Nexus 2017 Issue 14

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Katy Perry’s Witness? More like Shitness — Page 10 Fight or Flight: How Do We Fix Our Suicide Statistics? — Page 17 Lonely Tarts Club: Out of Date — Page 33

1 EDITORIAL

Let’s Talk about Sex Baby

4 NEWS NEXUS ISSUE 14 17TH - 21ST JULY 2017 CO-EDITORS

Opposite Day: Winnie the PM Curtain Opens on New Theatre Location ACT Slams Labour’s Baby Bonus Policy TL;LR News in Numbers Sizeable Yarns in Short News Top Ten

13 FEATURE

Not So Blac & White: The Legality of Revenge Porn

16 FEATURE 20 CENTREFOLD

Fight or Flight: How the Fuck Do We Fix Our Suicide Statistics?

Photography by Tim Trad

Bronwyn Laundry Lyam Buchanan editor@nexusmag.co.nz

DESIGN Vincent Owen design@nexusmag.co.nz

DEPUTY EDITOR Jennie-Louise Kendrick jen@nexusmag.co.nz

MANAGING EDITOR James Raffan james@nexusmag.co.nz

CONTRIBUTORS Cameron McRobie Tom Collopy Conor Maxwell Ben Hansen Kate Lunn

8 SPORTS 10 REVIEWS

Beer Pong A New Powerhouse in the West?

Album: Witness by Katy Perry Video Game: Not a Hero by Roll7 Album: Heba by Lowly EP: H.E.R. Volume 2 by H.E.R.

R. Pittman Shannon Barclay Jacqui Swney Jean Balchin Amanda van der Klompf Alexander Nebesky Shannon Barclay Richard Swainson Troy Anderson Indigo Smith Tim Trad Kimon Maritz Henrietta Harris

12 ENTERTAINMENT

23 RANDOM AUDIT 24 STUDENT EXPERIENCE Tales of Disorientation Puppet Master Politics Ooky Spooky Ouija Board Club Spotlight

30 COLUMNS

Pass the AUX Opinionated The Fashion Critic Lonely Tarts Club Yam & Troy the Science Boys Auteur House

37 SNAPPED 38 BLIND DATE 40 PUZZLES

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Let’s Talk about Sex, Baby It’s a cruel world out there. Sex is becoming less sexy and more sinister. Slut shaming, revenge porn and super strains of STIs comparable to zombie viruses have been headlining the news and the phrase ‘making love’ is now a laughable concept to anyone except your hippy, free-lovin’ aunty. We’re not doctors, sociologists, or even vaguely authoritative, but it doesn’t take a rocket science to figure out where we’re going wrong, so here’s some advice on keeping your genitals, conscience and criminal record clean.

Sexy and you know it? Good on ya At the end of the day, someone’s sexuality is really none of your business. Just because you don’t agree with how a woman chooses to live her life based on some ancient and oppressive code of societal expectations doesn’t mean it’s a free pass to be awful. We’ve come a long way since hoop skirts, don’t send us back into the past by calling someone a hoe.

Send nudes… but don’t post someone else’s Revenge porn is an issue that has been brought into light recently due to the Kardashians, and while we never envisioned we’d dedicate so much magazine space addressing the Kardashians, it’s an increasingly prevalent

issue in the lives of young people. Kate Lunn went into depth of the legalities of it in a feature this week (page 13), but we thought we’d talk a bit about the moralities. In an increasingly digital age, publicly shaming an ex in one moment of anger is way too easy, and way too permanent.

It’s not even slightly relevant to defend revenge porn and say “if you don’t want your nudes leaked, don’t send them” because when you send a nude in confidence, to someone you trust, they have no legal or moral right to betray you and post it. It’s your body and you have the right to choose who sees it. Simple.

Glad wrap seals in freshness This is the most basic sex-ed lesson ever. There’s a reason any old person’s number one tip is to use a condom, they’re your best chance at protection, and when there’s a super strain of gonorrhea being reported in Spain, France and Japan that is literally resistant to all forms of treatment, it might be a good time to think about protecting yourself. Also getting checked. We’re sure you’re sick of hearing this, but is it really worth fucking your life up over one serving of raw nuts?

To summarise, just be nice to eachother. ♦

— Lyam & Bron 01

Uni News — Pitopito Korero

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U N I N E W S Climate Change Action Students interested in being part of a series of short plays about climate change, to be performed on campus in October, can audition on Wednesday 19 July, 1-2pm (Cultural Hour) in TC.3.10 (Drama Room, Faculty of Education). For more information, email Claire Coleman at ccoleman@waikato.ac.nz or on 07 856 2889 ext 7867.

Blues Award Nominations Closing Soon The Wallace Corporation University of Waikato Blues Awards are held each year. If you or someone you know has achieved at a regional, national or international level in sport or the creative and performing arts, nominate today.

Application forms and criteria are available online at waikato.ac.nz/events/blues. Nominations close 21 July.

Māori and Pacific Careers Evening Come along to our Māori and Pacific Careers Evening on Wednesday 26 July for your chance to connect directly with industry organisations and discuss your future career plans with potential employers. Register now!

Summer Research Scholarships Do you want a summer placement that involves real-world research and academic experience?

Check out some of the Summer Research Scholarship projects on offer (worth $5000).

Applications close 31 August. Visit waikato. ac.nz/scholarships for more info.

Review of Grade 2017 A Semester grades will be ‘final’ on Monday 17 July. Students wishing to apply for a Review of Grade must submit their applications through by Monday 31 July to the Student Centre, Hamilton Campus; Tauranga – Cashiers, Information Centre at either Windermere Campus or Bongard Centre.

TEDxRuakura The University of Waikato will host and sponsor Hamilton’s third annual TEDx event, TEDxRuakura, on Saturday 20 August at the Academy. The University will once again be represented among the list of speakers, including Prof Michael Peters (FEDU) and Associate Prof Ryan Ko (FCMS), and alumni Tania Jones and Linda Radosinska. Tickets are extremely limited; student concessions are available at tedxruakura.com.

Go to iWaikato or Student eNews for more information and other need-to-knows.

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News — Pitopito Korero

Opposites Day: Winnie the PM Jennie-Louise Kendrick A recent Colmar Brunton poll has revealed that NZ First Leader Winston Peters is now the preferred option out of existing opposition MPs for PM in the next election. TVNZ revealed the poll’s findings on One News, with current PM Bill English dropping 3 points to 26%. Reallife lizard person and big-time racist Peters came in second to Bill English, at 11 percent. Party popularity also took a tumble for both National and Labour, meaning that two-and-a-half months out from Election Day, neither party could form a Government without entertaining a partnership with New Zealand First. Thus, Populist Peters is in his favourite position: Kingmaker.

Peters’ popularity comes as the result of Labour’s leadership existential crisis - the poll comparing Jacinda Ardern on a steady 6% to Andrew Little’s 3 point fall to 5% - leaving the Leader of the Opposition in the red.

Party Vote →→ National 47% (down 2) →→ Labour 27% (down 3) →→ Greens 11% (up 2) →→ NZ First 11% (up 2) If translated to votes, it would mean that in the 122-seat House; National would have 57, Labour 33, Greens 14, NZF 14, Maori 2, Act 1, and United Future 1. National’s coalition with current support parties ACT, United Future, and the Maori Party would still be short by one seat. If they secured the partnership of NZF, Labour and Greens would 04

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need to pry the Maori Party out of English’s cold, Catholic hands to form a Government. Of course, that is assuming that ACT’s David Seymour wins Epsom (likely), United Future’s Peter Dunne holds Ōhāriu (where?) and the Maori Party retains all their current seats.

Compared to last election, NZF has risen from 4.5% to 11% in party vote and English only scrapes half the preferred PM rating of Former Prime Minister John Key. The only true winner in this poll is Peters, who has recently has been verbally brawling with the Greens Party after co-leader Metiria Turei accused him of having “a very racist approach to immigration”. Old mate English said ““It just makes it pretty clear that the proposed Labour Greens New Zealand First coalition would be inherently unstable because their internal differences are deep.”

Recently, Auckland auctioneer Aaron Davis has received death threats after uploading a video in which he joked that “anyone can bid ‘cause Winston Peters is not here”. Peters is infamous for his stance against foreign buyers in the NZ house market, with policies such as “Nonresidents who are not New Zealand citizens would be ineligible for home ownership except if a genuine need to do so can be demonstrated”.

One person commented “Fuckin kill him” (sic), another said “Winston would knock this guy out in a fight to the death.” ♦

Winston Peters’ Tongue Twisters →→ “Lily-livered lounge lizard” →→ “A wilful, wanton, weak, wobbly, woeful minister with a wilful, wanton, weak, wobbly, woeful Budget” →→ “The blue banger still wobbling down the road” →→ “Smart alec, arrogant, quiche eating, chardonnay drinking, pinky finger pointing snobbery, fart blossom”

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Curtain Opens on New Theatre Location Bronwyn Laundry The preferred site of Hamilton’s proposed new theatre has been revealed as the site of the old Hamilton Hotel on the corner of Victoria Street and Sapper Moore-Jones Place.

