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Honi Soit Week 5, Semester 1, 2020 / First printed 1929 Chinese attitudes towards marriage / p. 11 The stimulus fails Where in Australia has Uber driving in the time students / p. 7 the best night life?/ p. 16 of COVID-19/ p. 19 LETTERS Acknowledgement of Country Letters Honi Soit is published on the stolen land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. For over 230 years, First Nations people in this country have suffered from ...What? Wham, bam, the destructive effects of invasion. The editors of this paper recognise that, as a team of settlers occupying the lands of the Bidjigal, Darug, Gadigal, Wangal and Wallumedegal people, we are beneficiaries of these reverberations that followed European settlement. As we strive throughout the year to offer a platform to the voices Back in the old normal days of the Now in the new normal days of thank you mainstream media ignores, we cannot meet this goal without providing a space for First Nations people to share their experiences and perspectives. A student paper which sensible conservative patriarchal The Coronavirus Covid 19 Virus, the does not acknowledge historical and ongoing colonisation and the white supremacy embedded within Australian society can never adequately represent the students religious world, prior to 2020, abnormal mental illness psychology Pam of the institution in which it operates. We seek to resist colonial violence and the racist power structures that serve to oppress those who are Indigenous to this land. people who practised social of the old world before 2020 has be- Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land. distancing, who practised lots of come the normal psychology of the - Jane Mary hand washing, who practised 14 sensible conservative patriarchal re- Wallace consecutive days of social isolation, ligious world. Obsessive and Com- (in the same who wore face masks every day to pulsive Mental Illness disorder has email) Contents Editorial avoid germs, who feared catching become the normal sensible way of deadly diseases from breathing and life. The old “abnormal people” have In light of community concerns In light of this, Honi Soit would like to mixing with the community , who become the “normal people” . surrounding the spread of COVID-19 reiterate that we do not believe in liberal stocked up supermarket items for 14 The abnormal mentally ill people Positive feedback What’s on / 2 Editor in Chief: Lei Yao and reduced numbers of students and notions of balance and objectivity. staff on campuses, we are reducing our Instead, we explicitly support the consecutive rainy days, who found it are now the normal sensible people Editors: Nina Dillon Britton, print run for week 5 of semester to 500 demands issued by multiple unions hard to find toilet paper, who didn’t of common sense, emotional intelli- Hi Honi, students. Gossip / 3 Matthew Forbes, Zhiquan Gan, copies per week, distributed to stands at and grassroots organisations across the use toilet paper after excretion, who gence, mental intelligence, and gen- More attention need to be put on Robbie Mason, Angad Roy, Lara Fisher, JFR and outside the Students’ country. didn’t want to socialise at pubs, clubs eral responsibility. I really liked your article Class Act USYDs failure to support low SES Representative Council (SRC). Some of these demands include: an Sonnenschein, Ranuka Tandan, and churches, who were too afraid The new Political, Religious, from Jenae Madden. Thanks for students. News / 4 Thereafter, and for the foreseeable immediate rent freeze by landlords, a to go outside their residence, who Moral, social and Economic Leaders Chuyi Wang, Madeline Ward, future, there will only be 100 copies repayment amnesty from banks and covering stuff that’s both important hoarded supermarket items, and who talk about social distancing, social Lei Yao printed per week. mortgage holders, a moratorium on and immediately relevant to USYD - Zac Calvin Analysis / 6 We will continue to report on the rental evictions and an increase to wouldn’t eat salads, were considered isolation, incessant hand washing, Contributors: Liam Armstrong- COVID-19 crisis as it affects students welfare benefits. to have the abnormal mental illness hoarding, fears, anxieties, terrors, Opinion / 9 Carrigan, Liam Donohoe, and the wider community. We have We also support the calls to the of obsessions and compulsions phobias, rituals, and all the old world To Aiden Magro, with love Deaundre Espejo, Jeffrey Khoo, also begun a live blog which we will be University of Sydney to cease the disorder! topics normally associated with the Finola Laughren, Juliette updating frequently. austerity measures it has introduced These abnormal mentally ill old time abnormal mentally ill peo- What an absolute delight to read goal with the book was to concentrate COVID-19 immediately affects the without adequate staff consultation people were sent to psychologists, ple