2084: A Future Presented by Herbert Smith Freehills

22/8/2017

Vol 12, Issue 5

NICHOLAS PARRY-JONES

“Oh boy, I hope I get selected!” my internal monologue chirped as I hit submit on the Linklaters Rose International Moot™. It was up to my wonderful LSS Competitions Directors of course. I blinked as my eyes readjusted to the light of the cramped seminar room, I was tired having attended Allens Yoga™ that morning, in the hopes some LSS would see me there and realise I was a good representative of the law school, but I knew all hope was lost, they'd just give the Linklaters Rose International Moot™ place to a friend of theirs, that probably had higher grades than me anyway.

I looked to the image on the Corrs Chambers Westgarth Projector™. I'd done the readings, without even listening, I knew what was coming.

As if on cue, a snicker ripples across the 600 customers in my elective. Edelman CJ had delivered a stinging barb to a Gaudron J decision. Who can blame him, everyone knows Gaudron wasn't even in the LSS in her time.

Class ends on that note and industrious customers begin to clamour all over each other to get down to the MULSS Sausage Sizzle Brought to you by Bain and Co™ before they ran out of white wine. There was a rumour that He might be there. I was going to go anyway, but now I had to make sure I looked good, in case He saw me.

I was surprised they could even afford to pay for all the sausages and wine to feed the 4000 strong cohort at MLS, but I knew He'd find a way. After all, a procession of LSS leaders had endorsed a large MLS as a strong MLS. He had overseen the installation of Ashurst Two Storey Desks™ across all classrooms, and apologised that there still wasn't enough seats in class for everyone, but rationalised the Depressed Persons Presented by KPMG™ won't attend, giving them a 10% leeway. He is so wise.

I sat and ate my sausage in the throng of people, looking for signs of Him, or any LSS for that matter. I knew if I just spoke to one of them for five minutes I would be able to convince them that I'm a good customer.

A wide eyed customer thrust a flyer into my hand. The first year co opt disappeared before I had a chance to raise my head.I studied the multicultural cast of faces and bright text that adorned the piece in front of me:

MULSS LAW CUSTOMERS FOR REFUGEES! Presented by Citicorp™

Do you know that every year people flee war torn countries for a chance at better life. When they come to “the lucky country” they're intercepted, separated and moved into imposing facilities, with no freedom in sight.

In honour of a former LSS leader, join us for a Lawyer's Picnic to learn from industry insiders about how to properly utilise commercial solutions from these economically distressed clients!

A friend grabbed my sleeve, and before I knew it I was being pulled back through the Arnold Bloch Leibler Automatic Doors™, past the CO-BRANDING IS POWER, PARTYING IS STRENGTH posters, and into the level 2 bathrooms next to the Viagra Machines Presented by KPMG™.

“Man, how can you eat that shit?” he motions to my wine and sausage.
“What do you mean? We need to go to MULSS Parties to show we're joiner inners and have commercial acumen!”
“Don't you see!? This cheap meat and booze! Its poisoning you! It keeps you dumb and complacent, so you don't question when you get fucked! Don't you -”
“Hold on there buddy. Controlled consumption? I think you're mixing pastiches. This is more Orwellian and you seem to be going down a BNW path. Well, actually everything is derivative of Russian author Yev-”
“Shut up! Don't you care about class sizes? Lecture recordings! The Viz Moot!....”

He was ranting again. He often ranted about The Other Place. A place that taught law that wasn't controlled by their LSS. He said they had smaller, recorded classes, faculty selection of “students” for competition and less sponsorship. Partly, he said this was due to a party system where policies mattered and people worked for reelection. It sounds sad to me. I don't know if it's a real place or not. It’s supposedly a long train ride away and as a post grad tickets are expensive, but I don't care. After all, He said the LSS doesn't need to worry about stuff out there, because the parties are always in the city.

He always rationalises like that. It's like He just knows the answer. There's even a paper that He allows, in his mercy, to operate without LSS supervision. Though it's an open secret the Editors love him as much as I do, He's so affable.

I worried about my friend, but then I realised, this is an opportunity. I quickly tapped out an email to the LSS Communications Directors, nominating my friend as a Gilbert+Tobin Subversive Person™, now they'll definitely recognise me.

I backed away slowly. Quickly grabbing some Viagra by KPMG™, maybe I can fulfil His wish and produce a bevy of future MLS Customers this weekend.

