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NTEU Strikes Tim Pocock & April Rose Poos. Yep, Poos PULLOUT ELECTION GUIDE THE MEN’S EDITION WEEK 9 EDITION | 6 MAY 2009 2009 UNION BOARD ELECTIONS VOTE! TAKE PART IN DEMOCRACY CAMPUS NEWS CELEB-VILLE TOP 5 NTEU Tim Pocock Poos. Yep, >05 >10 >15 Strikes & April Rose >21 poos. WEEK 9 EDITION | 6 May, 2009 04 09 > Sriram Srikumar casts his vote in the world’s biggest > Rumour Mill gives you the goss from the Marathon elections in India SRC meeting > Michael Krasovitsky follows a lead into a brothel > Honi goes behind the NTEU picket line > Jessica Cowell looks at real choice and abortion 05 > Michael Krasovitsky follows the NTEU’s EBA negotiations > Tom Kaldor was at Law School opening 10 > Paul Mackay eyes off Tim Pocock aka. the young James Marsden in Wolverine 12 > Union Elections Guide: the favourites, the outsiders, the douches - who to vote for, and who not to vote for 14 > Cooked me dinner last night. And did the washing. > George Downing paddles his way into Honi’s heart > Lauren Barker hits Madonna where it hurts > Paul Mackay engages in a little toilet humour 20 > Jonno Seidler looks at political correctness in music > Alex Lee sends us a postcard from Melbourne >April Rose Pengilly, face of L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, looks at what’s hot this season 22 > Alice Blain reviews the 2009 fResher Revue 06 > Katherine Connolly gets reading in our staff interview > Luke Grace and Paul Mackay throw their opinions on immigration overboard in head-to-head EDITOR IN CHIEF Mark Di Stefano EDITORS Will Atkinson, Katherine Connolly, Bronwyn Cowell, George Downing, Giselle Kenny, Michael Krasovitsky, Alex Shamon’ Lee, Paul Mackay, Sriram Srikumar REPORTERS Tom Kaldor, Tim Whelan, Michael Falk, Jonno Seidler, Luke Grace CONTRIBUTOR Jessica Cowell, Mark Sutton, April Rose Pengilly, Alice Blain, Tom Robertson, Sarah Bornstein GRAPHIC DESIGN George Downing COVER Paul Mackay COMIC Sertan Saral and Patrick Magee CROSSWORD Mark Sutton PUZZLES Tom Clement ADVERTISING [email protected]/PO Box 794, Broadway NSW PRINTER Marrickville Print and Design, Unite E1, 46-62 Maddox Street, Alexandria, NSW 2015 DISCLAIMER Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. The SRC’s operation costs, space and administrative support are financed by the University of Sydney. The editors of Honi Soit and the SRC acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. Honi Soit is written, printed and distributed on Aboriginal land. Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s directors of student publications: Mike Mackertich, Patrick Wall, Elly Howse and Samuel Moginie. All expressions are published on the basis that they are not to be regarded as the opinions of the SRC unless specifically stated. The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the opinions or information contained within this newspaper, nor does it endorse any of the advertisements and insertions. *Spoof advertisement on page 15 edition? Where is the edition devot- Just stop. Women’s Honi ed to male depression and mental Rory Dennison, Law IV Sarah Constable, Arts II health, prostate cancer, suicide; and Welcome to one of the worst periods the myriad of other male specific of semester. Major essays are due, a new 21st season is starting and Union Dear Honi, Dear Honi, yet devastating issues? As attractive as he is, I don’t find any- I was reading last week’s Women’s elections are in our collective grill. thing Noah White does interesting. Honi and was shocked to see Hannah This week we take independent politi- Please stop writing about him. Goldstein’s article entitled “War in Take a Hind-ing cal coverage to a new level. With the Gaza”. Ms Goldstein has taken what best news team anywhere, ever, we By the same token, I don’t find any- was supposed to be a publication Steve Hind, Law IV seperate the wheat from the chaff, thing you write about interesting. discussing issues relevant to women the douche from the douchebag, and Please stop writing altogether. and hijacked it for her own political Dear Honi, the rickshaw from the Asian Union agenda. Apologies for being a serial letter employee. Yet, as we tested and P.S. Congratulations. You got in to writer - rest assured that I’m more teased the candidates on their plans Sydney Uni and you didn’t have to go It is ironic that Hannah would write determined than you make sure that and powerplays it became quite clear: to UTS, but so did everyone else who an article on the issue in Women’s it stops. there was no separation needed. reads this. Give yourself a pat on the Honi without mentioning the