Editing Monash University (section)

==Student life==

===Student union===
Monash students are represented by student unions in individual campus organisations. Graduate students are represented by the university-wide [[Monash Graduate Association]], while undergraduate students are represented by:
* Monash Student Association (MSA) – [[Monash University, Clayton campus|Clayton Campus]]
* Monash Student Union Caulfield (MONSU Caulfield) – [[Monash University, Caulfield campus|Caulfield Campus]]
* Monash Parkville Student Union (MPSU) – [[Monash University, Parkville Campus|Parkville Campus]]
* Monash Student Union Peninsula (MONSU Peninsula) – [[Monash University, Peninsula Campus|Peninsula Campus]]
* Monash University Student Association (MUSA) – [[Monash University, Malaysia campus|Malaysia campus]]

Monash students are also represented by academic associations and societies. These groups organise social events and represent student interests to the faculty among other goals.

Apart from the representative organisations, Monash has numerous other interest-based clubs and societies. Some notable student organisations include:
* ''[[Lot's Wife (student newspaper)|Lot's Wife]]'' – A newspaper for the Clayton Campus
* Monash Association of Debaters<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.monashdebaters.com/index.php |title=Monash Association of Debaters |publisher=Monash Association of Debaters |access-date=25 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721020330/http://www.monashdebaters.com/index.php |archive-date=21 July 2010 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* [[Monash Whites Football Club]]

===Sports and athletics===
[[File:MonashUniSoccer.jpg|thumb|Monash University Soccer]]
Sport at Monash University is overseen by Monash Sport, a department of the university which employs over 200 staff.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sport.monash.edu.au/about.html |title=About Monash Sport |publisher=Monash University |date=11 November 2009 |access-date=1 April 2010 |archive-date=11 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100211132826/http://sport.monash.edu.au/about.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Currently, there are over 50 sporting clubs at the university.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://monash.edu/teammonash/clubs/contacts.html |title=Sports Clubs |publisher=Monash University |date=30 October 2013 |access-date=4 November 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131104105024/http://monash.edu/teammonash/clubs/contacts.html |archive-date=4 November 2013 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Each campus has a range of sporting facilities used by students and staff, including football, cricket, hockey, soccer, rugby and baseball fields; tennis, squash and badminton courts; gyms and swimming pools. The university also had an alpine lodge at [[Mount Buller]] until the end of 2011.

Monash's sporting teams compete in a range of local and national competitions. Monash sends the largest number of students of any Australian university to the [[Australian University Games]], in which it was Overall Champion in 2008 and 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sport.monash.edu/aug/ |title=Australian University Games (AUG) |publisher=Monash University |date=22 March 2010 |access-date=1 April 2010 |archive-date=30 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100530061019/http://www.sport.monash.edu/aug/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Facilities at Monash are often used by a range of professional sporting teams. For example, the [[Australia men's national soccer team|Australia national association football team]], the Socceroos, used the Clayton campus and trained on-site in South Africa for the [[2010 FIFA World Cup]].