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As this is the last Globe of the year, rather than just reporting on the happenings of the past week we’d love to recap on the entirety of 2011. Well not really the entirety but all the memorable moments! Once Upon An O’Week was a fantastic start to the year with fun had by both Freshers and O’Weekers. What could go wrong with Billy the Boss coordinating everything? Ball was amazing, Play and Café were better than ever, IH went sports crazy, and Globe Person of the Year Mr Alex Peterson created IH’s newest event, Mr. IH. More important new party lights and sports uniforms have us looking better than ever. The past week has been pretty eventful itself. An Interim VP has been elected and O’Weekers have been selected and undergone the appro-priate training needed for them to officially be friends. Hopefully every-

Oh hey there readerWelcome to the last issue of THE GLOBE for 2011. In reflecting back at this year, two key things come to mind instantly.Firstly, the wisdom and genius of GLOBE PERSON OF THE YEAR Mr Alex Peterson. Turtle was a bloody legend and is still sorely missed. For those of you suffering with-drawl from Alex’s wise words, look out for his contribution to the 2011 Satadal - it’s frigging hilarious!!Secondly, personally 2011 for me was all about Play. I am still immensely proud of what we achieved and would like to thank each and every one of you for either giv-ing me your all in rehearsal, meetings or wherever, or for putting up with our noisy JCR sessions. All our hard work paid off - Peter Pan & Wendy was nominated as one of the Best New Scripts in 2011 at the Melbourne Uni Theatre Awards, which are being

one understood the importance of Global Dinner hosted by Dani and her border control assistants, if you felt par-ticularly moved and think you should do something about the poverty and inequality faced by many people around the world, perhaps you should think about coming along to the Davis Project meeting on Monday night. Any ideas, thoughts and suggestions are welcome! Music Night was a huge success with the singing debuts of Champ, Grace and James the Tutor, as well as a great range of talent from everybody involved.On Tuesday, we met dutifully with Jane and Peter to discuss the House-Student Guidelines we abide by each year, the results of which can be summed up by the statement ‘House will be contributing more money next year’. For this we are thankful! Our final GC for the year was held on Wednesday with interesting discussions on pandas, toasters and grammatical mistakes. You can find the minutes on Nexus if you are interested. But enough on this year, here’s a bit about 2012. Nhat has us spending more money (no point it sitting in the bank is there?) and we are looking to utilize your Student Club fees as well as we can. You will have the opportunity to organize clubs and receive funding to do whatever you want! There will be a new Ball venue, new events and more of whatever it is you guys would like us to do. All you have to do is ask! And now, whilst some of us are about to fin-ish exams, the majority of you are finishing up your final classes of the year and getting ready to knuckle down with study. We wish you luck and hope you all have a fantastic Summer. For those of you that are leaving, GOOD BYE!! For those of you staying, SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!!

announced tonight. FYI, I will be screening the Play DVD in the JCR next Thursday night at 8pm so pop down if you missed it last time, or if you just want an excuse to reminisce and laugh about how much fun we had.

Happy devouring of this issue,Johnny Ware xo

I hear so many of you saying “this Davis Project Thing sounds inter-esting, but I still don’t really un-derstand- what it is?” Well! Let me break it down for you...Upon the occasion of her 100th birthday in 2007, international phi-lanthropist Kathryn W. Davis (who was an IHer in the US) chose to cel-ebrate her century of life by com-mitting one million dollars to one hundred Projects for Peace.However, the projects aren’t in a ‘pre-packaged deal’ and that’s where we come in...These projects aren’t just for any-body to create - they are for under-graduates (and some graduates) to use their initiative to come up with some amazing ways to promote peace (with $10,000!!). The objec-tive of this is to encourage and sup-port today’s motivated youth to create and tryout their own ideas for building peace.As Ms Davis said herself: “I want to use my 100th birthday to help young people launch some imme-diate initiatives - things that they can do during the year- that will bring new thinking to the pros-pects of peace in the world,”The main focus of the project needs to be on: conflict resolution; reconciliation; building under-standing; breaking down barriers that cause conflict; finding solu-tions for resolving conflict; main-

