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NEWS, PAGE 5 ANALYSIS, PAGE 7 FEATURE, PAGE 9 CULTURE, PAGE 15 2 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 3 LETTERS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Subeta Vimalarajah OF COUNTRY EDITORS Contents We acknowledge the traditional and centre the experiences of More Letters 3 / LETTERS 17 / SPORT Andrew Bell, Natalie Buckett, custodians of this land, the Gadi- Indigenous people, and to be future, Honi is meticulous and “personal growth” instead of issues, which I find extremely Max Hall, Tom Joyner, Sam gal people of the Eora Nation. reflective when we fail to. careful. Checking the origin of this relentless: dealing with disconcerting. 4 / NEWS 19 / SOCIAL Langford, Mary Ward, Victoria The University of Sydney–where We recognise our duty to be quotes and letters should be as “illness” and “disorder”. In saying that, however, over IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Zerbst, Naaman Zhou we write, publish and distribute a counterpoint to the racism second nature as fact checking. “For 165 years, our students the short, naïve life that I have 6 / ANALYSIS 20 / CASEWORKERS Honi Soit–is on the sovereign that plagues the mainstream We expect better. have been changing lives for the led, I have acquainted myself CALLS FOR WOM*N'S OFFICER CONTRIBUTORS land of these people. media, and to adequately repre- better.” Thank you for the love- with some individuals that have VANESSA SONG TO RESIGN FROM SRC 8 / PROFILE 21 / PUZZLES As students and journalists, sent the perspectives of Indige- Lamya Rahman ly quote, main page University expressed a desire to participate Emma Balfour, Annabel Camer- we recognise our complicity nous students at our University. Aparna Balakumar website. Question: How are the in the national and hence Uni- Since Subeta Vimalarajah's investigation "Allegations of 9 / FEATURE 22 / SRC REPORTS on, Adam Chalmers, Peter Bur- in the ongoing colonisation of We also wholeheartedly thank Adam Ursino student’s lives going? versity of Sydney political pro- stacking by Student Unity men in wom*n of colour election" rell-Sander, Liam Carrigan, Ash- Indigenous land. In recognition our Indigenous reporters for Elizabeth Mora We can always be doing cess, and they are genuinely car- (Honi Soit, Week 1), tensions have been mounting in the 12 / PERSPECTIVE 24 / SUPRA ley Chegwyn, Jennifer Chen, Liam of our privilege, we vow to not the continuing contribution of Autonomous Collective more. ing people at heart. They hold Wom*n of Colour Collective. Donohoe, William Edwards, Tan- only include, but to prioritise their labour to our learning. Against Racism (ACAR) strong beliefs in varying ideol- 14 / CULTURE 26 / COMEDY sy Gardam, Tina Huang, Yifang Office Bearers Sincerely, ogies and use them as a guiding Last Monday (March 7), Tina Huang reported on calls from Kong, Frances Magiera, Oliver SLAM Student light for their actions. However, within the Collective for Song to resign. A letter from mem- Moore, Justin Pepito, Ellie Rog- CAPS isn't the mob mentality that is part of bers of the collective has been circulating publicly, as well as 9 / FEATURE ers, Michael Sun, Thomas Sydney EDITORIAL this process strips all prospec- claims Song has not been fulfilling her duties as Wom*n's St John, Courtney Thompson, Hacks, don't tive politicians of their ability Officer. Song has formed a Facebook group of supporters to Liam Donohoe reflects on the few Maani Truu caring for to be compassionate in their challenge these calls. Honi approached Song for comment, months he spent in Socialist Alternative Subeta Vimalarajah forget Cumbo ability to lead, if at all. Politics at but received no reply. ARTISTS our own university level has essentially become West Side Story; where For the full story, and many others, go to honisoit.com. Elise Bickley, Ann Ding, Mat- In the front of every Honi Soit, tells the story of white-washed Mental health is a university Dear Honi, dancing ‘gangs’ shake their way thew Fisher, Amandine Le Bel- there’s an acknowledgement of media, and Andrea Zephyr and issue, a national one and a per- to Pyrrhic victories. COVER lec, Gillian Kayrooz, Brigitte country. Too often, that is the Grace Franki stand up for trans- sonal one. It seems rather hilarious to me And if stupol is now being Samaha, Katie Thorburn, Rina only reminder that we live on gender people, whilst “ethics” Medicare rebates are availa- when the student newspaper of compared to Pyrrhic victories, This has occurred to a number of keep people of religious beliefs We would like to thank Shaun Harris, who provided us with an inter- Yang Indigenous land and that, as an debates their very existence. ble for only TEN mental health the University of Sydney spec- there’s something seriously people who are perfectly eligible out of leadership? All society view for the profile on page eight, worked with us on formulating the entirely non-Indigenous edito- Honi is one of few remaining services per calendar year, these ulates ‘about the Union Board wrong. for membership of these collec- boards will want representatives front cover and put us in contact with Aunty Carol - Ms Dhu's grand- COVER rial team (typical of most Honi platforms dedicated exclusively are provided to people with candidates’ (Honi Week 1, p4) tives, but are excluded because that ascribe to their values and mother. We are aware of the cultural issues with representing Aborigi- teams), we profit off the contin- to student voices. These voices a referral from a GP and an for the upcoming USU board Samuel Chu their political beliefs don't fall ideals. The EU are just being nal people who are deceased, but have trusted the consent and explicit Matthew Fisher uing exploitation of Indigenous are being increasingly silenced “Assessed Mental Disorder”. elections. It is understandable, Physiotherapy I into the perceived notion that meticulous. I would also call support of Ms Dhu's family, as well as our consultation with Students' people and their land. as power in the University is Is it any wonder people gen- though, considering that Honi those particular sects of society them paranoid but please, not Representative Council Indigenous Officer, Georgia Mantle. PROOFREADER Shaun’s profile tells a story centralised. Changes, from the erally break down before get- Soit primarily caters to students are expected to have. The board discriminatory. The photograph the illustration was based on is the image that often silenced, and that rings true removal of faculty phone lines, ting help? Who openly puts on the Camperdown/Darling- Let the EU members should really reconsid- has circulated in the media, and in campaigns calling attention to Caelin Kramer for many articles in this edition. to the model of “trimesters” their hand up for having a ton campus, and thus should be er whether they want to risk dis- Regards, Ms Dhu's death. We wanted to depict her with Shaun, to show one Liam Donohoe’s investigation introduced across the road at “Mental Disorder”? concerned about an organisa- discriminate affiliating one of the largest clubs Supporter of of the many people her death left behind. Aunty Carol suggested into Socialist Alternative shows UTS, epitomise the need for I had a psychotic episode ten tion that apportions a large sum on campus and the perceived Christian-Athiest Relations we incorporate the white cross. The original cross she sent us a us the workings of a notoriously Honi to force a conversation, years ago in the middle of my of student funds to improve the message that they're sending to photograph of, which commemorates Ms Dhu's death, reads "Black opaque and vitriolic organisation. even, and especially when other undergraduate degree, I was student experience, at least in The USU's attempt to shut people who follow these faiths Death In Custody... Cross for Loss". Tina Huang’s perspective piece news outlets aren’t interested. 20. It has taken me ten years theory. However, as a student down the Evangelical Union by undertaking these actions. The beginning to work up the courage to do a at the Cumberland campus, the due to the clause in the consti- postgraduate degree in fear of University of Sydney Union does tution that requires a person to Cheers, of a new era Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. going mad again. not cater for us; the Cumber- sign a declaration of faith prior Kerrod Gream 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 At the orientation I attended land Student Guild, an entirely to getting voting rights, and to of student publications: Tahlia Chloe, Justine Landis-Hanley, David Hogan, Michelle Picone, Siobhan Ryan, and Michael Sun. All expressions are published on the basis last year CAPS did a great talk non-political organisation, is become a member of the club Dear Honi, 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 about their student services and delegated the responsibility of executive as a disgraceful move Let the EU information contained within this newspaper, nor does it endorse any of the advertisements and insertions. early intervention. I thought, both advocating for students and on the part of our Union. The After reading Mr Gooding's great, I’m going to follow up on providing the close-knit student clause is in the constitution to discriminate: article (The End of an Era) I that. It took me a while to make experience that the campus is ensure those that follow the could only think that attend- contact. Reasons included: known for, which Cumberland faith represent the club. This an unlikely ally ance at Thursday 9am lectures later changed in the process views and sentiments detailed uncertainty, maybe I could do it students generally prefer over isn't the first time that this has will increase markedly. to (mis)identify Courtney and Honi Soit made by Bridget. In fact, many collec- alone, do I really need to revis- negatively represented politi- become an issue, as I ran with Liam. This violated the wishes tive members thought the event it the dark past, just move on, cised student representation. a policy protecting these clubs' Dear Honi, Yours sincerely, of the source to not be quoted, another mistake was a great success. isn’t it a bit self-indulgent, are The generally negative repu- rights to have such a clause in Patrick Hall a clear breach of journalistic Further, attributing the let- my problems any worse than tation of student politicians at my union campaign last year In regards to Andrew Bell's sto- Laws IV Letters ethics and conduct. Collec- Dear Honi, ter to ACAR fundamentally anyone else’s and, of course, the the University of Sydney, even due to concerns from the EU, ry under Revelations 20:1, was Attender of Grose 2013-2015 candidates affirmed that they tives and activists have con- negates the collaborative nature ever-present: “she’ll be right”. from students in its main and Catholic Society, and SUMSA. it unnecessary for the EU to Honi Soit made believed the process and the sistently voiced concern with In Week One's edition of Honi of collectives. To quote Honi I finally sent off an e-mail to satellite campuses, is thus not From my understanding the write in that specification? Yes, eventual pre-selection would their treatment by the 2016 Soit, a letter was written per- editor Subeta Vimalarajah in CAPS in Sem 2, the response a laughing matter. Trivialisa- Catholic Society is also under especially since it was a blanket a mistake and had been democratic. editors and believe they have taining to the USU's "Dive-rsity Week One's edition of Honi, "all was that I couldn’t book an tion of the atrocities of com- scrutiny for a similar clause. statement that included mem- The fact is, our collective has often failed to cater to the picnic", a welcome event for stu- members of [a collective] will appointment via e-mail. I didn’t munist regimes (Honi Week 1, These clubs are there to repre- bers. But consider USyd's Athi- Think not yet discussed our election specific needs and concerns dents of colour. This letter was have an equal say in the deci- proceed. There was no follow p7), the nationally-publicised sent those that follow the faith, est Society. They might not have Dear Honi, strategy or pre-selection pro- of our communities; this is written by Bridget Harilaou, sions of the group". up e-mail from CAPS. It begs debacle that was #repselect, and people such as myself who the same constitution for obvi- cess. Certainly, we've actively another example of this. but was mistakenly attributed For an editorial team who the question, how many people the non-publicised debacle while have an interest in the- ous reasons but pretty sure their Honi is Unfortunately, Honi Soit's Week encouraged all members to Furthermore, the story to the Autonomous Collective so intricately understands the get that far and don’t receive any that was the National ‘Union’ ology don't follow the faith members wouldn't want some- One article on the upcoming consider nominating. We are attempted to contrive a pre-se- Against Racism (ACAR). roles of collectives and how further support? of Students’ National Confer- shouldn't be having a say in one who declares Jesus as Lord board elections contains sub- prepared to assist any Leftist lection conflict between two It might seem reasona- they function, this oversight is I have since obtained the ence, student harassment by what is the best way to spread on their board either. To be fair, I left wing stantial errors and mis-attri- committed to the struggle for Grassroots wom*n. The struc- ble, perhaps, to suppose that unacceptable. dreaded referral, with even my campaigners, Liberal punch- the message of the society. The don't see any potential for Athi- butions that the editorial team the de-corporatisation of stu- tural barriers to wom*n par- because Bridget is a member of What makes this error even GP throwing her hands up in ups with the Labor Club at the claims that they're exclusion- est students to apply themselves refused to rectify as requested. dent unions & advancing left- ticipating in politics are such the collective, the misattribu- more intolerable is the response the air exclaiming, “You’re fine, 2016 O-Week, the ‘promises’ ary is a complete fabrication, for an executive role at the EU. trash? We called for an online and wing politics. that Honi’s reporting is beyond tion is acceptable. This, howev- of the editorial team. After mul- you’re normal!”. Do I really need of ‘change’ and the promises of as the EU's large active mem- Do they really think Athiests print correction and an online However, we are most disappointing - it is unaccept- er, is crucially inaccurate. tiple phone calls with and mes- to fight for a referral? I thought. electorate officer jobs for MLCs bership base of both voting will infiltrate a Christian society apology from the editors. offended that Honi mis-at- able. Wom*n are driven out by Collectives are comprised of sages to editors, the Honi team's Let me just goddam speak to an are not a laughing matter. These and non-voting members is a to enact a bizzare, twisted plot? (Or just trash) Although Grassroots waited for tributed the words of a wom- the misogyny involved in stu- a broad spectrum of individu- response was a brief addendum objective third party already! antics that occur throughout the testament to, and most com- I don't believe Athiests are evil Honi to discuss the issue out of *n to another member who dent politics and for Honi to als. The breadth of ACAR – a at the end of the online version The stigma attached to men- hallowed halls of the Quadran- monly the religious societies are demon beings. I'm not sure what respect for them they declined refused to go on record unless entrench this does a disservice collective whose members are of the letter. tal illness needs to transition gle and beyond are taken all the some of the most welcoming on the EU think but I don't think Send a letter to to post an online apology. the statement printed was to their duty to encourage an bound by their experiences of From the editors, we received into an all-inclusive battle. way to big-boy politics, where campus. This also ignores the this counts as Christians once The paper reported on a sourced democratically and inclusive and progressive dis- racism – leaves ample room no apology. No admission of We take ourselves off to the USyd alumni from all sides Union's support of the autono- again being as exclusive as ever. editors@ supposed Grassroots pre-se- anonymously from the col- course on campus. for dissent and disagreement carelessness. Just a recommen- gym to strengthen our bodies, of politics engage in for-show mous collectives, who are wide- It might not be written but if it lection drama and an alleged lective. Although, the editor between members. Attributing dation that next time, we make why don’t we offer our minds slanging matches, contribut- ly known to be exclusionary to came to it, don't you think Athi- honisoit.com lack of democracy. During col- interviewing the member Regards, the letter to ACAR wrongly ourselves more clear. a similar ritual? Mental health ing little to policy debate and those that identify with political est Society members would want lective discussion all potential agreed to this, the work was Grassroots Collective depicts us as united, sharing the We sincerely hope that in services need to be framed as discussion of solutions to real views that aren't left of centre. a similar requirement made to 4 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 5 NEWS NEWS

