“I am not against big benches, per se. Rather, what I am against is The Big Yellow USU Bench. In truth, I abhor it with every fibre of my being. There is something wretchedly ironic about its existence, about its pathetic pleading.”

Comedy, CampusJames WilyMay 30, 2025campus, USU, USU board, USU executive, chair

In our Thousands in our Millions

“The fight for Palestine is a fight that everyone must be involved in — the fight against war and imperialism is a fight for a better world for all of us.”

Art, CampusVieve CarnsewMay 4, 2025palestine, cartoon, politics, student politics, Issue 20

Retrospective

PULP continues to be PULP, whatever that means to you. Just not your grandma’s orange juice, and definitely not your favourite Britpop band.

CampusPulp EditorsJuly 11, 2024pulp, magazine, reflection

SUDS Slot 4, 2024: Deathwatch, a review

Whilst these adaptations are perfectly fine, there’s an anachronism that can accompany any production put to stage from another era. There’s merit in rote for rote recreations, but I will always prefer a distortion of a classic akin to what Zoe Le Marinel, Jasmine Jenkins, and their team have put to the stage with SUDS Slot 4’s Deathwatch (1947) by Jean Genet.

CampusNathan PhillisMay 1, 2024SUDS, play review, review

'Troy's House' (2023) SUDS: Review

The liminal area between teendom and adulthood, between Sydney and Melbourne, between friends and enemies, between ad breaks. Everything that happens within is transitional and temporary: “all we do [at Troy’s house] is recount the last event and talk about the next one.”

CampusMiles Hiroshi HuỳnhNovember 8, 2023SUDS, review, play review, troy's house

SUDS' 'Blithe Spirit' review: "a lovely little farce"

‘Blithe Spirit’ is a 3-act performance that acts as an absolute testament to what student theatre can be.

CampusNathan PhillisOctober 4, 2023student theatre, drama, Blithe Spirit, play, theatre

Evidence, Everywhere, All at Once: Law Revue 2023 Review

I often found myself wishing I had an extra eye to see the splendour of it all.

CampusImogen SabeySeptember 8, 2023law revue

The great first day

After all, the Quad was a great place to be lost in, every path ended in a class, a corridor or a gateway.

CampusEeshitaSeptember 6, 2023USyd, the quad, quadrangle, first year

You couldn’t look back if you tried: SUDS 'Eurydice' Review

A sensory aigís, expect an odyssey of emotion, talent and stagecraft.

CampusHugo Anthony HayAugust 31, 2023SUDS, theatre, student theatre, drama, Greek, eurydice

Friendship, nostalgia, and isolation: SUDS 'Play On' Review

Play On, written and directed by Gemma Hudson, is an ambitious and exciting cross of And Then There Were None with Heathers.

CampusAngus McGregorAugust 23, 2023SUDS, theatre, student theatre, netball, nostalgia, high school, drama, friends

Coffee to cure your architectural in(digest)ion

Coffee to the architect is what sexual frustration is to the engineer. A point of conversation, a particular quirk, one’s whole personality.

Where is USyd stored?

Our university has an awful lot of stuff.

Finding a name for the PULP office

Names give character, imply history, and best of all, bring life to the spaces to which they are assigned.

CampusPatrick McKenzieJune 7, 2023pulp office, room, manning building, USyd, archive

New Lake Northam bridge continues long legacy of pond pathway

Photographs of Lake Northam in the late 1800s reveal a sprawling body of water worthy of the now-overstated title ‘Lake’.

CampusSamuel GarrettJune 7, 2023History, USyd, Victoria Park, lake, pathways

REVIEW: SUDS’ Double O’Bill: The Real Inspector Hound and The Bald Soprano - A murder mystery and a middle-class satire walk into a Cellar

Brilliantly adapted by directors Kieran Casey and Charlie Papps, the production offers a night of gut-wrenching laughter and meta-theatrical analysis in their double (O’) bill of two modern absurdist classics

Eternal sunshine of the spotless alumni

It wasn’t until I opened an alumni account that I finally came to terms with losing access to my university emails.

CampusNicole CadelinaApril 19, 2023University, alumni, emails, ephemera, internet, digital cultures

Review: SUDS' Arcadia makes the pendulum swing

Binary opposites become whole in SUDS’ vibrant reimagining of the play, and though its discussions of thermodynamics, aesthetics, and sex may at first seem arbitrary, they have profound intention.