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Are you in a Retro-Rut? Campus Events and Giveaways Activism: Old Vs New  Blitz Magazine EDITORS LETTER CONTENTS Dear Reader Blitz Magazine This week is the Retro Blitz, for all T: (02) 9385 7715 6 Is Activism an those out there who love , F: (02) 9313 8626 clothes, movies or anything else from the past. Looking back, we have a PO Box 173, feature on the student movements in Kingsford Anachronism? the 1970’s, a time that is nostalgically NSW 2032 viewed as they heyday of free love, Level 1, Blockhouse, peace and student activism. Whether Lower Campus. this is true, or if all the hype is driven Snapshot: by the mumblings of a few shiny-eyed [email protected] 15 baby boomers remains a matter of www.arc.unsw.edu.au speculation. Blitz Team 2007 Mike Archer Some of us oldies may have had the experience of waking up one morning Editor: Alex Serpo and realising that all our clothes and Designers: Jason Treanor and music belong to a previous decade. If Karen Fung you have had this horrible experience Reporters: Carissa Simons 16 Retro Rut you may be stuck in a Retro Rut, and and Ana Gacis this is the topic of our second feature. Publications Coordinator: Editor’s Letter This week’s Blitz features an interview Judith Whitfield 3 with the Head of Science at UNSW, Mike Archer, who is also a world Advertising and Chair’s Letter renowned palaeontologist. If you’re Sponsorship: 4 looking for something to do, this Charlotte O’Brien Blitz also features info on all kinds National Volunteer Week of campus events, including the new Marketing Manager: 5 Circusoc Show; Kerros, the latest Donna Wiemann speaker from the UN Society, info Something Twisted This Way Comes: on how to become part of the ski/ Blitz Advertising 8 Kerros snowboard team for the uni games Present advertising artwork 12 and an exclusive on a titanic sporting days prior to publication. Bookings clash: FC versus CSE FC. Don’t 20 days prior to publication. Rates Games in the Snow forget out great weekly giveaways on and enquires should be directed 9 page 19. to Charlotte O’Brien. A few weeks ago I asked students T: 9385 7331 10 COFA Kudos Gallery in my editor’s letter to write in with E: [email protected] suggestions or opinions about Blitz. Given I have received no responses, Publisher 11 Cookbook Winners Blitz is either absolutely perfect or nobody reads the editor’s letter. Don’t Blitz is published weekly by Arc be afraid to write to me with your @ UNSW. The views expressed 12 What’s On ideas or suggestions. As usual, if you herein are not necessarily the are a club or an individual wanting views of Arc, unless explicitly to promote your event or get your stated. The Arc accepts no 18 Reviews article published, Blitz is your number responsibility for the accuracy of one ride. any of the opinions or information contained in this issue of Blitz. Any Towards Eradicating Poverty: Enjoy Week 11 19 complaints should be sent to the Dr Antonio Meloto Alex Serpo Publications Manager, PO Box 173 Blitz Editor 2007 Kingsford NSW 2032. [email protected] ABN: 71 121 239 674 20 Nerds FC vs CSE Revue FC trading as Arc @ UNSW Limited

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Blitz Magazine  Chair’s Report With a theme like ‘Retro’, who can resist commenting on the fact that the eighties definitely seem to be back in fashion? I didn’t really have anything else to add to that comment, except that one of my housemates has started wearing leg warmers…and I’m not sure whether it has anything to do with the cold…

Anyway, on to all things Arc - • Environment Department All UNSW students are welcome. So The Arc is also running more of its Week 11 is National Volunteer • Women’s Department come along, enjoy a free lunch, and popular RSA and First Aid courses Week around , and Arc is thank a volunteer. this week. These courses are heavily celebrating this by taking some time • Queer Department subsidised for Arc members and to thank all its volunteers. A large • Indigenous Department Applications also open for the are very useful for getting part- number of students volunteer for O-Week Organising Team this week. time employment in hospitality or To celebrate volunteering at UNSW, the Arc each year in one of its many The organising team are a group of for anyone interested in anything and to encourage other students to programs or collectives including: dedicated volunteers who assist the medical. You must pre-book at Arc get involved with UNSW volunteering, O-Week coordinator each year in Reception in the Blockhouse or visit the Arc is throwing a free BBQ at the • Yellow Shirts making UNSW’s annual O-Week the the website for more info. Kensington and COFA campuses this huge success it is. As an O-Week • Contact week. organising team member, you get the Have a great week everyone! • Hypesmiths chance to work in areas including The National Volunteer Week • Learn the Lingo entertainment, sponsorship, social Kate Bartlett BBQs will be held at: Chair of the Board • Outback Assist programs, training, publicity and web development. Previous experience • Mosaic Fusion Forums COFA (Central Quad) in the program is necessary to Tuesday 15 May • Shack Tutoring Program apply. You can visit the Arc’s website • International Cookbook www.arc.unsw.edu.au for more Kensington (Roundhouse) information. • Artsweek Wednesday 16 May • Unsweetened

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Volunteers form the backbone of The Arc is planning several ways what drives them to make the that putting together stir-crazy uni student life at UNSW. Volunteers to recognise, recruit, and most sacrifice. Hamish Collings-Begg, the students with a mission can conjure are, by their very nature, unpaid. importantly, thank volunteers Clubs and Activities Convener said up. There’s plenty of fun to be had. Volunteers give a lot and don’t ask during this week. Arc volunteers that he first volunteered as a Yellow for much, so once in a while it’s nice are invited to a free drink at the Shirt because he saw what Yellow Such an experience was happily for volunteers to receive a thank you Roundhouse, which they can claim Shirts had done when he first started enjoyed by Sam Thorp, when for their work. As an encouraging anytime during the week. Arc also is university. “I had a really tough time he volunteered for Hypesmiths, pat on the back for a job well done, the Roundhouse’s promotions Arc is currently celebrating National You make a living by what you get, organisation. His motives for Volunteer Week. volunteering are simple. “I really but you make a life by what you give. enjoy giving back and helping people National Volunteer Week 2007 from Winston Churchill out. It’s something I’ve always enjoyed the 14 – 20 of May, and the Arc@ doing. At the beginning of uni, I signed UNSW would like to thank all the inviting all volunteers to a BBQ and a in my first year, and I just wanted up for about 20 clubs and said yes! volunteers for their invaluable Volunteering Expo one day this week the chance to go out there and help Give me something to do and I’ll do it!” contribution to our campus. Arc at both Kensington (Roundhouse) and people. I thought that if I could help has between 200-250 volunteers COFA (quad) campuses. The fairy out one person who was in a similar So this week take some time out each year who are involved in the floss machine will also no doubt be circumstance to me, then it would be to consider the effort put in by many volunteer programs on offer, pumping out sugary goodness! all worth it.” Arc’s hundreds of volunteers, or including, O-Week Yellow Shirts, find out more about becoming You may be thinking, I never have Do you think that your life has started a volunteer yourself. Hypesmiths, Shack Tutoring, Mosaic enough time, why would I volunteer? to take on a stale, monotonous Fusion Forums as well as the Enviro So to answer this question I caught routine? Then volunteer somewhere Collective and Women’s Collective. up with a few students to discover and be amused at some of the antics Blitz Magazine  Is Activism an Anachronism?

