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Fe ;`k it’s pronounced “On DEE” JLdd\i?fc@[Xp<[`k`fe Mfcld\.-%<[`k`fe(% Editors *sighs* Our first issue, amazing we actually Catherine completed this! Of course there are many Hoffman people we must thank for their amazing Michael Nicholson help. Where would we be without the Natalie Oliveri pocket rocket that is Claire “Waldo” Wald. Phone: (08) 8303 5404 Without Claire my hair would definitely not e-mail: [email protected] be as thick, Nat’s nails wouldn’t be as long and Cat’s sleep patterns uninterrupted. Printing Cheers for the advice, constant answers to Cadillac our annoying questions and everything in between. Benji goes all right too! AUU Watch Hannah Mattner Big up to you Monte, without your Current Affairs unrequested photo we would not have had David Kaczan such an awesome front cover. Take that Dit-licious ACC! Hannah Frank Engineer’s Quote All the subbies... you are more than Hayden Moriarty the three of us could ever have asked Fashion for. All AMAZING, ON TIME and lots more Jenifer Varzaly superlatives that I can’t think of right now. Film Jerome Arguelles To anyone who proofed, dropped in, Vincent Coleman left dinner ready for us at home, packed Aslan Mesbah lunches, rang the office, contributed, gave Finance us free stuff, facebooked us or generally Myriam Robin made life a little bit more entertaining Foreign Affairs during this process, we salute you! Barbara Klompenhouwer Special mention to those who keep International everyone’s favourite On Dit editors Student’s Lounge guessing as to when and if we would have Sheik Jamal access to our office - Rhiannon and Emilio. Literature Alicia Moraw On Dit - 76 years of publishing everything Connor O’Brien Entropy doesn’t! Media Watch Genevieve Mac-Daddy Williamson Music Alison Croppe Amelia Dougherty Bianca Harvey News Eric Smith Night Life Tess “TJ” Farrell Performing Arts Edward Joyner Pitch *)&"350/%*5 Claire Knight Politics Ben Henschke Science Goldy Yong TV Samuel “Sammy Boy” Stearne Visual Arts Clara Sankey Lauren Sutter Vox Pop Clare Buckley Claire “Waldo” Wald On Dit: Proudly sponsored P.S If you ever have a by the Adelaide grammar query, ask our very University Union own Grammar Queen - Cat 02 On Dit 76.1 On Dit is a publication of the Adelaide University Union. The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of the editors, The University of Adelaide or the Adelaide University Union. From the look on her face, I think Audrey agrees with most of it, so if you want to sue, sue her. She’s dead anyway. Or is she?!? Cover. “The Mermaid’s Tale” by a young local Sydney boy, Monte Masi - Magnifico! 2. Sub-ed list, thanks n’ all that fa-shizzle 3. What you’re reading, right.....NOW 4-5. Self promotion. Being editor rocks! 6. News 7. Media Watch 8-9. Popping Voxes with The Cla(i)res! 10-11. The envy of sultanas; Current Affairs 12. Foreign Affairs with The Klomper 13. Finance 14. AUU Watch - Does anyone care? 15. Politics 16. MONEY MONEY MONEY 17. Alex Raines us in with Travel 18. Sheik Your Groove thing at the International Student’s Lounge 19. Quick! Call My Lawyer 20-21. Idiot Box 22. Pitch: Charlotte Rose Hamlyn 23-27. Bloody hell, Film gets a lot of pages 28-29. Smashin’ Fashion 30. Dit-vious with every boy’s wet dream, Sexy Lexi 31. Science with Goldy 32-34. Lit - Books n’ Shit 35. Dit-licious; Live from Spain 36-37. Performing Arts 38. La la la Miss Saigon La la la 39. Stuff you just gotta see! 40-41. Visual Farts 42-45. On Dit is alive with the sound of Music 46-47. Where to get liver damage. 48. What the fuck is going on?!?!.... just FLIP! On Dit 76.1 03 A Note From Your Editors Welcome to On Dit 2008 Well it’s been tumultuous. Our journey began last year with a phone call from last year’s eds, Ben and Claire, begging that we nominate to do this thing. It took a bit of convincing and sorting but we did it. Seeing that there were many things that needed fixing within On Dit, i.e. funding, we soon started a campaign with Student Radio Director, Jonathan Brown. It eventually got us heard out and we managed to get a pretty decent deal with the cost of all of our editions covered by the AUU. While getting anything done Union-wise is like extracting teeth, we feel that there is a really positive environment surrounding On Dit. We have over 30 sub-editors looking after old and new sections and lots of