Empire Times 47.1

VOLUME 47

EMPIRE TIMES ISSUE ONE

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GREETINGS

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Empire Times would like to acknowledge the Kaurna people, who are the traditional custodians of the land Flinders University is situated on, and that their land was stolen and never ceded. We would like to pay our respects to the elders of the Kaurna nation and extend the respect to other Aboriginal peoples past, present, and future.

Editors

Cover Art

Amy Bennett Bec Manser Carmen Giffen

Sheydin Dew // ‘Linguist’ 1

Sub-Editors

Amy Bennett // 40-41 Bec Manser // 3, 9-10, 35, 49 Brie Dark // 28-29, 44-46 Carmen Giffen // 48 Emily Mae Boxall // 39 Kendrea Rhodes // 22 Lawson Dodd // 25-27 Rebecca Stevenson // ‘Honky Tonk Man’ 13

Amy Lowe Brie Dark Brooke Cantley Celeste Northcott Dani Nguyen Elissa Unferdorben Joshua Collison Taygan Beaton

Writers Amy Bennett Brie Dark Carmen Giffen Courtney Sealey Emily Mae Boxall Hollie Gardner Kendrea Rhodes Kieran Thornton Madeline Percey Melanie Ross Sheridan Phillips Simran Kahlon Sophie Hercus Tabby Knight Tony Saad Tristan Newsome

Printers Newstyle Print

Visual Artists

Masthead & Logo Bec Manser

Photography Carmen Giffen // 37 Unsplash // 36

Special Thanks Alicia Wood James Watson Jess Nicole Kienan McKay Tim Coyle

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President’s Address 6 // Meet our 2020 FUSA’s SC Student President

What is FUSA? 7 // Understanding our student association

Greeting the New You 8-10 // Embracing the freedom of uni

Surviving University 11-12 // Tips to make it through first year

Humans of Flinders 14-15 // Hear from other voices on campus

Do’s & Don’t’s of Meeting Your Idols 25 // A how-to on celebrity interactions

A Wild Duck Chase

HouseMATEnance

16-18 // A short story

28-29 // A subpar experience in sharehouses

Resolutions 2020 19 // Goals for the new year

From Country to City 20-21 // A journey of moving out of home

Mind the Gap 22-24 // Generational differences at uni

First Impressions 30 // Finding friends at uni

Student Services & Amenities Fees: Explained 31-33 // Why SSAF is important

Taste of Flinders 34-35 // The low-down on campus food & drink

Awake, Hello 36 // A poem

The Cook Nook 37 // Mexican bean recipe

From URL to IRL 38-39 // Meeting online friends

Political Correspondance 40-41 // Q&A with uni political clubs

Pets of Flinders 42-43 // The editor’s pets

How Do You Say Hello?

44-46 // Culturally diverse greetings

Your Student Council 47 // Contacting our student elect

Puzzles & Activities 48-49 // A comic and things to do

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tepping into a new year on campus always feels like a new beginning. Continuing students may feel empowered in their studies as they refine their knowledge and edge closer to graduation. Students in their final year (like us!) may feel daunted by the difficult reality of leaving what’s become familiar, and first years (welcome!) may feel like their whole world has turned upside down. Personal lives, work lives, study lives—even if you find comfort and familiarity in one, another may be in turmoil. Regardless of where you are in your life, we welcome you to Flinders in whichever capacity you arrive.

Our own university journeys have been a series of decisions, made one at a time, that landed us where we are now—a place we never could’ve imagined we would end up. Choosing the same year to study, the same campus, the same degree. We’re lucky to have met. Though someone (*cough* Amy *cough*) didn’t go to their very first tutorial and left one of us (Bec) all alone, by the end of the first week we’d met everyone in our niche degree (including Carmen). It didn’t take long until going to uni was synonymous with seeing each other. Since our first few days at Flinders, we’ve been in this experience together, and that has been undeniably one of the best parts of it.

We hope to bring our usual chaotic good vibes with us into our new position and are excited to see the new things that come out of our term as Empire Times editors in 2020!

Amy, Bec, and Carmen Empire Times Editors, 2020

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of Flinders dictate how much time we can spend on campus. The days of spending all day on campus sipping beers or being actively involved in clubs and societies is seemingly over. Students just can’t spend the time on campus that we once were able to, and this is impacting our support groups and capacity to study. The external pressures on students are greater than they’ve ever been. However, I do not believe that all is lost.

ello there! My name is Josh and it is so exciting to introduce myself to you all as your Student President for 2020. This will be my fifth year here at Flinders University after enrolling from high school and I am currently undertaking a Bachelor of Public Administration. I’d love to chat more about Student Council and FUSA, however I do not have the word count here so please do check out the FUSA section later on in this magazine.

The theme for this issue of Empire Times is ‘Greetings’, which caused me to reflect on the beginning of my time here at Flinders and some of the people I have met. Leaving high school and a close group of friends who were all attending different universities was an incredibly daunting task, however I was confident I’d quickly make a new group of study mates. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been the case. While I’ve met some incredible people along my academic journey, and have made some lifelong friends, the reality of my study schedule has meant that I haven’t managed to replicate that same group of mates that we make through high school.

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And you’ve already taken the first step. By picking up a copy of Empire Times and taking the time to engage with campus culture and conversation, you can be a part of our revolution. Regardless of your field of study, spend another fifteen minutes on campus to go to an event, be involved in a club, go to a rally, or write for your student magazine: this is how we can make substantial change in a world that is seemingly designed from the ground up to be against us.

There is no better time to get involved than now! Join a club during O’Week, grab a ticket to O’Fiesta, get involved in any way you have the capacity to this year and together I know that we can achieve something really special in 2020.

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As students we must come together during so much uncertainty. We’re up against a government who, after failing to completely deregulate university fees and turn our campus into $100,000-degree factories, has now tied university funding to key performance indicators that will disproportionately impact smaller universities such as ours. We’re facing a government that is relentless in its desire to push against any substantial action on the climate crisis. Now is the time to come together as students, to mobilise, and ensure that we as the next generation of leaders and creators are taken seriously.

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FUSA is responsible for the social events on campus, and we’re very well known for organising O’Fiesta, our pub crawls, “relax” days, and the Uni Ball. We support and fund all the non-sporting clubs and associations at Flinders, as well as the very magazine you’re holding: Empire Times! Through our Student Assist team, we also help students with academic, administrative and welfare issues, including providing support for extension requests and financial counselling.

FUSA is governed by the Student Council, who are elected democratically by the general student population of Flinders each year. The Student Council is made up of 19 members; a Student President, 12 Office Bearers, and 6 General Council Members.

As the governing body of FUSA, Student Council provides strategic direction and coordinates the campaigns and events run through FUSA. Our Student Council doesn’t just have

to do this on their own as FUSA also consists of a dedicated team of staff supporting both the events, media, clubs, and student representation projects that are run out of FUSA. FUSA also has friendly admin staff that you’re always welcome to come say hello to during business hours in the FUSA Office, located on Level 1 in the Hub. FUSA has a proud history of supporting autonomous communities on campus and facilitating all the safe spaces and events at Flinders. In the Hub, we have a Queer Space and a Women’s Space, and are currently in the process of arranging a Disabilities Space on campus as well!

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he Flinders University Student Association, or FUSA, is your student association here at Flinders. Student unions and associations exist on campuses right across the country to mobilise and support students; acknowledging that there is an inherent power imbalance between us and university management, and that our goals are often contradictory. Student unions and associations also exist to provide political representation and advocacy, and will often come together through institutions such as the National Union of Students, to fight for our rights as students on a national level.

