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In Conversation with Gai Brodtmann, Member for Canberra Ana Stuart

My “Lonely Planet Guide” to Canberra Chanel Irvine

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Star Wars: The Science Asleepens Lewis Pope

Stalkerspace—Open debate or Safer Space?

Jessy Wu and Ramon Bouckaert Page 10

Letters to Brian

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Under Wraps: High Fashion and the Muslim Market Marni Mount

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EKTA presents: Holi 1pm at Chifley Meadows Queer* Collective Gender Free Speed Dating 3pm at ANU Bar Honours Roll 5pm - 6:30pm at God’s Cafe and Bar Life on Moose 9pm - 12am at Mooseheads ANU Film Group presents: Star Wars Movie Night 7:30pm at Coombs Theatre 2 for 1 Pizza Night at Public Bar at Dining Room

Amazing Space Race Registration 9am at Union Court Amazing Space Race 12pm - 4pm at Union Court Out of this World Trivia 4pm at ANU Bar Mature-Age Student Meet and Greet 5pm - 6.30pm at God’s Cafe and Bar Queer* Movie Night 7pm at Queer*House at 14 Liversidge St Ben & Jerry’s Openair Cinema Canberra at Patrick White Lawns- Joy (M)

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Market Day 9am - 4pm at University Avenue Disabilities Dept. presents ‘Spacecraft-ernoon!’ 4pm at Spoons Space No Lights, No Lycra 7pm at BKSS Ben & Jerry’s Openair Cinema Canberra at Patrick White Lawns- Grease Sing-a-Long (PG) Tranny Trivia at Polit Bar

Galactic Games Laser Tag Battle 12pm - 4pm at Chifley meadows Environment Collective’s Welcome Picnic 12pm-2pm at Fellows Oval BBQ Women’s Department Acoumix Year Book Launch 2pm at Copland Courtyard Comet-y Gala 8pm at ANU Arts Centre Ben & Jerry’s Openair Cinema Canberra at Patrick White Lawns- Carol (M)

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Market Day 9am - 4pm at University Avenue Disabilities Dept. presents ‘Spacecraft-ernoon!’ 4pm at Spoons Space No Lights, No Lycra 7pm at BKSS Ben & Jerry’s Openair Cinema Canberra at Patrick White Lawns- Star Wars: Episode VII, The Force Awakens (M) We May Never Meet Again: The Music of Amy Winehouse at The Street Theatre Dog Deals at PJ O’Reilly’s Canberra City

Lunch on the Milky Way 12pm - 2pm at Union Court Dawn French: Thirty Million Minutes at Canberra Theatre National Multicultural Festival at various venues Capital and Country: the Federation Years 1900-1914 at Canberra Museum and Gallery Voices from the Front at Australian War Memorial Delicious afterDARK Tour at Australian National Botanical Gardens

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Cover by Bridie Mackay

Dear ANU Community,

If you’ve never heard of us before, thanks for picking up a copy of Woroni, the only financially and editorially independent student newspaper in Australia. Hopefully this year we’ll have plenty of chances to be acquainted, either by playing music or at the ANU Bar while you’re busy drinking; taking photographs at the events and parties you’re at; or reporting on the

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latest student politician or that terrible scandal you simply don’t care about.

To all new students, welcome to the ANU, and we wish you the best of luck navigating through the strange and wonderful world that is university life.

Throughout the year, as you’re happily discovering all the other things that make university so special (the liberty of missing lectures and not realising your mistake until 6 weeks later during your 50% mid-term exam, for one), I hope you don’t forget about us, and return to pick up another edition of Woroni.

We do a pretty good job pretending we’re an actual newspaper, but I can’t guarantee that we won’t make mistakes. In fact, I’m pretty sure we will.

What I can promise though, is that as

long as you allow us, we’ll keep working tirelessly to get it right, and to give you a reason to come back every two weeks and grab the latest copy.

Maddi, Ria, Caitlin, Joanne, Liam, Mitchell, Andrew and I will be tirelessly to deliver the best Woroni we can to you in 2016. We’ve have already spent the last month hard at work with this O-Week paper, trying desperately to find the articles that you’d think are thoughtful and compelling.

If at any point this year you’re interested in broadcasting that obnoxious opinion you developed in your first year politics class, starting a radio show, taking photographs, submitting artwork, or just learning how to best waste a SSAF-funded bar tab, come to

us, and we’ll give you the tools to do so.

And to all returning ANU students, let’s drop the charade - if the Woroni office doesn’t burn into ashes by December, I think us editors will have done well for ourselves.

Yours Sincerely, Waheed Jayhoon Editor in Chief 2/02/16 7:56 PM

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2016 Guide to Sport at ANU Jack Birtwhistle

Welcome from Waheed Waheed Jayhoon

The Best of Times: A Guide to First Year Jack Birtwhistle

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More Residents DisLodged by ANU’s First Year Accommodation Guarantee Mark Han

Repetitions and Luminosity: A Welcome to Canberra Esther Carlin

Parking Changes Spark Discussion Over Consultation Maddalena Easterbrook

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In Conversation with Gai Brodtmann, Member for Canberra Ana Stuart

First Year Uni... What Could Be Easier?

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ANU OK: Security at Students’ Fingertips Miguel Galsim

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Life & Style 35

Agree to Disagree Maeve Bannister and Paroksh Prasad Campus Style 32

Under Wraps: High Fashion and the Muslim Market Marni Mount 32

Making The Runway Accessible Matilda Millar-Carton 38

Pictures from the Past Tom Baily

One Way to a New World Patrick Dawson

International

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Cosmology: The History of Everything Vihan Patel

Who’s Who at the ANU Paroksh Prasad

Welcome to Content Nishanth Pathy

Astrology: The Discovery of New Worlds Ryan Ridder

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Letters to Brian 12

Stalkerspace—Open debate or Safer Space?

Jessy Wu and Ramon Bouckaert

Trials and Tribulations: Breaking into the Real World Albert Patajo 27

Killing Darnold Teddy Johnston

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Collective Consent?

Ana Stuart 14

Woroni: What Was and What Could Be Michael Turvey 15

Woroni Presents A Uni Student’s Guide to Canberra 16

My “Lonely Planet Guide to Canberra Chanel Irvine 18

The Bush Capital: An Introduction to Nature in Canberra George Stefan

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What ‘New World’ would you leave behind if you were Prime Minister for a day?

Women in Sport in the ANU Mary Waters The Golden Hour James Hill Seven Reasons to be Involved in Sport on Campus Jack Birtwhistle

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Arts & Reviews

Wolly (Woroni Dolly) Ivy Smojver

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In Conversation with Gordon Bull Shan Crosbie

The Peaceful Invation of Job Stealing Terrorists Rebecca Kriesler

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ANU Student Organisation Solves All World Ills Pettie Bage and Cat Karrington

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Art in Woroni Carol Tom Baily The Belier Family Eliza McConville 34

Star Wars: The Science Asleepens Lewis Pope

Acknowledgement of Country Woroni is published on the land of the Ngunnawal people.

‘Woroni’ translates to ‘mouthpiece’ in the Ngunnawal language.

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Advertising inquiries and submissions can made at: advertising@woroni.com.au Phone: (02) 6125 9574 Shop 15, Lena Karmel Building 26 Barry Drive, Acton 2601 Woroni is printed by Capital Fine Print.

Board of Editors

Editor In Chief - Waheed Jayhoon Deputy EIC - Mitchell Scott Managing Editor - Liam Osawa News - Maddalena Easterbrook Events - Andrew Cavenagh Content - Ria Pflaum Radio - Caitlin Magee Creative - Joanne Leong

Staff

Admin Assistant - Gowrie Varma Proofreader - Siobhonn Shannon Book keeper - Brendan Ofner

Sub-Editors

Managing Assistant - Rhys Dobson Marketing - Derek Wu News - Ana Stuart News - Mark Han News - Pamela Hutchinson News - Miguel Galsim Design - Eva Krepsova Art - Shan Crosbie Comment - Nishanth Pathy Features - Bronte McHenry Arts & Reviews - Gabriele Naktinyte International - Paroksh Prasad Life & Style - Phyllida Behm Science - Alissa Li Sport - Madhuri Kibria Satire - Zoe Saunders Professional Development - Charlie Austin Photography - Olympia Maselos Radio Technical Officer Jamie Palamountain Presenter Liaison - Finn Pëdersén Music/DJ - Brendan Keller-Tuberg Events and Sports - Brittany Wallis Social - Hannah Wright

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More Residents DisLodged by ANU’s FirstYear Accommodation Guarantee Mark Han The ANU’s first-year accommodation guarantee has again come under scrutiny with 12% of UniLodge residents’ reapplications denied for 2016. Over two hundred students from UniLodge are looking for alternative accommodation off campus, despite wanting to remain on campus. The existing UniLodge community will also be heavily impacted, as only 63% of students will continue to stay at UniLodge in 2016.

A surge in applications placed the university under further pressure to deliver on their accommodation guarantee. According to UniLodge General Manager, Peter Warrington, the number of applications to the ANU at the end of October 2015 was already 10% higher than in 2014.

The timeline and vacancy rate target set out by ANU Accommodation required UniLodge to review over 1,600 applications in a short period. Only a

few full-time UniLodge employees, who were also juggling with their usual day-to-day responsibilities, aided the two registration officers responsible for the renewal process.

A number of students received conflicting emails from UniLodge over the course of the two rounds when application results were released.

Residents applying for contract renewal were judged upon the quality of their applications and their community involvement in 2015. Results were released over the last two weeks before exams, with zero avenues of appeal.

Current President of the UniLodge Residents Committee (ResCom) Howard Mclean, said, “Last year was the first time that UniLodge had a competitive selection process [for contract renewal] and many students were not aware of that.”

Mclean, who has been coordinating

transitional support for departing residents, attributes the situation to complacency and miscommunication, “Some students thus submitted substandard reapplication forms, thinking contract renewals would be a formality like the years prior.”

One departing resident, who wishes to remain anonymous, criticized the lack of warning given by ANU Accommodation and UniLodge before applications began. Despite the prospect of an above average number of 2016 rejections being discussed in a ResCom meeting last May, ANU Accommodation’s 37% vacancy target still caught the committee by surprise.

In response to the accommodation situation, ResCom held an emergency general meeting in the Davey Common Room to provide support for rejected residents. Property advice from LJ Hooker and information about alternative student accommodation in

Canberra were provided in the meeting to students from all four UniLodges. ANU Accommodation, however, was not present.

Pro Vice Chancellor Richard Baker assured residents that this situation is a lesson for both residences and ANU Accommodation.

“We worked with the Residential Halls and UniLodge Res Committee Presidents last year on the reapplication process for returning students, and their feedback meant we made some improvements to the process,” said Baker.

These sentiments were echoed by UniLodge General Manager, Peter Warrington, who anticipates that the renewal process next year will be improved by better channels of communication between ANU Accommodation, UniLodge and residents.

Parking Changes Spark Discussion Over Consultation Maddalena Easterbrook Changes made to ANU residential parking have raised concerns about the university’s general lack of consultation with students. The university did not consult with residences and ANUSA before making changes to parking arrangements for certain residents. Instead, Heads of Halls were reportedly told about the changes eight days before an email was sent out to all ANU students, and ANUSA five days beforehand.

President of the Burton & Garran Residents’ Association, Elisa Lu, said, “I’m really disappointed in the lack of consultation that has occurred between ANU and the residential halls.

And this isn’t the first time either.”

details, the decision is likely to have already been made, or it’s tokenistic at the very best,” said Gill.

es” as Fenner Hall allows residents free parking in a car park shared with the neighbouring building.

University representatives met with ANUSA and PARSA in early 2015, but only finalised the extent of the parking changes last month.

Concerns about safety and inconvenience have also been voiced, particularly for B&G residents walking to and from Dickson parking station at night.

Director of ANU Facilities and Services, Christine Allard, said, “Unfortunately the timing of the final decision, which was taken late in December, hampered the University’s capacity for a wider discussion with students.”

ANUSA President, Ben Gill, maintained that ANU Facilities and Services were generally quite good at student consultation, but that the parking changes may be representative of a broader issue.

From O-Week onwards, residents from John XXIII, Ursula, Burton & Garran, Toad Hall and Fenner Hall will be required to purchase a residential parking station permit and park in either the Dickson or Kingsley parking stations. Surface permit parking has also increased 12% from 2015 costs.

“I do think that there is a broader issue surrounding the university that by the time we are actually given the opportunity to be consulted on sufficient

However, President of the Fenner Residents’ Association, Sean Ding, said, “Fenner residents are essentially unaffected by the campus parking chang-

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“Dickson parking station, although a relatively short walk, is still quite removed from B&G. The walk has been described to me as having poor lighting at night and thus there are safety concerns. Also, cars are a significant investment, and students prefer having them closer to home,” said Lu. Facilities and Services have addressed these concerns by improving lighting and security patrols between Dickson and the residences. Security phones have also been placed on each level of the Dickson and Kingsley parking station, and UniSafe Patrol Officers and the On Campus On Demand night bus will be available until 11:30pm daily. ANU Security is available 24/7.

Director Christine Allard said that

the parking changes stemmed from complaints about non-residents parking in reserved spaces, and cars being exposed to weather and vandalism.

But it is the lack of notice before term starts and minimal consultation with key parties and the wider community that has students concerned.

“Students raise these issues with the people on the executive, which is obviously very important, otherwise what generally happens is that students disenfranchise from the university because feel that they can’t impact change… and then no one actually wins,” said Gill.

“In future, we’ll make sure that students are given an opportunity to have their say on these matters,” said Allard. .

Students are encouraged to contact ANUSA with feedback about the residential parking changes at sa.president@anu.edu.au To contact ANU Security and the On Campus On Demand night bus, call 6125 2249.

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In Conversation with Gai Brodtmann, Member for Canberra Ana Stuart How do you feel about the upcoming redistribution of your seat of Canberra? How will you aim to represent the students of the ANU, who have moved into this electorate?

I’m really excited about this redistribution. We’re already the second largest electorate, in terms of numbers, in the country. Even though we still have the same size team, and it will put a lot of pressure on our team, we are really excited about the redistribution. We get some really fantastic parts of Canberra, parts that I have lived in like Reid and the ANU. We are really looking forward to getting out into the electorate and getting to know the people.

In terms of how I will represent students, like I do with the electorate generally, I will be going out and talking to the students about their issues, attending O-Week, going along to talk to any club that invites me, and doing mobile offices there. I’ll be treating the ANU students similarly to all of the rest of the constituents in the fact of going out there and listening to their concerns and advocating for them.

You moved to the ANU when you finished school. What was your experience of your first year in Canberra?

It was something I chose because I wanted to have a bigger experience of going to university, and I wanted to get out of my comfort zone. I was majoring in politics and the ANU, in my view, had the best politics department in Australia.

