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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 Band Interview NSW 2032 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. Blitz exists to promote student Blitz Advertising 8 Ambush Dating interests and so I am keen to hear Present advertising artwork 12 from students (or any reader of Blitz) 10 To Be a Citizen days prior to publication. Bookings what they think about the magazine. 20 days prior to publication. Rates 11 UNSW Relay for Life So send your suggestions and and enquires should be directed critiques to to Charlotte O’Brien. 12 What’s On [email protected]. Please note that suggestions that say T: 9385 7331 15 Snapshot: Isabel Lucas ‘I want to see a nude centrefold’ or ‘I E: [email protected] think your magazine is crap because 18 Reviews I’m the greatest’ will be deleted very Publisher rapidly. Only reasonable suggestions 19 GiveAways and constructive criticism please. I Blitz is published weekly by Arc look forward to hearing from you. @ UNSW. The views expressed 20 The Mirror of Buddhism herein are not necessarily the views of Arc, unless explicitly 21 Comics and Puzzles Enjoy Week 6 stated. 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

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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. To book most of them, simply come to the Blockhouse reception, or The party is this Thursday 5th April, for the Roundhouse Rooms, visit from 5pm - 2am in the Roundhouse. Roundhouse Reception on Level 1 of Entry is free before 10pm and $5 for the Roundhouse. UNSW students after 10pm, so make sure you get in early! There will be

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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 orange overalls. onto the band members. We get the 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. Before 
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All Roads Lead To Rome

Carissa Simons

It’s often said that history repeats As the title of this article suggests, the Romans itself. Ancient Rome was, if not, were the first people to build roads, which most of the most culturally influential us would agree are very useful things. Interestingly civilisation of the ancient world. It enough, in an attempt to impress Hitler during his visit to Rome just before the Second World War, seems history does repeat itself, in the Italian government decided to lay tarmac over unexpected ways. It is a little odd the cobbled ancient road leading to the Colosseum that present day Australian society – a decision which they may have later regretted. takes so much from an ancient Then again, many of the decisions made during civilisation that was located on the WWII can be classified as regrettable. other side of the world. Another, arguably less visible Roman contribution At its height, ancient Rome spanned from modern to the world was democracy. It was Roman day England in the west, North Africa to the south constitutional law that established ideas such and Armenia to the east. The Roman Empire, in as human rights, a senate, and the division of various forms, enjoyed a 1400 year reign spanning Government into parts which should balance, from the 800 BC to 400 AD. It was not the biggest complement, and check each other. They also empire in the ancient world; that honour belongs introduced the idea of a republic, which, as Dr to Alexander the Greats’ short lived, but expansive Nathan notes, “Australians seem to have some Hellenistic Empire. problem with”. Rome, in its time, established some of the basic Our culture is also littered with remnants concepts which we now take for granted, such as from the Romans. “The myths and mythologies democracy, human rights, symmetry in design, of classical antiquity still have currency, they and the separation of academic disciplines. As continue to interest us. They’ve been changed UNSW Ancient History expert, Dr Geoff Nathan to be more current, to have meaning within our says, “All aspects of modern life have been own culture, but a lot of the essentials remain the moderated by classical culture.” same” says Dr. Nathan.

We have a modern day equivalent of the vomitorium, it’s Oxford St on a Saturday night – at least the Romans had a room to do it in.

