Close Menu
Honi Soit
    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram
    Trending
    • Henry VI: Episode One — The French Menace
    • Students and Academics testify on USyd campus for the People’s Inquiry into Campus Free Speech on Palestine
    • “No public accountability”: NTEU report slams culture of university governing bodies
    • Surge Session: Electricity in Tyne-James Organ’s ‘The Other Side’
    • Strawmanning in the chat at the July SRC Council
    • Folk Reimagined, East In Symphony at the Sydney Opera House
    • Graeme Turner’s ‘Broken’ assesses our ailing university sector
    • MAPW addresses USyd’s retreat from “obligation to promote peace” in open letter
    • About
    • Print Edition
    • Student Journalism Conference 2025
    • Writing Comp
    • Advertise
    • Locations
    • Contact
    Facebook Instagram X (Twitter) TikTok
    Honi SoitHoni Soit
    Sunday, July 20
    • News
    • Analysis
    • Culture
    • Opinion
    • University
    • Features
    • Perspective
    • Investigation
    • Reviews
    • Comedy
    • Student Journalism Conference 2025
    Honi Soit
    Home»Misc

    Reprint, reuse, recycle: week 4

    We delve into the basement of Fisher to find eclectic Honi articles from years gone by.
    By Malcolm TurnbullMarch 27, 2017 Misc 3 Mins Read
    Share
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email

    Reprint, Reuse, Recycle delves into the basement of Fisher to find eclectic Honi articles from years gone by. This article is from issue 27, 1974.

    ____

    Dear Sir,

    Since I nearly got elected editor I have given a great deal of thought to what role Honi should fill in a university like ours.

    Firstly should it be produced with the aim of being overwhelmingly popular? If so, itists and bums and vomit men are the order of the day. The taste of students en masse does not appear to be any less base than that of mass citizens. And one doesn’t need to have much knowledge of the rise and fall of newspapers to realise that the recipe for success is a very crude mixture indeed. The Pulitzers, the Hearsts and the Murdochs made their names and fortunes out of sex and sin…

    If one, however, has little feeling for the low tastes of many of our contemporaries, is it then better to attempt to educate, or uplift the students by producing a quality paper dealing with more serious matters without being “heavy” as Arena is and thus turning people off. The choice between the two can be characterised as the ‘73 smut and abuse Honi of those two outstanding businessmen, Peake and Kiely and the more enlightened and serious Honi this year of Margan and Grose.

    I certainly believe that Honi ‘75 should follow this year’s tradition, but should also follow the liberal policy of printing all shades of political opinion. Honi should never shut its doors to students opinions, no matter how unpleasant they may appear to the editors of the moment. For this years Honi to be improved on it will need more staff. The majority of people that roast Honi are neither willing, or if the truth be known, capable of doing anything to help it. Yet there are capable people that must be enlisted. Honi needs more feature writers so that the editors have more of a choice and thus a better paper.

    There is one thing however, the new editors will have to watch, the development of a clique that doesn’t encourage new ideas and thus turns in on itself, wallowing in its isolation and irrelevance to the students.

    I hope that these things can be accomplished, the new editors will certainly have the capability to do so, it remains to be seen whether they will have the will.

    So I wish the new team good luck for the new year’s toils and an even better Honi.

    Yours etc.

    Malcolm Turnbull.

    Turnbull letter

    Archives history Honi Soit malcolm turnbull regulars

    Keep Reading

    The Superstitions We Inherit

    Waving A White Flag

    STUDENTS DISCOVERED DIGGING UP SUNKEN LAWNS

    “Our love and softness venture”: Vic Zerbst and Jenna Owen shine in debut film, Nugget is Dead: A Christmas Story

    University of Wollongong announces potential “brutal” course cuts

    Written by the Victors

    Just In

    Henry VI: Episode One — The French Menace

    July 19, 2025

    Students and Academics testify on USyd campus for the People’s Inquiry into Campus Free Speech on Palestine

    July 17, 2025

    “No public accountability”: NTEU report slams culture of university governing bodies

    July 17, 2025

    Surge Session: Electricity in Tyne-James Organ’s ‘The Other Side’

    July 17, 2025
    Editor's Picks

    Part One: The Tale of the Corporate University

    May 28, 2025

    “Thank you Conspiracy!” says Capitalism, as it survives another day

    May 21, 2025

    A meditation on God and the impossible pursuit of answers

    May 14, 2025

    We Will Be Remembered As More Than Administrative Errors

    May 7, 2025
    Facebook Instagram X (Twitter) TikTok

    From the mines

    • News
    • Analysis
    • Higher Education
    • Culture
    • Features
    • Investigation
    • Comedy
    • Editorials
    • Letters
    • Misc

     

    • Opinion
    • Perspective
    • Profiles
    • Reviews
    • Science
    • Social
    • Sport
    • SRC Reports
    • Tech

    Admin

    • About
    • Editors
    • Send an Anonymous Tip
    • Write/Produce/Create For Us
    • Print Edition
    • Locations
    • Archive
    • Advertise in Honi Soit
    • Contact Us

    We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. The University of Sydney – where we write, publish and distribute Honi Soit – is on the sovereign land of these people. As students and journalists, we recognise our complicity in the ongoing colonisation of Indigenous land. In recognition of our privilege, we vow to not only include, but to prioritise and centre the experiences of Indigenous people, and to be reflective when we fail to be a counterpoint to the racism that plagues the mainstream media.

    © 2025 Honi Soit
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms
    • Accessibility

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.