20 12 HONIWeek Eleven October 17 SOIT Senate Results: Writing, women, From the Bank What Senator Pat and wowsers: to the Birdcage: means for you Bob Ellis at 70 Sydney’s drag kings CAMPUS 4 PROFILE 11 FEATURE 12 Contents This Week The Third Drawer SRC Pages 8 Sex, Messages, Reception. 19 Mason McCann roadtests the iPhone 5 The Back Page 23 Presenting the Honi Laureates Spooky Soit for 2012 10 Mariana Podesta-Diverio looks on the bright side of death Editor in Chief: Rosie Marks-Smith Editors: James Alexander, Hannah Bruce, Bebe D’Souza, 11 Profile: Bob Ellis Paul Ellis, Jack Gow, Michael Koziol, James O’Doherty, Michael Koziol talks to one of his Kira Spucys-Tahar, Richard Withers, Connie Ye heroes, Bob Ellis Reporters: Michael Coutts, Fabian Di Lizia, Eleanor Gordon-Smith, Brad Mariano, Virat Nehru, Drag Kings Sean O’Grady, Andrew Passarello, Justin Pen, 12 Lucy Watson walks the streets of Hannah Ryan, Lane Sainty, Lucy Watson, Dan Zwi Newtown to teach us about drag Contributors: Rebecca Allen, Chiarra Dee, John Gooding, kings John Harding-Easson, Joseph Istiphan, Stephanie Langridge, 11 Mason McCann, Mariana Podesta-Diverio, Ben Winsor Culture Vulture 3 Spam 14 Crossword: Paps Dr Phil wrote us a letter! 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Planner Honi’s Guide to what’s on WED THU FRI Rally against SUV rent increases The Rubens Noel Fielding Gala 1pm, Carslaw, FREE 7pm, The Metro, $30 7pm & 9:30pm, Sydney Opera House, There has been uproar at the recent hike in rental costs at the After packing out Splendour in the Grass earlier this year, The $65 - $110 Sydney University Village. The minimum weekly rent is currently Rubens are taking the world by storm. Following the release of The co-star/creator of ‘The Mighty Boosh’ is returning to $256, making it difficult for students who are looking for cheap their latest hit track, ‘My Gun’, make sure you check out these Oz for the first time in 10 years, so make sure you buy your accommodation near campus. four lads before they get too big. tickets soon before they sell out and you never ever see him. PolSoc Women in Leadership - Gillian Triggs Sculpture by the Sea SHADES presents Halloqueen 18 Oct - 4 Nov, Bondi, FREE 5pm, McCallum Room, Holme Building, FREE 10pm, Zanzibar, Newtown, $10 One of the more unusual sculpture exhibitions in Sydney, set An annual event presented by the USU’s Politics Society, which SHADES are throwing a party in celebration of all things aims to shed light on notable female perspectives and advance against the beauty of Bondi Beach. Wander among the many inspiring and intriguing works submitted by sculptures across Halloween. Everyone is welcome, but costumes are expected. reflective thinking and discourse on issues surrounding women and Featuring DJ Smithers. leadership in the public arena. the globe. SAT SUN TUES Art & About - A Moveable Feast World Firefighters Games Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy 7:30pm, George St, FREE All day, Various, FREE Tues, 12pm, US Studies Centre, FREE Closing the Art & About festival with a bang, City of Sydney Sydney plays host to the biennial WFG, previously held in cities The US Studies Centre will be screening the third presidential brings George St to life with a unique evening of food, film and like Las Vegas, Christchurch and Hong Kong. A great chance showdown between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. US music. All Disney fans will be excited with the screening of ‘Rata- to see a lot of buff bods competing in events like surfing. Studies Centre experts will be on hand to offer analysis and answer questions after the debate. touille’ from 8pm. Spring Cycle Sirens Big Band Our Muse Presents: The Little Shop of Horrors Pick All Day, North Sydney to Pyrmont, FREE 9pm, The Basement, $15/$20 Enjoy the lovely spring weather as you ride your fixie through Tues, 7pm, Tom Mann Theatre, $18/$22/$27 Love jazz? Then check out the hottest jazz band around. They the leafy streets of North Sydney, the quiet city streets and Muse are not running two, but THREE productions in their 2012 are an all girl 17-piece from Sydney, writing most of their own onto the Pyrmont Festival, where there will be face painting, Repertory Season. ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ is sure to be excel- tunes, with reggae, gypsy and afro influences. food stalls and a jumping castle! lent, but there will also be ‘Assassins’ and ‘Patience’. All shows are produced, directed & performed by fellow Usyd students. 2 honisoit @honi_soit Spam LETTERS EDITORIAL owner may well know that she is sexu- ally aroused because she is rubbing her Religion relegated vagina against the legs of the owner. We Fahad Ali may well infer with some certainty that BMedSc I she is initiating sexual contact. But to It has been a blast putting together now it’s coming after Australian freedom what does she consent? How might she Editor-in-Chief Queer Honi this edition of our favourite paper, Honi of speech” makes us wonder if he has a withdraw that consent and how might Soit. From the antics of Bob Ellis to the point, or if he is just a little crazy. Dear Ms Lee, her owner recognize her withdrawal of intrigue of learning about drag kings, We also welcome our new undergradu- Thank you for your letter in the Week consent? Might she wish to withdraw 10 edition of Honi Soit (‘God loves gay consent during sexual intercourse, but this week has been enlightening. ate Fellow of Senate, Patrick Massarani, people’, October 10). I would like to ad- is reluctant to do so because she has A stand out theme this week is strong who is keen to make his mark on the dress some of the points you made. been conditioned to obey her owner? women and the influence they have in university during his two year term. It You believe homosexuality is a sin, Mr Raue, you may well benefit from an society. It takes a lot of courage to don is interesting to note however that there which would imply that it is a conscious education in feminist literature. short shorts and a cow boy hat, and are currently no female student repre- decision. I suggest that you take a look One may also take objection to Mr thrust repeatedly on stage to a room of sentatives on the Senate. While there is a at the articles ‘Human sexual orienta- Raue’s impression that a child victim of screaming girls. strong female representation of women tion has a heritable component’ (Pil- sexual abuse will grow up with painful Julia Gillard also gets a mention for in the higher positions of the SRC and lard, 1998), ‘Brain response to putative memories or mental illnesses, but “no her impassioned tirade against Tony Ab- the University of Sydney Union, we must pheromones in homosexual men’ (Savic, such thing happens with animals”. It bot during question time last week. We ask ourselves, have women achieved 2005), or ‘A linkage between DNA is undisputed fact that animals possess explore the role social media played in equal recognition to men in all leader- markers on the X chromosome and male the emotional and cognitive faculties forming various social opinions on the ship roles at The University of Sydney? sexual orientation’ (Hamer, 1993). These to experience trauma from abuse. It is are only a few of the confirmed, objec- one of the most tragic and heartbreak- speech. This week we also discuss the Nobel tive, and scientific findings published in ing things to see animal victims of abuse Closer to home HoniLeaks explores Prize winners that have caused contro- respectable, peer-reviewed journals that undergoing rehabilitation. The trust and the changes to Affirmative Action in the versy. Our reporters believe that the support the truth that homosexuality is friendship that once characterised the Sydney University Law Society.