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An organisation to help promote the
best and the brightest in the advertising world has launched with two
AUT students playing an important role.Ignite, set up by New Zealand Post, is
an organisation that tries to bridge the transition from studying
graphic design and advertising at university and the cutthroat real
world of working in an advertising agency. Anzac Tasker and Alex Carey impressed
the steering committee at the Student Marke
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Running start for new clinic
New
Zealand's only clinic devoted to running injuries has opened at AUT
University. The
Running Mechanics Clinic at AUT's North Shore Campus offers
services incorporating computer and video technology, and the
measurement of anatomical and clinical factors, to help enhance
athletic performance as well as prevent and rehabilitate
running-related injuries. Kelly
Sheerin, AUT graduate turned employee, has set up the clinic with the
aim of getting people back to enjoying their running...
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AuSM Elections Online
This
year we will be running our elections online which means you can vote
from your PC. We are using the online election service BigPulse.com.
BigPulse has run many student elections in Australia and the USA. You
will be assigned a voting account with sign-in name and password. On
25 August 2008
you
will receive an email to your AUT student email address. This
email will provide you with an auto sign-in link to the online
ballot. The system prevents informal votes. As s...
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Lost or found
Six AUT students are pushing the
boundaries of visual arts this week as the "Lost or Found?"
exhibition kicks off on Friday.The six Bachelor of Visual Arts
students are hoping to cause a splash with their work, to be
displayed this Friday and Saturday at the St Paul Street Gallery 3 on
Symonds Street. The work includes sculpture,
photography, painting and print-making with all six students
contributing to their individual disciplines.
Sculptor Lyn Guinibert explains...
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The A-Z of the Olympics
Ancient Olympics The original Olympics began in 776 BC
and ran until 393 AD. It was competed between city-sates of Ancient
Greece and the prizes for victory were olive wreaths. Only men
competed and did so naked as the Games were meant to be a display of
peak human physical condition. The first event was a 400m race, then
more were added, such as boxing, wrestling, chariot racing, and a
primitive version of the pentathlon.
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A FACEBOOK CONFESSIONAL
Facebook is
one of the most visited sites in the world, especially among young
people. This has meant creator Mark Zuckerberg is a billionaire at
24, not bad for a guy that developed the program while at Harvard. I
don't need to explain what Facebook is because if you don't know
you haven't been living on planet earth in the last year. It's
the TV of the 1950's or the radio of the 1920's, it's the new
technological toy that this generation have an affiliation with.
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A beginner's guide to interpreting body language
It
has been said that nonverbal communication is the least understood
and most important component of communication, so here is a brief
guide to get you started on how to pick up on, read, and interpret
the signals we all give and receive.
There
is an often misunderstood study by a bloke called Mehrabian
where he came to the conclusion that in communication that expresses
feelings or attitudes, about 7% of all communication was sourced from
the actual words, 38% was the tone...
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