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RC02406 SRC Blitz S1W9.indd 1 27/5/08 5:00:08 PM Blitz Magazine Dear Reader, Telephone: (02) 9385 7715 Fax: (02) 9313 8626 Woohoo! It’s finally here – the end of semester one. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to kick PO Box 173, Kingsford NSW 2032 3 Editor’s Letter back and recharge my batteries before another Level 1, Blockhouse, Lower Campus. long slug in semester two. However, that being 4 Chair’s Report said, we are at the dawn of the dreaded exam Email: [email protected] period and some major study is in order. All Website: www.arc.unsw.edu.au those missed lectures, failure to do readings, and 6 Heroes and Villains: half-assed attempts at assessments are about to come back and bite me in the backside, so I’m Blitz Team 2008 End of Session Party going to make the most of stuvac and study, study, Editor: Alina Petanec study! Luckily, my exam timetable is all crammed 8 What First Years Should into the first week, so I won’t be hanging around Designer: Erin Henriksen Know by First Semester for too long. On a sad note, Blitz won’t be in production over the holidays, so when I open the Reporters: office door in a month’s time, a fine layer of dust Georgia Carthey & Stanley Hong 10 Getting the most out will have covered my desk and the odd cobweb Communications Coordinator: of Mid Year Break here and there will have made its home in the Jude Whitfield Blitz office. Not only will I be pulling my hair out in 11 Club of the Week: Atheist Society boredom, but I will miss the adrenalin I get from Marketing and Communications putting Blitz to print every week. However, not Manager: Gillian Clive 12 What’s On to fear! We will be back next semester with lots more of our amusing, entertaining pieces which Advertising and Sponsorship: 14 Picture Page have kept you all optimistic over the semester. Nancy Chung 15 Snapshot: UNSW’s Mystery Plane If you are one of the lucky few who has one exam or none at all, or is so extremely organised that Blitz Advertising 16 Exam Tips and Tricks the exams will be a breeze, the Roundhouse is Present advertising artwork 12 days holding its end of session Heroes and Villains prior to publication. Bookings 20 days party. You can either be very, very good, or 17 Kudos to Kudos! prior to publication. Rates and very, very bad, depending on which way you enquiries should be directed to sway. Get creative and dress up because it Nancy Chung. is sure to be one booze-filled evening. 18 The Poor End of Uni Life Telephone: (02) 9385 7666 If you are feeling particularly creative over Email: [email protected] 19 Classifieds the holidays, why not write something for Blitz? You can email your stories to 20 Reviews [email protected] and I will Publisher happily consider them for publication. Blitz is published weekly by Arc @ 21 Amusement Page Until then, felices fiestas! UNSW. The views expressed herein are not necessarily the views of 22 Membership Specials Alina Petanec Arc, unless explicitly stated. The Arc and Giveaways Blitz Editor accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the opinions or 23 Vox Pops information contained in this issue of Blitz. Any complaints should be sent to: Communications Coordinator PO Box 173 Kingsford, NSW 2032.
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BlitzBlitz Magazine Magazine 3 3 Dear Reader, “It’s a bird, it’s a plane… no it’s on the Board. On behalf of the Board and the Superman!” – citizens of Metropolis members of the Arc I would like to thank these Directors for their time, passion and dedication, “My baby’s all grown up and... and I wish them all the best for the future. savin’ China.” – Mushu for Mulan Finally, thank you to everyone who read this section each week, it has been lots of fun to write. Thanks “Snakes. Why did it have to also to all of the UNSW students who took the time be snakes?” – Indiana Jones to send me emails with comments or suggestions throughout the last year. Your feedback will be used I know we could all quote the famous lines of in developing new ideas for the Arc in its future our favourite action heroes or villains. This operations. As of semester two there will be a new Thursday you have the perfect excuse to don you Chair – as your representative on the Board and favourite signature outfit and take on their alter the spokesperson for the Arc you should feel free ego. How is that possible I hear you ask? Well to contact the Chair with any ideas or suggestions it’s quite simple - the theme of this Thursday’s for the Arc. It’s your student organisation so End of Session Party is “Heroes & Villains”, and keep getting involved and the ideas coming. it promises to be an action-packed night with the biggest obstacle you will have to overcome, is Over the past year many people have asked me who to come as. Entry is free for Arc Members. to mention them in my report and I’m not the subtlest of people, so I never figured out how to As it’s Week 12, this is my last Chair’s Report ever. sneak them all in, so to everyone I would have I just wanted to take this opportunity to say a few liked to thank and mentioned in my report, you parting words. Firstly, congratulations to Caro know who you are, this report is for you. Thank Wallace, Shay Deguara, Andrew Looi and Sue you also to the Blitz team, Alex, Alina and Jude Beardman who have just begun a two-year term on who patiently waited for my report each week. the Arc Board. These new Directors, along with the 9 continuing Directors, will be responsible for the In parting, good luck with assessments and governance and strategic direction of the Arc in the exams over the next couple of weeks. See coming year. These are the people you have elected you at End of Session and, as always, I’ll be to make the Arc the best student organisation in the one dancing badly down the front dressed Australia and UNSW the best university to study at. as…you’ll just have to wait and see, a real superhero never gives away their identity. Secondly, leaving the Board are Stephen Mok, Hayden Daley and Andrew Wells. These few Caitlin Hurley Directors have all contributed an enormous amount Chair of the Board to the UNSW campus community during their time
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Blitz Magazine 5 Heroes and Villains: End of Session
PartyStanley Hong
It’s the end of semester, so now comes the time to party hard. The Roundhouse will once again be the epicentre of celebrations at UNSW with a ‘Heroes and Villains’ themed evening. With performances from Double Yum, DJ Gabriel, Alex Taylor, Adam Bozetto, and Sleep Monday – it’ll be off the hook! Dust off your costumes, gear up, and look out for the giveaways and freebies.
