The Student Council

2015-05-28T16:41:03+01:00April 21st, 2015|

The RCN Student Council comprises Representatives from each House, ‘Aspect Workers’ who sit on the Standing Committees, a UWC RCN Board Representative, a Communications Representative and the Chair.  The Student Council (SC) holds meetings every week-end, House Reps meet each week, and the Committees meet monthly, as does the SC with the Education Management team. Student Council is clearly a demanding EAC, requiring considerable commitment to student welfare across all aspects of life at RCN. This outgoing year group has worked with many development initiatives, successfully concluding, for instance, proposals to join the Norwegian Student Youth Council, to introduce a lock system in the Houses to enhance students’ security and expand and to develop the Extra Academic programme – in the process, becoming familiar with the challenges of negotiating diverse value-laden issues and recognising the different perspectives of the many College constituents (including student, staff, management, Board, National Committees and parents, and Council).

The outgoing SC has worked hard over the course of the year and taken time, over the past month, to train the incoming SC. A barbecue was held by the Education Management Team on Sunday 19th April to thank them for their important contribution to this academic year – and we wish them the best for their exams and beyond.

Work in the community

2015-05-28T16:41:03+01:00April 21st, 2015|

The SaFuGe team have been out and about working in the local community. After a recent project one of the members writes,

SAFUGE works in farms in the community such as the one we call the Yellow Farm just outside school. The owner is Leif Jarle Espedal for whom we have set up fences, cleared forest, cut trees and cleaned a barn. We also dismantled an old XIX century hut and discovered many treasures from the old days in the process. In the picture have been cutting trees and processing them through the grinder to make the wood into sawdust. Leif will use that to line the animal pens so they can be warm in winter. The job was dusty, hard and fun as it was very physical and we had a lovely sunny day . The job was also very UWC: environmental, active and humanitarian, as we fund projects with the money earned. And we got lovely raisin buns too!

Tribute: Marius Hauge

2015-05-28T16:41:03+01:00April 20th, 2015|

Ever since his days at Atlantic College, Marius Hauge (AC 1967-9) has been serving “spiffing refreshments” as he called them. Whether it be at the sea-front down by the Bristol Channel or in the Dining Hall at AC, Marius would create a happy atmosphere to any event, big or small. Marius as a grown man was a UWC enthusiast known for crossing the Skagerrak (a strait running between Norway, Sweden, and Denmark) in a dinghy to benefit UWC, and then attempting to cross the North Sea in the same little wooden dinghy, for the same worthy cause. His mother would not have approved (I doubt if Camilla, his life-long companion ever approved), and Desmond Hoare, the Admiral and Founding Headmaster of Atlantic College perhaps was lucky no longer to be alive.

Marius was one of the five children of Jens Christian Hauge, the Head of the Norwegian Resistance (‘Mil Org’), after the war a Member of the Government and, as a lawyer – forever an eminence grise in Norwegian society. He died only a few years ago, and Marius had been translating some of his books. They both came much closer to each other at the end of their lives, but having divorced parents was, I am sure, not easy for Marius, and like many others at that time, perhaps found AC to be a good place to get away from it all. I am only guessing, but many others guessed that, and he was evidently very happy at Atlantic College.

Later in life Marius was always a bit of a Bohemian, training at the London School of Economics and with an office in the Norwegian Embassy in Belgrave Square as Fisheries Attaché, but an artist at heart. He had so many large paintings in his top floor Embassy room that rumours were that he was given an ultimatum to choose beween art and diplomacy. For many years after Marius worked as a sculptor in a cellar in Oslo, making heavy stuff from iron plates and stone.

Marius was a good friend, and to me especially important because of his enthusiasm and backing of the Nordic UWC project. He never failed in relentless belief and support. He was a true pioneer in this, taking part in the very first meetings at Norefjell back in the early 1970-ies, what one day in 1995 became the Red Cross Nordic United World College. In Camilla he had a wonderful life partner, and my thoughts go to her and to Marius` lasting memory.

Tom Gresvig
Honorary member of UWC RCN’s Council

Aurland Visitors

2018-10-16T09:33:16+01:00April 14th, 2015|

Preparing the herb gardenTwo 3rd year students from Sogn Jord og Hagebruksskule, Aske Tangen and Une Strømme  spent their practice week from 7th – 10th April at the College as part of the cooperation between our two schools. The students chose classes to visit, and worked with College students during our campus cleaning service.

Aske and Une kindly offered to prune trees and bushes around the College, which  was possible as new growth isn’t yet underway due to the cold April weather. Most importantly, they started to plan a small-scale organic agricultural activity in small areas around the College and at ‘Miklagard’,  a nicely located area near the College. We aim to incorporate farming activities that could be run by Aurland graduates as volunteers, with the participation of RCN students. While waiting for the feasibility plan, we will work on the herb garden Aske and Une started to build near the kitchen. We hope to finish this by Earth Weekend in two weeks time.

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