Honi Soit SEMESTER 2 WEEK 2 04 JULY, 2010 Burning Man Festival Interview with Dom Knight Cyber vigilantes in China The demise of print media Frockstars at the Powerhouse 2 Is this a dream? This Week's: CONTENTS Most impressive abs: Ciara’s in the “Ride” clip. Tight. HONI SOIT, EDITION 14 Most played song: Edith Piaf ’s “Non, je ne regrette rien”. 04 AUGUST 2010 Quote: “No, not the bees, not the bees! My eyes!” - Nick Cave in Wickerman Movie we should get over soon: Inception. Creepiest song: “What’s New Pussycat” by Tom Jones The Arts-Hole 09 Pristine Ong interviews Dichen Lachman at The Post Supanova. A letter, an editorial, a call for submissions and 03 Hannah Lee reviews Inception. Honi expands online! Monica Connors enjoys a Fry up Molly Shmengy looks the Power House The Uni-Cycle 04 Museum’s Frock Stars exhibition up and down. Carmen Culina reviews the Three Minute Diana Tjoeng attends the play Like a Fishbone. Thesis Competition. 10 Lucy Bradshaw shows you how to make a Bridie Connellan reports on the Asia-Pacific cheesecake in your microwave. Model United Nations Conference. Camilo Lascano Tribin watches the SUDs Anusha Rutnam has a yarn with Knitsoc. production of Antigone. Georgia Flynn reports on online vigilantism and 05 Lukasz Swiatek reviews Charles Darwin the emergence of ‘human flesh search engines’ in bio-pic, Creation. 11 China. Lisa Skerrett had a look at the World Bridie Connellan knows what USyd students like: Press Photo Exhibition. Oxford Art Factory. Aleks Wansborough read the Out of the Taking over a facebook The Usual Suspects 06 Box poetry anthology. status near you Mekela Panditharatne celebrates the Town Hall The Mains steps. 12 Rob Chiarella tried fruitarianism. For a whole day. Mark Sutton built and burnt. THE HYPOTHETICAL: Monica Connors misses MasterChef Would you rather The Soapbox Chini Ogundare compares the experiences 14 Would you rather be able to hover 15cm above Henry Hawthorne and Naomi Hart really 07 of international and exchange students. the ground without beingOR able to go anywhere enjoyed writing the Countdown together. Naomi Hart on Fair Trade’s place at USyd. Sam Elliott and Tom Marr bicker Be impervious to the common cold? FAQs Henry Hawthorne’s middle name is luddite. 15 Paul Karp has tortoise and hare moment. Could I still catch the flu? The Profile 08 Yes. You will also be susceptible to any rarer versions of the Dave Mack meets camera-shy Chaser boy, The Score cold. 16 Dom Knight. Arghya Gupta on the Tour de France. Am I subject to the law of inertia? If I hover for Aleks Wansborough breaks it down on long enough will the earth move beneath me? Err... deconstruction. Sam Pender-Bayne is amused. Can I make a living off my hovering abilities? Possibly. But there is a strong chance you will spend your life as a test-subject in Top Secret US military experiments. SRC 17 Bletchley Park 20 The Garter 21 - 23 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Carmen Culina EDITORS Bridie Connellan, Carmen Culina, Naomi Hart, Henry Hawthorne, Ben Jenkins, Joe Payten, Anusha Rutnam, Joe Smith-Davies, Diana Tjoeng REPORTERS Lucy Bradshaw, Rob Chiarella, Georgia Flynn, Hannah Lee, Chini Ogundare, Mekela Panditharatne, Sam Pender-Bayne , Lisa Skerrett, Kirsten Wade, Aleks Wansborough Ooh look at me I’m back CONTRIBUTORS Arghya Gupta, Paul Karp, Pristine Ong, Liz Schaffer stage at Splendour #Lah- CROSSWORD Daniel Wodak de-dah About 9 mins ago - PHOTOS Zeck Jones 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 ion costs, space and administrative support are financed by the University of Sydney. Honi Soit’s editors 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: Mel Brooks, Tim Mooney, Alistair Stephenson , Andy Thomas and Cherissa Zhou. 