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Editors: Hannah Brooks, Renee Dodds and Holly Semper is published by the University of Queensland Zwalf Union. Address all correspondence to: Union Cover John Osborne Complex, University of Queensland, St Lucia, 4067. Centrefold: Holly Zwalf The views expressed in Semper Floreat are those Email: [email protected] ofthe respected contributors and are not Phone: 3377 2237 necessarily held by the editors or staff. Fax: 3377 2220 m r FInrpnt FHiMon fi HinHsinht •»nn'» '2^1^ Barhcf^s Bookstores Barker's Bookstores i Queensland's Leading Wc arc the official Booksellers for the Bookstores exchange of Text Kelvin House, Adelai(ic Street Books. Send your Y.M.C.A,Building, Edward St. lists to us at the end of the Term. Neu- anti Second Hand The Unioersity of Queensland Tf.\'/ Dooks in all Weekly Newspaper. SECOND HAND DEPT. subjtcls. ADELAIDE STREET Vol. I.. No. I. Thursday, i6th June, T932. Trice 2d. The ICditorial Staff has S.C.M. ADDRESS much pleasure in pre- ,senting to you {i.e., on WHAT'S ON THK OXI-ORD MOVKMKNT. payment of a small The weekly address arranged by the sum) the first edition of W. E. S. Student Christian Movement for I'riday, loth June, was given by the Rev. H. D. ,^j? The Wider iCdtication Society Com "Semper Fioreat' mittee regrets to state that Sir Campbell, M,A., B.D.. whose subject was Kdward Macartney, K.B.Iv., will be " The Oxford Movement." The speaker j. In the southern I 'livcrsities the existence of unable to lecture on Thursday owing began by stressing that this great move iicw.spapers pnbli.shed by the .student bodies, to illness. ment in the Church of Kngland is still and Riving the student viewpoint, have Tt is hojied that this lecture will .active and is of interest to all denomina tions. It is unique in the history of proved successful, and it is hoped that this take i)lacc in the near future. Christianity. paper, following as it does on nuich the l-riday, 17th June I.R.C. Dr. \V. After outlining the general conditions same lines, will satisfy a long-felt want here. P. Chen, Chinese Consul-General, on in England at the time when the Move The aim of this paper is to afford present " International Kivalrics in the I'"ar ment began, Mr. Campbell gave an account and past member of the University a com '.ast. of the conditions within the Church. In 1807 only one parish ill three had a resident mon uicdiuni for the expression and .Saturday. uSth June; Women's clergyman. I'lnralities were conunou and Hockey Dance, Main Hall. fjtcliauge of news and \iew.s. So among its parishes were often bought. (The price contents will be found detailed descriptions • Tuesday, 21st June: S.C.M. varied with the age af the purchaser). QI .sporting c\-ei]ts, reports of activities Study Circles: The churches were very ugly. of the various swicties and clubs, informa " l-aith •' - -Mr. I. Stewart. The leaders of the Movement had brilliant tion about our graduates ami about other " L'urpose "--Dean Barrett. academic courses at O.xford, and both " I'nemploynient " -Mr. Ingram. Keble and Newman gained Oriel 1-ellow- Universities, annomicenients of coming sl)ips, which alone at that tixiK were events, etc., etc. Have you any grievances Wednesday. 22nd June: Musical awarded after an examination open to all lo air ? Then write to the Kditor und make Society Practice, Mr, Ilcrold Kyng. members of the University. The Movement tisc of our wide open spaccs. (We hope began with John Keble's famous Assize • to make this section of the paper a Sermon, "On National Apostasy," preached on July 14, 1833. 1'his became a [ vehicle for the expression of unbiased great rallying cry of the reformers, and its ' and interesting opinions - a thing which centenary will be celebrated next year. has been so tioblv achie^'ed by locnJ Ten days after Keble preached thi.s Dailies.) 