HONI SOIT Issue 10 MAY 18th 2011 11-4PM Huntin’ season! Form a team of up to 4 and join the great uni Scavenger Hunt! SOlve clues and Earn points to win some sa-weeet prizes! Entry is free, plus you get a t-shirt and pizza at the end of it all. What’s not to love! Winners announced at 5pm. Register before 11 in Margaret Telfer Rm, Manning. Thanks to USU Campus Culture. See online for more deets. 8PM Shh. There’s an actual Silent Disco at Goodgod to tie WED in with the theatrical Silent Disco currently playing at Griffin Theatre. There’ll be some friendly Usyd faces behind the decks and plenty more on the quiet d-floor. $12 on the door. 18th 1-3PM Oo la la, c’est la journée des crêpes = CREPE DAY. Damn straight. Get your French Soc fix at the Sunken Lawns, Manning House. $3/4/5. 5PM SUDS and Beat the System are hosting the launch of the 2011 Major Production, “Something Just Happened”. Join the cast and crew to celebrate - have a drink and a dance to WE SAY BAMBOULEE who’ll be hitting the decks. COuld it get any cooler? Yes. You could be there. THU Hermann’s Bar from 5, free drink for Access holders. 7.30 -9.30 • Sydney Uni Symphony Orchestra (SUSO) are having their first concert of the year! Support your • peers and get to the Great Hall, main quad at 7.30 for THE SOUND OF PARIS. $10/15/20. 8.30pM Described as “killer modern funk”, Melbourne band The Bamboos hit Manning Bar tonight to celebrate their 10th anniversary. Sure to be a super fun show. FRI $25.50/30 + bf. 10aM-5PM FINDERS KEEPERS, losers weepers! The biannual markets are back at Carriage works today, and with over 60 rad stalls, you’re sure PICK OF to find somehting that tickles your fancy. Books, art, SAT jewellery, fashion and more. There’s also live music The WEEK and om nom noms. CarriageWorks. Free entry! Yahoo! 21st 04 5PM The Japan FOundation Sydney presents its latest exhibition JAPAN: KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS until the 28th. Featuring Astro Boy, Hello Kitty, Pokemon 05 charcters, and others, the exhibition takes a look at the weird and wonderful world of Japanese characres through art and film and talks. Free. At the Japan SUN FOundation Sydney, Chifley Plaza. 06 7pm Put your degrees to use! MOnday is a big night for pub quizzes around the inner west. Drink beer! Be smart! Impress your friends! Win more beer! Or money to spend on beer! Try the Golden Barley in Enmore, or the 08 MON Shakespeare Hotel in Surry Hills. 5.30PM Enjoy a scone while doing something good. Be a part of the famous AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST MORNING TEA - host your own or attend one, and raise money for the Cancer COuncil. Visit www.biggestmorningtea.com.au TUE 8PM Opening night of CAPTURE THE FLAG, the brand 10 new play from award winning young Aussie writer and director Toby Schmitz. 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They deserved it. Connell, Shannon Connellan, Andy Fraser, Julian 6 Larnach, Michael Richardson, Laurence Rosier Staines, Tom Walker DAD JOKE OF THE WEEK: REPORTERS: Conor Bateman, Michael Coutts, Manning I love you, son. Jonathan Dunk, Michelle Garret, Arghya Gupta, Michael Koziol, James O’Doherty, Mekela BBQ has Panditharatne, Nick Simone, Felix Supernova, lost a Kirsten Wade customer CROSSWORD: Jim Fishwick HONEY SUAVE COMIC: Shannon Connellan Hello, I’m an organ donor and I’d like to COVER: Nathan Harmond give you my heart. FEATURE DESIGN: Photo by Nathan Harmond, illustration by James Wilson 8 HONI SOIT Awesome journos on WEEK 11 ISSUE (and off) CONTENTS 18 MAY 2011 the page MAIL PROFILE 04 The Crying of Lot 49’s got nothing on 11 JACQUELINE BREEN has a whiskey these bad boys. with Jess Scully. Neat! It rocks! APE! 12 FEATURE CAMPUS 12 MICHAEL KOZIOL presents a 05 ANDY FRASER leaves no stone unturned journo-list or unthrown. College MICHAEL RICHARDSON is browsing drama through an endangered music library. THE ARTS BIT SHANNON CONNELLAN is NEADA BULSECO is cooking up 14 Bamboozled kings something big. MICHELLE GARRETT plays with your perceived notions of college. and NEADA BULSECO uncovers fresh queens USU BOARD SPECIAL band Mitzi. 06 Get the low-down on all the MEKELA PANDITHARATNE’s article take the candidates in the upcoming University will be banned. of Sydney Union Board elections. CONNOR BATEMAN just found stage Now with a quiz! out the call is coming from inside the house. FARRAGO NEWS 14 Something is getting all up in ARGHYA 08 16 JONATHAN DUNK deals with death, GUPTA’S non-Manning grill. life and the American Way. BRIDIE CONNELL invokes a muse. Not A look at the band or the society. An Ancient NICK SIMONE will be brief. Greek muse. Not the band. JAMES O’DOHERTY ain’t no fail whale. what bin FELIX SUPERNOVA provides high times on low cash. Laden’s JULIAN LARNACH snuggles up to his SRC GRIBBLIES favourite Teddy. 17 A gribblie is a kind of ferret. death TOM WALKER and NEADA BULSECO means show history in the baking! CRYPTONOMICON SPORT 20 Love means nothing to tennis star 10 Novak Djokovic but everything to MICHAEL COUTTS 16 KIRSTEN WADE gets inspiration inspiration. YOU THERE! Love us? Hate us? If you’ve got an opinion on something in these ? pages, we want to hear it! Hit us up at: [email protected] office about their contingency plans for such How did the government justify such cuts? attacks here at the Sydney Uni. They assured “The upfront payment is mainly exploited by me that they took the issue of student safety well-off families that do not need the discount” particularly seriously, so much so that they weren’t (Wayne Swan) That is the oldest trick in the book. prepared to release any details of the confidential Attack the rich and no one will blink an eye. All of THE plans for fear its publication would endanger this is ignoring the fact that many students, that letters students. are not from wealthy families, use this policy. EDITORIAL Personally, I work my butt off in the holidays, and While I appreciate Brooks was making a point The Washington Post publisher Phillip L. with a scholarship, I am lucky enough to get the about university funding for clubs and societies, Graham once said that journalism is the first 20% discount. Both my parents are in the lowest the means that she chose to do this showed a draft of history. Author and war correspondent tax bracket. But was it the point now? 10% is deeply troubling lack of thought – especially Ernest Hemmingway once said that the first draft of borderline worth the effort. everything is shit. from someone hoping to be elected to a student leadership position. Moreover, despite it since But what about the National Union of Student’s Hemmingway eloquently summed up the public’s being deleted, Brooks has still not publicly response to such an anti-student policy? They are opinion of the news business. We are slanderous apologised for the video, and when asked about it meant to be for students right? A joke that’s what. rumour-mongers who traffic in gossip and delight in at the USU Soapbox she simply shrugged it off as a In The Age, the NUS president, Jesse Marshall, was disaster; bad news is good news for the hacks selling ‘misconstrued metaphor’. quoted the union would support measures such papers. In some cases this assessment is fair, but, as cutting the discount ‘’as long as they resulted Violence and mass-shootings in schools and honestly, there are dickheads in every industry.