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He sighed as He got into the DLA Piper Elevator™. It had been a long day and it was only 2pm. He saw a familiar face.
“Hello, Mr President.” She said with a smile.
He beamed back at Her, and extended His hand. In His sleepiness, He forgot to verbalise.
“Well...I look forward to working with you” She said, stepping out at level 9.

In His one level journey of free time, His mind turned to His memories, memories of Her.

Together, they could have ruled. Her the faculty, Him the customers and sponsors. Over late night cocktails they laughed at the common misconception of LSS loyalty, discussed the importance of sponsorship moving forward, and made love. But inevitably, Her husband found out and put an end to it. The husband was some hot shot lawyer himself, but as she confessed, “he wasn't even in the LSS in his day.”

He was aware of the effect he had on women, but were they aware of the effect they had on Him?
He pushed such thoughts to the back of his mind as He got off at level 10. His phone was blowing up. Some Partner from Blackburn Gordon wanting space in the careers guide. They bought him chocolates. One of them contained nougat. He hated nougat.

He answered the call, the desperate non corporate ambulance chaser was begging. He didn't listen,
“Nah mate” He hung up and walked into the applause of Conference Room Drinks Presented By the MULSS.

Nicholas Parry-Jones is a third-year JD student

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Bored and Confused

22/8/2017 06:15:54 pm

Maybe the requirement for the moot was coherent sentences.

Trust me I'm an expert

23/8/2017 09:18:19 pm

I have examined this article with a team of literary geniuses and we have concluded that this is in fact a love letter to the president of the LSS, it's true intent cleverly disguised in a protective layer of rage, jealousy and bitterness.

mary sue

24/8/2017 09:13:36 am

Interesting. I thought it read more like My Immortal style fan fiction about the LSS, but I take your point.

For those that don't get it

22/8/2017 08:39:27 pm

I liked it. For those that missed the point being made, hey I get it, we haven't all read Aldus Huxley.

Its a simple point. The LSS is more interested in maintaining a relationship with faculty a corporate sponsors than representing students.

22/8/2017 08:55:28 pm

Have you actually had any contact with the lss or attended anything they've organised?

From STS to careers nights, the team spend a whole lot of their time helping the students

Corporate sponsors are important

22/8/2017 09:05:48 pm

Where do you think the LSS get the money and connections to organise events from? The sponsors.

Funnily enough maintaining those relationships helps to best tend to student needs.

TRUE

22/8/2017 10:55:34 pm

Whilst the LSS do a lot of good there is a definite reputation of selling itself out to corporate sponsors just for the money. Have we ever had a careers event where boutique law firms presented on opportunities? Instead, it seems we just have those firms who can afford the LSS Sponsorship Fees (which are exorbitant) and we have these firms and their Clerkships shoved down our throats every week.

Not everyone wants to work at these law firms, why don't we provide some broader opportunities to students and invite firms that maybe can't provide a sponsorship fee but can provide a wealth of knowledge and reassurance to those students who continually feel their needs are being ignored.

And before someone tells me to bring this up with an LSS Rep - I have for the past 2 years...

Do you go to careers events?

22/8/2017 11:23:49 pm

I'm sorry but this comment is just plain uninformed

The clerkship seminars were run during lunch times for the purpose of explaining the process for clerkships to students who are interested in them

Last semester, the careers team put on events on everything from construction law to intellectual property

This semester, the beyond law school panels are run mainly by the careers team and tonight was about family law, there will be one on a career at the bar etc

There have been government networking evenings with reps from the vgso and agso

If you feel your needs are not being met, then you are either not looking out for the range of seminars the LSS put on or you are not actually talking to the right people.

If there is a particular area of law the careers team has not covered, then shoot the directors or co opts an email.

There are limited slots and weeks to organise these events and the team were doing two a week last sem whilst also trying to manage their own obligations at uni and work. It is impossible for them to cover every area of law, but to say that they only focus on clerkships and nothing on government jobs is plainly untrue.

YES I GO TO CAREERS EVENTS

22/8/2017 11:37:37 pm

Yea and at these law school panels on such industries which firms do you once again have in attendance? Oh that's right the same ones who are LSS Sponsors, and at all such events their is the not so subtle push for our firm is great.

If I assume AGSO and VGSO don't pay sponsorship fees because they are government - oh congrats, you put on an event where you didn't profit on the firms from a pre-existing sponsorship arrangement.

What I am am saying is there needs to be a move away just promoting and having representation (name and brand recognition) of firms who are LSS Sponsors (+ Government who for obvious reasons can't pay sponsorship fees).

