Honi Soit

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Honi Soit
Editors Flag of Australia Hamish Nairn, Lucy Boyle, Daniel Selikowitz, Alice Dixon, Bennett Mason, Edwina Burn, Kip Williams, Kate Leaver, Steve Hind, Anya Poukchanski
Categories Youth
Frequency Weekly
Total Circulation 10000
First issue 1929
Company University of Sydney Students' Representative Council
Country Flag of Australia Australia
Language English
Website Honi Soit
This article is about the Australian student newspaper. For the album by John Cale, see Honi Soit (album).

Honi Soit is a student newspaper of the University of Sydney, first published in 1929 and produced by an elected editorial team as part of the activities of the Students' Representative Council (SRC).[1] The name is short for the phrase "Honi soit qui mal y pense" (French: "shame upon him who thinks evil of it"), which is the motto of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.[2]

Honi Soit is a tabloid-style publication incorporating a mixture of humorous and serious opinion articles. A typical issue contains a satirical cover story lampooning a topical current event or person, letters to the editor, campus news, and opinion and pop culture articles. Periodically, special editions are published, including Election Honi, devoted towards covering the relevant student elections, and Queer Honi, dedicated to covering LGBT issues.

Issues are published weekly during university semesters.

Editors are elected as a "ticket" of up to 10 students, elected each year in conjunction with the annual SRC elections. Past editors have included Clive James, Andrew Reimer and members of the Chaser.

[edit] Art of Shoplifting controversy

In 1995, Honi Soit reprinted a controversial article from Rabelais Student Media, its La Trobe University counterpart, entitled The Art of Shoplifting – one of seven student newspapers to do so. Although the Rabelais editors responsible for the original article were prosecuted for ignoring a ban on publication issued by the state's Chief Censor; the editors of the other seven newspapers were not targeted by the authorities. Charges against the Rabelais editors were later dropped.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ University of Sydney archives [1]
  2. ^ Maven's Word of the Day. [2]
  3. ^ The Rabelais Case (HTML). Burning Issues (1999-21-08). Retrieved on 2007-08-16.

[edit] External links

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