he 1970’s was a heady time on students willing to give up their lunch his motorcade when he came to Graeme was the Director of Student university campuses worldwide. hour sipping lattes unless it was to to promote Australian Publications when Wendy Bacon a TMass student protests were somehow score a free lunch. engagement in the Vietnam war. Tharunka editor from 1970 published mobilized against conscription, Graeme was next year president of material in deliberate challenge of the and were attributed to helping But there was a time when student the UNSW Students’ Union and co- restrictive NSW censorship laws. The end the Vietnam War. Students activism rendered university editor of Tharunka. entire Tharunka editorial team was from universities across Australia students a force to be reckoned later charged with publishing obscene staged protests in support of the with. Students saw themselves as An anti-war activist to this day, material and made several court antiapartheid campaign, for women’s “social revolutionaries…changing Graeme now ironically calls the appearances before the charges and gay rights, and to halt the the old social order and building Peacebus his home. Activists live on were dropped. abolition of free education. something new”, according to David the Peacebus, and it’s also a website; Chalke, a social researcher from Peacebus.com. On that website he On the first court appearance, Prominent students protested . Alan Barcan, the author recalls the turbulent times: “The Wendy with her group of supporters included one during the Springbok of the book “Radical Students: anti war movement had begun with turned up at court clothed in nuns’ Rugby Tour, where there were over The Old Left at Sydney University” teach-ins ... I found [them] boring and habits, whilst Graeme dressed up as 700 arrests nationwide including and former editor of Sydney leading only to contention amongst a bunny. Wendy’s habit read “I have Queensland’s future Premier Peter University’s Honi Soit writes that the the converted. Information …was not been fucked by God’s steel prick”. Beattie. Protests in support of After frustrating the later court gay, women’s indigenous rights Student protests were relatively process by failing to show, Wendy during the mid-70s also laid the was remanded without bail for a ground work for rights we today mild at old universities like week in Mulawa Women’s Prison. The take for granted. Students also Sydney and Melbourne, but very experience made her a fervent prison held a historic national student reform advocate and to lead her to strike when the Fraser government strong at new ones like Monash become an investigative journalist first proposed the abolishment and . and the Associate Professor in the of free tertiary education. Department of Social Communication world-wide student protests were enough to create social movement and Journalism at UTS. Student activism was then at the top “relatively mild at old universities against the war. What I noticed was of many an undergraduates’ to-do like Sydney and Melbourne, but working was the buzz of participating Tom Bowes, one of the current list. In this glimpse of the past, we very strong at new ones like in protest, being visible, [and] dancing student editors of Tharunka said might consider the students of the Monash and New South Wales.” in the streets with friends was a of his fore-bearers, “I think they 1970’s as a unique breed of young counter culture building phenomena. achieved something very important. Australians, whose descendants In UNSW, one only has to look at Australia was a very conservative are so few and far between that the life and times of the editors and Graeme followed this praxis through place, and by challenging stereotypes they are nearing extinction. “We contributors to Tharunka to find an to become the director of the and making a mockery of them, they used to cut lunches to protest”, acute source of antagonists. For Australian Union of Student’s 1973 made Australia a more lively and says former student activist Verity example in 1966 Duntroon College Aquarius Festival in Nimbin, an event exciting place. Tharunka editors Burgmann in an interview with The dropout and UNSW engineering he describes as a counter cultural were at the forefront of that and Age, who now teaches at Melbourne student Graeme Dunstan was one of expo. A peace victory celebration it’s something that UNSW should be University. Today, you would be hard those who threw themselves under and the high water mark of the 60s- proud of.” pressed to find more than a dozen US President Johnston’s car, stopping 70s anti-war movement.

 Blitz Magazine Is Activism an Anachronism?Ana Gacis Across the nation, editors from other to Barcan, they were very much student newspapers were also feeling a minority on campus, albeit an the heat. In Queensland, Dr. Allan important minority. Today there Knight was the editor of the student is still a very vocal minority. paper Semper Floreat, when he was 23, at a time of tough censorship laws Last Easter sixty students organised and when political demonstrations by the Student Environmental were illegal under the government Activist Network (SEAN) went to Lake lead by Premier Sir Joh Bjelke Cowal to protest the desecration of Peterson. According to Knight, the traditional Wiradjuri lands and the distribution of pamphlets without a environmental damage being done license was illegal, but the students by multinational miner, Barrick Gold. from the University of Queensland Fourteen arrests were made when students defied these restrictions, the students invaded the site and and still distributed leaflets on closed down operations for the day. campus, despite the risk of being “I think student activism is still alive arrested once they left campus. and well,” says Tom, “I don’t think you would say it’s the norm today. In an article in the Sydney Morning Activists today are very active in their Herald in 2002 by John Schumann, own issues and are well organized, Sydney university graduate and but only small groups. In the past, member of Redgum, he laments the activism was something that you loss of the turbulence the student could identify with students activists brought to campus, “Bring in general.” back the fiery radicals and put spark back into our universities!” Today just as much as nearly 4 decades ago, there are similar It’s true that most of us barely issues being grappled with. Dr have the time for our own tutorials, Sarah Maddison a former student and it seems that political activism activist who considers herself as isn’t as visible as the protests of an activist academic in UNSW’s the 1970’s. According school of Politics and International to the Australian Vice- Relations and author of the book Chancellors’ Committee Activist Wisdom, says “I don’t report in 2001, “full-time think there has ever been a time in students work an average which citizens in a democracy can of 14.4 hours a week, nearly sit back and be complacent about three times the hours the health of their democracy.” [they] worked in 1984”, and the current figures are While the waning success of protests higher”. As having university can be disheartening, you would be education becomes more wrong to dismiss student activism common and students arguably prematurely. It seems there’s plenty become more conservative, of political fighting left for our current Australian university campuses generation to contend with. today are different to the 70’s. The stereotype is that activism was widespread in university campuses in the 70’s; in truth this was never the case. Although the protestors of the 70’s were prominent, according

Blitz Magazine  Photos: Kris Dick Twisted Something In Week 11 get set for the Roundhouse to be transformed into the perfect setting for the latest circus spectacular, Kerros.

