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In 1931 the UWA Student Guild decided to replace some defunct Graduation Day events with a procession, stunts and skit show. To commemorate the event the Guild asked some students to edit a satirical newspaper which they threw together at the last minute and called Sruss Sruss. Unfortunately not everyone has an ‘Undergraduate’ sense of humour and the Sunday Times labelled the paper “Filth and Trash” a few weeks later. Those involved were required to donate to a Children’s Hospital and from then on PROSH had a moral justification for all its craziness that has kept it going for 75 years.
Past Prosh websites: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008!
Prosh has been around 1931 as a satirical student newspaper known as SRUSS SRUSS Times (who knows). From this humble begining prosh has grown and multiplied far beyond human control. every year our brave prosh directors suffer and stress to bring you another edition of the satire filled paper. 'Prosh' derives its name from 'procession'. For 71 we have been terorising the perth comunity collecting money and 'doing it for the kids'. The charities have traditionally been kid-based organisations from WA.
A bane to the safety and well being of the public is the annual Prosh stunts and pranks. These are concocted by the coniving minds of so called students.
Prosh has been known to desecrate sacred sites and destoy the sanctity of the CBD. No one is safe! Nothing is holy! What will this years crazy Proshers come up with to horify the public? We will Never Apologise and NEVER Explain!
Looking back to the sepia-toned PROSH archives, and to 1994, when a crack-addled (allegedly) security guard almost stopped the production of our beloved rag. This gun-totin', US marine wannabe came storming into the hallowed halls where the PROSH team were drinking responsibly from one esky placed discreetly in the corner. Even in the days before the Evil Western Accord he'd decided that the rooms weren't big enough for the sort of alcohol-induced high-jinks of PROSH and banished our brave PROSHsters for 24 hours. Being layout weekend, the publication of the paper depended upon this time and, for a while, it seemed that all was lost. Luckily, due to one of the elite team, who may or may not have been ‘seeing’ the Murdoch Guild President at the time, the young community-minded volunteers were able to spend the night south of the river. Production was hot and fast and the paper was done. And Perth breathed a sigh of relief.
The colleges have always imbibed the PROSH spirit in excess, leading to vehicles meeting the Reflection pond and some ingenious phone calls.
Like the time, way back in the days of yore, when the boys from St Georges set up an esky and chairs on the balcony and prepared for a PROSH-like morning. But not before a call to the police informing them that the Main Roads workers at the intersection were in fact students, disrupting the traffic. . . .And a call to Main Roads complaining about students imitating the boys in blue. Oh, what a luverly mor-ning. In 2000, the engineers did PROSH proud, building Perth's first submerged UFO. Numerous calls to the radio and TV stations and the retrieval of said UFO from near the Narrows created the kind of PROSH publicity we know and love.
There it is. PROSHistory. They say it never repeats... we can only make it better.
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