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Issue 6
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| AUT women rule |
Smart Women at AUT
AUT has once again come out on top in a survey that ranks women's participation in senior academic positions at New Zealand universities.
The results of the biannual New Zealand Census of Women's Participation were released by the Human Rights Commission last week and show that AUT has consistently topped the table in 2004, 2006 and now in 2008.
However, despite AUT retaining ...
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| Filmmakers promote change |
Students' film making a difference
Three poverty fighting AUT students received recognition for their efforts to help fight poverty last month.
Craig Gainsborough-Waring, Madeline Cooper and Dylan Quinell received a ‘Highly Commendable Achievement' award from the Youth for Human Rights Organisation for their documentary ‘Candles for Aotearoa'.
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Another Year, Another Billion
Students continue to struggle and are still forced to borrow to live with little time to protest, as total debt owed to the New Zealand government reached ten billion dollars last Thursday. The debt swells every day as more students borrow more money to live from the government.
Green Party tertiary spokesperson, Metiria Turei, believes the debilitating amount of student debt owed to be a generational theft. "It will create an intergenerational degrading of family security, as ...
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| Comedy Special | Comedy Special: Benedict Wall
Ben Wall, an ex-AUT student, is starring in a comedic play at this year's Comedy Fest called Loser. Ben sat down with Ryan Boyd to talk about his times in America, his characters, and playing a schizophrenic hop-clopping Nazi.
You were at AUT right?
Yeah years ago I was in. I must have graduated in about 2004 I guess, 2003? Bachelor of Communications, journalism major.
Did you want to be a journalist?
No, I don't think so, I actually remember this thing that they make you
do towards t...
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| Comedy Special | Comedy Special: Umbilical Brothers
Australian comedians David Collins and Shane Dundas, also known as The Umbilical Brothers are back for shows at the famous New Zealand International Comedy Festival due to be held in Auckland next month at the Sky City Theatre to perform ‘The Rehearsal', a show which features the duo rehearsing for a comedy show. Maina Perrott caught up with the duo to chat and see what goes on in their heads.
The Umbilical Brothers' claim their one week of shows will last between 18 mi
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| Comedy Special | Comedy Special: Ben + Calum
Ben Kettell and Calum Beck reek of awesomeness. Seriously, there's quite a pungent smell coming from these two. And one can only assume that the smell is a combination of awesomeness, success, sweat and Old Spice. This dynamic duo responsible for the soon-to-be award winning debate column Ben & Calum Sort Your Shit Out have been appearing frequently for the last three years in the Auckland comedy scene. As the 2008 New Zealand Comedy Festival approaches, the pair intend to make an allegedl ...
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