The discussion for a new, $55 million theatre began last year when the now defunct Founders Theatre was discovered to be a health and safety risk and closed. Local theatregoers began the guessing game of where the new theatre would go, with a list including the Municipal Pools, Hamilton Gardens and here at the University.

The site of the Hamilton Hotel is one embedded in Hamilton’s history and it borders Embassy Park and the river. Situated in the centre of the entertainment precinct and Lawrenson Group’s stronghold of bars, it is a move to not only benefit theatre fans, but the general public.

Leonard Gardner, chairperson of the Momentum Waikato Community Trust, a philanthropic group that are are partnering with the Hamilton City

Council on the project, has high hopes for the chosen location. “This location will transform the region and city through recognising history, revitalising the CBD, supporting hospitality offerings, and enhancing connection with the Waikato River,” Gardner said.

“This is a generational opportunity to create a significant community asset for our wider region – not just Hamilton – and, for the sake of the future generations, we need to make sure we do it well.”

Details on the design and cost will be presented to the council on the August 24, but it is expected to seat a capacity of 1,200 and take design elements from the facade of the Hamilton Hotel, which is a heritage building. ♦

ACT Slams Labour’s Baby Bonus Policy Bronwyn Laundry Families who can’t afford children should not be having them, says ACT Party’s new deputy leader.

Beth Houlbrooke, a woman who we had no idea existed until now so therefore can’t accurately make fun of, has criticised Labour’s $60 weekly baby bonus policy, stating that it encourages people without the financial capabilities required to have more children.

“The fact is, parents who cannot afford to have children should not be having them. ACT believes in personal responsibility, meaning we stand with the majority of parents who wait and save before having children,” Houlbrooke said on Facebook.

ACT Party leader, David Seymour, who pledges for libertarianism, a political philosophy that has only one core principle -the liberty of citizens- agreed, saying the policy exacerbates the issue of child poverty.

“Paying people to bring children into the world will only make this worse,” he said.

Leader of the Opportunities Party, Gareth Morgan, hailed these comments as “crap”, stating that “Many children in poverty are born into sufficient economic circumstances and then luck turns against their families,” and “30-40% of children are unplanned regardless of income groups.”

He then finished by stating “Regardless of how children ended up in poverty, the primary issue here is how do we improve their lives?”

“As a civilised society we need to help these children and because not helping them costs us $8 billion a year, economically we need to help them.” ♦

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News — Pitopito Korero

TL;LR

Too Long; Lyam Read “American police trial a more positive way to shoot up.”

— North Carolina police called to a rowdy party join in on fun.

“Prius suffers a stroke after witnessing local wildlife move vertically.”

— Driverless cars ‘can’t cope with kangaroo bounce’.

“Wholesome elderly man get absolutely duped.”

— Thieves posed as delivery drivers, burgled elderly man as he made them a cup of tea.

“Body of Christ seasoned with ketamine proves to be a hit.”

— Vatican rocked: Police raid drug-fuelled gay orgy at cardinal’s apartment.

“UoW announces cutting edge documentary on their beloved department of history.”

— Living fossils on the edge of the abyss, horseshoe crabs have survived four mass extinctions but humans could finally wipe them out.

“Principal stoked with his effective alternative to fidget spinners.”

— School lets eight year olds watch porn, parents not quite as stoked.

News in Numbers 9

minutes get added to your lifespan per cup of coffee you drink, studies show.

1 trillion

tonne iceberg broke off

of Antarctica last week.

-2

was the lowest temperature reached in Hamilton last week, despite protests from Snapchat users.

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$8.18

for a kilo of kumara as it rises significantly in price.

3,980

wild tigers are roaming in the

world.

$500m

has been earned by Led Zeppelin for absolute banger ‘Stairway to Heaven’.

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SHORT YARNS FOR

SIZEABLE NEWS

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TOP 10

The Government recently announced support for two more charter schools to be built in Rotorua and Taupo. Charter Schools allow for a private education not subject to the same national curriculum, but required to meet some Government standards. They also allow you to teach your own facts based on religious or social ideology. We thought we would highlight the next 10 charter schools coming to a city near you soon.

And Jesus said “Feed the poor” unless they have dietary requirements The catholic church has found finally something it can tolerate. Before you get carried away it isn’t homosexuality, gambling, drugs, contraception, abortion,divorce or mixed marriage, it’s gluten. Turns out that the church is so in favour of flour it released a statement condemning the use of gluten free communion wafers. That’s right, if you want to eat the body of Christ you should suffer the consequences. Of course the catholics do have the word of the lord on the side for according to the book of Luke Jesus said “Take these three loaves and five fish to feed the masses… and if anyone asks for rice flour bludgeon them to death with a rock.” On the other hand in a week where senior clergy made the news for porn, gambling, and sex parties it’s great to see the church really tackling the important issues.

10. Bishop Brian’s Destiny School. Curriculum to include fake tan and real tax evasion.

The battle to determine the greatest white In a story that sounds significantly more racist than it is All American, multiple olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps whom you may know from his three separate olympic performances or the video of him ripping a bong at a party after winning gold will try and out swim a great white shark.

At first Nexus was excited by the prospect, then we realised they wouldn’t be sharing the pool. How much better would the olympic swimming be if after the first swimmer touches the finish line it activated a gate for a great white at the other end? We may also need to hit the bong less.

6. The David Bain School for Under-Compensated Orphans.

The revolution is cumming In the worst story we will run all year we can reveal per UK tabloids that a british brothel has been renting out a new line of sophisticated sex robots capable of speech for �300 per hour to willing clientele.

We can’t speak for all student magazines but Nexus is firmly against the rise of sex robots. If we wanted to spend money on something that exists purely for sexual objectification we would start paying Nebesky.

Besides, if we kept a talking sex robot around it would only take a few days for it to start complaining about the crosswords being incorrect. ♦

2. The Rugby School for Male Athletes Who Objectify Women (Just kidding, Hamilton Boys High owns that copyright).

9. The Patriarchal School of Misogyny. Not actually a charter school just a name change for the Waikato Management School.

8. Taranaki Grammar. Curriculum includes intense finger painting and counting to seven on one hand.

7. Kamo Komprohensive: A three year intensive course of sick manus and dairy robbing.

5. The Howick School of Advanced Calculus and Tiger Momming.

4. Flaxmere Future Checkout Operators Collective.

3. The David Bennett School for Wayward Girls.

1. Winston Peters’ International Acclimatisation Academy. ♦

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Sports — Hākinakina

Beer Pong Cameron McRobie Still dusty from a sly midyear bender at last week’s Disorientation? Just to rub a little salt in that seemingly colossal wound, here are the ins and outs of one of our nation’s favourite drinking pastimes – beer pong.

As one of the biggest alcohol consuming countries in the world, rising from 31st in 2010 to just 11th in 2015 as a measure of litres of alcohol per capita, it’s only fitting that a game that requires deft downing of volumes of piss is our go to. For those of you that have been living in a hole and haven’t a fucking clue what I’m talking about – beer pong is a game played between two teams (usually pairs or singles) at opposite ends of a table. Cups are arranged at each end in a ten-pin bowling arrangement and filled with a bevy of the player’s choice - I recommend sticking to 5% or less alcohol content unless you don’t mind using a toilet bowl as your pillow, and in the interests of positive drinking. Each cup should be filled to a sufficient level such that they don’t fall over when knocked by a thrown ping pong ball, as this is a violation of one of the many rules, commonly known as ‘Tide’s out’. The aim of the game is simply to throw your ball from your end of the table and ‘sink’ the other team’s cups, forcing them to drink the contents of each cup sunk.

Historically, beer pong was believed to have evolved from the original game played with paddles. Regarded to have had its origins within the fraternities of Dartmouth College in the USA in the 1950s and 60s, beer pong became a part of the social culture and ‘frat bro’ identity of the campus. This version resembled an actual ping pong/table tennis game with a net and 08

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one or more cups of beer on each end of the table. In due course, a version without paddles was created in favour of throwing a ball (some joker probably just lost their flat’s paddles). This lead to the names Beer Pong and Beirut being adopted in areas of the United States during the 1980s, fortunately beer pong stuck.

