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NEWS, PAGE 4 PROFILE, PAGE 10 48% 66% 2 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 3 LETTERS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Alexandros Tsathas OF COUNTRY EDITORS We acknowledge the traditional and centre the experiences of Contents custodians of this land, the Gadi- Indigenous people, and to be Andrew Bell, Natalie Buck- gal people of the Eora Nation. reflective when we fail to. 3 / LETTERS 16 / PERSPECTIVE ett, Max Hall, Tom Joyner, Sam The University of Sydney – where We recognise our duty to be Letters Langford, Subeta Vimalarajah, we write, publish and distribute a counterpoint to the racism 4 / NEWS 18 / CULTURE Mary Ward, Victoria Zerbst, Honi Soit – is on the sovereign that plagues the mainstream Naaman Zhou land of these people. media, and to adequately repre- ¡Nos gusta 6 / PROFILE 24 / SCIENCE & TECH As students and journalists, sent the perspectives of Indige- CONTRIBUTORS we recognise our complicity nous students at our University. la fiesta! 8 / ANALYSIS 25 / SOCIALS in the ongoing colonisation of We also wholeheartedly thank Elijah Abraham, Peter Bur- Indigenous land. In recognition our Indigenous reporters for Dear Honi, 9 / ELECCIONES 27 / PUZZLES rell-Sander, Jayce Carrano, of our privilege, we vow to not the continuing contribution of Garnet Chan, Ashley Chegwyn, only include, but to prioritise their labour to our learning. The beloved Sirius building, 12 / OPINION 29 / SRC REPORTS Hannah Craft, Nina Dillon Brit- which bears a rather unpleas- ton, Ann Ding, Jacinta Gregory, ant resemblance to the UTS 13 / FEATURE 30 / THE CURSOR Joel Hillman, Pranay Jha, Josh- Tower, and indeed our own ua Wooller, Koko Kong, Aman- Molecular Bioscience and da Liem, Ollie Moore, Kath- Biochemistry Building, has an Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative erine O'Chee, Greta Komano, interesting piece of trivia to it Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Dan Reede, William Ryan, on which last week's feature Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. The SRC’s operation costs, James Stratton, Thomas Sydney EDITORIAL failed to hit the ball. space and administrative support are financed by the University St John, Courtney Thompson, Alexandros Tsathas Dear old Myra, an 89 year-old of Sydney. Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s Peter Walsh pensioner who occupies the directors of student publications: Tahlia Chloe, Justine Landis- two-bedroom penthouse on Hanley, David Hogan, Michelle Picone, Siobhan Ryan, and Michael ARTISTS My verve vitalised by a brunch listening to others. the top floor, is one of just three Sun. All expressions are published on the basis that they are not to whose standout was its bal- But conversation, life’s most remaining tenants. She is also be regarded as the opinions of the SRC unless specifically stated. Steph Barahona, Ann Ding, samic-glazed figs (who’d have efficient teacher, is happening clinically blind. The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of Matthew Fisher, Gillian Kay- thought?), I muse on humans. less and less. People don’t talk I repeat, the sole occupant of the opinions or information contained within this newspaper, nor rooz, Michael Lotsaris Somehow water and protein, anymore. They Facebook stalk. the flat which offers one of the does it endorse any of the advertisements and insertions. incidentally two of my dining More on display, less they can most commanding and spec- PROOFREDR companions, come together to say. People are closed, and out tacular views in Sydney, is clin- give the most complicated and of practice – when you’ve spent ically blind. Please direct all advertising inquiries to Caelin Kramer interesting thing in the world: your entire life whispering I'll give you a moment to let that [email protected] people, and all their feelings and inside a social safety cone, your sink in. foibles. No two will ever be the tessitura gets attenuated. I'd further like to commend my same, with life’s erratic hand writ- It’s a privilege to ampli- local State MP for making the ing a bespoke story for each of us. fy stories like Hieu’s through correct, common-sense deci- Each of the seven billion sto- Honi, stories which, in a world sion, on the condition that our ries on the planet presents an increasingly scared of casual dear friend Myra is treated fair- opportunity to learn. The hour conversation, are less and less ly and compassionately. Comic by Matthew Fisher I spent with one-time refugee likely to be uncovered and Hasta la próxima, and Taste Baguette founder appreciated. So student campaigners, no one cultural sphere tend to overlap, positions administering the So attend a rally and then COVER Hieu Luong is testament to this Read it, agree you’re better Thomas McCorquodale buys what you are shoveling. so there’s always a sharing of arts on campus are some of the stick around for Small Trum- fact. We’re smarter, more tol- for having done so, and talk to BMus (MusEd) I If you 'really want to make a human resources there which very few that actually demand pet comedy at Hermanns. Sam Langford, Alexandros Tsathas erant, and life’s just better for more strangers. difference' and 'give a voice to can make any electoral pres- any output from students. You SUDS runs shows every two the voiceless" because 'student ence stretch thin. We can work can be elected to board and be weeks during semester, which elections really matter' and 'we together—indeed must—but dragged along the line by your you can watch after attending Election farce all know you're the least likely the conversation can’t always fellow directors, and still cash an EAG meeting. The Sydney person to actually make a status include the suppressed prem- in and use your meal card. If Fringe is on right now, and it’s Dear Honi, about this kind of thing'... You ise that the people on the Honi you don’t show up to edit Honi overfull with our most talent- Honiscopes should really have a closer look team are less important than the newspaper doesn’t exist ed people: seek their shows As a student of virtue signaling, at who's voices you're necessar- those on the SRC side). (for which you make almost out, enjoy them, and then real- Let soul siren Sade guide you Art: Zita Walker I love student elections: The ily competing against by your We know from our history nothing). You can be the Pres- ise they’re performing all the smell of sweaty bodies in flimsy self nomination. Revolution- that the University of Sydney ident of the SRC and show time, almost always for free, t-shirts, the hoarse yells of one ary fever is in the air, it's just a was once able to sustain an up for thirty minutes a day in our underlit theatrespaces self-righteous future-MP (God shame only some of you get to almost perpetually vibrant cul- and earn a salary. If you don’t and pubs with bad acoustics. save us) over another. But this be revolutionaries. tural life, and now it doesn’t as rehearse and write for hours There’s so much good shit here, year even I feel like the perfor- much. As a corollary to this, each week, there’s not going to please for the love of God seek mance art has been taken too Anon I reckon a constant stream be an Arts Revue (for which it out. far. of truly good cultural things you make 0 dollars). These Aquarius Pisces Aries Taurus This year I've noticed an abso- Amen on campus results in a great- people matyr themselves for Peter Walsh In the middle of the madness, It’s no place to be ending, There's a quiet storm, We'll never really learn lute swarm of guys commit- er uptake of the activism and no pay and are the only thing Arts, ‘16. hold on but somewhere to start and it's you the meaning of it all ting to make [insert institution engagement that the SRC is standing between our universi- here] friendlier to women... Dear Honi, constantly agitating for. It’s my ty becoming a beige wasteland Of white people promising to opinion that if you have things of chic cafes (the same way our help diversify [institution] to There’s a sentiment that pre- happening that are good (as activists matyr themselves for But it just don't make it more accessible to PoC, vails around discussion of we did for years: Get Up Stand no pay and are the only things of private school boys swear- clubs and societies and campus Up, Project 52, Theatresports, standing between our universi- add up! ing they'll give disadvantaged culture in general that if you A Bigger Verge, Actually good ty becoming a degree mill). individuals a platform to speak take a primary interest in stu- concerts at Manning [Japan- And two, we’re in need Dear Honi team, Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo from. It's really fucking obvious dent arts you’re ‘unserious’. It droids ’13!!!], Tuesday Talks, of money—bad. Venue hire And then you lose it, and It's never as good The rose we remember, And in no time, you'll be fine to me (and surely even to them) especially rears its head during etc etc) people will not only is prohibitive, even at our Thanks for fixing the sudoku then it flows right to you as the first time the thorns we forget that by running in opposition the Honi Soit election where, attend them, but will come own Seymour Centre (may- puzzle, the letters and symbols to those very individuals they're year after year, prospective edi- to develop some sentiment be something should be done were awful. stripping them of the opportu- tors are compelled to kowtow for our university, which will about their devouring student However I'm incredibly sad that nity to actually BE elected, and to the demands of prospec- extend to feeling something budgets?), rights are expensive, the SRC edition of Honi robbed not have to ask permission to be tive councillors, with deals when you hear staff are being lighting rigs and the people me of a puzzle this week. heard. Hot Tip: if you want to negotiated almost exclusively laid off or satellite campuses to operate them are expen- Where's Sudoku for SRC? I'll diversify the scene, hand wom- around What Can Be Done are being gutted. sive, and while we have a glut vote for whoever gives me my en the damn microphone, or For Us. (This is understanda- What am I saying here? of next level talented creatives puzzle (not really though). Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn donate your *mad campaigning ble—necessary even!—espe- Well, two things. ready to get to work, they lack Nothing's quite how it seems Is something this broken They'll waste your body and soul Put the blame on no one else skillz* to someone who didn’t cially when you understand One, it’s not unserious to both the institutional and per- Yours numerically, ever gonna fix? if you allow them to go to a GPS school. that the campus left and the care about the arts. In fact, the sonal support they need. 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SYDNEY UNIVERSITY LAW SOCIETY SYDNEY COLLEGE OF THE ARTS FREE TO BE A BIGOT tre in a matter of two election spending cap. You could check out the cycles, there’s a rule: if your Births, Deaths Alas, it appears that – much three shows by USyd comedy Screenshots leaked to Honi opponent is more politically & Marriages like a petting zoo appearing on collective Baby Boy Bolog- SULS election: the breakdown SCA consumer claim Soit indicate evidence of sex- expedient than you, you get the campus during Zoo for Honi’s naise. Or see past Honi editors ism, racism, ableism and moral high ground! hell is other people 2011 run, or the bizarre Ben & in either Boymachine by Pat- Two complete tickets have formed (read: more popular ticket). This Jethro is working full-time at PwC, stacking within the University So, to catch up, there are Jerry’s PR delivery which may rick Morrow or Just a Small to contest the election for the Syd- year, it's quite refreshing to see both and therefore will probably not puts legal exposure at of Sydney Libertarian Society. three tickets contesting the edi- 11. "After learning of the deal have helped secure current Town Boy by Jack Gow. The ney University Law Society (SULS) tickets this year reach well beyond contribute much to on-the-ground The images show Ignite for torship of Honi. SIN are running and it's associations with the Honi eds SCOOP their 2015 Pool Boys and Garden St Boys executive. the current executive to fill their campaigning. $20 million NUS Candidate and club for- as an “activist” ticket (whatever Liberals, Michael and Siobhan victory – the filter is nothing have shows on too. Then there Despite the fact that SULS is one ranks. That said, it's probably fair While the election is still a while mer President Kerrod Gream that means), WET are pitching were asked to leave Grassroots, but a fortunate coincidence. is Moonboy presents: Musical of the largest operating societies to say that Ticket Two (numbered away, it is unlikely that a complete calling another member of themselves as a broad appeal, which they peacefully agreed As Unity’s Dylan Williams told of Thrones. on campus, contested elections are by our coin toss, if you were won- third ticket will form to contest it. See page 28 ;) resents the maximum amount the club “retarded”, and saying “I’ll probably end up working to," Grassroots said in a collec- Honi, Stand Up had “absolutely You can even see the “good relatively rare (the last one was in dering) will have greater purchase That said, only time will tell. students can claim without “I am the autist king”. Other at Junkee” kind of group, while tive statement. It sounds like it no involvement” in the crea- boy” comedian himself, Aar- 2013). Part of the reason for this, in the upper end of Law Revue. A consumer claim for mis- being at risk of an order they screenshots provided show TIME are just in it for the main- was a bit of a, "it's not me, it's tion of the filter, which appears on Chen. “Boy”: the new fab- is because it is traditionally very Ticket Two will be managed by Natalie Buckett did not leading and deceptive conduct pay the University’s legal costs the use of racial slurs like stream (college kids and libs). you and your moral impurity" to belong to international ric softener of masculinity in difficult to beat the 'establishment' Natalie Buckett and Jethro Cohen. write or edit this piece. brought by Sydney College of should they lose. Since the “gook” and sexist comments WET have gone for political situation. cancer charity, Stand Up for the comedy community. the Arts (SCA) students has esti- claim may be limited to the dis- by various club members. expediency and are negotiating SIN’s not feeling as forgiving. Cancer. mated the legal exposure of the ruption caused by the proposal When questioned by with TIME and SIN but assure They have also been approached LABOR-LIBERAL POSITION TICKET ONE TICKET TWO University to be $4.1 million. itself, it is unclear whether this Honi, Gream sidestepped us they “haven’t reached con- by TIME: on August 24 and CAMPAI(G)NING IS ALLIANCE DODGES The compensation sought figure will eventuate. the expected “free speech” crete agreements with either again on September 11. They SOLE DESTROYING A BULLET President Rohan Barmanray Kieran Hoyle by 138 SCA students through The NCAT statement of response, instead saying, group”. Friday’s rumoured deal ignored the request to negotiate Current Social Director Law Revue Director the NSW Civil and Administra- claim alleges that the Univer- “many of the members of the was second preferences for “on principle” as it “stands in POWER presidential candidate Avid readers will know Vice President (Education) Liz Sheahan Maxine Malaney tive Tribunal (NCAT) is based sity of Sydney administration executive are diagnosed on WET on TIME’s how-to-votes such contrast to our ideals for Georgia Mantle is sporting a that Isabella Brook (Nation- Current Social Director Competitions Director on the proposal to shut down made attempts of “deliberate the autism spectrum and use in exchange for WET choosing Honi Soit”. According to SIN, dashing moon boot this week. al Labor Students) and Ed Vice President (Careers) Tiffany Wu Beverly Parungao the SCA's Rozelle campus and sabotage” in order to ensure it as a way to cope with their not to preference anyone. WET agreed “in-principle to a Mantle told Honi she's damaged McCann (Liberal) have joined Current Marketing Director Yemaya Editor change certain degrees, such as the closure of SCA. It refers condition”. “While this may Whether or not WET will preference swap” with them on her Achilles tendon, but said, forces this SRC election. Vice President (Social Justice) Sally Kirk Margery Ai the Bachelor of Visual A rts. to the August 9 Draft Change seem odd to outsiders (ed’s eventually sign is unknown, August 24. SIN says they will "I won't let that stop me from Isabella is going for presi- Law Revue Wom*n's Collective Member The claim alleges stu- Plan which cites the “falling note: it does) it’s just one of the but their decision to consider a be preferencing WET, with or getting out there and talking to dent, and nominated Ed as Treasurer Longen Lan Jeremy Chan dents were led to believe that enrolment numbers”, in spite ways of dealing with the situ- deal has had quite the fall out. without a deal. students." her Vice-President pick (a SULS Careers Guide Editor Mooter SCA would remain open at of the fact that there was a ation, and I find it concerning Several ~campus identities~ The TIME-WET deal will While undeniably commit- position that will actually be Secretary Issey Ledden Nicholas Yuen Rozelle until at least 2020 “record number” of first year that someone would try and have resigned from their sup- see TIME elected if WET comes ted, this move is potentially chosen by elected candidates Careers Subcommittee FASS Representative and that the cancellation of enrolments for the BVA as of use that against us, and would port crew, including a current in third and enough of the ill-advised – Honi's qualified post-election). There is a Sponsorship James Madden Liz Jones the merger between SCA and November 2015, as alleged by consider it an attack on peo- Honi editor Tom Joyner and undirected preferences flow to physiotherapist Alexandros remarkable amount of trans- Careers Committee Law Revue Assistant Director UNSW announced on 28 July the statement of claim. ple struggling with their own one of their campaign man- TIME to put the colleges over Tsathas said of the injury, parency in the deal, as the two Social Director Nicole Burger Hayden Tonazzi amounts “effective accept- Mr McLoughlin further not- disability.” agers, USU Board Director 50 per cent. "There's no magic cure – rela- stand together in the most Sport Subcommittee Law Revue ance” of unlawfulness. ed that “the way the university The screenshots alsoCourtney Thompson. Despite the existence of regu- tive rest, and a graded return awkward election cover pho- Social Director Eric Gonzales Diana Reid The SRC legal service solic- has presented itself, indicates revealed members asking Thompson resigned on Fri- lations prohibiting official deals, to activity, with some eccen- to that this reporter has seen Law Revue Law Revue itor overseeing the action, that it has an institutional com- students for their access card day. “It was completely non-dra- Honi tickets have been known tric loading exercises thrown (see: Ignite for SRC to make Competitions Director Gaston Gratian Jade Hannaford Thomas McLoughlin, noted mitment to winding down and numbers in an attempt to matic, I had been very clear to make informal support deals in for good measure is the best your own mind up). Competitions Subcommittee Mooter that up to 650 students could closing the SCA”. In order for stack elections. When asked about my unease at the possi- with SRC campaigns. It appears approach. Georgia's stoicism The Liberal Club intended Competitions Director Alice Yang Ryan Hunter join the claim against the Uni- the claimants to “reconsider by another club member how bility of working with TIME WET and SIN are negotiating is admirable, but she needs to host the CEO of NSW Min- Competitions Subcommitee Mooter versity, which would inflate their direction”, Mr McLough- to obtain access numbers, (and Stand Up)… when I heard with both POWER and Stand to consider that if she doesn't ing, Stephen Galilee. Galilee Publications Director Emily Shen Pranay Jha possible compensation to just lin emphasised that the Uni- Gream suggested they imply that a deal was being seriously Up. “We haven’t reached any ease up, she risks exacerbat- is a textbook pro-fossil fuel Education Guide EIC Debater under $20 million. versity administration would it was to gain funding for oth- considered, I felt it only natural sort of agreement with either ing her injury, or it becoming advocate, and therefore - you Sport Director Nick Lehm Anisha Gunawardhana He believes the action has “have to set aside professional er clubs and societies. Gream for me to resign as manager,” of them,” WET said. “We have chronic.” POWER supporters would think - champions a Mooter SULS Intervarsity Netball “good prospects” or a “75 per ego and baggage”. told Honi that he was unaware she said. WET assures us “the not signed any preference deals are no doubt hoping this won't cause Isabella and Ed disagree International Officer Sam Frouhar Hong Wang cent chance” of receiving a A University spokesperson of any stacking taking place. split was totally amicable” and at this point. We do not intend be their campaign's (literal) on. Careers Committee Intl. student ambassador favourable ruling in court. said to Honi, “The claim was Thompson confirmed “there’s to have any exclusive deals with Achilles heel. The Liberal Club tends to Campus Director Calida Tang Liv Grivas It is unclear exactly how the received on Wednesday and is PREFERENCES DEALS certainly no bad blood”. any SRC tickets,” SIN said. In the interest of journalis- keep these invitations under Campus Subcommitee Geoscience Soc. President compensation figure ($29,900 still being considered. Beyond & RESIGNATIONS Ever the self-appointed Oh, and TIME refused to tic balance, we feel compelled wraps, but someone leaked it Women's Officer Gab Royle Sophie Fletcher per student) was calculated, that, it is not appropriate for moral centre of the SRC race, comment on anything. to inform our readership that to the campus activists. They Women's Col. Senior Student Liverpool Domestic Violence especially since the Heads of the University to comment on All (stupol) hell broke loose Grassroots found themselves As is custom. Stand Up presidential candidate were gearing up for a gate- Refuge's Women's Wellness Agreement with UNSW was a matter which may be the sub- last Friday when WET and in a bind as 'members' Siob- Isabella Brook appears to have crashing (and political scan- Course Convenor terminated, but the figure rep- ject of court proceedings.” TIME were seen absent from han Ryan and Michael Sun of STOOD UP ON two functioning feet. More on dal), only to realise at the last their stalls. Soon enough, SRC WET are now dealing with the SNAPCHAT this story as it develops. moment Galilee had been Ed Officer, Liam Carrigan dynamic duo for any GPS grad- quietly subbed out for some POLITICAL FIGHTS was spreading the scoop of uate: the colleges (TIME) and Campus hacks were abuzz with MEN2BOYS generic MP. C’est la vie. the day: the two tickets were the Liberals (by virtue of Stand (read: Cameron Caccamo sent negotiating a preference deal. Up's deal with Ignite). one tweet about) the news that 2016 is THE year for male All campaign coverage in The passerby might be think- Ostensibly a non-hierarchi- Unity/NLS alliance Stand Up comedians who infantilise their this BDM was written by Sam First year students allegedly excluded ing, but surely it’s normal to cal organisation, Grassroots has had managed to secure a Snap- identity. But don’t take our word Langford, Subeta Vimalara- negotiate with all opponents long been a case study for the chat geofilter as part of their for it, if you want to see a uni- jah and Mary Ward. They to secure the best deal? Oh, tyranny of structurelessness. campaign. This would be a par- versity comedy show at the Syd- have signed a declaration of how wrong you are. Sources say influential fig- ticularly juicy piece of informa- ney Fringe Festival search for neutrality and are not associ- by new Liberal Club executive Despite factions frequent- ures in the faction instigated tion, as brand geofilters certain- the word “boy” on the Fringe ated with any campaigns or ly dealing left, right and cen- the break-up on September ly fall outside of the electoral Comedy website. campus factions. Elijah Abraham gations of stacking, non-stu- wrote to Manning “We have with the party for some time, bers” and that a SULC exec- dent sign-ups and misleading prioritised attendance based he expressed concern for other utive member had put Jeffrey Dysfunction continues to advertising. Earlier in the year, on how early people RSVP'd, first years, who he claimed had on notice for allegedly con- STUDENT SERVICES plague the Sydney Universi- in May, the club was dissolved and their level of engagement little club involvement and had tinuously messaging multi- ty Liberal Club (SULC), with by the USU following sus- with the Liberal Club and the supported Bondar at the AGM, ple executives regarding this a recent complaint made to tained factional in-fighting. Liberal Party more broadly.” saying “they are all clearly event. He denied having ever Ombudsman referral raises termination procedure issues the USU claiming club mem- The most recent complaint “As part of the new execu- being excluded for exercising engaged in harassment. bers were excluded from an was lodged by Manning Jef- tive's plan to re-energise the their simple right to support USU President Michael Andrew Bell the University eventually university was energetic and cations or directed an alterna- The University said, “The event on factional affiliation frey, a member of Dom Bon- Club we feel it is important who they wish in a Club they're Rees advised Honi that in agreed to hear the appeal, the empathetic, and allowed the tive approach.” University has adopted a clear grounds. dar’s ticket that competed that we provide new members passionate about.” response to the complaints, A Chinese student who was case highlights the fallibility of student to re-enrol,” he said. “As a lawyer with experi- policy of using email to each This is the latest in a string against Crawford for SULC with the opportunity to meet Crawford told Honi, “No the C&S office had asked the unable to receive email noti- email correspondence, and the “The pressure of a referral to ence in business and com- student’s university email of internal issues for SULC. control. In an email to Clubs and network in a safe and one was excluded from the SULC executive to communi- fication of termination of potential need for duplicate the ombudsman and is likely mercial transactions, there is a account as the basis of official A recent controversial AGM, & Societies, provided to casual environment.” event on any factional grounds cate more clearly with C&S and their degree while living with hard-copy correspondence. to have made a difference.” convention that parties do not communication.” which was specially admin- Honi, Jeffrey alleged that he Jeffrey claims he and other or any other issues other than with its members when events restricted internet on main- Thomas McLoughlin, the A spokesperson for the rely on email correspondence “All the evidence we have is istered by the USU, saw Josh and other first year students first years have been “repeated- that, we were prioritising gen- were targeted at a particular land China, has referred the SRC lawyer who worked on University told Honi, “There alone to verify receipt. There is that this is a much more satis- Crawford seize control of the were excluded from the “New ly and systematically excluded uinely new members in order cross-section of its roster. case to the Ombudsman after the case, has no complaint has been no instance where invariably a backup confirma- factory means of communica- SULC executive with a faction Members Dinner” which took from participating in the club to create a safe space for them.” “I do not believe that the they were restricted from filing about the University’s actions the ombudsman or any other tion process, and quite often tion than alternative measures that had splintered from the place on September 8. in the short time since the It was alleged that Jeffrey complaints related to this event an appeal. after the appeal process was external authority have ques- there is a hard copy duplicate such as physical mail – where club's centre right. In June, a The first year officers, Niamh AGM”. While Jeffrey conced- and the other students were are indicative of a systemic While proceedings were instigated. “That appeals pro- tioned the use of email for the of the email correspondence,” we have issues with timeliness chaotic O-day produced alle- Cronin and Nam Nguyen, ed that he had been involved not “genuinely new mem- problem,” Rees said. ultimately discontinued when cess went smoothly, and the purposes of student communi- McLoughlin told Honi. and the accuracy of addresses.” 6 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 7 NEWS & ANALYSIS SRC ELECTIONS

