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Vice President (Administration)

Richard Carr

I am currently enrolled as a BCA and BSc, majoring in Operations Research and Economics. I want to be involved with VUWSA to help ensure that we can create a sustainable organisation which can function proudly and co-operatively in partnership with the University and the larger community while providing excellent services to students. I have three main goals which will help lead VUWSA toward creating an organisation which can be a stable, functional and valuable asset to all students at Victoria.

1. Working with the VUWSA Trust to increase the non member revenue. In doing this I hope that I will be able to reduce the membership fee without sacrificing the services we offer by growing the amount of revenue generated through other channels.

2. Develop a more accountable and transparent office by using the VUWSA website to inform students of strategic plans and decisions that are under consideration so that students can be aware and have more input towards the choices made by myself and the Executive.

3. I would like to work towards a more efficient Students Association by reassessing and prioritising current spending to ensure a sensible allocation of the VUWSA resources, so that the money we do have has the most impact on us, the students.

Thomas Horrobin

Do you think VUWSA needs to get its shit together?
Do you think the way that it has operated in the past few years has contributed to student apathy?
Or do you just not love Joel Cosgrove penis?

If the answer to any of these questions is ‘yes’ then you need to vote Thomas Horrobin for administration vice president. In resent years VUWSA has been plagued with mismanagement. From the time former President Geoff Hayward spent $22,000 pimpin the VUWSA van to the year after when Cosgrove tried to cover it up and the time Jasmine Freemantle’s executive didn’t participate in ANZAC Day ceremonies because they didn’t believe in war. Well, all this is about to change because once we get VSM, you’ll no longer have to pay your VUWSA fee unless you actually want to be a member. So VUWSA will have to either earn students respect and pay its way or it can die in a cesspool of debt and complacency. VUWSA has a 100 year history and it was here representing students through both World Wars, the Vietnam War and other history changing events like the 1985 Springbok Tour. This history doesn’t need to stop but it will if VUWSA doesn’t prepare for VSM. I don’t want VUWSA to die and that’s why I want to be your Administration Vice President.

Alan Young

Profile submitted late.

Hi I’m Alan Young and I’m a Political Science, Philosophy and International Relations Student from Victoria University of Wellington where I’m currently in my third year of study. My leadership experiences range from being a Class rep at University, Campus coach where I help 1st year students settle into University. In my current role as Activities Officer and a Member of the general executive I help assist and organise events and activities for the Students such as Speed Dating and Poker nights whilst also assisting in orientation and re-orientation events. At the moment I’m a Volunteer Walker/ Driver for Disability Services for those with mobility Impairment and Just simply giving them a helping hand should they require it. I wish to stand for the Position of Administration Vice-president as I want to expand my skills and gain experience in the role. In the role I will Draft and maintain the VUWSA budget and provide Financial advice to the executive, clubs and at general meetings. I will be expected to achieve goals 4, 7 and 8 in the VUWSA Constitution which are to control the Student Union Complex and provide quality cost-effective services for members. Maximise the benefits to members by minimising fees or user charges and to ensure that the structures and procedures of the Association result in effective and efficient communication, management and accountability.

Vice President (Education)

Bridie Hood

Hi! My name is Bridie Hood and I am running for the position of Vice President (Education) in the upcoming By-Election, a role that I have been filing since the beginning of the year. The last few months that I have spent filling the role of EVP has given me a good foundational knowledge of the role and what it requires. I believe this to be an asset as I will be ready to get to work with implementing some new ideas into the Education Team. I have helped contribute to a stronger and more recognised Class Rep system and am leading the Education Team in producing a new Alternative Student Guide. But there is still a lot of work to be completed in the EVP position. If elected I will continue to work on strengthening the Student Representative system, seek to broaden the scope of the VUWSA Alternative Student Guide and lay some foundations for the future Education Team. Unfortunately I can’t promise free coffee on campus or anything exciting like that, but I can promise that I will help to make sure students are getting the most out of their time here at Vic. That their rights are upheld and that I won’t go down without a fight. So go on, do it! Vote for me Bridie Hood! – ‘Keep the good going’

International Officer

Paul Zhong

No profile submitted.

Queer Officer

Kerry Brown

Entering into the Queer community that thrives at Vic was a key point in my life, and has introduced me to so many fantastic queer and queer-friendly people. The gutsiness, energy, and heart with which these people engage with queer issues has inspired me to get involved and to participate.

As well as being a volunteer mentor for the Queer Mentoring Programme at Vic in 2009, I also recently participated in Challenge for Change, an amazing twenty-week mentoring programme for 9- to 13-year olds, and I would be super excited to apply the skills I’ve gained to co-ordinating the Queer Mentoring Programme here.

I think visibility is an important part of keeping the Queer community strong. It was when I treated my sexual identity as unmentionable that my well-being was most in danger. I want to promote an atmosphere of support where people are empowered enough to be visible – if they want to be!

