Nexus News – Destiny or Chaos?
Destiny Church is an institution that has been scrutinized for years. They seem to bounce back and forth from being irrelevant to the front page of the news. Over the last few days, they’ve made their way to front center again with the recent protests of a children’s show that they led. You may or […]
Kendrick Lamar’s Half Time Show
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show wasn’t just a performance; it was a bold, unapologetic statement that forced America to confront its deepest social and political divisions. The show was a powerful political statement that critiqued the American Dream and highlighted the nation’s cultural divide. The performance was set against a backdrop of platforms resembling […]
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
‘The American dream’ is an unattainable idea that “the land of the free” creates opportunities for freedom and success. Changez, the protagonist of Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, knows this all too well. Moving from Pakistan, Changez attends Princeton University to seek higher education. As the novel continues, he becomes enraptured by ‘the American dream’ […]
The Montoya-Anita Affair
We’ve all heard it. The anguished yells of a Spanish man punctuated by his feet hitting wet sand as he flees a villa, desperate to catch his partner pre-bone. Reposted by ESPN, subtweeted by F1, and rinsed on many social media platforms: Temptation Island Spain’s Jose Carlos Montoya has broken the internet by running down […]
Gnar or Gnah?
If you haven’t seen the 12:46 skate video “always whānau”, go watch it now. Posted by “Always Do What You Should Do”, the video contained heavy footage from big names in the local skate scene, such as Cato Dobbs and Theo Clarke (2022 NZ Skater of The Year). Always whānau was filmed in London by […]
Quigley Questions
Watching the enrolments start to come in. By the second week of March we can predict very accurately the income of the University for each year, and thus I know how much leeway I have after I have paid everyone. There is enough variation in the timing of enrolments from year to year to make […]
Lectured with Gareth Schott
In our new series “Lectured” Nexus will interview a lecturer, the only rule is we don’t want to ask them a lot of questions about their subject matter. So we started with Professor Gareth Schott, easily the coolest looking lecturer on campus. We asked him about music because we were curious about whether he would […]
Who You Gonna Call?
Nexus news received reports that a number of the installed Security phones were out of commission or dialled to nowhere. Given these phones were set up so that tauira could instantly contact security and give them a waypoint to their location we decided to clarify what was happening with Director of Campus Operations and Risk […]
Sports Centre – Issue 05 Vol. 58
An Existential Crisis On Sports If you’ve ever had a conversation with Raff, you’ll know very quickly you start to question your morals. I was innocently sitting in the Nexus office when James bombarded me with a simple question “Is cheerleading a sport?” And before any cheerleaders out there get offended, I originally said “Obviously.” […]