STUPOL STRATEGIC PLAN Meet the candidates vying for the SRC presidency Prez candidates quiz Senate Fellow The SRC president is responsible for man- candidates Undergrad degree options aging 16 staff members, sitting on a mini- mum of six University committees, securing violate rules their organisation's funding, acting as the sole shareholder of the SRC's Legal Service Ashley Chegwyn & Andrew Bell cut from 122 to 42 in 2018 and leading at least 62 elected representatives. We quizzed this year's candidates Colin Whitchurch, a candi- Fewer degree offerings, new “research and Units being developed for the The adoption of vertically on the things you would hope they knew date contesting the position of Open Learning Environment integrated degrees is yet to gain before going for the job: Undergraduate Fellow at the entrepreneurship experience", summer and include courses in global ethics, necessary approval from the 1. How many council members are elected ongoing Senate election, has winter school on HECS and likely vertical creating social media campaigns, federal government. to the General Executive? been caught standing over stu- programming and computer Advanced streams in existing 2. How many Representatives is quorum dents after instructing them to integration of Law, Education and Music are all mapping literacy, and cultural degrees will be replaced with for an SRC Council meeting? vote for him in the electronic set to be approved. Max Hall has a confirmed competence. A freely available the Dalyell program. Accept- GEORGIA MANTLE ISABELLA BROOK 3. How much money was allocated to the ballot in Fisher Library over the online course on “Aboriginal ing students with an ATAR SRC Education Department in 2016? weekend. list of all of the things still to be confirmed Sydney” is also being created. above 98 or a W.A.M. over 80 4. Name the caseworkers. (1 mark for each.) Whitchurch was joined by The University propos- at the end of first year, Dalyell POWER FOR SRC STAND UP FOR SRC 5. Which of these does not need to be ex-postgraduate senate fellow Students commencing at Syd- Students undertaking the al claims that focus groups of students will have a “larger set QUIZ RESULT: 18.5/28 (66%) QUIZ RESULT: 13.5/28 (48%) signed by/approved by the President? James Flynn, former Liberal ney University in 2018 will non-honours BAS fourth year high school students conducted of elective enrichment oppor- a. Photocopying request member and former adviser have a choice of just 42 com- will complete “research or in May found the new struc- tunities” including “access For the first time in many years, Georgia Mantle and National Labor Students’ Isabella Brook is hoping to be the b. Room booking request to Industry Minister Anthony binations of 24 degrees instead entrepreneurship experience”, ture was likely to attract more to mentoring and leadership Grassroots find themselves as the insiders in a presidential latest in a long line of Labor women (including incumbent c. Reimbursement. Roberts. of the current 122, according internships, and so called students overall, but students development programs… [and] race. The elevator pitch for Mantle, one of the two current prez Chloe Smith) who have held the SRC presidency. As a 6. From lowest to highest, rank the SSAF The pair were moving to a proposed degree structure “Open Learning Environment” pursuing law, engineering and research and entrepreneurship SRC General Secretaries (think Treasurer with a dash of current Welfare Officer and member of the General Exec- received by student organisations in 2016. through the library with a lap- endorsed by the senior manage- units which purport to teach veterinary science were less opportunities,” a University second-in-command) and Indigenous Officer, is one of utive, she has experience with the SRC, though readily 7. Name the committees that report to the top, pressuring students to vote. ment in July. general skills relevant to all stu- likely to choose USyd if current Spokesperson told Honi. experience. She peppered her responses with the institu- acknowledged her opponent’s institutional knowledge is Academic Board. (1 mark for each.) Honi spoke to a Chinese Under the plan, which will dents. The precise nature of the options were abandoned. In welcome news, students tional, corridors-of-power language of SRC bureaucracy probably superior, as reflected in our quiz results. 8. Who is the chair of the Academic international student immedi- be presented to the Academic work placements and projects Current offerings for music, will be able to place Summer – showboating competence without sparking inspiration. Brook rightly noted the president’s role is substantial- Standards and Policy Committee? ately after he was approached Board by Deputy Vice-Chan- to be undertaken by students law and education will remain and Winter school units on Even in purely hypothetical questions about budget ly different to roles either candidate has held thus far, but 9. Who is Stephen Garton? Why did he by the men, and asked him if he cellor (Education) Professor remains unclear. A University in 2018, but these faculties are HECS from 2018. cuts, she namedropped obscure facts about staff contracts cited her past record working with similar institutions as become a notorious management name knew what he had voted for. “I Pip Pattison on Wednesday, spokesperson pointed to stu- considering moving to a “ver- Faculties will finalise the (“Enterprise Bargaining Agreement” ahoy!). Even in dam- evidence that she can capably adapt to the job. in 2016? have no idea, they forced me to students will have to combine dent placements in existing tically integrated” approach in structure and content of the new age control – explaining a team member’s now-aborted As a Welfare Officer, she said she helped organise 10. When was the SRC last renovated? do it,” he said. most existing degrees with a projects with the Gundjeihmi 2019 that would require stu- courses by the end of the year. policy to make untrained students provide mental health events raising the profile of the SRC. However, she readily 11. Which member of staff has been working Honi, in-person and immedi- Bachelor of Advanced Stud- Aboriginal Corporation in the dents to complete an under- support – she highlighted her own historical experience. admitted that some of her planned events didn’t eventu- at the SRC for over 20 years? ately after the incident, request- ies (BAS) in order to access Kakadu region of the Northern graduate BA or combined BA/ For the full list of degrees “I explained to her why, in the past, we’ve had issues with ate because she and her co-Welfare Officer “both got jobs 12. Under which SRC President was the SRC ed comment of Whitchurch and fourth year honours or a new Territory and the Tiwi Islands BAS before completing a Mas- and proposed changes see that,” she told us. and then weren't able to be on campus to do things”. For Legal Service established introduced? Flynn. They declined. non-honours fourth year. Regional Council as examples. ters of Teaching or Juris Doctor. honisoit.com Every difficult question we gave Mantle was dealt with voters worried about commitment levels, Brook was una- 13. How is an SRC constitutional change Honi has heard campaigners without a fumble, even if it wasn’t really answered. She ble to confirm that she would be in the office 9-5 every passed? for another candidate, Fran- promised to have a “more active presence” than current day, but promised she wouldn’t “work to the point where it 14. How is a dispute between two members cis Tamer, is employing similar SYDNEY COLLEGE OF THE ARTS President and factional rival Chloe Smith, committing to impedes my ability to do the job”. of a collective regulated under the SRC’s tactics. Several students have full-time office hours of 9 to 5 if elected. In a pointed refer- Her faction’s past record is also somewhat contentious. grievance policy? claimed Tamer’s campaigners ence to both Smith and rival candidate Isabella Brook, she When asked exactly how instrumental the SRC was in 15. Why are there 33 councillors? have been approaching students promised to not work another job her whole term – “it’s achieving 24-hour libraries (a policy change her Stand Up 16. How can the President be dismissed? in the library, handing them a Provost releases SCA draft change proposal paid a full-time wage and that’s the job. I’ll be here. Even team takes credit for), Brook said “to be honest I’m not 17. How many years has Paulene been laptop with the voting site load- earlier if need be.” entirely sure”. She nonetheless felt Stand Up was justified in Electoral Officer for? ed and watching them vote. Subeta Vimalarajah has the details on SCA's move to the Camperdown campus Where the cracks show are when Mantle is forced to taking credit because “you claim wins off whether things 18. Which of these is not a constitutional “A boy and a girl were going defend views she doesn’t really hold, where political expe- happen” – a somewhat flawed sense of causality which obligation of the SRC Executive? around with a MacBook Air in On August 9, all staff at the Sydney College of ing SCA located at Callan Park for nearly ten diency and the grubbiness of alliance show up. She couldn’t makes it hard to assess whether anything meaningful is a. Approve and monitor the Coun- Fisher, on Level 7,” one student the Arts (SCA) received an email outlining a years, this presents an imperative for moving seem to bring herself to say, “Look, I just had to cut a deal”, ever actually done. cil's policy and other aspects of said. “They asked me to vote for “Draft Change Proposal” written by the Office of the whole campus instead of, you know, having and in the empty spaces, cognitive dissonance flourished. Also concerning was her stance on her role as Director its strategic direction; Francis and I noticed that they the Provost and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for a better shuttle bus. 26% Her policy around the National Union of Students was of Student Publications. She admitted that she would give b. Engage with staff and the broader were pushing his policies for SCA’s future. Post-merger, the University has con- hypocritical. She accused it of “financial mismanagement”, close friends a “heads up” if they were about to be criticised university community; international students. firmed its plans to incorporate SCA into FASS. Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) 2011 – 2015 decline in but refused to cut a cent of its funding, which seems to imply in a forthcoming Honi article, though she conceded that it c. Establish and monitor the Coun- “I asked them for the voting No new offers will be made for the BVA in 2017, BVA UAC preferences our money is going to be actively wasted. She waved away might hamper editors’ ability to freely report without being cil's systems of control and website and they said they had Management’s rationale the “transitional period” for SCA’s merger with concerns that her alliance with Socialist Alternative (who harassed, and openly wondered if it was against the rules. accountability; it all set up on the laptop and I There are two rationales provided for the change: FASS. Over the course of 2017 teaching will be have been routinely sanctioned for aggression and intimida- Brook dealt surprisingly well with questions about d. Co-ordinate and manage attend- just had to sign in. So I signed in 1. The SCA is financially unsustainable at delivered from both campuses. In 2018 the BVA tion) would encourage their problematic tactics. “At the end her close cooperation with Liberals, including chosen ance at Council meetings and voted, and they were about Callan Park. will return “re-imagined” (read: worse). The of the day, they’re their own people,” she said, which is just a Vice-President Ed McCann. Despite the obvious hypoc- 19. In what year were regulations half a metre away. I voted, but The University points to the cost of maintain- “re-imagined” BVA will exclude the jewellery and 12% polite way of saying that the ends justify the means. risy of a Lib-Lab coalition, the answers she gave were as prohibiting Honi Soit/SRC preference I noticed they approached stu- ing the lease at Callan Park, the added costs of object major, as well as the ceramics and glass- On these issues she is a compromiser who risks leav- logically consistent as you can expect spin to be, suggest- deals introduced? dents of Asian ethnicity in par- maintaining the site (especially in lieu of needed making components of the sculpture major as Proportion of international ing some purists from the Grassroots base unfulfilled. On ing that as “the best people to be running the SRC”, it was ticular.” upgrades), a consistent trend of lowering enrol- they’re too resource intensive, despite being some students at SCA NUS she simply committed to “making my voice very natural for Stand Up to draw a broad base of support. Another source reported a ments in the Bachelor of Visual Arts at SCA, mir- of the most unique offerings of the current BVA. clear about the changes that need to be made”, which is a A Liberal voice on SRC Executive wouldn’t open the Tip: Answers more legible when paper inverted