'SEMPER FLOREAT' I sermon, a conference of supporters was ITS STAFF. i held at Hadleigh, Sussex, as a residt of The position of the newspaper may which an address to the Archbishop of need some definition. All matter appear Canterbiir.v was prepared, signed by 7,000 Editors— I of the clergy, and by 230,000 heads of ing herein is written by the special staff W. A. MAHONKY. jl families. of the newspa|)er and not by the club con E. T. S. PKARCK 11 Newman's great powers found suitable cerned ; so that it e.xprcsses an independent employntent in tlie writing of tracts. The and impartial opinion. Any (?) criticisms tract was at that time much despised, Bin^incas Mcmuiifr- then, of such opinions, will be willingly but the clear, nervous language of Newnmn printed in these cohunns. D. CrRlKWIS. and his sincerity triumphed. Other authors of tracts soon appeared anci, altogether, By the way, you will observe other .hhrrli.siui^ .Muiuisicr • ninety tracts were jjublishcd. Newman supplemented his writings bv his •sermons matter in this journal-a species of self- W. H. HAUT. at St. Mary's, Oxford. laudation, almost boasting—the ad\-ertiso- and There is no doubt that the reformers ments. Undergraduates could do no made a great many mistakes, and a strong Innumerable Correspondents better than patronise these reliable firms opposition arose. The publication of Tract who show themselves so fearless in adver 00 created a tremendous uproar. The heads tising through the colunms of such a paper of the colleges protested, and Newman retired. The Oxford Movement had a as " Semper Ulorcat." .\V^^] h'elknvship to Newham College, Cambridge, great influence on art, in all its forms. which enables her to spend three years In conclusion. Mr. Campbell remarked over there doing research work. On the on the fine inspiration to be found in the GRADUATE'S SUCCESS. strength of this- -.she is trijjping out to see characters of the Movement's leaders. The her family before starting work. She is most abiding result of the Movement was that " Jesus became, not the centre of Dorothy Hill, M.Sc., wlio won a travelling expected lierc nhoiti the beginning of dogmatic (hnrtrine, but a living master and schoiarsiiip from here in i()30, has won a August. saviour." i« i< c T. h. 1. S. Pearce. After gazing through pages and pages of Semper it's disturbing to recognise that the big issues of each decade repeat themselves over and over again. The same struggles, the same wars.... The Sixties and Seventies were renowned for their frankness and open debate about the injustice of the Vietnam editorial War, inspiring us today to tackle the similar circumstances of / had a tutor in first year journalism who I thou^tit was prettythe War against Iraq, and American Militarism in general. crazy. He had wild hair and massive eyes and, unlike his Local Brisbane issues haven't been reconciled in the last forty associates in the department, he encouraged me to write years or so either, it would seem. We noted articles on articles about lecturers that looked like Leonard Cohen. Hehomelessness , police violence and corruption and dodgy state told me tales about his time in the Canberra Press Gallery politics- . The satire and criticism aimed at Sir Joh from Semper about the piss-ups and the bullshit. He also hod a habit ofdurin g his reigning years was the basis for our cover. Using rollins back in his chair, staring at the ceiling os he climbedsimila r texture and style of various Sempers of the last few decades, we have attempted to revive the irreverence and through his seemingly hazy memory, to tell the class about his naughtiness of the tate Sempers, as well as to send a political days as a Semper Editor. message to our 'cheery' Premier, Peter Beattie. At a University level, the similarity of the struggles we are facing is A few weeks after I took up my position ot Semper, I ran into frightening. Increased fees, restructuring of faculties, student my old tutor at the Night Owl. I told him the news. He poverty, appear again and again through the years. looked ot me with his bulging eyes, grabbed my hand, shook it solidly and said "Congratulations. You're one of us now". So we must ask ourselves, is Semper a mirror or a crystal ball? After working on this issue of Semper, I understand what heAre we merely watching ourselves repeat old mistakes, never meant. climbing out of the scratch on the record of time? Or are we foreseeing a different future, where another world is possible? Welcome to Hindsight, our Retrospective Semper. We entered It is easy to believe the former, particularly when we look at this job nine months ago vaguely aware of Semper's impressive the patterns, WWI, WWII, Vietnam, the Gulf War, and now the history, nervous about living up to the ideals we had set pending War on Iraq: once again peace is not something we ourselves.