INSIDE: SURFEST MAKES A RE-ENTRY Paddy Kilmurray plops his couch on the beach to take a look at Newcastle’s iconic surf festival. THE GIRL IN THE BAND MC Blue from the Potbelleez talks to Katie Burgess about their upcoming gig at Bar on the Hill. UoN GUIDE TO CLUBBING There’s more to uni than just study. Discover some of the amazing clubs and societies UoN has. ISSUE 6 / MARCH 2012 BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE U CONTENTS 08 10 13 SURFEST THE UON LUNCH FOR MAKES A GUIDE TO LESS THAN A RE-ENTRY CLUBBING TENNER Cover design by Jessica Rykers 16 18 20 EDITORIAL WOULDN’T IT 15000 KMS WHERE ARE Matt Hatton - Managing Editor BE NICE AWAY AND THEY NOW? Rowena Grant - Managing Editor BACK AGAIN Nick Turner - Deputy Managing Editor Claire Young - Deputy Editor Esther Savage - Deputy Editor Jessica McAneney - Deputy Editor Lachlan Stevens - Deputy Editor Angela Geddes - Lead Graphic Designer Jessica Rykers - Junior Graphic Designer Jock Spence - Promotions Officer 21 22 25 CONTRIBUTORS IT ISN’T EASY THE GIRL IN ENTERTAINMENT Ben Pickles - Graphic Design Emily Wood - Contributing Writer BEING RED THE BAND REVIEWS Gemma Roulstone - Graphic Design Jane Hume - Graphic Design Kate Lamont - Graphic Design Katie Burgess - Contributing Writer Lauren Johns - Graphic Design Paddy Kilmurray - Contributing Writer Yasmin McCall - Graphic Design 04 Stalkerspace 06 Careers SUBMISSIONS THE 04 Yak or Yuk 07 The Awkward The Yak editorial team is always on the look 04 Green U Moment When... out for passionate student writers and graphic designers to contribute to the magazine. If you USUAL 05 Dear Bernie 07 How to: would like to take the opportunity to get your Survive University 05 Watt Space work published, please send a sample of your 14 What’s On writing to [email protected]. STUFF 06 Support U: 27 Vox Pops Student Hubs ADVERTISING For advertising opportunities, contact Nick at [email protected] [email protected] facebook.com/yakmagazine twitter.com/yakmagazine Yak magazine is a free publication Get your free copy from press-points of UoN Services Ltd © 2012. around campus on Monday, April 02. www.uonservices.org.au • WE CATCH UP WITH FREESTYLE FOOTBALLER CHRIS BEAVON. Printed by PrintCentre on Callaghan Campus. • THINGS TO SEE AND DO IN THE HUNTER VALLEY. • A PROFILE OF THE 2012 MS BALL. THIS MONTHS BITING QUESTION: LETTER FROM “If you could form a club or society of your own, what would it be?” THE EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR ROWENA GRANT Club/Society: I would definitely be the president of the MEET OUR MANAGING EDITORS, ‘Grammar Club’. The members would be skilled in the art of grammar and violence, culling those who don’t know ROWIE & MATT which “your” to use. Our new editorial team are now settled into the MANAGING EDITOR Yak nest and are producing content that our MATT HATTON shaggy overlord has deemed worthy. We think Club/Society: The ‘Make Matt Rich Foundation’. This philanthropic society serves the goal of making Matt it’s pretty damn good as well. Hopefully you’re rather rich - possibly a goal more noble than that of Mr settling into university life as comfortably as Gates or that hodge-podge group the United Nations. we all feel in our Yak nest. But what have you noticed around campus? For the newbies: is it DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR what you thought it would be? Have you found NICK TURNER that everyone is helpful and nice? Club/Society: The ‘Third Person Society’. Nick Turner would like to form a club or society that talks only in the Being nice is something that should come third person. Nick thinks this will be a huge success. naturally. Human beings weren’t designed to live alone, and human interaction is sometimes the only thing that can keep us sane. DEPUTY EDITOR - ENTERTAINMENT & TECHNOLOGY Considering this, you would think that people LACHLAN STEVENS would jump at the chance to chat to, help, nod Club/Society: The only logical answer to this question is to, or even look at the different people around for me to form the ‘Add @lachlanstevens on Twitter Club’. them. But is this really the case? The Yak team puts the theory to the test and wanders around on campus to gauge our humanity. You can read all about it in Wouldn’t it be Nice? DEPUTY EDITOR - REGULAR CONTENT JESSICA MCANENEY Other than an intriguing look into humanity Club/Society: I would form the ‘Money Should Grow on on campus, we’ve got a profile on a familiar Trees Society’, where our aim is to discuss how one can face around Callaghan, Danny Craft, a guide sort their budgeting lives out, whilst spending money on activities including beverages, food and shopping. to some clubs and societies that exist at the university, and an awesome interview with The Potbelleez matriarch. DEPUTY EDITOR - REGULAR CONTENT ESTHER SAVAGE Happy