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. The Post 3 Board of there are the rich kids from the secluded areas of the Hills District who got an EDITORIAL ATAR of 53... and I doubt they’d be Privilege regulars, the new Soapbox section given a place in any USyd course. Last week’s Honi brought in a flood CONTENTS Dear Honi, of letters, primarily in response to and the frivolity of our Burning Man Festival feature sure to transport HONI SOIT, EDITION 14 In short, I don’t think it’s USyd’s fault the Union’s spending cap and to our Last week’s edition of Honi has provided you far from the tedious demands 04 AUGUST 2010 that there aren’t enough poor people to feature on privilege at USyd. Thank a glimpse into the dirty politics that of our second week back- albeit satisfy the curiosity of you whinging rich you to all who wrote in- not only festers within the USU. because it means I have less space momentarily. kids. Not everyone around is privileged to fill for these perennially tricky This week also marks the official 09 In light of Sydney Uni’s “privledge and if you want more poor people, you editorials- but also because sifting launch of the new Honi website problem”, I find it disturbing that the should work on changing the mindset through the full spectrum of your (which those editors not swanning election rules and regulations can be of thousands of high schoolers that approval, criticism and insight is a around Splendour were up late Monica Connors enjoys a Fry up overlooked for certain candidates as waiting an extra 4 years to get paid is a weighty reminder of how important updating) and its second week long as they have the connections on better option than going straight into the it is to have a weekly student paper live as well as Honi’s exciting campus. The overlooking of Alistair’s workforce. Or just stop the rumours of as a place for intelligent discussion. new Opinion Competition with alleged tripling of the spending cap USyd being elitist and old fashioned... Reading what you write is one of the Annabel Crabbe- see back cover for and Bateman’s rushing of the executive 10 best parts of this job. details. We can’t wait to read your election illustrates the triumph of egos Leo Nelson contributions! Guess I could have over equality. We’ve got another cracker of an done with a bit more room to write edition this week with familiar after all. Carmen Culina Not only was this move highly A Bit fResh undemocratic, it further isolates the I would be classified from coming from Dear Honi, Glossing Over a Directors from the student body and this crop of “low” socio-economic 11 reaffirms its image as an elite clique. status (SES). I originally grew up in the Nice to be back at uni. Looking forward Breach Social inclusion should be a top priority country and moved to western Sydney to second semester. It’s all about finance for the USU and all students should feel in Year 10. My parent’s occupations are for me. Or, more specifically, as a Dear Honi, that they can participate in the Union a mechanic and a chef. I am also very political economy student, about how regardless of their political affiliations, proud to be a product of the public finance oppresses and marginalizes social After an initial sigh of exasperation to connections or financial situation. school system; completing my primary 12 groups. see the USU elections still featuring in the paper, Rhys’ letter (Week 1) does school at Sandy Beach Public School A place on the Union Board should be and high school at Model Farms High Speaking of oppressed and marginalized expose some serious injustices about the won through campaigning, not through School. The way the journalists of Honi social groups... College freshers. I was spending cap. I’m not proud to admit cash and connections. have been writing it seems it is a miracle enjoying being back on campus, listening this, but I voted for Alistair and Sibella that I could be going to this university to a talk on Isaiah 40 in the EU’s Public primarily because I wore their stickers 14 Sammy Baille and it must be a thrill for the editors Meeting on Wednesday. I must admit, on election day. Arts (2nd Year) to know that I managed to achieve a I was a little confused when I started scholarship of merit on top of that mind hearing the word ‘penis’ echo around The unfortunate fact is, money can buy votes. From Ben Tang’s wristbands, bending feat! A Bit Rich the room. And then the speaker was 15 asked for his number by a woman in a Alistair’s high gloss posters, to Sibella’s stickers, it does seem that many votes What I have a problem with is the Dear Honi Soit, tutu. Not the regular EU Public Meeting university program to strengthen the experience. were won through expensive campaign gimmicks. From what I recall, candidates student population from low SES. I The only impression I got from this believe this could jeopardise the high 16 I wasn’t too happy about it, either.