After celebrating its 10 yearCarousel anniversary in 2005, and the following the success of UNSW Circus Society (Circusoc) has once again decided to tackle a large-scale circusKerros. performance with its new is aimed production at displaying the Like Carousel, Kerros skills of the Circusoc performers, who are mostly regular UNSW students with an interest in circus performance and physical theatre. From clowns to fire twirlers, Circusoc has enjoyed a reputation of providing a creative atmosphere for amateur performers to socialise and acquire new skills, as well as operating as a business. Circusoc regularly provides entertainment services for corporate and non-profit clients. This year its reputation for professionalism and circus talent has attracted the support of ‘Home Of Poi,’ ‘Cameron Jane MakeupKerros Design’. Despite and the this, Roundhouse in sponsoring Circusoc is primarily a social club. Its members This Way Comes meet up each Monday night on the physics lawn to catch up as much as catch juggling balls. Gemma Smart Double Double toil and trouble… Twirlers twirl and Jugglers juggle!Kerros The brainchild of producer David Eccles, is the story of Jack and Jill, students at St Boresome’s Boarding School of Boredom. When, because of their inability to conform, Jack and Jill are punished by their evil headmistress, the scene is set for a tale of fantasy and wonder so out of this world it is like something out of a bad dream. Soon their world becomes intertwined with those of Kings, Queens and even Rumpelstiltskin. Jack and Jull are drawn into the classic scene of the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party where statues come alive in a beautiful example of acro-balance, a slow moving acrobatic skill requiring exceptional strength and balance. Under the direction of Sayara Thurston, each character they meet on their journey is able to express themselves not through words but through movement and circus. The talents of Circusoc performers shine as they take Jack and Jill on a journey of the mind and body. Kerros seamlessly incorporates traditional fairytales while adding a modern and often dark slant to them. It draws on the epic tales of good versus evil, light versus dark; to push the boundaries of physical theatre and circus performance. The artistic directors have used a minimalist set, making use of costume designer Anna Treneman to create a sense of and colour. Highlights include adagio and acro-balance performances by the ever-improving Circusoc acrobats, and a breathtaking fire extravaganza preceding the principal show. Kerros shows on Thursday and Friday of Week 11 (17- 18 May), starting at 7.00pm. Tickets are $15 ($10 for UNSW students) and are available from the Circusoc website www.circusoc.com, or at the Library Lawn stall. Buy your tickets early- the last show sold out very quickly!

 Blitz Magazine Apple & iPod Become Part of the specialists Student & Staff In Week 11 get set for the Roundhouse to be UNSW Winter discounts available transformed into the perfect setting for the latest circus spectacular, Kerros. TO ANZAC PARADE After celebrating its 10 yearCarousel anniversary in 2005, and the TO HIGH STREET following the success of Games Team UNSW Circus Society (Circusoc) has once LIBRARY Kerros. Ashley Pikkat again decided to tackle a large-scale circus BUILDING performance with its new is aimed production at displaying the Like Carousel, Kerros POST skills of the Circusoc performers, who are mostly OFFICE STREET TO BOTANY regular UNSW students with an interest in circus LIBRARY ROAD LIBRARY WALK performance and physical theatre. From clowns to fire twirlers, Circusoc has enjoyed a reputation of providing a creative atmosphere N for amateur performers to socialise and acquire new skills, as well as operating as a business. MAP REF F22 TO BARKER STREET

Circusoc regularly provides entertainment HERE services for corporate and non-profit clients. This year its reputation for professionalism and circus talent has attracted the support of ‘Home Of Poi,’ ‘Cameron Jane MakeupKerros Design’. Despite and the this, Roundhouse in sponsoring Circusoc is primarily a social club. Its members meet up each Monday night on the physics lawn to catch up as much as catch juggling balls. $235 $175 $235 New Adobe Kerros student pricing at rock The brainchild of producer David Eccles, is the story of Jack and Jill, students at St bottom prices Boresome’s Boarding School of Boredom. When, Available to students only. Conditions because of their inability to conform, Jack and Jill apply. See in-store for details are punished by their evil headmistress, the scene is set for a tale of fantasy and wonder so out of this DEAL world it is like something out of a bad dream. Soon Do you like to party? Do you ski or snowboard or The event is aimed at intermediate and advanced their world becomes intertwined with those of would you like give it a try? If you answered yes to skiers and boarders but many beginners also Kings, Queens and even Rumpelstiltskin. the above questions then congratulations! You have take part. Last year there were a large number of what it takes to be a part of the UNSW winter Uni students who had skied or snowboarded less than Jack and Jull are drawn into the classic scene of Games team. Winter Uni Games is an annual event a week and even some first timers, so come along the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party where statues come held each year at ski resorts in Victoria and NSW. regardless of your ability. alive in a beautiful example of acro-balance, a This year the event will be held at Perisher Blue slow moving acrobatic skill requiring exceptional in NSW from the 26 - 30 of August. Every year up If you are really keen or just somewhat interested, strength and balance. Under the direction of to 300 uni students from across Australia come there will be a meeting on Wednesday the 23 Sayara Thurston, each character they meet on together for the games to compete and party like May at 4pm, in the Hutchinson Room in the their journey is able to express themselves not it’s 1999. Roundhouse. If you can’t make this meeting and through words but through movement and circus. you want more information email Ashley Pikkat at The talents of Circusoc performers shine as they The events include skiing giant slalom, slalom [email protected]. Test Windows running take Jack and Jill on a journey of the mind and body. and super G, skier and boarder cross, rails, SEE on a Mac. slope style, half pipe, parallel giant slalom for seamlessly incorporates traditional Kerros snowboarders and moguls for skiers. There are fairytales while adding a modern and often also two cross country events for you crazy uphill dark slant to them. It draws on the epic tales skiers. After and between races there are ski and Student fi nancing of good versus evil, light versus dark; to push snowboard lessons available for all competitors the boundaries of physical theatre and circus every day. There is also a themed dress up event available - see instore performance. The artistic directors have used a every night, prizes, DJs and a black tie dinner on minimalist set, making use of costume designer the last night. Anna Treneman to create a sense of magic and colour. Highlights include adagio and acro-balance performances by the ever-improving Circusoc acrobats, and a breathtaking fire extravaganza preceding the principal show. Kerros shows on Thursday and Friday of Week 11 (17- 18 May), starting at 7.00pm. Tickets are $15 ($10 for UNSW students) and are available from the Circusoc website www.circusoc.com, or at the Library Lawn stall. Buy your tickets early- the last show sold out very quickly! UNSW UNSW Main Campus, Botany St t: 02 9385 2377 [email protected] Blitz Magazine  udos Gallery is run by the students at the College of Fine KArts and funded by the Arc@ UNSW. It is a gallery which offers students the opportunity to exhibit their work. Every year approximately thirty diverse exhibitions are held. Kudos Gallery aims to encourage students to explore their potential – whether that is as an artist, curator, critic or exhibitor. The function of the gallery is to allow students to experience a wide range of artistic endeavours including cataloguing, promotion, writing and design. Students pay a small fee to exhibit their work, and in return are given the opportunity to exhibit their work in a professional gallery as well as help in promoting their show. A free invitation design service for artists is also offered. Kudos also aims to expose COFA student’s pursuits to the wider public. Individual artists, group shows and curated shows are exhibited at the Kudos Gallery at 6 Napier Street, COFA Paddington.

