Cover of Honi Soit Issue 5 March 30th 2011 |
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| Editors | Jacqueline Breen, Neada Bulseco, James Colley, Bridie Connell, Shannon Connellan, Andy Fraser, Julian Larnach, Michael Richardson, Laurence Rosier Staines, Tom Walker. |
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| Categories | Youth |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Total circulation | 10,000 |
| First issue | 1929 |
| Company | University of Sydney Students' Representative Council |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Website | Honi Soit |
Honi Soit is the 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 Old French "Honi soit qui mal y pense" ("Shame upon him who thinks evil of it"), the motto of the British Order of the Garter.[2]
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Honi Soit is a tabloid-style publication incorporating a mixture of humorous and serious opinion articles. A typical issue contains a topical feature article and interview, letters to the editor, campus news, pop culture articles and news satire. Periodically, special editions are published, including Election Honi, devoted towards covering the annual Students' Representative Council (SRC) student elections, Women's Honi, and Queer Honi, dedicated to covering LGBT issues. Since 2010, the last three pages of each issue have been presented as part of fictional newspaper 'The Garter,' which parodies numerous sections of The Sydney Morning Herald, including Column 8, and contains satirical and irreverent articles.
Issues are published weekly during university semesters. Honi Soit is the only student newspaper in Australia that remains a weekly publication.
The office of editor was originally filled by single appointment. Since the 1980s, editors are annually elected as a "ticket" of up to 10 students, in conjunction with the SRC elections.
Names of notable past editors include Lex Banning, Clive James, Verity Firth, Laurie Oakes, and Keith Windschuttle.[3]
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.[4]
On 11 August 2009, Honi Soit published a feature article, 'The Mystery of St Michael's'[5] later uncovered as a hoax, which claimed a fire in 1992 at St Michael's College, a now derelict residential college adjacent to the University's Architecture building, had killed 16 students. It was implied that a cover-up by the Catholic Church had stifled widespread awareness of the tragedy, and that the site was now haunted by ghosts. The following week, the editors published a retraction, stating: '...after a particularly interesting week of deflecting queries from varying positions of authority... last week’s 'Mystery of St Michael’s' was an exercise in fictional storytelling. Thank you to everyone who played along or enjoyed.'[6]
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