HONI SOIT Issue 7 APRIL 13th 2011 12-3PM Shhhh!!!! The SILENT DISCO hits Eastern Ave today at 12pm. Come along, get down, and enjoy the bemused expressions of passers by! Music by DJ Rock Lobster and Andy Fraser.

8:30pm Missing Summer? Don’t know anything about WED Germany, bikinis or German Bikinis? The GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL knows all about it. Check out ‘Bikini Revolution’ at Palace Theatre Newtown, $14.40 13th SKILL OF THE WEEK: 4-7PM Are you nearing the end of your degree and have no idea what you’ll do once you pass the the gates ANDY FRASER definitelyHow to isn’tmake a apyro. firework Materials: Packet of sparklers, two water bottle lids, sticky tape, lighter. for good? At the MIDYEAR GRADUATE EXPO, talk to Have a fascination with fire? Tired of making a flamethrower academic experts in the Maclaurin Hall in the Quad. with your deodorant can? Like the sound of a cheap fire bomb? Well my friend, you are a pyromaniac, and you have come to the 7:30PM You’re feeling like you want to see a sweet gig right place. You know those neat sparkler things you put on your or maybe do something nice for the world. Do both! birthday cake? The ones that never light evenly and always burn your hand as you try. Well fuck the cake, let’s make a firework. Head over to The Annandale, see THE PAPER SCISSORS Start by shredding the outside of the sparklers into the bowl, and help raise funds for Epilepsy Australia. $10 you can do this easily by bending them back and forth. Make sure THU to leave one sparkler for a fuse. Once done, knead into a powder and pour into one of your water bottle lids (use a piece of paper 9.30 PM Thinkin’ time! Check out THE GREAT for assistance if necessary). Now with the other bottle cap make a • hole in the top, then tape this lid over the other lid, enclosing the COMEDY DEBATE: TABOO OR NOT TABOO at the powder. Finally, insert the remaining sparkler (fuse) into the hole • Virgin Mobile Metro Theatre. See a cast of great previously created and Voila! comedians decide how far is too far. $34/38 Now you might be thinking about how well this would work against that pesky dog around the corner that scares the holy 8pM If you fancy some debating closer to home, cheese crackers out of you every time you walk past. I mean, it’s Sydney Uni houses some of Australia’s finest not even a cute dog. debaters, so come and watch them argue! Head along to DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. Sicko. the Withdrawing Room in Holme Building for Round 1 of FRI the JOHN HOWARD DEBATING CUP. $12 Access/ $18 GA

12AM-12PM LOVEJAM MUSIC FESTIVAL at Beach Road Hotel, Bondi! 12 hours of reggae, rock, blues, latin and acoustic music. The beers are flowing, te PICK OF foods are frying and the music is pumping. SAT 8PM - 12AM FBi presents SEEKAE at Manning The WEEK Bar. Dub, classical, house, electronica...it’s hard to pin the sound down. It’ll make you move though! $12.75 +bf Access/$15 +bf GA 16th 04

5PM The colourful and hilarious SIR TERRY PRATCHETT is in Sydney! He’s giving a talk at the Opera House: ‘Imagination, not Intelligence, made us human.’ 05 Oo! Thinking caps on! $20-30. 4-9:30pm MARY POPPINS flies into town today and is staying til July! Hoorah! Lap up the lavish proudction, wonderful music, brilliant cast and delightful whimsy at SUN the Capitol Theatre. $90-132.50 07 all day If you’re not afraid of ghosts, head over to Rookwood Cemetery to check out HIDDEN, a sculpture exhibition that invites artists’ responses to the cemetery, death and life. Sunrise to sunset, FREE. Til 8th May.

MON 7PM Get your James Bond on and come along to 08 POKER NIGHT at Hermann’s. Royal flush? Go fish. FREE.

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A 5.30PM Remember how we told y’all about JURASSIC LOUNGE? Well it’s closing night tonight, so make

A the most of your last chance to drink and dance with dinos! Australian Museum, $15. Til 9.30pm. TUE A 8PM ELVIS COSTELLO is playing! Elvis is most definitely IN the building! The State Theatre that is! Woo! A 10 $119! But it’s Elvis Costello! EEEEEEEE!!!!! 19th DISCLAIMER THE LOVECHILD: RETRACTION Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, O Thom Yorke & Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006. The SRC’s Yoda - We, the editors of Honi Soit, wish to operation costs, space and administrative support are financed by the University of apologise for our misguided venture Sydney. 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 in the world of movie producing. distributed on Aboriginal land. Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s Our diversion of two weeks worth directors of student publications: Pat Massarani, Rhys Pogonoski, Deborah White, More of funding to produce the movie Pierce Hartigan, Alistair Stephenson and Meghan Bacheldor. All expressions are published on the basis that they are not to be regarded as the opinions of the SRC trouble at SkateGoat was wildly misguided. The unless specifically stated. The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy gross anti-Polish sentiment, graphic of any of the opinions or information contained within this newspaper, nor does it The Con, reinterpration of the Battle of Hastings endorse any of the advertisements and insertions. Honi Soit is printed by MPD. and we and the now infamous Crack-O- ADVERTISING: To advertise in Honi Soit, contact Tina Kao or Amanda LeMay [email protected] Lantern scene were well beyond our www.src.usyd.edu.au have the elected capacities. For this we are sorry. THIS WEEK’S TEAM proof! How to make a firework Honi Soit retracts the word ‘Alias’ from EDITOR IN CHIEF FERRET: Shannon Connellan last weeks article titled ‘Union Poltics’. EDITORS: Jacqueline Breen, Neada Bulseco, James Colley, Bridie Connell, Andy Fraser, Julian Larnach, 5 Michael Richardson, Laurence Rosier Staines, Tom DAD JOKE OF THE WEEK: Walker