Coming to Canberra, I missed my family a lot in that first term, I was pretty miserable for the first 2 or 3 months. But you get in to O-Week, and I was in a college, and you get to know people there, they’ve all come along and had the same experiences. They’ve moved from their families, and so we all became our own little family. I love Canberra, in the early 80’s there was a really vibrant arts scene, living on Campus meant that I could walk everywhere. I really loved it.

What do you wish someone had told you before starting uni?

I think that for me it was a case of I enrolled to do economics, accounting with a major in politics, and it was completely the wrong fit for me.

I had done a pure arts HSC, I didn’t even do maths. The advice I give to students is that if the fit isn’t right, trust your instincts and move on, and look at other alternative studies or degrees.

In those days it was really inflexible, and I felt completely boxed in. I got to the stage where I was miserable doing the economics degree, and then left it

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too late to move to something else.

Trust your instincts and if it’s not feeling right for you, then get out or look for alternative subjects. You don’t always get it right. The setting is different, you’re in a different environment, so I think that it’s important for you to explore and trust your instincts. Pursue what you’re really interested in, because if you’re really interested in it then you’re usually very good at it.

They really are your salad days. You don’t realise it until you’re my age, but you look back on those days, at all the students now, and they’re all young and beautiful and I just think that you have to seize every opportunity. You don’t appreciate it when you’re there, but it’s a very special and unique time of your life, so just soak it all up and enjoy it.

And study hard.

Considering that you were at university in the 80’s, and university was free then, do you think that students these days face more financial difficulty than your generation? And what can be done to support these students?

Well my second degree I paid for, the first was free. I was a student politician at RMIT, I was union president during my second degree. I was involved in the affiliation of RMIT to NUS (the National Union of Students), and I was also actively involved in the NUS anti-tertiary tax campaign. We mounted a huge campaign, we went down to ALP conference and rallied outside there, and lobbied inside there too. I was very opposed to tertiary tax. That said, I now realise that the configuration that Labor introduced did actually open up more opportunities for students to go to university. So in a way, I do see that as

a good result.

In terms of financial hardship, it is hard. Living in colleges was always expensive, but it is very expensive now, and accommodation around town is expensive. There are hardships, I understand part-time jobs are hard to get these days. Back then, we all had part-time jobs. I cleaned houses, I waitressed, I did all sorts of things. There were challenges then, at ANU I didn’t have the hefty bill but there were challenges just living from week-to-week. I had TEAS (Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, a means-tested payment, similar to Youth Allowance/AUStudy) which paid for my college, and my living expenses were paid for by cleaning houses or waitressing. I think that paying for your degree, the Labor legacy,has had significant benefits, it empowers the student. When I was doing economics, there was a 65% fail rate in the first year. That is complete and utter nonsense. I understand that things have changed now, but I wouldn’t be accepting that if I was paying for it.

With deregulation and reform of funding to the university sector likely to be a major issue in the upcoming election, what are your thoughts on this, considering that you benefitted from a free tertiary education?

I think that there is that threat of the $100,000 degree, and that really does worry me, and so that’s why Labor, and you students, need to actively campaign and work together to oppose that. That is a real and live threat, still, even with this new minister. I know that working on the campaign last year and the year before, I went back to RMIT and there were a lot of students there who were from the country, and their sib-

lings were considering not pursuing a tertiary degree because of the threat of having to pay $100,000. Others were considering doing postgraduate degrees, but should the $100,000 postgraduate degrees happen, they were looking at going overseas. I’m very concerned about the brain drain, and what that will mean for the country, and for research. If people are going overseas, then you lose the talent, or people won’t pursue PhD’s in research areas where they’re not going to be paid a huge amount.

We’ve seen it in the US, where research suffers because people are chasing the dollar as soon as they graduate, because they have this huge bill to pay back. I don’t want that to happen to this country.

What is your advice for incoming first years?

Just to get into everything.

Join, join, join! There are so many clubs now, whatever takes your fancy, just try it out! Put yourself outside the comfort zone. This is a really special and unique time of your life, and you don’t really appreciate it until you get a lot older. Just go for it, pursue different interests,some things will work out, some things won’t work out.

Study. You’ve got to study.

You’re there for a reason and that is to study. I know many students who have been doing degrees for 9 years, so you’ve got to study and actually finish the degree. I know many student politicians who got completely sucked into the vortex of student politics and just meandered along their degree.

Get involved in a range of activities, and enjoy them, but remember why you’re there and don’t let that become too much of a distraction.

I loved many things about the ANU, but what I really did love was the fact that I was meeting students with these extraordinary backgrounds. I grew up in this relatively modest background, and I was meeting students with these incredible backgrounds. There were these lives that people had lived that I’d never even dreamt about, let alone known about. So it was fantastic meeting people from all over the country, from all over the world, and hearing about what possibilities were out there. It really opened up my eyes to what could be and what opportunities were out there.

Also, you’re going to make a complete goose of yourself at some stage, you’ll do all the things you’re not meant to do, but that’s part of the journey.

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ANU OK: Security at Students’ Fingertips Miguel Galsim

A new security mobile application providing safety information and on-campus security alerts will be released during O-Week.

‘ANU OK’, developed by ANUSA, PARSA and ANU Security over the past year, will give students access to ANU’s multiple security services on their smartphones.

A prototype was made available to ANUSA in November, and, at the time of writing, student volunteers are providing feedback to the development team.

Underreporting of security breaches also led to the creation of the ANU Safety Facebook Group in mid-October 2015. The creator of the group, Clare Moore, felt that a space for effective, constructive sharing of safety information was missing.

ANUSA President, Ben Gill, said, “there’s no silver bullet when it comes to campus safety” but that “the primary goal is to promote awareness of the services that are available to all services and staff.”

ANU OK spawned from Swinburne University’s security application developed by AppArmor, a company based in Canada that provides security applications to universities throughout North America and Sydney.

“We decided that AppArmor was the best tool because, while it has relevant safety features, it’s also more about wellbeing and has more of a community approach,” said Gill.

ANUOK is the official safety and wellbeing app for students at The Australian National University.

The app features include quick access to ANU Security, a personal safety toolbox, campus map, transport and parking options and many other personal support resources.

ANU OK intends to give students more “ownership” over safety services, with the app being open to review and future modification, particularly regarding the possible GPS-tracking of the UniSafe bus. Additionally, important security notices can be pushed to users’ devices.

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curity’s profile online, and allow students to more effectively monitor the safety of friends. Students can use the app to report suspicious activity, albeit without anonymity.

“Anonymous reporting is good from a data point of view, but if people are reporting sexual assault and we have no

information to assist them, then what use is that?” said Gill.

ANUSA had originally planned to develop the app itself, but sought collaboration with PARSA and ANU administration, with former Vice-Chancellor Ian Young and other executives approving funding by mid-2015.

“The biggest issue Ben Gill and I found when talking to security is that none of the [security] incidents from Stalkerspace are reported to security because they don’t have a Facebook presence.

[ANU OK] gives students an easy, familiar way to report incidents and it brings security into the 21st century,” said Moore.

Despite safety issues arising within the ANU Safety group itself, including the possible hazards surrounding ‘crowd-sourcing’ walking partners, the group will continue to operate this year.

Moore said the positive response to ANU OK in the group “reassured ANUSA and Security that they were on the right track” in developing the app.

Clare Moore and the current admins of the ANU Safety Facebook group are seeking new admins. If you are interested, please get in touch via the Facebook group.

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Welcome to Comment For the year, this section is going to be your playground. Any voice you think needs hearing, any idea you think needs expressing – this is the place to do it.

There is no criterion for you to pass to be an author for Woroni. All you need it the capacity to put pen to paper and send it in.

Over the course of the year, we’ll be publically announcing deadlines and putting the call out for articles, but you don’t need to plan around that. If you’ve got an idea, just send it in – we can work it into the next edition. If you think it’s too long for print, that’s fine too – we can publish long-form pieces on our website. No matter what you want to express, the Comment section is your medium. So, welcome.

Send your articles to comment@woroni.com.au

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Letters to Brian Over the holidays, the students of the ANU decided to give our new Vice-Chancellor a helping hand, and write letters telling him how they wanted their university to be run. The full collection of these letters is published below.

Dear Professor Schmidt,

Dear Vice-Chancellor Schmidt,

Your recent appointment as Vice-Chancellor brings renewed hope for all who care for the future of the ANU School of Music. The School needs your urgent attention if the ANU is to retain any integrity as an institution which values quality education.

Please take the ANU down a path where we not only strive to be excellent, but also be accessible to students across the nation. Implement a Disability Action Plan, and thereby demonstrate the ANU’s commitment to students and staff with disability. Increase the percentage of low SES students at ANU, and thereby demonstrate the ANU’s commitment to being a truly national university by including students from all states and backgrounds.

With no instrumental teachers, no symphony orchestra and an extremely fragile staff situation, the ANU no longer offers competitive music degrees by either Australian or international standards. Enrolment is at an all-time low and standards have plummeted lower than even secondary school programs.

This is not just about music. It’s about academic integrity. The appalling treatment of staff and consequent impact on students has demonstrated apathy toward education and a preoccupation with cutting costs.

Professor Schmidt, please make the ANU about quality education, not saving money. Either that, or stop pretending the ANU values learning.

What you do to the School of Music will show Australia what your true priorities are.

I love the ANU, and I know you do too. It’s because I love the ANU that I know it can do better, and be better. Carry out your promises to consult students, and listen to them about what they want the ANU to become.

Only together can we make the ANU great again!

Yours sincerely, Tom Kesina - the ANUSA Disabilities Officer

Matthew Ventura

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Your Excellency,

Dear Brian,

You’ve said before that you want to keep the ANU a small university

by Australian standards, with a greater number of students coming from interstate. You have also said that the ANU is close to Ivy League standard, and under your leadership, you hope to make the ANU into a world leading university.

I’m thirsty. Not thirsty for knowledge, no. The $150 Evidence textbook sitting on my desk next to me is enough knowledge. I’m thirsty for a drink. Each Thursday afternoon, I frequent the bar to catch up with friends and wind down after a long week of law lectures and head scratching.

But doesn’t your behaviour contradict these visions? Why spend millions of dollars building new student residences if you intend to keep the ANU small? We’ve just offered more early offers to high school leavers than ever this year, most of whom are from the Canberra region.

I’m thirsty for some of your wine, Brian. I’ve been on the waitlist for the Maipenrai Vineyard for two years now, narrowly missing out due to the email notification being filtered to my spam folder.

As we become more “elite” like the Ivy League, won’t we be making it harder for students from rural towns and state schools to get into the ANU? Shouldn’t we be focusing on improving services for our current students rather than making it harder for future students? I personally don’t want to see the ANU to become the next Harvard where only the richest of the rich or those who got the best marks by going to the best private schools can enter.

I dream of this Nobel Prize Pinot Noir. When can we expect to see this wine in cask at ANU Bar? When will the bartenders pour me a glass of this wine that has been making headlines? There’s a shortage of wine being served, and it’s a niche for you to fill.

Albert

I’m worried that your visions for the ANU will be conflicting, and it will be the current minority students who will lose out.

A concerned rural student

Dear Professor Schmidt,

Ode to Schmidt:

I am the child of an immigrant and spent a third of my life living in China. You often talk about your desire to make the ANU into an elite university - a desire that ANU students share. However, I fear that, due to financial considerations, you will overlook the current and potential effects on international students at the university.

In 2013 international students comprised 26% of ANU’s student body, and yet they have a higher rate of academic misconduct, are often insular, and have been shown to sometimes falsify the transcripts and English language requirements they use to gain admission to the ANU. I do not wish to slander all international students - by and large, they are each excellent members of the university, but I believe they are generally detrimental to the academic and creative standards that you wish for the ANU, so I implore you to lower international student numbers.

G. G. Bo

The finest institute in the country we claim to behold But in two ways we do naught but fold: The opportunities we have to be sloshed and jolly Have been foiled by some past leader’s folly King’s cup in a dark room with only a select few Blinds drawn, door barred, room hushed, game ensues.

The merriment that follows is far from its potential But this could be fixed by a man with credentials If a certain vice chancellor by the name of Schmidt Would kindly allow us to play games when we drink.

We would certainly buy a bottle of his revered stuff and put it to good use inside a giant cup.

My second request from Mr Brian is if we could have on campus some iron in the form of a see-saw, a slide or a swing some equipment, it could be pretty much anything so instead of spending our time between classes in the library or co-op sitting on our arses we could swing on a swing or slide down a slide and I’m sure then in lectures we’d be much less tired.

And so alas I come to the end of my rhyming in which I know I’ve butchered the timing But please sir, take heed of my requests and in history you’ll go down as one of the best. (please abolish the no drinking games rule and please put some play equipment in on campus) Caitlin McLeod

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Stalkerspace— Open Debate or Safer Space?

Jessy Wu and Ramon Bouckaert

Note to new readers: Stalkerspace is the ANU Facebook chat room group. It can be found under the “ANU Groups” umbrella.

Ramon Bouckaert addresses why Stalkerspace should allow debate, even when it is offensive When talking about the boundaries of acceptable discussion online, we have to be careful when we start throwing around terms like “hate speech”.

Hate speech is real and terrible ‒ statements that actively incite harm or discrimination against others should not be tolerated, even in environments where other controversial things are considered fine. There’s a very good reason for this: hate speech crosses a line ‒ the target’s personal safety.

At it’s worst, normal online arguments just revolve around debating a point.

Sometimes the debate can be heated, and sometimes we can get offended, but essentially all parties are more concerned about being right than about making their opponent cower in fear. By contrast, hate speech is actively about harassment, not offence.

We should all be clear on this difference, because it is often too easy to shut down a perfectly legitimate discussion by falsely claiming the opponent is engaging in hate speech.

We’ve seen a lot of this on ANU Stalkerspace recently. Normally a haven for shitposting and memes, the forum has increasingly tackled political issues ‒ and that’s great. It allows us to be exposed to unseen perspectives, and offers us an opportunity to form, question, and defend our worldviews.

It’d be a shame to lose that to a political correctness gestapo crying “hate speech” whenever someone presents a right-wing opinion on refugees or religion.

Raising a question about how well immigrants from the Arab world can integrate in Australian society is not

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hate speech. The person raising the question need not hate Arabs to raise it. The intent of the discussion is to debate the issue, not to deliberately incite violence or hatred against Arabs. It ticks none of the boxes of hate speech, yet our immediate reaction is to call it as such, and therefore support being sheltered from debate by the admin team. We should question this response.

The only way we can solve society’s problems is by openly discussing them. Refusing to discuss any important issues for fear of offending someone breeds resentment and political divisiveness. Let’s instead dive in and debate the point!

Then, when we see actual hate speech ‒ real, nasty, targeted hate speech that encourages us to all march down to Union Court with pitchforks - we can all move together to clamp down on it.

