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VOL 90 SEM 2 WEEK 2 ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE FitzSimons Life of an Ramsay Centre Scandal Astrologer FUN PAGE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. The University of Sydney – where we write, publish and distribute Honi Honiscopes Artwork by Momoko Metham Soit – is on the sovereign land of these people. As students and journalists, we recognise our complicity in the ongoing colonisation of Indigenous land. In recognition of Jenny Cao has some advice ... and fam, if I were you - I’d take it! our privilege, we vow to not only include, but to prioritise and centre the experiences of Indigenous people, and to be reflective when we fail to. We recognise our duty to be a counterpoint to the racism that plagues the mainstream media, and to adequately represent the perspectives of Indigenous students at our University. We also wholeheartedly thank our Indigenous reporters for the continuing contribution of their labour to our learning. EDITORIAL CONTENTS There’s a much nicer world out there somewhere where I don’t exist. Or at least I’d like to think there is. I’m constantly thinking about what could have been – 4 NEWS about what’s possible. 9 FEATURE This past week, that thought process led me to a question: is anything possible? 12 PERSPECTIVE I went out and asked for stories of people talking about stretching the bounds of what constitutes the realm of possibility to find out. 16 CREATIVE The result? In this week’s edition of Honi, as with every week, the stories are ones 18 PUZZLES of possibility. USyd can have its own special edition of Monopoly. It’s possible to Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer create a web series both awful and irresistible using nothing but grant money and “Certified ‘Fire Emoji’” “Please don’t cry in front of me” “She’s tired” “lil soft shell crabby” university students. THANKS TO Going through heartbreak and loss It’s been a tough couple of weeks You’ve put your health on the Editor-in-Chief You have strength in all things. It’s also possible to be born into a dynasty of astrologers. It’s possible, too, that has made you realise who your real Elijah Abraham Except your bladder. with lots of changes. You may find backburner for way too long. Try people out there believe the Earth is flat. friends are. it hard to grapple with them but Flora Proactiv Buttery Spread. honestly it’s just a fucking bag. Made with REAL buttermilk and Editors Therein lies the problem with possibility. It’s as limiting as it is limitless. There are Time to find some new friends! Liam Donohoe, Janek Drevikovsky, Nick Harriott, Lamya Rahman, Andrew Rickert, LEAVE ONE IN THE CAR! is clinically proven to lower your an endless amount of possibilities, but time is linear. At the end of your life, you’ve Millie Roberts, Zoe Stojanovic-Hill, Lena Wang, Alison Xiao cholesterol! #ad lost just as many, if not more, possibilities as you’ve found. Contributors Maybe that’s a good thing though. Accepting that anything is possible also comes Sasha McCarthy, James Newbold, Katie Thorburn, Liam Thorne, Joe Verity, Annie with accepting the worst: the sorry, the unassuming, the wrong, is possible. Zhang, Alan Zheng There are those who wield possibility like a sword. The Narutos of the world, Artists telling the world to ‘believe it’ as they run, arms stretched behind them, fearlessly Harriet Cronley, Momoko Metham, A. Mon, Eloise Myatt, Yasodara Puhule- towards the unknown. Gamayalage For the rest of us, it might be better if anything isn’t possible. Maybe then I could Cover get a little sleep. EA Mathew Philip Proofreader Shivani Sankaran Leo Scorpio remaining time as an Independent Councillor, I apologise had died there Virgo Libra “That Bitch” “~sxc_n_mysterious~ but evil” for not informing the Honi Editors of this information. It’s like disneyland where if someodbrye dies they take “Knows when to use “Wishes they were That Bitch” MAILBOX My SRC voting record has reflected my independence them off into the carpack rjuyst so they can say that nob- orient and orientate” Ok listen here you hot lil shit - People always ask “why are throughout the year already, which the Honi Editors doy dies at disneyland ... the happiest place on earth Taking time to learn about your it’s LEO SZN so you better be I know you don’t really believe emotions will be crucial this week. You scorpios just the WORST?”, “why Clouded Vision would be fully aware of from their attendance at Council what If I told you that for 20 years a killer stalked his prepared. Get your taxes sorted, are scorpios so mean?”, “why Meetings. I was also the only Vision Councillor to not prey in the very grounds of thihs university in all this stuff but sir can you may feel angry and exhausted or you Dear Editors, double cleanse and do your don’t they die after they sting hand over my ballot papers during repselect last year would you be shocked or surprised please lower your voice. might just have the common cold. The readings. In that order. you like the bees?” In the most recent edition of Honi I received a brief and thus voted independently from the very start. While I they doent want you to know about this You’re scaring the children. symptoms are very similar. I’m looking out for us! Hmm, something to think about. mention in the Deep Tea Diving section (big fan of the recognise that the company one keeps may allow certain they’re all in on it section), that I was ‘Liberal-adjacent’. 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