“Class reps don’t do anything” seems to be the main dialogue coming from students these days. Often, a class rep gets elected and then disappears for the rest of the Trimester. Or no one volunteers for the role and the lecturer ends up picking a student to be a...
It is hard to believe that a third of the world’s seabirds call New Zealand home. Still, their nesting habitats are vulnerable to introduced predators. The Karioi Project is a community initiative based in Raglan working to protect our biodiversity and conserve our local ecosystems. After being tasked with coming...
Let’s take a glimpse into the topic of gender disparity between venture capitalists (VC). Let’s talk underfunding of female-led startups and why women make up only 15% of inventors named on patents globally. Bleak statistics come as no real shock to this matter. Venture capital is an industry overgrown,...
Have you dedicated yourself to the pursuit of becoming a big bubbly wubbly muscle man? Have you kept up a streak of posting *treats* stories in order to maintain the guise of a balanced diet so nobody questions your crippling eating disorder? If you’ve answered yes to any...
Look, I don’t follow football too closely anymore, and I haven’t for the last few years. It doesn’t really interest me much – the last time I was interested would’ve been in 2017 when Huddersfield was promoted to the Premier League. But when I heard that these top dog...
Amongst a plethora of real news about infinitely more important things, there is one story out there that demands your complete attention. Regardless of your hobbies, dietary requirements or opinion on soft shell tacos, you will all know and appreciate the terror of the tyrannosaurus rex. The undisputed...
Everything I Know About Love After University Any long-standing Nexus reader may well be familiar with Sex in the Tron, a little column I started in favour of creating some kind of amateur, malleable guidebook towards sex and dating in the age of young adulthood. I’ve reached a...
You will no doubt have seen/read about successful people’s daily routines. They get up at the 15 minutes before the ass crack of dawn so they can punch the sun in the face. They run six marathons, lift a million kilograms. They fix the economy and world poverty in...
My body is generally cunted; not in any horrendous life altering way, more so that of a mild hypochondriac, or of someone who’s had a handful of uncomfortable conditions and feels the need to share them in the hope of making others ever so slightly more comfortable with their...
What does it mean to you to be elected as the WSU President for a second year? That’s a funny question because I have been elected president, but there was no one who ran against me last year. Ohh I didn’t know that. Election is a...
