pUzzles + REViEWS S1W11 WHAT’S ON UNSW GIVE AWAyS + MORE 2012 FREE desperately seekiNg seekae A quickie with Sydney’s electro-stars V FOR VOlUNTEER Festival fun times for free we k-Pop WIN ViVID TiX SNOWy MOUNTAiNS FEST dOUBlE pASSES BIT’SLI BRIGHT,Nd IT’SEd LOUD, By IT’S THE VIVID FESTIVAL LIGHT 2012 THE AUdREyS CdS brought to you By 1 CONTENTS oh hey there... p14 the Blitz team’s Wise Words p07 Antonia Shuttleworth Blitz Editor A quote that sums up how you see the world: “Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.” – Ellen Goodman p15 Always mistaken for? Someone smart and/or Regina Spektor. 04 How You Can Be The Next Obama, Gillard or Abbott Katy Kennett 05 Bitz and Pieces Blitz Designer Always mistaken for: Linsday Lohan…pre-drugs 07 A Quickie with… Seekae they tell me. 08 Livid for Vivid If you weren’t here where would you be: Doing laps Blitz gets the goss from the festivsl’s of the main with the lowies in Bathurst, chasing DECIDE WHO WILL LEAD THE STRATEGIC DIRECTION OF YOUR STUDENT ORGANISATION down hotties and what not. director himself on just how bright this year’s Vivid festival of light and Advice for new students: Happy hour goes super- music will be. fast... be sure to double park each round. 11 What’s On Guide So many events, so little time - check Jacob Burkett out the UNSW DJ Comp finals, Sydney Blitz Reporter Writers’ Fest appearances at UNSW and our New Theatre giveaway. Always mistaken for: it’s either always Brad Pitt, Jonny Depp, Gerard Butler, or a combination of all three. 15 Volunteering: Festivals for Free Muso desperado with no mullah? Here’s Your favourite spot to hang at UNSW: The Roundhouse Beer Garden. Great music, seems to the goss on how to get in on the cheap. always be sunny, and a great change of environment to do work. My apologies to The White House. 16 College Confidential + Thumbs Up If you were on a desert island what 3 things would you 17 The Ultimate Timetable take: A gun, Bear Grylls, and Cobie Smulders. I’d make sure Sir Grylls wouldn’t steal my woman with my gun. UNSW wants to provide you with a well-rounded education - that’s why it Henry Cornwell offers these super-randomWAS courses. HERE Blitz Reporter WAS HERE 18WAS ReviewsHERE Reason why you came to UNSW: As a North Shore private schoolboy, USyd was too mainstream. 20 Puzzles + Jobs [email protected] [email protected] BITE US! Favourite quote: “The beast in the bullfight’s the [email protected] audience.” Or “Everything you need to know about 21 Go ClubbingBITE with… US! K-Pop Society me is in my dancing.” BITE US! 23 Vox Pops FOR 2012 CANDIDATE STATEMENTS VISIT arc.unsw.edu.au/elections If you could have dinner with anyone, living or dead or imaginary: The Magic Pudding. Or Ned Kelly. WIN Or maybe I’d sit with Ned Kelly and eat the Magic WAntWIN Free StuFF? Pudding. Keep a look out for this logo to win [email protected] [email protected] SHOW US 14-16 (02) 9385 7715 Antonia Shuttleworth [email protected] VOTE NOW (MAY ) T Editor Blitz Advertising SHOW US THE PO Box 173, Kingsford NSW 2032 Designer Kate Kennett Rates SHOWand enquiries: US THE Level 1, Blockhouse, Lower Campus Writers Jacob Burkett, Henry Nancy ChungTHE .edu.au • All ordinary Arc members as at 30 March 2012 are eligible to vote in • Members then vote in preference of the candidates they want elected. ABN 71 121 239 674 Cornwell sw T (02) 9385 7666 n edu.au u Email [email protected] Marketing & Publications w. the election. s c • There are three (3) Director positions up for election: 1 x CoFA Director, E [email protected] n r email .e u u a w . Website www.arc.unsw.edu.au Coordinator Susan Fagan s c @ LEGAL n r u email e a • Online voting will commence on Monday 14 May 2012 and conclude on 1 x Postgraduate Director and 1 x Ordinary Director. Candidates running . c c i www.arc.unsw.edu.au/ Natalie Karam, Olivia Kim, @ Read Blitz Online Contributions r email LEGAL v e a d EAGLE a c Wednesday 16 May 2012. An email containing the voting link will be sent for the CoFA and Postgraduate Director positions are also eligible for the i @ LEGAL entertainment/publications/blitz-issues Nikki Brogan, Kenneth Young, Daniel v e d c EAGLE a i to all Ordinary Members of Arc eligible to vote (to the email address pro- ordinary Director position. Search ‘Arc Publications’ Jeffrey, Christine Su, Angus Hogan v iPhone App d EAGLE a vided when signing up for Membership). The link will lead eligible students For further information, please contact the Returning Officer – to a page