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CONTENTS EDITORS

SOAPBOX

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LUCIEN ALPERSTEIN JAMES BOURNE CARLA EFSTRATIOU GEMMA KACZEREPA AVA NIRUI DANIEL PIOTROWSKI ANNA WATANABE JUSTIN WOLFERS

EDITORIAL James Bourne

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ART DIRECTOR MEGAN MANNING

CONTRIBUTORS Nina Betts Clare Cholerton Constantine Costi ANNIE EVERINGHAM Anika Jardine Louise Jaques Ellen Jenkinson Nicola Josey Jack Kerr Raymon Mainsbridge Courtney Rogers cameron whalan

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Trivial Disputes: Are Ducks Seafood?

Daniel Piotrowski and Carla Efstratiou

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Interview with Fiona Patten of the Australian Sex Party Anna Watanabe

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Five juicy things about Shakespeare Constantine Costi and Raymon Mainsbridge

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SHOWCASE

Louise Jaques, Ellen Jenkinson, Annie Everingham

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Featured Feature: Surviving the sleaze balls of Santiago Nina Betts and Anika Jardine

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Food: Cocktails from around the world Gemma Kaczerepa

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STEPHANIE KING FASHION: Bitchy Editors

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WITH THANKS TO

Carla Efstratiou

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Reviews Jack Kerr, Anna Watanabe, Justin Wolfers, Ava Nirui

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Feature Review: Italian Film Festival

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COVER IMAGE ANNIE EVERINGHAM

Courtney Rogers, Clare Cholerton, Nicola Josey, Justin Wolfers

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EDITORIAL JAMES BOURNE FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EDITORS ANNOUNCE VERTIGO ELECTION EDITION SPECIAL It is with great pleasure that the office of Vertigo releases this, the ninth and penultimate issue of Vertigo of the year. And not only is it better than those that have come before; it is, indeed, a Students Association Election Special Edition.

The release of said Election Edition Vertigo comes, particularly, in response to two demands that we, the Editors, simply cannot ignore any longer.

The first, naturally, is our readers’ overwhelming passion for elections and election coverage. It would not be outlandish* to say that the majority of our feedback this year has been from readers angry at our general lack of election-themed articles and UTS election coverage. While some may argue that there haven’t been any elections to cover, we at Vertigo accept these criticisms and provide the people with the pages of election material that they have wanted and will love.

The second is less important- we’re actually constitutionally obliged to publish the statements of candidates and election related information. But we would have published it anyway.

Take our word for it.

If those reading can drag themselves away from the pages of candidate statements and group preferences, they will find that that’s not all that this fine issue has waiting for its constituents.

We’ve also provided a brief, tenuously justified how-to guide to making it in Australian Politics. Want to know what it’s like to lead a Political Party? Then readers should be guided to Anna’s interview with leader of the Sex Party, Fiona Patten. And if one wants to gain an insight into adversarial policy matters of great** import, see Daniel and Carla’s fierily fought Trivial Dispute.

The Vertigo Team believe this Election Edition Special to be a thorough, targeted and compassionate magazine in line with the needs of our readers and our mandate as editors.

For further information, the editors can be contacted at submissions@utsvertigo.com. *It would be. **Not really, that’s the point. It’s actually about whether ducks are seafood. Perhaps one day this will be debated in the halls of Australian Parliament- maybe something about live seafood exports affecting international trade, and whether our nation’s booming seafood poultry industry should be included under some global trade convention on the rights of creatures of the sea. I’m sure Bob Katter would have something to say about it. For now though, this is matter is trivial, and should be treated as such.

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Trivial Disputes are ducks seafood?

Well, what is it if they’re not? Vertigo eds Carla Efstratiou and Daniel Piotrowski stick their beaks into a controversial issue.

FOR:

AGAINST:

Carla Efstratiou

Daniel Piotrowski

Ducks are seafood. You know why? Because they live in water.

Ducks are seafood? That’s complete quackery. Carla’s daffy argument has been abduckted by insanity.

The test for what is seafood and what isn’t is obvious. If ducks were seafood you’d be able to buy a battered breast fillet of Donald from your local seafood or fish ‘n’ chip shop. And hey!

You can’t.

That’s because most seafoods (oysters and flying fish notwithstanding) are seacreatures that have been harvested from underneath the surface of the ocean. For instance: fish, squid, sharks and whatever scallops are.

Meanwhile, ducks don’t live in the sea, something you’d think would be an important prerequisite for an animal to be labelled a “seafood” and belong in a “seafood” store. The natural habitat of the common duck is actually the pond. Ducks are therefore obviously pondfood.

Corporate advertising also informs us that ducklings grow up wrapped in the loving arms of plies of Kleenex toilet paper.

These tissues are dissolvable so there’s no way that ducklings could survive the rough and tumble of the high seas as seacreatures-turned-food do.

Instead, humans have established a complex network of duck infrastructure with duck crossings. These crossings help Old Mother Duck and her ducklings potter around the terrestrial world in safety from my Dad’s 4WD. We don’t have to do anything like that for most seafood now, do we?

For good reason. We value ducks more than any kind of seafood. In pop culture ducks are treated like no seafood would ever be. Donald Duck is a tough bird with a no-nonsense nature. When have you ever seen a long-running cartoon series about a piece of calamari? The Mighty Ducks never thought about calling themselves the Mighty Bream.

That’s because seafood are useless - “only dead fish go with the flow”, after all. Obviously ducks couldn’t possibly be seafood.

Oh! And I should probably point out ducks are poultry! (That’s probably an important point to make...).

Poultry are the forgotten meat type, taken for granted as chunks strung together on skewers and covered in a delicious soy marinade at BBQs around the country. Evidently Carla also forgot about the existence of the poultry food group when she put forward this trivial dispute.

Finally, duck is just not that great a meat to consume. You never hear about duckattoirs or see documentaries about the plight of the duck. That’s because duck is far inferior to chicken in flavour. That’s why you only ever see it on restaurant menus with odd food choices like dog.

Ducks never feature on seafood platters. You never dip duck in tartare sauce - it’s just not all it’s quacked up to be.

Just like Carla’s arguments.

Ocean, sea, water… whatever you call it, it’s the same liquid substance that people fish food from.

Now Daniel (who - may I add - is not Greek, unlike me, and therefore doesn’t even have the fish monger Mediterranean blood to back up his weak argument) will have you believe that only legitimate seafood lives under the water. Well no, that’s just not true. Let’s take, for instance, oysters, which are definitely eaten (for God knows what reason) and listed under that broad definition of “seafood” BUT are also often seen washed up on the rocks. Same goes for octopus. Let’s not forget the king of the ocean - sharks, with their fins often seen poking above the surface of the water, are hardly underground sea dwellers. Ducks shouldn’t be excluded from the umbrella of “seafood” because they’re highly adaptable creatures.

They can live harmoniously on both land and in water. Do we dare take the label of “bird” off ostrich just because it struggles to fly? No. Daniel’s fish and chip shop argument is as transparent as the greasy newspaper your fish is served in. You may not be able to purchase duck at your local fish and chip shop, but I will tell you, struggling uni student, that if you were to dine at a five star restaurant you will see that duck is offered in a seafood capacity.

Is that another pun I hear? Daniel, your arguments stink like fermenting fish fillets.

Lets not get into SEAmantics, seafood needs only two qualities to fit the category: edibility and water inhabiting. Tick and tick - ducks are seafood.

Duck you, Daniel.

Carla Efstratiou is a Vertigo editor and has been taken on many cringe worthy dates around duck ponds where her staunch views on ducks as seafood were born.

Daniel Piotrowski is a Vertigo editor and a man who cares about the proper classification of foods. He has been attacked by ducks on his morning jog far too many times.

NEXT EDITION: It’s a big deal: it’s our last ever Trivial Disputes for the year!

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INTERVIEW

FIONA PATTEN Anna Watanabe takes some sacred cows to the slaughter and talks sex, religion and politics with Sex Party leader and adult industry lobbyist, Fiona Patten.

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There are lots of issues occurring at the Federal and State level of politics that are heavily tied in with Sex Party policies: same sex marriage, R-rated games, things like that. Do you think there was a void in politics before the Sex Party came in?

I think it’s really interesting that a lot of the issues that we did raise in the campaign, both State and Federally, are being addressed. I’d love to take credit for that but I think it was us and a million other people who got those issues onto the agenda. But yeah, I think we’ve certainly had an effect there, and we’ve proved that there is a large sector of the electorate who thinks those issues are important.

Do you think having “sex” in the title puts off more middle-of-theroad voters? Maybe older voters, who still consider sex to be one of the “sacred cows”, but would privately not oppose same sex marriage and things like that?

I hope not! It’s funny, when we first started the party, it didn’t roll off my tongue either – it wasn’t the easiest thing to say to a taxi driver, you know, ‘I run the Sex Party!’ But I must say it’s a lot easier now and I find that especially with the media, the longer you say it and the longer we’re around, the less shocking our name becomes. But we are a small party with very little funding – as all small parties are – and the name enables us to stand out on the ballot. And, really, while the word “sex” is still considered such a novelty and is so divisive, that really justifies our being there.

Talking about “sex” being a divisive term, do you think the recent Craig Thomson debacle would have been handled differently had he not been allegedly using his Union credit card for adult services?

I think so. I don’t think it would have been nearly as big a story. Journalists have even rung me and asked, ‘Do you know who he paid the money to?’ and things like that - it’s pathetic!

Had he spent that money on having his house painted, it wouldn’t have made the media. This was about a misuse of money, it never should have been about sex workers, but obviously that’s what makes it an interesting story for the media and the opposition. And frankly, the opposition is in a glasshouse, so it shouldn’t be throwing stones. Uh, yeah, as we say, ‘the brothels are always busy when parliament’s sitting in Canberra!’

Moving on from the broader political situation, then. What made you decide to start the Sex Party? Surely being the CEO of Eros Association kept you busy enough as it is?

We were really frustrated with how governance was going – State and Federally. And that was at a professional, but also personal, level. It just seemed that government was trying to regulate every moment of our lives and I think the Internet Filter – again, professionally and personally – was the final straw. In hindsight it was probably a moment of madness, but now that we’ve become part of the process, I have to say, most days I love it.

As a lobbyist I was just getting so frustrated that whenever the Eros Association presented a logical argument or research, it was predominantly being ignored by politicians who were saying, ‘Well, I do kind of agree with everything you say but there’s a church down the road, I hold this seat by 7% and if I go with you then they may campaign against me and I may lose my seat.’

Well speaking of churches, there was that situation at the last election when a couple of church-located polling booths refused to hang posters for you and the Greens. What do you think that says about the relationship between church and state in this country?

I think it’s so disappointing. Politicians are so worried about keeping their jobs that many decisions are made based not on what the community thinks or believes is the right thing to do, but on what will keep them elected. And groups like the Christian Lobby still have considerable influence.

We have an atheist Prime Minister but she launched the Australian Christian Lobby’s website before the election! I think it’s something like 33% of politicians are members of the Parliamentary Christian Fellowship, which means that they attend prayer breakfasts every morning that parliament sits. That’s really disproportionate with most electorates they represent; at the last census [2006], I think it was something like 9% of Australians regularly went to church and I suspect that the box for ‘no religion’ will be ticked by a much greater number of Australians at this most recent census.

When the Slut Walks were happening earlier this year, you revealed that you had been sexually assaulted yourself but didn’t report it. How did you come to have such a liberal opinion towards sex even though such an experience may make others more guarded about the topic?

Yeah, I don’t know, I’ve never been asked that before. I’ve never equated the two. Sexual assault was, and still is, for me, about power and it had very little to do with my own sexuality or my own enjoyment of sex. The guy was a dickhead and I told this guy’s friends what he did and they kicked him out of the group. They were appalled by what he had done, so, for me, it turned out to be quite an empowering experience.

While I was far too scared to tell my parents or to report it, I told his friends and those guys were really pissed off with him.