As far as a professional pong scene goes – the World Series of Beer Pong is the largest, longest-running official beer pong tournament in the world, created by the players, for the players. Previous events have attracted over 1,000 frothing participants from 45 US States and five Canadian (USA lite) Provinces, with the largest payout in beer pong history of a $65,000+ prize pool in the 2017 event. Games are played on eight-foot BPONG Tables, and WSOBP Rules govern all gameplay. Players may buy-in to the event at any time prior to the event, or they may choose to win their way to the event by competing in an official World Series of Beer Pong Satellite Tournament. ♦

Common House Rules →→ A bounce shot can be swiped, but if it miraculously lands in a cup your team must drink two cups. →→ If both team members sink their ball in a single turn they get the balls back for another turn (known as balls back). →→ If both team members sink their ball in the same cup, not only do they get the balls back – but every cup in contact with that cup must be drunk (known as grenade or bomb). →→ If the ball rolls back to your side after hitting a cup – you must perform a trick shot in a second chance shot (roll backs). →→ If your first cup sunk is the centre cup of the ten, you must drop your pants until you sink another cup (known as the bitch cup).

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A New Powerhouse in the West?

Tom Collopy Last year I cried wolf when giving out my prediction that the Minnesota Timberwolves would make the playoffs for the first time since the 2003/2004 season. They struggled to close out games and finished a disappointing 13th position in the West. This year I hope I am in right in saying that they will break the drought and make the playoffs after some fantastic business has done by the team’s front office this offseason.

The first move the team made happened on draft night, where they completed a trade with the Chicago Bulls in which they sent Zach Lavine, Kris Dunn and the 7th overall pick for Jimmy Butler.

Jimmy is one of the best two way players in the league, highly efficient on offense and relentless on defence. He is coming off of a career year in which he set career highs in points, rebounds, assists, steals and free-throw percentage.

The Wolves then signed a couple of veteran free agents in Jeff Teague and Taj Gibson. Jeff comes in off of a solid season in Indiana to replace Ricky Rubio who was traded to the Jazz for a 2018 protected first round pick. Both are very similar players, being what some would call ‘pure’ point guards who have a pass first mentality so the transition should be smooth. Taj comes in off a year in which he spent the first 55 games of the season with Chicago before being traded to OKC and playing out the rest of the 2017 there. He put up decent numbers for both teams and now links up with former teammate Jimmy Butler and Coach Thibodeau so again the transition should be easy for Gibson.

The last notable acquisition which, at the time of writing this, is yet to be finalised but is said be done once waivers are cleared, is Jamal

Crawford. The three time 6th man of the year adds a load of experience and bolsters the Timberwolves bench dramatically.

Adding these four experienced players to the young talent the Wolves retained in Andrew Wiggins and Karl-Anthony Towns is a recipe for success. Experience is something the team lacked, so acquiring three experienced starters will have a positive impact on game management and result in the team being able to close out those games the failed to last season. Their bench has also been bolstered with Jamal close to signing a Gorgui Deng dropping back to the bench. This will help the team maintain leads and momentum that their starters give them.

Lastly, their defence will drastically improve as Jimmy is a three time NBA All-Defensive Second Team player and both Taj and Jeff are decent defenders at their respective positions. With better game management, a bolstered bench and improved defence I see the Wolves winning a lot more games this coming season and ultimately making the playoffs. ♦

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Reviews — Arotakenga

Album

Video Game

Arotakenga Pakaemi Witness by Katy Perry Review: Vincent Owen

Arotakenga Tākoro Ataata Not a Hero (2015) by Roll7 Review: Conor Maxwell

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Yes, Katy Perry’s recent 24 hour livestream album launch was the worst season of Big Brother I’ve ever watched. And yes, her bizarre mom dancing and club kid soul train on SNL was mediocre meme pandering. However, tucked somewhere behind a cacophony of press antics, dispassionate “political statements”, and the “reidentification of Katy Perry”, a less-than-terrible album can be found. To save time, yes; all of the previously mentioned shenanigans place this album at a ranking below zero. That and the fact that this is mass produced by a capitalist, commercial beast, with Perry as a frontman. But let’s talk about why this album isn’t a flat -5.

Max Martin, Shellback, Duke Dumont, Mike Will Made It, and Corin Roddick of Purity Ring provide some stellar production from track to track. There’s a thunderous bass line on the opening verse of ‘Roulette’, nostalgic 90s house influences throughout ‘Déja Vu’, and remarkable synth riffs in ‘Mind Maze’.

The album’s most exciting moment occurs early in the tracklist, in one of Perry’s most dazzling and fun numbers to date. Three words: swish swish, bish. It is, of course, a marmite moment. But I stand firm in my stance that this track is a fucking banger (perhaps Nicki Minaj’s verse was unnecessary, but regardless I know all the lyrics already.)

Aside from those few redeeming factors, Witness often stumbles. It’s hard to listen the full way through, with tracks like the gospel-inspired ‘Pendulum’ that feel entirely out of place, and lyrics like “Make me ripple ‘til I’m wavy” in ‘Tsunami’. But is it the worst record we’ll hear this year? I’d like to think that it isn’t. ♦

Not a Hero is less a name of a video game, and more a disclaimer targeting any potential customers who think, from the game’s thumbnail, that this game is about a pixelated Batman. This game is not about Batman. In Not a Hero, you play as a colourful group of characters working for a purple rabbit in a suit called BunnyLord, who is running for mayor, and needs help convincing his constituents that he’s a worthy candidate.

How do you show the world that BunnyLord is top banana? By shooting up a bunch of bad people, of course! In each level of the game, you play as one of nine protagonists (including a hipthrusting assassin called Jesus, reminiscent of John Turturro’s Lebowski character) and slide kick your way through apartment blocks full of shady dudes in support of the wrong political party.

The gameplay is high-octane, fast-paced action, but moving through the levels also requires a lot of precision, and this is where the game starts to fall apart. Combining strict time limits with poorlyplaced enemies and well-hidden collectibles means that what should be a fun, mindless action game quickly becomes a stressful experience. The post-mission banter with your boss is hilarious, though. What more would you expect from a game about an anthropomorphic rabbit wanting to work in local government? ♦

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EP

Arotakenga Pakaemi Heba by Lowly Review: Ben Hansen

Arotakenga Pakaemi H.E.R. Volume 2 by H.E.R. Review: Vincent Owen

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Heba shares its name with a Syrian woman who, fleeing war in her home country, sought refuge in the Danish city of Aarhus. She befriended members of the noise-pop band Lowly and then served as the titular figure of their debut album.

The political undertones of Heba are easy to miss. A closer listen reveals profound sympathy, as in ‘Word’: “no possessions / hide your rings / look to the water / go to the water / the little fish will welcome you better.” This sympathy finds an unexpected victim in ‘Deer Eyes’: “Lose the hair / it’s all something to reflect on / lose your kids / they no longer need to depend on you”, where vocalists Schannong and Viemose are not singing of the experience of the album’s titular character, but of Britney Spears and her infamous breakdown. But Lowly approach the matter with such sincerity and gravity that puts the cruel comedy of the popular media to shame.

Lyrically, this album is held together not by a political or humanitarian thread, but by a more fundamental compassion for the vulnerable.

The stand out is Thomas Lund’s bass: sustained, ringing, and melodic, which frames the glassy synths and chattering rhythms of the percussion. There’s a unique texture that’s deeper than a superficial sort of ‘atmosphere’.

It’s more than hamfisted reverb slapped on later, it’s as if it was written into the music from the very beginning. A certain hypnotic melancholy is present that seems to affect so much Scandinavian music in the same way. A self-described “noise-pop and everything in between” band, Lowly skilfully avoid the idioms of unlistenable avant-garde and mediocre dream pop, creating something truly inventive and powerful. ♦

H.E.R. is easily identifiable as the most intriguing new artist in American R&B. Who is she? We’re not exactly sure. It’s a moniker for a project based on anonymity. Record label RCA is committed to keeping this artist completely secret - no press photos, no interviews, only a single silhouette image. The name ironically, is an acronym for “Having Everything Revealed.” From this secrecy, some spellbinding music has sprung forth. It pays to briefly mention H.E.R. Volume 1, a brooding seven track series with tantalising production samples of Floetry and Gabriel Garzón-Montano.

It caught the attention of many, including Alicia Keys, due to H.E.R.’s compelling vulnerability and commanding vocals.

H.E.R. Volume 2 is a remarkable continuation of sound and style. The production samples remain eclectic - a collection of guitar riffs, anime soundtrack hums and whirs, and jazz piano; chopped and screwed over slow trap percussion lines to tie the EP’s eight tracks together. Where this project differs to H.E.R.’s previous release is through its tone. Lyrically, she begins to explore romance and sex; the “happy” parts of a relationship.

