Larrikin Holiday Blues
I was filthy shit at coding, and I soon regretted my enrolment. Having failed my first assignment, I decided it would be best to drop the course before suffering academic penalty. Months remained, in the summer semester, and my parents were convinced I was still enrolled; each day I would get out of bed later, go to uni later, and come back home later. Guilt built up inside me.
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“Heckling, Infighting, and a Whole Lot of SAlt”: Dylan Thomas on NatCon 2021
You’re in luck – I’ve decided to sit through three days of heckling and infighting.
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DUNE: Timothée Chalamet nullifies Jihad (Part One)
On planet Hollywood, star power governs all. Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, and the other famed and acclaimed, are to this extent suitable castings. They’re also altogether conventionally attractive, and share some chemistry; in the case of Lady Jessica and her son Paul Atreides, though, this borders royally on the oedipal.
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Honours student Ian Trinh shocked by examiner’s racist micro-aggression
Racism rears its ugly head in many and varied forms. For honours student Ian Trinh, it has most recently surfaced as a comment on his thesis, and in the correspondence that followed.
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VIOLENCE & FREEDOM @ COVID RALLIES
CARF is an organisation of “pro-vaccine, pro-union, and anti-fascist” groups that seek to counter narratives present at anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown. They were there on Saturday, in support of health orders and measures instituted by governments, and to counter the growing influence of far-right elements.
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3 arrests at Climate Direct Action protest
As you’d expect, this had been preceded by some testosterone-fuelled peacocking, on the part of the cops. The heavy-handedness herein was largely led by the black-gloved tactical response units. One of the arrestees reported being choked, prior to his arrest, and our on-the-ground film crew live-streamed footage of similar actions (this, and more, is accessible via our Facebook page).
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UQ to go back on going back on “email-for-life” promise?
In 2009, UQ promised students prospective and current that their university email account would remain active “for-life”. Members of the UQ StalkerSpace facebook group where aghast to find out, yesterday, that the uni had planned to go back on this promise.
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UQ COVID POLICE STATE!
The Sempaaa editorial team is proud to announce its support for the proposed principalities of UQ’s St Lucia and satellite campuses.
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UQU Club Grants to be spent exclusively on booze at Reddo over next few days
Semper Floreat is currently looking at an $18k underspend. Drinks anyone?
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MAX MOK AND THE DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE
When Max fled Hong Kong, aided by Foreign Correspondent, he had “enough for two months’ rent” and thus worked in construction sites, cafes, and would even have “cleaned lobster from the laps of Chinese billionaires”, because he felt lucky to have escaped and did not want to let that go to waste.
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