USU’s FREE Weekly Magazine Edition 01, 05/03/07 F.Y.I An Idiot’s Guide to 2007 BOOTY CALLS Is friendly fornication feasible? JUGGLING MAMAS The Childcare Crisis SMALL TALK with The Chaser’s Chris Taylor EXCLUSIVE What got our Union Board hot and bothered one sunny Wednesday We want... YOU to contribute to The Bull… Send your ideas, proposals and articles to [email protected] RILEY GETS THE MOST OUT OF HIS ACCESS CARD Only $99 inc. GST “I’d be struggling without my access card.” Riley’s Weekly Purchases Riley’s Weekly Expenses access Price 3 x Coca-Cola 600ml 4 x Schooners at Hermann’s 1 x Fish and Chips Regular Price 7.20 8.46 13.60 16.00 6.95 8.18 13.50 15.88 1 x Co-Op Bookshop Item 22.50 28.75 1 x Ticket to Beachball FREE 15.00 1 x Ticket to Manning Bar Gig 21.25 25.00 1 x Club Membership 5.00 42.00 1 x Greater Union Movie Ticket 9.00 11.50 2 x Burger Combo Meals Riley saved $104.33 this month, and over $670.00 a year! “And that’s just when I’m at Uni!” Name: Riley Thomason Age: 19 years Student: Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Even more savings! I’m really stoked with the savings and additional benefits I get being an access cardholder. I can walk into any Greater Union and get my movie tickets for $9.00, which is really handy for potential movie dates! I can’t ask for more when it comes to the great discounts on beer at both Hermann’s and Manning Bars – it saves me a fortune every week, especially since I meet the boys up there on a regular basis. The discounts at the clothing and eyewear retail stores are awesome too. My access card gives me more cash in my pocket for the things I want to spend my money on! GET YOUR ACCESS CARD NOW! www.accessbenefits.com.au Note: Case study is indicative only with all dollar amounts correct at time of printing. Individual use of the card and savings made will vary from card holder to card holder dependant on usage. The USU does not guarantee the amount of saving per annum. contents 04 Where have all the editorial activists gone? 05 Firing the Army 06 6 and a half minutes with... 06 Small Talk 07 F.Y.I. Nerds guide to being cool 08 Friends with benefits 09 A bun in the oven and a score to settle 10 11 12 13 13 13 14 15 Wish you were here... The week that was... What’s on Next Week USU Notices Giveaways Rain of thought and grey Manning Guide Editors Kate Leaver Nancy Lee Anya Poukchanski Ruchir Punjabi Bec Santos Publications Manager Carol Vergara Contributors Lucy Howard Taylor Sophie Miller Mark Tanner Apparently as a generation we’re lazy, insolent, hormonal and brazen. If we aren’t waddling proof of an obesity epidemic, we’re dining on lettuce leaves and laxatives. We believe in no sex before marriage, or we do the squelchy with every halfway attractive person we meet. Sluts, fatties, prudes and anorexics – that’s us. The oldies have been talking about lowering the age of voting to 16. They’re also set to bump up the age for driving to stop teenage road kill. So, teeny boppers are mature enough to decide which balding, bespectacled politician will run our country, but near adults can’t operate a vehicle properly. This causes me to wonder – what is youth? Sanctified in silicone and revered by the wrinklies, it’s this elusive thing society just can’t seem to define. Childhood is an era of sand-between-yourtoes, sticky-fingered, kiteflying innocence. Adolescence leaves us faced and Loving advice, dispensed to protect or pimply During our encourage a child is one thing. But to heartbroken. blossoming adulthood, we look down your nose at someone’s begin to “find ourselves” (where exactly we had gone whole existence just because you’ve the first place I’m not been that age before is condescending inentirely sure) and get ready and dangerous. to take on the world. But then – and this is the part that gets me – then, people get all nostalgic about the youth they’ve spent years wishing away. As soon as they get the socially ratified maturity they’ve been lusting over for two decades, they want to toss it in the nearest bin and go back to making mud pies with the next-door neighbour. A friend of mine laughs in the face of anyone who says life is too short - because, she says, it’s the longest thing you’ll ever do. Although this tiny pearl of wisdom comes from a girl who says “weeee” every time she goes up stairs, its breezy logic alludes to a scale of value we put on chronology, and therefore age. When our parents say teenage love is trivial, they should remember that although it’s been a long time since they were young, this is the oldest we’ve ever been. You can’t offer your juniors advice that belittles their very own sense of now. I can’t tell my 16 year old sister that the HSC doesn’t matter because she’s living it now. My friend’s mother can’t tell her she should cheat on her boyfriend because it doesn’t matter and she’s only 15, because real people and real feelings are still involved. Loving advice, dispensed to protect