forced Everyone supports AA, hates VSU back and get over it. marriages, honour killings and low But! I’m struck by the fact that nearly and wants more ACCESS benefits. pay that Palestinian culture subjects all of the Union Board candidates Cultural policy needs to be more in- women to on a regular basis, not to this year have gone the ‘I Dig Doug’ clusive, women need more leadership mention the culture against allowing approach and made puns about their programs and the financial stability of Don’t Diss Me women to be educated. names: Mel Brooks is playing up her the Union is paramount. On the campaign front it is nothing Noah White, SRC President work on the Producers and the Simp- Ms Goldstein should feel ashamed sons, Falk has realised that his name different. To get elected it seems you as a former Women’s officer that she sounds like every work that ends in need a pun, a campaign team and the Dear Honi, ...alk, and one that ends in ...uck, Buck- correct recipe for chalk. ‘Institutional For the Honi readers out there who would hijack the one publication a year where her collective gets a chance land is giving us more bang and Dave knowledge’ has become so widely are genuinely “intrigued” (as opposed Mann has realised that his surname used and repeated that it has lost its to the one who just want to hack on to voice their concerns on anything related to their cause. She has failed is also, albeit with different spelling, effectiveness. All the candidates are me in the letters page for fun) as to personable, intelligent and ambitious, women at this university. the word for the male of the species. I exactly what the function of the SRC detect a whif of Tom Robertson. then we have to start thinking: why President is (letters, week 7 edition), are people going to vote on May 13 writing into Honi probably wont help Either that or the pun is the optimal when it will be to maintain the status you very much but below are a couple Men’s Honi? electoral slogan, and yet for some quo? The Union will be in safe hands. of things that might. Matt Gallagher, Arts II reason Justin Hancock, Courtney Tight and Alice Dixon all avoided it... For the disinterested, we bring you Look up the SRC website; you can even Dear Honi, Australia’s biggest model, most look though the constitution online. It’s important that women’s issues With love and heavy breathing down promising star and whiniest teachers. Email me ([email protected]. get voiced in a paper such as Honi the phone line late at night. In the year of the Slumdog, vote like au). Stop me when I’m “wandering the Indians - passionately and for around campus,” and ask me. Or you Soit, even if every year the same discussions over why its necessary democracy! are even welcome to come and spend Shh! a day with me and you can see first to have a women’s edition and af- Mark Di Stefano hand exactly what the SRC president firmative action in a paper such us Emilie Cangy, Social Work II does. yours are reiterated. What I would voting booth, the Union said that not like to ask, is where is the men’s John Nowakowski needs to graduate enough nurses voted last year. Access already. Lovin Honi this year! to voting should never be determined > Alice Blain reviews the 2009 fResher Revue according to who voted last time. All down the Lodge would be a tragedy. students have a right to have their say. He said: ‘The Lodge is now very much Family Matters If a student or group of students chose a part of the University. Generations not to vote, perhaps this indicates of students have drunk there and Mish Charles, Science/Arts IV that no candidates represented them enjoyed their beers more than they last year? This, however, is not an would in any so-called ‘hotel’. The Dear Honi, invitation to remove their ability to Lodge has a unique atmosphere and In the week 7 edition, Sriram Sri- vote. should be preserved if the owners per- kumar presented the case for and Anyone who has been near the sist with their plans to pull it down.’ against the $900 stimulus payment. Union President Ruchir Punjabi Forest Lodge (or the Flodge, In the against, Sririam declared that has said that there will be no booth or the Forest Dodge) Hotel can He went on to explain that as the Dar- “students just don’t need the money” on Mallet Street as the campaign be forgiven for not being over- lington extensions continue, all the and that the worst that could possibly has already begun and this will be whelmed by the beauty of its old pubs around the University except happen was that “[students] lose a ‘unfair’ to the 14 candidates running.
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