SEMESTER 2 WEEK 8 15 SEPTEMBER 2010 A Country Practice The rural doctor drought Interview with Tony Jones Blatantly Disturbing Childhood TV Shows Getting cosy with Little Red CONTENTS 2 This Week's: Best Realisation that Normal Parties Actually Blow: Silent Disco Most Effective Use of Office Time: Glebe Markets HONI SOIT, EDITION 20 where’s Best Swan-In To 90% Finished Edition as EIC: Bridie 15 SEPTEMBER 2010 Best Time Saver: Having an ad on the Contents page my hat? Colour of the Week: Beige/Magenta Fusion Jess Stirling has a big blue with Little Red. oh, there it is. The Post We kid, she just stabbed ‘em a bit. 10 03 Tim Armitige may be a Voodoo Child under a Little The Uni-Cycle Wing, but he sure misses Hendrix. 04 Pristine Ong staked out Buffy creator Joss Whedon. Alex Houseman shares his disillusionment We kid, she just stabbed ‘im a bit. 11 with the current USU Board. Carmen Culina ruffled some skirts with the director David Mack sees this University fall. of the Latin American Film Festival. stews merrily in his new radio studio. Michael Koziol Bridie Connellan trims her cut of the Sydney Joni Sham sees a double rainbow and a new clinic for Fringe Festival. depression in Chinese Australians. 05 David Mack may NOT talk about the SRC Elections. The Mains 12 Naomi Hart and Joe Payten examine The Usual Suspects 06 the serious shortage of doctors in rural Naomi Hart mourns for Millie, Ollie and Syd. Australia and the importance of placing Henry Hawthorne tries really hard to stop you medical practitioners in the outback. embarrassing Yusef. Larissa Rembisz saw a dead White Russian. 07 The Soapbox Lisa Skerrett is scared of children’s television. Callie Henderson handles your Facebook privates. 14 ohmagodohmagodoh Oh so very scared. Bridget Murphy responds to animal whatdoesthismeEan? experimentation accusations on campus. The Profile 08 Carmen Culina knows you’re not really cockney, 15 Daniel Zwi enjoys the grounds of the Fourth Estate so shut yer yap with dynamic journalist and ABC host Tony Jones. Paul Karp was on cue for Maxine. THE HYPOTHETICAL: What a Laborious effort. Georgia Flynn has a weeny crush on (E)U. Would you rather The Arts-Hole 09 Be a centipede ORfused with a gecko Elise Fabris and Monica Connors review the Pete Doherty? Architecture and Education/Social Work Revues. More Usual Suspects Shaz Rutnam gets glam, gorj and totes defs 16 FAQs Bridie Connellan sat in the corner at a wurks dat new celly. Holla gurl. party and she’ll cry if she wants to. As the centigecko, could you be arrested for Lachlan Carey gears up for the NFL season. hustlin’ junk? Ted Talas goes to college Mr. Employer. Oh Only if you didn’t know how to sing the first verse of EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Bridie Connellan ‘Albion’. If not buggy bighouse for you. EDITORS Carmen Culina, Naomi Hart, Henry and he’ll tell you. Has the centigecko dated Kate Moss? Hawthorne, Ben Jenkins, David Mack, Joe Payten, Joe Yes. Smith-Davies, Anusha Rutnam, Diana Tjoeng Would the gecko aspect of your physicality also SRC 17 make use of musical prowess? REPORTERS Monica Connors, Georgia Flynn, Callie Yes, your ability to re-grow your tail would make a Henderson, Larissa Rembisz, Lisa Skerrett, Jess Stirling, Bletchley Park 20 saxophonic sound. Ted Talas, Daniel Zwi As PD, would there be a light at the end of your CONTRIBUTORS Tim Armitige, Lachlan Carey, Tom spiralling career tunnel? The Garter 21 - 23 Get out of my office. Clement, Elise Fabris, Alex Houseman, Paul Karp, Michael Koziol, Bridget Murphy, Pristine Ong, Joni Sham PUZZLES Benny Davis and David Mack Week 6. WHERE THE HELL IS MY MID- SEMESTER BREAK? #week9isnotmidsem 1 hour ago The Post 3 Letter of Oi! the Week! A Question of Faith EDITORIAL Dear Joe Payten, Dear Honi, ‘Get some sleep.’ What a common set and match; you wake yourself to little idiom in the university populace. the doghouse. Shieet. 10 I belive [sic.] you made an omission In four years I haven’t been moved to Snooze deprivation sure is a serious yet from your scintillating Countdown in commonplace condition for students, The morbid and inflammatory point, write a letter to you. But the article by and yet we pay no qualms to weaning friends, is to look after yourselves. I the Week 6 edition of Honi Soit. While Ruby Prosser moved me because of those early AM hours for the sake of a stand hypocritically corrected, but in I agree that partaking of the fruit of its deep, deep misunderstanding of tute paper. The hours between 4 and these weeks of increasing tension and the Tree of Knowledge is a reasonably 5am seem shamelessly valuable. impending deadlines, the beauty of significant – how did you so eloquently the Christian faith. Christians are not hitting the pillow brings the freshly According to the US National Sleep baked