YouX
{{Short description|Students' union at the University of Adelaide}}
{{redirect|Adelaide University Union |the buildings known as the Union Buildings|University of Adelaide#Buildings}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox organization
| image = YouX Adelaide University Union Logo.svg
| predecessor =
| formation =
| founded = 1895
| type = Student union
| leader_title = SRC president
| leader_name = Edward Archer (acting)
| leader_title2 = YouX board president
| leader_name2 = Merlin Wang (2024)
| main_organ = YouX SRC
| name = YouX
| formerly =
| location_country = Australia
| location = University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
| subsidiaries = On Dit (student newspaper)
| affiliation = National Union of Students (Australia)
| website = {{URL|https://youx.org.au/}}
| footnotes =
}}
File:Adelaide University Union Building 1930.jpg
YouX, officially the Adelaide University Union (AUU), is a student union at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. It provides academic advocacy, welfare and counselling services to students free of charge, funds the student newspaper On Dit, and owns a number of commercial operations on campus. It also oversees the Student Representative Council (SRC), an organisationally separate body responsible for student political representation.
It was founded in 1895 and since 1971 is recognised as a statutory corporation under the legislation governing the University of Adelaide. As of 2024, there are over 175 clubs and societies under the umbrella of the union.{{Cite web |title=Clubs |url=https://youx.org.au/interests/clubs/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240422093519/https://youx.org.au/interests/clubs/ |archive-date=22 April 2024 |access-date=17 July 2024 |website=YouX |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}
In September 2024, YouX and the University of South Australia Student Association announced their intention to merge.{{Cite web |date=24 September 2024 |title=USASA & YouX All-Student Merger Survey |url=https://www.thewaite.org/usasa-youx-all-student-merger-survey/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241008052441/https://www.thewaite.org/usasa-youx-all-student-merger-survey/ |archive-date=8 October 2024 |access-date=8 October 2024 |website=Waite Research Precinct |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}
History
The Adelaide University Union was founded in 1895 and is one of the oldest students' unions in Australia.{{Cite web |title=Our history |url=https://youx.org.au/about/aboutus/history/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240408052618/https://youx.org.au/about/aboutus/history/ |archive-date=8 April 2024 |access-date=17 July 2024 |website=YouX |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}{{Cite web |date=10 September 2012 |title=ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY UNION CONSTITUTION |url=https://youx.org.au/pageassets/about/governance/rules/Constitution-of-the-Adelaide-University-Union.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923184911/https://youx.org.au/pageassets/about/governance/rules/Constitution-of-the-Adelaide-University-Union.pdf |archive-date=23 September 2023 |archive-format=PDF |access-date=17 July 2024 |website=Adelaide University Union |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}
Following the establishment of the student association, three founding sports clubs co-founded the Adelaide University Sports Association in 1896. The sports association was administered by the student union for over 100 years before becoming directly affiliated with the university in 2010.{{Cite web |title=Adelaide University Sports Association Inc |url=https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/7379 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240707202101/https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/7379 |archive-date=7 July 2024 |access-date=10 July 2024 |website=The University of Adelaide |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}} The Adelaide University Sports Association re-named to Adelaide University Sport that same year.
