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Blitz Magazine May 1 . 9 .W S1 6 00 7 2 May 1 - May PB Blitz Magazine Blitz Magazine week9.indd 1 26/4/06 6:15:52 PM Blitz Magazine week9.indd 2 26/4/06 6:16:04 PM Blitz Magazine: Telephone: 02 9385 7715 Editor’s letter Fax: 02 9313 8626 Address: PO Box 173, Kingsford 2032 Level 1, Blockhouse, Lower Campus [email protected] Web: www.source.unsw.edu.au Blitz Advertising: Advertising Artwork 12 days prior to publication. Bookings 20 days prior to publication. Rates and enquiries should be Cheating Hearts 6 directed to Charlotte O’Brien Phone: 9385 7331 Email: [email protected] by Rob Gascoigne Contributions: Letters, articles, photos and other printable oth Elvis Presley and Karl Marx are matter are welcome. Please contact the on record as saying that a full life editor to discuss suitability. consists of three things: something After Attraction 22 to do, something to look forward Publisher: B Blitz is published each Monday of session by to and somebody to love. I think that’s a pretty accurate summation of things and I UNSW Source. love, LOVE, that those two very different men The views expressed herein are not came up with it independently of each other. necessarily the views of UNSW Source, It just makes the sentiment seem so much unlesas expressly stated. UNSW Source more genuine. accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of It is so important to love and to be loved any of the opinions or information contained (though our contributor Sandra may in this issue of Blitz. Any complaints should A Significant Bother 25 disagree with this). I don’t just mean this in be addressed to the Communications the romantic sense; it applies to family and Manager, PO Box 173, Kingsford 2032 friends as well. It’s important to note that a hell of a lot of this is up to you. Basically, to Printing: President’s Report 4 quote Lennon and McCartney, the love you Printed by Agency, Seven Hills. Rates and take is [generally] equal to the love you make. Enquiries should be directed to The Loss of Innocence 5 If you don’t open yourself up to the possibility 8825 8900. of a close relationship, you’re going to miss Snapshot 9 out. The kicker in the whole thing – and it’s Blitz Team 2006: something nobody tells you – is that it can Editor: Rob Gascoigne Gypsy Living 11 be bloody hard to keep a relationship strong. Reporters: Alex Serpo, Flick Strong People evolve and change and it can be Designer: Justin Theng Puzzles 12 a struggle to overcome these personality changes, even with friends you’ve known Med Revue – Thrush Hour 13 forever (trust me on this one). I guess the key Cover Design: Justin Theng to it, as in all things, is compromise. Communications Manager: What’s On 14 I think compromise is an extraordinarily Marina Spurgin, 02 9385 7731 beautiful aspect of human relationships. The Comics 18 idea that someone would make room for Advertising & Sponsorship Coordinator: Charlotte O’Brien you, and you for them, is very appealing to Reviews 20 me. Compromise is not the death of passion; 02 9385 7331 it is the beginning of companionship. Giveaways 20 Still, no matter how hard you try, it can Marketing Manager: Donna Wiemann still all go pear-shaped. If it goes really It’s Post-Modern Moron 24 bad, your doting partner could turn out to be a cheating shit. Flick examines this The End of Rove? 27 phenomenon this week. Public Garbage 28 Of course, you’re not going to wind up in this situation without that initial spark Eastern Suburbs Community College 29 of attraction. Alex has researched the physiology and psychology of attraction. I’ve Classifieds 30 gotta say I particularly like his identification of the “eventually you’ll wear them down” approach. I can think of about five Vox Pops 31 relationships that have been built on that premise. Blitz Editor Rob Gascoigne Blitz Magazine Blitz Magazine week9.indd 3 26/4/06 6:16:30 PM You can sample a selection of the winning recipes at the 006 International Cookbook Launch during Week 13, May 31. Keep this President’s lunchtime free because you won’t want to miss the Cookbook Launch if you have any respect Report for a good feed and a great FREE Cookbook. The following recipes have been selected (congratulations to the authors): Marble Glutinous Rice Ball - Jingying (Jenny) Guo Egg Bacon Pie - Susan Conyers Oma’s potato soup - Sarah Haid Bruschetta - Thiam Kiat Cheong Masala Corn - Mayukh Sengupta Thai Beef Salad - Imran Marzook Argentine Pumpkin Soup - Matias Perez Wholemeal Pizza -Yvonne Lake Easiest, quickest & tastiest curry - Samuel Bassin At the Source, we understand that Gratin capagnard rustic gratin - Guillaume Jean food and eating is a treasured cultural Nimi’s homestyle Chicken Curry - Rahul Shankar P-double-B-stir-fry - Marlina Prasetia barometer for students at UNSW. You can Bi Bim Bap - Thiam Kiat Cheong