HONI SOIT Issue 15 AUGUST 10th 2011 12-10pm Tomorrow is the last night of the SYDNEY WINTER FESTIVAL, so get those ice skates on and head to the winter wonderland outside St Mary’s Cathedral in the city for some ice, ice baby. 7.30PM The med revue, BEAUTY AND DECEASED kicks off the 2011 revue season tonight. It’s on til Sat, but if you head WED along tonight Westpac will donate $10 from every ticket to Cure Cancer Australia and the Milk Crate Theatre. Come and see the people who will one day save your lives do their thing. $20/25

We are eating PEPPER and CHIPS! 10th 3-5PM An inter-society event to remember, the Tea Society, Chopsticks, WASABI and ChocSoc team up for MAID CAFE. Inspired by quirky Japanese cafes, these tasty socs are taking over the Holme Reading Room and Common Room for an afternoon of delicious food and fun games, and maid costumes. Yep.

5-10PM SoulXPress is hosting an inter-varsity dance competition at Manning Bar tonight, SYNERGY VOL. 6. It’s FREE, so head along and check out the showcase performances. Super impressive, super fun.

10am-6pm • All the ladies! Don your racing stripes and head to the BIG FASHION SALE for material madness. Designers include Dhini, Shakuhachi,• Ruby Smallbone & Nicola Finetti. With 50-70% off, prices start from a measly $15. Swap the boozy night for a new outfit, or buy one for it. On until Sunday at 74 Oxford St, Darlinghurst. Check out The Arts Bit for a bit of a chatsie with Children Collide ahead 8pm Watch the kids connect at Manning Bar for Melbourne of their Manning shindig. moshers CHILDREN COLLIDE. Supported by DZ Deathrays & Damn Terran, gear up for a rockin’ night of rollin’. Access $21.25 FRI + bf from the Access Desk. General $25 + bf from manningbar.com

4-6PM Blank space gallery opening nights can be a tight squeeze, but head in early for the launch of WIGGIN’ OUT, a collection of emerging Sydney artists wandering amongst their own subconscious minds. SAT Crown St Surry Hills FO’ FREE. 13th 9:30PM Elves?

9:32PM NO. 04 05 5pm Calling all film buffs!A CLOSE SHAVE is the uni’s short short film competition. A short short film competition? That’s right. You have just 24 hours to make a short film, based on a theme that’s being announced online at 5pm sharp. Massive prizes up for grabs! FROM 8am The streets of Sydney flood with thousands of brightly coloured bibs as fitness freaks unite for the SUN annual CITY 2 SURF. Stamp the pavement with the flock or watch, beer in hand, in awe. 07 10Am The crunchiest violet crumble of a picnic group on campus, the Chocolate Society (Chocsoc) are having a PANCAKE MORNING TEA on the Gadigal Lawns FREE for Chocsoc members, only $1 for Access. ARTERIES! CLOG ‘EM. 08 MON 5pm Hope you got your entries in for A CLOSE SHAVE! 15th

6.30pm Does government control help or hinder our social well-being? Intellligence Squared Australia delve into 10 notions of fundamental freedom and responsiblity, debating the controversial topic: DO WE NEED A NANNY STATE? TUE The Great Hall, FREE for USU and University of Sydney staff, students and alumni. 16th THE LOVECHILD: DISCLAIMER Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, O Rihanna Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006. The SRC’s Rod Stewart operation costs, space and administrative support are financed by the University of RETRACTION Sydney. The editors of Honi Soit and the SRC acknowledge the traditional owners of Honi Soit apologises for forgetting this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. Honi Soit is written, printed, and distributed on Aboriginal land. Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s Beat The to include a copy of our first EP Honi directors of student publications: Pat Massarani, Rhys Pogonoski, Deborah White, Sings The Blues with last week’s issue. Pierce Hartigan, Alistair Stephenson and Meghan Bacheldor. All expressions are As a result, our first single ‘Of Mice published on the basis that they are not to be regarded as the opinions of the SRC System and Mandela’ went largely unnoticed unless specifically stated. The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy despite the objectively excellent of any of the opinions or information contained within this newspaper, nor does it on the endorse any of the advertisements and insertions. Honi Soit is printed by MPD. rhyming of the word “Steinbeck” with ADVERTISING: To advertise in Honi Soit, contact Tina Kao or Amanda LeMay success of “respect”. Look out for our follow up [email protected] single ‘Times New Roman Empire state www.src.usyd.edu.au Snowball of mind’. THIS WEEK’S TEAM EDITOR IN BEEF: Jacqueline Breen

EDITORS: Neada Bulseco, James Colley, Bridie Connell, Shannon Connellan, Andy Fraser, 5 Julian Larnach, Michael Richardson, Laurence DAD JOKE OF THE WEEK: Rosier Staines, Tom Walker What did Sushi A say to REPORTERS: Lachlan Carey, Adam Chalmers, Something Sushi B? Cindy Chong, Shaun Crowe, Paul Ellis, Nick Findlater, Jim Fishwick, Pierce Hartigan, fishy in WASSUPBI?!?! Michael Koziol, Chris Martin, Matt Watson, Richard Withers the state CONTRIBUTORS: Emma Bacon, Alistair of Taste Magee, Luke Martin, Stephen Sharpe, Baguette? CRUCIVERBALIST: Jim Fishwick HONEY SUAVE COVER: Bridie Connell Do you have in-built GPS? COMIC: Alessandro Tuniz I feel like I’m lost without you. 6

Can’t make HONI SOIT head nor WEEK 3 ISSUE tail of the 10TH AUGUST 2011 news? we’ll CONTENTS break it down for LETTERS FEATURE you. 04 You’ve got mail, and classic other Meg 12 LAURENCE ROSIER STAINES hands in his Ryan films. global citizenship papers. CAMPUS 7 05 JACQUELINE BREEN makes a snow angel. THE ARTS BIT JULIAN LARNACH breaks news like a giant RICHARD WITHERS won’t let you breaks twigs. 14 make a monkey out of him! Feeling like ALISTAIR MAGEE doesn’t smoke, but will SHANNON CONNELLAN goes mad fight for your right smoke right in his face. for the square. a sluggish PIERCE HARTIGAN wrote this article with CHRIS MARTIN speaks with the his mouth full. funsters from Children Collide. Pokemon? CINDY CHONG rolls with her homies. NEADA BULSECO nearly died for EMMA BACON audits political economy. this story. Find out SHANNON CONNELLAN samples NEWS the resurrected Abercrombie how to MICHAEL KOZIOL separates level up by 07 the Malaysian solution from ... PAGE 16? the Malaysian precipitate. 16 SHANNON CONNELLAN & NEADA exercise. LUKE MARTIN delivers the news in bite- BULSECO bring you the best of the sized portions. best of the Splendour in the Grass. FARRAGO SRC GRIBBLIES 11 STEVEN SHARPE wants to be a foreign 17 Will Chad Sidler be pictured? 08 correspondent. Stay tuned! PAUL ELLIS rants against rants. Re-live it SHAUN CROWE thinks Turnbull is a false prophet. CRYPTONOMICON or see what NICK FINDLATER will be ticking “Shut up” you missed on the Census. 20 Drawings from the “mind” of MICHAEL RICHARDSON sleeps on and ALESSANDRO TUNIZ with this with the job JIM FISHWICK gets you flexible with SPORT your lexical. Splendour MATT WATSON bowls maidens over. wrap up! 10 TOM WALKER levels up with exercise. LACHLAN CAREY is forming some kind of Rugby Union. Will it be an unholy union? PROFILE 16 11 ADAM CHALMERS hits up Manning with new USU Board President Sibella Matthews. ?

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Dear Editor, I have been noticing that it is becoming a common trend to use fowl [sic] If you have any and disgusting language in numerous The Fall of Rome thoughts or comments on anything in this articles. Being University of Sydney W. H. Auden issue of Honi Soit, students I would expect a lot better. I please write to us at: don’t want to have to read an article with the ‘f’ word appearing several The piers are pummelled by the waves; times, it is offensive and makes the [email protected] writer sound like an unsophistacated In a lonely field the rain [sic] fool. Please clean your act up. Lashes an abandoned train; Kind regards, Isabelle W. Outlaws fill the mountain caves. Arts III

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Private rites of magic send The temple prostitutes to sleep; Dear Honi, All the literati keep Is it true that you make up most of your letters An imaginary friend. in your ‘magyzine’? I was sifting through the vomit of your rag-of-rags and only managed to decipher through this garbage a reasonable Cerebrotonic Cato may article on an unknown fairy tale at the back about a dog which sends telegrams and Extol the Ancient Disciplines, carries his usual cigarettes in the disguise of But the muscle-bound Marines umbrellas. But then I turned to the front of your not-even-good-enough-for-wiping-yer- Mutiny for food and pay. bum-with and saw your letters. I would have thought that letters from such an institute would have been of a much higher standard Caesar’s double-bed is warm – take for example that Sluggo – who is As an unimportant clerk obviously too ashamed of his illiteracy not to put his true name down. I also thought, during Writes I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK my torture of glancing through the pages (?) that there were more words in the English On a pink official form. language than SHIT, FUCK, CUNT, COCK and PRICK.

Unendowed with wealth or pity, I thus concluded that the people in charge of this second-hand toilet paper Little birds with scarlet legs, were running dry of REAL FUNNY jokes and Sitting on their speckled eggs, to appeal to what readers they have left, they have substituted corny, Yank-style Eye each flu-infected city. pornographic words. Yours hopefully, Altogether elsewhere, vast Paddy O’Dwyer Herds of reindeer move across Arts I Miles and miles of golden moss, March 1983 Silently and very fast.