As of 2024, there are over 175 clubs and societies under the umbrella of the union. These include the Adelaide University Sciences Association (the oldest society at the union not related to sports), the Adelaide Medical Students' Society established in 1889 and the former Adelaide University Sports Association.{{Cite web |title=Adelaide University Sciences Association |url=https://youx.org.au/interests/clubs/join/sciences/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240401104121/https://youx.org.au/interests/clubs/join/sciences/ |archive-date=1 April 2024 |access-date=17 July 2024 |website=YouX |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}{{Cite web |title=Adelaide Medical Students Society |url=https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/25445 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240707130806/https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/25445 |archive-date=7 July 2024 |access-date=14 September 2024 |website=The University of Adelaide |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}
=Rebranding (2022)=
A decision in November 2021{{cite web | title=Student union's big bill for 'YouX' rebrand | website=InDaily| first=Thomas |last=Kelsall | date=26 July 2023 | url=https://www.indaily.com.au/news/2023/07/26/student-unions-costly-youx-rebrand | access-date=23 April 2024}} led to the AUU being rebranded as YouX in 2022, which led to protests from many students, who called it thoughtless and rushed, with students being directed to a pornographic adult website with the same name.{{cite web |url=https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/youx-adelaide-university-union-rebrands-with-same-name-as-porn-website/news-story/8a451c2978d3887d11bc5c724e2c7531 |title=YouX: Adelaide University Union rebrands with same name as porn website |date=July 20, 2022 |website=news.com.au}} YouX initially declined to process a student's Freedom of Information request for the costing and communication of the rebranding, who then lodged an application to the South Australian Ombudsman. The state ombudsman directed the University of Adelaide to release documents relating to the rebranding.{{Cite web |last=Katsaras |first=Jason |date=2022-10-27 |title=Adelaide Uni student's FOI win over union rebrand |url=https://indaily.com.au/news/2022/10/27/adelaide-uni-students-foi-win-over-union-rebrand/ |access-date=2023-11-26 |website=InDaily |language=en}} The documents revealed that 93 per cent of students saw the term AUU as positive or neutral, while 19% saw the term as negative.{{Cite web |date=2023-02-24 |title=The YouX rebrand saga continues… |url=https://onditmagazine.com.au/2023/02/24/the-youx-rebrand-saga-continues/ |access-date=2023-11-26 |website=On Dit |language=en}} The rebrand was based on the perception that a decline in student members might be reversed if the word "union" was dropped from the name, although focus groups had found that the preferred name (out of the three options AUU, Adelaide University Union, and YouX), was AUU. The cost of the rebranding was {{AUD|80,000}}, with most of the cost being the development of the new logo, at A$79,972. During the 2022 student union election, candidates were told by YouX not to criticise the rebranding, warning that breaches would result in sanctions.{{Cite web |date=2022-08-29 |title=Your SRC and YouX Board Candidates Are Under A Weird Gag Order. |url=https://onditmagazine.medium.com/your-src-and-youx-board-candidates-are-under-a-weird-gag-order-b9d94d84316f |access-date=2023-11-26 |website=Medium |language=en}}
=Election Scandal (2024)=
On the 15th of October, 2024, the YouX Election Tribunal published a decision regarding allegations of misconduct by the incumbent Progress party during the 2024 student representative council election, conducted from the 26th to the 30th of August.{{cite web |date = 15 October 2024|last1=YouX Election Tribunal |title=General Decision of YouX Election Tribunal |url=https://youx.org.au/pageassets/voice/elections/2024electiondecisions/youxsrc/Final-General-Decision-of-the-YouX-Election-Tribunal-2024.pdf |website=YouX |access-date=1 November 2024}} The decision followed allegations that members of the Progress party took phones from students and cast votes on their behalf, and that a social event hosted by the Chinese Student's Association required students to hand over their phones to have votes cast before being allowed to participate.{{cite web |last1=Gilchrist |first1=Charlie |title=University student elections overturned amid misconduct allegations |url=https://www.indaily.com.au/news/adelaide/2024/10/24/university-student-elections-overturned-amid-misconduct-allegations |website=InDaily |date=24 October 2024 |access-date=1 November 2024}} In its decision, the Tribunal declared all positions won by Progress candidates void, except those elected unopposed. The tribunal also imposed a two day campaigning ban on all Progress candidates for the re-election triggered as a result of the voiding. In addition, one candidate from Progress party was banned from standing in any YouX election until 2026, and was referred to the University for further disciplinary action.
