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The Trent Central Student Association (TCSA) will be closed from Friday, May 11 to Friday, May 18. The TCSA office will be reopening Monday, May 21 for regularly scheduled hours.

GO Tickets can be purchased during this period at the downtown Peterborough Transit Terminal.

TCSA representatives will still be available via email:

Brea Hutchinson, President, president@trentcentral.ca

Aladdin Hasmani, Vice President Campus Life, vpcampuslife@trentcentral.ca

Tessa Nasca, Vice President Student Issues, vpissues@trentcentral.ca

Other inquiries: info@trentcentral.ca

Although Bata Library will be open until midnight on Wednesday April 25 and Thursday  April 26,
the last Trent Express bus leaves the library at 9:50pm and the last George North leaves the library at 10:40pm. Please make sure you have alternative transportation if staying at the library til close.

Summer service begins April 25th. Please note that there are two different buses making the trip to campus every day. Although both buses will eventually stop at Bata, one bus (the Trent Special) will also stop at DNA/Gzowski while the other (Trent West Bank) will run the usual West Bank route. Both buses will leave Bata and return to the Terminal via the West Bank route. Finally, don't forget your 2011-2012 Transit Pass will be valid until September 21st, 2012. Questions or concerns can be directed to bus@trentcentral.ca. Thank you everyone, and have a great summer!

Exam and holiday schedules are now posted. Please note that the exam schedules are IN ADDITION TO the normally scheduled East and West Bank buses.  Read more...

Please note that there will be no Peterborough Transit city buses running on Monday, February 20th (Family Day) however Trent Express will be running on a holiday schedule. Also, sign up now for MyBeat - a free alert notification service run by the Peterborough and Lakefield police service that will relay important information to you via text and/or email including Peterborough city and Trent Express bus cancellations! http://mybeat.peterboroughpolice.ca/index.php

See the complete holiday and reading week schedule here:

The Centrals election nomination period has opened up. Interested candidates can find a nomination package on our website or pick one up from the TCSA office in Champlain College. Nomination forms are to be submitted to the TCSA office by 4pm on Friday March 2nd.

Referendum initiation petitions with at least 600 signatures are also due to the TCSA office by Friday March 2nd at 2pm.

For information on available positions, nomination packages, election procedures and duties of directors  Read more...

This past September, the TCSA took over the administration of Transit at Trent University from the Office of Student Affairs. Improvements were made immediately, such as the Transit Pass extension through the summer, but we want to make more, and we need your help! This is your opportunity to let us know how to improve the transportation service to meet the needs of Trent Students Not only will completing the survey help us construct a better service, but you will have a chance to win a new BlackBerry PlayBook! Responses will be collected until March 16th, 2012.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/tcsatransitsurvey

For updates on weather interruptions to bus service, please visit the main page at trentu.ca.

In order to address accessibility for Trent students, staff and faculty, the TCSA and Peterborough Transit were asked to incorporate into the East Bank service a stop at the DNA Building. Beginning January 7th, with the weekend service, the new DNA stop will come into effect. The new service route will see the bus travel past Pioneer Road (current route to Gzowski) and continue instead on Nassau Mills Road to East Bank Drive (Otonabee College entrance). The bus will continue along this road up to the DNA Building stop before continuing to Gzowski.

This accommodation will increase the time of the outbound trip (terminal to Trent) by 5 minutes. This increase in trip time means we can no longer run a nice "every twenty minutes" schedule for the East Bank, so please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the new schedule. The addition of a DNA stop impacts the East Bank, West Bank (late night buses), weekend and holiday schedules. All new schedules are now posted at trentcentral.ca. Please feel free to email bus@trentcentral.ca with any questions or concerns with this new service and we will address and adjust things where possible. We ask for your patience with the new schedules as we work out conflicts that may arise.

Please note that the TCSA office will be closed starting December 23rd and will reopen on January 9th. Thank you everyone, and have a fantastic holiday! Read more...

Exam Schedules:

East and West bank exam bus schedules are now available at trentcentral.ca and posted outside of the TCSA office. These schedules indicate the buses that have been added to the existing East and West bank weekday and weekend regular service. The additional exam buses will be in effect from December 9 through to 21. Please note that the times listed on the exam bus schedules are departure times.

Extended Library Hours:

Beginning Wednesday December 7th, there will be two additional buses to accommodate the extended library hours (please see Trentu.ca/admin/library/about/hours.html for library hours). There will be one bus leaving Bata Library at 1:15 a.m. and one bus leaving at 2:15 a.m. The buses will be completing the West bank route inbound (to the Downtown Terminal) only. These additional buses will run seven days a week with the last day of service to accommodate the final day of extended hours on Tuesday December 20, 2011.

