11 .W S1 May 07 14 – May 18 20 Are you in a Retro-Rut? Campus Events and Giveaways Activism: Old Vs New Blitz Magazine EDITORS LETTER CONTENTS Dear Reader Blitz Magazine This week is the Retro Blitz, for all T: (02) 9385 7715 6 Is Activism an those out there who love music, F: (02) 9313 8626 clothes, movies or anything else from the past. Looking back, we have a PO Box 173, feature on the student movements in Kingsford Anachronism? the 1970’s, a time that is nostalgically NSW 2032 viewed as they heyday of free love, Level 1, Blockhouse, peace and student activism. Whether Lower Campus. this is true, or if all the hype is driven Snapshot: by the mumblings of a few shiny-eyed [email protected] 15 baby boomers remains a matter of www.arc.unsw.edu.au speculation. Blitz Team 2007 Mike Archer Some of us oldies may have had the experience of waking up one morning Editor: Alex Serpo and realising that all our clothes and Designers: Jason Treanor and music belong to a previous decade. If Karen Fung you have had this horrible experience Reporters: Carissa Simons 16 Retro Rut you may be stuck in a Retro Rut, and and Ana Gacis this is the topic of our second feature. Publications Coordinator: Editor’s Letter This week’s Blitz features an interview Judith Whitfield 3 with the Head of Science at UNSW, Mike Archer, who is also a world Advertising and Chair’s Letter renowned palaeontologist. If you’re Sponsorship: 4 looking for something to do, this Charlotte O’Brien Blitz also features info on all kinds National Volunteer Week of campus events, including the new Marketing Manager: 5 Circusoc Show; Kerros, the latest Donna Wiemann speaker from the UN Society, info Something Twisted This Way Comes: on how to become part of the ski/ Blitz Advertising 8 Kerros snowboard team for the uni games Present advertising artwork 12 and an exclusive on a titanic sporting days prior to publication. Bookings clash: Nerds FC versus CSE FC. Don’t 20 days prior to publication. Rates Games in the Snow forget out great weekly giveaways on and enquires should be directed 9 page 19. to Charlotte O’Brien. A few weeks ago I asked students T: 9385 7331 10 COFA Kudos Gallery in my editor’s letter to write in with E: [email protected] suggestions or opinions about Blitz. Given I have received no responses, Publisher 11 Cookbook Winners Blitz is either absolutely perfect or nobody reads the editor’s letter. Don’t Blitz is published weekly by Arc be afraid to write to me with your @ UNSW. The views expressed 12 What’s On ideas or suggestions. As usual, if you herein are not necessarily the are a club or an individual wanting views of Arc, unless explicitly to promote your event or get your stated. The Arc accepts no 18 Reviews article published, Blitz is your number responsibility for the accuracy of one ride. any of the opinions or information contained in this issue of Blitz. Any Towards Eradicating Poverty: Enjoy Week 11 19 complaints should be sent to the Dr Antonio Meloto Alex Serpo Publications Manager, PO Box 173 Blitz Editor 2007 Kingsford NSW 2032. [email protected] ABN: 71 121 239 674 20 Nerds FC vs CSE Revue FC trading as Arc @ UNSW Limited 21 Comics and Puzzles 2 2 Classifieds 2 3 Vox Pops Blitz Magazine Chair’s Report With a theme like ‘Retro’, who can resist commenting on the fact that the eighties definitely seem to be back in fashion? I didn’t really have anything else to add to that comment, except that one of my housemates has started wearing leg warmers…and I’m not sure whether it has anything to do with the cold… Anyway, on to all things Arc - • Environment Department All UNSW students are welcome. So The Arc is also running more of its Week 11 is National Volunteer • Women’s Department come along, enjoy a free lunch, and popular RSA and First Aid courses Week around Australia, and Arc is thank a volunteer. this week. These courses are heavily celebrating this by taking some time • Queer Department subsidised for Arc members and to thank all its volunteers. A large • Indigenous Department Applications also open for the are very useful for getting part- number of students volunteer for O-Week Organising Team this week. time employment in hospitality or To celebrate volunteering at UNSW, the Arc each year in one of its many The organising team are a group of for anyone interested in anything and to encourage other students to programs or collectives including: dedicated volunteers who assist the medical. You must pre-book at Arc get involved with UNSW volunteering, O-Week coordinator each year in Reception in the Blockhouse or visit the Arc is throwing a free BBQ at the • Yellow Shirts making UNSW’s annual O-Week the the website for more info. Kensington and COFA campuses this huge success it is. 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Blitz Magazine National VolunteerAna Gacis Week Free BBQ COFA (Central Quad) Tuesday 15 May Kensington (Roundhouse Beergarden) Wednesday 16 May Come thank a volunteer, and learn more about volunteering opportunities with the Arc at a FREE BBQ lunch. Volunteers form the backbone of The Arc is planning several ways what drives them to make the that putting together stir-crazy uni student life at UNSW. Volunteers to recognise, recruit, and most sacrifice. Hamish Collings-Begg, the students with a mission can conjure are, by their very nature, unpaid. importantly, thank volunteers Clubs and Activities Convener said up. There’s plenty of fun to be had. Volunteers give a lot and don’t ask during this week. Arc volunteers that he first volunteered as a Yellow for much, so once in a while it’s nice are invited to a free drink at the Shirt because he saw what Yellow Such an experience was happily for volunteers to receive a thank you Roundhouse, which they can claim Shirts had done when he first started enjoyed by Sam Thorp, when for their work. As an encouraging anytime during the week. Arc also is university. “I had a really tough time he volunteered for Hypesmiths, pat on the back for a job well done, the Roundhouse’s promotions Arc is currently celebrating National You make a living by what you get, organisation. His motives for Volunteer Week. volunteering are simple. “I really but you make a life by what you give. enjoy giving back and helping people National Volunteer Week 2007 from Winston Churchill out. It’s something I’ve always enjoyed the 14 – 20 of May, and the Arc@ doing. At the beginning of uni, I signed UNSW would like to thank all the inviting all volunteers to a BBQ and a in my first year, and I just wanted up for about 20 clubs and said yes! volunteers for their invaluable Volunteering Expo one day this week the chance to go out there and help Give me something to do and I’ll do it!” contribution to our campus. Arc at both Kensington (Roundhouse) and people. I thought that if I could help has between 200-250 volunteers COFA (quad) campuses. The fairy out one person who was in a similar So this week take some time out each year who are involved in the floss machine will also no doubt be circumstance to me, then it would be to consider the effort put in by many volunteer programs on offer, pumping out sugary goodness! all worth it.” Arc’s hundreds of volunteers, or including, O-Week Yellow Shirts, find out more about becoming You may be thinking, I never have Do you think that your life has started a volunteer yourself.