Similarly, on the 14th of October, the tribunal also published a decision regarding the media election for the editors of On Dit (conducted the week after the student election) following allegations of misconduct by the Progress party. The decision found that Progress candidates used unauthorised materials while campaigning, and that unauthorised personnel campaigned for the party. The results of the election were voided, a re-election called, and the Progress candidates banned from campaigning for one day.{{cite web |date = 14 October 2024 |last1=YouX Election Tribunal |title=Decision of the YouX Tribunal (On Dit complaint) |url=https://youx.org.au/pageassets/voice/elections/2024electiondecisions/youxsrc/Final-General-Decision-of-the-YouX-Election-Tribunal-2024.pdf |website=YouX |access-date=1 November 2024}}
Unrelated to Progress, one student from the Left Action party was also disqualified from the SRC election and banned from standing in any YouX election until 2026 following allegations that he told another candidate "do me a favour, go home and hang yourself", and that he also physically intimidated a different candidate.{{Cite web |date=19 October 2024 |last1 = Yankovich | first1 = George|title=SA's future politicians caught up in student election integrity breaches with results overturned |url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/sas-future-politicians-caught-up-in-student-election-integrity-breaches-with-results-overturned/news-story/214d38c51e6550c5b3b33ebf49496678 |access-date=1 November 2024 |website=The Advertiser |publisher=News Corporation (which owns "News Corp Australia") |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}
Formal relationship with the university
The Adelaide University Union is a statutory corporation under Section 21 of The University of Adelaide Act (1971), unlike other South Australian universities with their governing legislation.[https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/__legislation/lz/c/a/university%20of%20adelaide%20act%201971/current/1971.41.auth.pdf University of Adelaide Act] 1971 (SA) This influenced the inclusion of a similar section in Adelaide University Act (2023) for the merger of Adelaide University[https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/__legislation/lz/c/a/adelaide%20university%20act%202023/current/2023.32.auth.pdf Adelaide University Act] 2023 (SA) with the student unions of both universities fighting for the inclusion, and in addition, the "Western Australian model" of legislated 50% of SSAF{{clarify|date=April 2024}} to the student union.{{Cite news |date=2023-08-16 |title=University merger delay could come at $250 million cost, but impact on jobs unclear |language=en-AU |work=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-16/adelaide-university-merger-delay-could-cost-millions/102730508 |access-date=2023-11-26}}
Since 2008, the Adelaide University Union/YouX has relied on the University of Adelaide for the majority of its funding. This is a result of a funding agreement with the university.Adelaide University Union#Impact of VSU{{better source needed|date=January 2021}}
The ultimate existence of the AUU/YouX, and its relationship with the university, is governed by the University of Adelaide Act 1971. This Act of the South Australian Parliament gives the University of Adelaide Council certain powers over YouX. YouX cannot alter its constitution or rules, or charge a membership fee, without the agreement of University Council, and YouX is bound to provide the council with its financial reports and budget for the coming calendar year prior to 1 December.{{Cite web |url=https://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/232/?dsn=policy.document;field=data;id=228;m=view |title=University of Adelaide Act 1971 |website=University of Adelaide |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080806101700/https://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/232/?dsn=policy.document;field=data;id=228;m=view |archive-date=2008-08-06}}
Student governance
YouX is governed by a board of management. The board consists of 10 ordinary members, who are not also permanent staff of YouX, five of whom are elected annually on two-year terms by the students of the university. The board then elects several of its members to positions within YouX, such as union president, vice president, student media committee chair and clubs committee chair.{{Cite web |url=https://youx.org.au/Common/ContentWM.aspx?CID=130 |title=Governance |website=YouX |access-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402155928/https://youx.org.au/Common/ContentWM.aspx?CID=130 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=dead}} Elections are held annually in September, with the board-elect and officer bearers taking their positions on 1 December.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}
Notable past presidents include former South Australian Premier John Bannon, former South Australia Attorney-General Chris Sumner, Australia's first female Prime Minister Julia Gillard (1981–1982),{{Cite news |url=http://blogs.theage.com.au/thirddegree/archives/2010/07/rise_of_the_campus_pollies.html |title=Third Degree: Rise of the campus pollies |first=Erica |last=Cervini |date=16 July 2010 |newspaper=The Age |location=Melbourne}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/01/crikey-list-which-mps-were-involved-in-student-politics |title=Crikey List: which MPs were involved in student politics? |website=Crikey.com.au |first=Andrew |last=Crook |date=1 October 2010 |accessdate=24 February 2011 }} and former South Australian Supreme Court judges Elliott Johnston and Samuel Jacobs.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}