Jessy Wu addresses two arguments used against censorship on public platforms, such as Stalkerspace Firstly, there is the argument that these conversations expose bigotry and interrogate problematic opinions. But it is naïve to think that every time the hive mind sinks its socially progressive claws into some unlucky sod, we succeed in debunking another chauvinistic opinion. Anyone who has trawled

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through a Stalkerspace controversy knows Facebook comment threads are not typically sites of balanced exchange and peer assisted learning.

In fact, Facebook is a uniquely problematic platform for several reasons.

For example, the number of “likes” a comment receives is seen as determinative of who is “winning” an argument, and therefore, whose opinion is valuable and who is a respected member of the ANU community. This means the people who are most comfortable participating in this exchange are those who already have social capital, those who are self-assured enough to participate in a conversation where their opinions are publicly eviscerated, and those who can bring the most #swag, #banter. This system thereby excludes some of the most vulnerable voices, including those belonging to minorities, and those whose experiences cannot be condensed into succinct substantive points.

It is unwise to allow a mob to endorse certain opinions, and reject others. At worst, a tyrannical majority actively alienates minority voices. At best, the conversation is hijacked by aspiring BNOCs (Big Names on Campus), who purport to speak on behalf of those whose experiences they lack access to.

Secondly, there is the argument that there is a difference between political opinion and hate speech, and we must be free to express the former. To this, I contend that it is dangerous to sanction exclusionary rhetoric, so long as it is dressed up as a political opinion.

I have heard white Australians complain about students who speak their native languages in public spaces. It is easy to dress this complaint up as a political opinion ‒ to use the language of nationalism and social cohesion. However, it can also be a hurtful and hateful sentiment, which makes immigrants feel less than welcome in shared spaces. In borderline instances like this, I believe it is better for a discerning admin to decide what is acceptable speech, rather than allow an unruly mob, loosely governed by the rules of debate, to adjudicate what does and does not threaten the safety of people they do not know.

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Collective Consent?

Freya Willis Artwork by Caitlin Gifford

Trigger Warning: Rape, Sexual assault Colleges have a rape problem. Statistics indicate one in four women will be sexually assaulted at university and more than 60% will have an unwanted sexual experience. It is uncomfortable to digest, but the reality is that the college environment begets rape culture.

College is, at its most basic, a blend of young adults, independence and alcohol - the latter of which has serious implications for consent. Alcohol diminishes the capacity to give consent, but worse than that, it is thought to create a “blurred line” where none exists. We excuse unacceptable behaviour if the perpetrator was drunk. People ask: “is it rape if you are both drunk?”, “what if they didn’t say no?”, “what if they only said no after we started having sex?”. The answer is yes. It is still rape ‒ but you won’t hear that at college.

Meaningful conversations about consent ‒ when it can be given and what it entails ‒ are notably absent from common college discourse. We prioritise making friends and building solidarity, but are happy for people to absorb popularised narratives about consent, like Robin Thicke’s, where sexual assault is overlooked as a grey area.

The absence of these conversations is especially damaging given the expectation (inherent in college communities) that students will accept and conform to the prevailing norms and values and share the one set of ideals.

Interhall activities are predicated on demonstrating college pride, and belonging is defined by membership to a college. Concurrently, pop culture and films like Neighbours typecast colleges as sex and alcohol fuelled fraternity-like houses. We gossip about who kissed who, who slept with who.

We talk about people punching above and below their weight. Value is assigned on the basis of sex. Sex thus be-

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comes synonymous with “college life” and being “cool”. In an effort to fit in, people feel compelled to mimic these behaviours because to say no is to reject college culture. Where the default assumption becomes that most people want to have sex, it means people are less likely to question if someone is comfortable and it means some people feel entitled to sex because it is part of college life.

number of conveniently distant images of what a rapist looks like: the stranger lurking in a dark bush, the creep living along the back wall, the misogynist. Instead of shifting these perceptions, we try to justify our friends’ behaviour. This usually occurs by downplaying the crime; the accuser “could be a bit dramatic”, “there was no proof”, “we don’t really know what happened” ‒ all excuses I have heard.

Let’s talk about what happens once a rape has occurred, or rather, what doesn’t happen.

These attitudes make it difficult for victims to feel safe at college and speak out. Collegiate solidarity extends to all the friendships we make; it underpins all our interactions. Reporting sexual assault can feel like a challenge to the college as a whole. It makes victims feel guilty or fear they will be perceived as a trouble-maker.

This is an especially strong deterrent when you consider that reporting mechanisms are entirely internal and conducted by the same people who decide leadership positions. Rapists can continue to rely on their friends and the wider community to remain

Colleges have progressed in supporting victims, but this support focuses on helping victims process their trauma, not on consequences for rapists.

Rarely does a rapist face publicised suspension or expulsion. Rarely will their friends take a stand against them. Rarely will their position within the college change. This is because we struggle to imagine that one of our friends ‒ or someone we like ‒ might be a rapist. Society has constructed a

loyal while victims fear exclusion. A fear made all the worse by gossip and the knowledge that your trauma may be the subject of dinnertime conversation. It means if a victim wants to escape their rapist, the onus is on them to move away, while the problem remains unaddressed at college.

Colleges do not yet have spaces where it is acceptable, and encouraged, to call out sexual assault and crucially, where victims will be believed at face value. They expect victims to deal with their trauma privately. They refuse to act without proof of a crime which happens behind closed doors.

They lack independent processes and systems to deal with perpetrators. This environment allows rape culture to fester. It is imperative administrators take affirmative and pre-emptive steps to combat rape culture.

Freya Willis is the Women’s Officer at Burgmann College

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Woroni: What Was and What Could Be Michael Turvey

First day, first year and you’ve turned up at our prestigious University ready to be amazed and inspired. That was me, 2015. As part of the bright new world I was discovering, I did what you’ve just done: opened a Woroni.

Surely the paper of such excellent students must be just as excellent. But I found my first Woroni to be... okay.

There were articles I enjoyed, a few I didn’t, and I quickly moved on to the next exciting part of my O-Week.

Perhaps I was too dismissive, or my expectations were too high, but that’s how it was. In the weeks that followed, I heard the name “Woroni” a few more times- mostly just “Woroni? Heard it was a bit crap”. Once, a friend suggested I write something, and I thought, “Hey, that sounds like fun”, and then never followed through.

I’m not the only one to have this experience of Woroni, I’m sure; one of idle curiosity, but eventual dismissal. But I kept wondering why I had this experience and eventually I overcame my apathy and started asking: asking students, Woroni writers, and Woroni representatives.

I’m surprised to find that what I’ve learned, and what I think, has led me to finally write this article: about Woroni, the past year, and the future.

Woroni could be better.

Better than it was last year - a greater diversity of writers, a stronger reading base, more content, better quality of writing. All of these were stated goals of the last editorial group. Some might say there’s only so much you can do with a student paper ‒ it runs on the backs of untrained volunteers. But that doesn’t doom a student paper to mediocrity. Plenty of student papers are actually really excellent, and a centrepiece of student culture. So if Woroni could be more than it was, the question is: What’s the problem, and how do we fix it?

First: it’s really fucking thin. And too many articles are written by the same few students. In the opinion pieces of Semester 2 last year, which had only six short editions, three students between them clocked up a tremendous 12 articles (Matthew Lord on three,

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Nishanth Pathy on four, and Mark Fabian taking the gold with five).

Only the most devoted reader will read every article in Woroni, so for everyone to get a good read out of the thing, there’s got to be a whole lot of different articles from different writers about different stuff. Woroni wants to access the largest possible audience – this is a way to do that.

Of course, “Get more articles” is nothing new. But how? Here’s my take. I could have written for Woroni, but I never did - because I didn’t know how, and nobody told me to. I assumed I wouldn’t be good enough for the qual-

cation and promotion, students won’t see Woroni as a source of scandal, but as a source of quality news, content, features and design.

Second: Quality. Students frequently produce work of high calibre, but it saddens me to see this quality undermined by limiting institutional issues.

A frequent writer said of the writers’ experience of sub-editors: “They would literally just wait till the day before deadline … imagine editing your article in two days, or worse, one evening. It needs time.” When I joined the Woroni Contributor’s group (Again, you should all join) I expected

Woroni, Tuesday 13 March 1990 ification process. It never occurred to me that I could just write. The lack of contributions in 2015 was not because of students. There was just no publicity. Besides the closed Facebook group “Woroni Contributors” (which everyone should join), there was no promotion. In 2015 there was only one post on ANU Stalkerspace about student submissions to Woroni (Trust me, I read all of them). This post wasn’t encouraging submissions; it was a highly controversial post about a student’s rejection from print. Last year, the only publicity that Woroni received was controversy. Writing became, to students, not a contribution to the artistic and cultural endeavour of a student paper, but a loaded political action. It is my great hope that this year, through consistent communi-

a place where Editors and writers discuss good writing technique, article structure ‒ a place to learn about writing and journalism. But it contains only posts requesting articles. There’s a need, this year, to build a community where Woroni staff and writers learn from and support each other, and pursue deadlines as a community.

In addition to students and writers, Woroni should communicate with representative groups. I, like many, was shocked to hear that “CRACKED” was almost the title for Woroni’s Mental Health edition. This only happened because at no point was the Disabilities Officer or the Mental Health Committee consulted.

Working with other student groups creates quality, relevance, and avoids errors like these, which damage repu-

tation and quite possibly scare off new writers.

The good news is, these things can easily improve ‒ and some already are. I was talking with the Woroni Comment Sub-Editor about this article well before the deadline, and have since received excellent constructive feedback and guidance. I am confident that with commitment on the part of the editors, the relationships and community within Woroni can become something exceptional this year.

After hearing these thoughts, the Woroni Board of Editors might be thinking “I already knew this!”, or “This is total rubbish, here’s why...”. I am glad, Editors, if you are thinking either of these things! Sadly, last year neither I nor other students heard Woroni talk about them. There were almost no substantive statements anywhere from Editors concerning their vision, plans, decisions, or anything, and no open meetings where I could find what’s happening and why. Puzzled by this lack of communication, I had a chat with former editor, Vincent Chiang. “Buzzwords”, he said, “are the death of achievement. In elections, people tend to just campaign on buzzwords, like “Engagement, “New Interesting Content, and “Writer Retention” ‒ you need quantifiable goals as an organisation. You need specific policies, with detailed explanations of what they will achieve, but also how you will implement them, step-by-step. Woroni is a community organisation, people need to know what it’s meant to be doing”.

This transparency, Editors, is my final recommendation.

Woroni can bring about great positive change this year if you state, in a clear and explicit terms, the plans you have and decisions you make to improve Woroni. Then, and only then, can the student conversation about Woroni change from the apathy and dismissal I felt in first year, to an informed and productive conversation between students and Woroni on the decisions and direction that you, the Editors of Woroni, have chosen for our paper.

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A Uni Student’s Guide to Canberra

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My “Lonely Planet” Guide to Canberra Chanel Irvine

Floriade

Patissez

Welcome to the ANU, and welcome to Australia’s Capital – a city that is no longer “up and coming” but has well and truly up & come.

While you may currently doubt your seemingly courageous move (as I must admit I once did), and are concerned by the disconcerting confusion of your family and friends, fret not. For while it is often regarded as being no match for the trendy, hip and ever-competing Sydney and Melbourne scenes, and at first glance might not appear as culturally or architecturally savvy as some historical European or Asian cities, you will soon find Canberra to be a city like no other.

I urge you live locally in your new home by unleashing the energy and enthusiasm of your inner-tourist.

Soon, you will be utterly refreshed by the prominence of the colour green, the roads encompassed by landscape and more landscape and city views miraculously entailing fewer than fifteen skyscrapers. Yes, Canberra is small. Yes, you could probably circumnavigate the “CBD” in twenty minutes by foot. And, yes, your fellow local is highly likely to be a politician, public servant or another Uni-goer.

But it is all of these factors and more that collectively make for an exciting, rejuvenating and ultimately satisfying place to call home.

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I begin my “Guide to a New World” by encouraging you to follow and be inspired daily by @visitcanberra ‒ you will never find yourself at a loss for ideas of new places to explore, shop and inevitably “brunch” as frequently as all true blue Aussies love to. Recognising the contentiousness of such a statement, I remain inclined to say that Canberra’s coffee shops, cafes and restaurants certainly rival the fine dining and culinary culture so proudly boasted by Melbournians & Sydney-siders alike. With assistance from the never-disappointing @breakfastincanberra you can satisfy your brunch cravings at the deservedly popular Cupping Room, Local Press, Eighty-Twenty, Penny University, Autolyse, Urban Pantry and Fox & Bow, amongst many others. There are more, I promise, and they sure do give their Australian competitors a run for their money. Brodburger is the go-to burger joint, with its gourmet creations averaging approximately twice the size of your everyday burg. Be sure to order in advance though and enjoy your meal alfresco-style, perched on Brod’s neatly mowed front yard, picnicking alongside the other Canberrans who know how to avoid an hour-long wait.

Lonsdale Street is your no.1 destination for a more special (pricey) meal out ‒ offering the infamous eightysix, Elk & Pea, Chez Fredric, Vitis eatery, and Italian and Sons ‒ all very charming and atmospheric dining experi-

Hot Air Balloon Spectacular

ences worth visiting. You also can’t miss Lonsdale’s food truck hub, The Hamlet, which provides great outdoor vibes, music and food ‒ ranging from Mexican and Peruvian to Greek and American. For some innovative Asian infusion head to Akiba or Soju Girl, and for those HuffingtonPost famous milkshakes, a “freakshake” at Patissez is most certainly a must. Do it for the gram at least! Finally, as the sun sets (or doesn’t), do try to venture beyond Mooseheads for a drink or two, at Lucky’s Speakeasy, Parlour, Hippo, Molly, Honkytonks and/or Hopscotch.

Despite the lack of a London-style Oxford Street shopping experience, or brands found in the oh-so fashionable Singapore and Milan, Canberra Cen-

tre in Civic will provide you with an adequate dose of retail therapy. For quirky and tasteful gifts, head back to Lonsdale Street, where you will find independent fashion, jewelry, homeware and gift stores like itrip iskip and wildwood. For all your fresh food needs, go on an outing to the Fyshwick Fresh Food Markets (Thurs-Sun) Capital Regional Farmers’ Market (Saturdays) and the Kingston Old Bus Depot Market (Sundays) ‒ all of which are on-par with Barcelona’s La Boqueria market and Hugh Grant’s personal favourite: Portobello Road Market in Notting Hill. On your days off from the books, get cultured at the National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery, Questacon, National Museum of Australia, and the very moving

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Mooseheads

The Cupping Room

The National Gallery

Australian War Memorial. And finally, when Spring arrives, make sure you join the thousands of Australians that flock to your new home town for the tulip and flower extravaganza that is Floriade.

