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    • Issue 14 Puzzle Answers
      • Connections Answers: First Connection Birds significant to Maui mythology: Kererū, Kōkako, Tīeke, Hihi Second Connection Endemic Marine Mammals: Kekeno, Pakake, Hectors Dolphin, Māui dolphin Third Connection NZ conservation related: Mainland, Endemic, Predator-free, Tiritiri Matangi Fourth Connection Repeating patterns: Wave, Pulse, Beat, Rhythm

    • Munch - Jugnu’s Duniya
      • A feed for fuck-all Jugnu’s Duniya What: South-Asian + ‘world’ cuisine Price: $5.00 - $10.00 When: 11:30am - 6:00pm, Monday - Sunday A nice idea for a very nice price, but overreaching. ⭐⭐ There’s a new kid on Cuba Street, who might make you double-take, and then double-take again. Just up from the Bucket Fountain, left of the red brick podium that hosts a weekly rotation of swing dance groups, high school buskers, and Falun Gong protesters, sits Jugnu’s Little India. Or what was his Little...

    • Te Herenga Waka Academics Split from TEU, Form Splinter Union
      • What’s the most effective way to make change? Have a broad church representing multiple interests? Or have small, targeted groups trying to make incremental change in specific areas? It’s a question now being posed by Te Herenga Waka academics. Law professor Nicole Moreham and biology professor Wayne Patrick have formed the University Academics Union (UAU), with a focus on academic protections and problems at universities. Why the new union? Moreham attributes it to fear of losing academic...

    • An Eye for Arovision - Issue 14
      • What to watch on Welly’s local streaming service This week's focus: animation! Though this genre has become somewhat synonymous with family-friendly films (which do deserve credit themselves—The LEGO Batman Movie (2017) is in my top 4, after all), animation can also feature adult themes for older audiences such as yourselves to enjoy. This doesn’t necessarily mean sexy stuff—theres plenty of melancholia to go around. Arovision has a lovely selection of artsy animation, so go to...

    • ALBUM REVIEW: MOUNTAIN – “CLIMBING!”
      • Love, death, and the very essence and origin of hard rock. Taine Knox for The Mindstate. The disbanding of legendary band Cream in 1968 changed music history. The supergroup featured Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker, who all went on to have solo careers of their own—to varying degrees of success—while others were left in the fallout. One such example was their producer and frequent collaborator Felix Pappalardi—a man who would go on to lead a career which was, more than anything,...

    • Mount St. Cemetery
      • Gemma Moore The wind takes up the most space between us now. If I lie on my back and stick out my tongue, all you have to give me is one hundred years and a few more days, and I’ll grow moss like all the other gravestones that brave the wind. I’m braving it. The air looks thick, rosé and grabbable, floating just out of my swipes. I glare at the overbearing clouds, repugnant of their dominion. Moody teenage weather, I cussed it out, but all it could hear was something like unhee unhay ehuh....

    • STRICTLY 4 THE ISLANDS - MATTHEW WALE AND A MORE SECURE PACIFIC (???)
      • Weekly Pacific Politics with Otis Whinney The changing climate, fallout from foreign wars, and the ongoing drug crisis are just some of the reasons security has been at the forefront of any discussion between Pacific Island nations and their allies. The question of how to remain sovereign in a world where great powers seem content to throw their weight (and missiles) around to get their way is also permeating the minds of Pacific politics. Matthew Wale, who has done the rounds in the region...

    • Hunk Unc - i wanna start fwb with this guy but we live together and he’s my ex’s best friend - how cooked am i
      • Hunk Unc: i wanna start fwb with this guy but we live together and he’s my ex’s best friend - how cooked am i Before we begin, this Unc has unfortunately gotten into the FIFA, so expect a few references throughout. I’m sorry. I contain multitudes now. Well, I think the question is this: how much do you want to burn bridges with your ex? Because, realistically, that’s what you’re asking me. This is not just a harmless little situationship. This is you voluntarily walking into the knockout...

    • National Party Billboards Questioned for Adherence to Advertising Standards Code
      • On 5 July, National MP and Minister of Health, Energy, and State Owned Enterprises Simeon Brown posted an image of a new National billboard to his Facebook. The advertisement read “TRIPLE + YOUR + TAXES,” with the line “GO WITH LABOUR, GET THE GREENS, AND TE PĀTI MĀORI” underneath. The apparent message was that a vote for a Labour-led coalition government in this year's General Election would mean significant tax increases. All paid advertising—such as election pamphlets and billboards—is...

    • Mystery Piano in the Hub Strikes a Chord With Students
      • At the tail end of Trimester One, something unusual appeared in the Hub. For the first time in recent memory, a piano was placed in one of Te Herenga Waka’s busiest communal spaces. Out of thin air? Out of Te Kōkī—New Zealand School of Music? Salient investigates. In a statement attributed to Vice-Chancellor Bryony James, the University said the piano was installed “as a way to bring people together through music and create a stronger sense of community across the University.” James said the...

