Columns
Sarah Smith

Confessions of a Theatre Kid: Tales of The Big Sing

If you ever get incredibly bored and need something to fill your time, I suggest finding @nzchoirconfessions on Instagram. What you will soon discover is a subgenre of arts nerds, Choir Kids… And they all have crushes on each other. The Big Sing Finale and Cadenzas are rapidly approaching, and

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Issue 17 / 58
Sarah Smith

Sports Centre – Issue 17 2025

Christian Horner Departs Red Bull Racing Christian Horner, long time Team Principal of Oracle Red Bull Racing has been fired. I’m aware that this is old news by the time this goes to print, but it remains that no one was expecting this news on a random Wednesday night. There

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Columns
Sarah Smith

The Apathy Epidemic (And Why You Should Give a Shit)

No one gives a fuck. Why does no one give a fuck? There’s so much to give a fuck about!   We’re all too occupied with faster, cheaper, richer, easier. There’s a reason why the nonchalant boyfriend trope has been the butt of the joke recently. It’s embarrassing. We’ve been

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Features
Sarah Smith

Cosplay (Pros and) Cons Newbie to Experienced

Sarah: Semi-retired cosplayer The first time I ever cosplayed it was 2019, and I still cared about the MCU. I walked into Tauranga Armageddon in an incredibly hodgepodge crimson coat and bodice knowing full well that the cheap curtain fabric wasn’t particularly accurate to the Scarlet Witch costume I had tried

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Columns
Sarah Smith

Women’s Work

Lights up on a period drama set some time ambiguously in the past. Our female lead sits with her lady friends all with white cloth and embroidery frames in hand. Maybe its quiet, our lead silently sighs and begrudgingly stabs into the cloth. Maybe the women slowly gossip about the

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Columns
Sarah Smith

Don’t Be A Dick: Advice on Resolving Flatmate Conflict

One of the major issues that you might come across while flatting is resolving arguments with your flatmates. Whether that’s who should’ve done the dishes or even settling a casual conversation turned heated debate. In the wise, wise words of one of my philosophy lecturers last year; “the coolest thing

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Columns
Sarah Smith

4 Things That Could Improve Campus

So we pay a lot of money as uni students, right – fees, halls, flatting, all that jazz. And we do get a lot of great facilities here at Waikato, but there are some things I think could greatly improve the campus. People high up enough to make these happen,

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Columns
Sarah Smith

The Hunger Games does not need a stage adaptation

I fear we’ve missed the point. I fear the temptation of a cash-grab and readapting reliable IP has overshadowed the inherently anticapitalistic and rebellious themes of the original story. Aside from the fatigue of seeing so many remakes and beating so many dead horses, did no one stop to think

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Features
Sarah Smith

Drag Royalty – The Kings Among Queens

In a world ruled by Queens, what is it like to be a king? A Drag King, that is. With reality shows like RuPaul’s drag race skyrocketing the art of drag into the popular consciousness over the last decade and a half, drag queens seem to be everywhere, but what

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Issue 6 / 58
Sarah Smith

Sports Centre – Issue 06 Vol. 58

Chiefs vs Blues The Chiefs narrowly scraped to a win over the Blues by one point at Hamilton’s FMG stadium in a nail-biting match for everyone. It was an anxious watch for fans of both teams as the points climbed up the board, but in the end, the Chiefs managed

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