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HUNGAPPAStudent ArticlesAWESOME!

Uni Games OppOrtunitiES

Student Recipes OM nOM nOM

www.hungappa.rivcoll.com | Term 2 week 3

Made by students, for students.FOCUS

NEW GODS THIS WEDNESDAY!

EVENTS POSTERDetails Inside

SEcRETaRial SPEilYour Weekly Dose

FuNGaPPaKill that boring time in class

A rivcoll SrC Publication ©2013

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University Games Media Support Assistant Student wanted Travel, accommodation costs and honorary payment Wollongong NSW (7 – 11 July 2013) The Office of Student Services is currently seeking a University Games Media Support Assistant who will be required to capture video & photos of student involvement at University Games and maintain and update social media networks. The preferred candidate should have experience in photography and managing social media networks. You must be available from 7 -11 July 2013. The following skills will be well regarded.

Demonstrate skills in photography, experience in fast paced environments favourable

Demonstrate skills in communication and social networks Demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision A passion for sport An understanding of student needs and privacy.

Duties

Capture students sporting highlights Update social networks Media relations Create video footage of event

For more information please contact: Gemma Carey, Administrative Officer Email: [email protected] Please forward your application letter addressing the above and your resume/CV to the Office of Student Services by email to [email protected] Applications close: 24 May 2013

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EDITOR’S LETTER

4 EDITORial

5 How to: write an assignment

6 my journey to csu

8 Student recipe of the week

More Stuff~!

12 secretarial spiel

14 vinyl

16 fungappa

18 8 uses for toothpaste

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contentsHungappa2013

FUNGAPPA

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Hungappa

Editor in ChiefWilliam Whiting

Deputy EditorJared Boyd

PrinteryCSU Print

WebsiteHungappa.Rivcoll.com

[email protected]

Join The Team!

If you are interested in joining the Hungappa team in any of the above roles, or maybe you are just interested in writing for us, do not hesitate to come and see myself in the Rivcoll office or send me an email to [email protected]!

Hungappa Is a Wiradjuri word meaning -“to spread the word” , “to crow about”

Contact Us: [email protected]

More Information About Us:

Hungappa is a Rivcoll SRC publication and the opi-nions expressed within are not necessarily those of

the editor, staff or student members. Association by person or companies with Hungappa does not necessarily refelct the religious, political, sexual,

or racial beliefs of those parties.

The editor and Rivcoll SRC do not accept respon-sibility for any omission, errors, misconceptions

or the views and opinions contained in any article accepted for publication. The editor reserves the right to edit or reject any articles submitted for

publication.

WRITE TO THE HUNGAPPA TODAY!

The Hungappa is written BY STUDENTS, FOR STUDENTS! As a Rivcoll SRC Publication you can

get paid for your submissions.

$15 for an article of more than 500 words$5 BONUS Every 3rd Article in a row

$20 for a full page graphic design or creation

$10 for a half page creation or printed poem

More than 1000 words and you may be eligible to have a FEATURE ARTICLE and be on the cover,

worth $30.

See Rivcoll.com for the full details on what you could get, or send an email to the editor at

[email protected]

credits

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Editorial

Thank you so much for all your submissions to the gap for our Sydney MX / CSU Stalker Space, hybrid thing, the enthu-siasm was overwhelming and it’s really great to see you guys getting involved in this maga-zine instead of just flipping to the photo page to see if you pulling that funny face made it in. Is what I would have said if anyone actually submitted anything.

So much for that idea. Never fear though I will not give up and we will try again next time.

There are so many great ar-ticles this week and I really encourage you guys to read them, and then stop and have a think about them, then think “Hey, I could write something thought provoking that would make someone stop and think for a moment too!” Then Think of that thing, then write it down using a keyboard and your brain, then send it in to me, and I’ll give you money!

We might not pay you “real” money but the hugs you get are ten times better than anything some silly plastic note will ever get you, and they won’t leave you feeling guilty or empty inside, full of regret about that ugly dress you bought because your friend that secretly hates you because you are bet-ter looking than them or that McDonalds/KFC you ate when you promised yourself you would never go back.

I’m just joking we pay you real money too, so there is no excuse! Just do it. Please don’t sue Nike.

