6 W 1. Apr 7 S il 2 - April 6 200 Party gAouse!!! o ndh T ou e r nth aat y ma sd o r u R h t Your Rites of passage Ambush All Roads Lead Dating to RomeBlitz Magazine 7:00PM KIC U K-OFF BIG NIBAR SCREEN PASS THE BALL COMPETITION JOLLY JUGS PRIZES 6.30 – 8.00PM Blitz Magazine RH01456_Football_AD.indd 1 28/3/07 11:47:04 AM EDITORS LETTER CONTENTS Dear Reader Blitz Magazine T: (02) 9385 7715 5 The One Hit Wonders This week is the Roundhouse’s Roman F: (02) 9313 8626 Toga Party, so to get you in the mood PO Box 173, we have done a Toga edition of Blitz. Kingsford There will be a great cover band, The NSW 2032 Band Interview One Hit Wonders. Check out the band interview on page 5 for a great story Level 1, Blockhouse, about a dancing granny. Lower Campus. Highlights in this week’s Blitz include [email protected] 6 All Roads Lead to Carissa’s feature on all the surprising www.arc.unsw.edu.au things we have gained from roman culture. So if you want to know what Blitz Team 2007 Rome a ‘vomitorium’ is, check out this feature. Ana has written a feature on Editor: Alex Serpo party rituals from around the globe, Designer: Max Berry showing that growing up is painful in Reporters: Carissa Simons 9 How to Tie Your Toga all cultures. On a more serious note and Ana Gacis she has interviewed a prominent Publications Coordinator: constitutional law professor at UNSW Judith Whitfield about what it means to be a citizen. The UNSW Buddhist society is also Advertising and 16 Rites of Passage holding an exhibition entitled ‘The Path Sponsorship: Charlotte O’Brien of Awakening’. It will feature sacred 3 Editor’s Letter Buddhist artefacts and tell the story Marketing Manager: of the Budda’s life and awakening. Donna Wiemann 4 Chair’s Letter Blitz is now in Week 6 and well under way. 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The Arc accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of 22 Classifieds Alex Serpo any of the opinions or information Blitz Editor 2007 contained in this issue of Blitz. Any 23 Vox Pops complaints should be sent to the Publications Manager, PO Box 173 Kingsford NSW 2032. 7:00PM KICK-OFF ABN: 71 121 239 674 trading as Arc UNIBAR @ UNSW Limited BIG PASS THE BALL JOLLY JUGS CREEN COMPETITION PM S 6.30 – 8.00 PRIZES Blitz Magazine RH01456_Football_AD.indd 1 28/3/07 11:47:04 AM Also, for those of you looking for work, either paid or volunteer, These include: don’t forget to check out the ‘jobs’ Chair’s • A dance studio section on the Arc’s website, www. arc.unsw.edu.au/jobs. Here you • Three music rooms with pianos can find out about volunteering • Training rooms positions available, casual, part-time and permanent jobs with both the Report • A Women’s room Arc and external organisations. For example, the Arc is currently looking • A Pottery Studio for a student coordinator for the • A Darkroom annual unsweetened literary journal. Applications close on April 6. • Multi-purpose Roundhouse Rooms Anyway, have a wonderful Easter • A Wet Room for messy activities Break and I’ll see you at the such as painting banners Roundhouse this Thursday! Well, Easter is almost here! • Computer Labs Kate Bartlett Chair of the Board With that comes mid-session break, and if you’re like • Queer Space (in Chemical me you’ll be trying to balance family time with crazy Sciences) relatives (I do love them all the same) and catching up • The Club Bar and Roundhouse on uni work. You can use these spaces for In celebration of the mid-session prizes for the best dressed and the anything from creative activities such break, the Arc is throwing its mid- line up includes Adam Bozzetto, DJ as pottery and music, through to session break party, with a toga Sefu and Melanie Horsnell. using the multi-purpose Roundhouse theme. It’s time to get out those bed rooms and Training rooms for As people are settling into this sheets and enjoy a night out at UNSW. meetings, rehearsals, studying session, I thought I’d also take the One of the best things about the mid- and training. The Club Bar and opportunity to let you know about session break is that with the Friday Roundhouse can be booked for social some of the recreational facilities the after being a public holiday, many events and larger functions. people who would have to work or go Arc runs for its members. to Uni can sleep in. 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You can get a PDS at www.mycanvascard.com gh, s, Classic Hits With The One Hit Wonders j The One Hit Wonders, are a on the crowd; you get some strange fun-loving cover band that things happening in crowds. There will be churning out the was this one gig where we had what j looked like a grandmother sitting hits at the Roundhouse’s there very politely with little gloves Roman Toga Party Toga Party this week. and lace stockings. With her legs Thursday at the Roundhouse Alex Serpo sat down with Yolanda crossed, which is strange for a 5PM until 2AM Thomas, lead signer of the band to grandmother to begin with. By the ask why such a talented group of second set she was up and she was Featuring The One Hit Wonders Sydney musicians would get around in doing high kicks and trying to come Free for UNSW students before 10PM onto the band members. We get the orange overalls. audience into a state where they $5 Afterwards What’s with the orange entertain us. overalls? Can you give me any funny It’s good to have a uniform so you gig anecdotes? look like a band. I like it when you look at a band and they look like a band, There is this one funny story. We did not just a group of the audience that a gig out west with this line up. The got up to play. I realised this is an lead singer tried to do some kind extreme case. It also give you licence of trick and pushed the mike stand to go a bit crazy. forwards, then stomped his foot on the base of the mike stand so I shot Tell me about the band? back to an upright position. With that force, the cordless microphone We’re a cover band that does songs catapulted back and hit the drummer NEW Arc by artists that had one-off hits. square in the middle of the forehead; Sometimes the bands we cover it just dazed him. When blood started have had a smaller a hit, sometimes to trickle out of his forehead, he just a bigger one. There are five of us, got up and went to the bathroom. It two lead singers, a base guitar and was in the middle of “Baby Got Back”, SUPER drums. But the band name has been where we all swap instruments so he around for about 15 years. was able to get up. The band has a real rep because the What are some of your STORE name has been around for a long favourite things to play? time. We really like doing a young crowd so we will be looking forward I like ‘Gloria’ by Laura Branigan. The to [the Roundhouse gig]. We did the crowd’s favourites are things like 01&/4 [Marlborough Hotel in Newtown], ‘500 Miles’ by the Proclaimers, and and they said they hadn’t had it that ‘My Sharona’ by The Knack.