CAPITAL WORKS ACADEMIC POLICY UNI ADMIN University splashes $70 million on new pad Anonymous marking USyd's for Chancellor and friends hotline

Alexandros Tsathas building will have two base- while the Office of the General bling ment levels, “typical open plan Counsel (the University’s law- A $70 million building on the levels” as well as “high level yers) lies within the Margaret across the board site of the old Madsen carpark A-grade commercial fitouts” Telfer Building, opposite the Jennifer Chen is set to become the new home and an “executive lounge” on its The Parramatta Road footbridge. Ashley Chegwyn serving anonymity.” highlighted the potential for bias OFSTED study, which found of the Chancellory and much of upper levels. proposed Once these teams vacate Drafting of the policy began when assessments are labelled students with African or Asian The University of Sydney has the University’s administration. The project’s architects, War- F23 admin their respective premises, their The Academic Standardslate last year after an initial meet- with students’ names. names received 12 per cent low- closed faculty phone lines The new “F23 Administra- ren and Mahoney, were chosen and LEES old offices will act as "decant- and Policy Committee have ing of Committee and Board Vimalarajah said she was er marks in institutions without and replaced them with a tive Building” will house over after winning a design com- buildings in ers" to cope with classroom expressed support for a pro- members, which was attended inspired to push for the policy anonymous marking. Similar- university-wide 1800 num- 600 staff and aims to “co-locate petition, with each firm given the vicinity shortages caused by building posed anonymous marking by Dean Vice-Chancellor (Reg- after her mother jokingly sug- ly, a study conducted by the ber, causing students to wait and consolidate a number of $15,000 to “dedicate appro- of Masden upgrades until at least 2020. policy, during their meeting last istrar) Professor Tyrone Carlin, gested she change her name to University of Wales found the over an hour for their calls to bespoke University adminis- priate resources and produce After this, many of the old- Wednesday, March 9. Dean Vice-Chancellor of Educa- improve her grades. number of women achieving be redirected. trative departments into one exciting concepts that are wor- er buildings on the campus’ As proposed, the policy would tion Philippa Pattinson, Chair of “We’d been talking about firsts (the equivalent of a High The 1800 SYD UNI line location”. Chancellor Belinda thy of a significant university fringes will be turned into stu- involve replacing students’ names Academic Board Tony Masters, the studies showing that Asian Distinction) increased by 13 per was introduced at the start Hutchinson and Vice-Chan- gateway project”. dent accommodation. with student numbers on assess- and McCallum. sounding applicants are less cent when an anonymous mark- of 2015 as part of the Sen- cellor Michael Spence will be Director of Campus Infra- The offices of the Universi- ments, where feasible. “Peter McCallum kindly successful when they apply for ing policy was implemented. ior Executive Group’s vision counted among its residents, structure Services (CIS), Greg Source: ty’s executive in the northern “There was broad-ranging undertook to incorporate the jobs. I entertained the idea and While there is no set date for for a centralised university as will the University’s human Robinson, said that although USyd's quad will remain untouched discussion and the meeting required drafting as part of then thought we shouldn’t have when the policy will be intro- contact service. resources, marketing and legal broad state government approv- SEAR submission after the move to the new expressed support for the prin- ongoing work on a set of pro- to change our names, we might duced if approved by the Board, Over the course of the year, teams, which are currently al for the project had already administrative building, with ciple of anonymous marking cedures to accompany the new as well change the system.” members are hoping it will be faculties surrendered frontline sprawled across campus. been granted, changes to the a sandstone aesthetic still where it aligns with good teach- Learning and Teaching Policy “Research shows that we are implemented quickly, to reduce handling of student enquiries The consolidation of admin- winning design are expected required to satisfy the “expec- ing,” said Director of Education approved by Academic Board all subject to implicit bias, and the risk of further bias. to 1800 SYD UNI. istration is consistent with the to be made right up until the tations of visiting dignitaries”. Strategy, Associate Professor late last year,” said Pattinson. that this bias is very difficult to “Work on the relevant proce- Deputy Vice-Chancellor University’s overarching $600 development application is The administrative build- Peter McCallum. “When ready, the relevant consciously correct,” said Hush. dures is being undertaken this Tyrone Carlin said the central million “Campus Improvement lodged in the next few months. ing is to be accompanied by “It was recognised that drafts will go to the Academic “This doesn’t mean that overt semester,” said Pattinson. line was intended to “provide a Program (CIP) 2014-2016”, “The design of the F23 a $74.5 million extension of feedback is also valuable and Board for approval.” discrimination is occurring, but “It is unlikely to be in place single convenient point of first which will geographically group building aims to reflect lead- the nearby Carslaw building, that there are some situations The push for anonymous mark- when markers have to evaluate for the next examination peri- contact for students”. similar departments together. ership, transparency, accessi- dubbed the new Life, Earth where providing feedback will ing began after members of the large quantities of work in a very od, but some aspects may be in On average, waiting time is Under the program, the faculties bility, and to showcase the best and Environmental Sciences effectively prevent the marking Students' Representative Council short timeframe, implicit stereo- place by the Semester 2 exam- a few minutes, but huge delays of medicine, dentistry, nursing of what we do in research and (LEES) Building, which will being anonymous. In other sit- (SRC), Subeta Vimalarajah and types tend to come into play.” ination period. We would cer- surface during peak periods. and health sciences are to be relo- education,” he said. house the relocated School of uations there are ways of man- Anna Hush, released a report The SRC’s report included tainly hope to have this in place “There are occasions when cated to a dedicated health pre- Currently, USyd’s separate Molecular Biology. aging good feedback and pre- containing overseas research that data from a United Kingdom by Semester 1, 2017.” the call centre gets absolutely cinct encompassing the Charles administrative departments swamped, where we just don’t Perkins Centre and renovated have different locations on cam- Honi will publish a breakdown have enough staff and enough Blackburn and Bosch buildings. pus. Marketing is located within of the University’s infrastructure COURT REPORTS IP points to keep to those lev- The new administrative the Jane Foss Russell Building master plans in coming weeks. els,” Professor Carlin said. Philippa Specker, a psychol- ogy student and former infor- mation officer at the Faculty of SUSF's Science, said she waited “over an hour” before her recent call to 1800 SYD UNI was answered. When she was an information conflicting interests officer, she frequently dealt with calls that were transferred Births, Deaths & Marriages Tom Joyner was “legally distinct” from so,” Mr Polden said. “This is not released under GIPA the “high- from the new central line. She the University and therefore currently public knowledge.” er up the ranks” they were. saw it as only creating “more Holy shit we have a literal marriage to report on Two senior executives employed exempt from GIPA requests. “The [University’s claim] is “It’s clear that Mr Smithies is bureaucratic process”. by Sydney University Sport “The only information in that the GIPA Act is simply to representing one organisation In addition to long waits Nerd alert member. After repeated requests, the sound was despite the progression towards finality, discussion and Fitness (SUSF) are also scope was the payroll report for access government informa- [Sydney University Sport and during peak periods, 10-20 per turned down, but only an hour after the show in the room was heated. Certain members of aca- employed by the University of two persons and it refused to tion. In reality, it is to maintain Fitness], and it’s clear from his cent of all enquires are too com- It’s no secret that USyd has a bit of an image problem began. Furthermore, Honi has been told that a demic staff remained vocally in opposition to the Sydney in senior roles, evidence release that information on the and advance a system of open duty statements that he’s got plicated or faculty-specific for when it comes to privilege. It’s something University SUDS member who went upstairs to enquire was idea of simple extensions at all. given before a state tribunal on balance that it found there to and democratic government.” obligations to the other [the the call centre’s staff, meaning PR have been battling for years, and despite its high accused by a USU employee for disrupting the Thursday revealed. be an overriding public interest SUSF receives the lion’s share University of Sydney],” he said. they must be diverted to facul- profile low-SES admission campaigns, it can’t hide nuptials. The student was asked to attend a “disci- Croissants and crochets The NSW Civil and Admin- against disclosure,” she said. of the Student Services and USU President Alisha Ait- ties anyway. the fact that students here come from a fairly narrow plinary meeting” over the incident. istrative Tribunal in Sydney The tribunal heard SUSF Amenities Fee (SSAF) which ken-Radburn said students organ- Carlin agreed 1800 SYD pool. Honi hears that, this year, the median ATAR The running of the Conservatorium’s Music Café heard the evidence after the executive director Mr Smith- is distributed among student isations that receive SSAF funds UNI is not designed to answer of all incoming first year students was 92. We’re Simple extensions nearing something will be put to tender after the USU bailed out of the University refused to comply ies is additionally employed by organisations, including the had a responsibility to students. very complex or degree-specif- sure it’s the result of hard work and true intelligence resembling simplicity operation, Honi Soit has learnt. with a Government Informa- the University. Ms Pozder is Students' Representative Coun- “Your services have to be ic questions, but argued that by rather than the natural bump you get by attending a According to our sources, the Conservatorium tion Public Access (GIPA) employed as Finance Manager cil (SRC) and University of Syd- providing the greatest good centralising and logging call data well-resourced Eastern Suburbs school. Following last week’s front page story that paint- Precinct Committee (CPC) will put the space out request for the salary informa- of SUSF while also as a Univer- ney Union (USU) by months- to the greatest number of stu- “we’re in a much better position ed a picture of widespread confusion among lec- to tender under the direction of the Department of tion of SUSF Executive Director sity senior corporate accountant. long negotiations. dents. SUSF is just not on the to understand the reasons why You’re terrible, USU-riel turers about the University’s new rules for simple Education (who own the building). Robert Smithies and Finance Mr Polden said in the hear- In 2015 it received $4.17 mil- s am e p a g e .” students are calling us up… to extensions, Honi has a promising development: an The USU previously operated both levels of the Manager Aleksandra Pozder, ing he believed the situation lion, or 36 per cent of the total It is not the first time SUSF try and avoid the need for the The closing night of a student play was interrupt- advance copy of the University’s draft policy. café, including the upstairs food cart. citing “personal information could present conflicts of available pool of funding. has been embroiled in con- phone call in the first place.” ed last Saturday by a raucous wedding the USU had The draft largely echoes what we reported last week USU President Alisha Aitken-Radburn told Honi factors” overriding the public interest for the two executives, The organisation has been troversy. In 2015 Honi Soit The Veterinary Science, booked in the same building. The cast and crew of – Unit of Study coordinators can grant extensions of the USU was not evicted, as had been rumoured, but interest in its disclosure. where each had obligations to criticised in the past for pro- revealed the organisation’s Agriculture and Environment Lady, put on by the Sydney University Dramatic two working days without penalty, but it’s entirely at decided to bow out of the café because they were The request to access the both negotiating parties when viding very few and unafforda- president, Bruce Ross, was the faculties and the Conserva- Society (SUDS), were setting up in the Cellar The- their discretion. This could also cover all faculties. “highly unlikely” to succeed in the tendering pro- information was made on it came to the allocation of Uni- ble services to students while beneficiary of a University-sub- torium of Music are the only atre when they heard loud music from the ceiling. The draft has not yet been approved by Academ- cess, given the CPC had been trying to remove the August 19 last year by law stu- versity funding. funding sports scholarships for sidised house on campus. The remaining faculties with their SUDS members soon discovered the USU had rent- ic Board, but Honi predicts it will be, pending a few USU for “quite some time”. dent Alexi Polden, who made “The release of the [salary non-students. same year it was reported Mr own phone lines. ed out the Refectory, the room directly above, for clarifications. The clarifications should ensure stu- For the past three weeks, the café has been operat- an application to the tribunal information] would disclose Senior member of the tribu- Ross had failed to declare con- The central line is managed the duration of the production. dents can submit applications after the due date and ed by independent catering company Cupcakes and after his GIPA request was for- the fact that the University nal Stephen Montgomery said flicting interests in his business by the Student Centre team from “You could make out every word of the music, should broaden who has the power to award them. Canapes, who told Honi they intended to submit a mally refused. employs two individuals who salary information of employ- arrangements conducted while the Jane Foss Russell building. and of people making speeches”, said one SUDS Student members of the Board told Honi that tender when the CPC started the process. Counsel representing the occupy senior roles in what it ees of government agencies also SUSF president. In February the centre received University Brenda Tronson claims is an independent body, (including the University of The tribunal is yet to announce over 44,000 emails, telephone calls argued before the tribunal SUSF and the amount it spends doing Sydney) was more likely to be its decision on the matter. and in-person enquiries. 6 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 7 ANALYSIS ANALYSIS Gold, frankincense and more Some religions on campus are more equal than others, writes Michael Sun Trimester trouble book, lamenting the “particularly vicious inci- tre came as part of the deal. Liam Carrigan examines the big change to university timetables across the sector dents of Islamophobia…at Sydney University”. In contrast, the Muslim Prayer Rooms are Meanwhile, the Catholic Society’s presence on provided by the University of Sydney itself, and s far back as universities can load in two out of three semesters, says NTEU Total and the ability to spread the same amount of subjects campus has gone from strength to strength, with receive no external funding from local Muslim remember, the academic year has National President Jeannie Rea. “But this is not weeks of over more semesters arguably results in a decreased new facilities and growing membership. organisations. been divided into two halves. The the way it is approached. It is about contracting class in a workload and better learning and results,” he says. Damian Wilks, a fourth-year BPESS student There is a Multifaith Chaplaincy Centre in the A semester system has become so student learning time and increasing academic year Professor Alexander argues poor attend- and member of the society, attributes this to the Merewether Building. However, students who ubiquitous to university life we plan our time and professional staff workloads.” ance at lectures since implementation of online continued growth of membership. “In 2013… spoke about their past experiences there for this outside the classroom, our family and work From many students’ perspectives, a trimester Semesters recordings, for instance, has fundamental- mission weeks had four people on a stall, and now piece said the facility – designed to accommodate commitments, into 13-week units. But with model better meets the modern demands placed ly changed the expectations of what students they have up to a dozen. All the events that are all backgrounds – was largely inaccessible. funding to the tertiary sector in turmoil, an upon Australian university students, argues Pro- can do on their own and what they need to held are much more extensive,” he says. “The new It’s important to note here that the individuals overzealous management class at the helm fessor Alexander. She explains balanced semesters 26 do on campus. Caughley and the NTEU aren’t facility has a chapel, a library upstairs, and show- within the faiths themselves are not to blame. and institutions competing for enrolments on as a “more student centred approach” that offers a convinced. “The benefits of a university educa- ers, a kitchen, and a barbecue downstairs.” On my trail, I’ve encountered genuinely help- an international scale, the old ways of doing greater degree of flexibility to students who wish tion aren’t just about a return on investment or These differences in testimonials beg the ques- ful students who have directed me to services things were always bound to change. to finish their degrees in a shorter time frame and Trimesters meeting the study requirements of particular tion: why is it that the Catholic Society receives and information regarding different religious The trimester was one of many such chang- enter into the workforce faster – an argument Jean- subjects – why not just move entirely online?” he a brand-new building unit, opened last year, and facilities. However, the distinct levels of privilege es. Private universities like Bond University nie Rea vehemently rejects. In fact, it is precisely says. “It’s the human face-to-face element, meet- equipped with all the facilities of an Eastern Sub- afforded to each faith are undeniable. first introduced them, before they spread to the opposite, she says, a “national agenda” for uni- 30 ing other people with new ideas, being exposed urbs mansion, whilst other religions on campus Religion on campus is likely to remain a con- the University of Canberra, the University of versities to do more and provide less, to increase to challenging ways of thinking, developing as a are not only sequestered into much smaller cor- tentious topic. There has never been a time where Technology, Sydney (UTS), the University of efficiencies and decrease spending, all in the name person that should always be part of the picture.” ners, but made to feel consistently insecure? safe and autonomous spaces have been more sig- New South Wales (UNSW) and at least six oth- of students. “It’s not about the quality of the stu- With Education Minister Simon Birmingham The answer is that they had a lot of external nificant, and especially in a climate rife with com- er Australian universities. The wisdom behind dents’ learning experience,” she says. this week proclaiming to a conference dinner help. The Catholic Student Centre was actually plex opinions on the role of religion in a mod- them was simple – they would allow students Harrison Stanton, a UTS Bachelor of Account- hosted by Universities Australia that higher edu- the result of a deal struck between the Catholic ern society, every student deserves the right to to complete a three-year bachelor degree in just ing student, echoes the same benefits of trimesters cation reform is necessary for the federal budget’s Archdiocese of Sydney (which has a long history express their beliefs without the imminent risk of two, with the academic year divided into three as Professor Alexander, praising the faster degree “sustainability”, serious questions remain around of working with the society) and (the not particu- having their sacred spaces vandalised. equally sized blocks. completion time, flexibility around work arrange- the national trend of course restructures, staff larly student-budget-friendly) student accommo- For the spiritually inclined, the Catholic Students For the main part, this will mean these blocks, ments and better practicality for pursuing summer cuts and “efficient” academic calendars. “The dation provider Urbanest. Centre is located in Jane Foss Russell Plaza, opposite or ‘sessions’ are equal in length. At just ten weeks, internships. Stanton explains that trimesters allow mentality amongst the people making these deci- The Archdiocese owned the land and allowed the Scitech Library, and the Muslim Prayer Rooms they are shorter than semesters, but provide an essentially what students have asked for years – for sions is out of touch with everyday students,” says ucked between City Rd and Urbanest is Urbanest to construct their new residential facil- are located in Rooms 309 and 310 of the Old Teach- optional session over summer. summer school classes to be payable by HECS loan. Mailangi. “We’re nothing but a figure to them, a three-story glass building with wind- ity there. It replaced a previous one located near ers’ College. The Multifaith Chaplaincy Centre is in In New South Wales, UTS staff and students “[The new] option to HECS the summer semester and that’s why it’s so scary.” ing staircases, state-of-the-art facili- Broadway Shopping Centre. The chaplaincy cen- Room M240 of the Merewether Building. have voiced concerns with the trimester system T ties, a newly refurbished kitchen and a introduced for 2016. According to UTS Nation- library filled with bookshelf upon bookshelf of al Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) branch stimulation: “Same-Sex Attraction: A Parent’s president Vince Caughley, the trimester system Guide,” reads one. “Religion and Feminism,” compromises working conditions for univer- reads another. sity staff. “[Trimesters mean the] intensifica- I could almost mistake this for the Law Library tion of work, threat to the academic integrity if it weren’t for the sounds of ping-pong balls of subjects being taught and learned in shorter against hardwood coming from the bottom floor time, and inadequate consultation, planning – oft-punctuated by shouts of victory and/or and information about the implications of the despair – or the glass windows opening out onto a change for staff and students,” he says. $ view of the Wentworth Building, or the sign out- Critics of the system have pointed to the side which proclaims “University Catholic Chap- implications for students too, with universities el and Student Centre” in all-caps. speeding up the “conveyor belt” to push students It’s a stark contrast from the dim hallway in the through degrees quicker and increasing efficiency Old Teachers’ College where I find the men’s and in a competitive and underfunded sector. Univer- women’s Muslim Prayer Rooms. sity managements naturally reject these claims. “I These two rooms are abuzz as students enter can see no other reason why the change has been and leave – it’s a communal, if slightly crowded introduced,” says Caughley. area. It’s hard to believe that a space which is at Enoch Mailangi, a third year UTS communi- once so spirited and peaceful continues to bear cations and law student shares similar concerns the brunt of frequent attacks borne from Islam- to the NTEU. “[Trimesters] have been marketed ophobia, with recent acts of vandalism occurring to be to the benefit of students and this is what just weeks ago. makes how they were introduced, marketed Both spaces – the Catholic Student Centre and and sprung on us even more insidious,” he says. the Muslim Prayer Rooms – are run by clubs and “We’re seeing more mechanical learning, less societies; the former by the Sydney University face-to-face teaching, teaching weeks cut, and ...FOR YOUR TEXTBOOKS! 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Subeta Vimalarajah met someone who taught her more in thirty minutes than any University class ever did