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George Bernard Shaw’s acclaimed play, The notion that there are separate and distinct We have a modern day equivalent of the Pygmalion, which was later turned into My disciplines of study lead to canons of knowledge vomitorium, it’s Oxford St on a Saturday night – at Fair Lady, was based on a classical mythology. – and those “canons” often form the basis for least the Romans had a room to do it in. Television series and films also borrow from our first year courses. Although, our notion of Each culture suffers under the delusion that Roman mythologies, or actual historical events, the academic disciplines is somewhat different to they are superior to all others, and yet, they fail such as the upcoming action-adventure 300 which those that Aristotle first envisaged. For example, to realise that their culture is merely a product details the Spartan stand against the Persians music was originally considered one of the of that which has gone before them. After all, at Thermopylae during the Peloponnesian war. mathematic disciplines because it dealt with scale Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither was any Channel 9 also did a short-lived drama series, and ratio. Rome. Even our language is littered with Latin modern day civilisation. In some ways, their idea words (such as et cetera, verbatim, ad hoc) The Catholic Church played a massive role in of culture was superior to ours. They saw cultures despite it being a Germanic language. the religious, social and cultural development of as something which could be melded together, not western world. It is also the only institution to have destroyed in conquest to make way for another. If Even fundamental concepts of artistic beauty survived completely intact from the ancient world. there was any idea that we should have taken from originated in the ancient world. “Symmetry in art Dr. Nathan notes that “attending a catholic mass the ancient world, but didn’t – that was probably it. and architecture is perceived as beautiful in the isn’t just a religious ceremony; it’s a late imperial western world, and the Romans seemed to have court ceremony.” intrinsically understood that. The whole idea of humanistic art, art focused on the human form, The Roman Catholic Church also invented the is very much a celebration of human ability and foundling wheel, in which mothers could place achievement”, says Dr. Nathan. This admiration their newborn baby in a box, and then turn the for symmetry can be seen in architecture, art and wheel to alert the Church of the abandoned baby. sculpture. Some modern hospitals have taken that idea and placed special cribs at hospital entrances, which Other influences from ancient Roman style, such have heated mattresses, a ventilation system as gabled rooves, columns and porches, can be and electronic sensors linked to an alarm to alert seen in any suburb of Sydney. The classic Roman hospital staff to the child’s presence. architectural style can also be seen in government buildings, churches and museums all around Romans also gave us bullfighting, gambling, card Sydney. The Romans’ greatest contribution to games and horse racing. Bullfighting became the building industry though, has to be concrete. a popular sport when Christians outlawed Invented in the 1st Century BC, it was stronger and gladiatorial combat, but continued to allow combat more readily available than stone, which led to between men and animals, whilst horse racing further innovation and advancements in design. grew from chariot racing. Aristotle’s theories on knowledge have probably Gambling and card games were the recreational had more influence on the western education activities of choice, and were usually done system any other single person. He was the first over sumptuous feasts and excessive alcohol person to create categories of knowledge, which consumption. It was this desire for excess which now means that we students are separated into led to the establishment of the vomitorium (where faculties, schools and disciplines. you could clear your stomach contents in order to feast some more).

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Carissa Simons H Ambush dating is a term that should strike fear into the heart of any singleton. It’s the date you go on when you don’t know that you’re on a Datingdate. One minute you think you’re expanding your social circle or catching up with an old friend. The next, there’s a hand on the small of your back and a “when will I see you again?”. The ambush date is hard to spot, partly because The problem arises when one party, usually the Our fear of rejection has led us to find subtle it can take so many forms. If the ambush dater ambush dater, thinks that sparks are flying, whilst and creative ways of finding out if someone is knows the ambush datee, then they may suggest the ambush datee is merely socialising. What one romantically interested in us. But we’ve just that they catch up for a drink, or come to the event person sees as mutual attraction, another might become too good at it. It’s now increasingly that they have a spare ticket for. If the dater and see as witty conversation. Once the ambush difficult to tell whether we’re dating or socialising, datee are only acquaintances, it is necessary datee realises what is going on, feelings of guilt and in most cases, the ambush date just ends for the ambush date scenario to become more or resentment can also arise – which isn’t exactly in confusion, misread signals and awkward obscure, such as, “a group of us are going to this conducive to a fun evening, much less a frisky first realisations. All of which are much more painful new bar that opened – want to come?” It’s only date. than a simple “thanks, but no thanks.” when the datee arrives that they discover that the “group” is another couple and their ambush dater. Also, once someone has been on the receiving end of an ambush date, it becomes difficult to read In a world where we’re all terrified of rejection, similar invitations as anything other than ambush the ambush date is an attractive idea. After all, dates. If a single person calls to catch up for if you get there and he/she isn’t interesting or coffee, are they just interested in getting to know interested, then you can write it off as a friendly you a little better, or are they looking to get to catch-up. If sparks fly then you can both pretend know you a lot better? that it was a date all along.