Jacqueline Breen 4 " No Ball like HoniLeaks JULIAN LARNACH fixes the leak SnowBall! in your sink...and your heart. Last semester the University organised a shuttle bus After programming one of the most successful Snowballs in recent history, Beat The System between main campus and the Sydney College of head honcho Joss Engebretsen talks shop with JACQUELINE BREEN. the Arts in Rozelle. This was implemented to help students who have classes on multiple campuses in What was different about Snowball Conics, through to rock n’ roll gods Sydney. Having hundreds of happy one day. To put it in perspective why they deserve this year? super FLORENCE jam. On the main smiley people dancing to Mitzi was a bus and you don’t (I understand Eastern Avenue stage having new indie-house-dance also pretty cool, but of course it is really long) – Rozelle is way away. A public bus This year I think we tried to change combo of doom Rufus matched with was also seeing fresh faces at the campus the whole concept about Snowball. takes 40 or so minutes and there is very limited new-dicso-dance-you-face-off Mitzi Beat The System stage who stopped parking, making a pretty short trip seem endlessly The past few years the lineup has and the jungle-book stylings of Jinja through to see music they’d never reflected what you might expect to long. Also, the departments seem unwilling to Safari I think there was a great mix. seen from the likes of Conics, The shift the classes to be futher apart allowing the see at a really “good” club, full of I suppose you could define ‘indie’ Walking Who, Rockets and super the DJ counterparts to legitimate students a bit more wiggle room to get there. At the music as music which isn’t shit, and FLORENCE jam. Hats off to the artists beginning of the semester, the University stopped bands. We wanted to bring live I think we managed to accomplish of the night and the Rock Office music back to Snowball in a big way. the service, ‘allegedly due to financial constraints’. that. and Manning bar management who If you feel that students across all campuses of the While we also had the Disco & Dub made it all happen because without room presented by Beat The System Has the union effectively Uni should have the right to feasibly attend their them it’d have been nothing. Being classes they’re paying for, take the time to email DJ Coordinator, James Alexander, outsourced programming to Beat an ex-Manning bar employee and and his great group of deck heads The System and not paid them? the Vice Chancellor and express your thoughts. hearing from the staff that they had ([email protected]) (namely Gabriel Clouston) I did want a good night was a bit special. We’ve to try and steer Snowball back to live I think it should always be the policy of the Union to get students all worked through those nights music. This year the Union sought when we can’t wait to clock off practically involved with helping to This Wednesday (either today, yesterday or the day the help of Beat The System to guide because the music is torture, so I’m run and coordinate student events. I before yesterday) a motion has been raised at the and influence the lineup, perhaps glad they were able to have a good mean it only makes sense to get the SRC Council meeting to remove General Secretary seeking more what the student body time as well. would like to experience. It was a perspective and aid of those who Chad Sidler (not pictured). SRC Councillor Sharangan tremendous night and I think the represent the student body and in What else has Beat The System got Maheswaran has raised a motion that Chad ‘be best comment I heard was “I’m so regards to music, Beat The System is planned for Semester 2? removed from office for gross incompetence and glad that this year it didn’t feel like that representation. As far as being tardiness, which have resulted in his failure to some shitty sleazy club night.” The paid goes, I couldn’t really care less. Beat The System is back in force execute the duties unambiguously reposed in him by vibe is exactly what we wanted and For me it’s a passion, trying to create Semester 2 with 12 weeks of the SRC regulations.’ Citing the fact he didn’t deliver I think we just wanted everyone to something which hundreds of others Thursday night music programming a budget (his primary duty as General Secretary) have fun (even the bar staff)! get to enjoy and support the local pre-booked at The Scene! It’s until half way through his term, his late arrival to the musicians in a community that I actually amazing as we managed to most recent SRC meeting meant he did not deliver a Did you consciously take it in a new truly love. I enjoy working with the book out all of Semester 2 before it monthly report and failed to promote the National indie direction? Manning and Rock Office staff and even started. At the beginning of the Union of Students (his unsuccesful budget went hope to think they appreciate the year I was scratching around, asking Well, yes. But what does ‘indie’ in the opposite direction, cutting funding for the efforts James and I are able to offer. anyone if they know a band just so organisation completely). At time of print, the votes really mean these days anyway? If Money isn’t my biggest priority, I could get a band to play. And now, you look at the Sydney scene and in favour looks like the motion will be passed. Also, although I would like a portrait of we have 36 bands and DJs booked to in exciting SRC nomenclature news: Tim Matthews cross match that with univeristy me with a plaque to be erected in host Thursday nights between 5pm students who live locally and who Presidential run will be under the title Voice and Manning sometime before I leave and 9pm at Hermann’s Bar. We’re Labor will again run under Activate. I guess they save actually go out to music events this semester. trying to develop a consistency, (live or otherwise) then you get money on shirts that way. I hope they washed them similar to JazzSoc, so that people since last year though. Stinky champagne socialists. a very strong “indie” vibe (even What was your highlight of the know that each week they can if they don’t want to admit it. night? expect some great USyd music. A Being a dickhead is cool, right?). few years back our little society I think the whole night generally, the Something is bubbling within the Union Board Admittedly, I am an indie kid and would’ve hosted ex-USyd kids such vibe of the evening was outstanding! ranks. Taking action against the proposed University so naturally the lineup took a steer as Fishing, We Say Bamboulee, From Tom Lowd with his incredible takeover of the USU’s commercial services, the Board towards that direction. I sought to Cloud Control, The Jezabels, Richard mix of YouTube clips while DJing til has been crafting a campaign called ‘Are you with get music booked that I liked and in Your Mind and The Vines, just to headliners Jinja Safari decorated us?’ Although Board-created, it will be student run I think that other people would name a few, so I can’t wait to see and danced on stage the music - and will hope to mobilize the 13,000 strong Union really appreciate if they saw it. For what comes out of here next! (Also, was great. When Manning really community. It’s good to see the Union is using their example, the Beat The System stage we need some more execs to take started to pack out towards the greatest natural resource: their faithful and devoted hosted local talent with a plethora of the reigns soon so if anyone out styles from indie-dance-rock group headliners I was relieved to think members. “More important than coal?” Uh … yes. that perhaps live music isn’t dead in there is keen, let us know).

ALISTAIR MAGEE rails against the proposed campus-wide smoking ban. Ban the Smoking Ban! Shove that in your university senate pipe and smoke it. On campus.

Smoking is a disgusting, smelly and only, I would be thanking them for Everybody has to find their own dirty habit. It is also completely legal. looking out for my interests. But it’s moments of joy in life and if yours is not. It’s an overzealous policy that to light up between classes why am The University Senate has moved makes no sense. A person smoking I or any one else allowed to say you to ban smoking from the entirety outdoors, a meter or two away from can’t? As long as the government of campus. Not just indoors, not me, is going to have no impact on declares smoking legal and as long in undercover areas but the whole my health. The smoke dissipates far as you aren’t harming those around campus. And as a non-smoker I’m too quickly. Sure I will still be able to you, the University can not deny completely outraged. smell it, but it’s not harmful to me. your right to smoke. So I’ll stand Why has the senate felt it necessary And since it doesn’t harm me I have behind you in protest against a to ban smoking? Is it to help the no right to tell you to stop it. bureaucracy that has overstepped it’s mark. Just don’t turn around smokers quit? Because it’s none How does the University expect to and blow it in my face. of their damn business if an adult enforce this ban? Does it really want chooses to smoke. It is a completely campus security wandering around legal activity and they have absolutely handing out fines to students? Fining no right to tell someone how to live. students for partaking in a (and I So then it must be about protecting don’t know if I’ve mentioned this yet) What do YOU think about this? completely legal activity? the non-smoking population from Email us at — the harmful effects of second hand A campus ban on smoking is an [email protected] smoke, and if this was an indoor ban infringement on personal freedoms. 5 4/08/11 5:21 PM

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campus 6 " E Political Economy Why the Malaysian News In in the Red? MICHAEL KOZIOL unpacks the Gillard Briefs solution matters. government’s refugee policy. The ECOP department is facing LUKE MARTIN brings you extinction. EMMA BACON reports. This was supposed to be the Eureka moment for the spokesman Scott Morrison’s claims that we are getting a raw the news of the world. Government. After a year of policy contortion - including deal. But it’s also the part of the agreement that has satiated ill-fated flirtation with East Timor and Papua New Guinea - many on the Left, including within the ALP. Late last Tuesday evening the US Congress The study of Political Economy at finally an entente, a deal, a solution. voted to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, Sydney University is under threat, We may never send anywhere near 800 back to Malaysia, narrowly avoiding default. The new bill, as are student’s rights across all Whatever your perspective on the refugee situation, it can which would be a good thing. If cameras could permeate titled the ‘Budget Control Act of 2011’, was departments and faculties. hardly be denied that a ‘solution’ is needed. Because in the walls of the Phosphate Hill detention centre, they would signed into law by President Barack Obama, politics, the perception is the reality. And as John Howard capture a new level of desperation. They would help us and aims to reduce spending by $1.5 trillion This semester, the School of Social and recently observed in a rare interview, Australians perceive understand how it feels to spend $55,000 securing an escape over the next 10 years. Debt crisis averted. Political Sciences is running a Strategic that their borders are under siege. for your family, only to be told you will be shunted back to Still, concerns over the state of the US Review. There are rumours, supported where you came from. economy made last Friday the worst day on by members of staff, that Duncan To that end, the Government has signed an agreement to the stock market in three years. It seems The Malaysia policy matters because it is likely to work. The Ivison, Dean of Arts, plans to propose send up to 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia, where they the world still can’t catch a break. the amalgamation of Political Economy will remain until their refugee status is determined and news will quickly spread amongst the refugee communities into Government and International subsequent resettlement arranged. As Julia Gillard has and people smugglers of the region, as it did last time when arrivals were taken to Nauru. Already rumours suggest Relations. The terms of reference of the strategic review include the stressed, their claims will not be prioritised – they will be other countries such as New Zealand are being favoured Still in the US, Arizona Congresswoman “optimal” arrangement of academic units and teaching and administrative at the back of the “queue”. as potential destinations for asylum seekers willing to Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the arrangements as well as assessing the physical arrangements of the school. Malaysia is strategically significant because the majority take the risk. head in January’s horrific Tucson shooting, returned to Washington last Tuesday As of yet, we have no concrete information as to what changes will of boat arrivals pass through there before continuing to But it matters more broadly because of how it works and accompanied by her astronaut husband, be made within the Faculty of Arts at the end of the year. The Political Australia. Almost 100,000 linger under the table awaiting what that says about us, because the Malaysia Solution Mark Kelly. It was Gifford’s first vote Economy Society, as well as individuals, sent submissions on the draft resettlement, unable to work legally and living in squalor. creates sacrificial lambs – these initial boatloads who will be since the incident. On an unrelated note, terms of reference, but is yet to receive a reply or acknowledgment of our The reasons to seek another way out are manifold. Fear of being arrested and detained, and possibly subjected to mercilessly turned away in order to establish a deterrent. It Kelly and Giffords continue to be front- submissions, nor did the university deign to send us the terms of reference of

