Those who spent the summertime festival hopping and generally rarking up will know all about this. All anyone could talk about was bath salts—bath salts this, bath salts that, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. Every single person had a shit yarn about bath salts or knew someone with said shit yarn....
Listen, we all know one of these battlers. Someone either way too straight-edge through school or someone who has been running it straight since Year 11 and hasn’t slowed down one bit. If you’ve ever hosted a party or even just been to one before, you’ve no doubt bumped...
Standard Checklist Student Editors can have many talents. Investigative journalism, snappy columns or the ability to conjure witty headlines. Talents to which Hannah is still developing. Luckily Nexus had content fall through the day before print, leaving Hannah to fill an empty page and attempt to entertain you all....
Last year we collectively decided that we would design a new campus. We talked about bakeries, solar, movie theatres, and converting all of the Halls of Residence into tree huts. Since then, absolutely nothing has happened. In fact not only did nothing change, the buildings around campus actually got...
The following story contains a young women’s experiences with her own body image and anorexia. We understand that the topic in itself is confronting and while we don’t want to present her as the expert on what every person goes through we wanted to let her tell her story,...
Every day from about the age of eight I would put on nice trousers, a collared shirt, and when appropriate, grey suspenders. I would take that month’s newest pair of shoes and I would begin the arduous solo journey down Hyde Ave and up Grandview Road hill, taking every...
What is Food Insecurity? Food Insecurity. This is one of those phrases that you’ve probably heard thrown around before. It’s often used in poverty measurement statistics, both in New Zealand and all over the world. It’s a scary phrase to read about, a scary phrase to write about,...
Gyms can be a scary place. Think of it like you are travelling overseas to a new country, you step in and the space is foreign. There are machines you have no idea are for your arms or legs. Your technique on your squat is probably at best subpar...
If this truly is an issue where we roll out the welcome mat to those proud, brave few that have navigated the covid filled airports to seek a better life here in our academic paradise then we thought we had better give you the heads up on some of...
Former Nexus Editor Lyam, current international traveller, and COVID survivee. Lyam shares his story that magnifies the power of ours. “Your coronavirus test result is positive. It means you had the virus when the test was done. Try not to worry. You can often ease symptoms at home...