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Carissa Simons The ancient Romans wore togas to signify their class. We wear them to parties at which our behaviour is best described as classless. In ancient Rome, togas were up to 6 metres long, made out of wool and required intricate, time- consuming wrapping and folding. For the Mid-session party, you can grab the nearest bed sheet from the washing basket and throw it on! “It’s not gonna be an What’s under your toga? Go Toga or Go Home “The nice thing about the toga is that it’s very Toga parties were made famous by the 1978 film, orgy! It’s a toga party!” identifiable, very unique. So even when people National Lampoon’s Animal House, in which one do a very poor imitation of what togas actually character announces “It’s not gonna be an orgy! looked like, they’re immediately identifiable”, It’s a toga party!” It was that toga party which led says Dr Geoff Nathan, UNSW’s resident ancient to a slew of American college fraternities holding history expert. And unlike the traditional toga, the similarly debauched events, and now at UNSW we bedsheet version allows for greater accessibility get to indulge in our very own. Roman Toga when one visits the bathroom. “If you wore a toga you could forget about undergarments. It wouldn’t work. Like Scottish kilts, those who wore toga Even Dr Nathan admits to attending a few back Mid-session went commando”, says Dr Nathan. in his university days. “What we call togas were simply sheets wrapped around us. If we were Party Like Scottish kilts, really going all out we might find some ivy to stick on our hair. I once went to one in a purple sheet, @ the Roundhouse those who wore toga with ivy on my head, and a big bottle of wine. I was the god Dionysus and I got drunk and proceeded Thursday 5 April went commando to make a fool of myself in the process.” 5pm til late

Why are you wearing a sheet? So what makes a good bed sheet UNSW Students FREE before 10pm toga? The toga enjoyed a lengthy heyday of 600 years, $5 after 10pm from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century You don’t need to stick to plain white. Block AD, which isn’t bad for a fashion trend. For the colours work well, except black which was only Non UNSW $10 duration of those 600 years, togas could only be used for funerals. Try teaming your toga with worn by men, over the age of twenty, who were sandals or thongs. Dr. Nathan advises students Roman citizens. A woman wearing a toga was the “Don’t wear joggers, no pointy shoes, no stilettos ancient world’s version of a red light out the front - as hot as they may make you look, don’t wear of brothel – so unless a woman was a prostitute them”. And finally, drink wine. After all, Romans (or didn’t mind being mistaken for one), she wore were wine connoisseurs. Feel free to drink beer a stola. These days, in our more egalitarian world, at the next ancient Egyptian themed party you’re both men and women can partake in the free- at though. spirited fun of toga parties.

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Around the globe researchers are The research in a nutshell The NSW Cancer Council co-funds Professor working towards the eradication of Hogg’s research through a five-year program Like normal cells, cancer cells need nutrients to grant for researchers investigating long-term cancer and exciting developments grow and they get these nutrients from the body’s are being made right here on UNSW goals. “In terms of its clinical development, which bloodstream. GSAO works as an anti-cancer makes the basic science look simple, that’s a lot of turf. On Level 4 of the Wallace Wurth drug by cutting off the blood supply of tumours hard work and requires a lot of money to do it. We building, Professor Hogg and his rather than targeting the tumour cells themselves, are hoping to get something that is going to work team conduct cancer research thereby stopping their growth and preventing for patients.” directed at making new therapies their spread to other parts of the body. “Our for cancer. drugs are shutting down the power supply of Enter Relay For Life the cells that are making the blood vessels in Professor Philip Hogg and his team have tumours.” Since the first Relay was held in NSW in 2000, developed and patented a novel anti-angiogenic $7.6 million has been raised for cancer research, drug called ‘GSAO’. A practical focus: from the lab to support and education. The UNSW Relay For Life the clinic is your chance to help out. Get together with ten of The discovery your friends and form a team and register online GSAO has the potential to turn cancer into a or email us to join a team, fundraise before the “A lot of drug research is serendipity. My basic manageable disease and should have fewer side event and on April 20 camp overnight and Walk The research is motivated by our discovery of a new effects than current cancer treatments. “ The Village Green. way that proteins work. We made these drugs first cancer patient will recieve the drug in May or initially to investigate this discovery and noticed June this year. By this time next year we should along the way that they had other properties that have a sense of whether GSAO is going to work could be used to treat cancer. or not.”