s Shaun Harris and Simone Davi- tagging most of his posts with hashtags son approached the Students’ Repre- like #NoPrideInGenocide and #BuildCommuni- sentative Council (SRC) stall during tiesNotPrisons; he runs his own Facebook pages A OWeek, they asked us if we could take and has organised multiple events and rallies. a photograph with a sign that read “Justice for It’s an avenue that makes him hopeful. “With Julieka Dhu.” my niece we’ve tapped into that global support I’d read about Ms Dhu’s story before – an Abo- to a certain extent, which has a lot more effect riginal death in custody. A 22-year-old woman, than we’ve been able to in the past.” similar in age to many of us, who was incarcer- Despite the overwhelming force that Shaun ated for failing to pay fines, only to die of staph- wakes to battle against each day, he maintains ylococcal septicaemia and pneumonia three days a sense of optimism, an optimism I felt I didn’t later. “Her only crime was being poor,” Shaun – deserve from him. her uncle – put it later. “We can’t get to the top of that hill unless we’re Shaun walked in and out of my life that morn- standing together as one. It’s the only way we can ing, as the issues of Indigenous Australians often enforce systemic reforms and custodial reforms do. I was overcome by the story he’d told, but it for our entire country — and not just for black would soon slip to the back of my mind, like a people; we’re a united nation and we have to stick Guardian article on my Twitter feed, or an elo- together,” he assures me. quently phrased Facebook post. I delve cautiously and uncomfortably into his That afternoon, an activist – Rachel Evans When asked for the names we should remem- Photo: personal life, I want to know how he has sus- – brought Shaun to the SRC for an impromptu ber, Shaun reminds me of Cameron Doomadgee Twitter tained this fight for so long. interview. I ushered them inside and to the office and TJ Hickey, two of only 339 victims Austral- In the most harrowing point of the conversa- bearer room. Simone is a fellow Black Activist, ia’s racist police state has produced in the last tion, he shares his personal motivations. who is a member of the Redfern Aboriginal Tent few decades. “Ms Dhu passed away on the 10th anniver- My Salty Summer Embassy. She was showing Shaun, who’s from “We’re only 2%, roughly, of the Australian pop- sary of my son’s death… that in itself is a big Western Australia, around. ulation, which is much less than the black popu- factor… I clearly remember the day that hap- As our conversation progressed, the surround- lation in the US or South Africa”, Shaun explains. pened, and I’ll never forget that. My daughter also ing banners and drums grew inconsequential in “That’s part of our problem, as well, we’re such lives in the same town where all this happened comparison to the struggle that Shaun had been a minority, and especially on our own lands, to my niece. She’s not a trouble-maker or any- Liam Donohoe reflects t began in a similar way to how it probably a post-rally meeting. forced to know. dispossessed lands — there’s no treaty — and thing like that, she’s sensible, but that doesn’t mat- begins for everyone. My friend Brian* and When Honi asked Socialist Alternative if Sarah Ms Dhu’s fate was not an unfortunate failure of that all brings it back to the fact there’s no juris- ter when you’re black. If she gets in trouble with on his bitter-not-so- I were attending a dance rally against the recruited me, they said, "No she did not recruit the system, it was a product of the system. diction, as well.” the police, she’s still got the same perpetrators of Itampon tax at Martin Place on August 14 Liam." Unfortunately our many exchanged mes- “The CCTV footage is something I’ll never Despite, and perhaps due to the indictment Ms my niece’s murder in her space, and if she gets sweet summer as a when we were approached by Sarah Garnham, sages tell a different story. forget in my life,” he said. “It was unbelievable, Dhu’s death delivers to the “fair go” we want to sick and has to go to hospital she’s still got Socialist Alternative’s National Students Coor- Things moved quickly from there. Within a the way they treated her. They all say that she was believe, the mainstream media have only report- the same medical perpetrators in those member of Socialist dinator. Brian* and I stood alone on the crowd’s week I’d completed a number of Marxist Discussion faking it, and feigning…you can hear her, and see ed on it in pockets of the news cycle. wards as well.” periphery, an awkward island unaccustomed to pro- Groups (MDGs), finished reading their “Introduc- her limping and begging and moaning.” “The mainstream media, they did not want to As centuries of government policy have Alternative. test, naively ditching school to be there. tion to Marxism” book, and shared in post-meet- Shaun weaved together the complicity of gov- get on board — but we knew that if the story got attempted to eradicate Indigenous Australi- It may have been our isolation that piqued her ing merriment with my new friends. I was always ernment policies and state-sanctioned institu- too big they’d have to, or lose ratings, and that’s ans, activists like Shaun have fought the system interest, our novelty in a parochial scene. Our greeted with a warm smile, always welcomed into tions so seamlessly. His words painted a picture of happened.” I wondered what it felt like to be told at every step. subsequent conversation, which lasted the dura- discussions if I looked out of place. I was made to a world structured to disenfranchise Indigenous As I led Shaun and his friends out of the SRC, Art by Brigitte Samaha tion of a now subordinated rally, indicated that feel wanted, even appreciated, as I moved deeper people, perverse in its cohesion. I felt a mixture of gratitude and undeserved priv- we were obvious targets. into the organisation and its quasi-familial nexus. “They kick us off our homelands, our commu- ilege. He asked, smiling, that we keep at least ten and Katie Thorburn. Flattered and eager to please, I replied to her This nexus was not the only source of wis- nities, and the crime rates are going to go up — it’s “My daughter lives in the copies for him if we published the article in print. torrent of questions with some Marxist thought dom, however. Lucy met my daily recounts with already happened in Western Australia from Col- We kept in contact and Shaun gave me the derived from an HSC English course. an intrigue and concern. She helped maintain in Barnett’s forced community closures. They’re same town where all this opportunity to talk to Aunty Carol – Ms Dhu’s “How’d you hear about this?” an existing scepticism and curiosity that belied leaving their communities and going into rural grandmother. In her voice she carried the dead- “Do you consider yourself anti-Capitalist?” my image as a faithful recruit. Her constant centres to live on the streets, homeless. They have happened to my niece... ening weight of every meaningless inquiry and “Where do you / did you go to school?” surprise at every revelation made clear how to steal for food, for medication…they’re going uncharged policeman. As she spoke with strength As Brian and I ambled back to the North Shore opaque the organisation is. Fortunately for me, to end up being incarcerated. More deaths in she’s got the same and conviction, I started to cry and Aunty Carol line, my private school sports bag brimming with Lucy was the constant source of perspective that custody,” he explained. apologised for making me upset. a litany of leftist literature, I was met with a series other recruits might not ordinarily have. She Since Ms Dhu’s death, Shaun has been a cen- perpetrators of my niece’s After their land, their culture and their chil- of concerned text messages from older friends made clear that Socialist Alternative were not tral figure in the movement to bring her justice. dren have been stolen by Australia’s racism who’d observed the proceedings. They swiftly and the only option for an anti-capitalist, a reassur- One inquest on, there have been no real answers. murder in her space.” and the colonial project, Aunty Carol and definitively discouraged further contact. Lucy*, ance that lingered in the back of my mind. “There was a lot of cover-up and shifting of blame Shaun still have the energy to share their sto- in particular, passed on her experiences of Social- and that was mainly from the health system. We ry. They even have the empathy to console the ist Alternative at USyd, saying they were sectarian The road to membership heard from the nurses and doctors trying to make tears of wide-eyed non-Indigenous people who and a blight on the left. up excuses and give reasons why they did not take that fifteen minutes was all the “fame” your mur- are part of the system, yet crumble at being Yet in the face of a post-HSC purposelessness, My goal was to understand the organisation and I my niece’s temperature, or other basic stats,” he dered niece deserved. reminded of that. a budding interest in leftist politics slowly ripened. performed whatever version of myself was neces- says. The second part of the inquest is due to take With media often diametrically opposed to With their continuing labour comes our Brian and I took to Martin Place again on sary for their approval. place on March 14. the interests of Indigenous people and instead obligation. I asked Shaun what non-Indige- November 25 in order to support an anti-Reclaim This performance soon led to work on Shaun never shies away from Ms. Dhu’s story controlled by corporate interests, Shaun had to nous people could do. “Little things like sharing Australia counter rally. As Lucy rightly predict- stalls. Socialist Alternative has a clear modus as one in a series. The names of Eric Garner, Tamir craft his own platform through social media. posts, or when there are events up —say you’re ed, a familiar face greeted us. Sarah, immediately operandi – to establish within the first minute of Rice, Sandra Bland and others are stamped into the As a result, his Facebook profile is a political going, regardless of whether you are because at recognising us, brought us over to their stall, iso- conversation whether you are a potential mem- brains of Australian progressives, but few of us look anthology, as dense as that you’d find in a library. least it shows your support”, was his unspeakably lating me in an attempt to sell the first of many ber, or “contact”, with a view to recruiting as to our own Black lives, that should also matter. He carefully documents rallies and events, modest request. books as fellow ‘rades insisted on our attendance at many members as possible. 10 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 11 FEATURE FEATURE

