Features
2011
Breaking the ice
Wednesday, October 19 2011
It’s a balmy evening and the air is heavy, almost malleable as it laces through my fingers in the stifled breeze. I walk down a terrace-lined street to meet friends before nightfall; before the storm strikes.
A textbook case
Wednesday, October 19 2011
It is well known that students often struggle to make ends meet and young adults are tending to live with their parents until they are much older as a result of housing unaffordability and other economic pressures.
Grindr-in my way through life
Wednesday, October 19 2011
I sometimes play a game with myself when I’m bored on a train. Either the book that I’m reading is not the potboiler I hoped it to be, or I’ve forgotten my headphones for my pre-exam 1970s soft rock playlist. If this is the case this is when games become the only means to alleviate the tediousness of train-travel.
Dark history
Wednesday, October 19 2011
In 1925, a report of a meeting held by one of Melbourne University’s most highly regarded resident lecturers, Dr. Richard Berry, was published. Entitled “Born Idiots”, the article was laden with enthusiastic support for his research and ideas. Almost 80 years later, the name Richard Berry was almost removed from the Melbourne University mathematics building for the very same research he was once extolled. The often-closeted issue at the centre of Dr. Berry’s research is one that Dr. Ross Jones of the University of Sydney has spent years bringing to light; eugenics.
Throw a dog a...
Wednesday, October 19 2011
MOST CHILDREN’S BIRTHDAY parties are a vision of the apocalypse.
Cherish
Wednesday, October 19 2011
Spending a long weekend at my aunt’s place in the suburbs, I couldn’t help but feel a pang of sadness, grief and envy as I peered at their perfect family pictures behind the glossy photo frames that were hung up on the walls all over the house.
Karma is a bitch (except when it isn't)
Monday, September 5 2011
The first person to teach me about karma was also the one to shatter my hopes in it completely.
To Spray or Not to Spray? That is Congestion
Monday, September 5 2011
The world of drug addictions is not as rock and roll as you think. It’s hard. It hurts. You become an outcast. You battle yourself for every hit. You push away the people who try to help you and end up crawling on the floor of your littered bedroom searching for that last drop of glorious escape. No one understands why you take it, you barely understand why you take it, all you know is that it feels good, and nothing or no one is going to stop that feeling. This is the world I found myself in four years ago.
Ramadan Mubarak Y'all
Monday, September 5 2011
Ramadan is one of those words that everyone has heard at some point but not a lot of people know what it is or where it came from. A friend once asked me, when I told her I was completing Ramadan; “what is that like Kwanzaa for Muslims?” Um… sort of, kind of, but not really. Ramadan officially starts on the 1st of August and since it is something that is of significance to a reasonable portion of the student body I thought it would be a great time inform the rest of the student body exactly what it is. I would like to take this opportunity to write a plain language and non-preachy explanation for the purpose of enhancing your general knowledge and worldliness.
If you go out in the (Holly)woods today...
Monday, September 5 2011
Ellen Page likes the ladies, don’tcha know. In the end, it wasn’t the swagger or the smirk giving her away, but a Perez Hilton wannabe intent on declosetation*. Quelle surprise, we sigh, but the outing of public figures is a playground as murky as those in Fukushima primary schools.