abuse including caning, motivates some. Others simply tire is to these confused and crying families that Australia points runners for the title of “Most Ridiculously news the review when they did decide on them. of the arduous, interminable wait, which can be decades. and says ‘don’t try it’. Impressive Couple, 2011”. A reshuffling of the Faculty of Arts is nothing to worry about at face value, it It should be noted that the asylum seekers Australia If that message is successful, it will have two important could be a great opportunity for improvement. What we need to be worried implications for the Australian policy. Firstly, it will entrench sends to Malaysia will have it better than the rest, at A leafy, up-market, wealthy, rich, well-off, about are possible reductions in units of study or major options that would the practice of sending boat arrivals elsewhere as the only least according to the plan. They will be allowed to work, affluent street in the affluent, well-off, negatively affect both students and staff. way to deal with the problem. Other countries may be used will have basic living expenses paid for by the Australian rich, wealthy, up-market, leafy suburb of instead, if a regional structure ever manifests, but it will be a If Political Economy was amalgamated into Government and International government, and will not be caned as per Malaysian law. Mosman was cordoned off by police last long time before an Australian government puts its hand up Relations, will the major still exist in five years? Will there be the same range Whether that eventuates is anyone’s guess. Wednesday evening. Only once police of unit options? Will there still be the same number of staff? Will the full to process people onshore. The intent of the policy is to dissuade, not punish. cleared away the leaves did people realise range of topics currently explored in political economy, from critical economic Logic dictates that nobody will board a boat bound for Secondly, it will reinforce within the Labor Party the theory that having a pretty good fake bomb theory to the how and why of political and economic interactions, still exist? Australia when they will only end up back in Malaysia. The that being tough on asylum seekers is their only plausible strapped to one’s neck while attempting to There are two main pillars to our campaign; maintaining the integrity of the Government hopes that it will not end up responsible for political option. The Left faction has largely shut up about study for your HSC, was probably the last thing 18-year old Madeleine Pulver wanted. Political Economy department and the variety of study options offered and the welfare of 800 asylum seekers on the streets of Kuala the Malaysia Solution because at least, if it works, it will the idea that students have the right to be consulted about major changes Lumpur, but that the trickle will dry up immediately. take the issue off the six o’clock news and off the talkback in the University. stations – and that is an imperative all of Labor is agreed The disincentive is borrowed from the Pacific Solution upon. When boats are an issue, Labor loses. Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak The Political Economy department has a long history of struggle. Since the – deny the prospect of entry in to Australia, and the trundled into court on a hospital bed to The international community will don the same raised 1970s staff and students have fought for an independent department. Clock boats will stop. But already there are factors poised to stand trial on charges of corruption and for eyebrows it has in the past, wondering what all the fuss towers have been occupied and polemics have been written in the name derail that outcome. ordering the killings of protesters during is about. The deal was originally announced in May of a Sydney University Political Economy Department with administrative Egypt’s revolution earlier this year. Living The Government is tentatively committed to not sending but concluded in late July, the delay mostly due to the and academic independence. The department needs more staff and up to the hype, a 7-foot cage was erected unaccompanied minors to Malaysia, although that resolve Government’s desire to get the UNHCR’s approval. resources to cope with the large number of students and a guarantee that is now being tested. Aboard the first boat to arrive under around the former president, as even at Political Economy as a separate discipline to Economics or Political Science the terms of this agreement were, at the time of writing, In a media release, the agency reminded us of its preference 83 years of age and currently undergoing will be preserved. 18 people claiming to be under 18 years of age. What’s the to have all arrivals processed on the Australian mainland. medical treatment, his reflexes are still But it also noted that discouraging dangerous sea journeys considered lightning fast. Mubarak later This is not to suggest that studying Economics isn’t very much worthwhile, or immigration minister, Chris Bowen, to do? was a positive humanitarian outcome. It will monitor quipped to the court ‘You wouldn’t like me that Government and IR isn’t fascinating; I should know, I majored in it. But The initial answer appears to be: bluster. The Government the implementation of the agreement closely, no doubt when I’m angry.’ as anyone who’s done Political Economy knows, there’s something you don’t is busy reiterating the importance of not having a blanket confused as to why such a rich, peaceful country would feel get from Economics, and something you really don’t get from Government exemption for minors, because people smugglers would the need to act in this way. and IR, that you get from ECOP. That something is a critical view of economic then clog the boats with children. Meanwhile, there will Finally, a famine described as the ‘worst in theory. It’s the idea that we can do better than a system where everyday be continuing “assessment” of the claimants’ age. If it all feels like history repeating, that’s not a surprise. The 60 years’ continues to strangle the Horn workers are made to pay for the Global Financial Crisis, and it’s the idea that leaky boat is our ultimate political saga, one that refuses of Africa. US aid groups estimate that in we can and should be thinking about an economic system that works towards The reciprocal part of the deal will see Australia take 4000 to go away. Even if you think there’s no problem, even if refugees currently awaiting resettlement in Malaysia. Somalia alone 29,000 children under the more than the idea of perfectly ‘free’ markets. you don’t care, even if you just don’t want to talk about it age of 5 have died in the last 3 months. This has given rise to the popular characterisation of the anymore – you will have to. The second pillar of our campaign, that students have the right to a say in policy as a “people swap”, and Opposition immigration So, that unequivocally puts all of the above changes in the University, comes from a belief that it is not just the fact that in perspective. we pay for our degrees that give us this right to be consulted, but the idea that universities are communities where students are participants rather than consumers and our experiences and views are both important and valid. Last year, the University attempted to reduce the units available to Geoscience students, leaving some students unable to complete their majors, only to reverse the decision due to student opposition. The campaign for Political Economy isn’t isolated, it’s part of an idea that whatever plans the powers that be might have, students want a say in their education. Students won’t get a say in how the University is run unless we demand it, and we can’t demand it if we don’t get involved. It may seem to be overly simple idea but every time you choose to get involved with how our Partnership University is run, students get more power. We shouldn’t silently accept the disappearing of our unit or degree options; there’s no reason not to be loud and angry when our academic choices are restricted and I’m yet to meet a begins here student that wishes they had less choice in their degree. If you want to learn more about the current campaign, contact Ecopsoc@ gmail.com or come to Hermann’s Bar on Tuesdays at 5pm. On the 16th of August, Professor Frank Stilwell will talk about the decades’ long struggle The Melbourne JD. to chieve academic independence for Political Economy at 4pm in New Law www.jd.law.unimelb.edu.au Annexe SR 340 – all students and interested parties are welcome. 7

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farrago _ of Wallabies were nervous, overwhelmed and So this year, the Australian Rugby Union U Rugby Union intimidated (hardly surprising given the fiercest board launched a campaign to re-establish the haka I’ve ever seen), but the difference between Wallabies as the premier sporting attraction in LACHLAN CAREY has a plan to get rugby union this team and those we have been enduring for this country. Enlisting the likes of current Prime over the try line. a decade is that they never stopped having a Minister Julia Gillard, former PM John Howard, They say it’s the game they play in heaven. Yet crack or taking chances. The first 15 minutes in Socceroo Mark Schwarzer, surfer Mick Fanning, since That Drop Goal, international rugby has Auckland were played at such a ferocious pace Australian cricket Vice-Captain Shane Watson, more resembled a sport played by ghosts and that every player on the field was visibly ‘sucking Grant Hackett, retired General Peter Cosgrove shades, waiting in some sort of infinite limbo for in the big ones’. We may have lost, but you may and various Channel 9 TV personalities, the St Peter’s invitation. Beyond the pearly gates, recall that it was only a little over a decade ago campaign “is essentially a call to arms for the memories of tournaments past and fallen greats at Stadium Australia in front of 110,000 people nation”. The “One Team 2011” campaign, apart have haunted the rugby world. The 2007 Rugby that Australia lost “the greatest game of rugby from the television gold that is an ad featuring World Cup was an endless cacophony of defensive ever played” to our foes across the ditch. Losing both Gillard and Howard in ghastly Wallabies kicking and broken scrums, won by South Africa, is not un-exciting and the All Blacks deserved memorabilia, represents a message we can who had perfected such tactics. It is now 2011 victory and will probably take home the World embrace. I’ve always felt that the only sporting and the game of rugby has changed for the better, Cup, but it doesn’t mean it won’t be a whole lot teams that can really pull everyone together promising an exciting and competitive Tri-Nations of fun watching the Wallabies try and stop them. are the Australian cricket team, our Olympic swimmers, more recently the Socceroos and the series before the World Cup commences in just The player who most emphatically represents under five weeks. Wallabies. Rugby union is a game entrenched in this new breed of Wallaby is Quade ‘the Wizard’ history, rich with myths and great personalities. The 2011 Super Rugby season saw some of Cooper. The Reds and Wallabies five-eighth Australia’s history in the game is equally as the most energetic, exciting rugby in years. For has made the back-line an unpredictable force compelling; we have won the William Webb Ellis those who saw the final between the Canterbury that has the potential to leave the worlds’ best Cup twice and could well come very close again Crusaders and Queensland Reds this is not just in their dust. With his golden-girl girlfriend this year. good news for the game and its fans, but for (Stephanie Rice), uncanny ability to score and Australia’s World Cup hopes as well. Brimming set up tries, show-pony antics and increasingly It’s the greatest show on turf when played well, with confidence from the Reds’ extraordinary winning record, the guy is bringing crowds back a quagmire of bodies and kicks when played effort and given the freedom to ‘have a go’ by to rugby in droves. But more important than any poorly. But most important is the ability of this their Kiwi coach Robbie Deans, the new generation of this, is his drive to entertain: “I can’t sing, but game they play in heaven to make angels out of Wallabies superstars have turned Australian with rugby here’s my chance to entertain.” This of men as we watch in anticipation and awe,

sport rugby on its head. is an attitude that has been missing in Wallabies willing our team to victory and suffering their circles, instead being dominated by a ‘win-at- anguish in defeat. And as John Howard says in You may have seen Saturday night’s somewhat whatever-cost’ mind-set. This resulted in back- the unnecessarily Inception-like TV ad, “this is less-than-memorable performance from our fine and-forth contests that drove fans to distraction, no ordinary year.” In fact, it is a year of sport I Wallabies at Eden Park, yet even this was hardly and sent what should be Australia’s premier am incredibly excited for and not least to see discouraging for fans of fast-flowing, energetic, sporting franchise to the bench (it didn’t exactly our Wallabies entertaining crowds, demoralising competitive football. Yes, the ‘new generation’ help that we weren’t winning either). opponents and, hopefully, lifting that trophy.

