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What is the Student Leadership Team and why do we need another acronym?
Back in march, the first meeting of the newly christened ‘Student Leadership Team’ meeting for 2023 was held. This group collects elected UNSW student representatives from Academic Board and Committees, Faculty Boards, University Research Council, SRC, PGC and Arc Board. The goal of the group is to form consensus on important issues related to the…
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How has ChatGPT Changed UNSW?
As we hit the halfway point of the year, it seems appropriate to do some reflecting, and with ChatGPT here to stay it seems particularly appropriate for us to reflect & gather feedback on how (if at all) you’ve used or seen it integrated into your studies. Today, I’m reaching out to you, the students,…
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Gerwig’s Barbie, girls, and a Barbie world
A Barbie movie on face value, in the age of Hollywood intellectual property mining, would be easy to deride as a glorified toy commercial. She ticks off the boxes after all: cross-generational appeal, an iconic figure and hot-pink image, a cultural reference point that’s evolved to mean very different things to all ends of the…
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The Lore of the Domain Expressway
Sydney sprawls quickly, with new environments blossoming in each nook and cranny. As a result, disused sections are forgotten just as quickly; they fall into states of disrepair and decay to the chagrin of onlookers old enough to remember their glory days. But whilst once-flourishing environments rust and slow, sources containing their lore vanish. Without…
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Tharunka editor writes more emails than articles
An anonymous source (allegedly a Tharunka editor) has told Tharunka they’ve had to wait more than a month to get paid below the minimum wage after logging their invoice to Arc @ UNSW Ltd. According to the source, they’ve spent more than 50 unpaid hours resending the same email to Arc to remind them that…
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Naarmcore: the commodification and appropriation of multiculturalism
There’s a new trend in Australian youth subculture. It originated on social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram as a way to show off one’s self-expression in a new aesthetic. You may have noticed the explosion of loose-fitting clothing with random graphics, trucker hats, baggy jeans, jorts and carabiners latched onto belt loops as…