What do you call a REPORTERS: Hannah Bruce, Robert Chiarella, Rebecca sleeping cow on a construction site? Cindy Chong, Monica Connors, Michael Coutts, Black vs Dominic Dietrich, Jim Fishwick, Samantha Hawker, A BULLDOZER. William Mollers, Hannah Ryan, Felix Supernova Justin CONTRIBUTORS: Elizabeth Cameron, William Bieber, Haines, Tom Harris-Brassil, Phillip Roser which CROSSWORD: Benny Davis HONEY SUAVE teenlet COMIC: Alessandro Tuniz Are you ? triumphs? Because I’ve been trying COVER: Photograph by Elizabeth Schaffer to find you forever! 8

HONI SOIT Sip on a Bailey’s WEEK 7 ISSUE with CONTENTS 13 APR 2011 comedian David O’Doherty MAIL PROFILE 04 Roughly 6’2”, brown hair and eyes 11 MONICA CONNORS finds the funny with a tanned complexion. Enjoys with comedian David O’Doherty. reading and water sports, also enjoys 11 the odd splash of red with dinner. FEATURE 12 Foreign Correspondant, CHRIS CAMPUS MARTIN, sits in on the courtcase 05 MICHAEL RICHARDSON vs. The Con’s that is rocking The Philippines and Nintendo Kim pt. II. the journalism community. NEADA BULSECO says hello to your DS is little friend... AUJS, that is. now in SHANNON CONNELLAN gets art smart. THE ARTS BIT CINDY CHONG sucks a mean HONILEAKS is spraying all over this 14 screen punch. 3D! Honi shiznit. FELIX SUPERNOVA goes 3D. Navi? LAURENCE ROSIER-STAINES dusts put it to off the ol’ German film reel. the test NEWS SAMANTHA HAWKER sunned it up at the Surry Hills Festival. 07 WILLIAM HAINES is on the search. The search for statesmen. HANNAH RYAN, art victim. JAMES COLLEY reports on the newest PHILLIP ROSER hip hip hippity news that ever there was! hopped. 14 HANNAH BRUCE is Jersey-bound. FARRAGO PAGE ... 16? Photo 08 TOM HARRIS-BRASSIL posts a plea 16 NATHAN HARMOND takes you far, to Bazza. far away. journalism DOMINIC DIETRICH dives in. ROB CHIARELLA refuses to write from about shoes. SRC GRIBBLIES ELIZABETH CAMERON defends her 17 Ha! Gribblies! Southern hood. BRIDIE CONNELL and JAMES COLLEY American battle Black against The Biebs. CRYPTONOMICON REUBEN STONE declares “Anarchy!” BENNY DAVIS will cross your words peaks 20 before you cross swords. SPORT 16 WILLIAM MOLLERS speaks about 10 spokes and stuff. JIM FISHWICK cured his kung fuddlement. YOU THERE! Love us? Hate us? If you’ve got an opinion on something in these ? pages, we want to hear it! Hit us up at: [email protected]