Taking a page out of the theme of ‘Heroes and Villains’; we here at Blitz 1. Darth Vader want to celebrate the humble villain – the ‘second banana’ in those epic Hollywood blockbusters. Everybody (Star Wars) loves the hero, but how about Firstly, who out there is annoyed of the man would make spreading some affection to that George Lucas did those all Storm Troopers the baddies? Because, in most prequels with Hayden Christensen shake in their boots. cases they’re more interesting playing the dark lord of space? I Oh, don’t forget the than the hero, have multi- mean, come on! The Darth Vader heavy breathing. dimensional personalities, and we know and love from Episodes Makes us swoon. are just more memorable. 4 to 6 is so badass, but is made to Screw the Rebel look like a wuss in Episodes 1 to 3. Alliance, let the So, this article is a love letter to Empire ultimately the villains of celluloid. Just to That being said, Darth Vader is overcome! let them know that more than still one of the most memorable their mothers love them too. villains to ever grace the cinematic screens. The voice and the stature Without further ado, here are the top 5 most memorable villains ever captured on film. In no particular order of course, because these baddies are just so awesome
6 Blitz Magazine 2.The Joker 5.Tommy Heroes and Villains: (Batman) DeVito From what we’ve been hearing, Heath Ledger’s turn as the Joker in the upcoming Batman movie is (Goodfellas) something to behold. Until we see A genius of a flim that is flawless his maniacal presence on screen for in every conceivable way. However, ourselves, the true measuring stick it is Joe Pesci, in his Academy Award End of Session for villainy on film is Jack Nicholson’s winning performance as Tommy DeVito representation of the clown prince. that takes the cake as a villain du jour. Michael Keaton was about as DeVito has no qualms in shooting to expressive as a piece of wood, while death a kid who has the temerity to the Joker was off on his own badass make fun of him, all the while whacking tangent. And who can ignore that Party a ‘mad man’ without flinching. Tommy laugh? Also, Batman was just plain is both psychotic, yet endearing – and weak for hitting a man with glasses. don’t forget he loves his mum.
This writer almost shed a tear when he got his comeuppance for his many crimes and misdemeanours.
So why not give yourself a chance 3.hannibal Lector to be really, really bad and dress up as your favourite baddie at the end of semester party? It’ll be the last (Silence of the Lambs) time we all get to celebrate before the villainy of exams haunts us. Has there ever been a more chilling or charismatic evildoer out there? The good doctor made everyone who saw this film sleepless at night, as he battled wits against the equally delectable FBI agent, Clarice Starling. Terrifying would be the only appropriate description that can be bestowed on Lector as his psychological games with Clarice heightened the tension of the film.
Sir Anthony Hopkins made almost everyone that has seen Silence of the Lambs turn into an avowed vegetarian. 4.Mr. Blonde (Reservoir Dogs) Quentin Tarantino has drawn up some splendid villains in his films, but it is his first real bad guy that takes the cake – Mr Blonde.
A remorseless criminal that is as chilled Heroes and as an iceblock, Mr Blonde comes into his own when in one of the most memorable Villains End of scenes in cinematic history, he ties up a police officer to a chair, while ‘Stuck in the Middle with You’ by Stealers Wheel Session Party is playing in the background. Dancing his Roundhouse little jig, and then slicing off the officer’s ear, Mr Blonde makes disembowelling Thursday 5 June a person of authority look so cool. 7pm onwards Arc members free UNSW Students free before 9PM, $5 after
All others $10 Blitz Magazine 7 Stanley Hong
It’s the end of the semester and you are half way through your inaugural year. Congratulations, well done, and all that jazz. Getting into university believe it or not was the easy part – surviving your studies in tact is the real litmus test. The first year of university study is arguably the hardest, because lecturers aren’t there to hold your hand like your teachers did at school, and the culture of tertiary education is totally different from anything you have ever experienced in a classroom. Trying to find your voice and self within the hallowed halls of Allow us to take a moment to make our declaration for our love of the UNSW can be a challenge, and since humble libraries here at UNSW. We do indeed adore our repositories of it is you who make Blitz possible, it’s knowledge, but trying to get a computer is a cutthroat exercise that would only fair that we here give you some test the endurance of the most competitive of characters. If you have tips on what you should have worked ever had to line-up for a precious PC for an hour or so, you’d be acutely out by now by the end of your first aware of the fact that checking your email or Facebook account is an semester; if you haven’t already. exercise in futility. Here is the thing, the higher you move up in the library; the easier it is get a computer. Plus, “…the library, although impressive Firstly, and most importantly, you should have already worked out which you’ll get the best views of Sydney lectures you should attend, and the ones you can skip when you’ve had a in size and scale, isn’t very useful on campus at the top of the library. late night. It is here when doing your readings for class is essential, because when there are also 100 other kids it makes missing said lecture more palatable. Also, you would already have doing the same topic as you.” done at least one research assignment, and become brutally aware that the library, although impressive in size and scale, isn’t very useful when there are also 100 other kids doing the same topic as you. Get in early, and use the material ASAP! The threat of getting your precious sources recalled is ever looming. This is where electronic journals become a saving grace. Check them religiously because they’re refereed, written by esteemed researchers, and no one can take them off you!
