THE VOICE
Robert Menzies College
Second Edition In this weeks edition... O-Week Recap Photos!! Ultimate Fresher Interview Wiretap
Editors Jennifer Good & Zoe Walters
Feb 2018
Contents O-Week Recap ................................. Pg. 2 Fresher Fiesta................................... Pg. 4 Pool Party ....................................... Pg. 6 Scav Hunt ........................................ Pg. 7
Fresher Cuts .................................... Pg. 10 Coffee Crawl and Pub Crawl ............. Pg. 12 Harbour Cruise ................................ Pg. 14 RMC vs. DLC Dance Off .................... Pg. 17 Tour de Mac ....................................
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Interview with Ultimate Survivor.......
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Awards Night .................................. Humans of RMC ..............................
February/March Calendar ................
Word Search .................................... Wiretap ...........................................
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O-Week Overview issue Welcome to the second edition of The Voice for 2018! This edition is covering O-Week and the huge number of events that occurred! Although O-Week is finished, the fun and the events don’t stop there! The RMCSA and RAs organise a huge range of events occurring within each block and within college as a whole! Don’t miss out on these events because we can promise you’ll enjoy them and make many incredible friends! We also wish you good luck on your first week of classes for the year!
Zoe & Jen
O-Week
This year’s O-Week introduction to college was
filled with a fantastic range of memorable events
to welcome the new batch of Freshers to RMC. With some crazy hait cuts and camo shirts the new RMC
freshers dove into O-Week with enthusiasm and zest. The week started out with the fresher fiesta and ended on a high note with the Tour de Mac and Closing Ceremony.
Among the many successful events was the Welcome
Service held by TCM, lots of people went along to the church and enjoyed a night of meeting everyone.
From Scav Hunt to the Pub Crawl the week was filled with energy and smiles.
With impressive outfits, impressive hair cuts and
impressive attitudes the freshers managed to survive the week with the help of returning RMC residents
who shared their experience and words of wisdom.
The fresher flu, missing home, getting involved, the fresher five, new friends, the Trinity Chapel and other college commonalities! Congratulations on surviving the first week of college! But don’t
forget that the fresher flu is still
out there and with everyone tired
from such a jam packed week it is
spreading. So, make sure you keep yourself well rested and drink lots
of water. There have already been a few people around with husky
voices and coughs, so make sure to take some vitamin C and keep cold and flu medicine handy!
Just because O-Week is finished doesn’t
mean that you still can’t get involved. The RA’s will have block events and there are
some exciting sport events coming up too! Commencement dinner is right
around the corner so remember
to dress up (semi-formal) for this event and enjoy the yummy food! Also don’t forget to RSVP on the RMC app if you’re a returner.
Another commonality at college is missing home which can be difficult to deal with.
A way to combat this is to make sure you decorate your room to make it feel more like home! You can always come and pat the college pets too (Sable will love you more if you give her food).
The fresher five is also still out there
especially with a staple food of chicken
and rice and the convenience of the Mac
Centre. To beat this, take advantage of the free gym membership!
If you’re missing attending your
church services at home then don’t forget we have a fantastic team
of Chaplains right here at college!
Both Dan and Tim are always up for a chat and are happy to help you
get involved with the Trinity Chapel (TCM). Even if you missed their
Welcome Service in O-Week they
are always happy to welcome new comers to the church.
The Fresher Fiesta On Sunday night as the beginning of O-Week the Fresher Fiesta was held in the common room with games and food! A huge number of freshers turned up and many many new friends were made - even if no one could remember any names the next day! From fresher bingo to Kahoot quizzes about the exec members, everyone enjoyed the activities with Joann winning the Kahoot round and Amy winning the fresher bingo.
Outdoor Movie Night The Outdoor Movie Night was a popular event held at the Outdoor O-Week Cinema in North Sydney. With an abundance of snacks and picnic blankets the RMC residents travelled out there to enjoy the iconic movie ‘Dirty Dancing’. According to the movie goers the night was lots of fun and the movie was enjoyable!
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After the Vice
Chancellor’s Welcome Speech, a pool party was much needed!
Pool Party
Scav Hunt
As a yearly O-Week event, the Scavenger
Hunt began with an eventful early morning train ride and ended with a run through China Town.
8 teams competed for the honour of winning and to be remembered as the winning Scav Hunt team for 2018.
A big congradulations to all the teams
involved - the feat of completing the Scav Hunt is an amazing one!
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Fresher Cuts The fresher cut is an iconic tradition here
at college and produces a dramatic array of
hairstyles. Both girls and guys were involved in this year’s haircut session and the results
were very impressive! Here’s just some of the many cuts!
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Coffee crawl was extremely popular this year, lots of hot and cold drinks were consumed, along with an interesting mango dessert and some flower gelato too.