There is a great Michael Leunig prayer that pays tribute to that rebellious, tribulating part within all of us that has worked for the causes of love and joy. I think this position should be of interest to everyone, queer or not, because of that sentiment. Syrupy, I know.

Cruz Johnson

Hello, Victoria University! My name is Cruz Johnson. I’m a first-year student, studying towards my B.A./B.Teach, majoring in French and History, and I am honoured to be standing for Queer Officer on the VUWSA Executive.

Why do I want to be Queer Officer? I’ll tell you. So far, I’ve had a wholly positive experience as a queer student at Victoria University, and I want to do my very best to make sure that all queer Vic students are safe, happy, and comfortable on campus. I’m not just talking about being at a UniQ meeting, either; I’m talking about being able to walk across the Quad, or check out a copy of Men Alone, Men Together, with no negative repercussions. Hence, I want to give my support to the Queer Mentoring Programme, which I perceive as playing a fundamental role in helping queer students develop a positive self-identity.

The role of Queer Officer is also one in which I can learn. I will discover the world of politics and administration. I will encounter some of the cogs which help keep Victoria University running, but only if I am elected, so I look forward to your vote on election day.

Tom Reed

Hi everyone, my name is Tom Reed and I am running for Queer rights officer. I am in my second year of a BA majoring in international relations, politics and history. I believe that there is still work to be done in tackling homophobia and heterosexism on campus, and in the wider New Zealand community. I have had formal training in Queer issues, including having completed a safe space sticker training program and being a member of the rainbow speaker’s bureau at American university in Washington D.C.

It is my goal to make Victoria New Zealand’s safest, most accepting and coolest University for Queer students. I will achieve this by continuing to run and facilitate the Queer mentoring program, which helps people who are coming out or who are unsure of their sexual identity. It will also be my responsibility to organise Pride week, and to publicize the results of the recent national Queer student survey. I would also like to implement a safe space sticker program, which is a workshop that educates students and staff on issues facing the Queer community. This will encourage a more accepting and diverse campus for all students.

Publications Committee Representative

Timothy Parker

Hi! My name is Timothy Parker and I’m running for Publications Committee Representative in this year’s by-election. Essentially this position overlooks the goings on at Salient and has a say in who will be editor for 2011.

I’m currently studying honours in English Literature and in my four glorious years at Victoria University of Wellington I’ve done plenty of reading – and dear I say it – critiquing the student publication that is Salient. In that time I’ve also been involved with the VBC 88.3 (Victoria’s very own student radio station), primarily as a DJ, so I know how a media outlet functions (and, on occasions, fails to function!).

The position of Publications Committee Representative, which is currently vacant, is essential for keeping checks and balances around Salient’s publication process. My experience in Victoria student media puts me in good stead to fill this position. The more positive, articulate and enthusiastic contributors there are involved with Salient the better! Give Timothy Parker your vote for the position of Publications Committee Representative in this year’s by-election!

This got me thinking, both about how I was lucky to have enrolled at Victoria University in June 2009 and not June 2010, and about all the changes that have been made to New Zealand’s tertiary education sector over the past year. We’ve seen changes to access to the training incentive allowance, student loans and student allowances; managed enrolments have been introduced at Victoria University; and there’s the possibility of the VSM bill becoming a reality—just to name a few.

It can be hard to keep an eye on these changes when you are a student struggling to pass your courses, most likely with a part-time job to supplement your allowance or living costs. But it is important that we keep an eye on these changes. And it is even more vital that Māori students are aware of these changes, because when wholesale changes are made to a sector of society, it is minorities who are marginalised. For example, Māori are traditionally second chance learners at the tertiary level, enrolling in their 20s after taking a break from institutional education after high school. Victoria University’s introduction of managed enrolments to control the swelling student numbers will affect these mature Māori students, potentially cutting their access to tertiary education. And if the VSM bill succeeds and Ngāi Tauira is removed from, or restricted within the Victoria University campus, tauira will lose a support network which helps to interpret an individualistic Pākehā education system for students who are accustomed to whanaungatanga and manaakitanga. So what to do?

Keep on top of changes to the tertiary education sector by reading Salient, watching the news, and talking to your fellow tauira and staff at university. Whanaungatanga among Māori is vital, especially with all these changes happening, and this week’s celebration of Te Wiki o Te Reo (Māori Language) is a prime example of Māori coming together as a whānau to celebrate our tikanga and reo Māori. The theme for this year’s Te Wiki O Te Reo as chosen by Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori (The Māori Language Commission) is ‘Te Mahi Kai’, The Language of Food. Te Taura Whiri chose this topic because they wanted “an activity-based theme to promote and widen spoken language in communities”. And you can see how this theme works for yourself if you come to Te Herenga Waka Marae on the Kelburn campus for one of their $6 lunches—take a look at pages 28 and 29 for some reo that you could use when you come over for lunch.