letters THE EDITORIAL HONI SOIT You there! In your Zomfort Cone! Mark my words, Honi this week will prise you out of your 1991 plushy, warm safe space with an editorial spatula and send you hurtling into the risky realms of FROM THE VAULT wonderment, fear, happiness and just plain anger. HONI INTERVIEW WITH Honi has a 35cm long history of sitting squarely on JOHNNY RAMONE the pulse of Sydney University. This week, we roam! (EXCERPT) February 1991 We’ll sit beside you chewing on investigation cigars labels you place on the groups involved. During the recent Ramones tour Andrew and swilling short glasses of Truth Rum, as you Khedoori trudged through torrential rain, savour the pages of this week’s Honi. More fundamentally, it must be asked if squalls, thunder and lightning to the Hordern the Board’s priorities are in the right place. Pavilion and spoke with Johnny Ramone. We’re hand-delivering you news, reviews Governance reform is undoubtedly important- and interviews from pulses aplenty, from the especially in ensuring that it is merit and not The Ramones have been said to influence politics that drives appointments. But as Honi has scullduggery afoot at the Conservatorium to the many commercially successful bands and yet festive streets of Surry Hills and the politically previously reported, the apparent fragmentation of the Board may undermine its capacity to the Ramones themselves have never been tittering realms of Eastern Avenue. Gear up and a major commercial success. Does that ever hold strong with this week’s feature from foreign address the very real existential challenges it faces. After all, what’s the point of being elected frustrate you? correspondent Chris Martin, reporting from the President if you don’t have a Union to run? troubled regions of the Philippines. To some extent. I mean I wouldn’t want every Anshu De Silva Wijeyeratne “The world is in your hands or it’s at your throat,” jerk in the world coming to see us. I like to have droned great prophet and philosopher Julian Law IV the people I feel are intelligent music listeners Casablancas. This, friends, has little to do with and big fans of rock ‘n’ roll coming. You don’t anything I’ve just written. want people who listen to Top 40 radio coming to see you. But at the same time you like to If this editorial has you addled… be appreciated and sometimes you feel like a little more appreciation would be nice. At times BLAM! IGUANAS! Shannon Connellan during your career it gets a little frustrating. But I’m happy and thankful for the success we’ve had and it’s been great and a lot of fun. INFERENCES UNFAIRLY MADE There are people who are hardcore followers of the Ramones and then those who Dear Honi deliberately avoid your music. What type of I refer to last week’s article by Andy Fraser on the image do you think people who stay away USU Special General Meeting. My concern is with conjure up about the Ramones? two unfair inferences it contained. It’s part of rock and roll you know. I guess they First, the article only considered the merits of think you’re getting all fucked up and having the proposal in question: to enable outgoing a wild time. But it’s work. Everything revolves board directors to vote on who will fill the roles of executive members and committee chairs. around playing the show for the day and just The implication was therefore that the proposal’s making sure you give 100% and that all the fans opponents did so on purely political grounds. have a good time and they like it. However, as even the motions’ proposers [Our music’s] for real rock ‘n’ roll fans. It’s for acknowledged, this was an unconventional step young kids. As people get older they get more in corporate governance justified by the Union’s mellowed so they go “Oh I used to come and unique operations. This concession suggests see you guys but now I’m too old.” People think that there might actually be some issues with they’re old when they’re not old. this change. Most notably, what would happen if an executive was elected without the majority What other type of music do you get into? support of the board members it would work ENOUGH ALREADY. with? This raises questions of accountability to members and the board’s overarching vision Dear Honi, I’m not quite the same fan of music that I was and cohesiveness. Additionally, some argue that before I started. I don’t know if music has really those directors who have already been elected to Firstly, I would like to congratulate you on your reached a low point nowadays. But I guess I board should not be afforded this prerogative as article on the Con. It is nice to read some news like all the punk stuff from ‘74 to now; from the USU members did not vote for them with this in that a) is relevant to the University and b) is Sex Pistols to the Clash and Dead Kennedys and not about student politics. Speaking of student mind. Hence one unsuccessful amendment was to Black Flag. So basically I’m a fan of punk rock. make this change operative from 2013 meaning politics... enough already! If I see another fake opinion letter regarding then Union that will be Some of the speed metal I like a little bit like that future board directors would be voted with Motorhead, AC/DC. My favourite stuff is early a full understanding of this mandate and to avoid end of my readership. I find it hard to understand why you push the openly racist behaviour of rock ‘n’ roll; fifties and early sixties stuff. I have the changes being impugned by allegations of a juke box at home and I’ll put in all the old 45’s politiking. Lastly, the political tensions hinted at by Secretary-General Chad Sidler to the back pages from ‘58 to ‘64 and just keep it like that.But Fraser suggests that a balanced article should have and get hung up on spending caps from last May’s properly considered the motivations of both sides USU Elections. I guess you prefer “old news”. nowadays you put on the radio and it’s just a bunch of crap. of the debate. Ally Chappell Second, Fraser misconstrues the nature of student Law IV Did you ever think the Ramones would last this politics. He notes that that the only directors long? opposed to the motion were from political factions. Editors notes: Left unexplained, this implicitly plays on student i) We, as editors, have no editorial input over the No. I hoped to be able to do an album and that antagonism towards the influence of political SRC office bearer pages and thus cannot regulate was it. My long range goal was to have an album parties on campus, something which I share very content. much. However, in student politics, one does not and stop playing at that point. So I could always need to come from a political party to be part of ii) To prevent the printing of letters under fake show people that I was on an album. You never a faction or operate ‘factionally’. Student politics names in the future, please provide contact details think you could last this long. Every year I feel operates very much on patronage and mutual so we can verify you are who you say you are. thankful that I got through another year of this support whether it be due to political allegiances Don’t worry, these details won’t be printed and if and I can’t say how much longer we’ll do it. As or friendship. These dynamics arguably are you want to be/remain anonymous that’s still cool. long as we’re good we’ll keep doing it. If I feel 4 in evidence in this case, regardless of the we’re not good then we’ll stop. " Yet More Plagiarism HoniLeaks JULIAN LARNACH, ANDY FRASER and NEADA At The Con BULSECO get out the yee-olde hearing devices. MICHAEL RICHARDSON isn’t even joking. It’s happened again. The Final (Uninformed) Word on introduced some colossally stringent Candidates regulations for 2011. Although the While researching last week’s feature Kim Walker: overall cap is still $700, t-shirts, a article on the Conservatorium of Music’s If you’re reading this, you will take it notably popular and distinguishing one of two ways: it’s either Tuesday history under Dean Kim Walker, Honi “Music has an uncanny way of finding that form of publicity, are now being big, invisible moving piece inside our hearts and you’re reading this online capped at 40 each candidate (that’s