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WhatWeek 6 April 12- 16 ’s On UNIBUDS: Lunchtime Meditation and Relaxation UNSW St John Ambulance Student 1-2pm Society AGM Find peace admist your busy day every MONDAY 6.30-8.30pm Tuesday, and discover your calmness Our annual AGM - good opportunity for 2 April within. Whether you are a beginner or any budding first-aiders to see what we got practitioner, member or not, all are Table Tennis up to in the year of 2006 and if we are the equally welcome to just drop in! More 11-3pm society they want to join! information at: www.unibuds.unsw.edu. Table + Tennis = fun Hutchinson Room, Upstairs Roundhouse au/ or contact Alex on 0401 060 394. Main Room, Roundhouse Free Free UNIBUDS library, Squarehouse Level 3 Free Circusoc Acrobatics Session Get your Kreme On 9-10pm Trivia 11am-2pm Join us to pick up some acrobatic skills 1-2pm Buy some Krispy Kremes and support the including acro-balance and tumbling. Beat smart people at their own game 2007 Outback Assist volunteers. Through Judo Room, Level 1, UNSW Lifestyle Centre Unibar, Roundhouse fundraising activities 15 UNSW student Gold coin donation for members. volunteers will travel to a remote Aboriginal Free community in NT to engage in a cross cultural exchange between the communities. Women’s Collective Meeting Library Lawn 1pm-2pm $15/doz, $8 /half doz. $2 each UNSWomen is a social network and policy body for women on campus. Come to Arc Queer Boys participate in discussions, meet other 12-3pm TUESDAY women, or simply enjoy our delicious The weekly meeting for queer boys and (free) food! All women welcome! queer Friendly students on campus. Relax, 3 April Women’s Room, Level 1, Blockhouse have lunch and catch up with the Queer (Lower Campus) Table Tennis Department Free! 11-3pm Queerspace (Chemical Sciences 920) The sport of champions Free Pool Comp Main Room, Roundhouse 5-6pm Free Circusoc Monday Night Meeting Be a shark 5-late Roundhouse Thoughtful Foods Co-op Opening Come and learn some circus skills and meet Free Hours new people. All welcome! 10.30am-4.30pm Free for members Happy Hour The food Co-op is a source of cheap Physics Lawn, UNSW 5-6pm tasty organic food. Work in the co- Free for members The happiest hour of the day! operative and receive a discount! Roundhouse Behind the Roundhouse, near Eats at the Happy Hour Round 5-6pm Filmsoc AGM and Screening The happiest hour of the day! 6pm Women’s Literature Group Roundhouse Filmsoc annual general meeting to be 12pm onwards Free followed by a screening of “Hard Days Come to learn about feminism and Night” starring “The Beatles”! women’s issues! This week’s topic is Wrestlemania Webster 237 “Feminist Consciousness”. What makes 5.30pm $5 for non members someone a feminist? Am I a feminist? WWE’s biggest event of the year. Bring What does that mean, anyway? Come to your friends and don’t be scared to get NUTS Play: The Spook learn, discuss, make friends! behind your favourite superstars. Bar is 8pm Women’s Room, Level 1, Blockhouse, open and there are prizes to win! contact It is 1965 and Martin has been recruited Lower Campus [email protected] if you have any to spy for ASIO on the unsuspecting Free! (Bring your thinking cap!) questions. inhabitants of Bendigo. Some of the town Club Bar, Upstairs in the Roundhouse have joined the Communist Party and Arc Queerplay Free Martin has infiltrated their group but the 12-3pm lines of right and wrong become blurred Weekly meeting for the Arc Queer Weekly Debating and Martin begins to find his loyalties Department. Come relax, have lunch and 6pm straying. Bookings can be made at www. meet other queers and queer friendly Join us for a debate about a topical issue nuts.org.au. people on campus. - we promise we don’t bite! Studio One, Near Gate 2 off High St. Queerspace (Chemical Sciences 920) Mondays of session $10 non students $8 students, $5 Nuts Free CLB members Free

