Your guide to the UQ Union SGM
This Wednesday night, the University of Queensland Union is holding a Student General Meeting. You’ve probably seen the signs and you’re wondering: “What the H is an SGM?” Semper is here to answer that for you. This General Meeting will consider two questions. Firstly, whether or not a new Schonell Theatre should be run by […]
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St John’s Appoints New Warden From College with “Most Toxic Culture”
Content Warning: This article includes a graphic poem about sexual assault. St John’s College within the University of Queensland has today announced that it will be appointing as its Warden the former Master of St Mark’s College in Adelaide, a college which has previously been lambasted by the media for sexual assaults and racism. Rose […]
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Resignations and protests: King’s sudden decision to go co-residential brings backlash
Residents at King’s College at the University of Queensland have created a website condemning the college administration’s sudden decision to open the college to women in 2020. In March, King’s College Council voted to make the college co-residential without notice to staff or students after over a century as a male-only institution. The new website, […]
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Why is UQ fighting its students over the Schonell?
The recent reappearance of the Schonell Theatre in news headlines seemed to present an unmissable opportunity for us to wax lyrical about the building, and to remind readers why it’s important that performing arts stays in student hands. When UQ students built the Schonell Theatre in 1970, Queensland was two years into what would become […]
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Indian Feast at UQ Underpaid Workers
Semper has obtained documents that reveal Indian Feast at UQ’s St Lucia campus has been underpaying their employees, and that UQ knew about this. One previous employee, Prijwal (not his real name), showed Semper an envelope, ostensibly intended to be a payslip, with ‘12 x 10 = 120’ written on it. This suggests employees who […]
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UQ announces it will consider degree “in favour of Western Civilization”, just in time for Australia Day
The University of Queensland will be considering the Ramsay Centre’s pro-Western Civilization degree, according to an email to UQ staff from Vice Chancellor Professor Peter Høj this Monday. The email refers to an earlier discussion between UQ and the Ramsay Centre that took place at the end of last year. “With 2018 coming to a […]
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Epic Voted Out at QUT, UQU Elections Still Not Final
Students at the Queensland University of Technology have voted out the current governing party for the Student Guild, the Returning Officer announced tonight, but UQ Union election results remain undecided. EPIC was previously declared the victors of an uncontested election earlier this semester, but the Guild’s independent electoral tribunal declared the process of calling for […]
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The Pub Crawl That Must Not Be Named
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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3 Easy Ways To Make Yourself More Dateable
This story originally appeared in our fifth edition, published in May. I’ve gotten more letters than I can count which are all basically the same. “I want to date, but I don’t want to put any effort in”. Sure they don’t phrase it like that, but that’s the gist. Put it this way, reader, last […]
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Five Fantastic UQ Beasts And Where To Find Them
Pleasure seekers and trophy hunters, roll right up, because we have the scoop for you! We present to you all the mythical beasts that are rumoured to haunt this campus, and exactly where you can locate your very own. For those beasts yet to be captured on film, we have enlisted the help of Semper […]
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