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    Issue 9
    Ed.

    Why does the government hate young people? Or is it that they love us instead?
    Why is the driving age going up, along with the drinking age? Will this one day result in the voting age being lifted? The age at which we can get married? The age at which we can legally get naked with someone and touch all their yucky bits?
    I can’t imagine what my first two years of university would have been like if the drinking age had been 20 when I was 18. O-Week is pretty much a time to get your drinking legs and test out your limits, even if it’s strongly recommended that you don’t do that.

    Lettuces of the week - Issue 9

    Letter of the Week:

    In My Head, She’s A Total Babe
    Dear Nexus,
    I'm glad you brought attention to the seriously fucked up issue of a unanimous $2 door charge in Hamilton clubs and pubs.
    This is apparently because bar owners are concerned about the growing 'binge drinking culture'. Bloody hypocrites. If it wasn't for binge drinking bar owners would be homeless by now. The real reason they want to encourage us into town earlier, is so that we sober up quicker, and need to buy their alcohol of ridiculously inflated prices.

    Guestitorial
    Debbie Debrin Foxy Foxcroft

    Art told me that for my first editorial I should get smoking mad about something. Anything. Get mad and write.
    But herein lies the problem.
    Aside from worrying about why Art has begun to condition his beard, and panicking a little about the price of petrol, well, I’m pretty happy.
    Ain’t that a bitch.
    So instead of getting really, really mad (in the anger sense rather than the crazy sense – I got a whole lot of crazy) I am going to ask you to look around.

    Lettuces of the week - Issue 10

    Spammed! Lettuce of the Week!
    Hello
    I am Mary from Shanghai China who have written to you in the past.
    Having in the automobile industry for many years, I have good connection with some factories producing buses, trucks, motorcycles and ATV as well as spare parts for them.
    If you are facing trouble with your current suppliers or faced quality problems and would like to work with a new factories. I will be the right person to assist you.
    I can also help you to secure their agency or sole distribution right.

    Please dont beat me up Sione
    Issue 6
    Ed.

    There comes a time in a young man’s life when he realises that dick and fart jokes just aren’t going to pay the bills and his writing style should start to mature to a more age-appropriate level.
    Luckily for you guys, I’m not that old yet.
    I am going to write for the benefit of my audience, being the student body who are bored on Monday morning. I am not going to write boring editorials about politics and analyse the media using big words in the hope of getting a job with a big paper one day. I don’t want to work for a big paper. I want to be an All Black.

    Lettuces of the week - Issue 6

    Nature does equal money
    In response to your recent article outlining the Govt’s proposed mining of schedule 4 land, I cannot help but point out how nature gives NZ money without having to dig up the country to do so.

    Anzac Day is not important
    Ed.

    I know that this will probably piss off most members of the history department and those lecturers from other schools old enough to have fought in it, but I don’t care.
    Anzac Day no longer has relevance to New Zealanders and I’m not afraid to say it.

    Lettuces of the week - Issue 7

    Stupid Boy Is Stupid!
    Dear Nexus

    Final A-Semester Editorial!
    Issue 12
    Ed.

    So, it’s the end of semester.
    A good chunk of you reading this are likely to be stressing out. You’ve had a great semester, made lots of new friends, new love and found out new things about yourself. Now you’re beginning to realise that you’re a little bit stuffed. All those funs times and missed assignments are coming back to bite you in the ass, and the university is helping it happen.

    Lettuces of the week - Issue 12

    What a story
    Once upon a time, there was a small squirrel named Donkey who had nothing to do with Christianity, vegitarianism, vaginas, or Lettuce. He simply sat in his tree, happily eating acorns and occasionally throwing them at people. The end.

    -Nat

    THE UGLY TRUTH
    I’m just going out on a whim here but aren’t some of the most successful and rich people incredibly hideous?
    Again I battle ignorance and I may come across as superficial or vain in that I believe myself not to be ugly, but that’s not what I’m trying to project.