It certainly made me aware that there are dickheads out there and with twenty odd years between that experience and now, I think had that guy had better sex education, if he’d learnt about relationships, he probably wouldn’t have thought that it was okay. I think that sexual violence, sometimes, is ignorance.

And while that doesn’t excuse any sexual violence whatsoever, I certainly think we need to educate our young people about relationships and about those issues. I think it would mean that young women, like myself in that situation, would report more of these cases. And hopefully men will do it less often.

Just finally, then, there was an article recently about an English schoolteacher who was also working as a stripper. Do you think young people should be hesitant about mixing adult industries with another more “professional” career?

No I don’t, and I do think that is changing. Certainly, the amount of personal information that we share these days on Facebook and Twitter and things is horrifying for people in their forties. But I think young people are much more relaxed about sex and sexuality. I would hope that now with prostitution and the sex industry legalised in our country for over 15 years, the discrimination attached to that industry is starting to dissipate. That case with the teacher is a fine example because he didn’t cower and walk away with his sweater over his head. He stood up and said ‘No, there’s nothing wrong with this and why can’t I be a stripper? What’s wrong with my body?’ And the fact that he stood up and said that was a real indication that the times are changing.

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Constantine Costi & Raymon Mainsbridge love Shakespeare and want you to jump on the trolley in a little something they like to call:

5 Juicy Things About Shakespeare

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1) Shakespeare wanted to be Christopher Marlowe Shakespeare struggled at first. When he started out as a playwright he tried to write like Christopher Marlowe.

Marlowe has an enigmatic reputation as a playwright. He was wildly debauched, is thought to have been a spy for Queen Elizabeth and was an infamous and confronting atheist. People were terrified not because he was so blasphemous, but because he was so compelling. Richard Baines wrote in 1593: “.... Into every company he cometh he persuades men to atheism.... a mouth so dangerous it must be stopped.”

And stopped he was. He was stabbed in the eyes by a con man and died instantly. He was 29 years old. His plays were controversial, thrilling and hugely popular.

After the murder Shakespeare took Marlowe and ran with it. (He didn’t literally run around with his corpse…or did he? ... no he didn’t). At the time of his death Marlowe was a more exciting playwright. You only have to compare Marlowe’s Jew Of Malta to The Merchant of Venice to see that Shakespeare began as playwright of emulation. But Shakespeare soon went beyond this. Marlowe sparked his development as a creator of complex and magnetically dangerous characters through innovative language.

Yet whilst Marlowe is a great caricaturist, Shakespeare’s characters are powered by a turbulent engine of furious psychological fire.

2) Only losers think Shakespeare didn’t write his own plays The film Anonymous is released this year. It claims Shakespeare didn’t write his own plays. The director, Roland Emmerich is no stranger to crazy historical theories. According to his film 10000 BC mammoths built the pyramids. And look, he can make crazy his movies.

Go ahead Roland. Make a movie saying the Taj Mahal was the handy work of pheasants. Abe Lincoln was an octopus, why not?

The problem with Anonymous is it will have an impact on popular opinion and undermine Shakespeare’s genius based on silly crumbs of evidence. These crumby queries include (imagine a whiny voice saying these): How could Shakespeare, who grew up in the country, have written these magnificent works?

The idea he wasn’t a nobleman and therefore not a genius is absurd and offensive. His plays plausibly reflect his education. Plus, his plays were evidently not by a nobleman due to the unique pastoral fidelity found in plays like As You Like It and The Winter’s Tale.

All of Shakespeare’s signatures are a bit different, hmmmmm?

So what! We only have six. One was written on a ribbon, the other on wax so of course they are weird. We don’t know what circumstances they were written in either.

Actually, what is most unusual is that so many details are known about Shakespeare’s life. Marlowe remains an enigma. Webster was incredibly popular but for 15 years we have no idea where he was. Helping out on the Taj Mahal with pheasants and boogie boarding with Octo-Lincoln? Probably. To keep denying Shakespeare means you ignore a wealth of evidence and it makes you a conspiracy theorist.

3) Shakespeare loved freaks The Fools in Shakespeare are often played by desperate actors trying to be funny clowns. However, the history behind Shakespeare’s understanding of the Fool is far more interesting.

In Shakespeare’s time many high society households kept dwarfs and physically and mentally deformed people

as pets. This seems disgraceful, but in the house of a king or lord they were treated well and even regarded with respect and awe. They were seen as holy beings uttering wisdom from nature. They were able to express treasonous opinions and observations without being killed.

Shakespeare combines this history with minstrel traditions to create his Fools. They are human beings and observers with dramatic insights that cut through to the core of those around them. In the Twelfth Night, Feste the jester is called, “wise enough to play the fool.” Or take the Fool in King Lear. The harsh truths he launches on the King are sharp and devastating.

4) Ray went to Melbourne to see Hamlet and was upset This should have been momentous. I waited tensely for months for whispers of a spare ticket, and finally securing one, hauled myself down to Melbourne on a 6:30 AM flight. At last, sitting at the MTC giddy with expectation.

These feelings were destroyed almost immediately.

The moment that buried me came early. As Claudius delivered his eloquent speech at his own wedding party, the gorgeous ironies of Shakespeare’s verse were silenced by the ringing of a mobile phone, which sounded from an actor, ON STAGE. The production wrenched the play into the present day in a manner that smothered the poetry. The actors passed over the language as if they were ashamed.

The implication of this treatment is that Shakespeare’s language is a hindrance and not a help.

The production assumed the audience could only handle Shakespeare if he were made relatable and characters were reduced to recognisable types. For example Laertes became some goofy student with a leather jacket and an Israeli scarf.

The ironic tragedy of this production was that in devoting all their energy to making Shakespeare ‘fresh’ and comprehensible to a contemporary audience, they made his work about a tenth as intelligible as the mustiest recitation from an aged English professor.

5) He’s so relevant Our lives are saturated with lies about what human beings are supposed to be. We’ve all been categorised and advertised into neatly defined boxes. Reduction of human beings to a type is one of the worst things about our culture today. Shakespeare cuts through this. His characters burst with love and violence and greed and piety – often all mixed in together in the one person.

Shakespeare’s worlds and characters are contradictions, flawed entities that cannot be articulated broadly. No character is just one thing. They are impossible to reduce to a sentence or adjective. This is a perfect representation of humanity.

When Shakespeare died his friend Ben Johnson wrote: “He was not for an age but for all time.”

Constantine Costi is directing The Merchant of Venice at the Genesian Theatre in February 2012.

Auditions start in November. If interested contact him at concosti@hotmail.com

SHOWCASING ANNIE EVERINGHAM

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SHOWCASING Louise Jaques Illustration by Ellen Jenkinson Following you to the house of ghosts and skeletons, There was that one moment, Where the light seemed fractal And your skinny limbs were bathed in gold from pale streetlamps, When all you can do is follow the dance of dewdrops scurrying down the windscreen.

As we drove further into the night, The rain fell in inky splodges on the glass.

Insects crawling over your dry arms in chaos, The air was diamond hard, and we were as silent as bones.

You replay the moment in your head, over and over, And wait patiently for the return of yesterday’s innocence.

Heartbreak punctured with enough joy to fuel you forever forward.

Flirt wildly with that fellow in a beanie; The ice was flaky in his three day beard.

He promised you the world and that old armchair over there And the rain fell with a resolute, devastating certainty.

Now, if you look close enough, I mean really close, Close enough so that you’re staring the shithead right through to the scrapings of his washed out soul, Notice how the fluorescent glow of bug-catchers on summer eves Is the same as the light that casts no shadows in supermarket aisles, Where transcendence is auctioned off for a discount, Where sanctity is poisoned with venomous chit-chat, Where sarcasm hoists ritualistic lovemaking limp and bloodless over the frozen meat section.

Natural then, that tiles should crack beneath well worn shoes, And pages will fall out of well thumbed books.

Soon music will be explosives, nothing more.

The Worthless Artist, The Festering Intellect, Ruined by Jack Daniels and lust and the fucking welfare state.

What do you care?

All you can think about is that kiss that unravelled the coils of your spinal cord and shook you to the core, Like madmen screeching on street corners.

You trembled as you held your flowering breaths, You bled Van Goghs of your lovers; You blinked out scented rain drops And caught them in sea shells, You smelled citrus grass clippings And punched them in the mouth, You scooped out your throat with a blunt spoon To fight your crippling timidity, Your long hair was eaten by the wind.

You ran with legs that went on for a hundred years, (The ground melts like warm butter) And you swept up the fallen pages, Guzzling them as though they were liquid, Quenching that raw thirst, That metallic pit in your gut, The one that burst through your chest and tore you from saturated dreams.

Your ferocious eyes.

Your buck toothed smile.

Your broken perfection.

Trapped in tears.

Don’t cry, I’ll keep driving you to morning, but, it seems, we have taken a wrong turn.

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FOOD

Gemma Kaczerepa

Around the World in Six Cocktails

We’re a multicultural bunch here at UTS and the party season has officially begun, so for no reason at all, we thought we’d combine the two. Get the alcohol flowing and your juices going with these downright delectable, culturally inspired cocktails.

Cheers! Sante! Salud!

Europe Atlantique

North America 7-Up Beer

South America Brazilian Monk

50ml vodka 20ml lemon juice 20ml Chambord 10ml peach schnapps Ice cubes Peach wedges, to serve

60ml beer (chilled) 360ml 7-Up (chilled)

30ml Kahlua 15ml Frangelico 15ml brown crème de cacao 2 scoops vanilla ice cream

Pour both into a chilled beer glass and serve.

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, and garnish with a peach wedge. Serve.

Shake all ingredients and pour into a wine glass. Serve.

Asia Saketini

Africa Zulu Warrior

Australia Kings Cross Nut

30ml gin 10ml sake ice cubes

30ml Midori 30ml strawberry liqueur 30ml lemon juice ice cubes strawberries, to serve honeydew melon, to serve

1 coconut 60ml cognac 30ml Tia Maria ice nutmeg, to serve

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

Garnish with an olive and serve.

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Blend all ingredients including the fruits with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Garnish with a melon wedge and a strawberry and serve.

Cut top of coconut and reserve the water. Place half of the water with ice, cognac and Tia Maria in a shaker. Shake and strain into the coconut. Sprinkle with nutmeg and serve with straws.

Carla Efstratiou

BITCHY EDITORS

FASHION

So you want to work in the fashion industry? Think it’s all after-parties, glitz and glamour? Poor, naïve, small children. Carla Efstratiou gives you four reasons why you will probably quit the industry before even beginning.

Diana Vreeland The ultimate high priestess of fashion, Diana Vreeland whored herself out to both fashion bibles - Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar over her stupidly long career. Over her half a century working in the fashion industry, she broke the souls of countless young interns with her well-publicised hatred of 1940s trends: ‘strappy high heel shoes’ (who could blame her?) and crepe de chine dresses.

Anna Wintour Queen bitch of the lot, the editor of US Vogue has singlehandedly made and broken some of the brightest young stars of the fashion industry. She’s pissed off PETA by embracing fur, forced staff members to dress perfectly in her presence and is ice cold, unapproachable, intimidating, demanding and elitist. She’s a complete and utter bitch and everyone knows it, but, there’s no point denying it, she’s also fucking brilliant at what she does.

Amy Astley You may remember her as the bitch that petrified Lauren and Whitney on season one of The Hills. Amy Astley is the editor of Teen Vogue and resembles that bitchy snob at school who thinks she’s all that…but really isn’t. Fine, she’s a pretty good editor, I guess.

She did oversee the launch of the magazine, its slew of awards and impressive start up circulation figures of almost one million, but still, Amy, you edit a magazine for 12-year-olds. Drop the attitude.

Jackie Frank Keeping it close to home, Frank edits the Australian version of Marie Claire. I have heard on the magazine grapevine that she is an absolute terror of an editor. A demanding elitist and all round Dragon Lady trying to impersonate Anna Wintour. It doesn’t really work in a nation that doesn’t treat fashion magazines as bibles.

