Issue 3
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An opinion is a medium between knowledge and ignorance. You can listen to the opinion, choose to ignore the opinion or form your own opinion. Whatever you choose to do, know that it is important to voice them and this week’s issue of Scope is full of them. As Winston Churchill once said, there is no such thing as public opinion, there is only published opinion. Scope this week includes an in-depth look into sustainability at Bond with former BUSA treasurer and ‘greenie’, Alex Moss. We get a taste of student’s thoughts, in our new segment ‘letters to the editor’. We hear from one student and his assertive views on our Australian culture and look into the library Facebook phenomenon. Also, we review some classic artists in the Scope review and check out the Halloween celebrations from the weekend. Enjoy.
Editor’s Report
CONTENTS Letters to the editor 04 The Crux of the Problem 05 Bondbook 06 A Shocking victory 08
Beware the Bandwagon expert 09 ROTARACT Date Auction, CLSA’s Halloween
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Bond flies the airwaves for the first time
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Business Week 13 Scope Review 14 Clubs & Societies 16 Bits & Pieces 18
Scope Team Benjamin Strick Sub Editor Emma Lago Sub Editor Vinnie Rugari Sub Editor Kate Tanner Photographer Annalise Blackshaw Photographer Ivy Chai Designer
Moving forward: Bond’s development towards a sustainable future Benjamin Strick The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is one of the hottest topics in Australia at the moment and graduates moving into the environmental, sustainability and carbon trading sector are earning more money than ever.
The sustainable development building has been picking up some popularity both on-campus and off-campus for its design, concept and innovation, but does it actually differ from other buildings? I’m not sure on the stats but I know it is certainly a massive difference environmentally. This sustainable development building uses about 30 per cent of the resources that a normal building its size would use. It’s quite advanced and there’s a lot of pretty awesome technology that has been implemented here. A lot of what has been used in this building has been installed to provide that practical side for students as well. The wind turbine for example is a very small wind turbine, the purpose of it is not to generate power but rather so that students can look at how it works and get a bit more of an understanding about how a wind turbine can be used on a slightly larger scale whether it’s to power a house or a wind farm which provides power to half a city or to a couple of different suburbs. Do you think Bond will look at making its other buildings more environmentally friendly? One of the big challenges at Bond at the moment is that we have this fantastic facility and it’s just going to become important that Bond improves its current facilities as well as adopt the same sustainable practices in each new building that goes up. We’ve
Do you think there will be a big future for this sort of thing at Bond? I’d like to think there is. And over the past few years the level of programs that Bond has to offer has increased dramatically. At the same time though programs studied at universities do tend to fluctuate and we have seen that at bond through a number of different programs and in some years they have grown – other years they have slumped a little bit.
This sustainable development building uses about 30 per cent of the resources that a normal building its size would use. Sustainable development is such a vague term, for those of us who know nothing about it, is it really about property or is it about working for the future environmentally? They say it works hand in hand. Sustainable development is a very broad term - certainly if you’re studying a degree like a Bachelor of Property and Sustainable Development at Bond there is a big emphasis placed on the property side of things. Whether it is on how to best design a property or neighbourhood and certainly right through to the urban planning field but sustainable development does incorporate a lot of other fields at the moment particularly in the environmental management area which is going to be taking off at Bond next year. What can we expect to see out of Bond next year for sustainable development? Next year we have got the Bachelor of Environmental Management starting up at Bond, that’s an undergraduate degree which will primarily be offered to Year 12 schoolleavers and I think we have got the Masters of Environmental Management as well. Tied in quite nicely with that is the graduate Certificate of Carbon Management so that’s got an emphasis on carbon trading and emissions trading in the environment which, again, is a massive industry over in Europe.
At the Titans of Industry Forum one of the speakers said that the biggest money making sector for the next two to three years was for entrepreneurs in the emissions trading field and sustainable development. Do you think if students started studying this now would they be likely to see that sort of money when they finish? Absolutely, now is a very good time to be studying within the field of sustainable development and that’s certainly what I’m trying to take away from it as well. Parliament at the moment has been in quite a lot of heated debate over this and it has been going on for over two years now since the Labor government was elected into the federal parliament so it certainly will grow and be there for students in the future, particularly in the next couple of years when we get a system that comes online. At the moment we don’t actually have a mandatory emissions trading scheme, that’s something that is definitely going to take place in the next couple of years and it already exists in Europe and America as well. Regardless of whether you look Australia or whether you look at an international context it is sure to provide a huge number of very-well paying jobs. I know a lot of the investment bankers and finance students are starting to develop an interest into carbon trading and the actual trading of carbon certificates. So there’s bound to be big things. The Sustainable Development Student’s Association is still only a club/student organisation, with the way things are going school and course-wise do you think it will become a student faculty soon? That’s a very good question. The SDSA is a student club, but the way that it goes about its activities it runs like a student association. I’d have to say watch this space.