or encourage a child is one thing. But to look down your nose at someone’s whole existence just because you’ve been that age before is condescending and dangerous. The views in this publication are not necessarily the views of USU. So, darling readers, please ignore ageism. If anyone discriminates against you because of your age, remind them of a time when they were clawing at the door of the adult world, poised to kiss the feet of anyone who showed them some sweet, sweet respect. If someone throws you the phrase “you’re just a teenager”, don’t prove right their preconceived judgment of you. Know your own timeless ability and for god’s sake give teenagers a good name. Write your letters to [email protected] Kate Leaver Design Carl Ahearn Advertising Bernadette Ganatra (02) 9563 6072 [email protected] THE BULL Edition 01. 5 March 2007 PAGE 03 are interpreted resonates with the children of the hedonistic 1980s who had never heard of altruism. The notion of the individual as the supreme subject in reality who can create one’s own self and world and whose sole responsibility is self fulfilment is a seductive idea. It is clear to see how engagement with events or people outside of one’s immediate experience is analogous to trading off a degree of autonomy or making concession on the part of the individual’s plight. ‘Want to fight the degradation of (insert pressing issue here)? Well…not this Friday I kind of had plans…’ is the all too common refrain I solicit from uninvolved friends. In this age of cynicism, civic disengagement and apathy it is easy to wonder where all the activists have gone. Students fighting for progressive social change are nowhere near as visible as they used to be back in the good old days. It’s lamentable enough to tear the spirit of ’69 in my heart all asunder. Perhaps apathy is ingrained in youth culture simply because people find it hard to care about something that does not form the fabric of their daily experience. But what is making our daily experience different and isolated from anyone else’s? Really, political apathy is tantamount to disconnectedness – and I blame the cultural eroticization of the self. The idea of the individual through and by whom all events and other people Now, it is important not to conflate individuality to individualism. The celebration and embracement of difference or individual talent enriches experience and relationships. Individualism atomises people, creating the distance between people in which competitiveness can flourish. Atomistic individualism gives rise to political apathy because The Individual fails to realise common humanity. This is an easy world view to choose because it does not require the effort of empathy or action. The only wrongs the individual has to ‘right’ are his or her own. Rampant individualism is easily defended when couched in terms such ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’, which offer a less insidious guise so that individualist’s acts cannot be critiqued as being selfish, corrupt, or inane. Countering political apathy and inspiring people to take action therefore necessitates them overcoming their individualist inclinations and recognising their part in the broader social context. But what will rock people from their complacency? Typically, anger overcomes apathy. But getting angry may be difficult because it is initially difficult to convince people that their grasp on ‘freedom’ or ‘liberty’ may be limited or undermined by the fact that it is not a luxury afforded to other people. Getting educated about events occurring outside your realm of immediate experience will broaden your horizons. Raising your consciousness will raise your emotional level and a connection to an issue is the spark the flame of action needs. If you feel disgust that six football fields of Indonesian forest disappears every minute, that 1 in 3 women will experience violence in her lifetime, that homophobia is enshrined in law and that your tutorial is so darn large due to cuts to higher education then there are movements just waiting to envelop you and your passion for creating change! But with university commitments, carer’s responsibilities, work and a social life is difficult not to become insular. There are a lot of responsibilities to juggle. But social responsibility is not mutually exclusive to personal responsibility. Though there are so many pressures on young people today, activism is an amorphous activity- there is no set way to go about it. Open up a dialogue, critically read outside of your tutorials, attend a meeting, leaflet, volunteer some time to help orchestrate a march…options are unlimited. Being a university student, the time now is nothing if not nigh to get involved. Your campus is teeming with collectives, groups or forums which need your energy and ideas to help decide the best way forward. Becoming active within your university or community helps you realise that the individual’s