LOT'S WIFE

'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.

Contents

History

Famous Contributors

Recent Editors

References

External Links

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. 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. Overcome by curiosity 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.

Famous Contributors

Lot’s Wife is put together through a collaborative effort by students from the Monash Clayton Campus. Some past editors and contributors to Lot’s Wife include:
Notable former ''Lot's Wife'' contributors include Treasurer Peter Costello, broadcasters Jon Faine and Josh Kinal, journalists Peter Steedman and Russell Skelton, cartoonist Michael Leunig, actor Rachel Griffiths and high-profile lawyer Julian Burnside.

Recent Editors

★ '2007': Dara Conduit and Naomi Snell

★ '2006': Inna Tsyrlin, Mattias Mazza and Hayley "Maherio party" Maher

★ '2005': Meg O’Brien, Megan King and Craig Benjamin

★ '2004': Daniel Wilson, Peter Varley, John-Luis Moretti

★ '2003': George Kirby, Lisa Pham, Sarah O’Brien and Jeremy King

★ '2002': Aamer Rahman, Catherine Leslie and Jessie MacNeil Brown

★ '2001': Alyssa Grant, James Raynes and Gordon Oldham

★ '2000': Anthony 'Slatts' Slattery and Sandra Ronnenfeldt

References

★ http://www.msa.monash.edu.au/lotswife/main/about.html

External Links

★ Lot's Wife Homepage

★ Monash Student Association Homepage