USYD and Animal I’D Been Over There for Half a Year

week twelve semester one YOU 2013 ARE HERE honi soit honi

Elections are over! Our streets are safe again pg 4

Woroni and the censorship of student media Pg 7

Tamam Shud: Australia’s unsolvable mystery pg 9

An interview with Julian Assange pg 11 DISCONTENTS The life of Honi to come At the end of March, I came back Nazis, the Dalai Lama, Courtney Love, from the static of mainstream media. HONI NEWS from Europe to edit a newspaper. missiles, homelessness, grief. The expe- But what Honi does, it does well. It gives 6. USYD and animal I’d been over there for half a year. I rience of adult ADHD, the politics of students the voice that other publica- missed a flight in Dubai, from London, cross-dressing, the ethics of charity, the tions can’t or won’t provide. It gives us a testing by five minutes, so I had to sleep in the sad passivity of our generation. We’ve platform for trenchant discourse, story- Georgia Behrens food-court. Because there were no di- received, for our work, some valid criti- telling, art, and sentiment. It’s an oppor- 8. Yoga and depression rect flights, I had to go through Perth. I cism and some humbling praise. tunity for us to say what we like before Tamasin Young got an apologetic drink voucher at Perth I like to think that, as an editorial team, we start waking up to severe jobs and International, and a 5am flight home. It we strive to create something salient and baffling calendars. It’s the chalk on Mi- was hot in Sydney, and I was sick, and valuable. We wanted to produce a news- chael Spence’s walls. ARTS & angry, and tired, and I’d been in the air paper that spoke to you – the student, tu- Take advantage of it. We like to re- for over twenty hours (waiting in air- tor, academic – in a world where there mind you every week but it bears repeat- CULTURE ports for more than fifteen). I had no is so much spin and rhetoric it numbs. ing here: 12. The guys who phone, a pocketful of foreign change, That’s what was on my mind when put- Anyone can write for Honi Soit. invented the meatbox and a third of a bottle of peach ice tea. ting together this edition: what’s impor- The whole ordeal seemed endless. I tant to students, and how some of the Lucy Bradshaw woke up for a 9am meeting the next day most interesting stories and people are Bryant Apolonio 15. Telling your parents and proofread some articles in a sort of closer than we think. So in the same pa- Editor-in-chief you’re an atheist haze. Then twelve weeks passed without per where we interview Julian Assange, me noticing. Welcome to the final edi- we also profile the owners of Uni Bros. Nathan Olivieri tion of Honi Soit for this semester. Alongside a piece about the therapeu- We’ve all of us gone through a great tic benefits of yoga and antidepressant THE OIN deal these past few months. We dragged medication, there’s an article on the uni- S you through the Union Board elections versity’s Animal Ethics Committee, a 21. EUROVISION: it's which ended with a bang and some story on the Carillon in the Quad, the whimpers. We covered the strikes, the censorship of Woroni, and, most encour- just the FUCKING Sydney Comedy Festival, boycotts, di- agingly, a load of letters. GREATEST THING vestments, and sanctions. The SSAF I’m not claiming that Honi is some 22. PASS-AGG PIGS and the SUSF. Death on the Internet, fe- model of relevance or reason or any- male ejaculation, Frank Ocean, awkward thing like that. I’m not saying it’s exempt

Editor-in-chief: Bryant Apolonio another continent could more regularly attend. Editors: Rafi Alam, Max Chalmers, Avani Dias, Mariana Podesta-Diverio, Nick History is made by those who show up. Unfor- & tunately, in every council meeting so far this Rowbotham, Hannah Ryan, Xiaoran Shi, Nina Ubaldi, Lucy Watson. year, Sam hasn’t. Reporters: Georgia Behrens, Andrew Bell, Lucy Bradshaw, Hal Conyngham, Nina SOUND Hallas, Georgia Kriz, Felicity Nelson, Sean O’Grady, Nathan Olivieri, Lucia Osborne- Harry Stratton fury Arts/Law II Crowley, Justin Pen, Lane Sainty, Cameron Smith, Mischa Vickas, Ezreena Yahya Wish you were here! Contributors: Tom Joyner, Riordan Lee, Amelie Vanderstock, Blythe Worthy, Tamasin Will & Disgrace: season finale Young Dear Honi, Names and descriptions were removed due to possible Cover Image: Bryant Apolonio Though Sam Murray’s letter may yearn for the kind of vacuous apathy and banal “inde- defamation risks. Artists, Photographers, and Cartoonists: Stella Ktenas, Laura Precup-Pop pendence” of the UPenn Assembly his article Dear Honi, Puzzles: Dominic Campbell, Eric Shi praised, the students of this university have elected a rather different kind of SRC. Last Last week after having a Will & Grace Ticker tape: Unattributed quotes. Guess who said it for a fabulous prize! year, we overwhelmingly voted for left-wing campaigner snatch leaflets out of my hand, I Email us at [email protected] groups which realized that student politics canvassed other campaigners regarding similar is neither an ideological island nor a political experiences with team Will & Grace. The following alleged occurrences are described as spe- The editors of Honi Soit and the SRC acknowledge the traditional vacuum. Rather, part of our obligation as society’s future educated class is to use our political cifically as possible to paint an accurate picture owners of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. Honi and intellectual capital to fight against injustice of those involved: wherever we can. That obligation includes - Some campaigners mocking Bebe loudly on Soit is written, printed, and distributed on Aboriginal land. If you are Eastern avenue as another female campaigner reading this, you are standing on Aboriginal land. Please recognise expressing solidarity with striking academics and educating students to fight against the neo- obnoxiously belly danced amongst them so as and respect this. liberal consensus that Margaret Thatcher’s was to draw attention to their vulgar comments. a golden era. - A group of four overheard as a police car Nor are the motions that Sam criticises in drove by Manning, praising the police attack on Want to place an advertisement in Honi Soit ? Contact Amanda any sense “irrelevant” to students. The Boycott, Tom Raue and suggesting the police should be LeMay & Jess Henderson [email protected] Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) motion sup- allowed to “break at least one of his ribs”. ports a decision by one of our own academics · A scarf wearing campaigner repeating degrading comments directed at Bebe during Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 not to co-operate with the Israeli war machine. My own motion relating to missile manufac- the Soapbox: “show us your clit” to a chorus of Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006. The SRC’s operation costs, laughter from the other campaigners present. space and administrative support are financed by the University of Sydney. Honi Soit is printed turer Raytheon questions how USSC students can critically examine US foreign policy when - A tall male about 6’3” intimidating other under the auspices of the SRC’s Directors of Student Publications: Clare Angel-Auld, Adam campaigners, cutting them off as they courted Chalmers, Bebe D’Souza, Brigitte Garozzo, James O’Doherty, Lane Sainty. All expressions are their inquiries are funded by an American arms dealer. Had Sam attended the meetings in voters heading to Manning, while a campaigner published on the basis that they are not to be regarded as the opinions of the SRC unless specifi- nearby stuffed leaflets in their faces. cally stated. The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the opinions or question – or even read the agenda – he would know this. - A campaigner behaving in an aggres- information contained within this newspaper, nor does it endorse any of the advertisements and sive manner to opposing campaigners as they insertions. Printed by MPD, Unit E1 46-62 Maddox St. Alexandria NSW 2015. Yet even more baffling was Sam’s complaint about the failure of the SRC to make quorum approached people he had escorted to the requirements at its last meeting. Sam, the reason Bosch booth on election day (22 May). why that meeting failed to meet quorum was - A campaigner shouting “Marxist scum” at the catastrophic failure of the right-of-centre three student protestors on strike day (14 May) Anyone can write for Honi Soit ! groups to show their faces. Perhaps it would near Fisher Library. @honi_soit Thankfully team Will & Grace’s abysmal elec- Email all letters and submissions to: be easier for the Council or Executive to meet quorum if you pushed your own comrades to toral result reflected the atrocious conduct of http://www.facebook.com/honisoitsydney [email protected] rock up, or indeed resigned your council seat their campaign. I would like to encourage any- so that someone who wasn’t on exchange on one else who experienced or witnessed similar acts to share them as such shameful behaviour www.honisoit.com letters should always be called out. sion about the place of medical abortions in our inaccurate. The diverse backgrounds of our to. It means that a person has decided to run society. The content is not emotive or judge- active membership are evident to anyone who for an elected student position. That’s it. There Rachel Louise Addy mental. It makes no political statements, nor attends meetings or engages with the ARC at is nothing binding about being an independent. Arts (INGS) II is it in any way graphic. The hostile and often stalls, forums and rallies. However, the more Even the concept of “ties to the Independent vitriolic response by some elements of the stu- important point is about the author’s criteria for movement” makes little sense – all it means is Misrepresentation and misunderstanding dent body, not least Harry Stratton’s polemic in measuring good anti-racist activism i.e. that hav- that a group of individuals have decided to pool in Women’s Honi last week’s Honi, has been disconcerting. Dis- ing a group controlled by “people of colour” their resources so they can continue to make cussion around abortion is always controversial would make it a more effective instrument for up their own minds about things. And that’s Dear Honi, to some degree. This is the nature of complex combating racism. the crux of it – they make up their own minds Recently I picked up the women’s edition of ethical issues and of university life. We would like to disagree with this. Firstly it about things. the Honi Soit and was disgusted to find a gross- Accusations of intimidation and bullying is is our understanding that the source of racism They might pool resources, they might occa- misrepresentation of Femen as a group suffer- heavy criticism for our mild flyer, the strong- is not all white people, but particular powerful sionally have similar values, then again they ing from the “white saviour complex”. est terms of which were that RU486 should be and self-interested groups in society. The best might not. Within the ‘Independent movement’ As a young feminist myself, beginning to regarded as “contentious at the least” in Aus- example of this is politicians who peddle racism on campus are card-carrying members of the form ideas about female oppression within tralian society. to scapegoat ethnic minorities and migrants for Greens – and card-carrying members of the cultures (including my own) I was disappointed This is not about the pro-life/pro-choice the social problems created by their own poli- Liberals. Talking about the Independents as a to experience yet another individual confined dichotomy, but a debate about medical health. cies. John Howard whipped up racism against collective is useless and misleading. They don’t in the constraints of political correctness. The What RU4? was written in that spirit and we refugees, Aboriginal people and Asian immi- act with one voice. They act separately. article portrayed Femen as an ignorant Western stand by its data. The express purpose of the gration in order to push through policies that They act in a free, self-sustained and self- feminist group that was refusing to be culturally flyer was to provide the basic facts, along with made all ordinary people’s lives harder, like the sufficient manner. They act Independently. sensitive to issues such as wearing the hijab or our perspective as a student society, towards GST and WorkChoices. The scapegoating of burqa, highlighting their recent “topless jihad” building an informed platform for discussion. refugees under the Labor government has con- Mikaela Higgins as proof of this. Yet the article completely Such a discussion falls very much within the tinued apace for the same reason. So, the ARC Social Work II ignored the reason behind the “topless jihad”, ambit of our club. Women have a right to know campaigns mainly around refugee rights, not at All cops are beautiful presumably to show the same cultural sensitiv- about the ethical, social, and medical implica- the expense of a better form of anti-racism, but ity that O’Brian admires. The “jihad” was a tions of RU486. Women deserve this discus- because this is the best way to fight racism at Dear Honi, response to Amina Tyler’s persecution after she sion. Maybe some people want it to be a closed its root. Last week it was with more than a little curi- posted a topless photo of herself on Facebook issue; we think otherwise. Secondly, organising on the basis of “peo- osity and déjà vu, that I read a piece by Tom in which phrases such as “my body is my own ple of colour” controlling the activist group Raue (“My Wonderful Day”) accusing police and not the source of anyone’s honour” as well Jade McLaughlin wrongly assumes that being a “person of of brutality against him. Perhaps your readers as “fuck your morals” were painted on her body. Education/Arts II colour” automatically means that you have an would benefit from a bit of context. After all, Amina faced serious backlash by preacher Almi Women’s College: Last Night of the interest in fighting racism. For instance, through this is not the first time – or even the second Adel (who is an enforcer of Sharia law at the Propagated Stereotype our involvement in the refugee campaign we - that Mr Raue has made such a complaint. On head of the Commission for the Promotion of have met with many Tamil refugees who have April 4 last year, subsequent to his arrest at a Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Tunisia) who Dear Honi, fled Sri Lanka, where Tamils are persecuted, violent rally, Mr Raue alleged in Honi Soit that argued that she should be stoned to death, by The Women’s College Formal was held tortured and killed by the repressive Sri Lankan police used “painful wristlocks, headlocks, and her own family who placed her in a psychiatric on Friday night, and it was themed “Moulin government. We certainly would not want the dragg[ed] one protester by his neck”. On March hospital in order to justify her radical action as Rouge”. For some reason, this meant that the President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, to 26 this year, Mr Raue was quoted in the Sydney insanity and even by members of the Tunisian organisers felt it would be appropriate to book join us even though he is a “person of colour”. Morning Herald, as again accusing riot police of government who argued that they should fine burlesque exotic dancers for the event, so they Not only does Rajapaksa foster anti-Tamil rac- force, alleging that he was “punched in the face her up to $600 and place her in prison for two could periodically straddle the male guests. I ism within Sri Lanka, he also works with the by a riot cop and my shirt was ripped”. Then, years. This omission of facts that do not fit would like to point out that employing women Australian government to prevent persecuted on May 14 this year, Mr Raue declared to Yahoo O’Brian’s culturally sensitive view of Islam con- to create atmosphere and contribute to a Tamils from leaving Sri Lanka. This is an News, that he was “grabbed by the neck” by tinues as she completely misquotes Ayaan Hirsi sense of place and time reduces them to little extreme example, but the point stands gener- police, and “felt like [he] was going to pass out”. Ali. According to O’Brian, Ayaan believes that more than elements of the decor; objects to ally. The Liberal Party boasts of fielding at least For whatever reason, Mr Raue now retro- Western feminism does not understand the be enjoyed. Furthermore, it is fundamentally 21 candidates from diverse ethnic backgrounds spectively claims that he felt he could “even complexities of different cultures and thus are problematic that the female organisers of the for the upcoming election, but their venomous die” – a claim that his own brother has labelled looking for the “easy way out” by ignoring the evening effectively bought the dancers in order anti-refugee rhetoric is the same as it was when “intentionally misleading”; noting that “he did issues faced by women of other cultures. to give sexual pleasure to the men in attend- it helped incite the Cronulla riots in 2006. not nearly die”. The fact is that police brutality However, when I looked at the interview used ance. In another theme faux pas, the organis- Finally, we absolutely welcome any and all is unacceptable – if it occurred in this instance, by O’Brian, Ayaan was actually addressing the ers booked at least one mannequin that had people passionate about fighting racism to get then it should be redressed. But so too is the same white guilt that is so evident in O’Brian’s been painted black and stuck behind some involved in the ARC. Because racism is used unfair disrespect that police face when trying to essay whereby we “take a white man and hold period instruments. This was obviously part by politicians to get away with implementing do their job. Police officers - not “pigs” or “fas- him to the highest, most pristine moral stand- of an attempt to evoke a time in which people policies that hurt all ordinary people and are an cists” as Mr Raue’s friends constantly label them ards, but take people of colour, and say, “well of African descent were regarded as having affront to human rights generally, white peo- - do a difficult, dangerous and under-appreciated that’s just how they do it.’” O’Brain attempts little value, other than as entertainers, slaves ple have an interest in fighting racism too. Of job. It’s a job made more difficult by the acts to turn attention away from cultural inequality or servants, stratified and excluded from white course the ARC acknowledges that there are of unashamed disrespect hurled towards them. for women in other countries and proceeds to society. some real barriers against some students par- When did a police officer defending themselves discuss gender inequality in Australia which, So, ladies, I give you 10/10 for sticking to ticipating in political activism, such as language, become “excessive force”, but protestors push- whilst it is a serious issue, is of no relevance to the theme as well as 10/10 for embarrassing culture, time as well as confidence. But for the ing, screaming “pig” through a megaphone, the article and only reinforces Aryaan’s belief yourselves, upholding and perpetuating the reasons above, autonomous organizing can only goading them into violence, threatening, spitting in a Western white guilt. Rather Ayaan argues patriarchy, and offending a lot of people. ever reflect these barriers, not destroy the rac- or shoving just a “peaceful protest”? To believe for a greater involvement of Western feminists ism that creates them. To do this we need to Mr Raue’s emotion-charged recount, we would in foreign societies and I have almost no doubt Georgia Kriz build the strongest grassroots movement pos- have to believe that riot police have specifically that she would endorse organisations such as Arts/MECO II sible, and that means a united fight involving targeted Mr Raue on at least three occasions in Femen for supporting Amina rather than deval- everyone. three subsequent “rallies” at Sydney University uing Amina’s protest by ignoring it completely If you would like to get more involved with as the focus of excessive force. It could be that (as O’Brian’s article does). Almi Adel argued the Anti-Racism Collective, come along to our Mr Raue is a victim of police abuse, or it could that Amina’s actions could cause “an epidemic. weekly collective meetings on Tuesdays at 11am be that or it could be that he is simply the boy It could be contagious and give ideas to other on the New Law Lawns. For more informa- who cried “pig”. women” yet by continuing this lack of coverage tion call Marijke on 0452192659 or Tory on about Amina’s plight (Femen alerted the media 0411128565. All welcome. Alex Dore to Amina’s situation allowing wider spread President, SU Liberal Club coverage and perhaps less harsh repercussions) College, you’ve done it again. Signed, O’Brain only helps reinforce this “stripping peo- Adam Adelpour, Marco Avena, Caitlin Sic one, champ ple of their voice”, something that she claims The ARC is not the problem Doyle-Marwick, Kate Giunta, Marijke Hoving, western feminism is doing. Thus O’Brian dis- Tory Karmakar Dear Honi, plays a highly “simplistic understanding of the Dear Honi, So this is in response to a profile done on a The members of the Anti-Racism Collective real issues at play”, as she so aptly puts it, and That’s so Indie guy named Jonathon Moylan in week 11’s Honi. continues to submit to Western feminism’s cur- (ARC) signed below would like to respond to Do you even understand geography? Like hon- rent biggest flaw: political correctness. the issues raised in the week 8 2013 edition of Honi. In the article ‘Race-based activism leaves Dear Honi, estly, do you know anything beside the area of Let’s pause for a moment and consider the Sydney in which you spawned from? I only just Lara Smal a lot to be desired’ the author contends that the ARC is “largely run by white people” and word “independent”. By definition, it means began reading this article and I read “Gunne- that this represents a deficiency in anti-racist “free from outside control, not depending dah region, near Newcastle” okay I live one My society, my choice activism on campus. For example he says that on another’s authority.” The concept implies hour south of Newcastle on the Central Coast anti-racist activism would be more accessible non-binding, minimal organisation and...well, and I’m pretty sure that Gunnedah is a good Dear Honi, and therefore better if it were organised on an independent thought and decision making pro- 7 hours away from Newcastle [4 hours], how LifeChoice recently distributed an informa- cesses. Synonyms include free, self-sustained autonomous basis with membership based on do you define ‘near’? Stupid mistakes like this tion flyer titled What RU4? on campus. It can being a “person of colour”. In his own words and self-sufficient. be accessed in full at www.lifechoice.net.au/ For a while now, I have felt that students on undermine the validity of anything Honi pub- the way to build more effective anti-racism on lishes, which isn’t much. But hey its free right? whatru4. What RU4? outlines the physiologi- campus is “not for the privileged to speak for campus have misunderstood what it means to cal mechanism of the RU486 abortion drug the oppressed, but to be allies in a movement be an Independent running for elected student So who cares? Me. and some of its documented medical risks and that belongs to them.” positions. It does not necessarily mean that a complications. As regards the first charge that the ARC is group of people get together and make deci- Signed, Tiarne Shutt The flyer concludes with a call for a discus- “largely run by white people”, it is factually sions as a collective that they all have to adhere Arts/Law I

