Who likes and who hates them? There’s always a clear divide when it comes to the controversial genre. For me, I find horror movies soothing. Now before you think I’m a serial killer, there’s a perfectly good reason. The increased heart rate causes momentary anxiety but the end of...
For just a moment imagine yourself as a child. Use that juicy, fat brain of yours to peel back time to when you were 10 years old. It’s 11:44pm on a Friday night and the house is calm and dark. Everyone is fast asleep dreaming of teenage vampires and...
It’s that time of the trimester again. With exams and assessments just around the corner, it’s easy to get caught up in a whirlwind of responsibilities and tasks that need to get done. More often than not, things slip and we find ourselves making mistakes we don’t mean to...
After I wrote about the European Super League in my last column over a fortnight ago, I thought “yeah, no one is going to try something this dumb again.” I, alongside most other sport fans out there, had every reason to believe that everyone had learnt their lesson...
With men dominating the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics field, Sarah Hyde investigates the changing role of women and the adversities they face when pursuing jobs in STEM. When I sat down to write this article, I first began by hunting for statistics. A few Google searches of...
With the recent announcement of the government’s public sector pay freeze we asked two alumni, with a shared passion for teaching, for their personal experiences. Onyx has recently put her degree to use teaching secondary whilst Jak on the other hand, well, he’s one of our designers. Jak...
Māori identity at university is a subject of broad and current interest but it’s not just about universities. It’s about every industry, sector, field and service that Māori are involved in, or not involved in, but everyday decisions continue to be made for us, without us. It would be...
ACT ACT gets a top score for calling out genocide. That’s something you can really only get a pass or fail grade on, and congratulations ACT – you pass and get a special commendation for starting the debate. Beyond that, one can also give ACT a healthy score on...
Me oh my, there are a lot of dumb-cunts, yes boy. I find it deeply concerning that four, and a bit years ago, the United States ended up in the predicament it did. Of 300 million people, they ended up with two of the worst candidates to choose from...
You would be forgiven for believing that having a Māori only space is ‘separatist’, especially since everyone’s not-favourite Aunty Judith Collins thinks that Māori schemes reek of segregation as she tries her best to have a Don Brash speech at Orewa moment. If I put it quite plainly though,...