Te Taura Whiri’s theme foreshadowed Māori Party MP Rahui Katene’s member’s bill on the removal of GST from healthy food being selected from parliament’s ballot in April. However, with John Key last week announcing that the National Party will not be supporting this bill, it looks very unlikely to pass. This means that the current government has passed on the opportunity to address Māori obesity and the deaths of 11,000 New Zealanders every year due to poor diet, because of bureaucracy.

However, Māori have already upheld whanaungatanga and introduced community-based initiatives to tackle our obesity epidemic. Marton’s marae-based project to provide the community with fresh organic vegetables has been established across four marae. Not only does the project encourage healthy eating, it brings the community together in a Māori environment. You can also check out the community garden article about Owhiro Bay and the creative piece on the marae-based community garden in Taranaki on pages 34 and 34. Also, under the Ministry of Health’s Healthy Eating Healthy Action strategy plan, Māori have introduced initiatives to promote healthy eating, such as Oranga Tū Tonu in Te Arawa and Ngāti Tuwharetoa and the Hora te Pai Health Service at Te Runanga o Ati Awa ki Whakarongotai. These initiatives are an example for us tauira here at Victoria University of how we can work within Pākehā frameworks and create our own Māori support structure to counteract policy changes. By drawing together under a common goal we can enact our whanaungatanga and support each other on our journey toward academic success.

So even if you are not a speaker of Te Reo Māori, take a look at this edition of Te Ao Marama and join us in our celebration of Te Reo Māori. We’ve included information on how and where you can learn Te Reo Māori, so you can hopefully better understand next year’s edition, maybe over a cup of tea and sticky bun at Te Herenga Waka Marae.

Nā Maria Williams
Tumuaki Tuarua (Mātauranga) o Ngāi Tauira
Vice President (Education) of Ngāi Tauira (Victoria University’s Maori Students’ Association)

It’s been a tight week of voting. Marc Wilson and Pondy were the early faves, but Dean Knight has made a late surge, helped no doubt by the foundation of a Facebook fan page in his honour. If Dean wins, he’s promising to wear his rugby outfit to uni every day for a week. We didn’t even think that would be allowed at Law School. Hilary Pearse is there repping it for the ladies—we’re not sure if she’s single, but if you like it—well, uh, just gonna stop it with that pop culture reference right now…

So, you know what to do: vote for your favourite lecturer by texting 027 CUSTARD or emailing editor@salient.org.nz. We get excited every time 027 CUSTARD beeps and vibrates across the desk, and then tally the votes on our whiteboard in the office. We are easily entertained.

Tell all your friends about it. Make public announcements in lectures. Facebook it. Tweet it. Write letters about it. Heck, print flyers if you’re keen. It’s all in your hands, Victoria University. Who will be Academic Idol?

This week’s question:
If you were stranded on a desert island, but could choose one food to eat for the rest of your life, what would it be?

David O’Donnell, Theatre

Playwrights know what it’s like to be hungry.  Brecht wrote a scene where a starving man greedily devours some cheese, and Beckett depicts two tramps salivating over their last carrot. Theatre students don’t have it quite so bad, with a Bluebird machine in the Green Room and the Aro Fish and Chip shop just down the road. I spend many nights at university attending rehearsals and shows, so I’m often surviving off takeaways. Therefore on my island I’d only eat salad full of the fresh vegetables that I crave during busy term-times. And there would be plenty of carrots.

Peter Andreae, aka Pondy, Computer Science

What food? No contest—fresh bread! One of the nice things about the School of Engineering and Computer Science is that the kitchen in the common room has a real oven in it. Several times a week, I make bread dough at home in the morning, let it rise on a shelf in my office, and then cook it in the oven for lunch. When I go to get it out, the smell of fresh baked bread has spread through the whole floor making the staff (and the students sitting on the couches in the corridor) hungry. It’s so easy, so cheap, and so nice; what I can’t work out is why nobody else does it.

Hilary Pearse, Political Science

Vegemite toast. I know that’s a controversial stance given the long running vegemite vs. marmite debate. For the record I also vote crunchy peanut butter rather than smooth. I reckon I could happily exist on vegemite toast for a while, at least until I succumbed to scurvy. The only close rival would be pho, Vietnamese noodle soup. Incidentally, both are excellent hangover restoratives, must be all that vitamin B and salty goodness.

Matthew Trundle, Classics

As one lies under the pine trees in the blazing Sun of some Greek island paradise contemplating the vastness of the wine-dark sea and watching the dolphins play on the shore, what better accompaniment than the grape and its juice from which comes so much sustenance and the joy of Dionysos? A short-lived existence, admittedly with few carbs and no fats, but a happy one nonetheless!

