Queues, confusion and closures: the cost of USyd’s new student services / p. 14 The ‘daddy of robots’: USyd’s What to do when you’re Burgers and baguettes beget newest partner wants you to about to be punched in the burgettes: a masturbatory fuck a robot / p. 16 face : a handy guide / p. 10 review of Taste’s latest / p. 12 S2W1 / FIRST PUBLISHED 1929 PUBLISHED S2W1 / FIRST HONI SOIT LETTERS Acknowledgement of Country Fan mail We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. The University of Sydney – where we write, publish and distribute Honi Soit – is on the sovereign land of these people. As students and journalists, we recognise our complicity in the ongoing colonisation of Indigenous land. In Paul’s misses the point recognition of our privilege, we vow to not only include, but to prioritise and centre the experiences of Indigenous people, and to be reflective when we fail to. We recognise our duty to be a counterpoint to the racism that plagues the mainstream media, and to adequately represent the perspectives of Indigenous students at Life and Work at St Paul’s College croft founded the Australian Indig- and the third won the New Colombo students, who taught me more about our University. We also wholeheartedly thank our Indigenous reporters for the continuing contribution of their labour to our learning. enous Mentoring Experience (now Scholarship in order to explore ques- the best aspects of the twenty-first Your last issue included an article Your nation-wide), Nat Ware founded the tions of human diversity, including century than, at my age, I could ever last issue included an article about St international not-for-profit student creative culture and sexuality. have imagined. Who made this Paul’s College by Nick Bonyhady, in business, 180 Degrees Consulting Is this a college that has failed? Is this I am not sure whether you are inter- Editorial Contents which he said that “according to the (but before he came to Paul’s), three a college in any way consistent with ested in exploring both sides of this College’s Senior Tutor Allan Atkin- Paul’s students founded the Sydney the one Bonyhady describes? All these question, but I hope that you’ll pub- Over the holidays, I wrote an article about the retro- Letters / 2 edition happen? son, two thirds of Paul’s boys typically Catapult Business Competition, and details are easily available online. lish this letter in full, in the interests grade attitudes that have prevailed at St Paul’s Col- score credit grades or below”. David Mann founded Shades, for gay Bonyhady must have seen them. He of honest journalism. Bonyhady has cited the lowest annual students. writes about intellectual standards. lege and reared their ugly head in several well pub- News and Analysis / 4 Editor-in-Chief: Nick Bonyhady Alan Atkinson licised incidents of sexual assault and slut-shaming. result for some years. His “glass-half- Also, from 2010 to 2015, every year But don’t good intellectual standards Emeritus Professor Alan Atkinson, an eminent Aus- Opinion / 7 Editors empty” approach also leaves readers except one, the University’s Convoca- depend on careful objectivity? Doesn’t to imagine that many Paul’s students tion Medal was awarded to Paul’s stu- that involve arguing against your own tralian historian and former Head Tutor at Paul’s, Jayce Carrano Kishor Napier-Raman fail altogether. Go to 2016 and ap- dents. This medal (usually one a year) preconceptions? I don’t know Tim has written a reply in this week’s edition. It’s about Long Read / 8 Natassia Chrysanthos Siobhan Ryan ply “glass-half-full” and we find that is given to new graduates for service Bonyhady so that I have no right what- twenty centimetres to the right. Most of what At- Ann Ding Got mail? Michael Sun between 36 and 40 percent of the to the University and the wider world. ever to judge him, but it does seem to kinson writes is incontestable: the College has pro- Perspective / 10 Justine Landis-Hanley Maani Truu students at Paul’s averaged D or HD Paul’s students received it for work in me that as a piece of writing his article Send your irreverent takes duced a large number of successful men. Aidan Molins My only observation is this: in replying to an ar- Culture / 11 overall. Three failed overall but five a variety of areas, from microfinance is inconsistent at its core. and reverent rants to editors@ ticle that was about how the College has protected topped one of more of their Units of in developing counties to combating I’m no longer at Paul’s and I have no toxic attitudes, Atkinson doesn’t devote one word