Musically, this EP has very little fault. Tracks like ‘Avenue’, ‘Gone Away’ and ‘I Won’t’ (a stunning lyrical reversal of Bonnie Raitt’s ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’) are easy to keep on repeat. H.E.R. provides an assortment both romantic and tragic ballads, the latter being far more compelling. The addition of more positive themes doesn’t fit quite right into the narrative of this project; giving this EP a ranking slightly lower than the first. ♦

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Entertainment — Whakangahau

ENTERTAINMENT Crush of the Week – Blair Tuke Jumping on the sailing bandwagon (band-ship?), this week’s crush is the formidable seaman Blair Tuke. Like the Ancient Mariner, we have taken on a lot of saltwater, but Blair’s beauty is certainly no delusion. We’ve never been more attracted to a man whose Google search includes his weight.

In honour of our love for this salty seafarer, we wrote a little poem to put our BAs to some use: Last name Tuke, first name Blair He’d look good in his underwear Mates with Burling, and Maloney too Lucky men on his sailing crew

Trending on Twitter: #DonJrChildrensBooks

Hottest to Nottest →→ SpaceTeddy →→ Michael Cera’s Spotify page →→ Sticking to a skincare regime →→ Disco - it’s back in a BIG way →→ Politicians messing with Trump’s handshake →→ Finding out your tutor is hot →→ Embracing your monobrow →→ Wearing shorts in July →→ Robbing the poor Maccas workers in Frankton :( →→ Slut shaming

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Feature — Kupu Whakaatu

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NOT SO BLAC & WHITE:THE LEGALITY OF REVENGE PORN KATE LUNN

Robert Kardashian, notorious member of the Klan (Kardashian, not Ku Klux), could face criminal charges following a revenge-fuelled social media tirade against his ex-fiancée, Blac Chyna. Kate Lunn weighs in and explains the legality of revenge porn in a digital generation.

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Feature — Kupu Whakaatu

Recently, reality television personality, Robert Kardashian, published a series of posts on social media, repeatedly accusing Blac Chyna of infidelity, drug abuse, plastic surgery, and financial exploitation. The posts turned more sinister when Kardashian posted three nude photos of Chyna, who is the mother of his daughter, on Instagram.

These actions allegedly prompted Instagram to close his account on the basis of a violation of the company’s “community guidelines.” This didn’t seem to deter Kardashian, who then turned to another social media platform, stating “Since Instagram shut me down everyone peep my Twitter lol”.

On Twitter, Kardashian continued to rant about his ex and reposted the explicit images, which he claimed she provided him. Subsequently, these photos were removed from the site.

Chyna swiftly responded to the posts by alleging that Kardashian had physically assaulted her. On Snapchat, the makeup artist posted “Rob u did all this but u beat me up and try act it never happen!!!!!”. Chyna also claimed, in a since deleted post, that “U put hand on me I swear on god!!!! On my kids but I’m supposed to be quiet because you’re a Kardashian.”

Revenge Porn Surely for many people, just publicly calling out an ex to nearly ten million followers would satisfy a craving for revenge. Although in the age of Trumpism, perhaps a mere Twitter rant isn’t sufficient punishment anymore. But posting nudes of an ex-girlfriend online is more than just an issue of extremely poor taste – it’s illegal, and rightly so.

Image-based abuse, or “revenge porn,” refers to the distribution of intimate images of another person without their consent. This includes images that were originally obtained without consent (such as photos taken by hidden cameras or by hacking phones) or those shared consensually within the context of an intimate relationship.

Under the California Penal Code, the state in which both parties reside, image-based abuse was criminalised in 2013. This means that Kardashian could be sentenced to prison for violating the law, if convicted.

In a statement, Blac Chyna’s lawyer, Lisa Bloom announced that she had filed for a temporary restraining order, stating “Mr Kardashian, you are now on notice: revenge porn is illegal.”

Bloom, who successfully represented actress Mischa Barton in a similar suit previously, highlighted that the case is regarding an important women’s right issue.

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only Chyna should be able to decide when and where her naked body should be shown.

The Grey Area It’s never been easier to slut-shame or humiliate an ex – at the click of button, bumped by a few hashtags, naked pictures of your ex can be shared all over the world. And thanks to existence of pages such as Snapchat Leaked, you don’t even need to put your name to your valiant efforts.

As access to technology has increased, experts have noted that the frequency of imagebased abuse cases have also increased. The Guardian revealed earlier this year that Facebook has had to assess nearly 54,000 potential cases of revenge porn in a single month. Information in the same leaked document revealed that more than 14,000 accounts in January were disabled by the company due to this type of sexual abuse.

Thankfully, many social media platforms prohibit users posting image-based abuse and have worked with US advocacy organisation, the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, to implement measure to help victims report and request removal of this type of content.

Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter do not allow non-consensual intimate photos to be published or shared on their websites. Snapchat also prohibits the distribution of pornographic content. The every-man’s pornsite, Pornhub, even added a feature in 2015 allowing users to request the removal of image-based abuse.

While Google is unable to remove content from websites itself, the company has introduced a policy to allow for the removal of image-based abuse search results on its site. In a blog post in 2015, Google stated that “our philosophy has been that Search should reflect the whole web.

But revenge porn images are intensely personal and emotional damaging, and only serve to degrade the victims.”

While these policies have been introduced to decrease the prevalence of image-based abuse online, several recent cases raise the question as to whether these measures are enough to tackle the issue. And furthermore, question whether these companies are committed in practice or simply adjusted their community guidelines because their public relations advisor advised so.

Only last month Tumblr was served an order by a Manhattan Court to disclose the information of users who had shared a revenge porn video on its site. Over 500 users had shared a video of the victim, which was filmed when she was just seventeen years old. As the video was published with an image of her Facebook, the victim was subjected to cyber-harassment from a number of

these strangers. The site did not take down the video and images until after the lawsuit was filed.

Even Twitter’s response to the Rob Kardashian’s recent tirade raises questions. The intimate photos of Chyna were reportedly on the site for at least thirty minutes before they were removed. While some users criticised Kardashian for his actions, denouncing his rants as a form of slut-shaming and the explicit pictures as sexual abuse, many others applauded him for calling out his ex. Positive reactions to the posts, in the form of comments, retweets, and memes, only seemed to further incite Kardashian. The photos of Chyna were also saved and shared by users across other platforms.

While the network may have over threehundred million users to police, surely a verified Twitter account tweeting nude photos to over seven million followers, would have been noticed by at least one of the company’s 3,500 employees. After all, Instagram has nearly twice as many active users as Twitter and removed the same offending content almost immediately from its site (and later suspended him).

Twitter’s “hateful conduct” policy, which prohibits harmful user activity such as tweeting image-based abuse, states that consequences for violators vary depending on the severity of the case and past conduct. The policy states that in some cases, the company “may ask someone to remove the offending tweet” and in other cases it may suspend an account.

Twitter relies on users to create interesting content and stimulate engagement on its site.

Surely, Twitter wouldn’t condone celebrity users tweeting image-based abuse to stir up drama and interest online?

Well, Rob Kardashian’s tweeted multiple intimate photos of a woman without her consent (reminder: likely an illegal activity) and his account is still active today.

Legality of Revenge Porn in New Zealand In 2015, the Harmful Digital Communications Act was introduced in New Zealand. The Act was intended to address some of the ways technology is used to harm others, and provide victims with a quicker and more efficient means of redress.

Previously, individuals could distribute intimate photographs or videos of their former partners without breaching New Zealand’s main source of privacy law, the Privacy Act. Information gathered during the course of an individual’s domestic or family affairs, such as intimate photos send an individual to their partner, was not covered under the Act. This legal loophole has been closed

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under the Harmful Digital Communications Act. Image-based abuse is a form of online sexual harassment, and is an offence under the Harmful Digital Communications Act, as well as a potential offence under a number of other acts, internet safety group Netsafe says. Threatening to release intimate images may also constitute an offence under the Act. For the most serious cases of harmful digital communication, such as image-based abuse, there are criminal offences under the Act. Individual offenders may be fined up to $50,000 or may be face up to two years of jail time.

“Whilst action can be taken against offenders, it’s not always possible to undo the harm it causes” says Netsafe spokesperson, Kimberly Burgess.

Only more recently have legislators begun to understand how harmful and widespread imagebased abuse is. Victims of image-based abuse have reported that they have been stalked, missed out on professional and educational opportunities, and suffered psychological harm.

New Zealand is just one of many countries that have recently criminalised the behaviour and invoked harsher penalties for offenders, although in many parts of the world imagebased abuse is still permitted.

Are You a Victim of Revenge Porn?

It’s all too easy to say that if you don’t want a photo posted on the internet, don’t ever take it. In fact, it completely oversimplifies the issue and undermines the sexual autonomy that every person should be entitled to. In a 2016 study conducted by researchers at Indiana University, 16% of participants had sent a sexual photo and more than one in five had received one, indicating sending and receiving intimate photos is a common practice.