Canberra’s essentially untouched landscape offers great spots for hiking, strolling, picnicking and anything in-between. Instead of climbing the Harbour Bridge, climb Black Mountain ‒ for free! It is home to the notorious Telstra Tower ‒ not too dissimilar

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to Le Tour Eiffel you might have seen on a postcard ‒ and a perfect spot to watch a sunset with friends. Alternatively, Mt Ainslie’s climb offers spectacular panoramic views of the city and Parliament in all their glory. You must at least once join the morning and afternoon streams of fitness-inspired individuals who walk, cycle and run around the manmade Lake Burley Griffin, before March arrives and for nine sunrises you have the opportunity to instead sit down, as the lake sets the stage for Canberra’s Hot Air Bal-

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loon Spectacular. Add the Arboretum to your list of outdoor destinations, and for a pleasant picnic, try the Nara Peace Park or the bays of Yarralumla and Deakin, where you can watch the sailboats and dragon boats pass you by. Our very own multipurpose ANU campus itself provides many perfect picnic spots underneath the numerous willows, which are especially abundant in the surrounds of Fellows Oval. Very conveniently, the National Botanic Gardens are also only a few minutes’ walk away from campus.

My intention is not to distract you (completely) from the studies that await you. I may know my way around the Capital, but I’m afraid I am still learning to navigate myself through the Uni game. What advice I can offer, however, is to utilise and support your friends (all-nighters are far more entertaining with company), to do those readings everyone dismisses as unnecessary, and to at least watch your lectures if you can’t find the willpower to actually attend. Combine your learning with good caffeine at the ever-bustling Coffee Grounds near the gym, or at the ANU’s ex-best-keptsecret Ivy and the Fox (if you can find

it). The National Library of Australia is a personal favourite for its view of the lake, numerous outdoor working tables, and café on the terrace. So get keen, get exploring, and don’t let those assignments get you down! For at the end of the day, University isn’t all about the high distinctions and lab reports – it is about maximising experience and grasping every opportunity beyond the walls of Manning Clarke.

And whilst you might move on to the Big Apple, to Hong Kong or Berlin next, you will never, ever regret doing Canberra right.

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The Bush Capital

An Introduction to Nature in Canberra George Stefan Uniquely situated amongst miles of nature, Canberra is a deserving recipient of its nickname, the bush capital.

Walking and hiking in Canberra and its surrounds is a cheap and relaxing escape from the stresses of university, and also a good way to catch up with friends. Aside from its nature sites, Canberra also has a wealth of Aboriginal history, remnants of which still remain. Given the number and variety of nature sites available to Canberrans, some may find it difficult to decide where to go. This article is a brief introduction to some of the best nature in Canberra, in order of accessibility from the ANU.

its boundaries are 94 different forests, as well as a bonsai collection. Unfortunately, it will be at least a decade

for picnics and barbeques. Its attractions include a shady wading pool, a miniature train track and a small

The waterfall also has the marks of the region’s Aboriginal inhabitants, with a rock shelter and grinding grooves around it. These grooves were used in the sharpening of stone axes.

Near Gibraltar Falls is Square Rock, a large rocky outcrop that gives a great view to some of the highest peaks of the ACT. Branching off the track to Square Rock is a turnoff to the Orroral Valley Lookout. The remnants of a space tracking station, used in the earliest days of space exploration, are in Orroral Valley as well as a well-preserved old homestead.

The Australian National Botanic Gardens is right at the ANU’s doorstep, making it the premier destination anyone eager to flee the city. The Botanic Gardens holds an immense range of Australian ecological settings, from the spectacular fern gully to ancient gum forests.

Walking past the Botanic Gardens will take you to Black Mountain Nature Reserve, the closest nature reserve to the ANU. A maze of trails lies across the ancient stones, roots, and stumps of the reserve. Black Mountain peninsula is believed to have been an Aboriginal corroboree site, and lucky picnickers occasionally find lithic evidence of this neglected part of the region’s history. Those interested in experiencing Canberra’s rugged bushland would do well to visit this easily accessible area. Mount Ainslie and Red Hill are similar sites further removed from the ANU. Only a few kilometres away from the ANU is the Arboretum, a 250-hectare expanse of tree-covered hills. Within

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Yankee Hat, the furthest away of these sites, is a unique rock art site, believed to be over a thousand years old. Abstract and colourful drawings of dingos, lizards, humans, and many other animals mark the lower face of a large overhanging rock.

The Yankee Hat rock art site is surrounded by other notable destinations, including the remains of the Gugdenby Pine Forest, a rock shelter by middle creek, and many difficult peaks.

before most the Arboretums forests look like forests; however, the site still holds appeal. A notable exception to the saplings covering most of the arboretum is the Himalayan Cedar forest, which is a few years short of being 100 years old.

On the south-western side of the lake is Weston Park, a sedate setting suited

beach. The playground is also pretty good for adults if you are willing to jostle with toddlers for a spot.

Going further away from Canberra takes you to swathes of untouched bush, hidden from the dark gaze of the Telstra Tower. Gibraltar Falls, cascading down 50m of cliff, is one of the closest and most notable bush sites.

this city.

It is impossible to cover the full scope of nature in the Canberra region. A hundred other sites are available to visit, explore and enjoy. For a lover of nature, there is no excuse to be bored in

Be careful when visiting unfamiliar sites in the bush. Be prepared for variable weather conditions and bring more water than you expect to need. Let someone know where you’re going and keep to tracks unless you have navigation experience.

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2016 Guide to Sport at ANU Jack Birtwhistle No matter who you are, you are not doing uni right if you aren’t getting involved in sport! And at the ANU it is certainly no different. Besides Thursday night drinking what else are you going to do with your down time in Canberra? Here is your definitive guide to Sport at the ANU for 2016.

interested in a Sport ANU has a club for you. Clubs offer both competitive and social opportunities for students.

Many clubs compete in Canberra’s Premier sporting competitions.

Social Sport

The ANU Sport Fitness Centre

If you like getting a sweat on then joining the gym is a must. Cardio Room-check, Weights ‒ check, Over 70 Group fitness classes each week ‒ check, Yoga and Pilates ‒ check, Strength and Conditioning room ‒ check, qualified and experienced personal training and strength and conditioning staff ‒ check.

The ANU Sport Fitness Centre prices for students start at $6.50 a week!

Intervarsity Sport

Got what it takes to represent the ANU at Intervarsity and Unigames events in 2016? ANU is looking for its best athletes to represent the university in Intervarsity events throughout

2016. Intervarsity sport offers ANU Students an opportunity to represent the ANU in high quality student v student contests whilst also providing an opportunity to travel. Upcoming events include ANU v USYD Cricket on Feb 25, ANU V UC Intervarsity Challenge on March 23, Intervarsity AFL v Adelaide @ Home on March 24 and v Melbourne University away on April 6. In 2016 the Eastern University Games will be held in Wollon-

gong from July 3-7 and the Australian University Games will be held in Perth from September 25-30.

Club Sport

The ANU has 34 Affiliated Clubs ranging from traditional sports such as AFL, Football, Rugby, Netball, Badminton, Fencing and Cricket to Martial Arts Clubs and even some growing sports such as Touch Football and Ultimate Disc. If you are

ANU offers students endless opportunities to get involved in social sport.

The Lunch Time Sport competition gives students a great way to break up a big day of class and study by getting involved in social sport. Disc, Soccer, Futsal, Touch and Squash run each day of the week between 12-2pm. Every Thursday afternoon ANU runs a $2 social basketball scrimmage for all students. All ANU Sport facilities are available at half price for student hire.

ANU Sport also operates a bubble soccer program which you can try out on Monday of O-Week at 11am.

Interhall Sport

ANU also offers students one of the best intercollegiate Sporting competitions in Australia with over 14 sports in total each college battles it out for the Interhall Sports Shield each year.

The Best of Times: A Guide to First Year Rebecca Bayliss University is often said to be “the best years of your life.” Whether you have moved from interstate, or have lived in Canberra all your life, everyone has a certain expectation of what studying at the ANU will bring. And that’s the unavoidable pitfall – starting university with rigid expectations. It’s impossible not to; we are inundated with the experiences of others on social media, and excited by the stories of friends before us. But for many first years, the initial few weeks of university can be jarringly underwhelming.

So don’t be disheartened or disappointed if the first month of your university experience – of awkward chatter, looming deadlines, intimidating lecturers, depressingly few friends – doesn’t quite live up to your expectations. Look, you might have a phenomenal time from the outset (and good for you if that’s the case), but don’t assume that, if you’re experiencing otherwise, you’ve somehow made a horribly wrong mistake. Because the truth is, we (as in, generation Y) often set impossibly high expectations for ourselves that simply cannot match

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the reality of starting this new and intense lifestyle.

forget all expectations and simply appreciate the experience for what it is.

If you’re going to make one decision before committing shamelessly to every event on the O-Week calendar (which by all means do), make it this: shake those preconceived expectations and instead, embrace the anonymity. Yes, relish in the fact that – despite whatever popularity or notoriety you may have previously had – you’ll feel incredibly small for the next few weeks. So small that perhaps you’ll doubt why you ever wanted to go to university (but keep reading… because it gets better!!)

One of the best – and simultaneously most challenging – aspects of starting university is the prospect of a new peer group. For those living on-campus, there is arguably less choice, but perhaps greater ease, in forming friendships and settling into a new crowd.

For the so-called Canberra “Townies” (those who have grown up in the nation’s capital), meeting new people and establishing genuine friendships can be alarmingly difficult compared to your on-campus counterparts.

Make sure you join Griffin Hall and other societies and clubs. From experience, loitering around ANU bar also helps. For those living off-campus, friendships may seemingly take more time and effort, but will be well worth the wait.

Wallowing in this self-induced despair is not uncommon or unnatural. However, the best way to avoid it all together is to face every new and daunting situation in the coming weeks with an open mind. Whether you’re listening to lectures and tutorials, roaming the market day stalls, mingling at society welcome drinks, negotiating with new housemates, or on your first night out in Civic (especially this one), challenge yourself to

No matter which camp you’re in, make sure to resist all temptation to benchmark yourself against your peers. By constantly comparing your experiences to others, it is inevitable to fool yourself into thinking that

other students are having a better social life, or getting better grades/ job opportunities and hence will be more successful down the track. DO NOT LET YOURSELF FALL DOWN THIS DOOMED VOID, because it will make your day-to-day life insufferable.

Benchmarking your experiences against your peers – be it your housemates, tutorial acquaintances or otherwise – is a destructive attitude, and sets you up for immense dissatisfaction. So again, try to avoid this anguish by actively recognising and celebrating your own progress throughout the year, irrespective of those around you.

So for all you freshers, make this your mantra: actively seek to quash all expectations of what university will bring, and suppress the urge to compare yourself to that really attractive, articulate, well-dressed so-and-so in the front row. Trust me, in doing so you’ll set yourself up for a glorious year.

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Repetitions and Luminosity: A Welcome to Canberra Photography & Reflections

by Esther Carlin

(For Those Who Come From Some Place Else)

Corridors convey a certain loneliness don’t they –

two from my first week in Canberra.

Beautiful Winter –

or around the time I started to feel settled in Canberra.

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New tastes tea from Aldi and of home – this beautiful light on empty streets.

Dance because Summer

My experience at the ANU is inescapably linked to doing a double degree. It is the reason I am here – amongst others of course – but perhaps the most compelling reason. The opportunity to combine a generalist liberal arts education (in the form of an arts degree) and the small and intensely disciplined development of an art practise (through a visual art degree), was, as it turns out, too good to pass up.

I looked at other places, I considered other things, but in the end, I took the leap into the unknown, like so many of you, and came to the ANU. When I think about my first months at the ANU, I think of the loneliness and confusion, barely disguised by the fun and games of O-week, and the looming freedom of those early days on residence and away from home in Melbourne. It was scary, this being on one’s own, scarier than I had imagined, despite having had the incredible good fortune to have travelled independently and live overseas without my parents previously.

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does eventually come.

Like usual, I clung to books and art, as well as to conversations with people, both the new ones, and friends from home. It was these early connections, for the most part through Fenner Hall, and the smaller community of the art school, which tied me over.

That, and what I was learning. The double degree doesn’t suit some, and it has many recognisable disadvantages.

The breadth of what you are able to do is naturally limited within each degree, as is the depth perhaps of which you can attack a single discipline. But in my case, not being particularly interested in any such notions of single disciplines, the advantages are multiple. I am interested in combining two distinctive yet overlapping ways of thinking about the world through the critical writing and analysis of the humanities, in particular anthropology, which seems to me itself one of the widest disciplines, and the creative exploratory investigation of art practise, mainly photography.

My medium is text and pictures, and I cannot imagine much of a life without the combination, and sometimes contradictions of the two. And yet there is a natural tension between the two that I feel already, a pressure, if only sub-conscious, to choose. A fear that time will escape me, particularly in photography, before I have made something that is enough; big enough, small enough, meaningful enough, crazy enough. My own creative practice is a discipline that I feel to be years, or maybe a lifetime, away from having any concrete handle on. I know I need to work very hard, if I am to fight my way into anything resembling practice as an artist in Australia.

But coming to the ANU, staying at Fenner Hall in first year, and studying a double degree, broadens my horizons in immense and sometimes understated ways.

I feel lucky to have more or less loved the two arts subjects I did this year; Indigenous Studies and Anthropology. I have been challenged and si-

multaneously felt supported in my foundation art classes, challenged by medium, a surface “inability” to draw, and supported by wonderful, interesting and engaging teachers. I love it when my two worlds collide in unexpected ways; an Aboriginal artist who comes up in Indigenous studies, and whose work we then discuss in art class; social and cultural theories that directly inform the practise of established artists whose work crosses across our consciousness.

It is hard to observe one’s self changing action or event, and I suppose that is for good reason; there must be some sort of buffer from introspection, a separation between the self and all encompassing knowledge of it. Yet I feel, more than ever, that Canberra gives space for the self. That this coming here is a necessary uprooting, an opportunity to find or even create what Virginia Woolf described as “a room of one’s own”.

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First Year Uni… What Could Be Easier?

Pamela Hutchinson

Some say your first year at uni is guaranteed to be one of the best years of your life, but is this always the case?

Some say your first year at uni is guaranteed to be one of the best years of your life, but is this always the case? Is first year really this never-ending funfilled adventure, full of good friends and good times?

Well… not always.

At ANU, with most of the first year intake from interstate, many are leaving home for anthe first extended period of time and getting their first taste of a world away from those comforts.

As Monica Geller from “Friends” said, “Welcome to the real world! It sucks.

You’re going to love it!” But take heart – while university life can indeed suck now and again, on the whole, most seasoned second and third years would agree they’ve ended up enjoying the experience. Here’s why.

Let’s face it – the biggest challenge is not knowing many people. It sounds obvious but when a group of second and third years were asked, they advised that the best way to cope with the loneliness is by putting in the ef-

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fort to make new friends and by “purposefully getting distracted” with the social life at ANU. If you haven’t yet discovered what’s on offer at ANU, then here’s how to distract yourself…

First of all there are the clubs. Go along to the Market Day on Wednesday during O Week and explore what’s on offer. There’s something for everyone – for example a variety of language clubs, political affiliation societies, various multicultural societies and ANU Interhall Productions.