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Student Politics
The Bond University Sustainability Committee was formed mid-last year to steer the direction of Bond’s venture into the sustainable development and environmental field. The Committee’s first student representative Alex Moss has just handed the position over to Alan White, so Scope sub-editor Benjamin Strick spoke with Alex, the sustainability guru, on Bond’s green future.
obviously seen a number of buildings at Bond and it would be truly fantastic to see similar measures in place. Not every building needs to go to the same lengths as the sustainable development building but if the new buildings on campus could at least adopt a few of these measures then it really will be fantastic and it will mean that Bond is firming itself up as the new leader.
Letters to the Editor 4
Dear Editor, I am writing in regard to Alex Smith’s article on ‘How sport can play its part at Bond’ featured in last week’s issue. I agree with Alex, I feel that Bond needs to balance its support more effectively between academic, social and sporting curriculums. Academic training and vibrant social functions far outweigh our sporting programmes. As a keen netballer, I am part of a Bond team and see the sporting talent that we can produce. Support by the university is the key. I would like to see Bond become a university that attracts the best sporting talent from around the world because it has built a reputation on its impressive sporting facilities and professional sporting and skill programmes. A reliable source told me that Bond had stopped giving out the ‘sports scholarship’ – this is a backwards step to improving the professionalism of sport at Bond. I understand that a proactive response needs to be taken, and as students, we can help by supporting and enrolling in sports clubs. However, I also believe that Bond University management needs to take a greater role. Let’s help improve sport at Bond.
Send us your letters Do you want to contribute? Have something to say? Any comments? Have something you want published? Don’t be shy! Just write in to: studentpublications@bond.edu.au
To the editor:
Dear Editor,
A big thumbs up for including the testosterone filled and emotionally stirring article on Movember last week. I wasn’t going to participate in Movember – particularly given the cheap shot sent my way – but the level of lyrical mastery displayed by Mr Dennis and Mr Cundy has made me reconsider my position. It made my hairs stand on end in inspiration – but sadly, the nonexistent hair above my upper lip did nothing of the sort.
Some friends and I took a chance to read the new Scope and were truly excited about the wonderful changes you and the sub-committee have achieved both contextually and aesthetically.
The only thing I haven’t decided is which mo’ to grow – the Fu Manchu, the Dirty Sanchez, the 70s Porno, or the Hugh Minson, which combines all of the former, with none of the class. Much love, Liam Auer
So, as a converted avid Scope reader and fellow student, i would like to sincerely commend your efforts and look forward to seeing many more informative and entertaining editions in the near future! All the best and only compliments to you and your team. Best, Han
The Crux of the Problem Dan Pierce
Right about now you are probably sitting there thinking to yourself, “there’s nothing wrong with taking pride in your country, right?” Wrong. This seems to be the part where people bring up the old ‘well, what is the Australian identity really?’ debate. Is it the ‘fair go’, the concept of ‘mateship’, or simply a barbeque on a lazy Sunday arvo? A difficult question to answer, but any attempt to do so would certainly yield a reference to one or more of the previous. Perhaps given the lack of any concrete national identity, the lesser of us have jumped on the star-spangled bandwagon of our sovereign relative: Uncle Sam. It seems that this newfound sense of national patriotism has become confused for a very American and, ironically, very un-Australian type of pride in one’s country. Don’t get me wrong – the fervour of American patriotism suits them fine, their cultural framework and history almost
necessitating such attitudes. But we are not the same, we are not some smaller version of the States and, for that very fact, we have a different national identity. We are Australian and should act as such; I say this as if it were some kind of surprise. Unlike the States, Australia is a country that was founded in peacetime. Owing to this (and other factors), we have become heavily associated with the ‘she’ll be right’ way of going about things. A laid back and low key way of behaving – not in a negative sense, our approach to life is just far more relaxed than other cultures, a major selling point of our nation and its inhabitants: us.
You all know what I’m talking about: the ‘we grew here, you flew here’ attitude of the ever-vocal white Australian youth, the shirtless heathens brandishing our nation’s flag at drug and alcohol-fuelled music festivals and street parties, chanting jingoisticwhite supremacist incantations to the point where the Australian flag is banned at such events due to its tendency to become a rallying point for racism. So, why then are the neo-Nazi Neanderthals spoiling it for the rest of us? One does not
need to reference the iconic Cronulla riots – the simple fact that a number of individuals in contemporary Australian society harbour such xenophobic and nationalistic ideals and opinions is proof enough. Proof enough that a change needs to be instilled into this society. They don the flag of our nation as face paint/war paint (my italics), or they sport the ludicrous ‘cape’ model. Yes, I am sure that the thousands of Australian soldiers died on the battlefields of the world in the last 100 years so that future generations could drink themselves into oblivion and act like Superman on ‘Dickhead Day’ (26th of January for reference, but I’m sure you knew that). I’m not angry, just disillusioned. Disillusioned that Australia will not progress in the eyes of its more learned inhabitants, or indeed those of the world at large, from a bogan backwater to what it could very easily be: a progressive democracy with a uniquely rich history and culture, cosmopolitan metropolises and cultivated citizens who say ‘g’day’ instead of ‘go back where you came from’. Let’s head there together. I’m Dan Pierce.