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My Middle Name Might Be Germaine But I Still Like It When You Give Me A Good Up-And-Down-and-All-Over Anika Jardine & Nina Betts

They say that South America is a vibrant and colourful place, but that can have undesirable consequences if you’re a pretty girl who likes dresses. When Anika Jardine and Nina Betts packed up their bags and took off for a year of exchange in Chile, they found that against their feminist impulses, certain adjustments were necessary in the way they presented themselves, if they were going to survive the sleaze-balls of Santiago.

I have a confession to make. I’m a chauvinistic feminist.

Three years of happily churning out essays about the gender inequality inherent in everything from third world development policy to indie guitar rock bands of the 1980s have been quashed by a few months of exchange.

It all began so innocently, as I took the advice of the UTS ‘Preparing for Culture Shock’ seminar. Against my better judgment, I tried not to dismiss Chileans as backwardsthinking conservative Catholics who won’t sell you tampons without a wedding ring. I’d prepared myself to be objectified and heckled at on a daily basis by passing men driven wild by the sight of a woman wearing a dress instead of a pair of diamante-butterfly-embellished bootcut acidwash booty jeans.

I wasn’t always like this. I distinctly remember being told by our in-country study co-ordinator about the “poetry” of seedy comments and shuddering in disgust. Noticing our wrinkled up faces, she warned us against judging Chile by our own cultural standards. So, as I walked through Santiago without a male escort for the first time, past a building site to a chorus of wolf whistles and jumbled Spanish, I tried to tell myself I was experiencing an expression of romance, passion and sexual desire – rather than the unexotic hecklings of sleazy construction workers, as I would have done at home.

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After a few weeks, leaving the house in my most dowdy outfit, with no makeup and unwashed hair, a few cheeky comments from the men at my local market no longer made me balk in disgust. In fact, it made me feel... good. I looked like crap, but no, I wasn’t, I was beautiful and sexy and young and vibrant. God, I wondered, what’s going to happen when I get back to Australia and no one’s there to validate my sexual desirability every time I leave the house?

I had already strayed far from my path of righteous feminist judgement, but all was not lost. Thank God for lipstick feminism! If I can say goodbye to body hair and wear a push up bra and still be a feminist, then surely I’m allowed to enjoy being complimented, I justified. I’m being empowered, man! These men are simply expressing appreciation for the female form.

Walking along the street with a friend a few weeks later, I came to realise the danger of my new ideas. My friend is a gorgeous, tall blonde with blue eyes, and as such she’s used to getting a fair amount of attention. So, when we noticed the group of men walking towards us we glanced away and prepared ourselves for an onslaught... but it never came. The men walked past silently, and as we crossed paths one of them innocently bent down to tie his shoelace. I glanced back, confused by the lack of kissy

sounds, and to my horror I realised that the shoe tying had been a ruse, and that as she walked past he had lay down to look up her dress.

It gets worse. As I recounted this story to another friend, I heard myself saying ‘It’s so gross, but you know, she really shouldn’t wear that dress here, it’s just inappropriate’.

As soon as these words had come out of my mouth, I regretted them. What was I saying? I was trying to be culturally sensitive, but next thing you know I’d be having tea with the Sheik and comparing my friend to cat food.

From this day on I have given up on cultural sensitivity and any heckles are met with a stern look (unless of course they’re accompanied by discounts on my groceries). * So what happens when a young lass decides to leave her house wearing anything other than jeans? It’s as though jeans are an invisibility cloak, and skirts, dresses, gym gear etc. are like stumbling around Westfield’s covered in blood and shouting “NOW WHO’S LAUGHING?!”. [ed.

What Nina is trying to say is that this kind of attire beckons attention.]

So to any of you girls, or passable cross-dressin’ dudes heading on exchange next year: BE AWARE OF WHAT YOU WEAR. Apparently we missed the memo but if you wear anything bearing the slightest bit of skin (arms included), be alert but not alarmed. You may become victim to any of the following, listed in order of popularity amongst the punters:

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#1 Staring/leering. (I felt obliged to include this, although it’s unoriginal and dull, due to frequency of occurrence.) In Australia, this is legally regarded as sexual harassment. Here in Chile, this variety of appreciation is favoured by police officers and other officials. #2 Kissy noises. Usually these come from a moving vehicle or from somewhere behind you in a crowded place, because eye contact would be awkward. #3 Getting called ‘Rica’. Though it sounds somewhat inoffensive to the non-Spanish speaker, ‘Rica’ translates as ‘Delicious’. Now imagine a greasy young man wearing too much Nike and a belt made of titanium suggesting he would like to eat you as you walk past him on the footpath - not so nice. #4 Hissing/animal noises. The Big Cat family is popular.

I believe this is their equivalent to ‘wolf-whistling’. For instance, you might be walking past an 80%-closed rollerdoor, when suddenly from the darkness, you hear the unmistakable ‘ssssssssss’, jump and look like an idiot. How did he see you? Why was he sitting in the dark, surrounded by large cartons of eggs? These are cultural intricacies yet to be unravelled. #5 Random English words/phrases. This can be amusing.

Poor English somewhat negates creepiness. Usually said

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in a jovial tone, men will shout things like ‘Hey LADY’ or ‘I love you!’ or, oddly, just the word ‘Price!’. They also like to list English-speaking countries to you in an enthusiastic, haphazard order, and say the word ‘Kangaru’. #6 Obscure Shakespearian-like comments in Spanish.

Otherwise known as ‘piropos’, this is an element that distinguishes heckling in the Latino world, and can add a touch of class (if the recipient can understand it). Examples include; ‘You look like a fresh glass of milk I would like to drink’. This can backfire though, when you try and give him directions to the nearest supermarket. #7 Simultaneous applause/bowing. This is very unusual, but it has happened. Specifically if you’re blonde, and/or happen to be in a fish market. I don’t know why, but it’s the perfect storm. #8 Getting followed/arse-grabbing/things that go too far.

On the plus side, there are a lot of police in Santiago too.

To avoid the above, I can recommend a flawless disguise.

Flared blue jeans, with as much embellishment/acid wash as you can handle, worn with a colourful top espousing some kind of fictional sporting department. Add North Face fleeces, and relax in your new animal-noise-free environment.

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REVIEWS MUSIC

AVA NIRUI

WILEY 100% PRODUCTION Pioneer of the thriving British grime scene, Wiley, made an impression back in 2008 with the release of his fifth studio album See Clear Enough, which was lyrically audacious as it was commercially successful. Although dense in mainstream influences, the album was dynamic, sharp and memorable, with club hits ‘Wearing My Rolex’ and ‘Cash In My Pocket’ topping international music charts. Sadly, 3 years on, Wiley’s kitsch brand of jungle hip-hop has become exhausted, evident in his crass brand new instalment 100% Publishing, where he attempts to channel and experiment with an authentic 20th Century British hip-hop sound. The record can be equated to a dub-house audio dystopia; rife with sloppy vocals, two dimensional lyrics, generic instrumentals and low production value. This poorly executed re-imagination of the late 90’s UK dub-grime scene is filled with the cringe-worthy overuse of heavy bass, synth overtures and token old school hip hop ‘hand-claps’, resulting in a rich manufactured sound and a confused aesthetic. The static progression of every track on 100% Production fuels its mediocrity and ultimately tedious nature.

The record opens with the forgettable Information Age, which is infused with pseudo-intellectual lyrics paralleled by a capriciously erratic beat. The forced and banal vocals in the verses boast insultingly thoughtless lyrics, reminiscent of technical facts recited from a Wikipedia page. This template style manufactured grime sensibility is carried through the record into track Numbers in Action where Wiley’s selfaggrandizing verses are layered with intermittent electronic percussion, hand claps and repetitive synth melodies.

Similarly Pink Lady sounds like a small child mashing a Roland keyboard against a pre-set electronic beat, producing an amateur sound which is ironically untrue to Wiley’s musical roots. This record proves that artists need to stay current and relevant if they want to maintain an audience. 100% Production shows that returning to your roots can be the most significant musical faux-pas of your career.

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ART

JUSTIN WOLFERS

White Rabbit Gallery: Beyond The Frame Thurs-Sun 10am-6pm Here is the new White Rabbit exhibition, piece by piece.

Phwarrrrrrr, the ocean, at peace, and endless / majestic / kitsch / dark / endearing / sticky / playful / meditative / beautiful / noble / bright / gloomy / modern / sexy / gorgeous / plaintive / kitsch / kitsch / hilariously evil / Dong Yuan’s Daily Screens [pictured] stops you in your tracks. The artist has painted 42 canvases from his apartment building, one from each of his fellow residents’ windows, and made it seem effortless. And while the annotating plaque reads of Yuan finding beauty in the mundane, it feels as though this beauty is visible, true, and unquestioned. It’s a pleasure to gaze at.

Upstairs we go.

Awesome / horrific / amazing / Lu Zhengyuan’s Mental Patients stop me again, and haunt me; with tired and desperate fibreglass sculptures, embodying the “greyness of neglect” of the subjects in the mental hospital the artist used to visit. The works are sculpted from memory, and are unsettlingly alive.

Very sultry and semi-gratuitous, but inviting / Photos by Lu Nan of Myanmar Prison Camp that you can’t help but to linger on; he took thousands of pictures and chose these few - each one capturing a liveliness that overrides the dreary context they were taken in.

Amusing / absurd and excellent / magical / mesmerising / peaceful, something to hang above my work desk / incredible / a bit simple, but hey, that’s just one.

That’s all of them. There’s a great deal of variation in medium and subject and intent within these works. Enough, I would say, to please every viewer on some level.

White Rabbit is known for presenting works that match any conceptual ambition with the impressive technical skill and draughtsmanship to back it up. It’s conceptually engaging, but if you have no desire for that kind of analysis, you can still guffaw at the work that went into it. The works have that touch of class to them that most contemporary galleries fail to match. And although Beyond The Frame isn’t as visceral and affecting as White Rabbit’s last collection, I still found myself immersed and amused and impressed.

THEATRE

Anna Watanabe

OKTOBERFEST

Jack Kerr

Loot Sydney Theatre Company, Until 23rd October

Oktoberfest: Bavarian Bier Cafe 24 York Street, CBD

If plays were chocolate bars, I’d say the Sydney Theatre Company’s Loot would be a Mars bar: with all that airy nougat in there, instead of some extra nuts, Loot/the Mars bar is good but it doesn’t “really satisfy”, unlike its Snickers cousin. Not that the script for this clever comedy isn’t well written. The dialogue of Loot has the dry wit that’s reminiscent of (but perhaps not as intelligent as) older British playwrights like Wilde and Shaw, and the play remains thematically simple enough to be enjoyed by all: three characters want to get away with robbery.

But the pantomime of hiding your mother’s corpse around the family living room, before, during and after an ill-fated funeral, to conceal stolen cash in her coffin is only met with a good nose-laugh: the kind of where half a lung-full of air escapes through your nose with the odd “ha” here and there.

It was the actor’s performances that failed to lift the show from “pretty good” to “great”. The ridiculousness of the story demanded bigger action, broader caricatures; there weren’t enough nuts! Belly trembling laughter was mainly reserved for the crazy antics of Truscott (Darren Gilshenan), the overly cynical detective who questions everything, thereby letting the everyone get away with everything before his eyes. Gilshenan was the only actor to really step up to the mark and embrace the absurd script while performances by the rest of the cast still kept one foot in reality. Maybe this was a directorial decision that Richard Cottrell took to make a political statement. Maybe I’m reading too much into sloppy acting. Who knows!

Joe Orton’s Loot turns society on its head and explores issues of police and religious corruption and ineptitude; themes that were a little too outrageous for it’s initial audience when it was first performed in 1965. But the play’s delicious chocolate coating of absurdity and saucy misconduct keeps the play light and funny, a nice balance to the more serious shows running at the STC at the moment.

A big kudos must also be given to fight director, Kyle Rowling.