There is even a Kanye West Appreciation Society and an ANU Chocolate Appreciation Society!

Then there’s sport. At ANU Fitness Centre, you’ll find not only personal fitness facilities but also a wide range of team sports to join and classes you can take. For example, there are classes in Yoga, Tai Chi, Pilates and Zumba.

Another option is to get a job and meet

people that way. ANU Careers offers part-time and casual employment opportunities, including internships and work experience information.

Of course not everyone copes with the isolation of moving interstate in the same way. While getting involved in campus activities is generally recommended, if that’s not for you and you need assistance to find your own path, think about contacting the University Counselling Centre at 6125 2442.

Artwork by Caitlin Gifford

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The Vice-Chancellor's Courses

epitomise what is different about ANU. Open to all students. Take a VC’s Course in Semester 1 as a university elective or towards a Minor in ANU Leadership & Research.

LEADERSHIP & INFLUENCE IN A COMPLEX WORLD VCUG2002 & VCPG6003

Leadership & Influence aims to give ANU students who are interested in being positive agents of change a wide understanding of different styles of leadership and influence.

In line with the interdisciplinary ethos of Vice-Chancellor's courses, students will be exposed to the range of prominent guest speakers to explore perspectives that different disciplines and individuals have on leadership and influence.

Students must have completed 48 units. Enrol via ISIS.

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UNRAVELLING COMPLEXITY Mobilising Research VCUG3001, & LAWS4001 or VCPG6001 use these electives towards a minor in

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exploring the organisation of research for the good

This course takes up this challenge by offering latter year ANU students the opportunity to explore a series of complex issues, negotiating the connections between The course will examine the linked themes of ‘inte economic, historical, social, legal, scientific, engineering, environmental and moral dimensions of‘implementation’ complex problems. of research to address problems

societal contexts. This is a capstone course suppo the best academic work of which theE

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One Way to a New World Patrick Dawson

Artwork by Emilio Elmowy

I signed up for the Mars One newsletter on a gloomy April morning while putting off an essay that was due the next day. I was in a gloomy mood myself, as I had tried frantically to put something together that my “eccentric” lecturer would already agree with. Perhaps this depression was why Mars One appealed to me. Mars One was created by a bunch of rich old people who grew worried that they might die before their favourite childhood science fiction fantasies came true, and so they threw together this privately funded project to get humans to Mars. They promised to get there sooner, and cheaper, than anyone else.

The one catch? They’re achieving this aim by cutting out the part where the astronauts get to come home. You become the first person to colonise Mars, and you’ll still be there to gloat about it hundreds of years later, freshly preserved in the dry Martian air.

I never followed through on my initial enthusiasm to apply to be a kamikaze astronaut. The application process involved a reality TV show and social media campaign, where you tried to get the world’s TV audiences to vote for you. This was the other way that they planned to make the trip cheaper. Maybe if I’d mentioned in my

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essay that space exploration was being wrecked by capitalism and cheap consumerism, my Marxist lecturer would have given me more than a B-.

Needless to say, while I was happy to consider starving to death in the -90 degree Martian wasteland, I was not willing to advertise myself to strangers on Facebook. Participating in Mars One was not for me.

I haven’t given up on the hope that I might get to space one day though. I can’t quite put my finger on why it’s so appealing to get off this rock and onto another one, but it’s something that still seems important. Maybe it’s because I like the thought of being further than any other human has ever been from Australian politics. Maybe it’s because I watched Interstellar recently, and the pretty CGI gave me some serious space-related feels*. Or maybe it’s because I’ve spent the summer living on the ANU campus, and by now the idea of a bleak, uninhabited wasteland just feels like home. One way or another, I want to get there. I went looking for other options.

There is a fair amount happening in the world of space exploration at the moment. Russia and China both want to get to the moon. The USA recent-

ly announced a new, gender-balanced bunch of astronauts who might one day go to Mars, but the plan is to send them to an asteroid first. After the recent Rosetta mission landed on a duck-shaped comet, mining firms and duck hunters alike have speculated about the natural resources sitting in space. Every nation needs to seriously review their laws around space (which Australia plans to do in the next year or two), but if you thought that space law was badly written before, just wait until Gina Rinehart** gets involved.

The problem with all of these plans, however, is that space exploration has always been a source of national pride for the countries that do it. If you want to be an astronaut, but you’re not a citizen of a country with a space program, then things get very difficult very quickly. I’m not even a citizen of the country I live in (I’m a New Zealander). If I talk too loudly about how I hate being stuck on Australian soil, and that wish I could be launching rockets off of it, I’ll find myself on Christmas Island in no time. Maybe I’ll try to get the Kiwi space program up and running, but our birds can’t even fly, so I doubt there’s much hope for our humans.

For now, I guess I’ll have to content myself with astrophysics. I’m a theorist, so while I may not be able to actually go to space, at least I can get paid to contemplate supernovas and make explosion noises when I think no one is listening. That’s pretty cool too, and I can tell myself that maybe someone luckier than me will need my space physics to get to Mars. I don’t know if it’s quite the same, but when someone else takes a small step for Man on a big red rock, at least I can try to take some of the credit for it. Space exploration fascinates us all, and I hope that governments get a move on and get on with it. There’s a big universe to explore, and it’s not like they’re doing anything else with their time. * Though I don’t know whose bright idea it was to look for the new home for humanity in a neutron star/black hole binary system. That shit would be cold, dark, dangerous, and totally uninhabitable. Just saying. ** A renowned writer – if you haven’t read her poem about special economic zones, check it out. It’s a cheaper way to kill your brain cells than drinking, and almost as much fun.

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Cosmology: The History of Everything Vihan Patel Stephen Hawking proclaimed the death of philosophy due to the successes in physics. While we’ve grown adept at understanding and (to an extent) manipulating the physical world, questions still remain. If philosophy isn’t able to provide concrete results in satisfying these curiosities, then Hawking is probably shifting some of this burden to the study of cosmology.

Cosmology asks questions about the history of the universe ‒ where did we come from, why did anything come about, and where is the universe headed? As a result, cosmologists deal with interdisciplinary topics often. One of the most interesting of these is the question of the emergence of life. This may be a main area where Hawking’s

demon, philosophy, rears its head, as we strive to understand our place in the universe.

Cosmologists study biology for a number of reasons. One is to understand the likelihood of life elsewhere.

Another is to understand the conditions required to sustain it. Amidst all this however, is what actually counts as life? While biologists have grappled with such question regularly, the study of the universe adds a different depth.

If life is simply a byproduct as the universe develops structure, what distinguishes it from other “structures”?

Moreover, why should our universe begin with precise conditions that promote life? A slight shift in the cosmological constant for instance would

render the universe useless. Furthermore, entropy in the early universe is low ‒ we began in an “ordered state” where a disorderly Big Bang was overwhelmingly likely. Then again, do we explain these by arguing that at any time, sentient life can only be one like ours?

Under these blended and sometimes speculative borders, research universities like the ANU thrive. The ANU boasts refreshingly unique interdisciplinary options for undergrads, like the Vice-Chancellor’s courses, and in particular, accessible introductions such as the Philosophy of the Cosmos.

Mt Stromlo also offers a remarkable number of public events for budding scientists and the public alike. The

way in which undergraduate research is offered allows a direct entry into the cutting edge of these topics, forgoing the more traditional view that topics should be introduced formally and individually before being combined under a research capacity.

Some questions will weigh on many minds, from childhood to the deathbed, and some won’t be answered.

Cosmology is in the thick of this ‒ a modern day physics-bordering-on-metaphysics that tries to explain literally everything.

Astronomy: The Discovery of New Worlds Ryan Ridder

In an age when the Earth has been charted from the Old to New World, it almost seems like the times of great voyages of exploration and discovery have long since passed. This holds true, so long as you don’t look up at night.

On a clear night it becomes painfully clear that there is much more to discover; an entire universe filled to the infinite brim with secrets waiting to be uncovered. The age of exploration hasn’t passed, it has simply moved upwards into the never-ending sky, with astronomers at the helm.

In astronomy, countless voyages are undertaken, not by humans, but by light. Light can travel for billions of years at the fastest possible speed of 300,000km/s, covering distances so vast and witnessing wonders so grandiose, that any Earth-bound adventure would be put to shame. It is an astronomer’s job to greet the courageous light at the end of its journey with telescopes and listen to the stories it has to tell. Decoding the tales of light is the essence of astronomy. It is with these tales that astronomers can explore the universe and uncover hidden wonders.

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by light have led to the discovery of new kinds of “New Worlds”. Instead of continents, these “New New Worlds” are worlds around other stars, or exoplanets. Once a rare discovery, exoplanets have become a common phenomenon with the advancement of telescopes such as the Kepler space telescope. To date, 1932 exoplanets have been discovered by Kepler, with another 4696 yet to be confirmed, and an untold more yet to be discovered.

The sheer number of known planets, however, doesn’t devalue discovery.

Each exoplanet is a world. It has an environment, it has a history and it has a future.

Astronomers have discovered a world which rains glass, one with rings 200 times larger than Saturn’s, a planet with two stars (just like Tatooine), a world orbiting a neutron star (the remains of a massive star), and even a planet being blasted away by its own star – but while this list of eccentricities grows alongside the list of exoplanets, so far no other planet is known as “a world with life”.

Today, astronomers are trying to find light that will tell us of another in-

habited world. The first step is finding worlds similar to Earth; small enough so that they are not a gas giants, large enough so that they have atmospheres, and not too hot or cold so as to ensure they exist in the Goldilocks zone where liquid water can exist on the surface. Kepler has found just 12 planets in the Goldilocks zone that are no more than twice the size of Earth ‒ 12 planets that may have life.

Beyond the hunt for new worlds close by, when telescopes are cast towards the far reaches of space, astronomer’s decrypt equally fantastic stories from some of the oldest and greatest voyaged of light. Far off in the universe, where light has travelled millions to billions of years to reach us, the universe is littered with galaxies. Enormous collections of billions of stars in all shapes and sizes are scattered about the black sea of space. In these far off galaxies, like seen in the Hubble Deep Fields, civilisations may have flourished, catastrophes may have occurred and empires may have fallen – but we will never know the stories of the stars and planets in the far off galaxies.

the stories we have been told, and the sights shown to us by the voyages of light are unending. I have not even begun to scratch the surface of what astronomers have learnt, or will learn, from light.

The age of exploration and discovery never ended. Above us awaits a universe of new worlds to discover and understand. One day it may be humanity who venture forth on a great voyage, called onward by curiosity and perhaps to a new world around a new sun.

The age of exploration never ended the open sea lies above us with new worlds to be known.

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Trials and Tribulations: Breaking into the Real World Albert Patajo

Edward waits patiently by his iPhone, nervously tapping the fingers of his right hand against the desk. His left index finger was clicking refresh on his laptop, his email open on screen.

The clock in the corner of the screen reads 4:56pm. It’s Friday the 25th of September. Today is the date that his “Hunger Games” finish; all the late night application writing, cocktail nights, long interviews with partners and HR representatives have led to this moment.

His phone rings and Edwards answers. After a brief conversation he puts his phone back down and crosses off “Clayton Utz” off a list of firms.

The first rejection.

Edward isn’t alone in his tribula-

experience. It’s almost expected that any student who wishes to enter the job market has had a strong history of work experience alongside their university degree. An internship adds another competitive edge, as it implies an ability to work in an office environment. But if you’ve got all of that, how else can you differentiate yourself?

Student leadership positions can set apart a budding resume. Executive positions in societies, residential colleges or even ANUSA will leave you equipped with a range of useful skills to make you competitive in the graduate market. Skills such as time management, organisation, teamwork and problem solving specifically, will aid greatly in endeavours to fulfil selection criteria. Furthermore, if you get involved in a society related to the

tions. University graduates around the country experience the setbacks and rejections of today’s graduate market.

A generation ago, a university degree from a top institution meant the guarantee of an offer from a large firm, but with the sheer volume of graduates we see annually today, positions in both the public and private sectors have become difficult to secure.

industry you want to get enter after graduation, you will find yourself well placed to network and create relationships with key industry contacts.

The phone rings again, and again.

Edward crosses another firm off his list. He’s becoming more and more anxious and starts to reflect on where he could have gone wrong. The competitiveness of the graduate market has meant that university students looking to get ahead have taken up countless internships, volunteer work, leadership positions and professional

“We’re excited to offer you a position in our firm, we’re incredibly impressed with the results of your Honours thesis”.. Edward fists pumps into the air, says his thanks and ends the call. He smiles to himself, and in retrospect, the sleepless nights writing his Honours thesis was worth it for this moment.

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The phone rings again. It’s the third firm calling, and the last one on Edward’s list. He responds in a low voice.

He is incredibly nervous. This could make or break his career.

Edward’s reality, and the reality that we live in, is that a Bachelor’s degree is no longer competitive in today’s market. The “real world” demands work experience, international travel, and leadership positions. It requires that students are well-rounded, intelligent and have life experience, in despite of having spent the last 22-odd years of their lives studying full time.

For any student looking to break into the “real word” after their time at university, it’s worth thinking about how to craft your resume to reflect the industry you want to enter. It’s not entirely doom and gloom out there, and with adequate preparation and forward thinking, you’ll be successful in entering a “New World” of your choice after graduation.

Alas, however, there are numerous opportunities for students to get ahead of the curve. Universities offer avenues for students to study abroad and to undertake internships through their degrees. You can work as a research assistant, spend a semester studying abroad, or get involved with ANUSA.

Albert Patajo is a 5th year Law/Science student. Instead of spending time on his degree, he reads a lot and occasionally writes. You can find his work here: https://medium.com/@thealbertjames

In my very first year at the ANU, I managed, with a few emails back and

forth, to score a research internship at the CSIRO. In 2015, I did another internship at the Department of Education through the ANU run Australian National Internship Program.

I also became involved with ANUSA and the Law Students’ Society, and I can state with certainty that I used the skills I gathered from both experiences when I applied for my first “real job” at the Australian Audit Office.

Artwork by Eva Krepsova

Rejection is not the end. Edward was rejected twice in this article, and numerous times before and after. Each rejection is a learning experience; it will teach you what to do, what not to do, force you to go above and beyond, and help you realise what your dream job actually is.

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Killing Darnold Teddy Johnston

Recently, I found a grasshopper “stuck” in a Unilodge stairwell. I set it free. I watched in awe as it frantically flew ten feet into the air. My heart was filled with a fleeting sense of joy and altruism as it fluttered like a newborn finding its wings for the first time. A bird ate it. That was the end of that.