Who said it? “You are all wrong”. [When faced with a booing crowd] 3 @honi_soit HONI NEWS FREE Week Twelve Edition “THERE ARE NO TEARS IN HEAVEN” Huge USU election ends in wet climax Lane Sainty wraps up the Union Board election Last Wednesday saw another USU elected in the twelfth count, and Eve happy to see on board,” she said. Batra post-election recommendations she Board election come and go, with the Radunz took out the fifth Board spot confirmed that her $500 grant was has suggested that the USU’s Electoral fifteen candidates reduced to six vic- in the fourteenth count. The sixth and intact, other than the money spent on Committee discuss the issue of joint tors after a marathon twelve-hour day most unexpected victor of the night 25 campaign shirts, and that it would be campaigns and how they ought to be of campaigning. The six successful can- was undoubtedly Kade Denton, who returned to the USU. dealt with in the future. didates, in order of election, were Tara pulled off a victory against strong Syd- The ongoing controversy about the Now that the fresh intake of Board Waniganayaka (Independents), Robby ney Labor Students contender Jeremy joint ‘Will & Grace’ campaign was directors has been determined, the spec- Magyar (Labor Right, Unity), Bebe Elphick to take the final place on Board. another constant theme in the 2013 ulation about who is likely to become D’Souza (Grassroots), Tim Matthews Preference deals did not play a big role Board election. As reported in Honi Soit the next USU President has intensified, (Independents), Eve Radunz (Labor in this year’s election, as the six elected last week, a complaint was made against with Hannah Morris and John Harding- Left, NLS) and Kade Denton (Indepen- candidates were the top six in primary their joint campaign strategy, which was Easson the two major contenders for dents). votes as well. Bebe D’Souza was the rejected by the Returning Officer. It was this position. For more information on 5537 students turned out to vote, beneficiary of a large number of pref- then appealed and taken to the Electoral the Presidential race, see Unigate. an increase of 663 students from last erences from Patrick Ward and Jeremy Arbiter, law lecturer Penelope Cross- year. The final booth closed at 7:30pm, Elphick which took her from sixth place ley. Crossley found that the complaints accompanied with the traditional count- in primaries to the third elected candi- made against Will and Grace’s campaign down, cheers and joyous abandoning date overall. As Waniganayaka, D’Souza had no basis in the USU’s Constitution, of how-to-votes (except for the Grass- and Radunz were all elected into the top regulations, Candidate Handbook or roots campaigners, who, presumably, six, the USU’s affirmative action provi- Grant Recipient Agreement. She also recycled). The campaign teams, wet and sions were not invoked this year. found that the complaint pertaining to freezing from hours of chasing votes in By far the most memorable aspect a potential breach of the spending cap the rain, headed to Hermann’s for the of this particular Board election was lacked the evidence to back it up. Cross- election party and announcement of the sheer number of candidates. The ley emphasized her lack of discretion in results. number fell from 17 to 16 early in the these matters when she spoke to Honi Few people were surprised when Tara election process when Josh Crawford Soit, saying that her role was to make Waniganayaka was the only candidate to dropped off the radar, and fell again a decision based on existing rules and break quota and be elected to Board on on May 16, the first day of pre-polling, regulations, and that in her view, none the first count with a massive 907 votes. when Kanika Batra pulled out of the of them had been broken. The next few counts saw a number race due to ill health. On Election Day, Considering that neither Will nor of candidates excluded before Robby Batra campaigned for William Dawes. “I Grace was elected to Board, it’s safe to Magyar reached quota and became thought that since I couldn’t continue say that at least this time around, the the second person elected to Board. my own campaign it would be good to joint campaign was not a winning strat- Bebe D’Souza and Tim Matthews were help out someone I like and would be egy. However, Crossley said that in her Photo: Hannah Ryan Cops off campus rally descends on VC’s office Hannah Ryan reports on last week’s rally against police violence Cries of “shame” and “fuck the lines. Riemer, an NTEU Branch Com- strike, raising awareness of “the need police” echoed throughout USYD’s nor- mittee Member and English lecturer, to have even stronger picket lines”, and mally tranquil Quadrangle last Thursday, denounced management’s “violence in that it placed the burden of responsi- as anger over police presence on cam- its different forms – violence dressed up bility for police violence on University pus continued to boil. as rationality, dressed up as pragmatism, management. dressed up as idealism”. Around eighty people gathered out- The rally culminated with a more artis- side Fisher Library at 1pm for a “cops Wynand van der Woude, a USYD stu- tic expression of protesters’ anger, as off campus” rally in response to the dent whose leg was broken at the City they wreaked chalky havoc on the sand- presence of riot police at the strike on Rd picket on May 14, had to speak from stone walls of the quadrangle. Graffiti May 14. a seated position. variously described Michael Spence as a “WANKER”, declared that “all cops are An impassioned Nick Riemer con- The rally then advanced to the Quad- rangle, where Vice-Chancellor Michael bastards” and invited readers to “fuck” demned University management for its “Spence”, “the cops” and “the police”. role in the police activity at the picket Spence’s offices are located. In a stark inversion of the story of Rapunzel, pro- Not all were happy with this form of testers gathered beneath Michael Spen- protest. “I’m not going to deface the ce’s office and chanted: “When police for greater oversight for police. quad!” muttered one attendee. enforce Spence’s attack / students and While attendance was undoubt- In any case, the chalk proved to be staff stand up, fight back”. edly diminished by a combination of almost as fleeting as the speakers’ words. The final two speakers were Chris- gloomy weather and post-election hang- Within an hour and a half, it had already tian Darby, a Wollongong student, and overs, Freya Bundey, the chair of the been removed. Greens MP David Shoebridge, who rally, described it as a success. She said @hannahd15 condemned police violence and called it would build support for the June 5 Photos: Stella Ktenas