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he leap from school to university is an exciting yet terrifying experience that everyone goes through. The stability and routine of primary and secondary education creates a safe bubble that consumes our entire lives, and anything beyond that in the “real world” doesn’t exist in our oblivious adolescent minds. We know eventually we’ll become adults and find our own paths, but it seems so far off in life that by the time the end of Year 12 rolls around we suddenly find ourselves at the edge of a cliff. A cliff with the vast void of adulthood and the “real world” waiting for us to take that first inevitable leap.

~ For me, I remember how both eager and afraid I was to take that leap at the end of my senior year. My emotions were a constant mix of ‘holy shit I did it!’ and ‘holy shit I did it, what the hell do I do now?’. My decision to go straight into university rather than take a gap year was based partly on the desire to cling onto the familiar structured haven of education a little while longer while I sorted myself out in this unknown world.

The main desire behind “doing the uni thing”, however, came from a Flinders University spokesperson and the shocking discovery that creative writing was a legitimate course that I could study.

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I remember that feeling of exhilaration when I received my acceptance letter into the Bachelor of Creative Arts: Creative Writing.

This was my chance to learn how to achieve a dream I have had since I was little, and I would be able to improve my skills and meet so many amazing people who shared my passions.

I was very lucky to wind up in a degree with a very small cohort. At first the terror resurfaced as I was hit with the reality that I would no longer be a “big fish in a small pond” but was now a “big fish in a big lake with other bigger fish”. The ability to quickly and easily make friends in high school was something I had a lot of trouble with, and my eagerness to fit in meant I felt I couldn’t talk about my interests in the depth I desired to. I was afraid I would be unable to form any connections in this new, big lake. Luckily, the people who found themselves in the degree with me were just as wonderfully nerdy and creative as me.

By coming to university, we provide ourselves with an opportunity for a clean slate. A chance to reinvent ourselves, to find ourselves, and define ourselves beyond who we thought we were in school. There is little chance you will find yourself in the exact degree that your school friends choose and, depending on your hobbies, you realise to the full extent how little you have in common with your school friends. When you are no longer

words by Hollie Gardner

seeing each other every day, schedules and other responsibilities get in the way. Of course, there is nothing wrong with having different interests to your school friends. My passions were completely different to those in my circle of friends from high school—and still are three years later—but I appreciate the relationships I made and I love how I still find that those connections we made are as strong as ever despite our differences. But sometimes when you have an interest that no one else shares it can be lonely, and during the torturous time of raging hormones known as the teenage years, you feel alone. Even if your friends let you ramble about your favourite video game, or latest fictional crush, or theorise about a show you’re watching, the knowledge that they don’t quite understand can be quite isolating.

University gives you the chance to find other people who share your interests because you choose the degree that will help turn your passions into something to support you, or at the very least give you the tools and mindset to go out into the big wide world and find it for yourself. The more I was surrounded by like-minded people, the more I felt comfortable sharing my favourite books and shows. They evolved to become

proper interests rather than continue to exist as guilty pleasures.

I also found that with my expanding interests my own creativity was evolving and the stories I wrote improved dramatically.

Suddenly there was a whole range of options for me to explore outside of the little niches I had claimed, and many new shows and mediums I discovered alongside my friends I made in my degree.

If you are in a degree where the cohort number is a lot higher, that’s okay, too. You have plenty more chances to meet new people and form relationships. You can join clubs, attend a quiz night at the Tavern, or join in a badminton game in the Plaza. Find your people and then you will find a support system to carry you through the good times and the bad. Embrace your freedom and use it to find things about yourself that you may not have otherwise.

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In short, what I’m saying is that university life gave me the chance to expand my horizons creatively and socially. I’ve found possibly the

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art by Bec Manser

A chance to reinvent ourselves, to find ourselves, and define ourselves beyond who we thought we were in school

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best group of people I have ever met, all of whom are on the same level as me artistically and interest-wise. Since my first year I’ve really embraced my nerdy side and let go of the fear of being judged for it. I’ve gotten into podcasts, more animated shows than I thought possible, discovered new genres, delved deeper into the art of writing, and felt confident enough to get some of my work published. I’ve cosplayed at Supanova and even started playing Dungeons and Dragons, something that 17-year-old me never thought she would do in a million years. And I’m still discovering new things about myself with each new experience, and I can see others going on their own journeys of growth all around me, too.

But the most important thing I’ve learned from coming to uni was that it’s okay to be you. It’s okay to express yourself, to wear merch or dye your hair or get that tattoo that means something to you, or straight up come to class in your PJs. Because the people you meet here come to Flinders to learn just like you do, to take this next step into an unfamiliar—and at times, terrifying— world beyond high school and carve out a new, more truthful version of themselves along the way.

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t’s hard to define a singular first-time university experience, but I think there is at least one thing all new students have in common: fear. For most people, this is the transition between high school and university, which is effectively a somewhat wonky step towards the great unknown that is adulthood.

And for others, it’s still a massive leap into a world that may not seem welcoming to anyone who isn’t a fresh-faced teenager.

But we’re all connected by this great change that comes with your first day arriving on campus and all the similar experiences we share following it.

So, from the mouth and memory of a student in their final year, here are a few inside scoops on surviving the chaos that is life at university:

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Try (and the operative word is try) to do your readings.

Make a calendar, notebook, and/or diary to keep track of due dates. Massive wall calendars are amazing for this!

Figure out how you best take notes, because you’ll be doing a lot of that.

Only ever miss a lecture, seminar, or tutorial if you know you’ll catch up on the content later. It’s much, much easier to just go to them than it is to actively set aside your own time to get it done.

Switch up environments (internet café, home, uni study space, etc) to find the one you best function in.

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Lost On Campus is a free mobile app that will find nearly everything, from lecture theatres to ATMs to microwaves. A word of warning, however: don’t follow the impossibly straight line. It will try to send you walking through walls or into lakes.

If you have time and a lick of courage, head over to uni a day or so before your classes actually start and try to find where all your rooms are and plot it out in your head to avoid the panic of doing it on the day.

If worse comes to worst, just ask someone! Campus security are always good people to go to if you’re lost.

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Bring lunch—or at least snacks—to ease the struggles of your poor wallet and make sure that you do eat during the day.

Try to establish a steady support system early on by making friends in your first few weeks, seeing what mental health services are available on campus, or even simply calling your mum occasionally.

Figure out a good balance between your life at uni and away from it.

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Check the Statement of Assessment Methods (SAM) Form for the allocated penalties for late assignments per day,

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no one would give a damn if you rocked up in a Naruto jacket and cowboy boots

~ However, my time at university has also been largely positive, so I can’t account for where you are in your life and what you need to grow as a person. The things you seek may very well may not even be in higher education, or differentiating circumstances may prematurely draw you away from study.

I just hope that my hot tips help for as long as you’re able to stay.

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how overdue assignments can be before they’re automatically failed, and the overall percentage of your final grade an assignment is worth. You can find this on Flinders Learning Online (FLO) when you click on any of your topics.

The referencing style depends on whoever is teaching you and your degree, so make sure you double-check your topic handbook on FLO or ask your lecturer if you’re not sure.

Talk to your lecturers and tutors face-to-face if you have a problem. They’ll usually be more understanding and offer more help than if you reach out to them over email. Plus, they’re more likely to remember your face (which helps when it comes to deciding a participation grade!).

Try to keep updated on the Flinders University Student Association (FUSA) Facebook page for any free brunches, live music, or stalls—because nothing hits quite as hard as learning you missed out on a free sausage sizzle because you got to uni just a little too late.

Literally no one would give a damn if you rocked up in a Naruto jacket and cowboy boots, so don’t be afraid to be who you want to be.