received multiple rumours regarding campus and souls. It shows us not the surface, but which means these predictions are right, only 40) which they have to a third round of plagiarism allegations shocking and informative, or it’s a towards the embattled Dean that what really matters, deep inside.” purchase through the USU supplier Wednesday and our predictions are at a set rate. Interestingly, the T-shirts were under investigation. They went Karl Paulnack: horribly wrong. Over the next few will all be double sided with generic unpublished, as we were careful not weeks, we’ll be reporting a lot on the USU election information printed on to print rumour where possible. As it “Music has a way of finding the big, candidates for Union Board. Over the the back creating an interesting air turns out, these rumours have been invisible moving pieces inside our hearts campaign period you’ll be introduced of uniformity. Further noteworthy substantiated. and souls and helping us figure out the and reintroduced to these people ad caps include the limit on 100 A3 nauseum in lectures, on pamphlets position of things inside us.” posters and, get this, 500 A4 pages. Not only has the Dean been investigated and on t-shirts. The campaigning Holy cheese-balls! To put this into a for plagiarism again, it was barely Furthermore, many passages have been period is a pretty exciting (for political little perspective, in previous years hacks and West Wing nuts), with four months ago in a December 2010 shoehorned or otherwise cut to fit into the some candidates would use over 500 backroom deals made, underhanded speech entitled The Power of the Sound A4 pages for How-to-Vote handouts latter speech. They both talk of musicians campaigning committed and of Music. This speech was actually as chiropractors and aid-workers, they both alone. It seems that the USU have also regulations broken. The competition is got a tasty deal happening with the forwarded to the Honi inbox last week; it talk about Messiaen’s Quartet for the End so intense not simply because of the Camperdown Officeworks, it’s ruled was mistakenly published in the feature of Time and its composition by the French fact it looks great on a resume, but the in the candidate handbook that all as the first plagiarised article from 2006. composer during his incarceration in a fact it is paid with salary along with printing be done here. Considering We apologise for the fuck-up. concentration camp, and while Paulnack tonnes of campus benefits. Notables all of these restrictions, the Union recalls witnessing the September 11 who have held the position in the past will be supplying each candidate Many paragraphs and lines of Walker’s terrorist attacks in Manhattan, Walker’s include Edmund Barton, Michael Kirby with five tubs of chalk free of charge and Malcolm Turnbull. Anyway, here’s speech are identical to Karl Paulnack’s speech changes it to the Victorian bush and independent of the spending 2004 Welcome Address to parents of a round up of all the Union Board cap. A colourful gesture even if the fires. Following this reminiscence, they candidates we’ve heard are running, incoming students attending the Boston both ask rhetorically what place music has candidates still have to buy any Conservatory. In Issue 6’s feature, with a few tagged on that we’ve heard further chalk only from the Union at after these disasters, and “piano player” are sort of running and the people we printed a brief comparison of a $6.50 a pop. has been change to “bassoonist.” Kim running their campaigns. paragraph from both articles, with the Walker has been described as a “well- It’s difficult to say exactly how these • Rhys Pogonoski, Boom for Honi appropriate sections highlighted. Below documented solo bassoonist.” regulations will change the political are a several more: Campaign Manager and SRC Welfare game in the weeks to come. One thing According to our source, the findings of the Officer – run by Tuesday Talks is certain; it will certainly be more Convenor and SRC Education Officer investigation were that an ‘officer in the strategic, more creative and save a Tim Matthews Dean’s office was the problem.’ few more trees. Whatever the case, • Jacqui Munro, President of the best start tightening those belts and Sydney Arts Students Society – run rolling up those sleeves; the onslaught Urban TheaT re ProjecT s by current board member Alistair of obnoxious student politicians are Stephenson coming your way. presents • Brigid Dixon, Chair of Young United SRC Meeting: Mission Accomplished? Nations Women Australia (Sydney Chapter) – run by a ‘brains trust’ Christmas in July is only 3 months of former board directors Doug away and it looks like the elves are Thompson and Courtney Tight, as working overtime in preparation for well as current board member Sibella USyd students. Our SRC education Matthews officers (Tim Matthews and Al • Mina Nada, President of the Cameron) have been bustin’ a move to Fellowship of Orthodox Christian try and get readers online, so students University Students (also ran in the can peruse for free. It looks like this SULS campaign last year) – run by will be slowly introduced, starting with current Board Director James Flynn select Arts courses in 2012. You’ll be • Nai Brooks, Executive Member saving those pretty pennies in no time. of the Labor Club - run by Vivienne Transport is taking a turn for the and Moxham-Hall and the NLS contingent better. The SRC is putting its support ama • Ava Harvey, Secretary of the Sydney behind SCA’s proposal of a private University Liberal Club shuttle bus between the campuses. • Zac Thompson, active in college Those fond of art but not long- affairs – both Ava and Zac are being distance walking and windy windy bus CHAN run by SRC VP Ross Leedham routes are rejoicing. • Deb White, an SRC Director of There are also talks of a National Student Publications and unsuccessful Concession Card scheme that would 2010 Union Board candidate – run by unite not only the states, but domestic Unity, the Labor Right faction and international students alike. • Astha Rajvanshi – possibly being run Wowee! by current Board member Ben Tang In the SRC council meeting last • Shane Treeves, Vice President of 180 week there was, amongst others, a Degrees and Paul’s boy distinguishably controversial issue put forward. Considering the lack of Never let the truth get in the way of reality TV Regulation changes, more like an SRC budget at this stage of the abdication rangers! year, the VP Ross Leedham moved forward a rough budget inclusive of So now you have some idea of the all the positions and departments. candidates but are you up to date with Controversially, $0 was assigned to 4-14th May For tickets and more information go to: the regulation changes? Remember the General Secretary’s department bankstown arts centre all of those annoying breaches of (Chad Sidler’s position). In an attempt budget that occurred in last year’s to block this motion being passed, 5 Olympic Parade Bankstown election? Acutely aware of how Sidler started sending his supporters annoyed you are about constantly out of the room in an attempt to hearing about it? Well get ready for pull quorum. He was subsequently all tickets $18. www.urbantheatre.com.au round two bitches. In an attempt shutdown by the chair (president to clean up the game and avoid any ‘queen’ Dee herself) on the basis of further embarrassment, the Union has correct meeting procedure. 5 the heavens parted for a wonderful day of day a wonderful for parted heavens the (givingsunshine this author a chance to of crowd a massive and for sunburnt!), get we’re what and see down come to people a were we us, for Unfortunately about. all food; ran out of and victim of our success (I eaten had was we everything absolutely bumper the ate think some people even stickers). close to manage didn’t we I said, Like on keep And we’ll tried. But we gap. the get to people more need just trying. We of assortment whole a have We’ll involved. giving people the year throughout events and involved get learn more, to a chance – you hear from to love out. We’d help [email protected]. contact more fun social events; “What we’re we’re “What events; fun social more with ideas for is people looking for do enough, we’ll crazy If it’s events. it.” their staked have Fun and frivolity that but Joel assures claim in AUJS, as the fun, social things, we well “as This serious things as well.” the have Week, is running Peace AUJS week full of packed campaign a weeklong between harmony inspire to events troops will be AUJS There cultures. hugs’ ‘free wearing out in force and a whole lot of fundraising t-shirts, disadvantaged gives that a charity for to go to opportunity Palestinians universities. (Israeli) the using a poor pun, Predictably is Week Peace of AUJS main event this Peace for (Ice Cream) I Scream will be sold on Ice cream Thursday. funds for raise in a bid to campus and then at placements, university the Avenue about 1pm on Eastern will of the week de la crème crème me, and you, place. 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Joel describes as well, therapy free kind peace as “a for the screaming out of all of the letting of a massive everything.” of frustrations towards moved has definitely AUJS see in hope to they the change on a concept Focusing the world. which literally llam’, ‘tikkun called AUJS world’, ‘fixing the to translates this active more notably has become is strongly this change ensure to year so that with the society, associated suit. follow might members future will he hopes AUJS Asking Joel where that he replies, be in the near future, that a society become it to he wants of sharing “in terms an example, sets getting of really in terms the culture and doing in the community out there describe the he would How good.” “Similar words? a few in a just society get you a mobile phone … before to need it, and you don’t see why it you you don’t know involved get you after it.” did before you what I joined.