Moving into the classroom, it’ll become readily apparent that everyone sharing that space with you is just as capable intellectually – sometimes even more so. Here is the thing though: the loudest person in class isn’t necessarily the smartest. Hey, just take a look at me. Sometimes I can’t shut up and I am nowhere near the sharpest tool in the toolshed. I just overcompensate to hide my intellectual shortcomings. Although, once you do find the smartest kid in class, make friends with him or her. They might be a tad bit socially awkward due to their genius, but they’ll come in extremely useful when that group assignment rolls around.
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Depressingly for us, writing assignments is part of what we have Student & Staff to do to receive our cherished degrees. I know it sucks. University is a place for expanding your horizons and minds, opening oneself discounts available to new ideas. Our lecturers although smart, are also human with their own biases. I know that the following tip will be a cop out, but it could make your life easier, but write to the biases of your upto lecturers! Yes, they want something challenging, but they’re just as susceptible to their own internal political mechanisms. $75 trade in* As alluded to earlier in the aforementioned paragraph, yes, your lecturer is human, with the requisite human foibles. If you get a bad vibe from them in your first lecture or tute, for the love of God, get out! I’ve been there and it bites. You tell yourself; “Maybe, the good doctor was having an off day.” But be advised, first impressions sometimes do count. Trade-ins on new iPods iPod repairs available * Conditions Apply IPOD
Socially speaking, joining clubs and attending major Price events are an excellent way to meet new people, because chances are, there weren’t many familiar Drop faces when you first began your academic journey. We here at Blitz have carped on endlessly about this aspect of UNSW life, so we won’t beat a dead donkey any further. Although, find your favourite food outlet and visit with monotonous regularity. Why? Because of the possibility that one day you might get a freebie!
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must really take into heart: if you HP Laptops from $699 see a student with a camera, dictaphone, and a notebook: Walk away, because chances are they want you for Vox Pops. I'M A MAC AND I'M A PC Well, I’ve gone on my own tips and tricks, but here are two other students with their views on what first years should know by the -Design at COFA end of their first semester. Get out books early because they go fast. Try Windows running Don’t bother with computers on campus because SEE on a Mac they’re always taken.
Don’t rely on lecturers and tutors, -International Relations you need to go out on your own and Student financing figure the stuff out for yourself. The best place to sleep available - see instore during a lecture. Attend your classes and put in the work. Just because you only The fastest route to have 12 hours a week doesn’t the Roundhouse. mean you can just go to class and do nothing for the rest of How to forge sources the time. Because you’ll fail! in your essays.
UNSW Quadrangle, UNSW Main Campus, t: 02 9385 2377 [email protected] Blitz Magazine 9 Getting the most out of mid- break yearGeorgia Carthey
If you’ve just finished your first semester at uni, midyear break can be a mixed blessing. You may not have classes to attend – and thank god, your exams are finally over – but then again, you also don’t have anywhere you need to be on a daily basis. The employed among you may simply use the opportunity to score some extra shifts; the more social set probably already have a booked calendar. If you’re somewhere in between, here’s a few things you can do over the break.
think about anything even vaguely the Harbor Bridge. Go to Sydney always the MCA and Art Gallery, Well, we wouldn’t be Blitz if we connected to uni for a while. Got a Aquarium (it rocks, I love that place), where entry is largely free. So you didn’t push your learning. You can friend who left Sydney after their or hit Luna Park one night. There can get your artistic thing on. score some easy credits towards HSC? Go crash at their new place. If are discount coupons for some of your degree by taking a course they’re a good friend they’ll probably these in the Arc Diary, so make the There’s also Sydney’s club and during winter semester, especially even forgive you for bringing a new most of it. You can’t honestly call music scene. Sit in Hyde Park on Gen Eds. Not many are being run mate or two. You can even make yourself a Sydneysider if you’ve a weekend and you’re almost sure in winter semester at the moment a road trip out of it – the Blue never been to half the sights... to be approached by people who – part of the move to a 12 week Mountains make an easy trip, but are promoting their new bands – semester and increased research you could hit Brisbane, Melbourne, You could also use the break to or who want your change, either by lecturers was the cutting down even Adelaide if you’re committed express your creative side. Go see way. There are always new bands of winter semester – but COFA is and like your friends a whole lot. some movies you wouldn’t normally on the rise, so try and see some still offering courses, and possibly – and go see them at the cinema, shows. You might even see someone ADFA, too. It’s an easy way to pick On the other hand, your carbon not in your back room. If you’re an before they become famous, and up some credits and save yourself footprint will stay smaller if you Arc Member, you’ll have a discount then you’ll have a decent shot at some stress later in your degree. stay at home. And it’s not like there coupon in your diary for the Randwick becoming their first groupie. isn’t plenty to do in Sydney! Stuff Ritz, so start there and then snag all If you’re a little over that whole we mostly don’t do on a day-to-day your friends coupons’ too. You can Still got nothing to do? I have learning thing – and no one can blame basis, because that will always be get concession tickets to most plays, no sympathy. Go for a walk, you – you can get out of Sydney. The there, right? Make the effort to do including NIDA, so that’s another people, I’m sure you’ll find best way to prepare yourself for something you wouldn’t normally do option. And there’s something. Happy holidays. semester 2 is to completely fail to in Sydney: Visit a museum. Walk over
“You can’t honestly call yourself a Sydneysider if you’ve never been to half the sights...”