Oscar Zi Shao Ong was president of YouX between 2021 and 2022, presiding over a board dominated by Young Liberals. During this time they cut funding for the Women's Collective and passed a constitutional amendment which gave an "independent committee" final approval rights over editorial content published in student newspaper On Dit.{{Cite news |last=Tran |first=Khanh |date=17 January 2022 |title="Deeply undemocratic": Adelaide University SRC push back against attempts to muzzle student activists |work=Honi Soit |url=https://honisoit.com/2022/02/deeply-undemocratic-adelaide-university-src-push-back-against-attempts-to-muzzle-student-activists/}} Ong was also the national president of the Council of International Students Australia (CISA), during which time there were at least five disaffiliations from CISA, citing poor governance and communications as well as Ong's conservative leadership.{{Cite web |date=2022-01-21 |title='Right-wing': the fallout from the NUS and CISA's dispute |url=https://honisoit.com/2022/01/right-wing-the-fallout-from-the-nus-and-cisas-dispute/ |access-date=2023-11-26 |website=Honi Soit |language=en-AU}}{{Cite web |date=2023-10-17 |title=NSW Government issue ultimatum to international student group amid crisis |url=https://honisoit.com/2023/10/nsw-government-issue-ultimatum-to-international-student-group-amid-crisis/ |access-date=2023-11-26 |website=Honi Soit |language=en-AU}}
The 2023 election results for the 2024 SRC president and many other board positions were declared void amid allegations of misconduct,{{cite web | title=University student elections overturned amid misconduct allegations | website=InDaily | date=24 October 2024 | url=https://www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in/2024/10/24/university-student-elections-overturned-amid-misconduct-allegations | access-date=15 March 2025}} and Georgia Thomas remained caretaker student president until another election could be held.{{Cite web |title=YouX 2023 Election Results |url=https://youx.org.au/voice/elections/2023/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124101944/https://youx.org.au/voice/elections/2023/ |archive-date=2023-11-24 |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=YouX Adelaide University |language=en-US}} There had been several allegations that Progress faction members took other students' phones at an Adelaide University Chinese Students' Association event on 26 August 2024 and voted on their behalf without their consent. An independent tribunal of law academics and lawyers ruled that Progress candidates would be banned from campaigning for the first two days of the replacement elections. In separate findings, the tribunal ruled that the winning Progress-aligned On Dit vote had breached election rules.
{{as of|March 2025}} Merlin Wang is president{{cite web | title=YouX Board | website=YouX | date=31 October 2024 | url=https://youx.org.au/voice/youxboard/| access-date=15 March 2025| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250131141639/https://youx.org.au/voice/youxboard/| archive-date =31 January 2025| url-status=live}}
Publications
{{Main|On Dit}}On Dit (pronounced on-dee), the second-oldest student-run print media in Australia, was established by the student union in 1932.{{Cite web |title=On Dit |url=https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/7315 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720130204/https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/7315 |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=13 August 2024 |website=The University of Adelaide |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}{{Cite web |date=20 October 2022 |title=About |url=https://onditmagazine.com.au/about/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717212627/https://onditmagazine.com.au/about/ |archive-date=17 July 2024 |access-date=13 August 2024 |website=On Dit |publisher=Adelaide University Union (trading as YouX) |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}} It is named after the French expression "we say" and operates independently of the university. It also occasionally uses the name "Hearsay" as a creative writing edition of the magazine that dates back to 1972 when the then-newspaper changed its name to "Heresay" in Volume 14 as part of a protest against nuclear testing in the Pacific by France.{{Cite web |date=1 December 2021 |title=Love, death, and science fiction: Our 2021 Hearsay creative writing awards |url=https://onditmagazine.com.au/2021/12/01/love-death-and-science-fiction-our-2021-hearsay-creative-writing-awards/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231025143508/https://onditmagazine.com.au/2021/12/01/love-death-and-science-fiction-our-2021-hearsay-creative-writing-awards/ |archive-date=25 October 2023 |access-date=13 August 2024 |website=On Dit |publisher=Adelaide University Union (trading as YouX) |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}{{Cite web |date=June 1972 |title=On Dit. Volume 40, Issue 14 |url=https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/2414 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240707234318/https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/2414?keywords=on%20dit%201972&type=all&highlights=WyJkaXQiLCIxOTcyIl0=&lsk=a5f7c531cbbdcb26535d3a0b4fe847f7 |archive-date=7 July 2024 |access-date=13 August 2024 |website=On Dit |publisher=Adelaide University Union |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}} The Prosh Rag, which contains satirical content, is another special issue that is sold by students to the public to raise funds for charities. On Dit often publishes content on national and global politics and is an example of student activism at the university.{{Cite web |title=On Dit |url=https://youx.org.au/development/studentmedia/ondit/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240723060132/https://youx.org.au/development/studentmedia/ondit/ |archive-date=23 July 2024 |access-date=13 August 2024 |website=Adelaide University Union (trading as YouX) |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}} Former writers of the newspaper include politicians Julia Gillard, Christopher Pyne, Penny Wong, Nick Xenophon and John Bannon.{{Cite web |title=Significant figures in politics, education, media and more as editors of Adelaide University's 'On Dit' |url=https://adelaideaz.com/articles/significant-figures-in-politics--education--media-and-more-as-editors-of-adelaide-university--on-dit--student-newspaper |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420041042/https://adelaideaz.com/articles/significant-figures-in-politics--education--media-and-more-as-editors-of-adelaide-university--on-dit--student-newspaper |archive-date=20 April 2024 |access-date=13 August 2024 |website=Adelaide AZ |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}
