President

LIA PERKINS

Welcome Week is done! Phew. Thanks to everyone who helped out at the SRC stall and well done to all Collectives for your hard work. It was awesome to meet so many new students who are passionate about making a better world and a better university. Clearly, this year USyd spent a lot of money marketing themselves to new students, but let’s not forget the punitive systems they use against their own students,

TIGER PERKINS JASMINE DONNELLY

Tiger: Hi Jaz, how have you been faring with our work over the last couple months? Working hard or hardly working?

Jaz: Well Tiger, recognition as a professional activist is no small responsibility. Long, arduous days were spent on Messenger galvanising the Office Bearers, Indesign for the

DANIEL BOWRON ROSE DONNELLY

Dearest Student Community,

It has been a tiresome week on the stall, but promulgation of the SRC’s

JOSHUA NORENA SIWAN XU

SARGUN SALUJA

THOMAS THORPE

Australia is experiencing declining rates of religious identification, as identified in the 2021 Census. From 2016 to 2021, the proportion of people identifying with no religion increased complete contempt towards staff in enterprise bargaining, and the way management made a surplus by selling essential student housing.

It was a lot of fun to speak with Weihong, President of SUPRA, at the Welcome Ceremony on the main stage on the first day, and to fill half an hour of time introducing the SRC shortly after. Last week I spoke at many other Welcomes, including International Students, the Con, FASS and New to Sydney.

I attended the Women’s Collective protest to end sexual violence on

Orientation Handbook and crine on the SRC floor. What would you say is the magnum opus of our salty summer so far?

T: I would say the hot new SRC merch we’ve dropped: 3000 exquisite totes full to the brim with our interesting and thought-provoking handbook Countercourse, published free of bullshit and full of formatting errors. Rumbles on the town posit the Gensecs are also the new Gatsbys of the SRC.

J: Published you say! Tiger is roaring in his element. The rumours are true… our lavish WW party was humbly crowned Event Of The Season, by services has been a great success: rumour has it the Instagram has grown by over one thousand followers.

In other news… the first FoodHub order has been fulfilled and will be delivered imminently. Opening day of the refreshed service will be the 21st of February. If you missed out on a tote at Welcome Week, feel free to come by. Any student who is experiencing financial difficulties and/or food insecurity is encouraged to come by on from 30.1% to 38.9%. To understand the implications of this, the interfaith office has decided to examine the role religion should play in society.

The role of religion is closely tied to the benefits it provides. The existence of a higher power, or a God, implies that we were all created for a specific purpose, which is important in a culture which is struggling to find a sense of meaning. The existence of a divine creator, who knows you intimately, provides someone who campus, particularly important during Welcome Week which is the most significant time this culture is perpetuated. Some important activist work coming soon includes the snap action on Friday 24th of February to demand affordable housing now! This is a campaign wholly supported by the SRC as the housing crisis in Sydney is particularly awful right now. At the SRC stall we told lots of students about the Climate Strike on March 3rd, and are keen for the big day. I’m excited for the Mardi Gras rally on Sunday 19th, when we march against the corporate version of pride. There is also an EAG external third parties of course. We’ve also been busy activists - building for the SRC’s campaigns around the cost of living crisis, March 3 Climate Strike and getting Thales Off Campus.

T: Yep - the duality of providing students with movie vouchers and mobilising them for climate action is an interesting challenge.

J: Thank you Ally Tiger. Tell me more about Orientation and welcoming new students to campus.

T: We’ve spent the last 3 days in sweltering heat, chatting to new students about what their degree will be like and how the SRC can help them level up. Conservative Club sent

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am2pm! And if any of you lovely readers wish to be involved with volunteering, please get in contact with us at vice. president@src.usyd.edu.au.

Rose attended the Housing Justice Rally in Town Hall on 11 February, which called on the people of NSW to unite against the Liberal National Government’s attack on public housing. Furthermore, we have set up the TikTok @therealstudentsofsydney, understands you and your emotions better than even yourself.

This might be frightening for young people, but it provides something which is missing in society; someone who can empathise with and support you no matter what you are experiencing. These ideas, while not exhaustive, suggest that our seemingly insatiable desire to find meaning, understanding and appreciation should be found not in the physical realm but the spiritual.