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“When you understand why you dismiss all other gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” The UNSW Atheist Society is somewhat of a dark horse on campus. Sure, you’ve probably heard of them and wondered what that’s all about, but are they really doing what you think they’re doing? That’s all a bit up in the air. They’re the first UNSW society for atheists, agnostics, and sceptics, and are in the habit of poking fun at religious groups on campus and in general. They consider themselves somewhat infamous for their various satirical stunts on campus – and who hasn’t heard about their offer to debate any of the religious groups on campus, and the refusals they’ve received? They also have a knack of making anyone who takes themself seriously look a bit silly.
For example, earlier this session, they held a meet on the Library Lawn – but while our Christian groups have prayer meets advertised in Blitz, the Atheist Society called their meet “Heathens on the Lawn During Break”. You have to admire their openness – as well as their ability to parody themselves before anyone else can. The phrase “taking the mickey” comes to mind – if you’re mocking yourself, anyone else doing the same is going to look extraneous at best.
Later this year, they’ve got a few things planned. A day of worship for the Flying Spaghetti Monster is planned (look it up on Google K?<9@>> Xe[`k[f\jeËk`emfcm\k_\Gfg\ Blitz Magazine 11 RH02435_StartofSessionParty_TeaserAd_S1W12_v2.indd 1 27/5/08 12:27:19 PM What's ON Trivia 1-2pm What was the tallest mountain before Mt Everest was discovered? Find out at trivia. Roundhouse Table Tennis 11am-3pm MONDAY Welfare Collective Give us your best shot. 2 June Yarn - Indigenous Meeting 1-2pm Roundhouse Table Tennis 5-6pm Training Room 2, Blockhouse Meet at the Library steps Free 11am-3pm Free Random acts of kindness Give us your best shot. 12-2pm Roundhouse Bible Studies Free lollies! Happy Hour 2pm Library Lawn Random acts of kindness 5-6pm 3rd Floor, Squarehouse The happiest hour of the day, 12- 2pm with all the happiest people. Free lollies! Roundhouse Womyn on Top Environment Collective Library Lawn 12-1pm 2-5pm Quad Lawn Come along and meet other Poker in the Round Daily Mass queer women on campus in a 5pm registration, 6pm game safe and relaxed environment. 12.10pm Roundhouse Snacks and drinks provided. Daily Mass Want to go to mass today? 12.10pm Queerspace, Chemical Quad G041 Want to go to mass today? Sciences 920 Quad G040 Free Pottery Induction TUESDAY 12.30pm 3 June Rosary Pottery Induction A safety induction to introduce you to 12.30pm Thoughtful Foods Coop 4pm the Pottery Studio and how it is run. A safety induction to introduce you to 10.30am-4pm 3rd Floor Squarehouse The studio is free for members to use Your on campus Food Co-op is open the Pottery Studio and how it is run. and $3.30 per hour for non-members throughout the semester. Swing by for The studio is free for members to use once they have attended an induction. tasty snacks and whole-grain goodness! Happy Hour and $3.30 per hour for non-members Pottery Studio once they have attended an induction. Volunteer training at 11am & 3pm 5-6pm Free Pottery Studio Tucked neatly behind The happiest hour of the day, Free the Roundhouse, on the with all the happiest people. Students with Disabilities Squarehouse side Roundhouse Collective Bingo 1-2pm Table Tennis Pool Comp 1-2pm Level 2, Library Disabilities Roundhouse 11am-3pm 5-6pm Resource Room Give us your best shot. Come test your skills Free Roundhouse against your friends Roundhouse Anti-Racism Collective 1-2pm Women’s Collective Bible Studies Meet up with other passionate people in 3-4pm 11am putting race issues on the agenda! Let’s The Women’s Collective is a social, 3rd Floor, Squarehouse value our differences and form positive organising and political space for ANY Free WEDNESDAY relationships. Through learning from woman who would like to meet other 4 June each other we can grab opportunities awesome women. Come join us to Breakfast Club - as a collective and act on these issues! chat, learn from each other, have fun, Random acts of kindness Free breakfast! Quad Lawn and get active to raise awareness about 12- 2pm 9-11am gender issues. All women welcome! Free lollies! Library Forecourt Women’s Room, Level 1, UNSW Bike Club Library Lawn Free East Wing, Blockhouse. Repair Workshop Wednesdays 1-3pm Thoughtful Foods Coop Daily Mass Quad Lawn 10.30am-4pm Rosary 12.10pm Your on campus Food Co-op is open 4pm Want to go to mass today? throughout the semester. Swing by for 3rd Floor Squarehouse Quad G025 Rosary tasty snacks and whole-grain goodness! Free Free 4pm Volunteer training at 11am & 3pm 3rd Floor Squarehouse Tucked neatly behind the Roundhouse, on the 12 Blitz Magazine Squarehouse side Week 12 June 2 - June 8 What's On Deadlines Week 1: by 9 July. Week 2: by 16 July. What's ON submit online at www.arc.unsw.edu.au Tharunka contributors’ meeting 4-5pm Want to contribute to your second best student magazine? Tharunka Office, Blockhouse COFA CAMPUS Free Women’s Collective Queer Collective 1-2pm 4.30-6.30pm Happy Hour The Women’s Collective is a social, Come and relax at the College of Fine 5-7pm organising and political space for ANY Arts campus where the collective has The happiest hour of the day, woman who would like to meet other its last meeting for semester. Table with all the happiest people. awesome women. Come join us to tennis tables are available as well as Roundhouse chat, learn from each other, have fun, pool tables and snacks will be provided. and get active to raise awareness about We may decide to have drinks nearby gender issues. All women welcome! on Oxford street afterwards. Le Plaisir: Faux Pas COFA