true potential lies in their connections to others! Rebecca Santos Anya Poukchanski reports on a controversial start to the Union’s year. A motion to ban the Army from ever participating in a USU funded event, including holding a tent at this year’s O-Week, was put to the Union board last week. Despite heated debate the proposal failed with only one board member, Danielle Tuazon, voting in favour. A letter proposing the motion, signed by five SRC office bearers associated with the Anti War Action Group, said in part: “We believe it is illegitimate for Army recruiters to be on campus dispersing information that is misleading. We also know that the union has a policy against racist and sexism and we believe that this is the basis on which the War on Terror has been waged.” They asked that the board vote that “The Union does not support individuals or groups that directly harm on endanger any group of society on the basis Michael Vaughn, the SRC’s education officer, said that “Almost all the board directors seemed deeply concerned about the financial costs associated with breaking the contract – I was surprised by how corporate our student union seemed.” Surprisingly the extended debate that night did not centre on the actual pros and cons of Army involvement in the university, but on a technicality in the Union’s rules about the moving and seconding of motions that are put to a vote. Because the Union allows its board members to hold positions in other student organisations, board member Angus McFarland also serves as the President of the SRC. Having declared a conflict of interest, he could not vote on the issue at hand but offered to second the motion as is necessitated by formality. The five signatories were Sara Haghdoosti, Daniel Jones, Lucy Saunders, Michael Vaughn and Sarah Hunt. And here the controversy erupted. “It was unfortunate that we ended up being bogged down in debate about procedure,” said Mr McFarland later. “What’s disappointing is that no other board director was willing to say that they would second it instead.” This would have allowed the board to move on and debate the merits of the proposal. Mr McFarland thinks that the board members were stalling because “they didn’t want to talk about it at all.” Mr Vaughn agrees. “[t]he whole board looked unnerved at having grassroots membership at the meeting – it mustn’t happen that often.” However Ms Fernandez said the board was unaware of the motion before the meeting began. The motion resembles a move earlier this year by Charles Sturt University to ban political parties from pitching to students at the university’s O-Week on the basis that it was inappropriate. Macquarie University also came close to preventing the education union and other political groups from setting up O-Week stalls, but later reversed its decision. USU President Katy Fernandez has speculated that the motion at Sydney University may have been in response to these developments. No university, however, has yet banned the Army from its campus. Many board members conceded that this is a fraught issue, but did not state an outright position on the presence of the Army. Mr McFarland said that “I think the Union should be in favour of tolerance and harmony and peace and I think that sometimes Army recruitment can clash with those concepts and that there would be merit in investigating our arrangements.” Honorary Secretary Rose Khalilizadeh said that the Army can look like a way out of debt for students with massive HECS fees to pay. “It seems like an unfair incentive. I think that was the feeling behind the motion.” A subsequent motion was passed instead for the creation of a working party to address the Union’s “ethical framework” of corporate sponsorship. The working party will be open to input by all members Ms Fernandez said that “The concerns were definitely taken very seriously.” Surprisingly the extended debate that night did not centre on the actual pros and cons of Army involvement in the university, but on a technicality in the Union’s rules. of race, gender or religion. Thus preventing Army Recruiters from ever participating in a Union funded events. [sic]” THE BULL Edition 01. 5 March 2007 of the Union and will be set up after O-Week. Ms Fernandez said that “both legal and time issues were a reason why the board members supported a working party rather than a ban for this year.” Passing the motion would have compelled the Union to break its contract with the Army Reserve, which had already paid for its place among the OWeek stalls. PAGE 05 Small Talk with The Chasers Chris Taylor Why is comedy important? I'm not sure that it is important. Comedy's the one respite we have from the importance of everything else. 6 and a Half Minutes with... How do you feel about this year's elections? Gaby Navidzadeh Singer and Guitarist, THE GHOSTS My idol is... Optimus Prime, from The Transformers, because of his diplomatic nature and ‘cause he’s a