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Beer
By Neil Miller | 14 Jul, 2008
A surprising number of people have absolutely no idea how beers get a dark colour. Depressingly, the majority seem to think that artificial colour is simply added at some specified point in the brewing process and – hey presto – instant dark beer. Tragically, that is precisely how a couple of breweries do it. More
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Big City Life
By Miyuki Mcguffie | 26 May, 2008
There are two things I never knew existed until I moved to Wellington. Food elitism and regional discrimination. In my place of work these two prejudices go hand in hand.
About a month ago on one boozy weekend I did three things: fell asleep wrapped around a toilet bowl (some would say passed out but I don’t think that’s fair); made myself spew in a petrol station garden; and made a Liquid Cocaine with Ayala. More
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Bleeding Heart Monologues
By Salient | 19 May, 2008
I have some good news: everyone can do their bit for the environment. AND it’s easy, can save you money and give you better health. “How?” you ask. There are two awesome programs by Sustainability Trust that is available to students. First, you can dob in your landlord to insulate your home at a subsidised rate and turn your damp, cold flat into a warm, dry cosy haven. More
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Devil's Advocate
By Salient | 16 Oct, 2006
Thirteen issues ago, it began. The lecturers churned out thousands of words over the course of the competition. Thank you to them all. As a cheesy side-note, it is so easy at this University to feel that there is no community. And it was nice to see you all rally around something. More
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Editorial
By Albert Tibble | 21 Jul, 2008
Nā Tai Ahu rāua ko Haimona Waititi i whakamāori
Nei rā taku mihi maioha ki a koutou ngā iwi karangamaha, ngā maunga kōrero, ki tēnei pukapuka-ā-tau ko Te Ao Mārama. More
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Health
By Salient | 14 Jul, 2008
Asthma is a common health condition in New Zealand. Asthma can be serious and potentially life threatening. The actual cause of this respiratory disease is uncertain. What is known is that people who have asthma have sensitive airways in their lungs, which react to ‘environmental triggers’ that do not affect other people. More
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Miller Time
By Neil Miller | 28 Apr, 2008
Why don’t they just arrest these guys?
If you just read the newspapers you could be forgiven for thinking that the biggest criminal gang in the country was called Society, Upbringing and Difficult Circumstances. More
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Online Weekly
By Lisa Lawton | 24 Mar, 2008
So celebrity hook ups are interesting because, well let’s face it, celebrities are interesting, and hook ups are interesting - put the two together and they’re even more interesting. But what makes this particular story so newsworthy is the amount of stuff that’s gone on, online about it. With anything like this you’ll get the internet all in atwitter, but this one takes the cake - the Nikki Sixx (bassist of Motley Crue if you’re to young to know/care) and Kat Von D (ex Miami Ink/now LA ink tattooist/reality tv star) hook up, that is.
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President
By Joel Cosgrove | 14 Jul, 2008
What is the direction forward for Victoria University?
Questions like this get asked regularly and to most extent we as students have little control over the university and our wider existance in general. That the university is asking students for their opinions on the strategic plan is new and interesting, it hasn’t been done before. More
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Queer
By Bobberella McQueen |
It’s been a long time coming but, having finally read enough Margaret Cho to fuck a Republican in half, I feel comfortable holding an opinion about gay marriage. I’ll admit that it’s mainly hers, but then it’s difficult to have a discussion about gay marriage without referring almost solely to the battle raging More
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Renting with Ali
By Ali | 10 Mar, 2008
OK, so you’ve just moved into your new flat, lectures have started and you drank yourself sick last week before any assignments were due. Now maybe you feel it might be time to knuckle down, as the first of the three hour labs start, and you’ve stopped shaking enough to actually do a successful titration. More
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Victorian Theses
By Matthew Proctor | 7 Jul, 2008
Stephanie Fisher is doing her Master’s thesis on the impact of the media on society’s perception of crime.
Her study is carried out by providing subjects with one of two questionnaires presenting offending from two opposing standpoints. The offender is presented to the respondent as either a ‘moral stranger’ or ‘fellow traveller’, and Fisher is looking to see how that affects the respondent’s reaction. More
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Women's
By Eleanor Bishop |
I’m sure you’ve all seen the latest batch of ALAC’s “It’s not the drinking, it’s how we’re drinking” advertisements. There was the drunken guy at the BBQ who swings his kid round in an airplane accidentally throwing his child against the wall (idiot); the other drunken guy who starts beating up guys in the pub, including elbowing a lady More
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