WEEK 10, SEM 2 2022 UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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FREE STUDENT NEWSPAPER
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NEWS, CULTURE & ANALYSIS
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Five years on and sexual assault persists on campus. What now?
Have we seen the last of Tropfest?
ALSO IN THIS EDITION:
hen the results of the first Nationally coordinated survey on student safety became public in 2017, they confirmed what many on campus had long known: that our universities were complicit in the endemic sexual violence that pervades society. These findings and subsequent reporting uncovered a toxic culture of harassment in residential colleges, drawing the focus of a growing global movement against rape culture to our campus. Since then, the University of Sydney has commissioned
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dam Spencer could barely hear what Tropfest founder John Polson was saying, even as he sat merely a metre away. They were both cooped up in a dressing room in the lead up to the annual short film festival and the rain outside would not relent. Like many years previous, Spencer was due to host the world’s largest short film festival in Sydney’s Domain. Each year, thousands of sub-seven-minute films would be submitted in the hopes of becoming one of the 16 finalists shown on the night to a crowd of fans and a panel of celebrity judges.
The Great Quad Race - p. 7
Zander Czerwaniw investigates— page 8.
Inside conspiracies - p. 10
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an investigation into the cultural failings of its colleges, known as the Broderick Report, committing fully to implementing its recommendations. Consent education made its way into high school curriculums and, more recently, into state legislation. Conversations around sex and sexual violence slowly became destigmatised, and the stories of those who have experienced harassment received public attention. Institutions were acknowledging their historical role as wilfully blind bystanders.
Christian Holman writes — continued on page 12.
Let them do coke - p. 3
Intl students victims of cyberfraud - p. 8 Chancellor’s $600 8-course dinner on student $$$ - p. 8 Uni senate grilled - p. 9