It is the successor to the Varsity Ragge which was founded in 1929.{{Cite web |title=Varsity Ragge |url=https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/7316 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240723111532/https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/7316 |archive-date=23 July 2024 |access-date=13 August 2024 |website=The University of Adelaide |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}{{Cite web |title='Varsity Ragge' 1928-31 the ragged predecessor of Adelaide University's boldly activist students newspaper 'On Dit' |url=https://adelaideaz.com/articles/-varsity-ragge--1928-34-the-predecessor-of-the-adelaide-university-s-student-newspaper--on-dit- |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226232439/https://adelaideaz.com/articles/-varsity-ragge--1928-34-the-predecessor-of-the-adelaide-university-s-student-newspaper--on-dit- |archive-date=26 February 2024 |access-date=13 August 2024 |website=Adelaide AZ |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}} It also published news, poetry and comedic works from various student clubs and societies, including the neighbouring Adelaide Teachers College which later became part of the university campus.{{Cite web |title=Our Proud Antecedent History |url=https://unisa.edu.au/connect/alumni-network/antecedent-history/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202095428/https://unisa.edu.au/connect/alumni-network/antecedent-history/ |archive-date=2 February 2024 |access-date=9 May 2024 |website=University of South Australia |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}} According to On Dit, the original newspaper failed due to student apathy. The oldest student-run newspaper dates back to 1889 as the Review, which was previously ran by the Adelaide Medical Students' Society.{{Cite web |title=About the AMSS |url=https://www.amss.org.au/about/about-the-amss |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321144015/https://www.amss.org.au/about/about-the-amss |archive-date=21 March 2024 |access-date=6 September 2024 |website=Adelaide Medical Students' Society |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}
The Adelaide University Magazine was another student-run magazine that began printing in 1918.{{Cite web |title=The Adelaide university magazine. |url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/LIB109748 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240906055554/https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/LIB109748 |archive-date=6 September 2024 |access-date=6 September 2024 |website=Australian War Memorial |language=en-AU |publication-place=Canberra, Australian Capital Territory}} Following the establishment of On Dit as the official organ of the student union, it renamed to the Phoenix in 1935 as a modernist cultural and artistic magazine with literary works including poetry.{{Cite web |last=Larsen |first=Marie |date=21 January 2019 |title=100 Years On - Adelaide University Magazine |url=https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/25410 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240708013037/https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/25410 |archive-date=8 July 2024 |access-date=6 September 2024 |website=The University of Adelaide |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}{{Cite web |last=Hoskin |first=Cheryl |date=May 2013 |title=A Genius About the Place: The Phoenix Magazine and Australian modernism |url=https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/129739/1/A%20Genius%20About%20the%20Place.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530175648/https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/129739/1/A%20Genius%20About%20the%20Place.pdf |archive-date=30 May 2023 |archive-format=PDF |access-date=6 September 2024 |website=The University of Adelaide |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}} Following funding cuts in 1940, its editors founded the Angry Penguins which was influential in the then-isolationist Australia as a socially-progressive magazine promoting internationalism.{{Cite journal |last=Yates |first=Gavin |date=6 April 2023 |title="Black Swan of Trespass": Surrealism, Angry Penguins Journal, and the "Ern Malley" Experiment |url=https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/dadasur/article/id/31892/ |url-status= |journal=Dada/Surrealism |language=en-AU |publication-place=Melbourne, Victoria |volume=24 |issue=1 |doi=10.17077/0084-9537.31892 |issn=2372-6725 |access-date=6 September 2024 |via=The University of Iowa}}{{Cite web |last=Miles |first=John |date=12 July 2000 |title=Lost Angry Penguins: D.B. Kerr, P.G. Pfeiffer and the real founding of the Angry Penguins |url=http://jacketmagazine.com/12/penguins-miles.