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out of the 2013 Board election was laborate, will be very interesting indeed. the failure of Sydney Labor Students (SLS), who broke from the national Post-saduates Labor Left faction NLS earlier this year, to get their candidate Jeremy Elphick A petition has been started by a group All the rumours, hearsay, and downright slander of unhappy postgraduate students in from the world of student politics and culture elected. Elphick was beaten to sixth HONI NEWS place by Indie and former SHADES the Arts faculty. The group is claiming It’s not over yet The Gate suspects that Eve Radunz’s President Kade Denton, who, as the the University has not sufficiently con- This year’s USU Board election may vote will prove to be the decisive one. Gate reported last week, was shunned sulted with them on a range of matters, have ended, but speculation about Radunz’s faction National Labor Stu- as part of a three way preference deal especially in relation to the use of the who will be the USU’s next President dents (Labor Left) controls the National by fellow Indies Tara Waniganayaka and postgraduate spaces put aside for Arts remains rife. The contenders for the top Union of Students (NUS) in coalition Tim Matthews in favour of NLS candi- students in the Woolley, Wallace, and Huge USU election ends in wet climax job are John Harding-Easson (Labor with Mr Harding-Easson’s faction, Stu- date Eve Radunz. It has been speculated Old Teachers College Buildings. On a Right), Hannah Morris (Independents) dent Unity (Labor Right). If history that a condition of the preference deal side note, holy shit, there are designated and, with an outside chance, Tom Raue is anything to go by, Harding-Easson was that Radunz vote for Hannah Mor- spaces for postgraduate Arts students (Grassroots Left). In most years, it tran- should be a shoo-in: NLS will not want ris in the Presidential ballot, but it is also Woolley, Wallace, and Old Teachers spires that the Presidential race is a sep- to damage its relationship with Unity at possible that the Indies and NLS plan to College Buildings! Georgiana Toma, arate contest within the overall Board NUS. But these are strange times, and combine forces in next semester’s SRC who has been helping drive the peti- election, with current Board Directors the SLS/NLS split on campus this year, election. One of the founding mytholo- tion, told the Gate that changes to these running a candidate to shore up a vote coupled with Radunz’s bizarre prefer- gies of Matthews’ 2011 ‘Voice’ Indie spaces would hurt the research abilities in the Presidential ballot. Last year, Rhys ence deal with Indies Tim Matthews block was to oppose NLS’ dominance of postgrads and break the University’s Pogonoski ran Hannah Morris in an and Tara Waniganayaka may mean that of the SRC. Were the Indies to team own commitment to provide them with unsuccessful attempt to secure the Pres- Radunz breaks with tradition and votes up with NLS this year, the Gate imag- appropriate facilities on campus, as idency. This time around, Morris ran for Hannah Morris. ines that USYD student politics would outlined in the saucily titled “Essential Tara Waniganayaka, Harding-Easson Another factor in the Presidential race implode in a vortex of hypocrisy, deceit Resources for Postgraduate Research backed Robby Magyar, and Raue sup- will be whether Senate-appointed Board and electoral opportunism. Students Policy 2012”. Particular criticism has be levelled at the decision to ported Pat Ward, who failed to get up. Director Emma McDonald decides to As for SLS, Elphick’s below par show- change over the computers in the Old cast a vote. This is without precedent ing in the Board election – garnering Currently, the Presidential frontrunner Teachers College building in early June, in recent years, which is just as well, just 421 primary votes – is a concern appears to be Harding-Easson, whom evicting students during one of their given the Senate-appointed representa- for the faction looking forward to SRC the Gate believes will have the support busiest weeks of the year. Adding insult tive is not elected by students. But Ms elections. It appears unlikely that SLS of current Board Directors Tom Raue to new computers, once the computers McDonald is constitutionally entitled will be able to win the election without and Sophie Stanton, as well as newly are installed postgrads will no longer be to vote on Board, and the Gate under- the assistance of Grassroots, whose two elected Directors Robby Magyar, Bebe given access to unlimited free printing. stands that at least one Board Director candidates Bebe D’Souza and Pat Ward D’Souza and Eve Radunz – taking him Though the first 1 000 pages per year has been attempting to petition her vote collected a combined 820 primary votes, to the six votes required to be elected will still be cost free, Toma told the Gate in recent months. The Presidential bal- and possibly also Unity, whose candi- President. Morris, on the other hand, that this was a relatively small number lot will take place late next month. date Robby Magyar polled second with will have the vote of Karen Chau, from given the massive amount of reading 753 primaries. How the various factions the current Board, in addition to Tara and printing postgrad Arts students will work together come September, Waniganayaka, Tim Matthews and Kade SRC already? need to undertake. Denton, of those elected this year. particularly if NLS and the Indies col- Perhaps the biggest surprise to come

Ezreena Yahya argues that international students are being honi advocates unfairly prevented from full participation in our universities International student enrolments in they have been discouraged to join clubs afford the tuition fees…’ But it’s already myself in a foreign country. Australia are falling. Between 2011 and and societies, the general response has hard for us to pay the fees, why is so What is being repeatedly ignored is 2012 a drop of 5.5% was recorded. It’s been that they don’t have the time,” he little being done to reduce the burden?” that international students are students no wonder, given the strict visa require- explained. Ng said. too - which means just like everyone else ments, high tuition fees and expensive Patrick Ward, the outgoing President Ng argues that this policy has a real who has to juggle work and study, we Cops off campus rally descends on VC’s office transportation that greet them when of Unimates, expressed a similar sen- impact on where international students constantly worry about being able to pay they arrive. timent. “I think they do have a harder choose to study. Chen supports this by rent, bills, and groceries. This situation is Visa conditions means that interna- time, not because they don’t want to describing the policy of concessions common to most students, regardless of tional students are generally unable to [get involved], but the opportunities are being only applied to domestic students nationality. study part-time or even to enrol in fewer more limited,” he told Honi. “They have and students on exchange as “discrimi- International education activity is a than 24 credit points in a semester. limited financial resources (given that natory and disheartening”. crucial source of revenue in Australia Meanwhile, international students pay they pay higher fees and living expenses, The fight for travel concessions for – it accounted for $15 billion of export up to $40 000 in tuition fees a year. which tend to be higher in places like international students in NSW and Vic- income last year and supports approxi- Ronny Chen, former International International House), to use on activi- toria is still on-going, yet one popular mately 125 000 jobs across the coun- Students Officer of USYD’s SRC, per- ties.” He also pointed out that many sentiment by opposing voices is that try. Failing to understand the economic sonally applied for an 18 credit point international students are on scholar- since international students chose to be consequences of declining enrolments load and was rejected. “I’m in my ships from their home countries which here, why complain? would have a substantial impact on the are contingent on them succeeding in fourth year of a combined Science/Law More often than not, foreign students stability of the country’s international their studies. degree,” he said. “Not being able to take opt to study here due to political insta- education sector. fewer subjects really does take up all my Social isolation is not the only prob- bility in their home countries, the bet- Much is still to be done to ensure stu- energy and time. Even when I wanted to lem that international students face. Jay ter education system and better quality dent welfare and support services for organise a casual BBQ, I found it diffi- Ng, current SRC International Students of life offered here in Australia. At overseas students meet international cult to pull everything together. Working Officer, commented on the absence of least, that’s why I chose to study here. standards. part-time is also almost impossible.” travel concessions for international stu- When I moved from Malaysia about 15 The treatment of international students. Chen considers that inflexible visa months ago, I remember being quite dents shows an interest in the money requirements have also resulted in for- “It’s so much more than about the overwhelmed at the idea of living in a we bring to Australia but no concern eign students being less actively engaged money. The way [the government] sees foreign country - away from home, fam- for our welfare and an ignorance of the in extra-curricular activities. “I’ve talked us, it just reinforces the stereotype that ily, friends, a familiar and secured envi- realities of student life. to many international students at vari- all international students are rich. I often ronment for such an extended period of ous events and have asked them why get remarks like ‘well, since you can time. Suddenly, at 19, I had to fend for

“All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.” 5 news @honi_soit Four legs death, two legs medicine Georgia Behrens puts a human face on animal testing For the majority of USYD students, ours peers remain uneasy about their that should never be violated, and if you mal experimentation, it’s difficult not to the most significant moral calculation research to this day. think that I really don’t think you could be grateful to Rosemary and her peers. we will undertake in the course of our “One of the methods that we use to justify what we’re doing,” she says. At least there are some of us out there study is whether or not to lie about the kill the mice is to gas them with carbon “But I think most people think more willing to assume a far greater burden word count on our mid-semester essay. dioxide so they go straight to sleep along the lines of we should be trying – and to confront a greater challenge – Rosemary Mulway, however, is regu- before they die. And when you do that, not to make animals suffer or die unnec- than that of getting an essay under the larly compelled to reflect on much more when you put the tube in their enclo- essarily, and that we should be doing word-count before the 5pm deadline. serious matters. This year, her Honours sures, you feel like a Nazi or something.” everything we possibly can to protect year, she has embarked on a research I ask her if she thinks humans have a their welfare while still being utilitarian project that requires her to treat, moni- about the good that can come of the @GeorgiaBehrens tor, and kill white mice. research we’re doing.” These mice will be born, live, and die Up until this year, Rosemary Rosemary is confident that that in a research facility in order to enable had never had to work with USYD has adequate processes in place the completion of her Honours thesis live animals. But before she to ensure all possible harm minimisa- – a thesis which will, she hopes, allow was even allowed to touch tion, with extensive administration and better understanding and prevention of monitoring of animal welfare by the medical phenomena such as transplant the mice that would be the University’s Animal Ethics Committee. rejection. subject of her research, She is able, moreover, to justify to Up until this year, Rosemary had she had to learn how to kill herself that harm that she does cause by never had to work with live animals. But remembering the potential outcomes of before she was even allowed to touch them. the type of research that she’s doing. the mice that would be the subject of “It’s a constant philosophical debate her research, she had to learn how to kill right to use animals as a means to our that we all have, but you just have to them. own ends. Despite having studied ethics know exactly why you’re doing it and “It’s a horrible experience. One of the and philosophy as an undergraduate, she what you’re aiming for.” first things that everyone who’s more is still unsure. And, with many of the cornerstones experienced asks you after you’ve done “It’s a question I ask myself all the of contemporary medicine – techniques the training days is: ‘Have you cried yet?’ time. It really depends on what position such as vaccination, general anaesthetic, And everyone always does.” you approach it from. On the one hand, antibiotics, and joint replacement – hav- Rosemary says that she and her Hon- you could say that animals have rights ing been pioneered with the use of ani- “I want more life ... fucker.”

Poking a stick at the ANZAC myth OPINION Tom Joyner is not un-Australian

Over beers last week, a few close should be exalted. Let me then make to justify taking part in someone else’s drinks but my friend hadn’t noticed. friends and I found ourselves debating this clear: I don’t mean to say that sim- deteriorating campaign that makes us “What about the your national pride?” the way we talk about Australian soldiers ply paying respect to our war dead is in rally behind the thinned edifice of duty She paused. It’s an empty point, and she killed in Afghanistan. any way tantamount to glorifying the act and the ‘ANZAC tradition.’ Either way, knew it. “That’s un-Australian,” was the blub- of war itself. we’re kidding ourselves if we think a sol- We have plenty of things to be proud bered consensus. “How could you not But labeling them collectively as he- dier is any more a saint than a school- of in our society – our multiculturalism, be grateful for their sacrifice?” roes is. teacher is, a bus driver, a nurse. Each a high standard of living, and our public My usual reservations for a word like It’s true that the occupational hazards serve a function in our society, and their health system among others. ‘un-Australian’ aside, I’m curious to of a combat soldier outweigh most, but worth should be judged on their indi- But the war in Afghanistan has long know what I’m meant to be grateful why should we meter their civil worth vidual capacity to productively fulfill it, been unpopular in Australia, and we’d for. Grateful is a difficult word here as on this alone? Why are we so eager to rather than by virtue of their uniform. do better to divorce our sentimentality it suggests some kind of debt. The Aus- adorn them with the h-word? Heroism Expectation of the unconditional from our political will to openly criticise tralian Defence Force (ADF) personnel in my books is limited to Marvel comic support for our ‘diggers’ in public dis- this country’s participation in it. Brand- are (by way of the taxpayer) paid a mod- characters and Nelson Mandela – it is a course (a term dangerously loaded with ing Australian soldiers as heroes and est salary, their university education is status earned as much as it is distinctive, jingoistic implications), implicitly pre- glorifying the war they fight is simply sponsored, their living expenses are sub- not one conferred by default. Especially vents direct criticism of the government unproductive. sidised, and in the event of ill health or when they are killed. who sent them to war in the first place If by recognising this I am “un-Aus- even their untimely death, they recieve Australian soldiers don’t fight to de- – to question the latter is to undermine tralian,” then we seriously need to re- generous benefits. fend my values, nor do they anyone support for the former (and that’s just consider the definition of the word. Don’t get me wrong when I say this, else’s. This view is probably owed to “un-Australian”). I certainly respect Australian troops in the bewildering practice of historically It’s a clever and foolproof political Afghanistan – after all, it takes genuine conflating the outright militarism of the ruse that’s hard to resist. As long as we courage to partake in war, let alone one ‘Anzac spirit’ with our national identity. still dogmatically bandy around the tired where you don’t belong. Soldiers aren’t Far from being some kind of beloved emblem of the ANZACs, it certainly accountable for the political blunders of public institution, the ADF of recent won’t be the last time Australia is led the government that sent them there; years has ostensibly served to protect blindly into the kind of conflict better they simply follow orders. the foreign political interests of the gov- left to countries who still don’t think the They shouldn’t be vilified simply for ernments that have commanded it. Vietnam War was a mistake. doing their job any more than they Maybe it’s our own pathological need The glassie had long ago cleared our