Justin Bachoff, Modern Mythology

I would choose Huntley and Palmers Sesameal crackers. Then after a couple of years I should accumulate enough empty packages to construct a raft, which I will use to sail to the next desert island and hope to find a lifetime’s supply of cheese.

Marc Wilson, Psychology

A quick survey of psychology students indicates the most preferred answers are (a) fruit, (b) carbs, and (c) nachos. Nachos give me wind, so they’re out. A carb-only diet is not only going to get boring reeeaaaal fast, but a lifetime of constipation doesn’t sound so good. So, fruit? Did you know that fruitarians eat only fruit, AND only fruit that has fallen naturally from the plant? They’re a pasty bunch usually found hanging around trees with a crazed-with-hunger look about them. Fruitarians might live longer, but I bet they’re more willing to die. I prefer to go with 2% of students and live on BUTTER CHICKEN! There better be a Tulsi on this island…
  
(And Justin, Crispin Glover was only George McFly in the FIRST BTTF movie!)

Dean Knight, LAW

Gin? Does that count as food? Alas, I’m guessing not…

In all honesty, it’s probably unfair to ask a gay man who is a foodie to try to narrow it down to only one item of food!

But, if just one, then it would have to be a thick slice of Vogel’s toast with sliced fresh tomatoes.  Sprinkled with cracked pepper.  Then drizzled with a little balsamic glaze. And finally topped with some roughly torn basil. Mmmmmm.  That might not sustain me for long, but I would at least perish replete—and with style.

Geoff Stahl, Media Studies

As a vegetarian/aspiring vegan, and lover of savoury meals at any time of the day, I’d like to sate myself in solitude on the following, assuming it’s an island in the Pacific allowing some of it to be locally sourced: umeboshi-scented jasmine rice with fresh-cracked black pepper, the foundation for garlic/soy marinated tofu, fried to crispy perfection, layered with sautéed spinach (with some fresh nutmeg), topped with mango braised in palm sugar and brandy, and finished off with toasted sesame seeds and fresh coriander.  (N.B.: I am rarely earnest, but I am cooking about food.)

Chris Eichbaum, School of Government

My favourite dish is the Curry Laksa and roti from the Kopi Tiam in the Newtown shops, so I’m tempted to order that in for the duration.

The absence of that supportive and affirming collegiality associated with university life, and of the pure joy associated with staff and faculty meetings is going to make it tough. And I will probably hate the warm tropical waters, the sound of waves on the reef, the fragrance of the frangipani flowers. No, I won’t be able to handle this. I’ll need to go out with a smile on my face, so it has to be kava cookies for the (limited) duration. The Dude abides.

DON’T FORGET TO VOTE!

Ki a koutou katoa, ngā tauira, ngā kaiako, ngā kaimahi katoa i Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika a Māui, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa. Ki a tātou nei tini mate kua hoki atu ki te kāinga tūturu, haere, haere, haere atu rā. Āpiti hono tātai hono, te hunga mate ki te hunga mate. Āpiti hono tātai hono tātou te hunga ora ki a tātou. Tātou mā ngā kanohi ora, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa.

Ko wai tēnei tāngata e mihi atu ki a koutou?

Ko Tapuae o Uenuku te Maunga
Ko Waiautoa te awa
Ko Te Tai o Marokura te moana
Ko Kaikōura te whenua
Ko Takahanga te marae
Ko Marukaitatea te whare Tīpuna
Ko Ngāti Kurii te hapū
Ko Ngāi Tahu te iwi
Ko Victor Manawatu tōku ingoa.

I tēnei wā ko au te tumuaki o Ngāi Tauira, te rōpū tauira Māori i tēnei Whare Wānanga. Nau mai haere mai ki tēnei māheni o Te Ao Mārama hei tautoko i te kaupapa o Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori. Ahakoa, ki a mātou nei whakaaro ka tū te wiki o te reo i ngā wiki katoa o te tau, ko tēnei te wiki kua tohungia e te Kāwanatanga hei tautoko ake i te reo o o mātou nei tīpuna. Nō reira, kei te mihi ki a koutou katoa.

Ko wai a Ngāi Tauira? Arā, ko koutou ngā tauira Māori a Ngāi Tauira. Ko te komiti whakahaere o Ngāi Tauira ko ngā tauira e mahia ana te mahi mō koutou ngā tauira Māori i Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika a Māui. Anei mātou, ngā māngai mō koutou ki te wāhi me te poari mātauranga. Kei kōnei hoki mātou ki te awhi, ki te tautoko i ngā tauira Māori katoa. E mōhio ana mātou i ngā mea whakahirahira ki a koutou, ngā tauira Māori, nā te mea, he tauira hoki mātou. Nō reira ki a tātou mā, ngā tauira Māori, nau mai, haere mai ki te kōrero ki a mātou, te kōmiti whakahaere, e pā ana ki o koutou nei take. Ka whakarongo mātou ki a koutou nei hiahia, a koutou nei whakaaro. Kei a koutou te tikanga, kei a koutou te kaupapa.

