Woroni Issue 4, Vol. 67. Week 7, Semester 1, 2017
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Don’t ‘Eagle Rock’ the Boat: A Story about Disclosure and Response
Tuning in to the Discovery Channel: Stories of Self-Discovery
On Being Good Enough
Five Secret Ways to Get a Park on Campus
‘Revisiting one college community’s response to sexual harassment and looking forwards’
‘David Attenborough’s guide to figuring your shit out’
‘Not being perfect doesn’t mean you’ve failed’
‘They’ll never find you here’
TIME’S UP FOR BRUCE HALL Text: Jasper Lindell Photography: Marwan El Hassan Bruce Hall, the once grand monument to modern, co-educational tertiary education, is slowly being devoured at the top of University Avenue by demolition equipment after a last-minute legal attempt by the Bruce Hall Alumni Association was not enough to save the iconic residence hall. The gardens and trees have been desecrated and heavy machinery has moved in, poised to d i sm a nt le more than 50 years
of ANU undergraduate history, after the ANU succeeded in clearing all hurdles in the way of its demolition, despite previously concluding the buildings should be heritage listed. The mad hope of the Bruce Hall Alumni Association (BHAA) was finally dashed at a Federal Court hearing on 4 April, when stop work orders were overturned, and the BHAA withdrew its case after a release of Environment Department documents showed that sufficient community consultation on the demolition application had taken place. The hall, which opened in 1961 and was the first co-educational residential hall in Australia, has been the subject of a strong campaign led by former residents to save the buildings based on their social and historical importance.
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The ANU initially denied plans to demolish the buildings but, after securing funding from Graham and Louise Tuckwell in 2016, announced that Bruce Hall would be demolished and replaced with two accommodation towers, which would provide funds to sustain the Tuckwell scholarship. But critics say that the quickest way to increase the number of beds for students on campus would have been to construct new halls either side of Bruce Hall. The ANU said, while this was investigated, there were too many issues with this proposal. The President of the BHAA, Bec Duncan, said that the group had ‘always been open to expanding Bruce Hall,
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even with major changes, but done in a way that was sympathetic to the heritage buildings, but [the ANU] would not listen.’ The ANU had previously concluded the Bruce Hall buildings were of significant heritage value, but the ACT Heritage Council’s decision in November not to add the buildings to the heritage opened up the possibility for their demolition. A 2015 ANU heritage assessment recommended adding Bruce Hall to the Commonwealth Heritage List, that any future work be ‘informed by a
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