similar interaction. “I voted, but rored by lower demand for visual arts education As for providing studio facilities for students, noticeably centrist, change-from-within approach. floodgates, Brook argued, unlike in the early 2010s when they

they were definitely less than 50 across the state. The number of international the University is still figuring it out. They’re And in the end, her policies are as vague as anyone’s. Man- tried to remove the Acknowledgement of Country. “The SRC 2014 19. meetings council at attendance

centimetres away from me. They students (read: University cash cows) is also too “seeking to find necessary making/teaching tle couldn’t provide numbers in her pitch for a refugee schol- doesn't fall and rise on the back of one person, and I have a manage and Co-ordinate 18. 2010 since 7,

asked other people, people with low. They forgot to mention the $9 million or so space”, but we won’t know how short that is of the 3.2% arship program. Her environmental policy, despite it being strong commitment to not let stuff like that happen”. 17. present students 200 least at with ing

- Asian ethnicity in particular,” that was paid back to the University under the facilities at Callan Park until a later date. one of her three campaign buzzwords, was noticeably lacking. Brook was vague on the specifics of policy, though this meet general a vote majority 2/3rds a by

the source said. accounting aberration that is the University Eco- ‘Outbound movement’ The vast majority of Mantle’s policies aim to lobby oth- was true of both candidates. When asked what “saying no followed students 500 of petition a with

The candidates’ conduct nomic Model, but hey, let’s not get distracted. Future for staff (is dire) of SCA students er institutions, like the University, on how they should use to $100k degrees” would entail, she suggested “working removed be can President A 16. number odd

seems to violate rules that a Sen- 2. Students at SCA and the Camperdown-Dar- As of August 1 2016, there were 31 academic staff their resources and power, rather than changing how the more broadly with the NUS”. She was unable to name spe- nearest the to up rounded undergrads 1000

ate election must be conducted lington campus alike would benefit from members and 19 professional staff employed at SRC uses its own. By her own admission, the agenda is pret- cific areas of the SRC where she would make budget cuts if every for One 15. delegate their or ident

as a secret ballot. At least two increased inter-disciplinary engagement. the SCA. This is set to nearly halve. Ten to fif- ty much external (“This organisation works quite well”). required, saying she would “take a little bit from here and Pres The 14. meeting general a at majority

students have submitted com- SCA has the lowest level of “outbound move- teen academic staff and between seven and ten Compared to the last successful Grassroots presiden- there”. While she acknowledged this was a “non-answer”, 2/3rds a by passed then and submitted

plaints to the Returning Officer, ment” (SCA students also taking courses at professional staff will be lost over the course of $2m tial campaign, Kyol Blakeney in 2014, Mantle’s is less her uncertainty raises questions about whether she can be must changes the with petition nature

- David Pacey. Pacey told Honi, Camperdown-Darlington) and “inbound move- 2017. Luckily they’ve got until October 24 to of an energetic, revitalising message. The SRC is doing bring a strong vision to the organisation. sig 200 a notice, days 21 With 13. (2010)

"I have instructed the Electoral ment” (Camperdown-Darlington students tak- present their “expression of interest” in volun- Cost of annual well, NUS will stay the same. It’s an appeal to experience Brook is inoffensive, a bit bland; by her own admission Howse Elly 12. James 11. 2015 10. Changes

Officer to issue a reminder to ing SCA courses) at the University. Despite hav- tary redundancy. Callan Park maintenance and lobbying rather than reform, which leaves both a lot like current prez Chloe Smith, except “more specific” SCA Provost, 9. Hanraham Jane 8. sions

all candidates of the Guidelines sides sort of saying the same thing. We’re yet to see how about issues. Given her lack of specificity throughout our Admis and Studies Postgraduate Studies,

for these elections and I will be she differentiates. whole interview, good luck. Undergraduate Policy, and Standards demic

speaking directly with the candi- August 5 August 26 November 7 2017 2018 Aca 7. SUSF USU, SRC, SUPRA, CSG, SSS, Timeline 6. Reimbursement 5. Breda Heather, Lorna, dates so identified." Draft Change Revised change proposal The final Change A "Transition The "re-imagined"

Tamer has not replied to of changes Proposal (DCP) emailed to staff, incorporating Plan will be Period" Bachelor of Visual Direct all complaints about art to visionary illustrator Victoria Zerbst Sharon, James, Mel, 4. 500 15, 3. 17 2. 5 1. Honi’s request for comment. emailed to staff feedback on the DCP released for SCA Arts begins 8 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 9 SENATE ELECTIONS SENATE ELECTIONS

George Bishop Dimitry Palmer Alexi Polden Undergraduate Arts/Law IV ARTS/LAW III ARTS/LAW IV

“It is a big problem, when the "I'm not there to shake it up or burn "My position is to represent the University starts putting the balance down the joint. I am there to work views of the people." sheet before what someone gets together with management." Senate Fellow out of their education.”

George’s platform is sensible govern- protest, George argues that this would Dimitry Palmer is a confident slick talk- vision, outlined the benefits and possi- Alexi comes across as an extremely an answer to a principle about how the ance. He recently ended a tenure as enable students to be heard by the uni- er, proud member of the Young Libs ble failures of adopting the Melbourne capable candidate with comprehensive university is governed.” (He also said, president of the Sydney University versity, but would require them to act and self-described “regular student”. Model (and suggested a preference for knowledge of the University’s opera- “I’m a lot of fun at parties, if that’s what candidates: Evangelical Union, where he won a in a respectful and appropriate man- He believes his experience as a stu- an adapted “Sydney Model”) and stood tions and a clear vision for his tenure. you mean.”) battle with the USU over the right to ner. He doesn’t believe that the Uni- dent representative, in the SRC and the in support of the SCA’s presence on Alexi is a fourth year Arts/Law stu- Alexi presents as a candidate who require member declarations of faith. versity should take a political stance on C&S program as SULC treasurer 2015- main campus. dent, hailing from Wollongong. He edit- would strike an oppositional stance to It is clear that George is a highly the upcoming questions, and dodged 16, make him the most competent can- He also made it clear that he will not ed Honi Soit last year, and was responsi- many of the policies supported by cur- intelligent and articulate candidate, questions about his support for mar- didate for Senate fellow. be on Senate to “fight management”. He ble for a large proportion of the year’s rent members, but would likely com- Profiled but does elude some questions about riage equality more generally. If elected, Dimitry hopes to provide positions himself in stark contrast to investigative reporting into University municate that opposition diplomatical- statements of policy, deferring to a George indicates he would broadly a strong link between the Senate and Alexi Polden, the candidate he would management, privatisation of interests ly while respecting his obligations to the The University of Sydney Senate is dates performed very well. Without promise of future consultation. support University action which looks SRC by boosting transparency, commu- least like to see on the Senate, and and institutional conflicts of interest. University and senate. the peak governing body of the Uni- exception, the interviewed candi- He speaks highly of Michael Spence, out for the mental health of transgender nicating with students and even writing believes him and Alexi are very different The most prominent part of his To support this, he can readily identi- versity. The majority of the positions dates are intelligent and can capa- saying “I know the Vice-Chancellor students, but declined to support meas- for Honi Soit. He noted Dalton Fogar- characters. “Alexi is someone who has platform is to increase transparency fy positive aspects of the Vice-Chancel- are ex-officio members of University bly speak to their aptitude to be an well. He is a person I respect … I want ures such as gender-neutral bathrooms ty's failure to attend SRC meetings and taken the university to court...I believe in University governance. He recently lor's administration – noting the Queer administration and elected alumni. undergraduate senate fellow. to thank him for his service because (subject to knowing more information hopes to be a more active and collabo- the best way to move forward is to work took the University to the NSW Civ- Ally Network and the establishment of a Two positions are reserved for stu- Therefore, you should read these I do think it is a very tough gig that about the cost: benefit analysis). rative representative. together with management.” il and Administrative Tribunal (and prominent permanent Indigenous Flag. dents – one each for undergraduates profiles and decide whether each he has.” By way of example, he prais- George declined to nominate a Dimitry often answered our ques- If unsuccessful, Dimitry would pre- partially won) in an attempt to recover However, he is highly critical of many of and postgraduates. specific vision for the University es sensible research facility develop- candidate that he would like to see tions with populist assertions like “I fer to see Catholic Society member governance documents under freedom Spence's decisions, and would not have The following undergraduate can- aligns with their own. Do you want ments in recent years. elected in his place, if he were to be believe in universal access to education” Francis Tamer elected to Senate, fol- of information legislation. The decision voted in favour of the recent decision to didates participated in an interview a stripped back, pragmatic and When asked about any negative unsuccessful. He did say that essen- and “education is a great way to break lowed by Finn Keogh and George Bish- treads new legal territory over the role extend Spence’s contract. with two Honi Soit editors. The inter- vocational university? Do you want aspects of Spence’s tenure, George indi- tial criteria for a candidate should down barriers of disadvantage”. He op. He believes they are all “good blokes of the University as a statutory body – He is fervently against fee-deregula- view canvassed their policy posi- to support the arts, and maximise cated that there is more to be done in be business or legal experience, with would then smoothly disguise his more with similar values.” We suggest Dimi- if you don’t believe us, the citation is tion. He regrets abandonment of degree tions, experience, skills, likely rela- opportunities for learning outside relation to on-campus sexual assault. knowledge of university structures, conservative takes with open-ended try read Keogh’s profile before aligning Polden v University of Sydney [2016] structures which “don’t fit with the tionship with University experience the syllabus? Do you believe that He is against fee deregulation, but and would be “be sensible, stable and rhetoric like “we should have a really the two of them too closely. NSWCATAD 201. managerialist view of the way a degree and committment to the position. the University is going down a path would would work to create mech- pragmatic in their role in Senate”. frank discussion about fee deregulation” Dimitry will soon be launching a We raised concerns that he would be should look like”, and strongly supports Two candidate, Francis Tamer and of corporatisation, which should be anisms to promote accessibility to George's promise to undertake a and “it's not up to the taxpayer to have social media campaign to raise aware- perceived as litigious, and that the cur- a broad (not necessarily vocational) Colin Whitchurch, did not respond halted by student voices? Do we need university (such as scholarships) if the cost-benefit analysis for every deci- to front up for your flight of fancy”. ness for his candidacy. His delayed strat- rent members of senate would prefer university experience. to the interview invitation. Please new voices on senate? Senate were intent to promote it. sion on Senate certainly aligns with a His comments, however, did demon- egy was instituted to distinguish himself to work with more conservative can- Alexi quite clearly has the best turn to page 6 to read a report that The election is currently being As part of strategic development platform of sensible governance. That strate extensive knowledge regarding from the clutter of SRC election pages, didates. He said, “I have a really good knowledge of the mechanics of the they are allegedly in breach of elec- conducted by electronic ballot. Vot- that George is keen to champion is the said, reticence to declare his person- the Senate’s position on the univer- but he will have to work hard to pro- relationship with the legal team work- university out of all the candidates. He toral regulations. ing will close at 4PM on Thursday implementation of a University code of al belief on important social policy sity’s future. He praised Spence’s piv- mote his “liberal hack in regular student ing for the University. It was clear to is candid about his beliefs, a refreshing Overall, the interviewed candi- September 22. conduct. In the arena of activism and issues raises concerns. ot towards Asia as a focus in the 2020 clothes” brand with only two weeks left. both parties that we were trying to find contrast to some other candidates.

Andrew Sekhar Caitlin Gauci Georg Tamm Finn Keogh SCIENCE/ENGO III MECO III COMMERCE IV ARTS II

“I genuinely want to help people "The university should be as lean "It’s great to have strategic goals “I am immovably and resolutely who don’t have a voice and don’t and mean as possible, without but you need to have action on the opposed to any fee deregulation have agency in the decisions that compromising quality." ground" whatsoever.” affect their education.”

