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Student Activism — Cause of Death: Media

January 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment

This post’s headline might be a slight exaggeration, especially for someone who hates index fingers being constantly pointed at the big, bad and evil media. But in the case of reporting VSU protests, the media should be (at the very least) a suspect for causing the underlying assumption that student activism is dead.
The SBS […]

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Tags: Student Activism · Political Correctness · Voluntary Student Unionism

Achtung, Achtung! Student Protestism Ain’t Dead!

January 12th, 2006 · Comments Off

Note these statistics by the International of International Education (IIE):
Britain, for example, has nearly 300,000 foreign students out of a total university student population of 2 million; Germany is next with nearly 250,000 students and Australia has nearly 200,000 students
It is interesting that Germany is on the list. Give various German publications a browse […]

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Tags: Student Activism · International · Policy

Lesson 1: Political Correctness

January 8th, 2006 · Comments Off

What’s being taught in the classroom is a subject that always makes a striking come-back. This year, media reports covered the hackneyed relationship between religion and science and their respective theories on evolution, also known as the debate over “Intelligent Design”. While the feud between secularism and religion dates back to the 18th century […]

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Tags: Student Activism · Values · Political Correctness · HSC · Islam · Voluntary Student Unionism

Flavour of the Week: Referenda

December 8th, 2005 · Comments Off

Nelson’s last chance to secure VSU by this year went down the drain today. The Senate wants to see amendments to its current state and cross-flooring Superman, Barnaby Joyce, remains unsympathetic. But should both continue to block Nelson’s ideological pathway, an alternative vision is already in place: the referendum.
Let’s recap on Australia’s recent history of […]

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Tags: Student Activism · Voluntary Student Unionism