The Emmanuel College Students' Club is a student-run body responsible for co-ordinating the cultural, sporting, social and community service activities within the College and plays a major role in the day-to-day running of the College. The Students' Club is led by an elected Executive, consisting of mostly third- and fourth-year students, with second year and first year representatives included. The incoming Executive for the following year is announced at the annual AGM near the end of Semester Two, after a week of voting has taken place. The Students' Club President for 2020 is Primo Fantin.
History
Emmanuel College was founded by the Queensland Presbyterian Church in 1911, with an all-male cohort first taking up residence in 1912 in its original location on Brisbane CBD’s Wickham Terrace. It is Australia's ninth residential university college, and the first of the University of Queensland. In 1955, the College relocated to its present site on Sir William MacGregorDrive on the St Lucia campus of the University of Queensland. During the 1970s, with the Presbyterian Church moving towards partnership with other religious denominations, Emmanuel also came under the auspices of the Uniting Church. Women were admitted as Collegians in 1975 and the College has a 50:50 male to female resident ratio. 2011 marked the College's centenary.
College Layout
Emmanuel is divided into 12 buildings, or "wings", named after influential people in the College's history. Each wing acts as a smaller community within the wider College environment, which arranges communal events and provides a familial, supportive environment. The College comprises nine two-story, co-educational undergraduate wings;
Martin
Gibson
Merrington
Meiklejohn
Douglas
Glaister
Henderson
Drewe
Busch
The remaining three residences are postgraduate wings composed of self-catering apartments;
Emmanuel College founded the university-wide Pipe Band in 1998. Following the merger of two of Queensland's most recognised pipe bands – The University of Queensland Pipe Band at Emmanuel College and the Queensland Highlanders Pipe Band – the Emmanuel College Highlanders at The University of Queensland formed in 2016. Membership is available to all University members, including staff and alumni, and to the wider Brisbane community. Its subsidy and management is one of the College's major contributions to The University of Queensland and the Brisbane community.
Sporting
Emmanuel students compete in a variety of individual and team sporting activities against the other 10 residential colleges of the University of Queensland as part of the Inter-College Competition. The College upholds a tradition of strong performance in competing for the Men's Old Collegian's Cup and the Women's ICC Sports Shield, despite having lower resident numbers per gender than single-sex colleges. In 2019, Emmanuel placed third in both men's and women's sport. The College hosts an annual Sports Dinner, where the accomplishments of Emmanuel residents in the ICC are recognised and celebrated. Emmanuel hosts an annual Rugby 7s tournament in which university teams participate in a weekend of competition on the UQ campus.
Cultural
As part of the Inter-College Competition, Emmanuel competes in Debating, College Idol, Bandfest, Art Show, Choralfest, Oratory, One Act Play, Chess and Dancefest. In 2019, 2017 and 2016 Emmanuel won the coveted ICC Cultural Cup, its 2016 victory coming on the back of a clean sweep of the three most heavily weighted competitions: Bandfest, Choralfest and Dancefest. Emmanuel also won the Cultural Cup in 2013 and 2009. The College hosts an annual Theatre Restaurant, an entirely student-run musical with a three-course dinner.
