I have always firmly believed that the role of a university is to foster scholarly pursuits. To those who have long since left university, this might well seem obvious. However, for freethinking students on campus, this idealistic view of tertiary education is becoming evermore anachronistic.

I was invited to an event on Facebook earlier this week by the University of Queensland Women’s Collective, an organization affiliated with the University of Queensland Union, which promoted a ‘bake sale’.