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Where are we heading as a people, Australia? Southern Cross tattoos, Eureka Stockade emblems and beered-up suburbanites in dire need of a tan and/or a shirt. You all know what I’m talking about: the ‘we grew here, you flew here’ attitude of the ever-vocal white Australian youth, the shirtless heathens brandishing our nation’s flag at drug and alcohol-fuelled music festivals and street parties, chanting jingoistic-white supremacist incantations to the point where the Australian flag is banned at such events due to its tendency to become a rallying point for racism.
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“If you don’t exist on Facebook, you don’t exist at Bond.” Face it, we’re becoming Bondbook – a university thriving on the existence of Facebook. I know if I did enough research I could impress you with examples of subliminal advertising in iLearn’s text that make you subconsciously want to have Facebook as an Internet Explorer tab while you’re working. Perhaps deep within the realms of the Bond treasury there was a secret financial agreement between Bond’s website developers and Facebook’s head honchos to subliminally advertise on the website through selective language. Although what I can impress you with is the use of my valuable mid-semester study time on a Sunday afternoon for a small research practical. In the library full of Sunday session’ers I counted 137 students in computer central. Out of those 137 students, 121 were using Facebook, if you were any good at maths you’d know that works out to 88 per cent.
“-the irony is Facebook is stopping me from writing an article about the addictions of Facebook.”
I know, I know, it’s a Sunday and they could be catching up with their friends who they have moved away from. But almost 90 per cent? That’s steep for a place of learning. Great Bond - so much for your high-scoring students when almost 90 per cent of them sit in the library on Facebook. Facebook was conceived at Harvard University in February, 2004, by a group of computer science students as a way for Harvard students to keep in touch. It has since grown to be ranked in a 2009 poll as the most used social networking system in the world. And what is this fascination with the blue and white and pretty pictured browser? Is it for the “desperately seeking” users, the “I just want more friends” users, the “I love picture comments that make me feel good” crowd, or the “I don’t care I just use it for Farmville people”? I’d say there’s something to it that’s addictive, there’s something in our psychological make-up that makes us crave Facebook. In 2006, Michael Bugeja, director of the journalism school at Iowa State University, published an opinion piece on the distractions of Facebook at universities. He had quoted professors and other academics that had banned Facebook because of student grade concerns. More recent research from the University of San Francisco however suggested that Facebook could benefit students and said there was probable cause that it improves engagement and retention. Right now as I’m working on this 2am piece in the batlabs under the university I am consistently checking my Facebook window to see if that great little red box has shown up to say someone likes me enough to flick me a comment – the irony is Facebook is stopping me from writing an article about the addictions of Facebook.
bondbook Benjamin Strick
“I was thinking about deleting my Facebook the other day, but I just couldn’t bring myself to it.”
Maybe we need the Free Hugs man from You Tube on every corner of every street so that we can get that feeling that someone cares about us. For some this may be a little over-stimulating as the only hug they would have received in the past two months would have been through a chat window. But I will admit, in writing this I too am a victim of the social networking cause. I used to be a heavy Myspacer and sadly for me I was late in the changeover from Myspace to Facebook and I clung on to Myspace in desperate hope that I wouldn’t lose my friends. I’m a sad excuse of a person if that’s my worry in life how much of a following I have on Facebook. But maybe we’re attracted to Facebook because of its facade of fame and marketing. Critics say using services such as Twitter and Facebook can improve the marketability of whatever it is you’re trying to put out
there. Telstra, in fact, encourages their employees to use Facebook and Twitter at work because it markets their employees and puts a human “Facebook friend” face to the organisation. In smaller intelligent social circles such as Bond, marketing is easy and infectious. Take student association elections for example. At the moment, every current BUSA representative has a Facebook page. The Pure Bond party has a page, and so does Catalyst, along with the graveyard of failed tickets from previous elections at Bond – they’ve all had a Facebook page. In fact, almost every student club and organisation has a Facebook page. All of the successful ones do. So what does this all imply? If you don’t exist on Facebook, you don’t exist at Bond. NOTE: This is not a suggestion that you should start up a Facebook if you don’t already have one. For the small percentage out there that don’t have Facebook pay attention to the dilemma every Facebooker holds when they say: “I was thinking about deleting my Facebook the other day, but I just couldn’t bring myself to it”.
Opinion
For some, the social browser is their bane of existence – to be loved and commented regularly and live under the false pretence that they actually have 627 friends.
