week two semester one 2013 strike one... honi soit honi International students getting (slightly less) screwed Pg 4 Top 5 Disney songs to have sex to Pg 8 Can the Aussie media handle The Guardian? Pg 11 SUDS and MUSE reviews Pg 14 DISCONTENTS WHY YOU NEED HONI SOIT SOUND HONI NEWS Is it too much? A cover photo, a news And that’s fine. The audiences of these disputes that overwhelm your cam- 5. Run for Union, Get story, letters, and three opinion pieces. papers are too vast to spend pages on pus, the politics that govern your stu- It’s a strike heavy edition, that’s for sure. something so local. They don’t care if dent organisations, and sometimes, just Paid But it’s no accident. Sally from Engineering decided to take sometimes, the insects that chase your 6. NTEU Strike opinions Like so many issues important to stu- a stand on the picket line, or if Damien lecturer out of their lecture hall. dents, last week’s NTEU/CPSU strike from Commerce just wanted to go to his 7. Top 5 Disney songs received wide coverage of only shallow lecture. to have sex to depth. It was exactly the kind of jour- But we do. When we campaigned and Rafi Alam nalism we railed against in the past two sought election as an editorial team the editorials; intro, quote A vs. quote B, most consistent feedback we got was Max Chalmers 9. What’s in the box? fin. The ABC, The Sydney Morning Her- that students wanted a paper that was Editor-in-chief John Gooding ald, The Daily Telegraph, and The Austra- local, a paper that was different to the lian got their Michael Thomson, Michael SMH, the Oz, the ABC. Spence, and David Pink quotes and then We’ve made the decision to go into ARTS & CULTURE got out. Tellingly, the most critical, ana- depth with issues like the strike to fill the lytical article I have read so far was writ- gap and to give students a platform to 12. FIrst Person: My ten by our friends over at UTS’ student discuss and debate the issues that press publication, Vertigo. They were the only down on them every day, in profoundly Mardi Gras publication to run a direct quote from a manifest and inscrutably subtle ways. student aside from the SRC President. Lucy Watson Our in-depth strike coverage is indica- Elsewhere, the voices of staff and stu- tive of our broader agenda. We’re here dents couldn’t fit in the 250 word news 15. Taylor is a wailer to report the stories that affect you on brief. Lulu Smyth the most immediate level; the industrial 20. Crosswords + puzzles Check it out - extra long letter A queer theory than inverting this pattern of exclusion section!!! Think it’s too much? In response to Evan Van Zijl's 'It's and abuse? What could be more radical THE Write us a letter to complain! not always sunny over the rainbow', I than seeing our most vulnerable children SOIN find it odd that he suggests we should with smiles beaming across their faces, ignore the strength of capitalism for the receiving the love of thousands? Sure, 21. Tony Abbott http://www.facebook.com queer community. This is another clas- the Mardi Gras is not a panacea. Sure, /honisoitsydney sic example of the politicisation of the the Mardi Gras has become a tourist and and dog whistles queer community into a left/right split commercial attraction. But I believe this - that with its roots in the left, associa- is not about abstract political concepts tion with the right must be considered 23. Horoscopes @honi_soit of social revolution. It’s about creat- a form of treason. It assumes that any ing a fabulous, exceptional and unprec- sponsorship or capitalistic interest is edented space where our most neglected hollow. This is far from the truth. The can proudly celebrate and be celebrated. Editor-in-chief: Max Chalmers truth is - the dollar does not discrimi- Now that is radical. Editors: Lucy Watson, Nina Ubaldi, Xiaoran Shi, Nick Rowbotham, Hannah Ryan, nate. Not morally, only economically. Mariana Podesta-Diverio, Avani Dias, Bryant Apolonio, Rafi Alam. The more economic and social power Thomas Poberezny-Lynch. our community has, the more, in lieu of Arts III Reporters: Georgia Behrens, Adam Chalmers, Matt Clarke, Hal Conyngham, a better word, promotable our cause is. Adam Disney, John Gooding, Jack Gow, Joseph Istiphan, Samantha Jonscher, Government legislation often follows Neha Kasbekar, Madeleine King, Georgia Kriz, Felicity Nelson, Tom O’Brien, Sean social change and corporate support in Not angry, just disappointed O’Grady, Justin Pen, Nick Richardson, Lulu Smyth, Harry Stratton Caitlin Still, a capitalistic nation like Australia will When I first came to University, I Mischa Vickas, Max Weber, Ezreena Yahya. affect social change - it starts from the imagined in my mind that it would be Contributors: Bro Reveleigh, Drew Rooke, Mala Wadhera, Evan Van Zijl. ground up, not trying to always destroy exactly like the Oxbridge of so many the power at the top. As for the concern period dramas, with small, intimate Cover Image: Victoria Baldwin. of police arrests or drug searches, this classes, or that it would be like the Syd- Photographers: Stella Ktenas, Drew Rooke, Jennifer Yiu. is not necessarily a queer issue - it's an ney University my mother attended in Creative Contributors: Lachlan Buller issue of the police state. It's sympto- the early 1980s. I spent much of my Puzzles: Dom Campbell, Dover Dubosarsky, Eric Shi matic of something like America's "War HSC year listening to her stories of on drugs", all party goers are subjected the close relationships she formed, not Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of to such treatment, straight or gay. To least with the Vice-Chancellor J.M. Ward Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006. put this concern alongside sponsor- who was for a time her History tutor. The SRC’s operation costs, space and administrative support are financed by the ship of the Mardi Gras is misleading. It seems of another age and the illusion University of Sydney. The editors of Honi Soit and the SRC acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. Civil liberties have nothing to do with has slowly been shattered. Honi Soit is written, printed, and distributed on Aboriginal land. Honi Soit Mardi Gras sponsorship. Queers do not Evidently, I was born too late, into a is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s Directors of Student Publications: belong to all causes of the left. Let's not world of oversized classes, overworked Clare Angel-Auld, Adam Chalmers, Bebe D’Souza, Brigitte Garozzo, James bite the hand that feeds. Don't split our O’Doherty, Lane Sainty. All expressions are published on the basis that they are not lecturers and underfunded departments. to be regarded as the opinions of the SRC unless specifically stated. The Council community into political camps. If we I have witnessed in my time here the huge accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the opinions or information have strength of the people, the dollar reduction in books at Fisher Library as contained within this newspaper, nor does it endorse any of the advertisements will follow... well as the protests over the staff cuts and insertions. Printed by MPD, Unit E1 46-62 Maddox St. Alexandria NSW 2015. Peter Dang, last year, with the underhanded manner Arts I the issue of contracts was dealt with by Want to place an advertisement in Honi Soit ? Contact Amanda the administration. We cannot turn back LeMay & Jess Henderson [email protected] time thirty years (or more) but I still find In defence of Mardi Gras the notion of Universities becoming WOULD YOU RATHER... Recently, I had the honour of march- places of business rather than learning ing with countless queer high schoolers wholly abhorrent. The administration is Have nipples all Be Voldemort’s as part of the “Wear It Purple” Mardi disconnected from its staff and students over your arms, OR sexual part- Gras float. With the march fresh in my and reality. neck and face? ner? mind I feel it necessary to counter the I do not know what the future holds FAQ pervasive belief that the Mardi Gras is for this University or any other across no longer ‘radical’. Queer young people the world. I can only hope that the strike What kind of lover is Voldemort? sends a clear message: that the Univer- Surprisingly gentle and conservative, although he does enjoy a bit of wandplay face extreme and unconscionable bully- now and again. ing and violence on a daily basis. They sity, in the course of its history, has been If I pick nipples, can I milk myself? made great by its teaching staff and not Yes, but only your face nipples will excrete milk, and it will be unpasteurised and are rejected and ignored by society. not homogenised. Therefore, what could be more radical SOUND & www.honisoit.com letters Email all letters and submissions to: fury [email protected] students are being bullied into degrees given a free place to live. This isn’t that will land them jobs in “useful” pro- Vietnam moratorium time, this isn’t fessions. Universities are being seen as Tiananmen Square – this is Sydney businessmen like Michael Spence, who, account both the Young Liberals on places of vocational training rather than 2013 for shit’s sake – get your heads though once an academic, has lost his campus and those they aspire to be in places of learning.