who were fit for drugs,therapies, your article that featured my book, on women whose stories are largely Feature / 11 Marchant, Shania O’Brien, most vulnerable in our community. and without respecting the nature of psychiatrists, student counsellors, mental hospitals,and mental health Fag Hags, Divas and Moms. It’s hard unknown. Everyone’s heard of Sophia Perez, Daany Saeed, Indigenous people, disabled people, an increasingly casualised tertiary Lachlan Redman, Will Solomon, alternative medicine practitioners, professionals. The new Political, Re- to know how far a book can reach, Elizabeth Taylor and how important Perspective / 14 the homeless and the elderly are those education workforce. but now I can say all the way to she was to the AIDS community. It’s Victor Zhou, Noa Zulman. that will be most severely affected Though we are living through anxiety clinics ,depression clinics ligious, Moral, social and Economic by the spread of the virus. They are uncertain times, we have hope. Mutual and mental hospitals. They also re- Leaders are the old world mentally ill Australia. That it has reached the women like Nora who deserve Culture / 16 Artists: Claire Ollivain, Sophia also those most impacted by the vein aid groups have been set up across ceived psychotherapy, mental illness people college students means even more the spotlight. Perez, Karen Tengan Okuda. of neoliberalism that receives near Sydney as those with time, age, or drugs, anti psychotic drugs, anxiety The new March 2020 Political, to me. They’ve only known HIV/ Again, many thanks for sharing bipartisan support within the Federal health on their side help strangers. It is tranquillisers, prozac, mind altering Religious, Moral and Economic AIDS as a chronic disease, not as my book and the women in it who Creative / 19 Government. this spirit of collectivism and solidarity drugs, electroconvulsive therapy, Leaders talk exactly like the old time the terrifying pandemic of the early have made such a difference. Cover artist: Alex Mcleay The economic effects of our current which will get us through this crisis, and Benzodiazepines drugs, sickness abnormal mentally ill people always days. I know your article will help SRC / 20 situation spell a future of uncertainty this spirit which will help us in building them understand what a strange and - Victoria Noe Back cover artist: for many. The loss of work will hit a more just world. benefits, invalid pensions, disability did before 2020 . Emily Thompson Australia’s casual workforce, many of support pensions, age pensions, va- Do the political, religious, moral, frightening time it was - not unlike Comedy / 23 whom are students, particularly hard. lium, lithium drugs, and social and economic leaders get clas- the present. I’m particularly pleased These are the same people who, living mental illness labelling.Political sified as abnormal mentally ill nuts? that you focused on Nora Burns. My paycheck to paycheck, are unable to Yours, Leaders talk about these abnormal Do they need mental health profes- prepare for extended periods of social Honi Soit mentally ill people as nuts, and need sionals? distancing. mental health professionals. Nudes, declarations of affection and hate mail may be Yours Maternally, Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. The SRC’s - Jane Mary Wallace sent to: [email protected] operation costs, space and administrative support are financed by the University of Sydney.Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s directors of student publications: Maia Edge, Peiqing Fan, Nina Mountford, Roisin Murphy, Mikaela Pappou and Maxim Vishney. All expressions are published on the basis that they are not to be regarded as the opinions of the SRC unless specifically stated. The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the opinions or information contained within this newspaper, nor does it endorse any of the advertisements and insertions. Please direct all advertising inquiries to [email protected]. What’s on this week Weekly For those not watching livestreamed DJ sets! Machiavellian Mike Apologies to those with a bad getting very cosy before they were What’s not on this week case of FOMO - it seems we might forced to bid adieu to one another. Those of us who were around in have missed a pretty stellar event One USyd Rants post claimed that Write, create Being incredibly irritating on social media Day of Action for Workers’ Livelihoods Day of the Unborn Child 2018 will remember the ill-fated in our last What’s On section. A there had been a lock-in drinking (exactly 100 votes) USU Board source has informed us that around night before the closure, and Paul’s When: For the foreseeable future When: 27th March When: Never campaign of one Mike Mao. 45 people attended a ‘CoronaFest’ boys were released back to the rest Where: All social media platforms and produce Where: Everywhere Where: Nowhere People may also remember that he party last weekend, which was of the uni population.