week five semester one 2013 honi soit honi Will the strikes go on? pg 4 The reality of adult ADHD Pg 10 ‘It’s like a jungle sometimes’ - Art on the street pg12 Happy Birthday, what’s in Sydney Film Festival Pg 14 your head? DISCONTENTS HONI NEWS 6. New Mexico student A Conversation paper censored for sex edition Pierre Ryckmans, an internationally Honi Soit is my education. Being an about teachers that were role models to Lucy Watson renowned scholar, essayist and literary editor has forced me to find value in the him in university, he simply replied “no critic, said in an interview with Radio writing of young people, and this has teacher left as much of an impression 8. The psychology of National’s Late Night Live that his ideal been one of the most beneficial influ- on me as my university mates.” Hope- rape Jokes university was one where students ences this position has had on my day- fully, in 40 years from now, when you’re Nina Ubaldi are not sitting in class and staring at a to-day life. Instead of reading the run a scholar, teacher, journalist, lawyer, blackboard, it is one where they are con- of the mill opinions of 40-something doctor, astronaut or even unemployed, versing. He discovered classical music reporters in publications like the Sydney you will be able to say the same thing. ARTS & through his uni friends that were music Morning Herald, I can be educated in an lovers and he would ascertain new books unexplored territory like the life of an Avani Dias CULTURE when his companions would read parts adult with ADHD on page 10 of this of captivating pieces of literature to paper. I can discover the links between Editor-in-chief 13.Sydney’s live each other. To Pierre Ryckmans, these street art and rap music through the music funeral exchanges were far more important than words of Sam Jonscher, on page 12. Or any of the time he spent listening to a I can read about the intricacies of lin- Jeremy Elphick lecture. guistics by reading the article by Nina 14. Dan Schreiber: This outlook is one that I have been Ubaldi on page 8. lucky enough to inhabit in my years I want you to treat each of the articles Funny Guy at Sydney University. Whatever your in this paper like a good conversation opinions on the classroom, education with one of your friends. Like in a good Cameron Smith standards and teachers, we should be in conversation, you must be generous agreement in this idea that we are lucky when approaching these articles. Gener- THE to have the dispensation of being cul- ous in the sense that you will take on the OIN tivated, cultured and schooled by our ideas you find in these articles and take S peers. Not only will this concept vali- them into new territories. In a beautiful 22. Game of date every time that you decide to ditch progression, you can then discuss them class and have a beer on the grass with with your friends. You can even hate Thrones: Union your friends, but it is one of the reasons the opinions you find in this paper. Just Board Edition I enjoy being an editor of Honi Soit to make sure you talk about them. the extent that I do. When Pierre Ryckmans was asked 23. FINALLY! AN HONI FOR MEN! Editor-in-chief: Avani Dias Editors: Rafi Alam, Bryant Apolonio, Max Chalmers, Mariana Podesta-Diverio, Hannah Ryan, Nick Rowbotham, Xiaoran Shi, Nina Ubaldi, Lucy Watson. Reporters: Georgia Behrens, Cameron Caccamo, Jeremy Elphick, Henry Innis, Georgia Kriz, Sam Jonscher, Stella Ktens, Brad Mariano, Luca Morelti, Justin Pen, Chelsea Reed, Cameron Smith, Caitlin Still, Harry Stratton, Jaimie Summerfield, Edwin Montoya Zorilla WOULD YOU RATHER... Cover Image: Anita Maritz (Sydney College of the Arts) Photographers and Cartoonists: Darren Lesaguis, Jennifer Yiu Be taught French by a Puzzles: Dominic Campbell, Dover Dubosarsky pretentious, croissant- wielding Burmese The editors of Honi Soit and the SRC acknowledge the traditional kitten? owners of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. Honi OR Soit is written, printed, and distributed on Aboriginal land. If you are reading this, you are standing on Aboriginal land. Please Brush your teeth with recognise and respect this. a cactus? Want to place an advertisement in Honi Soit ? 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He will wield it right into your abdomen, should you screw up your conjugation of être. (It is a sharpened and buttered crois- @honi_soit sant, so it is pretty threatening.) http://www.facebook.com/honisoitsydney www.honisoit.com letters At no point was a I threatened with decency. When writing for a publica- chemical violence or a subscription to tion outside of “social media” — as the Socialist Alternative, so I complied you put it — an exclamation mark is with her pointless request. to be used sparingly. In fact, one is The rest of the day was fairly unevent- often precisely one too many. Three ful. A young police officer I spoke to at in a row is just preposterous. & the trough grunted and said the day had Yours in pretentiousness, been “fucking boring”. I spoke to the Christopher J. Browne Carslaw coffee-cart lady who was befud- SOUND Never Leaving VIII dled as to why there were a group of hippies banging trash cans outside her place of business. I informed her they In opposition to Euthanasia fury were most likely trying to disrupt the Dear Honi, students in the Computer Lab, and she Rafi Alam is a hypocrite. In his suggested that they bang their drums opening editorial for 2013, he railed less rhythmically or risk sounding like a Raytheon and the USSC cal faction/Club or Society. Further against the global tragedy of suicide. percussion group. Dear Honi, assertion that all members of said fac- Yet in last week’s issue, we heard Rafi tion/Club buy into groupthink and that Later that day I sought out the smelli- arguing not only for suicide and the I’d like to expand on Harry Stratton’s anyone associated with said faction/ est looking protestor I could find for killing of the suicidal to be enshrined exposure of weapons producer Raythe- Club is untrustworthy and should not some answers. Sadly, it turned out most in NSW state law, but clothed in on’s sponsorship of the USSC, specifi- be taken at their word, especially the of the circulating rumours were false. the legitimacy of our medical com- cally his point about links to the Israeli writer. Spurious claim that rival faction/ There was no acid-assault or siege of the munity. Euthanasia is a barbarous government’s ongoing crimes against Club does not engage in groupthink and chemistry building. There was no Grand regress and something which all stu- the Palestinian people. is always trustworthy. Assertion that all Theft Auto of employees attempting to dents should oppose – if only for Sydney University continues to sup- those who are ‘really interested’ in the breach the City Road barricade. There the sake of the tens of thousands port Israeli institutions complicit in topic at hand should get involved in rival weren’t even any stompings from the of young people who struggle with international crimes, including the faction/Club. One last jab at writer and cops – just a handful of arrests of “rov- despair every year. They need to be Hebrew University and the Technion. their faction/Club. ing picketers”, who in their righteous given support; not handed a plastic Both provide direct material and ideo- frenzy ignored police requests and were Overly formal signoff, bag and a zip tie by the likes of Cate logical support for the Israeli military, duly manhandled out of lecture theatres. Faehrmann. the ongoing illegal occupation of Pales- Sara Amorosi I’ll admit I am completely oblivious Yours faithfully tinian land (UN Resolution 242, 1967) Science/Arts VII to the politics behind the strike, but as Rowan Light and violations of the Fourth Geneva someone who had to be on campus Convention. As recently as 2010, the BA (Hons) IV A-Niche letter on some Ka-Poor that day and was looking forward to a UN found prima facie evidence of war form little social upheaval while everyone else crimes committed during the Israeli mil- pissed off to the beach, I second the Smelly and Impotent itary’s Operation Cast Lead. In response to the review of “Anish Kapoor at the MCA” and the opening words of that constable in the toilet. Dear Honi Soit, Those who are disturbed by the influ- line, “[I] can’t recall the last time con- Power to the people, sure, but with a ence of a missile manufacturer on our I recently opened the bag that temporary art was this fun” makes me little more style than this in the future.