-Will Whiting -Editor in Chief [email protected]

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How to research for an assignment (well one way anyway)

I’ve been in and around universities now for about 25 years. I am therefore amazed at how academia is still leaving undergrads, at pretty much all levels, out in the cold in relation to how to complete assignments. The majority of lecturers these days have a PhD. This means that they know about the current research in their area of teaching (if they don’t they should!). The upshot of this is that when they set an assignment there is a number of reasons why they set the assignment,

1. To have students look around in the current knowledge, also known in academic circles as the ‘the literature’, on the topic of the assignment.

2. To have students learn from reading the current literature to improve their knowledge of the subject (which is why you do a subject)

3. The assignment is also an assessment instrument to see if you can actually use literature etc or other media of information transfer to prepare a vehicle for your understanding i.e. a written assignment.

So what are the steps to completing the assignment? Heres an over view of what you should be attempting to do. Step 1. Read the question and pick out the key words in the question. Step 2. With the keywords go to a literature database like Scopus, EBSCO or Springerlink. Every student has access to these databases from the CSU library. Step 3. Put a keyword in and hit “Search” youll then a get a freakin huge list of articles that are research papers. Step 4. All of these databases can sort according to date etc, you want to sort by “Cited”. This means that you will get the most cited papers at the top of the list. This is most likely the stuff that your lecturer wants you to see as it’s usually the most important stuff. Step 5. Now select about 5-6 of the most cited articles and see if your lecturers name appears as an author, if so excellent. Step 6. If your lecturer isn’t cited as a top author this doesn’t mean they arnt any good it just means they arnt in this area of research. Remember your lecturer maybe teaching across a wide area and many lecturers are specialists. Step 7. Now you have a couple of articles that you can now read the Abstract and then the conclusion. Step 8. Decision time!!!!! Do any of the articles relate to the assignment question. You can only make that decision, ask your lecturer about the papers you have found. Remember you are learning and being taught its ok to ask. Step 9. You’ve read the articles now start to write. You probably have a format you have to stick to. So, write down all the headings and start to fill in the blanks with the information you have read from the research papers. Step 10. Your on your way and should be able to put in a fair effort. Oh yeah! Don’t be a piece of sputum floating in the toilet bowl of life either and try to plagiarise. Your lecturer might seem like an idiot but these people are not and they know there stuff and you will get reamed.

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The Social Sport ReportStudent Article

MY JOUNREY To CSUWhen we moved to the bush I was ten years old – a shy, city girl who loved animals but never had any pets. I used to dream of liv-ing on a cattle or sheep sta-tion, riding horses around the stock. I would read the entire Billabong series by Mary Grant Bruce over and over again.

Finally my dream came true. We rented a house on a 500 acre property, in a little tiny hamlet half an hour from the nearest servo or fast food outlet. I remember the first few weeks mum wouldn’t let me out of the houseyard in case I stood on a snake. Finally I per-suaded her to let me have my freedom – and I ran wild.

Our landlord ran about five hundred sheep on the prop-erty. I used to walk all over the place and I loved noth-ing better than to spend hours quietly stalking the sheep, watching them as they moved about, grazing and drinking, sleeping and chewing their cud.

August came, and with it came lambing time. The flock were due to lamb in Spring but started coming early. It was in the middle of the terrible drought of 2003-2004 and the sheep were weak already. On top of this the weather turned freezing.

It was too much for the already weak and heavily pregnant ewes and for the newborn lambs. It sleeted and rained and blew a gale for three days. The water filled the fleeces of the mothers until they were so heavy they weren’t able to get up from the ground.

Numbers of the ewes came down with some unknown condition that left them ly-ing on their sides with their head turned back over their shoulder, peddling their feet until they died. Others, too stressed by the cold con-ditions, abandoned their lambs. The farmer did what he could but realistically there was little that could be done; and I, the little ten year old girl, would walk across the paddocks and see them die.

I just wanted to do some-thing to help them. I just wanted to fix them all. The worst thing was knowing that if I had the right knowl-edge and supplies I could have helped diagnose and treat whatever was wrong with them.

One good thing came out of that season – I got to raise my first poddy lamb. Johnny was the strongest and hap-piest lamb ever. He is now a big portly wether and still going strong as he ap-proaches his tenth birthday.

He even knows and comes to his name.

At about eleven years of age I received a letter from a dear friend and penpal, a girl I had known for years and who was a fellow animal lover. She said “I think I would like to be a vet.” This was the first time the idea had ever occurred to me that I could be a vet. It sank in slowly for a few weeks and I came to know that this was what I wanted to do. I have never looked back since.

I started to tell people that I was going to be a vet. The most infuriating response – and yet, the most common one! – was “oh, you might change your mind.” I kept receiving this response right up until I actually came to CSU.