finite number of options, with one to be selected. Though their constitution spells out quite Reflections, concessions and “My biggest regret is my complicity in the recruitment of curious, “Should we put posters up tomorrow or clearly that “members may resign at any time by apologies on Tuesday?” communicating their resignation to any body of enthusiastic youngsters. To them I offer an unreserved apology" Yet the largest constraint was the subtlest the organisation” I had heard different stories. There are members of Socialist Alternative one, as members are sorted into, then groomed I’d read student publications describing harass- who have given their lives to activism. There for, one of three roles. My independent assess- ment. I’d spoken to friends, some old and some are others who are on a similar trajectory. It is Alongside phone, email, and Facebook details, I although we resolved to ignore each other, we’d tion to affirmative action and backroom dealings ment of the organisation is that most become new, who relayed personal experiences of vitriol, impossible not to admire that kind of dedication. would evaluate each prospective member, shar- meet up and chat away from the conference. to lock Grassroots, the group they have the most what I’ve referred to as “footsoldiers”, occa- spitting, and physical intimidation. I’d been told I see in many of them a genuine and well-inten- ing conversation details in a post-stall caucus while As Socialist Alternative prepped their eth- in common with ideologically, out of all office sionally getting minor, bureaucratic roles on a of an ex-member receiving unstamped death tioned desire to improve the world. devising a tailored recruitment strategy characterised no-cultural and educational policy stances, I was bearer positions. It was with no tinge of guilt rotational basis, but mainly performing tasks threats in their mailbox. Reassuringly, they But the uncomfortable truth is that this drive by constant contact, surveillance, and conditioning. given a customary rundown on rival political that they mocked Grassroots members, includ- like stalls, poster runs, etc. Some particularly denied this to Honi. is the result of deliberate and organised con- Unique to Socialist Alternative, the transition factions. There was a pre-existing spiel for them ing deserving candidates for various positions, intelligent members become the “intelligent- It took a while before I mustered the courage ditioning. This energy is maintained through from “contact” to “member” is arduous, requir- all and, like the Golden Dawn example, it was while a senior Sydney member privately praised sia”, theory buffs that help construct and main- to write, crosscheck with Lucy, and then send, my subtle and overt manipulation. This agita- ing satisfactory achievement in the aforemen- repeated in various iterations throughout my ten- the “stroke of bureaucratic genius” that enabled it. tain the organisation’s doctrine. Finally there carefully constructed message of resignation. Play- tion is symptomatic of, and perpetuated by, a tioned MDGs. I was certain from the outset these ure. In the heat of factional tension, it went some- Following a series of deceptive manoeuvres are the leaders, members who, it is hoped, will ing on their perceptions of my merciless bourgeois system that makes the simple act of resigning “courses” had a more insidious purpose, as they thing like this: that saw them secure two Queer Officer posi- ascend up the hierarchy. family, I wove a tale of familial discord epitomised one to fear. provide an opportunity for the organisation to vet tions, the aforementioned senior member posted Further rankings exist within that final group. by the looming threat of expulsion from my home. My biggest regret is my complicity in members, eliminating views inconsistent with the an out-dated and incorrect screenshot of the Honi One older member in Melbourne, from memory, Given our history I chose Sarah to be the the recruitment of curious, enthusiastic organisation’s, while inculcating doctrine. Labor Unity (Labor Right): right wing, blog with the caption: “glad we could lock Dylan disclosed that Omar Hassan, a senior figure of the recipient of my message. Her disappointment was youngsters. To them I offer an unreserved Socialist Alternative told Honi, "We offer careerist fuckwits who uncritically [Lloyd, UNSW Grassroots member] out…who Sydney branch, was “ranked third” when they tinged with the hope that I would re-join. Despite apology and an invitation to ignore my Marxism discussion groups to people who are conform to, and advance, Labor party dealt with the Liberals to get his spot”. initially sorted him into the leadership box that, messages and phone calls accompanied con- hollow words. new to Marxist politics and interested in learning policy. Like high school mean girls, members descend- on account of his “hippie” qualities and pro- tinual event invitations and Facebook tags. Either To them, and those who are consider- about it." My experience was different. ed in the comments celebrating that Dylan and clivity to random international trips. Omar had Sarah withheld my resignation or the organisa- ing or in the process of joining, I urge you The MDGs involve contacts being run through National Labor Students (Labor Left): others had cried. Without external sources to tell “exceeded all expectations” by getting as far as he tion had ignored my request. to tread carefully and think critically. Your enthusi- common arguments and told what the “right” ref- perhaps worse than Labor Unity in a different story, I too would have joined the cho- had, apparently. Omar, in keeping with the latter suspicion, asm and vigour, much like that of current members, utation is, the analysis of specific historical events that they redirect leftist rhetoric and rus of celebration. would later send me what I perceived to be a con- won’t be channelled into the improvement of the with a pre-set interpretation, and a diagnosis of momentum towards the advancement Planning my escape route frontational message suggesting that I “owe it to world. Rather, it will be funnelled into the current political climate, complete with dis- of the Labor party. Especially pernicious Life as a disillusioned footsoldier them” to meet up “face to face”. the improvement of their world, one paraging descriptions of rival organisations. is their use of identity politics to Following a comparatively dormant period, I It was not all bad cop, however, as a young that is defined and controlled by those at the top. It’s perhaps the reason members of Socialist advance right wing interests. In spite of increasing, yet still private, disillusion- resolved to leave the organisation. I had been female member, with whom I was hardly It seems, therefore, that Orwell’s famous aph- Alternative echo each other with such precision. ment, I left Melbourne with a membership card. working on stalls regularly. My curiosity had acquainted, randomly asked me on a date. orism echoes through generations of struggle During the day of that fateful Reclaim Australia Grassroots, aka the Swamp: It was at this point I was informed of “dues” I been satisfied, the commitment had become tire- Overwhelming insecurity, perhaps, led me to to describe my salty summer perfectly: rally, six different people told me “50 per cent of opportunists who betray the left through would have to pay in proportion to my income. some and recruiting others was starting to feel speculate that it was another, albeit humorous, Some animals are more equal than others. the people who voted for the Golden Dawn party ‘class collaboration’ (i.e. lobbying This was justified toHoni as "like any union or morally dubious. ploy to reel me back. *Names have been changed were police officers”. university management directly) and political party." And yet it was the concurrence of a trip to vis- who aren’t real activists anyway. It was insinuated that, because of my pri- it family in Victoria and the National Union of vate education, I should nominate for a higher Students’ National Conference (“NatCon”) that The Liberals: fuckwits who shouldn’t be amount. On top of this I was also expected to pay taught me the most. allowed to attend NUS. for an annual subscription to Red Flag – a news- Prioritising the organisation over family and paper established and run by members of Social- Socialist Alternative: the basics other interests had, by now, become the norm. The Independents: inconsistent and ist Alternative. Badges, t-shirts, tote bags and Leaving my grandfather on his farm in Gippsland, fascist. other kinds of merchandise were also available for Socialist Alternative is force in student politics. having been given a makeshift conference pass, the trendier Bolshy looking to accessorise. a revolutionary Marxist They have three members I attended two days of NatCon. When asked, Socialist Alliance / Solidarity: For an anti-capitalist group, I thought, they organisation that “stands on the Students’ Represent- Socialist Alternative told Honi I came along for "a crumbling, yet bitter, rivals who only certainly have a great business model. I still have for the overthrow of ative Council. They are most couple of hours on one of the days". exist to get in our way and make life no idea where the money went, nor do I know capitalism and the con- known for their involvement Though I was pursuing the organisation out difficult for us. Maybe one day, when how it was distributed. struction of a world in the Q&A anti-deregu- of interest and free will, I still had limited capac- they become more ideologically pure, Interestingly, however, I heard rumours, fit- socialist system”. Mem- lation protest in 2014, and ity to rebuff their offers. When pressed about my we’ll merge with them. ting with my experience of a highly stratified bers range from pas- their involvement in the attendance at an upcoming “Marxism Confer- organisation, that some members were afforded sionate high schoolers to Education Action Group. ence” for example, my response – that I would Anarchists: people with drug problems a stipend of sorts from the organisation. Socialist seasoned activists. They The organisation formed probably be occupied with family Easter celebra- and whose beliefs led to the Franco Alternative denied this to Honi. galvanise around a strict as a result of a split from tions – was met with the unsympathetic retort regime. I was never party to any kind of meaning- Trotskyist interpretation the International Socialist that “[I could] do family things every year”. ful policy debate or to any discussion around of Marx. Organisation – now known upcoming actions, be it online or in person. Colloquially, they are as “Solidarity” – which also NUS National Conference Despite their scathing review of all other factions, Each meeting, each news item that cropped up, referred to as “SAlt”, but has a Usyd faction. They the Honi live blog elucidated something they would each planned event, would be described, having members of the organi- are one of the largest on At NatCon I observed Socialist Alternative’s not: they were willing to compromise on their val- already been decided in advance. sation prefer “SA”. At the the far-Left, with approx- interactions with other political factions for the ues to work with all those groups, just as swiftly as Of course, there were opportunities to express University of Sydney, they imately 350 members first time. It was the aggressive, fanatical, and dis- they were prepared to dispose of them. opinions but that process was severely limited. are known for their make- across the country. honest side to the organisation I had been warned It was with no trace of remorse that Socialist Such opportunities followed, and were a reaction shift table set up at the Honi Soit contacted of from day one. Alternative members readily, and hypocritically, to, the presentation of an existing choice. New Law annex or Fisher Socialist Alternative for Perhaps unlike the average member though, made deals with Unity to rename the “Queer” “The existing leadership slate has nominated the library, where they call on comment and they want- I followed the conference on the Honi Soit live department to the “LGBT” department, without following five people to take over for 2016… what passersby for petition sig- ed to reassure our readers, blog, which demonstrated how purposefully con- my or, I assume, other lower ranking members do you think?” natures. Relative to their "The reds are not lurking structed the reality of a Socialist Alternative mem- knowledge. It was with no hesitancy that Socialist Choices, if they were presented, were narrow in size, they are a formidable under your beds." ber could be. Lucy was also at the conference, so Alternative compromised their political opposi- nature. In essence, the leadership would provide a 12 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 13 PERSPECTIVE PERSPECTIVE From Suburbia Impermanent ink Tina Huang on the stories that made Australia Tansy Gardam hopped off a plane at LAX Scorn for the suburban is a staple of Australian my sister and me into adulthood – even if intel- that actors of colour were either totally absent, or life. Suburbia is portrayed, as historian Hugh Set- lectually we knew that it was a bad thing. We only present in ways that pandered to the beliefs of t’s 10am on a Thursday, and the waiting it thwaps rhythmically as Dr P traces the tattoos. initially meet her criteria, Dr P will give her the ton once said, as a place, “where mum does the knew that more people needed to assume the white viewers. We just accepted that Asians were room for tattoo removal at Homeboy Indus- At first the treatment seems almost too effective benefit of the doubt. She has a similar policy for dishes, dad potters and mows, and the kids pick perspectives of queer protagonists, and people Kung Fu-fighting heart surgeons. tries in Los Angeles is already half full. Dr – the tattoos fade beautifully – but Dr P explains gang-related tattoos. It’s hard to keep up with the their acne while watching the telly”. of colour, and female characters to see how they This acceptance however didn’t stem from apa- I Paula Pearlman, an ER surgeon with over this is called “laser snow”, where the heat of the myriad of symbols associated with the gangs, so From Alison Lester and Sidney Nolan, to too lead remarkably rich lives. But, as with most thy. I just always resisted having dramatic things 30 years experience, introduces herself as Dr P laser causes the skin to whiten and fade the tattoo she’ll remove any that her patients tell her are Neighbours and Kath and Kim, suburban works people who have had the privilege of a progres- happen to me. Or rather, at least never perceived to each of her patients, before asking which tat- temporarily. By the time Tulio’s treatment is done, gang related. Dr P’s third patient of the day – the seem like a human desert, barren of the different. sive education, we struggled to escape our middle things that happened to me as being dramat- toos they are looking to remove. She is one of the tattoos have returned almost to normal, but twin sister of her second – wants to remove a A place one tries to escape. And yet, for many of class, suburban sympathies. And such sympathis- ic. The idea that I, as an Asian, was a “victim of over a dozen volunteer doctors at Homeboy who will fade over the next six weeks as the cells clear tattoo of a man’s name on her upper chest. He’s us who are different, the suburban still feels like es showed. racial stereotyping” made me cringe. Yet, how- remove gang and potentially employment-jeop- the debris of the ink. an ex, she explains, a gang member who threat- home. Why is this? While watching Eddie Huang’s Fresh Off The ever my sister and I understood Asian actors, or ardising tattoos for the community. Homeboy has It will take six to eight treatments for the tat- ened to burn her with acid if she did not get the When my family first immigrated in the ‘80s, Boat, we would find ourselves identifying more the Oscars, or new “progressive” TV shows, the the highest rate of tattoo removal in the United toos to fade completely – some of which Tulio tattoo. Upon examination, Dr P realises that the home was Elwood in Melbourne. It was a town with the white neighbours and employers observ- presence of these things undeniably did signal States – and all treatments are free. will be unable to have done at Homeboy because last two letters of the tattoo are scarred from the where diversity moved across like a tumbleweed, ing the Huang family, rather than the Huang something quite dramatic. Anyone can visit Homeboy for free tat- he’s transferring his job at Home Depot to Vegas, tattoo needle going too deep, and, while she can slowly and often to an extremely clichéd effect. family themselves. We too didn’t understand why The way we viewed them, even while bur- too removal, although there is a priority list in closer to his parents. He works in the garden treat the ink, the scarring will remain. The patient Elwood was a place with only one miscellane- New Year's was in February or grasp that Eddie’s dened by conservative, suburban sympathies, appointments as well as removals, and the doc- department, although the pot leaf tattoo prob- nods, understanding and keen to be rid of the tat- ous “Asian” takeout place and dozens of primary parents were from Taiwan and not China. We too embodied the way change had always unfolded: tors request that while they are removing the tat- ably wasn’t intended as a mark of dedication to too regardless. She holds her sister’s hand through school kids who mocked my mum’s affection for thought Eddie’s black bean noodles were gross. slowly and imperfectly. These things signaled too over around 18 months worth of treatment, his job. Outside of Homeboy, laser tattoo removal the painful treatment. “Mao-come Fraser”. Our experience with Huang’s Australian coun- that change had finally come to the heart of sub- patients not get any more tattoos. can cost around US $300-$500 per treatment and And yet, we, like most people, enjoyed living terpart, Benjamin Law’s The Family Law also urbia: the living room. There’s a priority order for removal: anything is not covered by most health insurance as it is there. Elwood was a seaside town lined with ter- betrayed an odd conformity to suburban views All too often, those who condemn Australia’s gang-related comes first, then visible tattoos on considered a cosmetic surgery. races that spilt laughter and television programs of the exotic, albeit in context rather than con- cultural landscape forget that it is still a work in the neck, hands or face. Tulio, Dr P’s first patient Dr P has been volunteering at Homeboy for Her strongest memory is of out onto the street from their bosomy verandahs. tent. That is, we totally forgot to watch it. The progress. Look closely at this landscape 20 years for the day, has a pot leaf on his stomach the size around 12 years now, usually in three hour shifts Each night we would lie down and watch TV show’s premiere on SBS meant that it, along with ago and marvel at the development that has of an A4 sheet of paper, but Dr P shakes her head. where she sees around 15 patients. She’s proud of a woman with her postcode shows, the screen above us glowing with stories, its Asian protagonists, came to exist only in the occurred. From Neighbours and Home & Away to Mistakes, she says, are the lowest priority, espe- her work, and very precise with the laser. Tulio like a light turned on at dusk. Overtime, my fam- fringes of our cultural landscape. shows about a queer, Chinese boy living in sub- cially ones that can be easily covered when going recommends she take up tattooing herself, with tattooed all along her jaw ily’s gently obsessive viewing of shows like Neigh- urban Queensland. Our cultural landscape is still for a job interview. Tulio seems disappointed, but her clean lines and steady hands. She’s not a big bours led to a kind of sympathy for the very sub- being coloured in, it’s still very much in the pro- he’s hardly in a position to complain, especially fan of the current laser, a newer model which is line, complete with the words urbanites that mocked us. Those who condemn Australia’s cess of creation. as Dr P lasers away a large tattoo on his arm and flashier but less familiar than the larger, older We began to invest in the stories of the aver- To this day, my family still lives in Elwood, another on his calf. It’s Tulio’s first treatment, and machines that are still in the treatment room. Her “fuck off” on her cheeks. age Australian family. We cross-gendered and cultural landscape forget that it Melbourne. It has become a suburb of gasping Dr P explains that the laser itself feels like being biggest achievement, she says, has been in the cross-racialised in order to relate to protagonists hills and prickling lights. Here the reading bulbs snapped with hot rubber bands. Halfway through, purchase of a skin cooler – essentially an AC unit like Harold the grandfather, or Mrs Kennedy, or is still a work in progress. and television boxes of Australian families shine Tulio jokes that he’s glad for the tinted glasses that with a hose – which reduces pain and blistering Kylie Minogue. What began out of necessity con- on. Every night, you can still find my family cap- protect his eyes and hide his tears. when used in tandem with the laser. tinued in earnest, as if we had worn the prover- And then the Oscars. Reading #OscarsSoWhite tivated by the stories that made this country. You The laser itself looks like something out of sci- She’s seen some serious tattoos in her time. Most of Dr P’s patients are having their first or bial shoes of white, straight, Australians for long tweets inspired no heretical notions. We had to rely can still find us cross-gendering and cross-racial- ence fiction, though that’s mostly the gyroscopic Her strongest memory is of a woman with her second treatments, though one older woman is enough that they had become comfortable. on Buzzfeed articles the next day to understand ising and sympathising. arm it’s mounted on for ease of manoeuvring. The postcode tattooed all along her jaw line, complete onto her fourth, after their first two did nothing to Slowly, sympathy for the suburban followed the nuances of the boycott. It never occurred to us I long for the day these stories sympathise back. business end almost looks like a stick mixer, and with the words “fuck off” on her cheeks. fade her tattoos. They are all of Latin and Hispanic There is another priority in removal, Dr P backgrounds, as are most of the Homeboy clientele reveals after seeing her third patient: any tattoo and the majority of LA gangs. One patient’s mor- related to domestic violence, abusive relation- al support talks us through the tattoos he used to ships or past trauma. With female patients, she have – teardrops on his cheeks, a variety across his largely has a “don’t ask” policy to avoid any trig- neck and skull – which have all been completely gers. If a woman requests a tattoo that may not removed by the Homeboy doctors. The last patient I see Dr P with – the old- er woman on her 4th treatment – compliments This side of home the skin cooler, saying it makes the treatment far more bearable. Dr P beams. “I wish my arms were longer,” she says with a Yifang Kong tells a tale of two cities grin, “so I could pat myself on the back.”

