What Has Always Been: On the Right to Bear Arms
“Routine” was the word Barack Obama used to refer to the latest mass shooting in Oregon, fighting back tears. Routine. The shooting occurs, the families cry, the media swoops, the…
Review: Memento Mori (University Dramatic Society)
UDS’ latest offering, Memento Mori, follows the story of Leo, a gifted scientist who believes he is on the verge of discovering a way to drastically slow the process of…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 25: Time to say goodbye
Today is a very symbolic day. Not only have we reached the finale of this guild election series, but I write this as we prepare for our final Pelican meeting…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 24: My only friend, the end
What a week it has been! I cried myself to sleep more than once, and had to delete a whole heap of student politicians from my friends list last night…
Screenshots and Girl Gangs: On the Sorry State of Guild Elections in 2015
The recent leak of screenshots from a private Facebook group to Pelican was presumably celebrated by enemies of Launch, with the group “Men’s Action Network” showing OGC Luke Ellery and…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 23: When will death come
One of my favourite things about my housemate is that if he’s had a big day at work, when I ask him how his day was he’ll sigh and say…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 22: Drinking $10 Koolaid
Day 22 of guild elections, and I’m still not really sure what is going on. I honestly cannot name one STAR policy platform, despite the fact that there are green…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 21: We don’t feel like doing this today
As you know, the general idea behind these posts is that the we try to polish the turd that is the 2015 UWA student guild election with ‘hilarious’ self deprecating…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 20: Well that escalated quickly
It’s been an intense couple of days in the Pelican universe. Lucky for us, it’s Sunday, and Launch’s campaign manager is probably sitting at home with some Netflix and a…
25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 19: Some sad realities
Pelican regrets to inform you that we have temporarily pulled our “25 Days of Guild Elections, Day 18: It’s all Fun and Games Until…”, post in order to protect both…