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What I’m really trying to say is that it’s okay to get sick, fall behind, miss a reading, hand stuff up overdue, or generally say ‘no thanks’ to taking the wearying commute to uni on an especially bad day. It’s difficult balancing study, work, and a social life. A lot of people—and most likely you, too—will get overwhelmed with the sheer amount of everything you need to do and burnout. The best advice I can dispense is to break things down into manageable parts, build on your strengths and identify your weaknesses, and have fun. Please. Because the best part about university is the freedom to explore who you are and what you learn. The recipe to a worthwhile experience at Flinders is simple: do your work, pursue what makes you happy, and accept whatever challenge comes your way. It’s your time to live out the cliché of being a stressed-out, haggard-looking uni student who’s having the most awesome, ballsin’ time of their life.

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STUDENT: CREATIVE WRITIN

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What was your first impression of Flinders University?

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he first time I saw Flinders Uni was at an open day in Year 12. I was drawn in by the buzz of people at stalls and hanging around the Hub. I could see myself walking to classes and sitting in the food court with a coffee surrounded by friends, or just studying in one of the many little nooks around the uni.

It was so unfamiliar and “adulty” to me, everyone seemed to have so much knowledge in what they were doing and have their life together. As a kid who was on the cusp of graduation with no idea what life would be like after school, it was something that I craved. I knew I had to get in and experience everything Flinders had to offer. When I did, I found that it was not quite what I thought it was, but it’s still been an incredible experience. Life’s about enjoying what you do, so go find what you like and do it!

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y first impression of Flinders was being taken in by it’s vibrancy, energetic vibe, diversity, and inclusive feel! The great campus with it’s surrounding forest and wildlife—the abundance of ducks and nope ropes was also a huge appeal. Well, maybe more so for the ducks than the nope ropes.

Being an avid cyclist and cycling commuter my horror at the climb from the Ring Road up to Registry Road was probably the only negative aspect but I’ve grown to love that horror of a hill.

My very first impression was a couple of years prior when I worked with greyhounds and we attended an O’Week event. The bad? The parking (that’s still the same). The good? All the happy faces and welcoming, friendly students.

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initially started my tertiary education at the University of Adelaide, so, transferring as a midsemester student, I was forced to find my footing rather quickly. At Adelaide Uni, I constantly felt as though I was an outlier, a bystander, an onlooker, anything but one of my peers. Thankfully, I found the opposite when I started at Flinders. My first impression of Flinders Uni was one of finding my place; the students acted as I did, the staff were approachable, the hills rolling and welcoming.

I didn’t feel daunted by the thought of attending class anymore, campus wasn’t a fear to me, and I clicked with my new degree by the end of the first tutorial.

My first impression was good—great even—and enough to make me want to stay.

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words by Melanie Ross

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lex was aware of being the only person standing still in the heat. Tucked away to the side of the foot traffic with hands curled up tightly against his sides and his leather satchel beside his feet, Alex watched the passing people from behind his trademark mirrored sunglasses. They were loose-limbed and smiling as they joined the ever-shifting crowds that gathered to peer into a line of white tents before wandering through glass doors and into the main building ahead. The laughing and chatter grew louder as more buses arrived and cars pulled up to deposit more people into the O’Week activities.

‘So this is where it all starts for some, hey?’

Alex spoke quietly to the bust of Matthew Flinders situated on a marble pedestal beside him, an instinctive social shelter. In half an hour’s time he’d sit in the intense, artificial cold of the Health Sciences Building in a room filled with rows of chairs and, maybe, tables of lunch platters obscured under foil. Well away from the main O’Week attractions that others were racing towards. At the university preparation workshops he would listen and take notes on the fresh pad of lined paper.

And breathe. Alex planned to take the bus home afterwards. His O’Week would be done.

A nearby volunteer approaching new arrivals leapt at Alex, giving him no time to find his phone for a pretend call.

greeting to the next newcomer. Righting the statue’s dignity, he removed the bag and saw the words printed on the front proclaiming ‘Flinders University O’Week 2019’ in a blue box. But the image on top of the slab of colour made Alex do a double-take. His eyes narrowed as he tilted his head quizzically.

‘A pink duck?’ Alex examined the photograph of the bird looking back at him, its head and neck visible above the O’Week symbol. Was it smiling? Or as close to what he felt a smiling duck could look like, at least. The more he stared, the more Alex felt soothed and contented. There was something about this duck, but what was it?

‘I’ll show you, if you want. Why the duck, I mean.’

Alex couldn’t find the source of the latest student volunteer, who was likely mature aged, judging from their gravelly tone. They’d all retreated to the tents in the lull of foot traffic.

‘Ignoring me already?’ the mysterious whisper continued. ‘Probably won’t notice me again until our selfie together when your classes are done.’

No. Surely not. Alex half-turned to his right and bent his knees to examine the statue.

More words filtered into his consciousness.

‘Welcome to Flinders!’

She gave Alex a sweeping smile, looped a cotton bag over Matthew’s partial shoulder and spun around to deliver her sing-song

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‘Think you’re the ultimate observer who prefers to avoid the crowds? I dare you to try decades of being out here. In all weather, too.’

There was no mistaking the slight movement

of Matthew Flinders’ mouth, but the eyes remained fixed. Caught by surprise, Alex lost his balance, caught his foot in his satchel and yelped as he took a tumble into the statue.

The welcomers started emerging from the tents, all looking in his direction. Alex’s stomach started to twist and he remained half-hidden behind the pedestal, but the next whisper, delivered directly into his ear, refocused his attention.

anyway, Alex popped out into the open air to see a frantic badminton game on grass across from food stalls in the shade. Although people lazed in groups on sun-lounges across the steps of the plaza, their voices were smothered by the wind and an amplified voice. Alex stepped out further and looked upwards to see a news reporter talk about commercial space travel on the giant TV screen on the side of the building.

‘I’ll show you the meaning of the pink duck.

Watch out for the signs.’

Nothing.

Alex paused, trying to make sense of this bizarre experience. Caught between the urge to escape and be on his own, or follow an intriguing quest, he picked up his satchel, and looked at the pink duck again before sliding the O’Week bag over his shoulder. Alex strode ahead towards the automatic glass doors that he hadn’t planned to pass between so soon.

Although he’d seen the shadows move behind the glass and heard the scraps of noise from outside, Alex felt overwhelmed by the mess of words and number of eyes that greeted him. Everywhere ‘Clubs Day’ posters were taped to white columns. A river of people moved between rows of tables with eager faces behind them. The space was filled with questions and new conversations rising from the hundreds of people surrounding him.

Every surface that could be used as a seat was occupied by people with plates of food balanced on their laps.

Alex scanned the vaulted space of white and glass from behind his sunglasses, looking for potential signs in what felt like a blur of information. Nothing appeared to be even indirectly connected to any bird at all.

Turning his body to squeeze between the spaces jammed with bodies, and a ‘sorry’ that was likely too soft for anyone to hear

Alex decided that his experience with Matthew was the result of heat stroke and loosened his grip on his satchel. He could wait here for twenty minutes and keep to the original plan. But as he looked around for a shaded place to sit, a pattern of chalk drawings on the concrete ahead kept him on his feet.

Pink arrows and the words, ‘Follow me.’

In his excitement, Alex raised his head and looked around casually before following the crisp arrows pointing up the stairs beside the library, not yet smudged from being trodden on.

On reaching the laneway, Alex saw words spread across hundreds of coloured flyers that fluttered in the breeze on pinboards.

A single pink arrow continued between muralled walls of faces against tie-dyed purples and blues. Alex’s heartbeat accelerated when he felt a coffee-drinking couple notice his puffing and lonesome form.

He hid his face amongst upturned titles in a swap bookshelf.