HI, SOCIETY! HI, Uni is far more than obtaining that that than obtaining more Uni is far a big ol’ slip of paper and wearing hours. a few cloak for black dusty a is ours of This friendly campus a of ideas and cultures, crossroads curious minds young for playground know they what and share gather to you Here with others. of the world extend knowledge, your stretch can and combat understanding your open ears, with of difference points and some a friendly handshake pearly whites. in combat for and rearing Ready Union is the Australasian this regard or simply AUJS Students, of Jewish fiends out there. acronym you to and his Joel Einstein President and changing track are executive stance very different a promoting on campus. society the Jewish for Describing it as a “traditionally Joel is hoping to insular society,” as an all-inclusive AUJS restructure of a culture will “create that society sharing cultures.” that an environment is no longer AUJS only the kosher-minded, endorses shift: made a definite has the society of members boasts proudly now AUJS welcoming background, a Palestinian them with open arms. Joel describes of “one as the society into their entry had as I have moments the proudest volumes It speaks a member of AUJS.” that the open-minded mentality for on to when he goes AUJS drives now in the involved get to love “we’d state, decision making process.” diverse of a more In pursuit isn’t only AUJS membership, events attitude. Social its readjusting and these stage center taking are pull out the to afraid aren’t guys events With odd pun or alliteration. Cheeses’ (“Basically for such as ‘Jews a whole bunch of people enjoying Bagels cheese and wine”) and ‘Beers, wonder it is little and Boardgames’, when a an instance Joel recalls that what exactly unsure was bystander “Somebody did as a society. AUJS were we whether us before asked which quite the ‘Bad Pun Society’, This hasn’t rattled are.” possibly we on establishing intent who are AUJS, NEADA BULSECO shared a bagel and a beer with Joel and a beer a bagel shared BULSECO NEADA Students Jewish Union of the Australasian from Einstein

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, curated by Lee Stickells Lee Stickells by , curated x x THE RIGHT TO THE CITY THE RIGHT TO Tin Sheds Gallery A little over a week ago, Sydney Uni Sydney ago, week a over A little the gap close to manage didn’t students and non-indigenous indigenous between But not for in Australia. expectancy life lack of trying. a with cooperation in March, 24 On such as organisations of fine number a BBQ to held we and SUMS, Oxfam It Gap Day. Close the national recognise awareness raise designed to an event was between alarming gap about the and non-indigenous Australian indigenous SRC Indigenous Officer BELLE Indigenous SRC closer one step gets CELLOE These three exhibitions are all-you- are exhibitions These three breaks Use your town! freebie can-see kulcha. some free classes for between and Zanny Begg is a multi-platformed Begg is a multi-platformed and Zanny symposium with an exhibition, endeavour around centered and publishing project and theoretical series of artistic, “a plans.” escape philosophical explore to is attempting The project cities with of reimagining the ways Healy, such as Claire the help of artists Urbanism, D.V. Milkcrate Sean Cordeiro, Self-managed and the Studio for Rogers While the keynote Paris. Architecture, already have and symposium lecture the exhibition nets, your slipped past to the Tin April 30, so pop in runs until some for Broadway to way Sheds on your kulcha. the City to The Right The the Tin Sheds Gallery on City Road. – is open 11am - 5pm Tuesday gallery Saturday. with a swag of Australian artists such artists of Australian with a swag Margaret sovereign as the printmaking Spowers, Dorrit Black, Ethel Preston, a for and Thea Proctor Lionel Lindsay Australian of Japanese and visual essay these works modernism. Alongside such as the influences hang European Munch, Max Edvard iconic screamingly This Ludwig Kirchner. and Ernst Klinger Check out the is jam-packed. exhibition Art of Lunchtime the program for website (12-1pm on a Wednesday). Talks conjunction is being run in The exhibition in 6 May on Friday with a symposium 24 Theatre School Lecture Law New and Japanese leading Australian featuring Butler including Roger art historians Professor Gallery of Australia), (National and Dr Kuwahara John Clark (USyd) Chiba Japan) University, (Seitoku Noriko in discussion about the influence of in Sydney. Japanese art and style 26 June in the runs until Japan in Sydney up the located Art Gallery, University in Memorial Arch in the War staircase is open 10am – the Quad. The gallery and 12 – 4pm Friday to 4:30pm Monday Sunday. the creative amongst Residing minds of Wilkinson Building architectural which launched lies the Tin Sheds Gallery, The on Thursday, project new a brand the City to Right CLOSING THE GAP

