Tag: student life
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The end of Penny Lane
There beneath suburban skies lies a ripped-out sign with five holes and two wires sticking out of it. After five years, UNSW’s beloved café, Penny Lane, has closed its doors. The disappearance of Penny Lane came so quietly it was almost a whisper. It appears most students did not even notice. After all, there were…
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White House to reopen in near future
Over the Christmas/New Year break, Campus Living Villages (CLV) signed a Heads of Agreement with UNSW that transferred operations on the White House to UNSW Estate Management, as confirmed to Tharunka by CLV’s marketing team. This comes after renovations and refurbishments were made on the site around August of last year. UNSW Estate Management has…
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Arc Legal on how to avoid rental scams
By Pia Lenarduzzi International students have emerged as the new victims of Sydney’s worsening rental crisis, with UNSW’s Arc legal and advocacy team receiving increasing numbers of complaints about young tenants being exploited by unscrupulous landlords. According to an Arc Legal and Advocacy representative, who asked that their name not be used for the article,…
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An Investigation on a Novel Contract Cheating Model: Ghost Class Services
By Amiabelle Kong I had an undercover conversation with an agent working for a cheating company to understand what it’s like inside the cheating industry. The following is a conversation I had in a UNSW student group on WeChat about students coming to UNSW in 2022. Me: “There are a lot of excellent…
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NUS report calls for lowering Youth Allowance age restrictions from 22 to 18
The National Union of Students (NUS) is campaigning for Youth Allowance payments to be increased above the poverty line and for age restrictions for eligibility to be lowered. This is based on a recent NUS report which surveyed 673 students aged 18 to 21 on poverty impacts due to being ineligible to access Youth Allowance. …
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Is AIESEC a Cult? We investigated | part 1
By Emma Partis A Reddit post earlier this year attracted some damning comments from individuals claiming to be former members, urging other UNSW students to avoid the organisation. Numerous Reddit posts from other university pages around the world echo this sentiment, and a Quora post featuring one user damningly comparing AIESEC to each of the…