    • Lessons on Life, Love & Other Stuff - On Making Out, Blacking Out, and the Puritanical Man
      • Speaker 1 (Regular) Speaker 2 (a newbie) Dear dating diary, As of late, my wonderful friend (who is co-writing this with me) and I have been humbled by men who frankly care a little too much. I was casually seeing this one guy from uni and we had gone on one (1!!!) date before both going to the same gig (separately, of course). We spent some time together that evening before parting ways and never texting again. I felt completely and utterly okay about this; it was a mutual ghosting. The...

    • I Hate Cybertrucks and I'm Going to Live Forever
      • Pluto Rennie The future has started to feel strangely empty. Not empty in the literal sense. If anything, we are surrounded by “future” constantly. AI-generated images flood social media feeds, every second Netflix show is dystopian, and climate apocalypse has become both a political reality and an aesthetic. Even trends feel posthumous now. Y2K revival. Indie sleaze revival. We recycle the past while acting like the future has already been cancelled. I started thinking about this after...

    • Critic-at-large - Madonna’s Confessions II
      • Madonna’s dance music has always been social. This might sound obvious; isn’t all dance music social?; aren’t dance floors literally composed of a mass of people? But if you’ve been to a techno or trance gig recently you might be able to hear the difference. (And see the difference, too; as in, a disconcertingly large number of promising young lads slumped over in a K-hole.) Some dance floors are focussed on a self-pleasure kind of hedonism, where the dissolution of oneself into the larger...

    • Student Support Hubbub
      • The newly erected Student Support Hub on Level Two of the Kelburn Library has drawn criticism from students in the wake of loud construction noise during Trimester One’s assessment period. The role of the improved Student Support Hub is to provide students and staff with an accessible, visible, and welcoming integrated service desk that can assist them with general enquiries, enrolments, course changes, transcripts, and letters. New upgrades to the space include cordoned desks for private...

    • ‘90s Baby! Studying in the Wellington of the ‘90s
      • Zia Ravenscroft There are a handful of moments from my first few years at university that I consider quintessential student experiences. Taking the equivalent of five coffees to the library in a drink bottle to write an essay in one sitting. Sneaking vodka into bars in bottles of hand sanitiser and micellar water. The RAs shutting down every halls-confession page. My theatre lecturer making us promise that no matter how late we stayed in Studio 77 painting our set, we would not sleep there...

    • Fees Free Dropped without Evidence or Consultation
      • Documents revealed by the Official Information Act (OIA) show the Government scrapped Fees Free without consultation with universities or student unions, and without evidence on the impact of its final-year model. Fees Free had four goals when it was announced in 2018:removing financial barriers to education, reducing learner debt, supporting life-long learning, and increasing tertiary participation. A 2024 Ministry of Education analysis found the policy only succeeded at reducing debt. ...

    • Know Your Stuff: Being safer with MDMA
      • MDMA (molly, MD, or 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine when it’s in trouble) is an empathogen that increases the feel-good chemicals in your body, mainly serotonin. KnowYourYes MDMA increases empathy and enhances sensations like touch and taste, so it is important to remember that consent is key! Your boundaries might get a little fuzzier than normal, so before taking any substance, keep these things in mind: “What does my yes look like?” What will you say yes to? Is yes even on the table?...

    • Critic-at-large - Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
      • I Got My Driver’s License Five Years Ago Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love First impressions matter. Olivia Rodrigo introduced herself to the world with the late-pandemic smash “drivers license", a beautifully accomplished ballad replete with an eat-your-heart-out bridge where the bottled up emotions of the verse and chorus are spilled out in a gory half-time. If the song up until that point seems a little one-note, that’s largely Rodrigo’s point: she even sets most...

    • Hiring: Someone to Help Me get a Job
      • It’s trimester two and your summer funds have dwindled to meagre pennies. You are feeling settled with your course load and unsettled by the increasing cost of living. It’s time to enter the workforce and join the 50% of Aotearoa students that partake in paid employment while they study. This might prove more difficult than first thought. Whether you’re re-entering the arena or it’s your first time on the hunt, you’ll notice that the market is tight. Student Job Search, a free online...

    • Opinion: TOP is Not a Left-Wing Party
      • The Opportunities Party (TOP) is suddenly close enough to Parliament to be taken seriously. After recently polling at 4.6%, just shy of the 5% threshold, TOP has been rebranded by some as the sensible, fresh, almost-left alternative for voters tired of the old parties. The Coalition parties have been criticising TOP as a left-wing party, citing their Citizens Income Policy as evidence. On the surface, it is easy to see why—TOP proposes paying up to $370 a week to almost every adult, funded...

