SEMESTER 2 WEEK 5 25 AUGUST 2010 Foreign Correspondents Under Pressure: A report from Japan Young Carer Heroes John Safran vs Honi Election 2010: The Wrap Up 2 More ‘well hung’ This Week's: Best loved song: Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” CONTENTS HONI SOIT, EDITION 17 jokes than you can Mostpoke hated song: Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” 25 AUGUST 2010 a stick at Dreamiest Barista: Cafe Hernandez’s Most popular character trait permutation for editor’s children: Beautiful & Kind but Stupid The Arts-Hole 10 The Post 03 Elise Fabris and Monica Connors review the Law and Women’s Revues. The Uni-Cycle 04 Daniel Zwi reviews Of Earth and Sky. Rebecca Barrett on the USU policy launch. Hannah Lee reviews The Expendables. 11 Bridie Connellan on Hip Hop Handball. Declan Dickinson interviews Hot Chip. Dave Mack profiles USyd’s Muslim Association. Jacinta Mulders attended the Byron Bay Anusha Rutnam on Scientology and USyd. Writers’ Festival. Lucy Bradshaw ate at Bloodwood. Erin Young and Che-Marie Trigg dissect the Med degree. 05 The Mains Catherine Marks rugged up for the Winter Sleepout. 12 Catherine Marks reports on student Naomi Hart dishes some campus dirt. carers. The Usual Suspects 06 From Japan Jacqueline Breen discusses David Mack counts down the worst in campus food. the future of foreign correspondence. Ian Mack discusses the proposed Barangaroo Youtube: Cute Asian Kid The Soapbox +I'm Yours Hating on revues? Tim Whelan knows what 14 USyd students like. Mekela Panditharatne speaks out against asylum seeker-related fear mongering. Joe Smith-Davies went one week without the interwebs for The Gauntlet. 07 Daniel Zwi thinks genre is a dirty musical word. THE HYPOTHETICAL: Joe Payten shows you how to fake being a David Mulligan on powerpoints. Would you rather music festival pro. 08 Your child be: Anusha Rutnam grasped the scales a) Beautiful & ORKind but Stupid of justice in her hands. Nearly. More Usual Suspects 15 Ben Jenkins shows you that Hamlet and The Lion Ted Talas raises his glass to beloved b) Beautiful & Smart but Cruel OR King are not the same thing. drinking hole, The Salisbury. Naomi Hart plays the soundtrack to c) Smart & Kind but Ugly election night. FAQs The Profile09 Monica Connors talks to the controversial Tom Marr can’t get a word in edgeways, Can they change over time? Australian comedian, John Safran. while Sam Elliott’s reign of verbage No. continues. How beautiful/ ugly, smart/stupid and kind/cruel? Joe Payten had a cow, man, in South America. The extreme of every characteristic. For example if they 16 lack the kind gene they would be world-renowned for their Elizabeth Mulhall did the readings. What wankery. If you decide against beauty, they would almost about you? certainly be known as cactus boy/girl. Your stupid child Kirsten Wade examines the cloudy future of would be a grade-A dum dum. the Melbourne Storm. SRC 17 Bletchley Park 20 The Garter 21 - 23 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Henry Hawthorne EDITORS Bridie Connellan, Carmen Culina, Naomi Hart, Ben Jenkins, David Mack, Joe Payten, Anusha Rutnam, Joe Smith-Davies, Diana Tjoeng So do we not have a Prime Minister? REPORTERS Jacqueline Breen, Lucy Bradshaw, Monica Connors, Sam Elliott, Hannah Lee, Tom Marr, Party @thelodge 1 hour ago Jacinta Mulders, David Mulligan, Mekela Panditharatne, Ted Talas, Kirsten Wade, Tim Whelan, Dan Zwi CONTRIBUTORS Rebecca Barrett, Declan Dickinson, Elise Fabris, Catherine Marks, Ian Mack, Elizabeth Mulhall, Che-Marie Trigg, Erin Young CROSSWORD Benry Jawthorne 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 ion costs, space and administrative support are financed by the University of Sydney. 