PREVIOUS PAGEAND BOTTOM LEFTImogen HindsonLEFTNonee WalshBELOWOn Dit cover, vol 47, no 21So along with the campus women’s group andvolunteers, we did a spoof of The Women’s Weekly,as it was then, with both funny and seriousarticles about women’s issues and perspectives,complete with a back cover of collected graffitifrom the University of Adelaide’s women’s toilets.I was so pleased to see men reading it in the UniBarand to have the argument with one medicalstudent who came into the office at the bottom endof The Cloisters to tell me it was irresponsibleto put women off using IUDs by humorouslyoverstating the dangers. (I note that some of thosecontraceptive devices were withdrawn years laterbecause of their side-effects.)On Dit was hard work, including late nights writingat home and on weekends (checked on by thekind University security guards) as I was a soleeditor. I mostly worked 9-5, constrained by thehours for my daughter at the new Universitychildcare centre.I had a great team of friends in the Students'Association and other volunteers who laid out theeditions by cutting and pasting – with real paperand scissors. Then they created bromides in thedarkroom near the Students' Association office, atthe opposite end of The Cloisters, ready tosend to the Murray Bridge printer.Life revolved around The Cloisters, the UnionBuilding and the Barr-Smith Lawns. It wasa heady year of discussions and writing oncontraception and abortion, human rights acrossthe world, and of course education policy. Twicewe were in Melbourne for the AUS NationalCouncil to stave off moves, led by then-studentsTony Abbott and Peter Costello, to close downthe union.The late 70s and early 80s were a time of reform.Protests a decade before led to new laws, andstudent politicians argued about legislationand implementation. It was a time when a fewmedia outlets were just starting to report issueswhich had long been the province of studentnewspapers. That alternative role is one that astudent newspaper should continue to fill.I guess I always wanted to be in journalism,and the University of Adelaide got me there,perhaps inadvertently. I left well prepared towork in media with a BA in anthropology andan incomplete honours thesis which became aseries on student radio. The rest is history.ALUMNI MAGAZINE - SUMMER 201929
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