Andrew Sekhar is a self-described work- politics was just a "drinking camp" with Caitlin is the breath of fresh air that and LGBTIQ rights, saying “it’s politi- Georg Tamm has been one of the have an 85% student approval rating. Finn Keogh is a charmingly eccentric with the Wingara Mura Leadership Pro- aholic who asked to meet us at 8am on which he wanted nothing to do. senate politics needs. cally correct to talk about it, but noth- most present candidates in the race so He said the statistic should not be candidate. He arrived at our interview gram. He also strongly argued against fee Friday for his interview, and turned up We understand that he is running A woman of Maltese background, ing has been done.” Her views on the far, rebranding his 2015 Union Board trusted, as it came from the Uni. like a muted Victorian cosplayer and dereg, explaining that the broader popu- five minutes early. Apart from his stud- as an independent and has started put- she attended a low SES public school corporatisation of the University align Facebook page to Curious Georg for Georg strongly opposes fee deregu- told us he “reads English” in soft British lation will their access to education throt- ies, he is working on a rocketry start up, ting together a team of arts, science and and worked as a primary carer for a closely with the platform of Alexi Pol- Senate (cleverly retaining the likes), lation and the Melbourne Model degree tone. With an enthusiastic background tled by increased uni fees. which is aimed at sending satellites into engineering students who will help him disabled family member throughout den (top right). She values the arts, and even going Facebook Live for 11 structure in the 2016-2020 USyd strate- with SUDS, and a USYD Litsoc pres- You could probably say Finn is an space, alongside two paid jobs. advertise his campaign and hopefully her childhood. She has worked with in direct contrast to Andrew Sekhar’s minutes when online voting kicked off. gic plan. He believes "students like (him- idency under his belt, Finn has been old fashioned Romantic about ter- Andrew is running for senate win votes. They have been busy with the United Nations development (left) vocational-focussed message. He advocates for students with dis- self) from Western Sydney don't have the hanging around uni for years. tiary education. “The university is because he believes arts students con- assignments but will become more program in Indigenous communi- However, don’t pass Caitlin off as abilities, preventing sexual harassment luxury of doing a generic American-style Finn expressed frustration with past part of the contiguous history.” He is trol the campus and he wants science active in the weeks to come. ties in the Maldives, and represent- an idealist who would abandon gov- and assault on and off campus, and degree first. Postgraduate degrees are undergraduate fellows who were una- deeply critical of USyd’s new “glass students to have a voice. His main pol- Andrew has not met any of the other ed the University at an international ernance for ideals – she links corpo- the rights of international students. He often five times more expensive so the ble to fulfil their responsibilities repre- and steel” glossy brand under which icy is quite broad: "We have to take the candidates and or seen their campaign politics forum at Cambridge. ratisation and preference of capital appeals to his experience as both a “for- restructure is quite elitist." senting students. He heralded Patrick students are mere products and focus away from what we are doing now materials. However, when asked about She is the only woman (from a pool development over staff retention as mer international student” and “student Georg is running as an independent Massarani as the last fellow who did research relates to profit. and just promote science education and his views of candidates running with of nine candidates) contesting the likely having an impact on interna- with a disability” and told Honi he wants without political backing. If unsuccess- an exemplary job and mentioned that With intellectual leanings towards the scientific method." strong backing from religious groups, position. The last time a woman was tional teaching rankings. She would to fight for fair access to University. ful, the candidate he would most like Dalton Fogarty’s reporting to SRC was more esoteric and artsy subjects, Finn On matters of fee deregulation, he asserted religions don't need protec- elected to be the undergraduate fellow like to see the SCA partner with exter- Georg boasts strong ties to Senate to see win the election is Alexi Polden, either non-existent or pathetic. described the treatment of the Sydney Andrew is in two minds. He believes tion and they should be questioned and was in 2008. nal private bodies (such as galleries) fellow Professor Marian Pam Baird AO, although he questions how well Alexi If elected, Finn told Honi he would College of the Arts as “a joke of mana- the University should decrease fees put to rest." In his words, "It's time that She speaks on the need to give a to strengthen its financial viability. and a "pretty great working relationship would fair with the more conservative write to the editors every week. He would gerial incompetence” and opposes any for vocational degrees like accounting, religions die." voice to people who sit outside tradi- She hasn’t started a formal cam- with Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence". voices in the Senate. On the other hand, also report to SRC and Union Board. changes to school whatsoever. engineering, and finance, and increase As mentioned above, Andrew’s com- tional student politics dogma, saying paign page, speaking to risk of tar- He even mentioned that time Spence he would least like to see candidates He is a meticulously well-informed Finn’s campaigning, however, has fees for arts degrees because they offer mitments to work and study are intense. “The senate really needs fresh eyes, geting groups in the self-interest of praised him in an email in 2014. Francis Tamer or George Bishop elected, candidate, and a huge fan of organisa- been minimal, and he doesn’t seem to no hard skills and “simply preach ideol- He indicated that he would cease his and more independence”. the candidate. She prefers in person Georg was complimentary of the as he believes their religious evolvement tional transparency, asserting that “dis- be starting soon. “I don’t think I have ogy”. He also believes majors like gender work with one of the companies if elect- Caitlin gives the impression that conversations, working with a small Senate’s decision to increase funding on campus "has been quite detrimental cussions about policies more broadly the support for that kind of thing.” He studies are interesting fields of inquiry ed to Senate. If nothing else, his dili- she would persuasively and diplomat- group of people outside the current to the Counselling and Psychological to a lot of queer students." should be in the public sphere. What is did tell us that his friend, Alisha Ait- but shouldn’t be part of a university gence seems undeniable. ically communicate this platform to student politics gauntlet. Services (CAPS), however he remains This is Georg’s third election after there to hide?” ken-Radburn, tried to convince him to education. Andrew is far from the traditional the rest of the Senate. She has previ- Caitlin is charismatic, eloquent unimpressed with the current state of two failed attempts at USU Board. He Finn answered our questions with create a Facebook page. He said that he does agree with leftist electioneer. His ideal pragmatic, voca- ously raised issues of representation and passionate. She speaks with academic plans for students with dis- is clearly passionate about standing up a thoughtful pace and much specifici- Finn said it was very reassuring to see ideology and aligns himself with a lib- tional university sits in stark contrast to to Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence, authenticity and conviction about abilities. He believes the centralisation for less advantaged students, but success ty. He could provide precise examples someone like Alexi Polden also running; eral/centrist political view (NB: not the other candidates (in particular, Caitlin while working as a consultant for a clear vision about the role of the of the disability services has led to less in this race will require more than two of Spence’s failures - like instigating the someone who is also committed to halt- Liberal party). Andrew even had a three Gauci and Alexi Polden). His views on an Indigenous body in the Kakadu undergraduate senate – embodying individualised support for students. positive working relationships with “sickening, arbitrary publication metric” ing the corporatisation, or mitigating the month stint with Student Unity (Labor religion would also set him apart from National Park. a type of candidate that has not been We asked Georg about University current Senate members and 11 min- to sack nearly 360 staff members in 2012 damages which, as Finn believes, should Right) in 2014, before deciding student Francis Tamer and George Bishop. She wants to campaign for gender elected in recent memory. statistics that suggest academic plans ute Facebook videos. - as well as his successful involvement be stopped at every step. 10 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 11 PROFILE PROFILE

begged him for a crash apprenticeship before his workaholic, addicted to dough and salt, water *** solo foray. Tony was hesitant, but obliged - only and yeast, he found himself bored and decided After Surry Hills and Kent St, the Taste after Hieu showed up on his doorstep every day he still hadn’t realised his Westpac dream of a behemoth snowballed, and keeps growing. An acquired Taste for three weeks. Tony’s boss soon put a stop to green-space bakery catering to office workers. There are now 14 Taste outlets, in Sydney, Mel- Hieu’s 4am tutorials (which took place in the He’d just purchased a commercial space in Surry bourne, and Adelaide. Hieu cites a number of morning hours before his final few Westpac Hills, with the intention of renting it out, but his principles as guiding his success. Alexandros Tsathas spoke to the businessman, baker and former refugee behind Taste Baguette shifts), reluctant to forgo trade secrets. But Tony newfound boredom changed his mind – “After and Hieu remain good friends. about a year I said, ‘Madeline, I want to come icture James Gandolfini’s Tony Sopra- to a refugee camp in Galang, Indonesia. Pastry grasped, if not mastered, Hieu set up back and fulfil my dream’, so that’s how the Taste no. Now cast aside his standover tac- With the political situation in Vietnam shop with his wife. He was 25 at the time, she Baguette began.” tics, underworld connections and his becoming increasingly unstable, Hieu’s par- was 22. His brows lift and a huge smile over - 11 years ago. P penchant for the lewd. But keep his ents made the decision to flee the country. comes his face as he details the hours, and love, relentless migrant work ethic; his prioriti- They left everything behind, making for Aus- he put into his first commercial bakery: it was sation of family, and food; and his knack for tralia on a rickety 26-metre long fishing boat doomed to succeed. not letting other people’s problems become with 225 other people on board. “We were the first shop open on a Sunday. his own. Knock a few Galang, a Lilliputian island marking The only days we had off were Good Friday and feet off his stature, the southern inlet of New Year’s Day. I think weekdays, we did about add a few to his the Malacca Strait, 16 hours, weekends I did about 20, but because I First- short fuse. Finally, was the site of loved the product so much, and I baked bread in ly, he steers replace his per- Hieu’s first bak- such a way that the customer always got it fresh, clear of the fine petual scowl with ery. He was only we built up the business. We established a good dining trap that has afflicted beady eyes that light 14 at the time, his reputation, so people came from nearby suburbs many a restauranteur – “I love food but I only up when you catch on, expertise wholly to our shop, so we had long queues. We were the go out to fine dining once every 3 or 4 months. and you get a very close approximation consisting of what youngest shop owners at the time.” But with the casual meal, I can go every week. of Hieu Luong, once a Vietnamese refugee, he had observed at the old bakery across Like a yeasty loaf leavened by burgeoning *** It’s more affordable, but still tastes great, and now the king of the Taste Baguette empire. the road. It was a resounding success and repute, demand grew. Hieu expanded, establish- Going was tough at first, (Hieu says he was that’s the whole point.” Hieu is pacing outside Taste USyd, and on paints a brilliant vignette of the resolve and ing stores in nearby suburbs like Frenchs For- “nearly semi-broke”, your correspondent gets the This isn’t to say he doesn’t value the skills his mobile, when I suppose that’s the man I’ve business nous that would later go on to earn feeling this is an exaggeration), but Hieu applied of fine dining-trained staff – his employment come to meet. Tony Soprano’s likeness isn’t him great success. Hieu Luong, he’s able to rattle off the names of all those he his work ethic. The day after Taste Baguette was strategy is to target chefs and staff who have lost on his telephone manner – neck craned, “In the refugee camp, we had nothing to second from worked for, who imparted skills and wisdom to named in a ‘Sydney’s best cheap eats’ listicle honed their craft in upmarket restaurants, but handset deep in his ear, eyes staring into the do. I’d go to the jungle to get the wood and right, with him. He’s still friends with most of them. Hieu didn’t last long in the in the Good Living leaflet of the SMH, queues are fed up with their pomp and long, anti-so- distance. When we sit down, he prefaces our the water for the whole family. And then I got the staff streamed out the door. cial hours. conversation with notice of likely interruption bored, and I said ‘OK, I want to make bread’. of Taste *** office environment, where Hieu’s next project became expanding the His preference is for a relaxed and support- – he’s been dealing with ‘suppliers’ all morn- So there was a construction site for new hous- Baguette After school, Hieu studied computer science Taste empire. He took the concept next to Kent ive working environment – “The key staff must ing. As it turns out, he doesn’t once stop our ing in the refugee camp. And then, what I did, USyd at UTS, still working in a bakery on weekends. “people sort of pretend to St. Feeling this outlet’s CBD location necessitated love and respect their juniors, so they work as conversation to attend to his phone; he’s as I took some of the tin roofing, bent it into It was at university that he met his wife, and a point of difference, he introduced to its décor a a team.Worst of all is if the staff are bullied. eager to tell his story as your correspondent box, I got the clay, built it up, and it became a the other half of Taste Baguette, Madeline. He like each other”. French Indochina flavour, which all subsequent They come to work, and they don’t perform, is to hear it. woodfire oven. I’d never seen a woodfire oven speaks about her with the utmost veneration – Taste outlets carry, albeit discreetly. because they’re working for money, but they – I just imagined that’s how they’d work. So I “I think I was very lucky, she’s not just beautiful, Kent Street is fitted out with personal items don’t really want to work.” *** created this woodfire oven, then had to walk but she’s super-smart.” est under the ‘Vina Bakehouse’ brand. It’s at this As Taste has grown, its logistical model has There’s an irony to Taste Baguette’s location about five or six kilometres to buy flour. Every Hieu walked straight out of UTS into West- point in Hieu’s story that it becomes apparent had to adapt. The current setup in Sydney has inside the Law Building. Hieu’s dad was a time, I could only pur- pac’s IT department. On his first day as a grad- he’s as much a shrewd businessman as he is a two master kitchens at Surry Hills, one for well-respected judge in French Vietnam, and chase about 25kg of uate, he had a lightbulb moment. “I remember master baker. He leans in when talking business, bread, the other for cakes. Every morning, the “very much into education”. His mum was “a flour.” my first lunch. I bought a sandwich roll, I bit and you get the impression his pragmatism and growing dough is transported to each outlet, superwoman, a business “When I into it, and said ‘mmm, this is like stale bread’. eye for a deal surpass anything a business school where it’s placed in a machine that allows a lady”, and his family, first started, I And I’m thinking ‘ok, most people in the city, academic could offer up. controlled rise (which can be slowed down or very wealthy. couldn’t sell for them to have a sandwich for lunch, the bread “When you grow, you can’t grow too fast”, he sped up). Once ready, it’s baked in in-store “I remember, any, but after has to be baked the night before, which they tells me. “So that’s a lesson. Whatever you do, ovens, ensuring fresh bread all day long. I used to hate about a few get very good at it, and then, slowly, take your Recently, Hieu also established Taste Grow- it, because days, people steps to grow." ers’ Market in Zetland, a greengrocer that not every day, had to order As if referring to a management textbook of only supplies the public, but vertically inte- the whole the night The roots of Taste his mind’s own making, he also espouses the vir- grates his business and supplies every Taste family, we before!”, he tues of upskilling. outlet. Hieu headhunted managers from gour- used to sit says, slapping Baguette can be Once Vina got to the stage where he could met grocers like Harris Farm and Norton St. around for the table. leave it alone (or at least in the hands of his capa- Grocer to run his latest enterprise – “every one at least about traced back to a ble wife), he took a series of educational trips to of them, they’re the best in their field.” three or four *** America. He cold-called famous American bak- hours, just At 15, Hieu’s fami- refugee camp in ers Nancy Silverton (who’s been a Masterchef *** counting money. ly was granted asylum judge) and Daniel Leader (who supplies all So what’s next for Hieu and Taste? Gelato – “So We’d sit in a room, in Australia. The typical Galang, Indonesia. the top Manhattan restaurants) among others, I’m already geared up, that will be our next it was like a mountain. migrant story played out – securing stints in their bakeries. He absorbed Hieu has collected on his travels – several tab- phase. I just want to do something different, Mum would bring home so his parents working 18 hour their methods, tips and tricks. He sings the letops are sourced from countryside Vietnam, y e a .” much money, but at that time, as a days, sewing garments for 80c make probably before midnight, to beat the traf- praises of those who gave their time to teach him and are over 100 years old. The tiles in Kent St, When I ask Hieu what keeps him going, and kid, you just want to play. Money – it a piece. Hieu went to school on fic. Everything’s delivered before 5 o’clock in the for nil financial reimbursement. which also feature on the splashback of the eat- wanting to grow, he tells me “it’s something I’m didn’t mean anything”, he recalls. weekdays, and worked multiple jobs on morning. So by that time the bread, it’s like 12 in kitchen at USyd, are also from Vietnam, and enjoying.” Hieu spent the first 13 years of his life in weekends. He didn’t spend a cent of what he’d hours old, at least.’ I’m thinking in France, peo- *** over 70 years old. Hieu saw them, liked them, “I can stop now, but everyday I go to bed, the Vietnam, those years coinciding with the fall earnt – it was all fed back to his parents, but ple have a hot baguette for lunch, that sort of Returning to Australia, Hieu got straight to the and paid to have them ripped up and shipped earliest about midnight or 1 o’clock. You know, of French colonialism and the rise of com- he maintains this arrangement was motivated thing, so why can’t we have it in Australia?” business of implementing what he’d picked up Art: Steph to Australia. normally by 4, my mind, I’m already thinking munism. He explains that at the time, a caste more by moral obligation than Hieu didn’t last long in the office environ- overseas. It was the early 2000s, Barahona Those tiles behind the counter are, in Hieu’s about what to do next. But I don’t feel my day’s system was deeply entrenched in Vietnamese parental pressure. ment, where “people sort of pretend to like and, with each new mind, a reminder of his heritage. “It’s more than work is work. You know, even going to see my society, and as a child, he was forbidden from each other”. His straight-talking approach went Vina outlet a a tile”, he tells me. staff, is to me, quite fun. If you enjoy life so entering the working-class bakery across the down, well, like a lead balloon. After a spat with golden goose, much, you enjoy what you do, is not work. It’s road from his family’s mansion in Saigon. his boss, he declared his IT career finished, and Hieu took just part of your daily routine.” But political tensions were simmering, and that’s when he knew “I had to go and do my bak- to property Hieu’s got two boys, one 20, the other 18. Hieu was growing older - his pubescent rebel- ery, which is what I love". investment, What does he expect of them? lious streak was to affiliate with the bakery always buy- “I know some Asian parents say ‘oh, you across the road. *** ing “the have to be a doctor, you have to be this’”, “I was always really interested in how people His jobs – paint- Hieu scouted a suitable location in a shopping worst prop- he laughs. “I don’t. I just want them making bread, so I went over there to watch it. er’s assistant, builder’s labourer, centre in Belrose, in Sydney’s northern suburbs. erty on the to have freedom, you know, they do I wasn’t really learning, I was watching. And baker – would go on to equip him perfectly He was confident of his ability to shape sour- best street”. He whatever they want. I’d have a chat with them, watching, not real- with the skills to make his later fortune in food dough, had mastered the perfectly chewy cia- hired others to “In whatever you do, if you love ising I was learning by watching. When you’re and property development. “I didn’t realise it batta, and could bake batards blindfolded. But conduct the day-to- something, you put your heart and 13 years old, you don’t think much.” at the time, but I got access to making Italian he quickly found himself asking a very biblical day running of his bak- soul into it and you believe in your- bread, different types of bread and all sorts of question – could bread alone sustain him? eries, his wife overseeing opera- self, you’ll be successful. Don’t think *** skills.” In a sort of started-from-the-bottom, He knew of a pastry chef, Tony, who did tions, and was semi-retired at 40. about money first, just think about The roots of Taste Baguette can be traced back universe-righting, karma-affirming display, a mean croissant down Chatswood way, and But this didn’t sit well with him. As if a crazed what you love to do.” 12 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 13 OPINION FEATURE Quo vadis? Peter Burrell-Sander wishes all signs pointed to Rome Any public institution needs to be easily navigable ly reach their destination as I did, with relatively regularly unstaffed from 5.30pm onwards. by members of the public, and perhaps no insti- few wandering the halls eternally, it shouldn’t be a It’s not all doom and gloom, however. Upon tution more so than a hospital. The Royal Prince struggle to reach your loved ones. contacting the hospital, I was informed that the Alfred hospital needs to improve their navigability. Every part of the hospital where the public RPA is installing electronic way-finding machines THE Let’s get this out of the way, every day the RPA may find themselves – for example, the large sec- throughout certain high-traffic areas to increase SLOW care for and treat those in need, to say nothing tions in between various parking areas and the navigability. Hopefully these will go some way of their research contributions. But would it kill hospital proper, should make it clear to visitors to mitigating the hospital’s current path-finding them to invest in some more extensive signage? which way they should be going and what they difficulties, and it’s wonderful to see that the RPA There seems to be a deficiency in signage and will find in that direction. Something perhaps is clearly aware that they need to improve their general navigability throughout the hospital akin to the convenience of restroom signage in navigability and is taking steps to do so. grounds and surrounds. I’m less concerned with shopping centres, where at any point I can cast interior spaces and more with ease of travel and my eye around capitalist heaven and locate a DEATH orientation through the streets and outside areas sign telling me where it’s socially acceptable to of the institution. drop my pants. As a visitor to the As a visitor to the hospital, I found myself con- Furthermore, while the hospital made it known fused and bewildered, unsure of which building to me that their primary information desk is offi- hospital, I found OF to enter to locate the main wards, unsure of which cially staffed until 9pm on weekdays, I did not MANNING buildings were actually part of the hospital and find this to be the case and I was informed unof- myself confused unsure of where I could go to find more infor- ficially by a different member of staff that despite mation. While I imagine most visitors eventual- visiting hours continuing until 8pm, the desks are and bewildered A disheartening story BAR The name of the Honi candidate who wrote this piece appears in a find-a-word on page 28 Once a legendary hub of student activity e are the generation of Australian culture needed particularly in the public sector, One friend suggested that, for him at least, he on campus, Manning Bar has lost the students who grew up watching it seems odd few people are drawn to the subject. just didn’t know anyone doing it. Though tempt- The Apology in sweaty school Further, this reason would not explain why ing to dismiss this as trivial, it’s apparent that sheen and cult status it once enjoyed, W halls. Most of us, one would hope, similarly less ‘employable’ subjects thrive. Estab- course choices are social choices, even perfor- were taught about Australia’s history of colonial lished faculties like Philosophy and English are mances, for many students. Shaped, even if only writes Tom Joyner. Art by Honi Candidate genocide and oppression. Undoubtedly, racism – some of the most popular within the Arts facul- subconsciously by the fact that their peers also structural and casual – still profoundly affects the ty. Part of that can be explained by their historic trust the subject. opportunities of Indigenous people today. prestige as faculties and established reputations as What seems to be the only substantial reason I did not think, however, that given the way well taught courses. Indigenous Studies – estab- left is that we just do not care. Universities are, many non-Indigenous people jump at opportu- lished in only 1990 – is structurally disadvan- in many ways, a microcosm of what we value nities to condemn the past, that we would be so taged in that regard. Repeated attempts at amal- and what we want to give our time to. Non-In- uninterested in the stories of Indigenous people. gamation of the department are of no help in this digenous Australians seem to have no problem Perhaps that was naïve. regard. in erasing Indigenous issues from every level of Because when I sit in the sweaty classroom Again, this doesn’t explain the fact that even our lives. One would hope that higher education of my first Indigenous Studies tutorial I have to in comparison to similarly niche and new depart- would be the exception to this. Instead, it seems face the fact that whilst everyone in the classroom ments undertaken by socially minded students – to be just another manifestation of it. seems to quite genuinely care about the subject, like Gender Studies or Political Economy – Indig- Our apathy is not a breaking story, but it is a only 4 of the 20 or more students are Australian. It enous Studies does so poorly. disheartening one. seems that exchange students are far more interested in Indigenous history than we are. Art by Michael Lotsaris The University does not release numbers of exchange students enrolled in subjects, but their t was late one night in 2008 and Yasmin over-representation in Indigenous Studies units, Parry had just knocked off after working at or rather domestic under-representation, seems the Snowball at Manning Bar, a party event to be a fairly consistent trend. One friend said I involving three floors heaving with alco- that, last year, about 20 per cent of the students hol-fuelled students gyrating to club hits. It was enrolled in another junior Indigenous Studies just like any other shift, except Parry was about unit were exchange students. This is a grossly to meet her fiancé for the first time. “He had this disproportionate representation when compared big curly halo of hair and was wearing skinny with other Arts subjects. jeans – which was very cool back then – and he I’d heard that some exchange students took had Converse sneakers with fluoro pink laces. I the subject because it was presumed to be an remember his outfit very clearly,” she recalls. “I easy pass. In my own experience, that view seems just sat with him and talked to him for a while needlessly cynical. If their presumption is true, and he just seemed really cool. We were about to it’s an unfortunate one. Indigenous Studies cours- leave, he was going to some other party and we es are complex and deeply challenging. The more were going home after work.” important question though, is why, of the relative- After a sheepish exchange by proxy of a mutu- ly small number who choose to take the course in al friend, the pair met up again the next night. the first place, so few are domestic students. A little more than eight years later, he proposed The primary reason would likely be that many while on a trip to the US in a little town just out- students believe it does not carry the prestige of side San Francisco. “I think we’ll always remem- traditionally ‘employable’ Arts majors (read: Eco- ber Manning as where we met. We’re talking nomics and Government). As university gradu- about planning our wedding now. I didn’t grow ates face an increasingly dire graduate job market, up in the city, so to me Sydney Uni and Manning this seems reasonable. Bar and the people that I met there are really However, a bad subjective valuation of majors special to me,” says Parry. “Raph’s a really big is embedded in that decision. Given the expand- part of that. So Manning Bar is a really special ing number of experts in Indigenous issues and part of that memory.” 14 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 15 FEATURE FEATURE

