possible.

Aside from the IT services fee issue, you may also bring to the attention of the President any other issues or problems that you are facing.

SRC excos will be present during this dialogue session to play our role as the representatives of the students. If, for any reason, you have questions that you might be reluctant to ask during the session, you may send it to srcmelaka@mmu.edu.my and we will ask the questions on your behalf.

We hope to see all of you there. Let us unite to make our voices heard!

Thank you.


"Actuality in Action, Integrity in Principle"


Yours sincerely,
Students' Representative Council 2007/2008
Multimedia University
Melaka Campus

Tel : +6017 5603440
Fax : +606 2313253

MMU Olympic 2008

Dear all,

Are the guys and girls of MMU willing to dirt their shoes? Are you guys and girls willing to put your endurance to the test? Then we think you are ready to be part of MMU Olympic 2008.

MMU Olympic 2008

SRC will be organizing a sports fiesta known as MMU Olympic 2008. It will be held on 12 and 13 July 2008. The lists of sports are as follows:

Main events:
• Badminton
• Futsal
• Tennis
• Netball
• Squash
• Basketball
• Volleyball
• Table Tennis
• Archery
• Chess
• Bowling
• Arm Wrestling
• Raja Bukit (Cross County to Bukit Beruang Hill)

Side Events:
• Dominoes
• Batu Seremban
• Tug of War
• Congkak new


Details for the registration are as follows:

30th June – 4th July: CLC Concourse
7th July – 9th July: Plaza Siswa

Participation is open to all students and staff.

Students who want to register for any of the events must represent one club or society of MMU Malacca. Any new students who still have not registered into any clubs and societies yet may register as an individual participant.


Please come and register quickly and be part of the MMU sports community.

For any inquiries, please do not hesitate to call:

Mr. Mohd Rezal - 013 628 5620
Mr. Nanthakumar – 016 2045787

Thank you.

"Actuality in Action, Integrity in Principle"

Regards,

Students' Development and Sport Division
Students' Representative Council 2007/2008
Multimedia University
Malacca campus

Petition to show disagreement to the imposition of the IT services fee

Dear all,

We've created an online petition to collect signatures from all MMU students to show that we do not agree with the imposition of the IT services fee. The signatures along with the comments will be printed and attached with the report that will be prepared by SRC Malacca and submitted to the university management.


The link to the petition is http://www.petitiononline.com/SRCMlk/

If you do not agree with the imposition of the IT services fee, kindly sign the petition and forward the link to the petition to all MMU students. We would also like to request the cooperation of clubs and societies to post this message in their mailing lists, forums, emails etc.

Thank you.


"Actuality in Action, Integrity in Principle"


Regards,

Students' Representative Council 07/08
Multimedia University
Melaka Campus

Tel : +6017 5603440
Fax : +606 2313253

Clarification regarding the IT services fee

Dear all,

As you all know, the matter of the planned imposition of IT services fee is currently creating a major hype among MMU students. We, the Student Representative Council (SRC) would like to clarify that the IT services fee has NOT been implemented yet. The reason why SRC posted this issue in the bulletin board, blog and circulated hard copy notices of the issue is to gather feedback, comments and suggestions from the students and compile it in an organized manner so that it can be sent to MMU management for further review.

The compilation consists of:

1. A letter prepared by SRC to show disagreement to the IT services fee
2. Students’ petition
3. Students’ written feedbacks, comments and suggestions
4. Comments made by student in the blog (unfiltered)
5. Official letter by the major clubs and societies of MMU (Usrah, CLS, ICS and ISS)

We understand that with the recent price hike of major commodities the imposition of this IT services fee would further add to the burden of students. As such, we are currently engaging in various ways in addition to the ones mentioned above to stop this fee from being imposed. Any suggestions that you have towards this matter would greatly help us.

Should you have any further enquires, kindly contact the following SRC Excos:

Yeo Kheng Keen – 016-302 8227
Nanthakumar - 016-204 5787

Thank you

“Actuality in Action, Integrity in Principle”

Regards,

Student Representative Council 2007/2008
Multimedia University
Malacca campus

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Multimedia University
Malacca campus

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Best SRC Exco for the month of April!

Students’ Representatives Council would like to announce that Mr Rezal, Chairperson of Student Development and Sports Division (SDSD), has been selected as the Best Exco for the month of April.

The assessment of council members’ performance is done based on Key Performance Index (KPI) supervised directly by our Secretarial Department.

Our council is very glad to have Mr. Rezal as part of our team in order to sustain and form a better bonding between SRC Excos, Rakan Exco (REX) and students. Although Mr. Rezal is a soft spoken person, he did well to cope and bind his Rakan Exco to perform several program in the campus such as Construct Camp (co-organized with Students Affairs Division), University Dress Code Campaign, MMU Olympic and numerous other programs that meet his division's target and objective. Furthermore, he has a strong relationship with other students that are active in sports especially football since he's active in this field too.

He implemented a lot of multi-racial values in many of the programs carried out by his division in line with the university's objective of promoting multiculturalism, international unity, mutual understanding, tolerance, cooperation and goodwill for continued peace and harmony.

