Issue 12
Youth Enrolment
A campaign targeting 18 to 24 year old voters is being launched following a survey showing 40 per cent of eligible voters who are not enrolled are in that age group.
The internet-based Electoral Enrolment Centre campaign for young people will begin in August. Murray Wicks, the national manager of the Electoral Enrolment Centre, says it is important to get young people interested in the election so they can exercise their democratic rights.
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Smoking, not our future?
AUT may in the future become a smoke free campus with a growing number in the student community wanting to rid the institution of cancer sticks altogether.
President of AUT student association (AuSM), Jan Herman, says students are becoming increasingly aware of the harmful aspects of smoking and want AUT to butt out smokers from campus grounds.
“I believe the student community is gearing towards eventually seeing a smoke free campus,” says Herm...
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SoSE vs AuSM
The Society of Student Engineers (SoSE) wants to take away the power AuSM has to veto changes to club rules.
SoSE wants members of any affiliated clubs to have a say if AuSM wants to change a club’s constitution.
AuSM currently has veto rights over a club’s constitution, which means the AuSM executive council decides whether a club can change its own rules.
However Leith Simpson, president of SoSE, says a club’s constitution should not b
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The different faces of P
Most methamphetamine users don’t fit the stereotype of the P-crazed accused standing in the dock.
From teenagers to people in their mid 60s, P users come from all walks of life. More and more diverse people are using the illegal drug, for countless different reasons.
Kris Crouch, registered nurse and co-ordinator for Community Alcohol and Drug Services at Tauranga Hospital, says he deals with a wide range of people using methamphetamine.
“From your expected low...
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People Before Profits
"Woman dies after power cut out," blared the UK's Guardian newspaper. Suffice to say we enjoy basking in the international limelight, but this was one story where we wished New Zealand hadn't made the world headlines.
The public response was predictable. Placards emblazoned with “Contract killers” and “Corporate Responsibility: Yeah Right” adorned the footpath outside Mercury Energy’s headquarters as the state-owned utility comp
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Factrs to Impress your mum with
I really like mums. I have noticed that some people don’t though. Some people find mums awkward. Suffocating. Intrusive. They fear their mums will find out about that half bottle of tequila, now-empty bag of party poppers and rather lewd reenactment of Elton John’s Tiny Dancer they partook in when mummy dear thought they were staying at home, eating sandwiches in their pyjamies.
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A Taste of what's to come
For most students, Re-Orientation week offers a time of reflection, a time of anticipation and preparation for a tough semester ahead. And for most students this takes place at the pub while listening to some soothing sounds laid down by the Red Bull DJs. Starting back at Uni is harder than it looks and these things shouldn’t be rushed, so make sure you take some time out, grab a cold one and make an early start of it by catching the Red Bull afternoon sessions put on daily over the first ...
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