Now if you tell me that if you approached your non-LSS Sponsors and invited them to a careers panel or to do an event and they all rejected the offer that is one thing. However, it seems that those firms who can't stump up the funds or aren't impressive enough, despite maybe being a leading boutique personal injury or insurance firm, get no platform at the law school and law students miss out on learning about such opportunities.

Again, misinformed

22/8/2017 11:43:16 pm

Again you've shown you don't attend any of the panels

Just tonight there was a representative from a boutique family law firm and there have been many representatives from boutique firms in other panels

Additionally, the quick careers guide regularly promote opportunities at boutique firms.

At the end of the day, the team tries to balance the needs of first, second and third year students. They need to help clerkship students, students applying for grad jobs, cover government jobs and as many fields of law as possible

As I've said, there are limited weeks in the year and the LSS are already running two events a week for careers. It is not actually possible to make everyone happy. The team do their best and frankly, do have boutique firm representatives which you would know if you were engaged and didn't sit back criticising something you clearly do not participate in.

If the careers team see this, take it into account and try to promote when reps from these firms are at your events more so it's clear to people what is actually happening

Good chat

Again, you misrepresent

23/8/2017 12:08:23 am

Why so defensive?

Let's put the facts out on the table - yes LSS do great things, yes LSS Careers hold great events and yes you are misrepresenting some of the work you do to shut down my legitimate concerns and those highlighted by others as a result of this article.

1. Beyond the Law School events do have representation from non-LSS sponsoring firms BUT these are co-hosted with the MLS Careers Department, what does this mean? The MLS has seen there is a need to have a variety of events that meet the needs and interests of MLS students, I query would such events be held or given the same time of day without MLS support? In circumstances where LSS are not profiting from these firms as sponsors?

2. All of the Expert Panel Sessions held last semester had as their guests on the panel representatives from large corporate firms who are LSS Sponsors - I have never said these panels were not great, but if I have accidentally made an error in the notes I made when attending the sessions and missed a firm that didn't happen to be an LSS Sponsor please correct me.

3. The QCG is good and presents a breadth of opportunities - gold star.

4. The overarching point raised in the article and that is an issue more broadly is that the heavily reliance on corporate sponsorship by the LSS means that those firms who cannot pay the sponsorship fees are not given adequate representation - of course they aren't paying for anything I'm not asking for their names to be plastered on every second event - but it is a fact opportunities in this space are lacking. And maybe it isn't up to LSS to solve this problem, maybe it is the domain of the MLS Careers Department, but let us not pretend that corporate sponsorship agreements are not a determining factor in decision making in all departments of the LSS.

Yawn

22/8/2017 08:54:34 pm

Did you fail to get a committee position or something?

The LSS do more for the student body than you ever will kiddo

Not in the LSS

22/8/2017 08:57:30 pm

The LSS isn't a student union. It's an organisation of volunteers who give their time to facilitate many of the initiatives that make this law school worthwhile.

Are there problems with how this institution is run? Absolutely. Expecting the LSS, who are already overworked, to fix those problems by themselves in spite of the enormous political weight behind the faculty? Entirely unfair.

Two genuine questions to this comment

22/8/2017 09:08:43 pm

I don't mean this rhetorically or argumentatively. I'm genuinely trying to understand your comment.

1) What is the "enormous political weight" that exists? I don't know what you mean by this.

2) Do you genuinely believe students (and I know many students who do) feel that the LSS should do more in the realm of student advocacy are misguided? Look at the work the LLSN is doing with stuff like the bursary for take-home exams; don't you think the LSS should take a page from their book?

Genuine question

22/8/2017 09:12:54 pm

What is the LSS not doing that you believe they should be?

Things they should do

22/8/2017 09:19:07 pm

1) Extending the availability of recorded lectures for genuine short term reasons, not just ongoing need. The only reason so many people (including lecturers!) get sick all the time is because of unrecorded lectures and sick people coming in regardless.

2) Why does the LSS not support postgraduate concessions for public transport? Is anyone seriously against this?

3) People bring up subsidised tickets to law ball or events every year but this never happens.

These are just examples but the more concerning issue behind it is that there doesn't seem to be a culture of advocacy. People are elected for one-year terms so they can promise anything then graduate and not follow through.

