You just played yourself: how gamification can make you get shit done / p. 16 St Paul’s College reverses These spots might just fill Starting behind: How our previous stance on Broderick the jacaranda-shaped hole University fails students college culture review / p. 6 in your heart / p. 12 with disabilities / p. 8 S1W9 / FIRST PUBLISHED 1929 S1W9 / 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 prevention in WSW, and the WHO Korea and the South China Sea, the support for Russian imperialism. 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 Also shame SAlt white paper on HIV transmission in US and its allies are flexing their The left needs to clearly oppose 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 prison populations (Jürgens, 2007) military muscles. the bombing by the US and Australia. 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 Thank you, Joseph Tesoriero, for having (cn: these and later references are Trump’s firing of 60 cruise missiles The horror in Syria is the result of two our University. We also wholeheartedly thank our Indigenous reporters for the continuing contribution of their labour to our learning. the balls to say in public what I’ve only primarily academic writings and use into a Syrian air base in retaliation things: (i) the Assad regime’s effort to dared say in private. Such is the oppres- gendered terminology). for Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical crush the popular revolution against sive force I feel emanating from the So- While not many people use dams weapons can only escalate the Syrian his regime, and (ii) the intervention of Who made this cialist Alternative. My first interaction while performing oral sex on people war and result in even more civilian rival imperialist powers—Russia, the Editorial Contents with the group was on O-Week, at their who have vaginas, it is not difficult casualties. The strike was about re- US, and regional powers like Turkey, tent, where I expressed interest in sign- to get (or give) STIs like chlamydia storing the imperialist credibility of Iran and Saudi Arabia. As I write this editorial, the staff of one of Austral- Letters / 2 edition happen? ing the petition for the fair treatment of or gonorrhoea or herpes from oral the U.S. in the Middle East. It has in- All of these powers want to extend ia’s most influential media companies are mid-way refugees. It ended with their represent- sex (including giving someone gen- creased tensions in Syria; increased the their own influence in the region and likelihood of even more civilians being through a week-long, illegal strike, lodged in response News and Analysis / 4 Editor-in-Chief: Maani Truu ative calling me a ‘neo-nazi’, for reasons ital herpes from a coldsore: HSV-I are as afraid of a revival of the popular to the news that a quarter of The Sydney Morning Her- that are still unclear to me. I put it down and -II both cause both oral and killed and has done nothing to help the revolt from below as Assad is. ald and The Age journalists will be let go. Long read / 6 Editors to my views not aligning 100% with genital herpes). people facing the dictator’s onslaught. This is why we need an internation- Conservative and liberal media It does seem like the end is nigh for print journalism. Nick Bonyhady hers. (Gotta say, their recruiting rheto- Further, there have been reported alist anti-war movement that rejects Aidan Molins have all praised Trump’s aggression. When Sydney’s most prestigious newspaper isn’t go- Profile / 7 Jayce Carrano ric is A+). Since this introduction, I’ve cases of HIV transmission (both ways) Western imperialism without being Kishor Napier-Raman Yet Trump has revealed his com- ing to be covering the federal budget, when paid jobs Natassia Chrysanthos been somewhat terrified of the group; from oral-vaginal sex (Marmor et al, beholden to dictators or the West’s Siobhan Ryan plete hypocrisy. Only days before the are steadily replaced by desperate, unpaid interns, Perspective / 8 Ann Ding a terror built upon by stories of pho- 1986, Ann Intern Med; Monzon et al, imperial rivals. Michael Sun bombing, Trump played down his op- when it’s looking like we may become a one (News Justine Landis-Hanley to-copying people’s names from peti- 1987, Lancet; Rich et al, 1993, Clin In- We call for: Corp) newspaper city; it’s hard to argue otherwise. Opinion / 9 tions to add to later ones, or members fect Dis; Troncoso et al, 1995, Medicina; position to Assad. Now he says that · Opposition to Trump and Turn- I think about this a lot. I also think about how Honi abusing ‘outsiders’ who wrong them (so Hawkins, 2001, Sex Transm Infect). Assad has no role to play in Syria in bull’s imperialist intervention fits into this cycle; about the role of student media. Longer Read / 10 Contributors again, Joseph, brave move leaving your Dams reduce the risk of these trans- the long term. However, the bombing and opposition to brutal dictator Honi is currently in its 88th year of print. We are Jazdea Allen, Alisha Brown, Samuel Chu, name). Whether these claims are true or missions, just like condoms reduce doesn’t represent a fundamental shift Assad and his regime. free. Our advertising revenue has almost entirely USU Board Special / 13 Bianca Davino, Bianca Farmakis, Elijah Fink, not isn’t really the point here. The point the risks if a penis is involved. We also in U.S. policy. The U.S. is quite willing · The withdrawal of all Australian dried up. And yet, the SRC continues to spend thou- Edward Furst, Cameron Gooley, Harriet Jane, is the matter of SA’s reputation. From know that latex is more or less imper- to leave the repressive core of the As- and US coalition troops from the region. sands of dollars to print our paper each week. Tech / 17 Pranay Jha, Erin Jordan, Isabelle Jurukovski, what I can tell from discussions with vious to viruses (Lytle, 1997, Sex Trans sad regime in place. · An end to the military alliance I hopelessly like to think that this is worth more Sarah Niu, Katherine O’Chee, Lamya Rahman, Zoe other students, it isn’t positive. I under- Dis; Weller, 2002, Cochrane), which Australia’s ruling class has been with the US; and to close all US than the University’s love for old stuff. In my fan- Sport / 18 Stojanovic-Hill, Courtney Thompson, Jamie Weiss, stand the radical approach to Uni, and are pretty much the smallest things you complicit in the civilian bloodshed military bases. tasy, the powers that be realise that we exist as a Alison Xiao. the noble history of student protest, but have to worry about. This hasn’t been as since it joined the US coalition to · Solidarity with the popular upris- training ground for the next generation of journal- Culture / 18 given I’d probably sign the same peti- well studied in dams as in condoms, but bomb Syria in 2015. In March this ing against Assad ists and see that as important. That we foremost Artists tions if presented by a more approach- it doesn’t mean it’s not an effect. Think year coalition bombing in Raqqa killed and to those activists in the Middle exist for our writers. SUPRA Pages / 20 Maxim Adams, Garnet Chan, Matthew Fisher, able group, I’m not sure these guys are about it - it’s a literal barrier. Further, 30 civilians seeking shelter in a school East still organising protests against As editors, the greatest thing we have is 28 pages Momoko Metham, Jemima Wilson, Rebekah Wright. on the right path to making a difference. dams are thicker than condoms. after fleeing ISIS held territory. This is both the regime and other reactionary each week, given to us without a quota of sales or Caseworkers / 21 They say they fight against oppression, STI checks should be least yearly for just the latest horror story. military forces. clicks to fill. It means young journalists can prac- but I’m sure I’m not the only student liv- sexually active young people, depend- Australian forces had already been tice on our pages, they can experiment, they can SRC Reports / 22 ing in fear of the red fist of the SA. ing on who you and your partners are. helping the US military destroy Iraqi Kelton Muir (NTEU member Usyd, see their name in print and feel the excitement that – S I recommend the Sexual Health Clinic society following the 2003 invasion. General Staff, Bachelor of Arts, Ref- comes with that. Puzzles / 24 at RPA Hospital (it’s FREE). More in- As a consequence Iraq is riven by sec- ugee Rights Officer) and 30 other Our content may not always be perfect, profes- Dam! formation about safer sex practices and tarian conflict and has suffered over 1 signatories. sional or polished — although, man, we try — but it Regulars / 25 STI prevention and treatment are avail- million dead.