6 “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” www.honisoit.com news Beyond coal and gas Amelie Vanderstock report on recent environmental victories News in “If you love this country, fight for it. This Community Power Agency and Beyond will be the biggest social movement this country Zero Emissions further revealed how has ever seen, and it will change this country solutions are already amongst us. forever.” – Drew Hutton, Lock the Gate David and Goliath successes were cel- Alliance President ebrated alongside ongoing campaigns. Revue From the small town of Bulga, NSW’s From Urban ASEN students to rural win in court against mining giant Rio Blythe Worthy reviews this week’s news, acrostically Knitting Nanas, 270 community cam- Tinto, to the termination of the mega- paigners from across Australia joined port project on Balaclava island in the experienced activists, doctors and ac- Great Barrier Reef and Woodside’s No feathers were too Russelled Rallying support for your Board ademics in Kurri Kurri, NSW (18-20 LNG gas hub in the Kimberley, there this week. candidate on your blog: WOO! May) to share stories from our growing was energy and hope in conference par- But… fight for country and livelihoods so un- ticipants. Elections at uni went well, so to dermined by extractive industries. Surveys, blockades and innovative Organised by the Sunrise Project, tactics such as Jonathan Moylan’s ANZ- speak. In national news: Everyone’s still reeling from Tum- panel discussions featuring experts and Whitehaven hoax were work-shopped. blr’s $1.1b sell to Yahoo. community leaders were integrated with The Sierra Club, US, shared this orga- Wyatt Roy joined the growing list training, report-backs and networking in nising model which successfully closed of progressive MPs. Venting about cars in pubs is a an open workshop model. 177 coal fired power plants across the form of assault, yet 2016 Fords Climate expert and former chair of continent. Lock the Gate, in a ‘Call to the Australian Coal Association, Ian Country’, seeks to unite these ubiqui- So rally on forth for gay matri- are screeching to a halt? mony. Dunlop, revealed our recent emissions tous demands to prioritise farmland, trajectory as alarmingly higher than the water catchments, nationally significant Ugh! Even though this all might most conservative IPCC projections. ecosystems and community concern. make you want to get drunk and The imminent call for ‘fossil-free’ As a participant, I was truly inspired It’s back to court for Craig swoon. was supplemented by Dr Merryn Re- by stories of struggle and success, Thompson again. denbach, Doctors for the Environment shared by people who don’t necessar- Everyone knows we can live in Australia, in her discussion of extensive ily converge on politics or priorities for public health impacts at every coal en- ‘why’. The gathering revealed how our Nineteen new charges = one peace knowing Arrested Development hundred and seventy three total. ergy production stage. efforts contribute to a broader environ- is back on soon. Grounded in realistic economics and mental justice movement, as what we do I don’t even think there’s a rhyme existing technology, the switch to re- agree upon, is that we can and must take that does this man justice. newables was detailed by Mark Diesen- our land, our water and our future, into dorf of UNSW. Groups including the our own capable hands. OPINION Woroni in hot water after Islamic satire UNI-VERSE A picture is worth a thousand words, and the threat of expulsion, discovered Max Chalmers Days after the launch of their fifth ganisations. the cartoon. When the PDF version of But Content Editor Joshua Dabelstein edition, the editors of Woroni, ANU’s One student, Fatemah Khalfan, wrote that week’s edition went online, they rejected this accusation and instead ac- fortnightly student newspaper, were fac- to Woroni with concerns the cartoon were again called in and allegedly threat- cused the University of putting financial ing the threat of serious disciplinary ac- would propagate racist stereotypes al- ened with a university disciplinary hear- interests over press freedom. He said the tion and the defunding of their 65 year ready prevalent in Western media coming, where they would receive no legal University was afraid the cartoon would old paper. mentary. Khalfan concluded the cartoon representation, and could potentially be received badly overseas, in countries The editors found themselves in trou- replicated a tendency to “present Islam face punishments as severe as expulsion. from which ANU draws significant ble after publishing a cartoon satirising within a specific framework and that is, The cartoon, they were told, was a numbers of international students. Islam. Under a column titled ‘Before the the framework of the savage”. threat to ANU’s reputation and security, After the threats made by the Univer- law, equal to testimony of one man’ the Freestone said he and the co-authors and had to be taken offline. On top of sity, the editors decided to comply and cartoon had an image of two women. realised it had not been subtle satire, but this, funding cuts were allegedly threat- take the PDF offline, meaning the car- The next title, with the heading ‘While rejected accusations of perpetuating re- ened. toon is no longer accessible to anyone menstruating, be present in a place of ligious discrimination. “Professor Hughes-Warnington [Dep- who missed out on a hard copy of the business or worship’ was above an im- “There are very bigoted stereotypes uty Vice-Chancellor (Academic)] in- paper. age of no women. Another line read out there regarding asylum seekers from formed us that we were jeopardising But the incident leaves a swathe of “The Prophet’s third wife, Aisha, was the Middle East or the idea that all Mus- our SSAF,” Woroni Editor-in-Chief Cam unanswered questions: how provocative nine when the marriage was consum- lims are terrorists, but we’re not inter- Wilson told Honi Soit. should student media be? Is there a dual mated (a fifty three year old man fucked ested in that at all,” he said. Unlike Honi, Woroni receives its alloca- standard on satire when sending up Is- a nine year old girl)”. But as Muslim students submitted tion of Student Services and Amenities lam as opposed to other religions? According to co-author Jamie Free- thoughtful letters to the editors, ANU Fee (SSAF) funding directly from the And lastly, perhaps most importantly, stone, the point of the column was “to was panicking. University, meaning it can be punished are universities becoming too afraid to point out the nefarious aspects of dif- Twice, in a matter of days, the Woroni for publishing material that upsets the defend free speech when it jeopardises ferent religions’ official doctrines. In this editorial team were called into the office University’s management their commercial interests? case (Islam), the sexism and misogyny in of the Chancelry. It is also alleged that in these meet- The ANU Chancelry could not be contacted The Koran.” The first time they were asked by the ings the Pro Vice-Chancellor accused for comment before deadline. The cartoon quickly drew a negative University’s Pro Vice-Chancellor Rich- Woroni of breaking ANU’s regulations in reaction from Muslim students and or- ard Baker to write a formal apology for relation to racial or religious vilification. @MaxChalmers90

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YOGA and DEPRESSION

Tamasin Young charts her journey from downward spirl to Downward Dog

I am peaceful. I release my thoughts. perfect starting point. effectiveness. In Australia, CBT is one can become extremely useful to some- I repeat my mantra to myself. Every- Exercise has long been known to help form of therapy explicitly mentioned in one who is feeling unsure about how thing dissipates into an inarticulated manage depression, basically because the Federal Government’s guidelines for to self-talk, or interact with others. For colour of subconsciousness. The active endorphins are felt keenly in sufferers. the provision of psychological services example, one of the fundamental con- voice in my mind goes silent, leaving under Medicare. cepts yoga is ahimsa, non-violence. But there is more to it. “Depression is an empty space more nourishing than Now if I catch myself thinking nega- often a problem of being cornered and “There are some real similarities sleep. It is a relief to have final, infinite tively, I remind myself: non-violence. finding you don’t feel like there is a path- between CBT and mindfulness, because silence. I hang there. And then, pulling Non-violence towards myself is just as way out to a position of light in your they are both cognitive in a particular up through my chest comes a surge of important as towards others. life,” says Jack Marshall, an integrative way, both based on reflection, on being feeling, an understanding: you’ve got medicine practitioner at the UClinic in more aware,” says Gordon. “In CBT, by In this way, I find an intersection of to stop beating yourself up. You’re too Surry Hills. Marshall believes any move- challenging faulty thinking patterns, in CBT and yoga. “It’s about question- hard on yourself. Like brushing the dirt ment therapy is crucial for people with mindfulness, by observing patterns and ing your own integrity,” says Marshall. off a tombstone to read the words latent depression. “Where yoga works more choosing to withdraw from the kind of “How you act in the world – am I just beneath, this first opportunity of silence specifically [than other exercise] is that anxiety or sadness that they might oth- responding? Or do you have a sense of brings my most deep-seated apprehen- it gives you a sense of peace, and it can erwise induce. It’s a way of managing yourself and how you want to act?” sion to focus. find the energy centres… and resonate the self, if you like.” *** *** with them through particular movement To me, both approaches were strat- Now’s the time to make something In the USU election campaigns, candi- egies. Empowering. I could re-teach very, very clear. I am a full advocate date Jeremy Elphick proposed a ‘puppy myself how to self-talk – independently, for anti-depressants – don’t think I’ve room’ to help sufferers of depression; The moment in savasana... which was important to me. “A counsel- become a raging hippie. There are cer- both Eve Radunz and Sarah Marriott was the moment where I lor can get sick, go on holidays, they can tain types of depression that really do advocated for ‘health and well-being’ went from blindly living the retire,” says Marshall. “And you can get need an anti-depressant medication. weeks on campus. Puppy-lovers or not, a reliance on that person and then they “Forms of psychotic depression can be students are increasingly looking for pain inside my head to are not there. With meditation, your reli- quite dangerous without anti-depressant supplements for treating depression. stepping outside, turning ance is on a practice you have taken into medication, where people actually get Yoga is a spiritual, moral and physical yourself.” quite delusional thinking,” says Gordon. practice to improve ‘self-awareness’. around and looking back at However, I used this independent But it is essential to learn how to think The bending, twisting and balancing a girl who couldn’t sleep or approach to supplement my consulta- healthily, or once you stop the medica- of the body improves flexibility and focus. tions, rather than replace them. “It’s tion, the good effect it had will have gone strength. The controlled breathing helps more about what happens between con- to waste. “Anti-depressants are useful to to focus the mind, while meditation sultations than what happens during do the heavy lifting, you can actually get aims to calm it. The combination of all strategies, whereas general exercise is them,” says Gordon. “That the therapist things moving first and then put other three together brings consciousness to often strengthening muscles or gets you and the client have a sense of agreement things in place. It saves you some of the how they interact. moving, but doesn’t get to the depth of of what the issue is… but the individual struggle you might otherwise have,” she issue that you may be able to uncover And so no, I am not a member of a person finds things that work for them.” says. “But a starting point should always through yoga,” says Marshall. cult. I am in fact the pragmatic daugh- I spoke to Ian Davidson, a teacher at be without medication, because it is only ter of a General Practitioner. But I am “Yoga is particularly amazing because Mantra Yoga studio, about the impor- in that way you actually get the oppor- also a newcomer to yoga. And a recent it adds a very important physical element tance of savasana. The feeling is simi- tunity to learn from the experience, and sufferer of depression. It was a founda- [to mindfulness] and we tend to forget lar to the occasional moments of clarity it seems such a waste, to go through all tion built on both habits from yoga and quickly how our bodies and well-being when you have stopped thinking about that and not learn.” anti-depressants that pulled me out of are tied together,” says Dr Jill Gordon, anything and something profound I have started a course of anti-depres- it. I am not asking for sympathy, because a general practitioner with expertise in arises. “Like managing to stand up on sants of the selective serotonin reuptake I’ve found what works for me. But I do psychological medicine. “Something as a surfboard, and catching a wave. And inhibitor (SSRI) class. It turns out that believe in the importance of sharing simple as 30 minutes a day of exercise being absolutely nowhere else but in my low levels of serotonin have also this, to help others manage their mental is highly beneficial. So formalising that that very moment. Your body knows contributed to my life-long inclination health, in case it works for them. into a technique like yoga, you add value how to do it – it’s a pretty similar kind towards migraines. So case in point, on top of the mere physical exercise by *** of peace,” says Davidson. these SSRI tablets are doing some heavy itself.” That moment in savasana (the rest at Savasana was where I first managed lifting for me. But the yoga exercises I the end of a yoga class) was the moment Any doctor will tell you that the to silence my chattering inner mono- learnt to specially manage the muscles where I went from blindly living the most important technique for manag- logue and see the bigger picture of how in my neck that were carrying the stress pain inside my head to stepping outside, ing depression is re-establishing healthy I interact with the world. A feeling that and pain of migraines were a supple- turning around and looking back at a girl ‘thinking’ habits. I stumbled over this was peaceful, yet sharply aware. “The ment that helped me feel in control. by accident. I had repeated a mantra to who couldn’t sleep or focus; who, when yogic idea of those thoughts is that it *** in company, wanted to be alone, and myself whilst doing yoga to shut out any is actually a deeper subconscious that Depression will differ from person to when alone, couldn’t stand it. And until unwelcome thoughts. Then, when diag- comes up with this stuff,” says David- person; it will require an inherently per- then, had absolutely no idea. nosed with depression and referred to a son. “A little like how some dreams are sonalised treatment. To say ‘this is the psychiatrist, found Cognitive Behaviour light and frivolous and other dreams *** answer for all’ is limiting and therefore Therapy techniques similarly effective seem to come from something deeper Most people living in Sydney start will be regressive. I am advocating that and useful in their goal. and you wake up knowing something yoga for non- competitive yo g a should be in our arsenal of CBT is a type of psychotherapy that you didn’t before.” exercise. Few would approaches more helps to change unhelpful thinking pat- appreciate the Yoga can, and should be, taken out- so than it cur- terns. It has a positive reputation due extent of the side the studio. The philosophy is a rently is. to the strong scien- philosophy non-dogmatic code of tific support for its underpinning ethics, which the practice. But it’s still a

8 “An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.” www.honisoit.com mystery

INTRIGUE The curious case of

Rafi Alam unveils Australia’s greatest unsolved mystery Somerton Beach, Adelaide: Novem- in the suitcase could only have been ber 30, 1948. A man was seen lying on made in the United States, much like the affair with in 1945 named Alfred Boxall. worked next to the place the body was the sand, with his back against a wall, Army Club cigarette packet found on In 1948, Boxall contacted her, but she found, and gave Boxall a copy of the facing the sea. Witnesses assumed he his body. replied that she was married. A man also book two months after the death. A was drunk and passed out, a common asked her neighbour about her, but it is woman who testified at the inquest was sight on the beach, and one claimed found dead 13 days afterwards with slit The Rubaiyat unknown if this was Boxall. When she he saw the man raising his right-arm saw the body, she was taken aback, but – face down in her bath. at 7pm, and dropping it limp. Mosqui- When the body was being examined, claimed she did not recognise him. In 1949, a two year old was found dead a piece of paper was found in a sewn toes besieged the body; the man did not This is despite Jestyn living in Glenelg in a sack near Somerton Beach, next to react. pocket, torn from the page of a book: his unconscious father; the mother later “Tamam Shud”, later misreported as at the time the body was found, only When police found the body, the claimed a masked man harassed them, “Taman Shud”. “Tamam Shud” is the 400m from the place of death. Somerton Man was dead. The coroner possibly in connection to the father’s last line of Omar Khayyam’s The Rubai- Despite consistently claiming she was later estimated the man to have died at investigation of the Somerton Man. yat; it comes after a poem on living a life married, and telling police she did not 2am. There were no signs of struggle, of no regrets. In Persian it means “the want her husband embarrassed as a way In 2009, the case was reinvestigated no marks on the body, nothing to sug- end”. of keeping herself anonymous, it turned by researchers in Adelaide University, gest he was dead except his cold still out she was only wed in 1950. focusing on his unique ear shape that body. It was poison, the coroner noted, Tests on the piece of paper found that belongs to only 1-2% of Caucasians. It appeared as though the mystery was but whether it was suicide or murder the edition of the book was rare. A pho- A proposal to exhume the body was solved; however, Boxall was later tracked was unknown, and the type of poison tograph of the paper was released, and a rejected by the SA Attorney General. man came forward saying he found the down, with his copy of The Rubaiyat in used was not recognised by toxicology In 2011, the identification card of H. experts. book in the backseat of his unlocked possession, “Tamam Shud” intact. car, with the torn page, two weeks C. Reynolds, a former member of the On him was a used bus ticket to St. before the body was found. U.S. Navy, was found. A mole was in Leonards, Glenelg, a kilometre north of To be continued… the same place in the photo and of the the body; an unused train ticket to Hen- Significantly, there were four lines Interesting events followed the inves- deceased. The case is still open on this. of code on the back of the book, with ley Beach; and an Army Club cigarette tigation. Flowers appeared at his grave, Rumours suggest that the man was packet with Kensitas cigarettes. He had one line crossed out. The code is still but a woman leaving the cemetery unsolved. a spy, either for the Americans or the no identification on him. claimed she knew nothing of him. A Soviets. The place of death was close to His dental records matched none in receptionist said an unknown man left a Woomera, an intelligence gathering area. Australia, much like his fingerprints, and nearby hotel just before the death, leav- The suggestions of espionage, inter- a photograph of him gained no positive ing behind a medical case including a twined with love and lost loves, and the results. No one in Somerton Beach rec- hypodermic needle. unbroken code, still arouse interest from ognised him. Every possible identifica- the public. The case of the Somerton tion later turned out to be false. Man remains Australia’s greatest mystery, and yet it appears we are all con- T. Keane demned to remain in suspense. The mystery developed when a suitcase was found at Adelaide Railway Sta- Next to the code was an unlisted tion, checked in moments before the phone number. bus trip to Glenelg. In the suitcase were various garments, a screwdriver, a knife, scissors, and stencilling brush. All the The woman garments had identification cut out of The phone number led police to them, except those that would be dam- a woman, now known to be Teresa In 1945, a Joseph Marshall, brother aged; on the tie, it said “T. Keane”. No Johnson née Powell, but referred to as of future Singaporean Chief Minister T. Keane was reported missing in the ‘Jestyn’, a former nurse who worked at David Marshall, was found dead in Mos- English-speaking world. the Royal North Shore Hospital during man. A copy of The Rubaiyat was found open on his chest. Another copy of the One interesting aspect was that a coat the war. She told police that gave a copy of The Rubaiyat to a soldier she had an same edition was never found. Jestyn

