Honi Soit Week 2, Semester 1, 2020 / First printed 1929 Memories of Manning Bar / p. 11 The Western roots Why collective autonomy Vignettes of Hong Kong, of coronavirus / p. 8 should be abolished / p. 10 January 2020 / p. 16 LETTERS Acknowledgement of Country Letters Honi Soit is published on the stolen land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. For over 230 years, First Nations people in this country have suffered from the destructive effects of invasion. The editors of this paper recognise that, as a team of settlers occupying the lands of the Bidjigal, Darug, Gadigal, Wangal and Sudoku is for nerds Goodbye Simon Um? Wallumedegal people, we are beneficiaries of these reverberations that followed European settlement. As we strive throughout the year to offer a platform to the voices Good morning and welcome back to another puzzle I can add to my list of Dear Editors, Dear Editors, mainstream media ignores, we cannot meet this goal without providing a space for First Nations people to share their experiences and perspectives. A student paper which the Honi Team, games that are inferior to the nonet of does not acknowledge historical and ongoing colonisation and the white supremacy embedded within Australian society can never adequately represent the students Except nothing is good and my numbers. True, love is in the air and Excellent work with your investigation Newspapers are cool and I like them. of the institution in which it operates. We seek to resist colonial violence and the racist power structures that serve to oppress those who are Indigenous to this land. displeasure is paramount. in the writing of the Crossword, and of this homophobe, although I don’t Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land. This is not a placeholder because we It is now my second week back at I shed a tear for Manning Bar in the believe he should’ve been allowed to had to remove a letter due to being University and one item on the small Target, but do not dare Manning Bar resign, the University should of fired potentially defamatory. Defamation list of things keeping me here is your my sudoku. Each week I will pick up him. What’s more concerning is how law is cool and good. Contents Editorial paper. Is it for the witty headlines? your paper, and each week I will recycle he got the job in the first place. I believe The cutting edge feature stories? Or it, but as a man standing up when others there is obviously high level corruption - A human person In the first couple of weeks of my Student culture is eroded by the same even the satirical comment on our might not, please give me my numerical involved and someone should report What’s on / 2 Editor in Chief: Nina Dillon first year at uni, I would sit out on the things that erode so much else that is diverse university society? The answer, negotiation. the facts to ICAC (As Hardman was Britton Manning Bar terrace on a Tuesday valuable in life. Economic precarity, to all three of these questions, is no. a serving Police officer at the time of Nudes, declarations of afternoon with a handful of people political alienation, the corruption It is for one page and one page alone. Yours truly, one of the last sudoku gaining the job) Gossip / 3 I’d tentatively began to call friends to of small-time (student) politicians, It resides in the back tenth and stares enthusiasts, I would do so, however I don’t affection and hate mail Editors: Nina Dillon Britton, read that week’s edition of Honi Soit. creeping neoliberalisation and our down the satire section with daring and Ror y. have all the facts. Perhaps someone, may be sent to News / 4 Matthew Forbes, Zhiquan Gan, Speaking to people for this week’s soulless participation in it all. intrigue. I am, of course, talking about like yourselves or SRC can look into Robbie Mason, Angad Roy, Lara editorial about the Manning Bar they But spaces like this (small, often the puzzle section and specifically the We love our fans! filing a report to NSW Independent [email protected] Sonnenschein, Ranuka Tandan, knew in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, the insignificant) paper carve out a space sudoku. Now if you pick up the latest Wake you bunch of fuckwits......go Commission Against Corruption, to Manning I knew was in many ways resistant to these trends. It’s a place for Analysis / 6 paper you will find no sudoku, but stuff your conservative beliefs up your prevent something like this happening Chuyi Wang, Madeline Ward, unchanged. Sticky floors, mis-matched irreverence (p. 23), reflection (p. 11-18) an experimentally fruity find a word. miserable ass. Bunch of cunts. again. Lei Yao. decor, sagging couches. But mainly, it and gossip (p. 3). Duncan Kennedy, in Now this was enjoyable up until the Opinion / 9 was just empty. his caustic analysis of the hierarchy of point where I realised that this is - Pierre Feletti - Jane (Concerned student) Contributors: Dr. Thomas J So many have mourned the loss of law schools, reminds us that it’s exactly Multilingual / 11 Manning Bar, both former students the role of students to carve out these Adams, Michael Albinowski, who saw its heyday and students our spaces of resistance. It’s a place where Kiki Amberber, Jocelin Chan, age who performatively mourn its we create something of a unified Feature / 12 Felix Faber, Deaglan Godwin, absence from their imagined campus vibrant campus life, however illusory Weekly lives. that may be. Vivienne Guo, Josh Höhne, But for those of us that never knew Obviously, the role of an editor in Vibe check: failed Hines is allegedly also running. Boring Ben rights and protestors more generally. Culture / 14 Marlow Hurst, Kedar Maddali, the Manning that deserved to be that creation is incredibly small. I’d is a SUBS/SULS double who. We hope he Labor has turned its backs on us, Shania O’Brien, Himath missed, what should be missed is a like to thank everyone who shared their If you haven’t seen the SASS Welcome knows how to use facetune! and turned its back on its own voter Perspective / 16 Sriniwasa, Lucy Taylor. space for atomised, lonely students to memories of Manning Bar with me, and to Uni Party video yet, we suggest Plotter Prudence has certainly been base.” congregate (have a beer) and talk. To the reporters who contributed pieces you watch it immediately. It explains plotting! In the SRC president’s office, no “We will continue to oppose why they barely managed a half-full less. Plotter Prudence, Joker Julie and Liam Labor’s inhumane refugee policy Artists: Shrawani Bhattarai, create something of a unified student to this edition. In particular, Claire SRC/ 20 life. Ollivain for this edition’s cover art, room of tired old Liberal and Unity “Doon” Donohoe were seen conspiring in on the streets and on Palm Sunday.” Ben Lopes, Kate Scott. In his story of the Theatresports at which is the most beautiful memorial hacks doing their best impressions of our favourite basement early last week. The incident also drew criticism Comedy / 22 Manning Bar the day after 9/11 (p. of our famously ugly bar. Real Human University Students. from the NUS Queer Department, Cover artist: Claire Ollivain 12), Rob Carlton describes the bar as Naughty Boy who claimed Albo had given UNSW a space of collective grieving and joy. Yours, in solidarity, Loose lips sink (USU) ships Education Officer Shovan Bhattarai What spaces of collective anything Nina Dillon Britton DJ Albo took some time out of his busy the finger after she confronted him exist today on campus? Honi (Spice, 2019) alum, Carrie Wen, schedule to flip off some filthy queers this over the ALP’s support of the is reported to have drunkenly decided weekend. Religious Exemptions Bill. to run for USU and at a SULS event, In a video of the incident, the No Pride But not everyone was so Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. The SRC’s no less! We wish Capricious Carrie all In Detention and Homos Against Scomo unhappy, like USU President operation costs, space and administrative support are financed by the University of Sydney.Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s directors of student publications: Maia the best in her political endeavours. contingent are heard chanting “One, Two, Connor Wherret, who commented Edge, Peiqing Fan, Nina Mountford, Roisin Murphy, Mikaela Pappou and Maxim Vishney. 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