taining peace; and finding ways of promoting and implementing sus-tainability. So now you’re thinking, “Ohhhh, that makes a lot more sense now!”, (at least I hope you are!) but surely this has led to another question- “What projects have been com-pleted in the past?”...This year, our very own IH team created a travelling shanty town and travelled up the East Coast of Australia, to raise awareness about shanty towns in South Africa- in particular Lavender Hill.The Sydney IH had a single par-ticipant, who travelled to Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya where he worked with groups of refugees to help raise awareness of how to provide help for children living with disabilities within the camp. He also provided funding to help these children and their families.A Student from IH New York ran a program for teachers and students in Arizona for conflict resolution within schools and how it is linked to identity. Another American col-lege created a series of documen-taries featuring different commu-nities within the US.“These all sounds interesting, has our IH thought of anything for this year though?” (you may well be asking...)After a small meeting held the oth-er day, we came up with several ar-eas that we could potentially focus on and a few general outlines of projects that we could do. The gen-eral consensus was that we would like to focus on peace within Aus-tralia and raise as much awareness

amongst fellow IHers as possible. So in a nut shell, we had... - Refugees: establish a regular visiting program for activities etc, with children or adolescents in de-tention centers - Housing commissions: making links with youths in housing com-missions and providing them with mentorship and fun activities that they would always have the chance to do (i.e. help them organise their own community fete) - Indigenous welfare: making community connections between IH and indigenous communities within Victoria/ Australia I can read your mind- you’re think-ing, “these are some good ideas, but I have a suggestion on how to develop these suggestions/ have a whole new idea that you haven’t thought of yet!”GREAT!! Come along to our discus-sion in the JCR at 7.30 on Monday night (the 31st and don’t pretend you’re busy doing work on the first day of SWOTVAC- we all know that doesn’t happen!).It doesn’t matter if you’re staying or going next year, or if you’re a stu-dent or tutor, the more thoughts and ideas the better! All you need is an open, creative mind and a fo-cus on raising awareness, sustain-ability, and of course peace. And just remember- it’s the little things in life that can make the biggest difference!See you Monday :-)

Danielle Shaw leads a life full of happiness, equality and cheer and she wants you to join her next on a Project for Peace.


briefing: The Davis Project 2012Danielle Shaw leads a life full of happiness, equality and cheer and she wants you to join her next on a Project for Peace.

briefing: The Davis Project 2012


For the first time ever, learn skills from the master-procrasinator herself Ms Georgia Martin.

advice: How Not To Study

step 1: START REVISING EARLY step 4: EAT WELL

step 2: WRITE A COMPREHENSIVE SET OF NOTES

step 5: AVOID DISTRACTIONS

step 6: STRESS LESS

step 3: START A STUDY GROUP

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Will shooting her mouth like this earn Zhou Mei An a pass in her media writing class? She’d like to know how others think.

With so many amateur perfor-mances in Melbourne, from the big events like the Melbourne Fringe Festival to weekly performances at Union House we never seem to stop choosing our shows and buying our tickets. But remember: watch what you want, not what you feel you should. Though this seems obvious, the truth is many people go for a show not because they like it, but be-cause they’re friends with some-one in it. Eavesdropping during intermissions told me some sur-prising things about the perform-ers – namely, that many audience members knew them through work, school or family. While I can’t find any statistics, these audienc-es-of-obligation do seem a grow-ing trend. And as I hope to prove, they’re a worrying one, too. Ultimately, seeing a performance because you know someone in it doesn’t help their career, all it does is show you’re a nice person. That’s a good thing for you, who can pat yourself on the back for be-ing a true friend now that you’ve sat through another night of “Ro-meo and That Girl Whose Name I Forgot”. But it’s not such a good thing for your friends in theatre, for whom more and more friends sleeping through performances only means less seats for the the-atre-goer, the art school dean, or the genre critic. Friends are safety blankets. They’re training wheels. And they’re redundant – they don’t decide who becomes the next Ma-donna when even understanding the performance is a burden.