robot. When I was a kid I... chilled, but I also really liked bugs and kept them as pets. When nobody is looking I... make that blank awkward face like people make when they’re on public transport or walking alone. It's hard to care too much about the state election. On one side you've got a party full of corrupt ministers, child molesters and wife bashers. And on the other side there's Peter Debnam. Talk about spoilt for choice. Federally the race is a bit more interesting, but only insofar as a race between two short men in glasses can ever be interesting. What is your favourite breakfast cereal? Condoleeza Rice Bubbles. Let's play Association. What comes to mind when I say: If you and the Chaser boys became a boy band, what would your first single be about? If I could go back in time I would... chill with the dinosaurs and fly on a pterodactyl. God - Sex What do you mean “if”? The Chaser is a boy band, just with slightly less hair gel. Before a gig I... smoke a million cigarettes and then convince myself that we’re ready. Sex - Sex Bush - Sex What's in the year ahead for The Chaser? After a gig I... go offstage, think about the show and whether it was good or not. Then I go to Bandits... maybe. Andrew Hansen - Who? We'll be doing another series of The Chaser's War on Everything, which starts going to air on March 28 in the new timeslot of Wednesday nights at 9pm, just after Spicks & Specks. We'll probably also be doing some election specials. And we're developing a new quiz show “The Einfeld Factor”, where mystery women compete to be the driver of a judge's car. Love - Sex 3 words to describe yourself? In 5 years I want... I have no idea. Hopefully still playing music, maybe have a few albums out. THE GHOSTS next perform at Candy’s Apartment in Kings Cross on 9th March, alongside Mercy Arms. Very bad at counting. If someone made a movie of your life, who would play you? Kate Leaver Ralph Fiennes. Kate Leaver Spice up your degree by studying overseas 2007 International Exchange Fair Thursday 29 March from 11.00-3.00pm in the Quadrangle Join us for this wonderful opportunity to talk one-on-one to staff and exchange students from our partner universities and find out about studying overseas as part of your University of Sydney degree in 2008. Programs for both undergrads and postgrads in North, South and Latin America, Western Europe, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, the AsiaPacific. Courses in English and other languages. Scholarships and loans available. Come over and find out on how you can prepare for this experience of a lifetime! “Definitely my best university experience by far – I could not imagine doing a three-year degree without it!” James Clifford (BCommerce/BLaws, Maastricht University The Netherlands) 1199/06 For more information about the Exchange Fair, please contact: International Exchange Programs, G12 Corner of Abercrombie and Codrington Streets University of Sydney NSW 2006 Open: Tel: Email: Web: 9.00am-5.00pm (Monday to Friday) 02 9351 3699 [email protected] www.usyd.edu.au/studentexchange/ CRICOS Provider No. 00026A Nerd’s Guide to Being Cool Kate Leaver and Anya Poukchanski We at The Bull know what it’s like to be an ugly, badly dressed loner who knows their friends by their MySpace names – we see them skulking in the corner at parties all the time. So in the name of community service, we’ve set out to teach the losers how to get a life, and stop invading ours. Step One Step Three Step Four Admit that you have a problem Socialise If all else fails Look at yourself in the mirror. Are you wearing anything your mother bought you? Lean in for a sniff – does the stench make you a little sick? If the answer to either question is yes, you need to take action. The Bull recommends you go out (that’s right, out) and get yourself a t-shirt and pair of jeans. Don’t scoff: this is what normal people wear. You have two options. You can attend the first available SubSki event, drink your body weight and exchange bodily fluids with like-minded socialites. Some people will probably think you’re cool, if they remember what happened. Your other option is to start exploring subcultures. People have lots of different interests and you should exploit them for your own benefit. In all your social pursuits, make sure you smile widely, learn names and look people in the eye. Just don’t overdo it, or you might end up working for Vodafone. Find some people who are lamer, uglier and more awkward than you are. Good places to look are in the Fischer stacks, the Merewether computer labs and Hermann’s during lunch time. Get them to stand next to you in public. Boys note: T-shirts ordered off the net do not count – emoticons have no place on clothing. Girls note: Don’t think you can solve the problem at Supre. We don’t use the word ‘slut’ very often, but... Step Two PR Choose which cool camp you’re aiming for. These are your choices: a. Surfie. Choose this option if you’re willing to peroxide your hair, love your surfboard and subscribe to Billabong spirituality. Start using the words ‘rad’ and ‘gnarly.’ Stop brushing your hair. b. Preppie. This is for you if you still own your year 12 private school jersey (worn collar-up, for those who’ve been living under rocks). Girls, set your alarm an hour early for hair-straightening. Boys, get ready to experiment with men’s beauty regimes. c. Sk8er. Take note that this is a very tenuous type of cool. If you don’t quite get there, people will probably beat you up in the parking lot. Buy baggy pants, tear up your clothes and find some safety pins. It’s not necessary to learn how to skate, just carry the board under your arm. d. Goth. This is not a type of cool, idiot. Throw out your eyeliner and go talk to someone, for chrissake. e. Intellectual. The Bull-Endorsed type of cool. Intellectual prowess is totally hot right now. We’re not talking computer geeks – you need social skills to qualify. Buy the Quarterly Essay and ‘do coffee’ with people. Find a talented proctologist for when your head gets uncomfortable. The above types of cool do not interbreed. Once you’ve committed yourself to a group, stick to it. Many have perished attempting to cross social boundaries. Friends Nancy Lee takes a look at the phenomenon of the fuck buddy. This is how it goes… It’s 9pm on a dreary Saturday night. The beast is stirring. You pick up the phone. The thumb does the talking. Half an hour later they’re at your door. Eyes meet eyes, skin meets skin. Nothing is said. As soon as it began, it’s all over. The unspoken agreement hovers in the air between you. You exchange a few token polite murmurs and they’re out the door. In the heady thrills of our early twenties, sex might well be seen as a throwaway commodity, a means to an end. That is, to soothe our raging hormones. These days, when being single is not such an aberration in society, there are some among us who have the option of “friends with benefits.” Also known as “fuck buddies,” these are acquaintances one might turn to for a booty call. Purely for tension release, of course. Does this imply an avoidance of true intimacy, of “meaningful” relationships? How to be intimate with someone and be able to completely reign in any emotion you might otherwise associate with such activities? How to kiss someone and not revel in the sparks and fireworks that surround you? To be closed off from emotion while engaging in acts of “intimacy” surely negates the concept in its entirety. Society’s flippant attitude towards sex we have been groomed to certainly paves the way to a blasé with benefits... acceptance of such arrangements. However, are these relationships then viewed independently of a “real” relationship? Conditioned to functional intimacy, will the indulgent and giddy stages of falling in love for real be muted? 18-year-old Jack* confesses to having been a part of one such pact. “Having sex with someone you don’t care about…it’s not a good thing.” Asked his evaluation of the situation, he replied, “I guess [you’re] more like disappointed in yourself for doing it.” In sum, Jack calls it “a plague eating you from the inside out.” Do we treat sex as something that should and needs to be valued? Or are we setting ourselves up for a fall by aspiring to such idealised beliefs? Mary* recently broke up with her boyfriend because he cheated on her. These days, they have an agreement whereby they engage in physical intimacy only; the relationship is definitely off the table. “It’s great, I know I will get great sex and there’s none of that relationship bullshit to fuck me up.” What value we put on intimacy and what definition we give to emotions are ours alone, and as a result, any benefits gained are purely subjective. Why should all the deep stuff, the complicated stuff, get in the way of the good stuff? Why should the simple act of sex, of fooling around with someone you’re attracted to, be caught up in the angst and time consuming work of a relationship? The process of manipulating an exclusive view towards the two concepts gives us an answer: the ideal of love is seen as complicated, possibly unappealing or even naïve. Is disentangling “intimacy” from “love” then a sign of maturity, or a sign of dehumanisation? Maybe these so-called ‘fuck-buddies’ exist in their own universe. The entire concept is inherently disconnected to emotion anyway. It’s all about hormones. Maybe by switching between modes of function – “meaningful” versus “functional” relationship – is what protects us from getting hurt. We let ourselves manipulate how we are allowed to be hurt, when we are allowed to love: and therein lie the benefits… *real people, fake names. With child on nipple and career in hand, a woman faces the eternal dilemma of female professionalism; how best to avoid dropping baby on floor while typing. A bun in the oven and a score to settle Kate Leaver tries to imagine what it’s like