LETTUCE
Get it to nexus@waikato.ac.nz by 5pm and Tues for the final issue – our study week special. Letter of the week wins a $5 voucher from Campus Kiosk (up at the Cowshed) Alternatively, sign up to www.nexusmag.co.nz/forum and post your letters, notices, events, discuss various student topics and issues and just shoot the shit. Brian
Letter of the week Chicken abuse is not finger-lickin’ good Dear Editor I am a third year psychology student and also a proud vegan. I’ve just been informed by some classmates that one of the prerequisite papers for most graduate study in the psych department, psyc314 Behaviour Analysis, involves experimenting with animals. Apparently students are expected to modify the behaviour of chickens. I am horrified that in order to succeed academically in this department, I am expected to sacrifice all of my beliefs, ethics and morals in order to train some bloody chickens to do god knows what. In fact, there is rumour in the department that the work we do on the chickens actually assists other animal torturers with their masters thesis, and this is kept secret from the third year students. Why is animal experimentation acceptable in this university? Many students feel the same way as I do, but everyone is too scared to make formal complaints because we know that it will hinder our progress in the department. Ally Thanks for the letter Ally, you’ve earnt scored a $5 Campus Kiosk voucher. Come claim it at the Nexus office in the Student Union Building.
Te Whakahiapo issues Dear Ed Yet again have Maori students come together and resolved nothing. The idea of starting another representative group is allowing the old one and its problems to be hidden from sight. Te Whakahiapo you need to clean your own house before backing this venture re-tw minutes dated 27/02/07. This is getting old that even though KA has debt ($120,000 - approx) no one knows where the accounts are or what the status of these accounts are – get real people the newbies need your guidance not your excuses. Kahu Nikora
Watch where those money shots go Letter to the Editor It came from your crotch; not a truer word has been written. Congratulations on the article. Of interest is the fact that Chlamydia lives in eyes very happily. Unfortunately this is why babies born to women who have Chlamydia when they give birth end up with “sticky eyes” which is sometimes Chlamydia. I have also seen Chlamydia in the eyes of adults as a result of not washing hands after going to the toilet etc. ( contact lens wearers beware!!!) I was surprised to read that no one you spoke to had seen or used a dental or oral dam. We sell them at FPA – they come in a variety of flavours and are used not just by sex workers but by people who have had genital herpes and don’t wish to pass it on – both gay and straight. Jan Gilby Nurse FPA Hamilton
Where is he?
Where’s the education?
Dear Editor Why is the Kahu Nikora not longer anymore in the my Nexus? He is always the happiest moment when I open Nexus on Monday morning and my lecturer says “brian, not when speaking, learn html” (god it is truthly so funny). Every time for last year I read and sometimes always Kahu is rant. Crazy time for political but when Nikora action take and scare establish. Thankinf you,
Dear Lettuce, In regards to the lecturing of FINA201-07A. Last weeks lecture was beyond a joke. As I was sitting in the back-half of the PWC lecture theatre I was becoming agitated and some what at dis-ease. I actually had to pinch myself, ask a friend beside me and then txt another companion to reassure myself that I was actually in FINA201-07A. It was actually an experience to be in the lecture theatre that day. The amount of
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students using their phones during the ‘what are we doing here, where are we going in life’ movie was amazing- it felt like I was at Christmas in the park with all the individual lights. Before this encounter with finance at the Waikato University I had talked with a few people in the finance industry. I thought this was a bit of me, and even considered it as a major for my BMS degree. But the last couple of weeks have turned me sour on that idea and I’m sure that’s the case with a lot of other students also. But here I was thinking that the aim of each department was to lure in potential under graduates into their specified field of education; obviously not in this situation. Now don’t get me wrong, the lecturer is a good guy and I am rather intrigued by why we are in this world and what we are doing here and it’s something that I still haven’t taken a side on, but to put it blatantly if this stuff really spun my wheels, don’t you think I would have opted for a psychology degree? And the fact that we are going to get examined on this at the end of the semester shits me. So what I am trying to get at is the simple fact that we as students studying this course are not getting a fair bang for our buck and we all know that uni is not cheap. Learning from the computer really doesn’t do anything for me and I find it hard learning the week’s work in a few 20 minute online lectures. And as for the tutorials; I’m not learning too much there either. Surely these 2 hour sessions on Thursday at 3pm could be used a bit more constructively. I
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