It drove me insane that I could tell people the same thing for eight years, and spend eight years working towards it, and that they could still doubt that I was going to do it . . . ah well.

However, my grandma’s brother, Uncle John, took me seriously. I was twelve when I met him for the first time. His first response was to ask me what university I wanted to study at. I had no idea. He said, “What about Charles Sturt University at Wagga?”

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Uncle John highly recom-mended CSU to me. I was a serious kid and took his advice to heart and remem-bered it.

As the years went by I worked hard at my school-work. I was good at maths but I still couldn’t stand it. Every day I would tell my-self that I have to do this if I want to be a vet, because only the best students get into vet science at CSU.

I was a homeschooled student and so my study hours were very flexible. I used to get up early and smash through all my work so I could spend the rest of the day helping the local farmers with their animals. I gained an incred-ible amount of experience through their generosity in teaching me.

I finished Year 12 at sixteen and was faced with a di-lemma; the NSW Education Board does not provide an ATAR or HSC to home edu-cated students. So I enrolled in a Bachelor of Applied Sciences by distance with RMIT. I spent the next two years studying full time or part time, while working and keeping myself busy with other activities. I especially focussed on getting as much experience as pos-sible.

I owe a lot to those who helped me during this time. I worked as a vet nurse for a short while, and the vet who ran the practice used to call

me away from my duties to teach me principles of sur-gery and anaesthesia.

The local DPI vet gave me the best advice ever on how I should go about getting into CSU. I did work experi-ence with another wildlife vet, who would allow me to run basic tests and then help me diagnose what was wrong, despite his incredibly busy schedule. The local farmers taught me as much as they could and were always willing to answer questions and show me how to do things.

Finally, after about eight years of planning, study-ing and working towards it, I was finally able to begin my application. I went to all my friends and I received no less than fifteen letters of reference for work I had done. I won’t ever be able to repay this debt.

Drafting the application was an arduous and long task. I spent a fortnight at the com-puter getting it all sorted. I posted it off and spent a month waiting anxiously. Eventually I received an of-fer of an interview, at which I was delighted. The stress kicked in pretty quickly, though, and started to build up slowly but surely.

Interview came and went. I was relatively calm and re-laxed going in to it and I did well. Afterwards, however, I became more and more de-pressed about my chances as I remembered

everything that I could have said differently. The thing that really got me down was that it really didn’t matter how well I did. What mat-tered was how badly every-one else did. That was going to dictate whether I got in or not.

Another six weeks went by. As I got into early January I was dreaming about my application every night. In most of my dreams I discov-ered that I had failed to get into vet science and I would wake up almost in tears. It got worse when I did not get an offer in the early round as I had hoped. UAC had stuffed up and CSU hadn’t received my results on time.

Then, at long last, I opened the UAC website for the five hundredth time, to see that I had received an offer – into the Bachelor of Veterinary Science/Bachelor of Veteri-nary Biology at CSU! When I found out I had received an offer I went absolutely nuts with excitement and it took my mum a whole minutes to get out of me why I was dancing about!

So that is my tale of my journey to CSU. It has fully lived up to my expectations and is everything that I dreamed of for so many years. To be a rural vet is part of me and who I am – I could not see myself do-ing anything else. CSU has given me the opportunity to fulfil my dream.

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**Yummiest Toasty Recipes EVER**

TOASTY 1: Cornflakes Crusted, Peanut Butter and Jam (Makes 2 toasties) Ingredients: 4 slices of bread 1 egg A dash of milk 1.5 cup cornflakes Peanut butter Jam (use your favourite one) Butter (to grease pan) Method: 1. Pour cornflakes onto a flat plate and crush using your palms and fingers. Set aside. 2. Beat one egg with a dash of milk on a separate flat plate. Set aside. 3. Make the sandwich. 4. Dip the sandwich in the egg mixture for both sides. Then do the same with the cornflakes crumbs. 5. Heat a pan with some butter and grill the sandwich on both sides until golden brown. Make sure this is done on low heat. 6. Repeat step 4 and 5 for the remaining sandwich. Serve immediately.

TOASTY 2: Sweet Chocolate (Makes 1 toasty) Ingredients: 2 slices of bread Nutella spread (or other chocolate spread that you like) 1 egg 1/4 cup milk 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract A pinch of salt 1 teaspoon of butter 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar Method: 1. Spread Nutella on one slice of bread and make a sandwich. 2. Mix the egg, milk, vanilla and salt together. 3. Dip both sides of the sandwich into the egg mixture. 4. Melt the butter in a pan. 5. Cook the sandwich in the pan until it is golden brown on both sides, about 1 -2 minutes per side. 6. Top with powdered sugar.

