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WHAT’S ON UNSW S2W7 2015 Spr ng has sprung BROUGHT TO YOU BY WANT EVEN MORE BLITZ? CHECK OUT OUR BRAND NEW WEBSITE blitz.arc.unsw.edu.au 8PM THURS 24 SEPT - MIDPROHIBITIONSESSION PARTY NEMO FRONT AND BACK TRUMAN SOULGANIC MOWGLI MAY CLUB BAR CASINO BLACK JACK, POKER & ROULETTE 8:30-11:30PM TICKETS $10 Arc MEMBERS $15 UNSW STUDENT $20 GENERAL ADMISSION UNSWROUNDHOUSE.COMROUNDHOUSE ENCOURAGES THE RESPONSIBLE SERVICE OF ALCOHOL. 18+ ONLY. VALID IDENTIFICATION REQUIRED UPON ENTRY. CONTENTS Welcome Annalise Bolt & Ophelia Overton Blitz Editors E [email protected] W blitz.arc.unsw.edu.au Friends, 08 Celebrations are in order! It’s time to wave goodbye to winter and welcome the warmer months with Spring Festival in Week 7. In this issue... If you’re anything like us, your bedroom has been hit with mid sem mania 11 05 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT and it’ll take more than a quick tidy to tame your floordrobe and arrange those battered (but unread) course readers. With a Less Mess workshop, 06 BITZ & PIECES as well as a book and clothes swap at Spring Festival you can kick off that 08 FEATURE long overdue spring clean. Trust us, it will clear your mind and make the Ten Tips for Green assignment slug that much easier. Student Living Finally our prayers to the food gods have been answered with free burgers on 11 THE INTERVIEW campus. Don’t miss making your own tasty creation at the Pimp Your Burger Xavier Rudd workshops as part of Spring Festival. Ah yes, spring is good. 12 12 BLITZ DEBATES Should you unfriend your ex on Facebook? Tom Morrison 13 MODEL STUDENTS Student Director, Arc Chair 14 EXCHANGE DIARIES E [email protected] W arc.unsw.edu.au/board-blog 15 HOW TO... Spring Clean 15 SOCIAL STALKER Hey UNSW, 17 WHAT’S ON Now is the time of semester you’re thinking about what you might like to 23 UNSW CREATIVE dedicate yourself to next year. If you haven’t already, I would encourage you 25 RECENTLY IN SCIENCE to throw yourself into some of the countless activities and events that this STRUGGLE STREET magazine contains or any of the other opportunities that Arc has on offer. 25 23 26 UNSW EATS Your time at uni is as good as you want to make it, and it’s the perfect chance 27 HEALTH for you to seize your passion. Even more so it’s the time to take up an issue EVENT PHOTOS that you care about, and make a difference to your peers, your uni and 29 broader society. Artsweek 30 REVIEWS Take a chance, get involved, make a difference and see where it takes you! 32 VOLUNTEERING Tom Arc Street Team 33 PUZZLES 32 35 VOX POPS Print Editor Annalise Bolt Blitz Advertising Any complaints should be made in writing to: facebook.com Online Editor Ophelia Overton Present advertising artwork Communications and Social Media Coordinator /blitzmag Designer Amy Emerson 12 days prior to publication. 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What You Should’ve Learnt in High School TUE + WED WEEK 8 SIGN UP NOW arc.unsw.edu.au/howtoadult CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT Laura Kenny Charlotte Goodsir John Seroukas Serena Dong What puts Wrote Ten tips for green Interviewed Xavier Rudd on a spring in Wrote Bitz and Pieces on P6 student living on P8 and P11 and wrote UNSW Creative Wrote Blitz Debates on P12 and Social Stalker on P15 How To on P15 on P23 your step? When you overstay a timed Knowing I don’t need to Watching Arsenal win… Anything free. park and stress out about walk to the other side makes the all-nighter Especially food. getting a ticket and then of campus. worth it. DON’T get a ticket. Genevieve Gao Cynthia Iskandar Eden Gillespie Erin Middleton Nadia Yeo Wrote What’s On UNSW Wrote What’s On Sydney Wrote Cheap A$$ Sydney Wrote Blitz Debates on P12 Wrote Model Students on P13 on P17 on P22 on P22 When one of my favourite Witnessing acts When I get a seat on the Right now, not much. I’m When you get free food bands releases new music. of kindness. UNSW Express Bus. on crutches! (especially sushi and chai lattes). Megan Baehnisch Yael Brender Lyndon Christie Emilie Sharp Georgia Griffiths