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240505055202/http://jacketmagazine.com/12/penguins-miles.html |archive-date=5 May 2024 |access-date=6 September 2024 |website=Jacket |publisher=University of Pennsylvania (which owns "Kelly Writers House") |language=en |publication-place=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania}}{{Cite journal |last=Bradshaw |first=Wayne |date=10 July 2024 |title=Misapprehensions of a Caustic Eye: A. D. Hope and the Failure of Angry Penguins as a Modernist Literary Movement |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14443058.2024.2369499 |url-status= |journal=Journal of Australian Studies |volume=48 |issue=3 |language=en-AU |publication-place=Townsville, Queensland |pages=299–313 |doi=10.1080/14443058.2024.2369499 |issn=1444-3058 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240906071158/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14443058.2024.2369499 |archive-date=6 September 2024 |access-date=6 September 2024 |via=Informa (which owns "Taylor & Francis")}}{{Cite web |last=Haese |first=Richard |date=30 December 1982 |title=The Revolutionary Years |url=https://latrobejournal.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-30/t1-g-t1.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111141703/https://latrobejournal.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-30/t1-g-t1.html |archive-date=11 November 2022 |access-date=6 September 2024 |website=The La Trobe Journal |publisher=State Library Victoria |language=en-AU |publication-place=Melbourne, Victoria}}{{Cite web |title=Making History: The Angry Penguins |url=https://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/making-history-angry-penguins/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804173234/https://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/making-history-angry-penguins/ |archive-date=4 August 2024 |access-date=6 September 2024 |website=Heide Museum of Modern Art |language=en-AU |publication-place=Melbourne, Victoria}} The magazine ceased operations after six years, following the Ern Malley hoax that set back modernism in the country.{{Cite web |last=Freeland |first=Lucy |date=7 February 2016 |title=Australias Avant-Garde Angry Penguins: From Art To Literature |url=https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/australia-s-avant-garde-angry-penguins-from-art-to-literature |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606022530/https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/australia-s-avant-garde-angry-penguins-from-art-to-literature |archive-date=6 June 2024 |access-date=6 September 2024 |website=Culture Trip |publisher=U.S. News & World Report |language=en-AU |publication-place=New York City, United States}}{{Cite web |last= |title=Angry Penguins |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/angry-penguins |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240809095636/https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/angry-penguins |archive-date=9 August 2024 |access-date=6 September 2024 |website=Tate Britain |language=en-GB |publication-place=London, United Kingdom}} The magazine was later revived on-and-off the following years as the Phoenix but published its final issue in 1949. Later attempts by the student union in the 1950s to revive the Adelaide University Magazine as a staff and graduate magazine, rather than one focussed on artistic and literary works, failed.
Adelaide University Student Radio was established in 1975 and was the oldest student-run radio program in Australia.{{Cite web |title=Adelaide University Union, 1895-2012 |url=https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/25587 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720161342/https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/25587 |archive-date=20 July 2024 |access-date=13 August 2024 |website=The University of Adelaide |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}
Annual Prosh
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The student union organises the annual Prosh week events inspired by the medieval tradition of ragging or "an extensive display of noisy disorderly conduct, carried on in defiance of authority or discipline".{{Cite web |last= |last2= |first2= |last3= |last4= |title=Student raggers and radicals: Student activity and activism from 1880 |url=https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/exhibitions/student-raggers/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240626041422/https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/exhibitions/student-raggers/ |archive-date=26 June 2024 |access-date=29 August 2024 |website=The University of Adelaide |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}{{Cite web |title=Student raggers and radicals: Student activity and activism from 1880 |url=https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/25407 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318091356/https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/25407 |archive-date=18 March 2023 |access-date=6 September 2024 |website=The University of Adelaide |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}} The annual Procesh procession began in 1905 as a means for students to poke fun at established South Australian institutions, though ragging at the university dates back to the late 19th century. In one example, multiple alarm clocks set and hid by students behind books made constant interruptions during a 1896 ceremony at the former Mitchell Building library. The Prosh parade has in modern times included live band performances on flatbed trucks, student club-made floats and booze cruisers transporting inebriated students.{{Cite web |title=PROSH Week |url=https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/7472 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240708024032/https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/7472 |archive-date=8 July 2024 |access-date=17 July 2024 |website=The University of Adelaide |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}} Among notable pranks, students suspended a Holden car on Adelaide University Footbridge in 1971 above the River Torrens as part of Operation Bridge-hang.