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“i feel like all pools have sharks and/ or dead bodies in them.” 9 opinion @honi_soit The Brothers Kebabazov PROFILE Lucinda Bradshaw sat down for a meet, greet, and a meat box, with Nuri and Henry from Uni Bros It’s a touch before nine o’clock on tabbouleh, and tending to the rotating with twenty years of friendship behind see everyone’s put their quality up and I a Friday morning and there’s already skewers of glistening meat. A group of them. Pide-master Henry prepares the think that’s in part because we’re here.” a queue forming at Uni Brothers, the women order kebabs. Did I mention it’s bread, while charismatic Nuri fronts The downside, Nuri admits, is that endlessly popular kebab shop in the not even 9am? the register, managing the ever-extend- “we work on a very low profit margin. Wentworth Food Court. A guy beside The two eponymous “Brothers” ing queue. “I’ve got a good memory for We have a four month break during the me is chowing into a breakfast of beef- are sitting down with coffees and the faces,” Nuri explains, “and I love chat- year, and now we’ve got the strikes on. decked rice smothered in barbecue paper, enjo ying a moment of relative ting with the students, getting to know It really affects us. But I think people sauce. Behind the Uni Brothers coun- calm before the real rush begins. Nuri the regulars.” appreciate the food and the price and ter, there are four men swiftly pulling and Henry are in fact business part- Though they’ve chalked up a fair few that makes us all happy.” Their business pide out of the oven, piling up fresh ners, brothers-from-other-mothers regulars over eight years of business model seems to be working, however. here, this isn’t their first venture. Their Seven years ago, they opened a third original shop, Brothers Kebabs on the branch at UTS, and last year turned Princes Highway in Banksia, has been down the opportunity to expand to UNSW. The Brothers now boast a team Nuri’s pride in his product is of about 30, largely composed of old obvious. “Look at this guy,” friends. It’s a labour of love, with staff often he says, nodding at the working 12-hour days. “I was here at man nearby with the beef six this morning,” says Nuri, “And nor- plate. “I was watching him mally we close around six thirty/seven. We don’t say no to anyone. It’s a very eat. He just loves it, you can long day, but we try to make everyone tell he’s really enjoying it. I happy, we always put a smile on your saw him lick his plate. face.” At heart, however, it’s all about the food. “We love it, we just love it,” says open far longer. Paul McJannett, former Nuri, who fondly describes his most CEO of the USU, caught a whiff of popular creation, the greasy-but-glo- their potential and made them an offer. rious combination of chips, rice and “He’d been checking our shop out and meat known as the Meat Box. “I was knew we had a really good reputation,” actually going to call it the heart-attack Nuri explains. box. But I think we’ve got a really At the time, students were unen- healthy food line,” he maintains, citing thused about the Union’s dining their newly introduced meat-and-salad options. “People weren’t happy with box, fresh dips and gluten-free chicken. the food they had,” Nuri explains, “and “We’ve gone beyond a kebab shop.” we came in here and gave them a little Nuri’s pride in his product is obvious. kick up the backside.” The Uni Broth- “Look at this guy,” he says, nodding at ers difference, Nuri proudly maintains, the man nearby with the beef plate. “I is quality. “You can’t get any better than was watching him eat. He just loves it, what we use.” They source and prepare you can tell he’s really enjoying it. I saw the meat themselves, and make all the him lick his plate. That really makes me products fresh daily. He gestures to happy.” recently revamped noodle house Little Just a coupla bros. Sort of. Photo: Lucinda Bradshaw Asia and the salad bar, Raw. “You can

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(2013) Hermann’s beer garden Shit, did they move it? Is this a policy to get it back? Hang on, I’ll check. Yes, the beer garden still there. Long live the 5 existent beer garden. Long live.

(2009) Karaoke at Hermann’s The only thing worse that dealing with drunken peers singing karaoke is having to do so when seeking on-campus refuge from unintelligible atonal screeches and educational things other than lectures. The difference between off-campus karaoke and on-campus karaoke is a decid- 4 edly higher rate of pretentious enunciation potentially emerging from Hermann’s student punters bellowing best-forgotten hits from years past. This could also lead to an exacerbation of uni pub patronage by ‘you don’t even go here’-ites. (2009) College-specific ACCESS cards with special benefits Underprivileged college students could always use a helping hand to enable a more comfortable ride through university life, so what better way to provide discounts on food and drink, enable club and society membership, and subsidise participation 3 in campus social activities than to provide more discounts, enable more club membership and subsidise more social activities for the select few unfortunate enough to reside on campus, have every meal catered and live a stone’s thrown from a range of inexpensive meal options?

(Every year, ever) Moonlight Cinema Clearly it’s not enough that we’re in comfortable walking distance of a Dendy and a Hoyts. Clearly it’s not enough that various clubs and societies regularly have movie nights in ISL and Holme, both conveniently on campus. Clearly it’s not enough that some of these clubs 2 utilise a projector at Hermann’s, an indoor and sensible venue, shielded from the elements and boasting nearby food and drink vendors. Clearly. Why do people keep running with this on their platform? Nights are cold and there are bugs outside.

(2009) Rickshaws on campus That’s right, rickshaws to take you from point A to B on campus. For the unaware, this iconic mode of urban transport 1 first popularised in Asian cities in the mid-1800s involves a cart with wheels and a seat that is pulled along by a person on foot. This impractical and absurd policy reeks of ignorant populism. Remarkably, it remains a diamond in the rough of similarly ridiculous USU board candidate policies.

10 “As I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”” www.honisoit.com profile Julian Assange Imprisoned in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, the awkward activist gave Avani Dias a call n Mexico City, students of the Yo ent, and that’s because of the differing Soy 132 movement – Spanish for “I degrees of Internet mediated politi- I am 132,” a pronouncement of soli- cal education,” he said. “For me, per- darity – marched the streets in opposi- sonally, I have more in common with tion to an undemocratic election. Later people who are about thirty or under… that year, the Cambridge University stu- because those people were educated by dent newspaper, The Tab, broke a story the Internet in a similar way to what I about their institution’s email accounts was.” being invaded by hacktivist group Yet his critics do have a valid argu- Nullcrew. Closer to home, Sydney Uni- ment. While Assange has been stuck in versity students and teachers formed the Ecuadorian embassy, he has been picket lines at the entrances to their doing a number of talks to universities campus in opposition to reductions of via videolink. Events of this nature at staff by the University’s administration. Cambridge and Oxford attracted pro- Directly or indirectly, Julian Assange tests against the controversial WikiLeaks influenced these protests. He is the con- founder. They protested for similar rea- troversial founder of the WikiLeaks sons - because an alleged sex offender organisation and has been instrumental that was hiding from justice was not in changing the way the world thinks welcome on their campuses. Simone about privacy and institutional opposi- Webb, the organiser of the demon- tion. “I think that it’s important, that The Guardian Cambridge, hackers accessed the details of universities with a pitiful attitude – stration at Oxford told even when you know you aren’t going of more than 43 000 Yale faculty, staff not only did he come across as though in January this year, “It is particularly to win the battle, to show some kind of and students. They did so through, he was above them, but he even said ironic that he’s been asked to speak at resistance...you’re not only setting a spe- what seems like, a very basic method – that going to university was a shock. an awards event which supposedly cele- cific deterrent in relation to that issue, ‘Google dorking’, where Google search “It felt like going into a nursery school brates integrity and the search for truth, you’re also creating a general signal.” functions are used to access data on the because of its gentleness,” he said. But when he is himself blocking the search Assange spoke to me through a muffled internet. Australia has seen very early Assange was surprisingly realistic about for truth.” When I asked Assange what phone line with a disconcerting echo. examples of student hacktivism at these connections and argued that “all he made of his detractors, he defended He told me it was because of a lot of the UWS and the UNSW but it hasn’t institutions are economically… and himself by saying that there were less poor quality phone interception. It was amounted to a ‘movement’. Assange politically engaged with the rest of than twenty people involved in these midnight in London and, although he stated that the hackersphere was a new the world.” When asked whether he demonstrations and that if “you look is often described as one of the most platform without enough attention or thought that a university could func- at this politically, in Australia, students revolutionary individuals of our genera- understanding by the general public to tion without external connections to are extremely supportive of WikiLeaks tion, he sounded tired and croaky. The divert resources and legislative power sometimes unethical organisations, he – the organisation and the party – and interview started off awkwardly. For towards it at this present time. He also said, “I don’t believe that any human me personally.” He spoke about the Yo some reason, he started by asking for stated that in a university context, the institution or scale is able to disconnect Soy 132 movement that was influenced an introduction: “First of all, can you measures taken against computer hack- itself economically or politically from by him and very defensively argued that tell me a little bit about yourself? How ing are usually disproportionate to the the rest of the world…[These connec- “it’s just the UK, some parts of the US, did you come to this position and why harm that it produces. In most cases, tions] discipline them from doing really and Sweden that we see [responses like are you in it?” He asked me if I thought the damage is a reduction of prestige great things which are against the wills the ones at Cambridge and Oxford].” the word “journalist” had been used a to a higher educational institution. But of the political and economic agendas, Nevertheless, the headlines and bit loosely in the past few years. Julian Assange made sure to mention that, but they also discipline them from truly the front page articles about Julian Assange was showing interest in me and “if you do it, make sure you don’t get appalling things and going completely Assange are nowhere to be found as my life in true politician style. caught.” astray.” he approaches ten months locked up Julian Assange’s university life Assange spoke to me with the self- in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. “I don’t believe in becoming was very different to most. His first importance of a General in a war. In When I asked him why he was so afraid of being extradited, especially when he a martyr. The most effective involvement with university was via every answer, he made casual references hacking – “in my early twenties, I to defence systems and national secu- knew that the majority of the world activist is one who can was inside universities all around the rity sectors around the world that were would be on his side, he answered very work...” world.” But the more traditional uni- overstepping their marks, and how he simply. “I don’t believe in becoming a versity experience he had was study- had illegally seen inside the majority of martyr. The most effective activist is ing a Bachelor of Science degree in them and knew exactly how corruptly one who can work…I don’t want to Our conversation was on the eve of downplay the difficulties [of living in one of the USyd strikes. A number of physics and pure mathematics at the they functioned. Assange painted his University of Melbourne. It’s reassur- enemy to me in an extreme way, using the embassy], but the US and its allies protests of this kind had been organised who are using the rule of law in order in the semester and they were reminis- ing to know that even Julian Assange sensational words like ‘draconian’ on a received pass grades in most of his regular basis. Articles that have been to crack down on WikiLeaks have cent of rallies from the sixties and sev- placed me into a situation where I have enties. As a public figure giving the term subjects, but he dropped out of his printed recently in publications like degree after discovering a very perturb- The Monthly and The Conversation call nothing else to do but work. I think ‘direct action’ a completely new mean- the maneuver has backfired a little.” ing, I was interested to know if Assange ing connection between the Melbourne Assange egocentric, irrelevant and University Mathematics Department insular, but there was no denying that Assange was so optimistic that he came thought the tactics used by USyd stu- across as delusional. The war that he dents were archaic and old fashioned. and the United States Defence System. he had a very captivating trait – he con- “There was an oversupply of intellec- tinually tried to make me feel included has so nobly started is definitely not as “I think that’s because the institutional strong as it was a year ago, but that’s not memory of protest is largely embed- tual research… and a lack of political in his plight, and encourage me to join will to take the fruits of our intellectual his side, just because I knew how to use to say that this is the end. Protest move- ded in left-wing groups, like the vari- ments around the world continue to be ous socialist parties, and they haven’t labors and apply them,” Assange told the Internet. Not only did he give an me. This experience paved the way to interview to Honi Soit – a humble, stu- influenced by the actions of Assange changed much in the last thirty years - and WikiLeaks. Whether or not all of put it that way,” he says. starting WikiLeaks. dent newspaper with the independence to criticise the mass media – but he the “work” that he is doing stuck inside In the United States and the United This connection struck a simi- a lifeless embassy will amount to land- Kingdom, universities are being held lar chord to USYD’s connections to told me that he felt more comfortable speaking to people in the under thirty mark changes is as unpredictable as his accountable through more modern unsettling organisations like coal seam next move. means. Besides Nullcrew’s attack of gas and missile companies, and the age group. “People’s perceptions of the Chinese government. Assange spoke world are becoming increasingly differ-