Pub Buses:

The last pub bus of the year will depart from the Downtown Terminal at 2:00am on December 10th.

Holiday Hours:

The regular East and West bank bus schedules will be in effect up to and including December 23rd. There will be no Trent Express service from December 24th until January 6th. Normal service will resume with the Weekend schedule on January 7th.

East and West bank exam bus schedules are now available at trentcentral.ca and posted outside of the TCSA office. These schedules indicate the buses that have been added to the existing East and West bank weekday and weekend regular service. The additional exam buses will be in effect from December 9 through to 21. Please note that the times listed on the exam bus schedules are departure times. Read more...

http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/about/hours.html.  There will be one bus leaving Bata  at 1:15 a.m. and one bus leaving at 2:15 a.m.  The buses will be completing the West bank route inbound (to the Downtown Terminal) only.  These additional buses will run seven days a week with the last day of service to accommodate the final day of extended hours on Tuesday December 20, 2011.

The last pub bus of the year will depart from the Downtown Terminal at 2:00am on December 10th.

Opt out cheques for the TCSA Health and Dental Benefits Plan are still available for pick-up in the TCSA office, Champlain College room S110. All TCSA members who opted out of the plan this year, or had opt out status carried forward from last year, are entitled to a refund. These cheques will become stale dated and therefore void come April, so please grab your cheque today before the craziness of Spring (yes, it is out there somewhere) takes over and things are forgotten! Not sure if you have a cheque waiting for you or think you may have asked for a direct deposit? Don't hesitate to ask! Questions: benefits@trentcentral.ca.

The TCSA Health and Dental Benefits Opt-out cheques will be distributed in the Great Hall, Champlain College, on Wednesday November 9th, and Thursday November 10th from 10am-4pm. TCSA members (full time undergraduate and consecutive education students) who opted out of the Health and/or Dental Benefits plan will be eligible to pick-up their cheque at these times. Please bring your student card or transit pass to receive your cheque; students without proper student ID will be asked to pick-up their cheque the following week. Students unable to pick up their cheque during the above scheduled times can do so in the TCSA office, Champlain College, until April 2012. Those requesting a direct deposit will receive their refund by week’s end.

The Gardasil vaccination is not back on the TCSA Benefits Plan; it is not a covered vaccination. The TCSA has contributed financially towards the purchase of the Gardasil Vaccination, so that Health Services at Trent could run a HPV Vaccination Clinic. Students on the TCSA Benefits Plan are eligible, through this clinic, to receive the vaccination at 60% off the normal cost. Students not attending these clinics will not be eligible to submit the cost of the vaccination through Claimsecure (the Health and Dental Benefits provider).  Students interested in receiving this discount should contact Trent Health Services.

GO service to operate as usual; no labour disruption

Metrolinx has successfully reached an agreement with the Amalgamated Transit Union and all GO Transit service will operate as usual on Monday, October 24.

Metrolinx and GO Transit thank customers and the public for their patience during the labour negotiation process.<

See the results of the fall elections here! Read more...

We are ready to go! Full Trent Express schedule set to resume on September 6th. A huge HELLO to all new students and a great big WELCOME BACK to all returning. 

As of September 3, 2011, Go Transit will be implementing changes to the bus and train schedules. Changes affecting service at Trent University Symon's campus directly are listed below:

• There will be two express buses leaving Trent University every Friday at 1455h and 1708h travelling straight to Oshawa and arriving at 1600h and 1813h respectively.
• There will be two express buses leaving Oshawa at 1321h and 1521h travelling straight to Trent University arriving at 1426h and 1626h respectively.

For full details of service/schedule changes please see the attached PDF or visit the Go Transit Website at http://www.gotransit.com.

Questions or concerns can be directed to bus@trentcentral.ca.

Please note that beginning Monday, August 8th, there will no longer be a 3:20 West Bank bus departing from Trent University. This additional bus was originally added to accommodate students attending summer classes, which have now ended.

In addition, the paving at Bata Library is near completion. The normally scheduled West Bank service will resume Monday morning, August 8th. Thank you everyone for your patience with this matter.

Questions or concerns may be directed to bus@trentcentral.ca.

Winners were nominated by their peers and selected by a standing committee of the TCSA Board of Directors.  This year we are pleased to recognize three recipients. Read more...