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game to see such unsporting acts like four had been scored. However it was Shahid Afridi biting a ball, Pakistan’s Cricket needs more people like of the Indian public, a support base not and Bell was run out, well within captain and bowlers match fixing, Mahendra Singh Dhoni. This man is who revolts at a loss and cheers the laws of the game. England were umpires being sledged or teammates a shining beacon of excellence and every dot ball. Cricket is such an dominating India and this wicket was slapping each other on the field. This sportsmanship amid all the drug cheats, artery of Indian life that a starving a huge breakthrough yet Dhoni felt moment provides hope that the true match fixing and even terrorism that man in the slums of Delhi swapped a it was not fair to have Bell out for meaning of cricket does still exist. Dhoni’s tarnishes this gentleman’s sport. He is pig he won for a ticket to see Dhoni making a mistake. He requested Bell act was not just sporting, but also the complete embodiment of the word and his team from 1km away. Clearly be reinstated and he consequently embodied the true meaning of the sport. ‘inspiration’. Dhoni has arguably the toughest job came back out to bat. Dhoni was I personally hope that this provides a in the world of sport. For those of you who do not know, willing to put his position on the lesson to all those who play cricket, so line for the game of cricket despite Dhoni is the captain of the Indian cricket Despite being the face of Indian they realise cricket is not just about the significance of this test series. team. This is a team hailed by the Indian cricket, he remains humble and a winning. It stands for so much more than Legend. population as heroes. They are the top true gentleman. This was showcased that. It is a game that unites people and ranked test team in the world, one-day last week. During the second test This gesture is made even more can bring the best out of you. It has made world champions and even Twenty20 match against England, a series momentous when placed in the the best out of Mahendra Singh Dhoni champions. All these titles were that could displace India as the top broad picture of modern cricket. and if there were more people like him, achieved under Dhoni’s unwavering test nation, Ian Bell headed off the Sportsmanship has gone. It is the phrase ‘that’s just not cricket’ would leadership while under the glaring eye ground for the tea break believing a embarrassing as a fan of this historic have meaning to it. the loomingthreat oftakeover from Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence. USU struggle for solvency inthe wake ofvoluntary student unionism;itfaces bars, shops, festivals and entertainment held at USyd; itfights a constant University ofSydney Unionisabusiness like few others. Itmanages allclubs, operation. Fewer still would let students fill their board of directors.the But Few multi-million dollarbusinesses would trust students to manage their massive document detailing thelegal agreements between the USUandthe However Matthews remains optimistic, showing me the Operation License—a dealing withtheVice-Chancellor’s proposed takeover ofUnion services. This year’s Union Board hasauniqueset ofchallenges, most importantly Liberal Clubfiasco popup, it’s thepresident’s duty to manage them.” controls what shecalls ‘spot fires’.“When thingslike Fair Trade orthe recent external committees, liaises withUniversity Senate andUnionmembers and and spokesperson, her roles are even more important. She sitsonvarious were thereasons Igot involved inthefirst place.” AstheUSU’s new President enjoyed thisrole; ”It’s closely connected to thestudent thingsIloved, which overseeing student publications like The andHermes Bull . She thoroughly responsibilities, like sittingon every student leadershipand panel interview Secretary, chairingthe C&Sprogram. Thepositioninvolves many Shortly after joiningthe Union Board, Matthews became itsHonorary Dixon. “It’s always ajoy to know that you’re helpingout,” shesays. she’s campaigned for ex-President Mannandcurrent Board Director Brigid she immediately responds: “meeting new people.” Besides her own election, isn’t allbad.WhenIaskMatthews what thebest partof campaign seasonis, ‘Fuck you! No-one cares aboutyour stupid election.’ Ilost it.” But campaigning day andhe says, ‘I’ll take yours ifyou take mine.’ SoItake hisflyer anditsays And ruthlessness isn’tlimited to campaigners. “Igave thisguyaflyer on voting candidates beforehand, when campaign day hitseveryone becomes ruthless.” T-shirts andrising tensions. “Even ifyou were getting alongwiththe other exhausting weeks the University is taken over by chalked slogans, coloured rite ofpassage allstudent politicians go through – campaign season. For three Before becoming UnionPresident, Matthews went through thesame gruelling and therole ofBoard Director.” was the best thingthey’d doneat uni, soIdidsome research into the Union talked abouthow muchthey loved beinginvolved withtheUnionandthat it Mann andex-Treasurer Giorgia Rossi allencouraged her to run.“All ofthem the board. Friends like ex-Board Director DougThompson, ex-President David discuss her entry into student politics. At the time she knew severalon people want to give something backandsee how itallworks’,” she remembers aswe get herwhere she istoday. “Ithought, ‘I’m getting I somuchoutoftheUnion, These experiences withthe Uni’s Clubs andSocieties (C&S)program helped to various responsibilities intheLaw Society (SULS). tells me. Matthews was alsoan executive oftheFineArtsSociety andon took at uniwere just hangingoutwithLaw Revue peoplebefore rehearsals,” she the stacks ofpapers onherdesk.“Myfavourite nights outandafternoons year withouttaking the stage. “I’m having withdrawal,” she says asshe surveys involved withtheUnionsince she joinedLaw Revue infirst year. Thisisherfirst School—became USUPresident duringthesemester holidays, butshe’s been Matthews—a 21 year oldlaw student hailingfrom North Sydney GirlsHigh President Sibella Matthews certainly hasher work cutout for her. PROFILE PROFILE THE HONI Sibella by ADAM CHALMERS that lie ahead. One can onlyhopethat she and thenew UnionBoard are upto thechallenges words ofadvice to students? “Come to Verge!” ThisPresident loves herUnion. get through weeks ofcampaigning iswiththesupportofyour friends.” Her last “Do it.It’s the best thingyou’ll ever doat uni,” onlyway she says. you can “The To those considering taking upstudent politics, Matthews is encouraging. very alone asPresident). could allbeoptions, especially withthe skills gained asaBoard Director (let consultancy, orthecompetitive publicservice Department of Foreign Affairs do after uni.“Idon’t really want to practice law,” she whispers. Management travelling whenever she hasthetime. She isn’t exactly sure what she wants to second silencefalls before sheremembers she really likes live musicandenjoys any free time at all.Whenasked what she does to relax, an awkward fifteen- Between her role asPresident andherdegree, it’s amiracle Matthews has board’s communication.” “because they were sorecently ordinary members andfrustrated withtheold new Board Directors are dedicated to improving board-student communication aimed to bemore open andtransparent ...butitdropped off,” she admits.The for aboard to maintain consistent communication. At the start oflast year we She alsochairs theBoard’s communication strategy group. “It’s a real challenge information can go along way.” of therenovations’ scope led to aseries ofpointless protests. of “A little bit from theFisherLibrary renovation fiasco, where student misunderstanding confidential.” The new USU President believes she’s learned a valuable lesson better and recognise what members need to know andwhat isbetter kept Matthews says the Board has“learned to manage sensitive information such asletters between former USUPresident Mannandthe Vice-Chancellor. Earlier intheyear many confidential negotiation documents were leaked, they want acostly transfer [ofservices]?” “If we can show the University we can get better whyfood andfunding, would confident that if the USU can address the their concerns it can avoid a takeover. operations (orany aspectofthem) is valuable or even feasible for them.” She’s University Senate“The isstill assessing whether atransfer ofour commercial she takes asagood sign.Ihope sheiscorrect. told usto continue witha ‘business asusual’ approach,” says Matthews, which is dueto end thisyear the University hasimplieditwillbe renewed. “They’ve of USUbuildings)ifnegotiations withtheUniondon’t go well. WhiletheSLA (SLA) funding It’s possiblethat the University could Level withholdtheService Agreement a luckysafeguard we have,” she says withasmile. to anything members won’t agree to, andtheUniversity knows that aswell. It’s constitution must bepassed by at least two thirds ofmembers. We can’t agree USU would have to passaconstitutional amendment. “Any changes tothe take control like ofUnionservices ManningorWentworth before then, the University. Thisagreement onlyexpires in2017, soiftheUniversity wants to and Thursdayinthe USUoffice. Visit Sibella inher Consultation Hours, 11-1Tuesday Want to askquestions orfindoutmore? (i.e.indirect fundingwhichgoes into themaintenance andrepair

