Owens Park - Organisation

Organisation

Owens Park comprises five main residential blocks (Tower, Tree Court, Green Court, Little Court, and the Mall), an entertainment block (referred to as "The OP"), where the weekly Owens Park BOP ('Big Old Party') used to take place, and an administration/library block. It also contains a computer cluster available to all students of the University.

The residential blocks are internally sub-divided into 'houses', each now housing approximately 30-40 students. In the past, Tree Court was exclusively female, whilst the other blocks housed only male students. Now all block are of mixed sex, though any given floor in a house is single sex with exception to the tower. Each house has a supervising tutor and a common room. Each floor in a house has its own bathroom and kitchen (though the kitchen closest to a common room is often used by the whole house rather than its intended floor). The halls are catered during the week.

There are generally rivalries between adjacent houses and other halls of residence, these can be contested in sporting events such as football as each halls of residence generally have a team. Football matches are held each Wednesday and the occasional Saturday (for cup matches).

The current Owens Park Student Association (OPSA) positions are filled as follows:

President - Jacob Glass; General Secretary - Harold Busby; Junior Treasury - Anton Potter;

Communications Secretary - Amy Newton; Publications Secretary - Jim Johnstone; Social Secretaries - Sean Archard, Lily Risby; Sports Secretaries - Josh Morgan, Craig McCoy; Welfare Secretary - Eve Hazlett; Arts & Charities/Culture Secretary - Zazie Clarke, Zedi Thomas