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UNI GAMES

University Games Team Bus Driver Student wanted Travel, accommodation and honorary payment Wollongong NSW (7 – 11 July 2013)

The Office of Student Services is currently seeking a University Games Team Bus Driver who will be required to shuttle teams to games and social functions. The preferred candidate has to have experience in driving buses and hold a licence to drive a 22 seater bus. You must be available from 7 -11 July 2013. The following skills will be well regarded.

Demonstrate skills in communication Demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision A passion for sport

Duties

Shuttle teams to games and social functions during the day and night Night work No drinking

For more information please contact: Gemma Carey, Administrative Officer Email: [email protected] Please forward your application letter addressing the above and your resume/CV to the Office of Student Services by email to [email protected] Applications close: 24 May 2013

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OPPORTUNITIES

University Games Media Support Assistant Student wanted Travel, accommodation costs and honorary payment Wollongong NSW (7 – 11 July 2013) The Office of Student Services is currently seeking a University Games Media Support Assistant who will be required to capture video & photos of student involvement at University Games and maintain and update social media networks. The preferred candidate should have experience in photography and managing social media networks. You must be available from 7 -11 July 2013. The following skills will be well regarded.

Demonstrate skills in photography, experience in fast paced environments favourable

Demonstrate skills in communication and social networks Demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision A passion for sport An understanding of student needs and privacy.

Duties

Capture students sporting highlights Update social networks Media relations Create video footage of event

For more information please contact: Gemma Carey, Administrative Officer Email: [email protected] Please forward your application letter addressing the above and your resume/CV to the Office of Student Services by email to [email protected] Applications close: 24 May 2013

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Student Article

The Proverbial Secretarial

So I hear a lot of “Wtf is the NDIS and is it going to be another ter-rible spin off of NCIS like NCIS: LA”. Ok ... I won’t make any more terrible puns like that for the rest of this article, despite how punny I am. Basically the National Disabil-ity Insurance Scheme is a govern-ment funding policy for Disability-Care Australia. The Government will increase the Medicare Levy by half a percentage point from 1 July 2014 – this will take the Medicare Levy from 1.5 per cent of taxable income to 2 per cent. So what does that mean for you? As most of us when we graduate will be earning about $60k - 70k a year, someone earning around this amount, will be making a contri-bution of around 96 cents a day. That’s about $349 a year in tax towards the NDIS.

So why should you pay for it? Because Australia is a socialist nation (comparatively) and we believe in welfare. That and tough titties, we have to pay it. Welfare is where our tax dollars go to people with disabilities, students (And thank Allah, Vishnu and Buddha, because we wouldn’t be able to afford Goon after rent otherwise) people who can’t work, and people who just DON’T work (see: Dole Bludger, Mole, Wanker). Maybe we shouldn’t support dole bludgers, but that’s another argument. This is the Australian public supporting people who are disabled and their carers - they live on a pittance and only get by from public donations as it currently stands.

It’s such a good idea the Libs even said they’d support it condition-ally. But let’s not think everything is wonderful and lovey-dovey. Everything in politics is done for a reason. If Wayne Swann changes bagel stores, you better believe it’s because someone is planning an assassination of Tony Abbot (well ... one can hope) - but you get my point. Why introduce the policy now? That’s right, thank you from up the back. The election. Trying to score last minute brownie points. And why is the opposition condi-tionally supporting it?

Because they, the ones who are the kings of financial black holes, want to see the “exact damage to the public”. That, and if they blocked this, like everything else, they’d look like colossal c^#k juggling thunder c@#*s. At this stage of the game, it’s all about public image, and looking good for the election.

Oh and the Greens I hear you ask, you who hasn’t showered since Woodstock?

Spiel

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They’d sooner support a Disability Scheme aimed at Dolphins, because ... why not, Dolphins are awesome and help people stranded at sea and shit, and maybe, just maybe they’re sick of busting their humps helping us humans without a little recognition? Didn’t think of that did you, you selfish twats?

But really - the Greens don’t have an economic bone in their body or a backbone; the only bone they have is for Gay Rights. Gay Rights and trees and a dam in Tas-mania somewhere. Progres-sive social policy is the one good thing the Greens have going for them. It makes them look relatable to the public and is why they man-age to scrape enough votes to be considered one of the two and a half main political parties in Australia cur-rently. But their short com-ing, and why they will never hold a Government in this country is that they have no economic vision or policy.