‘Free doughnut?’ A tray of deep fried tastiness and a hand offering him a serviette came into Alex’s eyeline. He said thanks and grasped one, not planning to taste it yet. As he walked across a lawned space surrounded by numbered doors, another pink arrow

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and words came into view on the brick path, ‘Hurry up or miss out.’ Sugar and cinnamon fell into the grass as Alex looked at his wrist.

12:45 already.

The following minutes were an attempt to speed through another paved courtyard space, twisting between people and up more stairs, whilst gazing at the ground. Snatching bites of sweet softness between catching his breath, Alex arrived in yet another outdoor space with more doors—the least busy one so far. No volunteers were helping the lost along the path between grass hills and trees with thin trunks stretched straight. Against the sound of his jaw moving, Alex heard a faint bubbling and was drawn to a shallow fountain of water moving across flat rocks of grey and rust. For the first time on campus, he felt a laugh rise up and whole-heartedly embraced it.

A white rubber duck rested in the water with two garden gnomes and the words, ‘Not far to go!’

Scraping footsteps slowed beside Alex and the laughter of others joined his own.

‘Gotta love a duck…’

‘Good spot for a bath…’

Alex stayed, listening to the reactions of the other newcomers and shared their laughter, taking his sunglasses off to clean them before he moved on.

The arrows became larger in size and a darker shade of pink. Small shards of chalk were abandoned to the side of each stroke.

Alex used the last of his doughnut related energy to take the final flight of steps and silently thanked his statue friend. Confident that the pink duck answer would be revealed up ahead.

Angling his satchel and stepping with ease through a line-up of people fanning themselves with paper plates, Alex turned to

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see a pink banner above a trestle table next to volunteers wearing aprons.

‘Flinders Law Students’ Association— Free BBQ.’ No! No! No! The O’Week bag slipped off Alex’s shoulder and onto the courtyard.

‘What a loser! “A statue spoke to you”?

You believed it?’ The mutterings to himself continued on repeat and he noticed the empty space inside himself return.

And the time on his watch turned up the volume of the voice in his head.

‘13:00… Missed the start of the seminar…

Wasted the only reason why you’re here.’

Alex turned back in the direction of the Plaza, flowing with the steep descent of the short-cut footpath. No one ahead or behind him. Passing through patches of shade, the breeze began to cool Alex. Some steadiness returning. A bench ahead under the trees and with grass underfoot caught his attention.

An opportunity to rest his shaking legs.

The muddy-watered wetland buzzed with the summer noise of insects and the reeds crackled. Alex felt his chest expand and contract. Breathing normally again.

Leaning the satchel beside him and resting the pad of paper on his lap, Alex’s fingers searched for something to write with. As he reached into the corner a sudden noise came from the lake. Alex jolted and the satchel dropped into the grass and slid forward a little toward the water.

Alex looked to the sky and shook his head.

Closed his eyes for a moment, then exhaled as he opened them again. Over the edge of his satchel Alex saw the duck who had wandered over to visit. It seemed to be smiling. He wondered if the duck recognised his smile, too.

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For my resolution, I have not set specific goals like losing weight.

Instead, I am looking at the new year in a different perspective. My aim is to keep developing as a human being, work harder, learn new things, and treat my body as a temple. I want to form new habits, relationships, go places I haven’t seen. To put it simply, these goals are not for just 2020 but for life. I want to be the best version of myself that I can rd possibly be. sb yE mil yM ae Box a ll

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From this moment forward, I shall welcome the new year with optimism and hope.

I resolve to continue where I left from, to become the best I can be, to bury my old self, and embrace my newfound spirit. I promise this year will see more devotion to He who has saved us. Through His teachings I shall be committed to bettering the world and myself. I will pursue my tasks with glee and acceptance. I will keep calm and carry on. I shall make the most of this year, with all my will and stand with all my friends.

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hi For 2020 I have many new year’s resolutions. One of particular importance to me is making at least one new friend at university. Making friends is not something that comes easy to me, and thus I wanted to challenge myself by doing something outside of my comfort zone. Also, as many of my topics consist of assessment pieces that are done individually, I don’t spend much time socialising with peers. The greatest reason behind this goal is that during the previous year, making one new friend positively impacted my grades and my mindset.

My new year’s resolution is to go to a gym. I have struggled with my weight since my early teens. In the past couple of years, I lost a little bit of weight and my self-esteem has really risen. I see myself as beautiful. I still have low days but that is alright. I don’t want to go to the gym to lose weight and gain the “perfect” body. I want to go to the gym to become healthier. To start living a healthier lifestyle. It is important for me to do this because it will affect all areas of my life.

A healthier me equals a happier me which equals a better life. rd s

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rowing up in the country town of Renmark, I remember feeling like Adelaide was this great big city, too huge for me to ever fully understand it. It always seemed intimidating because it functioned so differently to how a country town does. The city has these huge buildings, hundreds and thousands of people who filled the streets at any given moment, and it felt impossible to navigate the roads. The only tall building in the town of Renmark is the local theatre, and you got around on straight, uninterrupted stretches of road. Additionally, the streets barely had a few hundred people on them at one time, except on special events. Despite all this, I was excited because I was entering a new reality filled with new experiences.

When I first moved to Adelaide I didn’t have my car with me, which was a great relief at the time. I couldn’t imagine myself driving in the city. It always felt like there were too many people out and about, the city’s road rules felt too foreign and, most importantly, I didn’t know the streets of Adelaide.

In my first three months in Adelaide, outside of Flinders, I only trusted myself to get to Rundle Mall and the Adelaide Central Markets. They were within walking distance to me and near to the bus stops I took to get to university. If I was taken beyond these places I would have not known where I was and would have been unable to find my way back unassisted. I never went further than what I knew, fearing that I may not be able to find my way back.

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In Renmark, I drove confidently because I knew which streets were the quickest and which were the safest. I had grown up knowing how to travel around Renmark, but when I moved to Adelaide I had to learn simple things like how to get to certain places, which routes were the quickest, and which to avoid all from scratch. It was only when I had my car in Adelaide that I was able to go out and learn all of this; having a source of transport in Adelaide was the key to learning to adapt to the streets and pick up city road rules. If I hadn’t, I would have been restricted from knowing how to get to and back from a few select places.

My first day in Adelaide was also the very first day of university. I had received the keys to my apartment that morning. I threw all my stuff in my room and ran out so I could get to my classes, which led me to my first challenge: the Adelaide Metro.

Initially, I didn’t know anything about the Adelaide Metro system, I thought it was a free service—that’s how naïve I was when I moved to Adelaide. In Renmark there’s no metro, and barely any other public transport.

You have to drive everywhere. Thankfully, my cousin who had already lived in Adelaide for a year guided me through it. He helped me identify which bus went to Flinders, told me how to find it and how to check arrival times, and he even provided me his concession Metro card because I didn’t own one yet.

Since I had someone there to support me, it was a whole lot easier to grasp the Metro

system. Eventually, I learned more, such as when to avoid the rush or how to display bus etiquette, which were things I had to pick up through experience.

These were some of the most difficult hurdles that I had faced when I first moved to Adelaide. I had to learn how to adapt to these situations in order to become comfortable in my new life. However, it wasn’t all bad because moving to the city meant that there were more retail stores to shop at, more restaurants to eat from, and generally a greater availability of services.

The main retail store in Renmark is Big W and the next biggest store is Target, which was a 20-minute drive into the next town, so it never felt like there were many options when looking for clothes. If I wanted to get an outfit for an event I would have to plan it weeks in advance because options were so limited and more often than not, I would need to source it online. For my senior prom, a majority of the girls had either ordered their dresses online or went to Mildura or Adelaide to purchase them. That is not the case in Adelaide; I could walk into Rundle Mall the day before an event and have a full outfit ready to go, no problem.