{{Cite book |url=https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/30399 |title=The University of Adelaide - 150 Years of Making History |publisher=The University of Adelaide |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia |language=en-AU |access-date=19 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819183403/https://connect.adelaide.edu.au/nodes/view/30399 |archive-date=19 August 2024 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |last1=Dutton |first1=Connie |last2=Sanchez |first2=Genevieve |last3=Williams |first3=Ian |last4=Cook |first4=Andrew |last5=Burdon |first5=Peter |last6=Grantham |first6=Leah |date=2014 |title=Lumen |url=https://www.adelaide.edu.au/lumen/binary11421/Lumen.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231226152109/https://www.adelaide.edu.au/lumen/binary11421/Lumen.pdf |archive-date=26 December 2023 |archive-format=PDF |access-date=26 December 2023 |website=The University of Adelaide |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}{{Cite web |title=Adelaide Uni's Prosh Week 1966 uproar after Ernie Sigley's broadcast from beyond Kangaroo Island jammed in city |url=https://adelaideaz.com/articles/adelaide-uni-s-prosh-week-1966-starts-uproar-with-ernie-sigley-s-offshore-radio-broadcast-from-kangaroo-island |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829192029/https://adelaideaz.com/articles/adelaide-uni-s-prosh-week-1966-starts-uproar-with-ernie-sigley-s-offshore-radio-broadcast-from-kangaroo-island |archive-date=29 August 2024 |access-date=29 August 2024 |website=Adelaide AZ |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}{{Cite web |title=PMG jams Adelaide Uni students' Prosh pirate radio, using Ernie Sigley to broadcast off Kangaroo Island in 1966 |url=https://adelaideaz.com/articles/federal-pmg-jams-adelaide-uni-students--prosh-pirate-radio--using-ernie-sigley-to-broadcast-in-international-waters-off-kangaroo-island-in-1966 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301231751/https://adelaideaz.com/articles/federal-pmg-jams-adelaide-uni-students--prosh-pirate-radio--using-ernie-sigley-to-broadcast-in-international-waters-off-kangaroo-island-in-1966 |archive-date=1 March 2024 |access-date=29 August 2024 |website=Adelaide AZ |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}
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Since 1954, the event has also involved the sale of satirical newspapers in public settings.{{Cite web |date=15 December 2018 |title=On Dit (1975) "Prosh" |url=https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/24761 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215174040/https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/24761 |archive-date=15 December 2018 |access-date=15 December 2018 |website=On Dit |publisher=Adelaide University Union |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}{{Cite web |date=1965 |title=Austrine |url=http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=2580 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612165047/http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=2580 |archive-date=12 June 2024 |access-date=17 July 2024 |website=SA Memory |publisher=State Library of South Australia |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}} The Prosh Rag, later an annual issue of the On Dit student magazine, contains humorous references to various well-known persons of the day.{{Cite web |date=28 August 2016 |title=Adelaide University Prosh Day pranks of old |url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/adelaide-university-prosh-day-pranks-of-old/news-story/014f7b11c4c1d2fde588b033e632dbc0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212222655/https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/adelaide-university-prosh-day-pranks-of-old/news-story/014f7b11c4c1d2fde588b033e632dbc0 |archive-date=12 February 2021 |access-date=17 July 2024 |website=The Advertiser |publisher=News Corporation (which owns "News Corp Australia") |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}{{Cite web |date=July 2001 |title=PROSH efforts lead to fundraising record by Adelaide Uni students |url=https://www.adelaide.edu.au/script/adelaidean/archive/backissues/Adelaidean-2001-07.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814224241/https://www.adelaide.edu.au/script/adelaidean/archive/backissues/Adelaidean-2001-07.pdf |archive-date=14 August 2022 |archive-format=PDF |access-date=28 July 2024 |website=Adelaidean |publisher=The University of Adelaide |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}} It has been sold on city streets by students to raise funds for charity as an attempt to legitimise the event following attempts to ban it in the early 1950s. Since at least the 1960s, the event and magazine has often been involved in controversial topics including Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, apartheid, nuclear warfare, Aboriginal rights and the general administration of the university. Following the end of free university education, the event has toned down in more recent times as a result of increased work commitments by students and the rise of social media for activism. Prosh week winds up with the Prosh After Dark social event in the UniBar which has its origins from the Prosh Ball.{{Cite web |date=31 July 1970 |title=On Dit (Aug 1970) "Prosh Ball" |url=http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/24753/1/OnDit1970Aug_ProshBall.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228202112/http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/24753/1/OnDit1970Aug_ProshBall.pdf |archive-date=28 December 2013 |archive-format=PDF |access-date=28 December 2013 |website=On Dit |publisher=Adelaide University Union |language=en-AU |publication-place=Adelaide, South Australia}}
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