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What s On Table Tennis ’ 11am-3pm Like pong without the computer Main Room, Roundhouse WEDNESDAY Happy Hour Free 5–7pm 4 April The happiest 2 hours of the day! Ultimate Frisbee Training Roundhouse 4-5:30pm Thoughtful Foods Co-op Opening Membership costs $7. Beginners welcome Hours Movie night and AGM and fitness of all levels. just come to have a 10.30am-4.30pm 5.30pm – 11pm good time. The food Co-op is a source of cheap tasty Come along to UNSW Anjali Tamil Society’s Village Green organic food. Work in the co-operative and movie night and AGM on 4th of April. Free Free for members receive a discount! pizza, soft drinks and fun for members. $3 Behind the Roundhouse, near Eats at the membership fee can be paid at the door. UNSW Poker League Round Where? Civil Engineering lecture room 4pm onwards G1. When? 4th April Wednesday 5:30pm. Hey guys, interested in playing poker? Come Table Tennis For further details email anjali_tsunsw@ along and join the poker club for a free game 11am-3pm yahoo.com We hope to see you there! of poker! Earn points in our points system, Pong without the computer Civil Engineering G1 and you’ll be on your way to winning our Main Room, Roundhouse Free for members, $3 to become a major prize! Membership entry fee only $5 Free member for a whole year! Squarehouse 203 Bar Bingo Beer Garden DJ Free for members 1-2pm 6.30pm-8pm Bingo! Funky sounds all round PsychSoc AGM Unibar, Roundhouse Roundhouse 5pm onwards Free Free Come along to run for a position and talk to the current executives about the year Library Lawn Band Ultimate Frisbee Eastern Suburbs ahead. 1-2pm League 1123 Mathews Library Lawn 7-9pm Free Free League tournament, come a join in or watch. All skill levels welcome. Beer Garden Band Youth Relay For Life Information Village Green 5.30pm-6.30pm Session $35-members $45-non-members Enjoy some grooves in the Beergarden 1-2pm Roundhouse Beer Garden Be part of the first-ever Cancer Council NUTS Play: The Spook Free Youth Relay For Life on April 20th Relay 8pm For Life is an event where teams camp It is 1965 and Martin has been recruited Happy Hour overnight and take turns walking or bouncing to spy for ASIO on the unsuspecting 5–6pm around an oval to raise money for cancer inhabitants of Bendigo. Some of the town The happiest hour of the day! research. Enjoy the festival atmosphere have joined the Communist Party and Roundhouse with bands, food stalls, competitions and Martin has infiltrated their group but the more. Come along to find out more. Goodies lines of right and wrong become blurred bag for everyone who signs up at the and Martin begins to find his loyalties session. Visit www.relayforlife.com.au/nsw. straying. Bookings can be made at www. [email protected]. Walk the nuts.org.au. ROMAN TOGA Library Lawn Studio One, Near Gate 2 off High St Free $10 non students $8 students, $5 Nuts PARTY! members 5pm-2am UNSW Go Club 2pm Get your Toga ready for an epic Attend a go meeting to strengthen your party in the Roundhouse. Featuring skills, take a class from an experienced popular Sydney cover band The teacher, or just to watch and improve. Players of all strengths welcome. THURSDAY One Hit Wonders, this is set to be a QUAD1001 5 April night to remember. So if you have a Free for members bed sheet and a sense of fun come Thoughtful Foods Co-op Opening down and enjoy celebration Roman Queer Girls Social Hours 3-5pm 9am-6pm style. Weekly social group for queer girls. Come The food co-op is a source of cheap tasty Roundhouse along and hangout, meet people, chat. organic food. Work in the co-operative Free for students before 10pm, $5 QueerSpace - Applied Sciences Rm - 920 and receive a discount! (Also known as Chemical Sciences) Behind the Roundhouse, near Eats at the afterwards. Free Round

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The 2007 Movie Extra Filmink Awards media launch played host to a gaggle of Australian starlets. Carissa Simons sat down with Isabel Lucas from Home and Away to talk about what she Photos courtesy of WireImage; thought of the event and Photographer Dani Abramowicz Isabel Lucas what she’s been up to lately. Tell me a little about yourself. story telling. I mean, actors are really a lot of work in developing countries. I was in a safe country, I have a I live in Melbourne. I’m an actor. I’ve healthy happy family. You realise, just story tellers. lived all around Australia, so I’ve What project were you working on? when you go to Africa and you see Where would you like to see travelled a lot and I love travelling. how different it is from how fortunate I was in Namibia, all around depending Australian TV and film in 10 years? I lived in Switzerland during high we are. It’s just something I want to on where the projects were. One school. I’ve also lived in Kakadu do. If I can help out in a small way, Testing the boundaries, I guess it’s of the projects was building a National Park which is a really then I’ll do it. all about experimentation and trying interesting place to grow up, to big elephant trough because the new things. be able to go exploring, to be able elephants are a real threat to the How does it make you feel when to make tree houses and climb up communities there because they you come to something like this [the Where do you see yourself in 10 years the rock faces and so I’ve grown attack their water supplies. Another Filmink Awards media launch] after time? up a lot with animals as well, I’m an one was to build a big horticulture seeing Africa? I don’t ever really set plans for animal lover. I love the creative arts, and fruit garden. I love contrast, I love having complete myself, I don’t want to. I’d love to I love painting, drawing and writing You seem to care a lot about animals opposites and extremes. It is really keep acting, keep doing creative and I think acting was the natural and people – is that from your interesting. But sometimes you do things such as art, painting, drawing progression from all that. upbringing? think, that things like this are a little and writing. I’m writing a few film You’ve just come back from Africa, trivial compared to the crisis that are scripts at the moment. I’d love to Aww, thanks. I don’t know. I grew up what were you doing there? going on in some parts of Africa and keep travelling and doing trips with with lots of animals and its something but you need to have this as well. You groups like Ozquest and keep doing I’ve always been interested in. And I was doing volunteer community need to have an inner balance. And that alongside acting or whatever I’m when you travel you get a lot of work. I went over with a community this is all supporting the film industry, doing. perspective, I realise I’m very lucky. organisation called Ozquest that does and the film industry is supporting I’ve got a good job, a good education, Blitz Magazine 15 Rites

