Author: Cale

For years, Dapto High has been in possession of an Olympic trophy from the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. Current principal Andrew FitzSimons is on the hunt for any information that may lead to a better understanding of how the school came to be the current owner. Many of the staff are also mystified and no-one on the current board of staff are able to piece together how it ended up at Dapto High. Although the trophy is mostly under lock and key in a display cabinet in the library, it’s often used for ceremonies in the school and remains…

In the Afternoon Shift on RadioU, we cover more to do with Youth Week and youth homelessness and discuss an upcoming ANZAC event in Wollongong. We also discuss UOW Sports Day with Jamie Hart and cross live to James Wilson at the Lawn Bowls World Cup.

In today’s morning show, we speak about the youth population in music festivals, drug health, sexual health and performer Jen Williams plays some live music for us. Simon Cook from UOW talks to us about the latest developments in condom fabrication and we hear a track from Slop Rock’s debut album ‘Synergy’.

The University of Wollongong’s Feminist Society (FemSoc) has announced the Take Care Festival to raise money for women’s shelters in the Illawarra. FemSoc aims to give students a chance to participate in feminist activism, raise awareness of feminism, as well as offering a safe, social space to discuss feminist issues – all of which are evident in this event. Organisers Jessie Hunt and Belinda Quinn aim for the Take Care Festival to be a safe space for all women and queer-identifying people. “We’re sending a message that sexism has no place in Wollongong’s music scene; it’s a lazy, out-dated way of thinking,”…

Wollongong resident Pam Howard runs a dual-culture exchange program, Australian Recreation and Educations Tours (ARET), between Australia and Japan. It teaches Australian children about Japanese culture, and Japanese high school and university students about Australian culture. Through a variety of tours and planned activities, Japanese students visit local farms and engage with Australian wildlife and a mix of farm animals. They also try their hand at beekeeping, horse riding and get involved in a number of English language programs. They travel to the surrounding Illawarra area and visit Sydney. Students stay with homestay families, and are treated to standard Australian…

Despite an injury to a triathlon runner in Western Australia in 2014, and reported claims of spying on the training sessions of the French national football team as well as the Minnesota Vikings NFL team, drones may still hold strong in the future of sports coverage. Dr Christopher Moore discusses some of the possibilities that drones have to replace traditional methods being used today to record and capture sporting events. Drones are also carving a position in the sporting industry on their own, with many countries creating rally-style races and obstacle courses. Regulations and laws for the ownership and use…

Macquarie University went to court today in a bid to dissolve an independent student association and seize more than half a million dollars in funds. The Wollongong Undergraduate Students Association (WUSA) said the case could set a precedent for other universities to follow.

Artists have taken to ‘dumpster diving’ – locating and using discarded items to create new pieces of art and installations Artists around the country are using discarded items to create through the waste-to-art movement. Participants claim the movement is an innovative and resourceful way to turn trash into a showpiece item. Zachary Bennett-Brook told ABC Illawarra  how he has taken to using a variety of canvasses for his art. “A lot of my works are on surfboards, surfboard fins and have designs associated with the water and cooler colours,” he said. “But I’ll put them on more abstract things like…

There are many myths as to how weight loss is achieved and what happens to fat when we lose it. In a recent study, Ruben Meerman and Professor Andrew J Brown surprised many with their findings on weight loss. In a paper published on BMJ, they revealed the lungs are the primary excretory organ for fat. Fat is made up of the compound C55H104O6 – that is; part carbon, part hydrogen and part oxygen. The researchers found when people lose weight, they lose atoms. The report claimed 84 per cent of fat is exhaled as CO2 and the remaining 16 per…