The 6th Annual Emerging Artist & Designer Award is also funded by the Arc, with a major award of $1,500. Artists and designers, who are enrolled at COFA in 2007, may submit up to 3 works, if they register by Friday 7 September. Completed works should be delivered between Thursday 20 and Friday 21 September between 10 am and 5 pm. Register at the Arc office @ COFA, D Block COFA. KUDOS GALLERY Upcoming Exhibitions FujiFilm Site Unseen A photography project run by students for students that begins in a competition, and ends with a Nationally touring exhibition and hard-cover book. It is open every year to tertiary students in Australia studying any form of photography, and aims to give students an important leg up into this competitive industry by acknowledging the quality of their work before they’ve even graduated. Down to Earth An exhibition of works created at Fowlers Gap Exhibition on now and by the COFA ILIRI (Imaging the Land International closes Saturday 19 May Research Institute) student group Opens 6-8pm Tues 22 May Gallery hours: Closes Saturday 26 May Wednesday to Friday 11am – 6pm Saturday 11am – 4pm

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Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the finest chefs UNSW has to offer… The competition was tough this year, but after a long meeting in a secret underground bunker, we are pleased to announce the following successful entrants and their dishes: Dylan Law - Goi Cuon Monika Szuszkiewicz& Jordan Ralph - Mexican Bean Dip Yvonne Lake - Minestrone Soup Jamie Foo - Potato Bun Caroline McLaren - Non-Alcoholic Sangria International Cookbook Anisha Surtani - Spanish Mushrooms 2006 Helen Paton - Ceviche Florence Ngu - Scrummy Meatball Curry Matthew Petrucci - Pasta al’Arrabiata Nancy Lu - Salt & Pepper Chicken Mayukh Sengupta - Saffron Murg Kebab Yang Shi - Sweet & Crispy Pork Kylie Woodward - Chorizo/Sausage Stew Charmian Kwan - SamBal Flathead Fillets Christopher Moore - Pumpkin & Feta Risotto Sarah Bennett - Sarah’s Slimming Saucy Satay Adam Shell - Nanny’s “Beat the Hangover” French Toast Ania Lucewicz - Gender Bender Gingerbread People Jenna Linehan - Choco-Micro Amanda Collins - Mondy’s Pecan Pie Christopher Moore - Pavee Kenneth McLean - Nanaimo Bar Nina Røste - Tilslørte Bondepiker (Veiled Peasant Girls’ Dessert) George Robinson - Horse Cookies

Congratulations to all those who were successful, and a very big thankyou to everyone who entered .

