Semper Floreat is the University of Queensland Union's free & independent student newspaper.
In case you missed it, four of UQ’s student societies recently teamed up to host a ‘School Themed Pub Crawl’. Yes, that’s right. School themed. Four teams of highly-talented, creative student executives held one of the biggest events of the year, and gave it the same theme as the Royal Exchange might for any other […]
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Straight out of nowhere, the UQ Co-Op Bookshop has disappeared and been replaced with allegedly over-priced ‘School Locker’. News broke on StalkerSpace last night, so Semper got on the case and churned out a Universe-style listicle to wrap up the semester. 1. Cry because Co-Op refuses to refund memberships We called up the Co-Op customer service line, and […]
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As part of their commitment to Creating Change™, the University administration announced in 2016 that the UQ Union Complex was due for a complete demolition and reconstruction in 2017. You probably know the UQ Union Complex as ‘the place where Guzman y Gomez lives’. But the Complex is also a monument to the age-old institutions […]
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The creator of a website where UQ students review courses and lecturers has blamed foreign hackers for a script that mined cryptocurrency on visitors’ computers. A member of the UQ Computing Society discovered the malicious script last Tuesday, when the website caused his CPU to run at 100% capacity. A look at the website’s source […]
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Today marks a sacred day, or at least a feared one by many ‘regular’ students. If you haven’t already seen them in their bright shirts and eagerness to hand you one of those be all or end all campaign leaflets, you must be living the high life at another campus. But listen up, as someone […]
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Today we have seen confirmation of what students have been saying for decades. The rates of sexual assault and harassment at University campuses are staggeringly high. In 2015/16 1.1% of UQ students have been sexually assaulted in a University setting. 28% have been sexually harassed on university grounds – or during travel to and from […]
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In the very different and distant world outside the world of UQ, things have been afoot. I know, I am shocked that there is a world outside UQ too! But I recently ventured to this strange place called “the Griffith University” for a panel hosted by the Griffith SRC. The panel consisted of Milton Dick […]
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Have you passed the old lolly shop recently? Well, it certainly isn’t a lolly shop anymore. Located next to UQU Secondhand Texts & Stationery, the Union Hub is a casual student space brought to you by UQU, your student union. The Union Hub is a social space where you can eat your lunch, catch up […]
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