Ko te mahi anō hoki o te kōmiti whakahaere ko te whai tonu i ngā take whakarerekēhia, whaka-Māorihia hoki, e te whare wānanga me te Kāwanatanga. He nui ake ngā take mō ngā tauira Māori i tēnei tau. Mai i te whakaaro o ngā whare wānanga ki te poro iho i ngā nama whakaurunga tauira hou, ki te mahi o te Kāwanatanga ki te whakakore i te pūtea mō ngā rōpū tauira, pēnei i a Ngāi Tauira. Koinei ētahi kaupapa e tū ake ai a Ngāi Tauira ki te whakahua i ngā whakaaro o te tauira Māori ki te whare wānanga, ki ngā minita, ki ngā iwi, ki ngā whānau whānui katoa. Ko te tūmanako, mā ngā tauira, ngā kaiako, ngā kaimahi katoa e tautoko i a mātou. I a mātou nei whakaaro ki te hāpai i te mana o ngā Māori katoa e whai ana i te mātauranga ara tuatoru.

Hei pānui anō, i tēnei tau ko ngā rōpū tauira i te rohe o Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a Ngāi Tauira rātou ko Weltec, ko MAWSA, ko Whitireia hoki e whakahaere ana i Te Huinga Tauira. Ko tēnei hui ‘Te Hui a Tau’ o Te Mana Ākonga, te rōpū tauira Māori o Aotearoa. Ko ngā rā o Te Huinga Tauira, ko te 26th – 29th o Here Turi Kōkā. Ki te pīrangi koutou ki te haere ki Te Huinga Tauira, kia tere a koutou nā wero mai.

Nō reira e koutou mā, nau mai haere mai ki ngā whakaritenga, kua whakaritea mā koutou i tēnei wiki o te reo. Haere mai ki te ako i te reo, whakarongo ki ngā kaikōrero e kōrerorero ana i a rātou kaupapa, kāinga i ngā kai pai o Te Herenga Waka Marae. Anei te wiki mō tātou katoa ki te whakanui i te reo tūturu ake o Aotearoa.

Mauri ora

Victor Manawatu
Tumuaki o Ngāi Tauira

As you may have probably realised by now, this week is Te Ao Marama. The VUWSA President doesn’t always write a column for this issue, and we’d figured Max would welcome another week off column writing.

In a conversation early last week, Max requested that—if possible—there be a page left for him to write a column. It was agreed that VUWSA would have two pages for columns and content in this issue.

Given Max’s unusual enthusiasm for column writing, it’s surprising that we don’t have his column. We’ve been told he’s at some aspiring leaders thing.

First rule of being an aspiring leader, Max: get the shit done that you say you will.

Nominations have closed for the upcoming VUWSA by-election, and No Confidence is once again set to make a showing in the polls.

Three of the five positions to be decided in the election are to be contested by only one candidate.

Bridie Hood is the only nominee for the Vice-President (Education) position. Hood has filled the role in an acting capacity this year.

Only one nomination has been received in each of the International Officer and Publications Committee Representative positions, with the candidates being Paul Zhong and Timothy Parker respectively.

Three nominations have been received for Vice-President (Administration), including current Activities Officer Alan Young, as well as VUWSA newbies Thomas Horrobin and Richard Carr.

Tom Reed, Cruz Johnson and Kerry Brown have put themselves forward for Queer Officer.

In positions where there is only one candidate standing, there is the option of voting No Confidence.

No Confidence has made a strong showing in recent VUWSA elections. Although often close, No Confidence is yet to win a position on the VUWSA exec.

The inclusion of No Confidence in the 2009 by-election in some positions where multiple candidates stood was a cause for controversy, and resulted in the by-election being declared invalid.

There will be a candidate’s forum at the Mount Street Bar this Wednesday at 12.30pm. Salient hopes there might be free food there.

No Confidence was not available for comment before Salient went to print.

Polling begins this Thursday, and runs until 5 August. You can vote online or at polling stations across the Vic campuses.

You’ll be able to check out candidate profiles online from midday tomorrow. We’ll also be printing them in Salient next week, along with interviews with some of the candidates.

What? Who’s standing again?

Vice President (Education)

Bridie Hood

Vice President (Administration)

Thomas Horrobin
Richard Carr
Alan Young

Queer Officer

Tom Reed
Cruz Johnson
Kerry Brown

International Officer

Paul Zhong

Publications Committee Representative

Timothy Parker

Email suggestions for an upcoming Animal of the Week to elle@salient.org.nz.