The International Cookbook will launch at 1pm on Wednesday May 30 (Week 13) in the Club Bar (upstairs at the Roundhouse), with free food, copies of the Cookbook and live cooking demos from our guest celebrity chef, as well as the announcement of the prize winners from this year’s crop of recipes. Blitz Magazine 11 What’s On Deadlines Week 13: by May 16 Week 14: by May 23 submit online at www.arc.unsw.edu.au What’s On Week 11 May 14 - May 18 TUESDAY MONDAY 15 May 14 May Women’s Collective Table Tennis Table Tennis Meeting Capoeira 11-3pm 11-3pm 5-6pm 1-2pm Table + Tennis = fun The sport of champions Come and get a fantastic workout doing UNSWomen is a social network and Main Room, Roundhouse Main Room, Roundhouse the Brazilian martial art that comes policy body for women on campus. Free Free complete with extreme kicks, music, Come to participate in discussions, meet other women, or simply enjoy dancing, and acrobatics. Women’s Literature Arc Queerplay Hutcheson Room, Roundhouse our delicious (free) food! 12-3pm $33 for 3 classes Group All women welcome! UNSW Queer Departments weekly 12pm onwards Women’s Room, Level 1, social group for all queer students. Happy Hour Come to learn about feminism and Blockhouse (Lower Campus) Free Visit for food drinks and conversation. 5-6pm women’s issues! This week’s topic is Queerspace “Feminist Consciousness”. What makes The happiest hour of the day! (Chemical Sciences 920) someone a feminist? Am I a feminist? Pool Comp Roundhouse Free What does that mean, anyway? Come Free 5-6pm to learn, discuss, make friends! Be a shark Women’s Room, Level 1, International Students Weekly Debating Roundhouse Blockhouse, Lower Campus Free for Social Equality 6pm Meeting and EGM Free (Bring your thinking cap!) Join us for a debate about a topical Happy Hour 1pm onwards issue - we promise we don’t bite! Arc Queer Boys Hear a report back from the 5-6pm Mondays of session 12-3pm ISSE/Socialist Equality Party (US) CLB The happiest hour of the day! Weekly meeting for Queer Boys and “Emergency Conference Against Free Roundhouse War” (Ann Arbor, Michigan March 31 Queer Friendly students on campus. - April 1). The conference discussed Relax, have lunch and catch up with FILMSOC Film Screening the social and economic processes the Queer Department 6.30-9pm Queerspace behind increasing military violence, John Woo special! Screening ‘Hard (Chemical Sciences 920) the implications of the US debacle in Boiled’. Drinks at the pub afterwards. Free Iraq and the connection between war Webster 237 and the growth of social inequality $5 for non members internationally. Conference report and UNIBUDS: resolutions at: www.wsws.org. Lunchtime Meditation UNSW Outdoors Club All welcome. and Relaxation Annual General Meeting QUAD 1001 1-2pm Free 6.30-9pm Find peace amidst your busy day The Outdoors Club is holding its AGM every Tuesday, and discover your to elect the executive committee for Circusoc calmness within. Whether you are the coming year. All members are Monday Night Meeting a beginner or practitioner, member encouraged to attend. Nominations for 5-late or not, all are equally welcome positions can be made in writing to the Come and learn some circus skills to just drop in! More information secretary with the name of a seconder. and meet new people. All welcome! at: www.UNIBUDS.unsw.edu.au or Sam Cracknell Pavilion Physics Lawn, UNSW contact Alex on 0401 060 394. Free for members Free for members UNIBUDS library, Squarehouse Level 3 UNSW Underwater Social Free AGM Trivia 7-9pm 1-2pm UNSW Underwater Social First AGM for 2007 Come along and join the Beat smart people at their own game SCUBA club! UniBar, Roundhouse Sam Cracknell Pavilion (Above Free Sports Assoc office 2nd Floor) Free

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Outback Assist Trivia 6pm L.I.F.E. Leadership. Special appearance by Influence. Faith. WEDNESDAY Bar Bingo Adam Goodes and Excellence. 16 May 1-2pm 7pm Bingo! Michael O’Loughlin from the UniBar, Roundhouse Do you wanna be a Shining Star in Thoughtful Foods Co-op Sydney Swans Free university? Are you bored and looking for Opening Hours Club Bar, Roundhouse a FRESH outlook of life? Then, what are 10.30am-4.30pm you waiting for? Come and join our L.I.F.E.! Queer Girls Social $10 entry The food Co-op is a source of cheap 3-5pm If you’re interested, please email tasty organic food. Work in the co- $4 sausage sandwich to [email protected]. operative and receive a discount! Weekly social group for queer girls. Come along and hangout, meet people, chat. International House. Behind the Roundhouse, Beergarden DJ Free near Eats at the Round QueerSpace Applied Sciences Rm - 920 (Also 6.30-8pm Outdoors Club AGM 2007 known as Chemical Sciences) Funky sounds all round Table Tennis Free Roundhouse 7:30pm Onwards 11am-3pm Free Are you a member? This is your chance to Pong without the Sufi Association AGM be involved and have your say! Not yet a Main Room, Roundhouse Ultimate Frisbee member? Come along and we can sign you Free 5.30pm onwards up on the night. All members are invited to come and Eastern Suburbs League 7-9pm Sam Cracknell Pavilion Arc National Volunteers elect the new executive committee of Free to attend and free BBQ our club. Refreshments will be served. League tournament, come and join Week Lunch Room 218, Level 2 Squarehouse in or watch. All skill levels welcome. 12-2pm Free Village Green The Arc would like to thank all its $35-members COFA Campus volunteers and invite all UNSW students Developing World Health $45-non-members National Volunteers Week to a free BBQ lunch to celebrate Symposium National Volunteers Week. lunch, Arc @ UNSW Roundhouse 5.30pm onwards MSAP is a UNSW student-founded and COFA Campus 12-2pm Free run, not-for-profit organisation which The Arc would like to thank all its volun- Womyn’s Collective teers and invite all UNSW COFA students CSE Revue vs Nerds delivers medical aid to hospitals in to a free lunch to celebrate National developing nations worldwide. Join us at Meeting Volunteers Week. FC II 6pm, Edmund Blacket Theatre, Prince 1-2pm COFA Central Quad 12-2pm of Wales Hospital for the symposium: Our meetings are Wednesdays 1-2pm Free Your favourite nerds in football take ‘Health & Human rights: Is medical aid during semester. Come along to meet on your favourite nerds on campus a Hindrance or a Help?’ The evening other women, volunteer for projects, Sketch Club in this rematch of geometric promises highly regarded and interesting such as “Dissonance” the annual feminist proportions. Come along, grab 4-6pm speakers, opportunities for discussion exhibition at Kudos Gallery, or write for some mates, enjoy a free BBQ, and refreshments. the UNSW women’s collective newsletter, Free life drawing funded by Arc @ UNSW have your photo taken and cheer Edmund Blackett Theatre, organise an event, paint banners, F214, COFA campus on your favourite nerds as they go Prince of Wales Hospital and more! Free head-to-head in this soccer match Gold coin donation Womyn’s Room, E109, COFA Village Green Free Free Happy Hour 5–7pm The happiest 2 hours of the day! RoundhouseOu

Blitz Magazine 13 What’s On Beergarden Band FRIDAY THURSDAY 5.30-6.30pm 18 May 17 May Queer Political Forum 3-5pm Enjoy some grooves The Queer Department hosts a in the Beergarden Table Tennis Thoughtful Foods Co-op political forum to discuss political Roundhouse Beergarden 11am-3pm Free Opening Hours issues and how they affect the Queer Main Room, Roundhouse 9am-6pm Community. Free The food Co-op is a source of cheap This week’s topic will be the Media Happy Hour tasty organic food. Work in the and Stereotyping. 5–6pm Happy Hour co-operative and receive a discount! UNSW QueerSpace The happiest hour of the day! 5–6pm Roundhouse Behind the Roundhouse, (Applied Science 920) The happiest hour of the day! near Eats at the Round Free Roundhouse UNIBUDS: Buddhism Table Tennis Ultimate Frisbee Talk in Chinese Beergarden DJ 11am-3pm Training 6-8pm 4.30pm Like pong without the computer 4-5:30pm Every Thursday night we have Roundhouse Main Room, Roundhouse Membership costs $7. Beginners insightful talks about Buddhism in Free Free welcome and fitness of all levels. Chinese. The topic for this week Just come to have a good time. is SAMSARA. Members and non- Village Green members are equally welcome to Free for members just drop in! More information at: www.UNIBUDS.unsw.edu.au/ or contact Mandy on 0404 609 225. The Lodge, Squarehouse Level 3 Free