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profile X a reflect , ladies and Honi Soit gentlemen; 100% Australian Owned™ (wink). 100% Australian gentlemen; seizing currently of the major debates two Second, to the discourse related closely politics are Australian example, For cosmopolitanism. and nationalism between of the at the centre question subtly-phrased) the (often of people care take should we issue is “why refugee without our here who come some other country from that agrees permission?” Although nearly everyone not and b) surely a) helping people in need is important country any into waltz just to should be allowed anyone is a powderkeg. choose, this question they charged, politically more even Another issue, perhaps of climate and the wider topic tax of the carbon is that should “why are questions the central Here change. other so many before change act on climate Australia ourselves disadvantage should we do? Why countries Nation-states are widespread and deeply entrenched, and deeply entrenched, widespread are Nation-states self-interest. act in their own to tend and obviously would it what reorganisation, short of a global Stopping to actually arrangements political our mean for it’s that, to get we before But worldview? cosmopolitan relevant. even is the whole question why exploring worth country. in this very much alive is of all, nationalism First Australians that reported The Economist In 2009, Britain’s and pride” in respect admiration, “trust, more have other first-world of any than the citizens their country and Australian pride in Australia genuine From nation. in Bob Katter’s self-righteousness rampant to products a shared to oneself attaching Party’, ‘Australia nascent obligation collective a sense of provides identity cultural business. This is good is, simply, that LAURENCE ROSIER STAINES does not drink cosmopolitans, he writes about them. he writes cosmopolitans, not drink does STAINES ROSIER LAURENCE , or the idea that you have have you , or the idea that people regardless of their people regardless , punks. punks. Its called the human race for a reason, cosmopolitanism no countries”), John Lennon’s famous entreaty entreaty famous John Lennon’s no countries”), moral obligations to all obligations moral On you. similarity to or cultural proximity geographical would non-racists most that this is a view the surface deal of with a great in line and is certainly to, subscribe But while it is appealing, on morality. serious thought difficult. more side of things is, as always, the practical “Imagine there’s no countries.” Grammar aside (“imagine aside (“imagine Grammar countries.” no “Imagine there’s are there The practically- deep and divisive. something into taps would be by nations world undivided a minded all scoff; think about even to and perhaps recognisable, barely weightier—and are time. But there one’s waste it is to in a nice but covered than here practical—issues more pop song. overplayed simplistic be seen as a relatively can view Lennon’s of version

feature 12 N Its called the human race for a reason, reason, a for race human the called Its punks. LAURENCE ROSIERSTAINES does notdrinkcosmopolitans, hewritesaboutthem. scourge ofpublic discourse, theword ‘UnAustralian’. All-Australian, that sameinstinct leaves room for that as we can get cultural kudos for claimingsomething is has caused inthepast—(see the20 some oftheterrible thingsthat unchecked nationalism mean itshouldbe.Iwon’t tire anyone withalist of And just because something isthestatus quodoesnot circumstances outoftheequation, peopleare thesame. nations around the world claim astheir own. If you take nations, theseare essentially thesame valuesthat With theexception ofsomedeveloping and totalitarian with what you have asessentially Australian qualities. helping people,tolerance, freedom anddoingthebest this year, ChannelTen interviewees mentioned mateship, somewhat exaggerated. OnanAustralia Day exclusive However, even theprofessed cultural differences are get alongwithsomebasic education. it would beultra-naïve to thinkthat everyone would just cultural differences between somegroups ofpeople,and status quo.Notonlythat, butthere are genuinely huge everyone. Nations are the status-quo andpeoplelike the they are, insomerespect, pretty important to almost the totally (or whatever).” Fair point, dearreader. Regardless of admittedly abstract thingthat makes meAustralian of someone’s identity. Andpartof my identity issome “But wait!” you cry. “Arbitrary thingscan still form apart attached to ‘moe’. “eanie, meanie,miney, moe”and you becoming really to lookabitstupid; it’s theequivalent ofsomeonegoing up by theBritish.Fierce patriotism inthis context starts used to extend upinto Texas. The mapofIraq was drawn merelybeing, aseriesofhistorical accidents. Mexico brought thecurrent national borders ofany country into fundamentally arbitrary. There was nogrand planthat for cosmopolitanism. Round one:national borders are So now let’s have alookat someofthemainarguments maintenance ofnation-states. voila part ofagroup, rather thanhaving to useforce.” And need to create asituation where peoplechooseto be control isthrough diplomacy:“To ruleeffectively, you that thebest way to keep distant peoplesunderyour shared cultural history, andrulers have longknown and totalitarianism peoplewere kept together by a became apowerful political tool.” Through feudalism united peoplethrough common language, whichitself one, allowed information to spread further afield and specific set ofcircumstances. Theprinting press, for Fiona Gill,“and nationalism emerged through a very modernism”, says Sydney Uni’s sociologylecturer Dr groups, nationhood itselfis “essentially a product of everywhere have always themselves divvied upinto But why dowe even have nations? Whilepeople practicality. something likeimmoralityvs. comesdownultimately to nationalists and cosmopolitans The debatebetween good’. are inopposition to some conception ofthe ‘greater Ineachoftheseissuestheinterestsboard?” ofanation by beingamongthefirst, ifother countries aren’t on , we have everything conducive to thecreation and ad hoc way that most nations come about, th Century)—but just the future. You’re aglobalcitizen, so start actin’like it. cosmopolitanism looks more andmore like theway of its extreme negative consequences insome cases, increasing obsolescence isviewed together with persistent importance to many. Andwhennationalism’s may beginto seemmore andmore parochial despite its In theface oftheseandotherdevelopments, nationalism transcends national boundaries. the development ofasensecommunity that totally well asimmediate international communication and people inotherareas oftheworld thanever before, as the internet hasbrought withitmore information about week AppleisricherthantheUSgovernment; theriseof Peru, ExxonMobil isricherthanPakistan, andasoflast nations; British supermarket chain Tesco isricherthan more powerful—financially andpolitically—than some seen theriseofmultinational corporations that are is already changing.Inthelast quarter-century we have Yes, althoughnations are the status quo, thesituation Stewart thanwithJuliaGillard, for example. nationhood. Many of you may feel more affinity withJon kinds ofcommonality that can completely trumpshared based oncommonality, andthere are, quite simply, other things to keep beingthat way. Indeed, nationalism is than simplypoint to theway things are asareason for achievable inpractice, butnationalists must domore to demonstrate that amore unified world isactually vs. practicality. Theonusmay beon cosmopolitans ultimately comes down to something like immorality The debate between nationalists and cosmopolitans nationalism give itup?” says Dr Gill.“And why shouldthosewhobenefit from self-interest, thesystem just works very well for some,” a resounding ‘nothanks’. “Even inaculture ofnational the other. Theresponse to thissimplistic dichotomy is an oppressive world-state ononesideoranarchy on the alternatives to nation-states are often seenaseither consequences ofthefinancialchaosinGreece. Finally, problems, notleast ofwhichistheglobalised,amplified Even theEU(anotherpotential success story) isrife with group ofself-interested partiesisnotoriously difficult. cosmopolitanism, changingtheentrenched habitsofa While theUNisoften pointed to asasuccess story for But thenthere isthequestion ofimplementation. status quoinamore cosmopolitan direction. long run,thensurely that’s enoughofreason to shiftthe the longrun,andnoonewants everyone to loseinthe national self-interest can disadvantage everybody in … until ahundred years later there’s abigproblem. If China: “Finewithus!” The US:“Fine,we’ll just sithere.” China: “We ain’tdoin’nothin’ifyou ain’tdoin’nothin’.” should we?” The US:“IfChinawon’t reduce theiremissions,why like this: of international climate change policy. It goes something same withthebureaucratic to-and-fro amidtheshaping outbreak ofwar WWI,theColdWar), (e.g. anditisthe most clearlyintheamping-upofhostilities prior tothe bad outcome for everyone involved. Thiscan beseen the lackofcooperation between nations resultsina can becharacterised asprisoners’ dilemmas,whereby Many instances ofself-interest ininternational relations Let mestop you there. “Socialists are un-American!” “Burqas are un-Australian!” “The Jewslegitimate are argument. notGermans!” claims apatina ofimportance that they can’t get from Appealing to nationhood seems to give two-dimensional N 13 feature P THE SCREEN by Richard Withers s SHANNON CONNELLAN wanders ne Rise of the Planet of the Apes among the ‘isms’. u George Grosz, Wassily Kandinsky, Hannah Höch, Max Beckmann, El Lissitzky. This is one lineup to lay siege to T There’s scope for the franchise to progress any chemistry or charm. In fact, Caroline’s when this retribution comes, the film swiftly Splendour in the Grass. Am I right? Huh? HUH? Ahhh he after Tim Burton’s 2001 effort with Planet of mere presence on screen could be reduced derails with it. I’ll be in the gift shop. The Mad Square exhibition, now T the Apes ranked as one of the worst remakes to the justification that someone like James open at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, marks the out there, despite having the great Mark Franco is very likely to have a girlfriend. The film falls somewhere between taking first time Australia has seen a large-scale exhibition of ‘Marky Mark’ Wahlberg in it. Newcomer itself seriously and offering itself up as some works from the chaotic days of the Weimar Republic Rupert Wyatt’s second feature film is not The film is transformed through motion mindless fun, and it’s an extremely awkward post World War I, with over 200 works from key artists exactly a remake, rather it is a prequel to capture and the beautiful effects are mesh. A clunky script is still passable enough of the period. the classic story about the war with our highlighted by some lovely interactions until the action-filled final twenty minutes Curator Dr. Jacqueline Strecker has been working on feral siblings to achieve the status of earth’s between Caesar and the coolest of arboreal serves up too much corn and tacky one-liners. the exhibition for four years, after focusing on German dominant primate. animals, the orangutan. The work here of While it’s obviously the type of film that Academy Award–winning visual-effects challenges us to be imaginative, when you modernist art for her PhD, completed at Sydney Uni Scientist Will Rodman (James Franco) is house Weta Digital is a testament to the start watching apes riding horses or jumping years ago. The exhibition covers a vast period of testing an intelligence-boosting Alzheimer’s evolution in digital film-making. But the off the Golden Gate Bridge into helicopters, it German art from 1910—1937, and weaves its way cure on chimpanzees when the erratic and CGI itself shouldn’t take any gloss off the becomes too ludicrous to follow, leaving you through groundbreaking modernist movements such as violent behaviour of one of his subjects leads performance of Andy Serkis (Gollum/ feeling somewhere between moderately-to- Expressionism, Dada, Bauhaus, Constructivism and New to his research being promptly discredited. Smeagol in Lord of the Rings) whose grasp completely idiotic for ever taking it seriously. Objectivity. Upon the discovery of a baby chimp, it on the intricacies and emotional range of the This provocatively titled exhibition is multifaceted both belatedly becomes apparent that his mother’s character Caesar is a worthy stand-out. The ‘blockbuster season’ has easily met its historically and conceptually, taking its name from a rampage was not in reaction to his drug, but quota of trash this winter. The utterly senseless dynamic work of art at the centre of the show. “[The to her maternalistic, defensive instincts. Will Wyatt effectively explores the existential and inane came via a reliable source with Mad Square] is a painting by Felix Nussbaum painted decides to take this genetically-modified and torment that arises in Caesar as a result of Michael Bay’s latest Transformers flick, while in 1931,” says Dr. Strecker. “It shows Pariser Platz in exceptionally smart chimp home and nurture his inability to live a normal existence, as another tedious and overlong Pirates film Berlin and the young artists protesting against the him along with his Alzheimer’s stricken and he swings about in the confines of an attic sapped any remaining life out of the once- older artists because they’re unable to show their work rapidly debilitating father (John Lithgow). and discreetly observes human interaction revered Captain Jack Sparrow. Unfortunately, through the windows of his own inverse Rise of the Planet of the Apes offers very little in the academy. The paternal bond between Will and the panopticon. Like his mother, Caesar allows to be salvaged from the wreckage. aptly-named chimp, Caesar, is easily the most his own protective instincts to lead him into fascinating relationship of the film, but that’s trouble, becoming imprisoned alongside The film contains a somewhat revelatory really not saying much. Will’s relationship with cruelly mistreated apes and rallying the ‘Easter Egg’ in the credits that is worth hanging Caroline (Freida Pinto) is absurdly devoid of cause for their inevitable retribution. But around for, but that’s assuming you bother to KOREALLY GOOD FILMS go in the first place. HANNAH LEE takes a look at the daring Korean film industry.