contributors. Our office is frequented by friendly students and newbies and we have come to love having people around us who are also passionate about On Dit. As a collective, we are totally excited about the coming year and hope that we can continue to produce the paper that you have come to know and love. Before we introduce ourselves, we would love to thank Ben (and titty jokes) profusely for fixing our server the day we were going to print and of course, both Ben and Claire for their general presence and support. Your Editors, Mac Daddy, Cool Cat C and Phat Natty Oh! Mac Daddy Our first edition: it’s like giving birth to a shiny, A4-sized baby, minus the placenta. I’m Mike and I’ll be one of your editors this year. Speaking of metaphors for producing On Dit, I’d like to compare and contrast (get used to hearing that for all you English students) my trip to Melbourne to see Sufjan Stevens with the On Dit experience. Sure, Sufjan is amazing and talented, interesting and awesome, but that is not where the essence of my metaphor comes from. Enter the world of a Melbourne hostel in the heart of St Kilda. For the next 48 hours, our home was an eight-bedroom dorm with four sets of bunks. Unfortunately for my friends and I, we were split up. Being the great guy I am (aka drawing the short straw), I ended up alone in the other dorm. My bottom bunk bed compatriot, who I deduced to be a British backpacker, knew the worldly ways of the famed Casanova. Tuesday night in St Kilda, the middle of the Australian Open and a fellow British bird had been enticed back to the packed dormitory. Suffice to say, I wish I could forget those two hours of my life. I’m no prude, thirty minutes of intercontinental fun is a-ok by me, but two hours is just plain selfish. Throughout the rockin’ and rollin’, my mind could do nothing BUT wander. I decided that On Dit was much like this Victorian rendezvous. You, as the reader, have to put up with all our hard work and at the end of it we will definitely be more satisfied than you. More often than not, it will be offensive, off-putting and gross. It might shake the very foundations of your being, much the same as my bunk bed, but hopefully it will be the source of a hilarious anecdote to share with your friends. The process may be something that Cat, Nat and myself enjoy exclusively, but you know that if you were involved it would be all the more interesting and enjoyable for everyone! Sure, at the end of the day we will be the ones sitting back remembering and reminiscing the climax of putting the whole thing together, but for every edition, you will have been a part of something quite intimate but very public. If that doesn’t get your motor running, all I can promise is that at least On Dit will provide you with more than two hours of fun! Mike 04 On Dit 76.1 A Note From Your Editors Phat Natty Oh Some things, in my opinion, have become a little passé. Writing ‘peace’ at the end of a rant for instance, sentences with lots of unnecessary words and the Welcome to On Dit 2008 misuse of apostrophes. Needless to say I’m anal, I actually like proofreading. Though it’s this anality Well it’s been tumultuous. Our journey began last that made me think, hey, I can do this. I do not doubt that there will be many year with a phone call from last year’s eds, Ben and times that I will feel like grasping my co-eds by the throat and shaking them or Claire, begging that we nominate to do this thing. pitching a javelin at a sub-ed (lucky for you I’m athletically challenged) but the It took a bit of convincing and sorting but we did past four or five months in the lead up to this first edition have been the most it. Seeing that there were many things that needed exciting and productive in my life. fixing within On Dit, i.e. funding, we soon started a campaign with Student Radio Director, Jonathan There will be many of you who miss editions of On Dit, or will become Brown. It eventually got us heard out and we disinterested, I know this because in my three years at uni, I have too. But the managed to get a pretty decent deal with the cost of one thing that I have always found solace in is the fact that if you ever want to all of our editions covered by the AUU. get passionate about something, be heard or creative or just feel like you’re While getting anything done Union-wise is like part of something On Dit is here for you.