Policy Statement for HYPE the 2009 Editorial Team
Believe in HYPE for Honi!
We remember a time when Tuesday was the best day of the week. Cheap movies, pub trivia nights, watching Marissa drink herself to death, but the weekly release of Honi Soit has lost Tuesday its hype.
HYPE is bringing excitement back to Honi. And Tuesdays.
HYPE is comin at ya from all sides, cause here comes an Honi that’s PROFESSIONAL, RELEVANT, INDEPENDENT and FRESH.
Professional
We don’t expect students to care about an amateur uni rag that during its best days looks like it’s been printed on public toilet paper. But we expect of ourselves to deliver a slick, quality and shit-hot publication every week.
Like a CEO of Maq Bank, and a Chinese table tennis player, we bring the education, the dedication, the androgyny and the drug haze to Honi.
Honi Soit is the best student publication in Australia. No hype. FACT. Lets keep it that way.
Relevant
Like a four page Epilogue to a seven book series or a magical artefact being called “the deathstick”, some things in life just aren’t relevant.
HYPE intends to refocus Honi, and like your friendly gynaecologist peer into the deeper recesses of Sydney Uni.
We’ll look at the things everyone forgot existed at Uni – from sport, to shifty faculty restructuring as well as no-holds-barred satire that goes straight for the jugular and leaves you feeling like you just ate a two piece feed. I think I need a moist toilette.
Independent
You know how your Year Three school report said ‘is very independent’? Well, that was teacher’s code for saying you were the kid who sat on their own at lunchtime with only Warcraft figurines for company.
That might have been the case then, but we’re all grown up now, and an independent Honi is essential for functioning as a vibrant student publication.
We may consider ourselves both a “working family” and an “Aussie battler” but we also believe a politically endorsed Honi should be thrown out the backdoor. That’s why we are not endorsing a presidential candidate or NUS delegate.
This means we can publish what students want to read, regardless of how student political hacks feel.
Fresh
Chillin’ out, maxin’, relaxin’ all cool, shooting some b-ball outside the school. These are all things that HYPE enjoyed doing until we were sent to live with our anglophile uncle and his family in a hilarious clash of cultures.
HYPE intends to be fresher than a prince. Fresher than a chewy dragee. Fresher than a first-year holding a brick.
Our Honi will be provocative, engaging and fun - we want you to be that one awkward person who bursts out laughing during Genocide and Historical Perspective. Bigot.
So vote for HYPE if you want-
1. A newspaper you can get excited about
2. A team of editors with a vision
3. The correct distinction between a Maneater and a Promiscuous Girl.
Don’t believe in Harvey Dent.
Don’t believe in miracles.
DO Believe in HYPE for Honi
Contact us by email at honi.soit@src.usyd.edu.au