to be a juggling mamma. Motherhood is the mid-life crisis for the working woman. Having carved herself a career in her chosen field, she places her ambition in the back pocket of her trackies and starts hoarding bassinets, bibs and anything that can be rattled or chewed. Is she mad? Has she lost the plot; succumbing to the call of motherhood just when she could really make it? Or perhaps the swelling stomach of motherhood is nobler than society recognizes. The modern mother now faces a series of choices big enough to topple the breeder into pre-natal depression. If she puts her child in someone else’s care, does that make her a bad mother? If she takes time off work to have a tiny human being climb out of her vagina, does this make her a bad businesswoman? God knows once she’s popped the bundle of joy out, she’ll want to get back to making money because if she lives in Australia, she’s had none coming her way on maternity leave. But then, who else to trust not to drop baby on floor? Finding and funding childcare is more difficult than you’d think, here in happily developed Australia. Australia is ranked 23rd for participation of woman aged 25-44 in the workforce. This puts us behind THE BULL Edition 01. 5 March 2007 America, New Zealand and Britain. Without paid maternity leave or affordable childcare, Australian women are left juggling. Suddenly the maternal dilemma is manifold; to work or not to work, to breed or not to breed is just the beginning. Associate Professor Catharine Lumby is an accomplished print journalist and mother to two boys under seven. On the morning I turn up at her office, bright eyed and ready to toss questions across the table, I’m told to call her at home, where she is nursing a sick son. How fitting – here is the mighty motherhood juggle in action! Catharine Lumby wonders at the political paradox that encourages a woman to be educated like a man, to aim like a man, to work like to a man, only to be told at a certain point, “Now you have kids, you sort it out”. She said it’s a ‘thinly veiled sexism’ that allows the childcare system to function as it does. It’s simply not an economic priority and we need to raise the status of childcare professionals. At the moment they are paid less than beauticians, she said, while corporations spend their precious money on champagne lunches. If working women choose to have children, they shouldn’t then be accosted by social conventions that make it more difficult to be a mum. Stale male politicians don’t give it enough thought because they don’t have to; their mothers raise them, their wives raise their children, and their careers carry on uninterrupted. How many nappies do you think John Howard has changed? How many spoonfuls of orange goop do you think Peter Costello has flown into a child’s mouth? Yet, they call the shots on whether women deserve to be paid during their maternity leave. The boys down in parliament should ask themselves how they expect women to foot the grocery bill while they’re off having child number one, two and three to make Costello’s dream of the procreation nation a reality. Does daddy dearest pay for the clothing, feeding, housing, and education of darling baby? It is a luxury to indulge such a family dynamic. Both partners need to bring in money to support a normal family. Beside this practicality, a woman’s pride and accomplishment warrants her autonomy. The decision to have a child is the most intimate one a couple can make, yet here the ministers are putting their grubby, gendered mitts all over it. It’s dangerous to stipulate what a woman should or should not be. A woman can be a mother, a woman can work. My greatest wish is that they are not ultimately mutually exclusive. A woman should be able to have the glee of bringing a child into the world without having to sacrifice her ambition or her financial security. She should be allowed to embrace the madness of doing both. PAGE 09 What do people our age do? They study, they party, they work and they TRAVEL! From the leaning tower of Pisa to the sweeping plains of Africa, and from Indian sculptural splendour to the Great Wall of China, Sydney Uni students have been jetsetting around the globe. So, sit back in glorious envy and enjoy a small taste of their exciting expeditions. ls. ese skil ll: er Chin a h W s n t e a Gre harp Miller s Sophie Taj Ma Ruchir hal: P gift eve unjabi takes in r made for a w spiration from oman. the mo st roma ntic n: Optical Illusio wer? ooked or is the to cr er nn Ta k ar M Is nds. est frie b w e ’s n eaver Kate L : y l i m ant fa eleph n a c i Afr The week that was... What: World Intervarsity Debating What: International Students’ Championships Party 2007 When: 4 January 2007 When: 22 February 2007 Where: Vancouver, Canada Where: Manning For the second time ever, two women have won the World Intervarsity Debating Championships. Not just any women; two of our very own. While we were all wallowing in holiday