ut the Manning of today is almost before 12pm so I could rush to Manning at 12 and dent organisations around the country. unrecognisable from the one where participate in whatever thing was on there.” “I remember when it was introduced and we Yasmin Parry met her fiancé. Far from As the meeting point of students from different “Michael Hing would just play were so devastated,” says Tyler. “We got the news B the hub it once was, these days Manning faculties, interest groups and student societies, back, it was a Friday afternoon and the motion hardly approaches capacity for even its most pop- Manning was host to regular and well-attended shit he found on YouTube to had just passed. It was literally the last thing that ular events. Lunchtimes aren’t nearly as packed as events, even during the middle of the day, when passed in the year. It was like the moment when they used to be, and party organisers scramble to students were between lectures or had given up people and you’d have 80 Kennedy was shot. We were so deflated.” Accord- attract students. The crown jewel of the University on class entirely. Stand-up comedy, live music and ing to Tyler, VSU had an immediate impact on of Sydney Union’s campus offerings, Courtyard, is trivia were regular fixtures of a weekly routine. people there. No one’s coming the life of the bar. The USU responded to the leg- a pale reminder of Manning’s glory in the 90s and Few knew the routine better than ABC broad- islation with the introduction of ACCESS cards 2000s, when students would filter in from classes caster Adam Spencer, who rattles off half a doz- to Manning to see that show” years later, a voluntary membership that today before lunch and stay until long after dark. Back en names who first began doing stand-up to a costs $75 annually, allowing members to join then, the place resembled something between a clubs and societies on campus, earn discounts dormitory common room and a nightclub. and more. But the initial uptake among students Essays were hurriedly finished in between wasn’t strong. “If you’re going to have to buy a dis- swallows of cheap draught and greasy fare from count card, it’s going to become like WSU or ACU the famous Manning Grill. Student politicians where you just go to class and then you go home. would meet to plot factional deals. People would No one’s going to engage with student life to the swing by unplanned between classes with no rea- same extent,” says Tyler. son other than to soak in the scene. And it wasn’t Year-on-year finances for Manning Bar aren’t just students. While in Sydney in 2011 for filming available publicly, but former and present directors of Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, Leonardo of the University of Sydney Union Board speak Dicaprio calmly took up a seat on the Manning of years of head-scratching and underwhelming balcony dressed in a hoodie, baseball cap and they all strategised there from day one.” One such ing reputation,” says Firth. “Steve Lawless under- attempts to reinvigorate the bar as it haemor- dark sunglasses, poring over his lines. As the acolyte was NSW MP John Graham, who took stood that a student space should be where good rhaged money. The development of Courtyard at story goes, nearby students gawked, but no one over Linda Burney’s seat on her election to federal bands should be able to experiment and develop.” the Holme building, which opened in 2015, proved approached. Parliament in July. “I remember my sister [former Lawless, who managed bookings for the venue popular. The combination of an open seating plan, Something was just always happening at Man- Labor NSW education minister Verity Firth] say- for a time, developed a legendary reputation as ning Bar. “Our English 101 lectures invariably ing that’s where John Graham convinced her to a kingmaker on the Sydney band scene. Spencer featured a mass exodus at 11.25am, as half the join the ALP – on the balcony at Manning Bar.” remembers the band comp as an annual institu- class walked out to queue for first drinks at 11.30,” Then there was the live music. The annual band tion that grew nearly too big for its digs. “They “There’s a whole generation wrote radio broadcaster Dom Knight in a Sydney competition, hosted each year on Manning’s own had to cap the number at 120 bands because there Morning Herald op-ed in 2003. “And while the stage, was the launchpad for Australian names just wasn't enough time to get through the all.” In of student politicians – all bar was a firetrap that stank of stale beer, and like Regurgitator, Frenzel Rhomb, The Jezabels, the years that followed, the live music program at every step on the faded carpet squelched, the and Cloud Control to name a few. Hosting the Manning developed into a behemoth under the the sort of Albo acolytes. place undeniably had atmosphere.” Knight and largest campus band competition in the world, tenure of people like Will Balfour, who is now an comedian Charles Firth were part of a genera- Manning saw hundreds of young bands test their events coordinator at UNSW. “Will Balfour took All the key NSW politicians, tion of Sydney University students to experience mettle in front of an adoring crowd. “They put it to the next level. He made it a really profession- Manning at the peak of its zeitgeist. “I’m very sur- on huge bands there because it had this tower- al outfit,” says Tyler. they all strategised there prised,” says Firth when I tell him of today’s poor- packed Manning Bar in the mid-90s, all of whom Photo: ly go down to the courtyard before shows and Endless acts, big international names among ly attended parties and half-empty lunchtime ses- have since made a career in comedy – Tom Glee- Theatresports try to drum up interest.” Theatresports, which them, played at Manning on one glorious roster. from day one” sions. “It was the absolute centre of gravity of the son, Julia Zemiro, Andrew O’Keefe, Rob Carlton, at Sydney still runs on Thursday lunchtimes, enjoyed the “There’d be punk rock shows, there’d be Missy entire university when I was around.” Rebecca De Unamuno, Sarah Kendall, Charles University advantage of decades as a Manning institution. Higgins. There was Rubber Ball, which was like Firth’s characterisation isn’t uncommon. Man- Firth (Firth laughs at mention of Spencer: “He It wasn’t uncommon for a static crowd to form. this BDSM thing every year. It was fucking freaky, modern design and reasonable food and drink ning was in many ways the largest community spent the last 20 years of his university degree at “You need people already in the venue so you people dressing up in gimp outfits in their leath- options meant it could easily double as a sophis- within the University. “There were kids just lining Manning Bar picking up underage chicks”). The can have someone to perform to and a base from er-tight shorts and face masks, but they were the ticated event space. In other words, it was galaxies up every day asking ‘Can I have a job here?’ They list goes on. “There was just these really talent- which you can build a crowd. We built crowds loveliest people. So many nights a week were just away from the grungy appeal of Manning. didn’t need a job for money, they just needed a job ed students coming through almost at the same from the ground up but it’s much harder,” says spent on gigs, really good gigs.” How much of an impact it has had on Man- for some sort of social inclusion,” recalls Nathan time,” he says. “On the top level of Manning we’d James Colley, a comic who started performing at It wasn’t until 2005 that cracks began to appear ning’s viability as a campus hub is unclear. Accord- Tyler, who was manager of the USU’s bars from get literally 600 to 700 people a week. The bar Manning around a similar time to Connell. in the Manning legacy with the introduction of ing to current USU President, Michael Rees, Man- 2004 to 2006. “[Comedian] Ben Jenkins pretty was packed but famously wouldn’t make a cent Crowds would pile in for a performance over voluntary student unionism – a watershed in ning isn’t necessarily underperforming. “Not all much sat at Manning every day for a semester not because students couldn't walk up to buy drinks lunch, only to hang around into the afternoon to Australian history that marked the beginning of of the performance of a building can be assessed going to class and asked for a job every day. Final- because there were too many people in the room.” see whatever acts would turn up on stage. Colley the end for the bar. The rivers of gold that flowed in purely financial terms. Manning also offers a ly he turned 18 and I gave it to him. He loved it.” Students skipped midday lectures just to secure recalls one of his favourite examples of the effect: under its predecessor, compulsory student union- lot to the student experience. It has long been the Tyler, like Parry, fell for a “Manning romance” in a seat for Thursday lunchtime theatresports – a “[Comedian] Michael Hing would just play shit ism, had run dry by the time the Howard govern- home of our Clubs & Societies office and programs the mid-2000s. sort of improvised, interactive, team-based come- he found on YouTube to people and you’d have 80 ment finally passed the legislation on December department but now also includes our autono- “I actually met my wife there and we now have dic routine that consistently had the audience in people there. No one’s coming to Manning to see 19 of that year, dealing a significant blow to stu- mous Women's and Ethnocultural spaces too, two kids.” Now a school teacher, Tyler recalls with stitches. “I have people coming up to me today that show. No one’s making a spot in their calen- which is a big development.” Rees says while no passion his years spent at Manning, both behind saying they remember theatresports in the 90s dar.” One of Firth’s favourite memories involves plans are set in stone, there is discussion about the and in front of the bar. Like any community, there and never laughed so hard in their life.” a time he convinced Chaser colleague Andrew future of the bar. “Although any significant change were highs and lows. During his time working Theatresports and comedy became so central Hanson (“incredibly funny but a little bit shy”) to would be years away, the Board is always eager there, a student suffered a fatal heart attack on the to university for Spencer’s generation that the play a rendition of Billy Joel’s Piano Man on stage. to discuss how we might improve what we, as an balcony one night. Less than 12 months before afternoons spent whiled away on the top floor of “It opened to crickets to a packed audience and organisation, offer our members and the university that at a curry party, a popular event hosted by the Manning House now seem an anachronism by then just went downhill from here. And then he community.” But rumours have trickled down of a Indian Society, a young man plunged to his death today’s experience. “University has been a big part did just some scatological routine about poo and refurbishment, while some talk about the need to from the third floor balcony railing. “You watch was booed off. I just remember laughing through raze the entire building. Either way, the consensus the footage and you can see he has a fight with his the whole thing.” among students I spoke to was that something had girlfriend and you can see he walks to the fence “There were kids just lining up But Manning’s draw in the 90s was more than to be done to save Manning Bar. and jumps over. There’s 800 people there. He just simply the allure of cheap beer, it was also a place How does an institution like Manning Bar die? went headfirst into the courtyard,” says Tyler. “That every day asking ‘Can I have a for students to meet and hatch plans. Most were For a start, it takes time. It doesn’t disappear over- messed me up for a while.” harebrained, but some survived the half-serious night. But Manning, which had become so impor- For many of that era, Manning was the place to job here?’” ideas swapped over schooners on the Manning tant to the experience of generations of Sydney be on campus. “It was just where everyone hung balcony. Firth says The Chaser – the comedy Uni students, seemed to do just that. One by one, out. From my perspective it was the whole point troupe he and some Sydney Uni comrades would events were cancelled, students stopped attending of university,” says Firth. “My degree was a bache- of who I am today. When I did breakfast radio on go on to form – was born in this way. “You’d do parties, and bands were booked elsewhere. “There lor of Manning Bar.” Firth was the unlikely subject Triple J, they were the skills I honed in Manning your creative thing over lunchtime and then you’d are literally a handful of universities in the world of filmmaker Simon Target’s four-part documen- Bar theatresports more than any items of material sit on your balcony and chat about your grand that offer the student activities on par with Sydney tary series Uni, which chronicled nine months in I learned in a lecture,” he says. plans. That was the heart of the university. The Uni,” says Adam Spencer. James Colley concurs: “If the lives of students at Sydney University in the “I absolutely loved performing at Manning liver of the university,” he adds. you want to create a culture that has shared cam- mid-90s, including forays into student politics, and watching shows and gigs there,” says anoth- It was also at Manning that Sydney University pus experiences, you need a place where people overdue essays and struggles with relationships er late-2000s theatresports stalwart, Bridie Con- best lived up to its reputation as home of the most are. Campus life is what Sydney Uni builds itself and depression. The 20-year-old Firth is depict- nell. Connell describes the need to work for a hardened student politicians in the country. “All on and it’s always what it had over other univer- ed as a popular if not overconfident undergrad- crowd, that you couldn’t always take one for those people met on the balcony on Manning Bar. sities. It was a tiny festival there everyday.” Many uate whose long hours spent in Manning would granted on a Thursday. “Some days we would There’s a whole generation of student politicians – students will never know what it was like to be part today seem entirely foreign. “I used to structure pack out the bar, other days we would have all the sort of Albo [Labor frontbencher Anthony of Manning Bar in its heyday. But for those who my entire schedule around only having stuff on to put out signs advertising the show, active- Albanese] acolytes. All the key NSW politicians, do, they’re not likely to forget it. 16 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 17 PERSPECTIVE PERSPECTIVE Rest in peace Harambe I wanna dance with Dan Reede thinks Harambe meme culture needs to be put to rest somebody Two months ago Harambe the gorilla was shot numbers are dwindling and that their habitats are has exemplified this fate: issues that are serious by zookeepers to protect a child who had fallen being destroyed seems to have gotten lost or at become hard to take seriously. into his enclosure. The reactionary narratives least, deemed irrelevant. That zoos are literally The prevailing attitude is that the irony, sar- Courtney Thompson wants to feel the heat with somebody played out predictably. Animal rights activists prisons for animals, which, in some parts of the casm and randomness of meme culture makes it condemned the Cincinatti Zoo’s actions as mur- world, actively partake in animal cruelty has gone exempt from most moral standards. As is becom- der while others praised the staff’s quick and unspoken. That we might be one of the last gen- ing increasingly apparent, however, the trivial- logical thinking. Sympathetic parents defended erations to share the world with gorillas has been isation of important issues via memes can have he great Whitney Houston put it best the mother’s actions; others called for her to be forgotten. The irony surrounding Harambe the dire consequences. The more memes penetrate when she said, “the sun begins to fade you're at a party and prosecuted. Once the moral debates subsided, the meme has made it increasingly difficult for people pop-culture, the more they start to influence peo- / still enough time to figure out / how Courtney is dancing death of this western low land gorilla was quickly to engage authentically with the issues that made ple’s worldview. There’s nothing that differentiates to chase these blues away… I want to T but no one else is and forgotten as another run-of-the-mill tragedy. him noteworthy in the first place. memes from jokes generally, yet for some reason dance”. But, does anyone else want to? Attend any she really wants you to Since then Harambe has re-emerged as a par- What’s happened to Harambe is hardly nov- they are not held to the same standard. What’s house party in the Inner West and you will hear, dance!!!!!! ticularly ubiquitous meme. He has featured along el. It is all too common for serious issues to be worse is that memes legitimise problematic ideas for the most part, a resounding “NO”. side Muhammad Ali and Donald Trump, been hijacked by meme culture, losing their gravi- from a grassroots level. Harambe memes give rise People don’t really like to dance. At least, not in co-opted by internet slogans such as “dicks out for tas entirely. Any mention of 9/11 is sure to be to Harambe joke thinkpieces, Harambe referenc- public. No doubt there are many who dance alone Harambe”, been used to express solidarity with accompanied by satirical reference to the “Jet es by comedians, and a general culture that disre- at home, and power to them. What distresses me I Wanna Dance gorilla deaths and, particularly disconcertingly, fuel can't melt steel beams” meme. Autism-re- gards the animal rights issues that underpinned though, is the lack of people who join me enthu- With Somebody for racist Adam Goodes memes. Harambe, it lated memes are prominent and the disorder this whole saga in the first place. siastically on the dance floor at parties. seems, is unbound by the contexts to which other is increasingly used as an adjective for social Perhaps the moral battle against memes is It seems these days the only time people are Whitney Houston memes might be confined. Harambe has become awkwardness. “Crazy feminist” memes pop- pointless to wage in the abstract. When memes willing to dance in public, or admit their love of more famous in death than he ever was in life – as ulate the timelines of many a friend who is problematically manifest questionable attitudes, dancing, is once they’ve got some manner of drug Kill V. Maim the memers say, “Harambe died for our sins.” intolerant to gender equality, and racist memes however, the discussion becomes imperative. in their system. Which is fine, drugs are good and Somewhere in this whirlpool of mixed inten- continue to normalise problematic stereotypes. You were shot after a life imprisoned. “Rest In fun – but why are people so reluctant to freely Grimes tions and deep rooted ironies, the fact that gorilla The problems facing one of our closest relatives Peace Harambe.” admit and embrace the urge to dance? Instead of dancing, most people prefer congre- Trap Queen gating in small groups; chatting amongst them- (Crankdat Future selves rather than losing all inhibition on the dance Remix) floor – AKA the Location of Infinite Possibilities. My own love of dancing is multi-faceted. Not Fetty Wap only does dancing illuminate the ability of the Pigeon-holed body to do things we didn’t think possible, but it Rewind also just feels fucking GREAT. The name of the SRC candidate who wrote this My fascination with dance and movement Kelela not only feeds a love of the act of dancing, but piece appears in a find-a-word on page 28 an obsession with watching dance; dance battle Work (feat. Drake) videos, dance movies, dance concerts, dance cho- I walk down Eastern Avenue with a group of not stop fidgeting, uneasy at the bobbing heads Art: See reography, Dance Moms and everyone’s absolute Rihanna friends. I have already spotted it from a few of the diseased pigeons roaming freely around page 28 ;) favourite – Beyoncé concerts. I started dancing metres away. me. But by far the worst aspect of this phobia has when I was three years old with Britney Spears as Schoolin' Life My mind has stopped working. been my tribulations with the black-beaked Ariel my inspiration and haven’t stopped since. When I A single bead of sweat drips down my face, my hooligan – the ibis or in a vicious pack, the ibides asked my mother if I was as enthusiastic a danc- Beyoncè hands are shaking: we’re getting closer and closer. (plural of ibis). er as I remember, she said, “Oh, yes! You loved Around the corner is the winged devil of the sky. I I’m not sure if it’s their ridiculously long beaks moving your little toosh. You were as sassy then Art: Matthew pray that we keep moving straight and choose not or the disgusting pink bits under their wings that as you are now. The main reason you stopped was Fisher to acknowledge each other. And yet, my prayers makes me despise ibides more than other birds. because I didn’t like the outfits they were putting are in vain. It swoops past me, I squeal. I’m forced The ibides have made my time at university a liv- you in,” which says a lot not only about my endur- to confront my fear of birds. ing nightmare. Their sheer arrogance, holding ing love of dance but also about my mother’s vic- from enjoying ourselves. Women who dance are For as long as I can remember, my ornithopho- their ground when my more courageous friends tim-blaming tendencies. assumed to be dancing to look good and to attract bia has impacted my life in varying ways. Orni- attempt to scare them away, has brought them My love of dancing is also rooted in my love Disrupt the someone, you’re assumed to be an object for the thophobia, or, as it is colloquially referred to by victory in our ongoing turf wars: I no longer sit of the music that makes me want to dance. I’m consumption of the non-dancing partygoers and those not afflicted, “bird phobia”, is the “abnor- on the law lawns or roam Eastern Avenue alone. sure my compulsive consumption of music videos construction of the even more so when dancing isn’t the norm at the mal” or “irrational” fear of birds. as a child further compounded this link between party in question. Although it may be a joke to you, I have spent music and dance. I owe my life to black women dancer, emancipate Unfortunately, this idea of dancing as a way to many an hour contemplating and rationalising and women of colour in music for the way they attract was also largely born out of music vide- this fear. Put simply, birds are fucked. They can have made music that not only uplifts, but bangs. the floor and just os. It’s hard to deny the attraction of the dancers attack you from literally any angle, they form One day you will be They are the most marginalised in society and in any hip-hop or pop video. However, because wartime formations (see: Indian minors), and yet make the most consistent music in terms of dance of the way dancers (mostly women) are usually they have a weapon for a mouth. attacked by these quality and danceability, I’m talking: Rihanna, positioned as objects rather than autonomous My earliest memory of a traumatic experience Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, Ciara, Cassie, Destiny’s agents, we get left with the notion that dance must with birds was at a National Park, at the inno- satanic monsters Child, Brandy, Aaliyah, The Pussy Cat Dolls, Fifth opportunities to catch-up with friends rather than accommodate the male gaze. The result: only cent age of four. I stood, a confronted witness, Harmony, the list goes on. My only criticism of as explicit opportunities to dance). those who can meet this artificial standard take as a kookaburra swept down and stole a piece of and realise the their videos comes when directors see it necessary For the most part, I believe it is the stigma to the dance floor and this is nothing but harmful chicken from my darling sister’s fragile hands. to cut to shots that disrupt the dance sequence. attached to being “bad” at dancing – or even the to dancing’s ability to bring everyone happiness. After that event, she changed. And so did I. Soon trauma I have And yet, I seem to be largely alone in this love. I belief that a “bad” way to dance exists – that large- Ironically, more often than not the effort to look after, I started taking the long way to school to am yet to attend a party where I am dancing away ly feeds people’s anxiety about dancing in public. good dancing just results in you looking more like avoid interactions with birds, something I was known for 18 years and not have someone insinuate my enthusiasm is My take: if you aren’t invading anyone’s personal a fuckwit than Beyoncé. forced to do for the rest of my schooling. Thus a result of high levels of intoxication. The scarcity space or breaching their boundaries, chances are Don’t get me wrong; dancing to attract or be began my fear of, and hatred for, birds. To many, this fear may seem silly or even “unfound- of opportunities to dance doesn’t help the matter. you’re doing just fine. attractive isn’t a bad thing, nor is dancing in a As I sit to write this, I must confess, it isn’t easy. ed”. To these critics, all I can say is: open your eyes. My love of dancing is the main reason I attend par- The fact that dancing can also constitute a sexual way. But what happened to dancing for the Sometimes I feel like a walking paradox: a vege- One day you will be attacked by these satanic ties theses days. It’s a sad fact that as one ascends mechanism for attracting people can further sake of dancing? These days the act of dancing is tarian who ought to love all animals but despises monsters and realise the trauma I have known for into adulthood, opportunities to dance – particu- inhibit people from dancing: if you’re not confi- too often tied to the perceptions others hold and these rats of the sky with all his heart. 18 years. One day your very own sister will be left larly in spaces where you don’t face near-constant dent in your ability, or the person you like isn’t it’s gotten to the point where I’m the only one on For a good part of a decade, birds have been a chicken-less and starving as these cannibalistic crea- threat of being sexually harassed – begin to con- into dancing, you probably won’t be joining the the dance-floor, begging you to join me. Disrupt source of deep embarrassment for me. The first tures devour her only source of sustenance. Don’t siderably dwindle. You’ve got clubs (which aren’t dance floor anytime soon. Dancing as a “sexy” the construction of the dancer, emancipate the time I went on a date with my girlfriend, I could become another statistic, stay clear of the birds. for everyone) or parties (which are viewed more as endeavour also prevents the carefree dancers floor and just dance. 18 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 19 FASHION CULTURE

