By Lauren Stanley: The vitriol and hypocrisy spewed by those that I know to be essentially good people never ceases to amaze me. Let’s be honest, this is not a new trend; you give people a platform to speak their mind and they will. Whether you want to hear it or they...

By Ric Thomas: The S4S Leadership Conference was a great opportunity to learn from and speak with real leaders from academia, industry and the community. What I realised was that each of us possesses leadership potential. Many of us unknowingly act as leaders in...

By Belinda Gleeson: Abusive behaviours are rampant in literature, particularly in Young Adult literature and literature intended to be romantic, intended for women in particular. You know the ones I mean – I’m talking Fifty Shades of Grey, Twilight and some other...

By Fern Thompsett: “The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath” – Gil Scott Heron. I would like to talk about the politics of despair. I don’t do so lightly, or as an act of sadomasochism (that’s for a different article). But given the general...

By Emmanuel: Why is it that we choose to live in a world walled in by the confines of man? There seems to be an ongoing need to classify ourselves into enclaves and identify by such limiting terms, but why is that so? We are of one human race. Our language is...

By Se’an Mooney: My name is Se’an Mooney and I’m currently studying at UWSCollege. I’m genderqueer. I am not male or female, I identify as in-between. I would like to discuss some of the implications of being non-binary and the Trans community’s standing within wider...

By Fenella Henderson-Zuel, crUWSible editor: There’s no point denying it now. Finally, at 25 years of age, the University of Western Sydney has reached its rebellious phase. Like a teenager cutting their hair short, dying it blue and getting a tongue piercing, UWS is...

By Ian Escandor, crUWSible editor: The two camps. Red vs. Blue. Blanket fort vs. pillow fort. Charmander vs. Squirtle (because who really cared about Bulbasaur). Despite what your thoughts on the issue are, understand that this is not a debate about which name rolls...

By Bec Foley: After taking a year of leave absence, this student returned to a radically different UWS and is pretty pissed off about it. Not many students plan to get pregnant during the course of their study, but it happens. It happened to me, and at 36 years of...