Coffee Crawl
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The pub crawl began with a trip to Star Bar where everyone socialised and some even managed to start their own dance floor. The night continued at The Three Wise Monkeys where many shots were ingested and some of the coffee crawl participants joined us. To finish the night everyone danced away at Side Bar before being chauffeured home on the buses.
Pub Crawl
With a theme of “dream team” this year’s harbour cruise
proved to be an incredible show of group outfits with some including Mario kart, Snow
White and the seven dwarfs, the literal dream team, teletubbies,
primary colours and care bears! Everyone had a great time and
no one fell overboard so overall
the Harbour Cruise was an event not to be missed!
Harbour Cruise
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Outfits ranged from Bachelorette contestants, to
Aladdin and Jasmine, to Donald Trump and even John Petho and his maintenance crew!
RMC vs. DLC Dance Off
The RMC vs. DLC Danceoff is a annual tradition and the first of the yearly competitions between RMC and DLC that continue throughout the year. As it stands RMC had previously won the last three consecutive years
of the danceoff (2015, 2016 and 2017) after a seven
year losing streak and has redeemed their dancing and choreography skills!
The dance was filled with many slut drops and a mexican wave windmill choreographed to the song ‘24K Magic’
by Bruno Mars performed to perfection by the group of RMC residents.
So a big congradulations has to be made to this year’s
Exec and the freshers who put on an amazing dance and managed to beat DLC for a fourth year in a row!! Lets continue our winning streak for years to come!
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Tour de Mac From fruit bobbing at X5B, to can roulette and eating raw eggs,
this year’s Tour de Mac was as
intense as ever! Congratulations
to everyone who participated and made it through the tour, it’s a
tough challenge and takes a lot of energy after a long O-Week!
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With O-Week coming to
an end, the awards night concluded the activities
by showing appreciation
to the select few freshers
that stood out during the week.
The fresher awards for 2018 went to some
awesome freshers with the ultimate survivor
award going to Carly Donohue.
The winning Scav Hunt
Group was led by Rachel, Tami, Jen, Alex and Jonty.
The winning Tour de Mac group was led by the
amazing leadership of
Jack and Zoe and was full of enthusiastic freshers!
Congratulations to all the freshers and everyone who won awards, it’s
been a fantastic O-Week!
Awards Night
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INTERVIEW WITH THE ULTIMATE SURVIVOR/FRESHER 2018
CARLY DONOHUE
How does it feel to be one of our only female ultimate survivor/freshers? It feels good to encourage everyone,
no matter girl or boy, to be involved, competitive, and have fun!
won’t forget eating a raw egg. Or a raw fish.
What are you studying at uni this year? And what year are you in? I’m in the second semester of my third year. I’m taking a few classes for my
Health Science major as well as an art and Australian Politics class.
Are you looking forward to the rest of the year at RMC? I’m super excited about the rest of my time at RMC and looking forward to
continuing doing stuff with new friends. What was your favourite ultimate survivor challenge? My favorite challenge was eating dinner at
DLC because it was the first challenge I did and got to do it with some friends!
Was there any challenges you were disappointed you missed out on? I really tried to get Pat McCoy to shave and didn’t get a selfie with a bouncer at ranch.
Also do a shoey because I’m in Australia so I feel like it’s a rite of passage.
What was your favourite part of O-Week? Tour de Mac was super fun...I probably
Did you have any tactics when attempting to be ultimate fresher? I fell into the ultimate fresher competition
sort of accidentally and when I figured out
I could win if I tried to keep it very low key so other people wouldn’t start trying too hard.
Did you feel there was some serious competition from other freshers competing to be the ultimate survivor? Bill’s attempt was cute. Are you going to frame your certificate and display it to the world with pride? Of course !
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Humans of RMC
best city beaches and vibes of any
city in our country. So of course, you guessed it, I’m from Newcastle. Does it differ a lot to Sydney/ Australia? Even though it’s only two hours
north, Newcastle has a completely
Human #1 Jeremy Asimus
different feel to Sydney. It’s far more relaxed, beachy, alternative and
most importantly, less touristic and quieter.
What is your favourite college memory?
What is the best way to get involved with the college life?
Last year, a small group of us
freshers went to Fiji in the winter
The best way to get involved is
with people you’ve only known for
conversation with anyone about
worth taking. A week surrounded by
the amount of common ground I have
is a week spent well, especially while
completely different backgrounds.
Australian winter.
What is your best piece of advice
break. It’s pretty a big risk travelling
just to talk to people. Strike up a
3-4 months before, but it was risk
anything. I’m always surprised with
warm water, the sun and good people
with people even if they are from
everyone else was miserable in a cold
for the freshers?
How long have you been at college? I’ve just started my second year of
Textbooks are a scam, don’t buy any.
college.
