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You've been at uni for 5 weeks now, you've got 2 assignments and you've met .^people who told you their names which you never took in because vou were too nervous when vou met them. You still think about school a lot and what OP you ended up getting and what a jip it was that everyone told you it was so important. You can't believe that no-one has even mentioned the word OP since you've been at uni. So welcome. Welcome to the great sandstone what you do or where you go. This may be the first encounter with institution that is the University of Queensland. Welcome to the your own free will 3'ou have ever had. But think of the possibilities ! biggest system that you have been a part of thus far in your life. Welcome to a place which ensures that you never converse with a Some people choose to exercise their newfound free will by painting helpful person ever again, a place that gives you My UQ, and My their nails black, listening to Black Lung and screaming at the sun. SI-Net and My WebCrr and throws in the ILC just to confuse you, Others will choose to spend their days at uni in the video section of but never gives you a My-Where the Hell Do I Find Out Whether the SS&H library watching old French movies instead of going to I'm Properly Rnrolled and Turning Up At Right Places At The Right lectures, just remember that the closest some people get to their free Time. will is deciding what flavour icecream to get for lunch or what pair of jeans to wear to uni. Some people will never experience it, forever Do you feel lost? being vicdms of what life doles out. When you catch the 412 or the 407 back into the cit}' at night after the lecmre in that building at the farflung reaches of the universit)'. When you get home and everyone else in your house has finished Granted, having free will won't stop you from being lost and feeling eating dinner and you're lucky if there's cold veggies and rissoles in lonely. Free will only works if you use it to find out what really gets the microwave, do you feel like your world has been tipped out onto your goat, plucks j'our chicken, smacks your pony. But don't expect the "CJreat (>ourt" of this impersonable place and you're frantically that to happen tomorrow or even anytime this year. No, lost is a searching for the right clothes, the right attitude to sport, the right feeling which is going to make a nest in your heart and rustle around for a while. people to approach, the right way to walk, talk? You wonder whether you could be depressed, but frankly you don't The only things we as editors can offer are words, a futon and a even have the balls to get depressed. You don't have the balls to leave fridge full of cold drinks. The Semper HQ is always open to any lost utii right now, go home, lock yourself in your room and eat cheese souls. The only tiling you need prove to us is that you made it up to and crackers for three days. Which means you are even more lost. the Semper office by a sheer exercise of your own free will. So enjoy it. Embrace it. People spend a lot of money traveling half Failing that, you'll be forced at ball-point to come up with an article way around the planet to places like Uzbekistan to feel like tliis. Ix)St for the next edition. means you are a free agent. No-one is on your case. No-one cares Over and out. Love Semper ^-'•. ^^^TTvetn the Slav, HiPP°; ^f:°. Stick, Tomvu"^' Bluntz, Kenny ^^ „on-contactspotts5c folks badawme_ -^ -UQ Proudly published by your UHIOII / SeMper Monkey When rervioved *roMJ^^ ^^ ,urv»ve »* ' ^^^ duties o* a lwe-^r^ N^^^^ Skills, P^^^^f;^!!^^^^^. across t^^couMr^ ^^^ t^^a^^^^^ sense ot MoraW <° , .A ^^\y\ \\\\\\ PLEAS£..H"^ - II II""" n,„„W016_ TKeodore ^G^U In what is possibly one of the biggest lost causes to be pur tions. "I can guarantee that any substances being abused sued so far in 2004, Semper Floreat has formed a netball are definitely not performance enhancing." In response team. The team, named Semper TM, includes an all-star to the match fixing allegations he only had one brief com line up with the four editors Timmi, Jimmi, Merali ment, "I just wish that these teams wouldn't bring and Andrew. Other players include UQ Union their Bulldog's style of play into the comp. It's El Presidente Margot Balch and several uncalled for - this is an amateur league." other unknowns. However Semper TM has already struck problems af The first three rounds of the com ter star wing attack Timmi had the petition involve six grading matches. foresight to rule himself out for It would appear that Semper TM the season. This massive blow has adopted the tactics of trying occurred after Timmi realised to loose every match so that will that he works from 2 till 10 be placed in the lowest division, on Sundays while the comp is thus enhancing their chances of played from 4 till 6. in an act taking out the premiership. of incredible comradery, Margot has promised to have a black Either that or they really are shit. panther tattooed on her back in remembrance of Timmi's cat-like However, they might be in for some prowess and reflexes. Semper TM stiff competition. With other teams does have an ace up their sleeves in Let's Do Some Skids, Accident Wait- the wild-boy Semper Monkey who has ng To Happen and Stuartholme/Marist been under union employment since the (high school's over guys) there's bound to beginning of the year. be plenty of other losers on the courts. The season promises to be a controversial one, with Stay tuned for more reports on Semper TM's progress allegations of match fixing and banned substance usage be throughout the season. Or alternatively get down to the ing thrown in Semper TM's direction. Outspoken team man netball courts on Sunday at 4 to cheer them on. Chances ager Jimmi had several comments to make on the accusa are you'll probably get a game if you're up for it. HEPAL OR HOME? BY KAT HeKRY Roma. The paradox of k)sing yourself is that you inevitably find }'()urself somew^here. Because no one has any idea who you are IV v':!\ \ 1 :Uii U; supposed to be you don't have to be anything. And there you in rlic sla; I was i)rt;;nhii;', I (.• !':lMi:ii!,: : :l!r, are. So 1 found myself in love. ^ Olfcl llliilk 1 \\",>S (^11 in;) I ;1 ;*-• W' irkl. You'd t Like any Latin lover, he had the recjuisite pouting lips that think. Yet sitring beside me was a greasy, hairy Nepali man spoke to me in Italian and told me the things I'm sure Sophia inviting me to suck on his spit saturated splitT and nattering to Loren had whispered to her on the edge of watery renaissance me about his western girlfriends. I lis wife had just ted me a dys fountains. Things no Australian guy, no matter how New Age, entery inducing meal (as if 1 hadn't suspected for the last week had ever managed without sounding just a littie bit pathetic. 1 that I already had dysentery). It was looking a bit dicey, this top was the most beautiful woman in the world. W\: talked for hours of the world stuff 1 was on the side of a mountain, trying to about our shared philosophies about not having any philosophy distinguish between feverish hallucinations and altitude sick and letting everything go in order to Be Here Now. Our long ness, staying in some guy's cowshed, on my own, dodging sexual strolls together lasted into the night. \X^ secreti)' freed small advances and I hadn't told anyone I was in Nepal. 1 didn't think animals frf)m their market stall cages and flailed about theatri even a spiiff was gonna help me now. cally as we threw our watches off a bridge in acknowledgement of the inconsequence of time. I hadn't told anyone I was going I hadn't told anyone I was going to Thailand, either, because 1 to Thailand because I hadn't known myself and I thrilled at the didn't acmally know I was going myself undl 1 got to the airport liberation and danger in being entirel)' On My Own, madly in at Heathrow.