When I first moved here, I lived on Waymouth Street, so I was nearby the city. This was always the perfect excuse for me to go shopping whenever I could. It’s fair to say I didn’t save much money back then and the amount of restaurants close by did not help either. However, it was small things like this that made it easier to adapt to city life.

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GREETING 1: ‘Shall we be partners?’

A bit blunt, but it was paired-assignment-time.

The student surveyed the tutorial room, scanning for other offers, but all those fluent in their language were busy—I received a reluctant nod. We examined the assignment together and, like the perfect parent, I praised their fast-flowing ideas. From the outside this looked like a productive partnership, but from within, communication was stunted and awkward.

Over the next week my emails were ignored and, at the next tutorial, my partner sat in the corner, surrounded by full seats—busy working with a person their own age. I was partnerless.

The generational greeting-gap gaped at me in hindsight. Why did I use the word ‘shall’?

Why was I so enthusiastic? I should have seen this coming: of course a young person would want to be partnered with another young person. As a Gen Xer, I expected to be kept informed (and that’s my language right there).

It’s cowardly not to tell someone how you feel to their face, or via email at least. As a Gen Zer, my partner sent me their effortless message without inflicting pain; after all, it’s a waste of time to send a message when the message is that you don’t want to send a message. This was about expectations—I had anticipated age-based rejection at some point at university and I was trying hard to prevent it. Maybe too hard.

Working against bias isn’t new to me. I was constantly on trial throughout my 25-yearlong business career and railed against gendered insults such as ‘like a girl’, ‘ladies’, ‘b*tch’, and ‘nag’. I called out the boob-talkers who only made eye-contact with nipples; the door-openers were always refused, usually

with a show of my perfectly functioning limbs replete with bends at the elbow. I demanded respect for my work, not my gender. I was aware of gender oppression at the time, but completely unaware of (and complicit to) ageism. Until, in my 40s, I was awarded my very own invisibility cloak—by a woman.

GREETING 2: ‘Hi, are you my new partner?’

We met at the university café: the partnerless dregs of the subject—the leftovers. Odd numbers across classes created pairing possibilities of one or three, but that was unacceptable. Two it had to be.

I was nervous, having failed my first attempt at academic collaboration. And it was obvious this new partner could speak the language of my previous partner, but due to something—courage, life-skills, no choice—this partnership prevailed. I managed my expectations, ignoring the two-word text messages, lack of timely responses, and salutation etiquette. They ignored my incessant editing, hearing difficulties, and verbosity. We nailed that assignment and the generational greeting-and-expectation-gap.

GREETING 3: ‘What are you doing for lunch?’

Smiling. Eye contact. Wrinkles. This conversation would be in my language.

That question was posed after a tutorial and before a lecture, perfect timing for a calorific chit-chat. We discussed creativity, academia, active listening, and the art of storytelling.

Two Gen Xers who instinctively knew that an invitation to lunch is an invitation to talk.

I may have balked at that question posed by a Gen Z, Millennial, or Baby Boomer. Was it just our age that brought us together?

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The written word is more than ornamental: it can sustain people Professor Brad Sago of Anderson University, Indiana, USA, has researched generational issues in the work force. In a Business Credit magazine article, he said ‘... those with similar backgrounds... tend to share similar viewpoints… communication styles… expectations. They also tend to understand and experience a greater comfort level with each other’.

~ There’s comfort in language, word choices, and conversing with others. At a Flinders University seminar in 2019, Hannah Kent, award-winning author and Flinders University alumni, said, ‘The written word is more than ornamental: it can sustain people’.

Whether written, verbalised, imagined, or depicted, words portray much about a person, a culture, and an era. Communication is sustenance.

Words matter so much that some require other symbols to soften the blow: f*ck and sh*t. American comedian, George Carlin said, ‘These words have no power. We give them this power by refusing to be free and easy with them’. Carlin went on to construct a list of ‘Seven Dirty Words’—words that must not be said publicly because they only have one context. He said them and was arrested. That was 1972, and those words did have power.

What words are considered ‘inappropriate’ has changed over the decades. In 2014,

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TIME magazine compiled a list of words that various people and groups have banned or attempted/suggested to ban over the years, from ‘tornado’ in 1883 to ‘n*gger’ in 2014.

Other words listed in the article include selfie, bitch, ho, lesbian, and housewife. In 2018, as part of Spirit of Inclusion month, QANTAS staff were given an information package with suggested words to avoid, like husband or wife (use spouse or partner), mum or dad (use parents), and Australian settlement (use colonisation, occupation, or invasion).

For 2020, Dictionary.com’s list of offensive words includes: spirit animal, Sherpa, guru, ninja, Nazi, bingeing, scalping, gyp, and hysterical. When bandied about in light-hearted reference, the use of these words displays an ignorance and insensitivity to their etymology. We might also add ‘OK Boomer’ to that list as ageist and divisive.

It’s hard to keep abreast of what is and isn’t appropriate, but if you stick to the language of your generation—blinkered to all others— your greetings and meeting experiences may suffer.

FINALE: A Smile On our final day of tutorials, my original partner passed me a handout. I was next in line and surprised they’d relinquished their seat in the corner. They smiled at me and it translated into my language. It was whatever I wanted it to be—I’m sorry; I forgive you; it’s forgotten; we’re classmates; we’re human; use this language.

‘We all smile in the same language,’ is a quote attributed to many in varying degrees and is popular in print, art galleries, music, academic studies, and in times of conflict as a white flag. A smile is the herald of joy, the split second of human recognition and when used in greeting, it can be translated freely.

No language necessary. No age limits. No restrictions. No gaps.

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ver the years, I have met my fair share of idols that I look up to, ranging from celebrities, to Youtubers, and to artists.

It can be challenging not to get carried away screaming and running towards them, but here are a few pointers on what to do and what not to do when meeting your idol.

What you should do is respect their space and remember they are human, just like you. You may have a celebrity walk past you at some stage at a convention, often with security.

For me, walking past Harry Potter’s very own Tom Felton, aka Draco Malfoy, was really nerve-wracking. As much as I wanted to say hello to him, my first thought was to be respectful and let him walk past without being unexpectedly greeted by a super fan.

Instead, I was able to ask him a question at his Q&A, which was delightful.

Do not take unnecessary photos of them.

For example, I went to a We The Kings concert and stood right at the front. I took several photos of Charles Trippy (like 100) but I could tell he was getting annoyed at me. You shouldn’t need to prove to the world you’ve “seen” an act by taking 100 photos, which can

bother them. Also respect if they do not have time to take a selfie and understand they are allowed to say no. Do not take it to heart.

Don’t follow them around. This is called harassment. I once had a co-worker who followed Zac Efron back to his hotel several years ago. Be respectful towards them and understand that boundaries are something everyone is entitled to, even if they are a super hottie.

Do not hug them without asking. Some idols are simply not allowed to hug their fans due to contractual agreements with their manager/s. But if you ask, you may be able to get a hug from Gabriel Brown, Michelle Creeber, or even Odyssey Eurobeat.

To put it simply, there is no standard guide.

Each idol is different. Treat them as you would any other person, ask for permission, and use common sense. You do not want your idol to have a negative experience with you. You may even be lucky enough to have the best experience of your life, but only if you are kind, respectful, and overall a good human being towards them.

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moved into a share house when I was 19 years old, just one month before my first semester of university. The house I moved into was old; in the summer my bedroom was a sauna and in winter it was freezing.

I knew one of the people I moved in with.

Years earlier we both worked in Victor Harbor and we’d kept in contact when she’d moved up to Adelaide. However, I hadn’t met the other two people until moving in with them. Adjusting to living with people other than my family was tough. I found it very difficult to talk to my housemates if I had a problem because they were a tight-knit group. I was the outsider and the youngest.

