Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show wasn’t just a performance; it was a bold, unapologetic statement that forced America to confront its deepest social and political divisions. The show was a powerful political statement that critiqued the American Dream and highlighted the nation’s cultural divide. The performance was set...
‘The American dream’ is an unattainable idea that “the land of the free” creates opportunities for freedom and success. Changez, the protagonist of Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, knows this all too well. Moving from Pakistan, Changez attends Princeton University to seek higher education. As the novel continues, he...
We’ve all heard it. The anguished yells of a Spanish man punctuated by his feet hitting wet sand as he flees a villa, desperate to catch his partner pre-bone. Reposted by ESPN, subtweeted by F1, and rinsed on many social media platforms: Temptation Island Spain’s Jose Carlos Montoya has...
If you haven’t seen the 12:46 skate video “always whānau”, go watch it now. Posted by “Always Do What You Should Do”, the video contained heavy footage from big names in the local skate scene, such as Cato Dobbs and Theo Clarke (2022 NZ Skater of The Year). Always...
Watching the enrolments start to come in. By the second week of March we can predict very accurately the income of the University for each year, and thus I know how much leeway I have after I have paid everyone. There is enough variation in the timing of enrolments...
In our new series “Lectured” Nexus will interview a lecturer, the only rule is we don’t want to ask them a lot of questions about their subject matter. So we started with Professor Gareth Schott, easily the coolest looking lecturer on campus. We asked him about music because we...
Nexus news received reports that a number of the installed Security phones were out of commission or dialled to nowhere. Given these phones were set up so that tauira could instantly contact security and give them a waypoint to their location we decided to clarify what was happening with...
Nexus is giving Temepara a weekly column so he can talk to you about the WSU, or whatever else he wants. We know, we are a little scared too but we are embracing trust this year. Ko Temepara Smith tōku ingoa, he uri ahau ki Ngāi Tūhoe. Ko au...
As an angel with a ‘brat’ tattoo that I did myself the day after the album’s release, I felt qualified to get some coverage for Nexus of Laneway 2025. I definitely wasn’t going for Charli anyway, and my priority was certainly journalism and not club classics. Walking around the...
Why Do I Do This? This morning I got up at 5am to watch the greatest football team in the world Manchester United. They lost, one nil to football’s perennial ugly-step-sister Tottenham Hotspurs. ‘Spurs are the definition of always a bridesmaid but consistently in the conversation for the top...
