Lot's Wife (student newspaper)

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Lot's Wife
Type Student newspaper
Owner(s) Monash Student Association
Founded1964
Political alignment Centre-left
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters Monash University
Circulation 3000 [ citation needed ]
Website lotswife.com.au

Lot's Wife is the student newspaper of Monash University's Clayton campus. It is produced by students, for students and operates as part of the Monash Student Association.

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History

Lot's Wife began when a collection of Monash (Clayton) students stormed the office of the Monash student newspaper of the time, Chaos, in reaction to the sexist and derogatory material Chaos routinely published. [1] Throughout the 1960s, Lot's Wife remained at the forefront of student media.

Lot's Wife gained its name from the Biblical passage in which Lot and his wife fled Sodom. Lot and his wife were spared from God's wrath at Sodom on the premise that if they left behind the destruction that befell their town without looking back, they would be spared. Once they had escaped, Lot's wife looked back. As a consequence she turned into a pillar of salt for disobeying God's orders.

The message of never looking back has been enshrined in Lot's Wife since its inception and continues to be reflected in each edition of the publication. Many of Lot's Wife’s contributors have achieved considerable notoriety in later life.

Lot's Wife found itself in the middle of a media storm when an article was published and distributed to first year students at the traditional O-Week events discussing different ways to consume and prepare marijuana. The article titled "Cooking with Schapelle" drew the ire of anti-drug groups. [2]

Notable contributors

Lot's Wife is put together through a collaborative effort by students from the Monash Clayton Campus. Some notable past editors and contributors to Lot's Wife include:

Notes

  1. MSA.monash.edu.au Archived 25 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Heraldsun.com.au
  3. "Rachel Griffiths Interview with Madeleine Swain 1998". Express Highlights. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 11 February 2006. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  4. Feinstein, Howard (18 December 1998). "The Rachel capers". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  5. "Antony Loewenstein". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  6. ABC.net.au
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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