After an excellent speech by a beautiful Honi Soit editor at the NTEU teach our, students gathered and sprinted down Eastern Avenue to avoid police capture
After a one-hour occupation of the Student Centre by activists, international student Aman, who was facing potential deportation, has been granted an extension for fee repayments. The University failed to respond to his requests and emails regarding his financial difficulties.
Today we updated our door, to reflect the name the Honi office was given in memory of
@_slangers
.
You can find us in the Langford office, at any and all hours.
Honi is outraged at the result of the Voice to Parliament referendum tonight. With a victory for the No campaign comes a victory for ignorance and racism — a victory for fear and hate.
Updated program for our Student Media Conference, with keynote speaker Antoinette Lattouf at the Opening Ceremony.
From 27-29 September at the University of Sydney.
Tickets are free with donations going towards Olive Kids Foundation.
Register here:
The USyd Student Representative Council and Postgraduate Representative Association have launched a petition with the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seeking transport concessions to be made available to all students in NSW.
Veronica Lenard reports.
Donohoe seconds a motion to rename the Honi Soit Office after Sam Langford, who edited Honi back in 2016, and tragically passed away recently. Liam states "the depth and breadth" of Sam's knowledge, appreciation and love for Honi's history was practically unmatched.
#usydsrc
Police have issued move-on orders at the No Fee Hikes No Uni Cuts protest at Fisher library. There is heavy police presence all over Eastern Avenue. One protester has already been issued a fine.
Around 30 students are currently occupying the F23 Administration Building, and will remain overnight until University administration reverses their decision to cut the majority of Medical Science staff positions. Honi will be providing live coverage tonight.
#BREAKING
@Sydney_Uni
's latest staff news announcement advises staff and students who attend this Friday's Climate Walk Off will not be penalised for missing classes or work to attend.
BREAKING: Angus Fisher (NLS) has been provisionally elected as the President of the 97th SRC. He obtained 38% of the primary vote to Rand Khatib's 37%.
The NUS NatCon 2023 has been officially closed.
Today escalated to a level of unconstitutional and disrespectful behaviour that can never be excused.
Honi Soit sends solidarity to the members of the student community who were impacted by the perpetrators.
More on this to come
BREAKING NEWS:
Honi Soit has received allegations of a threat on Camperdown Campus.
Police have arrived. Fisher library, Abercrombie and the New Law Building were evacuated in the last hour.
More info to come.
Women's Officer Vivienne Guo brought up the fact that Dyson Heydon, who was recently found by the High Court to have sexually harassed 6 women, is still an Emeritus Professor at USyd, and states that a motion to condemn Heydon will be raised tonight.
#usydsrc
Today's protest against the course merger of Gender and Culture Studies has commenced! Rain or shine, students will continue to fight our neoliberal university
WHAT?! ABBEY SHI is donating FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS to the SRC?! Lily Campbell and Jack Mansell are in absolute disbelief. They are questioning its legality at all.
#usydsrc
Around 100 protesters have gathered on the University’s front lawns in anticipation of an education rally called by the NTEU. This is the first protest on campus since the public health order was updated to allow protests of up to 500 attendees.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Honi is at the Town Hall protest against illegal Israeli occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
The University of Sydney Philosophy Department has listed Holly Lawford-Smith, Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, as one of its speakers in its Semester 2 seminar series.
BREAKING: Festival goers are reportedly waiting 9+ hours to enter Splendour in the Grass due to flooding, with some campers allegedly being directed to pitch tents in puddles and floodwater. The Festival is yet to contact ticket-holders. More to come.
In an invigorating Student General Meeting, hundreds of students at the University of Sydney voted overwhelmingly in favour of cutting ties with Israel.
“Girlboss feminism? I’m not sure what girlboss feminism is,” Jagose said, before commencing her lecture on Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble | Rory Larkins
The rooftop courtyard of Fisher Library has been locked for 30 years. Following an Honi Soit campaign, it will reopen as early as 2023.
Reporting by
@roisincymurphy
.
Photography by
@_thomassarge
.
@claireatsolives
Highlight of the night so far was seeing Oscar (Trinity Grammar) and Owen (Arden Anglical School) accuse each other of trying to speak for the working class
BREAKING: Campus Liberals Satvik Sharma, Thomas Thorpe, Ivan Samsonov, and Aryan Ilkhani caught breaking into the SRC Publications Managers' office. Nothing seems to be missing, although it'll take a fucking exorcism to get rid of the smell.
After hearing speeches in front of the USyd Quadrangle, a march led by the USyd Women’s Collective moves towards Eastern Avenue. The rally called for an end to sexual violence on campus.
The University of Sydney’s student newspaper Honi Soit is set to be bought out by News Corp, following its disastrous attempt at satirising the respected tabloid the Daily Telegraph
Protesters at the USyd rally against staff cuts vs. the police watching from the sidelines. Spot the ones not social distancing.
Photos courtesy of
@ninainthedark
SRC President Lauren Lancaster, Education Officer Deglan Godwin, and Turnbull engage in heated dialogue with Lancaster accusing the former PM and the Liberals of being one of the most damaging forces to higher education
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed! The CFMEU has called for a picket of Willow Grove, a historic building in Parramatta, after the union green ban was broken. There are currently 40-50 people here holding the picket.
@indieguo
is on the ground.
Brennan is the fifth consecutive Grassroots President, edging out Labor candidate Rose Donnelly by a narrow margin.
Ethan Floyd, Luke Mesterovic, and Andy Park report.
The past 18 months in higher ed has seen funding cuts, 40k job losses and underpayment of casuals.
Through data on uni governance, financial performance and staff to student ratios,
@deaundre_espejo
and
@maxim_shanahan
trace how we got to this point.
From everyone on the 2020 Honi Soit editorial team, thank you for following our coverage of crises both local and global this year. Here's a collage of all our regular print edition covers from the last 12 months. Fit for Honi, signing off.
On the back cover of this week’s edition: a complaint form for the arrests of student protestors. Just rip it off, sign your name and email to Newtown Police.
Police intimidated USyd staff attempting to hold a public class on democracy, education and dissent, telling them they may intervene if they "needed to".
While some may blame Leach’s loss on the locale’s left-leanings, Honi suspects the reason for Leach’s poor showing lies in something more sinister: the 2022 criminal law exam.
An Education Action Group organising meeting of less than 20 students was broken up by police this afternoon, who told students that they had reason to believe they intended to break the Public Health Order.
"On Tuesday, April 23, University of Sydney student and staff activists commenced their first day of a campout in support of encampments at Columbia University and other US campuses."
Valeria Chidiac and Zeina Khochaiche report.
Read online here:
BREAKING: USyd staff vote to proceed with strike action on Friday this week and Wednesday next week in a branch meeting of the National Tertiary Education Union.
BREAKING: Angus Fisher provisionally elected as 97th SRC President. This marks the first NLS presidency at the University of Sydney in seven years, after a five year dynasty of Grassroots presidencies.
We’re here, we’re queer! We’re fabulous, don’t fuck with us! After occupying the road for over 40 minutes, the Mardi Gras march has disbanded at the corner of Hyde Park. Dance party ensues 💃🏼
Students from the Gender and Cultural Studies Department pen a response to Annamarie Jagose's recent message to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Around 100 protesters have gathered on the Quad Lawns to demand that the staff cuts to Medical Science be reversed. This rally is being held just six days after the NTEU rally which ended with a 6-hour occupation of the F23 Administration Building.