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In ancient Rome, a boy was marked a man when the broad For many people, the prospect of speaking in purple stripe disappeared from his toga. From that point front of everyone you have ever met is probably daunting. If you’re a 13 year old boy and your voice onwards, sons could contract debts, and pupils could choose is breaking- then it’s probably not your idea of to be free from their teachers. Perhaps it was simpler then. fun. Doing things when you may not feel like it is another daunting adult thing we all have to learn Adults wore a toga virilis while boys wore a toga It’s an essential part of the maturing process. eventually. But once girls and boys have celebrated praetexta. This difference probably made it How could you possibly enter adulthood without their 13th birthday in the Jewish tradition, they are easier to tell the difference between a man and a being reminded that you wore your underwear regarded a being old enough to be accountable for boy. Now we can only guess. This logic could not over your head when you were 2 years old? It their own behaviour. Their parents are no longer however be applied to women, because according is hilarious when the debutante’s first ever love liable for their mischief, which is cause enough to Professor William Smith from the University of letter was read back to her by her best friend who for celebration! London, a woman who wore a toga was classed as had sworn to have burnt that letter, along with a prostitute. pictures of her ex-boyfriends that suddenly made “The first time a boy reads the Torah (the Jewish guest appearances on a slide show that plays on a holy text) on the Bimah (an elevated platform Thankfully, there are still rituals all over the loop on the side wall. from where the Torah is read) is the first time world that announce the maturing of our youth he is considered a man”, says Greg Weinstein, into adulthood. The U.K, Ireland, Australia, the The debutante ball would not be complete without former national president of the Australasian U.S, the Philippines and Latin America all have the customary cotillion dance that also conscripts Union of Jewish Students. This ceremony, called their own versions of the popular and often 18 young men to dance to a routine that mimics the Bar Mitvah for boys and the Bat Mitvah for pretentious debutant ball. Debutante balls are courtship and extravagance. Angelica, a 3rd girls, is the climax of continuous months of learning held traditionally to mark a girl’s transition into year commerce student recalls, that this was all from their Rabbi about their Jewish culture and womanhood, or ‘coming out’ on the social stage. too much for her chambelan, or escort. “After 6 religion. “It’s always funny because everyone’s weeks of being stepped on in practice, he finally voice is breaking… (my voice was breaking too) If you’ve ever had the privilege of being invited to got it right on the day”, she recalls. At a cost of …and everyone says afterwards, ‘oh you sang so one of these debutante balls, then you’ve probably $5000 on average, these ostentatious displays of wonderfully’, but you never did.” experienced your very own sense of ageing. You youth at least teach you some dancing skills. may have squirmed visibly watching your sister, friend or cousin attempt to waltz with a rhythm In Latin America, the equivalent of the debutante “You are for a day, the king of that should have never been born much less, ball is called the Quinceañera and is celebrated the world!” allowed to ‘debut.’ on a girl’s 15th birthday. Lorrena, from Peru, recalls watching her friends receive a doll called The party starts with all of the guests gathering on In a Filipino debut, the custom is to conscript 18 the ‘ultima muñeca’ dressed in the same dress as the dance floor singing Hebrew and Israeli songs of your closest girlfriends (or if numbers become the celebrant, to signify her last doll. “Usually at to welcome their immediate family into the room. scarce, anyone you have a slight emotional hold 15, you won’t be allowed to stay out late, but at a Almost no-one is spared an invitation at what is over, or if desperate- anyone within a 5 metre Quinceañera, where your parents know the family, usually an over-the-top celebration. “Everyone radius to the microphone) to deliver a candle you can stay there all night”, she says with a smile. from school, whether you like them or not gets to represent each year of the debutant’s life. But don’t go asking a woman if they’ve already you presents… relatives fly in from all over the This ritual would be too easy of course, so it is made their debut. Maria, another Peruvian country, and those who last saw you when you accompanied by stories that excruciatingly student says, “debutur is a word that is usually were 2 or 3 years old want to pinch your cheeks”. extract every embarrassing moment of the employed to describe a woman who has just lost He pauses and beams as he thinks back to his debutante’s life. her virginity.” This is rite of passage no doubt, but own Bar Mitvah. “You are, for a day, the king of one that is not usually shared publicly. the world!”