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14 Blitz Magazine Mike Archer

Mike Archer is a famous palaeontologist; a scientist who studies the of life on earth. Born in Australia, he grew up in the US where he studied at Princeton University before receiving a Fulbright Scholarship. He came to Australia in the late sixties and liked it so much he stayed. After a long research career at UNSW, he is now head of Science. Alex Serpo sat down with him for a chat. How did you develop a Are you a collector? Why should students pursue I see too many people come to the passion for science? a career in science? end of their professional careers Yes, I’m an obsessive collector. I still in commerce or accounting; and At about age 11, I became obsessed collect minerals, fossils, things that If you think you might be interested in we get them on our field trips. I with geology, palaeontology and trigger relationships in my mind. science, then you would be mad it if have had too many people come zoology. I remember collecting Maybe it’s something about the way you didn’t explore that. As a student up to me after a week spent in the frozen crows off the road. My the human brain is built; I have an you go down these paths, and one bush and say with a tear in their parents thought I was a bit strange, object-oriented brain. door opens then another one shuts, eye: “why didn’t somebody tell me particularly when I ordered a pickled and eventually you find yourself in that science was so exciting?” cat when I was about twelve and I never go away anywhere around a corner, doing a PhD or out in the started dissecting it in my room. That the world without coming back with cruel world doing a job. Then the Here they are, at the tender age of obsession meant I was doomed, I just some kind of touchstone, and in doors behind you are closed. You 65, realising that they spent their had to get into science because my that touchstone is the key to all the have to some pretty critical decisions life doing something that they really brain just moved in that channel, I memories I have from that place. at an early age. The only guide you weren’t interested in. You only get thought it was wonderful. I’ve never met a fossil that I have have is love. one life, pick a career that you are forgotten. Curiously, I don’t have this interested in. I think in many ways what triggers a phenomenon with people and it drives kid’s interest is a collection. It can be me crazy. anything - rocks, stamps, it doesn’t matter. They become proud of their collection; nobody else has something like it. So they start to learn about it. A kid collecting is the start of an interest in the world.

Blitz Magazine 15 n the 90s, we were all obsessed with futuristic It’s not just the average person who has been Then again, perhaps we keep bringing things back styles and minimalism; the year 2000 marked swept up by the retro haze. Like most styles and because we didn’t get it right the first time. The I the start of a better future. Now we’re trends, celebrities and designers are responsible popularity of the retro trend shows that we’re all obsessed with the past. Retro is the new for the retro craze, and it doesn’t look like they’ll generating, creating and producing style and black. How did we get stuck in this retro rut? be stopping soon. They’ve (re)popularised the technology at a greater rate than we can bubble skirt, big belts, footless tights and Ray absorb it as a society. Everything changes so High waist pants were in, then they were out, Bans. Interior decorating has also succumbed rapidly in our culture that we’re barely able to and now they’re cool again. Old school vinyl to the retro revival and IKEA is leading the grasp a trend the first time it surfaces. We don’t record players, typewriters, and leather charge. They stock a wide variety of retro wear things out or let them gather dust; we throw bound notebooks are all suddenly fashionable. style furniture and appliances including 1970s them out to make space for something new. With Are we collectively indulging in nostalgia? style egg chairs, crockery, rugs and mats, as things changing so quickly, we’re probably not The term retro refers to objects and attitudes well as pastel coloured kitchen appliances. getting it all right the first time around. Retro that aren’t considered to be modern. That You can even buy pop art dustpans online! gives us a chance to revisit those things which means anything that was produced over 15 we didn’t appreciate and cherish the first time years ago is now retro. For example, Star Wars People known as retrophiles around, and to rectify any of its original defects. is now retro sci-fi. Retro objects and trends obsess over, and love all No-one ever thinks that they’re living in the generally originate from the styles and fashions things retro. middle of a golden age, or at the start of a of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s. Anything before Renaissance. In the 20th century, we were all the 1890s can’t really be considered retro; a Not even technology, the natural enemy of all looking to the future. Now that we’re in the loincloth isn’t really retro, it’s disturbing. things retro, is safe. Five years ago we were all 21st century, we’ve become all retrospective. trading in our old film cameras for digital cameras Most of us own a least a few things that fall There’s nothing wrong with that – as long as we with 5 mega pixels, 3 times optical zoom and into the retro category; think skinny jeans, don’t forget about the problems of the present compact designs. Nowadays, photographers bubble skirts, hoop earrings, even flares. But whilst we’re busy wallowing in our retro rut. are tracking down the clunkiest, chunkiest some people go even further; people known as and clumsiest cameras they can find, like the retrophiles obsess over, and love all things retro. Canon AE-1 that was originally released in 1976. These people might be fixated on one specific In some cases, photography aficionados are type of retro object – like clothes, furniture, even returning to the original pinhole camera cars or technological devices. Alternately, box styles to capture images in the same way they may be obsessed with one specific retro that their counterparts in the 1910s did. time period. For example, this Blitz reporter is currently obsessed with 1950s and 1960s writing So why are we turning to the past for inspiration implements and clothing. My wardrobe is all on how to dress, decorate and design? Surely the pencil skirts and 50s style wrap around dresses. rapid advancement in technology over the last I adore my 1930s Parisian fountain pen, and am 50 years happened because our culture desired desperately trying to find a working typewriter. devices that were easier to use, more compact and had a greater number of functions? So why are we returning to old school devices when we have technologically superior alternatives? Have we run out of original ideas? Are we stuck in a retro rut because we can’t create anything that’s actually innovative? Surely not. After all, 30 years ago the mobile phone was still a dream. 20 years ago we wouldn’t have thought about broadband connections or wireless internet. We are capable of coming up with new ideas and trends – so why don’t we? The popularity of the retro trend might reveal something about the way we live in modern society. Maybe we need a little bit of nostalgic bliss in our lives. Things change so rapidly in our world that it is comforting to surround ourselves with belongings and possessions from times which we see as simpler. Why think about Celebrities have Australia’s ever-increasing contribution to global (re)popularised the bubble warming when you can get some use out of your 1970s camera? Has Iran’s crackdown on female skirt, big belts, footless dress codes got you concerned? Why worry tights and Ray Bans. about it when you can de-stress and unwind on your 1970s style bubble chair. Better yet, have a James Brown or Elvis Presley LP rotating on your record player at the same time. Hell, why not throw a fondue party while you’re at it?!