Ryan Caesar answers the phone from outside the Children Collide FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS rehearsal studio in Melbourne. It’s not a place he likes to be – in fact, compared to playing on stage, the NEADA BULSECO flirts with perilious concepts for your brain meats. extroverted drummer detests it. “Rehearsing for tours sucks... These days, political correctness is tantamount to a peaceful existence. The most significant issues are This one’s alright because we’re doing a new song, and a song we often left to private dinner tables and shadowy corners, as the fear of the repercussions of public haven’t done [live] before … but when it’s just playing the same songs dialogue censors the sensitive stuff. Expelling the BS and putting the spotlight on intelligent you’ve been playing for ages, rehearsing them sucks.” and thought-provoking discussion is the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. Rehearsals are a necessary evil as the band prepares for its nationwide Held at the Opera House, the festival will open with the most controversial figure of ‘Loveless’ tour, which kicked off at Splendour in the Grass last fortnight before our time: Julian Assange. Following his address on Sept 30, the weekend will open hitting the capital cities, landing at Manning Bar this Friday. The main stage Splendour the floor to notable social and political figures such as David Marr, Samah Hadid set included a broken snare drum and smashed microphone; regular fare given the trio’s and Peter Hartcher. Topics range from the divisive ‘Is Torture Necessary?’ to reputation for on-stage exuberance. Live music, Caesar explains, is the energy on which the timely ‘The Media Has No Morals’. Expect pitchforks and torches at the the band thrives. ‘Gays and Lesbians Do Not Belong In the Classroom’ and ‘We Care More About Animals On Boats Than People’ talks. “That’s what we enjoy doing, that’s why we all started playing music and keep on doing it … Live music is so important with file sharing and whatever going on, and record sales down – it’s For the young and, more not like people are listening to less music.” And what does the decline in music sales mean for a importantly, interested Saturday 1st and touring musician? “I’m still really poor,” says Caesar. “But I’m having a lot of fun.” demographic that treds this Sunday 2nd October, university’s boards, the The ‘Loveless’ tour brings to a close the lifespan of Children Collide’s second album, Theory of Sydney Opera House. Festival of Dangerous Ideas Everything, a record that brought a little more light and shade to the group’s style of shout-the-house- is incredibly important. Tickets on sale now at down rock. After this, the band (Caesar, bassist Heath Crawley and frontman John It is an opportunity SydneyOperaHouse.com Mackay) will head back to their Collingwood studio to continue work on their next to broaden your long player, currently in demo stage. 2010’s Theory of Everything was recorded on understanding of the world the sunny west coast of the US, but the decision to keep things in-house for the and find your position within next album will give the band time to “flesh it out a bit more.” it—or, at the very least, But ambition brings with it the challenge of repetition, especially for a three- reaffirm it. Look! Julian piece eager to translate its music to the live environment. In the past, Caesar, loves the The Tunes Crawley and Mackay have based their efforts on writing for the stage. This Opera time around, Caesar senses a different approach. “You can’t keep making House. the same album all the time, otherwise there’s no real point in being a Sweet tat CHILDREN creative group, unless you want to be some sort of tribute act for the rest bro. of your life. So hopefully we can progress with this next album … the last two albums was like, ‘OK, we’ve got to still be able to do it live,’ but I think COLLIDE we’re probably going to pay less attention to that on this record, and just see what happens, and then worry about how we play it later.” An interview That formula worked for Australia’s biggest rock trio of the last 20 years, Silverchair, who by the end of their tenure had two keyboardists joining by CHRIS MARTIN them for live shows. “Exactly, and they all own their houses, so maybe we should’ve done that on the first album,” Caesar laughs. For now, Children Collide remains the hard-hitting threesome that has Catch them at Manning Bar smashed up drum kits and microphones all around the country. But on the this Friday 12 Aug. Doors 8pm rare occasion the music falls apart on stage, Caesar’s tactic is simple. “You Access $21.25 General $25. just start looking at whoever the weakest member of the band is, and make it look like to everyone else it was their fault. Because they’ll believe you – [and] if 14 they’re used to stuffing up they’ll probably go, ‘Oh, that must have been me.’” THE SCREEN by Richard Withers The mad square - Modernity in German art 1910-37 P

SHANNON CONNELLAN wanders “The German title [for The Mad Square] has a double The mad square isn’t all dark days. The following among the ‘isms’. meaning of ‘crazy’ and ‘fabulous’ so all of the works in rooms explore the utopian visions of the Bauhaus George Grosz, Wassily Kandinsky, Hannah Höch, Max the exhibition have that double-sided quality.” school, founded in the town of Weimar in 1919 and Beckmann, El Lissitzky. This is one lineup to lay siege to one of the most important institutions in the history Splendour in the Grass. Am I right? Huh? HUH? Ahhh The early rooms of the exhibition are harrowing and of modern art and design. The exhibition also embarks I’ll be in the gift shop. The Mad Square exhibition, now dark in their content, with Otto Dix’s series of Durer- into the wonders of Constructivism and the incredible, open at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, marks the inspired, sketches of war-fuelled terror provoking mechanised work of Russian master El Lissitzky before first time Australia has seen a large-scale exhibition of a definite need for hugs. After wandering down a embarking into the stylised realms of New Objectivity, works from the chaotic days of the Weimar Republic wall of similarly bleak sketches by Max Beckmann notably the aesthetics surrounding Fritz Lang’s post World War I, with over 200 works from key artists and Karl Hubbuch, each more disturbing than the cinematic masterpieceMetropolis . of the period. last, we’re confronted with George Grosz’ menacing 1916 work, Suicide. Dr. Strecker is adamant the exhibition challenges the Curator Dr. Jacqueline Strecker has been working on common view of German modernism as all doom and the exhibition for four years, after focusing on German We’re already feeling significantly sniffly from Kathe gloom. “By the time you get to Bauhaus, it was really a modernist art for her PhD, completed at Sydney Uni Höllwitz’s heart wrenching woodcuts of German movement founded in the spirit of utopianism and the years ago. The exhibition covers a vast period of citizens embracing in war-torn despair when we sense that artists could shape the new world,” she says. German art from 1910—1937, and weaves its way meet Dadaist Hannah Hoch’s 1926 work Imaginary “Certainly by the 1930s artists’ work is banned and through groundbreaking modernist movements such as Bridge. This exquisite, saddening painting is the result ridiculed, and it takes on a darker quality there. Expressionism, Dada, Bauhaus, Constructivism and New of Hoch’s stormy relationship with fellow Dadaist Objectivity. Raoul Hausmann, with whom she had a passionate “I hope ultimately the exhibition celebrates the romance with before he left her after two terminated achievements of these artists and in some ways it This provocatively titled exhibition is multifaceted both pregnancies and a broken heart. challenges the stereotype of artists of this period being historically and conceptually, taking its name from a all about angst.” dynamic work of art at the centre of the show. “[The “Certainly the first section of the exhibition is quite

dark,” says Dr. Strecker. “Artists used observation and the arts bit Mad Square] is a painting by Felix Nussbaum painted The Mad Square runs 6 August – 6 November. satire to respond to the traumatic things that were in 1931,” says Dr. Strecker. “It shows Pariser Platz in Tickets $20.00 adults $15.00 members/concession Berlin and the young artists protesting against the happening… But it’s not all about cultural pessimism older artists because they’re unable to show their work and I don’t find it completely oppressive, there’s a lot in the academy. more going on.” KOREALLY GOOD FILMS HANNAH LEE takes a look at the daring Korean film industry.