Imagine a white, freezing, and hazy Beijing cov- ered in thick smog, as it was when I went back to my city last December. People like me – those dwelling in a densely polluted city – get into the habit of checking the pollution index every morning. After the gov- ernment launched an environmental assessment program estimating the pollution level 24/7, we could easily gain access to the result via apps on our smartphones. Every moment was scaled from zero to 500 and people adapted more and more to heavy numbers as the situation worsened. One hundred to 200 is ‘what a nice day’, 200 to 300 is Rumours started to accumulate and flow over the tying shoelaces for his girlfriend. We jumped ‘grab a mask and it’s fine’, 300 to 400 is ‘better skip city. Some claimed the index was actually above into a debate about feminism. It seemed like breakfast at that outdoor pancake cart’, and when 2000 and, when a similar figure was reached by they couldn’t help being frightened by the Chi- the figure soars above 400, you pine for a car. 99 London in 1952, 4000 citizens died. I was desper- nese tone since it sounds like quarreling to them. is ‘Incredible! Can’t believe it! Perfect timing for ately stressed out, wondering whether to ask my We argued about politeness. One day we fought hiking!’ Zero is Sydney. friends to cancel their flights. because I wanted to take them to the Summer Pal- All windows are tightly shut. The view over They landed on a gloomy morning, leaving ace when they insisted on using a precious sunny my neighborhood is a dramatic scene – secluded, their sunny island behind and stayed for nine day to buy fried jackfruit. I called them philistines chilly and eternally sluggish. days. We were out for the eight of them. In ret- and lazy. They called me cynical and pretentious. Two of my foreign friends, Indonesian sisters, rospect, the entire thing was a bit crazy, dragging I am sentimental for those days when my planned to visit me at home. One week before two souls without any resistance to smog around friends and I traded our health to venture into they arrived around 4am I woke up struggling to my old, beloved city. my polluted city, but I secretly hold onto that one breathe. I was stunned when I found the pollution In smog, cultures clashed. We were in the sub- sunny day where the glamor of my old city for- scale had climbed to exactly 500 on the meter. way entrance and caught sight of a Chinese guy gave all modern mistakes. 14 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 15 CULTURE CULTURE The sex form The ethics debate On average, they rated the sex they had with me Grace Franki and Andy Zephyr Courtney Thompson explores the an 8.2. While a few explained the rating by say- person, linguistically implying that he was cis. Poignantly, in response to Winters' heartless ing it was “a lot of fun”, Tim waxed lyrical on his It was easy to be optimistic walking into an He influenced those few in the audience who remarks that “adolescence is traumatic for every- untapped potential of Google forms frustration with rating systems themselves. “Even Art: Ann IQ2 debate about trans identities just days before assumed his identity, and finished his speech with one”, a trans student from Newtown High School if it were a good idea to shoehorn all the complex Ding Mardi Gras. This was not the regular crowd. trans experiences in the first person. commented on their school struggles, which It was a typical Friday night. I was eating pho out things we use [sex] for… into a single number,” he Rather than white, middle-class retirees, the American activist Andrea James followed, sub- could be changed swiftly: inclusion, recognition of a pot with friends at home while we reflected said, “then they’re still nigh on impossible to do room was buzzing with vibrant members of the verting language that assumed a worldly order and kindness. The audience replied with thunder- on our summer. Specifically, the casual sex we’d usefully.” Having insightfully noted this, he com- The average woman takes 45 minutes to reach full queer community. Sadly, what should have been a that transgender fit outside of, whether it be reli- ous applause. engaged in and found unfulfilling. plied with the rating system. arousal. Thus, if you’re having sex with a woman nuanced, respectful discussion about social inclu- gious, legal or natural order. She also critiqued For a topic with a reasonably broad scope, My issue with casual sex is perhaps best I was especially keen to know their feelings on and not spending at least 30 minutes on foreplay, sion descended into nasty irrelevance. the Ethics Centre’s premise, by acknowledging the entire discussion repeatedly boiled down to expressed by a conversation with my friend as we protection and who prompted its use. Alan in par- it could be longer. Perhaps this should have been unsurprising. that acceptance comes from community not soci- trans women and “gender critical” feminists. slurped our noodles. She’d been unable to land a ticular showed signs of amnesia about our use of One question that produced varied results was Following public outcry, the St James Ethics Cen- ety: “nature loves diversity, society hates it.” Labels such as TERF (trans-exclusionary radical second date. Pondering why this might be, she protection (I had to be quite adamant about using whether or not our sex was better or worse than tre was forced to change the debate from “trans The negative team was carried by Univer- feminist) were shamed by Winters as “extremely asked, “What if I’m just bad in bed?” While I was a condom), saying, “It was mutual and I was glad.” they expected. While one said it was “fun and not wo/men can never be fe/male” to “society must sity of Sydney lecturer Bronwyn Winters and damaging”, but at the end of the debate still felt fit- quick to refute the claim (there are no bad lovers, Ironically, it was during sex with Alan that the con- overly serious”, Tim said it was, “about as good as recognise trans identities”. The original topic the thoroughly unremarkable academic John ting. Disappointingly, 20 per cent of people were only bad listeners) she continued, “No, but seri- dom came off inside and I had to fish it out of my I expected, which is to say good” and Bob disa- appeared to have been deliberately divisive and Haldane. Winters focused on protecting wom- swayed to vote for the negative in the exit poll, up ously, how would I know?” vagina with my finger. We got another condom greed with the terms of the question, again. hurtful to members of the transgender commu- en-born-women and lesbians from perceived from 4 per cent. We still have work to do. In long-term relationships, you’re afforded the and continued. He rated me a seven and a half. My final question was whether or not, regard- nity. But, while the wording changed, the debate’s bullying and misogyny by “male to female trans- It was disappointing the St James Eth- privilege of an ongoing dialogue regarding your When I asked for specifics on what they did, or less of any other factors of our relationship, they sentiment did not. genders” [sic], who, she claimed, use “a narrative ics Centre chose to use this platform to give sex. This continual communication manifests in did not, enjoy, Tim was the only one who detailed would have sex with me again. 85 per cent said yes, Pre-debate, just 4 per cent of polled audience of victimhood” to dominate discourse and claim a voice to a small, exclusionary minority. a general improvement of your sexual perfor- - quite beautifully – a preferred method of per- and Bob said no. His philosophical justification – members opposed the motion with 76 per cent in political capital. Debates like this are only truly valuable when mance. However, for many of us who have casual forming fellatio: “One hand on the shaft, one on that the question was absolutist and ignored how favour, and 20 per cent undecided. Questions from the floor were aplenty, but they approach complex topics with a wealth of sex, this is noticeably absent. You have sex once, their testicles and sucking the head.” He rated me “decisions to not have sex can be entirely embod- The debate started with a moving speech from noticeably dominated by older feminists sup- respectful opinions. Otherwise, they risk alien- maybe twice, and then never speak about it again a seven – room for improvement, apparently. ied in one party” – served as a reminder of why Peter Hyndal, an advocate for trans recognition porting Winters' perspective. As we progressed, ating the vulnerable, and do nothing but create with that person. This lack of communication I found this interesting given that while per- I’ve sworn off fucking2 philosophy majors. in government legislation. Cleverly, he began pro-trans narratives became prominent, mostly controversy from suffering. leaves little base to improve upon. forming fellatio on Tim, I remember him repeat- Sex is not easily quantifiable or able to be neatly by speaking about trans identities in the third drawn from personal experiences. Having ruminated on this, I decided to take edly telling me how great I was at it. A perfect summarised. It is complex, nuanced and incred- matters into my own hands. I decided to ask the exemplar of the purpose of the Google form: you ibly subjective. But when you are having casual people I have had sex with for feedback on my end up walking around thinking you’re ace at suck- sex, the absence of an ongoing dialogue can leave sexual performance. ing dick when really you’re just a seven. To be fair, you feeling alone and clueless. The Google form has become a ubiquitous tool that rating improved over the course of my expe- This was one woman’s pursuit to enable her in administration and organisation. I thought it only riences with my most recent sexual partner giving own improvement as an Independent Woman. fitting for it to be the means by which I asked for me a nine. Practice really does make perfect. What resulted was an elaborate listing for the stu- Muzzad feedback from all of my previous sexual partners. On foreplay, the only respondent who noted dent newspaper advertising me, my 8.2 rating and The reactions to receiving the form were large- more time could have been given was the one a 10/10 Google form. ly positive; all were quite comfortable with the where adverse circumstances limited our time idea. That is, save for Bob1, who voiced his con- (hot tip: you’ll need to book a Fisher sound booth cern with the premise itself, saying he didn’t view for longer than an hour). In comparison, the oth- 1. Perhaps unsurprisingly, anonymity was key sex in an easily compartmentalised way. After ers – where we had both a bed and more time – all to getting responses. None of the names are telling him this was spectacular fodder for the said that an adequate amount of time was given to real as a result. Google form, he filled it out. foreplay, despite having spent less time on it. 2. Used as both an adjective and a verb. skipped Top four