Varsity Jackets - $120.00 (No, seriously. No, I’m not kidding. Yes, actually) Just jab some science into my Great job on this one bozos! pect to people? Why are they I mean YIKES, Coco Chanel trying to make us look like the RADICAL Courtyard is probably twisting in her unused extras from The Break- well-perfumed, minimalist fast Club? If someone men- boyfriend already grave. No seriously I guess tioned “S.U.” in conversation, these look fine (cue: raised eye- I’d ask them what they meant. SEX AND brows emoji), but they seem to If they said they went to Some Victoria Zerbst is still waiting for better male contraceptives be designed by someone who University, or they routinely went to university for three Sacrificed Underwear, or that weeks in the 70s and spent they considered themselves CONSENT Over the last two years I have trialled Today, women can implant met- of Australian men when surveyed in couture the rest of their days watching Sumptuous Uncles…literally (and been destroyed by) at least four al rods into their arms; have doctors a postpartum context.” Yeah. Eighty- Degrassi High re-runs. any acronym bar one, I’d be fine contraceptive pills. I get all the side insert small plastic devices in their nine out of 118 men surveyed indicat- I’ve never actually heard with it. If they said they went effects. From the weight gain, to the uteruses, inject themselves with hor- ed they would consider trying MHC Thomas Sydney St. John reviews the someone refer to Sydney Uni- to Sydney University, and then WEEK acne and severe depression, it is clear mones every 12-14 weeks, place rings if it were available. This was in 2002. versity as “S.U”. Is this ‘a thing’ looked at me with that “how my body just does not want any part around their vaginas for three weeks In 2014, male contraceptive latest collection from the Sydney Store. I’ve missed? Does the designer do you not know that?” face, in the anti-baby hormone rollercoast- at a time, take a small pill every day alternative, Vasalgel, was said to of this jacket assume we want to I’d likely orchestrate a plot to The USU's third annual Radical Sex er. My endocrinologist agrees. She (don’t forget), or an even smaller hit shelves in 2017. Vasagel is a look like we were home-grown drown them in whatever brand and Consent Week took place from 30 told me I don’t respond well to hor- pill every day at the exact same time non-hormonal polymer they inject Sometimes, despite being a in the gut of half-wit America- of artisanal coffee they most August to 1 September. The festival orig- monal contraceptives, so it’s either (seriously don’t fucking forget). into your junk to stop you from world-acclaimed fashion blog- na – is this an appealing pros- frequently gulp. inated from an election promise (that condoms, abstinence, or Real Baby Having agency and control over cumming sperm. It was inspired by ger/commentator/trendset- was followed through) by 2013-2014 for Me 2016–Forever™. your body is 10/10. But when you’re in a male contraceptive called RISUG, ter, you draw the short straw. Union Board member Bebe D'Souza. I’m a bit fed up with these limit- a long-term relationship and your part- which has been trialed and used in When Honi approached me Taking place on Eastern Avenue, the ed options (real baby?!?) and even ner complains that using condoms gets India for over 15 years. with this latest brief, naturally week involved over 15 events tackling more furious that I just spent two a bit annoying, I wonder why the dude But according to the Victorian I assumed they’d be wanting to sex and consent from a range of per- years as a bloated yo-yo puppeteered who invented the pill didn’t think about Government – who have a way better fly me to Paris or Tokyo, perspectives. by Big Pharma, just ‘cause I want my a pill for men too. health website than us NSW mates – haps Milan for fashion week. uterus uninhabited and my vagina The thing is, he did. The dude there are no current plans for a hor- No. I was sequestered to ana- Instead of publishing traditional reviews well-stimulated. who co-invented the female pill – monal method of male contraception lyse the USU’s crapulous line of these events, we asked our reporters Recently, however, I found hope his last name is Pincus and I love to be made available to the public in of sartorial vomit, presumably to pitch articles informed by their expe- in the safe haven of the Rad Sex Con- that – also tested the same hormonal Australia. Christ. born from the hellbroth of the rience at RSCW. We hope the following dome. This hope was delivered to me in approach on men in 1957. Products These male hormone options River Hades. But I’m a born articles capture some of the purpose of an engaging workshop presented by Dr are yet to hit shelves. would provide valuable alternatives fashionista, and I’ll be damned RCSW – to challenge, inspire and pro- Charlene Levitan from UNSW’s faculty Fourteen years ago a study was for people like me who cannot use if I quit now. voke radical thought. of medicine. The hope is, one day, men published in the Medical Journal certain methods of female contra- might be able to use hormonal contra- of Australia that concluded, “MHC ception. I don’t know how much fashionista ceptive methods and relieve us women (Male Hormone Contraception) longer we have to wait for MHC to hit /fa∫ә'ni:stә/ of the bloating and mood swings. appears to be acceptable to a majority shelves. All I have is hope. 1. a designer/lover of haute couture Tie, Silk – $47.00 2. someone who has more photos of strangers on Do you go to college? Do you their Instagram feed feel like you’re not roasted Two worlds collide than friends enough? Has your Old Boys 3. someone who uses tie faded? Fret no more, friend! the word ‘epaulettes’ I’m starting to think the design- Koko Kong discusses I came from a sex negative country where problem. Some people are stuck in awkward unironically er is getting inspiration from casual sex is considered shameful and unac- situations themselves when communicating 4. me, right now - let’s nail the Tumblr page of someone the difficulties of ceptable. But after arriving in Sydney, I noticed about sex with someone from a conservative these degenerates to the trapped in Target overnight. that girls could be drunk in bars and having culture. Moreover, as the world becomes more wall embracing sex sex with strangers, without immediately being and more globalised, there’s a higher possibil- called a “bitch” (or, at least, it was more accept- ity that people from different cultural back- Scarf, Definitely Not Silk positivity as a Chinese ed). Casual sex is and can be a normal part of a ground are having sex. Audience members – $29.00 spicy Saturday night, provided mutual consent primarily raised questions about how to build international student is not compromised. trust for the purpose of ensuring people from If you want to look like the love- This contradiction between China and Syd- conservative backgrounds are able to feel safe child of a Hawthorn Hawks fan ney certainly makes my life harder. I’m currently and comfortable to discuss matters concern- and a bumblebee, you can find As an international student, the culture shock 18, at the point where my values towards family, ing sex. The panelists responded by raising the it at Uni Mart, in the “Flamma- related to sex manifested itself clearly and relationships, love and sex have started to form. issues of imposing bias on people from other ble” section. intensely in everything that happened during Inside my mind, the conservative tradition which cultures. For instance, it is not appropriate to Radical Sex and Consent Week. I simply didn’t accompanied me for 19 years clashes with the assume someone wearing a scarf is not inter- want to take off the festival’s signature shirt, even progressive culture that I’m immersed in every- ested in casual sex. In short, the way to deal when the scheduled events had finished. A week day. It makes it impossible for me to figure out with cultural difference is to be empathetic or so on, I fondly remember my friend from where I stand. and not to assert anything in advance. China decorating vulva cookies for Funch. We There is a curious attitude among Chinese girls There are also many domestic students that literally googled the meaning of the word “vul- I know when talking about casual sex. “I won’t are also hesitant and confused about sex. Sex va” as we were doing it. I remember attending blame people for hooking up with strangers, but I positivity can often transform into coercive the “Gender and Sex Discrimination on cam- will never commit things like that!” It is clear that hypersexuality, where rape and sexual harass- pus” panel laden with dozens of questions about there are two distinct arguments involved in the ment become main concerns. Australian liberal all the terminology, but not enough courage to testimony. One to demonstrate you, as someone culture assumes that casual sex is normal, but it ask them, fearing I’d appear either ignorant or who has the privilege to study in Australia, have is definitely not for everyone raised under that discriminatory. Suffice to say, the event caused a more civilised mind to respect different values. culture. After all, there are surely white girls Double Stripe Crewneck me to genuinely admit my illiteracy concerning Another to clarify that you, as someone who has naturally appalled by the idea of making love Jumper - $74.95 4pk Shotglasses - $30.00 (“WAS $39.95!”) intersex people. high moral standards, would never have anything only out of physical desire and Asian girls who It would be unimaginable for a Chinese Uni- to do with such scandalous life choices. I shouldn’t don’t equate sex with a relationship. If you have a spare week’s food So for this one, I really need- our signature lion and crest versity to offer colourful vulva cookies. It’s also say I sense hypocrisy in these statements, but that That’s the reason why I found “Sex and Gender” money lying about, and you’re ed to think. Which was hard, engraved.” Firstly, sleek and inconceivable that any public institution would I’m doubtful. I think: when you are drunk and panel beneficial and inspiring. It offers two basic feeling cold but want to look because I generally try and modern? The couturier has a highlight the importance of mutual consent when dancing the night away and seeing people around principles useful when stuck in conflicting situa- like an audience member at a push myself to my least lucid real hide asking for 30 bucks talking about casual sex in China. There’s no need you going insane, haven’t you wondered what it tions. They are “enlighten yourself” and “stick to Nirvana concert, USyd (or is it state of mind when construct- for such overtly lazy design. to consent to anything. Casual sex just shouldn’t would be like to accept the value of a sex positive your heart”. “Enlighten yourself” means to objec- ‘S.U.’?) caters for you. I think the ing these articles. According The only reason I can think happen in the first place. culture? Haven’t you ever been tempted by a cul- tively recognise different sex attitudes from differ- designer released this specific to the description, “These to buy these is if you think The more you attempt to be integrated into a ture where you don’t have to apologise for your ent cultural backgrounds without being influenced Uni-branded sartorial atrocity in sleek and modern shotglass- your household clean-up pile different society, the more culture shock you are carnal desires? by bias. “Stick to your heart” encourages you to response to the question – what es come boxed and feature is looking a little uninterest- doomed to encounter. Consequently, when mov- The “Sex and Culture” panel at Radical Sex remember that if one culture tells you to turn left if someone turned a gum wrap- our two famous bars, Her- ing. That these are marked ing to Australia from China, I was confronted by and Consent Week dealt with these issues well, and another one tells you to turn right, you are free per into an item of clothing? mann’s & Manning, as well as down is unsurprising. an identity crisis of sorts. bringing light to the fact that this is a mutual and no culture can bind you. 20 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 21 CULTURE CULTURE Ed Revue crammed Band 6: A Schoolbus and flunked Named Desire Why didn’t people

