By Tom Kennedy Now more than halfway through the academic year, it’s no secret that the introduction of Trimesters at UNSW has been incredibly disruptive to students across every faculty, bar perhaps those studying Medicine. Officially known as the UNSW 3+ model, the system is part of UNSW’s 2025 Strategy, a …
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By Henry Chen This article forms part of a fortnightly series, Muckraking the Fourth Estate. In this series, we investigate the legal and ethical consequences of historical media scandals, in an effort to better understand the unspoken rules governing the news we see. A former US marine, Jay Schwer, suffers …
Read More »Ranking the greatest Foundation Day pranks by how many laws they broke.
By Nadia Maunsell As a testament to the distinguished reputation that UNSW has cultivated since its establishment 70 years ago, successive cohorts of university students have broken no less than twenty laws in their attempts to pull off some of Sydney’s most memorable pranks. Kidnapping. Arson. Theft. From the staging of …
Read More »UNSW 100% Solar-powered VS. Fossil Fuel Divestment
By Charlene Goulesque By the signing of a green agreement in January 2018 with the Maoneng Group and Origin Energy, the University of New South Wales has stepped up to the challenge of the transitioning from dirty energy sources to renewables. Over a 15-year period, the deal aims to fully …
Read More »How I Overcame Heartbreak In Three Simple Steps
By Hamish Duncan I used to think I had it all. A good job, high marks at uni, and a wonderful relationship with a beautiful girl. The world was my oyster. But one day my girl said those four dreaded words: We need to talk. I was shocked, but …
Read More »On Women and Religion: the intersection between faith and feminism
By Alessandra Giglio Most names of those interviewed, other than the author’s, have been changed in this article for privacy. I’ve been wanting to discuss women and religion for so long but haven’t known how to articulate it. Australia is regarded as a secular country. According to Dr Renae Barker, a …
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