Death. Quite bewildered by this freak accident, I have been searching for all the hidden lessons that one may possibly learn from this, to which I have only found a few. I’ve made it my mission to make sure that this little fella didn’t die in vain and so I can come to terms with the mild survivor’s guilt I am now experiencing. For the purpose of this recount I shall refer to the grasshopper as Darnold.

There’s a Darnold in all of us, floating around on his own little adventure; studying, playing sport, reading, looking for jobs, student discounts, and just generally trying to prepare for life after ANU. But when the weight of the world starts bearing down on him, a common response is to stress-out. And if left unchecked, all this stress starts to change how he functions physiologically, physically, and psychologically.

Making decisions, staying motivated, performing academically and coping with life in general gets harder.

That little Darnold inside of us starts to influence us into doing odd things that we wouldn’t normally do, like hide in stairwells. This probably isn’t new to you, but I hope it serves as a reminder. A report published

by Student Mental Health and Wellbeing Committee of the Australian Medical Students’ Association highlighted that in general, Australian tertiary students experience higher levels of distress than their non-student counterpart. That’s you, mate!

I really wish Darnold had said something to me. I couldn’t bear the thought of him living a solitary life, loitering in the cold confining walls of a Unilodge stairwell. I just wanted him to be happy and to spread his wings. Instead, I watched a pleasant tree-dwelling ball of feathers consume him. So this is a small lesson about life, but it is secretly about mental health and getting help. For the sake of this article, I will refer to myself as ANU, and the bird as mental health.

I unashamedly express my frustration in saying that Darnold would not have died if he had spoken up.

In retrospect I can understand why he was hiding in that stairwell. But how was I supposed to know he was hiding from his killer if he didn’t say anything? I sincerely hope it wasn’t the stigma that kept his mouth shut.

I’m honestly not sure if I could have thought of a more obscure way to relate a real life story to mental health.

But, there are some stark similarities that I have pondered upon since that tragic day. Is hiding away in a stairwell that dissimilar from not facing the big wide world and all its problems?

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So this year educate yourself on stress and mental ill health and how it affects you. Exercise, read, eat healthy, and build yourself a network of friends you feel comfortable talking with. Join a club or sporting team. Friends are pretty much the forefront of student support when it comes to mental health, particularly in universities. Be a good friend and learn how to talk to someone (not diagnose), who you might suspect is having a tough time.

Having “the talk” won’t be as hard as the regret you might feel when the damage is done. Don’t be afraid to speak up, and seek help when you’re not feeling you. It’s okay to not be okay. Spend time in the stairwell if you need to, but try your best to learn how to survive outside of it.

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What “New World” would you leave behind if you were Prime Minister for a day?

If I were Prime Minister for a day I would create a world where Indigenous/ Torres Strait Islander Australians and Non-Indigenous Australians were equal.

Shortcomings in Indigenous health, education and wellbeing are not isolated issues, and in failing to address them as intrinsically linked, both we and the government are failing to produce significant change. The only way to tackle and overcome the inequality within these aforementioned areas is by believing in our first peoples, and granting them the resources, confidence and freedom to build their own futures. In the new world I left behind, programs developed for Indigenous wellbeing would not simply be the product of bureaucratic process, but rather, would be fuelled by a community discussion involving those most affected.

I would hope to further recognise the different intricacies of Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people by allowing them to create community specific laws. The first step would be through full recognition and integration of customary Indigenous law, as it is too often that the Australian legal system does not respect nor reflect indigenous customs and culture. I believe that the integration of customary indigenous law would demonstrate my government’s recognition Indigenous peoples’ abilities to govern and shape their own future.

Alexandra Green

It was Paul Keating who said, “we all arrive equally and we all go out equally”, and whilst his attempt to epitomise a “perfect” democracy was laced with good moral intentions, his statement wasn’t true, and isn’t true of the world we Australians live in now.

In an ideal world, I would strive to shape the “equal” world Mr Keating spoke of. In this day and age not ALL Australians are born into a world offering them equal access to opportunities. There are certain stigmas and stereotypes ingrained within society’s psyche that encourage us to immediately attribute certain generalisations to others. The characteristics we attribute are often completely independent of an individual’s personality or choices, yet some of us still feel a need develop an idea of a person with limited information. These stigmas have the ability to prevent individuals from exploring particular professional avenues and opportunities, and render our great nation wrapped in stifling social chains. Of course, I would never argue that all Australians are as small-minded and discriminatory as the demographic I am referring to, but I feel that this demographic is so populace and, regrettably, so influential, that it warrants exposure.

As Australians, we so proudly proclaim our democracy to the rest of the world.

Our own PM is even prepared to declare that “it’s a great time to be an Australian” ‒ but who are these “Australians”? I doubt that Mr Turnbull is speaking about those who enter the world immediately fighting negative attitudes and judgements.

So, beyond the point of acknowledging the intolerance and inequality present in Australian society, how can we actually alleviate the issue? How can a nation that aligns itself on the fortitude of mateship, break down these pervasive stigmas and treat everyone equally from day one? If I were PM for a day I would strive to leave behind a New World where preconceived judgements and the inequality they cause, are rendered redundant.

Henry Delves

Cutting to the chase: if I were PM for a day, I would begin by implementing a constitutional amendment requiring a vote in both Houses of Parliament to deploy troops overseas, and then I would bring our troops home. After this, I would repeal the Fair Work Act, the awards and minimum wage, and ultimately bring back the Howard Government’s Work Choices. I would then shrink government regulations and the size of government itself so much so, that the federal government would annually cost each Australian the same price as a dog licence ‒ just as it was in 1901.

I would balance the budget, simplify tax law and introduce massive tax cuts at every income level. Gone would be the range of different pathways to become a permanent resident or a citizen, and in their place would be a fixed buy-in-fee.

Those seeking asylum would have the single option of buying a temporary protection visa for a few thousand dollars a year, and, apart from security, the only criterion would be their ability to pay; thus providing a safer, reliable and cheaper service than that of people smugglers. Finally, I would end the mandatory data retention, or the “surveillance tax” and repeal the National Firearm Agreements, leaving such decision to the will of States and Territories. Law-abiding shooters are not “criminals in waiting” – we have been a nation of defenceless victims for far too long.

Arthur Bi If granted the power of PM for a day (a title which is probably not that impressive given Tony Abbott did it) how would I revolutionise the world in a new and cutting edge manner? It’s simple. I wouldn’t.

If new is the flavor of the month, then old is surely the bitter medicine that we don’t want to take but keeps us alive. As PM I would enforce a system of frugal and efficient laws, based not on the happiness of each but the prosperity of society in the future. Injecting money back into small businesses may be an inconvenience for the general population now, but without them how else would we fulfil our need for one a.m. doughnuts and quality late night takeaway food? If the marshmallow experiment of the 1970s taught us anything, it was that putting off immediate pleasures for the sake of future prosperity is a sacrifice worth making. This outlook may not put me up for reelection, but hey, I’ll only have to dodge the assassination attempts for a day.

“But what about equality?”, I hear the left-wings cry in the distance. Fear not my fluro-haired friends, for if we approach politics with an understanding that we are fundamentally animals who are tethered to civilization by infrastructure, then we have to see that we are all in the same boat. My PM campaign would be built upon the idea that we all need an equal platform of rights, with aid granted to minorities both socially and economically to create justice. Marriage for all, but with tighter restrictions – a la 1900s ‒ to discourage shotgun marriages that lead to unstable homes.

As PM, my whole campaign would revolve around delayed gratification, not that this would matter of course, because before my seat had even grown cold another PM would march in and cater to the public’s immediate desires (as poorly thought through as they are) in a desperate attempt to remain in office.

For therein lies the flaw of democracy: those in power are those who will give the people what they want RIGHT NOW, with no consideration of future generations.

The fact is, Australia wants the single shiny new marshmallow. It is regretful that years after my day in office, when society is lamenting the failing economy and the ruined planet, everyone will have forgotten about the PM who tried to secure the future, and bitterly croak to each other “at least we got our new world”. Essentially, I am looking for someone with strong political views to write an interesting, controversial and perhaps slightly comical rant on how they would run the country.

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In Conversation with Gordon Bull Shan Crosbie

Photography by Shags Liminal from the series Word Portraits (2015)

Gordon Bull is a highly valued lecturer at the Centre of Art History and Art Theory, and this year celebrates over 25 years of teaching at the ANU School of Art. I was fortunate enough to sit down with Gordon late last year to discuss his professional journey and thoughts about what art means to him. For an extended version of this interview, please visit the CAHAT blog Words + Pictures.

Shan Crosbie: So what led you to be doing what you do today?

Gordon Bull: Look, I’ll give you the quick story of my career. I grew up in Perth and I became really interested in art. My high school art teacher said you should go to art school. So we’re in suburban Perth, and she says: “I’ve heard that the best place to study art is at the University of Sydney.” So I apply to Sydney University and I get in, but when I arrive I discover that it isn’t an art school at all, it’s an art history department! At this point I know no one in Sydney, I had just enrolled and got on a plane. I went to the youth hostel and found a share house and thought, “well I’m not going back!”.

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So you were actually planning to do a fine arts degree and you turned up on the other side of the country, to find it was actually an art history degree?

Yes, that’s right! I was a bit startled, but at that time really the most startling thing for me was that I had to enroll in other subjects. I actually left after a year, and I thought I would never come back, but three years later I was living in London and I realised I was hanging around the art gallery the whole time. I realised that actually I wanted to do that degree, I wanted to do art history. So I came back and finished with honours in 1983. In 1984 I enrolled in a research masters and half way through that year I started tutoring. I was surprised, because I originally did an art history degree because I really loved it but I never imagined that I’d work as an art historian. I thought I’d do what a lot of my smart friends did – finish their degree and join the public service. That was the default. But I started teaching, and I’ve been teaching ever since.

So I tutored at the University of Sydney and came to the Canberra School

of Art (now the ANU School of Art) as a fill-in lecturer. That was my first experience in a studio-based environment. Then I went back to Sydney, where I received a lectureship at the University of WA in the art history department. I thought that this will be it, I’m going home. In fact, for various reasons I didn’t enjoy working there.

I came back to the Canberra School of Art in 1991 in a junior lectureship where I was a lecturer in art theory for six years, and then I became the Head of the Art Theory department for 10 years and then later became the Head of School for seven years. I was then released and came back into what was then the newly established Centre for Art History and Art Theory; that was one of the things as Head of School that I had envisaged and helped to negotiate. It was a long, long negotiation…

But we’re here now, and I love it!

Yes, here we are in its second year and it’s really working so well. The place is going off like a rocket!

how did I come to be doing what I’m doing? Slightly by accident.

My next question is a bit different: in your opinion, why should people care about art?

I believe that art is fundamental to being human. It’s not the same everywhere, but it’s still one of those things that we might see as being universal.

It means different things to different people. My neighbors might think art is of no interest to them - that other people do that sort of thing. But in fact there are things in their lives they do, that are actually art, but they don’t think of it in that way.

So I think it’s fundamental, and in a sense, inescapable. If you do engage with it self-consciously it’s incredibly rewarding. It’s not all about cognitive engagement, it’s about the pleasure and joy of art. So if there’s something that’s just sitting there and can enhance your life or make it pleasurable, why wouldn’t you do that?

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Art in Woroni The Connection Anton Poon

510mm x 600mm x 600mm As an international student in Australia, the question of ‘Who am I?’ arises in relation to my cultural context through every day interactions which others and art practices.

My Practice often deals with words such as: transition, journey and, in particular, experiences. I investigate my journey of transitioning through the cultures, and the experience of that transition. I am interested in how the others relate to the theme of transition and ultimately how they would interact with my work physically.

The Connection: I have used bronze and steel as the material to explore the physical and spiritual connection between myself and the cultures I inhabit: Chinese and Australian.

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9 – 28 August (detail), 2015 Gouache on paper on piano roll 290 x 28.7 x 5 cm As a person with dyslexia, my inner world often gets lost in translation and engenders some pretty confused facial expressions—which can be both hilarious and humiliating. This frustration with the limitations of words led me to decode my brain’s limbic system into other dialects that are often dismissed, such as the maddening sound of yellow.

For me, colours, musical notes and emotions vibrate in similar spots within my body. This non-verbal interaction with my environment often manifests as works intended to be read as musical scores, works performed at concerts or ones which invite the viewer to acknowledge their own melody.

At the moment I make works on paper using dry point etching and chance, projections using colour and audio, and I hand coloured screenprints to interpret changes in the resonance of a place.

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Tom Buckland – Sculptor Uncategorized Nostalgic Memory #1, 2013 Mixed Media Science fiction, strange worlds, forgotten artifacts and the absurd are the primary inspirations for my sculptures I’m interested in creating sculptures that encourage audience interactivity that the viewer can step into, pick up and play with. I work with found objects and recycled materials, as the reuse and recycling of materials is very important to me.

We’d love to publish your art!

To submit an article to Words + Pictures CAHAT blog or to the Woroni arts section please send a word document and accompanying high resolution photos to Shan Crosbie at shancrosbie72@gmail. com. Please provide the photo captions and credits in your word document.

Perpetual Dissonance Works by Rebecca Selleck, opens 6pm Wednesday 3 February at Scratch Art Space, Marrickville, NSW. Exhibition continues until Sunday 14 February.

Art News February

2015 Resident Series Exhibition Works by Isobel Rayson, opens 6pm Thursday 4 February at CCAS Manuka. Exhibition continues until 14 February.

Talk Back Works by Alison Alder and Bernie Slater, opens 6pm Thursday 4 February at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre. Exhibition continues until Saturday 27 February.

Black Site Works by Jess Higgins, opens 6pm Thursday 4 February at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre. Exhibition continues until Saturday 27 February.

Futures RAW Showcase featuring works by Gemma Sue and Bronte Morel, opens 6pm February 12 at the Belconnen Arts Centre. Exhibition for one night only.

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Carol (dir. Todd Haynes) Tom Baily

It’s a pale, still Christmas in New York City at the beginning of the 1950s. Families arrange dinners, presents are being bought and there is cheer in the air, at least somewhere, in the background. But at the start of Carol, Todd Haynes’ gorgeous adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel, we are introduced to Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), a young clerk in her 20s, standing behind the counter at a toy store, diligently following orders.

She seems bitterly alone.

She helps an older woman, Carol (Cate Blanchett), middle-aged, married, seemingly assured, to find a toy for her daughter. The two share a tense first encounter, trying to bite away at the hesitant pauses of their commercial transaction, sifting the little silences that stand in for those first hits of attraction.

From the cold, banal routines of this setting comes the tender story of two people struggling to bring togeth-

Harge. Therese is unwillingly thrust into the situation. Things begin to rupture for Carol, and before it becomes too much, she decides to run away, to “wherever my car will take me”. She asks Therese to join her.

er, from immensely disparate lives, a shared passion. The dramatic core of Carol rests in the emotional tension of these two very different people.

Therese is alone, quietly removed from those around her, including her boyfriend Richard. She takes photographs in her spare time, of “birds, trees, windows, whatever…”. Never of people.