What can you do if you find intimate photos of yourself online? →→ Report the content immediately to the platform it’s on; →→ Report the incident to Netsafe immediately.

Netsafe has been chosen by the government to offer a free service under the Harmful Digital Communications Act. They can talk to you about the situation, and let you know what options are available to you. Where appropriate, they can also contact online content hosts to get content removed more quickly; and/or →→ Set up an appointment with the Student Counselling Service on campus to chat about the incidents – it’s usually free and they’re really helpful.

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Fight or Flight: How the Fuck Do We Fix Our Suicide Statistics?

R. Pittman

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Quick Facts →→ Between July 2015 and June 2016, 579 Kiwis took their own lives. →→ NZ has the highest rate of teen suicide in the developed world. →→ Men aged between 25 and 29, and women aged between 40 and 44, are the most at-risk. →→ The female suicide rate is at a record high with 170 women taking their own lives last year. →→ Green party health spokeswoman Julie Anne Genter said mental health services, both at community level and in acute crisis management, were “chronically underfunded”.

Today when I smile at you my heart is beating so hard my lips are tingling over my teeth. I won’t catch your name because I’m counting, desperate to slow my breathing. By the time the tinny hum in my ears fades, there’s a fresh spurt of fear. That maybe, this time, someone noticed.

I have a high functioning mental illness. I don’t tell anyone that. And for the record, it doesn’t usually feel very fucking high functioning. When you’re managing to keep your shit together and no one knows you’re struggling, you can be ‘quirky’ or ‘having a bad day’. But if you’re managing to keep your shit together and people know you have a mental illness, the pressure is on- to not act too ‘crazy’, to not acknowledge that shit is hard, and to be relentlessly cheerful so people don’t worry about you. (Even though maybe they should).

Recently we lost yet another legend to suicide.

He spent the last few hours of his life standing on a stage, hearing people cheer his brilliance. He literally had thousands of screaming fans- and he still couldn’t step back from the dark place. If Chris Cornell can’t survive this life, what the fuck chance have any of the rest of us got?

Like most of you, I binged 13 Reasons Why. I wanted to stop, but couldn’t. That kind of show drags shit into the light. It’s indelicate. It jerks at you, trying to remind you of your demons. And it hurts like hell. But that’s why we should be watching.

I’m not too sure how I survived high school.

It started with the ugly divorce of my parents (whose chief form of communication was physical violence), and my dad threatening to kill all of us with the rifles in the gun safe. I answered that phone call. I was thirteen. He said he would kill himself if I didn’t let mum go to him. (I still get panic attacks when I hear that ringtone. Luckily there’s no such thing as a landline anymore.)

Then came the breached protection order, dad got arrested, I was thrown bodily from his house because I was “too much like my slut mother”, told to “fuck off” because he “never wants to see me again”… a proper fucking train wreck, amplified by the small town we lived in at the time and it’s overactive rumour mill. What followed had eerie parallels with Hannah’s story. The rumours of lesbianism. The cruel jokes. Physical violence.

A stalker, who liked to repeatedly damage my car overnight. Parents absent, uncaring and/or worrying about their own shit. Too much booze to try and make that nasty fucking voice stop.

A spiked drink, a sexual assault by someone I thought was a friend, and a boy, who I wasn’t the right ‘kind’ of girl for. Self-harm.

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to uni. It would be a fresh start. But PLOT TWIST people can be shitty everywhere you go. Life is hard no matter where you live. And when your mental health is already a bit shaky, moving down the country, being so broke you can’t eat, and meeting a boy who likes to hurt you… Let’s leave it at- it wasn’t good for a long time.

The thing that fucks with my head is that no one noticed. I talked to some people from high school, and they had no idea that things were bad.

They thought I was just out enjoying my life. No one knew that I was self-harming in the bathroom between classes so I could concentrate.

But I had someone who I could talk to. For a long time the court ordered psychologist was the only one who knew what was going on, and she pulled me back from the edge every session. It wasn’t funded to continue though. I’ve seen a wild succession of counsellors and I’ve had my head read more times than I can count. Once I had it screwed down, I helped friends try and navigate their way through the hoops to access help. So that’s how I can tell you, unequivocally, that our mental health system is totally, utterly fucked.

The Government has systematically cut funding to mental health services around the country, for almost as long as I can remember- to the point where you’ll be lucky if anyone picks up the phone at Lifeline anymore. To get help for your mental health in New Zealand, you have to have made a serious attempt on your life. You can turn up to the emergency room, bleeding, hearing voices and watching the walls breathe, and they will send you home, tell you to come back when you’re actually dying- even when you have someone as stubborn as me there to advocate for you. And if you complain, the nurse will say that the razor cuts are just attention seeking, and look worse than they are, and that they can’t waste a bed on someone who doesn’t really need it.

Admitting you need help is hard. Asking for help is even harder. When you’re exhausted, ready to quit, and as a last ditch attempt at going on, you reach out for help, only to be told your case isn’t serious enough? That’s why our suicide rate is so high. The system reinforces the nasty little voice in your head that tells you you’re being overly dramatic, that other people have it worse, that you should be coping, that you’re pathetic, that you’re a burden, that it would be better if you’re not here at all.

There is a counselling service on campus.

The website says “One session with a counsellor is often enough to help sort out your problem - in other cases you and your counsellor might agree to meet several times, but the limit is five sessions per year.” In what fucking universe is one session going to help me unpack all of the 17

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bullshit that landed me with this mental illness?

They do say that if you need longer they’ll refer you to a community counselling service- which means money, which none of us have any of. So people continue to slip through the cracks at all stages of the process. No one will help until you’re actually bleeding out. And once you’re past the immediate danger? Get lost.

So what if we funded free counselling? No strings. If you want to go and talk to someone, for whatever reason, it’s free. You can go as often as you like. No matter who you are, or why you need it. And let’s shift the conversation. If people are ‘attention seeking’- let’s give them attention instead of dismissing them. Let’s lift people up and show them they matter. Let’s fund rehabilitation centres for people who do awful things while strung out on drugs, instead of throwing them in prison. Let’s make counselling at school mandatory. Let’s admit that life can be really hard, that everyone is struggling to some degree, and that sometimes we need to talk to someone or take some pills to help us get through the day, the same way you need antibiotics and Strepsils if you catch tonsillitis.

And let’s start talking about suicide. Because not talking about it isn’t working.

Every year there are suicides on campus.

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suicide attempts. But what if we did talk about them? What if we acknowledged that life can be really hard, and people can be really shitty (deliberately or otherwise) and our brains can be really unkind to us sometimes?

In my darkest moment, when I held a bottle of pills and looked death in the eye, the thing that stopped me was anger. Fuck the people who thought I didn’t matter. Fuck the people who thought I was a burden. No one cares? Fuck them. Fuck the whole world. My revenge is to live. The reality is, if you quit now, you don’t have the chance to prove all those fuckers wrong.

Remember my stalker? He used to slash my tyres, smash my windscreens, flour and egg bomb my car. No matter where in town I parked, he would mess with it. It was scary as hell. I was being watched, followed, and I suddenly wasn’t safe in the only place that I could escape from the shit at home. It took a very, very long time for me to feel safe again- and if one of my friends lift my windshield wipers as a joke, I can be anxious for a week. He died a few years back, drunk driving. I don’t grieve him. His mother does, and I feel sorry for her loss, but the guy who tormented me? I won’t go so far as to say that I’m glad he’s gone, but I do feel that maybe karma finally caught up with the asshole.

Or maybe, he was really struggling, and could have used some help. ♦

BLACK SAND BEACH, ICELAND PHOTOGRAPHY BY TIM TRAD INSTAGRAM: @TIMTRAD

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Student Experience — Wheako Tauira

Tales of Disorientation So. You successfully survived Disorientation Week. This week we asked our contributors to reminisce on their past shenanigans (or lack thereof) with some anecdotes… “‘Twas the night before Disorientation Week and as I sat back and spun yarns my ressies it was at the point that I realised I’m fucking old and may as well be pregnant.” - Rory Davis “It was Disorientation Week. I smoked a half pack of darts and went to sleep at 10:00pm.” Alexander Nebesky “It’s Tuesday, ReO, 2015, and I’m dressed as a wench and drinking with people from uni. One bottle of wine down, and half a pack of ciggies later, my younger sister’s ex walks in. As I suspect interaction could be awkward, I promptly down a second bottle o’ Corban’s White Label. Naturally, I am now able to strike up a tactful conversation, with my regular charm and wit on full power...