The second official Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA) is on in Sydney The TheDrop Abercrombie from August 24 – 29, and even rolls into Melbourne for the first time this SHANNON CONNELLAN on the alcoholic come-back kid. year in September. Many of us have epic Aberstories. Sippin’ on voddy-cran from a plastic cup, While some moviegoers may be deterred by the thought of reading subtitles and attempting to bust a move to The Presets on the sardine pit d-floor and ending deciphering cultural differences in foreign films, the wicked line-up of films for up far too close to the DJ. Adding a poetic line or two to the epic D & Ms KOFFIA will be sure to prove that there’s much to gain in checking out something scrawled on the wallpapered toilet walls. Attempting to declare love for the outside of the comfortably familiar. Catering to the tastes of horror junkies, music of Van She, Youth Group and Faker over outdoor speakers distorting from action/thriller lovers, indie hipsters and even family-friendly types, KOFFIA is a overenthusiastic volume crankers. festival experience that celebrates the breakout of Korean films in international spaces – a phenomenon that could not have been foreseen a few decades ago. These trash-ridden days of the Abercrombie Hotel on Broadway ended in 2009 when the beloved pub on the corner closed its doors after the tenants were Before the 90s, the Korean film industry wasn’t making back any of its money. asked to leave by Frasers Property Group, the bigwigs behind the colossal Relying on Hollywood imports and cheesy melodrama to get people into development next to the site. After numerous negotiations, the Abercrombie cinemas, Korea’s film industry was on the verge of simply closing up shop due reopened last month when Bang Gang DJ and Sydney pub master Jaime Wirth to its serious lack of profitability. But once the political and economic climate added the venue to his deck along with the Flinders, Norfolk and Carrington of Korea began to change so did the nation’s films. Even with direct American Hotels. The Abercrombie gained its reputation as the indie hub of the Inner competition in the country itself, Korean production companies proved that West by hosting Purple Sneakers parties every Friday night. But there’ll be no strong concepts and innovative direction could beat foreign competitors, offering magenta footwear at this newly renovated establishment, with the Sneakers the world something that was both culturally striking and uniquely familiar. crew moving to the Gaelic Club last year and the new venue managers wanting to keep the place free. And the place has changed. Korean cinema now stands at a very interesting point in its history. As the eyes of international film festivals, leading American production companies and The new Abercrombie sports the aesthetic of an American diner, with regional importers (such as China, Japan, and Vietnam) look to the Korean the patterning of a Scottish inn and the full bookshelves of a cosy ol’ film industry for inspiration (and ways to make money), it seems like global English study. The new ‘Crombie facelift found this dedicated goer feeling audiences can’t get enough of what this geographically small (but remarkable) despondent, like returning to an old share house, only to discover it has country has to offer in terms of its dramatic art onscreen. been renovated by grown ups with a bigger paycheck. Sticky carpets have made way for plush cream flooring. Second-hand couches have moved Indeed, Korean cinema has seen enough widespread attention to claim a out, clean tartan booths in their place. Dirty, dirty smoking areas are now dominant position in the international landscape of filmmaking. It is still a Look! Julian adorned with lattice and a carport. growing industry, and despite the success it may have seen in the past decade loves the the nation’s filmmakers are pulling all sorts of moves (good and bad) to win over For those after noms in this establishment, best bring your moneybags Opera an international audience. For this reason, Korean cinema deserves to be seen, and optimism. The most adequate description for the Abercrombie House. reflected upon and (at the very least) given a chance. cuisine is “meh.” The food is rather overpriced and shrugworthy, with Sweet tat “ok” burgers setting pubgoers back a steepish $17 each. The novelty bro. The Australian film industry itself is continually looking for ways to tell exciting, of the ‘Bag of Fish’, a few fillets steamed in a paper bag with potatoes, culturally-specific and yet, widely appreciated stories. Australian filmmakers, wears off with the $16 price tag. You’re best to combine funds film buffs and movie-goers are those who have an eye for originality, inspiration and partake in sharies, as the crinkle cut chips and gravy gets two and the daring in film, as we live in a country full of diverse ideas and people. enthusiastic thumbs up. Alternatively, make sure you’re in residence around lunchtime for the generous $10 menu or on a Specials Night, for Whether you end up loving it, hating it, not understanding it or just $3 Taco Wednesday, Thursday’s Grog and Grits ribs night or Tuesday’s getting weirded out, the Baked and Fired $10 Stoner Specials. Any day of the week there is distinctly different KOFFIA is ample material for daring novelty food consumers who may wish to definitely something to look out for. delve into the realms of the $7 Deep Fried Golden Gaytime. The new Abercrombie Hotel sure isn’t the debaucherous house party haven it used to be. Perhaps even the adolescent Abercrombie has to grow up sometime, graduating from plastic to glass, taking down the RYOO Seung-wan’s The Unjust opens the festival band posters and cleaning itself up. on August 24. The Korean Film Festival runs August 24 - 29 at Dendy Cinemas, Opera Quays The Abercrombie Hotel can be found on the corner of Abercrombie Street and Broadway, across from UTS. 15 S Taking one for the editorial team, NEADA BULSECO and SHANNON Splendoire. CONNELLAN report Like prolific camping music festivals the world over, Splendour In the Grass is that annual event that measures the from Splendour. love, dedication and stamina of live music enthusiasts across the nation. It can take months of gruelling preparation to resolve time old conundrums (“Can we sneak in booze?”) and it is not uncommon to hear new strategies being conceived for the next year by attendees as tents are disassembled and dead batteries jump started. Car pools are organised early, as groups weigh up cost versus comfort. High rollers take the campervan option, greeted by the envious stares of the tent-pitching plebs. These campers make attempts to claim the upper hand by creating tent cities to rival the most elaborate of Bedouin structures. Once swags are unrolled and tarps draped, the gumboots are pulled on and the Splendour kids come out to play. Beyond the domesticity of the camping grounds, the Splendour site plays home to novelty bars, dozens of food outlets and numerous music venues, with the three big guns staging internationally known acts from Australia and abroad. Marking its tenth year in 2011, over the decade Splendour stages have creaked under the foot stamping of music gods including Brian Wilson, Sigur Ros and The Strokes. Obsessions have been born in Splendour moshpits, as cool kids let coiffed ‘dos fall limp in pursuit of the front row. Love has been lost as crowds have broken embraces in the laser-lit round of tipi village. This year, Splendour brought hip hop heavyweight Kanye West (along with an entourage of babin’, feather adorned dancers), Brit crooners Coldplay, and Scandinavian garage rock outfit The Hives to our shores. With dozens of bands supporting, from breakfast listening to late night shuffling, Woodfordia sweated it out to the eclectic sounds of a generation. Once again, obsessions were born and fleeting love fled. Jay-Z may have just been a rumour but Splendour was as it has always been, and will hopefully always be: the perfect escape to the wonderful world of music and the best festival Australia has to offer. So, who wants to split a campervan next year?

A long way from Eastern Avenue and Big kids bumped bodies in the Children Collide death circle. Hermann’s Bar, the young blood from our hallowed halls represented at the dusty plains of Woodfordia. Splendour certainly had its fair share of Sydney Uni students front and centre, wooting patriotically for their own. Sydney Uni Band Comp winners turned Jinja Safari’s Marcus Azon donned a The Hives’ Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist spoke slowly ARIA nominees and all round nice kids squid hat and took the crowd for a run. for the stuuuupid peeoooppleeee. Cloud Control have had a big ol’ year. They’ve been holidaying in the French Riveria with fellow Sydney Uni alumni music makers Richard In Your Mind. The foursome brought their own giant Mega babe Kate Moss played fangirl to husband Jamie Hince of The Kills. rainbow balloons to the festival and stopped mid-set to pay a Lion King-fuelled Backup dancers clad in tribute across the Splendour crowd to feathery leotards, a stage bass player’s new baby daughter. resembling an Arctic Fellow Brit Amy lounge room and the Winehouse was paid Amid a somewhat static crowd, Usyd Chariots of Fire theme. tribute by Coldplay Yep, Kanye West was kids The Holidays cranked out their before finishing with ‘Fix nothing short of... epic. Scotland’s Dananananaykroyd traded infectious cruise ship sound in The Mix Up You’ and fireworks. mosh pit violence for snuggling, tent, donning animal hats and flanelette replacing the formidable crowd activity shirts. Saturday lunchtime saw Usyd’s Wall of Death with Wall of Cuddles. Guineafowl take to the stage with gusto. After a busy few months promoting the

PAGE 16 release of debut album Hello Anxiety, the Guineasounds found their way to the vast expanse of the GW McLennan tent. A packed out tent of arms swayed to the epic Finally, recently graduated Sydney Uni sounds of Sydney foursome The Jezabels. alumni The Jezabels burled out all the right notes in the expansive GW McLennan tent. Punters wedged their way toward the front, filling the venue to capacity as frontwoman Hayley Mary delivered yet another staggering session of vocal athletics.

“Sexy dancers, find eachother. Connect.” Warpaint encouraged lovin’. The Holidays tripped out and cruised through their midday set. Foster the People took thousands in and dished up meals of melody.

Cloud Control brought their own giant balloons and showed their soft side, welcoming a new cub to the pride.

“Splendour, show me how to screeeeam!” Yelle rocked a red onesie. ROCKED. IT. GOOD.