Council appreciates the honoree for his dedication to excellence and contribution to students’ welfare and the council as a whole. Mr. Rezal's efforts reflect the best efforts of the council to help build a better bond between the council and all students for the betterment of the university.

Congratulations and keep up the good work!

Thank you.

"Actuality in Action, Integrity in Principle"

Yours sincerely,

Students' Representative Council Multimedia University Malacca Campus

Imposition of IT services fee (RM100)

Update (June 30, 2008): The imposition of this fee is planned by the University management. We have just been told that the fee amount is still pending consideration; it has not been finalized yet.

Update (July 1, 2008): Please refrain from using derogatory terms, name calling and any form of vulgar remarks when commenting. Such comments will be deleted on sight. All comments for this particular post will be printed and submitted together with the report that we are preparing to show the students' response towards this issue.

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Assalamualaikum and very good day to all,

We, from the Students Representative Council, Multimedia University (Malacca Campus) would like to hear some opinions/suggestions from students regarding the matter explained below:

Imposition of IT services fee (RM100)

The University is planning to impose an IT service fee of approximately RM100/year on all students starting from the academic year 2008/2009 (this trimester). The fee covers the maintenance fees of MMLS, course registration system, wireless services and other online systems. Besides this, a portion of the fee will be used to upgrade the bandwidth of Malacca campus (from 16 Mbps to 34 Mbps).

Unfortunately, there are several controversial issues:

1. Although the students from both of the campuses will be charged the same fee, Cyberjaya campus will get a better service in terms of bandwidth increment (from 34 Mbps to 100 Mmbps). This is because the hardware of Cyberjaya campus is more advance than us and our hardware is not able to support the 100 Mbps bandwidth (Cyberjaya hardware can support up to 400 mbps while ours can only support up till 100 Mbps).

2. Not every student is using the wireless service.

3. CITS cannot guarantee that after the imposition of the IT services fee, all the flaws that we encountered before (eg. system down during the course registration period) can be solved once and for all.

4. Number of concurrent connections to the web services such as MMLS and course registration may or may not be increased. If it is not increased, the increase in bandwidth would not make much of a difference as the number of users allowed to access the said websites will still remain the same. As such, at high usage periods (i.e. before/during exam for MMLS & course registration days) students will still have the problem of not being able to access the websites. It would be akin to widening the roads but still having the same number of exits – You’ll get to the exits/entrances (i.e. websites) faster. Once there, you’ll have to wait in line (for countless hours) just as before.

However Mr. Zaidy Jaafar, the Director of Finance Division, has said that the fee amount has not been finalized yet. Finance Division will review the amount and have a meeting with us in the near future. He also requested a report from SRC regarding this matter (including all the suggestions and the problems that have been encountered by students).

Pursuant to this, the SRC would like to know the students’ perspective on this issue. In addition to that, it would be of great assistance to us if you could include some suggestions so that we could prepare a good report.

Any comments or suggestions can be made in the following ways:

1. Send your comments or suggestions to the SRC room (written)
2. State your comments or suggestions in the comments section of this blog.

Also, we have proposed for Finance Division to conduct an open discussion session with students where they (the Finance officers) will explain the need for imposing the fee to the students and at the same time get the students’ opinions on this matter. We hope if this materializes, all students will attend the session and make known their views.

That’s all for now. We will make constant updates on this matter from time to time. Do check back regularly.

Thank you.

"Actuality in Action, Integrity in Principle"

Regards,
Students’ Representative Council 2007/2008
Multimedia University
Malacca campus

Perwakilan pelajar MMU anjur malam anugerah 2008

ARKIB : 24/06/2008

MELAKA 23 Jun - Majlis Perwakilan Pelajar (SRC) Universiti Multimedia (MMU) akan menganjurkan program Malam Anugerah MMU 2008 di Dewan Seri Negeri, Ayer Keroh, di sini pada 5 Julai depan.

Pengarah program, Nurul Aizam Zaini berkata, program yang bertemakan Differences in Costumes, One in Tradition itu dianjurkan bersama Bahagian Hal Ehwal Pelajar MMU.

Menurutnya, program tersebut adalah yang julung kali diadakan di Kampus Melaka dan merupakan kali ketiga anjuran MMU.

''Program ini bertujuan memberi penghargaan dan mengiktiraf kelab-kelab serta persatuan untuk kedua-dua kampus induk MMU iaitu kampus Melaka dan Cyberjaya,'' katanya di sini semalam.

Menurut Nurul Aizam, pengiktirafan itu sebagai menghargai usaha dan komitmen mereka yang berjaya menganjurkan program dan menaikkan nama MMU di peringkat kebangsaan dan antarabangsa.

Katanya, selain mengiktiraf kelab dan persatuan, acara itu turut diadakan bagi merai dan memberi anugerah kepada individu yang cemerlang dalam bidang akademik atau kokurikulum.

Usaha itu, katanya, bertujuan meningkatkan kreativiti pelajar dalam berpersatuan dan diharap menjadi contoh kepada institusi pengajian tinggi lain.

