Honi’s conversation with Pelican was an interesting change of pace to previous Spotlights. While sharing a desire to engage with their student community in a meaningful way, Pelican were hesitant to place their shortcomings on external factors. Instead they confessed a mission to cultivate student community as crucial to ever have a chance at combating the turbulence of student media.
Author: Sandra Kallarakkal
Honi enters the (soap)boxing ring and emerges relatively unscathed
With the Gaza solidarity encampment approaching its first week on the Quad lawns, student activists continue to demand for the severance of the University’s ties to Israeli universities and weapon manufacturers.
It was broadly noted that the campus security has been friendly, but that there is a feeling that the university will want them to be moved on by the end of the week. Questions loom over graduations which begin next Wednesday, and how that will affect the camp’s continuation.
Professor Manuel Graeber, a former neuropathology academic at the University of Sydney who was fired last November over allegations of “serious misconduct”, is suing the University in the Federal Court.
Entering Seymour Centre’s Reginald Theatre for the opening night of A Case for the Existence of God, we are greeted…
Countless hours of work go into ensuring the paper is ready. For many students who may be passionate about the paper, the required commitment turns many away from the editor role.
“Right now I’m at the beautiful spot where I just want to do everything. I’m open to everything and I’m open to learning. And every project is going to be different.”
In a joint statement through the Australian Tertiary Education Network on Disability (ATEND), ten advocacy and representative groups requested an “immediate retraction of ableist language used in the Accord and a recalculation of the target participation rate for people with disability to be inclusive of all people.”
Although the initiatives read well on paper, there is a lack of depth in the specifics of what these changes will involve and how they will be implemented.