More questions

22/8/2017 09:35:58 pm

Can I ask, have you brought this up with your rep directly? It's easy to critique if you haven't actually talked to an lss member

The LSS have tried to work on the recordings issue but ultimately it's the university who make that call, not us

as far as I'm aware the lss are not against concession mykis and support the student groups who have tried to push for this to happen. Why would lss members also want to pay more? The postgrad train fare debate has been going on for decades. If the Victorian government hasn't wanted to change it so far, how is that the fault of the LSS?

There are subsidised tickets being arranged for the spring social. However, you're totally right about law ball. If I was you I would bring it up with the activity directors directly!

I understand your concerns, but if you just had a chat with a rep then maybe you'd know what the LSS has been doing for the issues you care about and we can also learn from you and better address our weaknesses

22/8/2017 09:52:04 pm

1) A certain degree of realpolitik exists. The LSS is facilitated by the faculty, rather than existing as an independent union. Furthermore, it is heavily dependent on corporate sponsorship, which necessitates a particular code of conduct to maintain the funding necessary to fund most of its activities. These two elements act as limitations on how combative the LSS can afford to be - ultimately, the law school operates largely as an entity unto itself, and treating the LSS in the same manner as the GSA is misrepresentative of the relatively little influence the LSS can exert without overstepping the boundaries implicitly set for it.

2) You're not necessarily misguided - there definitely needs to be more advocacy. However, it's again important to recognise that the LSS does not operate as a union - instead, it is a fairly limited conduit between students and faculty that serves our community by organising events and providing services designed to help the student body (STS, Stepping Stones, etc.) It does what it can. Subsidised tickets are being sought. Lecture recordings were fought for, and failed. Take-home exam bursaries are of a different breed - that's about allocating funding to a new program rather than shifting the fundamental policy of the law school to mimic all of the Harvard model's glaring flaws. Bluntly, the society does not have the influence or the manpower to generate the degree of advocacy you're looking for.

I recommend speaking with a representative. They'll attest to much of the above. Remember, they're people too, each with their own lives, work, studies, and duties, and they're doing this on their own time, unpaid. An enormous amount of effort goes into what they do. Placing the entire onus onto them is counterproductive. If you want advocacy, generate it from below - talk with your classmates, generate some groundswell, and provide some unified support for your proposals. And hey, maybe try to get involved. Because, in all honesty, the LSS is always looking for people who care. It's built from them.

Cheers for your response.

What about the good?

22/8/2017 10:07:47 pm

The LSS has flaws but they work hard to do so much for students. STS, all the careers things (mock interviews, info sessions), and Book Fairy are all LSS funded and run.

Did you know that the LSS, not faculty run Book Fairy?

That's only naming a handful of the work that is done.

What about that recently the Equality Portfolio organised a meeting with faculty on student well-being? They provided direct access for students to talk about policy.

What about the Women's portfolio which has done some amazing events?

What about the careers team who do a better job at promoting job opportunities than the faculty team?

What about the fact that the environment team have made sustainability a big issue in the law school?

What about the Queer team getting gender neutral bathrooms (it's faculy's fault there aren't more)

What about the fact that lecturers have been told they must do akcowledgement of country now?

What about the copious competition opportunities which are often judged and written by actual judges?

Yes, the LLSN do amazing work, and so do PILN and LSFR. Together they all do amazing work, and fill in gaps for the other. You can't expect the LSS to do everything.

Do they have corporate sponsors? Yes. Is it hilarious that everything is labelled with a firm? Yes. But the fact is, they don't have any other funding. You want them to do more but.... have no money? Why can't faculty use our $100000 degrees to pay for STS? Why can't faculty and the Uni administration lobby the government on our behalf with all their money about concession cards?

Should discount tickets be a thing? Yes. But I've known people on the LSS for many years, and it's always practically hard to do. Why don't you actually help instead of just detracting from them and make a suggestion on how to do it?

Honestly, this is a cheap shot at students who work hard.

Couldn't agree more

22/8/2017 10:13:56 pm

This comment is spot on. I'd say maybe the LSS should be more transparent about what they do accomplish, but frankly the students who haven't noticed all the events and programs run by the LSS are the ones that aren't engaged anyway.

At the end of the day, the students are volunteers with limited power to made changes that everyone wants. They also study, work, do extra curriculars etc and shouldn't be held to unrealistic expectations

So far the grievances expressed by other commenters show they don't really pay attention to what the LSS does and don't put in any effort themselves to bring about change.

Thank you to the LSS for all the work you do, it is very much appreciated by the students who actually take the time to make the most of the programs and events you organise.