Think Labor’s spending, but a lot worse and a lot more reckless. Think, mining taxes, but worse and cutting off mining leases to current mining companies. Until we go to the moon and start mining for Helium 3, we need our coal and we need our oil and gasses. So - The Greens in a nutshell. Pros: Progressive social policy. Relatable to the average young Australian. Cons: Just about everything else.

“But Josh, surely as a young, intelligent and ravishingly good looking man, you would vote for Labor”. Well, funny you should say that voice in my head, because while I do vote Labor, it’s only as a matter of voting for the lesser of the 2.5 evils. Ideally, I’d Have Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull start their own political party and I’d vote for them. Currently, I find that neither party is particularly all that great, but Labor are certainly better than Liberal or Greens.

I like the left wing approach and appreciate the social-ist welfare policies that the Liberals sneered at and wished they could abolish all together, instead of just cutting funds when they held power. But while the ALP held its roots in the unionist movement of the 60’s - 90’s it’s too much of a driving factor in the IN-TERNAL politics today. They just need to ‘get on with it’.

The Liberal Party. Menzies. Gorton. Billy McMahon. Howard. Iconic names. Powerful men. Focussed on money, the wealthy, cor-porations, banks and busi-nessmen. They certainly kept the country running, and they kept it well funded. But not a whole lot changed apart from tax adjustments to suit the rich. In fact, an article was recently pub-lished outlining why How-ard was one of Australia’s most reckless spenders and worst PM in regards to the economy.

Fortunately for him, he was riding the massive Global Boom of the late 90’s and 00’s, though his financial decisions weren’t that great, and the boom was able to cover the “actual” losses. But I digress. Liberals do a good job when succeeding a Labor Government. There needs to be a cycle of Gov-ernment every few years to keep things fresh, to keep a political equilibrium.

So. Tl;dr. Greens love dol-phins, Labor loves spending money, but need to get on with their damn jobs. Liber-als love hoarding money and giving tax relief to big business, but are the glue necessary to keeping us going.

I hope somewhere in all of this you have found some semblance of fairness. But really, make it a Habbott not to vote Abbott. Yeah ... that thing about not making more puns? I lied.

-General Secretary of Rivcoll. -Joshua Schultz.

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Student Article

VINYL

I am a collector of records. I am verging on becoming a hoarder. It is as if I have set up a home for lost dogs. These scruffy charac-ters, some dusty, some neglected, have found their way to me. I hope I will find them a new home one day. I cannot bring myself to letting these strays become land-fill. To send such things to landfill in my opinion would be a crime, even if it is ‘Christmas Carrols by Kamahl’ or ‘Polka Fever’. At the bargain price of fifty cents it may still not find a home but at least it may get a momentary chuckle from a prospective buyer flicking through the op shop’s stock. I grew up in a time where cas-settes and CD’s were king but I still remember Dads reel-to-reel, his record player and modest collection of Jazz Albums. While I have watched many music for-mats come and go (R.I.P. the min-idisk) vinyl has remained the quiet but confident contender.

Vinyl saw its slump in the 90’s due to the introduction of CD’s but even then it carried though due to its suitability for Hip Hop, Techno and House DJs who appreci-ated the tactility and versatility in scratching and beat mixing that CD’s were yet to offer.

Vinyl by far is the longest living format of music delivery and has been around for well over 100 years. The first Record, in the form of a cylinder, was released in 1888.

While I may be sounding a little nostalgic, vinyl is still alive and kicking and while vinyl may attract a measure of nostalgia in the 21st century, it also attracts a certain measure of prestige.

The majority of DJs today have glowing laptops in front of them but I guarantee, if you watch any TV show, movie or video clip that portrays a DJ you will find them using a set of turntables. This is primarily because vinyl is more aesthetically pleasing than a push button performance.

If you went to see your favourite DJ perform, what would you rather: A DJ hunched over a laptop or a DJ working the black wax?

As a Disk Jockey I appreciate vinyl for a myriad of reasons but one that I must first inform you of is that I am no slave to upgrading equipment or formats. I’ve have come to own the same turntables for 15 years (longer than the life span of an MP3)

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and they have never broken down on me or ‘crashed’ during a performance. I don’t need the latest operat-ing system to go with the latest program; I don’t need to back up a copy of my records in case they dis-appear into the electronic ether. I simply need a box full of tunes, some decks, decent needles and a mixer.