    • STRICTLY 4 THE ISLANDS - THE COCONUT CARTEL AND OUR DRUG PROBLEM
      • Weekly Pacific Politics with Otis Whinney THE COCONUT CARTEL AND OUR DRUG PROBLEM If you told me that, just a few months ago, a senior member of a Pasifika-led organised crime group dubbed the ‘Coconut Cartel’ was assassinated in Vietnam by a pair of Sāmoans hired by his criminal rivals, I daresay I would have laughed in your face. But this did in fact happen, in what has become one of the strangest developments in our ongoing drug crisis in the moana we all inhabit. This event connects...

    • Salient Weekly Challenge: Planes, Trains, & Rollators
      • By Will Tickner, Tam Maxwell, and Teg Ward Within the span of a week, I’ll be trying to accomplish a long-term task just to see if it’s possible, and to see what I can get out of it. Life lessons, skills, resilience training? The stimulation alone should be enough motivation. During an event last year, I had to move a big load of tables and chairs from Fairlie Terrace to the Memorial Theatre. What I thought was a ten-minute trip turned into a half-hour sweat-fest of cussing as I located ramps...

    • Opinion: Pulling The Rug Out From Under Students: Why Fees Free Didn't Fail.
      • Josh Robinson Critics of the Fees Free scheme are right about one thing: the policy failed to significantly increase enrolments. But they ignore a crucial fact: the scheme was never intended to end after one year. In May, the Government announced plans to scrap the Fees Free scheme, which has allowed eligible tertiary students to complete one year of study without paying tuition fees since 2018. The announcement was met with strong opposition from student associations. In a joint statement,...

    • Munch - City bowl
      • A feed for fuck-all Welcome back folks! It’s been a little while since we were last here, since I’ve had to sit down to a meal not for enjoyment or pleasure, but for work. Woe is me. For those like me who have no clue what happened last trimester, or for those new students who’ve stepped in mid-year, here’s a ranking of the places I covered in my last twelve eleven columns. This tier-list is reasonably subjective, but know that value reigns supreme. After the cost-per-bite factor, places are...

    • Ngā Hua te Taio - Issue 13
      • Good news stories (and more) for the planet Kia ora, Salient reader! Welcome to our fortnightly column on the environment, sustainable living, and the small, stubborn act of hope amongst a world on fire! Check in every second week for waste-free recipes, genuinely good news, and practical ways to lend a hand—nudging a happier, healthier earth a little closer into view. Waste-free recipe of the week: The easiest homemade muesli recipe you can find!1 big jar of oats (screw measurements)2x tbsp...

    • Ciph’s Cabinet - Rivals of Aether II
      • Ciph’s Cabinet Bi-Weekly Game Reviews Christopher Curtis I’ve been waiting for the day I get to talk about this game. One of my biggest gripes with modern gaming culture is the tolerance towards unfinished products and reliance on patches to alter games post-release, allegedly creating a “better experience”, whatever that means. Rivals of Aether II is the sole exception. Forced to release early and to focus on competitive appeal meant I couldn’t freely recommend it, but it has long since...

    • Survive The Night - A choose-your-own Kelburn Campus adventure
      • CW: Violence, needles, body horror (1) You’re on Kelburn campus in the Hub. You try the doors. Locked. The glass is cold under your hand, and inside the tables are empty, chairs pushed in like everyone left in a hurry. It’s late afternoon, and the sun is dropping behind the buildings, turning the windows orange for a second before the light slips away. The wind moves through the courtyard behind you, carrying the faint sound of traffic from Salamanca Road and making the posts outside Adam Art...

    • Issue 13 Puzzle Answers
      • Easy Beginnings? Entitled and Sordid: Global Finance: Word Fill: Connections Answers: First Connection Restrain/secure: Yoke, Bind, Lash, Pad Second Connection Seeds/cores/inner parts: Kernel, Pit, Bulb, Clove Third Connection Car models: Civic, Focus, Camry, Accord Fourth Connection Places/stands where someone speaks to an audience: Altar, Pulpit, Lectern, Stage

    • The Bare Minimum
      • The mark of a great athlete is his technique. His skill. His championship wins. The mark of a great female athlete is how much scrutiny she faces. How often she’s used for clickbait headlines. How expensive her athleisure wear is. Think about the best female athletes you know: Serena Williams, Simone Biles, Tonya Harding, Alysa Liu. Every single one of them has something in common, and it’s not just the incredibly lengthy hours of work put into their craft. It’s the intense pressure placed...

    • Hunk Unc: I’ve fallen for my neighbour who’s also my good friend and I’m not allowed to be how do I get over it
      • Hunk Unc: Last year I told my friend I had feelings for them and they told me they didn't feel that way about me, I believed I had moved on and recently realised I still have those feelings and hate myself for it, I'm not sure what I should do. Students, today your Unc is pairing up two emotionally shipwrecked souls with the same issue in different fonts. One of you confessed feelings, got rejected, thought you’d moved on, and then your heart did the deeply rude thing of circling back for a...

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