Committee Room, COFA Live Music Women’s Room, Level 1, 7.30pm-midnight Campus 5-7pm East Wing, Blockhouse. Ever done something socially awkward? Free Show support for our live musicians. Come and join others from UNSW’s Roundhouse Bible Studies Queer community to join in the fun 1pm where it’s all about ‘putting your foot 3rd Floor, Squarehouse in it”. Wear something a little out of Guy 2 Guy Free touch with mainstream fashion or just 6.30-8.30pm FRIDAY come and join in the entertainment Come and join other queer, gay, Rosary 6 June for the evening. Shows at regular bi or trans males to socialise, 4pm Trauma Teddy Knitting intervals will be scheduled. relax, or just play games with. 3rd Floor Squarehouse 10.30am-12.30pm THIS IS AN 18+ EVENT Queerspace, Chemical Free Want to make a difference and meet Club Bar, Roundhouse Sciences 920 new people at the same time? Come $5 Free Happy Hour and join us for some trauma teddy 5-6pm knitting. No knitting experience The happiest hour of the day, required – just bring a pair of keen with all the happiest people. hands and your enthusiastic self! THURSDAY Roundhouse Quad G042 ✌ SATURDAY 5 June Free 7 June Thoughtful Foods Coop Live Music 9am-6pm 5-6.30pm Table Tennis Your on campus Food Co-op is open Show support for our live musicians. 11am-3pm throughout the semester. Swing by for Roundhouse Give us your best shot. tasty snacks and whole-grain goodness! Roundhouse Vegetable pickups from 2pm. Heroes and Villains EOS Party Tucked neatly behind 7pm – onwards Pottery Induction ✌ SUNDAY the Roundhouse, on the Dress up as your favourite hero or villain 12.30pm 8 June Squarehouse side and let your hair down at the EOS party! A safety induction to introduce you to Roundhouse the Pottery Studio and how it is run. Arc MEMBERS FREE, UNSW The studio is free for members to use, Bible Studies STUDENTS FREE BEFORE 9PM, $5 and $3.30 per hour for non-members 11am AFTER, ALL OTHERS $10 once they have attended an induction. 3rd Floor, Squarehouse Pottery Studio Free Free Live Music Table Tennis 4.30-6.30pm 11am-3pm Show support for our live musicians. Give us your best shot. Roundhouse Roundhouse Happy Hour 5-6pm Random acts of kindness The happiest hour of the day, 12- 2pm with all the happiest people. Free lollies! Roundhouse Library Lawn Daily Mass 12.10pm Want to go to mass today? Quad G055 Blitz Magazine 13 Arc CampusCan you spot someone Pics you know? beergarden launch 14 Blitz Magazine K17 PLANEStanley Hong Inevitably, the TAFE had no more use for the K17 plane and were Put your hands up if you’re aware that there was preparing to dismantle it. That is, until John Page came in and saved a plane sitting behind the K17 building (put your the plane from oblivion, moving all hands down Computer Science and Engineering the parts from Padstow to UNSW. John originally wanted the plane to become a flying angel over the gates, students)? We know that you’re conscious of its welcoming aerospace engineering students to the faculty. After an arduous existence, because it was behind your building. search, the current K17 building location was settled on and it became The rest of you – yes, there was a plane Engineering, approximately 10 years ago, the plane a focal point for students to meet. tucked behind the K17 building. Sadly, this was affectionately assembled by John with the help is perhaps the only glimpse all of us will of his students. This was a massive undertaking, Sadly, the K17 plane has reached its use by have of the plane via the pages of Blitz. due to the sheer size of the job. For anyone that date here as well, and a wonderful relic will has seen the edifice would realise that putting the no longer call this university home. It may not As mentioned earlier, the plane was located K17 plane together was a true labour of love. be as attractive as the day it arrived here, but behind the CSE building, which unfortunately has the character and history is undeniable. no use for a replica plane. In commemorating The K17 plane was originally owned by the Civil the passing of a UNSW institution, we celebrate Aviation Safety Authority, using it to check radio K17 plane – you will be sorely missed. We couldn’t the K17 plane as this week’s snapshot. beacon signals. From there, the plane found a think of a better tribute for both John and the plane new home at Padstow TAFE where engineers by featuring it in the pages of this magazine. Brought in by John Page, senior lecturer at learnt the intricacies of aero mechanics. the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Blitz Magazine 15 Exam tips and tricks: Georgia Carthey SomeSo. Your friendly first semester is over. You’ve hitadvice the UniBar, the Beergarden opening, narrowly attended enough tutorials or provided enough forged medical certificates to make it look like you did, handed in all your assignments – and maybe didn’t do as well as you’d hoped? – and now you’ve got Stuvac! Finally, a holiday! Right? Well, no. Sadly, you’ve still got to face Study Effectively Also, the magic number for your first year exams. And yes, Study in blocks of time, at memory is 7. Your brain will best you do need to pass them. Most places, and for lengths of time function if every category you courses require that you pass that work for you. Having come up with contains 7 items all aspects of the course, not a 2 minute break every 20 or less. If you have more, you’ll just gain a grade of more than minutes is almost nothing, but start to forget the later ones, and fifty, in order to pass. So yes, you has been shown to be enough you’ll miss out on information. must attend your exams, and to refresh you to absorb and yes, you must pass them, too. remember more information. Don’t Stress When you stress out, your body Still, it’s not all bad. Your