Honi Soit 2015, Semester 1
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HONI SOIT Profiles of a Sex Worker 7 A New Poem from Clive James 10 Freedom Rides, Fifty Years On 12-15 Pop To Popism, Full of Hot Air 20 The editors of Honi Soit and the SRC acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. Honi Soit is written, printed, and distributed on Aboriginal land. If you are reading this, you are standing on Aboriginal land. Please recognise and respect this. We acknowledge both our privilege and our obligation to redress the situation as best we can: to remember the mistakes of the past, act on the problems of today, and build for a future for everyone who calls this place home, striving always for practical and meaningful reconciliation. Contents 4: News 10: Profile 18-19: First-Person: Max Hall on the station at Victoria Park. Clive James gifts us an original poem and an Riki Scanlan, Elle Triantafillou, and Joanna Connolly on strife at the Redfern Tent interview . Anonymous tell their stories. Embassy. 11: Shareeka Helaluddin on Dear White People. 20-21: Arts & Culture 6: In Too Deep Alix Sanders-Garner dredges Pop To Popism and Tim Asimakis is undercover with pick-up artists. 12-15: Freedom Rides Imogen Gardam questions the lack of female Honi Soit records the story of the 50th Anniversary representation in film. 7: Ongoing Freedom Rides. Isabelle Comber and Anonymous give their 22-23: Mary Ward on How To Ride a Bus for Two Hours. accounts of sexuality online. 16-17: Shit, Eat, Fuck Gronkwatch on a USU Cabcharge Scandal. Honi’s guide to the best amenities on campus. 8-9: O-Week Special 29-31: The Garter Press makes a triumphant return. Honi Soit on advice we’re obliged to give. Patrick Morrow on the USU’s Corporate Culture. Editorial ypically, these O-Week editorials are meant to of you thinking the same: please do.2 That just as the snake will never devour its own head, the restart the conversation about Honi Soit.1 They’re newspaper won’t—can’t!—exhaust its possibility.4 usuallyT written by someone burdened by a particular We’re open for consultation in our offices beneath the dislike of the past editors, and are by and large composed Wentworth Building on Wednesdays between 11am and Over the holidays, our printing press liquidated, our of a middling kind of rebuttal-cum-prospectus; a vapid 1pm, or you can email us at [email protected]. We’ll offices were closed for renovation, and we received a attempt at excising the past while setting the table for publish anything on the proviso it’s good. not-insignificant number of legal threats. It’s February the future… now and we’re still here: new printers the same, if a little As for our logo, we’ve gone with a snake eating itself,3 more expensive; offices the same, if a little more nicely The challenge we’ve set for ourselves this year is to which, depending on your view, means either: painted; legal threats still steadily coursing in. Things I represent the same kaleidoscope of experience in our thought would scuttle us have sailed by. Same, but kind paper as you will experience in your time at university. That Honi, for all its O-Week promises of revolution, is a of different, right? Our prospectus, if we have one, is to present with fidelity broadly recurring variation on a theme—same but kind of Peter Walsh as many voices we can find. Last week, a number of people different, ad infinitum; or: found our website by googling “Honi Soit join”, and to any 4. You could probably also say something about the snake 2. Admittedly, we also got found by “does crystal meth have shedding its skin each year, which, I imagine Honi does as well, 1. “What conversation?” opines loudly the person who reads magnet or electricity in it”, no question mark. but even entertaining this metaphor makes me want to beat the newspaper as a means of raising their blood pressure. 3. It previously devoured an Ibis, but is still hungry. myself up. Credits Editor-in-Chief: Peter Walsh Cover art: Pattern generated from the art of Steve Artists/Illustrators: Bryant Apolonio, Stephanie Yeowell, in 2000 AD Showcase #31, October 1, 1988. Barahona, Phoebe Corleone, Samuel McEwen, Monica Editors: Tim Asimakis, Joanna Connolly, Alex Downie, Renn Dominic Ellis, Sophie Gallagher, Samantha Jonscher, Contributors: Marley Benz, Isabelle Comber, Evelyn Patrick Morrow, Alexi Polden, Rebecca Wong, Lisa Xia Corr, Max Hall, Imogen Gardam, Shareeka Helaluddin, Puzzles: Zplig Andy Mason, Luca Moretti, Alix Sanders-Garner, Riki Scanlan, Elle Triantafillou, Lauren Pearce, Mary Ward Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. The SRC’s operation costs, space and administrative support are financed by the University of Sydney. Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s directors of student publications: Christopher Warren, Serena May, James Rusiti, Ilya Klauzner, Charlie O’Grady, and Alison Xiao. All expressions are published on the basis that they are not to be regarded as the opinions of the SRC unless specifically stated. The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the opinions or information contained within this newspaper, nor does it endorse any of the advertisements and insertions. letters A Letter To My Past Self Lauren Pearce writes for those who didn’t come from feeder schools - and for those who did. Lauren, you’ve ever done. You never belonged here. You never will. Life is hard. But it’s also wonderful. Over the next three years you’ll meet amazing We need to get one thing straight: your life You’re going to be the student from a You’ll get to the end of semester and get people, become the Vice-president and is going to suck for the next six months. public school in every single one of your average marks for the first time in a very then President of a certain little Society, classes. And you’re going to hear stuff long time. And you’ll wonder what it’s all hold in your hands the first issue of a Students often find their first semester to that’s going to surprise you. I’m sure for. Why drive yourself half to death just literary journal you helped establish, watch be their worst. You’re no exception. The people don’t really mean to be like that. to disappoint the few people who thought a play that you’ve written come together trains don’t come anywhere near often Some of my highlights were: the student you would be great? before your eyes. You’ll work harder, stay enough. To get to that 9am tutorial, you’re who asked me if Macquarie Fields was up longer, cry, laugh, and love like you going to have to get up at six. And you near Macquarie University, and why I You’ll think about dropping out. Or never have before. won’t get a seat. Don’t even think you’ll didn’t just go there; the telling “oh” noise transferring to a university easier to get to, get a seat. Always travel in peak hour, that people made when I would explain where where no one, including yourself, would It’s not going to feel like it for the next will minimise your trip. Don’t leave your it actually is; and that one young woman ever have to question your right to be little while, but at this moment, you are readings for the morning before because from Mosman who smiled pleasantly and there. You’ll be comfortable. You might precisely where you need to be. One day, it’s too hard to focus on crowded trains. asked me “but why are you here?” even be happy. the life you’re living and the sad, angry person you are now will be unrecognisable. Things get harder from there. Somewhere Why indeed. Don’t do that. between class, three hours of commuting You’re just going to have to trust me on time, and assignments, you’re going to You’re going to storm right out of there. Being the first person in your family to go that one. have to work. Don’t get too attached to And then you’re only going to come in to university is hard. Travelling 40km each sleeping. Like, really don’t. I mean, yes, I to uni for class, spend as little time on way to get to university is hard. Insomnia Lauren know that you’re no stranger to hard work, campus as you can. You never needed a and anxiety are hard. Working two part but just hauling yourself out of bed in the social life anyway. Your life is hard enough time jobs to pay for it and still having no morning is going to top anything else as is without some toff dragging you down. savings, no means of moving out, is hard. A Message from the SRC’s Sexual Harassment Officer Monique Newberry on consent. Consent is an agreement to participate in like that?” are just some examples. an activity. It is non binding and always necessary. If you're participating in a You can also let your partner know how sexual activity with someone then consent you feel. "That feels really good, keep is absolutely necessary and can be revoked going." "Mmm yes." "I don't think I'm at any time.