CONTENTS September 12, 2007 The Fine Print Honi Soit is published by the Students’ features Representative Council, University of Sydney. Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006 5. Munted: Andrew Johns and the Media’s The SRC’s operational costs, space and Portrayal of Drug Use Steve Hind administrative support are financed by the 6. Helping Our Neighbour: East Timor and University of Sydney. Education Jessica Carter 6. Christian on Campus Response to APEC The Editors of Honi Soit and the SRC Stuart Thomson acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. Honi Soit 7. Indigenous Art vs Indigenous Kitsch is written, printed and distributed on Aboriginal Anna Payten regulars land. 10. Online Now Carolyn Burns Printed by: mpd - printing the news everyday 3. Letters Unit E1, 46-62 Maddox Street, Alexandria, NSW 10. 5 Reasons Why I Will Never ‘Ask Sam’! 2015 007 4. 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Contests Rob Clark credits editors: Julia Bowes, Nicole Cini, 23. Crossword Evan Solomons Rob Clark, Maggie Lloyd, Louisa Macdonald, Alexandra Meagher, Naomi Oreb, Sarah Vaughan, Amelia Walkley, Daniel Wodak cover: Louisa Macdonald reviewers: John Baxter, Nick Dakin, Lauren Hendry Parsons, Tom Robertson contributors: Carolyn Burns, Jessica Carter, Steve Hind, Michael Holgate, Bennett Mason, Anna Payten, Evan Solomons, Stuart Thomson advertising: [email protected] PO Box 794, Broadway NSW 2007 editorial I imagine lots of people reading this week’s When I started thinking about Rory turning themselves into rowdy, abusive and detained without access to a lawyer, Honi Soit probably felt a little sorry for Gilmore from The Gilmore Girls I knew rugby jocks. I certainly hope the ‘winners’ feel good themselves at some point last week. For things were getting a little desperate. about themselves. instance, anyone who supports the Sydney The SMH also informs me that parents are Swans, or the Rabbitohs, or both (sniff). Distressed with the thought that even then going home and frantically trying to A healthy dose of energy and gusto is one Or anyone who was mucked around by fictional women write better editorials out-do each other at their kid’s birthday thing, but losing sight of the spirit of the the big fence in the middle of the city. Or than I do, I stopped to think about all parties. Working class parents are hiring game or the basic function of the police those of you who had to write an editorial the stuff that grabbed me in the media $3000 puppeteers to entertain 8 year olds, (namely, to protect civilians) is well and but couldn’t decide what to write about this week. And you know what? It was and hauling in so many jumping castles truly another. (ok … so that category involves just one all to do with competition. And I’m not and ferris wheels that the lavish St Paul’s Luckily for you, Honi Soit isn’t wrapped person - me). just talking about the people in the S formal will eventually be something yawn- pages vying for the most obscure overseas worthy they’ve all seen before. I wonder if up in that aggressive, cut-throat world. I’ve been sitting at my computer trying not marketplace ever as the spot where they these mums and dads ever take a break We aren’t really trying to outdo Carrie’s to bite my nails, determinedly avoiding allegedly snagged that pair of pants. between rounds of catered food to ask column in The New York Star or Lois’ Facebook, and asking myself questions their kids if they are having fun. investigative feature articles in The like, what would Carrie Bradshaw do? For instance, we have a crisis in our city Daily Planet. We are well aware that in (Hook up with another random dude where teenage refs at high school sporting Most troublingly of all, we’ve got Sydney comparison, we’re just the little paper that and smoke a cigarette … not helpful.) games are being harrassed by pissed (and policemen trying to out-do George Orwell, could. But at the end of the day, we reckon What about Lois Lane? (Unclear … but it pissed off) parents, desperate to see their the Burmese junta and their own colleagues that’s what gives Honi its character. definitely wouldn’t involve asking herself kids win division 12A. It’s a problem when as they crack down on jaywalkers. When what that Clark guy from the office might the real sight to see isn’t the kids running a father of three is arrested for crossing Naomi Oreb look like if he took his glasses off.) around with a ball – but soccer mums the street at the wrong time, strip searched 2 HONI SOIT | EDITION XX | 07 LETTERS 2. Carbon offsetting doesn’t address all printing this kind of rubbish. DEJA VU? ROB CLARKS sources of emissions. ’ Sincerely, Dear Honi, INDULGENCES? Sure, there are lots of sources of carbon The spokesman for the Australian Dear Honi Soit, Tim, emissions. But transport is one of them. If Communist Party, Peter Symons, was we are going to reduce emissions by 30% I’ve really enjoyed this year’s Honi. Even if Science III quoted calling the ‘Great Wall of by 2020, then it makes sense to cut (or MIDDLE CLASS WHITE Sydney’ an ‘undemocratic,’ structure that you can’t spell, including on the front cover, at least try to off-set) emissions from all I thought the last edition was fantastic. It SCUM? constituted an abuse of ‘civil liberties’. sources. Berlin, anybody? was both interesting and entertaining - I Dear Julia Bowes, learnt about Hillsong, obscure medical If people took Rob’s attitude to life, the Will Clegg, illnesses, Paris Hilton’s private parts, yum- world would be full of people saying things Even with a disposition towards indifferent cha, Web 2.0, etc, etc. like ‘well, this drug will treat cervical apathy myself (cursed be modernity) only Econ and Business, II cancer, but it won’t treat breast cancer, so this can I deduce from your editorial: A But it was no surprise to me to find another why bother.’ In other words, it’d be really sickening ignorance bearing the hallmarks rubbish article by editor Rob Clark hidden dumb, and lots of people would die. of an upbringing that if i dare infer (nay, in the back pages of the edition, which, judge-for is that not the purpose?) seems again dragged down the otherwise high 3. Carbon off-setting has an ‘opportunity to have instilled all the virtuosity of the standards of your publication. cost’, because after people spend their bourgeois with exact precision. How else What are you doing just sitting $3.50 off-setting their emissions once, can one sense a “strange appreciation” Rob’s article on ‘Modern Indulgences’ there when you could be submitting they’ll never think about global warming for those victims of the Israel/Palestine was utter nonsense. When you cut out to QUEER HONI SOIT? ever again. conflict at the mercy of a simply horrid two the rhetoric about how Rob thinks he’s minute diversion down poorly planned smarter than everyone else in the entire Thought so. Well, GET ON IT! Seriously, Rob, do you have some CBD streets or worse yet the violation of world, his article contained three rather IF you’re an LGBT-er with Stuff debilitating cognitive disorder? Because if modesty in a college corridor? dubious arguments: not, you should probably start saying so to To Say/Draw/Poeticise, or if you save yourself from the embarrassing faux Perhaps when waiting for a delayed train maybe don’t identify as queer but 1. Carbon offsetting ‘allows people to pas of looking like an arrogant imbecile in on the western line (thankfully absent feel like they’ve made a difference when still have things to say about issues front of the entire campus. of the inconvenience of the harbour they haven’t,’ because ‘trees take decades relating to the gay community- bridge) one day, I too will be struck with to grow’ and might ‘die’ or ‘be burned THIS is your big chance. If the people who drove to Splendour an outpouring of empathy and social down.’ didn’t spend $3.50 on carbon off-setting, awareness for say, the Darfur crisis or the they probably wouldn’ve spent it on beer. We want music reviews! We want Well, Rob, unfortunately for you (and Rwandan genocide. Either way, it will 500-2000-wd awesome articles! The mere existence of carbon off-setting involve a wrist band and a small child.