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Spring Breakers: a feminist manifesto?
Nick Richardson doesn’t think Spring Breakers is exploitative.
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Open letter to Michael Spence
The SRC Executive has written an open letter to Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence about police on campus
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My wonderful day
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF ASSAULT. Tom Raue recounts his experiences with police at the strike on May 14.
Read More →FIRST PERSON: The time I met a Nazi sympathiser
Bryant Apolonio briefly interviewed a hideous man
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Too soon to tell: Iraq, 10 years on
Nina Hallas looks back at the war that should never have been
Read More →Silent Sexuality: Pedophilia, child sex abuse, and discourse
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE. Ben Brooks examines the discourse of paedophilia and child abuse, and why we need to break the taboo of discussing child sexuality.
Read More →Chinese whispers: the Dalai Lama and Sydney University
Sources say that pressure has been leveraged on the Sydney University administration by the Chinese government or business interests that has forced the cancellation of a speech by the Dalai Lama on campus. Avani Dias explores the machinery of the university and its connections to China.
Read More →Winning hearts, ‘likes’, and retweets
Felix Donovan explains how Obama’s social media campaign has inspired Julia Gillard
Read More →Out of focus
ADHD was once thought to only afflict children, but the illness is increasingly being diagnosed in adults. Caitlin Still explores the issue.
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Selfish charity?
Georgia Behrens questions the virtue of voluntourism in the developing world
Read More →Hontiki recommends: North Korea
North Korea is a very real, yet very different, tourist destination. Perfect for the blog updates and Facebook statuses!
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International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
It’s easy to think that in the age of marriage equality, we’re living in a post-homophobic society. Not quite. In the lead up to International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT), Honi asked the queer collective some of the homophobic things people have said to them recently. The response was overwhelming: “So which one of [...]
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Pranking Tharunka – is there a lesson to be learnt?
The demonisation of Government lecturer Peter Chen has been largely misinformed and misleading, argues Ada Lee
Read More →Controversy surrounds Adelaide University Union’s online elections
Cameron Caccamo reports on cross-campus hackery
Read More →Drug discussions not as sweet as sugar
Lachlan Munro reports on a recent expert panel on drugs and alcohol
Read More →GOVT2603 v 2UE
Alisha Aitken-Radburn and Natalie Sareff, two students in Peter Chen’s GOVT2603 class, pranked 2UE.
Read More →‘Pranking Tharunka’ assignment cancelled
Sean O’Grady reports on the end of the infamous pranking Tharunka assignment.
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Spring Breakers: a feminist manifesto?
Nick Richardson doesn’t think Spring Breakers is exploitative.
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International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
It’s easy to think that in the age of marriage equality, we’re living in a post-homophobic society. Not quite. In the lead up to International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT), Honi asked the queer collective some of the homophobic things people have said to them recently. The response was overwhelming: “So which one of [...]
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Snapchat: ten seconds in heaven
Keep it short and snappy, writes Mariana Podesta-Diverio
Read More →NETIQUETTE: An unlikely sage
Humans search for meaning in all kinds of bizarre places. We might read too much into a small coincidence, take up prayer or meditation, or find the face of Jesus Christ in a piece of toast. But perhaps the most unlikely candidate to offer pearls of wisdom is the notorious Twitter spambot Horse_ebooks. Currently, the [...]
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NETIQUETTE: The battleground of online opinion
We’ve all done it on occasion. You’re halfway through a controversial opinion piece and you scroll down to see the comments. Perhaps you’ll hop onto Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit and see what’s being said about the latest news. Perhaps you’ll even vote in a poll just to see the current results. There’s something about the [...]
Read More →Crazy Fringe Belief Activism Pages
Lachlan Munro explores three of the most insane Facebook activism pages
Read More →Coffee Beeans
A paper published in the journal Science last week has found that caffeine in the nectar of some flowers can improve bee’s memories.
Read More →Don’t be a square and play The Cube
Late last year gaming studio 22cans released Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube? and changed the world forever. John Gooding is not a fan.
Read More →Review: The Sims 3: University Life
The Sims are all grown up and getting a tertiary education.
Read More →Is your sunscreen trying to kill you?
