Honi Soit

Honi Soit is the student newspaper of the University of Sydney. First published in 1929, the paper is produced by an elected editorial team and a select group of reporters sourced from the University's populace. The name is an abbreviation of the Anglo-Norman "Honi soit qui mal y pense" ("Shame upon him who thinks evil of it").

Layout

Format and organisation

Published as part of the activities of the Students' Representative Council (SRC), Honi Soit is a tabloid-style publication incorporating a mixture of humorous and serious opinion articles. Its standard book size is 24 pages, but that is sometimes extended to 28 or 32 pages at the discretion of the editors and publisher.

Issues are published weekly during university semesters, typically containing a topical feature article and interview, letters to the editor, campus news, pop culture articles and news satire. Special editions are published yearly, including Election Honi, devoted towards covering the annual Students' Representative Council (SRC) student elections, Women's Honi dedicated to feminism and women's issues, and Queer Honi, dedicated to covering LGBT issues. The final edition each year is typically presented as a spoof or parody of an existing newspaper. These editions were traditionally sold on the streets of Sydney to raise money for charity as part of the University's Commemoration Day festivities, though this practice has been discontinued since the 1970s.

Honi Soit (album)

Honi Soit is the seventh studio album by Welsh musician John Cale, released in 1981 by record label A&M.

Content

All songs were written by Cale, except "Streets of Laredo", a traditional song arranged by Cale.

Andy Warhol suggested the album should be called John and Yoko, and provided the cover art, in black and white, but against Warhol's wishes Cale colorized it. In a tongue-in-cheek allusion to the song "Fighter Pilot", the credits on the sleeve give each of the musicians a mock military aviation role, with Cale described as "flight surgeon". The album's title is an abbreviation of the phrase ″Honi soit qui mal y pense″ (French: "shame upon him who thinks evil of it"), the motto of the British Order of the Garter.

Release

Honi Soit was released in March 1981 by record label A&M. The album is Cale's only album to date to chart in the US, reaching number 154.

Track listing

All tracks composed by John Cale; except where indicated