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A shocking victory Benjamin Strick
What is the Australian sporting event that gets every pub, club and function room packed with well-dressed guests wearing the clothes they’d only wear once a year? The Melbourne Cup of course – the richest and most prestigious two-mile handicap race in the world. In Melbourne at Flemington Racecourse the astounding-looking thoroughbreds line up snorting and breathing at each other as their jockeys rub their ears for good luck unaware that the entire nation’s eyes are pinned on them whispering their names for luck and fortune. The race fever spreads over all four corners of Australia. Even in a small bar in Varsity Lakes I have trouble buying a pre-race refresher. But Bond’s status as a haven for internationals doesn’t mean we don’t get into the race-track fever, if anything we get more into it. Lawyers, accountants and labourers made up some of the numbers at Varsity Lake’s uber-trendy bar the CBD, but the student numbers were the greatest. There were plenty of happy faces before the cup. But there were more frowns afterward. Sadly the news and media coverage that suggested thoroughbred favourites such as Efficient, Alcopop and even Viewed, was wrong. And it just goes to show, this event is all down to circumstance. But it’s an appropriate day for gambling and I don’t think there was any though of
But it’s an appropriate day for gambling and I don’t think there was any though of a recession in this year’s betting with $59.7 million gambled on the one race from NSW and VIC alone. a recession in this year’s betting with $59.7 million gambled on the one race from NSW and VIC alone. Winning this year’s race was Australian horse Shocking, the Irish horse Crime Scene came second and Mourilyan owned by Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov came third. The poor medical student in front of me had invested a small fortune on Alcopop’s chances while others had funded Viewed, trained by Australian favourite Bart Cummings – I can say none of those people were in happy spirits after the race. Aside from the CBD, things were a little bit different closer to home with the Melbourne Cup luncheon at the Princeton Ballroom. The 50-or-so crowd were in more of a cocktail party atmosphere with lavish foods, champagne grilled snapper. And good on them too, it’s the event where nothing can be overdone – not even some of those horrible fascinators that people wear. And now we go back to nursing sore heads and thinking to ourselves that we won’t gamble for another 365 days.
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It’s a loaded question. By answering it, you’re giving a halfwit their opportunity to chew your ear off about dead tracks, scratchings and hot tips, in an effort to position themselves as The Expert in their circle of friends. Beware the hot tip. Everyone’s got a hot tip that they’re dying to tell everyone about. So far, every hot tip I’ve been given only burnt a hole in my pocket. Genuine hot tips don’t spread like wildfire - they’re kept on the down low, so punters can take advantage of the higher odds. The reality is that nobody gives a shit about the Melbourne Cup, and couldn’t care less if the horses were sent straight to the glue factory, or a can of Chum. They’re just in it for the piss-up, the women and the chance to masturbate their ego.
Vinnie Rugari
Expert
You know what I’m talking about. You’re probably guilty of it. It’s that one day of the year where the gossip shifts from who’s banging who, to “Who’d you back?”
Beware the Bandwagon
Feature
Well, it’s Melbourne Cup time again. And that means everyone’s an expert.
The same thing happens every World Cup. Talk to most Australians, and rightly or wrongly (wrongly) they’ll say that soccer is a game for primadonnas and girls, the Premier League is boring because only four teams have a shot at winning it, the A-League is rubbish, blah blah blah. But for four weeks every four years, those pretenders hop right on the bandwagon, and they’ll be the first ones to tell you in the morning about that goal from the Tunisia/ Ecuador game, the first ones to deride you if you didn’t stay up to watch it, and the first ones buying Socceroos scarves that they’ll throw out when the tournament is through. Above all, I feel for the real punters during the Spring Racing Carnival. The ones who spend the other 364 days of their year camped out in taverns across Australia; the old blokes in polo shirts for plumbing companies that smell of stale cigarettes and XXXX Gold, who bring their own pens and betting slips to the TAB. They’re gambling away their children’s college funds - every day, not just once a year. That’s commitment. Imagine how they’d feel, as a bunch of wankers in suits and drunk women with sculptures on their head waltz in, telling them about their “hot tip” and about how the track is “dead”. It’s like giving Dennis Ferguson tips on primary schools with low security. So, the next time you tell someone about your boxed trifecta, or the next time you use the term ‘correct weight’ in a sentence, think about how much of a knob you’ll look like if you’re just doing it for the day. By all means enjoy it, but don’t try and pretend like you are a walking horseracing bible.
ROTARACT
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Bond flies the airwaves for the first time Emma Lago For the first time in Bond history the University’s film and television students are hosting a live-to-air television show. The show: The Lounge will feature a forum of three panellists, where contemporary social issues are debated and discussed. The Lounge’s creator Drew Parkinson said the absence of TV shows with substance, particularly those about current issues and their effects on young adults, inspired the show’s production. “The group felt there were topics that needed to be explored in more detail, and as young film students we were in a good position to bring this show to life,” Mr Parkinson said. The Lounge is produced entirely by students, from the content to crew roles. The heads of department meet with Mr Parkinson each week to decide the content and procedure for the following week. The directors are rotated each week to allow more students the opportunity to experience directing a live studio show, but the floor and technical crew are permanent. The team has currently filmed two one-hour episodes, dealing with issues of alcohol, sex, violence and saving the world. The live panel discussion stems from extrinsic visual evidence such as interviews, social experiments and vox-pops, where the panellists base their discussion on the opinions of the public. The final live show will be filmed on November 11 and will deal with the topic of religion. Parkinson believes the episode will be quite controversial due to the extreme views of the public.
The team has currently filmed two one hour episodes, dealing with the issues of alcohol, sex, violence, and saving the world.
“There will hopefully be some very interesting opinionated and informative discussion,” he said. The show will be broken into three parts dealing with three sub-topics to religion. The live show will include excerpts from an interview the students conducted with Chas Licciardello when he was at Bond, as well as interviews and vox pops about the topic conducted around campus via live-feed. There will also be live bands for entertainment throughout the show. The filming of the final episode at the ADCO Amphitheatre is open to all students from 7pm on Wednesday November 11.