Kua whakaurua e Ngāi Tauira e toru ngā tīma toa ki tēnei tauwhāinga; Tīma Whero, Tīma Pango, Tīma Mā. I te tīmatanga o tēnei tau i uru atu a Tīma Whero, Tīma Pango hoki ki ngā tauwhāinga o te wahanga tuatahi, ā, i tae atu a Tīma Pango ki ngā whakatauranga mō te tūnga tuatahi, tuarua rānei.

Ahakoa tē wikitoria e rātou, i puta anō te hiahia ki te pūrei, ki te nanaiore atu i taua tūnga tuatahi. Anō hoki, nā te nui o te hiahia a ngā tauira ki te pūrei, ka whakauru atu a Ngāi Tauira i a Tīma Mā. Nā tērā, e toru ngā tīma ināianei hei whakahihiko i tēnei whakataetae. Nō tērā wiki anō i tukituki a Tīma Pango ki a Tīma Mā, ā, nā wai i toa? Nā te Tīma Pango i eke panuku! Tēnā, ki tā Te Waka Tōreni whakaaro, “Rrrrrrrawe rrrrrrrrrawa atu!” te kēmu i tērā wiki.

I tēnei wiki ka pakanga atu a Tīma Pango i a Tīma Whero, ā, ko wai ka hua, ko wai ka tohu? Ki te wātea mai koe, anga tō haere ki te Rec Center mō tēnei kēmu hei te Rāapa, 7pm. Haurua hāora noa iho te roa o ia kēmu, ka mutu, taihoa e haere, ko te kēmu a Tīma Mā whai muri mai i te 7:30pm.

Hei tāpiri, he tīma anō tā te rōpū tauira Māori o Ngā Rangahautira. Ka whakapau werawera te tīma nei i te Rāapa, 4pm o tēnei wiki. Tutuki ai rātou i te tīma e kīa nei ko Ballers.

Tēnā ki te pirangi koutou te marea te haere ki te tautoko atu i ēnei tīma e toru, e whā hoki, whakapā atu ki tō hoa – kāore e kore kei te mōhio rātou – mō ngā wā o ngā kēmu. Ka taea koe te whakapā atu ki a Natalie rānei (natalie.goldsmith@vuw.ac.nz).

Heke ana te werawera, kapakapa ana te manawa, mārō ana ngā uaua, horahora ana te memene. Ko te āhuatanga tēnei o hoe waka ama, o ngā tauwhawhai ki te whakataetae o te ao.

Huri noa, huri noa, korou ora, korou ora!

Nei ka noho au me te whakahoki whakaaro ki te wā o Uruuru Whenua (Mei) o taku taenga atu ki Noumea, Niu Karetōnia mō ngā whakataetae Waka Ama o Te Ao. Koinei te whakataetae o ngā whakataetae hei whakamōhio atu ki te Ao ko koe rā te Toa o ngā Toa, ko koe rā te taumata tiketike o tēnei hākinakina, mahi-ā-Rēhia.

Ko te painga o taua whenua rā o Noumea, ko te mahana, ko te mahana, ko te mahana. I waiho ai mātou te hōtoke ki te kāinga me te kuhu atu ki roto i te raumati. Hāunga i te pai o te huarere, ko te pai hoki o te wāhi noho. Ko te whitinga o te rori noa iho te tawhiti ki tātahi, waihoki ki te wāhi whakataetae.
Katoa o tātou, Māori mai, Maoli mai, Kanaka mai, Pākehā mai hāngai tonu ana ki te kaupapa o te whakataetae waka ama. I reira ko ngā ihu oneone o wā tātou nei hākinakina e whakaatu ana wā rātou ihi. Ko rātou e whai ake nei ko wētehi o ngā tino toa kua para i te huarahi mō tātou.

Ngā Tino Toa o Te Ao

Ta’aroa Dubois (Tangaroa ki a tātou o Aotearoa) o Tawhiti Nui
Kāhore he kaihoe kōpere i tua atu o Tangaroa. Ahakoa 20 noa iho ana tau ko ia te keokeonga, te taumata tiketike, te mutunga kē mai nei o te kaihoe kōpere . I ngā whakataetae o te ao i tū ki Sacremento, California, 2008, ko ia anō i eke ki te karamatamata whakatiketike o te maunga teitei. I taua tau anō (2008) ko ia te toa o ngā Tāne i raro i te 19 tau, te toa o ngā Tāne huri noa hoki. I tēnei tau i whai anō ia i te mētara kōura o ngā Tāne huri noa. Atu i ngā hoe kōpere, ko ia tonu e toa haere ana i ngā whakataetae tauwhāingaroa nui whakaharahara o Tawhiti Nui.

Hinatea Bernadino o Tawhiti Nui
Anō nei te mutunga kē mai nei o te kaihoe kōpere. I toa ai tēnei wahine pūrotu o Tawhiti i te wāhi ki ngā wāhine hurinoa. I reira hoki ko wāna tino hoa riri arā a Evangélique Tehiva rāua ko Vesna Radonich e tere whai mai i a ia. I te mutunga iho i toa ko Hinatea.

