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Dear On Dit, Congratulations to the SRC President for her heads up on mood disorder [Eds: Former SRC President Lucy Small-Pearces’s column in Edition 82.9]. When I was an undergraduate in the early 80s the Counselling Service was in the hands of zealots campaigning against ‘the Medical Model’. (Hopefully things are different now and the Counselling Service adopts a more balanced approach.) There were no Disability Action Plans back in those primitive days. Consequently my Honours year in 1983 was undergone without benefit of medication or appropriate academic adjustment to my lasting detriment. The only oversight in Lucy’s column was a failure to refer to the Medical Service and the role of pharmacology in the management of the all too common major disorder of manic depression or bi-polar disorder. I am one who can attest to the efficacy of pharmaco-therapy allied with supportive medical counselling. Dr David Faber Visiting Research Fellow School of Economics Dear On Dit, Hi, my name’s Bridget Fahey Hodder. I’m an Adelaide Comedian and a reader of On Dit. After reading the piece ‘Mastering Hilarity’ by Miriam Cross I’d like to voice a few issues. Firstly, Miriam didn’t really research to see how much local talent we actually have here in Adelaide, let alone Australia. Granted, she did mention Demi Lardner, who is a talented and hard working individual, but it would have taken one google search to find out more. Secondly, she makes no intention to inform people on where to go and what to do if they want to start doing comedy, this also would have take one google search. However, I understand that there isn’t enough information being circulated to inform people, which is why I want to rectify this. I started doing stand up in 2011 at One Mic Stand. One Mic Stand is an open mic night that occurs every Monday at the Rhino Room, 1/13 Frome road, Adelaide CBD, 7:30pm. All you have to do to get five minutes of
stage time is to bring three paying customers. If you have a bit of stage experience already, you could contact Craig Egan, who runs AdelaideComedy.com at craig@adelaidecomedy.com. Adelaide Comedy nights run every Wednesday at The Marion Hotel, Thursdays at The Tea Tree Gully hotel, and every Friday and Saturday at the Rhino Room. Other comedy rooms include Eddie Bannon’s Laugh Inn, every saturday at 9pm at the Austral, and Cranker Comedy at The Crown and Anchor, every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month. There are also always projects happening throughout the year, run and performed by Adelaide comedians including podcasts, sketch shows and improv gigs. If there’s anyone who is keen but has questions please contact me at brickenbrackdiy@gmail.com or on Twitter @brick_en_brack. I understand it can be daunting and scary as well as a completely alien experience, but I fell in love with comedy and want to help others who love it. Kind regards, Bridget Fahey Hodder Dear students, On Dit. Those two simple yet oft mispronounced words mean so many things to so many people. To Daisy, Sharmione [Eds: it’s Sharmonie] and Yasmin I’m sure it evokes memories of late caffeine powered nights. To me it sends a shiver down my now disturbed sleeping pattern and to many of you it’s the magazine you see floating around university and read on the bus/train/ tram/uber/shank’s pony home. Most of us love On Dit. I love that it’s written by students for students. Our generation is often labeled apathetic in the mainstream media and yet consistently On Dit (and The Economist & The Guardian) is there to show people otherwise. Every fortnight many passionate individuals spend hours slaving away over a keyboard fleshing out how they feel towards an issue of concern to them.