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• • Victoria University dominates prestigious debating competition

    • 2 Sep 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Victoria University of Wellington has won the prestigious Joynt Scroll university debating competition which concluded on Monday night in Wellington.
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• • New accommodation complex for Victoria students

    • 30 Aug 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • From 2011 Victoria University will have 241 more accommodation places to offer students after securing the lease for a soon to be refurbished building on the Terrace.
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    132 The Terrace, Wellington
  
  

• • Katydid

    • 23 Aug 2010
    • Salient
    • Katydid is a very, very good piece of theatre.
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• • Hear from Lord Stern, a world expert on climate change

    • 20 Aug 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • One of the world’s leading authorities on climate change, Lord Nicholas Stern, is in New Zealand next week and you can catch one of his lectures thanks to a live video link from Auckland at Victoria University.
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• • International sonic artists to play in Wellington

    • 17 Aug 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • A ’machine orchestra of the future’—music that combines electronics, Indian classical music, robots and dance—is coming to Wellington this week.
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• • Students can catch the CAB at Victoria

    • 16 Aug 2010
    • Salient
    • In a first for Victoria University students, staff from Wellington branches of the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) have set up a drop-in service at the university.
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• • Boyd Wilson Stuck in Pre-Game Showers

    • 15 Aug 2010
    • Salient
    • Stupid gaping hole filled with construction toys almost nearly close to being something, maybe.
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• • Kanye not the only one worried about ‘flashing lights’

    • 15 Aug 2010
    • Salient
    • The idea of a ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ has become a reality for students residing at the Botanical Garden end of Salamanca Road as a result of streetlight problems. Wellington City Council sheds light on the issue.
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• • 46th Wellington Science Fair to showcase young talent

    • 13 Aug 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Chicken-flavoured ice cream is just one of the science projects produced by students in the annual NIWA Wellington Regional Science and Technology Fair, to be held at Victoria University from 25-28 August.
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• • Victoria focuses on Pacific students' success

    • 10 Aug 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Professor Pat Walsh, Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University is delighted to announce the appointment of Hon Luamanuvao Winnie Laban as Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Pasifika).
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• • University Hall Closes Door on Domestic Students

    • 9 Aug 2010
    • Salient
    • University Hall will no longer cater to groups of domestic students from 2011 onwards, Head of Hall Joy Schofield confirmed late last month.
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• • Victoria University might play fair

    • 8 Aug 2010
    • Salient
    • Pat Walsh buys bananas Victoria University might be one step closer to becoming a Fair Trade University with VUWSA President Max Hardy presenting Vice-Chancellor Pat Walsh with a fair trade information pack last week.
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• • Victoria lecturer one of New Zealand’s best

    • 6 Aug 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Victoria University Senior Lecturer Sara Kindon is officially one of New Zealand’s top teachers—winning a 2010 Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award at Parliament on Wednesday.
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• • Crime on Campus

    • 1 Aug 2010
    • Salient
    • Victoria University’s Kelburn campus got a taste of Highway Patrol on Monday night.
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• • Law and Order for Māori Language Week

    • 25 Jul 2010
    • Salient
    • Researchers and staff at Victoria University’s Law Faculty have recently completed two major works in the Legal Māori Project, just in time for Māori Language Week.
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• • John Key comes to Victoria, Salient’s invitation lost in the mail

    • 25 Jul 2010
    • Salient
    • Prime Minister John Key visited Victoria University last Wednesday for the opening of the new Alan MacDiarmid Building.
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• • Kai o Te Aro—A local community gardening group

    • 18 Jul 2010
    • Salient
    • As the cost of living continues to increase faster than wages, many people are turning to growing their own fruit and vegetables as a way to save money.
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• • Victoria Kicks Aff at Debating Champs

    • 18 Jul 2010
    • Salient
    • Victoria University won the 2010 Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships (Australs) earlier this month, marking the university’s first win since 1998.
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• • Council Pulls the Plug on City-wide Booze Ban

    • 18 Jul 2010
    • Salient
    • Newtown and Mt Cook forced to sober up Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast may not have been able to implement her city-wide booze ban, but she has been successful in extending the liquor-free zone.
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• • Lambton Quay mysteriously cordoned off

    • 18 Jul 2010
    • Salient
    • Lambton Quay shoppers were left in confusion recently when a portion of the CBD was cordoned off for several hours.
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• • Goldenage—Andrea du Chatenier

    • 18 Jul 2010
    • Salient
    • If there is one exhibition that should entice city dwellers to make the trip out to TheNewDowse, it should be Goldenage: Andréa du Chatenier.
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• • Victoria University wins Australasian Debating Champs

    • 9 Jul 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • A team from Victoria University of Wellington has taken out top honours in the world's second largest university debating tournament.
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• • From World War II to Wellywood with Writers on Mondays

    • 5 Jul 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • 12 July - 27 September 2010
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• • Nominations sought for Distinguished Alumni Awards

    • 24 Jun 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Victoria University of Wellington is calling for nominations for the Distinguished Alumni Awards.
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• • Let’s settle this outside

    • 22 Jun 2010
    • Capital Times
    • “Lambton Quay barristers blow each other away in a Thorndon Quay duel.” This story was unearthed by a research team from Victoria University’s Faculty of Law. Research team member Dr Shaunnagh Dorsett says the story is about two Wellington barristers. In New Zealand up to 1877 there were 30 duels recorded, however the Ross-Brewer duel was the first that resulted in death.
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• • International artist collective Slave Pianos to perform live

    • 11 Jun 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Art, music and academia combine in an entirely new and unexpected configuration next Friday evening at the Adam Art Gallery.
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• • Law School to feature on weekly TV programme

    • 5 Jun 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • The University's Law School is to be the focus of a new, weekly TVNZ 7 programme starting in July, The Court Report. Its aim is to take a detailed look at legal issues, with a focus on underlying principles and informed analysis.
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• • Victoria wins New Zealand Universities Blues

    • 31 May 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington Students Association
    • Six students at Victoria University of Wellington are the latest recipients of the coveted New Zealand Universities Blues awards for sporting achievements.
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• • Effects of closing enrolments showing

    • 31 May 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington Students Association
    • Victoria University’s recent decision to not accept any new domestic admissions for 2010 has eased financial pressures facing the institution, but it has also made life a lot more difficult for the students who have had their plans turned upside down.
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• • 400-year-old play resurrected by Victoria Theatre students

    • 17 May 2010
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Performing a forgotten Elizabethan script has been like discovering Pompeii body casts for the first time, according to Victoria University Theatre students.
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