16 Blitz Magazine Retro Rut Carissa Simons

Blitz Magazine 17 Need food, drink, a snack, a phone card, some stationery? Go straight to an Arc store

9HOOXR QB@CD2SNQD DXk_\nj8iZX[\ ›:C9 e\okkf>iX[lXk`fe >`]kJkfi\ ›DXk_\nj=ff[?Xcc ›9cfZb_flj\ 0T@C2SNQD HlX[iXe^c\9l`c[`e^  !8cjfj\ccjXikjlggc`\j &Q@CT@SHNM&HES Music: Music: K_\8iZËjXZX[\d`Z[i\jj Rastawookie _`i\j\im`Z\Xe[LEJN =fifg\e`e^_flijXe[X Perfectly Ordinary ]lccgif[lZkiXe^\^fkf cf^fn\Xijkfi\ :\ekiXc Nikita Agzarian Kylar Loussikian c\Zkli\YcfZb nnn%XiZ%lejn%\[l%Xl From the moment I first heard, Apparently Rastawookie is the next Straight Lines, the first single from big thing. There has been a lot of talk Arc retail @ COFA Campus Silverchair’s, latest , I knew about their debut release, Perfectly that Young Modern was a significant Ordinary, which mixes reggae, "@LOTR QS2SNQD departure from classic Silverchair. dub and a variety of minor genres  fek_\Zfie\if]Fo]fi[Jk It’s clearly just a together into an attempt to create ]fiXccpfliXik#[\j`^eXe[ project. From the first song, Young a unique sound. To keep this review jkXk`fe\ipe\\[j Modern Station, it is clear that simple, the main reason why this Daniel Johns is not over his obscurer album doesn’t work is because the pop/Dissociatives stage, in fact lead singer/rapper sounds terrible. has become an honorary Silverchair member for this album. The album has a satisfying opening Putting that aside, Young Modern is with Open Sesame, sounding daring and it really grew on me. Once something along the lines of British I realised that this was not going to be ska band The Selecter. The album or , I could continued to be satisfying until the accept it for the intense, passionate third track, Cada Vez Mas. On this album that it is. track, Rastawookie, adverse to any common sense, allowed the vocalist This is an ambitious album. There are to start rapping. many different sounds, instruments, harmonies and rhythms all put Hutchy Dub, the next track didn’t together, however it works and help. Apparently, the band has yet to sounds good. For example the track, master the fact that songs require , has so much lyrics that comprise of more than going on in it. There are strings, big just a few repeated lines. By this drums and so many harmonies, it is time, the album had faded from manic, but it somehow manages to fit my interest. Listening to the rest in all the sounds together. the background, it seemed that the THE ANSWER TO ALL second half of the album redeemed Q&A There is a bit of everything in this the band somewhat, especially the YOUR QUESTIONS album. The dreamy feel of Reflections track Keep On. of a Sound and the epic Those Thieving Birds Part 1/Strange Behaviour/Those Too bad Deep Bass Thrombosis Thieving Birds Part 2 that goes for sounded more like elevator music. an incredibly intense 7 minutes. All If this album has been Perfectly Across The World wraps up the Ordinary, it definitely would have album with a powerful, passionate, been more entertaining. Alternative orchestral finale that suitably closes listening suggestions: The Selecter, this unforgettable Silverchair album. The Upsetters. A lot of Silverchair fans will absolutely hate this album. So if you are after an album like Frogstomp or Freakshow, that were classic , Young Modern is not for you. But if you really look at the Silverchair catalogue, Young Modern is the logical progression from Diorama. *#4#* # 125',% /3 " 3'*"',% The band is constantly growing and developing a new and intricate sound. www.arc.unsw.edu.au/contact Give Young Modern a chance, it’s -0! ** addictive and will grow you.

18 Blitz Magazine Towards Eradicating Poverty A Gawad Kalinga Symposium Martin Ponferranda ‘Gawad Kalinga’ (which translates to poverty. Their strategy extends Considered Asia’s answer to the houses they were helping to build. ‘give care’) aims to eradicate poverty beyond merely providing houses Nobel Prize for Peace; former This talk is definitely worth skipping in a practical way. This charity began - but aims to empower the poor recipients of the Magsagsay award a lecture for. Dr. Tony Meloto Ramon with a vision to create a squatter- to rise above poverty. As a result, include Mohammad Yunus, Mother will speak about the eradication of free, slum-free Philippines, but now GK also provides health, education Theresa and the fourteenth Dalai poverty in Asia and the Pacific. So applies its all over the and environmental programs. Lama. But unlike his honorable come along, listen, and enhance your world. Their method is simple. predecessors, the mantle attributed understanding of GK’s work in today’s The founder of GK, Dr.Antonio Meloto to Meloto was also bestowed to turbulent world. With the generous donations from will be addressing an audience at the organisation itself, a first in the the community they purchase land. UNSW on May 14 between 1 - 2pm in Award’s fifty-year history. On this land, thousands of local and the GO2 Law Theatre. Meloto is an international volunteers work to build energetic and impassioned advocate Several student-run clubs on campus homes and support the livelihood of the anti-poverty movement. are affiliated with GK. Last year, of communities whose homes were He was last year’s recipient of about 20 UNSW students were flown destroyed by natural disasters, the Ramon Magsaysay award for overseas to the Philippines where or who have spent a lifetime in community leadership. they lived with the recipients of the

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Blitz Magazine 19 Nerds FC Vs CSE Revue