“You should be more interested in humans”, her friends tell her.

Carol is more established, so we are led to believe. She is rich and secure, but she has a strange reserve shielding a hidden discomfort. Carol and Therese start seeing each other regularly. They have lunch together. They enjoy each other’s company, pensively. Carol invites Therese to her estate for Sunday dinner. It is here that lives surface and clash. We learn of Carol’s failing marriage with her husband

Carol is a film less about the pair’s communion than about the barriers that work to disallow it, be they societal, familial or psychological. What Therese and Carol share comes up against the strictures of routine and stuffy convention. They are framed and confined; we see them peering through foggy glass or spied-on through tenement windows. Washed with sadness and contemplation, Carol is a deep, measured portrait of layers and textures, the rich Super 16mm photography and elegant 50s-milieu costume design shading the immense emotional depth.

Haynes has made something quite moving. It’s an important one.

The Belier Family Eliza McConville

cides to run against him for the position in the upcoming election. What follows is a unique, and comic political campaign, and Paula is confronted with attempting to simultaneously provide the support she normally gives her family by interpreting for them (including a particularly hilarious scene involving her parents, a doctor and a rash in an undisclosed location – need I say more?) and keeping her singing a secret from them.

★★★★★ As I walked into the cinema, I briefly considered the possibility of using this feel-good film, The Bélier Family (in French, La Famille Bélier) as an opportunity to practice my long-dormant language skills. However, as I was faced with a barrage of rapid teenage slang, the hasty idea was just as quickly discarded in favour of reading the English subtitles, so I decided to settle in and enjoy this well-paced, funny film.

The story focuses on Paula Bélier (Louane Emera), teenager and the only hearing member of an otherwise deaf family. With Paula often acting as the interpreter for her ex-beauty pageant contestant turned cheese-maker mother (Karin Viard), farming father (François Damiens) and teenage brother, the film depicts

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the consequences that the family’s deafness has on their individual lives, as well as their relationships.

The plot commences with Paula and her friend Mathilde standing in line at school, waiting to choose elective classes. The decision is quickly made for Paula when attractive Parisian newcomer, Gabriel, signs up for the choir. Though she is initially detests

the idea of singing, it is swiftly apparent to the rude and eccentric choir master (Éric Elmosnino) that Paula is gifted, and he sets her and Gabriel the task of performing a duet, and additionally urges her to audition for a place in the Radio France Choir.

Meanwhile, after learning of the plans the current Mayor has for agricultural land in the region, Paula’s father de-

The Bélier Family is easy to watch, funny and occasionally unpredictable.

The fact that the majority of the family is deaf and non-verbal is an integral aspect of the film, and it is viewing the interactions between the family members that makes this film so watchable.

They fight, they embarrass each other, and they occasionally cannot understand the others’ point of view. It is a “coming of age” film, and demonstrates how a unique family can learn to live together, as well as learning to live apart.

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Star Wars: The Science Asleepens Lewis Pope

‘That’s not how the Force works!’ says Han Solo, eyes wide with incredulity.

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Oh please, Han, get off your high horse, Star Wars has never been about accuracy.

Now don’t get me wrong: I am a huge Star Wars devotee, but the long and fantastic saga has always been much closer to the “fantasy” end of the spectrum than “science fiction”. And that’s fine in some respects ‒ “light speed” in the way that they use it is clearly meant to mean “faster than light” speed. They’re obviously wrong, but they let the story go on.

There are a few areas of futuristic science that Star Wars does grapple with to some degree. Some notable examples from the new film being pretty much everything about Starkiller Base. This Christmassy rendition of the Death Star, Han notes, is protected by a force field. He says something about a refresh rate and how it only blocks things travelling below light speed. So, the ships travel faster than light and so that’s why the Mil-

lennium falcon could jump to under the shield. But what a terrible shield, where the primary method of bringing death and destruction is with laser weapons, which travel at light speed! It deliberately doesn’t block fast things like that? And why would it want to block slow things? There is a reason that previous shields allowed the passage of ground troops in both The Phantom Menace and The Empire Strikes Back: they blocked slower things, which couldn’t possibly be destructive projectiles, but then suddenly this shield blocks everything except ships and lasers. It’s almost as if Kylo Ren designed it purely so we could have an exciting shot of the Millennium Falcon flying through a forest!

However, there are a couple ways Star Wars could benefit our scientific thinking. Firstly, it can inspire little kids to undertake careers in the sciences, which (as with any kind of inspiration, even if it makes you study Arts) is great.

While I try not to delve too far into the prequels, it is interesting that we were presented with a look at what a vast, spanning galactic system of governance might look like. That part can’t really be disproven, but it does serve as a far more valid commentary on real life than anything else. The government is bogged down in procedure and bureaucracy and falls to the mercy of opportunistic egotists. That’s a representation I can fully abide by.

So while the physical and biological sciences are pretty much a one-eighty from reality in Star Wars, at least the social sciences are alive and well. It’s a great story, still with some lessons to teach even though it’s disloyalty to the sciences is borderline criminal.

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Agree to Disagree

The Great Sauce-y Debate Maeve Bannister and Paroksh Prasad

Agree?

Disagree?

Dear Paroksh,

Dear Maeve,

Up until a few months ago I’d never considered putting tomato or barbeque sauce anywhere but in the fridge. When I heard about this new phenomenon of keeping your sauce in the cupboard, I immediately brushed it off as just another weird Australian thing that I hadn’t been alerted to in the past six years that I’ve lived here. Alas, speaking to my best friend in South Africa about this supposed ‘weird Australian thing’ (I was clearly quite perturbed by it), she informed me that she too keeps her sauce in the cupboard. In fact, her opinion is that it’s me and my sauce-in-fridge storage situation that is strange. I have therefore declared this a worldwide debate and feel that it should be properly settled, just like tomato and barbeque sauce are properly settled in the fridge.

As Australians, there is the wide public opinion that we live in a nanny state, and that such government should be questioned and critiqued. The same mentality, I believe, should go for the storage instructions on a tomato sauce bottle.

While it may read that refrigeration is advised, let us consider the necessity behind this instruction.

Firstly, it clearly says on the label to “refrigerate after opening”. Secondly, every other condiment is kept in the fridge: mayonnaise, salad dressing, mustard, hot sauce, etc. It makes sense to have all your supplies in the one space. Finally, there is nothing better than cold sauce on a hot bed of chips, or a snag fresh off the barbeque. As Olaf, my favourite snowman says, “The hot and the cold are both so intense, put it together it just makes sense.” No truer words have been sung.

Milk, for example, has strict ‘use-by’ and storage instructions because of the ease in contracting sickness arising from improper usage. Contrastingly, something like tomato sauce is not going to make you terribly ill if it is used for the couple of days after its ‘best before’ date. In essence, this is a lower risk food item. Thus, its storage is also open to discussion.

Paroksh, don’t even try and tell me I’m wrong.

Maeve

Some foods have ‘best before’ dates labelled and other have ‘use-by’ dates. The difference between the two is significant because they are representations of the risk factor associated with a food, and are practically just a company covering their arses for legal security.

The reason for refrigerating tomato sauce is due to spoilage potential. However, the ingredients of tomato sauce are less likely to spoil than other food items.

Bacteria requires water to multiply and in tomato sauce, the high levels of salt and sugar prevent, to some extent, the ability for such organisms to spread. So, as long as the lid is tightly shut and it’s in a cool, dry place, dead horse is fine in the cupboard.

My dearest Maeve, I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

Paroksh

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High Fashion and the Muslim Market Marni Mount Dolce and Gabbana’s most recent release drapes fresh, theatrical prints off unreasonably glamourous models; everything we’ve come to expect of the Italian fashion house and luxury goods goliath. However, the stir these particular garments are making on social and news media is not for their extravagant fabrics or trademark D&G lace, but rather for their purpose and market. The capsule collection - announced by Stefano Gabbana on Instagram and launched on Style. com in January - is a carefully curated selection of hijabs and abayas: veils and gowns of Islamic tradition.

The announcement has been covered widely by the fashion world but should come as no surprise. The burgeoning visibility of Muslim women in the fashion industry is not the symptom of a new market, but rather the recognition of a key client to the world of high fashion.

According to a recent report by Thomson Reuters, the global Muslim population spent $266bn on clothing and footwear in 2013 – more than the total fashion spending of Japan and Italy combined. Whilst this figure may be unsurprising considering the relative size of the Muslim population,

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Muslim buyers, especially in the Middle East, account for an even larger segment of the most lucrative end of the fashion industry.

In the haute couture market fashion houses peddle exclusive garments and accessories for astounding prices. Literally meaning ‘high sewing,’ haute couture is the artistic and expensive pinnacle of the fashion world; garments that can take over 800 hours to create and hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy. The tradition traces back to the courts of 18th century France and has been dominated by European designers ever since.

Including the likes of Dior, Chanel and Balenciaga, it’s alumni reads like a Buzzfeed listicle of Fashionable Europeans of the last 200 years.

Ho w e v e r, the European buyer has not always supported the excesses of European

high fashion. As noted by journalist Nicholas Coleridge in his 1989 book The Fashion Conspiracy, the Middle Eastern oil boom proved a lifeline to the industry that was struggling to stay financially viable and culturally relative, as designers capitalised on the new wealth of countries like Saudi Arabia. To this day, the women of the Arab world continue to dominate the market that serves an estimated 2,000 privileged clients worldwide.

Muslim buyers are rarely visible and hard to identify, most wearing their garments out of sight or in private.

Out of the public eye, commissioned pieces clothe hundreds of women in lavish, gender segregated wedding celebrations that can last as long as a week. This privacy has hidden the Muslim fashion market for a long time, and goes some way to explaining the novelty of high profile, high fashion looks that appear visibly Islamic.

Despite the apparent surprise of fashion media at the images of women in modest, body obscuring clothing, retailers have increasingly recognised the unique needs of Muslim women.

A number of big names including Oscar de la Renta, DKNY and Tom-

my Hilfiger have released ‘modest’ capsules during Islam’s holy month, Ramadan. Both high-end designers and low end retailers are capitalising on the profit potentials of these rarely represented women.

So how much of a victory is this for diversity in the fashion world? Some meet the campaign with animosity, noting the white-passing models and commercial incentives for such a move. For much of its history, fashion media has seemed to promote the idea that ‘fashion’ is the domain of the West, and that the cultures and traditions of the East are only fashionable when adopted by white, western labels. It’s hard to tell whether Dolce & Gabbana are smashing this tradition or championing it.

Whatever the philosophical reaction may be it’s important that the cultures that have filled the pockets of high fashion can now play some part in representing it. These bold images, designers and women are finally being granted their place in the global fashion conversation. Consumers and businesses alike should listen up.

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Making The Runway Accessible Matilda Millar-Carton

Over the past couple of months, it seems that the relationship between fashion and people with disabilities has come along way. IMG models have recently signed two significant models with disabilities – Madison Stuart, who has Down’s Syndrome, and Jillian Mercado, who has muscular dystrophy. Many, both within the fashion world and outside it, laud such progress as ground-breaking for fashion and disability – a sign of acceptance and development. But are the moves really that innovative? And do they signify a move towards inclusion, or are they just a Band-Aid solution for a much larger problem?

It goes without saying that the employment of people with disabilities in fashion is a positive thing. Fashion has long been criticised for the narrow depiction of society it presents, and has recently begun to increase its use of ethnic and plus-sized models.

It only follows that people living with disabilities should be included in the mix, in order to provide an accurate reflection of our society. Considering the invisibility people with disabilities face over a range of cultural mediums, including film, television and fashion, inclusion in the fashion industry has the potential to empower people with disabilities through representation on a wide scale. Furthermore, it can provide a more realistic image of disabled people, and remove stigma attached

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to disability.

However, despite all the media attention surrounding Stuart and Mercado, the use of models with disabilities isn’t as innovative as it seems, and raises questions about the progress fashion is really making. Alexander McQueen famously employed amputee Aimee Mullins in a runway show in 1998, and since then, it appears that little has changed. Many raise concerns that the prevalence of disabled people in fashion hasn’t progressed, or even worse, has actually diminished. After all, Alexan-

Top: Aimee Mullins Below: Madeline Stuart

der McQueen hasn’t used a disabled model for years, nor has any other major fashion house. We’ve even seen a turn towards using disability as a prop for able-bodied models, á la Kylie Jenner posing in a wheelchair for an Interview cover.

The most successful examples of fashion’s collaboration with disability go beyond simply employing a disabled model for a runway show. If the fashion world truly wants to see progress, we need to see a move towards fashion catering towards those with

disabilities. In the same way that fashion caters to different sizes, tastes, and skin tones, it should be able to cater to various disabilities. There’s little benefit in having a runway that’s accepting and representative of people with disabilities if fashion itself is not.

Companies such as IZ Fashion are leading the way, creating clothes that are fashionable whilst catering to various disabilities. Clothes can be created to cater to different sizes, or which can be put on whilst sitting down, or with minimal assistance. Occasionally, fashion houses also turn disabilities into a fashion item themselves – when Aimee Mullins walked for McQueen, she wore a pair of intricately carved prosthetic legs. Such brands are not only inclusive and representative of people with disabilities, but actually create clothes that celebrate and flatter various disabilities, rather than trying to hide them.

Ultimately, the use of fashion models with disabilities is nothing new. It’s definitely important to represent the entirety of society, and give people with disabilities adequate representation. But, if we really want to progress and make fashion more accessible, there needs to be a move towards clothes that truly include and provide for various disabilities.

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Who’s Who at the ANU Paroksh Prasad I was on a cruise holiday over my summer break and each evening on board, my family and I would dine at a buffet restaurant. Now, this particular buffet was far greater than anything I had seen previously; a bigger spread than even the Burns Club, Kambah ($16$27 depending on time and day – excellent value with top-notch food, perfect for post-sport feeds). The spread on the cruise had foods and snacks from all sorts of diverse cuisines and cultures. Consequently, each night I would stand with an empty plate before the array and think to myself, “Oh! How I wish I could try all these foods in one go without bursting my intestines?!” Needless to say, I continued on and ended up bursting my intestines in multiple places.

great number of students and scholars from all sorts of cultural, national and ethnic backgrounds. With approximately a quarter of the student body being from abroad, as the host of a great number of international students and staff, the ANU faces a considerable task in making each person feel welcome and in empowering each individual to develop and share their cultural identity.

The tables and tables of delectable foods on that cruise are a metaphor for the ANU. With the beginning of the New Year, the ANU welcomes a

To aid in this, and also to facilitate some of the best cultural events (and food) on campus, the ANU has an extensive list of clubs, societies, and

As an internationally renowned institution, the ANU’s situation in Canberra is a bounty for the traveller’s mind. With the embassies and high commissions at your doorstep, hosting colourful and vivacious festivities, there is always something on to tickle your fancy.

