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Sydney Uni Cricket Club goes viral thanks to ‘juvenile’ meme
The Facebook page of the Sydney University Cricket Club has found immediate and international fame after accidentally referencing a sexual internet meme. The Club’s cover photo, uploaded in May, has...
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Honi Soit clickbait, Or: how depraved is our audience?
It’s the end of semester and everyone is busy eating and indulging in some self-reflexivity and introspection. In the meantime, enjoy the fruits of your labour, readers. Here’s some statistical...
View Article300 students protest SCA closure at USyd Senate meeting
Approximately 300 activists have physically clashed with police and campus security outside a meeting of the University of Sydney Senate, protesting the announced closure of the Sydney College of the...
View ArticleSydney University estimates 340 unreported sexual assaults a year, according...
An estimated 340 incidents of sexual assault, indecent assault, and acts of indecency have gone unreported at the University of Sydney every year for the past five years, a rate close to one every day,...
View ArticleFour arrested outside ABC as protesters demonstrate against Pauline Hanson’s...
At least four individuals have been arrested outside the ABC’s Ultimo studio, as activists protesting One Nation senator Pauline Hanson met with an anti-immigration counter-protest. The otherwise...
View Article‘Inhumane’: new special consideration system rejects students suffering...
A new system for special consideration which has rejected students with cancer and recently deceased parents has been described as “inhumane” by students and academics. The new system, which was...
View ArticleUSU Senate-appointed director steps down
July’s University of Sydney Union Board meeting is expected to see the resignation of Senate-appointed Director Simone Whetton, who has been a director of the USU since July 2013. According to USU...
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Accusations of stacking fly as SULC gears up for a factional showdown
Accusations of stacking, non-student sign-ups, a Facebook page allegedly appropriated by past-president Alex Dore, and a factional how to vote printed on the official club insignia have all formed part...
View ArticleUniversity of Sydney scraps plans to close SCA after student backlash
The University of Sydney has announced it is scrapping plans to close the Sydney College of the Arts following weeks of sustained protest from students and staff. In an email sent to students on...
View ArticleJames Gibson to be appointed to USU Board as Marco Avena resigns
USU Board director Marco Avena has resigned with immediate effect, meaning that James Gibson of Sydney Labor Students (SLS) will be promoted to Board. Avena, who was elected in 2015 and is a member...
View ArticleAn exchange of heart
Art by Frankie Hossack It begins the moment you share your host university’s acceptance letter on Facebook, accruing hundreds of likes and performing your call to adventure for all to see. Leading up...
View ArticlePass students awarded honours under proposed changes to engineering degrees
Proposed changes to engineering degrees at Sydney University would see students able to graduate from a four year Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) with pass marks, with the four year Bachelor of...
View ArticleLeaf us alone
“As living organisms, trees live, grow and die.” So reads part 2.4 of the Tree Management Procedures, a freely available Sydney University policy that governs, in 69 pages of excruciating detail, the...
View ArticleSemester 2: a flop in the making
Last week, Honi’s film writers and the general public alike were treated to the promo trailer for Semester 2, the University’s follow-up to its stylistically-ambitious but plotline-devoid Semester 1,...
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In the running
Exactly halfway between Sydney and Hawaii, nine islands rise from the surface of the Pacific – just – to make Tuvalu. With its highest point 4.6 metres above sea level, it’s one of the lowest-lying...
View ArticleThe dirt on Sydney’s public transport
Unfortunately, not all of us can be Luke Williams – USyd’s privileged answer to WSU’s Deng Adut – and so we must commute by bus and train rather than by Audi. As if dealing with overcrowding and...
View ArticleSydney Student portal to allow students to use preferred name
Sydney University students will soon be able to use their preferred names in the University’s online administration portal, Sydney Student. Until now, students have been unable to determine their first...
View ArticleThe Wilkinson Axis
Art by Ann Ding. It’s widely accepted that we have a fairly beautiful campus. The Charles Perkins Centre and the Law Building are new, glassy and impressive; Anderson Stuart is grand and old; and the...
View ArticleHow nice is the Quad?
Chinese tourists possess three essential qualities: they are cashed up, culturally barren and above all else, prone to bad behaviour. This is what apparently separates Chinese tourists from all the...
View ArticleDeciding to stay
I was walking back to my dormitory one summer night with my friend after finishing my first ten-bucks-an-hour shift serving tables in Huangjihuang, a Chinese hot pot restaurant in Chinatown. I was...
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