Week nine is...
Business Week
Daniella Stutt
Time
Activity
Monday
10 - 11.30 am 6 - 7:30pm
Business Breakfast Presidents’ Debate
FREE FREE
Tuesday
10am - 4pm 5:30 - 8:30pm
Strategic Management Competition Battle of the Big Guns Networking and Trivia
FREE FREE
Wednesday
10am - 2pm 6 - 8pm
Voting Business v Law Debate
Thursday
10am - 2pm 6 - 8pm
Voting Business v Law Rugby Empire
7:30 - 11:30pm
Top of the World - BSA handover
Friday
Dress code
Business Attire
Cost
FREE FREE Cost: $10 (SAM) ; $15 (Non-SAM) Formal
$80 (SAM) ; $120 (Non-Sam)
The Business Students’ Association in conjunction with the faculty are organising a week full of festivities and bonding events, after all, why should the law students have all the fun? The Strategic Management Competition begins on Monday. Put together a team and get ready to scheme! Contact Raoul D’Cruz on radcruz@student.bond.edu.au for more details and to register.
Business Breakfast: Come down to the
Voting:
Have your say about who stimulates or depreciates the value of the next Business Students’ Association. Remember they represent you so get a return on your investment and get informed.
Business v Law Debate: Come
Business faculty lawn, for a free BBQ breakfast.
and see arguably the two most important faculties intellectually claw their way to victory.
Presidents’ Debate: Watch the
Business v Law Rugby Empire:
candidates battle it out for your vote. Empty promises and broken dreams included at no extra cost.
The traditional grudge match between the Business and Law faculties. Pay $10 for 3 drinks and pizza.
Battle of the Big Guns Networking and Trivia: Industries
Top of the World: The newly elected BSA is
will battle it out for the coveted prize of being named the smartest discipline at Bond. The evening will begin with a cocktail networking session - a valuable opportunity for current Bondies to chat with employers about their role and industry of occupation. Employers will then join students and academics to form a team according to their industry, and the majors undertaken by the students. Chick Chick Boom! Contact Ashleigh Armitage on aarmitag@student.bond.edu.au.
announced over dinner and drinks at the top of Q1.
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Paper Heart For a ‘love skeptic’ such as myself, Paper Heart is the kind of movie you walk into slightly cynical, but leave feeling warm and fuzzy – despite your best intentions. Treading the line between documentary, and narrative, the film is the brainchild of musician, comedienne, actress and all out goofball Charlyne Yi. And yes, for those of you playing at home, she is the stoner girlfriend in Knocked Up. Paper Heart relies heavily on the many charms and quirks of Yi, as it follows her on a quest across America with friend and director Nicholas Jasenovec to make a documentary about a subject she doesn’t understand or believe in; love. The film is a beautiful mish-mash of techniques incorporating everything from homemade puppetry to interviews with Yi’s celebrity friends including Seth Rogen and Demetri Martin. Her quirky, hilarious, shy, and often painfully awkward persona endears her to the audience, making her a refreshing heroine. The autistic-style humour is likely to be appreciated by fans of films like Juno, and Adventureland, which utilise a similar brand of comedy. Although at its core a romantic comedy, with a dash of documentary, Paper Heart is an ode to love and life itself. Not afraid to show the good and the bad aspects of one of humanities most universal themes, the film is a refreshing, and not sickening look at love. A sweet, kooky doco-drama Paper Heart has plenty of, er, heart, albeit a paper one. It’s currently screening in limited release. --Maria Lewis
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U2: Live on YouTube U2. The most polarising band in the world at the moment, perhaps. One side of the argument: “They’re too old”, “They haven’t made a good album since Achtung Baby”, “Bono is a dickhead”. The opposite insists that the four lads from Dublin still have it, made their best album in recent memory this year (No Line on the Horizon), and, while Bono is a bit of a dickhead, he’s their dickhead. I can understand both sides of the coin – their recent output hasn’t been brilliant (‘Vertigo’), but they’ve still got quality in them, as anyone who’s been to one of their concerts will know. The doubters were proven wrong by U2’s performance at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in California, broadcast live on YouTube, pricking the ears of headline writers worldwide (‘U2 want you, too, on YouTube’). The stage itself is worth the price of admission. It’s an abnormal piece of space junk; a giant claw higher than most stadiums it’s placed in, with a circular screen that expands and detracts, and an unrivalled lighting and sound system on each of the four legs. The best part – it allows
‘in the round’ configuration, giving fans a 360 degree view of the band (hence the tour title – the 360° Tour), increasing capacity by 15-20 per cent. The performance itself was great – Bono’s voice is in good nick, and they still know how to rock – but the setlist is far too safe in parts. Acoustic ‘Stuck in a Moment’? At a stadium? Where’s ‘Mofo’ and ‘Wire’ and ’11 O’Clock Tick Tock’, the rockers that have undeservedly been left in the history pages? This stems from the problem U2 have had since All That You Can’t Leave Behind – they’re compromising. They’re trying to make masterpieces, but once they stop trying to, and doing what they want, it’s inevitable that brilliance will result. Once they start making music for themselves (‘Moment of Surrender’) and not the pop charts (‘Get on Your Boots’), then they’ll start getting the critical plaudits we all know they still deserve. --Vinnie Rugari
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Various Artists: The Twilight Saga: New Moon OST.