travel the world through your stomach. Rice with green beans - Hazareh Termeh The Sandwich - Jenna Dennison ow that the final gong has been Unagi mazegohan - Ayako Hirai any of you might not No worice - Mario Japardy realise that the Source gonged, the Source would like Banoffee Pie - Julie Holmes runs a number of courses to thank everybody who entered Chocolate Mousse - Heather Hanks that will help students Na recipe (or two) in the 006 Sunshines - Jennifer Chow M International Cookbook competition – that’s Ticklishly Tantalizing Trifle- Isabel Clark to find jobs while they are at Uni. right, entries have closed. Koldskål med kammerjunkere - Lena Grindsted and This week, on Thursday and Friday, Natasha Nielson the Source is offering Responsible Over 60 recipes have been received and the Chewy cookies - Robyn Silcock Service of Alcohol (RSA) and majority were of such a high standard that we BBQ skewers - Reg Leones Bar Skills courses. In other times wished there was space in the cookbook for Sorisha Ilish - Arunthia Urmi throughout the semester the Source Channa Dhal Pudding - Hoi Yan Tang every recipe. Unfortunately, there’s not… so, also runs First Aid, Barista, and the judging team have narrowed down the best Coffee Art courses. For more information on the 2006 9 recipes and the graphic designer is now International Cookbook Launch, subscribe to These courses are provided by the in the process of creating a masterpiece of a ‘What’s On’ via the Source website Source for students at a subsidised Cookbook. www.source.unsw.edu.au and we’ll keep rate – as an example, the RSA course you posted. on this Thursday will cost you $65 when you show your student card. All you have to do to book in for a course is come down to the Source reception. You can pay your money there as well. It’s best to get in early to make sure you don’t miss out, but depending on the numbers there may still be places available later on. Contact is a student enquiry and referral desk that is run by All of the courses and what day they student volunteers. Drop into are on are listed in your Source diary, so be sure to check it out. Contact with your inquiry, big or small, we’ll know where you can In addition, the Source (working with find the answer. the Eastern Suburbs Community College) provides students with s the song goes, the best things a discount for professionally run in life are free... In that vein, this creative courses held at UNSW. week we’re letting you know about These courses include things like A the free stuff that Contact has to beginners pottery, photographic offer you! Come and visit us on Level , East workshops, learn guitar, beading Wing, Quad Building (the side closest to the and silver wire work, English Basser Steps). Pads and tampons communication, hip hop dancing and We have free pads and tampons. plenty more. Information Yup, Contact is a free information and referral Internet Registrations are open now for service. In short, if you have a question, we the Autumn term creative courses We have a computer available for student can answer it. – check out the “Activities and use with free Internet access. Resources” page on the Source Condoms website for more information. Literature We have free condoms. Limit of 2 per person We have information on campus services, These courses are a great way for per day please. course guides, and a stack of general students to relax and learn new skills, reference books for your use. We even have and are a great example of the way a comfy couch for you to read them on. that the Source provides real benefits to UNSW students now. Kirstin Hunter Contact: Level 2, East Wing, Quad building. 10am-4pm weekdays during session, President or email [email protected] website (www.contact.unsw.edu.au). [email protected] Blitz Blitz Magazine Magazine week9.indd 4 26/4/06 6:16:40 PM by Alex Serpo that many fifteen year olds find It’s the death of innocence. been conclusively shown that these strange double standards When we hear that swearing on exposure to violence makes he birth of the Internet laughable too. television was unheard of in the you violent. On a positive was also the death fifties, we find this laughable. note, oppressive government of film and literature The great irony of bodies like However consider that if moral suppression of political material T censorship. In many the Office of Film and Literature standards slide as far in the next is almost impossible in the age ways, it’s an unfortunate death, Classification (OLFC) banning fifty years as they have in the of the Internet, and popular the protection of children films likeKen Park is that in last fifty, in the future we will be movements can rise and connect from gratuitous material is the end it likely increases the seeing live sex on mainstream across the world.
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