. Spanning the mediums, BRAND NEWBRAND EXHIBITIONS ON CAMPUS SHANNON CONNELLAN went on a campus art crawl art crawl on a campus went SHANNON CONNELLAN irritation JAPAN IN SYDNEY: IN SYDNEY: JAPAN SADLER PROFESSOR AND MODERNISM 1930S 1920S – Art Gallery University A R T I S Gallery Verge A N I R R I TA N T Climbing the spiral staircase to the to staircase Climbing the spiral the secret, kept best quadrangle’s out Art Gallery brought University for canapés and bubbly the better exhibition, the launch of their newest Ajioka Dr. by . Curated Japan in Sydney Chiaki and Maria “Connie” Tornatore- role the explores Loong, the exhibition Arthur Professor University of Sydney in motivating Sadler (1882–1970) Lindsay modernists Australian between relations in the 20s and and Japanese aesthetics the one of become 30s. Sadler would expanding in figures important most Japanese art and for love the Australian in Sydney. architecture go, in the exhibition as the works As far a lot to have and Ajioka Tornatore-Loong for itself owns, with as the University play a shiteload term, eloquent lack of a more prints Japanese modernist of exceptional Pair these to 1930. 1920 from dating Verge Gallery brought out the dips and out the dips Gallery brought Verge of Art Is night the opening for cab-sav the from exhibition , the latest An Irritant College Sydney things at young bright the glass- through of the Arts. Dotted works latest the stood gallery walled Sam Heidi Abraham, SCA artists from Alicia Sciberras Julia Rochford, Doctor, sculpture, by Curated Sivan. and Twana Adam artist and installation performance Mahalaya artist and film and digital Geczy stems show this group Middlemist, to dislodge incentive a modernist from means various quo through the status of knitted to forms sculptural colossal from is full of Art Is An Irritant installations, causing many pieces playful provocative, discussion. wine-fuelled an intellectual, Pressure Hug Machine Alicia Sciberras’ an of the exhibition, a highlight proved the shared that installation interactive hugging the literally the art lover, for love the push of arms at with woollen viewer a pedal. exhibition held is the first Art Is An Irritant of the Arts Society College the Sydney by who usually Gallery, (SCASS) in the Verge Wednesday every works student exhibit haunting darkened, own their very at Dedspace, which is the ghostly gallery, Mortuary. of the old Callum Park site show student a second SCASS will exhibit on this year. Gallery later the Verge at 21 April in runs until Art Is An Irritant Russell Plaza. Jane Foss Gallery, Verge from Gallery is open weekdays Verge 11 – 3pm. Last Thursday saw the triple-decker the triple-decker saw Thursday Last in exhibitions new brand launch of three Gallery, Verge art galleries: our campus Art Gallery Sheds and the Tin University work, new shiny Showcasing Gallery. and ground-breaking innovations historic of the latest the rundown here’s projects, on campus. here happening right shows

campus 6 " E Where are the News A retrospective statesmen? perspective with WILLIAM HAINES muses on the subtleties of politics. In JAMES COLLEY. Since Monday’s screening of ABC’s from his days in the foreign service, Briefs Q&A, supporters of Kevin Rudd have and insisted that a drink with him be all started excitedly whispering again. fitted into his schedule. This might Complaints over the U.S. Congress doing K-Rudd returned to the headlines Bookmakers are now giving him seem nice to us, but within the ‘face’ nothing were silenced this week by the after he said on the ABC’s Q&A a six percent chance of becoming culture of mainland China, it was panic that Congress may shut down and that shelving the Emissions Trading Australia’s next Prime Minister. This unacceptable. The old friend was still do nothing. A dispute over the budget Scheme last year was a mistake is taken as meaningful? Six percent? moderately ranked in public service, that threatened to shut down the U.S. influenced by others. Gillard John Ruddick and Ross Cameron went and it was just not on for Rudd to be Congress was resolved midnight Friday. has refused to been drawn into to the effort of writing up an analogy having a drink with him. Whatever we Tensions between the Republican the debate and all federal Labor between our “little corporal” and think of these sentiments, what do we controlled House of Representatives meetings were made even more Napoleon Bonaparte for the Sydney think of having a nice guy leader who and President Obama were high all awkward, now reaching the level of Morning Herald this week, and as manages to piss off almost every head week with Obama refusing to cut costs twelve year olds on their first date. Labor’s two-party preferred vote has of state he meets? in the budget and Republicans refusing fallen to 45 percent, Rudd is suddenly to stop being Republicans. A large the apple of everybody’s eye. A slow On the other side of the Pacific pond, portion of the debate revolved around news day perhaps, and although I, Mr. Obama could be criticised along the Republican’s wish to cut funding Charlie Sheen’s live show debuted for one, am not going to get excited similar lines. Few may have noticed, to National Public Radio and Anthony Weiner’s incredible sarcastic response to rave reviews for the first fifteen about the six percent, I think the fuss but one of the first things to go after thanking the House of Representatives seconds. Then, as the crowd is interesting. Obama won office was his wardrobe. It seems that whatever we might think for saving the economy by cutting the slowly realised that the had paid It appears that recently Western of Obama’s sharp suits, they were not whacky car repair show ‘Click and Clack’. an exorbitant amount of money news to watch an aging, coke-addled democracies have recently forgotten going to cut it overseas, because they sitcom star shout catchphrases and what we have always looked for in a were everything we liked them for. tell stories about Nicholas Cage’s leader. Rudd, I will not deny, comes They were sharp and professional but Colonel Gaddafi continued to be a turbo-powered arsehole. junk the mood changed and booing off better than almost any other not stately. Ironically it was George erupted. If these shows get any Australian politician at the moment in W. Bush’s tailor who was hired to set worse the streets will run red with interview, but it is for a reason. Rudd him straight. Many of you probably tiger blood. is once again focusing on what his read in Rolling Stone about General Network Ten sparked controversy not interest has always been, and where Stanley McChrystal’s criticisms that only by their hiring of right-wing pundit Andrew Bolt to host a Sunday morning his experience lies: foreign policy. Obama appeared intimidated and ill breakfast show, but also for their use With the dignity and scope for a at ease when in the presence of the of Fox News-style in a positive light. The impending wedding of Prince more intellectual blend of policy that military brass, what you might not Bolt, who writes for The Herald Sun, has William and Kate Middleton has his current position offers. Rudd is know is that he has been laughed been under scrutiny for his comments all of Britain abuzz with questions comfortable again. He came from the at across the Asian world for so that nine fair skinned Aboriginal people about what her dress will be like, public service remember, and he is, at constantly sitting with his head in his were faking their background to “rort will the Queen abdicate, and why heart, still that - a public servant. He hand, thinking hard, in meetings. This the system.” This comment was the is a world superpower run by a can discuss complex issues simply, and might be suitable behaviour for a hard beginning of a thoroughly depressing monarch in the 21st century? to the average voter appears very well working professional, but it does not debate on freedom of speech in The wedding will take place on informed, and very capable because lend the gravitas suitable for a head Australian media forever proving that April 29th, days after QE2’s 85th of the ease of his language. And he is, of state. while pundits may be free to talk, birthday. The Queen, always gracious, didn’t complain about the while in such a post. the general public is equally free and Does this all seem terribly archaic encouraged to not listen. wedding stealing her considerable Rudd showed that he was incapable to you? For many in the West it is, thunder. Her parties usually last a of controlling his own party. Personal but we should not forget that the solid week anyway. shortcomings are much more on show rest of the world hasn’t deserted its when a PM and not just an MP and, traditions as we have. So I hope Rudd if given the chance, they would only isn’t tempted by another go, for as show again. Rudd micromanages and the SMH’s analogy goes, it will end in yet cannot solve disputes: a lethal a humiliating Waterloo style defeat combination. The fact that Rudd from which he might not even be able seems to be a nice guy, and a clever to keep the foreign policy gig. And Mr. one, does not make him good Prime Obama, try to remember you’re no Ministerial material. On a state trip longer a lawyer or a senator, but the to China, Rudd met an old friend President of the United States.

