scope
week twelve
C
APTAIN’S ORNER
It’s been a long semester and its almost over. Only two weeks to go. I’d like to thank Michaela for her help last week and to all those who contributed. From next semester Scope will change. The nature of these changes will slowly be announced over the next few weeks in the lead-up to Semester 142. These changes mean more interaction, more entertainment and more engagement for you, the students. I’d like to congratulate the winner of the best FSA Publication for 141 the SDSA’s Atlas edited by Aasha Purling. As with all the FSA publications its a great read, and you can still view it online. In this week’s Scope an article in response to Luke Lovegrove’s article from week 9 has been published. The submission was anonymous, but the argument is compelling. Read the article; read Scope Week 9; and, write up your thoughts on the Scope page. That’s it from me. It’s been a pleasure working on Scope for you all. I look forward to my break (as I know all of us do) and to get back into it come 142.
JEFFERS
M
adame President
So somehow it’s week 12 and we’re publishing the final Scope for this semester. And what a semester it was! The January semester never fails to disappoint at Bond and this has certainly been no exception. We’ve launched Bond’s 25th Anniversary with an official launch, Great Debate and Twilight Relay and we’ve seen a diverse and vibrant campus from the colours of International Week to 48-hour non-stop rows to the recent Bond Rugby launch, supported by Bond Cheer each week. I’m often reminded of why I’m proud to call Bond home and Friday night was certainly no exception. Our semesterly Executive Drinks recognises our leading individuals, associations, clubs and societies for their commitment to student life. I’m pleased to acknowledge the following recipients for 141: I’d particularly like to thank our outgoing Vice-President (Recreation) Ben Thangkam for his ongoing commitment to Bond students over the past six months. Ben has worked hard to increase the presence of our under-valued cultural clubs and societies, and I’m very grateful to Ben for his ongoing support of BUSA events. Ben will be staying on as Deputy Convenor of Bondstock (coming up all too soon in week two of the September semester) and we’re looking forward to an incredible week. Applications for Vice-President (Recreation) close this Wednesday at 5pm and should be sent to president.busa@bond.edu.au – please feel free to email me with any queries. Before we leave you for this semester, just a couple of diary dates: - End of Semester Bash will be on Wednesday 16 April (we do apologise to those with exams on the Thursday – unfortunately this move was unavoidable) - We’re delaying Club Sign-On Day next semester to Friday 23 May (week two) to make way for the celebrations on Friday 16 May as part of Homecoming Week to celebrate Bond’s 25th Anniversary We’re still on office hours in week 13 and available for queries anytime at busa@bond.edu.au, but other than that we’ll look forward to seeing you for another great O Week in May and what is sure to be a huge week one with celebrations for the 25th Anniversary. Mel x
issue 13
contents Exec Drink Winners
05 // Big Insult 10 // Facebook 12 // International Student Ambassadors 14 // Blood Donations 10 // CDC Corkboard 14 // Photos 22 // What’s On
Best Cultural Club: Bond Children’s Holiday Camp Best Cultural Event: SPC’s A Snag and a Squabble Best Social Justice Initiative: Bond Law Clinic Best Social Event: BEES’ Masquerade Party Best Sporting Club: Bond Touch Club Sporting Spirit Award: Bond Rowing Club Best Faculty Student Association: Law Students’ Association Best Faculty Student Association Event: The Physical (Health and Medicine Students’ Association) Best Publication: Atlas (Sustainable Development Students’ Association) Bonnie Whitehead Award for Social Justice: Bond Law Clinic Best Non-Academic Staff Member: Jen Younger Most Outstanding Contribution to Campus Life: Emily McGregor Service to Students: Connor McBain
Publications Director James Jeffree
Contributors The Respondent, Antony Scholefield, Anjan Sachar, Rob Shepard
BIG INSULT,
SMALL PROBLEM
‘THE RESPONDENT’
!