rise to your day. put it? –“fuck up,” I believe you’ll mindless followers, nor are they hateful discriminators, as the article contends. Foundation, university-aged students find that Adam committed a similar manage an average of 6.8 hours of Now, now, restless ones, we’re hardly transgression (=”fuck up”). Christians are constantly challenged on sleep each night, although many night planning on inducing slumber in print. their views and have usually thought owls find themselves counting less and With an exclusive feature on the lack 12 Although there are those who interpret about them deeply to be able to justify less sheep with an increased workload. of doctors in rural Australian areas (p. Holy smokes, the George Institute for 12-13), a roaring opinion against the the Bible as condemning Eve as the them on both Biblical and Worldly levels. Global Health surveyed almost 20,000 current USU Board (p.4), a be-bop one primarily responsible for original Australians aged between 17 and 24 with Melbourne five-piece Little Red sin, I feel that you should have included In my church, we’re all sinners and, if and found those sleeping fewer than (p.10) and a response to the animal other viewpoints in order to create a five hours a night are three times more testing debate (p.15), the 20th birthday I might quote Barack Obama talking likely to become mentally ill than of Honi 2010 is hardly a sleepy bash. more balanced article. And does not about his church, I think he expresses those sleeping for eight or nine hours. But in the meantime buds, napping is 14 the Qur’an hold Adam and Eve equally the atmosphere better than I could: “the This is dire, man. With any luck, those as crucial as that coffee injected with responsible for eating the fruit? towering readings will never cause fatal jellysnakes, so at least try and origami lines between sinner and saved were familial insomnia (FFI), an exceedingly this paper into some form of swag 15 Cheers, more fluid; the sins of those who came rare and critical condition discovered by between PHIL1029 and PHIL1030. to church were not so different from the Honi and Wikipedia this week, in which Zzzzzzing. April Sprague the human being never sleeps. Game, Bridie Connellan Arts V sins of those who didn’t. You needed to come to church precisely because you through a critical public examination. the packaging, not knowing what Fate Cull Dem Colleges were of this world, not apart from it; The morality of the Church is entitled to has in store for me, whether or not I’m rich, poor, sinner, saved, you needed to be left alone so long as it does not affect going to be judged for my decision by Dear Honi, 16 embrace Christ precisely because you those outside the Church. But on issues some fictional sky god or the readers of had sins to wash away.” Homosexuals You are a fine publication of which the of homosexuality, the Church actively Honi Soit. The pressure is just too much are in no different a position from Law and Media faculties should be proud. attempts to impose its morality on ‘non- and so I must retract my original thank others in the church. The church club’ members. you. May something unpleasant happen However, a small grievance vexes me, an designates homosexuality a sin, but so to you in the space of the next week. enthusiastic Honi reader since the dawn also drunkenness and fornication. “All If liberal views on homosexuality, which of my undergraduate degree, which was have sinned and fall short of the Glory are undeniably humane, are advocated Not Sincerely Yours, 17 one crisp dawn, in the morning, about of God.” by the author of the article, then why Elliot Nolan four years ago. Today, in contrast, I am do they not advocate them within the Arts I pissed off. 20 Faith does not require you to suspend Church too? Why maintain a suspicious critical thinking nor does faith require double standard simply because Why persist with a weekly collegian you to hate or discriminate. In fact Love mail? Hate mail? Epic Fail? segment concerning a minority group an opinion is issued by a religious Christianity places you under a duty to of students who contribute nothing to community of any kind? If it’s going to justify your beliefs and love everyone SEND IT ALL TO university life beyond their sandstone step into the public and influence non- generously. But love doesn’t mean citadels? Christians, why claim the “club” can’t be [email protected] denying sin, when Jesus saved the held to account for its public voice? Student life benefits little from detailed adultress from stoning he still told her accounts of a bunch of sexist thugs “go away and sin no more.” Yours Sincerely, competing in culturally condoned Jared Ellsmore Honi Soit 2010: displays of aggression and testosterone Mina Nada for something called a Rawson cup.