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UQ’s Co-op Bookstore has closed. What can you do now?

Straight out of nowhere, the UQ Co-Op Bookshop has disappeared and been replaced with allegedly over-priced ‘School Locker’. News broke on StalkerSpace last night, so Semper got on the case and churned out a Universe-style listicle to wrap up the semester. 1. Cry because Co-Op refuses to refund memberships We called up the Co-Op customer service line, and […]

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The Big Redevelopment

As part of their commitment to Creating Change™, the University administration announced in 2016 that the UQ Union Complex was due for a complete demolition and reconstruction in 2017. You probably know the UQ Union Complex as ‘the place where Guzman y Gomez lives’. But the Complex is also a monument to the age-old institutions […]

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This website hijacked UQ students’ computers to mine cryptocurrency

The creator of a website where UQ students review courses and lecturers has blamed foreign hackers for a script that mined cryptocurrency on visitors’ computers. A member of the UQ Computing Society discovered the malicious script last Tuesday, when the website caused his CPU to run at 100% capacity. A look at the website’s source […]

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MEDIA RELEASE: UQ Union Response to National Sexual Assault Survey

Today we have seen confirmation of what students have been saying for decades. The rates of sexual assault and harassment at University campuses are staggeringly high. In 2015/16 1.1% of UQ students have been sexually assaulted in a University setting. 28% have been sexually harassed on university grounds – or during travel to and from […]

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What is the Union Hub?

Have you passed the old lolly shop recently? Well, it certainly isn’t a lolly shop anymore. Located next to UQU Secondhand Texts & Stationery, the Union Hub is a casual student space brought to you by UQU, your student union. The Union Hub is a social space where you can eat your lunch, catch up […]

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