To cut a long story short, he ends up giving me a lesson in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu which involves armbars and rolling on the floor of my uni acquaintance’s bedroom.” - Indigo Smith “The year was 2016, the theme, Back to School and Mondays were the only day my hospo slave flattie had off. We spent too much of our predrinking time yarning about life and ended up having to do shots of Honey Jack while the taxi driver looked on, highly unimpressed. Within 10 minutes of making it into 101 we were smashing back tequila shots and an hour after that one of

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her fellow hospo folk was buying us absinthe. I don’t remember making it home but I woke up at 5am, naked on my floor, less and 20cm from my bed, wrapped in a blanket with burns on my leg from being too close to my heater. Apparently I had a shower because I found all my clothes soaking wet in the bathroom the next day, and I was so hungover I couldn’t walk to the door to collect my pizza and had to call the delivery driver to tell her to come inside. Fuck absinthe.”

- Not an Editor “I trusted the homebrew of a complete incompetent cunt. With the best of intentions we chucked together a sachet of ‘crisp lager’, hoping to take the Monday of ReO by storm and set the standard. With the resulting 20L we decided out best plan of action was to roll down to the nearest Hogan shitfest and peer pressure freshers to consume abusive amounts, within two hours we’d finished the barrel and left a healthy collection of innocent Studville residents completely rolled. It’s fair to say we were pretty stoked, however It wasn’t until the following week that we realised our minor mishap. This crisp lager had turned out closer to alcoholic engine oil, leaving one young man lowkey paralysed for two days and allegedly stripped the stomach lining of a few more.” - Someone who should probably be in jail. ♦

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Puppet Master Politics Chlöe Swarbrick Having recently interviewed the Davids (Bennett and Seymour) I was beginning to worry that Lyam was changing, becoming more of a pragmatist and asking weird questions about superannuation and the budget. I was worried I had broken him. So I organised a bit of wish fulfilment and he sat down with the election’s “face of the student” Chlöe Swarbrick.

Why should I give a shit?

“You have the chance to make a change. The current demographic is fucked, the older groups are the most inclined to vote so they’re the only ones benefiting.” Chlöe is easily the most passionate politician I’ve yarned with. At no point did I question anything that was said, she knows exactly what she wants and she’s well keen to get in your face about it.

“We need to focus on issues which have massive effects on our younger generations such as affordable homes and free education, dealing with student debt and crippling living costs, beginning to tackle our unsustainable superannuation and finding a solution to our shrinking job market.” It’s at this point where my ignorance actually caught up with me. I’ve always assumed whoever’s in power would be focussing on relevant issues like these, though after listening to Chlöe spill the beans it’s as if our Government are genuine ‘bad dudes’ in some shitty after school cartoon. Either way I’m still not overly fussed, if these issues aren’t being addressed then they probably should be, if they are then whoever’s in charge needs to step up their game so Chlöe can finally sleep at night.

What are ya’ll Greenies doing for students? →→ Increasing the rights of everyone →→ Helping ensure homes are warm and dry →→ Improving, increasing the public transport system

→→ Increasing student allowance We’re all fairly familiar with these ideas, even the most politically inept student could realise this would greatly increase their quality of living.

Instead of rambling, we decided to get holistic, “What we need is a vision for NZ, we need to talk about what we believe in and what we want”.

This led to some small talk about poverty which quickly spiralled into a passionate exchange over how tragic the job market is. After that brief glimpse at her holistic ideals I knew I was about to get what I wanted all along, the tension was ripe, she was about to whip out her Greenies™.

Before I even had time to play it cool she hit me with the classic “importance of society”, locking my gaze while ensuring I realised how integral it’s stability and growth truly is. By this point I was drenched in sweat. With complete disregard to our surroundings she decided to finish me off then and there, after a subtle flutter of her eyelashes she bit her lip and leant over to me “our planet is finite, we’ve gotta look after it”.

Today Lyam Learnt: →→ People in politics (on all sides) genuinely care about what they do. →→ We might need to focus on debt, jobs and the future. →→ Hitting on a future MP is seldom, if ever, acceptable. →→ Cartoon villains exist (on all sides) of our political system.

The Last Word The Greens are just the Greens. I rate what they’re planning and I guess they’re shaping up to be a fairly funky crew. I’m mainly just hoping that one day I can be half as passionate about anything in my life as Chlöe is about her political beliefs. ♦ 25

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You’re only at University once, sack up. We’ve noticed a slight decline in excitement throughout the Waikato so we thought we’d provide you with the means to really spice it up. Let’s keep this short and sweet and teach you the means to get started.

1. Gather some pals, not too many or the spirits will get confused by the noise.

2. Set the mood, incense is lovely but this step is optional.

3. Place the board in clear sight and grab a glass or make a cardboard planchette since you’re doing this on paper 4. Choose a medium from your pals, get them to open the session with a ritual.

5. Have each pal rest a finger lightly on the planchette and place it over the ‘G’ to begin.

6. Don’t be a twat. Some spirits aren’t too friendly so make sure you ask simple questions while you’re starting off.

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7. Don’t freak out as the spooky spirits move your planchette to spell out answers.

8. If shit hits the fan make sure you drag the planchette to ‘See Ya Tomorrow M8’, don’t lift your fingers until the spirit has boosted or else the portal will stay open and you’ll be fairly fucked.

Tips →→ If the planchette starts making a figure eight it’s probably time to say farewell to that spirit. →→ For optimal results don’t do it around people who will just take the piss, maybe even do it somewhere a lil ‘s p o o k y’. →→ It’s advised not to ask questions that you don’t actually want to know the answer to, but at the end of the day fuck it. Just ask anything, it’ll all be a yarn at the end of the day.

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Club Spotlight MCSA Shannon Barclay The Management Communication Students’ Association’s (MCSA) humble beginnings started in 2008 when Associate Professor Debashish Munshhi sent a letter inviting MCOM students to create a student-run club. Since then, success stories from past members taking over the communications world have been created and we want to inspire others to achieve the same.

Previous board members have gone on to find amazing jobs overseas in super cool far away places and one lucky dude landed his dream job, working with the Chiefs right here in humble Hamilton. Nine years later, with five super cool ladies and one brave gent running the board of this amazing group, we’re still going and are stronger than ever!

MCSA’s aim is to create opportunities for students studying, or have an interest in, public relations, marketing, and leadership communication to prepare them for entry into the workforce. We run networking events with industry professionals, host guest speakers, provide discounts on Public Relations Institute of New Zealand (PRINZ) memberships, and organise events to help you up-skill. From time to time we’ll bundle up in a WSU van and boost up to Auckland or down to Tauranga for an industry field trip. We’ll also give you a heads up when volunteer and internship opportunities are flicked our way. It’s some exciting stuff!

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on LinkedIn and add that extra edge to your CV! To become a member is super easy, flick us an email at mcsawaikato@gmail.com, or find the ‘Join MCSA’ tab on our Facebook page and fill in your name and email address.

We’re a friendly bunch, so come to our Mingle With MCSA event on Wednesday the 19th of July during Cultural Hour (1-2pm) in M1.42 (Opposite Bennetts) to find out more and score some free pizza! Come along and meet other students and the MCSA board and we’ll chat about how you can get involved and what opportunities are in-store this semester. We have a ton of cool events planned for the rest of the year, and if that doesn’t excite you, well, there’s usually a ton of free food! ♦

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Columns — Maramara Kōrero

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↑ HAIM

Jacqui Swney To keep things short and sweet, this week’s playlist features some California geniuses that I always assumed were Mexican (don’t ask me why), a girl band that is actually good (soz Little Mix, it’s a no from me), and some indie rock dudes that really love acid. Now listen, and let the songs speak for themselves.

Going Gets Tough by The Growlers California bred band, The Growlers, have made their way into my top 10 the the moment, specifically this song off their album Chinese Lantern. Their sound transports you to another era, another place even. Personally I picture myself in some dive bar just on the border between Mexico and California at 11am, drinking margaritas while they sing to me and the other three people who apparently haven’t got anywhere else to be. It’s very simple and pure and not very refined, and their lyrics aim straight for the heart, not disguising anything with complicated metaphors or underlying meanings, they get straight to the point and somehow make a happy song out of some real and less than happy subject matter. In addition to ‘Going Gets Tough’, I would definitely recommend their songs ‘California’ and ‘When You Were Made’.

Again, both truthful and simple accompanied.

9.5/10 for ‘Going Gets Tough’.

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shred on their instruments. Despite their terrible guitar faces, (now is where refer you to google: Este Bass Face, classic stuff I tell ya) the trio of sisters manages to create and stay true to a distinctive 70s/ 80s vibe through their music and their image. Lead singer, Danielle’s, vocals are far from perfect. In fact, I didn’t like them much at all to begin with. But in time it’s clear that her vocals bring their whole sound together, and whether it be the harmonies or the instruments themselves, each sister does their part to maintain a balance in their sound.

They’re catchy and original, and I fuggin love that they can actually produce a quality tune.