laziness, Julia Bowes and Anna Garsia traveled to Vancouver, Canada to compete. Leaving Cambridge and Oxford in their trail of smoke, the girls claimed the bounty with an underdog’s aplomb. Reaffirming the “all debaters are lawyers” fable, Julia is in her second year of Arts Law and Anna is a Law graduate and 2006 Science Medalist. Debating the topic "That this house believes that economic growth is the solution to climate change”, the girls knocked out over 1,200 debaters from more than 30 countries. Three of the University of Sydney delegation were also named in the top 10 speakers in the world: Chris Croke, Jack Wright and Patrick Meagher. Throw together students from all corners of the world and you have one hell of a party! The International Students’ Party late last month was pumping, with an almost full house. Ben Jenkins entertained the crowd for the night, with his crazy comedy and games. Later, DJs Krank and Be-Bop took the spotlight and got everyone on their feet. Rose Khalilizadeh, the Hon. Secretary of USU said she was pleased with the turnout and the party had a “great vibe”. It was a truly exotic crowd, with many very new to Australia. One student, Tahrid from Bangladesh had been in the country only for 4 days. He said, “ It is relaxing to be here tonight after a busy day.” As night became morning, the Union would have been happy to see that the people were leaving the party beaming. Kate Leaver Ruchir Punjabi WHAT’S ON... MONDAY THURSDAY [ events ] [ events ] 5 - 9 March This year get on the dancefloor downstairs at the USP stage presented by 3D World with Ajax, Bang Gang DJs feat. Gus Da Hoodrat and Jaime Doom, Ben Morris, James Taylor and Tim Sea. Upstairs rock out at the Purple Sneakers stage with Midnight Juggernauts, The Mess Hall, The Mercy Arms and Soft Tigers plus Purple Sneakers DJs. 4-5pm Jolly Jugs $7.50 jugs of Tooheys New at Manning Bar Beachball is brought to you by your USU. TUESDAY Presale Tickets [ events ] Access Cardholders $10 + BF 2007 Access Cardholders FREE *conditions apply General Admission $15 + BF More on the Door *Did you get your free ticket at O-Week 07? Remember, a free ticket only guarantees you entry to Beachball before 8.30pm 1-2pm Theatresports® [ FREE ] Manning Bar, Level 2, Manning House Sponsored by [ C&S ] 12pm Women in Engineering 4-5pm 1-2pm Jolly Jugs Lunchtime Session - Pete Molinari $7.50 jugs of Tooheys New at Manning Bar [ FREE ] Manning Bar SUWIE Welcome Lunch. PNR Drawing Office, PNR Building. A great way to celebrate 'International Women's Day' and catch up with everyone after the holidays. [email protected] FRIDAY 4-5pm Jolly Jugs [ events ] $7.50 jugs of Tooheys New at Manning Bar 4-5pm Jolly Jugs WEDNESDAY $7.50 jugs of Tooheys New at Manning Bar [ events ] 1-2pm Trivia at Hermann’s [ FREE ] Hermann’s bar, Wentworth Building 4-5pm Jolly Jugs Free Listings for USU Clubs and Societies! $7.50 jugs of Tooheys New at Manning Bar 5-6pm Trivia at Manning [ FREE ] Manning Bar, Level 2, Manning House 5-6pm Trivia Happy Hour Prices Manning Bar, Level 2, Manning House 7pm - 2am Beachball Manning House 5-8pm Sunset Jazz [ FREE ] Hermann’s bar, Wentworth Building 5-7pm Beachball – the Sydney Uni party institution takes over Manning on March 8 featuring a massive line up of Bands and DJs across three levels and two stages. There is a dedicated space in every Bull to advertise meetings and events for USU registered Clubs and Societies being held that week. To submit your free listing for The Bull go to the USU website www.usuonline.com to complete and subit the Listing Request From located under the Clubs and Socs drop down bar. Sunset Jazz Happy Hour Prices Hermann’s bar, Wentworth Building PAGE 12 THE BULL Edition 01. 5 March 2007 Next Week... 2007 USP revolution kicks off next Thursday night! The University Social Party (USP) is Sydney Uni’s weekly student party. Join in the party revolution at your Manning Bar every Thursday night with your favourite DJs and bands entertaining you and your mates until the wee hours of the morning. Admission is free between 6-7pm for access cardholders and only $3 after 7pm (general admission - $6). Between 6-7pm is also Happy Hour! Get Involved Want to get involved in USU's arts, cultural affairs, community services, volunteering and activities planning? Come along to the Student Programs and Activities Committee (SPAC) meeting next week! It’s on next Wednesday 14th March, 5pm in the Reading Room, Holme Building. If debating is more your thing there is a Committee meeting next Thursday 15th March, 5pm Reading Room, Holme Building. www.myspace.com/unisocialparty USU Notices... University of Sydney Union Election of Directors to Board 2007 Nominations for the position of six elected Directors of The University of Sydney Union for the period of 2007 to 2009 will be received at The ACCESS Centre, Manning House from 9.00am Monday 5th March 2007 until 5.00pm Wednesday 4th April, 2007. Only USU