Also, summarising your notes releases adrenalin. It prepares friendly team at Blitz are will be more effective than you for a fight-or-flight type here once more to help reading them until your eyes situation; because that’s the only you out with exam bleed. If you summarise, you stress your body understands. tips and tricks. have to think about what the And funnily enough, perched on material means and how it fits the edge of your chair, ready to Remember together, and you’re more likely bolt, isn’t the best circumstance to study. to remember that than a series under which to either learn or I know, now that of facts that you haven’t put the recall information. Learn your just sounds like mental effort into connecting. crazy talk! But if you stuff, get a good night’s sleep, get so hung up on the fact Simplify Concepts and don’t panic on the day. that you don’t have to go to The most effective memory tool Keep calm and keep on your class and can spend your time is one that helps you recollect game. And when you’re sleeping in and staying up with your information in a helpful unmotivated, think of the hour your mates that you forget to pattern. The best way to do this after the exam! It can be a study… well, that’s not good. is to summarise everything great hour, or one in which you you have to learn, and then totally freak out knowing you’ve Attend your Exam gather it into groups. Give each failed. Think about that hour! I know - another obvious one. group a title, and see if you can But if you sleep in or forget compile the groups into larger where you’re going on the day, categories. Eventually, you even your high distinction should be able to remember essay on the circular meanings everything you need to through of self definition according to a basic series of keywords. Sartre isn’t going to help you. 16 Blitz Magazine Kudos Gallery is a student Artist Run Initiative be a constant anguish. In support KUDOS GALLERY of Sydney’s community of ARIs and 6 Napier St Paddington NSW 2021 (ARI) that is supported by Arc @ UNSW. Since its in recognition of Kudos Gallery’s Wed to Fri 11am - 6pm, Sat 11am - 4pm beginnings in 1998, the gallery has remained a vital success of being run by students T: (02) 9326 0034 www.arc.unsw. over the past 10 years, we tip our edu.au [email protected] resource to the students of the College of Fine Arts hat in kudos to all that have helped as well as the greater art community of Sydney. maintain and reinvent the ARI Kudos Gallery is run by COFA students locale. and funded by Arc @ UNSW Limited By reflecting upon the rich and collaborations and solo exhibitions of diverse history of exhibitors at some of Australia’s most innovative Artists include: In line with the scope of Kudos Kudos Gallery, the exhibition emerging artists. In this tenth Gallery, the exhibition features a Bronwyn Bailey- Soda_Jerk KUDOS TO KUDOS honours those anniversary exhibition, we delve into broad range of mediums and ideas, Charteris The Kingpins artists who have been supported the past of Kudos Gallery as well as with artists such as Claire Healy Nicole Barakat Sarah Langdon at the beginning of their careers indicating the kinds of opportunities & Sean Cordeiro, Emma Price Monika Behrens Wenmin Li by their fellow students. It also and inspirations that will take us to (The Kingpins) and Soda_Jerk. Tara Cook Rodney Love reminds visitors of the value student the future. Opening night will also include a live Simon Cooper Scott Morrison organisations bring to university life. performance art extravaganza! Louise Curham Vincent The exhibition includes both artists Artist Run Initiatives are vital to both Jacquelene O’Connor at the beginning of their careers artists and audiences in our Sydney Curated by Marcel Cooper Drinkall Lena Obergfell and some of Australia’s leading communities. By existing outside of Andrew Gadow Lady Penelope contemporary artists. the commercial and public gallery Opens: 5-8pm Tuesday 3 Jessica Geron Stephanie art market, the hardworking people June: Live Performances Janie Gibson Peters The gallery is known for its behind an ARI can create exciting and Party! Phoebe Torzillo Emma Pike encouragement of experimentation, and influential independent spaces. Exhibition continues Claire Healy & Justin Shoulder and as a result it has often been As non-profit organisations the life till 14 June 2008. Sean Cordeiro Penny Spankie the site for first performances, and future of many ARI galleries can Chloe Hughes Blitz Magazine 17 TheA recent report poor commissioned by the Student end Health Allied Members^ highlighted the financial of crisis affecting a significant number of students across NSW universities. The appendix of the uni report contained the following self-assessment. After choosing the best response to each question life below, follow the scoring instructions at right. Scoring: How would you 4 best describe Answering with a = 5 points. your residence for = 4 points, = 3 points, most weekdays? = 2 points. & = 1 point. Single bed in the family home Tally up your total points. Your rented flat A score between 36-45 signifies you have You are doing Sharing a bed at your no financial concerns, you rich bastard. a degree in*: girlfriend’s/boyfriend’s place A score between 27-35 means you are 1 surviving financially, but must improve Unsure (i.e. after an your flirting skills on Friday nights. A score Engineering alcohol-fuelled night) between 18-26 is a sign you should hook- Law/Business Sleeping-bag on the floor of up with an aged millionaire or claim to be Arts your best friend’s bedroom the illegitimate child of Donald Trump. A Medicine/Science score between 9-17 means that you’re technically either homeless or your body Other is being sustained on pigeon food alone. If *For a double