a beat fried foods MAC ’N’ CHEESE: THE NORFOLK HOTEL (SURRY HILLS) M: With the key ingredients being cheese, pas- Alexandros Tsathas Courtney Thompson and Maani Truu ta and batter - did you really need us to tell you it’s good? A festival of carbs conveniently pack- expected No Mediocre. PICKLES: THE CHIPPENDALE HOTEL aged in mouth-sized balls; easy to shove in your as mustard to watch him spin the 1-2’s, his gig Art: Gillian (CHIPPENDALE) face between sips of beer. My only gripe is the No, mediocre. unfortunately only represented a paltry suck of Kayrooz “His DJing was M: One word: perfection. Salty, crispy, tangy, cheese could have been more flavoursome, but the sauce bottle. slippery, sweet perfection. Good opportunity to not everyone can devour a block of blue cheese in Most people have heard DJ Mustard, but few have His DJing was technically sound–it seems as technically sound–it align Eastern European heritage with current bat- one sitting. 4.5/5 heard of him. though even a trained ferret can DJ these days, ter-loving identity. 5/5 C: Deep-fried cheese and pasta - me in a ball. One of the driving forces behind the revival of so I made sure to closely scrutinize his flapping of seems as though even C: Despite my initial misgivings, I’m a fan. Perfect amount of batter, not too cheesy. Forget West Coast hip-hop in recent years, all his tracks the crossfader. Probably not a would-stake-out-the-hotel-in-the- about following the Middle Way to reach Nirva- are recognisable through his signature "Muzzad Muzzad let the team down with his choice of a trained ferret can DJ hopes-of-meeting-Harry Styles fan, but I would na - just eat this delicacy and trust me, deep-fried on da beat" intro murmur. songs. Rather than a Mustardy slather, his set was attend the concert of the deep-fried pickle. Salty mac ‘n’ cheese will be forevermore synonymous Mustard has gained a reputation in the industry dominated by less-popular tracks that weren’t his these days" & crispy, an easy finger-food option. 3.5/5 with “orgasm”. 5/5 as the go-to producer for artists seeking a super- own. He only played for one hour, which was dis- catchy, super-sampled track for their album. He appointing in itself, so why didn’t he lay on the ICE CREAM: THE GREEN PALACE MARS BAR: BLISS & CHIPS has worked with the likes of Tinashe, Wiz Khalifa Mustard thick? When In My Room, Whole Lotta Selected DJ Mustard production credits: (NEWTOWN) (NEWTOWN) and Tyga to produce popular (and explicit) tunes Lovin’ and Right, Left rang out, the energy ascend- M: Some mysteries will never be explained M: For this delicacy I recommend taking a trip like 2 On, You and Your Friends and Rack City. ed to the level it should have been the entire night. Rack City - Tyga (the Loch Ness monster, crop circles, where the to the OG dealer at Bondi, rather than settling for Consistent with his under-the-radar approach The crowd was also too tame. Maybe it was second sock goes, etc.) and deep-fried ice-cream Newtown’s vegan alternative. Still an enjoyable to production, the venue for DJ Mustard’s only apprehension about how they would get home. Don’t Tell ‘Em – Jeremih ft. YG is one such mystery. Warm and crunchy on the experience, but like most things, would have been Sydney concert was the Albion Hotel in Par- A body-on-body moshpit is what I expected. A outside, yet, frozen on the inside. A scientific improved with dairy. 4/5 ramatta. The Albion is best described as a steak- sprawling archipelago of groups of friends sur- The Fix – Nelly ft. Jeremih anomaly! Would hit up again. 3/5 C: I’m not sure if it was the ‘vegan’ part or house that seems like a great place to host after- rounded by streams of spilled Vodka Red Bulls is C: It is a myth that deep fried ice cream is good. ‘deep-fried’ part of ‘deep-fried vegan mars bar’ work drinks. I was more than happy to run with a more accurate description of the venue. People Party Ain’t A Party – Jamie Foxx ft. 2 It is NOT. The ice cream was shit and the batter that has me dubious. I struggle to trust any estab- the entire ‘niche-venue’ vibe – I thought that any seemed to be there to make it look like they were Chainz tasted like my foot. If I had to choose between lishment that advertises itself as a seafood shop - inconvenience caused by its location would be having a good time, rather than actually having eating the ice cream and sleeping with an improv but is vegan? What? WHY? Despite my concerns compensated by Mustard’s lengthy list of produc- a good time. Summer In The Winter – Kid Ink ft. Omarion comedian – I would fuck the comedian. 0/5 about the actual ingredients, it was quite good. tion credits and a pulsating crowd. The night started late and finished early. My Gooey and sweet, a decent dessert. 3/5 I was wrong. Despite initially being as keen cravings for Mustard remain unsatisfied. Saved – Ty Dolla $ign ft. E-40 16 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 17 CULTURE SPORT Tryna run game A tonic for your woes Alexandros Tsathas on how to dodge a frenemy on campus Peter Burrell-Sander on THE OFFSIDE TRAP THE SIDE-STEP THE ALLEY-OOP KEY the emergin’ genius of the gin scene YOU

ayman’s, Poor Tom, Gordon’s, Hen- dricks and Tanqueray. These are not the line-up of a Victorian nov- FRENEMY H el but instead, brands of gin. It’s the national drink of England and that’s not hard to see, but in Australia gin has carved out its own niche and just won’t stop whittling away. FRIEND Though long associated with retired or older folks, the gin scene here has developed into something that far surpasses its humble origins as the cheapest shot the poor of London could Run this play when you’ve spotted your STRANGER obtain. It’s a spirit with a history, but that histo- frenemy walking ahead of you, in the same For when you’ve seen them behind you in the ry is still being made today. direction. Slow down your pace and remain reflection of the UniMart window. Quickly and Gin is made using juniper berries and any behind them, taking care to stay out of their erratically change your direction. At the last pos- You’ll need a close friend for this one. The minute you combination of other botanicals. This allows peripheral vision. sible moment, dart perilously in front of groups see your frenemy, instruct your friend to leave your gin to have wide-ranging and unique flavours, walking the other way. Drop your shoulder across side. Approach the frenemy, hand outstretched, as if including but in no way limited to rose, cori- your body to really baffle poursuivants. to greet them. Your friend should then appear from ander, cinnamon and lavender. Many gins are THE DUMMY obscurity to steal the embrace and convincingly play made with citrus botanicals but there exists the role of ‘friend who hasn’t seen you in years’. wide variation – Hendricks is a well-known and THE SCREEN popular gin which is in large part flavoured by cucumber essence. Ophir is a citrus gin load- THE FAST BREAK ed with spices to create a decidedly savoury liquor. Gin is rarely aged and is therefore a largely clear spirit. It’s consumed several differ- ent ways – neat, on the rocks, with soda water or with tonic. Snoop Dogg takes his with juice. Over the past decade or so, the gin scene has really changed both in Australia and globally. It’s no longer the sole purview of retirees, no longer as constrained by the gin-making tra- ditions of England, no longer something your The instant you lock eyes with your frenemy, friends can laugh you out of the bar for order- embrace a nearby stranger–any stranger. Joke ing. Several Australian companies now create with your new best friend about your ludi- Whip out your phone and shade the side of your their own gins, which seek to utilise ingredients crous timetable and unrealistic weekly quiz face with your palm, as if trying to make out the other than the Eurocentric staples which dom- expectations. Any bewildered facial expres- screen on power-saver mode. Pound the pave- inate most of the alcohol industry. sions should be beaten out with convincing ment until you’ve put sufficient distance between As soon as you see them, turn and run. Run. The most notable example of this is For- back-slaps. Frenemies will float right by. you and your frenemy. Keep running. ty Spotted, a Tasmanian gin crafted only from botanicals native to Tasmania, excepting juniper berries. While Gordon’s (the world’s best-selling London Dry gin) uses lemon, elderflower and liquorice, Forty Spotted substitutes in Tasman- Say no to idols nia Aromatica, or pepper-berry. Whether or not you enjoy the resulting unique taste, it is a Justin Pepito would prefer the struggle be real remarkable break with tradition rarely seen and celebrated in a liquor culture which adores its roots in Europe so very much. Art: Gin is undergoing a global revival. New gins For years, mainstream media has painted elite learn more about the winding path to personal Recently, I was fortunate enough to attend a Rina Yang are being created and experimented with, and A few of your options athletes as celestial beings. Figures such as Den- success from athletes who suffer major draw- meeting of a gin club. Gin is, like so many other new people are drinking them. Sydney is now ver Bronco’s two-time Superbowl winning quar- backs. In 1998, American snowboarder Amy good spirits, not exactly cheap here in Austral- home to multiple specialist bars and Austral- Windsor Gin $27-30. terback, Peyton Manning, set societal ideals for Purdy contracted bacterial meningitis and lost ia, and this was not a club for retirees. None- ia to over 30 distilleries. Archie Rose is a very Here be dragons. modern American men, while former NRL player her legs. She went on to win several Paralym- theless, each attendee brought a quality taster. popular gin distilled right here in Sydney and Jarryd Hayne’s move to the NFL was akin to Jesus pic and Winter Games titles with prosthetics. Not one of us had passed the age of 23 and yet we their distillery doubles as a gin bar, as many Gordon’s London Dry $35~. Christ’s heavenly ascension. Purdy is now a motivational speaker and man- gathered with our offerings, diverse of gender, of these do. If you care about the taste of what Your grandparent’s drop of choice. Elite athletes are expected to do what they can ages Adaptive Action Sports, an NGO dedi- with the finest tonics we could afford, to indulge you’re drinking, gin is almost certainly for you. on and off field to maintain perfect personal brands cated to reintroducing physically handicapped in consumption so pretentious we astounded It’s a spirit with sufficient complexity to excite Bombay Sapphire $40-45. for massive revenue-pushing media agendas. The athletes back to their respective sports. even ourselves. Flavour profiles were discussed, anyone who wants to natter on about botani- A classic London Dry, widely regarded. general public froth over the idea of superhumans, Cases where an influential figures’ struggle full-bodiedness debated, and the detrimental, cals for hours, and easy-drinking enough that and the sports media industry scrambles endless becomes a positive inspiration aren’t exclu- nay, devastating effects of cheap tonics decried. you can enjoy quite a few gin and tonics over a Four Pillars Rare Dry, $68-70. resources to brand these men and women as para- sive to sport; a recent American study found This is a phenomenon new to Australia. Gin night without keeling over. That’s not even get- Australian gin, with all the gons of this limitless heroic spirit. that teens performed substantially better when is becoming something that the young have ting into the cocktails – anyone who’s picked advances that entails. But does a fan’s positive idolatry lead to any learning about the personal struggles and failed taken up and made their own. Not everyone up a cocktail guide book will know, gin is the positive impact for them? Do fans, many of experiments of Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. wants to down vodka shots and chug beers – spirit. It’s great for experimenting with and Hendricks $65+. whom see elite athletes as role models, bene- Germany’s crowds after placing first in the 100m, Peyton Again, struggle teaches. not that there’s anything wrong with that, but very adaptable. Be it a drink to take to a party Half the reason gin is back. fit from an untouchable deity? Or do they gain 200m, 4x100m relay and long jump events; Hitler Mannequin Mainstream media needs to ditch age-old if it’s not your style and you don’t want to give to impress all your friends, as a refreshing It’s a game-changer. more from a familiar struggler? had used the games and his athletes to showcase PR perfection and embrace the entire human up on alcohol altogether, gin might be worth beverage on a hot afternoon or something Athletes accomplishing great feats under a renewed Germany under Aryan dominance. condition in athletics. Passion, discrimination, a try. The closest parallel is scotch and other to sip while you write an article, gin suits the sit- The Botanist Islay Gin $75+. opposing pressures are common in history, but Although fiercely apolitical, Owens’ legacy pro- rejection, societal oppression, jealousy, power, whiskies, with their established culture. Gin, uation astoundingly well. Costly, but an exemplar aren’t commonly represented. At the 1936 Berlin foundly influenced diversity in American sport. lust, perseverance and the unrelenting hunger however, is cheaper, easier, lighter and lacks the If you’ll excuse me, all this has worked up a of what gin can do. Olympics, Jesse Owens, an African-American ath- Struggle tends to outperform success as a for glory make the games raw and human – let’s same associations with power and wealth. thirst. Where did I put the Hendricks? lete who consistently endured racism, wooed Nazi common human experience, and the public can stop convincing ourselves otherwise. HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 19 SOCIAL Honiscopes

How to eat at These are horoscopes, according to Marx Abercrombie Terrace

Victoria Zerbst loves a good business luncheon Sagittarius Leo Abercrombie Terrace, the USU’s latest campus As the repulsiveness of the work You do not like money, money food outlet, is situated in the new state-of-the-art 2.1 - When your associates sit down it is com- increases, the wage decreases. is the reason you fight. Business School. mon to notice your interest rates in the meal Like any interaction with Corporate Austral- across from you rising. Begin looking into your ia, eating at this venue requires an acknowledge- swap options for all your mates’ meals. ment of, and adherence to, appropriate etiquette 2.2 – If you have a comparative advantage and cultural expectations. I have outlined them in nicoise salad, offer to merge your meal with as follows. the chorizo option to your left. This merger is 1.0 – Shuffle through the door and marvel at a success. Aries Libra the open space and innovative architecture. A 3.0 – Spicy food is too flavourful for you so you The proletarians have nothing to Man is the world of man – state, large winding staircase. Wow. You are on time can refinance the Tabasco sauce on your table, and loose but their chains. They have society. for your business luncheon so you may enter the ask for a loan on the café latte that hasn’t arrived. a world to win. market. 3.1 – Go fetch your cutlery. Two businessmen 1.1 – It is customary to scowl at the lonely din- walk into you at different times. They don’t see you. er who has claimed a monopoly on the big tables. They are too busy. They also have much nicer shoes That is inefficient. than you so your aggression rises again. (See 1.2) 1.2 – Allow your blood pressure to rise. 3.2 – When your digestive system begins its 1.3 – Now walk to the counter and plan your insider trading, it is time to leave and go back to assets. Try not to absorb the tangible anxiety ema- your portfolio. That is what it means to be in the Taurus Scorpio nating off the staff members when the eggplant workforce. You are horrified at our intending The bourgeoisie has stripped of stocks plummet. There is one stuffed eggplant left. 4.0 – You leave with a heavy stomach, heavy to do away with private property. its halo every occupation hith- It is only nine dollars. That is a very good deal. heart, and a surprisingly heavy wallet. erto honored. 2.0 – You demand. And they supply. That’s how 4.1 – Abercrombie Terrace: excellent food, cafés work. Also, economies. sleek interiors and low prices. But at what cost?

AN(TI)NOTATIONS

Gemini Capricorn The bourgeoisie has torn away Reason has always existed, but Happy fucking birthday from the family its sentimental not always in a reasonable form. veil.

Virgo Aquarius The ideas of the ruling class are The last capitalist we hang shall in every epoch the ruling ideas. be the one who sold us the rope.

