Adelaide Student Politics

Posted April 3rd

Since the On Dit article went to print, several errors within it have been bought to my attention. As such, I will use this forum to immediately point them out.

• The AUES is not supported by the engineering faculty. According to those within the AUES, the faculty was largely unaware of the types of events they put on prior to this year, and has only recently started keeping an eye on the club.
• The email was sent out to an internal mailing list, and not to all AUES members. My source on the issue was unaware of this, as she was only told that an email had been sent out to an AUES mailing list.
• The scavenger hunt incident was far more complex than I originally thought. The girl whose bra was named on the scavenger hunt first voluntarily took her bra off. She was then sexually assaulted in the Unibar, which is what prompted the comment ‘it happened in the blink of an eye’, and got an AUES member expelled from the club. Later in the evening, the girl was then held up against a wall and an AUES member tried to forcefully remove her bra. She chose not to report the second incident.

Furthermore, since the article went to print, several things have occured.

Firstly, on the 19th of March this year, posters advertising the AUES pub crawl went up around the uni. These depicted a naked female torso, her hands over her breasts, with 'girls will be there' written below (see picture in last article). There being an AUU Board meeting that night, Paris Dean raised the issue. Mark Joyce said he found the reaction to the posters funny. AUU General Manager David Coluccio commented that he was taking the issue 'very seriously'. Board soon began discussing what the Clubs Association can realistically do to address the issues within the AUES.

Needless to say, the posters provided the opening for the AUU to begin making its displeasure known. The AUES responded quickly, ditching their previous marketing strategy in favour of a series of posters which seemed to poke fun at themselves. However, it was too little too late to appease the Clubs Association, who's executive put the AUES on notice the following week.