members may nominate for Election. USU Membership is free and can be applied for at The ACCESS Centre, Manning House, or online at www.usuonline.com. If more than six nominations are received, an election will be held on Wednesday, 9th May 2007. Only official printed nomination forms, which are available from The ACCESS Centre, Manning House and online at www.usuonline.com will be accepted by the Returning Officer. Want $20 worth of free prepaid mobile phone calls, no strings attached? Simply join the USU, it's FREE. Joining is easy, just go to the ACCESS Centre in Manning House or join by filling out the form online. Go to www.usuonline.com and click on Membership. Everyone who joins up before March 31st will get $20 worth of prepaid mobile phone calls FREE with absolutely NO strings attached or contracts. So visit the ACCESS Centre, Level 1, Manning House, University of Sydney to get your free $20 SIM now! Only registered USU members can vote at USU elections. Make sure you have your say and VOTE at this years elections. Remember USU membership is FREE. Giveaways... The Great Escape Win at the Campus Stores! The Great Escape - Easter Long Weekend (Friday 6 April - Sunday 8 April) is Sydney’s only live-in Festival. Featuring Wolfmother, Gomez, Missy Higgins, Living End, Ben Kweller, John Butler Trio. The Lemon Heads and stacks of other bands - this one long weekend not to be missed. USU has three, three day camping passes to giveaway*. To win just email your name and phone number to [email protected] and tell us in 25 words or less why you want to check out The Great Escape. Competition closes 5pm Wednesday 14 March and winners will be notified by phone. Everyday this week you have the chance to win a New Nokia 1110i or $100 Savvytel call credits simply by purchasing a NEW SAVVYTEL $20.00 SIM CARD or topping up your existing Savvytel by purchasing a (minimum) $20.00 recharge voucher. Fill in your name, phone number & e-mail address on your receipt then place your receipt in the Entry Box at time of Purchase at either Footbridge Station or Wentworh Campus Stores. USU will announce & contact the daily winner within 24 hours of the draw by phone & E-mail. Proudly sponsored by Savvy Telecommunications & USU. Once drawn the judges decision is final. www.savvytel.com.au *Winners must be 2007 access cardholders. THE BULL Edition 01. 5 March 2007 PAGE 13 Rain of thought and grey To ring these puddles and bejewel the trees; from these clouds dull dimpled that sulk over soaken yellow sandstone washed in age that stands despite. Chilled air of slick shadow and lightening sky awakening pillar upon arch, lead squared eyes curtain-closed, the paring cross of all ends to one. Come, we must leave these navied corridors to their own watered reflection; and these stones to the ever-clapping of shoe and hope towards one end of all. Lucy Howard Taylor This section is permanently full of creative contributions. Send us your poems, photos and stories to [email protected] Level 2, Manning House, Manning Road, University of Sydney www.manningbar.com 1800 013 201 TUES 6 MAR SAT 10 MAR Pete Molinari TERROR LUNCHTIME SESSIONS (USA) + Her Nightmare + 50 Lions + No Apologies 1pm FREE Presale Tickets $20.50 +BF - Access cardholders $23 +BF - General Admission UP AND COMING… LUNCHTIME SESSIONS 1-2pm FREE - 3 Apr Joel Plaskett AFTER DARK - 9 Mar Transcending Mortality // 22 Mar Converge (USA) + 4 Dead + Hospital The Musical // 28 Mar Vince Neil (Motley Crue) // 7 Apr Bane (USA) // 13 April Carpathian // 16 April Obituary (USA) // 19 May Sick Of It All (USA) + Comeback Kid (USA) // 25 May Nile (USA) + Decapitated (Poland) Unless otherwise stated, tickets for all events are available from Access, Manning House, or www.moshtix.com.au Booking fee of $2.50 applies to all presale tickets. Presale tickets will always be cheaper than doorsales. For more information and tickets: www.manningbar.com – Moshtix outlets 9209 4612 www.moshtix.com.au and The Access Centre (Level 1, Manning House) 1800 013 201 ST O WH C I KS L E LA ST ! ® Now all Uni students can buy an Unwired Wireless Modem or Wireless Card* for only $49 when purchased directly from Co-op Bookshops. With our always on, fast internet plans starting from as little as $15.95 per month, and broadband plans from $29.95 per month, now’s the perfect time to switch to Unwired and experience wireless internet. Visit unwired.com.au or phone 1300 761 881 No need for a phone line • Broadband plans with no contract† *These are “as new” modems, which may have been used for testing or demonstration purposes, or may have been returned by customers who were outside our coverage area. The modems have been checked, tested, re-packed and are as good as new. The modem carries a 6 month warranty. Internet access anywhere within the Unwired coverage area. †Contract terms apply to Fast internet and Wireless Card plans only. Minimum contract cost $380.40 including modem. UNI02_SYD