Grant Barriball o Aotearoa
Nei anō tētehi o ngā ihu oneone o tēnei o ngā mahi-a-Rēhia. I puta tōna ihu i ngā whakataetae o Aotearoa i te tīmatanga o te tau, ā, i puta ia me tētehi mētara kōura i te wāhanga ki ngā pakeke (pakeke ake i te 40). I pērā tonu tōna ihu ki ngā whakataetae o Te Ao. Mīharo pai tātou o Aotearoa ki tēnei o ngā toa, kua mīharo hoki tātou e noho nei ana ki Pōneke, tā te mea kei kōnei tēnei toa e hāpai nei i a tātou ki te Ūpoko o te Ika.

Claire Sykes o Aotearoa
Anō nei tētehi o ngā kaihoe toa e hoe ana mō tēnei wāhanga o te motu. Ko tāna i eke panuku ai, ko te wāhanga ki ngā whāea pakeke ake i te 35. Ahakoa i tae tuarua noa iho ki ngā whakataetae o Aotearoa i eke panuku, i eke Tangaroa ai ia ki ngā whakataetae o te Ao, me te hoki mai ki Aotearoa hei ‘Toa o Te Ao’.

Hāunga i wēnei Toa ko ngā Toa-a-kapa e tika nei te mihi atu. Ki te taha o Aotearoa ko ngā wāhine ērā e para ana i te huarahi mō tātou ngā tāne, ko ngā tino Toa o Aotearoa, me kī, ko wā tātou kuia kaumātua (pakeke ake i te 55). I hoki mai rātou me ngā mētara kōura e toru! Kātahi nei te māia, te mana, te ihi o wā tātou ruruhi.

Heoti anō, kāti rā e te iwi whai i te ara hauora. Kia kaha rā koutou ki te whai i wā koutou ake nā pae tawhiti kia tata, a tōna wā ka whakamaua kia tina, ko te wero kia whāia ki tōna karamatamata!

Nā Te Waka Tōreni, tōia!

Kupu hou
kōpere = sprints
mētara = medal
kōura = gold
tauwhāingaroa = marathon/long distance
tauwhawhai = race

Te Whakangungu hoe waka

Kua tae te wā kia eke ai koe ki runga i te waka, arā, te waka whai ama. He hākinakina, mahi-ā-rēhia tēnei mō ngā tāngata katoa, ahakoa Māori mai, kanaka Maoli mai, te mea te mea te mea. Ki te hia rapu koe i o pakiaka ki te ao Māori tēnā wepua mai. He hākinakina tēnei e whakakaha ana i ngā mahi a ngā tūpuna o Te Moananui-a-Kiwa.

Kua tīmata kē ngā wā whakangungu, ā, hei ia Rātapu ka whakahaerehia i he ahiahi whakangahau mō ngā kaihoe o ngā reanga katoa.

Mēnā he hiahia nāu ki te peke mai ki runga i te waka – ahakoa āu pūkenga – ī-mera mai, ūmere mai rānei ki a Taawhana (taawhana@gmail.com), hono atu rānei ki ‘Wakaz @ Vic’ mā runga o Facebook kia whai koe i ngā pānuitanga, i ngā wā whakangungu hoki.

Tērā pea ka maumahara koe i tēnei manu tīoriori mai i te hōtaka o Homai Te Pakipaki i te tau kua pahure. Engari, inā kāore anō koe kia mātakitaki i taua hōtaka, i tae a Susan ki te pō whakamutunga o taua whakataetae. Nā tērā, i huaina ngā kūaha o te ao pūoro ki a ia. I ngā marama whai atu, ka pukumahi a Susan kia whakataka i tōna kōpae waiata tuatahi i tēnei tau.

He tino ngākau nui a Susan Rose ki tōna kāinga a Mill Pā, Te Kapu (Frasertown), ki Te Wairoa. A ka whakaatu ia i tēnei kōingo mō tōna tūrangawaewae ki roto i te waiata Haukāinga. Ahakoa ōna haerenga ki roto i te ao whānui, kei Te Kapu tōnu tōna manawa. Nā kōnā, he tika tōnu tāna kia whakataka i tana kōpae tuatahi me tētahi konohete ki te tāone o te Wairoa.

Ko Nei Ko Au ­– This is my story te ingoa o te kōpae nei. He wheako whaiaro te āhua o ngā waiata ki runga i tēnei kōpae pūoro. Nā tēnei ka tika tōna tīmatanga me tētahi karakia whakatuwhera, hei whakatau i te hinengaro. Ka whitiwhiti haere ia i ngā reo e rua – arā te reo Māori me te reo Ingarihi.

