Holding your own in this scene is already tricky enough, but coming into your 6th year of existence with a mission of creating a safe space for creatives to emerge and connect with each other
Browsing: Spotlight
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.
Welcome to the sixth instalment of Honi Soit’s student media spotlight — a series where we sit down with student publications around Australia to discuss the triumphs and tribulations of student media.
Like most universities, UOW has a student newspaper. Unlike most universities, its paper The Tertangala is older than the university itself.
As a former USyd student, Alexander sees their publication as a way to extend the folly, play of campus publications, and creative spaces beyond the institution’s walls and degree timespans.
The GW Hatchet is an independent, non-profit student newspaper that has been in circulation since 1904. A George Washington namesake (one of the founding fathers of the University), the paper is said to be inspired by a tale where Washington was chopping down a cherry tree with a hatchet.
Chatting with Woroni was a refreshing insight into a unique publication independent of usual student body theatrics but dependent on ensuring students have access to a creative platform that is financially, editorially and aesthetically theirs.
When asked what the magazine’s strongest appeal is, Rankin described a vision of an “open and accessible” space in which students from “any discipline can produce work they are proud of.
Farrago is the University of Melbourne’s student magazine, founded in 1925 by two students, Randal Haymanson and Brian Fitzpatrick.