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If you’re turning 20 in Japan, the Japanese Government will sponsor your coming-of-age ceremony provided you pay your residential taxes. Called seijin shiki, they are held on the second Monday of January. Women dress up wearing the furisode kimono that has larger sleeves compared to the kimono married women wear. Young men wear business suits, and the fashionable few wear dark coloured kimonos. After a day of drinking, Mana Hasumi, a Japanese exchange student laughs as she retells how she was limping across Tokyo’s train stations by late afternoon because she wasn’t used to wearing the zori (wooden slippers). “We were supposed to look graceful but my friends and I just looked clumsy and silly.” A little drunk probably too, but most adults would never admit that. There are celebrations whose significance has waned with time, such as the ancient Korean coming of age ritual called Gwallye - where girls would fasten their hair with a binyeo and boys would tie their hair into a top-knot to mark their passage into adulthood. However other rites of passage to still endure. You may have trawled through some of the ritualistic ceremonies modern society has to offer. If the initiation rites of Schoolies or the 21 shots of tequila have left you feeling incredibly drunk - but not substantially mature, hold out for the ceremony with the flowing black robes and square shaped hat. Graduation - that’s a ceremony worth growing up for.

Blitz Magazine 17 The opening song “Girls Who Play think that if you loved the first album and pounced upon by students Guitars” is catchy and energetic, you will enjoy this one, but for first who make it clear that being in her letting you know the band has arrived. time listeners you may not be as classroom is their only alternative to This song ensures us the band’s style impressed. juvenile detention. hasn’t changed too dramatically- the guitar is short and sharp, the Racial clashes that fuel a gang attack drums are pounding, keyboards are at Wilson High force Gruwell to everywhere and the lyrics stay with descend from her idealist platform. you for hours after you have heard She realises the parallels between the song. Their first single “Our the World War II holocaust and Velocity” shows a slightly different Wilson’s undeclared street war. This sound. It’s a lot quicker than their propels her and her students on a Music: Maximo earlier stuff and a bit more edgy. journey beginning with their study of The Diary of Anne Frank. Park - Our Earthly What makes this album though are Film: Freedom Pleasures its slower songs. “Karaoke Plays” is Writers The transition from then on is one of those great break-up songs. predictable, the script sometimes Nikita Agzarian The simple opening guitar riff drags Ana Garcis deficient and the cinematography you in from the start. The lyrics in Maximo Park’s second album, is mostly uninspiring. However its this song highlight how much front Freedom Writers, directed by Our Earthly Pleasures had big message about the plight of the youth man Mark Smith has advanced in his Richard Lagravenese is based on expectations to live up to after their in the “land of the free” remains songwriting. All the songs are sung the book “Freedom Writer’s Diaries” debut album; A Certain Trigger was graphic, stark and powerful. Swank’s with conviction; it makes you really by high school English teacher Erin such a well-composed, eclectic and performance as the unorthodox believe what he is singing. Gruwell and her students. successful record. With the help of teacher is so precise that even her corny jokes are as painful as my own producer Gil Norton (known for his This album is definitely worth a This film brings to life the diary English teachers’ attempts at humour. work with the Foo Fighters and The listen, but it really is just a shadow entries of socially disadvantaged This film is Dead Poet’s Society Pixies) the band tries to unleash a to A Certain Trigger. Our Earthly teenagers in Wilson High and the meets Take the Lead, set in a school heavier and more punk side, creating Pleasures doesn’t really see the impact of their determined, but that more closely resembles Boston more mature lyrics and a more band offer much in a new direction. naïve English teacher. Hilary Swank Public. Swank is a teacher with the refined sound (a sound that is very Even though it is a lot punkier, the stars as Gruwell, whose obvious same flare as Julia Roberts from similar to The Smiths). album overall is a lot the same. I disconnection from the ghetto her students face is immediately spotted, Mona Lisa Smile, but cut with slightly more of an edge.