Wrote Recently in Science Wrote Struggle Street on P25 Wrote Sports On Trial on P27 Wrote Wellness Series on P27 Wrote Gig Review on P31 on P25 and Film Review on P30 Nailing a presentation and The walk of shame. When you get on a bus and A sweet new pair of When you get free food knowing you have a night the ticket dipper is broken. kicks - literally. (especially sushi and of movies and chocolate Free trip = yay. chai lattes). ahead of you. Nick Duce Sam Radford Jayden Hua Ammarah Tasneem Janelle Tai Wrote Album Review on P30 Wrote TV Review on P31 Wrote Game Review on P31 Wrote Volunteer on P32 Wrote Vox Pops on P35 Elastic potential energy. Listening to Don’t Stop Reaching between the Floral sandals with inbuilt Biting into a piece of fruit Me Now. couch cushions and pogo-sticks for heels. that is ripe, juicy discovering that burrito and delicious. from 2011. BITZBY LAURA KENNY & PIECES Like Dislike Book Nook Tame Impala’s first We’ve found out that Aussie tour since 2013 60% of students are is approaching. studying for careers that won’t exist in the future and now we’re all facing an existential crisis. Aussie Jarryd Hayne is The average house killing it in the price in Sydney has NFL for the San officially reached $1 Francisco ‘49ers. mil. Looks like we’ll be staying with Mum and Against Happiness by Eric G. Wilson Dad a little longer. We’re all crazy. What’s more, we’re all crazy about ‘being happy.’ In this contemplative and delicious read, Eric G Wilson discusses how we Just when you thought A childcare centre in are devaluing one of the most powerful creative Dave Grohl couldn’t get Sydney has put a ban forces – melancholia. Wilson is a lynchpin any cooler on birthday cakes. thinker of literature, psychology and unafraid of the Foo Fighters Hopefully not on calling us names that sting with accuracy – pill- trolled the Westboro wishes as well! poppingly fearful of our own transformative Baptist Church. emotions. Jump on this to expand your definition of success and reshape the way you conceive a thriving culture. Urban Dictionary UNSW Love Letters Throwback Random Factoids Overheard When Twister was introduced in 1966 it was Girl: ‘What could be Weird Al denounced by critics as: ‘sex in a box’. worse than finding Yankovic out you’re dating a There are more lifeforms living on your skin young liberal?’ than there are people on the planet. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the Guy: ‘Deliberately 48 poorest nations. dating a young liberal.’ 6 BLITZ MAG Instagram TRENDING The Emmy Awards. Maybe our hours of binge watching will finally be justified by an award? Blackadder may be coming back for another season. Baaaldrick! Flight of the Conchords. Bret and Jemaine are writing a new movie. Twitter Ashley Madison. Enough said. Boy bands. With One Direction parting ways male pop groups are on their way out... for now. Readings… yeah they pretty much don’t exist for us anymore. BLITZ MAG 7 TEN TIPS FOR GREEN STUDENT LIVINGBY CHARLOTTE GOODSIR FEATURE WALK OR GET PUBLIC TRANSPORT TO UNI GET FREE FOOD ON CAMPUS I know this isn’t possible for everyone (no haters please) but If you’re a member of UNSW Free Food group on Facebook you you lazy-legs, can get up an extra ten minutes early and walk to will know there is ALWAYS free food, somewhere on campus. uni or to the bus stop rather than driving. Not only is it good for This is the rule, there is no exception. The challenge is finding the environment but it is also good for YOU (and other students it (or getting there before someone else does in some cases). who are trying to find parking). Don’t forget the Arc Street Team have also always got your back. KEEP CUP FOR COFFEE OR TEA TURN THE LIGHTS OFF! There is no way in the world that I could function without Do you ever think you know where a sub heading is going then a coffee. There is just no way. Zilch. Not happening. But it completely changes? Turn the lights off on google by using considering each take away cup cannot be recycled you’re blackle.com, it is basically google but it saves 750 megawatts of looking at quite a heavy environmental impact.