Rainbow City by Cloud Control This song is an absolute anthem. The dude sings (or shouts, really) about how he’s getting lost and he sounds relatively proud of it. But really he’s probably singing about acid and literal rainbows and trying to make things seem a whole lot more philosophical. We get it bro, you’re LOST LOST LOST LOST, and I totally want to visit this rainbow city because he sounds so enthusiastic about it. it’s somehow therapeutic in the lack of substance, it takes all of five mins to memorise the lyrics, and the lead singer is already so pitchy that you won’t you won’t even notice your own terrible singing. I know it may sound like I’m trashing this song, but I would 11/10 recommend driving through town with this one on full blast during your next existential crisis. ♦

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Opinionated Above Rubies Jean Balchin It was a horrifically muggy Sunday. In an attempt to keep my eyes open, I began flicking through a magazine called Above Rubies lying on the pew beside me. On the front cover, a veritable army of small children smiled benignly at me, as their wholesome, all-American parents stood at the back, gazing over their brood with animalistic pride. As I turned each page, anxiety and frustration welled up in me. Long, flowery articles on the importance of wives submitting to their husbands were printed alongside “news reports” condemning the use of painkillers during labour.

Above Rubies is a free, monthly magazine by Colin and Nancy Campbell. It contains articles about the joys of simple life, testimonials from women who have given up work to stay home, ‘natural family remedies’ (read: homeopathy) and family planning (or lack thereof). Childbearing is hailed as a miraculous cure for everything from panic attacks, migraines, fatigue, poor marriage, depression, and chronic pain, to nosebleeds and aging. By this, I don’t mean silly little cliches like “Children keep you young.” Rather, long, extensive articles argue that the answer to all one’s problems is just to pop out more babies.

I’m well acquainted with the disturbing ideology perpetuated by this organisation. For a start, the Campbells are strong believers in homeschooling.

There’s nothing wrong with homeschooling per se, but the Campbells’ particular brand of home ‘education’ perpetuates the belief that daughters should be trained solely in the home through homeschooling and taught domestic skills. Homeschooling fathers wield considerable control over who their daughters

date and marry, and they stress the importance of service to the family and to the Christian community.

Another horrifying trend that recurs throughout the Above Rubies publications is the importance of supporting one’s husband at all costs. Virtually every issue includes a story about some poor woman, stuck in a difficult marriage, surrounded by screaming children and battling a stove that just won’t darn turn on, darn it. However, when said woman gives up work and commits the time to stay home with their families, their marriage and relationship with their husband is magically healed. Voila! Who knew traditional gender roles could be so rejuvenating?

God is given complete control over the size of one’s family, regardless of one’s financial circumstances or uterine health. This stems from Psalm 127:3-5, which states that “Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from Him.” Children are the weapons against the secular world. But these children must be guarded from the evil, secular world. In one article, Campbell urges women to watch what their “children listen to, look at, read and even what they speak!

Check what is happening on their Facebook accounts!” This just breeds fear, mistrust and duplicity. Evangelism is not at the top of the Christian patriarchy’s agenda. Instead the focus is on keeping the Christian community insular, separate from world. Helping out in the world, or caring for others doesn’t matter if you are breeding and raising enough Christians.

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The Fashion Critic A Whiter Shade of Pale Amanda van der Klompf At first, it seems unassuming; a modest outfit punctuated by a simple white sneaker. Nike Air Force 1s, Adidas Stan Smiths, Reebok Classics; they’ve become an infestation in the streets of every metropolis. They pitter-patter and squeak throughout suburbia, sported by trend aficionados both young and old. However, white sneakers have a surprising social and political weight to them.

Disclaimer: It’s important to note that several of the aforementioned sneakers have been mass produced through the means of child/slave labour. In 1992, an exposé of Nike’s production process was published by Jeff Ballinger, in which it was revealed that their Indonesian factory workers were paid 14 cents per hour.

Improvements have been made since, however ethical concerns regarding how we consume sneakers and sportswear remain.

Across the many low-economic pockets of the US, Canada, UK and Europe, and in areas like Brazil’s favelas, one notes an everpresent sneakerhead culture. The whiter the shoe, the higher one sits on the totem pole, so to speak. White shoes are a tool to negotiate power within struggling communities, due to their plain impracticality. If you wear a clean, white shoe, it conjures the image that you have money to spend. Brighter and cleaner equals new; and the fresher a purchase seems, the higher the implication that you’re about to drop another $150 in the near future. The meticulous techniques that a sneakerhead will use to keep their white shoes clean echo the finesse of a knight caring for a suit of armour.

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A slightly more complex phenomenon occurs in the more well-to-do areas of the world. Think areas like inner-city Auckland, Wellington, Sydney and Melbourne. The culture of using white shoes to present one’s wealth and high social status has been subverted and reversed, to achieve the same effect. Fashion has always been a right-wing industry, built to serve the rich, to prize wealth and material goods. It just so happens that in 2017, being rich isn’t quite on trend. It’s much more hip (to the fashion elite) to be one with the working folk; faux-liberalism.

Hell, Anna Wintour’s even considering a boxier corduroy Chanel jacket a la Jeremy Corbyn.

Balenciaga recently pushed forward a line of menswear brandished with ‘Bernie 2016’ logos.

Thus, the new look is dirty white sneakers. It says “I’m rich, and I can afford to let my material goods get into a state of disrepair. I’ll just buy another pair soon.”

The internal justification, of course, is slightly different. “I’m wearing dirty white shoes to fit in, I don’t want to seem ostentatious.” This thought process becomes less believable, though, when brands like Golden Goose and Philippe Model are selling pre-dirtied, pre-stressed, pre-ruined white shoes within the bracket of $300 - $500.

Since they spilled off the tennis court and into our wardrobes, white shoes have brought both joy and frustration to our lives. Best advice is to avoid muddy puddles, and avoid over-thinking the even muddier social implications that such unassuming footwear can have. ♦

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Lonely Tarts Club Out of Date Jennie-Louise Kendrick Ah, Tinder. The human sushi train. I wish I could say that I had used my English degree to conjure up that disgusting metaphor, but alas, I stole it from a man lying about his age. There are plenty of reasons to download a dating app - sex, boredom, loneliness… more sex and certainly, it’s basically the cornerstone of modern dating… so why the fuck did I think it was a good idea to delete it?

Now, this isn’t the kind of sushi restaurant where wasabi is smeared tastefully across the areolae of some lass with hosomaki lining her limbs - but rather, the brightly-lit establishment where you can see the pieces through seethrough domes and the sadness in the other diners’ eyes. We get to swipe past the pieces that aren’t so appealing to get to a tasty California roll or nigiri. The concept of judging someone on the basis of their outer appearance is something our mums taught us not to do - not to judge a book by its cover, nor the sushi by its nori. But that’s the entire premise of dating apps; swiping through hundreds of potential boudoir buddies just to get a match and feel validated. Bumble and Grindr are no better. Some take the ‘negging’ approach, which just seems to translate into cyberbullying, while other daters could bore you to death with their lacklustre introductions.

Then there’s the matter of what we put out there about ourselves. It’s basic biology to prime ourselves to appear more attractive to prospective mates. Capuchin monkeys piss themselves then rub it in and baboons flash their red swollen bums to get a hottie in their bed.

It’s only natural to accentuate traits you deem

to be attractive, and diminish or omit those less palatable things - like a police record, or weird feet. So it’s pretty mind boggling when swiping through Tinder and seeing the things men* and women* think are most likely to get them a right swipe; bare male bums, self-deprecating statements, or photos of an arrangement of hardcore sex toys they own and the 214 condoms they have. Dude, it’s too presumptive to take a condom on a date - no need to advertise the plethora of prophylactics you’ve been trying to stuff into your wallet.

Once the novelty wears off and the giggles subside, reality sets in that you’re actually no closer to a meaningful connection. No matter how nonchalant you are about dating, everyone who downloads Tinder is secretly pining after companionship. Putting yourself out there is hard and despite the facade of apathy encouraged by the popularity of dating apps, constantly being judged by strangers is pretty soul-sucking. It’s horrible for your mental health - having your self worth calculated by the amount of attention you receive. While dating apps may help the shy to communicate with their preferred gender(s), it also means that there’s dialogue that would never be uttered in person. Since deleting my Tinder, I’ve felt the loss of not having it as a boredom-buster, but I’ve also felt better about myself. Our self-love and worth should not be dictated by the amount of matches one has or the half-assed compliments of some stranger trying to get in your knickers. ♦ *since publication, the author has downloaded and deleted Tinder three separate times.

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Yam and Troy the Science Boys Bitcoin Troy the Science Boy Today we shall be jumping back into the world of the interwebs, in a way similar to jumping into this week, ass first gazing backwards at the blurry haze that was last week. Cryptocurrency, how the hell does it work and why should I care?

Well, I’m figuring that out whilst writing this.

