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The Pain of Endometriosis the Summer School Trap HSEMESTER ONE,oni 2016 • WEEK 6 Soit FIRST PRINTED 1929 Who is Aunty The pain of The summer AMWU slams Donna? endometriosis school trap ‘dishonest’ Patrick Morrow Katelyn Cameron encourages us to Nick Bonyhady asks why summer NUS campaign knows take the disease seriously school is so expensive PROFILE, PAGE 14 OPINION, PAGE 12 ANALYSIS, PAGE 7 NEWS, PAGE 6 2 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 6 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 6 3 LETTERS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Andrew Bell line degrees towards postgrad- carefully considered thoughts OF COUNTRY Read this uate specialisation, allowing on relevant subjects is also a EDITORS please mum for students who are unsure skill. And, if the rumours are Contents We acknowledge the traditional and centre the experiences of Letters about future career paths to true and the Business School Natalie Buckett, Max Hall, Tom custodians of this land, the Gadi- Indigenous people, and to be have the same opportunities accepts international students 3 / LETTERS 18 / CULTURE Joyner, Sam Langford, Alexan- gal people of the Eora Nation. reflective when we fail to. flyer on saving the environment To the editors, as those who are certain about even when their IELTS scores dros Tsathas, Subeta Vimalara- The University of Sydney – where We recognise our duty to be We definitely is, ‘please throw this in the bin career paths to enter their are not up to scratch, well then 4 / NEWS 22 / SOCIAL jah, Mary Ward, Victoria Zerbst, we write, publish and distribute a counterpoint to the racism for me.’ I’m 99% sure that’s I spent several years at univer- chosen career. For example, (apart from their low stand- Naaman Zhou Honi Soit – is on the sovereign that plagues the mainstream had nothing to what you say, because I have my sity writing for Honi Soit and I replacing the LLB with the ards), perhaps it is not the Busi- 6 / ANALYSIS 24 / CASEWORKERS land of these people. media, and to adequately repre- headphones in. am now working full-time as a postgraduate JD across the ness School who is at fault here. CONTRIBUTORS As students and journalists, sent the perspectives of Indige- do with this If you’re really invested in journalist. I never studied jour- board would mean that stu- My friend has been living in 10 / STANDALONE 25 / PUZZLES we recognise our complicity nous students at our University. your cause get some hot models nalism or communications. I dents who are unsure about Australia and speaking English Eden Faithfull, Emma Balfour, in the ongoing colonisation of We also wholeheartedly thank It has come to my attention to promote your stuff. I am will- got the job based purely on my entering the legal profession here for over 10 years. And he 12 / PERSPECTIVE 26 / SRC REPORTS Nick Bonyhady, Katelyn Cam- Indigenous land. In recognition our Indigenous reporters for that you main campus extrem- ing to sacrifice part of my day, volunteer writing experience at could do so after completing a regularly comments on how eron, Jayce Carrano, Nabila of our privilege, we vow to not the continuing contribution of ists have zero social skills. Like normally filled with How to university. I’m now changing BA or a BSc, for example. amazed he is by the English spo- 14 / PROFILE 28 / SUPRA Chemaissem, Ann Ding, Grace only include, but to prioritise their labour to our learning. actually zero. I’m not talking Get Away with Murder, to have roles and some of the people In discussions on Facebook, ken by international students Franki, Tansy Gardam, Eric about you as individuals, but as a hot guy/girl stop me to talk being interviewed for my posi- however, along with anti-re- – in both good ways and bad. 15 / FEATURE 30 / COMEDY Gonzales, Nicholas Horgan, a cohort. As individuals you’re about something super impor- tion also wrote for Honi Soit. search and anti-intellectu- International students regular- Justine Landis-Hanley, Jamie tolerable, as a cohort you may tant. Like my phone number. I just wanted to let the Honi al comments from activists, ly maintain a far superior grasp Lowe, Oliver Moore, Aidan as well be government employ- Soit community know how included one comment which of English than my friend. In a Molins, Pat Morrow, Alexi Pol- ees. I’m sure you all believe you Sincerely, well-respected the publication will cause concern: ‘also the gen- spectacular example of the very 15 / FEATURE den, Ellie Rogers, Chloe Sak- are a group of noble and dig- Frustrated 3rd year Speech is in the industry. Every student eralised model greatly increases opposite, I heard of a particular er, Ajay Sivanathan, Courtney EDITORIAL nified people who protest for Pathology student who is serious about being a student debt, especially