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Peter Høj to Resign as UQ Vice-Chancellor

Professor Peter Høj AC will step down as the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Queensland in June next year after nearly eight years in the top job. Professor Høj made the announcement at a Senate meeting this Thursday, confirming rumours that have been circulating since the start of the year. Under Vice-Chancellor Høj’s […]

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St John’s Appoints New Warden From College with “Most Toxic Culture”

Content Warning: This article includes a graphic poem about sexual assault.  St John’s College within the University of Queensland has today announced that it will be appointing as its Warden the former Master of St Mark’s College in Adelaide, a college which has previously been lambasted by the media for sexual assaults and racism. Rose […]

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Why is UQ fighting its students over the Schonell?

The recent reappearance of the Schonell Theatre in news headlines seemed to present an unmissable opportunity for us to wax lyrical about the building, and to remind readers why it’s important that performing arts stays in student hands. When UQ students built the Schonell Theatre in 1970, Queensland was two years into what would become […]

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Indian Feast at UQ Underpaid Workers

Semper has obtained documents that reveal Indian Feast at UQ’s St Lucia campus has been underpaying their employees, and that UQ knew about this. One previous employee, Prijwal (not his real name), showed Semper an envelope, ostensibly intended to be a payslip, with ‘12 x 10 = 120’ written on it. This suggests employees who […]

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The Pub Crawl That Must Not Be Named

In case you missed it, four of UQ’s student societies recently teamed up to host a ‘School Themed Pub Crawl’. Yes, that’s right. School themed. Four teams of highly-talented, creative student executives held one of the biggest events of the year, and gave it the same theme as the Royal Exchange might for any other […]

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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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