Author: Tharunka Admin
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UNSW’s Baxter College Incident and an Investigation into Campus Culture
By Brittney Rigby This article may cause distress for some readers. If you would like to report any possible breaches of the Student Code of Conduct, including sexism, students are directed to the Student Integrity Unit for support. https://student.unsw.edu.au/complaints “I wish that all the ladies were little red foxes And if I were a…
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Invasion or Discovery? Political Correctness and Australian History
By Dean of UNSW Law, Professor David Dixon Sections of the popular media recently strongly criticised UNSW for providing students with a guide to Indigenous terminology. This guide is recommended in a guide for some courses in UNSW Law. It is therefore appropriate for me to comment on this episode. The media’s treatment was sensationalist and inaccurate.…
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Editorial: To the present and future Vice-Chancellors of UNSW
Welcome to the last issue of Tharunka for 2014. In more ways than one, it’s the end of an era for UNSW, as we bid farewell to outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Professor Fred Hilmer, who will retire in early 2015 after spending nine years in the top job at UNSW, seeing his salary rise above $1 million…
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When death is no parenthesis: farewell, Phillip Hughes
Ammy Singh @ammyed Even as a Test cricketer, Phillip Hughes’ dream never changed. A working class, country kid in the mould of McGrath and Bradman before him, Hughes long harboured the humble goal of running an Angus stud cattle farm after the conclusion of his professional cricketing career. “If all goes to plan, that’s what…
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Review: Broad City (TV series)
By Tina Giannoulis No matter how far feminism has taken us, Broad City is a game changer for women in the media. Lead by comedic writer-performers Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, the show runs like a version of Fight Club that replaces violent masculinity with casual, but rampant, intersectional feminism. The first rule of Broad…
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USYD fails female students in more ways than one
Thom Mitchell investigates the double standard by which the University has been operating when it comes to defending the safety and privacy of their students. In May last year, Alexander Wright – a student, employee and resident at the University of Sydney – took a naked photo of a woman at his campus accommodation during…