I lived with two females and a male. The females were the best of friends and the male was in a long-term relationship with one of the females (the one I did not know).

I was living with them for about five months before we moved together to another house.

That is when some of the issues began. They would not wash their dishes and left them piled all over the kitchen countertop around the sink, leaving barely any room to cook.

The couple also had two cats and these cats were not house-trained. They would poop wherever they wanted and pee on the carpet stairs. If no one else was home, it would be left there until they got home and noticed it

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words by Sheridan Phillips or I’d have to tidy it up. I cleaned it up quite a few times because it made the house stink and I could not concentrate on my university work with the smell. Overall, I was living in an unclean environment with inconsiderate housemates.

I did three things to manage and help the situation:

1. JOURNAL: I KEPT A JOURNAL. Writing everything down helps to clear my head and healthily manage my frustrations. I’ve been doing this for many years now.

2. ADVICE FROM AN OUTSIDER: when

I could not come up with a positive solution on my own because I was too much inside my own head and frustrated, I went to a friend.

I explained to them the situation and how I was feeling. Getting an outside perspective helped because they could understand my view of the situation while also seeing my housemates’ possible perspective (they did not know my housemates).

3. TALKING TO MY HOUSEMATES about how I was feeling, and suggesting some possible solutions, was the best course of

I wouldn’t ask to live with anyone else. The small bickering is worth living with two people who love and care about you and at the end of the day have your back.

action. I talked to my housemates and things improved a little. They understood why I was feeling the way I was, and they tried to be better, but for personal reasons, they were not able to change how things were going.

In the end, although my housemates themselves were lovely people, things did not improve and because I was not happy where I was living, I decided to move out. I think this was the best thing for all of us. They now have another housemate whose personality is more like theirs.

Not everyone’s situation is like mine was. My sister recently moved in with a couple of her close friends. When I asked her what living with them was like she said the following: Moving in with my housemates was a lot easier than it would be for most people as we were already best friends and very close beforehand.

However, this did not stop it from being challenging. It definitely tested our friendships as you learn a lot more about people when you live with them and spend most of your time with them. Our main challenge has been finding time to actually spend together as best friends, going to the beach or out for dinner, instead of bickering over who did the dishes last. We are also still learning to communicate with each other. I’m the mediator. There is definitely a lot of passive-aggressive messages in the group chat, however, they are usually followed by humorous GIFs to lighten the mood. Overall, we have only been living with each other for a couple of months and our situation has improved a lot since we first moved in.

The difference between my sister’s living situation and mine was that she knew who she was moving in with. She knew their personalities and some of their habits, whereas I did not know these things about the people I moved in with. Living with people you know closely makes it easier to talk to them if you have any issues and you just feel more comfortable in general.

If you are planning to move out of home and into a share house, I would recommend trying to move in with some friends, rather than with strangers. If you do move in with people who you do not know, my advice would be to communicate. If an issue comes up, be polite.

Kindly ask if they have a moment to talk with you and consider how they are feeling and what their situation may be also. They might have something going on that you do not know about. It is best to be mindful and polite, but also stern; you cannot let them push you around or it will not be a good place to live.

As I’ve said before, everyone’s situation is different, you just have to do what is best for you.

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Ga r I was making awkward small talk with a girl from a different degree when another girl came up to us and asked if we were there for the Introduction to the Creative Arts class (we were). I asked her what degree she was in, turns out we were both in Creative Writing and have been close ever since. We sat down in the lecture together and waited 20 minutes for the lecturer to arrive.

He finally showed, explained he had parked in a loading zone, slipped in a ‘fuck’ in the first 10 minutes of his presentation and immediately became my favourite lecturer.

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The first proper friend I made at uni often sat next to me during our afternoon tutorial. She seemed nice: good dress sense, great nails, and was also one of the few people in the class sharing my major. ‘Ah ha,’ thought I, ‘this is my chance to forge a powerful lifelong friendship through a really witty and clever opening line’. I shot her a hopeful glance, which she returned with a polite (though slightly nervous) smile, cleared my throat and said, ‘Do you know how much Bee Movie fanfiction there is on the internet?’. We’ve been friends ever since.

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Meeting people at university is never easy, but befriending someone you recognise from another class can make it easier. This was the case for a friend I made recently. For an entire semester we had two classes together, and aside from introductory greetings and comments on the classes, we never spoke. The following semester, however, we had three classes together. Upon recognising a familiar face of someone we already slightly knew, we sat together and became fast friends.

Realising we had much in common led us to wonder how we had never really talked before. s ercu H e i words by Soph

On my first day, a guest speaker advised us to make friends. Three years on, thinking about that advice, I see a girl who’s obviously lost and ask where she’s going. It’s her first day and we’re both headed to the same lecture. Not telling her this, I took her all the way there, walked upstairs with her, and sat next to her. She looked so uncomfortable—it was so hard not to laugh. She thought I was a creep, my first uni friend. Years later, we’re so close. We’re dating each other’s best friends, like a lame sitcom. For one second, I took the speaker’s advice, and it was worth it. wo rds

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niversity fees were one of the most confusing things about being a new student.

When I started as a baby-faced first year, my mum—remembering her uni days from back in the 80s—asked me to ‘find out how much my student union fees would cost’, and so as many oldest siblings have, I found myself sent on a quest to figure out how something has changed since ye olde days of my parents’ time. When I arrived on campus on the first day of O’Week, I made a beeline for the Flinders University Student Association (FUSA) marquee. Right, I thought. This seems to be the student union that my mum was talking about.

‘How much does it cost to become a member?’

I asked.

‘It’s free!’ The smiling FUSA employee replied.

I thanked her, filled out a form, took a tote bag, and left.

Later that week, I was going through my student portal, filling out my HECS-HELP form. There’s no question about what HECS pays for: my topics I enrol in, the teachers that teach them, and the university I study at.

Academics, basically. My topic fees weren’t the only fees, though.

‘Hey mum, are these the student union fees you talked about?’ I said, pointing to where it asked if I wanted to pay or defer my Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF, for those in the know).

‘Yeah, that looks like it,’ mum said, and that was the end of her curiosity. But I remembered being told FUSA membership was free, and I didn’t understand. I’d already

words by Carmen Giffen deferred my topic fees, why did I have to pay extra? Why was it a separate fee? If I’m paying fees per topic I enrol in, why not make it one fee? What did it pay for?

I wasn’t alone in silently asking these questions. Every second year, Flinders University Planning and Analytical Services conducts a survey on SSAF; in 2019, 27% of respondents (679 out of 2,524) said they were unaware of the fee at all, and 71% of respondents (1,805 out of 2,524) said they were unaware of what services were funded through SSAF. FUSA wasn’t wrong in telling me it was free to become a member. It is free. But back in my mum’s university days, she was required to pay a student union fee which automatically signed her up as a member. Now, membership is optional, and at Flinders, services are available to all, regardless of membership status. Student associations and unions are funded through SSAF, but SSAF isn’t a student union fee, like it used to be.

Confused? Let me explain.

THE BASICS OF SSAF While the current form of SSAF has only been in place since 2012, some form of non-academic services payment has been around for decades. Prior to 2006, university students were required to join student unions and pay a membership fee. In late 2005, the Liberal Howard Government introduced the Higher Education (Abolition of Compulsory Up-front Student Union Fees) Bill 2005, with the legislation name neatly explaining what it did. Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU) came

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into full effect in 2006, banning compulsory payments to student unions. The Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities) Bill 2010 was passed by the Labor Gillard Government on the 11th of October 2011 and introduced the current version of SSAF. SSAF is charged by Australian universities to all students—other than a small handful of exceptions—enrolled each year. It’s a compulsory charge, separate to regular topic fees, supporting non-academic services.