It’s always hard to make fisty-cuffs look believable on stage, but the choreography of the police brutality practiced upon Hal (Robin Goldsworthy), son of the deceased, is violent enough to pull a subconscious “oh!” from your throat while a Hopoateesque digital penetration brings the whole scene back into the world of comedy.

So if you’re after a treat this month don’t be afraid to reach for that Mars bar – it’s still pretty good after all! But if you’re hungry for more when it’s all finished, don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Having spent last year’s Oktoberfest in Munich, I was halfhearted to say the least about spending this year’s festival in Sydney. Nonetheless, a beer festival is a bier festival, wherever it is, so I decided to venture to the Bavarian capital of York St and see how they would go about mending my post-European depression - caused by a severe lack of bratwurst, beer, boobs, bier and maybe just a little more beer. And the Bavarian Bier Cafe proved to definitely be the stereotype we all love about the German’s - big bier, big meals, and certainly big ‘personalities’, all mouth-watering and ready to enjoy.

The bar is roofed over by hundreds of Beer Maß or, as us Aussies incorrectly call them, ‘steins’ and the Oktoberfest decorations are up. Filled with traditional long German style picnic tables the place is ready to receive the stamping feet of partying customers singing loudly along to Country Road.

At least that’s the idea. The place is in fact a little more toned down than that. The beer is good though. That’s one thing the Germans do well. I’d recommend the Paulaner Pilsner, just make sure they don’t undersell you with too much head.

Oh, and be prepared to fork out. The one litre beers will cost you in excess of $20 and the mains push $30. However there is a little diversity to the meals, with some cheaper Oktoberfest specials, which change each week. And if the food seems to lack a little in flavour, it certainly makes up for in size – the Wiener schnitzel will have you wobbling your way out the door - or was that the bier?

Also, if you want to save some cash on the food, just do as the Germans....they recommend the 6-1 ratio. Six beers, that’s the standard 330ml size, equals one schnitzel. Either way, if you’re just keen to get into the Oktoberfest spirit it’s definitely worth a couple of after-anything beers. It’s not Munich, but after your third maß, you’ll think you’re there

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Welcome to the South (Benvenuti al Sud)

House by the Medlar Tree (Malavoglia)

words: NICOLA JOSEY

words:justin wolfers

Based on the French film Welcome to the Sticks (2008), this charming Italian film was a perfect choice for the opening night of this year’s festival. If you don’t fall in love with the characters, you will definitely fall in love with the stunning scenery.

Welcome to the South is the story of Alberto Colombo (Claudio Bisio) a post office manager from the North. In a desperate attempt to be transferred to Milan, Colombo gaffs his way through the selection process and winds up being transferred to the infamous South. Despite initial misgivings, Mr Colombo begins to appreciate the delights of Southern living and before long he falls in love with his new surroundings and his new friends.

This is a lovable film, full of slapstick comedy and heart warming lessons of friendship and human kindness. It may not be the most original piece of cinema out there but it will definitely bring a smile to your dial.

In rural Sicily, a family of fisherman struggle to keep their lives afloat as their traditional lifestyle is tugged and pulled at by the reality of the 21st century. Young ‘Ntoni (Antonio Curcia) forms the central interest for the audience, with his ambitions that extend far beyond the family boat - his scenes accompanied by dance grooves that affirm his definite modernness.

‘Ntoni and his sisters’ interrupted lives, stuck between the sea and the city, prove engaging but seem to be left wanting by the inconsistent aesthetic director Pasquale Scimeca has chosen.

The camera-work shifts between handheld graininess, surreal gorgeousness, and slick professionalism, almost in a pastiche fashion - which instead of emphasising the contrast between the generations, as Scimeca seems to have intended, distracts from the story. House By The Medlar Tree is attractive at times cinematically, engaging mostly through the characters - and though slightly incoherent in its ambitions, still proves enjoyable.

Dark Love (L’amore Buio)

Corpo Celeste

words:Courtney Rogers

words: Clare Cholerton

On one drug and alcohol fueled night, working-class Ciro (Gabriele Agrio) and his friends rape Irene (Irene De Angelis), a wealthy teenager. He is sent to a boys’ prison where he begins to write letters to Irene as a way of coming to terms with his crime. And she writes back.

This film isn’t about rape, but its aftermath, and hence Director Antonio Capuano denies us the viewing of the rape or any mention of it in the dialogue. If it weren’t for the odd pacing, the overexposure and blurring cinematic techniques, and the missing subtitles when the main characters were writing their letters, this decision by Capuano may have been successful. However, you are just not given enough in order to accept the character’s trials and tribulations, and their eventual recoveries. Agrio and De Angelis’ performances are impressive and the shots of Naples are stunning, but by the end of the film it was disjointed, and I was bored, just wishing it would end. Was this Capuano’s intention all along?

Marta: Italian, 13, Catholic, is at a crossroads. A crossroads of faith and burgeoning womanhood, and she finds herself confronted and confused by both. Corpo Celeste is a bleak portrait of modern Italy’s crisis of faith with a liberal sprinkling of Bildungsroman, and is best suited to those with a strong stomach for Euro-art cinema and an intimate knowledge of Southern Italy.

Director, Alice Rohrwacher, leads us through Marta’s trials and absolutions as a Catholic in an increasingly secular world with shaky handheld camerawork and a visual treatment so grainy you would swear you were watching a Betamax. The portrayal of conflict and interpersonal relationships in the films is tender and realistic, and you really feel for Marta as she wrestles with the place of religion in her adolescent individuation, but it is definitely a snapshot piece and as such can feel a tad directionless at times.

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UTS Students’ Association 2011 Elections The Dummies’ Guide to who you can vote for when exercising your uni-bound democratic rights Returning Officer’s report on the ballot draw following the close of nominations at 2pm, 26 September 2011 President: Debbie Tran Jason Ray Jade Tyrrell

Broadway Campus Convenor: Mursheda Islam, Brooke El-Azzi, Kasania Dmitrieff

Secretary: Rochelle Widdowson Chris Gall Alexander Briggs

Broadway Campus Secretary: Jason Ray, (elected unopposed)

Treasurer: Alex Cullen Jasper Pool Daniella Vieira Postgraduate Officer: Kate Alway Victor Yang Women’s Officer: Sarah Henderson (elected unopposed) Overseas Students’ Officer: Antriksh Raje Sunil Shah Australian Indigenous Officer: Amala Groom Alison Whittaker

Broadway Campus Women’s Officer: No nominations received Broadway Campus Committee (10 to be elected) Grassroots: Adrien Vaccarella, Birsen Kocak, Harley Lewington Markets Campus Convenor: Stephanie Nehme, Christopher Jones Markets Campus Secretary: Victor Yang Chris Gall Markets Campus Women’s Officer: Danielle Vieira (elected unopposed) Markets Campus Committee: (10 to be elected) Grassroots: Catherine Moore, Tiffany Lasschuit, Anna Conigrave, Sally Ok, Jannis Yuen, Kirrily Buckett, Irene Choong, Maree Selvaraj, Elaine Cheng

SRC (10 to be elected): Grassroots: Jason Ray, Kate Alway, Chris Gall, Kasania Dmitrieff, Jasper Pool, Michael Truong, Anthony Mai, Rashmi Chary, Jess Worland, Veronica Heuzenroeder

Benjamin Turner

Fresh: Alex Briggs, Debbie Tran, John Marcus, Joseph Saad, Alex Cullen, Stephanie Nehme, Ben Turner

Kuring-gai Campus Convenor: Leana Vicky Djajadi

Elevate: Lyndal Butler, Joe McKenzie, Kate Samardzic, Rebecca Pascoe, Leticia Centrone, Mustafa Agha, Bonita Silva, Tim Roylett, Amelia Kondilios, James Morgan

Elevate: Jade Tyrrell, Bonita Silva, Amelia Kondilios, Mustafa Agha, Sophie Jeliba, Antriksh Raje

Kuring-gai Campus Secretary: Jaslene Chew Kuring-gai Campus Women’s Officer: Deborah Scheuer

NUS (7 positions to be elected): Elevate: Neha Madhok, Jade Tyrrell, Lyndal Butler, Amelia Kondilios, Danielle Vieira, Bonita Silva, Rochelle Widdowson

Kuring-gai Campus Committee (10 to be elected) No nominations received

Grassroots: Jason Ray, Kate Alway, Jasper Pool, Chris Gall, Harley Lewington, Leona Vicky Djajadi, Anthony Mai

The above nominations were received today and will be checked against the student roll.

Fresh: James Fox, William Wood, Eliza Berlage, Amber Setchell, Michael Buckland

Christine Kibble Returning Officer 2011 26 September 2011

Vertigo: Spinners: Martha Azzi, Mariam Chehab, Jessica Iooi, Lisa Diego, Jezelle Boughaleb, Azal Khan

PRESIDENT Debbie Tran No statement submitted

Jason Ray Hey everybody, my name’s Jason Ray and I’m running for president of the Students’ Association with the Grassroots team. I believe that the Students’ Association has amazing potential. I say this because I’ve spoken with people who were part of the students association when it was this inspiring and buzzing place where people could come and discuss student equity issues as well as ideas and hopes for a better university and student life.

Close your eyes and think hard about what your ideal student association looks like. Is it something that is worth voting for? Do you know what the SA looks like now? Let me tell you if you haven’t seen it lately (or ever). It’s dormant. Dormant like that crazy volcano “Puyehue” in Chile that everyone forgot

Jade Tyrrell VOTE [1] JADE TYRRELL for PRESIDENT VOTE [1] ELEVATE! for SRC VOTE [1] ELEVATE! For NUS VOTE [1] JADE TYRRELL because: Education is a human right, not a privilege, and should be recognised for the great opportunities that it creates, and the equality it generates between students, regardless of background or circumstance.

VOTE [1] JADE TYRRELL because: I want to ELEVATE! student representation at UTS. The diverse voices of students need to be heard within the university, particularly when it makes decisions that will affect them. This is why student representation needs to be strong. I want to ensure that the Students’ Association remains relevant for all students. As 2011 Secretary of the Students’ Association, a former SRC member and former editor of Vertigo in 2009, I have the experience to effectively lead this organisation. I have worked on campaigns to fight hidden course costs, support a national concession card and to draw attention

about until it spewed out a giant ashcloud that wreaked havoc on international flights for weeks.

I’m not saying that’s what the Students’ Association should do but I do think that it has the potential to blow up and be massive (in an awesome and metaphorical way) OK, enough metaphors, let me tell you my credentials. I’m a 2nd year med. science student and for the last year I’ve been convenor of the UTS enviro collective. The enviro collective is an amazing group of dedicated people who participate in workshops to learn more about environmental issues (and solutions) as well as campaigning around problems like climate change, nuclear energy and coal seam gas.

As convenor I’ve met with Vice chancellors and Deans to talk about our “Flick my switch” campaign to get the university to adopt 100% renewable energy, gotten experts and guest speakers to come and run workshops and helped organise conferences on a national and state level. And I do all that stuff for free for two reasons: 1.) Enviro stuff is often frantically done after I’ve

to the gender pay gap. It is crucial that you elect an experienced team that will ELEVATE! the fight on these issues and directly involve students in the process.

VOTE [1] JADE TYRRELL because: I believe in the power of collective organising. If the Student Services and Amenities Fee is introduced, this provides us with the opportunity for the ELEVATE! team to work together for more financial support for students. Both the Students’ Association and its collectives deserve more funding, and the ELEVATE! team and I will work to negotiate the best possible outcome for students.

VOTE [1] JADE TYRRELL because: You deserve and need an active, progressive and inclusive Students’ Association that is run by experienced and passionate student representatives; a Students’ Association that is willing to stand up to the university administration and the government to engage with the issues that affect students and change the student experience for the better; and a Students’ Association that will continue to truly represent the 32,000+ students at UTS. VOTE [1] JADE TYRRELL because: this year the ELEVATE team has been actively campaigning on behalf of students and has won: • Bluebird Brekky Bar: our free weekly breakfast for

finished uni work and paid work.