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” 11 ARTS & CULTURE Coming out as an atheist Nathan Olivieri confessed his sins to his family A few weeks ago, at a family dinner, I “It’s just so sad that you can’t be- olic child, but only a child of Catholic This is the most subtly insidious idea passed a grenade along with the salad. lieve.” parents. Retort with the fact they should of them all, for it perpetuates a covenant After careful deliberation, I decided this be proud they raised someone who can of secrecy. It allows religion to remain a to be the opportune moment to reveal The go-to play of any theist, this is form thoughts of their own, and not sacrosanct topic, a taboo point of non- to my devoutly Catholic family that I the great leveller to bring you off your just accept what they’re told. discussion. Silence only bestows religion was an atheist. apparent high horse. Your viewpoint with a greater untouchable power and is summarily dismissed as a limitation “You’re just going through a leaves it immune to critique. The choice This, a family that have no real associ- of character, designed to imply there phase.” to speak is not easy, though. I know ation with anyone other than Catholics, is some capacity for appreciation you for a fact a large portion of la famiglia A standard parental coping mecha- certainly no association with atheists, lack. Ignore the notion: it is motivated wouldn’t talk to me again if they found nism, this is perhaps the most con- and, in fact, no contact with anyone that more or less by insecurity. The irony is out. I also know that only a few degrees descending response you’ll receive. It wouldn’t cook pasta in the same way. the statement could just as easily be re- of separation lie between this article and downplays your position, trivialises your And to tell them that I was shunning the directed. my extended family. All signs point to opinions, but at this point, parents aren’t religion of my youth and, more impor- silence. tantly, la famiglia? “I failed as a parent.” trying to intentionally belittle you. No, they’re scavenging for a glimmer of However, silence shouldn’t simply be This one hurts – a great deal – but is It did not pan out pleasantly. hope amidst the rubble, for any possible enacted to keep the peace, and closet grossly unfair. The implication here that loophole of redemption, and it’s in your atheists shouldn’t refuse to speak for The remains of that grenade burned children are mere graded reflections of best interest not to give one to them. If fear of reprisal. Religion should be ren- long into the night. Few topics will see their parents is dangerous territory, for you do, you’ve rendered all the progress dered as open and transparent a conver- your parents erupt so impassionedly, children have no responsibility to follow you’ve made null and void, and have sational topic as possible, particularly in and when you tread on one, a number their parent’s religious beliefs, particu- Conversation Revisited awaiting you spheres where such terrain is risky. To of delightfully backhanded barbs await larly when the inculcation begins before somewhere down the way. all those hesitant, it’s important to not you. For the closet atheists, here are a they can adequately judge it for them- give religion the privilege of being un- few of the gems to be directed your way. selves. As the atheist catchcry reads, in “Why did you have to bring this answerable. Start the conversation. Toss Best to come prepared. my case, there is no such thing as a Cath- up? I don’t want to hear it.” the grenade.

Cartoon: Bryant Apolonio www.honisoit.com culture The view from up top USYD Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for Sean O’Grady

The University of Sydney War months, the modern day equivalent of that she was the head organist. The from which Amy Johansen, the head Memorial Carillon was opened in one million Australian dollars. Carillonists have complete creative carillonist, works) is undoubtedly the 1928. There were about 2 000 students To get to the top, you climb the control over what they play. Only best in the university. At night, as you enrolled at the University when narrow sandstone spiral staircase to ‘Waltzing Matilda’ and ‘Click Go the look out over the city, it is breathtaking. I World War I began. By its end, some the clocktower, passing the intricately Shears’ are banned. Staff working in commented that her view was far better 197 students and staff had perished. carved sandstone gargoyles (a crocodile the quadrangle complained that they than Spence’s, and Amy confirmed that Discussion of how best to memorialise and a kangaroo). From here you’ll have were played too frequently. he was jealous. She also divulged that them was wide and varied. It was the a 360 degree view that stretches from Following the YouTube video of the he is wont to walk into the office and Evening Students Association that Botany Bay to the Blue Mountains. Carillon playing the theme from Game push the lever that tolls the largest bell. suggested the Carillon. Many returned The Carillon has 54 bells. The of Thrones , public interest in the Carillon I was afforded the same pleasure. It was soldiers themselves, they spoke of the skyrocketed. The same program also awesome. carillons they had come to know in largest weighs four and a half tonnes. Amy Johansen is the head Carillonist. included Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ Belgium, and thought that they might and the theme from Skyfall. According She is one of nine that regularly play The University Carillon is played every make a fitting memorial for the dead. to Amy, everything but hip-hop sounds the Sydney Carillon, and one of Tuesday during Semester from 1-2pm. One imagines that the clanging of the great on the Carillon. bells was a pleasant distraction from around twenty in the country. She has Additionally there are recitals every Sunday The view from the Clavier (the room the shells and gunfire of the front. been playing the Carillon at Sydney at 2pm. Students can submit requests to Amy from which the Carillon is played, and £15 000 was raised in the space of six University for about 18 years, before at [email protected].

CRITIQUE Does Game of Thrones Cartoon: Bryant Apolonio condone RAPE CULTURE? Lucia Osborne-Crowley questions our fascination with sexual violence in popular television Recently, with great reluctance and could not enjoy or even pay much atten- toms of this kind of physical trauma. that it is capable of breaking worldwide after much resistance, I watched the tion to any of these things, so consumed Rape is inserted into the script merely illegal download records. first episode of Game of Thrones. Con- was I with the overwhelming, deeply af- to add shock value. Clearly, the authors So yes, rape is a real-world problem. sidering I generally find myself bored fecting misogyny that the show engages have no intention of saying anything And yes, rape was rife in medieval times. by medieval in. real or pertinent about rape or rape cul- It still is. Rape happens. It happens ev- tales, I will The first episode has two particularly ture, or even to simply tell a sad story ery day. But, if you have a chance to admit that confronting scenes. The first shows about unfortunate events; rather, they construct a new world, surely it is pos- I was very Khaleesi being stripped bare and groped are attempting to gratify the shock-and- sible to imagine a world where it doesn’t. intrigued by her brother, acts which clearly cause sex-hungry viewers. Game of Thrones is a fantasy. A genre by the her great discomfort and distress. The But, you might argue, rape is a reality, within which writers can dream up any characters second shows the same girl, meek and why not include it in popular culture? world they please. Why not fashion one and their distressed, being unclothed and forced Let’s not allow confusion to excuse this in which women are not routinely sub- relation- onto her hands and knees by a brutish blatantly misogynistic behaviour. Game jected to this kind of trauma? Because, ships, the husband her brother has arranged for Of Thrones is not a work of historical for some grim reason, their audiences mounting her. These scenes are gratuitous; they do fiction. It is a work of pure fantasy. In- seem to be fine with it. tensions and not advance the plot in any way and serve stead of allowing ourselves the comfort To the writers of Game of Thrones, I the mys- no purpose in terms of either narrative of indulging what Game of Thrones may say, by all means, give me a world of tery. Un- or character development. The scenes reveal about medieval times, let’s instead dragons and heroes and pretty girls and fortu- are also largely inconsequential. So much think long and hard about what it re- deception, but is it really too much to nately, I so, in fact, that Khaleesi goes on to fall veals about the world we find ourselves ask to make it one where the rape and madly in love with her rapist and lead a in today. A world, it seems, where gra- misogyny are left out? seemingly pleasant existence free of any tuitous rape is not only permissible, but of the very real, very long-term symp- attracts a crowd so large and so involved Use your imagination.

“I am the Jesus Christ of politics.” 13 culture @honi_soit The Chaser still providing the LOLs REVIEW SUDS attempt Justin Pen checked out The Checkout to set It began with a newspaper – an epon- how it manages to do both justice. a world ymous, satirical newspaper called The The half-hour program takes the record Chaser – and their goal, first and fore- subversive wit and transgressive punch- By performing in a 100 hour impro- most, was to entertain. In an essay for lines that brought Chaser heavyweights vised play, says Felicity Nelson The Citizen, Charles Firth, a founding Julian Morrow and Craig Reucassel member of the group, recalls jamming fame and infamy and applies them to Next week the Cellar Theatre will be “all the embarrassingly earnest opinion a weekly campaign against the everyday occupied by a group of ambitious, pre- pieces up the back of the rag.” unconscionable conduct of our cor- sumably mad thespians aiming to set a The tradition continued during the porate overlords and the sycophantic ate; the efficacy of electric cars; the world record with the longest impro- comedy coalition’s War on Everything: agencies that try (and fail) to regulate deceptions perpetrated by alternative- vised play to date. They will be work- extravagant stunts like the APEC prank them. medicine balrogs and the ineptitude of ing night and day on 7-hour rotation to overshadowed their indefatigable pros- New faces Kate Browne, a consumer their regulators; new, tech trends like tell an entirely original and spontaneous ecution of current affairs journalism affairs journalist for CHOICE Maga- peer to peer financing and collaborative story that begins in a post-apocalyptic (‘What Have We Learned from Current zine, and Kirsten Drysdale, a writer consumption; and the proliferation of bunker and ends God-knows-where. Affairs this week’). Though, it was the and former host of Hungry Beast, join predatory smartphone apps. The director, Sam Jenkins, describes latter that seeded the group’s next proj- Morrow and Reucassel each week. The As a fledging newspaper, the team his cast as “super-fucking-talented”. He ect: The Hamster Wheel, a more focused four are invariably flanked by industry subsisted on $6 500 in their first year and some of the more insane cast mem- production with its eye squarely set on experts and relevant academics – who of printing; Firth remembers being bers, intend to sleep, eat and shower in the gaffes, foibles and hypocrisy of the proffer their straightforward but dry approached by a dot-com investor who the theatre for the full 100 hours. mainstream media. advice, often to the contrived annoy- offered them $350 000 for a valuation Rules stipulate that there must be a The team’s most recent offering, The ance of the presenters. of $1m. The Chasers passed “with the minimum of two people on stage at Checkout is their most earnest outing yet. And there lays the show’s appeal. smug knowledge that [they] were worth one time and that all food must be used The Checkout occupies a weird niche Familiar with the much-maligned genre far more” – and we should all thank our as a prop at some point during the pro- in modern television. It’s that much of consumer affairs programs The gods for their egos. duction. Audience contributions will reviled blend of entertainment and Checkout satirises marketing tropes to The Chaser has always been a disrup- inspire each hour of performance and information, ‘infotainment’, but some- reveal the emotional manipulation lurk- tive, comedic force. They’ve become guest comedians including James Col- ing beneath. The recurring segment “As increasingly didactic, without sacrific- ley, Michael Hing and Carlo Ritchie will a guilty mum” involves Browne dissect- ing their humour or edge. The show’s take the stage each evening. ing, with saccharine earnestness, the entire first season is available to watch So, if you can’t get enough comedy or invented obsolescence of baby wipes, on ABC iView; so really, there’s no rea- simply want to watch a cast of twenty vitamin supplements and safety equip- son not check out The Checkout. loose their minds this show might be ment. for you. Over nine episodes, the team has probed the mystery of milk perme- @justipen Single entry (SUDS/Access/General): $2/3/5 Unlimited entry: $5/8/9 Open access publishing: the way of the future? Mischa Vickas questions a free for all publishing model To paraphrase Francis Bacon, derived from public funding should be billion, these organisations represent a ties as opposed to the funding bodies. “UniKey is Power”. With the mere freely accessible online, for public use”. large portion of Australian research. In an academic environment of ‘pub- whisper of “mvic6571” and “*****” Fair enough. If my taxes contribute to This requirement for authors to self- lish or perish’, the quantity of articles into the library server, I can gain access a government-funded research project, archive, known as the ‘green’ model of produced by researchers means that it to the extensive realm of human knowl- should I not be able to access its find- OA, will only be as successful as publish- is beyond the capabilities of funding edge outside of Google. But what hap- ings? Logically, yes, but the path to OA ers are generous. 60% of journals allow bodies to ensure that authors are always pens when I graduate? And what of the will be challenging. authors to self-archive, but some may following the rules. A way to ensure millions who do not hold the power In traditional publishing models, also impose copyright restrictions. For they do is to encourage an academic that is the UniKey? journals generate revenue by keeping example, while a member of the pub- environment that values free access to Enter Open Access (OA). One of articles behind a paywall, requiring read- lic may be able to freely read an article, research, and this can only be achieved the principles of OA, as our very ers and authors to obtain subscriptions. the reproduction of charts or diagrams if we, as members of the public, seek own library states, is that “knowledge As students, these costs are covered by may not be permitted for non-academic out this research. the University, through our fees, but at research, even with acknowledgement. So while graduation may see you a large discount to us. Non-students, Further, the success of green OA stripped of your UniKey, the power including our ideally research-informed depends on the public’s awareness of that goes with it can remain so long as policy makers, can expect to pay about these repositories. There is currently no we push for open access. $30 for a single article, even one that is direct link to the eScholarship Reposi- the product of public funding. tory on our University or Realising this injustice of knowl- library home pages. 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14 ‘I love my red hair. It makes me spunkier.’ www.honisoit.com culture Tip of the hat, wag of the finger SPORT Riordan Lee explores racism in the Australian Football League On Friday night, a thirteen-year old acceptable.” You know, because how kind of different is always there, but this girl at the MCG called one of the AFL’s could he have possibly known “black isn’t necessarily negative and frankly, race greatest ever Indigenous players, Adam cunt” would be offensive without the has largely been a non-issue. There have Goodes, “an ape”. That’s as harrowing requisite historical background knowl- been three times in five years where I’ve a sentence to write as it is to read. The edge? What’s too often neglected is been racially abused by an opposition, response from the AFL community and the recognition that racial vilification and I know it’s three because to this day, even the young girl has been genuinely comes not just from a place of igno- I can vividly recall each incident. They moving and shows just how far as a rance, but deliberate and intentioned inspired a unique type of pain – one code, and as a society, we’ve progressed. malice. Whilst perhaps we can make deeply belittling, unspeakably infuriat- Still however, there remains an unset- exceptions for this teenager, the excuse ing and utterly humiliating. tling feature of how the conversation of ignorance dismisses racism as little Behind the fierce competition and about racism is framed in Australia. It’s more than a knowledge-gap, rather than hypermacho posturing in sports, lies often dismissed as a function of ‘igno- a deplorable and deliberate attempt to a deep-seated sense of camaraderie rance’, with bigots simply needing more vilify. Its purpose is to demean, shame and community - but vilification, of ‘education’ – but even a cursory peek and isolate. This is why Goodes left the any kind, destroys the very fabric of into a Republican cabinet meeting or a field instead of celebrating a season- the code, isolating and debasing those Paul’s annual dinner makes it painfully defining victory, this is why racial taunts within it. This is why Goodes’ actions evident education and privilege is no are so pernicious and destructive. on the boundary line of the MCG were cure. I play AFL for the University, one so important - his composed defiance When Andrew Johns called Greg Ing- of a handful of Asian players in what showed even in the most degrading lis a “black cunt” in 2010 he apologized, still remains an overwhelmingly Anglo of moments, one can find dignity and stating he “looked forward to sitting sport. pride. down…and learning from him what is Sure, the lingering awareness you’re REVIEWS The review of a ridiculous man