Lights and music raged through a back to 16 back Friendly Fires/Cut Copy double bill Taking one for the editorial team, NEADA BULSECO and SHANNON V CONNELLAN report ASK ABE Special Consideration from Splendour. What if I am sick for an assessment or doctor has assessed that you are apply for special consideration each Q & A with students who examination? Is there any way not to severely affected or worse you should time and your applications are approved need help and a dog who get a fail? almost certainly be granted special each time, you should not receive a fail. has all the answers... consideration. Be aware that you do not Instead you should be awarded a DNF Send letters to: You can apply for a Special have to provide more details about you grade. [email protected] Consideration. Go to the website condition if you would prefer to keep for your faculty and download the that confidential. A DNF is a Discontinued, Not Fail. application form. See your doctor (or Compared to a Fail (or Absent Fail Dear Abe, if yours is not available, any doctor) What if I am sick for the supplementary or Discontinued Fail), a DNF is good I was recently at the supermarket and get your Professional Practitioner’s examination or every assessment in a for your transcript and good for your using the self-serve check out. I am Certificate (PPC) completed. This needs subject? Is there any way not to get a Annual Average Mark and good for your on a limited income so I thought it to be on the same day that you are fail? Weighted Average Mark (WAM). would be okay to check some stuff sick and should not be backdated. out under a lower price – like putting Unfortunately this does mean that if YOU SHOULD NOT GET A FAIL – assuming SO if you can’t do any of the assessments the baby carrots and bananas through you are very sick you cannot just stay you have documented why you could in a subject this semester, or in the as ordinary carrots. It wasn’t a big at home and wait until the next day to not attend/complete each assessment future, and you have successfully applied difference to such a large store as and successfully applied for Special for special consideration EACH TIME, , but to me it go to the doctor. You doctor should also Consideration, as outlined in the policy. then check that your mark is recorded was a large portion of my income. I give a brief description of the things as a DNF. You should also apply to have didn’t realise though that someone that you are unable to do, eg, attend What is the policy? was watching me and I ended up university, leave bed, sit up for longer a refund or recrediting of your fees. Ask getting into trouble for shoplifting. than 10 minutes, etc. If they reschedule your exam and at the faculty office or the SRC for the I now have a court hearing in two assessments, but you are too sick (for appropriate forms. weeks time. 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There are mixed comments opinion, the reality remains that you girlfriend, you can always start having If you need help with this ask an SRC about the effectiveness of dental dams can (and have been) charged. The safer sex now. caseworker or your GP to show you how to stop the transmission of STIs from SRC has a solicitor that can help with to fit a coke bottle with a condom. The vagina (or anus) to mouth (or vagina) these types of issues. Members of the Negotiating safer sex isn’t always more you practice the easier it gets. or vagina to vagina (depending on what SRC can access this service for free. easy. There can be an undertone from you’re doing). Call ACON to get more Membership is also free so this is quite the person being asked, that they Having sex when you’re rolling drunk or information on dental dams. a bargain. The most important thing to are “unclean” or “unsafe”. It can be off your face on drugs tends to be more always remember is to say nothing to seen as clinical, not spontaneous and dangerous than when you’re straight Remember we will not be offended or store detectives or police until you talk unromantic. Stumbling around trying to (drug wise not sexuality wise). This embarrassed by you asking an open to your solicitor. get the condom on can seem like you’re tends to be because you are more prone question and your confidentiality will be respected. Abe inexperienced, scared or incompetent. to making bad decisions or you are But it doesn’t have to be that way. generally less organised. You can help

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Well, we’ve reached week 3 – it’s of the Business School implementing practice, teaching to lectures of that about now that the reality of actually their own additional Faculty guidelines size is also not positive for the learning being back at uni is probably starting on top of the existing University-wide outcomes of students – but if video to hit home: remember that if you’re policy. I have raised this issue with the streaming is unacceptable, and large struggling with any of your subjects, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) capacity theatres are also considered it’s best to seek help early. The and Registrar, Professor Armstrong, by academics to be unacceptable, learning centre can help you with essay as well as the Vice Chancellor, and what solution is available? Some might writing and exam sitting techniques, accordingly Faculty-based additions suggest that if you don’t have a lecture and the University’s counseling service to University-wide policy are to be theatre large enough to hold all the is available if you need help with abolished in the interests of fairness students in a course, just don’t enroll stress management. If you’re feeling and equity across the entire University. that many students – but hey, that overwhelmed by your subjects, you sounds too simple. I don’t think that have until the 31st of August to drop a This is, however, symptomatic of a the University is going to cut down on subject without financial penalty (i.e. wider issue – that University policy is enrollments any time soon, but if you – without incurring a fee for having not implemented consistently across have strong feelings one way or the taken the subject). If you need more Faculties within the University (even other regarding the suggestion that advice about the rules surrounding in cases where there are no Faculty- the University should build a large picking up and dropping subjects, specific policy additions). The DVC(Ed) capacity lecture theatre, please shoot including how it will affect your income is considering undertaking a review of me an email! support if you’re a recipient of Youth the University’s Special Consideration Allowance, AbStudy, or AusStudy, policy, so if you’ve had a good or bad Review of the School experience, or you’ve got an example of Social and Political University and how it operates, it’s only make an appointment to see one of fair that we’re consulted. the SRC’s caseworkers. of policy inconsistencies across Sciences Faculties, get in touch with me! Students at the EcopSoc meeting were This week I’m going to write about a Last week, I attended a forum Learning Spaces organised by the Political Economy also concerned that Political Economy few issues on which I’ve been working may cease to exist as a stand alone over the last few weeks/months. Society (EcopSoc) about the review You may remember that last semester of the School of Social and Political Department, however there have been Special Consideration there was an issue with students in Sciences that is currently taking place. no indications one way or the other Psychology being forced to watch a Many students were concerned about from the University as to whether the The University has a special video-streamed version of their lecture the lack of student involvement in the abolition (or merging) of the Department consideration policy which is designed in an overflow lecture theatre because review, as well as the more general of Political Economy is something that to ensure that individual students there were no lecture theatres on seeming lack of transparency in the they are considering. Watch this space “are not disadvantaged by adverse campus large enough to house the process – the terms of reference of for more information. 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In Pre-School, many of us engaged in students’ perceptions of class size. shoulder, we count it as a bonus. Also, a process of trial and error to solve a Don’t worry though, Professor – we presumably our sleeping companion puzzle that required you to put a series did! In responses to the Counter Course doesn’t have a degree in anything, nor is of coloured shapes through various survey conducted late last year, 69% of he paid to educate us. different holes. As it turns out, the students said that they had experienced University of Sydney administration overcrowding at some point while at To give some credit to Trigwell, his never quite got the hang of it. University, and that it had negatively argument is more that innovative impacted upon their studies. teachers can overcome the problems In The Australian this week, Professor associated with larger class sizes. Keith Trigwell claimed that “You can So, how does Trigwell suggest we Theoretically, this argument has merit teach a class of 500 just as well as you can get the most out of our sardine- – we’ve all had some amazing lecturers can teach a class of 20.” So, we thought packaged education? ‘Peer instruction’ – who manage to be engaging in spite Tutorials are by far the most expensive it was about time to re-visit the issue of which he describes as “where a lecturer of adverse conditions. However, even mode of delivery for the University. The increasing class sizes. pauses so nearby students can compare if there are a broad range of possible more students that can be stuffed into and discuss answers to a question.” mechanisms to overcome this problem, a single classroom – the further the Trigwell’s evidence? That Unit of Study Lets play his game for a moment. the reality of the experience of many resources stretch! evaluations across the University have Stop reading Honi for 30 seconds, and students at this University is that been increasing in positivity over the compare notes with the person to your lecturers don’t use them. Eventually, we all learnt that the square period of increasing class sizes. The left about just how stupid that sounds. block couldn’t fit through the triangular problem for Professor Trigwell with We don’t know about any of you, but Also, let’s not pretend that increased hole, let’s hope the University learns this argumentation is that most of oftentimes if the guy next to us in our class sizes are the product of some that lesson too. these surveys don’t ask directly about lectures isn’t asleep and drooling on our deliberate pedagogical strategy.

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The Ethnic Affairs Department has actual available products being suitable cross-contamination of kosher food been lobbying the University of Sydney to these outlets. It was hoped that ingredients and that it must be handled Union (USU) to introduce kosher food this trial could be carried out during in a specific manner– which, structurally, provisions on campus this year. In the semester one, 2011, but when the USU USU food outlets simply are not last few months, I have been involved was communicating with these suppliers equipped to do. in discussions with the USU President they encountered some significant Having said this, the USU are still David Mann in regards to this issue. The obstacles to achieving this goal. committed to sourcing a ‘main meal’ provision of kosher food on campus is a The first issue related to a number of offering offsite that is pre-prepared and complicated issue, but there has been these suppliers failing to conform to the packaged appropriately to meet both a positive resolution– the University USU’s HACCP accreditation (pertaining kosher and HACCP standards. The USU of Sydney Union has expressed its to food quality and integrity). As a are subsequently working with suppliers commitment to finding a solution to the requirement of the HACCP accreditation, to identify and source such offerings to lack of kosher food offerings on campus, the USU are required to ensure pilot in semester two, 2011. and they are identifying suppliers of range and develop appropriate signage to that their suppliers are also HACCP kosher products and shall attempt to A number of snack and confectionary identify their availability. accredited or are capable of qualifying. source such offerings in a pilot scheme items have been identified as meeting The second issue was that if USU food The Ethnic Affairs Department believes in semester two, 2011. kosher requirements, some of which outlets were to do their own in-house that the response of the USU has been the USU are already ranging (such as The Director of Operations of the USU preparation of kosher food, their satisfactory and shall continue to work in a Go Natural muesli and snack bars). On committed to trial a number of kosher kitchens were simply not equipped collegial and cordial manner with the USU top of this the USU will complete the products at two USU outlets, Manning to cater for the required preparation. to ensure our outcomes are met. identification of the certified snack Kiosk and Snack Express, subject to the Part of this is that there must be no

WOMENS OFFICER REPORT [email protected] The start of semester brings a new and discussing contemporary methods of and Richard Glover’s Political Forum I encourage everyone who is interested exciting time for the Women’s Collective. empowering women such as affirmative on ABC 702 in gender equality to attend the Launch One of the most exciting things about action, autonomy, safe spaces, and the which will be held on the 15th of August this semester is the introduction of the role of all genders in achieving gender • Alan Cinis – Actor, advocate for equal at 6pm in the Refectory. Women’s Collective non-autonomous equality. rights and Greens Councillor for discussion group. The purpose of the Leichardt I also encourage everyone to come along Speakers at the group include: to Women’s Collective this Wednesday group is to bring both men and women • Nina Funnel – Well known writer, together to discuss issues that of gender at 1pm in the Holme Women’s Room • Professor Raewyn Connell – volunteer with Step to the Future, where we will be starting to plan equality. Both men and women should University of Sydney lecturer member of the management of NSW be involved and interested in Gender a number of events to be held this renowned for her conceptualised Rape Crisis Centre semester of which include Reclaim the equality, and this discussion group gives theories on gender us the chance to do this. • Shinen Wong – Winner of the 2009 Night and a Women’s Skills Workshop. • Jane Caro – Senior lecturer at UWS, Australian Human Rights Award, The discussion group, which was author and panellist on the Gruen ACON Fun and Esteem Youth Peer organised by the collective, will be Transfer, also seen on Q&A, Mornings Education Officer and well known Become a member of the SRC! kicked off with a Q&A style session with Kerri-Anne, Channel 7’s Sunrise writer and blogger. Join in person at the SRC Office or the SRC Bookshop

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