Category: Campus

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 […]

The Courier Mail has today embarked on a total rerun of a 2018 article regarding whether UQ has a university-wide policy for gender-neutral language in assignments. The University had no such policy in 2018, and continues to not have one to this day. In 2018, the policy — which lives its entire life rent-free in […]

University of Queensland Senator Drew Pavlou has walked out of a hearing that was considering his expulsion this morning. Senator Pavlou’s legal representative, Tony Morris QC, explained to press that the Board would not release documents that he considered essential to Pavlou’s defence. “I called for the documents which under the Charter for this body, […]

The writers for long-running serial drama The University of Queensland have announced in an email this evening that Deborah Terry will play the lead role of Vice-Chancellor in 2020, the first time a woman has played the role. The news follows the announcement that Danish-born actor, Peter Høj would be retiring from the role next […]

The University of Queensland has potentially broken federal legislation to renovate a room and provide a leadership course using a fund reserved for student clubs and other non-academic services and amenities. The Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF) must be spent in one of nineteen specific categories, and decisions must be made in formal consultation […]

Protesters from two different groups have today covered walls at the University of Queensland’s main refectory with pro-democracy and pro-Beijing messages. Hong Kong students began putting up a Lennon Wall outside the Student Services building around 1:15pm today. The University soon asked the group to move away from the Student Services building. This comes two […]

The University of Queensland’s Academic Board has voted to endorse the creation of a new major in Western Civilisation in 2020. The vote makes UQ’s Academic Board the first in the country to approve the Ramsay Centre’s proposed curriculum. Although the University of Wollongong has approved a Ramsay Centre degree, the university management bypassed its […]

Semper editor Raphael Wixted told us in this year’s second edition that he had tried to register a dodgeball team in UQ’s social sport using two team names “Peter Døj and the Vice Chancellors” and  “I showed you my Døjballs please respond”. We’re not saying this is an outrageously funny joke. But what we also […]

Indian Feast will leave the University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus before the start of semester two, Semper understands. The outlet will close down over winter break after recent reports that the restaurant was underpaying workers, as well as the discovery of a piece of metal in a samosa. Semper understands that another Indian food […]