Cancer Pisces The more you save - the greater To be radical is to grasp things becomes your treasure which by the root. neither moths nor dust will devour - your capital. Art: Zita Walker

REVELRY IN REVIEW as well as free entry to the Ivy’s Pacha level, which normally boasts a $40 entry fee. SUBSKI’s Soiree Combining local DJs and shirtless bodies, SUBSKI and Frances Magiera their new branding of ‘SUBSKI loves you’ certainly delivered. In accordance with the OWeek However, as the day went on, tradition, the SUBSKI Skiing the party-goers did not. Society’s back-to-semester par- Poolclub was completely emp- ty was set to make a splash. The ty by the early evening, and not theme? “Salt, Sand and Snow.” a single university student was While the promotion in the to be found at Pacha downstairs weeks leading up to Saturday in the night. So was it a success? did not attract as much atten- Most attendees were likely too tion as previous events have, a intoxicated to remember. solid turnout of daytime drink- But, with the venue’s layout, ers filled the Ivy’s glistening “Salt, Sand and Snow” allowed Poolclub on Saturday – certain- USyd students to dance, get ly a step up in venue choice. intimate, and drink away their The society promised some already-due-assignment stresses light debauchery with $5 drinks heading into week three. 20 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 21 SRC CASEWORKERS PUZZLES

The Old “Student Start Up Crosswords by Sqrl Scholarship” Cryptic ACROSS DOWN Scholarship Becomes a Loan Centrelink used to have a Student Start Up 1 Social leaders nudge demons in disarray (4,2,5) 2 Choose treatment, or back inside current Scholarship. That was $1025 per semester that you 9 I’d see and I’d hear? (4) treatment. (14) could use to buy text books, stationery, and oth- 10 Hence, skies at sea have sassy quality (10) 3 What’s up, dwarf? (3) er study expenses. This was a great way to make 13 Statue is two feet shorter now (4) 4 Clear above the start (5) For Students Now Applying sure that some students had an opportunity to get 14 Maybe the kneecap and the top of the head 5 Doctor: sick practice. (5) what they needed (or at least a reasonable chunk) started lobotomy late (9) 6 Half a bean runner? (3) when starting the semester. 16 I help myself first. Nothing sounds correct. 7 Cease! Bogus, strange nation that offers oil ... (9,5) For Centrelink Payments The New “Student Start Up Loan” Is no solution stronger? (9) 8 ... must have stormy seas and inlet. (9) 18 Visitor conjectured soundly (5) 11 Organic livery? (7) That Scholarship has now been changed to a 19 Thanks, slut, for a wet body (5) 12 Pen my first one, then editor started to loan. That is, YOU MUST PAY THIS AMOUNT 20 White­collar state in a cull and a mess (9) thwart. (6) BACK. New recipients of Youth Allowance and 21 Oceanic bird at sea was futuristic? (9) 15 Belongs to him, thanks. Mine provokes a Austudy will be offered this loan. The repayments 24 Tease and tease... Finally gets angry (4) reaction? (9) work the same as HECS, and are subject to a year- 26 Leaders’ necrotic ear piercing holes rot. Oh 17 Head Greek character in circular section ly CPI increase. You do not need to repay it until my! Not healthiest start for retreated (7) after your HECs debt has been repaid. However, operation. (10) 18 Duck in strange tiger’s swelling. (6) it would be wise to consider whether you want to 28 Stay away! No enemy initially is cogent. (4) 22 Sure! Matron’s last concoction is for the have that debt, before opting to take out that loan. 29 Minor e­mail on a bizarre poem (7,4) matron. (5) For those current getting the “Student 23 Entire NATO talk held inside (5) Start Up Scholarship” – take care not 25 Soaked world’s first alien (3) to ‘break’ full time study. 27 New York ends: capital corrupts money (3) If you currently receive the scholarship you will continue to be eligible for it (as a scholar- ship not a loan) unless you stop getting the pay- ment for a period and have to re-apply. That is stop being a full time student, such as changing to part-time, defering or otherwise have a ‘break’ (including some overseas travel), even if it is for only one semester. While you will not have to pay ACROSS DOWN back what you previously received, any new pay- ment will count as a loan. Seek advice from a SRC 1 Epiphanies (11) 2 Process of bleeding (14) caseworker if you want further information about Quick 9 Inspirational character (4) 3 Rent out (3) ‘breaks’ in study. 10 Fast Italian dance (10) 4 Livid (5) 13 Make null something already done (4) 5 Well­known (5) 14 False name (9) 6 Bicycle motorcross (3) 16 Backwards enumeration (9) 7 Kissing disease (9,5) 18 Reject disdainfully (5) 8 Someone who desires fighting (9) Ask Abe 19 Classical architectural style (5) 11 Greek vase (7) 20 Adjust to a new place (9) 12 Written with aesthetic or emotional impact (6) 21 Boundary between two objects or spaces (9) 15 Of, or related to the back of the head (9) SRC caseworker HELP Q&A 24 Space just below a roof (4) 17 Central part (7) 26 Cataclysmic disaster (10) 18 Smother, suffocate (6) 28 Malicious (4) 22 Plunder (5) Abe, 29 Appeals made using emotional rather than 23 Sacred inner sancta of temples (5) rational arguments (11) 25 Alcoholic beverage (3) What is the deal with being sick? Do I need to 27 Ovum (3) tell my lecturers / tutors if I can’t come to a class?

Sick Not Tired Sudoku and Target Target Sudoku by Atrus Dear Sick Not Tired,

Depending on your course if you miss 10- 20% or more of your classes you might be given an If you are Absent Fail grade. That is regardless of what your marks are for any assessments. If you are going sick for an to miss a class it is advisable to get a Professional Practitioner’s Certificate (the University’s format assessment Quiz for a doctor’s certificate) from your doctor. It is good manners to email your tutor to explain you should 1. You board a train at Newtown and travel west for three stops. that you will not be in class. You could take that Average: 11, Good: 23, Which station are you now at? opportunity to ask what you missed out on, and apply for Very good: 27, Excellent: 32 2. Which is bigger: Uranus or Neptune? how you can catch up. 3. In what year did Dami Im win the X Factor? Special 4. A “shrewdness” is a collective noun for which animal? If you are sick for an assessment you should 5. In what year was Michael Spence appointed to Vice-Chancellor apply for Special Consideration. Check with Consideration. of the University of Sydney? your faculty for details on how to apply. The rules 6. The life of which US Founding Father is the subject of a Broad- have changed since 2015. You now only have 3 Check with way musical currently playing at Richard Rodgers Theatre? working days after the due date to apply. Do it 7. Who won the women’s final in the Australian Open this year? 8. When referring to computer memory, what is RAM an acronym of? as early as you can. Late applications may not be your faculty Week 2 quiz solutions: 1. University of Western Australia considered, so get it in on time (unless extreme 2. Monica Trapaga 3. Six 4. Mark Holden, Ian 9. True or false: the University of Sydney has a collection of build- ings called the Demountable Village? circumstances prevent that). Please note that if for details on “Dicko” Dickson, Marcia Hines 5. International House 6. you are given a supplementary assessment, and North Queensland Cowboys 7. $4 8. 1978 9. Troy Grant 10. Which country produces the most avocados? you are too sick still (or again) to complete it, you how to apply. 10. 17 should apply for Special Consideration again.

Abe To learn how to do the cryptic and meet other cruciverbalists, find theCrossword Society SRC Caseworkers offer advice and support on a range of issues including: Thursday 10am-12pm outside Hermann’s. Academic Issues, Tenancy issues, Centrelink and more. 9660 5222 or [email protected] HONI SOIT SOIT SEMESTER SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 1 • WEEK2 2 2325 SUPRASUPRA Rainbow Community Organises for Refugees By Rachel Evans. The Postgrad Pages SUPRA Queer Officer. PRESENTED BY Capitalism is constant crisis – revealed with the “none of immigration have grilled applicants with: How of one woman on Nauru who is being harassed displacement of sixty million people from their many partners have you had? Which places have because she is suspected of being a lesbian. We countries in 2015. This year, poverty, war, climate us will be you visited? Can you conduct a secret relation- don’t know if she is, but we know she is being The Aboriginal change and persecution forced more people from ship in your home town? Do you know Madon- threatened.’ their homes than the world has ever experienced. free until na? Do you like Graeco-Roman Wrestling? Do At the forum it was also revealed there is a Iraqi The war, poverty and mass migration forced on you use lube? How many times have you had sex Muslim transgender person stuck in Indonesia Irish of Australia poor and working people has polarised opinion. all of us with him/her? Any hesitancy, any slight inconsis- trying to get to Australia. There was also mention Racism, and homophobia in some regions, are on tencies, are seized upon and refugees are declared of a gay male couple in a Melbourne detention By Mike Butler. the rise. Millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans- are free” untrustworthy. centre. Activists reported one of the couple was gender, intersex (LGBTI) and sex and gender In one case a strict gay Muslim couple spent a raped but cannot report it as the crime was car- SUPRA Indigenous Officer. diverse identifying (SGDI) face life-threatening torturous six years back and forth from the RRT ried out by a senior official. persecution. There are around 2.7 billion people The rainbow community has had a proud Free film screening: An Dubh ina Gheal living in the 76 countries that criminalise homo- tradition of fighting for queer refugee rights. sexuality. The death penalty for homosexuality is Activists fought alongside and won the freedom (Assimilation) applied in Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan for courageous queer Pakistani Ali Humayan. and Yemen. In China several hospitals have been We battled beside these brave queers and won: Seeing that for the first time that I can remember found to use electric shock therapy as “anti-gay Motahar, Bipblop, Clary and Walter’s queer ref- there will be no St Patrick’s Day parade down treatments.” ugee status. Mass outcry erupted at the news the Sydney this year, SUPRA is paying its own Queer refugees flee to escape hanging, state immigration department was to deport gay Paki- Indigenous tribute to the Irish with this new film sanctioned murder, beatings from mobs, they stani Ali Choudhry from his long-term partner about the ties between the Irish and Australia’s flee laws imported from colonial powers and the Dr. Matthew Hynd. We won that campaign too. First Nations. imperialist-backed, Christian right. David Kato, We’ve won an end to children in detention The Irish were the first and longest suffering a Ugandan activist was murdered campaigning under Howard, the closure of offshore process- people to be oppressed/colonised by the English against a US Christian right developed anti-gay ing. We can win this again, and more. We can win (since the 1067 invasion) and Australia’s First bill in his country on 26th January 2011. His case individual cases, and the macro. Nations are some of the last (1788 – present) to reminds us of how dangerous it is for queers in But it is hard for SGDI refugees to be public live under the yoke of English law. countries where governments are polarising - they have to sign ‘codes of conduct’, they get bul- Given that, it is perhaps unremarkable how opinion to detract from their corporate crimes, lied by community - rainbow and migrant. We many Aboriginal people have Irish heritage – their social crimes. have to be sensitive to this - in the advent they political activists, politicians and members of the Contrary to arguments of bigoted conserva- can’t go public - we can walk beside them in any Gary Foley, Stolen Generations among them – and are proud tives within the global south, homosexuality is way they are able, and hold their flag. 1971 to claim it. Yet conversely the Irish were embed- not foreign, or alien, or a Western imposition on The tide is turning in favor of refugees. Asha ded into ‘white Australia’ by assimilation and Africa, Asia or the Middle East. and her family and the 267 refugees the govern- were fully complicit in the dispossession of the ia. By balancing the historical, the personal, the Screening at 6.10pm, Friday 18 Anti-gay laws are a colonial imposition - Indi- ment attempts to shunt them back to Nauru and 12 First Nations peoples. poetic and deliberately spoken in mother tongue March, New Law School Lecture an Penal Code Section 377A is a case in point. Manus, has led to a tremendous outcry. It is not so This film is about both. An Dubh ina Gheal over English, it crystallises the intimate and com- An article by Han and O’Mahoney The British much about the 267, it is about the 3500 onshore, (Assimilation) is a fascinating documentary that plex ties that bind First Nations and the Irish. 55 Theatre 024, Darlington Campus. Colonial Origins of Anti-Gay Laws, in the Wash- it is about the 800 offshore. It is let them all in, it is reveals the hidden history of the Irish in Austral- minutes run time. ington Post notes that ‘former British colonies are let them all stay, it is free them all. much more likely to have laws that criminalize And from this revulsion the polls are dipping, homosexual conduct than other states in general. the Liberals are now down in two party preferred. SUPRA Supervisor of the Year Almost 70 percent of states with a British colonial How can the rainbow community do our bit? Discrimination Resolution Procedures 2015 and origin continue to criminalize homosexual con- We can resurrect the 78ers chant ‘stop police the Students Complaints Procedures 2015 should duct.’ attacks on gays, women and blacks’ and add our Supervisor of the Year provide better protection for students and we will In times of economic crisis, rich governments sizeable political strength to this great moral fight awards closely monitor how students fare. For our part polarise and scapegoat. They use homophobia as No Pride in of our time. We can address the root cause of this SYDNEY UNIVERSITY POSTGRADUATE REPRESENTATIVE ASSOCIATION SUPRA wants to change the culture of higher they use racism - to break down solidarity - to Detention at to the courts. This couple was desperate enough crisis. awards for 2016 degree research at Sydney by making excellence divide and rule. Despite marriage equality victo- Mardi Gras to offer to show the RRT them having sex, to First world capitalists erect borders against the By Francine Seeto. – as judged by students and not academics – the ries sweeping the global north, and some coun- prove their homosexuality. The RRT said this was global south. They scapegoat, smear and jail the most worthy reward for all research supervisors tries in the global south, homophobia is on the extreme, and once more, refused their applica- poor. They organise the free movement of capi- SUPRA Student Advice & Advocacy at the University of Sydney. We hope that in time rise in Russia, Iraq, Syria, Africa, Indonesia and tion. As an activist lesbian refugee commented at tal. We need to organise for the free movement Officer. supervisory bullying will not be tolerated any- the arch-enemy of queers - the far right - are get- a refugee rights meeting ‘there is too much weight of people. where in faculties and that excellent and support- ting more organised. placed on storytelling - this is also the power There is significant work being done. Our ive supervision is the norm. As President of Australia’s Human Rights game - a voyeuristic fascination - instead we need LGBTI elder leaders - the 1978ers - did a ‘Let- This semester SUPRA launched our Supervisor Commission Professor Triggs elucidated at a to devote more time to the social justice stories.’ ThemLand’ photoshoot at a recent QueerThink- of the Year awards for 2016 to acknowledge and meeting on February 24th, hosted by the Unit- It is the principle of the gay liberation move- ing forum. The 2016 Mardi Gras Board led a ‘Let- celebrate the many excellent research supervisors This year we have one ing Church LGBTIQ Refugees: Australia can do ment that none of us will be free until all of us ThemStay’ chant and action at FairDay. at the University of Sydney. more, ‘around 175 million people are vulnerable are free. The Uniting Church LGBTIQ Refugee meeting Last year SUPRA conducted a student survey award available in each to persecution for sexual and gender identity. For this, the rainbow community, as we go into held 409 people with 60 organisations represent- on supervisory bullying at this university and Only 250,000 ever achieve the dream of finding a year where a plebiscite for marriage equality will ed. The ‘No Pride In Detention’ Mardi Gras float published key findings in an article we ran in faculty so if you have asylum.’ polarise as well as popularise our rights, we need was inundated with requests to participate. The Honi. A sex and gender diverse identifying (SGDI) to remember queer refugees. That we see SGDI rainbow community is marching, lets us cohere Our survey found that many research students a great supervisor we refugee can legally seek asylum under the 1951 refugees, that we love you, that we will fight with this anger and strike united. experienced bullying behaviour by their supervi- International Refugee Convention, which Aus- every inch of our breath until you are free. We can make a difference, solidarity is strength sors and that more than half of students in this encourage you to nominate tralia signed. In PNG we know of migration agents who and together we are strong. The movie Pride shows situation did not have confidence in their facul- But Australia and its Immigration Minister, have told refugees to stay in the closet because our proud tradition of standing up for oppressed ty or the University in assisting them. SUPRA them for SUPRA Supervisor its department and all its officials, and Refugee laws are against them. They cannot apply for groups. Victory to the poor, for we are numerous called on the University to adopt a zero tolerance Review Tribunal (RRT) members all flout the asylum to Australian migration and begin their and we will win. Free free the refugees. approach to supervisory bullying and for new of the Year. Convention. They jail children, families, queers, rightful claim for asylum because ALP Prime ‘No Pride in Detention: Queer Block to policies to provide a clear pathway for students women fleeing torture and persecution in clear Minister Julia Gillard rebuilt the Nauru & Manus Palm Sunday rally’ meeting at 12:30 on 20th of to follow where they have concerns about super- violation of the international agreement. jail cells then Kevin Rudd declared ‘no one who March, Department Of Immigration And Cit- visory bullying. We also wanted students to have This year we have one award available in They become the oppressor government by arrives by boat will ever be settled in Australia, izenship, Ground Floor 26 Lee Street, Sydney. clearer and more effective options for taking a each faculty so if you have a great supervisor we jailing queer refugees in PNG on Manus Island they will remain on the islands until a third coun- Rachel Evans is the Queer Officer for Sydney complaint, external to the Faculty and the Uni- encourage you to nominate them for SUPRA which has 14 years imprisonment for homosexu- try accepts them.’ University Postgraduate Representative Associa- versity. Supervisor of the Year. ality. This government demeans SGDI queer refu- At the ground breaking meeting hosted by the tion, a long-term marriage equality and refugee This year SUPRA is pleased the University of Contact [email protected] gees in the interview process, they foist a Western Uniting Church LGBTIQ Refugees: Australia can campaigner and Green Left Weekly journalist and Sydney has improved policies for research stu- ‘coming out’ and LGBTIQ identity framework on do more Professor Denis Altman, said ‘we know socialist activist with the Resistance Club on cam- dents who seek an end to unacceptable behaviour applicants to reduce their chance of success. of a gay male couple on Nauru who are not leav- pus by their supervisors. Both the Harassment and These are just some of the questions we know ing their tent for fear of being bashed. We know