''Kita mahu meningkatkan semangat pelajar agar mereka terlibat secara aktif dalam persatuan dan membantu membina karakter diri masing-masing menerusi kegiatan kokurikulum," katanya.

Katanya, antara anugerah utama yang disediakan ialah anugerah kelab dan persatuan terbaik, individu terbaik, anugerah khas dan anugerah pengurusan kelab terbaik.

''Secara keseluruhannya, kita menyediakan 44 anugerah yang akan disampaikan pada malam tersebut," katanya.

6th Presidents Council Meeting (Specially regarding MMU Awards 2008)

Dear all,

This meeting is specially for the upcoming MMU Awards 2008. Details are stated below:

Date: 24th June 2008 (Today)

Time: 9.00pm

Venue: Sri Ruby Seminar Room (Opposite STAD office)

Agenda:

1. SRC Divison Updates.
2. Briefing/Clarification on the MMU Awards Nominations by Khalil (SRC exco).
3. Briefing on the ticket reservation and others matter pertaining to the MMU Awards by Aizam, Director of MMU Awards 2008.
4. Q&A and AOB.

It is compulsory for all clubs/societies. Thank you and have a nice day.

"Actuality in Action, Integrity in Principle"

Regards,
Clubs & Societies Management Division
Students’ Representative Council 2007/2008
Multimedia University
Malacca Campus

Newspapers provided in SRC room

Dear all,

Starting from 23/6/08 (Monday), The Star and Berita Harian newspapers will be made available in the SRC room. Any students wishing to read them can do so during office hours.

Thank you.


"Actuality in Action, Integrity in Principle"


Regards,
Lee Chong Hong
Exco of Students' Welfare Division/ Acting Administrative Officer
Students' Representative Council
Multimedia University
Malacca campus

Library fees imposed on graduating students (Update)

Update #1: Mr Zaidy has requested all the affected students to NOT send any emails to him directly anymore. The students should send the requested details as mentioned below to the Mr Lee Chong Hong only.

For students that have already sent any emails to Mr Zaidy, kindly send another email to Mr Lee Chong Hong.

Update #2: Clarification by Finance Division on MMU Bulletin Board.

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Dear all,

In a previous post on this blog, we had written about the issue of library fees being imposed on graduating students. In pursuant to this, today, the Students' Welfare Division of the SRC had a meeting with the Finance Division Director, Mr. Zaidy Jaafar, to solve this problem.

Mr. Zaidy Jaafar - Chief Financial Officer/ Director of Finance

Mr Zaidy had said that the graduating students do not have to pay the library fees. If any of the graduating students i.e students who have completed their studies or are awaiting convocation (this year or next year or after that) have been billed for the library fees for this academic year, they need to:

Email SRC Exco Mr Lee Chong Hong (leechong_1221@yahoo.com.sg) and state your Name, Student ID, Date of completion of studies and expected date of graduation. The SRC will collate the information of all affected students and send an official request to Finance Division for the said students to exempted from paying the library fees.

If you have any further enquiries, kindly leave a comment in this blog and we shall attend to it.

Thank you.

"Actuality in Action, Integrity in Principle"

Regards,
Media & Information Division
Students' Representative Council
Multimedia University
Malacca campus

Postmortem Session for Orientation Committee 08/09

Dear OCs,

As you all have already been informed, today (Friday, 13 June 2008) we will be having a postmortem session. The details are as follows:

Venue: Main Hall
Time: 9pm
Guest: STAD Officer

The purpose of this session is to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the orientation week that had ended a few hours ago. It is hoped that through this session we will be able to get constructive suggestions on how to further improve the quality of our orientation programme as well as avoiding any mistakes that have been committed in this orientation. If you have any qualms with anything regarding the orientation, you may voice it up during this session.

This year's orientation programme has been completed successfully and we owe this success entirely to the OCs who had committed their time and energy towards ensuring this success. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. For any mistakes that have, knowingly or unknowingly, caused any offence to anyone, we humbly apologize.

Thank you once again.


"Actuality in Action, Integrity in Principle"


Regards,
Media & Information Division
Students' Representative Council
Multimedia University
Malacca campus

OC Camp (Updated with more pictures)

In preparation for the June 2008/2009 intake orientation programme, a camp was held from 5th till 7th June 2008 for the Orientation Committee (OC). The purpose of this camp was to enable all the OCs to get to know each other and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses in order to determine which division (mobilization, venue, food, security, etc) they would be assigned to.

The first day of the camp was held at Taman Botanikal, Melaka while the second and third day of the camp was held in campus. OCs had to go through various activities such as station games, simulation exercises and many others that tested both their mental and physical prowess.

Below are some of the photos taken during the camp:

The above pictures were all taken on the first day of the OC camp. Only a portion can be posted here due to the space limitation. OCs will be informed later on how they can obtain all photographs taken during the OC camp as well as the orientation programme.

Thank you.


"Actuality in Action, Integrity in Principle"


Regards,
Media & Information Division
Students' Representative Council
Multimedia University
Malacca campus