ANU Africa Students’ Association – ANUASA ANU Arabic and Middle Eastern Society – AMES ANU ASEAN Society – ASEAN ANU Bangladeshi Students’ Association – ANUBSA ANU Chilean Students’ Society – ANU Chile ANU China Club ANU Chinese Debating Club – ANUCDC ANU Chinese Students’ and Scholars’ Association – CSSA ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Students’ Society – CAPSS ANU Dance ANU Ecuadorian Society – ANUES ANU Filipino Association – ANUFA ANU French Collective ANU German Society – ANU Germ Soc ANU Global Undergraduate Leaders Program Society ANU Indian Students’ Society – InSA ANU Indonesian Students’ Society – ISA ANU International Relations Society ANU Italian Cultural Society ANU Korean Pop Culture Club ANU Korean Postgraduate Society – ANU KPS ANU Malaysian Students’ Organisation – MSO ANU Myanmar Students’ Association – ANUMSA ANU New Zealand Students’ Association – ANUNZ ANU North Korean Studies Society – NKSS WOAA0.indd 41

collectives for you to express your midnight craving for mee or your inherent desire to break out into K-Pop or Kishore Kumar! Equally, these groups are the place to go to enter into insightful discussions and engage intellectually with affairs relating to the regions, countries, and cultures represented by the groups below.

This semester in Woroni, we hope to feature a single or partnership of clubs each week and hone in on that particular nation, culture or sub-culture and publicise their social make up.

Each episode will promote practices, festivals, foods, and other such experiences. We also hope to have a regular section with bilingual phrases for your reference. We look forward to broadening your horizons and taking you places that you’ve never been before!

ANU. If any of the below spark your interest, find them at Market Day or contact them via their Facebook pages.1 2 Get involved and take advantage of the buffet on offer at the ANU! Woroni cannot guarantee the operation of the subsequent clubs and societies. This information has been collated from ANUSA listings.

2 Woroni apologises for the omission of any registered international clubs or societies.

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The following is a list of the international clubs and societies offered at the

ANU Persian Society – ANUPS ANU Singapore Students’ Association – SSA ANU Spanish Club ANU Taiwan Researchers’ Association – TRA ANU Taiwanese Students’ Association – TSA ANU Za Kabuki ANU Thai Association – ANUTA Asian Students in Australia Association – ASIAA Australia Indonesia Youth Association ANU – AIYA ANU Australia-China Youth Association @ ANU – ACYA@ANU Australian Association of Chinese PhD Students and Young Scholars Constitution Beyond the Lexicon Society – Lex Soc Canadian Students’ Association – CSAS Ekta South Asian Students’ Society Hong Kong Students’ Society – HKSS International Association for Exchange of Students for Technical Expertise – IAESTE Canberra International Students’ Department – ISD Korean Student’ Association – KSA Latin American Students’ Association of ANU – LASA Micronesian and Australian Friends Association – MAFA Students for Justice in Palestine – SJP Vietnamese Students’ Association – VSA 2/02/16 7:57 PM

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Women in Sport in the ANU Mary Waters

2016 promises to be an exciting year for the development of women’s health and fitness at the ANU, with the creation of an Excellence in Sport Program (ESO), by ANU Sport. A Women in Sport program has been created specifically to encourage more women to realise the benefits that health, fitness and sport can play in their lives, aiming to increase the profile and quality of sport on campus.

Statistics received through research from the Australian Sports Commission overwhelmingly indicate that female sport at university is underdeveloped in comparison to the way male sports are running. It also suggests that female sport needs more funding and advertising to ensure equality in sport opportunities to all participants.

There are many ways you can be involved at the ANU – starting with ANU Sport’s International Women’s Day Health and Fitness event, which is being held on the 8th of March from 2pm. The event will provide an op-

petitively or socially, please see the list of clubs on the ANU Sport website: http://www.anu-sport.com.au/clubs/ club-contacts

portunity for all women on campus to experience a “snapshot” of what ANU Sport has to offer for women’s health and fitness. With the opportunity to meet club representatives, participate in a handful of sports, listen to a nutritionist chat about what benefits you the most, or join in on a free Yoga or

The Golden Hour James Hill Once each day, around the campus at lunchtime a curious thing occurs. An oval or court empty and bare just a few minutes before fills with an array of students. Bags and bikes are dumped, sportswear shrugged on and then a competition ensues. It’s what ANU sport has entitled Lunchtime Sport.

Lunchtime Sport is a fun, social and inclusive initiative which includes having competitions for a wide range of sports, some of the more popular ones being soccer, futsal and touch football. It caters for beginners through to athletes. You simply sign up, alone or with a team, and play a casual game once a week for any sport.

In my first year of Uni, I had a few mates playing in touch football, which I hadn’t played much since high school. The next year I joined their team and started playing again ‒ I never looked back! It was not only a fun way to get out the library each Thursday but also meant I met some

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top friends.

Some of these friends introduced me to a touch football carnival held in Wagga Wagga in rural NSW. It was a weekend of just playing touch and drinking- not many better ways to spend a weekend, is there? It allowed me to play off campus with the ANU Bears in a local competition and this was a unique experience that many other ANU teams could not take part in.

Now I know I’ve talked a lot about myself but I just wanted to share what lunchtime sport can do for you.

To use one of the most overused lines, it really does let you get involved on campus. Not only that, it’s a great way to relieve some stress, have a good time and can potentially take you to great places.

Body Blast class ‒ classes like this are there just to have fun and get a group of friends together and try something new.

Additionally, if you want to be involved in women’s sport on campus and compete for a club either com-

Other programs on the calendar this year targeting Women in Sport include the AFL’s Women’s Development Program. ANU Sport will be working with ACT AFL to promote the game by running a series of sessions in February and March inviting females to come down and learn new skills or develop on a pre-existing skills base under the guidance of a talented coach. All skill levels are welcomed and encouraged.

For more information on the AFL and the Women in Sport program, visit http://www.anu-sport.com.au/clubs/ excellence-sport-program-pilot, or see the list of club’s on the ANU Sport website: http://www.anu-sport.com.au/ clubs/club-contacts

Seven Reasons to be Involved in Sport on Campus Jack Birtwhistle

1 Make new friends 4 It’s good for Living on campus and sick of your your health friends eating habits or bad jokes?

Take a break and make new friends.

Or are you a local student with no mates at all? Join a club for instant friends.

2 You might meet .....someone special

This is especially true if you decide to go to Unigames ‒ what better way to impress than on the sports field!

3 It makes fitness easy If you hate running on a treadmill you might find playing sport can be an easy way to get in some serious exercise. If you love running on a treadmill you can do that too.

It’s good for your head: Regular exercise is proven to have positive effects on both mental health and academic performance

5 The Glory Over 400 students came to watch

ANU v Melbourne uni in the AFL last year. Do you like the spotlight?

6 Networking Many clubs have ANU Alumni in their membership who might be able to help you out with that Grad application.

7 Teamwork skills Everyone loves a team player, especially potential employees.

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By Wolly

Lost it inside you? Broken up with over snapchat? In this spontaneous segment, Woroni makes fun of your worst romantic disasters from that time you discovered the identities of the amateur porn stars on your floor to the time room inspections had you on the edge. And kept you there for the next painfully long 10 minutes.

Email satire@woroni.com.au with your stickiest adventures and we might actually publish it, depending on how badly it will make you cringe when you see it in the paper.

Yours truly, Wolly

Hi Wolly, Long time, no see. I’ve had a few rather distressing developments occur over the holidays and I wanted to check if this is, like, normal – you know, relative to the rest of the student populace. Specifically, the females of ANU. It all started with the offside rule. My bf is one of those World Cup fanatics who stays up to watch football into the ungodly hours of the morning. Of course, his gf should also know what the offside rule is, so as to not be “uncultured”, “weird” or “girly” (WTF does “girly” mean??), in front of his male counterparts.

Upon such fevered request, I studied it. Understood it. I screamed at the TV in savage abhorrence when the ref. didn’t call it. I think that was the turning point.

As it happened, I was pretty damn good at swearing at people I didn’t know in a game that I didn’t possess sufficient foot-eye coordination to play. Up one, Ivy. I can’t say that I have an exact chronology of events following this particular incident but nek minute, I’m clean eating. I’m hitting those chest and shoulders on a Tuesday, legs on a Wednesday, back and triceps on a Thursday… Religiously resting on a Sunday. Sometime later I quit cardio altogether!!!! And men all around the world gym, huddled round to watch me squeeze my glutes, sweating super sexy wet patches in the crotch of my Lululemon. My form was just that good. Next entered what I like to the call the brotein stage and consequently

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a shitload of post-recovery shakes, stringy tees and anything else essential you might find brocery shopping. You get the gist.

My brother was now my bruz. My best gf was a bruz. Her annoying, whiny bitches were definitely not bruz. Oh and my bf, he was a bruz too.

So I lay there, one night next to my boi with the rest of his boiz curled or sprawled on the surrounding couches/carpet/pool table, feeling a tad too mellow with my sleeping (and simultaneously farting) bromo sapiens. Which leads me to the point of my article.

Basically, my question is, can I still be a girlfriend and a bro. My relationship seems to hitting a static zone whenever my bf and I want to be alone, doing couple stuff.

And if I can’t, how do I begin the recovery process? Once you’re a bro, can you go back?

Cheers m8.

P.S. I really miss sparkles.

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Satire

The Peaceful Invasion of Job Stealing Terrorists Rebecca Kriesler

Asylum∙Seeker Noun Privileged survivors of wars or other life threatening situations who steal jobs, queue jump and freeload.

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“Asylum seekers are a hot topic here because our traffic is overcrowded.’’

(Fiona Scott, the Liberal candidate for the seat of Lindsay)

Hide your kids and hide your wife because the family of refugees who just fled for their lives from war-torn Syria are coming to Australia to steal your home. The threat is real. They may indeed co-exist peacefully and work harder than any other Australians in order to prove themselves ‒ and thus take someone else’s job. However do not be fooled. As they spend years, generations even, harmlessly integrating in your community, be warned they are just biding their time until they can reveal their true sinful nature. Currently there is no evidence to confirm this suspicion, however it will undeniably be proved true if we wait long enough.

Many ignorant and sheltered Australians claim our treatment of asylum seekers is unjust, however having a high standard for what we consider a worthy reason to flee is critical for the effective functioning of our nation. It is simply logical that an overcrowded prison is a legitimate reason to flee by boat and all but wipe out the previous custodians of the land. However

escaping oppressive regimes? That’s a luxury.

It’s about time that all of Australia got on board with fighting the security threat that these people pose. Step one is make the long awaited amendments to our national anthem: “for those who’ve come across the seas, we’ve boundless plains to share (as long as you aren’t Muslim, arrive by boat or are anything other than a cis white person)”. Step two is to evacuate Tasmania and place any refugees there who are deemed worthy. Step three: change the borders so Tasmania isn’t considered part of Australia. Step four: following in the footsteps of our greatest inspiration and role model, Donald Trump, set up a wall around our borders. Step five: sleep safely at night knowing you will never have to interact with any other cultures ever again!

suitable for them. In the words of illustrious former PM Tony Abbott: “Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.”

So next time you consider fleeing to Australia, know that the only future waiting for you here is Tasmania.

Since that is a fate worse than death I understand why you will then decide to continue to risk your life residing in a war-torn home nation.

This is a new world of acceptance.

We accept that people exist who are different than us, and in return refugees must accept that Australia is not

Satire

ANU Student Organisation Solves All World Ills Pettie Bage and Cat Karrington

In an unprecedented series of events, ANU has released a press statement that they had in fact solved all the issues faced by students. The answer...a rigorous application of petting zoos.

Originally set up to appease stressed out law students, petting zoos have become an integral student service to ANUSA, PARSA, and other similarly illustrious organisations. Results have been so beneficial that ANUSA has confirmed that all of their student services will be replaced by a 24/7 petting zoo by mid-2016. Early negotiations have begun with ANU administration about the exact location of the permanent zoo, but Chifley Library has been shortlisted in an attempt

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to ease tensions between studious library-goers and those who spend their time napping.

Students have also reported that the move has contributed to more satisfying experiences on social media, with a 27% increase in profile picture likes reported across campus. Early reports indicate that ANU Stalkerspace has experienced a 53% increase in “being a safe space” and a significant decline in trigger-warning jokes, attacking feminism, and the presence of Libertarian hacks. Notorious Stalkerspace Administrators claim that this online positivity is due to the group reaching a consensus on the identity of petting-zoo animals that they were

unable to attain with campus wildlife.

Concerns have been raised as to the accessibility of the program for students with pet allergies. However academic staff have suggested it was actually preferable knowing that the reason their students were turning up to tutorials red-eyed and dazed was simply due to cuddling fluffy kittens before class rather than the result of any extra-curricular activities. In order to appeal to these cretins with their overreacting immune systems, reptile petting zoos have been successfully employed featuring creatures such as snakes, turtles, and former ANUSA Presidents.

Overall it appears that students have embraced the news warmly. It is expected that the 2017 intake of new students will also increase dramatically, with the appeal of a ‘petting zoo guarantee’ far more appealing than that of accommodation, campus social life or quality tuition.

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Monday 8th Feb

Tuesday 9th Feb

Wednesday 10th Feb

Thursday 11th Feb

Music on the Chifley Meadow Time: 6pm to 8pm

PARSA Walking Tour of Canberra CBD Time: 10am to 12pm

Market Day Time: 9am to 4pm

PARSA Outdoor Cinema Time: after sunset (8pm)

Venue: Chifley Meadow

Departure: ANU Rimmer Street

PARSA Sunset Tea Time: 6pm to 8pm

Venue: Aviary Rooftop

Venue: Chifley Meadow

Venue: University Avenue

Friday 12TH Feb

SatURDAY 13th Feb

PARSA Scenic Tour of Canberra Time: 9am to 1pm

PARSA Postgraduate Cocktail Party Time: 7:30pm to 11pm

Departure: ANU Rimmer Street

Venue: ANU Union Bar

PARSA College Meet and Greet Time: 3pm to 5pm

Venue: Karmel Room, ANU Union Bar

Monday 15th feb Thursday 18th feb Fitness Classes Time: check website

Venue: ANU Sports Building

Friday 19th Feb

(every fortnight during semester)

FriDAY 19th Feb

saturday 20th feb

PARSA Networking Time: 5pm to 7pm

International Student Welcome Time: 7pm to 10pm

PARSA BIG DAY Time: 10am to 8pm

Venue: University House

Venue: Karmel Room, ANU Union Bar

Venue: Fellows Oval

FOR COMPETITIONS, PRIZES AND MORE INFO VISIT US:

www.parsa.anu.edu.au

/parsaanu

#parsa2016

There is an ANU Learning Community for everyone. Like flavours of ice-cream, stick with your favourite or try them all. Come along to one of our free events, share in the discovery and make friends along the way.

Find us on social media for more details. @lc_anu fb.com/anulearningcommunities twitter.com/lc_anu

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