Response to Luke Lovegrove’s Response to a Response to Luke Lovegrove’s Event
Last week‟s Scope contained an insensitive response to an innocent journalist‟s report in Bond Briefs. „The Respondent‟ wishes to provide a review to Luke Lovegrove‟s slandering article against Ben Murphy, a journalism student reporting on The Great Debate, taking into account both articles.
“Mr Lovegrove starts his article with an uncalled for insult against an innocent journalism student, and then proceeds to make minor and petty remarks against Mr Murphy.”
So first let‟s look to Mr Murphy‟s article. Mr Murphy provides a summary of the event, the guests, the advertising campaign undertaken, and even provides a praise of the ideas and “colourful answers” in the debate. The only problem with Mr Murphy‟s article was his reporting of the advertising campaign, which he later withdrew. Mr Murphy provided a balanced article which drew upon the Pro-Vice Chancellor for his quotes, along with Mr Lovegrove himself, and regular student, Miss Bell. Any assertions by Mr Murphy were supported by his evidence from the above sources. This did not warrant Mr Lovegrove to take it so far as to call Mr Murphy a “small mind”, and to call his article “a flurry of inaccurate and unsubstantiated claims”.
So let’s now take a look at Mr Lovegrove’s article. Mr Lovegrove starts his article with an uncalled for insult against the student, and then proceeds to make minor and petty remarks against Mr Murphy. For example, let’s look to the first claim; that the topic was actually “that we are currently in the Golden Age of tertiary student experience”, rather than Bond is in it’s golden years. Something pretty small to deliberately try to embarrass a student. You showed him Mr Lovegrove. But let’s move on. Mr Lovegrove makes the wonderful remark that there were closer to ten dozen who attended the event. Having seen the photo, (please look above to see what I’m on about) we would like to ask Mr Lovegrove where in fact these other 8 dozen people (96 people) were hiding, perhaps behind the newly erected flagpole? Mr Lovegrove states that in fact they were “behind the cameraman”, which leads us to two conclusions. First, that Bond students are the most camera shy bunch of people around (unlikely given the gaggle of drunk chicks that follow Ben Thangkam at every party), or, that these people were actually, as Mr Murphy put it, “enjoying the free barbecue lunch and then leaving” (more likely considering Wednesday by the Water is the weekly emergence of BUELI students from the batlabs). Further, Mr Lovegrove even admits that it wasn’t the turnout they were hoping for. If close to a hundred people (according to his calculations) in the small amphitheatre isn’t what they were hoping for, then perhaps the entire student population should have attended, maybe accompanied by a small rhino?
“If these are the actions One of the bubbles, the biggest, was about the comments on publicity, which Mr Murphy withdrew, recognising it’s potential inaccuracies. Again, of our student representatives, than good on you Mr Lovegrove… you showed him! perhaps we aren’t in The last main problem was that “…no clear winner was announced”, the golden age of which was in fact true, and wasn’t a critique on Mr Lovegrove’s event at tertiary education after all. So again Mr Lovegrove, your belittlement of an innocent student really all.” got to the issues at hand here; job well done.
Despite the jest above, the serious problem here is that the Vice-President of Education, someone elected by students to represent them in their academic pursuits (exactly what a journalism student publication is), has slandered an innocent student for no reason other than his own ego. Now isn’t that exactly what we need in our student representatives? If these are the actions of our student representatives, than perhaps we aren’t in the golden age of tertiary education after all.
