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PUzzleS + ReVIeWS S2W7 WHAT’S ON UNSW GIVe AWAYS + MORe 2012 FREE burleSqUe & jiu jitsu Women's Week Events Welcome to the Jungle A Quickie with The Jungle Giants UNSW Van WIldeR Tips for an epic Mid Semester House Party WIN TRIPLE j CDS FIlM FeST TIX + MORe brought to you bY Your rSVP To Six of the best parTies in the World CONTENTS welcome Blitzers, I can barely write this I’m so p14 THIS WEEK jazzed for the break. It’s not that I’m sick of you – I love you! – but mama needs some time to catch up on readings and partying. p07 Luckily for me the parties start even before the end of the week. “What’s she on about?” I hear you wonder. I’m talking about the Mid Session Party baby! Now, because I’m the best at everything I’ve p21 already had two delicious trips to Thailand this year, but I’m super stoked for my third – at Thursday’s Full Moon Party at the Roundhouse. And speaking of the tropics, 05 Bitz and pieces this week we’ve also caught up with our old friends The Jungle Giants for our Quickie. 07 A Quickie With… The Jungle Giants My other plans for the break? Thinking 08 Where My Party People At? about you constantly, of course; and be Excited for Thursday’s Full Moon Party? sure to let us know if you end up throwing This week Blitz makes it an international a mad house party (p15) or flying north affair and travels to six of the world’s seeking sun and sand (p17). best parties. Hasta luego! 11 What’s On Listings Antonia Shuttleworth We’ve got the deets on the awesome Blitz Editor Women’s Week events coming up this [email protected] week as well as info for the Law Revue, the kids from NUTS taking over NIDA and the Mid Session Party. Hear that swooshing sound? That’s the noise half a semester makes as it flies past without you noticing. Fortunately, if 15 Mid Semester House Party 101 you’re reading this, you’ve caught it with Worried your friends’ll forget you during barely a week to spare. the break? Here’s how to throw an unforgettable party and your chance to But before you stand up and indignantly score Triple J’s new House Party Double CD. wave your fists at the sky or something, bear in mind that you now have a modest 16 It’s Hammer Time break to look forward to next week and the awesome Full Moon Mid Semester Party this Thursday at the Roundhouse. 17 Get Out Of Town Henry’s hints for how to spend your Mid This week is also Women’s Week and Semester Break. WAS HERE fantastic events have been organised by WAS HERE your SRC Women’s Collective to encourage WAS HERE 18 Reviews awareness and action about why the status of women in our society remains a [email protected] [email protected] 19 Student Sounds - DeadbeatBITE Decision US! significant issue. [email protected] BITE US! BITE US! On the topic of fighting inequality, 21 Go Clubbing With… Newski nominations for the Student Rep Alex Peck Council also close this Friday. The SRC WIN Chair @ Arc is the loudest voice representing UNSW WAnWINT frEE STuff? Keep a lookout for this logo to win BURLESQUE, BRAZILIAN JU JITSU CLASS, [email protected] students, so get involved and be part of arc.unsw.edu.au/board-blog something bigger. [email protected] FREE WOMEN’S BREAKFAST, FILM SCREENINGS, [email protected] SHOW US T (02) 9385 7715 Editor Antonia Shuttleworth Blitz [email protected] SHOW US THE WORKSHOPS AND MORE PO Box 173, Kingsford NSW 2032 Designer Kate Kennett Rates SHOWand enquiries US THE Level 1, Blockhouse, Lower Campus Writers Jacob Burkett, Nancy ChungTHE 71 121 239 674 Henry Cornwell .edu.au ABN T (02) 9385 7666 sw u. n .ed au .u Email [email protected] Marketing & Publications sw c E [email protected] n r email .e u u a w . 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There are only a few more sleeps That 1 in 3 Australian women until the Mid Semester Break, aged 18-64 experience sexual – Bella Poidevin. Bella – and, more importantly, the harassment. upper campus to the Roundhouse” Roundhouse” the to campus upper Roundhouse’s Full Moon Party. “We should get a flying fox from from fox flying a get should “We Not getting any extra work shifts Cheering on UNSW Paralympic during the Mid Semester Break - ABOUT UNSW? ABOUT cyclist Alex Green – Green for we need to start saving mullah for WHAT WOULD YOU CHANG CHANG YOU WOULD WHAT gold baby! Oktoberfest! Are you on the contraceptive pill? Do you find that during the week of your period you suffer from pelvic pain and headache? Or do you have reduced libido? 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Gross Research Unit Got your own hilarious bitz and pieces? Email it to [email protected] with “BP” as the subject and we may just put them in the mag. T: 93824 6621 5 a quickie with Arts & Social Sciences THE JUNGLE GIANTS • Henry Cornwell Postgrad Evening In our second Blitz of 2012, when our boy Jake caught up song has to fit – there can’t be any throwaway tracks - an album with The Jungle Giants frontman Sam Hales, the band was in has to be a testament to who the band is. Monday the midst of their first national tour with best buddies San 24 Sept 2012 Cisco. Nine months down the track, Blitz caught The Giants And so have you also learnt a lot about who the band is from touring? crashing the San Cisco set at Splendour in the Grass, and It was such a great tour, every night was different. Some gigs were loose party shows, others, especially with Boy & Bear, were the love between the bands was still palpable. Following that really intense theatre experiences with the crowd sitting down show with a tour with Boy & Bear, the group of bands The and listening quietly. Touring with them really taught us to be Jungle Giants call their friends is steadily growing. attentive to detail. with Postgrad study in Arts and Social Sciences But the last nine months haven’t been all about playing sets and We’ve got to ask, who’s more fun to tour with: Boy & Bear or making friends; while Hales’ bandmates are completing degrees San Cisco? in Languages, Media and Business, he’s been hard at work as a Man, they’re so different! The San Cisco tour was really crazy and commercial composer.