(Or “two people make rude comments; editor locks door and cries a little”)

Tui Monteith

The first Albany Students’ Association Satisfaction Survey elicited some interesting results from Massey University Albany Students over the latter half of the second semester last year.

Only 2% of eligible Massey students completed the survey, with the majority of students being full time domestic students between the ages of 18 – 24. One third of the respondents were in their first year of study at Massey University.

The most well recognised and most utilised service provided by the Albany Students’ Association was Satellite Magazine, with 81% of students saying that they used the service on a regular basis.

Other well utilised services included the website; the ASA wall planner and the Student Diary, as well as Wednesday lunch time events and Orientation.

The services that students most valued were reasonably different to those they claimed to utilise on a regular basis. Class Representation, Student Representation; Orientation events and Satellite Magazine were purported to be the services that students identified as being most important to be provided by the Albany Students’ Association.

Only two students who responded were deeply dissatisfied with the quality of Satellite with one student saying that it needed “a little attention”.

Editor of Satellite Magazine, Analiese Jackson, was reasonably pleased with the feedback. “Whilst we always appreciate feedback, whether it be positive of negative, it is important for students to take into account that a lot of what we publish relies on the student body and the extent to which students actively contribute to the publication.”

“If students think they know of ways in which the magazine could be improved, they could always try either sending a letter to the editor or actually contributing to the magazine itself” said Jackson.