the heavens parted for a wonderful day of sunshine (giving this author a chance to get sunburnt!), and for a massive crowd of people to come down and see what we’re all about. Unfortunately for us, we were a victim of our success and ran out of food; absolutely everything we had was eaten (I think some people even ate the bumper stickers).

Like I said, we didn’t manage to close the gap. But we tried. And we’ll keep on trying. We just need more people to get involved. We’ll have a whole assortment of events throughout the year giving people a chance to learn more, get involved and help out. We’d love to hear from you – contact [email protected]. 7

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Sniffer dogs: Keeping you and your drugs safe

masks and enables the privileged to

There is a subculture at Sydney that

being enforced by targeted, personal

initially subtle feeling of inferiority was abuse.

I had suspected, I now knew. Worse, the

class citizens of Sydney University. What

western suburbs they were the second-

to see, reminding students from the

everyone I care about lives. This kind offensive language was open for all

work, where I went to school and where of geographically determinist, seriously

stereotypes to my home, the place I

specifically and hurtfully attach negative

was subjected to, others went on to

more innocent examples of what I

their ABCs...” were amongst the

some semblance of optimism about think people west of Strathfield knew

vile people, and therefore retained humanity. Comments such as “I didn’t

preferred to remain ignorant of such

best avoided. I would have infinitely

that most people would have deemed

became exposed to circles and cliques

Completing a group assignment, I

just don’t know how to raise children of blatant vilification has been unveiled.

in ECOP1001: “People, like out west, properly!”), but recently the cruel face

perhaps, slightly ridiculed (memorably,

sense of being misunderstood and,

I was relatively happy in my vague

western suburbs.

here, despite those odds, from the

number of discriminatory individuals pitiable souls, who managed to get

prejudices and stereotypes that a use against the few students, those

is endemic elitism: the assumptions,

Sydney in a profound way. The problem

A minority is marginalised here at

ELIZABETH CAMERON is repping the suburbs. WEST OF CENTER

“Anarchy!”

with REUBEN STONE

Uni there’s only a very small chance

worry, there are so few of us at Sydney we’ll hear you.

anyone likely to be offended. Don’t

gag, make sure you’re not around

So next time you go to make a “westie”

disadvantaged to break out of the

the inability of the socio-economically poverty cycle or, in my case, take a joke.

success to ‘initiative’, while scoffing at

money after bad. These are the kinds advantages they had, notching up their

Medicare and social welfare is good of people who jealously guard the

that spending on public schools,

classist abuse will grow up and believe

The students tossing around casual

privileged backgrounds, continually because of where they live.

available for the children of less told they won’t amount to much, just

prophecies that limit the opportunities

superiority. These are the kinds of and disadvantage, the self-fulfilling

the sense of security, entitlement and attitudes that perpetuate inequality

How typical of the underlying arrogance,

you live in a dump.’

funny and ironic. LOL, it’s only my home heartfelt apology: ‘sorry we’re not sorry

Oh! They were just being super-duper and family. It’s cool, really, I received the

harder”

and ‘offended’ only makes [sic] us laugh

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testimony was Duhay’s widow, as were another dozen family and friends of the Maguindanao casualties. One by one over WAITING FOR JUSTICE the next few weeks, they will struggle It’s been dubbed ‘the single deadliest event in the history of to control tears and anger, as each of the victims’ wounds and suffering are journalism’. Foreign correspondent CHRIS MARTIN sat in on the painstakingly recounted to the judge.