Bob Dylan: Christmas in the Heart This album is truly awful. Apart from Sufjan Steven’s 5 disc epic, Songs for Christmas, there’s never actually been a bearable yuletide record, but good artists keep releasing them. Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded one, as did Mariah Carey. Elvis released two, and Johnny Cash did three. Dylan’s open just like any other Christmas album – ‘Here Comes Santa Claus’ complete with sleighbells, angelic choir and sickly sweet harmony. And then he starts singing. Dylan, known for his husky voice, now sounds like he’s been shot in the throat and is gargling on the blood. Particularly bad is ‘O’ Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)’ where Dylan sings the first verse in Latin. His pronunciation is on par with Brad Pitt’s “buongiorno” in Inglourious Basterds. Then, for good measure, ‘Must Be Santa’ is sung in polka style, complete with a piano accordion. It’s just horrible. Dylan has won Grammys, Oscars and the Pulitzer. Rolling Stone magazine ranked two of his albums in the top ten of all time. He’s been hailed as a prophet, genius and beacon of change. Dylan, though, has consistently resisted labels people bestowed upon him, insisting he’s ‘just an entertainer’. He’s always been uncomfortable with the fanatical way many of his fans react to his every action. My guess
is this album was released as a private joke – a kind of ‘try and interpret this’ – because there is no way to reconcile this with any of his other 35 studio records. He’s probably laughing pretty hard, since the album is now at 23 on the US album charts.
His pronunciation is on par with Brad Pitt’s “buongiorno” in Inglourious Basterds. Then, for good measure, ‘Must Be Santa’ is sung in polka style, complete with a piano accordion. It’s just horrible. Dylan delivers every song perfectly straight, as if he was channeling Bing Crosby, which is just so un-Dylan that it’s hilarious. I laughed the whole way through Christmas in the Heart. It’s well worth a listen for humorous reasons, but only once, because musically, it’s just awful. --Ike Kutlaca
5.0/10.0
The movie is out later this month, which means every paedophile under the sun will be lurking at his local cinema peering at preteen flesh – but the soundtrack is out now. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve been asked if I have read the books, I’d be richer than Death Cab for Cutie, who landed the title track with ‘Meet Me at the Equinox’. Before we move on, I just want to let everyone know that everything ends and thank God that this song eventually does. It reminds me of teen goth lovers talking about Twilight and how they fantasize about living in Forks, which is actually a real place in Washington state. Population, 3,120. The soundtrack featured on Triple J all last week, and it is at least some indication that it packs in some decent talent. The tracklist reads like a who’s who and besides Eskimo Joe who get a run, you can listen to Thom Yorke, The Killers, Muse, Bon Iver, St. Vincent, and indie darling Lykke Li. However, it also indicates that Twilight has now infected ‘yindie’ (yuppie indie) radio, so what’s next? If you want to keep it street, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s ‘Done All Wrong’ will get you there. It’s probably the only track I can take seriously. In retrospect, I’ll still tell women that I loved the Twilight: New Moon motion picture soundtrack, in a bid to seem cute and funny. Read between the lines. --Mark Pangallo
4.5/10
Scope Review
You know you’ve made it as a band when you feature on the Twilight: New Moon motion picture soundtrack. You may as well pack your bags for LA and live in a Beverly Hills palatial villa. Why? Because every teen, tween and closet nerd in between is listening to it. Royalties much?
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Walking through the room, you can hear Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Swiss, French, Italian, and many more languages. You would think you’d stepped into a meeting of UN delegates, but it’s actually Vintage, the Postgraduate Students’ Association’s semesterly dinner that brings together a diversity of academic faculty and postgraduates from all over the world. Last night, Dr. Anne Cullen, Associate Professor, Deputy Dean, and Head of Humanities, enlightened and encouraged us as Bond University postgraduates, that here at Bond, we have the opportunity of international dialogue everyday. We practice cross-cultural communications with each other and gain experiences that other universities seek when they travel abroad. Looking around the room, and speaking to my fellow postgrads, I knew she was right and I was in awe at the diversity of student interests, both personally and
Vintage Post Graduate Student’s Association Diana Knight academically, as well as the diversity of student backgrounds and future ambitions. Not only is our campus rich with diversity, it also has a wealth of student talent. Vintage highlighted just a small portion of that talent by inviting Kathy Kong as our pianist for the evening, who played beautifully throughout the night. I also invited a talented student a cappella choir, whose harmonious voices had me humming the Enya song long after their performance. I thank them for sharing their passion for music with us. Faculty attendees included Dr. Craig Langston, Associate Dean of Research and Program Director for Sustainable Development, Dr. Justin Craig, CoDirector of the Australian Centre for Family Business, Associate Professor and Head of Department for Global Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Dr. Sudhir Kale, Professor of Marketing and Director of postgraduate study, and Dr. Mark Edwards, Chair of Psychology. To end, I’d like to extend the wisdom Dr. Edwards shared. Postgraduate studies can be a very difficult time of your life, but while searching for your path in life, you often
Postgraduate studies can be a very difficult time of your life, but while searching for your path in life, you often discover who you are as a person and that is the most rewarding aspect of postgraduate study. discover who you are as a person and that is the most rewarding aspect of postgraduate study. The PGSA thanks all who were able to attend, and hopes to continue the spirit of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary dialogue in future events.