Second, Vinyl sounds bet-ter: its analogue. It will continue to be produced because it is the last of the analogue formats and in this age of convenience and ‘economic viability’ nothing will take its place. To illus-trate the superiority of vinyl you can for example chal-lenge any music buff to lis-ten to their favourite album (which they have listened to millions of times on CD or MP3) and ask them to listen to it on a record. The sounds and words to describe their favourite tunes will include descriptions such as: ‘fat’, ‘rich’ and ‘deep’.

Also there are many musi-cal genres that need to be analogue in order to sound vaguely natural or organic. Dance music can now po-tentially never see the light of analogue day. It is digi-tised compressed (and com-pressed again) all though pl-ugins, apps, and programs. You can’t really catch the musical chaos and order of harmonics when you have to consider a sample rate.

As a vinyl DJ, bits are some-thing to scoff at.

I don’t collect ‘bits’ of music, I collect the whole thing. Granted, I have a couple records that skip some-times, but compare that to a CD skipping or a computer crashing, the record sounds rather appealing.

‘But they are heavy in bulk’ you may say… Well in the words of The Record Store in Sydney: ‘you can’t hug an MP3”. Not only do records contain music they contain art. I would for instance, much rather be the chap that invites a girl over to see my ‘etchings’ (flick through my record collection) than to scroll through my MP3’s on a dull flat screen.

Yes, when in groups of 50 or more they may be heavy to lug to a gig, but that shows a certain amount of dedica-tion to one’s chosen occu-pation. Personally, if I ever decided to DJ without vinyl due to its weight, I would question my dedication to the job. As a side note: If I ever had to bet on two DJ’s in a fight (one which car-ries a memory stick and one who carries 50+ Kg’s of vinyl) I know which one I would choose...

I’m not wishing to punch the lights out of a digital DJ. I just hope that the new breed of DJ’s and the music venues they play at could pay a little more respect to the old school and accom-modate vinyl more often.

The name DJ means Disk Jockey not Memory Stick Jockey or Laptop Jockey. They owe something for that title. Granted, vinyl takes up more space on the desk and yes they skip on unstable floors but for years they have been accommo-dated and respected. Vinyl is not a novelty; while it may not be in the majority it is a specialty that demands respect. It is arguably the closest thing to a musical instrument playback can get.

Next time you see a viny DJ at a gig, pay a little respect to the 80 grams of weight they handle per track as op-posed to the formless and weightless megabytes of its digital counterpart. Vinyl literally has a vibration and this vibration shall carry on for years to come.

-CJ Thatcher

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Fun Timez

FUNGAPPA

Unscramble this word:

nsatiy

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THE THRIFTY STUDENT: 8 USES FOR TOOTHPASTE

1. Make your diamond ring shine. Just take a toothbrush with a little toothpaste on it and run it over your diamond ring to make it sparkle, then clean off any excess with a soft damp cloth.

2. Baby bottle cleaner. Are your baby's bottles starting to smell a lot like sour milk? If so, toothpaste works well to remove this odour! Just put a little bit of toothpaste on the bottle brush and start scrubbing, and then rinse the bottle out well.

3. Crayon marks remover. Got some crayon artwork on your wall? Don't fear! Just grab a tube of toothpaste, a rag or scrubbing brush, and start cleaning the wall surface. The fine grains in the toothpaste will take away the crayon marks every time. Rinse the wall with water and dry with a towel to finish.

4. Brighten piano keys. Make yellowed piano keys look brighter by cleaning them up with some toothpaste on a soft toothbrush, then after a little scrubbing, wipe them down with a soft damp cloth. This cleaning trick also works well on modern pianos even though their keys are covered with plastic rather than ivory.

5. Goggles Defogger. Wearing fogged-up goggles is not only annoying but it can be dangerous as well. To prevent this, just coat the goggles with toothpaste and wipe off.

6. Wall filler. If you have small pin or nail holes in your walls, you can just use toothpaste as filler since it dries quickly. You can also use it on white woodwork as well.

7. Pimples. You can dab a little bit of non-whitening toothpaste on a forming pimple so by the time you wake up, the pimple will have dried and minimized in size.

8. Poster adhesive. You can hang posters on the wall without tape. All you need to do is dab a little bit of toothpaste on the corners of the poster and in between the edges. When you're ready to remove the poster, it's easy to remove, and if you have any toothpaste bits on the wall, just use a damp cloth to wipe it away.

Dolly

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