The Worst and the pecials Drink S Brightest Last year saw the birth of two This time around they’re ready for momentous moments in Australian action and foaming at the mouth for sporting history. Who could forget the chance to show the girls (and  Australia’s star appearance in possibly guys) that they aren’t as the FIFA 2006 World Cup led by inept as their Season 1 stereotype the fearless Guus Hiddink? I’m suggests. With a new and improved  sure many of us stayed up till team, featuring star players Glenn the wee hours of the morning Leong, David Collien and Michael to witness the showdown Lake, all sourced from the Faculty of between Italy and Australia. Engineering and School of CSE itself, it is sure to be a exciting match with The only thing to equal such sporting plenty of misplaced loyalties, trash excitement was Nerds FC Season talking and own-goals. 1 that debuted last year, ironically being aired at a more civilised time. So come witness the epic showdown The Nerds, led by the unequally on the Village Green on May 23 strong Andy Harper managed to (Wednesday Week 11, 12-2pm) and score one goal against Melbourne cheer your favourite side on. Be FC, a titanic feat. there or be the geometrical shape that has all sides of equal length. CSE Revue wasn’t about to let the Nerds rest on their keyboards www.cserevue.org.au though. A glove was produced and subsequently slapped on the Nerds FC Season 2 will start on cheek of a Nerds FC member’s June 9 at 7:30pm on SBS. Nerds face; a challenge they couldn’t FC Season 1 will be repeated from April 21 at 6:00pm. K_\Ifle[_flj\\eZfliX^\jk_\i\jgfej`Yc\j\im`Z\f]XcZf_fc deny. Following the intense match between the Nerds FC and CSE Revue FC last year; the loss by the Nerds FC caused them to swear they’d be back for well-thought out, if poorly executed, vengeance.

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Blitz Magazine 21 NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL Join the ISS Peer delivers medical aid to developing nations. (formerly known as Uni Games) MEETING THE UNIVERSITY Mentor team Join us on May 16 at 6pm, Edmund Blacket July 1-4 in Sydney? Guys call Pat OF NEW SOUTH WALES UNSW International Student Services Theatre, Prince of Wales Hospital for the 0411 041 045 Girls call Alex 0413 020 595 UNION ABN 34 324 558 181 (ISS) is seeking outgoing local and symposium: ‘Health & Human rights: Is or email [email protected] international students to help us help medical aid a Hindrance or a Help?’ The TRADING AS UNSW SOURCE. Women’s Super Notice is hereby given that the annual new students in their transition to life in evening promises highly regarded and League Soccer general meeting of the members of the Australia. Join the ISS Peer Mentor team. interesting speakers, opportunities for The Womens’ Super League squad still above organisation will be held at the Club Applications for Session 2, 2007 are now discussion and refreshments. Gold coin has vacancies for experienced players. Bar in the Roundhouse, Lower Campus, open and close on Friday 1 June. For full donation appreciated. Training Tuesdays and Thursdays, games UNSW, Kensington, 2032 on 30 May 2007 details go to www.international.unsw.edu. Looking for Translator on Sunday. Call Alex on 0413 020 595 or at 6.00pm for the purpose of receiving its au/current/currentcommunity.html of Technical Japanese email [email protected] annual audited accounts for the year end HabSoc AGM Looking for a translator to translate of 2006. BITSA AGM This year HabSoc is sending two Habitat a technical Japanese article. Fee BITSA AGM. The BIT ISM Student Obtain Australian for Humanity Global village teams negotiation upon contact. Email: Association will be holding it’s AGM overseas to Thailand and Cambodia to [email protected] Permanent Residency on Friday the 18th of May, 6:30pm Staff from the Department of Immigration build houses for disadvantaged families. Korean Students in QUAD2093. will be on campus on Friday 6 July Trip dates: Midsession break 4 -22 July. Association AGM from 3-5pm to speak with international Email [email protected] for more Rock On Korean Student Association AGM students on the various pathways to information. AGM: Tuesday 22 May 6:30- Singer/frontman wanted for northern Wednesday 23rd May 2-3pm Training obtain Australian Permanent Residency 7pm, New College 4th floor meeting room beaches hard rock band. Age 20-30 and Room 2 Blockhouse. - Review of Clubs including changes to the skilled migration - election of new executive and review our willing to jam 1-2 times per week. Call paul Constitution - Election of new club scheme. To register, email ISS at constitution. All welcome. 0401074041. Executives. [email protected] MSAP Symposium: ‘Health All Welcome. AIESEC AGM The Actuarial Society EGM & Human rights: Is medical AIESEC UNSW AGM 5-6pm 23rd of May Play Soccer at the East Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) aid a hindrance or a help? Wurth Rm, Roundhouse. All members Cost Challenge ASOC will be holding its EGM to update MSAP is a UNSW student-founded and should attend. Guys and girls: interested in playing our regulations and constitutions as well run, not-for-profit organisation which soccer at the East Coast Challenge as the election of our new Sports and Social executive. When: Tuesday, 22 of May 2007, 12pm -1.30pm. Where: Mathews To advertise your classified submit online via the arc website; www.arc.unsw.edu.au. Click on 123. Come along and decide our future the right hand “Blitz Magazine” link then “submit to Blitz”. Please supply the week you want the executives. For other details, please visit classified listed, not the week of the event under “nominate week”. Anonymous classifieds will our website www.asoc.unsw.edu.au not be printed, please supply a contact phone number. The maximum word count is sixty words.

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22 Blitz Magazine What was cool Did you have when you were a childhood growing up? stuffed toy and what was it?

Max: Amanda Ben Matt 1) Tamagotchis were the coolest 1) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 1) Sega Master System. 1) Fluoro. thing to have. 2) A Paddington Bear, called 2) Alex, after Alex the Kid. 2) I had a Big Ted, and it 2) I didn’t have any stuffed Paddington Bear. was called Ted. toys. But I had a pet blue tongue lizard called Licky.

Belinda Bec: Catherine Shaun 1) Jelly Sandals. 1) I loved skipping. 1) Knickerbockers. 1) Power Rangers, particularly the green one. 2) Alex, a humungous teddy bear. 2) I had a little hippopotamus and it 2) Pinky, a really dirty pink bear. was called Buttoness, because 2) A dog that looked like a it was the female version of a wifebeater called Superdog. friend’s male hippo called Buttons.

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