with incident where a Chinese stu- Alexandros Tsathas deconstructs the construction on campus. Thompson, Michaela Vaughan, humane causes. Unlike all those journalist should be aiming to the fact they want to funnel dent misspelt China as ‘Chine’. Theodora Von Arnim, Joanita Andrew Bell other groups at main campus, contribute. students into four year degrees/ Not even in an exam, but in a Wibowo, Rina Yang who are just uncultured swine. force them into deregulated report. But I digress. My friend Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative The violent fracas that dragged the operating cost of Summer This is a matter of common Setting the Cheers, postgrad’. Even though the Mel- studies his butt off. He usually Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City ARTISTS across the foyer of Fisher Library School for students. Further courtesy. Not like common sense Felicity Nelson bourne Model implemented in sits in the front, paying close Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. The SRC’s operation costs, this week is the most visible in, we dissect proposed laws to which is borderline extinct. right kind Journalist at Lawyers Weekly Sydney would be more benefi- attention to the lectures (com- space and administrative support are financed by the University Sarah Cutter-Russell, Ann and recent sign of the struggle stymie protest not dissimilar to I come from the mystical cial for students academically, menting that most other stu- of Sydney. Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s Ding, Matthew Fisher, Aman- between competing visions of the that which has become a fixture lands of Cumbo; where the only of trap this comment’s concern is true, dents fiddle with their phones directors of student publications: Tahlia Chloe, Justine Landis- dine Le Bellec, Zita Walker, future of this University. of Eastern Avenue. These pieces people promoting stuff is the it will be very poor (literally) for instead). He studies four hours Hanley, David Hogan, Michelle Picone, Siobhan Ryan, and Michael Rina Yang, Jess Zlotnick The catalyst was the resurrec- canvass and critique our pro- bible/Jesus groups and they at Dear Honi, Here is a letter (most) students unless equiva- a day for one subject. He listens Sun. All expressions are published on the basis that they are not to tion of a scheme to restructure jected course of development, least give you free food. lent undergraduate CSP places to lecture recordings over and be regarded as the opinions of the SRC unless specifically stated. COVER and expand the debt that future soon to become become reality Let me set you straight. If “The parent trap” was interest- from a tory are extended to their postgrad- over and looks up Youtube vid- The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of students will bear. It may be of if left undisturbed. you want me to vote for you, ing reading although a bit disap- uate equivalents. eos in English to aid his under- the opinions or information contained within this newspaper, nor Zita Walker little consequence to much of The proposals in the strate- or to sign your petition, don’t pointing in its portrayal of a lack Dear Honi, This is thus a very big caveat standing. He has hired personal does it endorse any of the advertisements and insertions. the current populace of Sydney gic plan are still in their embry- bombard me on the street with of support from the university to to my in-principle support. tutors for several subjects and PROOFREADER University – but certainly is for onic stages; many architectural papers and words. You don’t parents, especially mothers. ‘A sarcomere is to Michael has befriended lecturers and those who tread the same path plans still aspirational, cries to need to be a real life infomer- There is a lot of talk around Spence, as a muscle is to…?’ Samuel Chu tutors alike because of how Please direct all advertising inquiries to Caelin Kramer in years to come. change summer school barely cial, because honey, ain’t nobody the University currently about The answer is ‘the University Physiotherapy I many questions he asks and his [email protected] While each student only expe- more than a pipe dream. How- buying. If this was a limited offer women’s issues and other equi- of Sydney’, because in the same willingness to totally under- riences a fleeting episode of its his- ever, the chance to influence the I would be psyched. But its not. ty and diversity issues. As you way that sarcomeres assist mus- stand the subject material. tory, the conversations on Eastern future sits with us in the pres- You assholes are at main campus point out, most of it is con- cle contraction, Michael Spence This is how you pass a degree avenue now will shape the course ent, and the path we take will all the time.
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