2.) And by far the most important is because I love to see people empowered and taking action on the issues that matter to them most. I believe that the Students’ Association president should be driven by a passion for activism and a drive to create positive change rather something that looks good on the resume.

So if you want to see and be part of a vibrant and active students association with fresh ideas then you should definitely vote for Grassroots. And I hate to nag but please don’t just think “Oh yeah they sound cool” Please actually take time to vote for us on election day, it literally takes a few minutes and makes a huge difference - so you know that old line “every vote counts” is genuinely true.

Vote 1 Grassroots for SRC! Vote 1 Grassroots for NUS! Vote 1 Jason Ray for President!

Vote 1 Chris Gall for Secretary!

Vote 1 Jasper Pool for Treasurer!

students; • $265 million increase in funding for Youth Allowance and changes to the independence criteria, as part of a national campaign; • University commitment to increase its percentage of renewable energy; a • Fairer plagiarism policy at university But there is more to do! The ELEVATE! team is the most dedicated, passionate and experienced team who can build on what has been achieved.

Jade and the ELEVATE! team will work for: • Return of the free legal service • Increased financial support for student organisations and student initiatives.

• No illegal course costs: an end to fees for essential materials.

• All lectures online • More affordable student housing near campus • Fairer assessments: return of STUVAC and no Saturday exams; no exams during placements.

• Free printing and photocopying quotas • Improved wireless • Longer library opening hours and more 24-hour accessible study spaces.

VOTE Jade (WORD COUNT EXCEEDED)

SECRETARY Rochelle Widdowson [photo] VOTE [1] ROCHELLE WIDDOWSON FOR SECRETARY Hi! I’m Rochelle Widdowson, I’m a first year Journalism student and I’m running for Secretary for the Students’ Association.

VOTE ROCHELLE WIDDOWSON because: I want to ELEVATE! your Students’ Association to provide more services for you! I believe students need to be heard and actively involved in the policies that govern UTS. VOTE ROCHELLE WIDDOWSON

Chris Gall My name is Chris and I’m studying a Bachelor of Laws here at UTS. Since I’ve been here, I’ve been involved in the Brennan Justice and Leadership Program and worked as a volunteer tutor in South Sydney for WEAVE. I come from a background of activism and progressive politics, especially from my former university where I convened the Greens on Campus.

When I first came to UTS I was impressed with the standard of teaching to which this university strived. I was impressed by the level of care my courses were structured with, the diligence of my tutors and the enthusiasm of my fellow students.

However, not all students have had the same positive experience. In an environment of decreasing funding,

Alexander Briggs No statement submitted

SECRETARY because: I am part of the Students’ Association and have fought for a national concession card and an end to illegal course costs, I will continue to ELEVATE! these issues and to push to provide the highest education standards possible.

VOTE ROCHELLE WIDDOWSON because: I want to fight for a more environmentally friendly campus, improved UTS housing services and create more social events on campus.

VOTE ROCHELLE WIDDOWSON because: I am chairperson of the Student Residence Advisory Committee and I sit on the Student Residence Management Committee and I’m committed to ELEVATE! the rights and safety of all students on campus.

casualisation of staff, cuts to entire courses and spiralling course material costs, students like YOU are at risk of being left behind.

As a full-time student of Law at the Haymarket Campus, I understand what serious pressure a heavy study load can place on students. It’s only fair that you have a Student’s Association that stands up for YOU, instead of the national factions.

Secretary of the Student’s Association, I would work hard in my capacity to make sure your Student’s Association is there for YOU when YOU need it. Apart from GRASSROOTS’ broader initiatives, that means: A COMPREHENSIVE FREE AND ACCESSIBLE LEGAL SERVICE: While other universities have had a free-toaccess solicitor for students for years, UTS remains behind with a legal service that has been described as ‘Coming Soon’ for too long. As a Law student, I am specially placed to get this

VOTE ROCHELLE WIDDOWSON because: I’m an active member of the Women’s Collective, work on Women’s Vertigo and I’m working with UTS Housing towards a progressive university culture.

VOTE ROCHELLE WIDDOWSON so we can ELEVATE! your Students’ Association.

Vote ELEVATE! for SRC and NUS Jade Tyrrell for President Rochelle Widdowson for Secretary Danielle Vieira for Treasuruer Sarah Henderson for Women’s Officer Antriksh Raje for Overseas Officer Victor Yang for Postgraduate Officer Mursheda Islam for Broadway Campus Convenor Christopher Jones for Markets Campus Convenor

service up and running with no more unnecessary delays.

AN OPEN AND VIBRANT STUDENT COMMUNITY: The Collectives run by the Students Association have long been underfunded and underattended. As Secretary, I will assure that these collectives get the funding they deserve to keep up vital activism on Environmental, Women’s, Queer, and Anti-racist issues.

A NEW STUDENT DEMOCRACY: Our student elections need to be reformed to keep UTS students in charge of UTS issues. After all, our Student’s Association should be a democracy, not just led by whatever faction can fund the most visible election campaign. A closed campus must be instated to keep YOUR elections in YOUR hands.

Vote 1 Grassroots for SRC! Vote 1 Grassroots for NUS! Vote 1 Jason Ray for President!

Vote 1 Chris Gall for Secretary!

Vote 1 Jasper Pool for Treasurer!

TREASURER Alex Cullen no statement submitted Jasper Pool My name’s Jasper and I’m studying a Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences combined with International Studies.

Currently I’m the UTS Students’ Association queer officer, where my role is to organize activism and support for gender and sex diverse students on campus. In this role, I’ve already attended conferences and worked with

community groups to find ways to better support students at UTS. The SRC has an income of over eight hundred thousand dollars a year, and has assets, so it really matters who is managing that money. As treasurer, I’m committed to opening up the books for all to see. I want YOU to know how your student association is spending its money. I want to hear YOUR voices on how it should spend its money - like a Grassroots organization should.

I care passionately about student representation, and want to ensure its long term viability, that’s why I’m committed to sound and ethical management

of finances for the services, publications and collectives run through the UTS Students’ Association.

So if you believe in healthy financial management of an independent SRC, vote for me as Treasurer, and for the rest of the Grassroots team.

Vote 1 Grassroots for SRC! Vote 1 Grassroots for NUS! Vote 1 Jason Ray for President!

Vote 1 Chris Gall for Secretary!s Vote 1 Jasper Pool for Treasurer!

Danielle Vieira DANIELLE VIEIRA FOR TREASURER I’m Danielle Vieira, and I’m a postgraduate Law student. I’ve been involved with the Students’ Association for three years now and I believe this gives me the experience, knowledge and demonstrates my passion for the rights of students. VOTE DANIELLE VIEIRA because: I believe in a progressive and active team that will maintain the survival of the Students’ Association over the coming years, especially with the likely passing of the the Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF) this year, it is vital that the Students’

Association remains in a strong fiscal position from the implementation of the fee and in the long-term. VOTE DANIELLE VIEIRA because: I will strive towards a sustainable and efficient Students’ Association that will maintain the Bluebird Brekkie Bar, expand the casework and advocacy service, see the Second-Hand Bookshop grow and open up a new Legal Service for students. Vote DANIELLE VIEIRA because: It is vital we continue to fund out clubs and collectives, and with the potential implementation of the SSAF from next year, we will be looking to increase funding for campaigns and events as it is these that give UTS its politically engaged culture. VOTE DANIELLE VIEIRA because: Satellite campuses like Kuring-gai and Markets need adequate Students’ Association Services and representation, like a Second-Hand

Bookshop, Legal Service and Bluebird Brekkie Bar. VOTE DANIELLE VIEIRA because: Advocacy and representation need to be prioritised within the budget, as both domestic and international students are still facing inequalities, barriers and illegal course fees. Don’t let student services suffer any further VOTE [1] DANIELLE VIEIRA for Treasurer. Vote ELEVATE! for SRC and NUS Jade Tyrrell for President Rochelle Widdowson for Secretary Danielle Vieira for Treasuruer Sarah Henderson for Women’s Officer Antriksh Raje for Overseas Officer Victor Yang for Postgraduate Officer Mursheda Islam for Broadway Campus Convenor Christopher Jones for Markets Campus Convenor

Kate Alway My name is Kate Alway and I believe a Postgraduate Officer can make a vital difference to postgraduate students, by responding to our needs and concerns and representing us as a group, helping to create postgraduate community and making the Students’ Association more useful and accessible to postgraduates.

I intend to do this by: • Starting a Postgrad Collective • Reafilliating UTS with the Council of Australian

Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) • Ensuring a dedicated Postgraduate voice on the SRC and throughout the university • Being actively available to find out what you want from your Postgraduate Officer and your SRC. Starting right now – I’d love to discuss this position and hear your concerns, on campus or at grassroots.uts@gmail.com I bring thirteen years of experience in student and community organising. I have worked positions including Students’ Association President and Clubs and Societies Officer as well as Student Representative on Academic Board and many other committees across UTS, Macquarie Uni and Sydney Institute of TAFE. I have started, facilitated

and worked in collectives and clubs, advocated for groups and run campaigns.

I would be honoured to use everything these roles have taught me, to work with and for the postgraduate population of UTS. Please take the time to vote for a better Students’ Association for postgraduates and for all UTS students: Vote 1 Grassroots for SRC! Vote 1 Grassroots for NUS! Vote 1 Jason Ray for President!

Vote 1 Chris Gall for Secretary!

Vote 1 Jasper Pool for Treasurer!

Vote 1 Kate Alway for Postgraduate Officer!

Victor Yang VOTE VICTOR YANG for POST-GRADUATE OFFICER Hi, my name is Victor Yang and I am a Juris Doctor student at UTS. Vote Victor Yang because: UTS post-graduate students deserve an active and progressive representative to advocate for their interests.

I have always been passionate about student engagement and involvement in issues concerning

equity and equality. The ELEVATE! team is committed to standing up for the issues that concern you, as postgrads deserve a strong voice on the SRC. Vote Victor Yang because: I understand that many postgrad students have a number of commitments to juggle. The ELEVATE! team and I recognise the need for access to 24-hour study spaces and more affordable childcare on campus. We will ELEVATE! the fight for these issues.

Vote Victor Yang because: I will ELEVATE! the rights of international postgrad students. Often both local and international postgrad students are

forced to pay more and get less. I will continue to fight for better income support and travel concessions for all postgrad students.

Vote ELEVATE! for SRC and NUS Jade Tyrrell for President Rochelle Widdowson for Secretary Danielle Vieira for Treasuruer Sarah Henderson for Women’s Officer Antriksh Raje for Overseas Officer Victor Yang for Postgraduate Officer Mursheda Islam for Broadway Campus Convenor Christopher Jones for Markets Campus Convenor

Postgraduate Officer

women’s officer involved in the fight for gender equality and engage in the fight for women’s rights and equity. VOTE SARAH HENDERSON because: This year I’ve worked with the Women’s Collective on creating awareness around equal pay through Equal Pay Day events, participating in International Women’s Day and helping raise funds for Women’s health clinics. Vote SARAH HENDERSON because: sexual assault and violence against women is a growing concern. The national ‘Talk About It Survey’, in which members of ELEVATE! participated, found one in five female students have been victims of harassment on campus. I want to work with UTS Housing, the National Union of Students and the government to ensure policies are in place to ensure this statistic becomes a thing of the past. Vote

SARAH HENDERSON because: I believe in an active, progressive and experienced SRC for our Students’ Association.Together we can push for necessary change to ensure women at UTS receive equal rights and opportunities as we begin our careers as well as engage in wider social change for equality for all.

Vote ELEVATE! for SRC and NUS Jade Tyrrell for President Rochelle Widdowson for Secretary Danielle Vieira for Treasuruer Sarah Henderson for Women’s Officer Antriksh Raje for Overseas Officer Victor Yang for Postgraduate Officer Mursheda Islam for Broadway Campus Convenor Christopher Jones for Markets Campus Convenor

Antriksh Raje VOTE ANTRIKSH RAJE FOR OVERSEAS STUDENTS’ OFFICER HI I’m Antriksh Raje and I’m a Masters of Engineering student from India.