degree, pick the the latter, you could donate you body to the one you find most interesting On an average nutrition department of your university for 5 day, for lunch you: possible payment or at least a sandwich. At the end of a Had an instant cup-of- 7 typical week, noodles (i.e. starch you have: You will be at uni and water) for a period of#: 2 Went hungry To rely on IOUs 3-4 years Bought your food from More than enough money 5-6 years the food court for the weekend 7-8 years Admired how pigeons Go back to or stay at can eat off the ground your parents place 9-10 years for the weekend Had a home-cooked meal Life To flirt with your friends # Include periods of leave, to get free drinks deferments and PhD or Masters To sit in the corner of your bedroom and weep quietly For extra cash, 6 you have: The last thing Asked for more you could not shifts at work Your HECS 3 ^The Student Health Allied afford was: Answered an ad on a fees will: 8 Members, or SHAM, takes no light-post claiming you can A plasma TV Be taken care of by your responsibility for the mental state make money from home parents/great uncle Lunch of university students after taking Sold all of your text books Be payed off upfront to this financial self-assessment. A notebook computer “Borrowed” money receive the 25% discount Shoes from your parents, Accumulate as you jump A car siblings or friends from degree to degree Volunteered to join Be paid off once you a scientific study start working full-time to test a variety of Be a distant memory from pharmacological drugs your home in Majorca 18 Blitz Magazine Volunteers needed Position available Want to empower young people, Casual research technician position is attend music festivals and gain skills available in neuroscience laboratory The poor end all at the same time? Red Cross is at Garvan Institute for student who [email protected] of recruiting volunteers for its Save-A- has taken classes in neuroscience, or 0424-369847. Mate (SAM) program. SAM works physiology, or anatomy. Will need Filipino Society End of to promote the health and wellbeing to be available minimum about 20 Session Party for Filipino of young people by providing hours a week and on weekends/ Independence Day and AGM education, service and support on evenings when needed. Will probably Come to the Village Green on key current and emerging health suit student with interest in doing uni Thursday 5 June from 12 – 3PM to issues. As part of the SAM program, Neuroscience honours in 2009 or eat awesome Filo food (tapislog!) and our trained volunteers attend music 2010, but anyone with relevant interest meet other Filos on campus. Meet festivals like Good Vibrations and or experience should apply. Send the new leadership team and share Homebake. Please contact unsw. CV, academic record, and letter of plans for the upcoming year! Bring a [email protected] before application to [email protected] life gold coin donation along on the day. Monday June 9th for details. 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CONTRIBUTE TO STUDENT LIFE Gfj`k`fejfek_\Jkl[\ek;\m\cfgd\ek:fdd`kk\\Xi\efnfg\e% K_\Jkl[\ek;\m\cfgd\ek:fdd`kk\\`jk_\8iZJkl[\ek9f[p fm\ij\\`e^ZclYj#mfclek\\igif^iXdj#Zflij\jXe[XZk`m`k`\j% K_\i\Xi\knfgfj`k`fejXmX`cXYc\1 (Jkl[\ekI\gi\j\ekXk`m\]ifd8]Ôc`Xk\[:clYj (:F=8Jkl[\ekI\gi\j\ekXk`m\ >\kXeXggc`ZXk`fe]fidXknnn%XiZ%lejn%\[l%Xl 8GGC@:8K@FEJ :CFJ< =i`[Xp-Ale\ Student Development 8iZI\Z\gk`fe>ifle[=cffi#9cfZb_flj\#K10*/,..'' 8iZ7:F=8C\m\c(#;9cfZb#K10*/,'.0/ Jkl[\ek;\m\cfgd\ekC\m\c(#Ifle[_flj\#K10*/,0/+' nnn%XiZ%lejn%\[l%Xl Blitz Magazine 19 CloverField Falling Off the Lavender No Country For Old Men The Ex Thomas George Bridge by Lightspeed Thomas George Thomas George Cloverfield is a monster movie set Champion For any fans of the Coen brothers, For any fans of either Zach Braff or in New York and filmed in the handy Stanley Hong this film is a must see experience. It Jason Bateman, The Ex is a must see cam style in the same mould as the is a chilling adaptation of the book of movie for you. It’s a comedy movie that Firstly, a mea culpa is in order: Blair Witch Project. It is actually the same name by Cormac McCarthy hasn’t been received so well critically this reviewer has had this album a recovered document that is which at first glance is a tale of due to its rather lacklustre plot and in his possession since the start codenamed “CloverField” which is a horrible series of events and a direction, but Zach Braff and Jason of semester, but it is only now that taken from wreckage of Manhattan. Texan sheriff that chronicles them. Bateman manage to make this little Falling Off The Lavender Bridge is This movie was created by J.J. However this movie is about so much comedy into something worthwhile about to get its moment in the sun Abrams, the same guy who messes more. It is an existential dilemma with their performances. in the reviews section of Blitz. with our minds in the TV show Lost. of Sheriff Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), a twisted tale of fate versus Now that the formalities have been Tom (Braff) has trouble holding down The film starts with a quick chance and intertwining destinies, done with, let’s get on with the actual a steady job while his successful codename description and then nihilism (a Coen favourite) and the review of the record. Lightspeed attorney wife (Amanda Peet) is giving jumps into footage of Rob and Beth ultimate tragedy of changing times. Champion, whose real name is Dev up her career to raise their new in bed preparing for a relaxing born son. They move out of New York day ahead. A quick cut to a month Hynes, is one odd fellow and you The story starts with the main villain get that vibe via the album cover, and into Ohio, where Tom gets a job later as Rob’s best