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    Alain de Botton

    Anybody else familiar with this contemporary philospher? I just finished two of his books - Status Anxiety and How Proust Can Change Your Life. Status Anxiety explored how notions of 'individual worth' have changed across the centuries, and possible responses to help us deal with feeling...
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    University Prizes

    Having just received the yearly results slip, added to the bottom was a note about receiving a university prize for one of my units. Does anybody know if that's the extent of it, or does each faculty host some day where you are given something such as a certificate?
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    change to 6cpt units only

    hey received a letter from usyd explaining how from 2006 we will only be able to choose units worth 6cpts. 3cpts and 8 cpts units won't exist. what do u think the effect of this will be? senior units with less contact hours or less course content? or will things stay the same and it's just a...
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    28cpts too much?

    Hi guys, I only did 18cpts this semester, hence I'm abit behind schedule. Does anybody know if doing 28cpts in a semester would prove too much to handle? Perhaps if someone can speak from experience, I would appreciate it. It would be a combination of senior arts and junior commerce units...
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    Article - Karl Rove - the devil-incarnate

    Since we are in the Bush-sucks mood, here is an article about the "brains" behind Bush...Karl Rove...I have seen him....I expected someone much smaller this article is copyright of the New York Times, 7 Nov 2004, www.nytimes.com Rove's Revenge By MAUREEN DOWD ASHINGTON — Just how...
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    Chrisitian morality?

    How did the christian-right in America manage to get such a strangle hold on the 'morality debate'? The following bring out so-called "moral" Evangelicals: anti-gay bigotry under the smoke screen of 'protecting marriage' a desire to end freedom of reproductive choice what about? -...
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    2004 election voter fraud?

    I hate to play into the conspiracy theorist arena, but I find something really troubling when they start to corporatise democracy. Putting your vote in the hands of partisan businesses like that Ohio-based Diebold who manufactured all the blackbox voting machines (something like 8million were...
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    Any Beginners want papers etc.?

    Salut 'les débutants'! I was one of you people last year doing beginners and had the massive luck to come première in the state. Apart from the chance to boast about this achievement (sadly noone at uni cares lol), I would also like to offer some of my material to people. Maybe it's too late...
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    Republican National Convention 2004

    A small sampling of the rhetoric spouted at this year's RNC. Senator Zell Miller - "Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more of the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier. And our soldiers don't just see freedom abroad, they...
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    The Village

    Anyone seen this film? The trailer gives a completely wrong impression of what the film will be like...it wasn't heart-stopping stuff but there are moments which get you going - but rarely. For most of the movie the promise of 'horror' is set aside to focus on a love story. Bryce Dallas...
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    ACCT1001 results are up

    acct1001 finally put results up. just wanted to let u guys know cos a few people on this forum do it. bye
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    Infs1000

    hey peeps, did anyone do INFS1000 in semester one? what were ur impressions of it and also can u go to the lecture time of ur choice? unlike econ for example where diff. streams had different exam papers etc. i'm debating whether to do it next semester as i would only be coming in on a...
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    Who is studying french at Usyd?

    Hi guys, I will be doing intermediate french and just wanted to know who else will be pursuing french studies at usyd. In addition, do you think some linguistics units will be a useful combination with french? Perhaps students who are already doing a language could provide some advice...
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    commerce cut-off predictions?

    would anyone care to guess what the commerce or arts/commerce cut-off at usyd and unsw will be this year? thanks
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    Scaling: which would count??

    which would scale higher? economics 85/100 or ext maths 39/50 ? thnxs to whomever replies
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    READ: uai prediction please!!! 90?+

    english adv: 90 maths: 93 french beginners: 99 legal: 88 ext maths: 38/50 ecos: 85 where in the nineties do you guys think? thanks
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    question about languages

    at usyd you get placed into a languages stream based on what you did in the hsc. at macq and unsw they make you do a placement test....i wonder why the difference? does this mean the other two might cater better to your level?
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    thoughts on the french beginners exam

    salut i know that very few people do this exam. A mon avis - listening was reasonable.....abit much I felt and quite difficult compared to all the past papers I did. Reading and writing was interesting and quite simple.
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    B Arts and Languages at UWS

    Does anyone know how strong the languages department is at uws? Is it worth doing a language like french at uws in a B Arts or as an elective unit within something else like international business. they don't seem to promote their languages as much as other universities like unsw or syd. and...
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