What If Town Came To Us? It’s the perpetual and omnipresent promise of the politically ambitious. Not a year goes by without some WSU board hopeful promising that they will put a bar on campus. The vision has always slightly varied from a place to get cheap pub food,...
If your dream is to live in a tiny cubicle with only enough room for a single bed and a couple of cubby holes to stash your shit you have two obvious options. Both options will feed you and clean your room and common areas, both provide a social...
Let’s address the elephant in the room right away, Nexus talking religion makes as much sense as getting relationship advice from Taylor Swift or having Kendal Jenner solve racism with Pepsi. Nexus is largely a collective of godless heathens who, were they ever to set foot in a church,...
There’s nothing too complex about the needs of the rainbow community. Like our cisgender, heterosexual friends, we like to be comfortable, feel safe, and have choices. So in an ideal world – what would a rainbow space on campus look like? INCLUSIVE AND ACCESSIBLE First, it would be visible...
If there are two things nearly universally agreed upon at Nexus HQ they are that there is never a car park when you need one, and that something needs to be done about global warming. How did we get here? On one front, it is clear that the University,...
Weeks ago when Nexus approached me to write about the Māori Student Space for Nexus Designs a Campus, I couldn’t imagine weeks later that we’d be reporting that we’ve actually secured dedicated space for tauira Māori in the vacant ANZ building at the Village Green! Maybe if the example...
The University is a great place for all to come and study, walk around and then head home before everything shuts down mid afternoon while the sun is still shining. We’re always talking about “activating space” around here so let’s do it. There have already been some crazy initiatives,...
Universities lie at the cutting edge of global innovation, discovery, and progress. Education is a crucial catalyst for change, especially as we all propel into an epoch of uncertainty and ecological doom (ah yes, that ‘bright future’ we were all promised). As university students go on to become leaders...
Alright, the retail spaces on campus very obviously need a bit of attention. We’ve lost both the banks (which weren’t very exciting anyway). Let’s cater a bit more towards the wants of students and less towards the essentials for living. Because let’s be real, none of us want to...
Alrighty, the superiors, with all their infinite wisdom, have decided to give us an unlimited budget to design a brand-new Waikato University sports precinct, albeit an imaginary budget. Imaginary or not, we reckon we can put together a sport’s plan that’ll leave you, the sports-deprived, mildly-alcoholic reader, frothing at...
