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Tag Archives: University Of Melbourne
I’m back
It’s been over a year. Towards the middle of 2007 I became unsure what image and content this blog was trying to put forward, so I put up a basic placeholder with this short bio: Benjamin Hourigan is the editor … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture Australia, Architecture Media, Asian Studies, Back Seat, Christian Science Monitor, Drama Studies, English Literature, Hourigan, Independent Studies, Landscape Architecture, Mba Program, Media Publisher, Melbourne Radio, Placeholder, Radio Station, Rmit, University Of Melbourne, University Of Technology, University Of Technology Sydney, Usa Today
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More tiresome discussions of gender in popular culture
Today I posted a comment on some recent discussion of writing on virtual transvestitism at the Terra Nova blog. My comment is here, and the text is reproduced below: The “fact that people are studying and talking about these ideas” … Continue reading
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Tagged Constructions, Contortions, Cross Dressers, Fact That People, False Conciousness, Female Avatars, Gender Ideologies, Gender Studies, History Biography, Indoctrination, Phd Candidate, Popular Culture, Queer Theory, Ruberg, Socialist Cause, Straightjacket, Terra Nova, Terranova, Transvestitism, University Of Melbourne
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My grounds for supporting VSU
Today, the last in a series of emails I exchanged with Michelle Smith, Publications Officer of the University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association, about the relationship between identity politics and VSU (Voluntary Student Unionism). In today’s installment, I explain that one … Continue reading
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Tagged Academia, Advocacy, Charity, Circumstances, Disagreements, Email Communications, Freedom Of Choice, Generosity, Last Word, Mass Emailing, Melbourne Postgraduate Association, Michelle Smith, Opinion, Pleasure, Politics, Postgraduates, Relationship, Reply, Smith Publications, Thoughtful Responses, University Of Melbourne, Voluntary Student Unionism
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Student unionism should be voluntary
With legislation to ban compulsory student unionism currently before parliament, student groups are protesting on the streets, on posters stuck around campus, and to the press to keep union membership compulsory. Even Vice Chancellors are expressing concerns. I find it … Continue reading
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Tagged Abolition, Academia, Antagonism, Freedom Of Association, Goverment, Groupings, Howard Government, Interference, Jokes, Melbourne Postgraduate Association, Mentality, Parliament, S Union, Student Groups, Student Unionism, Student Unions, Theage, Union Membership, University Of Melbourne, Vice Chancellors, Voter Turnouts
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What I might have learned at Melbourne Uni
More like a leaking reactor than a liberal arts faculty – Miranda Devine – www.smh.com.au Readers of Miranda Devine’s piece likening Sydney University’s Faculty of Arts to a “leaking nuclear reactor” may wonder whether its indoctrination of students with leftist … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Colonialism, David Stove, Faculty Of Arts, Indoctrination, Leftist Propaganda, Liberal Arts Faculty, Miranda Devine, Nonsense, Nuclear Reactor, Patriarchy, Piece Of Writing, Reverence, Sentiment, Smh, Superiors, Sydney University, University Of Melbourne, Viable Alternatives, Voluntarism
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Taxnami
My best friend, Annette, a recent graduate of Monash University, today forwarded me an email sent out on behalf of her Vice-chancellor on Tuesday. Here’s some of it: The university has established an appeal to help the Monash community donate … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian Quake, Asian Tsunami, Australian Government, Disaster Appeal, Larkins, Monash Community, Monash University, Monetary Assistance, Plan Australia, Professor Richard, Salary Deductions, Substantial Sum, Tsunami Disaster, Tsunami Relief Effort, Unimelb, University Of Melbourne, Vice Chancellor, Vision Plan, Voluntary Donation, World Vision
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