friend Hudson Anton (played brilliantly by Javier working for his stepfather at an ad is given control of the camera to his strange ramblings in his blog, Bardem) and his unusual choice and the lyrics on this album. agency. Here enters Chip (Bateman), record the nights festivities for of weapon killing indiscriminately a wheel chair bound sadist hell bent on Rob’s farewell to Japan. Halfway and heading towards something. It However, that being said Falling Off destroying Tom’s marriage and making through the party, all hell breaks then cuts to the hero of the movie The Lavender Bridge is a beautifully off with Sophia in the process. As Tom loose as a gigantic monster attacks Llewelyn (Josh Brolin) hunting deer. crafted album that has a genuine and Chip face off against each other, Manhattan and the story unfolds. He then stumbles across a drug beating heart of an indie musical everyone around them is caught in the deal in the middle of the desert that cross fire. This isn’t so much a monster story genius – who is insecure with the world has gone wrong and quickly makes as it is a record of the people trying and the music industry that he inhabits. away with two million in cash. This is The true magic in this movie is from to survive the attack. The only As a lyricist, Lightspeed Champion what Anton was heading for and the Bateman whose knack for playing a unbelievable aspect of this movie sounds like a sufferer of paranoid two play a hideous cat and mouse sadistic sociopath is given license is the super almighty camera that schizophrenia as “Devil Tricks For game for the rest of the movie. to fly. In every part of this movie, he has high beams, night vision, a A Bitch” so aptly illustrates, tying steals the scene with his hilarious seemingly unending source of power, a It’s very difficult to sum up a brilliant in the mundane, but unconnected performance and anyone who has godhood powered anti shake function and in-depth movie such as this in acts of eating cereal, with the seen Arrested Development will love (especially in zoom) and is utterly so short a review. It’s not a typical observation of his guitar lying on Bateman in this role. indestructible. Maybe if they pitted action or suspense movie but rather a the floor. It sounds like it shouldn’t the monster against the camera, the complex series of intertwining stories work, but this song, like the rest of outcome would have been different. that create an epic motif along the the album, has a quirky charm. The DVD features are good with same lines as Fargo (also a Coen alternate endings, commentary, The other star of this movie is the The album’s musical opus is Lightspeed Brother adaptation). I recommend deleted scenes and extended monster, which is left unexplored and Champion’s 10 minute long “Midnight this for everyone because even if ones. Though it’s not a great ambiguous throughout the film. It will Surprise”, expressing both paranoia, you take it on surface value, it is a movie, for fans of Bateman or leave you with a desire to know more and someone lost in his own lovelorn good piece of cinema which parallels Braff, this is a must buy DVD. about its origins, which if you choose musings of romantic disappointments. American Psycho. Javier Bardem to research; are very interesting. is just perfectly suited for his role Falling Off the Lavender Bridge is a and easily plays one of the most This is a clever movie and despite the multi-layered album and is a solid memorable killers of all time due to horrid use of handy cam footage, it is debut for Lightspeed Champion. We his indifference and oddity. Go see it, still a decent DVD to own and watch. can only wait with anticipation for now, even if it is just to spite me. Do it! I would recommend watching with his next efforts – if he doesn’t check someone close by to cuddle with. himself out of this world that is. 20 Blitz Magazine FIND A word WORD OF THE WEEK Haptodysphoria: An unpleasant sensation derived from touching certain objects. Example: running one’s hand along a piece of wood or the edge of a knife. Have a word of the week that you would like to share? Email [email protected] with your word and definition. SUDOKU Blitz Magazine 21 "SD.FNCFSTIJQ YOUR LATEST DEALS INTERNATI COOKBOOKONAL 2008 =I<< =FI KNF D SD02307_Cookbook_08_v2.indd 1 16/5/08 5:53:19 PM 8cc8iZd\dY\ijZXe^\kcfX[jf][`jZflekjk_ifl^_:clYM@G% Aldgfek_\n\Yj`k\kfÔe[flkdfi\% (' F== (, F== =I<< =8D@CPA =I<< N@EFE<F=,G8:BJ:FEK8@E@E> 98:BG8:B MK02543 Membership Page S1W12_v1.indd 1 27/5/08 4:11:36 PM What are you doing during the break? What exam are you least looking forward to? Dinesh Alina Most probably get a job since I need Hopefully a lot of sleeping and spring some cash. Also, check out more of Sydney cleaning. since I’m an international student. I’m doing Environmental Education because I’m dropping the subject. Microbiology and it sounds interesting. However, it doesn’t grab my attention and I’m not so keen on it. Theo I don’t have a break because I’m doing Lachlan Probably going up the coast because Honours. No break for me. Tommy I don’t have any exams I was thinking of going back to Korea I have a caravan up there, and staying for because I’m doing Honours. because I haven’t been back in ages. 2 weeks. Definitely Fundamentals The Physics exam because it’s very hard and challenging. of Management. Cettina Audrey Probably relaxing. Get my social life back. Maybe spend time with the family Working on some new pieces for my Priya besides the library. Working. end of year recital. Music Literature because it’s Not looking forward to 2280 All 3. a lot of hours and a lot of listening because it’s a building course and to do – a lot of detail involved. I’m not very confident in it. 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