I’ve been in Australia for a couple of years now and I’ve found that International Students aren’t treated with the fairness that we deserve. VOTE ANTRIKSH RAJE because: International Students deserve travel concessions like local students. We pay double what other students pay for transport, yet we aren’t allowed to earn as much. I am committed to continuing the work of the campaign run by the National Union of

Students and UTS Students’ Association this year, called ‘Fair Fares’ which calls for a national concession card for all students. VOTE ANTRIKSH RAJE because: International students continue to be the ictims of housing scams and unfair rental prices. I will work with the UTS Students’ Association to negotiate affordable and safe student housing near campus for local and international students. International students often need emergency temporary accommodation when they first arrive in Australia or if they are facing rental difficulties. I will work with the ELEVATE! team to ensure international students are communicated to about housing laws. VOTE ANTRIKSH RAJE because: International students pay a lot of money to come to UTS and should receive a quality education. We need good English Language Support Services, assessment

and research assistance and more consultation time with our tutors. This year the Students’ Association has worked with UTS to create the ‘Conversations @ UTS’ program and I’d love to see this continue into the future, as it provides much needed support for students who do not speak English as a first language. I also want to work with the Students’ Association caseworkers to make sure we are being treated fairly in the assessment policy and procedures and seek a review into the assessments and exams that international students often struggle with. VOTE ANTRIKSH RAJE because: Most of all, I will work with the SRC to help international students in any way possible, whether it is related to better education or discrimination against international students so that we can enjoy our education here. Vote ELEVATE! (WORD COUNT EXCEEDED)

Sunil Shah Hi everyone, my name’s Sunil and I’m an MBA student. I try to get myself involved as much as possible, I’m part of the environment collective, the Backstage theatre society and the UTS Nepalese society. Now I want to represent international students on the SRC. I first got involved in the SRC when I attended environment collective meetings and got involved with ‘Flick My Switch’, the campaign for UTS to take

up renewable energy by 2015, and the videos they’ve produced. International students face many injustices.

The harsh fees we are charged are compounded by restrictions on how much we can work, by a lack of transport concessions, and sometimes a lack of safety on the streets. I want to create an international students collective so international students can work from the grassroots to achieve change for themselves.

If elected, I will be a passionate voice for international

students on the SRC, and to the university. If I do something, I do it 100% and will make change happen. If this appeals to you, vote for me, and for the Grassroots team.

Vote 1 Grassroots for SRC! Vote 1 Grassroots for NUS! Vote 1 Jason Ray for President!

Vote 1 Chris Gall for Secretary!

AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS officer Amala Groom My name is Amala Groom and I am an Indigenous 3rd year law student. I actively participate in Indigenous legal advocacy at the local, national and international levels. In 2010 I was sponsored by Professor Larissa Behrendt to attend the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New

York. In 2011 I also attended this forum with the support of Jumbunna IHL and the UTS BUILD program.

I am one of three Indigenous people in Australia to be selected to participate in the Diplomacy Training Programs 21st Annual Human Rights and People’s Diplomacy Training for Human Rights Defenders from the Asia Pacific. I currently sit on various committees, forums and caucuses, and am currently running for a seat on the Law Faculty Board. I endeavour to apply my experiential learning to further Indigenous education at UTS and would take pride in representing the

interests of Indigenous students on the SRC. For an SRC that acknowledges the special place in Australia that our First Peoples hold vote for me as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Officer and vote for the Grassroots team.

Vote 1 Grassroots for SRC! Vote 1 Grassroots for NUS! Vote 1 Jason Ray for President!

Vote 1 Chris Gall for Secretary!

Vote 1 Jasper Pool for Treasurer!

Alison Whittaker VOTE ALISON WHITTAKER FOR ATSI (INDIGENOUS) OFFICER A big hello to my fellow Indigenous students from a Kamiloroi girl who hails the North-West of NSW. My name is Alison Whittaker, and I’m eager for the opportunity to represent UTS’s diverse, talented and deadly ATSI community. VOTE ALISON WHITTAKER BECAUSE: In my first two semesters

at this university, I’ve loved learning alongside Jumbunna and Indigenous students, but have seen a need to set up a solid ATSI community at a student level. I think this kind of community could provide services which are outside of Jumbunna’s capacity, services like: networking between students, student events, student political campaigns and personalised learning and communal experiences. I have a passion for Indigenous activism and getting to know fellow Indigenous students. VOTE ALISON WHITTAKER BECAUSE: I believe education is a right, not a priviliege and I’d love to see every person who wants

to undertake higher education, be able to do so. I will work hard with the ELEVATE! team to ensure the Students’ Association and UTS, are as inclusive and accessible as can be. So, come right up, and say hello, because the purpose of this position is to suit your needs, and I’m more than happy to take action to make your learning experience as involved, active and successful as I can. Regardless of whether or not I’m granted the privilege of representing you in the Students’ Association, I’d love to meet you all and make UTS the best possible place to further (WORD COUNT EXCEEDED)

Sarah Henderson elected unopposed VOTE SARAH HENDERSON for WOMEN’S OFFICER My name is Sarah Henderson and I am a third year Writing and Cultural Studies student.

I have been actively involved in the UTS Students’ Association this year, particularly in the Women’s Collective. VOTE SARAH HENDERSON because: Gender inequality is still a very real issue for students and women in the general community. The ELEVATE! team and I want to encourage all students to become overseas students officer

SRC GRASSROOTS

Grassroots: Jason Ray, Kate Alway, Chris Gall, Kasania Dmitrieff, Jasper Pool, Michael Truong, Anthony Mai, Rashmi Chary, Jess Worland, Veronica Heuzenroeder Grassroots is a team of progressive and independent students who are actively working within the university to achieve grassroots change.

We aren’t student politicians from the Labor and Liberal parties – we’re a diverse range of students from Communications, Education, Science,

Engineering, Business and Law faculties who would like to get out there, do the hard work and give you a real voice in a grassroots SRC. Most people don’t know who all of their student representatives are - do you? We’d like to see that change and that’s part of why we’re running.

We’re a fresh new group of students but we’re also experienced; people on our team have been involved in creating campaigns in the university and the wider community, managing clubs and societies and even co-ordinating our own businesses.

We believe in a green campus with 100% renewable energy by 2015 and we know how we’re going to get it; members of our team have been meeting with faculty Deans, Deputy ViceChancellors and helped to develop the ‘Flick My Switch’ campaign.

We believe in a safer campus and we know how we’re going to get it; members of our team have been in meetings with community organisations like ACON in order to develop an Anti-Violence Project which can help ensure LGBTI students aren’t harassed, international students aren’t

assaulted and that it’s safer for women both on campus and in housing.

We believe in an SRC which is guided by YOU, the student, and your voice. The SRC has an income of over eight hundred thousand dollars each year and with the Student Services Amenities Fee being introduced next year that might even increase.

We’d like you to have more of a voice in how that’s spent so that we can be a grassroots SRC which runs the campaigns and provides services that you ask for.

We believe in students getting the degrees they signed up for. In recent years the BA in Communications degree hasn’t delivered the subjects it promised but the SRC can hold them to account if you want it to.

If you believe in an independent, active and progressive SRC then: Vote 1 Grassroots for SRC! Vote 1 Grassroots for NUS! Vote 1 Jason Ray for President!

Vote 1 Chris Gall for Secretary!

Vote 1 Jasper Pool for Treasurer!

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ELEVATE

Elevate: Lyndal Butler, Joe McKenzie, Kate Samardzic, Rebecca Pascoe, Leticia Centrone, Mustafa Agha, Bonita Silva, Tim Roylett, Amelia Kondilios, James Morgan VOTE ELEVATE! FOR SRC VOTE ELEVATE! For SRC because: We are a group of active, progressive, experienced and engaged students who believe in fully funded and independent student representation.

VOTE ELEVATE! For SRC because: We will take a stand on issues that affect students every day. We will fight against saturday exams and assessments during placement. We will campaign for accessible study spaces at each campus and for a fully resourced library that is open longer. We will work to make sure UTS students aren’t charged for essential course material. The GO! Team is committed to ensuring all students at UTS have a high quality education.

VOTE ELEVATE! For SRC because: We believe a quality education begins in the classroom and want to see each tutor advertise their consultation hours, all lecture notes available on UTS online, better wireless access inclassrooms and further reform of assessment policy and

procedure.

VOTE ELEVATE! For SRC because: We need an active Students’ Association that will stand up for students’ rights and fight for a fair and accessible higher education system for all students.

We will stand up for international students rights to student concession cards, safer accommodation and fight the restriction on work hours.We will stand up for every student’s right to affordable housing on or near campus and to a safe learning and living environment.

VOTE ELEVATE! For SRC because: We will always fight for fully funded and independent student organisations. The ELEVATE! team has achieved a funding increase of 43% and have ensured the Students’ Association has become a financially sustainable organisation.

We have maintained casework services, increased the capacity of the second-hand bookshop and in 2011 have had the Students’ Association open on all three campuses. We need an effective and accountable SRC that is committed to continue to fight Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU), but would also be able to negotiate the challenges of VSU to not only sustain current representation and advocacy, but improve them. ELEVATE! has what it takes to do this and more.

VOTE ELEVATE! For SRC because: We will fight for an environmentally sustainable campus. We want the university to make a stronger commitment to green energy and will continue to push for 100% renewable energy as well as immediate changes like paper recylcing bins in computer labs.

VOTE ELEVATE! For SRC because: We have been active all year fighting for student rights. This year the ELEVATE! team campaigned for and achieved longer laptop loans, optional hardcopy subject readers, smaller class sizes, study space during assessment periods, the

re-introduction of STUVAC and same- day podcasting. We campaigned for and won changes to Youth Allowance and negotiated new student housing at UTS with a commitment to equity spots to ensure it is affordable and accessible for all students who need it. The ELEVATE! team has been leading the Fair Education – Let’s Fight For It campaign, Noodle Day, Quality Education Survey and the campaign for Justice for International Students, Fair Fares and Illegal Course Costs.

VOTE ELEVATE! For SRC because: We will ensure that the Students’ Association engages and listens to all students on all campuses. This year we have held consultations and open forums on all campuses, we ran student surveys and held focus groups so we could give every student the chance to identify problems effecting them. We have engaged and supported the growth of the collectives to operate effectively from each department and represent their group.

We want an open andaccountable Students’ Association. We want the Students’ Association to be a space for vibrant and productive groups who discuss and act in new and effective ways on issues theycare about, we want to be your SRC. VOTE ELEVATE! For SRC because: We are progressive students who care about what is happening in our university and want a better, stronger and more representative Students Association for all students at UTS! Vote ELEVATE! for SRC and NUS Jade Tyrrell for President Rochelle Widdowson for Secretary Danielle Vieira for Treasuruer Sarah Henderson for Women’s Officer Antriksh Raje for Overseas Officer Victor Yang for Postgraduate Officer Mursheda Islam for Broadway Campus Convenor Christopher Jones for Markets Campus Convenor

NUS 7 POSITIONS TO BE ELECTED ELEVATE

Elevate: Neha Madhok, Jade Tyrrell, Lyndal Butler, Amelia Kondilios, Danielle Vieira, Bonita Silva, Rochelle Widdowson VOTE ELEVATE! FOR NUS VOTE ELEVATE! For NUS because:The National Union of Students (NUS) is the peak student representative body in Australia. Students from the ELEVATE! team are actually committed to making a difference with progressive policy and action across all Australian universities. ELEVATE!, the progressive team for NUS, will make a concerted effort to lobby politicians, universities and companies to make changes that help UTS students. ELEVATE! NUS delegates have in the past always been instrumental in achieving real gains on the national scene. VOTE ELEVATE! For NUS because: We can achieve success in lobbying support for student organisations across Australia.