Effective Monday May 9th 2011, the Trent Express and all Peterborough City buses can be accessed throughout the summer using your 2010-2011 student card. Read more...

Peterborough Transit bus passes, monthly and ten ride, will be sold in the Trent Central Student Association office beginning April 11th. Monthly passes cost $50, ten rides $20. Our office is located in Champlain College, down the hall from the bookstore, room S110. Office hours are Monday to Friday 9am-4pm. Read more...

The TCSA invites you to the first World Partnership Walk Peterborough on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 12 p.m. starting at Peter Robinson (George St./Parkhill St.) and ending at Splice Restaurant and Lounge (379 George St. N.). The Walk aims to raise awareness and funds to fight global poverty and will be occurring in 11 cities across Canada. Please come out to show your support, participate and join us for a free barbeque at Splice, provided by the TCSA. Splice has agreed to generously donate 25% of bar purchases to World Partnership Walk during the barbeque.

For more information, please contact:
Aladdin Hasmani, Vice-President, Trent Central Student Assoication, 705-748-1000, ext. 6174 or vpcampuslife@trentcentral.ca

Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/events/377458215633029/

To donate, please visit our pledge page at:
http://goo.gl/UEVKc

The Centrals Annual General Meeting will be taking place on Wednesday February 8th at 5pm in Gzowski 115. Refreshments and food will be provided for all attendees, all members welcome. The agenda is as follows:

1. Call to Order
2. Chairs Remarks
3. By-Law Amendments*
4. Executive Reports
5. Director Reports
6. Any Other Business
7. Adjournment

*Proposed by-law amendments will be added to the By-Laws and Policies section of the website by Wednesday January 25th. Read more...

This year the TCSA has partnered up with the John Howard Society for the first official Trent University CAR SMASH!!!! This event will be a fundraiser for the Quantum Program for youth in Peterborough to raise money for after school programs, sports and activities for a group of at-risk youth. All the proceeds go to local youth in Peterborough.

WHERE AND WHEN: 11AM-3PM Tuesday December 6th Bata Parking Lott!!
PRICE: $2 for 3 SWINGS & $5 for 60 seconds with a sledge hammer!!

The Inside Ride for Cancer is taking place in The Great Hall, Champlain College, on November 16th at 6:00 pm. Our goal is as a school is $7500. So get your college, department (politics, nursing, IDS, etc), businesses, family and friends involved. Let's come together and make a difference for all those touched by cancer.If you do not want to ride, feel free to donate to any of the teams. 

There is an afterparty at The Trash on the night of the 16th.  https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=272363559467349 (see Facebook for more details). Read more...

The Petes are playing on November 17th at 7:00 pm. Visit trentu.ca/petes for details and RSVP on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170572299692019.

Tickets are $12 and can be bought at the Athletics Centre or in the TCSA office. 

All Trent students, faculty, staff, alumni and all members of the TCSRC and the community welcome! Remember to wear your Trent green! Read more...

NOTICE: The Trent Central Student Association's Semi-Annual General Meeting will be taking place on Wednesday November 2nd at 5pm in the Bata Film Theater room 103. All TCSA members are welcome to attend.

The agenda is as follows:

1. Welcome and Speakers Remarks
2. Presentation of 2010/2011 Financial Records
3. Any Other Business
4. Adjournment

Refreshments and snacks will be provided. All full-time undergraduate and consecutive education students are members of the TCSA.

GET THE FACTS ON HPV!
Come out for an information session and Q & A period with Dr. Lillian Revel, Sexual Health Expert from Trent Health Services.

WHEN: October 5, 2011

TIME:    7pm

LOCATION: Champlain College,

Council Chambers (CCN M2)

TCSA Speeches Tonight and this Thursday at 7pm. CC 307 tonight and Sadleir House on Thursday!

Voting Mon-Thurs next week: Mon/Tue Wenjack and Wed/Thur Bata 12 candidates running for 9 positions!!!

The Trent Central Student Association will be holding our annual Students in the Community Volunteer Fair on September 22, 2011. The event will be held in the Great Hall in Champlain College from 11:00am-2:00pm. The Volunteer Fair is organized to bring different organizations from the Peterborough community to Trent Campus. This allows you as a student to see what volunteer opportunities are available in the community and how you can get involved while at Trent. Please come stop by and see what the Peterborough Community has to offer and how you can make a difference.

11 Positions available on the 2011/12 TCSA Board of Directors. **Final date to submit a Nomination Form to the TCSA office is Monday September 19th at 4pm.** Read more...