You’re so close to the library you may
Where are you from?
of fresher flu and know your limits, if
The best city in Australia. With the
as well just rent them. Also, be wary
you are coming down with fresher flu,
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rest and get better. Don’t overstretch
time, but it embodies the college spirit
to Ranch while you’re on antibiotics
meals of RMC (although that could be
yourself when you’re sick, like going
for the flu, because you’ll end up with pneumonia (learn from my mistakes).
What do you study? And what is your
and will always be the most memorable due to sheer quantity).
And lastly, tell us an interesting fact about yourself
favourite part of your degree? I study a Bachelor of Archaeology,
majoring in Geology and Environmental
Earth Science. I love that a lot of learning in my degree isn’t presented in lectures and tutorials but through fieldtrips. I
also I get to travel with my degree, since
both rocks and ancient remains are pretty global. This semester I’m travelling to
several places on the East coast, like Seal
I’ve inherited the Instagram page
‘chickenandroice’, which brings the good news of RMC’s dining hall to the world
wide web. I think everyone deserves to
see RMC’s chicken and rice dinners, and think ‘damn, that’s some good chicken
and rice.’ So, if you want to get into the spirit of the college, go follow the page and throw out some likes.
Rocks, and also overseas to Croatia for
an archaeological excavation. While most of my friends make fun of my degree
for being a dirt and rock lover, I get to
be outside and travel, so who’s the real winner?
What is your favourite RMC meal? If anyone tells you that chicken and rice
isn’t their favourite meal at RMC, they’re probably lying. Some nights the chicken may not be the tastiest, and the rice
might be soggy and crunchy at the same
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hometown is welcoming too. What is the best way to get involved with the college life? Eat in the dining hall and participating
as many events as possible. Join in the student exec, be block captain.
What is your best piece of advice for the freshers? Get involved in college events and make
some friends. Travel around Australia. And make friends with Wang!
What do you study? And what is your favourite part of your degree?
Human #2 WANG YUE What is your favourite college memory? Annual ball party, art’s week international night and many other events.
How long have you been at college? Three years by April Where are you from? Does it differ a lot to Sydney/Australia?
I study bachelor of Applied Finance and Professional Accounting.
I like numbers of accounting. I’m not good at finance.
What is your favourite RMC meal? Beef Lasagne and chicken. Something interesting fact about you (eg how many languages you know etc) I have lived in Kenya for five years. I can speak a bit of Swahili.
I’m from a small town with 1.93 million
people in China. Apart from the language and food, it is similar to Sydney as my
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Navigating Uni
Here are a few little things we think are helpful for you guys to know about the uni...
going overseas. To find out more type ‘global leadership program macquarie university’ into google.
If you are a conscientious student then leave about 10-15 mins before your class, if you are not then leaving 5 minutes with a light jog with suffice.
If you are walking home from class late at night and feel a bit worried don’t hesitate to call campus security and they will escort you home. Their number is 02 9850 7112 or for an emergency it is 02 9850 9999.
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Remember if you feel like you need help with a subject or want to improve your marks, you can contact one of our academic tutors. Their information is in the app? And located near the dining hall. AskMQ will be a great resource, whether you have any questions, need to get a travel concession opal card or need academic advice. Oh and don’t forget to have a look at all the MQ Uni Facebook pages! Some are helpful and the others are just funny!
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THE Wiretap Rachel: “Where’s Jake?” Keely: “Who’s Drake?”
Katrina: “It’s the right amount of torture to produce the perfect child”
Talking about S-Block no longer having fridges.... Keely: *sigh* “...I guess I will have to deal with communal living...”
Andrew: “I’m as useful as a pea pod trying to swim”
Cindy talking about pub crawl: “The only spirit you need is the Holy Spirit” Jake: “If you’re ever tired or sad during O-Week look at your favourite meme and remember everything will be alright”
Jacob: “Rachel, when have you ever done something not to be gay?”
Sarah talking about car parking: “If in doubt pull out”
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Feb 14 - Feb 26 Zoe: “ Stop taking pictures of me Keely! ....but if it’s cute send it to me”
Shannon: “I wanna join a choir” Cindy: “You should join Macabellas” Shannon: “No I can’t sing, I need a choir that doesn’t depend on my voice”
Amy while playing Cards Against Humanity: “You know I love Auschwitz”
Jen: “College ground is not good farming ground”
Kaanchi while hearing the rules to Monopoly: “So when do I say Uno?”
Alex: “I love watching children get eaten by sharks” Rahul: “This is for Harry Potter fans” Kaanchi: “Like me!” Rahul: “Name one character” Kaanchi: “Yoda!”
Zoe: “You think you deserve my pants”
Darian: “Thanks for the bucket”
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