The audience-of-obligation is a bad one because it indicates their decency rather than the perform-er’s competence. I remember go-ing to a play where somebody’s real name was cat-called every 5 seconds, no matter whether he broke a prop or delivered a jaw-dropping monologue. Now multi-ply that by a hundred, all of whom only know the person through Facebook. A murkier indication of actual performance ability would be hard to find, what with all the obligations and personal feelings floating about in the air. “I clap when I see my friend, or recognize the song” is an oft-repeated refrain, and it does no more than indicate that the person can tell one face or voice from another. What about the performance? Was it good, bad or ugly? They don’t know. There are over 126 amateur the-atres in Melbourne, more than 4 events dedicated to amateur per-formance alone, and this city be-came the second UNESCO City of Literature in 2008. That’s hundreds of people trying to make it, wheth-er here or internationally. ‘The big time’ is a place that isn’t so kind or decent, a place full of strangers. Performing in front of – and win-ning over – an audience you don’t know is the hardest thing to do in the industry. It’s also the most nec-essary. And why do these people go? Is it because they all have a burning desire to watch Hamlet performed by the class of High School Musi-cal? No, in all likelihood they are just like you, decent human beings whose very decency made them buy those tickets and sit them-selves on a seat for another night of adventure, ascension, and ama-teurism. After all, it’s probably also what makes them clap.

That’s not good. “Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated so-cial duty,” Emanuel Ax, a Grammy-winning American classical pianist, writes. Clapping for friends is ex-actly that – obligation, pure and simple. So the next time a friend asks you to attend his play/poetry recital/concert, remember: the kind-est, best, most friendly thing you can do is simply not go. I know it sounds cruel, but it has to be done. Stay home, chill out, and wait for the ranting, the tears, the flow-ers. You’ll be a lot better at patting backs and saying congratulations, the things real friends do, when you haven’t just cringed through two hours of self-aggrandizement with rhymes. To put it in the best of Chicken Soup for the Soul terms – be a support, not a crutch.Wait until they make the big time, then go to the concert. When you can’t hear your clapping for the sound of one-million strong cheers and whistles, then you know a Somebody, and that Somebody is your friend. All it takes is your non-participation.

opinion: Facebook Fans - Friends or Frenemies?


game: ACA/Today Tonight Bingoas a supplement for Georgia Martin’s Studying Tips article on page 5, we’d love to share with you our new favou-rite game. To play, you must tune into Channel 7 or 9 at 6:30pm any weeknight and just watch. We know it’s near impossible for any educated soul to resist the urge to change the channel during these times, but for the sake of the game keep going - it’s totally worth it!


Despite Gossip Goat being much more alert this week around, on the watch for scandals and the like, it is my utmost displeasure to report that this week, you have all bored me to tears. One thing that I will note is that there seems to be a running tra-dition of IHSCC relationships. See if you can spot the continuing trend.

It would appear that yours truly was misinformed by a so-called trusted source about B-man last week. Just like the real Gossip Girl when she lost her shit on finding Juliet abused GG to condemn Serena, Gossip Goat will go all goaty on your asses and chew on your clean clothes- should you send me the wrong information.

Gossip Goat would also like to re-mind all my darling lamb readers that it is worthwhile reading all posts with a pinch of salt (use the condi-ments kindly returned to us by Cat-erCare) and to not verbally attack those believed to mentioned in this column. Not guilty until proven oth-erwise, am-I-right?

As this is the last column of the year, I wish you all a pleasant summer, and don’t forget- I’ll be watching so that next year I can say “I know what you did last summer” whilst naming and shaming individuals.

You know you love me,XOXO Gossip Goat

Sexy Single

No-one can seduce you with cuteness, then ensnare you with hotness like he can. No woman can resist his twinkling eyes and exciting, dishevelled hair. No-one has more enviable buns than he.

Ben Gray is not a simple being, and thus needs a plethora of adjectives to properly define his character to potential suitors.

