Winners in Academic Board race declared
With voting for the UQ Academic Board closing at 9am on August 16 it didn’t take long for the votes in the online election to be tallied and the winners announced. The three undergraduate student representatives will be Alex Smock (343 votes after preferences), Vishaak Gangasandra (337 votes after preferences) , and Samara Paradine (173 […]
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AGMs can’t be held online says C&S committee
At a meeting of the clubs & societies committee on August 17 the committee passed a motion making it so that all annual general meetings, special general meetings, and inaugural general meetings must be held in person. The motion reinforces current practices in response to people breaking rules and does not change practices. In response […]
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Why the Environment Collective is protesting Andrew Liveris
By Oula Shihan and Laura Nolan On August 5th, UQ will be hosting a panel with Will.I.Am and Andrew Liveris in a conversation about ‘How global business cooperation drives innovation’. Before we even consider why a celebrity is involved in such an event, let’s look at who Adrew Liveris is and his connections to UQ. […]
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Napalm, will.i.am, and UQ, the future is now
On August 5 The University of Queensland will be holding an event that will see American rapper will.i.am speak to UQ Alumn and former chairman of Dow, Andrew Liveris, discuss ‘how global business cooperation drives innovation’. The university appears to be targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students as well as members of the UQ […]
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Grace College to go co-ed from 2022
From next year Male and non-binary students will be able to join Grace College for the first time in more than 50 years. The college’s decision on July 14 means that Duchesne College and The Women’s College will be the only women-only colleges from 2022, while St Leo’s College will be the only men-only college. […]
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Top U.S. diplomat in Australia says universities should foster freedom of speech and debate
When the United States Charge d’Affaires, Michael Goldman, visited UQ in late March to speak with Academics it came just days after the university’s top leadership fronted a parliamentary inquiry into national security risks in the higher education and research sector. The Acting Ambassador is no stranger to universities, before joining the US State Department […]
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Space and Place: the Embodied University
This was a talk, to UQ’s Academic Board, by Graeme Orr of the Law School By population, UQ St Lucia is the 10th largest community in Queensland. It would be even higher up that ladder if we measured by density. Yet what kind of community is UQ, in a physical sense of space and place? […]
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Coercive Control
Content Warning: intimate relationship violence. Have you ever felt that someone you know – someone you love, even – has lingered cruelly in a space that should have been your own? The psychological violence of it might have confused you. After all, governmentalities have long dictated, forcibly, which of our actions are to be understood […]
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The Boa Constrictor Tightens Its Grip: UQ’s War on Students
Today, the Courier Mail is reporting on The University of Queensland’s plans to demolish the historic student union complex and Schonell Theatre for a new airport-style “commuter lounge” with a towel service. This farce is almost worth laughing at, but it ultimately forms the basis for the most violent attack on student unionism and free […]
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UQ: Perpetuating the Period Stigma
Recently, deprived of my sanity whilst cramming for mid-semester exams, I found myself in the Lawbry bathroom. There I sat, my eyes wandering to a sticker on the door in front of me; ‘bins are for the disposal of feminine hygiene items only.’ At first (perhaps I’ll blame my temporary stress-induced insanity), I accepted it […]
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