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The University of Technology Sydney’s (UTS) student magazine, Vertigo, has announced it will have to cut back on print issues after UTS executives cut the magazine out of a funding increase. According to Central News, Vertigo staff requested a budget increase to $245 000, more than double the $129
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The University of Wollongong has strongly condemned the posting of nazi material on campus. Last month, an image appeared on UOW Rants of a poster linked to the National Socialist Network at the Northfields Avenue bus stop. The poster said “white students deserve safety.” Nazi propaganda also appeared in spots
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UOW says a student union claim some subjects have dropped exam surveillance tool Proctorio was "misleading." Last week, a Facebook post from the Wollongong Undergraduate Students’ Association (WUSA) said "under pressure from students and academic staff, some subjects and schools, e.g. MATH202 and ECTE (School of
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Democratic Alliance Party (DPDA) leader and Queensland Senate candidate Drew Pavlou has been arrested after protesting in Sydney, just over a week after he was allegedly assaulted at a protest against Chinese President Xi Jingping. The Saturday protest took place under police presence at Eastwood Night Markets in Sydney’s
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Last night student reps at an unofficial meeting of Wollongong Undergraduate Students' Association (WUSA) discussed the clash between their anti-Proctorio protest and the third day of graduations tomorrow. The Council was largely split down factional lines. Labor councillors pushed to postpone out of respect for graduating students while Socialist
LIFESTYLE
Feature image: Annie Spratt/ Unsplash Four in five Australian students suffer from procrastination according to a recent study commissioned by study help service Studiosity. For 33 per cent of students surveyed, stress, anxiety and loneliness trigger a loss of motivation, which leads to procrastination. 12 per cent of respondents were
OPINION
Feature image: Ernest Ojeh/ Unslpash (left), River McCrossen (right) Dear Professor Patricia M. Davidson, The recent announcement from the University of Wollongong regarding online exam invigilation using the controversial ‘Proctorio’ is of concern to both the Wollongong Undergraduate Students Association and its students. WUSA has since received consistent feedback from
OPINION
Yesterday, the National Student Safety Survey (NSSS) results were released. They were confronting, to say the least. Confronting, distressing, disappointing and harrowing are just some of the words I’ve heard students use to describe them. The NSSS had 43 189 university students across Australia who took part. Of this,
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*The article was published 23/3/2022 and updated 25/3/2022 to include a link to the Safe and Respectful Communities website. Near one in twenty UOW students have told a survey they were sexually assaulted in university settings since starting their studies, One in five said they experienced
OPINION
If recent participation rates are anything to go by - under four per cent of undergraduates voted in the 2020 WUSA election - the goings on of the student union tend to go unnoticed. Pair that with political opportunism and you can get some weird election promises that candidates hope
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After pairing students with technology for years, the UOW Library Makerspace is closed for good. Beginning in 2017, project coordinator Nathan Riggir said it would be a “pilot space that will be a strong learning environment.” “We see it as being a place to get the first hands-on experience with
CULTURE
Lijiang marketplace. The moon gleamed like an eye. I, a man, With no teeth, and no eyes, Bit the head of a child, And leer from the rooftops as the streets are taken By the procession of a one hundred demons, Each writhing and screaming and more bloated Each one more foul an abomination than The las