Andrew Bell gets racy Hal Conyngham watched a rehearsal of the stage production of Dream a I’mLast Saturday notnight I attended racist the but... Ridiculous Man NSW Reconciliation Council’s event Dream of a Ridiculous Man is the first minutes, by which time Ash and Dunk ‘I’m not racist but…’, a speaker session work by the self-described “talented are discussing notes and improvements. on the racial and racist dynamics at play and impoverished theatre-makers”, of The rehearsal room, they say, is “quite in Australia. Scarecrow and Ox House. Originally a informal and non-defined,” one of the Open access publishing: the way of the future? I watched this show feeling very com- short work of fiction by Fyodor Dos- best side-effects of mutual respect and plicit. Before the show started I was toevsky, and adapted for the stage by mutual goals. The other, of course, is discussing Sydney Boys High School’s USYD graduates Travis Ash and Jona- an incredibly strong and affecting show revision of its selective entry tests to than Dunk, Dream of a Ridiculous Man is that I imagine will only be better in per- gain a more ‘local’ character. The Her- a show with all of the realised potential formance, a view shared by the two. ald had quoted a 2002 Old Boys’ pub- of independent theatre. “You create something in rehearsal but lication: “The demographic [sic] of Watching a rehearsal in process is you can only experience something in the school are fast evolving and Year a curiously intimate thing. Dream of a performance,” Ash states, while Dunk 7 is currently 90% Asian, which has Ridiculous Man in its nature fits well with compares the change between the two the flow-on effect on the school’s tra- any kind of sparse setting, not least for as “the equivalent of losing your ado- ditional sports of rowing, cricket and the performance of the actor, the Ridic- lescent speculations of romance in your rugby.” I joked that, “those old boys are ulous Man, Travis Ash. The show starts first real love; you substitute an idea for just so sick of the Asians pulling up their as he walks on stage, lithe and mercurial, a relationship.” HSC marks.” I think I said this with all with an electric energy that pervades to Dream of a Ridiculous Man is playing the might of the moral high ground, his fingertips. From the moment he at the TAP Gallery from May 29 to June 1. insulting a racist power structure with solicitor and activist, said that she felt enters to the moment he falls, Ash is an obviously flattering statement about humour was an excellent way to com- physically and mentally intelligence. These words were ringing bat racism. I can see the merits of the vibrating; to his finger- in my ears when one of the speakers, approach: it is humanising, non-con- tips and the far edges Joel Ma, said that as a mixed-race Chi- frontational and doesn’t make racism of his mind. Dunk’s nese man he was consistently classified painful to discuss. But it is fine line direction is also out- as either a drug dealer or a maths genius. between this and the ‘hipster racism’ standing, particularly The tone of the evening was not som- which comes consistently from shel- the visceral staging bre. The audience (myself included) tered white people who joke about the and creation of space, laughed at the various stories of racism supposed existence of racism because which balances out the that seemed to belong in some extreme they’re so comfortable with people of contained energy in parody. Whether it was a tourist telling other races. Ash and gives the audi- a Aboriginal woman of mixed descent Geoff Lemon argued that people will ence room for their to “watch out for those half-castes”, always use racial narratives as a tool to own reactions. or witty responses to vitriol on pub- quickly formulate expectations when The run ends with lic transport, or Joel Ma’s fist fights meeting people. I feel this is true. But a laconic “Nice work, that didn’t give him the opportunity to the difference between pride in one’s man,” and cigarettes explain the nuanced mistake in the slur race and contempt for another’s is often replacing applause. I that had started it in the first place. minute, and that is a divide that every- don’t fully come out One of the speakers, Tasnim Saeid, a one must struggle to navigate. of it for a good ten

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President’s Report [email protected] David Pink talks federal politics We’re halfway through the year now, website is now up and running – soon that they have campaigns to run next so I thought it was time to make myself we’ll be adding to it regularly updated semester. accountable to you and detail some of SRC reports from the office bearers, One of the SRC’s biggest prob- the things you can look out for the SRC minutes and agendas for council and lems, year after year, is that the flurry next semester. executive meetings. of activity of first semester subsides We will be organising a bigger and The SRC Breakfast Bar will also be up into the hugely draining SRC elections. better SRC stall at Re-O-Week, so that and running. Free breakfast for students Hence, I am going to work with office you can have a chance to sign up to the who often can’t afford to eat is some- bearers this year to make sure that sec- SRC and grab a free SRC bag. We’ll also thing that we really prioritise. I’ll also be ond semester is a time of activity and be going hard on defending staff con- working with LPAB diploma students vibrancy for your student union. ditions, and help put pressure on the to see if there is a way to improve the The biggest surprise of the year so far University administration to give staff quality of their teaching, which is really was Gillard’s Higher Education cuts of decent conditions. not very good. $2.8 billion. As a member of the Labor I will also be following up with the I will also be working closely with Party, this has put me in the awkward weekends tirelessly campaigning for. police Ombudsman the allegations of the University to try and guarantee that position of organising demonstrations But I hope you would all agree that police violence against students at last there is affordable and quality student with the National Union of Students I have done my job well, and haven’t week’s strike. On a less exciting note, housing available. I will be organising to against the policy of a government I let you down because of my political the revamped and user-friendly SRC meet with office bearers to make sure have been spending my evenings and affiliations.

General Secretary’s Report [email protected] Dylan Parker stresses the importance of the upcoming federal election

Now the elections are over I can most for the quality of your support ciations with VSU. We survived VSU firmly say that nothing focuses the and services may not be one decided by only because of the beneficence of mind on the long term health of stu- USYD students at all but by everyone the University continuing to fund us dent associations more than having to else on September 14. at historical levels. However, having stand up in front of people and justify Along with David, as General Sec- already seen their cash drive through why we exist and they should vote. retary it is my role to look after the staff cuts and the EBA negotiations I While I am both happy with the long-term financial health of this organ- am not so optimistic about that hap- result and even happier the damn isation and to make sure that we keep pening a second time around. thing is over I have this uneasy feeling providing amazing services. However, Students appreciate our SRC and that we as students reps are tip-toeing in order to survive we are financially the services it provides. However, around the elephant in the room. Stu- dependent on the University funding us nothing in life comes for free. dent associations don’t operate in a vac- with money levied from the SSAF. The The reality is that deep down the uum divorced from society or greater long-term financial reality for the SRC Liberals do not believe in funding stu- politics. is that if elected Abbott will devastate dent associations. If you care about As I’ve mentioned in the past student our income. We know that repealing the the long-term health of your SRC democracy is vital to healthy organisa- SSAF is in the Liberal DNA from How- then what happens on September 14th tions, however the choice that matters ard taking a pole- axe to student asso- should matter to you.

Education Officers’ Report [email protected] Are the staff really striking AGAIN? asks Casey Thompson

Yes. The National Tertiary Education learn. Every day they strike is a day they staff and fellow students on Union (NTEU) and the Community don’t get to do this. No one particularly the picket lines. The more suc- and Public Sector Union (CPSU) are enjoys industrial action, and in an ideal cessful this strike is (i.e. the less taking further industrial action on June world it wouldn’t be necessary. students that go onto campus 5 2013. As before, it will be a twenty- However, it is unfortunately continu- and thus the more it brings the four hour strike, and pickets will be at ally necessary at Sydney University as functioning of the university every main entrance from 7am. Many Michael Spence refuses to grant staff to a halt for the day) the more students have expressed that they’re the basic conditions and pay levels that seriously Spence will take the annoyed and angry at the continued they require to successfully carry out unions’ EBA demands and the industrial action, but to let you in on a their professions. Spence can afford to unions themselves as key stake- secret - so are the unions. Staff, whether deliver an Enterprise Bargaining Agree- holders at the bargaining table academic or general, don’t want to have ment (EBA) that does both of these in the future. to continually take industrial action things. Sydney University has a $93 mil- Therefore, the more success- for their basic rights. Every day a staff lion surplus. Therefore, even with the ful the strike the quicker Spence will be students in the long term. member strikes they don’t get paid. federal government funding cut of $45 at meeting the unions’ demands and Therefore, you can imagine that this is Please consider sacrificing one day million to Sydney University, Spence is industrial action will not be required in of your education to save your whole amounting to a lot of lost pay, and a lot still left with $48 million in savings to the future. of rent, grocery and medicine money degree. improve staff conditions and the qual- The primary purpose of this indus- foregone. ity of education that our institution Bad working conditions for your trial action is not permanent disruption staff mean bad conditions for your Sydney University staff are in the ter- delivers. to the university, or to your education, tiary education profession because they education. Please help us demand the Please don’t go to class on the 5th of it is temporary disruption that will help quality education we deserve. love researching and helping students June, and even consider joining your create a better quality education for all

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Enviro Collective Report [email protected] The Student Environment Action Collective updates us on enviro activism Welcome to the Student Environ- health. We hope that the space can be the University of Tasmania, Launces- your transport sorted. Subsidies are ment Action Collective (SEAC)! used for all sorts of groups to run work- ton Campus. Come hang out with three available from both the conference There is plenty of excitement this shops and hang out. hundred students fighting for environ- organizer and from the SRC, so don’t week in the Environment Department Examples of student community gar- mental justice! Sounds like a great way miss it because of money issues. The because we have found a space for dens abound. ANU, Monash, Wollon- to warm up the winter holidays. SOS crew is also offering financial help our community garden! After sneakily gong and CSU Wagga Wagga all have The program is looking awesome! to first-time SOS-goers. building a guerrilla garden on Eastern vibrant garden spaces run by students Focusing on campaign success stories, Find out everything you need to know Avenue and after a long time negotiat- and for students. practical skills and workshopping cur- on the website: www.studentsofsustain- ing with Uni admin we’re ecstatic to see If you’re keen to help out planning rent campaigns. Workshop submis- ability.org. It’s organised by the Tasma- this finally happening! We’re excited to and building the community garden sions are welcome and due by Friday nia Uni student enviro collective and the be working with the Centre for English then you should totally get in touch! 17th May. We are also planning to go Australian Student Environment Net- Teaching and the USU Food Coop to https://www.facebook.com/groups/ on a mass roadtrip to the Tarkine forest work, so it is by students and for stu- bring together domestic and interna- usydcommunitygarden/ or come to afterwards with local forest campaign- dents. tional students by building and main- a SEAC meeting every Wednesday at ers and the Australian Student Environ- ment Network (ASEN) to help stop the taining a community garden. This will 12pm on the Sunken Lawns next to Coming Up: strengthen our campus community Manning. And find us on Facebook or clear-fell destruction of old growth for- You are invited to our discussion night through sustainability education. There at www.sydneyunienviro.org. est in order to mine the area for fossil are huge opportunities for sustainability fuels. We’ll also visit the Florentine and on Thursday 30th May at 5pm in New SEAC is also planning an awesome trip education to show people how to work other key sites for the endangered Tas- Law 115. Pop it in your diary: How to to Tasmania in the July holidays. This outside of corporate food produc- manian Devil. be a Good Ally: Indigenous Solidarity in year Students of Sustainability (SOS) tion. Gardening is also great for mental the Environment Movement. will run from the 5th to 9th of July at Don’t miss out, register now and get

Women Officers’ Report [email protected] Hannah Smith gives us the Pro-Choice rundown RU4 CHOICE? a pointed ideological agenda completely Support reproductive choice at and emotional time. There are several There is a group on campus attack- undermines the right of women to feel Sydney University options available to women facing an ing women’s reproductive rights. Don’t safe and included on this campus. The availability of RU486 in Australia unplanned pregnancy. For some women let them misinform you about YOUR The Women’s Collective has decided has only one major implication: expand- the decision will be clear, while for oth- choices. Misleading health informa- to take action. We don’t want to see dis- ing the number of options available to ers it may be a difficult choice to make. tion has no place on campus. Women courses of women’s health being domi- women experiencing unplanned preg- You may find it helpful to discuss your deserve to understand the risks and ben- nated by those who seek to marginalise nancy. If you support women’s repro- feelings and your options with people efits involved in all decisions they make our autonomy. We have decided that the ductive CHOICE, spread the word and close to you. These resources can help about their health. best way to rectify this is through pur- like our page on Facebook: ‘Pro-choice to support you and provide information about your choices: Recently, a pamphlet was distributed suing a more transparent and honest students of Sydney University’ for by a club on campus that purported to discourse on women’s reproductive and more information on how you can be • http://www.childrenbychoice. explore the ethical, social and medical sexual health. We have recently distrib- involved. org.au/ challenges of the RU486 drug (com- uted a flyer with accurate information If you are pregnant • Family Planning NSW: http:// about RU486 and are looking to host monly known as the ‘abortion pill’). The If you are pregnant when you had not www.fpnsw.org.au/ forums on women’s health. distribution of information about wom- planned to be, it can be a very uncertain • Pregnancy support helpline 1800 en’s reproductive health by a group with 422 213; Health line 1300 658 886