At Flinders University in 2020, the maximum fee a student will pay for the full year is $308, which is what a regular full-time student will be paying, with the first payment of $154 due the 31st of March 2020 (the date changes slightly every year). Eligible students can defer either part or all of these payments with SA-HELP, similar to your HECS-HELP loan for regular topic fees.

WHAT ARE NON-ACADEMIC SERVICES? Non-academic services covers pretty much everything at university that isn’t your actual classes, like Health Counselling and Disability, Sport and Fitness, and International Student Services, just to name a few. The money that you pay each semester goes to a variety of other campus services, each designed for different students’ needs.

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A significant portion of the funds (46.63% in 2020) goes to FUSA. Check out their graphic below for more info.

WHAT IS FUSA? FUSA is our student association and was established after SSAF was introduced.

Most universities have some form of student association, although they might be called a union, guild, or something similar.

FUSA offers their services to all students, free of charge, but there is also a membership option that subscribes you to the emailing list for the FUSA newsletter which includes all the deets about free items on campus, clubs, and the other services they provide. You can sign a form like I did, which are available at the FUSA admin in Level 1 of the Hub, or you can check out their website.

Check out their website or page 7 for a full description of what FUSA runs.

WHAT HAPPENED WITHOUT SSAF? Flinders used to have the Student Association of Flinders University (SAFU), which was entirely independent of the university and produced the previous, much more political version of Empire Times, which used to be

unique in its student-controlled printing press. SAFU also gave assistance with student advocacy, social events, and clubs and societies—similar to what FUSA offers now. After VSU, SAFU was suddenly without financial backing and collapsed, and Flinders University diverted funds from academic fees to support what rose from the ashes of SAFU and other services to become FlindersOne. However, the money FlindersOne received from Flinders University was only a portion of what SAFU received through union fees, and FlindersOne wasn’t able to fund the same size and scope of services offered prior to VSU. A report from Evan Wastell, Student President of 2009, states that student representation received only 6% of the funding they had prior to VSU, resulting in the loss of administration staff, research officers, and policy officers. Postgraduate and International students, previously represented by their own associations, had little to no funding to give specialised and additional assistance to their student base.

The campus child care centre was forced to close, and, due to lack of promotional funding, students weren’t accessing the services that were still available as they weren’t aware of what existed.

Student media at Flinders took a huge hit as well. Empire Times collapsed completely and was replaced by a quarterly magazine

called Libertine that ran ads from various organisations—including other universities— in order to fund the publication’s existence.

Empire Times didn’t return until 2013, and the Flinders University Student Radio (FUSR) also disappeared during VSU and hasn’t made a comeback since.

During VSU, the Minister for Education and Training at the time, Rod Welford, expressed that, ‘There’s a lot more to a tertiary education than attending lectures and tutorials, there’s also the social and recreational aspects to consider. As more of these services are ripped out of universities, we lose more and more of that “community spirit” that is so integral to a university education.’

WHY DOES THIS MATTER? While students again pay a fee for nonacademic services, the legislation reinstating SSAF changed how it was delivered. They’re no longer upfront, as SSAF is now eligible for deferral under SA-HELP loans. Student unionism is no longer compulsory, but student unions and associations are still able to provide a wide range of services to students.

Knowing the history of VSU and how it affected student services has left me with a strong personal appreciation for SSAF and the services funded through it, both as a student who always managed to run past a FUSA free brunch stall on a day I’d forgotten breakfast and now as someone who works with FUSA and knows some of the friendly faces by name. SSAF is essential to the running of all non-academic services at Flinders, and in my view, necessary for a positive campus culture and a safety net for students in trouble.

For more on Flinders University SSAF allocations: https://students.flinders.edu.au/finances-and-admin/fees For more on FUSA and their services: https://fusa.edu.au Empire Times would like to thank the Flinders University Special Collections Library for the viewing of Libertine magazine.

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If childhood is the kingdom where no one ever dies, why does death hold dominion over my dreams when I close my eyes?

There’s only one way out: to live—awake—inside my mind, and avoid the things I dream about, lest to joyous memories I become blind.

The world inside my head provides a brief reprieve.

I recall the world I fled and I don’t ever want to leave.

In my head I see the sky, blue, not gunmetal grey.

In the real world I hail the coming storm and wish it would go away.

I miss my home, the way it used to be.

I miss the streets I used to roam.

I miss the child who had once been me.

Injustice serves its calling and fantasies we outgrow.

Now, when my tears start falling, I bid them hello.

words by Madeline Percey

CRY : GREETINGS

hello // I bid them hello // I bid them hello // I bid them hello // I bid them hello

A salute to the soldier, a wave to the sea, a smile to the stranger, and a goodbye to my old reality.

photos by Carmen Giffen

Gluten-free Vegan Vegetarian

INGREDIENTS: • •

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½ cup arborio rice 420g can basil and oregano crushed tomatoes (most canned vegetables are gluten-free but check ingredient list to be certain) 400g can Mexican beans ½ cup water 1 tablespoon soy sauce (or tamari sauce for a gluten-free option) 1 carrot grated 1 zucchini chopped

METHOD:

1. Put all the ingredients in a saucepan 2. Bring to boil then turn heat down so that the mixture is bubbling slowly 3. Stir every few minutes to stop the rice from sticking to the bottom of the saucepan 4. Cook until the rice is soft (around 25-30 minutes)

TO SERVE:

The beans can be eaten on their own or add: • Sour cream or yoghurt (not vegan) • Put inside warmed taco shells or burritos • Add a lettuce salad • Serve on toast

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words by Amy Bennett

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he internet is a crazy, terrifying, wonderful place. You watch people’s careers get ruined with a single comment and obscure videos rise to almost reverential status. Setting aside the obvious dangers of being online, it’s also a point of connection between you and so many other like-minded people who can somehow become your dearest friends.

I have a few internet pals, although pesky lil’ things like money and distance have kept me from meeting more than two of my mates: Kelsey and Caitlin. I first encountered both of them on Tumblr by chance, and after sharing jokes, interests, and bits of our lives, our relationship slowly became something I truly treasure. We branched out to using Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Skype, and Discord to contact each other. Until one day the time came to voice that unspoken question: ‘Hey, do you think we should meet up?’

Kelsey lives in Melbourne, and Caitlin lives in New Zealand. I had enough savings to fly over and visit Kelsey, and on a recent family vacation I was extremely fortunate that we were able to swing through Caitlin’s hometown on a trip back from Hobbiton.

Meeting both of them was nerve-wracking.

That never changes. I was friends with this person, sure, this stranger I met on the internet… But a niggling fear always remains.

What if we don’t have anything to talk about?

What if I’m not like the projected online version of myself? What if it’s awkward and then we slowly lose contact afterwards out of shame?

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Sometimes, though, you just gotta bite the bullet. In both separate instances that I met Kelsey and Caitlin my reaction was just the same; my heart froze over and all my turbulent emotions seemed to crash together, amounting to this one singular moment of what would happen next. And everything I had rehearsed in my head disappeared as we just smiled dumbly at each other before finally hugging. It was like a reunion with someone I simply hadn’t seen in a very long time. It was that easy.

Hey, do you think that we should meet up?

Unlike all my worst fears, we actually got on really well. It was fun being able to casually hang out with someone without the artificial barrier of technology in the way. Dodgy wi-fi and lagging breaks between messages were a thing of the not-so-distant past! I’d already gone through the getting-to-know-someone niceties with Kelsey and Caitlin; I didn’t have to dance around who their families were and what their favourite TV show was. Instead, we had all these conversation threads and inside jokes to bounce off each other. Because I knew this person. I’d heard them cry, rant, tease, and talk with me at length like any other friend would. Although, there were some things I learned just by being with that person in real life: that Kelsey was shorter

and way more punk than I ever imagined, and Caitlin gave the most warm, comforting hugs in the whole history of human existence.