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EDITORIAL Educated The definition of what is currently ‘news’ has have been overthrown, or it may have passed CONTENTS Dear Honi slowly but surely shifted from encompassing the reigns over to the Shooters and Fishers Dear Friends, events that occurred circa 2009-2010 to Party, and we can’t report on it. Like you, I have also been bombarded those that occurred within the past two This is the last email I will send to you by the christian “Is this life” advertising hours. This is despite our many and often attempts to glean the outcome of the current political about Fair Trade at Usyd. I will keep it campaign as of late. This message Despite these trends, so smugly ushered in wranglings. We tried following Julia and short and sweet. This Friday (20th) at delivered in the most subtle ‘blanket’ by the wave of online news services, Honi Tony on twitter. We contemplated hiring an 10 10:30am please meet on the front lawns advertising style has made it almost is proud to defend the former long-term elite crack-squad of psephologists. We even outside the quad and come to the USU impossible to walk anywhere on campus notion of news. Far be it from us to miss captured a live ibis from Victoria Park and board meeting to see how our student (except perhaps the 9th floor of the the forest for the trees in this ‘now-obsessed’ christened it Franklin in the hope that it was digital culture, where the minutiae of present clairvoyant, but to no avail. representatives respond to 9 out of 10 fisher library) and not be confronted with events is valued over the observance of wanting Fair Trade on campus. its message, (Which is critical of student rich journalistic traditions of measured and Rather than giving a comprehensive but life in general) and the likes of which deliberated analysis. historical coverage of the election, this The lives of 65000 people in developing has not been seen since the student edition looks beyond Australian journalism countries are in limbo at the moment, elections. More importantly this message Alternatively, it may have something to do to the future of foreign correspondence. We will they continue to be exploited or will, overlaps with Honi’s coverage of student with how we make our paper. Plans for also have an intimate account of the frequent content start to take shape a fortnight in but often concealed difficulties for university for the first time in history, the people mental heath issues in what i perceive advance. The articles are eventually laid up students caring for disabled family members. who make Usyd’s coffee be treated to be a highly important, secular, and on a Sunday night ready for printers on the Be warned, however: with the second major fairly? At the moment it is very unlikely overarching message for USYD students. Monday. Hard copies are then distributed election to be held in Australia looming on 12 the board will vote to implement the I believe this to be at best a very odd on a Tuesday, only to have their numbers the horizon (n.b. Honi and SRC elections in referendum in its full on Friday, even coincidence and at worst intentional in dwindle to extinction by the Friday. The sum T minus one month), our election coverage though 9 out of 10 students want them order to substitute the christian message of the situation is that as you are currently is far from finished. reading this newspaper, the Australian to. for those seeking help with mental health government may have formed, it may since Henry Hawthorne problems. If this is indeed the case i find So I will ask you for the last time, make it deeply troubling. a stand for justice, make a stand for As a former member of Hatter, I can Locke Down 14 student representation, make sure you Matthew Bedwell say with surety that we were almost Noticed that this week’s Honi Soit are on the front lawns of the quad at pathetically DIY. We had so few shirts contained a small piece about Nathan Usyd at 10:30 am friday. that some of us didn’t change them for McDonnell’s complaint about Elite? Qui, moi? days. Our chalk was handmade and of Philosophy tute sizes. Over and out and all the best in seeking predictably poor quality. We printed justice, Letter of as many posters as we could but our Just to make it clear, if Nathan refrained the Week! collective effort was a mere fraction of from his complaining about the Dear Honi, Chris Hoy that which Vox and Ace could afford. Department, other students in his tute/ But we had a fucking great time doing it. lectures would have more time to discuss How timely it is that, amidst the furore 15 tute material. We go to class to learn, not over spending cap breaches in last During the campaign, and even months to hear him complaining and criticising. A very cross semester’s Union Board elections and an after, students came up to us saying they And for the record, the Phil.