About the Team
Felicity Evans likes donuts for breakfast as well as a good political scandal. As a second year journalism student who lives for RSS news feeds and blogs, her particular passions are politics, development and peacekeeping. She once memorised the entire NSW Legislative Assembly for fun, but soon found that this knowledge served no purpose due to the ever changing landscape that is NSW Parliament. During semester, she resides on level 6 of the tower building in her UTS Union office. From here, she watches over UTS’ unique path of grass, which she smugly applies the saying “less is more” when considering Sydney University’s only claim to fame.
Lucie Robson can often be heard complaining, “Oh, it’s all so BANAL!” She hails from a land of green paddocks and vineyards, where kids ride cows to school and the only telephone is found at the local pub. These days her favourite activities include participating in alcoholic taste tests and conducting phone interviews in storerooms on the sly. If Lucie could possess a superpower, it would be a complete absence of the need for sleep. You might not consider this a superpower, but dude, it is. This would enable her to stay up all night transcribing, writing, editing, watching embarrassing television and eating sultanas. Wait, that already happens.
Jason Childs was born in the depths of a long, cold winter’s night. As a young boy, he was driven from his home by the wickedness of his older siblings, and the utter ambivalence of his parents regarding same. For months he wandered the land, wretched and tiny and ragged and alone. Merrily, however, he would eventually find lodgings with a kindly old blind man in a cabin in a wooded glade. In exchange for company and the occasional wistful tune played on a set of panpipes whittled from sugarcane, the old man taught Jason how to read ancient Greek and Latin, how to find the hypotenuse of a triangle, and several other quite useful things. Jason now applies that knowledge in the venerable office of Editor of Vertigo.
Sarah Michael finds it kind of awkward describing herself in the self-conscious, sarcastic tone that tends to go with writing blurbs about oneself. However it seems to be what everyone else does, and she has never been good at resisting peer pressure. She never did very well in PDHPE, which is where most people seem to learn how to do that. In her spare time she likes to watch bad (really good) reality television and paint her nails. She also really likes being on the editorial team of university magazines, so you should probably keep that in mind and vote Scoop for Vertigo.
Ben Squires was surprised when, coming home early from work one day he found his wife in bed with the milkman. Ben always figured that the mass proliferation of supermarkets had rendered any venture into the door-to-door milk delivery industry as unviable, and for this reason he was keen to hear the views of an insider. The milkman agreed that peddling unsolicited milk was a difficult way to make a living, but, claimed that the many “hidden perks in the job” more than made up for any financial insecurity that came with such a career choice. Ben found this most reassuring and invited the milkman to stay for dinner, to which the latter declined.
Raj Wakeling was recently described by one observer as “an ethnic Ian Curtis”, but has no aspiration to emulate the life, times, and untimely death of the enigmatic lead singer of Joy Division. While he is perhaps most famous for his critically acclaimed supporting role in the 1997 Paddle Pop Lick-a-Prize advertisement, it is his work as a music writer that has earned him a place amongst the fine selection of potential editors you see before you. Raj claims to have invented the peanut butter and tuna sandwich and anyone that says otherwise is a bare-faced liar. If he was to write a solo album, it would be called “Who invited that guy?” Raj has enjoyed writing this paragraph because of the number of times he has been able to include his own name. That name being Raj.
Akito Hirata, in a past life as a Korean masseuse, often wondered how he could best serve humanity. Well, in this incarnation, from the sunny side of Pagewood, sandwiched between the lads of Mascot and the Bra Boys of Maroubra, Akito Hirata escaped the four walls of his Catholic high school and emerged onto the UTS scene with noble aspirations to be the ultimate ace reporter/investigative journalist. Strangely, this was not to be, and this mercurial Jap-Italian-Leb-Aussie waif instead found a home at Vertigo. Akito can be spotted on the prowl on King Street – with the stealth of a leopard, he’s seen many of you but you haven’t seen him…
Mia Burns was the little kid who could never choose which Captain Planet character she wanted to be. Originating from a place where people believe they need to pluralise the already plural “you”, surfing replaces education and drinking is a religion, the venture into the competitive universe of UTS Journalism was a tentative one. Like the cake recipes she invented as a four year old, Mia is a concoction of arbitrariness with an addictive personality and an obsession for all things summer. Accident prone and hyperactive, Mia enjoys drinking from tea pots (content varies), burning incense and her fairy lights. She has also recently recognised that her ability to pose for photos is greatly enhanced when intoxicated.
Clare Evans has been dead inside since her 11th birthday, when a lack of owl-delivered Hogwarts acceptance letters made it heartbreakingly obvious she wasn’t a wizard. Destroyed, she shunned her muggle family and hit the streets, becoming heavily addicted to Sugar Free Strepsils. A homeless man she nicknamed Dumbledore once gave her a drum stick, but she knew it was really a wand. At night she roams Central Station with it, trying to stun and disarm stray cats. She also enjoys things outside of Harry Potter, such as lemon sorbet and jalapenos, but not at the same time.
Stephanie King is a 21 years-old, blue-eyed, female Virgo with a penchant for blue cheese and an allergy to dust mite. She is a dancer studying to be a writer working as a presenter, and is seldom busy. She aspires to own the time-turner trademarked by J.K. Rowling. In her spare time, Stephanie enjoys shooting up on a triple espresso over a nice uncluttered sentence. She is unique in Generation Y in that she enjoys travel, but would like to traverse decolonised lands which she doubts is possible. The ideal partner would live in a carpet-free environment.