Ben is: accommodating, brutal, buns, blissful, chipper, dandy, dangerous, elfin, forgiving, glorious, grapefruit, heavenly, hallucinogenic, imminent, in-teresting, joyful, just, kick-ass, lemony-fresh, luscious, muscular, manly, mu-tual, nautical, nimble, optical, perennial, panicked, pensive, quirky, restless, rhubarb, robust, scrumptious, sexy single, tangible, triumphant, telepathic, talkative, tantalising, useful, understanding, valuable, voracious, valiant, wishful, wondrous, xylophone, youthful, Yemen, yummy, zany, and zealous.

Ben Gray is a prime candidate to take home to meet the parents, or, alterna-tively, groom your cat. It is said that he can juggle Rubik’s cubes and solve them simultaneously. He can breathe on flowers and turn them into fluffy baby rabbits, and can sing you lullabies in 28 different languages whilst whistling. He can serenade you with a saxo-mo-phone whilst styling his hair and cooking toasted sandwiches. It is also rumoured that he can climb a tree with only his little toe. He can make you swoon with only a vocal scale, so beware, IHers, this man is charming beyond belief. Be careful, or you may just swoon right into his rippling biceps.

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After eight months of brutal fight-ing and thousands of deaths on both sides of the divide, the Libyan Civil War came to an end this past week. And what better way for it to end than with the NATO-assisted live capture of 42-year dictator, Muammar Al-Qaddafi. Bring him down to the International Criminal Court and have him answer for his crimes in a legitimate environ-ment. It’s a happy ending for all, right?

Unfortunately, one young fighter from Benghazi, Libya’s second city, had dif-ferent ideas. After disagreeing with anti-Qaddafi fighters from Misrata, the said fighter took it upon himself to shoot Qaddafi in the face with Qa-ddafi’s own golden pistol. What could have been a fantastic, glorious new start for Libya has descended into a human rights disaster, with the United Nations backing up Qaddafi’s family’s demand for a full investigation.

On the bright side, however, oil pro-duction is already back up to 25% of its pre-war levels in the country after dropping to exactly zero at its height. With a view to restoring full produc-tion within 15 months, that means we should be seeing a reduction in the big divide between UK and US whole-sale prices, which will hopefully lead to a fall in the pump price here.

In slightly unrelated market news, we’re up a good 10% from the trough we saw a few weeks ago, but don’t be fooled, there’s plenty of value left in this baby. Depending on whether Greece sorts itself out I expect to see another 10%-15% by in the next three to six months. If you’re lucky enough to have some free cash lying around, I know where I’d be putting it.

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1. A New Zealand add for what has received 7 mil-lion views in just five days on YouTube?

2. Which Twilight star embarked on a six-month diet after being compared unfavourably to a co-star?

3. Which international major capital city is facing the possibility of devas-tating floods?

4. Which religious festival was celebrated on the 26th of this month?

5. What is the full name of the reigning Com-monwealth monarch who visited Melbourne this week?

6. How many Palestinan soldiers were exchanged for one Israeli soldier a fortnight ago?

7. Which encampment in England is being cleared by authorities after a decade-long legal battle?

8. A coroner has con-firmed Amy Winehouse died of what?

9. Which magnitude did the recent earthquake in Turkey measure of the Richter Scale?

10. Occupy Melbourne were evicted from which city site last Friday result-ing in major protests in the CBD?

TRIVIA ANSWERS: 1-Anti-Drink Driving. 2-Robert Pattinson. 3-Bangkok. 4-Diwali. 5-Eliza-beth Alexandra Mary Windsor. 6-1027. 7-Dale Farm. 8-Alcohol Poisoning. 9-7.2. 10-City Square.

“I rather enjoyed shooting Anthony Stewart.”

PC after LASERTAG

“Wait! Why are the bubbles at the bottom?”

Sarah Mott dumbfounded by champagne

“I don’t like it because the Queen is coming and they’re an eyesore!”

Susie Tindall on Occupy Melborne

“Look - someone’s in Russia without brown eyes. Enjoy the rice!”

Chazza excited for Brodenat Global Dinner

“IH’s own Doctor Who and companions strutting their stuff at Armageddon” photo by a random Whovian

We are always looking for new and exciting contributors to join our regular team of columnists, editors and all round fancy people. Email us at [email protected] or find Johnny Ware (usually in N401, or if it’s a Sunday night then in the computer lab till late ... very late)

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