I do really think the most important thing is that we enjoy each other’s company enough to remain friends, and we try to keep constant communication. We want to be buds, so it’s not something we’re likely to give up, right? The same goes for any and all friends, virtual or not.

It’s also worthwhile to add that I have been lucky enough that my family are super open-minded and trust me to make my own decisions. Despite how unorthodox it would’ve seemed ten years ago to meet someone you knew from the internet, the world has undergone change. It’s safer now to traverse the unknown channels of the internet and know how to protect yourself.

It’s still a good idea to use precaution, though, but once I was using Snapchat to communicate with my mates daily it’s pretty easy to know who I was talking to.

simplest things about them. It’s not about the limitations of physical bounds anymore, it’s about the emotional connection that can transcend that.

I’m glad that my relationships have survived the stigma that comes with saying you’re friends with someone you technically don’t know. But I can say I do know them. I have met them, too, and will continue to do so whenever I’m given the chance. As of today, I’ve visited Kelsey sporadically over the past few years and we still keep in contact almost daily. The same goes for Caitlin, and even though we’ve only met in-person once, there’s talks of her maybe coming over to visit me this year. I can say that they are and forever will be my friends, even if we didn’t meet in the most conventional of ways.

Friends stick by you, anyway. No matter what.

So, it’s really not as daunting as it seems. You have all these fears that you won’t live up to your online persona, but when you finally meet those friends offline, that just washes away.

The world has adapted to the scope of the virtual society and the vibrant communities which exist within it.

Everyday interactions are in a constant state of flux—because you can meet someone randomly and they can come to be one of your closest friends, even if you don’t know the

art by Emily Mae Boxall

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art by Amy Bennett

1. Socialist Alternative

is a revolutionary Marxist organisation. We think capitalism needs to go in order for workers and the oppressed to win their liberation. We couldn’t be more different from the political status quo.

Labor and Liberal want to rule for the rich and powerful, and we want to overthrow them. We also support ending the fossil fuel industry to save the planet; to do that we have to fight the coal-addicted major parties. We support the oppressed resisting this system, whether Indigenous people standing against the racist state, or refugees demanding to come to Australia.

2. Socialist Alternative

members are a leading force in the campus environment movement.

Socialist Alternative activists established Uni

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Students for Climate Justice, a new group which has called demonstrations of tens of thousands across the country in response to the bushfire crisis—for sacking ScoMo, taking on the fossil fuel industry, and demanding a fully funded firefighting service. The world is being destroyed for profit.

1. We’re the Flinders

University Labor Club, a group of progressive students promoting equality and equal opportunity for all people by encouraging the participation of progressive students in the structures and processes of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). Our core values are Democratic Socialism, Unionism, Feminism, and Student Activism. While we do not agree with every policy position of the ALP, we understand that the greatest vessel for progressive policy change, and to defeat the destructive policies of the Liberals, is to elect a Labor Government. We’re proud to advocate for free education, universal healthcare, public ownership of essential services, and an urgent response to the current climate crisis.

1. Greet the new students at Flinders and tell us a bit about your political party. How does it, as a university club, differ from the political state and federal parties in Australia?

2.

The ongoing bushfire crisis is something we are all facing together as a nation.

What should be the first priority response? What can we do to prevent and/or minimise the damage of similar potential threats in the future?

2. The ongoing bushfire

crisis is a national emergency that is going to require national leadership. As the Coalition Government continues to pass the buck on to State Governments, the raging bushfires are going to continue to ignore state borders. It is devastating that so many lives, wildlife, and properties have been lost during this crisis, and our priority must be to treat the bushfire crisis as a national public health emergency and develop a comprehensive response to meet the physical and mental health needs of victims. We also need to make sure our firefighters are properly resourced, and we need immediate and meaningful action on climate change.

1. The Flinders University

Liberal Club (FULC) advocates for the values espoused by the Liberal Party of Australia’s founder Sir Robert Menzies. Broadly, these can be described as economic liberalism and social conservatism. In other words, we believe economies thrive best when market forces choose their own destiny, but we should also appreciate lessons history teaches us about which ideas and values strengthen our nation. This stands in contrast with the Australian Labor Party and its university club offshoots, which advocate left-leaning ideals collectively understood as social democracy.

Government’s role in this involves encouraging the states to perform more land-clearing and controlled burn-offs. There is also an interesting proposition that we could learn from pre-colonisation Aboriginal practices. In a modern context, this could manifest in trained crews performing more flexible and localised fuel reduction that uses particular weather and time of day opportunities to maximise the probability of the fire remaining under control.

2. Regarding the recent

bushfires, the frequency and scope of land-clearing and hazard reduction operations should be a priority. The Morrison

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- i like no one but Carmen :) - i’m a reincarnation of a reclusive elderly Victorian lady - my hobbies include trying to get back into the drawer i got trapped in once three years ago

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words & art by Brie Dark

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s the governing body of FUSA, Student Council’s role is to advocate for the rights and welfare of us as students. Our Student Council members try their absolute best to advocate on our behalf; however, it is near impossible to get in touch with every student that they represent. The best way to contact any of the Student Council members is by email, and you’re more than welcome to organise a meeting, provide feedback, or ask for support with your own project on campus!

The members of the Student Council are as follows:

STUDENT PRESIDENT: JOSH RAYNER - Official spokesperson of Flinders Students and FUSA - student.president@flinders.edu.au

GENERAL SECRETARY: SEAN HENSCHKE - Responsible for finances of FUSA and managing of Club records and resources - general.secretary@flinders.edu.au EDUCATION OFFICER: SUMMER TILL - Responsible for the coordination of FUSA’s education related campaigns and events - education.officer@flinders.edu.au WOMEN’S OFFICER: JESY MURPHY - Official spokesperson regarding issues of importance to women students - womens.officer@flinders.edu.au WELFARE OFFICER: NATHAN CHEETHAM - Official spokesperson regarding issues of student welfare - welfare.officer@flinders.edu.au POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS OFFICER: AIDAN CORNELIUS-BELL - Official spokesperson regarding issues of importance to Postgraduate Students - postgraduate.officer@flinders.edu.au

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS OFFICER: HOANG MINH SON LE - Official spokesperson regarding issues of importance to International Students - international.officer@flinders.edu.au

QUEER OFFICER: IMOGEN DELLER-EVANS - Official spokesperson regarding issues of importance to students of diverse genders, sexes, and sexualities - queer.officer@flinders.edu.au INDIGENOUS STUDENTS OFFICER: MOLLY TURNBULL - Official spokesperson regarding issues of importance to First Nations Students - indigenous.officer@flinders.edu.au ENVIRONMENT OFFICER: AMY TSCHIRN - Responsible for the coordination of FUSA’s environmental campaigns - environment.officer@flinders.edu.au DISABILITIES OFFICER: ANU FRANCIS - Official spokesperson regarding issues of importance to students with a disability - disabilities.officer@flinders.edu.au SOCIAL ACTIVITIES OFFICER: CHÉ CIELENES - Responsible for the coordination of FUSA’s social events - socialactivities.officer@flinders.edu.au MATURE AGE STUDENTS OFFICER: CLARA SANTILLI - Official spokesperson regarding issues of importance to mature age students - matureage.officer@flinders.edu.au GENERAL COUNCIL MEMBERS: - Janelle Chaptini - Lana Tikhomirov - Benika Bhoola - James Glynn-Roe - Kane Abraham - Victor Ephraims Duruji

ACROSS 3. Flinders students’ birds of choice The sculpture in Anchor 3.4.

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2. What building does the hill of 5.

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5. What was the name of Matthew Flinders’s cat?

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