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WILLIAM MOSEFF
Volume 9, Issue 4 The executive of the University have a strange way of dealing with success. Through a lack of competence and a lack of courage, they find ways to structurally strangle their most successful faculties. The Law School of which we are a part is a very good one. But a good law school is only as good as the administration which serves it. By centralising student services into the Orwellian-sounding ‘Stop One’ centre, an administrative catastrophe has been created. The morale of staff and students is at a low ebb. The reputation of the institution is damaged. Climbing out of this mess will cost many millions of dollars in renovations and rehiring and retraining staff. The University is holding the Law School back from achieving greatness, and we, the students, are suffering as a result. Dear Equity Uncle,
I love skiing, but the bills are rising and I can’t possibly afford to go on snow camp. Is it wrong for MULSS to be organising events that are only affordable for Higgins-seat voters? Ostracised JAMES ARIDAS
Online only - 22/03/16 This coming Thursday, at 7:20pm at the MCG, footy will return. For many of us seasoned fanatics, this will be a long time coming. But just as a new season brings new players, a new schooling year will bring new students, some of which are international or from interstate cities that aren’t too big on AFL and will have no idea what is going on. Well the easiest way to fit in any conversation amongst many Victorians is to chat about footy and if you want to do so, picking your team will be the first thing you want to do. But how do you know who you want to pick? Well fear not, for here is some information on all 18 clubs that will hopefully assist in your choice. L. LYKOV
Volume 9, Issue 4 As we go through law school, unique to Melbourne it seems, there is this ongoing pressure to work a legal role. The object is simple: to show a future (preferably top tier) employer that we have applicable skills that go beyond the books, that we're accustomed to the rigmorale of clients’ comings and goings, and that we can put on a suit and sit hunched over a desk for hours at a time. By and large, as students we will not be seeking this work experience in the big city firms of our aspiration, but more likely a smaller quote unquote suburban firm, which is in the inner metro anyway. Melbourne University Law Students’ Society - Summary of the Student Forum on 17 March 201622/3/2016
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Volume 9, Issue 4 Last Thursday, the Melbourne Law School Faculty (Faculty) ran 2016’s first JD student form. Dean Carolyn Evans reported on the steps taken regarding law school culture in response to issues raised last year. Further issues raised by students were then discussed. KATHERINE SMITH
Volume 9, Issue 4 I heard an ad on the radio while driving home from uni – apparently Australians are into REAL sport, unlike the Irish. I don’t remember it exactly, but in the ad, a father asks his daughter what sport she likes the most, and she says river dancing. Then he asks his son, and the answer is the same. The father sighs, but then tells the son to show him what he’s got, the ad continues with Irish folk music and the father calling out encouragement. The ad’s tagline, is that Australians like real sport (Fox sport!). EMBRACING UNIFORMITY
Volume 9, Issue 4 It was the middle of December. My eyes blinked open suddenly. It was 4 o’clock in the morning. A single question raced through my head. “Am I fitting in?” PATRICK SEXTON
Volume 9, Issue 4 What you’re about to read isn’t going to be new or ground-breaking. But that doesn’t make it any less important, particularly as the semester begins to pick up. ANTONIA KALCINA
Online only - 18 March 2016 One of our MULSS Environment Officers gives us something to ponder in the lead-up to the Ride (/walk/PT) to Uni day this Tuesday 22 March, 8-9am! SARAH GOEGAN & TOM MONOTTI
Volume 9, Issue 3 Off the back of a stellar awards run, this week we review The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s epic tale of survival on the American frontier, starring everyone’s favourite Oscars snub, (not anymore!!) Leonardo DiCaprio. Also this week, we review The Hateful Eight, the eighth film by Quentin Tarantino and The Big Short. SCOTT COLVIN
Volume 9, Issue 3 I’ve not always been one to trust in signs. But in the furious scramble for meaning in our post-BIP world, I thought I had found one. Alas, dear friends: it slipped through my fingers as easily as it escaped the machine by which it came to be. DUNCAN WALLACE
Volume 9, Issue 3 Our Student Centre, which once stood on the mezzanine floor of the law building, last year shut down. Administration at the university has been ‘rationalised’ and centralised in the new Stop One. It is due to be replaced by a ‘Student Enrichment Centre’. I’m here going to propose that a part of this Enrichment Centre should be dedicated to a Food Co-operative. DAVID ALLINSON
Volume 9, Issue 3 In the last edition of De Minimis I described my experience as a legal intern as part of the Aurora Internship Program for the Yawoorroong Miriwoong Gajirrawoong Yirrgeb Noong Dawang Aboriginal Corporation (MG Corporation) in Kununurra, Western Australia. TIMOTHY SARDER
Volume 9, Issue 3 “This is the first Oscar and sixth nomination for Leonardo DiCaprio.” First, the collective sigh of relief, then, the applause. Finally, the tweets and Facebook statuses. Our Leo had won, they screamed. MISS SIAN INDISPENSABLE
Volume 9, Issue 3 On the first day of my clerkship at Major Global Firm, I was handed a sheet of paper revealing my team placement for the next four weeks. Collected by my junior solicitor buddy, Top-Knot-Lover, I was whisked upstairs to be introduced to the rest of my new team. RAZOR'S EDGE
Volume 9, Issue 2 Ockham’s razor dictates that in selecting the solution to a problem, the simplest such solution ought to be preferred. Now, there’s a razor you could shave your proverbials with. It’s something I like to think I wield well in the quest to vanquish my own little frissons. ALEX HOLLAND
Volume 9, Issue 2 Growing up I never felt disabled. I was born with cerebral palsy and when I was younger, I used to walk a lot more and run around with the other kids at primary school. My friends used to give me ‘head starts’ in races, I had certain ‘immunity spots’ in monkey-bar tiggy and if I fell over, someone would offer me a hand up and we’d keep playing. I wasn’t ‘disabled’. DAVID ALLINSON
Volume 9, Issue 2 For the past four weeks I have been doing a legal internship as part of the Aurora Internship Program for the Yawoorroong Miriwoong Gajirrawoong Yirrgeb Noong Dawang Aboriginal Corporation (MG Corporation) in Kununurra, Western Australia. SARAH MOORHEAD
Volume 9, Issue 2 Last week, the #LetThemStay campaign arrived at Melbourne Law School. Staff and students assembled to hold banners depicting the campaign slogan, as members of many other organisations around Australia have done over the past few weeks. JOHN MORISSEY
Volume 9, Issue 1 An inquiry into the 'Business Improvement Program' at the University of Melbourne PENNY PINCHER
Volume 9, Issue 1 It was about four days into my clerkship at Top Tier & Firm when it dawned on me that I needn’t purchase food like a peasant any longer. AMANI GREEN
[date]/03/16 Greetings Valuable Student! To get you acclimatised to the new University systems, we will be addressing you with weekly updates on how we’re going. Please be advised that subject materials are available for collection this month. Our Collection Stations will be open from 8-9am every Tuesday that falls in the week of a blood moon, and every second Monday at the hour the crows fly to the West. At the end of this month, the remaining readers will be incinerated. Also to be incinerated are any University of Melbourne administrative staff who have not met their KPIs this month. If you do see any University employee operating at less than capacity, do not hesitate to report them to Stop One and we will send them a kindly reminder of the stakes at hand. Wishing you a productive and efficient year in your degree of choice, Stop One |
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