a review by Antony Scholefield
L
yrics mean little to me. I’m half-deaf, so I have to Google them anyway. I love instruments, vibes, and vocal sounds. That’s why I love WOMADelaide, where barely 20% of performers speak English. This year, I caught nine shows in one day - and here they are, worst to best. Baby et Lulu (Australia): Two female Francophiles (France-lovers). Rewrote the 1940s songbook, sometimes as modern ballads, sometimes as coffee-shop muzak. Capable, but unremarkable. 4/10 Dub Inc (France / Algeria): A Jonah Hill lookalike and Snoop Lion-esque sidekick. Got the crowd jumping with upbeat hip hop, but seemed far tamer than other acts. 5/10 Airileke (Papua New Guinea): Multinational hip hop collaboration with Ketut-style headgear. Showed heavier reggae influences than Dub Inc, and were the afternoon’s better urban act. 6/10 Ane Brun (Scandinavia): Part pop, part folk, part acoustic singersongwriter. Interest factor dropped occasionally, but tackled big issues and generally kept her big audience engaged. 6/10
Loren Kate (Australia): Lovable local girl. Decent sad-song set-list, but the cheerier numbers were even better especially the audience-participated “whistle-off ” for ‘Bird On My Shoulder’. 6/10 Emel Mathlouthi (Tunisia): Protest singer with a rock-chick streak. Occasionally too raw, but always honest, emotive and charismatic. Backing band deserved a mention too, for balancing classicism with finely-tuned pop sense.
7/10 Megan Washington (Australia): Singer-songwriter, ARIA darling, and thinking man’s heartthrob. Unrivalled pure tone, enchanting scatterbrained stage antics, and a surprising ‘Sway With Me’ cover. 7/10 Osaka Monaurail (Japan): Electrifyingly groovy eight-piece orchestra, with a madcap, James Brown-obsessed frontman. Refreshed and reinvented 1960s funk with superb technical skill. 8/10 Hanggai (China): A Mongolian version of the Dropkick Murphies, led by what looked like the bastard son of Elvis Presley and Genghis Khan. Hard-drinking, set-chewing, old-school rockstars. One for your internationalmusic bucket list. 9/10
10
things we’ve learnt from
written by Anjan Sachar
W
ith all the Facebook movies building up the spam on your News Feed, let’s face it, we’re all aware that it’s been 10 years since the initiation of the bittersweet social networking giant. On that note, here are the 10 things we’ve learned over the decade of its existence.
1. DO NOT keep your Facebook account logged in with your roommate. You will come back to an ugly photo upload or a status about how you like ‘the big ones’.
of last night before emailing Prof ‘X ‘that you’re ‘unwell’ and need an extension with your assignment. 5. As soon as you get used to Facebook’s layout, it will change. You will crib about it, get used to it eventually, and it will change again. This cycle repeats itself and doesn’t stop. 6. Make sure you like every random photo otherwise ‘your crush will not kiss you at 12am this Friday’. 7. Do not use Facebook when drunk. Or sad. Or both.
2. When adding new friends from university, DO make sure you go through your profile and privatise your 13th birthday party photos. They will most likely stalk you. And find those horrid years of puberty resurfacing.
8. Make sure you approve every photo you’re tagged in before it comes on your timeline. You don’t want people to see you right in the middle of your dance step, awkwardly getting in the mood, but just not enough.
3. Make sure your phone is on silent before you play that vine that looks ‘so hilarious’ when in a lecture. I’m not sure if your lecturer will appreciate listening to what Drake sounds like in auto-tune. If he does, win-win!
9. Do not add work colleagues on Facebook. Just. Don’t.
4. If you’re the kind of student that likes to have every single person you have met in your life as a friend on Facebook (Hint: Professors) then you might want to untag yourself from photos
10. Record your memories. Memories that you would want to look back at. Not things like a status about how you had a shitty lunch. Or a bad day.
We all do stupid stuff on Facebook. And I doubt we’ll ever stop.
Presenting Bond’s International Student Ambassadors The Three Ambassadors
Abigail
O
Ahmed
ver the course of this semester, Bond’s International side has been in the limelight like never before. Multitudes of cultural and international clubs have been putting on more internationally themed and widely acclaimed events, the International Student Committee (ISC) put on a very successful inaugural ‘International Week’, all this indicates nothing but an upwards spiral of growth.
In the midst of this international frenzy, Robert Sheppard, Abigail Cuenca and Ahmed Almuwais, three Bond students, have had the honor of being appointed as part of 10 International Student Ambassadors to the Gold Coast. This is a program supported by Tom Tate, the Coast’s Mayor, and the Gold Coast city council.