where candidate photos and statement can be viewed. [email protected] or 02 9385 7711 EXCLUSIVE 2 EXCLUSIVE 3 Blitz is published weekly by Arc @ UNSW. The views expressed herein are not necessarily the views of Arc, unless explicitly stated. EXCLUSIVE How you can be (or vote for) the next Hit Shit OBAMA, GILLARD OR ABBOTT Finding an amazing parking Sitting next to someone who What do Obama, the PM and Leader of the Opposition have in spot on High Street. Yiew! stinks on the bus and then common? They were all involved in student politics. Arts. of Bachelor her complete worrying for the rest of the day before transferring to Stanford to to Stanford to transferring before that the smell has become part Suddenly remembering that of you forever. Yale University in the US for two years years two for US the in University Yale S Club are coming to UNSW in Blitz last week asked some Vox Poppers whether they attended Jen on, cheated or abused Week 13. UNSW must have done Well when she was not being being not was she when Well thought student politics was a ‘hit or shit’ - about half Dream? A something right in a past life. When someone adds you on FB Requiem For For Requiem of them answered with the latter. in girlfriend addict drug and you have no mutual friends. Or that that You? Or Into That Not Just He’s Some exciting things you get to do as in Are they real? Wandering through the city I’m here to tell you that being on the Arc Board is Arc Director: wife poor Coopers Bradley Remember and being dazzled by the Vivid more than just student politics; it’s about being the CONNELLY JENNIFER light show. People using too many abbrevs voice of students and making a real change at UNSW. • Set the organisation’s strategy BEAUTY IS THE GEEK THE IS BEAUTY in class - use your words FFS. • Represent all Arc Members’ views on This year, there are 22 candidates running for 3 making significant decisions Director spots on the Arc Board, but you might be • Come up with new ideas to benefit asking why they would even bother... members • Go along to some awesome events The really cool thing I have taken from being a Director and the inaugural Board Retreat is that when I look at the policies I believed in and and much, much more. ‘batted for’, Board actually decided to implement them. Eg lowering Arc’s environmental emissions by a further 25% over the next five years; introducing more subsidies for members and making it free to join up. So get involved, vote in the elections (see ad on p2 or go to arc.unsw.edu.au/elections for the lowdown on all candidates), run next year, check out the Board blog (arcboardblog.arc.unsw.edu.au/about-us/arc-board/ Natalie Karam arc-board/blog), check out Blitz! After all, what’s the Arc Chair 2011/2012 fun in being at uni if you’re not getting amongst it? [email protected] in 2012? in do we still have this problem problem this have still we do MEME OF THE WEEK right-handed people. How How people. right-handed using products made for for made products using people a year are killed from from killed are year a people Over 2500 left-handed left-handed 2500 Over FACTOIDS RANDOM RANDOM screw you over!!” you screw day will always find a way to to way a find always will day ahead does nothing!! Enrolment Enrolment nothing!! does ahead “Being organized & planning planning & organized “Being theatre guys.” theatre Like wayyyy harder than a BA in in BA a than harder wayyyy Like “Ummmm a JD is really hard. hard. really is JD a “Ummmm STATUS UPDATES STATUS - Jack Kerouac - FACEBOOK FACEBOOK overheard UNSW BEST on campus Guy 1: “When someone makes awkward “When someone makes Guy 1: a tute across with you contact eye things: they two do one of to want they or with you, sex have to either want sleep with you.” to want they “Isn’t that the same thing?” Guy 2: “No sir it is not.” Guy 1: @ Unibar IF YOU ONLY LEARN ONLY YOU IF AN FROM ONE QUOTE DEGREE: ARTS me “The only people for the are the mad ones, or yawn ones who never thing, say a commonplace burn like burn, but burn, Roman yellow fabulous candles” 4 5 a quickie with SEEKAEWe’D DeFER tOO IF It MeANT BeCOMInG INTERNAtIOnAL MuSIC GODS In the blink of an eye, Seekae have gone from Sydney’s liberating.” They’ll be performing track songs from their friendliest underground trio of George Nicholas, acclaimed albums The Sound of Trees Falling on People and +Dome AGM John Hassell and Alex Cameron to international as well as new tracks from their yet-to-be-titled upcoming album due out later this year.