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    The WSU Project
    Debrin Foxcroft

    You couldn’t help but shake your bootie.
    The final night of Orientation went out in a relaxed haze of dub music with Kingshifta, Knights of the Dub Table, Cornerstone Roots and Concord Dawn.
    Now admittedly, I have just had to ask my colleagues in the Nexus office how you would define each of the bands that performed at the WSU Project on Friday night. Is Concord Dawn just a guy with a couple of records and a turntable? Does Cornerstone Roots build on the reggae tradition and what do you call a band that uses trumpets and a computer?

    Comedy Night
    Drunken Bruce

    Far and away the largest turn out of students during O-Week, the Orientation Comedy night was a sell out event, with Ben Hurley and Steve Wrigley drawing in the crowds.
    While there were plenty of interruptions, in the form of a gaggle of drunk first years sitting in Momento and a small child repeatedly hurting itself, the laughs rolled off the stage and through the packed Village Green on Thursday night, the 4th of March.

    New bar: Grand Opening!
    Grant Burns

    Hooray! There’s a new bar opening up in Hamilton. A new place to wet your whistle and strut your stuff. The bar is called “House” and it’s more of a giant town flat than a pansy stuck up bar.

    Residing where the old Loaded Hog used to be on Hood Street, House is savvy new joint which is having its grand opening this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

    More News from nowhere
    Grant Burns

    National

    Spy Base ‘disarmed for Jesus’

    Three activists who broke into a Government Communication Security Bureau site in Waihopi last April, have confessed how and why they implemented their attack.
    According to lead activist Adrain Leason, he stated how he, Peter Murnane, and Sam Land cut through and electric fence and slashing a communication dome costing over one million dollars in damage.
    He said that on penetrating the base's defences the men reached one of the domes, and, placing their hands on its plastic surface, said "we disarm you in the name of Jesus Christ".

    Student life under threat
    James Manning

    The Labour Party is in full support of the New Zealand Union of Students’ Association (NZUSA) campaign to save their services, which is currently under threat by Roger Douglas’s Voluntary Student Membership Bill.
    Labour Tertiary Education Spokesperson Maryan Street confirmed her Party’s support over the NZUSA, pronouncing that Douglas’ Bill is “a bid to remove student associations from our tertiary education campuses”.

    Execution! It Returns! Soon!
    Jordan Baker

    The Freemasons. The Illuminati. Destiny Church. The Rotarians. Throughout history, wherever there has been society of any sort, there have been secret societies. Members of these societies claim they are fraternal organisations, nothing more than clubs where members can help their communities and form deep and lasting friendships. But there are those who claim there is something more sinister at work. Secret societies such as these are rumoured to be much more expansive and influential than we could ever imagine.

    Fun Facts About Hamilton
    Slow news week this week.
    By Special K
    • Two of founders of the University of Waikato were direct descendants of pilgrims from the Mayflower.
    • The original mascot for the University was a turkey.
    • The Waikato colours were changed in 1941 when the Vice
    • Chancellor feared a German invasion of Hamilton, and altered the colours to appease the upcoming masters.
    • A recent study has shown that a typical Hamilton nightlife patron wears at least 1.6 popped collars.
    • The Hamilton mosquito bites only males.
    WSU Nominations are now open!
    Vote! Nominate! Participate!
    By Grant Burns

    Nominations for the 2009 WSU Elections opened today - so nominate yourself or a friend, get behind a campaign, and beginning thinking about who you will vote for because this is YOUR election for YOUR student union which YOU could be a part of.

    Nominations are open from 7 September (today) until 18 September (next Friday). All candidates wishing to run for any WSU position must register by the cut off date, otherwise they will not be able to campaign during the Election period

    Tolley slithers by campus while Nexus holidays
    Oh, and Waikato University may start turning students away
    By Grant Burns

    Education Minister Anne Tolley and Labour Party leader Phil Goff both had separate private meetings with Waikato University Vice-Chancellor Roy Crawford about enforcing a restriction on student numbers - while Nexus was on holiday, blissfully unaware

    Education Minister Anne Tolley did not speak to the Waikato Times after her meeting – Nexus speculates that if it had been present it might have had to dodge bear traps.

    Thesis apology demanded
    Ombudsman investigating?
    By Josh Drummond

    The former president of the NZ Jewish Council, David Zwartz, is demanding an apology from Waikato University over the controversial Van Leeuwen thesis affair.

    In a letter published by the New Zealand Jewish Chronicle, which accompanies a reprinted version of Nexus’s original feature story about the thesis debacle, Zwartz accuses the University of “blunders and huge errors of judgement by its administration.” Elsewhere he refers to the University behaviour as “disgraceful.”