Robert
Mr. Tate’s initiative aims to ultimately increase the number of students coming to live and study on the beautiful coast we all know and love. The ambassadors will serve as the channel for the implementation of this goal, as they will share and promote their daily experiences on the Coast on social media, will help run workshops with International Students, and will go on fieldtrips to promote the iconic Gold Coast locations and activities. They all have one common goal: to help potential students love the Gold Coast as much as they do.
This is an initiative that will allow Bond to have a larger presence both on the Gold Coast and Internationally, with Robert, Abigail and Ahmed aiming to bring contacts to the University so that they can further their equally impressive growth.
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re you made of the
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Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” - Princess Diana
hey say you can judge the character of a society by how it treats those who are worst off. Lets have a look at some people who have found themselves in a pretty unlucky situation:
Sarah is 29. Just after giving birth to a beautiful baby boy she starts to bleed uncontrollably. Tom is 10. Sometimes cancer is indiscriminate in who it chooses and unfortunately leukaemia chose him. Bob is 75. After suffering a heart attach it was decided that he needed serious heart surgery. Amy is 18. Driving home from work she wound up in a serious car accident and now has major internal bleeding. What is it that a pregnant woman with a complicated delivery, a young kid with leukaemia, an elderly man needing heart surgery and a car accident victim all have in common?
Their lives can all be saved by blood donors. Every week 27,000 blood donations are required to keep up with medical demand. While 1 in 3 of us will need blood at some point in our lives only 1 in 30 of us will actually donate. Giving blood is one of the best ways you could ever ‘pay it forward’. Luckily on the Gold Coast giving blood is EXTREMELY easy. The closes blood donor centre to Bond is at Robina Town Centre (86-104 Robina Town Centre Dive). It’s really close to McDonalds – I’m sure you ALL know where that is! To book an appointment simply call 13 95 96. They will even pick you up from, and drop you back to Bond if you don’t have transport. Go with friends and make it a group event – it can be a lot of fun and they even feed you! There are a few criteria (such as weight, travel history, medical conditions, and exposure risks) that will need to adhere to. To check that you are eligible to give blood you can visit the website: www.donateblood.com.au. When you do go to donate it’s also very important to remember to: • Eat a decent meal and at least 3 glasses of water/juice in the 3hrs leading up to your donation. • Bring along photo ID • Be feeling well that day.
week twelve Photographer: Robbie Kinloch | James Burns Events: BASIC Frat Party | Exec Drinks
2014 SEASON DRAW ROUND
DATE
TEAM
LOCATION
1
22/03/2014
Bond University v GPS
Home
2
29/03/2014
Bond University v Brothers
Home
3
5/04/2014
Sunnybank v Bond University
Oldmac Oval (away)
4
12/04/2014
UQ v Bond University
University of Queensland St Lucia (away)
19/04/2014
COMPETITION BYE (EASTER WEEKEND)
5
26/04/2014
Bye
6
3/05/2014
Souths v Bond University
Chipsy Wood Oval (away)
7
10/05/2014
Bond University v Wests
Home
8
17/05/2014
Bond University v Norths
Home
9
24/05/2014
Bond University v Easts
Home
10
31/05/2014
GPS v Bond University
Yoku Road (away)
11
7/06/2014
Brothers v Bond University
Jack Ross Oval (away)
12
14/06/2014
Bond University v Sunnybank
Home
13
21/06/2014
Bond University v UQ
Home
14
28/06/2014
Bye
15
5/07/2014
Bond University v Souths
Home
16
12/07/2014
Wests v Bond University
Sedgman Oval (away)
17
19/07/2014
Norths v Bond University
Hugh Courtney Oval (away)
18
26/07/2014
Easts v Bond University
David Wilson Field (away)
Semi Final
3/08/2014
Ballymore Stadium
Preliminary Final
10/08/2014
Ballymore Stadium
Grand Final
17/08/2014
Ballymore Stadium
Home games kick off times: Colts 11.20am
Premier Colts 12.30pm
1st Grade 1.50pm
Premier Team 3.20pm
For further information please visit bond.edu.au.
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