NOT IN THE LSS

22/8/2017 10:14:28 pm

Fantastic comment, thanks for providing such a comprehensive list.

NOT QUITE TRUE

22/8/2017 10:42:15 pm

"But the fact is, they don't have any other funding" - that is not true, and assuming you are on the LSS given your vehement defensiveness you too should know this.

The GSA receive funds from our SSAF fees, a portion of this is then passed on to the LSS. Whilst this GSA funding obviously would not be enough for the LSS to carry out all that they do (e.g. Book Fairy) it is not an accurate representation to imply the LSS are doing it tough and have no other funding available to them other than through such corporate sponsorship arrangements.

hear hear

22/8/2017 11:41:06 pm

Thank you! I have a lot of friends on the LSS and assure you there is an unbelievable amount of unpaid work and advocacy being done, addressing the above complaints and more. It's clear some of the people complaining have made no effort to get informed or support these ongoing initiatives. All the information is freely available, and I've found my year level rep to be super friendly and always happy to talk. If you've got an idea or a concern go talk to the team and see if they can support you!

Stop writing.

22/8/2017 10:27:25 pm

See above.

Over it

22/8/2017 11:38:21 pm

It's easy to criticise when you aren't part of the committee. It is clear from some of the comments that people don't engage with the LSS or know much about what is being organised but complain.

If you have an issue, contact an LSS member, take the initiative to seek out the opportunities they provide or try to join yourself to make a change

Maybe it's worth the LSS listing explicitly everything they do each week so there's is transparency and no room for misconceptions about what is and isn't on offer

Totally

22/8/2017 11:52:38 pm

Seconded. It's ridiculous to accept the benefits of the volunteered work, yet complain that more should be done whilst making absolutely no contribution.

You're right, more communication might solve some of these issues, but with the constant barrage of event and initiative promotion all over the year level pages I'm not sure what else could feasibly be done.

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22/8/2017 11:45:29 pm

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A fresh take

23/8/2017 07:22:47 am

I, personally, welcome our robot LSS overlords.

Who isn't overjoyed that we get to choose between Kang and Kodos every year?

I don't understand why the LSS are so salty and defensive. I get it, the point that there are existing initiatives and people work hard has been made. But, if there's disappointed voices in the student body, why do you have to be so reactionary?

Also not LSS- but know enough members

23/8/2017 07:39:24 am

I think the negative reaction comes from the fact that some of the comments made about the work the LSS do aren't accurate/true to begin with. This article is a bit more than a friendly bit of feedback.

Also, if students did have all these concerns about the LSS then they should have communicated it directly to them. I know some students claim they have done this, and if that's the case and nothing has changed then thats not good. However I think the frustration comes from the fact that the lss are volunteers who are doing the best they can, some of the comments on this article reflect unreasonable expectations of what they have the power to do and wasn't approached in a constructive way.

If you do have a concern about the LSS, then that feedback is welcome. However it shouldn't come through a comment on a satirical de minimis article, it should come through discussion directly with reps or if you think you could do a better job, joining yourself!

All the best :)

Election time

23/8/2017 07:48:37 am

You're in luck. If you believe that the LSS are slaves to their corporate sponsors, aren't achieving what they should be and aren't addressing the issues the majority of the students want to be addressed- there are elections coming up.

You can put your money with you mouth is and run for a position. You can campaign about what you would do to change the things you dislike, and, if the student body agree, take over the responsibility yourself. Look forward to seeing the campaigns.

Wrote this half asleep

23/8/2017 08:05:23 am

Money where your mouth is. Ha.

Tilly

23/8/2017 09:57:39 am

Now seems like a good time to mention that, on the advocacy front, there will be a student forum in the week before the semester break.

It is tentatively confirmed for lunchtime on the 19th, but of course, I'll be spamming Facebook groups with the confirmed date, time, and place.

Without going too much into the above commentary, hopefully the forum gives students a place to talk directly to a) LSS Directors and b) Faculty members regarding current issues they have that impact their wellbeing.

I hope you can all make it.

Ayu

23/8/2017 12:41:20 pm

Hi all, just to add on:

1) LSS E&SJ has recently run a Wellbeing Focus Group where the issue of student recordings has been brought up. Faculty is aware that the recording policy may be too restrictive. As Tilly said, there is be a student forum happening later during this semester to discuss this issue, where Faculty will be present. That will be a good opportunity to raise this issue once again.

