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    Giving on the Frontline
    Young people help rebuild community rather than destroy it. How about that.
    By Grant Burns

    A new non-profitable charity organisation which aims at rebuilding the community and helping out the less fortunate in tough times has just recently begun in Hamilton. What makes this one different is that it is run entirely by students and young people.

    Nexus caught up with the directing manager of Frontline, Jonathan Nesdale, to ask him what Frontline is all about.

    Copyright law goes wrong
    Mega-idiocy delayed by mass protest
    By Grant Burns

    Thanks to consistent and effective protest, New Zealand internet users have skipped the gallows until at least March 27. ‘Black-out’ protests have been staged by internet groups all week in retaliation to the government’s proposed Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act which overrides a basic concept of law and order: presumption of innocence until proven guilty by a court of law.

    Ordinary event in Dunedin somehow makes news
    Written by Salient’s BK Drinkwater and Michael Oliver, with reporting by Heléna de Reus – Critic

    Dunedin welcomed new students with a spectacular toga parade last Tuesday night. The parade was well-attended by around 2,000 students, 20 members of the local constabulary, and an uncertain number of onlookers, about 100 of whom, in a quaint Southern custom, showered the "freshers" with eggs, water-bombs, rubbish, vomit, and faecal matter instead of the more conventional ticker tape and confetti.

    The Vault: Marry for money
    Nexus 1995, Issue 15
    By Grant Burns

    Are you having trouble getting a student allowance because your parents earn too much? Get married. Student marriages are a way around the parental means-testing which is the student allowance restriction that denies many students under the age of 25 accesses to student allowances because their parents are still deemed to support them. Countless students cannot receive allowances due to their parent’s income, but if they get married they can receive up to $159.54 a week.