Category: Campus

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and forced the University of Queensland to move courses online the university needed a way to conduct invigilated exams in an online learning environment, for the university that solution was ProctorU. The decision to use ProctorU was met with pushback from students and academics over privacy concerns, now Semper can […]

To me, gaining respect starts with defiance. I am a woman, but who does that make me? I am told to dress moderately, but not like a prude, don’t be too loud, be seen but not heard, keep my legs closed, but I MUST have children, and I mustn’t be too fat, or too thin, […]

It was announced on March 16 that top executives from The University of Queensland including Chancellor Peter Varghese will front the Parliamentary Inquiry into national security risks affecting the Australian higher education and research sector. Set to appear before the inquiry via video conference at 12:45pm on Friday March 19, Chancellor Varghese will be joined by […]

For some time now, I’ve been hooked on trying to consume all the ClassicsTM in time to be considered cultured. For some reason the deadline in my head is 30, which still seems a lifetime away, but there are just oh so many classic films out there. Even just a few years ago it seemed […]

On February 18 Australian students visiting the Semper Floreat Facebook page discovered a lack of content as Facebook blocked Australian’s from viewing news on Facebook in response to the Australian Government’s attempts to force tech companies to pay publishers for news that appears in people’s feeds. However the ban has not limited to news organizations […]

The University of Adelaide has announced that Professor Peter Hoj, AC will be its new Vice-Chancellor. Professor Hoj served as UQ’s Vice-Chancellor from 2012 to 2020. For Professor Hoj, it is a return to the University that appointed him a Professor of Viticulture (winegrowing) in 1995, and where he continued to work until 2004, when […]

From 6pm on Friday January 8 to 6pm on Monday January 11, people living in Brisbane, Logan, Ipswich, Moreton, and Redlands council areas will be required to stay home, as the Greater Brisbane area goes into lockdown. The lockdown comes after a cleaner at quarantine hotel tested positive to a highly infectious strain of coronavirus […]

In a beautiful end to this editor’s administration, the University has today announced in an all-student email that a review of the governance of the Student Services and Amenities Fee is due to be conducted this December. We have previously reported on the University’s failure to comply with legislation that requires regular consultation with the […]

Germain Tobar is an Honours student in physics at the University of Queensland. This year, the Classical and Quantum Gravity journal has published a paper of his which describes the possibility of paradox-free time travel in our universe. Germain says that the discovery is a shift from previous research which maintained that avoiding paradoxes meant […]