The SUPRA Supervisor of the Year awards seek to promote, recognise and reward excellence in research higher degree supervision at the University of Sydney as nominated and judged by research postgrads. In 2016 one award will be up for grabs in each faculty.

Nominations close October 31.

Details and nomination forms are available from SUPRA or

Email: [email protected]

24 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 1 • WEEK 3 25 SRC REPORTS IN A PICKLE?

Note: tem. ‘Next steps’ proposes that B.phil students President These pages can be awarded honours if they graduate with a belong to credit average and after the completion of a forth Chloe Smith the Office year project. One academic noted that this new Bearers of honours system will not qualify students for entry This week, I want to talk about Simple Extensions. the SRC. in to PHD programs in the faculty of Arts and You’ve probably heard rumours, whispers, maybe They are Social Sciences (FASS). One footnote in the paper been told one statement that’s been contradicted not altered, noted that the University plans to completely by another. But here’s the truth – Simple Exten- edited or phase-out honours as a pathway towards a PHD sions are not dead. They are very much alive, but changed in moving students into masters programs. But the not as you knew them. any way by vast majority of masters’ placements are full fee Previously, Simple Extensions were only grant- the editors paying, more generalized and two years in length. Criminal Charges ed in the Arts faculty. They gave students up to of Honi Soit Running two honours programs concurrently five extra days to submit a non-examination will place further hurt small departments already assessment, without academic penalty, for reasons underfunded. Vertical degrees are still consid- that don’t require documentation such as minor ered in the new degree structure. Vertical degrees Motor Vehicle Accidents illness or misadventure. Last year, the university include a generalized undergraduate degree fol- Fines moved to scrap Simple Extensions in favour of lowed by a deregulated postgraduate specialized a centralised Special Consideration system. The degree. This is the University’s way of shifting a bigger cost onto to students, it will see us spend When does your idea was that this would be a better way to keep Insurance track of individual issues, rather than relying on more time studying at University and see average Debts individual discretion to grant extensions. student debt increase exponentially. Whilst there may be some benefits of this new The Centre of Peace and Conflict Studies has student visa run out? also been dragged in to the USYD restructure It is your responsibility to ensure that you comply with all your student visa system, Simple Extensions are still very important conditions, especially the length of stay allowed under your visa entitlement. for students. The new system is still experiencing with the Australian reporting that its independ- Immigration ...and more teething problems and anyone who has ever tried ence could be lost through a merger with FASS. You can find out about all the applicable visa conditions and your visa expiry date using the The SRC will stand up for students and staff! online service (Visa Entitlement Verification Online – “VEVO”) on the Department of Immigration to register with Disability Services knows it’s not and Border Protection website. Use this URL: https://online.immi.gov.au/evo/firstParty exactly a walk in the park, especially for students In the first week of semester we hosted an open with mental/physical illnesses. Sometimes, stu- meeting at SCA. Here students moved a motion When accessing this online service, you will need your passport number and other If You Have a Legal Problem, dents don’t have the capacity to see a doctor, espe- with consensus condemning plans to move SCA identification details which can be found on the visa grant email sent by the Department. cially their regular GP or psychiatrist. Sometimes from Callan Park and merging with FASS. The If you are not sure how to use VEVO or have trouble with this online service, you We Can Help for FREE! you don’t know that there’s going to be a problem Education Officers have been leafleting and lec- can get FREE help from the SRC registered migration agent by contacting 9660 5222. until the night before a due date. Simple Exten- ture bashing classes to promote the March 16th Make sure you put the visa expiry date in your calendar and remember to NOT overstay your visa! sions exist to give students some breathing space rally, but there is no doubt that the campus needs Overstaying leads to serious legal consequences which in some situations may require you to 法律諮詢 We have a solicitor leave Australia immediately and you will not be able to come back again for 3 years. who speaks Cantonese, in the event that something does happen. to activate if we are to stop the restructure. This 法律アドバイス Mandarin & Japanese So, what’s the go now? Student representatives Wednesday join students and staff marching to Level 1, Wentworth Bldg, University of Sydney p: 02 9660 5222 | w: src.usyd.edu.au Liability limited by This service is provided from the SRC and SUPRA formed a working Michael Spence’s office and demand – NO STAFF Level 1, Wentworth Bldg, University of Sydney a scheme approved to you by the Students’ e: solicitor @ src.usyd.edu.au under Professional Representative Council, group with Disability Services and faculty staff CUTS – NO DEGREE CUTS – NO TO SCHOOL p: 02 9660 5222 | w: src.usyd.edu.au Standards Legislation. University of Sydney e: [email protected] ACN 146 653 143 | MARN 1276171 and came up with a new matrix, which will see AND FACULTY MERGERS. ACN 146 653 143 | MARN 1276171 extensions reduced from a maximum of five days to a maximum of two. If an extension is granted, it will not affect a student’s ability to also apply Sexual Harrassment for Special Consideration. Importantly, this new matrix will also be available to all schools and Officers On April 28, 1954 Albert Einstein faculties. This proposal will be put to Academic Board on March 30 and will hopefully be passed. Olivia Borgese and Gina Tran after attending a Christian Science In the meantime, your student reps are pushing church in New York asked; faculties to clearly communicate the situation to It’s more than just ‘a joke’. Humour is old, humour is new. It can be basic, convoluted, quick, Did you know? “Do you people realise all students – that Simple Extensions still exist and that students have a right to them. If you have long-winded and it can be dogs that look like any questions about the system or the informa- fried chicken. For those who devote their lives to what a wonderful thing tion you’re receiving in your courses, get in touch it – it’s a daring step into unknown and unsettling you have?” with the SRC caseworkers. Enjoy week three! territory. But whilst humour (and the internet) are forever, sexism, racism, transphobia, ableism, transmisogyny and queerphobia don’t have to be. Education Officer An inappropriate joke isn’t ‘just having a laugh’. The SRC can help with: We shouldn’t have to ‘lighten up, relax,’ or listen to ‘it’s ok, I don’t actually believe it.’ Because no matter Dylan Griffiths what you say they are always doing harm - maybe not to those who hear the joke, but through these The March 16 rally against the restructure is every day passing comments they normalise the - Centrelink now a staff and student rally co–hosted by the inferiority of wom*n and non-cis male bodies in National Tertiary Education Union. The restruc- a casual, ‘socially accepted’ way. These jokes domi- So, what ture’s faculty amalgamations will see general staff nate our social spaces and perpetuate the way soci- - Tenancy Advice lose their jobs, decreasing support for academics, ety still sees us as second-tier, from when we are is Christian leading to a decrease in our education quality. children, through education, our workplaces, on Science? This is why we must fight back! the street and even our own homes. - Legal Advice In the University’s latest paper on the new As Sexual Harassment Officers, one of our degree program ‘next steps’, Pip Pattison (the main focuses this semester is to draw awareness DVC, previously employed by Melbourne Uni- to the harmful nature of oppressive comments versity) showcases the new Bachelor of Philoso- and jokes. - Special Consideration phy. Indeed it seems that some of SRCs biggest Offensive jokes follow us everywhere. They fears are coming true. Smaller schools and depart- might be in a tute, something going viral on social ments will struggle to provide the new 4000 level media, a meme, an ad, a lewd caption on a Tinder - Academic Appeals subjects required for a major under arrangements profile, in your favourite show, or maybe just a made by the new B/Phil. One high up academic conversation at the dinner table with unfortunate in the school of Arts and Social Sciences claims family members. Some are subtle, some are more .. ...and more this will lead to larger departments adopting the explicit - but all are wrong. There are many differ- - Plagiarism You are welcome to curriculums of smaller ones. It was also reported ent types of uncomfortable - but if you feel hurt, attend a free talk, that the B.phil will also lead to curriculum and humiliated, offended, uneasy or even if some- by Nate Fredrick CS, staff cuts as small departments, centres, and pro- thing just doesn’t sit right when you hear one of Need help or advice? Your SRC is here to assist you. Christian Science Woolley Common grams close, unable to provide the with the new these ‘jokes’ - it’s always right to let them know. (If The service is FREE, independent and confidential. degree program. you feel safe and comfortable doing so!) Phone for an appointment: (02) 9660 5222 Practitioner Room N480 Enquiries The B.phil threatens the current honours sys- It’s always more than just ‘a joke’. answering this and 1-2pm Wednesday Sue: 95212162 We are located at: Level 1, Wentworth Building (G01) your questions. 23rd March Christine: 0416024600

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J E S U S First Year Student Troll Under Bridge Still Excited To Return To M4 Trending Adam Chalmers met a firsty in the flesh. Motorway 10 things someone else EXCLUSIVE: Abbott’s Forthcoming Novel So, What The FUCK Juliette Wakefield - Julez or Julezzy to her friends Mary Ward is from Western Sydney and wrote about plagiarism - described herself as “having a great time at uni” has literally driven a car on this motorway Are These? and “still excited” today. before. Wow. What a diverse comedy writing group. Thomas Sydney St John is not angry... In an exclusive interview with Honi, Ms. Wakefield, Area man reconsiders list just like... curious. 18, said she’s been “finding lectures hard” but has enjoyed a number of free barbecues. of celebrities he would fuck What up readers? Just a quick one for you, anyone down with whatever these things are? “I’ve been to 23 different club events already! I even made a friend at one!” she said, excitedly following tragic breakup I have been at uni for just over a year now, and not showing Honi a picture of Ms. Abigail Wong, a only do I not yet know the precise purpose for and/or 19-year-old Archaeology student. motive of these machines – I don’t think I’ve even met Intersectional bullies not a soul yet with the requisite knowledge to fill me in. Ms. Wong could not be reached for comment. sure which bathrooms to Let’s start with what I know. They, in fact, are not the Ms. Wakefield has missed “a couple of lectures” Martian transport pods famously depicted by H.G. but doubts this trend will continue. take nerds for headflushing Wells in his novella War of the Worlds. So the most @Oliver Moore common myth has been debunked, and it gets no “This week was an exception, because I was so clearer from here. excited to go to all these events. Next week I’m going to go to every lecture - even the 8 AM maths one.” The troll will return to the M4 motorway, six years 7 things you have to do, Three Relationship The tri-footed Machine Of My Nightmares generally after government acquisition of the road resulted Best Ways prefers human company, but apparently can co-exist Experts remain cautiously optimistic about the claims. in his unemployment. otherwise you will never, Tips From Someone with others of the same species. To Spell Annabel At time of writing, Ms. Wakefield was “very excited Vladivard Ygrrelvish, a professional troll of 27 ever die Who’s Never Been They definitely don’t take photos, and I’ve never to be in a real-life student newspaper!” years, said he was glad to have been reinstated to Cameron been close enough to hear the noises they make. the post he lost in 2010. In A Relationship Written by Annabel Cameron I recently spoke personally with the Dean of “Obviously it’s great to be back on the M4,” + More John Lennon Tribute Songs Will Edwards is not lonely. He is NOT. Do Engineering about this slippery barnacle on the hull The Qursor Quiz: Ygrrelvish said. Annabelle Cameronne you think he is lonely? Because he isn’t. of University culture. Annybel Camyrin Iceberg or Cos Ygrrelvish was first appointed to the position of M4 Ennabel Comarun 1: Communicate Effectively I was given his room number through a helpful lady at Troll in 1989, under the Greiner government. Annabbel Camerin the general Faculty number, which I was put through Lettuce? How Do I Take Annabel Cameron Communication is key. While I haven’t tested this to from a not-so-helpful gentleman at the general The father of three said he felt there was no myself, because I’ve never had someone to test it University help line, who I was put on to after having Which one are you? 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