Hannah Craft drew ordinary tasks on his ‘Gay Agenda’ for James Stratton beginning. the day is already a familiar gag from But the performance goes above and see the faculty revues? many red crosses YouTube. A police officer blaming a graduated happy beyond your standard revue, with sever- woman for being burgled in a parody of al moments of genuinely hilarious and on Ed Revue’s exam victim-blaming is already a well-worn original humour; particular highlights Mary Ward is old and is people, it probably wasn’t. could not be described as anything but a success. Tumblr joke. The cozy interior of the Seymour Cen- included Anna Rowe taking advantage For Law Revue co-director Kieran Hoyle, The Wom*n’s Revue sold out in advance. Queer The musical numbers were likewise tre’s Reginald Theatre, combined with a of (and immediately betraying) some going to tell the young while the shift in numbers could be attributed to Revue sold out one of its three nights, and near- The Education and Social Work pedestrian. Genuinely talented vocal- classroom set complete with whiteboard eager crowd involvement to play ‘Simon the cost of living in Sydney or the rise of alternate ly did so on the others, and numbers were similar revue, A Schoolbus Named Desire, had ists in the cast struggled with songs per- and marker, could easily bring back Says’ and Marcus Wong as a soap opera- people what to like forms of entertainment, the true explanation is for Jew and ACAR. However, the venues used by the most diverse cast of any university formed in a key unsuited to their range. memories of the dreary high school plays ready teacher stoking staffroom drama. probably more micro. the identity revue season were smaller (Seymour production I’ve seen. Only about half The directors also made the distracting which now exist only to add embarrass- The show really comes together in In his three years of physically spruiking tick- Centre shows were in the Reginald, while the the performers were white, not every- mistake of projecting the lyrics on the ment to a friend’s Facebook feed. some spectacular musical numbers. n 2011, just over 1700 students attended the ets to the Law Revue on Eastern Avenue, Hoyle ACAR Revue remained off-campus, opting for the one was cisgender, and nearly all the back wall: it’s not an “Achille’s heel”. But this year’s Education and Social Throughout the show, Flick Addison’s Science Revue’s production of NASAblanca. It said he has noticed an “increased aversion” to 100-seat King Street Theatre), and they had the romantic skits featured same-sex pair- These flaws in content and execution Work Revue, A Schoolbus Named Desire, choreography and a capable band, led was a turnout that saw the Seymour Centre’s buying tickets with cash, while online sales are up. advantage of running in their own week over the ings. Props should certainly be given to might have been less glaring were it not more than avoids this fate: directors Ally by Marcy Gomez, make these pieces a IYork theatre (with a capacity of 781) comfort- However, this shift leaves revues in the position four-week season, meaning they did not need to directors Ally Canas, Cameron Brown for the dead air which filled the stage Canas, Cameron Cain and Mollie Gal- particular joy, and Emma Webb shines ably full across the show’s three-night run. of battling the Facebook algorithm to have their compete with other revues for audience members. and Mollie Galvin for their diligence in at the end of every skit. There was no vin have brought together a small but tal- in a study-drug themed edition of ‘Thrift Five years later, the Science Revue’s production event and promo content (usually videos) appear With such short seasons, it only took a retail this quarter. music as the tediously long transitions ented and diverse cast to provide a night Shop’. It’s these one-off sketches, rath- of It Came from Planet Space played in the same in potential audience members’ feeds. shift on the Thursday and a 21st on the Saturday This is the highest praise I can give took place. The best moments were the of frivolity, fun and plenty of laughs. er than the running storyline of Ms venue for the same number of nights, but only “Facebook is becoming increasingly congest- to leave a revue fan choosing between seeing the the revue, which was on the whole poor- simplest ones: a monologue in which A Schoolbus Named Desire would cer- Dubois’ travails at a new school, that are 1099 tickets were purchased. ed, and it’s not as reliable as it used to be as a Commerce Revue or the Science Revue this year. ly written and poorly executed. Most Descartes cooks up his most famous tainly score a high ‘Band 6’ for conven- best received by the audience, and less The Science Revue has seen this trend for a publicity tool,” he said. Which is a shame because both – and, in fact, the of the skits fell flat: shouting teachers quote, a man who asks a human Siri tions of the revue genre: loveably-lame time being spent pursuing the tenuous few years now. The first big drop in sales occurred Despite the tough season faced by the faculty entire 2016 Faculty Revue Season – seemed to are not amusing without a good script. about his love life and receives mechan- puns are aplenty, with even Descartes extended plot might have opened up in 2014, when 1338 tickets were sold after the revues, it seems amiss to say that revue culture is be of the usual (high) standard: some jokes went Too often the cast seemed to be paying ically brutal replies, a penguin who tries pinged by Dad jokes (it’s much funnier room for more like them. revue managed to move 1699 tickets in 2013. In on the decline at Sydney University. one line too long, some dance numbers based on lip service to their mates in the crowd. to act like a human on a blind date, and than it sounds); clever wordplays sneak The show’s full-cast musical finale, a 2015 that number dropped again, to 1209 sales. The USU’s new Identity Revue season (bringing Avatar: the Last Airbender left you scratching One actor brought an audience mem- fails miserably. There were standout per- their way into sketches, as a schoolteach- loving stab at the boredom of the high This year, another hundred or so ticket sales together the newly resurrected Wom*n’s Revue your head, but, overwhelmingly, revues are still a ber to the stage to give him an ‘award’ formances from Christina Nguyen and er bellows ‘STELLA’ to his inattentive school classroom, brings the show to a dropped off. and newly formed ACAR Revue with the estab- good night out. before promptly sending him back. Anna Rowe. pupil; and there are the occasionally fitting conclusion. The cast of A School- But the Science Revue is by no means alone in lished Jew and Queer Revues) in semester one It’s just a matter of finding them a worthy This was seemingly for no reason other The show had potential. It fell down confusing moments of any university bus Named Desire are hilariously wacky, its struggles to get bums on seats at the York. audience. than that he was her boyfriend, as I was on lack of rehearsal and oversight of the production, with some slow transitions and I’m not sure I’d let my children any- Anyone who remembers the days of selling 2000 later informed. small details. More work and less play leaving the audience a little clueless as where near them, but they can certain- your legacy Torts and Contracts II notes for one of 1800

Too many jokes had been done would have made for a far more engag- to whether the ringing of a school bell ly be trusted to put on a delightful and the last remaining tickets to the 2014 Law Revue 1600 before. A gay man rattling off a list of ing performance. Study hard, kids. signals an Act’s end or a new sketch’s memorable revue. would have been surprised to see the theatre’s side SCIENCE REVUE TICKET 1400 sections virtually empty on Royal Commission: 1200 Impossible’s Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday SALES THROUGH THE AGES performances (although its production team was 1000 unable to provide exact ticket sales, the Friday 800 OH BOY DO WE HAVE MORE REVUE REVIEWS FOR YOU !! performance was, anecdotally, better attended). 600 Your correspondent witnessed the emptiness 400 firsthand on the Saturday night, and can report 200

that the only occupant of the two side areas was 0 former High Court Justice, Professor William 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Gummow. He left before intermission. A standing ovulation Bingeing on medflix In the same week, The Arts Revue Games REVIEW opened to a half-empty Everest Theatre. Although the record-keeping at Arts appears to be less Jacinta Gregory But in saying that, I don’t study Med, Amanda Liem initial revelation. Similar too was the meticulous than at the Science Revue, producer Graduating with a useless degree? and while the energy that emanated expected reference to Harambe. Like Clare Cavanagh told Honi she believes the show went to the doctors from the first four rows of the audience actually saw med many a Netflix show, some tried to sold “maybe 175 [fewer tickets] than last year”. Move to Avenue Q was palpable, the sketch content could marry too many trendy ideas but came Also playing at the Everest Theatre (which have been stronger. The things I learnt students outside across as pandering and forced. seats 513) was the Commerce Revue, The Rise and Hannah Craft watched two puppets 69 onstage. It was awesome Puns, silliness, references to TV shows from this revue were: Tinder referenc- The show was aimed at an audi- Fall of Bliss Industries. Producers Robyn Lu and that you know and love (as well as memes es are the pinnacle of comedy, puns = of a library ence of fellow med students, but the Emma Wiltshire did not have exact figures, but From start to finish, the USyd Intercol Musi- firming what we all knew: that the internet is – lots of references to memes) await you punch line, politician + politician = gay jokes remained accessible (such is the said ticket sales “probably [had] decreased”. cal’s production of Avenue Q is riotously really mostly for porn. at this years 2016 MEDREVUE: Medflix = comedy, and did you know doctors’ universal humour of anus jokes). That Smaller revues were not immune: the Educa- funny. The story of a group of young adults It would be remiss not to mention that and Chill. The show began with a par- fingers go up butts? Because they do. Med Revue’s 2016 production, Medflix being said, there was still clever material tion and Social Work Revue, A Schoolbus Named trying to find employment with useless the very white Matthews plays a black man. ody of the Book of Mormon’s “Hello”, a The best moments of the show came and Chill, is the most aptly named revue thrown around. Special mention must Desire, opened with 88 empty seats in the 153- degrees, reconcile themselves to the tedium The college community is an overwhelmingly number about pushing pills to patients from the characters, rather than the of this year: the whirlwind of skits mim- go to “Waleed Aly” appearing on stage, seat Reginald Theatre. It peaked on the Friday of ordinary life, and get laid is somehow even white pool to draw from, and no doubt this – but always with a smile. Kudos to sketches themselves. The appearances ics the experience of mindlessly flicking literally on a high horse. with 107 tickets sold, before playing closing night more relevant at the height of the internet caused director Annie Tonkin a great deal of Music directors Gretel Kelly and Natalia from Waleed Aly and Ron Weasley were through Netflix one lazy afternoon. The strongest parts of the revue were to an audience of 92. age than when it was conceived in 2002. For consternation. In truth, casting anyone who Berlinski for an excellent arrangement examples of adequate writing taken to a From odes to a med student’s those when the medical students were Some revue production teams flouted Seymour a generation whose expectations have left us wasn’t white in the role would have made that that made great use of the vocal talent fun level by the sheer energy and com- non-existent sex life to multiple The just being medical students. Whether it Centre policy by having $10 flash sales for the all feeling woefully inadequate, Avenue Q hits slightly less uncomfortable. Still, Matthews is in the cast, including standouts, Rachael mitment put into sketches by the cast, Bachelor-style segments, Medflix and was mocking the med student “stetho- (usually $15) tickets, just to get rid of the paper home by doing what we do best: glorying in wry in her performance. She knows. O’Reilly and Tegan Millington. who were obviously having a great time. Chill coursed through as many pop culture scope shot” profile picture or increasing tickets they had allocated for on-campus sales. our despair, lighting our dreams on fire and The cast are truly great singers. Hannah This quality of song parody continued, With a drink in hand – you will have parodies and med student stereotypes as birth rates with “Pokemon Come”, it was Of course, ticket sales fluctuate for various rea- laughing while we all burn. Barnett is particularly talented, and her solos and as a resident (eh?) cynic, I was high- fun at this year’s Medflix and Chill. It was possible, making for a varied show. in these moments that the cast wasn’t sons. When Honi contacted the producers of each The performances are exceptional. Robert hint at the scope of her voice. Hendricks ly impressed by the consistently excel- a pleasure to see people in another facul- There were outstanding displays of trying to be anyone else or keep up with of the faculty revues that played at the Seymour Meek and Hannah Barnett star as Princeton and Pang are not trained singers, but nor do lent vocal performances and choreogra- ty enjoying themselves on stage and try- talent such as in Samantha Fredman’s the other revues – they were laughing at Centre, a couple mentioned having slightly small- and Kate Monster, both trying to live up to they try to be. It perfectly complements the phy. Shout out to Samantha Fredman for ing their best. But next time, they should performance in a Wicked “Defying themselves and the world as med stu- er cast sizes than usual. their high-minded ambitions while wading comedy. Major props to musical directors her "Defying Gravity" parody; the final maybe try their best not to write a Har- Gravity” parody, “I’ll fail Anatomy”. The dents faced with the horror of another Education Revue producer Meredith Apps, through the murky waters of courtship in a Anthony Chen and Laura Heuston for the note overshadowed a lot of the show’s lem Shake joke. orchestra, conducted by Derek Feng, decade or so of study. whose show only had a cast of 15, said it was pre-Tinder age when simply swiping right band’s seamless performance. content. The show also featured some of To avoid another jaded Arts come- was excellent, as was the crowd-pleasing Like its namesake, Medflix and “hard to compete” with a lot of the larger revues was not an option. Meanwhile, the loveable In short, Avenue Q hilariously encap- the best revue choreography I have ever dy c**t writing a review like this next- dance number, “Zombie”. Chill was a mix of all different acts and like Science and Med, adding that the revue sea- scamps of Avenue Q deliver stitch-induc- sulates your depression at graduating with seen. Congratulations to choreographers year, I urge the next Med Revue team to However, there were a few things that characters, but you loved the collection son being scheduled so close to the Sydney Fringe ing comedic performances. The washed-up your useless degree. And there was a St Paul’s Jhonna Collins and Amelia Saunders for seek outside help and advice on sketch didn’t quite hit the mark. The Pauline as a whole. It was fun, colourful and Festival could have had an effect. former child star Gary Coleman, played by diss. Also, most of the characters are pup- achieving that feat. The sheer organisa- writing. But for now, the audience will Hanson skit, where the notorious xen- honest: a real pleasure to watch. So to The SUDS Shakespeare, The Merchant of Ven- Sophie Matthews, lectures us on the virtues of pets. Did I not mention that? It wasn’t weird. tional skill that “You Can’t Stop the Beat” enjoy the amazing music and sketches ophobe had been dissuaded from her directors Tegan Millington, Meredith ice, playing across two weeks of the season was copulating really, really loudly. Jules Rankin Even when they were fucking onstage. It would’ve taken was enough for the ticket of Medflix and Chill. I look forward to views by the power of the Halal Snack Grey and Patrick Cook and the rest of cited by other producers as a possible factor, how- absolutely steals the show, whilst also con- was awesome. cost alone. Kudos. Stat Boi 2017. Pack, didn’t progress much beyond that the cast, well done and bravo! ever, with the Cellar Theatre seating roughly 50 22 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 23 CULTURE CULTURE Debugging the Prescriptive friends There's no textbook guide to supporting survivors of abuse, writes Greta Komano