CLSA’s Halloween Party: a spooktacular affair Annabelle Cottee
Despite the absence of pumpkins, candy and freezing Canadian winter weather, the CLSA certainly showed students at Bond how to celebrate Halloween. Med student and ‘pilot’ Will Cundy said the party exceeded all of his expectations. “I was schooled on how the Canadians celebrate Halloween, certainly far from the old days of trick-or-treat,” he said. “And the costumes certainly made the dance floor more fun.” The costumes were something to be seen; there was everything from the downright creative (think Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird) to the plain sexy (think naughty nurses and playboy bunnies). Canadian MBA student and ‘pro-golfer’ Colin Huggard said that it was bizarre walking around in warm weather on Halloween, but he had a great time anyway. “Costumes were amazing, and I had heard Aussies don’t really get into it,” he said.
“The CLSA put on an amazing party.” FIVE MINUTES WITH THE CLSA I sat down with Daniel Freudman, the Treasurer/Secretary of the CLSA, to give me some of his thoughts on how the night went. So Daniel, how did you think the night went? Overall, I think the night went very well. We had a great crowd and everyone seemed to be having a good time. What was the highlight for you? The costumes - everyone put lots of effort into their outfit and it made the night all the more exciting. Who won the best dressed awards? Brad Ramsden won best male, wearing a homemade Vancouver 2010 Olympics costume. Best group went to Emma Brinkman, Madison Bone, Tessa Dignam, Mel Storey and Rowan Kendall for going as Mario Kart characters. The clincher on that one was when, in the cab, I heard one of them say ‘Rowan, throw your banana out the window so the car behind us will slip on it’. Also, for better or worse, they all stayed in character.
Natalie Brunoli President Bond University Cheerleading Club
Cheerleading is a sport. I am a Bond University cheerleader. And I am proud of it. We have copped some flack for what we do. You whinge and complain and criticise to no end, but when it comes down to it, why do you attend sporting events at Bond? For those of you who weren’t around last year, sport at Bond was dissipating at a rapid rate. At any given sporting event, you may have seen 20 or 30 people standing on the sidelines, cheering unenthusiastically and leaving at half time. Ultimately, the crowds weren’t coming – they didn’t want to. But, in 083 when we put on borrowed rugby jerseys, shook our Titans cheerleaders’ pom poms, enlisted help from study abroads and did some cheeky dance moves. You flocked. We’re cheerleaders, we sweat. We work hard and we dance harder. We throw girls metres into the air and we stack them higher than your average ceiling. And sometimes they fall. But we get back on the wagon. We push ourselves to the extreme and if you want to scoff at us for claiming to be a sporting club, fine – just remember, unless you can do better, you shouldn’t criticise. Sport has grown exponentially in the past year. And I would proudly say we contributed to the growth of sporting spirit at Bond. Of course we did, we’re cheerleaders – we definitely have spirit. Come see us perform at the USA v Rest of the World Basketball game this Thursday night. And get amongst it. Sport at Bond: it’s a good thing.
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Clubs & Societies
Over 700 Bondies packed into the Drink Nightclub on Saturday night for the Canadian Law Students’ Association’s (CLSA) sold out Halloween Spooktacular.
Hate us ‘cause we’re beautiful
Five minutes with Darryl from Cafe Bond
How long have you been working here?I have worked at Bond for 17 years. I started as a casual at the register and have worked my way up to the senior supervisor.
Where did you grow up?I grew up in Warrnambool, Victoria. I’m the kind of guy who really likes the sunshine and good weather. I’m not a fan of the cold at all.
What do you like to do when you get home from work?I tend to work a lot on my own business. It’s called ‘Aussie Muscle’; selling bodybuilding DVD’s and I work every night when I get home. I don’t get much sleep! It’s not great when you have a 6am start.
If you could pick four people to have dinner with, who would they be and why? Arnold Swarzteneger (for obvious reasons)
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Ronnie Coleman Jay Cutler (because he is the current Mr Universe) John Cenna
If you weren't working at the Brassiere, Bond Cafe, where would you be working? Somewhere in hospitality as I enjoy it a lot, or somewhere in the body building industry.
What is your favourite gym workout? The legs, I have to always work out on my legs.
What's your favourite thing about Bond students?They are always really friendly, engaging and full of energy. The students always like to have a good chat.
What's the most interesting, exciting thing that has ever happened to you at work? The food fight at the brasserrie in 053 and there was also one time when some strippers came, which was interesting. But I definitely don’t encourage this; it can get you in a lot of trouble.