2) Subsidised tickets: E&SJ have been working closely with Activities to trial a subsidy program for event tickets at Spring Social, with a view to extending this to Law Ball.

So much salt

23/8/2017 12:45:44 pm

Hahahaha all these defensive comments

Aww did the joke article hurt widdle student powitcians feewings?

y'all should stop taking yourselves so seriously, all you're doing so making these joke articles funnier

Soph and Rosie (Comms Directors)

23/8/2017 01:11:18 pm

Hey Nick!

It seems like you have some questions and concerns which have led to some fairly substantial misunderstandings. That seems like something we can help with! If you email us (at lss-communications@lists.unimelb.edu.au) or facebook message us or even pull us over in the halls and ask about any of these things at all, we can respond or follow up and make sure you get the right info.

We are also 100% happy to hear any recommendations or suggestions that you've got. We'd definitely be interested to hear if you have any ideas on how to do anything better than we currently are. So definitely shoot any suggestions through that you have, we would love to hear them 🙂

It also seems like there's a bit of confusion about what our role actually entails, so also feel free to shoot us a message if you want any details about what Comms directors do!

23/8/2017 04:41:04 pm

Agh my passive aggression detector just blew up

Soph

23/8/2017 06:20:46 pm

Hey J,

Reading this back I can see how the message could be read in a passive aggressive way - genuinely not my intention though, sorry about that.

We genuinely do understand that people have concerns and would like everyone to feel as though they can approach us with any questions/suggestions.

Apologies for the confusion!

live love laugh

24/8/2017 07:08:57 am

yeah this read like a spider luring NPJ back to the LSS den to eat him

Sam

23/8/2017 01:37:15 pm

Ironically you sound pretty salty yourself. Belittling the "little" people who work unpaid for your benefit, did you not get voted in sweetie?

To be fair, most the comments are just from students who appreciate the programs. Of the few LSS on here most just suggested a chat, only a couple took the bait. I loved the article. It's hilarious and touches on the truth of corporate sponsorship, but the comments section contains some uninformed drivel. I think a degree of exasperation can be forgiven.

The LSS certainly has room for improvement, lucky for you elections are coming up so you can do something constructive rather than leave unintelligent anon comments. Got a problem? Go fix it! It's too late for me now, but if you're in a lower year level you've got an opportunity to change things as you see fit.

All the best

Whoops

23/8/2017 01:39:11 pm

Rookie mistake as a first time commenter, but this was obviously directed @ So Much Salt

cheeky

23/8/2017 01:57:15 pm

This article is clearly a bit of well-meaning banter. Look, as satire it's pretty benign and limp-wristed but that doesn't mean it didn't get a laff out of me. That said, if something as innocuous as this has brought out the LSS in defensive full force what are they going to be like if they actually have to deal with some legitimate complaints?

Seems like a culture of humourless people who've never been criticsed before and think it's the end of the world if they are

Not really

23/8/2017 08:44:12 pm

Maybe it was intended as well meaning banter, but comments that claim the lss do nothing to represent the students and only care about sponsorship, favour their friends instead of offering opportunities to other students and comments that frankly aren't true about what the lss has and hasn't done would piss some people off

It's a tense time of year- let's all take a breather and back off one another

Lighten up

24/8/2017 07:06:34 am

Exactly - it's a tense time, ripe to let some of the tension out with a bit of satire. If the LSS could take a joke in their stride maybe that would have a more positive impact on their and everyone else's wellbeing than having a whine because someone wrote a joke article

@lightenup

24/8/2017 08:28:40 am

I'm not sure why we are pretending that this article was 100% in good faith? The article and some of the comments under it were clearly an attack on the lss.

This isn't about the lss not being able to take a joke, and 'everyone else's wellbeing' isn't compromised because some students felt they wanted to defend the work they do and correct information that is not true

As others have said, if people have genuine criticisms they could have gone about it in a positive way, not by making snarky comments on a de minimis article

I really don't blame those who have commented for defending themselves and to say they just can't take a joke is being pretty dishonest about the nature of the comments made on this thread

alana

25/8/2017 12:28:49 am

spot on, cheeky

Lazy turd

23/8/2017 08:55:07 pm

I didn't read the article. Could someone give me the gist of it?

lol

24/8/2017 09:04:49 am

By far the funniest part of this article was the author's attempt to compare himself to Orwell, and another commenter's attempt to compare the piece to Huxley. Satire at its best :')

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