Queer Officers’ Report [email protected] Fahad Ali writes about police violence and queerphobia Queerphobia, racism, and sexism have they will find it difficult to get away with You may have noticed the full-page proportionate; highest in trans* people deep roots in the police force. If we attacking us. colour ad for the Marriage Equality at 50%, and lowest in gay men at only are to eliminate this culture, we need to The reason I tried to have the ad rally in the previous edition of Honi. 25%, compared to 14% in the general hold police to account. A multi-pronged removed was to give the publication A few weeks ago, I pushed for it to be population. This is something even approach involving direct action, more space for material on police vio- included, but just before the deadline, in queer politicians are reluctant to tackle. demanding for an independent investi- lence at the picket lines. It’s important an abrupt volte-face, I fought to have it For instance, the self-proclaimed gay gatory body for police, and calling out that student voices are heard. The stu- removed. Unfortunately, it was too late messiah, Alex Greenwich, fails to rec- not just queerphobic but all police vio- dent body needs to come together to for such a drastic change. ognize the troubles faced by the queer lence, is the best way for our community condemn police brutality on campus. I You may be asking why. I am a staunch community beyond marriage equality. to proceed. don’t believe this is an issue of politics; supporter of marriage equality. I’ve In fact, when I spoke at the Mardi Gras What happened at the last staff strike one can disagree with the claims of the been involved in planning the rally, and community forum earlier this year, his is abhorrent. Riot police brutalized stu- NTEU and CPSU and still call for the I’ve organized the USYD contingent. very abrasive reply was to inform me dents and staff for resisting manage- Vice-Chancellor to rescind his invitation Why would I attempt to do something that the police brutality at Mardi Gras ment decisions in a peaceful, lawful, to the police. This is a matter of human in direct opposition to the movement? was not targeted homophobia. protected industrial action. I will not compassion and decency. We will not I believe there are more pressing In my first report, I wrote, “…the go into specifics: Honi has already pub- have students and staff attacked on their challenges facing the queer community countless cases of targeted police vio- lished a number of articles by students own campus by violent thugs. than marriage equality. For instance, lence and unwarranted strip searches who were the victims of police brutal- To the staff and students on the homophobia is still rife in schools, queer throughout and after the Mardi Gras is ity. But I will point out that resisting picket lines: the queer community is youth suicide rates are absurd, and the a clear indication that there is a system- this violence is extremely relevant to right behind you. prevalence of anxiety disorders is dis- atic queerphobia ingrained within the the queer community. If the police can’t police force.” I stand by my position. get away with attacking one community,

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EUROVISION: FUCKING SPECTACULAR The Soin was on the ground Lithuania shocked and amused In a bold production decision, ganisers, claiming that she had at Eurovision 2013, exclusively the crowd when its lead singer Ireland’s entry turned its per- been excluded from the event for covering the world’s largest and emitted multi-coloured fire- formers into human profiteroles, being “too conservative”. most extravagant annual singing works from his arse, pinwheeling pumping them full of clotted va- competition. across the stage and hitting the nilla cream before coating them “Fucking ten tits!” she slurred. roof in a spectacular pyrotech- in Viennese chocolate and flash- Eurovision is renowned for its nic triumph. freezing them live on stage. “I have fucking ten wobbly tit- glitter, glamour and gaudiness, ties and you bastards ignore me! and 2013’s show was no differ- Legions of hippopotamuses But the highlight of the night I’m majestic! Watch me soar!” ent to its predecessors. holding maracas and tambou- was Azerbaijan’s performance, she cried, before being forcibly rines lent musical support to in which bedazzled pugs sung escorted from the arena by secu- Highlights included Russia’s France’s otherwise lacklustre the song’s chorus while tightrope rity blimps. dramatic and experimental act, while heavily tattooed eu- walking and showering the crowd opening act, in which singers nuchs wrestled in a mixture of with individually gift-wrapped Next year’s competition is set and dancers alike participated in jelly, rose petals and bicarbon- raspberry macarons. to be held in Denmark, with of- a mass orgy swimming in a see- ate of soda while simultaneously ficials already promising that it through vat of Malibu and pine- belting out Finland’s toe-tapping Drama briefly marred the eve- will be more extravagant than apple juice. number. ning when Canberra’s Skywhale this year’s. drunkenly assaulted several or-

[@THE_SOIN] Soin ExCLUSIVE: BIG BROTHER UNCUT living up to its name – still running somewhere on channel 10 21 THE SOIN Reshare this and save a whale PRESS RELEASE: SAVE PETITIONS THE AWKWARD MOMENT WHEN To: Twitter followers tinued disinterest in petitions. This is surprising, considering the popu- From: GetUp!, NUS, Change.org larity of petitions such as “Change. WE AREN’T ACTUALLY ALL ABOUT org: Stop claiming that all change is Subject: [Name], we need your help a result of a petition on your web- with this important thing site.” TO DIE FROM IRREVERSIBLE Hello [Name], [Name], the undersigned are in des- perate need of help. Please forward You may have heard that we are fac- this email to as many people as you CLIMATE CHANGE ing some difficult times. Despite nu- can, like our Facebook page(s), and merous petitions, photo petitions, maybe do something on Foursquare Despite not having given any seen world over burning tyres Facebook petitions, and memes for and Tumblr too. thought to the dangers of global in celebration, turning their air- people to like and share, we have become increasingly irrelevant in The future of Australia is in your warming since at least 2004, the conditioners on for no apparent Australian political discourse. hands. public of the world was elated reason and tearing down wind- this week to hear the news that mills as a sign of solidarity for With an incoming Abbott Govern- Yours sincerely, ment, which has threatened to cut their combined apathy has re- the coal fire powerstations who the public service, impose socially Change.org, the National Union of sulted in a slight slowdown in have for too long been denied conservative laws, and expand Students, and GetUp! the overall rise of global tem- the liberty to fill the air with their tough law-and-order policies, it is peratures over the last ten years. black clouds of freedom. “I’m vital that every Aussie continues to like posts and write their name and Scientists have put down the just so overjoyed” said one ec- address in our petitions. cause of the unexpected dip to static reveler burning an effigy a faltering global economy, the of Al Gore in the street. “I no lon- In particular, there has been a increased uptake of green tech- ger have to feel guilty for using steady decline in the amount of reshares and retweets of our pho- nology, and the reduction in na- my SUV to take out the garbage, to petitions – the greatest thing to tional hairdryer usage since Kev- what a load off my mind!” happen to activism since the ad- in Rudd’s fall from power. vent of NGO lobbyists – and this But not all people were happy to has damaged our ability to change society. Statistician Dr Blatent Faikname hear this news, with the green says it is unsurprising that sci- powered island of Tokelau tak- Speaking of change, Change.org entists had skewed their predic- ing the news particularly hard. has been hit especially hard by con- tions. “People who insist their “Obviously we feel pretty stupid p-values are accurate while run- now,” says Foreign Minister Foua ning the wrong model are not go- Toloa, “given we’ve invested all ing to give us a right answer!” he this money in renewable and free laughed. “Just because they do a energy sources that are just go- Bayesian analysis over and over ing to go to waste. We’ll probably just have the solar farms scrapped, and use the money we get from that to import more coal from overseas. We can always rebuild them after the next global oil crisis kicks off, which shouldn’t be for at least eight years.”

These reports have come in the doesn’t mean they’re results are wake of a string of scientific turn- going to differ. Idiots!” Learning arounds in recent times, includ- from past mistakes, scientists ing last months shock announce- have refused to respond to these ment that smoking doesn’t claims until they can fully com- actually instantly cause cancer, prehend what is was that Dr Fai- but rather contributes to a slow kname actually just said. process of genetic degradation. Cigarettes are due to be released Federal Environment Minister back into school canteens by the Tony Burke says the government end of next week, in line with the has mixed feelings about the re- new national development pro- ports. “The good news is we’re gramme of emptying spraycans not all going to die in a fiery sau- into the air just for kicks. na now until at least 2080, so we can all go back to using our cars Asked if he thinks the public have exhaust pipes as hairdryers. The learned anything from this expe- bad news is that we’ve acciden- rience, professional media whore tally made Lord Monckton look Waleed Aly mused “Yes, I think credible, which frankly I think is they have. They’ve learned to not a much greater loss for human- trust scientists scaremongering ity than the health of our future about a overly dramatic end of generations.” days full of famine, heat and suf- fering. Thats what religion is for.” IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THE WHEREABOUTS OF MISSING UNION BOARD Jubilant crowds rejoicing the end CANDIDATE JOSH CRAWFORD, PLEASE CONTACT THE SOIN OR CRIMESTOPPERS of global warming have been

22 ENVIRONMENTALIST GROUPS BLOCKADE DENTAL DAMS: “LEAVE NATURE ALONE!” THE This week’s Soin was ruined by Georgia Kriz, Cameron Smith, Nina Hallas, Lucy Watson, Rafi Alam, and Bryant Apolonio SOIN POLICE CRITICISED FOR PASSIVE BDSM OTION AT SRC AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR In what will hopefully be an Some members are suggesting exciting, if challenging event, that current events have simply the next SRC meeting will com- gone too far to be resolved by Is- mence promptly at 7pm. rael and Palestine alone. “Bring- ing a third party into it is the A number of different opin- only way the solution will satisfy ions are set to be expressed on both,” said Unity councillor Mag- the use of the Boycott, Divest- nus Frickington. However, Unity ments, and Sanctions Motion has so far been unable to agree on (BDSM) to address the Israel whether the third person should and Palestine conflict. A motion be a stranger or someone they al- is being put forward to oppose ready know. While Frickington has the use that reads: “I have no passionately argued that “Jordan problem with BDSM in theory, has always been very open about but the issue is when people go this kind of thing,” Samantha Van too far and cross the boundar- Hoff was convinced that the US ies. Therefore, I strongly op- would be a novel addition. pose the use of BDSM in this instance.” Some believe the meeting, as is often the case, is expected to go Following the intense discus- nowhere. Cynical councillor Hen- Protesters at Sydney University action. “Unlike those commie sions at the last meeting, this rietta Ignorini predicts it will be have again clashed with police firees” a source unwilling to be discussion is set to be quite “one big fucking Gaza Strip tease”. during the latest bout of indus- identified tells The Soin “and if heated, and many members She expects that after hours of trial action, culminating in ac- that’s not off the record, you can have their hands tied. “I can’t meaningless discussion (with very cusations against the Force for bet something will be on yours, change my position,” said SLS little foreplay), the meeting will excessive passive- aggression. son!” councillor Sandy Dwyer, “my far exceed its allocated time and caucus is binding, and despite gag orders will be issued, leaving Police reportedly belittled the Nevertheless, Police Chief Swyne being fairly versatile on the is- many councillors unsatisfied and perceived scarcity of the picket. claims to be sympathetic to sue, I’m locked into one side.” thoroughly underwhelmed. The “They kept asking when the strike community concerns and recom- Independent councillor Jes- Soin sincerely hopes this is not the was going to start” an aghast mends that anyone with a com- sica Li is strongly in favour of case. student and activist, Pru Tessa, plaint should make a submission the motion, and is expected to exclaims “even after it had fin- to responsible authorities, along come out guns blazing: “Well ished!”. with their name and address, so firstly, Sydney University has no they’ll “know where to send the place involving itself in Israel Police Officer and insufferable tiny violin to”. and Palestine. But regardless, Crocodile Dundee enthusiast, it’s about freedom of speech, Constable Becon, was spotted Passive-aggression as a crowd- and BDSM silences the right strolling from picket to picket ac- management tactic is the latest of one party to use anything costing protesters with a raised in a series of energy-efficient other than safe words. I will hand, “You call that a strike? Green initiatives from NSW po- fight strongly to have the mo- THIS is a strike” motioning a lice. “We’re here to serve and pro- tion from the previous meeting slap before snorting hysterically. tect. That includes the planet”, rescinded. Freedom of speech Police Implement Green Strate- shall not be gagged and bound Meanwhile, tensions reached gies (PIGS) Spokesman, Michael and locked away.” A VISUAL GAG their heights when officers de- Thugg, tells the Soin “Knowing cided to reappropriate classic you can completely demoralise left wing ballads with their own someone without using a single renditions. ‘Solid Armoury For- watt of electricity? It feels good, ever’ was rumoured to be a par- you can sleep well”. ticular crowd displeaser. All new cadets are accordingly Several officers were allegedly being equipped with fundamen- seen putting their right foot in tal passive aggressive training, (the picket), then their right foot including synchronised eye roll- out, right back in, before shak- ing, deep, extended sighs and ing said foot all about. When fiercely indifferent expressions. The Soin asked about the seem- Training sessions can last up to ingly bizarre antics, they replied a total of thirty minutes, making that they were “doing the Hokey it the most intensive police train- Pokey” and “taking the job as ing imposed to date. seriously as university staff take theirs”. When queried about further Green Initiatives, Officer Thugg This comes despite reassuranc- suggested a cut back on super- es that the police were complete- fluous student newspapers. ly neutral agents in the industrial

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