Dear Dr Deflower, a friend of a friend of mine saw an advertisement on a bus about Chlamydia, what’s the deal? From Lauren Gain Well, Gain, One in ten women will have Chlamydia if they are between 18 and 24 years old making it the most common STI. Typically, Chlamydia has no symptoms but if left untreated for a while can lead to infertility and other problems. Fortunately all it takes is one hit of antibiotics to get a 95% cure rate. If you are concerned, there are heaps of anonymous sexual health clinics on the Gold Coast and all it takes is a blood sample and swab. It may be a little awkward for this ‘friend’ of yours, but its better than the alternative. If you have trouble talking to your GP, why not chat loudly about it with your girlfriends over coffee in a really private place like Bond Cafe? Yours in confidence, General Sir Prof Dr Deflower M.D, FRACS, OA, OBE, QC, DICK
Halloween Santa Costumes USA v Rest of the World Basketball BSA Handover Fascinators International Rugby 7’s Post Exam Slam Summer Festivals Igloo Zoo Acoustic Guitars Movember Tie Dye singlets Bike riding NOT Guys not participating in Movember Striving for mediocrity The VC’s private dining room in the Bra The fence blocking access to Market Square Going out for Halloween without a costume Clubs reaching capacity The recent weather Acoustic covers of club songs Lost Keys
im stripping for him via video chat, but the sound is turned off cause his students are taking a test
The jolly green giant just punched the pope. Halloween is the best.
my little brother got his license today.. too early to ask him to DD?
He smothers me through text. I can’t even image what he’d be like in person. I know ur sleeping, sorry for waking you but i just saw a girl with mittens on using her nose to control her ipod touch
I’ve spent 9 hours vomiting in the fetal position... how did I stay like this for 9 months?
Are we still dressing up as garden gnomes for halloween? No. I would like to get laid again before I graduate.
and after you realized your puke was bright blue, you started crying hysterically and screaming, “I DON’T WANT TO BE A SMURF!” no more uv blue for you. I knew the sex would be bad when he slipped the rubber on and said “safe sex activated”
I’m dreading the fact that when the dominoes guy comes, he will ask me if i placed an order under the name “high as shit”.
Oh. Im drinking alone in a banana costume. Every time youre feeling down, i want you to think of me right now and know that your life is better than mine.
so when I got there he was dressed as jesus in a recliner drinking whiskey out of the bottle watching spanish porn. Then kept shouting dont judge me or ill judge you. we didn’t even go to a halloween party.
You’d think with all the porn he watches he’d be a little better at this...
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Bits & Pieces
Melbourne Cup
Considering last night’s endeavours, I am going to hell 5 times over. 1 for puking on a hobo, 1 for laughing about it, and 3 for remembering it today and laughing about it sober
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Do you think we are better than Griffith? Bond v Griffith - Australia v The World - including USA, Barbarians and Fiji
What’s on at Bond Wednesday:
Wednesday By The Water When: 12:00pm-1:00pm. Where: Ornamental Lawns. Cost: Free SAM $4 Non-SAM Come down for a BBQ lunch and a drink, and listen to some music in the sunshine. Captitalism Movie Night! When: 5:30pm at the top round-a-bout or a bus to Pacific Fair. Movie starts at 6:30pm. Where: Pacific Fair Shopping Centre. Free for all. Courtesy busses will be leaving to come back to Bond at 9:00pm. For more information contact the Treasurer of BUSA, Rupert Pedler at treasurer.bond.edu.au. Bond University United Nations Student Association Proudly Presents: Films That Matter: A Day After Peace When: 6:00pm. Where: Theatre 2. Free pizza and drinks will be provided.
SPECIAL: $5 2 day pass to all games Sunday FREE bus to field
7 - 8 Nov 2009 Albert Park, Surfers Paradise Tix available at BUSA
Dodgeball 5v5 Tournament When: 6:30pm Where: Sports Centre. Cost: $5 per person.
USA V ROTW Basketball When: Girls Game: 7pm Men’s Game: 8pm Where: Sports Hall. Free raffle and prizes to be won!
Prizes! Red Bull Girls! Sign-up available under the arch Thurs/Friday or by contacting 093dodgeball@gmail.com
Friday:
AFL Club Training When: 7:00-8:00pm. Where: Sports Fields.
Thursday: Post Exam Slam!! When: 7:30pm-11:30pm Where: Don’s Tavern. Cost: Before 9:30pm: $0 SAM $5 Non-SAM $10 Non –Bond Student. Cost: After 9:30pm: $0 SAM $10 Non-SAM $20 Non Bond Student. Featuring Timmy Trumpet, come down and have a drink at Don’s and celebrate the end of mid semester exams!
AFL Club Training When: 5:00-6:00pm. Where: Sports Fields. Oktoberfest!!! When: 7:00pm Where: Don’s Tavern. Cost: $10 SAM / $15 Non-SAM. Tickets on sale Monday-Wednesday this week Under the arch 12pm-2pm. For more information contact benedikt. muench@student.bond.edu.au. Also visit the facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/event. php?eid=158007953769&ref=ts