long-awaited trial for the perpetrators of the tragic Maguindanao All of these bereaved relatives await their massacre in the Philippines, which shocked the world in 2009. loved ones’ day in court with courage unfathomable to any one of you or me, After halting the six car convoy, the to keep us distracted. Even the Filipino and for a closure that might never arrive Ampatuan honchos allegedly killed the media are only represented by four or five If I had to wait 200 years to see justice, during their own lifetimes. With 196 men, raped the women, shot them in journalists at the trial of the perpetrators, would I stand every day at the side of the defendants charged and 300 witnesses the genitals, and beheaded most, before underway in court since January 2010. And road holding my thumb out, hoping for it summoned, Filipino Senator Joker Arroyo dumping the victims’ bodies in a mass courtesy of an eye-opening internship at to arrive? recently remarked that, at this rate, the roadside grave. It is suggested that the the Philippine Daily Inquirer this summer, I trial might take 200 years to complete. This is the fate, more or less, to which burial site was prepared days in advance, was there to join them. the families of the 58 victims in the dug out by a backhoe engraved with the Philippines’ Maguindanao massacre are name of Governor Ampatuan Sr., and It wasn’t the kind of designer courthouse “They just did it, confined. The single deadliest event in identified as property of his provincial I’d expected for such a high-profile case. just killed everyone. the history of journalism, according to the government. The media worldwide, This dry, grey room in an undecorated Committee to Protect Journalists, occurred of course, reacted in shocked frenzy. Quezon City building more easily belonged It was a wake-up call on 23 November 2009 when a convoy of More than half the dead were media in the oldest wing of a suburban Sydney feature vehicles in the troubled Mindanao region workers, invited to cover the candidacy by high school. Alongside me sat Mark for journalists that was ambushed by around 100 gunmen Mangudadatu himself, who hoped their Merueñas, the senior news producer at they’ve never been as from the local Ampatuan clan. presence would deter an attack from his GMA News Online. enemies. Mangudadatu, nonetheless, vulnerable to threats “The massacre really changed the way The doomed fleet was led by the family didn’t travel with the group that day, and we, journalists, look at how safe we are and aides of then Buluan vice-mayor eventually went on to win election to as now.” when performing our duties,” reflected Esmael Mangudadatu, on their way to the governorship. file his candidacy for the Maguindanao Merueñas. “Before the massacre, I don’t “I honestly think the prosecution was doing a fairly steady and good job at governor’s seat in the 2010 national In the 18 months since the massacre, the think any politician or anyone would dare presenting their case for the first year of elections. Mangudadatu’s opponent was international press has gone quiet on the launch an attack when he or she finds trial or so,” says Merueñas. “But that’s Andal Ampatuan Jr., son of the incumbent tragedy. Fair enough, too – there’s enough out that the prospective victims number until the internal conflict between private governor and godfather of the powerful Bieber and Botox going on elsewhere to almost 60. But the assailants in the Ampatuans, Andal Ampatuan Sr. Maguindanao massacre disregarded all of and public prosecutors was revealed to the those notions and concerns. And just did media last month.” After the story broke, it, just killed everyone. So it was a wake-up Philippine Justice Secretary Leila de Lima call for journalists that they’ve never been moved to install an entirely new team of as vulnerable to threats as now.” public prosecutors.

For much of January and February this Merueñas is sceptical about what this year, Dr. Felino Brunia Jr., was the sole means for the progress of the trial, occupant of the witness stand. He was especially in a nation infamous for its another in the interminable stream of impunity in political cases. “Proceedings doctors who autopsied the corpses of the have gotten, should I say, a little bit messy. victims after they’d been hoed in to and We can’t blame the new members of the then out of their unfinished burial site. prosecution. The case was just recently tossed to them, and obviously they don’t The first victim he presented was Jose have the same grasp of the case as that Duhay, a reporter from Korondal City’s of the replaced prosecutors… But with Gold Star Daily. Duhay suffered wounds them out of the scene, I hope that doesn’t from seven bullets, including one that cancel everything out.” blew away a hand-sized piece of his skull. Sat amongst the gallery during Brunia’s And at this stage of proceedings, even more than any other, hangs a morbid nihilism over the courtroom. The autopsy doctors’ ongoing testimony is at once tedious and awful. It’s deliberately impersonal, the way each bullet wound is described with

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testimony was Duhay’s widow, as were another dozen family and friends of the Maguindanao casualties. One by one over the next few weeks, they will struggle the same medical language and objective maintain pressure on the Philippine It’s been dubbed ‘the single deadliest event in the history of to control tears and anger, as each of observation as the last. But each one is a legal authorities. “It is not our role to the victims’ wounds and suffering are shot to the heart of free media and politics pass judgments to the accused,” he journalism’. Foreign correspondent CHRIS MARTIN sat in on the painstakingly recounted to the judge. in a nation struggling to tread the waters says – “that’s a role reserved only long-awaited trial for the perpetrators of the tragic Maguindanao of those issues since the 1960s. to Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes in this All of these bereaved relatives await their case. Though it is clear journalists massacre in the Philippines, which shocked the world in 2009. loved ones’ day in court with courage It was grimly ironic, joked my Inquirer like us should be biased in favour unfathomable to any one of you or me, colleague Philip Tubeza back in February, of the victims, the best way still is to and for a closure that might never arrive that the Ampatuan defence lawyers were report the facts”. during their own lifetimes. With 196 complaining about the media coverage of defendants charged and 300 witnesses the case. But so they did, stopping the trial Certainly the Filipino population is summoned, Filipino Senator Joker Arroyo before lunchtime one day to tell the judge demanding as much media access recently remarked that, at this rate, the that they’d been misrepresented and to the courtroom as possible. trial might take 200 years to complete. misquoted, particularly by the Inquirer. A survey published in Manila’s The attorneys objected to articles about BusinessWorld on February 20 “They just did it, their suggestions that some of the victims’ counted 90% of respondents in supposed gunshot wounds and grazes favour of live TV coverage. Even just killed everyone. might just be insect bites. Journalists from though the daily media presence at It was a wake-up call other newspapers had also reported that the trial is small, witness testimony one defence attorney quietly invited