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Adelaide Fringe Review: ScoMo’s Sunday Service

Words by Ngoc Lan Tran https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/scomo-s-sunday-service-af2022 Genre: Musical comedy Presented by: George Glass In a secluded curtained corner of Currie St’s Arthur ART BAR, I went to church. Not particularly keen on meeting God on a Friday night, I downed a glass of Riesling before service and brought an atheist friend for company. Ushered into our seats, we […]

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THE SRC FUNDING IS ROBBED

Words by Habibah Jaghoori MEMBERS OF THE 2022 SRC EXECUTIVE School may have not officially started for the year here at the University of Adelaide, but that has in no way stopped the political culture of campus from unravelling in the chaos and drama you normally would see during election week. That’s right, while student […]

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Theatre review: Hamlet in the Other Room

Words by Ivan Jankovic To wander at will between two rooms — an exciting and dangerous theatre experience Image by Jamie Hornsby Directed by Zola Allen Written by Zola Allen & William Shakespeare In the University of Adelaide’s Barr Smith Library, no fewer than half a dozen modestly-sized shelves house critical works on that most mysterious phenomenon of […]

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Arts + Culture

Love, death, and science fiction: Our 2021 Hearsay creative writing awards

Words by Grace Atta, Beck Rowse, and Raphail Spartalis Our three favourite contributions to our creative writing and literature-themed edition, as judged by the editors Hearsay photography by Ellie Cheesman. 1st: “love in a blink” by Grace Atta Credit: Ellie Cheesman. 2nd: “Sfumato” by Beck Rowse His cheek blended into a clump of moss. Red down to yellow […]

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A very AUU Christmas: Gag orders on left-aligned SRC, Board Director resigns

Words by On Dit staff Following a landslide victory for the left coalition in the 2021 student election, the 2022 Student Representative Council will have their work cut out for them. The Progress and Liberal-aligned Adelaide University Union Board has voted to restrict the SRC’s power to publicly criticise the Board in an unprecedented attack on […]

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Student fightback stops Maths Learning Centre cuts

Words by Ivan Jankovic The Final Change Proposal will see 96 jobs go at Adelaide University, compared to the original figure of 130 Student campaigners at the Maths Learning Centre, Nov 11. Credit: No Adelaide University Cuts. Adelaide University student representatives have responded with delight at the news that the proposed staff cuts to the Maths Learning […]

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Roseworthy students at risk due to “limited” campus mental health services, say campaigners

Words by Lakeisha Watkins UofA’s rural campus currently does not have a dedicated psychologist or counselling team, despite a mental health crisis amongst vets Warning: Story contains mentions of suicide and eating disorders, and images of persons who are now deceased A student-led campaign is currently underway to improve mental health services at the university’s Roseworthy campus, […]

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UofA to sell NFTs as a part of Organisational Sustainability plan

Words by Chad Profitz After sustained losses in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic limiting the number of international enrolments, the University of Adelaide has decided to enter the NFT space in order to increase revenue. NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have shot to ever increasing popularity in 2021. Based on “block-chain” technology, NFTs are digital […]

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Opinion

QUEER DIT: Assimilation or Liberation? Divide of the movement, mainstreaming of the culture

RuPaul’s Drag Race. Words by Jordan Nedosyko The spectre of cultural appropriation is hanging over the queer community, and it must be stopped in its tracks Since the beginning of the LGBTQ+ rights movement, there has been a fundamental debate about what our “end goal” should be: invisibility and indifference within mainstream society, or the desire to forge […]

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Theatre Review: Clock for No Time

Words by Falie Klieve and Orla Spurr An honest and inventive production about the lived experience of disability Writer and director Michèle Saint-Yves. Venue: Rumpus Theatre, Bowden Written and directed by Michèle Saint-Yves Written by Michèle Saint-Yves and part of RUMPUS theatre’s new season, Clock for No Time asks that perennial question — what makes us, us? What […]