Currency itself has been as intangible as its very concept for a good old while now and has become even more confusing since the inception of cryptocurrency. The most popular example of this is Bitcoin. It has been speculated that Bitcoin was created as a collective ‘fuck you’ to all the old bulls in the banking industry.

A group of young bucks with innovation on their minds created it with the intent of bringing power back to the people. They did this by creating a currency controlled by no one but its users and the Bitcoin protocol.

In 2009, a person or people known as ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ released the 30,000 lines that comprise the Bitcoin protocol. The idea was that Bitcoins ‘owned’ by users were transferred directly from user to user with no centralised system. This means a number of things, the fees are ridiculously low and the only people that can fuck with your Bitcoins are you and hackers.

No one technically owns Bitcoins, but rather they own the right to conduct certain valid transactions, which is roughly equivalent, at face value, to ownership. In order to send or receive Bitcoins, the transaction requires a signature.

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signature itself consists of an unfeasibly large binary value (256-bit).

It is through transactions that Bitcoin ‘miners’ come into play. A miner is someone who uses their computer’s processing power to verify the transactions of Bitcoins between users. Once the transactions are verified, they go into an electronic ledger known as the Block Chain. The Block Chain contains every single transaction ever performed along with all the appropriate signatures. When a miner successfully adds a new block to the Block Chain, they are rewarded with new Bitcoins and the total number of Bitcoins in existence has forever increased.

Because Bitcoin is decentralised, there is no single public ledger, which means that everyone in ownership of Bitcoins has a copy of the ledger.

However, this means that everyone cannot possibly be up to date with all transactions, knowing who has what. This is where the Bitcoin protocol uses a clever method of ensuring that everyone’s currency is protected. Your interface examines the Block Chains and bases its information on the longest one, which through a string of logic that is long winded as shit, is the most accurate and up to date.

There you go, you’re likely more confused than when we started. Soz. I could have smashed out a big old list of interesting facts about Bitcoins, but I’m not about that, we’re about the proper learnings, not the ‘took two seconds to look it up online’ learnings, those aren’t real learnings. ♦

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Auteur House ↑ O L I V I A D E H AV I L L A N D R E L A X E S AT H E R H O M E I N B E V E R LY H I L L S , 1 9 4 2 .

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Olivia de Havilland Richard Swainson Olivia de Havilland turned 101 on July 1st, becoming the oldest person in history to be made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Dame Olivia celebrated her new title by policing her intellectual property. Upset over the way she had been portrayed in the mini-series Feud: Bette & Joan, de Havilland sued. Most folk would be flattered to be played by Catherine Zeta-Jones, not so this feisty centenarian.

Auteur House has acquired a new box set of de Havilland films. One of the titles featured is My Cousin Rachel (1952), an adaptation of the Daphne du Murier novel of the same name, whose remake is currently playing in cinemas.

The de Havilland My Cousin Rachel drew down the curtain on the second and most celebrated phase of her career, the decade from 1942 in which she proved herself a great actress. Though first attracting attention in a classical part, as Hermia in Hollywood’s first sound adaptation of Shakespeare, 1935’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, de Havilland became a star as the on-screen partner of Errol Flynn in a series of swashbucklers and westerns. The coveted role of Melanie in that ultimate melodrama Gone With the Wind (1939) more than hinted at a larger talent but she had to fight for better parts, even going on strike to make her point. Dame Olivia won her first Oscar portraying an un-wed mother who unwillingly adopts out her baby in the inherently dated but still potent To Each Her Own (1946). The second award came just three years later, as a spinster wooed by a young cad in The Heiress (1949), a

version of Henry James’ Washington Square. De Havilland is just as good playing twins in the tense film noir The Dark Mirror (1946) and better still in a remarkably sensitive story of mental ill health, The Snake Pit (1948).

Like her great friend Bette Davis and Davis’ rival Joan Crawford, horror films featured disproportionately in the last portion of de Havilland’s career. She replaced Crawford in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), the almostas-good follow-up to Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and was equally memorable in the thriller Lady in a Cage, in the same year.

Today Dame Olivia still occasionally consents to interviews. Melanie Remembers (2004), her to-camera contribution to Gone With the Wind’s 75th anniversary, is particularly noteworthy. ♦

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Each week Nexus attempts to make a romantic/sexual connection.

If you're keen for a date on us, email editor@nexusmag.co.nz She’s a Jafa Tinder addict whose slightly too fond of Scrumpy and could potentially be eligible for Rural Bachelorette of the Year. He’s a science weenie ‘humble skux’ who some would say is too passionate about his Insta. Will he get a rose? Will she get a cheeky follow?

She said: Started the night off optimistically with a $100 bar tab to sink and the new found knowledge that both my date and I used to ride horses.

Unfortunately none of those straddling skills got used due to the lack of good bants leaving me drier than the African countries he’d previously volunteered in. Points for his commitment to the gym and being a rare species in the form of a genuinely nice guy in Hamilton.

I’m sure my mum would love to see him brought home in five years time but I was hoping a tap and gap and a good old yarn to tell of a sexy Nexus excursion would have been on the cards for tonight. Had I known he was going to spend 20% of the tab on pizza I would have had more than a cheeky cider and Smirnoff DB to tie me pre-blind date, but the mojitos were mint and the free shot from my friend at the bar was most welcomed to numb the pain of polite chat.

Rounded out the night by getting picked up by the WSU Vice President, feeling sobered by my absolute shambles of a love life, before we dropped my date home and I received a stern word from said VP that this write up better sound juicy, regardless of the fact that the only thing keeping me warm tonight would be the flame of my Tinder app. Cheers all round to getting the hot brother of the family, my friends who sat out in the cold waiting to scope out my date and all the house staff for trying to convince me to bang while my date went to the bathroom.

He said: With no flatmates home it was up to my old mate whiskey to build up my confidence and make up for years low self-esteem and what my uni friends refer to as ‘daddy issues’. After being dropped off bang on 7.30 by my excellent chauffeur I waited awkwardly at the table till my date arrived. When she did it was reassuring to see that we were wearing matching outfits, yah can’t beat a denim jacket. She was friendly and easy to talk to, polar opposite degrees and finding out she was a jafa resulted in the odd awkward silence but that was easily passed by a mouthful of alcohol and basic conversation starter like what’s your favourite movie. This, however, lead to more clashing views.

Turns out, despite being from the big smoke she was an animal lover and even suggested that an ag day at uni would be a good idea (my heart skipped a beat), unfortunately that idea was quickly squashed by the WSU vice president later on. We touched on many topics such as travel, tattoos, gym memberships and being the family disappointed to name a few. I even managed to seamlessly slip in the benefits of a whole food plant based diet and before we knew it the tab had ran dry and so had our drinks.

Fortunately her having contacts in high places (a lovely waitress) resulted in a free shot, a little strange tasting but free. All in all it was a pretty good night and definitely worth the experience.

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HOROSCOPES Aries: March 21 — April 19 Your vivid imagination is swirling with colour this week; you can see the best and the worst of people, but everyone else can only see the worst in you.

Taurus: April 20 — May 20 As Jupiter rises over the eastern ridge, your intellect reaches its annual peak. This is the perfect time to finish others’ sentences and impart your flawless opinions on social media.

Gemini: May 21 — June 20 The breaching tide reflects your non-conformist attitude. Take some time to yourself and reassess your recent purchases. Is it time for a mid-year resolution?

Cancer: June 21 — July 22 The winter chill has take a toll on your solar plexus chakra. Sleep with the light on to ensure your skin carries out an effective photosynthetic recharge.

Leo: July 21 — August 22 With the passing of the celestial cupid, it’s time you let go of your current spouse. Find someone else to keep those loins at ease.

Virgo: August 23 — September 22 Your independence is a necessity. Learn to love yourself, or just get an abstract tattoo and play it off cool to gain respect from your pals.

Libra: September 23 — October 22 There is no gentle breeze in your presence. As your internal waters return to equilibrium, it could be time to stop stealing your flatmates Ritalin.

Scorpio: October 23 — November 21 Advancement and progress is on your mind. It doesn’t matter if you’ve actually developed as a person, as long as you can pretend that you have.

Sagittarius: November 22 — December 21 Your birth comet has passed the outer reaches of its orbit. During this emotional disconnect, remember the basics of life. Breathe in. Hold. Release.

Capricorn: December 22 — January 19 As a pacifist by nature, you’re left shook by the thought of an ex. With the fluctuating moon comes the perfect time to mingle.

Aquarius: January 20 — February 18 If you’re not feeling irritated by any of your peers, it could mean that you’re the irritant. Spend some time alone and think about your actions.

Pisces: February 19 — March 20 You’re painfully cynical and it’s starting to take a toll. Allow your birthstone to embrace the open air, this probably won’t do anything but it’s worth a shot.

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