Yakking! Club/Society: The ‘Ewok Appreciation Club’. We all know that the rebels wouldn’t have defeated the empire without our furry little friends. Mountaineering Club DEPUTY EDITOR - FEATURES & PROFILES CLAIRE YOUNG Club/Society: The ‘Lovers of Awful Reality TV Shows Society’. I know I’m not the only one who gets emotional over a good episode of Wife Swap, Toddlers in Tiaras and The Biggest Loser. JUNIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER The Potbelleez JESSICA RYKERS Club/Society: Claire, I’d have to say I’d be signing up to your club, get me to ‘The Bachelor’ :-) PROMOTIONS OFFICER JOCK SPENCE Club/Society: I’m with Claire. Lame TV is the bomb! I’ll be Vice President. Yak Magazine -March 2012 03 NEWCASTLE Tutorial Registration: The only time when not UNI STALKER- even hipsters can maintain their cool. SPACE 287 people like this NUSEC President and UoN Services Sustainability intern, Emily Wood, introduces the Tom Farrell Institute for the Environment. ALEX Keeping your cool is pretty 2011, man. It’s all frustratedcore and panicpunk now. The future is a curious thing. We can never know for 4 people like this certain what it will look like; our capricious expectations are often fringed with a mixture of hope (for a better JAKUS To the two girls Sunbaking in Civic park over future) and fears (of one worse). What we do know for the road from the CHIC ... there is nothing certain is that it is our decisions and actions today healthy about a tan ... or the thoughts you are that will ultimately shape our future as individuals, making me have. as communities, as nations and as a planet. It is 11 people like this especially important that we consider the impact of our current activities on the future when it comes to the environment. TROY They should just have every class open at the same time. Battle royale style. There are many local, national and global groups, 5 people like this organisations and individuals currently dedicating a lot of time and effort to the development of solutions for a sustainable future. The Tom Farrell Institute for TROY ... Style. the Environment at the University of Newcastle is 0 people like this one such organisation. The Tom Farrell Institute was established in 2006 and is the gateway to environmental research and teaching at the University of Newcastle. LUKAS I thought they used to? Their vision is to help develop regional solutions for a 1 people like this sustainable future. Tom Farrell, the Institute’s namesake, was an incredible TROY No, like, an actual battle royale, Put forms up Novocastrian. Farrell worked at the Newcastle in the Great Hall and have everyone fight it out. Clearly, if you die during this assault, you were Abattoir for nearly 50 years, during which time he was never cut out for uni anyways. instrumental in the establishment of the University of 17 people like this Newcastle, as well as playing a fundamental role in the foundation of major parks and reserves at Blackbutt, Mount Sugarloaf, Barrington Tops and Myall Lakes. Tom See more @ Newcastle University Stalkerspace Facebook page. Farrell had a passion for the environment and certainly played a huge part in shaping the Newcastle that we know and love today. The Tom Farrell Institute for the Environment aims to continue his legacy, focusing on ecosystems and sustainable regions research, as well as developing knowledge and skills for a sustainable future. The institute aims to develop partnerships with and build Aeroguard 89% 11% support from governments and community groups as Public Urination well as business and industry. (Doing it, not 45% watching it) 55% The Tom Farrell Institute for the Environment is now located in the new IDC building on Callaghan campus. Timetabling 28% 72% To find out how you can get involved with the Tom Farrell Institute, including volunteering opportunities and Bar on the Hill 95% Refurb 5% supporting local projects and events you can find the Tom Farrell Institute on Facebook or by searching for O-Week 78% them on the University of Newcastle’s website. 22% www.newcastle.edu.au Tute Rego 46% 54% 04 Yak Magazine -March 2012 Dear Bernie, What can I do about my cheese addiction? I cannot stop eating cheese. I’ve even started injecting it. Help! Firstly, and immediately, stop injecting cheese. By injecting cheese you’re missing out on all that amazing cheesy flavour and cheese without flavour is just a pile of suspect-looking yellow mush. Dear Bernie, Secondly, unless you typed this out one-handed, you are Chicken or Beef? actually capable of stopping yourself from eating cheese. So don’t lie to me. Ahh, a question that can leave you paralysed in fear and confusion at that most inopportune time of just before you’re Thirdly, out of all the substances on this planet one can about to cook a meal to satisfy your hunger cravings.