The new senate will give us an opportunity to push for progressive reform that will benefit GRASSROOTS

Grassroots: Jason Ray, Kate Alway, Jasper Pool, Chris Gall, Harley Lewington, Leona Vicky Djajadi, Anthony Mai

students. We will fight for the Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF) at a national level to ensure UTS students have access to essential services and representation. VOTE ELEVATE! For NUS because: We can achieve success in lobbying support for all tertiary students across Australia. Members of the ELEVATE! team have been fighting for international student rights all year and successfully lobbied the federal government to conduct and release the Baird Review of welfare of international students in Australia. VOTE ELEVATE! For NUS because: We can continue lobbying for a fairer Youth Allowance system. The ELEVATE! Team fought for and won changes to the Youth Allowance system in 2010 and 2011. We were successful in getting the government to lower the age of independence, provide start up scholarships for students and increase the income bank. Whilst this is a great start we need to see further changes. The ELEVATE! team is committed to continuing the fight for a fairer Youth Allowance so that studying at uni is accessible for everyone, not just those who can afford it. VOTE ELEVATE! For NUS because: We will ensure that the National Union of Students continues to fight for a quality education system.

Members of the ELEVATE! Team were at the forefront of the National Union of Students Quality Survey, the largest review of quality of education in universities since 2007. VOTE ELEVATE! For NUS because: We can continue to achieve success in lobbying for student welfare in Australia. In 2010 members of the ELEVATE! team used our

participation in the NUS housing survey to lobby UTS for more student housing. ELEVATE! Can continue to push for further reform and push more universities to participate in the National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) which subsidises student rent so it is 20% below the market rate.

VOTE ELEVATE! For NUS because: We believe that progressive reform is only achieved if you act collectively at both a campus and national level.

We have been at the forefront of the Fair Education – Let’s Fight for it campaign, the campaign for Justice for International Students, Vote 4 Students, Act Now Create Change, Illegal Course Costs, Fair Fares and more. We have seen real wins from these campaigns, like the student welfare reforms that came about from our Noodle Day action. VOTE ELEVATE! for NUS because: We will ensure that the National Union of Students continues to fight for a fair and accessible education system and stands up for student rights. We want an active and inclusive National Union in 2012.

Vote ELEVATE! for SRC and NUS Jade Tyrrell for President Rochelle Widdowson for Secretary Danielle Vieira for Treasuruer Sarah Henderson for Women’s Officer Antriksh Raje for Overseas Officer Victor Yang for Postgraduate Officer Mursheda Islam for Broadway Campus Convenor Christopher Jones for Markets Campus Convenor

There’s a very good chance that before you flipped to this section of election Vertigo, you didn’t even know that the National Union of Students existed.

We want to change that. As delegates to the National Union we plan to be accountable to you, to report back on how we vote and why we did so.

The National Union of Students tends to operate as a political clique, and it can be very difficult for independent candidates to have a voice. We’re part of a new movement of independent and grassroots students around the country who want to change that by opening up NUS to more student voices.

We want an open, progressive, accountable and grassroots NUS that prioritises those committed to achieving actual change. We believe in an

NUZ that will lobby and confront the government in your name when you tell it to; they can fight to eliminate illegal course costs, fight for a fairer Youth Allowance, fight to reduce your HECS and give students control of student money with the upcoming Student Services Amenities Fee. If you support us, we will hold NUS to account and ensure they fight for you when you tell them to instead of being an invisible union outside of elections.

Vote 1 Grassroots for SRC! Vote 1 Grassroots for NUS! Vote 1 Jason Ray for President!

Vote 1 Chris Gall for Secretary!

Vote 1 Jasper Pool for Treasurer!

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VERTIGO

Spinners: Jezelle Boughaleb, Lisa Diego, Mariam Chehab, Azal Khan, Jessica Iooi, Martha Azzi

Don’t you hate those lectures where you’re trying your hardest not to fall asleep, the coffee is finished and the background noise that suspiciously sounds like a tutor feels like the perfect sleep medication?

You really don’t want to be at uni but attending those lectures, even if you don’t listen, makes you feel good about yourself (except at 9am). Well, we are on the same page then ! Literally! As candidates for the editors of Vertigo 2O12 we want to compose a magazine that will not only keep you awake during lectures but will be that special something you can bludge on during all occasions. We will lovingly be there during the exam period when you read ANYTHING but your notes.

We will be the reminder that you, yes you, have a life! With a few ideas up our sleeves we would love to put them into practice. We will write and represent all faculties- from science to business to law and everything in between. We will tell you about the hot spots for parties, the hot spots for restaurants, create quizzes for your entertainment and introduce new categories that will forever keep you surprised. We will have serious stories and not so serious stories.

We want to create a magazine that will make you lol lmao lmfao and rofl. Vote for our team and we will redesign the Vertigo magazine into something that will forever be remembered!!!

BROADWAY CAMPUS CONVENOR Mursheda Islam VOTE MURSHEDA ISLAM FOR BROADWAY CAMPUS CONVENOR Hi, my name Mursheda Islam and I am a second year nursing student and I am running for Broadway Campus Convenor. I believe that I am a strong candidate for this position for a number of reasons. VOTE MURSHEDA ISLAM because: I want to see an active and progressive Students’ Association that is inclusive, and engages with all students at UTS. I understand the importance of fair and accessible education and student-run organisations. I believe that the ELEVATE! team and I are the most passionate and experienced team; we are a team that will be a strong voice for all students on campus and in the broader community. With the potential introduction of the Student Services and Amenities Fee, I believe the ELEVATE! team is in the best position to

negotiate the best deal for students and push for increased Students’ Association funding, and subsequently fund its collectives. Furthermore, as work progresses on the campus Master Plan, we need to ensure students’ interests are advocated to secure the best deal for students so our campus is a safe and inviting place to study. The ELEVATE! team is committed to representing the diversity of students UTS. VOTE MURSHEDA ISLAM because: I am committed to advocating for an increased number of accessible study spaces and computer labs that are open for 24 hours. We also need a more reliable wireless network at UTS. We need a network that doesn’t drop out every 15 minutes! We also need to ELEVATE! the fight for longer library opening hours to cater to all students. VOTE MURSHEDA ISLAM because: The ELEVATE! team and I are committed to fighting for higher targets of renewable energy, which includes future buildings. I also want to see the sustainable Bluebird Brekkie Bar - the Students’ Association’s

free breakfast for students - continue into 2012.

I want to ELEVATE! collectives on campus to ensure they continue to be a crucial and strong forum for student activism on issues that affect students at uni and beyond. VOTE MURSHEDA ISLAM because: I believe the ELEVATE! team has the experience and drive necessary to successfully build upon the previous wins of the Students’ Association. I will make sure the Students’ Association continues to stand up for student rights and a fair and accessible system of higher education.

Vote ELEVATE! for SRC and NUS Jade Tyrrell for President Rochelle Widdowson for Secretary Danielle Vieira for Treasuruer Sarah Henderson for Women’s Officer Antriksh Raje for Overseas Officer Victor Yang for Postgraduate Officer Mursheda Islam for Broadway Campus Convenor Christopher Jones for Markets Campus Convenor

Brooke El-Azzi No statement submitted Kasania Dmitrieff My name is Kasania Dmitrieff and I study BA in communications. I volunteer at the Food CoOp, have helped organise national conferences and run workshops.

I believe in a Food Co-Op on Broadway receiving greater exposure and expanding to serve your needs. It’s an inexpensive and ethical food source right there on campus and it needs to be

supported so YOU can access it more easily. I believe in a green campus with 100% renewable energy by 2015 and I know how we can get it; members of the Grassroots team have already been meeting with officials in the university and developed the ‘Flick My Switch’ campaign. As Broadway campus is the largest campus of UTS, it’s important that the Broadway committee and convenor contribute to that campaign. I also believe in an SRC which is guided by YOU, the student, and your voice. The SRC has an income of over eight hundred thousand dollars each year

BROADWAY CAMPUS CONVENOR

Jason Ray Elected unopposed , no statement submitted

BROADWAY CAMPUS women’s officer

No nominations received

BROADWAY CAMPUS committee

10 to be elected

Grassroots: Adrien Vaccarella, Birsen Kocak, Harley Lewington Broadway is the biggest campus at UTS and it is crucial that the students at Broadway campus are represented by a strong campus committee to make sure that Student’s Association is taking their needs into account.

Grassroots is a team of progressive and independent students who are actively working within the university to achieve grassroots change.

We aren’t student politicians from the Labor and Liberal parties – we’re a diverse range of students from Communications, Education, Science, Engineering, Business and Law faculties who would like to get out there, do the hard work and give you a real voice in a grassroots SRC. Most people don’t know who all their students representatives are – do you? We’d like to see that change and that’s part of why we’re running.

We’re a fresh new group if students but we’re

also experienced; people on our team have been involved in creating campaigns in the university and the wider community, managing clubs and societies and even co-ordinating our own businesses.

We believe in a green campus with 100% renewable energy by 2015 and we know how we’re going to get it; members of our team have been meeting with faculty Deans, Deputy ViceChancellors and helped to develop the ‘Flick My Switch’ campaign.

We believe in a safer campus and we know how we’re going to get it; members of out team have been in meetings with community organisations like ACON in order to develop an Anti-Violence Project which can help ensure GLBTI students aren’t harassed, international students aren’t assaulted and that it’s safer for women both on campus and in housing.

We believe in an SRC which is guided by YOU, the student, and your voice. The SRC has an income

and with the Student Services Amenities Fee being introduced next year that might even increase. I’d like you to have more of a voice in how that’s spent so that we can be a grassroots SRC which runs the campaigns and provides services that you ask for.

Vote 1 Kasania Dmitrieff for Broadway Campus Convenor!

Vote 1 Grassroots for SRC! Vote 1 Grassroots for NUS! Vote 1 Jason Ray for President!

Vote 1 Chris Gall for Secretary!

Vote 1 Jasper Pool for Treasurer!

of over eight hundred thousand dollars each year and with the Student Services Amenities Fee being introduced next year that might even increase. We’d like you to have more of a voice in how that’s spent so that we can be a grassroots SRC which runs the campaigns and provides services that you ask for.

We believe in students getting the degrees they signed up for. In recent years the BA in Communications degree hasn’t delivered the subjects it promised but the SRC can old them to account if you want to.

Vote 1 Grassroots for Broadway Campus Committee!

Vote 1 Grassroots for SRC! Vote 1 Grassroots for NUS! Vote 1 Jason Ray for President!

Vote 1 Chris Gall for Secretary!

Vote 1 Jasper Pool for Treasurer!

MARKETS CAMPUS CONVENOR Stephanie Nehme No statement received Christopher Jones VOTE CHRIS JONES FOR MARKETS CAMPUS CONVENOR Hi, my name is Chris Jones and I am a business student here at UTS. VOTE CHRIS JONES because: Strong student representation is essential to ensure the diversity of students at UTS is recognised and the ELEVATE! team and I will stand up for a Students’ Association that is active and progressive on the issues that directly affect students on a local and national scale including ELEVATING the fight against illegal course costs - students should not have pay fees for essential course materials.

VOTE CHRIS JONES because: Students should be aware that the Students’ Association is there

for student representation and student services.

If elected I will work to ELEVATE! the funding of the Students’ Association and its collectives try to ensure that the Students’ Association is an open, vibrant accessible space for all students, and is a forum where students can campaign for the rights that they are entitled to, including fair and accessible education, cheap housing and a national concession card.

VOTE CHRIS JONES because: The ELEVATE! team and I will ELEVATE! the push for more 24-hour study spaces on campus. Despite the new green space, during exam periods it can be impossible to find a place to study at Markets. The ELEVATE! team and I will stand up for more 24hour spaces for group work and individual study,

an adequately resourced library and printing and photocopying quotas for all students.

VOTE CHRIS JONES because: I will make sure all students, whether they are local or international, have an opportunity to voice their opinions and concerns to their student representatives and to the university administration.