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To celebrate their practise of Buddhism, UNSW’s Buddhism allows me to experience Buddhist society (the Unibuds) will be will be holding in every moment. It allows me to just a special exhibition of Buddhist artefacts. Alex Serpo enjoy what I have. spoke to Pojdanai Sukijjakhamin, (known to most as Aun) and Tina Ng about the exhibition and their What do the Unibuds do on experiences with Buddhism. campus?

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Blitz Magazine 21 Nanosoc EGM The Intercollege Sports Affiliated Writesoc AGM topic via means such as lectures Friday 20th April, 11am- 12pm in Association AGM The writer’s society, a new society chaired by climate scientists. We Training Room 2 in the Blockhouse. The Intercollege Sports Affiliated on campus, will be holding their take a neutral stance from the This EGM is in order to review the Association will be holding its AGM AGM on Tuesday of week 7 objective standpoint of science. Arc Clubs Model Constitution. on Monday 16 April at 5:00pm in (17/4/07) in the Drawing Room Our first AGM will be on 20/04/07 the ‘Meeting Room’ at New College. of the Roundhouse from 6pm at the Blockhouse Training Room Physoc AGM Among the proceedings, we will onwards. New executive members 2 from 1-2pm, and we encourage Want to help out students gain be reviewing the constitution and will be elected and new members all students who have an interest an insightful look into physics at accepting the 2007 executive are welcome to join. The writer’s in this most paramount of issues to UNSW? Come and join the physics members. society will hold weekly writing attend. society and share the fun by holding workshops; have speakers, events, BBQ’s and seminars! When is it? Musically Experienced parties and more. If you are German Society AGM 19/4/07 Thursday Wk 7 Where? Volunteers Wanted! interested in play writing, poetry, To be held at 4pm in the Marsh Room 64 from 11am until 1pm Are you a musician or has played fiction, non-fiction, journalism or Room, Roundhouse on the 18th in the OMB. PhysSoc welcomes a musical instrument before? any other form of writing then this April. The AGM will include election newcomers! Do you enjoy listening to music? is the society for you. For more of Society Executives and the If you answered yes on any of information contact Alex Serpo, accepting of Arc clubs model Australian K Society 2007 AGM the questions, then you are the [email protected]. constitution. Please feel free to join Monday 16th April, 6pm. Quad perfect candidate for our research! us to learn more about our society. room 1001. - Review of Arc model The research involves listening Rational Debate of Climate constitution - Election of new to processed music and giving Change Society AGM executives. a subjective evaluation. Please The proclamation that we are on the call either Bani on 0404433425 verge of a cataclysmic “Planetary UBS Investment Banking or Cheryl on 0403730124.You Emergency” has recently exploded Challenge 2007 can also contact us through email onto the mainstream media. UBS Investment Banking Challenge at [email protected] or The Rational Debate of Climate - do you have what it takes to [email protected]. There Change society aims to promote work on a real M&A transaction? will be complimentary snacks and public awareness of this important Applications close 20 April so get drinks! your team of 2-5 together and register at http://www.ubs.com/ Migration Information Session To advertise your classified, email challenge. Applications close Friday For All international Students [email protected] with a title 20 April and the heat rounds will Thursday 5th of April, 3-5 pm be held at UNSW from Monday 30 Physics Theatre. Free session. and a description. The maximum word April to Friday 4 May. For further Register via email at international. count is 60 words. questions, email: ibchallenge@ubs. [email protected] com.

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Bec Stripes Claire Gaul A salad Brutus Not! Et tu Brute! A baby (a dead one) Tupperware A small African nation

Wally Oliver Ali Grant Unborn babies (get it? C-Sections!!) China. Also my pants The world UNSW- So I wouldn’t have to go Rogaine A sausage - like a penis Nothing A big sword

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