Kate McDonell investigates the possibilities and risks of nanotechnology
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Harvard researchers get high…then drunk
Lachlan Munro has never smoked grass, before or after beer, because it’s against the law
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TOP 5: Problems caused by women
5) Fall of Troy That bitch Helen caused a war. Wars are bad. The war led to the fall of Troy. Oh, and a couple of Hollywood productions with some pretty bad acting. 4) All problems in Australia Julia Gillard. Need I say more? She’s bad. Tony Abbott told us from the start, but we [...]
Read More →DA FUQ: “Mainstream” “Party”
Some of the Mainstream Party’s policies are pretty sound, really. For instance, they advocate the implementation of a pneumatic mail service, with all manner of items being sent from address to address via tubes and compressed air. Sadly, a pneumatic fast food service would mean you’d have to stack pizza slices and all the grease [...]
Read More →Edgy comes full circle
On first arriving in Australia last July, I remember remarking to a friend back in England, with a patronising snort of derision, that being at Sydney Uni felt “a bit like how I imagine American College would have done in the mid-to-late nineties.” Amongst the swarming mass of tie-dye students and chalked-up pavements, I experienced [...]
Read More →Top 5 things inspired by astrology
5. Ronald Reagan’s day-to-day schedule Nancy Reagan, a Cancer (nup, I don’t like the connotations either), then first lady, was a big believer in astrology, and had a personal astrological advisor called Joan Quigley. After the assassination attempt on her husband in 1981, she became very influential in organising her husband’s schedule, perhaps more influential [...]
Read More →Top 5 moments when it’s OK for tone-deaf people to sing
Things aren’t always harmonious, writes Lane Sainty
Read More →Top 5 Female-Fronted Bands
Xiaoran Shi left out Hole, Garbage, and The Spice Girls. Because everybody knows TLC was the best.
Read More →Top 5 Disney Songs to Have Kinky Heteronormative Sex To
Rafi Alam ruins Disney for you… and probably sex as well.
Read More →Honi’s predictions for 2013
The Occupy movement will continue to die down around the world, except perhaps, in the West Bank. Happy ending: Craig Thomson will put the HSU saga to bed by accepting golden handjob. The entire Essendon team will come forward and blame Shane Warne’s mum for doping. USYD smoking areas will now also contain pokies and [...]
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GOVT2603 v 2UE
Alisha Aitken-Radburn and Natalie Sareff, two students in Peter Chen’s GOVT2603 class, pranked 2UE.
Read More →‘Pranking Tharunka’ assignment cancelled
Sean O’Grady reports on the end of the infamous pranking Tharunka assignment.
Read More →Open letter to Michael Spence
The SRC Executive has written an open letter to Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence about police on campus
Read More →Police clash with protesters at USYD strike
Yesterday’s strike at USYD, the fourth day of industrial action so far this semester, has given rise to claims of police brutality and questions over the University’s involvement in inviting riot police on campus.
Read More →My wonderful day
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF ASSAULT. Tom Raue recounts his experiences with police at the strike on May 14.
Read More →The write-up: this year’s Union Board Candidates
Here, we profile the fifteen candidates running for Union Board this year, and the one who mysteriously isn’t.
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FIRST PERSON: Rolling in the derby
Photo: Richard Rayment If you had asked me a year ago, I would have said that roller derby wasn’t my thing. It wasn’t the aggressive nature of the sport that turned me off, nor the high risk of injury. It’s just that I’m obviously not cool enough to be a sassy, confident ‘derby girl’. Derby [...]
Read More →Arts vs Science: Interfaculty Sport edition
Josh Tassell encourages SciSoc and SASS Sports Executives to give 110%
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Rugby league’s culture must change
Michael Coutts pens an open letter to the Chairman of the Australian Rugby League Commission
Read More →An education in homophobia for players and fans alike
Lane Sainty isn’t convinced that there are no gay players in the AFL
Read More →No rainbow card for football players
Precious few of our athletes are choosing to make their sexuality public, writes Thomas Poberezny-Lynch.
Read More →GF 2012 Preview: Sydney Vs. Hawthorn
Richard Withers dissects the key issues ahead of tomorrow’s Grand Final between Sydney and Hawthorn
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TOP 5: Problems caused by women
5) Fall of Troy That bitch Helen caused a war. Wars are bad. The war led to the fall of Troy. Oh, and a couple of Hollywood productions with some pretty bad acting. 4) All problems in Australia Julia Gillard. Need I say more? She’s bad. Tony Abbott told us from the start, but we [...]