was relatively intoxicated, trying to dis- though it was something old friends did with on this medication for a while now, why am I cern the made up faces of my high school each other. But as my story unravelled, it didn’t now only starting to see signs of fake empathy? love bug friends at a party. We stood mimicking a feel therapeutic. It felt ritualistic, and it was only Why don’t I feel any better? How do I get rid of I prayer circle, holding a vigil for my tumul- later I realised my friends felt implicitly entitled these feelings of disillusionment that are slowly If all romance is replication, then why does Katherine O'Chee still like it? tuous relationship with an ex-boyfriend who to hearing my experiences due to our almost eating me alive? denied, to my face, the incidences of emotion- eight-year status as “friends”. I say implicit- My friends’ misguided attempts to alleviate al and sexual abuse that occurred during our ly because there was no mention that I should my symptomatic pain became reductive when There is something intensely disturbing about eight months together. only tell them if I felt comfortable; my recollec- they tried to liken my experiences to theirs. angsty teenage poetry written by a robot, as a I had bumped into him that night. He feigned tion of events seemed like a responsibility I had Comparison, the patriarchal mechanism to dis- recent Google experiment reveals. In a strange friendliness in front of my friends and I was to uphold as part of a contractual agreement mantle supportive networks between women, revitalisation of the Turing Test in May this year, seething inside. I tried to ignore him, but I between friends. reared its ugly head to silence my suffering. My Google fed almost 3,000 romance novels into its couldn’t ignore the resurfacing inner turmoil. Those that had never been in romantic rela- treatment finished with affirmations of “you’ll be artificial intelligence Google Brain as a way of I sought comfort in the familiarity of my high tionships had become love experts overnight, fine” and “you’re strong enough to get through teaching it the art of writing fiction. school friends, and transposed the feelings of where they parroted generic consolations from this” before they headed back to the mingling The result was a haunting echo of Franken- guilt and rage into a confessional monologue, crowds of the party. stein’s monster: romantic clichés extracted from which fell on their ears. That night, I wish we had sat down some context and patched together, like a horror-movie There’s no manual outlining how to react to place quieter, undisturbed by woeful attempts at surgeon rearranging your internal organs during a first-hand accounts of abusive relationships. Many of us take on the dance music. I didn’t want to feel smaller than operation. Instead, many of us take on the role as the pre- I already did when they crowded around me In one of its creepiest attempts, the robot scription friend, someone who offers a tem- role as prescription with their pointed heels, nor did I want to feel offered this: porary relief and treats symptomatic pain, but as emotionally isolated from them than I already “i want to talk to you.” rarely, if ever, goes beyond that. I’ve been guilty friend, someone who did. Instead of attempted empathy, honesty “i want to be with you.” of this myself, and have never fully understood would be much more appreciated – a simple “I “i don’t want to be with you.” what it meant to actually listen. offers a temporary have no idea what you’re going through” would i don’t want to be with you. The night I ran into my ex my friends all have been way less patronising than their “totally she didn’t want to be with him. gasped at the right time, cursed him when I relief and treats understanding”. I now realise my discomfort hid “Don’t write romance,” my English teacher tried to recollect my thoughts and provided sup- behind the guise of familiarity and, at the time, remarked once. The whole genre is essential- portive-sounding words whenever they thought systomatic pain, but yearned for advice less prescriptive than theirs. ly replication: cookie-cutter plots, tropes and appropriate. Despite their collective cries It felt like they only heard what I said, rath- characters. Yet Google Brain basks in these denouncing him as a fuckboy, their assurance rarely, if ever, goes er than listening and responding accordingly. tired archetypes. In its poetry, we see romance that I was better off without him and their asser- I wish they asked me what I wanted to do, and at its peak, compact with melodrama: the tions that they “understood completely” what I beyond that how I was truly feeling, instead of belittling it misunderstandings of refusing to speak your was going through, I didn’t feel any better. as a black and white fight and disregarding the mind, the broken heart always lurking in the In fact, I felt worse. grey in between. At the time, I felt as though I background. I could make out their looks of pity and felt over-exaggerated teen dramas. Such exclama- couldn’t address the complexities of still feeling But it also feels detached. Instead of emo- even more alone when I heard their hollow tions only offered a fleeting respite from the cir- connected to my ex. I was still feeling lonely tion, we get the sensation of listening to a reassurance. cus around me and were – ironically – disem- without him, and missed talking to him. But it student repeating lines given to them by their There is something Like prescription drugs prescribed by pro- powering, despite their intentions. felt invalid to feel this because of the vulnerabil- teacher. inseparable from our rational minds. Romance fessionals as temporary relief, talking to people If I was better than him, why did I stay with ities he imposed on me. I still loathed his smirk- The robotic standardisation of love is intensely disturbing Art: see page is that devilish voice who offers you a chance about your problems is supposed to offer some him and not realise his manipulative ways? ing face though, and just needed a safe space to intriguing. Online love poem generators such 28 ;) for happiness. It lets you dream, but only if you kind of release or catharsis. I didn’t initially want Don’t we usually find affinity with our equals? express this emotional entanglement. as romeosmagic.com are no more than algo- about angsty teenage can bear with its onslaught of inner turmoil and to tell my friends, seeing as we haven’t spoken Am I just as bad because I let the relationship No one’s experience with abuse is ever sim- rithm-based tricks, most requiring you to wild bursts of emotion. Funnily enough, the properly all year, yet I needed the emotional continue for as long as it did? plistic, but is highly individual and personal. poetry written by a “hysterical” fans of One Direction are a strik- escape, and they were willing to listen. When you’re on prescribed medicine and There is no blanket prescriptive advice to “cure ing projection of Romantic poet Lord Byron’s So I relapsed into my old habits of telling notice its inefficacy, you naturally bombard all”, only time and unconditional support can robot female fans who frequently declared their love them everything that was wrong with life as your doctor, Google, with questions: I’ve been ease the pain felt.

I can’t resist your tasty fillings, it’s true! The Netflix and memes fade into shadows I am absolutely crazy for you! Funnily enough, the This awe-inspiring excitement is amazeballs my love, And for you, food, I thank heaven above. "hysterical" fans of All my love, Katherine x” Why would programs like romeosmagic exist, One Direction are a according to my English teacher? What is the literary value in replication and unoriginal thought? striking projection of answer absurd questions that they use to fill Year after year, the creative industry continues in the blanks of a pre-generated poem. In this churning out novels, music and films complete- Romanic poet Lord impersonal attempt to personalise content, the ly based on romance, and year after year, we as HONI SOAPBOX user is left less in awe and more in spluttering consumers are hungry for more. If all romance is Byron's female fans. laughter, because this is ‘magic’ you can take replication, then why I do I still enjoy it? SENATE ELECTIONS. the absolute piss out of. The answer perhaps starts with the initial for him in fan mail. THURSDAY 15 SEPTEMBER, 1PM. I head over to romeosmagic.com. The website observation that the word ‘romance’ is not exclu- Perhaps then, the replication of romance is less SEE FACEBOOK FOR DETAILS. URL itself is a groan-inducing spin on Shake- sive to the 21st century digital age. Its well-recog- a profitable standardisation and more an unin- speare, clearly trying to participate in a much nised characteristics can be traced back far into tended legacy left by centuries of paper crumbs. broader cultural narrative that homogenises and the past. And perhaps, we are the hopeful pessimists try- commercialises romantic love. For instance, sixth-century Arthurian ‘romance’ ing to exit a culture of romance that we actually “Here is your free Romeo’s MagicTM love referred to vernacular literature written to entertain have no desire of exiting. poem!” the automated pop-up cheerfully informs a mass audience, and today’s romantic culture treads To enjoy romantic culture is to be trapped in a me, after I’ve sacrificed a portion of my soul in the same vulgar terrain of ‘low’ entertainment. The cycle that has spun guilty pleasures for 15 centu- answering its sixteen questions. I name the poem, thrill of witnessing a love spectacle unfold – wheth- ries. Robot love, it would seem, is only the most “For my love, food”: er that be celebrity gossip or another of Hollywood’s recent addition to this cycle. “I feel so full and hungry sometimes, predictable romance films – remains. We are not sinners for listening to the occa- When I think of you each night and day, A parallel can also be drawn between mod- sional One Direction tune or filling out the occa- And when I see you, I see icecream, ern romance and Romanticism, the 19th centu- sional online love poem. It’s programmed into I love you more than words can say… ry literary, artistic and intellectual movement. our broader cultural memory to do so: to love and You’re so amazeballs! This love is infinite! Both revel in melodrama and see emotion as to want to love. 24 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 8 25 SCIENCE & TECH AN(TI)NOTATIONS & SOCIALS Medicost Joel Hillman asks how much the public purse should pay for a longer life

ow much would you pay for an extra at 21? How much for an extra year at 95? The tion (IVF) in Australia is covered under Medi- year of life? Ten years? One month? figures probably differ, which begs the question: care, and a motion to restrict subsidies for older My department occasionally gets what about the quality of the life? If a drug gives women, in whom treatments are exponentially Hdeliveries of a drug called stiripentol, you a year, but a year of low quality life, of life in less successful (and more expensive), under which the supply company keeps sending to us a hospital, should the public purse still pay for it? then-Health Minister Tony Abbott, was unsuc- instead of an adjacent hospital. Stiripentol is used There’s a concept called QALY (quality cessful. Recent statistics show that in 2014, less to treat some kinds of epilepsy in children. The adjusted life years), and the cost-per-QALY than one-percent of patients over the age of 45 reason I’m always so quick to correct these errant per patient is generally considered the metric successfully gave birth. This comes out at an deliveries is that each costs about $50,000, and for how useful a treatment is. USD$50,000 per- average cost of around $200,000 per baby, with we would otherwise be expected to foot the bill. QALY-per-patient is generally considered the these babies more likely to suffer from ill health. Nivolumab and ipilimumab are incredible Is this effective use of public money? immune-modulating drugs used to treat some Recently, the president of the Fertility Society kinds of cancer. Dr Leonard Saltz, a prominent If a drug gives you a of Australia, Professor Michael Chapman, said oncologist from the US, estimated in 2015 that it’s time to “think seriously about whether Medi- the cost of treating Americans with metastatic year, but a year of low care should cover them”. What are your thoughts disease (cancer in more than one place) with this when you hear this sum is being gambled on drug combination was USD$174 billion per year. quality life, of life in odds the Professor likens to “needing a miracle”? The combination averages a ‘progression-free What about when it starts to look even worse survival’ of just 11.4 months – less than one year. a hospital, should the than that? Aflibercept is used to treat some The same research found pembrolizumab, kinds of end stage cancer, and most patients a more common member of the same family of public purse still pay require about 3-4 months of treatment, at about drugs, costs somewhere around USD$1 million USD$13,000 per month. The benefit? Just 42 days per melanoma treatment per patient. for it? of life. The drug sofosbuvir was recently put on the Is this effective use of public funds? What Australian market to treat hepatitis C. Over- about the treatments other patients are missing seas, it’s been hailed as a revolutionary treatment acceptable threshold, but as much as double that out on as a result? What about bed block and for this formidable virus. It is estimated that, figure has been quoted more recently. In reality, surgery waiting lists? although our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is cost-effectiveness data is mostly theoretical and Forty-two days after multiple rounds of often able to reduce the price of drugs through rarely actually married to policy, evidenced by chemotherapy, 42 days of illness, exhaustion, deals, it will cost around USD$1,000 per tablet. the aforementioned medications. Organisations and drug-induced side-effects leading inevita- These numbers are not at all meant to argue such as the World Health Organisation recom- bly towards an end. Is this something we should against socialised healthcare, but rather to ask mend 200-300 per cent the per-capita income be spending public money on? It’s certainly well – how much is time worth? And whose time is as the threshold. In Australia, that’s between outside the range of $50,000 per year. worth it? $160,000 and $240,000. How much would you pay for an extra month How much would you pay to live an extra year What about starting a life? In-vitro fertilisa- of life? For yourself? For a stranger?

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IN A PICKLE? Note: assault and harassment on campus to name some Rally on the 17th of August, and then the NDA President These pages from this year alone. And we make a difference! the week after. Members also came along for the Find-A-Word belong to We’ve saved simple extensions and extended immensely successful Wom*n’s Collective Protest Chloe Smith the Office them across all faculties, pushed for a review into held at Open Day. Massive congratulations to Bearers of the special consideration system, shone a light on Anna Hush for putting this action together. It’s that time of year again – SRC elections are once the SRC. sexual harassment and assault on campus and in This month we were also lucky enough to see more upon us, and campus is once again filled They are our colleges, and held the uni to account on how Radical Education Week happen and after seeing with coloured a-frames, t-shirts, and extremely not altered, students are assessed and admitted. all the hard work that was put into organising it dense morning foot traffic down at Redfern Run. edited or 3. Who runs the SRC does make a difference: was an incredibly rewarding experience and we’re For most students, the campaign is three weeks changed in like any organisation, the SRC has had its share excited to see it grow over the next few years. of trying to avoid campaigners and wondering any way by of good and bad student leaders over its 80+ year With a variety of incredible workshops, there was Criminal Charges why it all takes so bloody long and who cares the editors history. Many of those have gone onto be lead- something for everyone to learn. Thank you to anyway. I’ll admit – that was me in my first year of Honi Soit ers in other areas of society, such as politics, law, everyone who put in so much time and effort into of uni. It’s very easy to dismiss student elections arts, and advocacy. During their time here, our running the week. as just a cynical power play by ambitious student student reps have achieved amazing things for Probably one of our biggest highlights so far Motor Vehicle Accidents politicians - and maybe that’s partially true - but students. We’re being paid by you and entrusted was our Rainbow Wedding. Thank you to all who Fines whatever you think of the campaigners and can- to protect your interests. came along to support us and to watch us get didates, the reality is that the SRC is an extremely The most important thing to do is to seek out married, I’m sure you’ll agree it was a truly excit- important student organisation and you absolute- information about each team and candidate – ing and fabulous day. We hope the SRC will con- ly should care who’s running it. who they are, what they want to do for students, tinue to support the Rainbow Campus Campaign Insurance Debts Why? Here’s a few reasons: and what their vision is for the SRC. Be informed, and our continued struggle against inequality at 1. You fund it: every student pays what’s called listen, ask questions, and most importantly – this university. the Student Services and Amenities Fee each year vote! For no other reason, if you don’t vote, you Looking to the future we have Queer Honi Immigration which funds student organisations like the SRC can’t complain! coming up. This launches in a couple of weeks ...and more (this year, roughly $1.6 million of student’s money Enjoy week 8! and we’re excited to see it all come together. We went into the SRC’s coffers). That means funding have also been lucky that many of our members hugely important programs like the free legal and are now becoming more and more active and are casework service, the free tax help service, the Queer Officer bringing projects of their own. Amongst other If You Have a Legal Problem, second-hand bookshop, and student campaigns initiatives we will be working on for the remain- around a heap of issues. 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