Vote ELEVATE! for SRC and NUS Jade Tyrrell for President Rochelle Widdowson for Secretary Danielle Vieira for Treasuruer Sarah Henderson for Women’s Officer Antriksh Raje for Overseas Officer Victor Yang for Postgraduate Officer Mursheda Islam for Broadway Campus Convenor Christopher Jones for Markets Campus Convenor

material costs, students like YOU are at risk of being left behind. As a full-time student of Law at the Haymarket Campus, I understand what serious pressure a heavy study load can place on students.

It’s only fair that you have a Student’s Association that stands up for YOU, instead of the national factions.

As Secretary of the Student’s Association, I would work hard in my capacity to make sure your Student’s Association is there for YOU when YOU need it.

Apart from GRASSROOTS’ broader initiatives, that means: A COMPREHENSIVE FREE AND ACCESSIBLE LEGAL SERVICE: While other universities have had a free-to-access solicitor for students for years, UTS remains behind with a legal service that has been described as ‘Coming Soon’ for too long. As a Law student, I am specially placed to get this service up and running with no more unnecessary delays.

AN OPEN AND VIBRANT STUDENT COMMUNITY:

The Collectives run by the Students Association have long been underfunded and under-attended.

As Secretary, I will assure that these collectives get the funding they deserve to keep up vital activism on Environmental, Women’s, Queer, and Anti-racist issues.

A NEW STUDENT DEMOCRACY: Our student elections need to be reformed to keep UTS students in charge of UTS issues. After all, our Student’s Association should be a democracy, not just led by whatever faction can fund the most visible election campaign. A closed campus must be instated to keep YOUR elections in YOUR hands.

MARKETS CAMPUS SECRETARY Victor Yang No statement submitted

Chris Gall My Name is Chris and I’m studying a Bachelor of Laws here at UTS. Since I’ve been here, I’ve been involved in the Brennan Justice and Leadership Program and worked as a volunteer tutor in South Sydney for WEAVE. I come from a background of activism and progressive politics, especially from my former university where I convened the Greens on Campus.

When I first came to UTS I was impressed with the standard of teaching to which this university strived.

I was impressed by the level of care my courses were structured with, the diligence of my tutors and the enthusiasm of my fellow students. However, not all students have had the same positive experience. In an environment of decreasing funding, casualisation of staff, cuts to entire courses and spiralling course

MARKETS CAMPUS women’s officer Danielle Vieira Elected unopposed No statement received

Vote 1 Grassroots for SRC! Vote 1 Grassroots for NUS! Vote 1 Jason Ray for President!

Vote 1 Chris Gall for Secretary!

Vote 1 Jasper Pool for Treasurer!

markets CAMPUS committee 10 to be elected Grassroots: Catherine Moore, Tiffany Lasschuit, Anna Conigrave, Sally Ok, Jannis Yuen, Kirrily Buckett, Irene Choong, Maree Selvaraj, Elaine Cheng Grassroots is a team of progressive and independent students who are actively working within the university to achieve grassroots change.

We aren’t student politicians from the Labor and Liberal parties – we’re a diverse range of students

who would like to get out there, do the hard work and give you a real voice in a grassroots SRC. Grassroots are interested in YOUR campus too.

At the Markets campus, whether you are studying business or law, we will represent you. That’s why we’ve assembled the biggest Markets Campus Committee in years – we want to hear you, the ordinary student, tell us makes you tick about life down at Haymarket.

We want to make sure the Student’s Association space at Markets is active and open for once. We want to build strong links with the Law Students’

Society. We want the student’s association to draw on the skills and experience unique to Law and Business students, and not just be the domain of Arts and Communication types.

For ordinary Law and Business students representing Haymarket, Vote 1 Grassroots for Markets Campus Committee and remember: Vote 1 Grassroots for SRC! Vote 1 Grassroots for NUS! Vote 1 Jason Ray for President!

Vote 1 Chris Gall for Secretary!

Vote 1 Jasper Pool for Treasurer!

without the extra burden of paying for essential course material. We will ensure that the university does not charge you for course readers, lecture notes, lab materials, personal and professional equipment, or compulsorily excursions.

VOTE ELEVATE! For Markets Campus Committee because: The ELEVATE! team will introduce a Legal Service at Markets and we will take the Bluebird Brekkie Bar to Markets.

VOTE ELEVATE! For Markets Campus Committee because: The ELEVATE! team recognize that the voice of students at Markets often gets lost as simply part of the “city campus”, and that they have definite and specific concerns of their own. This is why Markets Students need a strong voice on SRC.

We are committed to keeping the doors of the Markets Students’ Association open, so that we can facilitate communication between markets, SRC and the university administration.

Vote ELEVATE! for SRC and NUS Jade Tyrrell for President Rochelle Widdowson for Secretary Danielle Vieira for Treasuruer Sarah Henderson for Women’s Officer Antriksh Raje for Overseas Officer Victor Yang for Postgraduate Officer Mursheda Islam for Broadway Campus Convenor Christopher Jones for Markets Campus Convenor

in the SRC on our own campus; the Kuring-gai Students’ Association office doesn’t even open up on campus.

I’m running to change that.

I will support the creation of a women’s, environment and queer collective at Ku-ringai, providing opportunities for activism, and a social outlet at the same time.

To help Kuring-gai students get to classes on main campus, and get involved in the social life

there, I want the shuttlebus to run more often.

So for a SRC that cares about Kuring-gai, vote for me and vote for the Grassroots team.

Benjamin Turner No statement received

Elevate: Jade Tyrrell, Bonita Silva, Antriksh Raje Amelia Kondilios, Mustafa Agha, Sophie Jeliba VOTE ELEVATE! FOR MARKETS CAMPUS COMMITTEE VOTE ELEVATE! For Markets Campus Committee because: We want to ensure you are not being charged for essential course materials!

Student debt is already huge and students are already facing enough financial difficulties

kuring-gai campus convenor Leana Vicky Djajadi My name is Leona Victoria Djajadi and I’m studying a Bachelor of Nursing at Kuring-Gai campus.

Kuring-gai campus is underrepresented at UTS because of its position. Our location and the awkward transport can make it difficult for us to get involved in the city. There are also few opportunities for Kurin-gai students to get active

kuring-gai campus secretary Jaslene Chew No statement submitted

kuring-gai campus womens officer Deborah Scheuer No statement submitted

kuring-gai campus committee 10 to be elected No nominations received

Vote 1 Grassroots for SRC! Vote 1 Grassroots for NUS! Vote 1 Jason Ray for President!

Vote 1 Chris Gall for Secretary!

Vote 1 Jasper Pool for Treasurer!

SA REPORTS Neha Madhok Students’ Association President And we’re back! Mid-sem exams are done and so are the holidays and as you drag yourself back to uni for those last few weeks before the end of semester, you pick up a copy of Vertigo on your way to class as your only solace through that three hour tute/lecture. You’ll probably then notice, that this edition is a little bit different, it has all this stuff about elections and all of these people who seem vaguely familiar are running for positions you’ve never heard of. So here’s the gist: the Students’ Association is run entirely by students, for students, it is run by a Students’ Representative Council (SRC) who operate as the board of directors of the organisation, we meet once a month during semester to make decisions about the operation of the Students’ Association from staffing, to services & campaigns. There are approximately twenty people on the SRC and they’re all elected by you, the students of this university.

The President deals with the day-to-day running of the organisation, with staff and administration matters in the Students’ Association and they also sit on every major board and committee at UTS as the representative of all students, as well as coordinating campaigns with all departments of the Students’ Association. The Secretary and Treasurer are also elected as part of the Executive (along with the President) and they deal with similar tasks as the President, as well as keeping records of all meetings and working on the budget.

The other positions, like Women’s Officer, Indigenous Officer and Overseas Students’ Officer are the more campaignfocused positions, these guys get to work with a collective of students who identify as being say, a woman or indigenous, and they work together to create campaigns on campus that are relevant to the students they represent. Then you have the campus representatives, each campus – Markets, Broadway and Kuring-Gai – who is elected by students from that campus and who will advocate for issues affecting those students, on the SRC. So this October 17-19 make sure you go out there and activate your voice, vote in the elections.

Currently, I’m working with the Women’s Collective and students from Housing on a campaign to end sexual harassment and discrimination in Housing. Currently students are coming to the Students’ Association with their complaints or are sending their friends to us to complain because they do not feel they can trust UTS Housing and they are afraid of being kicked out of Housing, should they cause any sort of drama (particularly international students). It is a well known fact that under-reporting of issues does not mean that there are no problems, it means that there are problems people aren’t comfortable talking about. This is why we need your help! Over the next month we will be collecting anecdotes and stories and you can remain anonymous in the process.

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It’s vital that we have a strong case to put to the University because they are becoming very concerned about this issue (I’ve been raising it in board meetings) and want to talk about it as soon as possible. The Students’ Association is meeting with UTS Housing at the end of October so we’d love to have your stories as part of a wider case. This is also a national issue, the National Union of Students (NUS) conducted the ‘Talk About it Survey’ the first of its kind which found that one in five women get sexually harassed on campus, NUS and the Students’ Association will be working with Get Up! next year to rank all Australian universities on their safety standards in housing and colleges.

UTS Housing wants to be number one, and we think it should be too because no UTS student, or anyone for that matter, asks to be violated.

Last week I attended the university’s environmental sustainability consultation. All staff and students were invited along to discuss and direct strategies UTS is using to become greener in all aspects of its structure: governance, research, community, operations and teaching and learning.

One crucial discussion point that was missing was discussion around the commitments UTS is making to renewable energy, particularly 100% renewable energy. It wasn’t until the very few students who were able to show up raised the issue was there any discussion at all. It would also be better if sessions as important as this weren’t on during the exam week in a closed room in Building 10 where no one could see what was going on or participate unless they specifically knew about the session. UTS is of course a very difficult place to organise events given its broken-up nature and so it’s up to the University to work extra hard to ensure consultation sessions and other forums are as open and transparent as possible, kind of like the last student forum that happened where people could have input via radio, phone, email, text and Twitter, as well as showing up in person at an open space.

Ph: (02) 9514 1155 M: 0416 925 296 W: www.sa.uts.edu.au T: @UTS_SAPresident

UTS WOMENS COLLECTIVE As always it’s been a busy time for the Women’s Collective these past few weeks!

We’ve held a stall on Equal Pay Day, which you can see in the photos, we’re working on a campaign to do with UTS Housing and of course we’re doing a final call for submissions to Women’s Vertigo.

Equal Pay Day was a great event; members of the Collective went down to the Markets campus to put up posters, hand out information and get students to sign novelty petition cheques to raise awareness about the pay gap that exists between male and female graduates. It’s amazing to think that as soon as we graduate, women are already on the back-foot when it comes to paying back HECS and earning money.

You’d think that given we do the same degrees, we would get the same pay but unfortunately this isn’t how it always works out. Want to know more about this campaign? Contact me or come along to one of our Collective meetings.

Women in Housing have been harassed for far too long, a recent survey by the National Union of Students (NUS) found that one in five women are sexually assaulted on university campuses around Australia. This is unacceptable; no one should be made to feel uncomfortable or victimised, especially not in a place that is supposed to be safe. We are currently working with the Students’ Association President, Neha Madhok, and Secretary, Jade Tyrrell, to lobby the university to make changes to UTS Housing in order to prevent these instances from occurring ever again. These include things like compulsory sexual ethics courses, a more thorough and transparent complaints procedure and instating queer and women’s representatives from the Housing student body who can sensitively be the point of contact for cases that some students might not feel comfortable going straight to UTS Housing with. The good news is that UTS Housing wants to meet with us, the Students’ Association and seriously talk about these issues, so we’re asking you guys for your information and anecdotes to strengthen our case.

We’re still looking for designers for the Women’s Edition of Vertigo. If you think you’re pretty okay with InDesign and Photoshop and want to flex those design muscles, give us a buzz!

The Women’s Collective meets: 5pm Thursdays at the Women’s Room (Building 2) Find us on Twitter: UTS_SAWomen Email us: lyndal.k.butler@student.uts.edu.au Call us: 9514 1155

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