to Longer read / 14 Contributors Study. In languages three-quarters of homophobia in sport. authority to say more about the arti- honisoit.com by 12pm each issues of sexual assault or gendered violence. He fix- Dominic Bui Viet, Kristi Cheng, Samuel Chu, Simon all results were D/HD. And again, within a few months last cle. But I will say one or two things Friday for publication. Keep it ates entirely on one sentence where I noted that the Archives / 18 Coleman, Robin Eames, Hal Fowkes, Cameron Maybe more importantly, Paul’s stu- year, three Paul’s students won schol- about myself. I was resident Senior College’s academic average is not as high as might Gooley, Pranay Jha, Georgia Tan, and Joshua Taylor. dents have done pretty well in their arships overseas. One was awarded Tutor for ten years at Paul’s. In my last under 300 words and include be expected from such a privileged group of boys. Tech / 19 voluntary service to Sydney Univer- the Monash scholarship to work on year (2016) I gave a Sydney Ideas talk your name, degree, year and Draw your own conclusions. NB Artists sity. In a single decade (2001-11) nine the use of information technology to on the subject of the Australian na- Caseworkers / 20 Michael Lotsaris, Momoko Metham, Ludmilla served on the Union Board. Five were improve public health care, another tional conscience, its vital importance how excited you are that the Nunell, Jenna Schroder, and Rebekah Wright. its presidents, and together made a won the Schwarzman scholarship to and its almost total failure right now. holidays are finally over so you SRC reports / 22 big impact on student life at Sydney. do research into organisational struc- That talk was inspired by what I learnt To cite a few more specific cases in tures and the way they can entrench at Paul’s. There I lived among moti- can go back to studying. Puzzles / 24 the same period - Jack Manning Ban- equity, compassion and social justice, vated, energetic and highly idealistic Regulars / 25 The Garter Press / 26 SIKE3017 Cadmus gone Sharia lie Throwback to exams, when third The University has abandoned creepy The Daily Telegraph recently re- Best year social psychology students went anti-cheating software Cadmus after ported that Sydney Law School into their exam room only to find the trialling it in three units across semes- supports the introduction of Sha- correct answers for the multiple choice ter two last year and summer school ria Law in Australia. We actually did Cover image by Rebekah Wright. sections formatted in bold. They then because “staff and students hated it”. our readings and can confirm that Honi Soit, Week 1 Edition, Semester 2, 2017. had to wait for an hour before new The software tracked typing patterns this is yet another case of (shock of the papers were printed. to guard against ghost written essays. horror!) the Tele being super racist. Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. The SRC’s operation costs, space and administrative support are financed by the University of Sydney. Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s directors of student publications: Nina Dillon-Britton, Pranay Jha, Isabella Pytka, William Ryan, Katie Thorburn, and Adam Ursino. All expressions are published on the basis that they are Honi abroad Paul’s so old Tree is back not to be regarded as the opinions of the SRC unless specifically stated. The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the opinions or information con- Web Honi’s banned ‘Vagina Soit’ cover has In the article that attracted Alan At- A clone of the University’s famed jaca- tained within this newspaper, nor does it endorse any of the advertisements and insertions. Please direct all advertising inquiries to [email protected]. been used in an effort to reduce rates kinson’s response above, Honi exam- randa tree has been planted where the of female genital mutilation in Ken- ined the alumni networks, legislation, original once stood, alongside a new yan communities. The organiser told and wealth that make institutional native flame tree. Don’t miss our video In case you weren’t following our Honi, “I needed a collection of normal, change so difficult at St Paul’s College. for a chance to decide once and for all What’s on this week page while gramming from Europe, naked women ... Only then could I This followed several revelations of if you’re more of a jacaranda or a flame. According to your friend who went to Europe in the holidays here’s what you might have missed. explain ... that all shapes were normal.” misogynistic behaviour at the College.