Read More →THE SOIN: Gillard Cures Cancer in Spare Time, Approval Rating Plummets
Federal Labor reached a new low in the polls this week with the unmarried, female, atheist, red-haired immigrant Prime Minister’s approval rating dropping almost 10 percentage points after it was announced she had successfully developed a cure for cancer. Pundits have suggested this slump is most likely a result of the highly successful scare campaign [...]
Read More →Soin online-only Special: Positive Pete’s tips for wooin’ them sheilas
Martin ‘Pete’ Peterson-Dingbat knows how to woo them sheilas
Read More →BOB KATTER: WORLD UNOCCUPIED UNTIL ADVENT OF AUSSIES
Bob Katter has declared that the world was unoccupied until the advent of Australian society.
Read More →EXCLUSIVE UPDATE ON IRON THRONE ELECTIONS
The Soin brings you exclusive updates on Iron Throne elections.
Read More →Department of corrections – The Daily Telegraph believe in Ghostz
It’s time to take a master class from veteran Daily Telegraph reporter Richard Noone, who on February 18 had a story with the following headline published under the so-called ‘News’ section
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RIGHT TO BARE ARMS
Historians have uncovered a typographical error in the United States Constitution that entitles all Americans citizens to a free wax.
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Editorial: 2013 S1 W10
Who edits the editors? According to the historian Steven Spielberg, Abraham Lincoln once bellowed: “I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me those votes!” We can relate. While not quite POTUS, Honi is still kind of a big deal, at least at Sydney Uni. We [...]
Read More →Editorial: 2013 S1 W7 – Xiaoran Shi
Language is dearer to us than any means of sensory perception, any bleeding secret, any familiar childhood trinket. We could not hold the sights and sounds, memories and fears we do were we denied it. Try to possess knowledge of the world without a framework of comprehension and communication at your disposal, and you’d be [...]
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Editorial: 2013 S1 W4 – Bryant Apolonio
Li Bai, the 8th century Chinese poet, was writing about the Yangtze River when, so enamoured with the moon’s reflection on the water’s surface, he tried to embrace it, fell in, drowned. To be emotionally consumed by your art is a beautiful thing. To be literally consumed is a product of his alleged alcoholism and [...]
Read More →Editorial: 2013 S1 W3 – Mariana Podesta-Diverio
I have much more in common with male members of the working class than I do with Julia Gillard. I share not her politics nor her economic affluence. On some levels Gillard is still subjected to the oppression that all women in our society face, including the scrutiny of her image, and the delegitimisation of [...]
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- Two of USYD's best footballers have been injured in a homophobic attack in Griffith: http://t.co/po4vi1jnrU #usyd
- During this year's USU election, should you vote based on a candidate's policy? http://t.co/1iHgzy6GJA #usudecides
- Poet Claire Nashar reviews the news http://t.co/osjso7xnBK
- In response to Tuesday's strike, students have started a petition calling on VC Spence to keep police off campus: https://t.co/pbJuVkZKgm
- Meeting now over. Life Choice issue unresolved. Pick up Honi next week for a piece on the RU486 pamphlet. #USUforum
- Rafi: if we're implementing CSR policy, we should also be responsible about the truth, particularly regarding scientific matters. #USUforum
- Life Choice President: Life Choice should complement the Women's collective. #USUforum #idontunderstand
- Penina Su: there was no open discussion between Life Choice and other USU members about the issues presented in the pamphlet. #USUforum
- Fahad Ali says it is problematic to present information on this pamphlet as fact when some of it is patently false #USUforum
- Alex Brown: if there are claims in the pamphlets that are demonstrably false, there should be consequences for Life Choice. #USUforum
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Most Loved
Seymour Centre gets seedy posted on March 21, 2013
Obituary: Ralph Panebianco posted on May 15, 2013
USYD soccer players subject to homophobic attack posted on May 14, 2013
My wonderful day posted on May 15, 2013
USU Board candidates’ boulevard of broken promises posted on May 15, 2013
