Law Ball

Sydney Uni’s law stu­dents had their annual she­bang last night – and what bet­ter way of show­ing off extra­vag­ance than to have it at the Sydney Town Hall. Com­plete with eleg­ant red car­pet, a seem­ingly end­less sup­ply of alco­hol, and more staged poses and cam­era flashes than the paparazzi could muster, Sydney’s future legal fra­tern­ity, includ­ing the who’s who of the Sydney Uni­ver­sity Law Soci­ety, partied the night away to loud music, obli­vi­ous to the poten­tial dam­age to their hear­ing and hence the poten­tial for con­sequent multi-​​million dol­lar law­suits. The atmo­sphere was indeed well-​​staged; the night’s enter­tain­ment, star­ted off by a per­form­ance on the Town Hall’s famed organs and quar­tet pieces — evid­ently a nod at high cul­ture — com­ple­men­ted the them­atic light­ing dis­played on the ceil­ing, a com­bin­a­tion as sat­is­fact­ory as the cham­pagne that accom­pan­ied the fine din­ing on offer. In the end, noth­ing was alto­gether sur­pris­ing, noth­ing out of the ordin­ary to make the con­ser­vat­ives present cringe — there were the Asi­ans who hung back chat­ting and play­ing with their cam­era phones, the adven­tur­ous and the drunk who removed art­icles of their cloth­ing, and the eco­nomic misers among us who eagerly awaited the present­a­tion of desert, going around to deser­ted tables and eat­ing theirs too. A few Cinder­el­las would have lost their glass shoes by the end of the even­ing. And hence fun was had by all; of course, when dawn breaks and the alco­hol wears off, it’s back to the books and the clerk­ship applications.

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