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Nexus fixes house parties

The house party is the staple food of the Hamiltonian student. Unfortunately that food is an appetiser, which sets the scene for the main course, town. Like most appetisers it has the potential to be a little underwhelming and not compliment the main course as it’s supposed to. So,...

Nexus Fixes vaccines

Since the first advancements in the medical field humans have dreamed up ways of cheating death and extending our lives. The largest breakthrough in this dream of immortality arguably came in the form of the vaccination, a way to trick the body into avoiding harm and living longer.  Essentially,...

Pull the Trigger, Kill the N***er, He’s a Hero.

When I was three years old – Kohanga was considered a set up to “live on the dole”. When I was five years old – “key-yo-rah” was only spoken in the bilingual class. When I was seven years old – the black and brown crayons were always left untouched....

Nexus Goes to the Wrong Protest

WHILE THE WORLD SEEMS TO BE, AT LEAST TEMPORARILY, HAVING THE RIGHT CONVERSATION ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS, BLACK LIVES, THE POWER IMBALANCE THAT EXISTS IN SOCIETY AND THE VERY NOTION OF UNITY, WE LET ALEX NEBESKY GO TO A PROTEST. SURE EVERY BRANCH OF MEDIA COVERED THE UNITY PROTEST AND...

Nexus Fixes the Economy (Again)

One of the major advantages to having a thriving group of contributors and Student Editors is diversity of opinions. That is why when we published a Nexus Fixes Everything last week on “How to get the economy to bounce back” we started a major debate…. With Josh. We didn’t...

Building a “Scale” Model

A few weeks ago the University released a statement saying they were working with the WSU on a grade scaling model in response to COVID-19. It was a day or two after Auckland University had announced that they would be applying automatic scaling to all grades. The statement Waikato...

Nexus Fixes The Budget – Issue 10

Nexus Fixes Everything It might be a popular opinion at the moment but this government deserves a lot of praise. It would be easy to point to the COVID-19 of it all and say we are viewing the world in a vacuum but that ignores all the work prior...

Nexus Legalizes Marijuana – Issue 9

Nexus Fixes Everything Alright, this week Nexus is going to legalize Marijuana. Yep, I said it. We’re going to legalize the weed, the devils lettuce, whatever you want to call it. It’s about time someone in this country stepped up to the plate and did the unthinkable. But is...

Nexus Picks a National Party Leader

Previous Next WRITTEN THURSDAY 21st MAY 2020 Regardless of tomorrows caucus vote it seems likely that the National Party may be in the market for a new leader soon. Or as they said when Andrew Little quit being the leader of the Labour Party, “You would never see National...

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