Ka kōmitimiti a Susan i ngā momo pūoro e tāngia ki tēnei kōpae, pērā ki te āhua bluesy/jazzy o te waiata ‘This is my story’ me te waiata ‘What about our son’ ki te discoey-poppy ‘Mr. Right’, anō hoki te RnB/roots āhua o te waiata ‘Haukāinga’. Heoi, nā te kaha o te hiere o te reo o tēnei wāhine māia, he tino mahana te āhua o tēnei kōpae. Ka rongo hoki te māia, te aroha hoki, i roto i ōna waiata.

Ko tētahi o ngā mea tino pōuri o te kōpae nei ko te waiata o Goodbye. He waiata tangi tēnei ki tōna Pāpā i mate tūkino i te wā he kōtiro tōnu a Susan. Ka waiata ia mō tōna mamae me te mamae o tōna whaea me tōna whānau anō hoki.

Ki ahau nei, ko ngā waiata autaia o tēnei kōpae, ko This is my story, Mr. Right, Goodbye, anō hoki ko Haukainga. Engari, ko tāku he rawe rawa atu te katoa o tēnei kōpae. Anō hoki, te waiata whakamutunga At Last, he tāruaruatanga o te waiata aroha nā Glen Millar mai i te tau 1941.

Kaiwaiata: Susan Rose
Kōpae pūoro: Nei Ko Au—This is my story

Mā ngā waiata o te manu tīoriori, a Toni Huata, e whiti ana ngā rā o te wiki o te reo Māori i tēnei tau.

A te Rātapu nei he rā whakahirahira mō tēnei wahine o Ngāti Kahungunu me Rongowhakaata, i te mea ka tuku atu tōna kōpae waiata tuatoru ki te rohe. Ka orua tēnei whakangahau me Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori.

Mai i ngā karapu pā auahi o Rānana, ki ngā ahurei pūoro o ūropi, ka hoki mai te Kōkā ki Te Whanganui-ā-Tara, ki Te Papa Tongarewa hei tuku i tōna kōpae – Whiti – ki Aotearoa.

Ko Te Papa hoki te wāhi i tuku a Kōkā Toni i tōna kōpae waiata tuatahi – Te Māori E – i ngā tau e iwa kua pahure.

Nā te kaha o tēnei Kōkā ki te tū māia ki runga i te atamira waiata, te whakamahana me te hōhonu o tōna reo waiata i āhei ia ki te tū māia ki Aotearoa, ki tāwāhi hoki. Ko te whakangahau mō tōna kōpae tētahi o ngā mea whakamutunga hei oti i Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, ā, ko tēnei wiki tēnā.

Ko te tikanga o Whiti, hei tiaho, hei kawe atu te kaiwhakarongo ki runga. “Ko tōku tūmanako mō Whiti, ka hikia i ngā kaiwhakarongo ki runga,” tā Kōkā Toni kī mō tōna kōpae.

Heoi, e kore e riro mā Kōkā Toni noa iho e hari i a koe ki runga i tēnei haerenga pūoro. I te hanga o tēnei kōpae, ka mahi ngātahi ia ki ētahi o ngā tohunga o te ao pūoro Māori. Arā, ko Maaka McGregor e whakaaria i te hanga o Whiti. Nā Gareth Farr i tuku a tōna reo ki te waiata “Taku Tamaiti e” – ko tēnei waiata hoki te hiringa o Whiti. Nā Charles Royal i tito i te waiata “Koa”. Tino āhuareka a Kōkā Toni i te pātai a Te Taite Cooper ki a ia hei waiata i te tino waiata o ngā pūoro Māori a “Te Hokinga Mai”. E rua tekau ngā tau i mua ka tuku atu tēnei waiata ki te rohe. Tautokohia mā runga rakuraku a Karl Teariki mō taua waiata, mō te waiata Soul True hoki. Nā Hira Huata hoki i tautokohia i te Kōkā hei whakanui i te reo o tō rāua whānau o Ngāti Kahungunu.

Ka tau te whakangahau mō te tukunga i tēnei kōpae o Whiti ki te taumata tuawhā o Te Papa, arā, ki te marae, a te Rātapu, te tuatahi o Here-turi-kōkā, a te rua hāora i te ahiahi. Ka taea ki te hoko i te kōpae Whiti huri noa i te motu mai i te rā tuarua o Here-turi-kōkā.

Kaiwaiata: Toni Huata
Kōpae pūoro: Whiti

Proposal to move SGMs online

Provisional results from Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) indicate that Student General Meetings (SGM) will soon be moved online, and VUWSA is considering following suit.

VUWSA President Max Hardy told Salient last week that VUWSA is currently investigating the possibility of shifting their SGMs online.

“OUSA has come up with an interesting idea and has made a good case for it, so we will be considering a similar proposal.” According to Hardy, moving SGMs online could improve the meeting process.

“We get a lot of criticism about the general meeting process and so we are very interested in looking at ways to improve it and make it more representative.”

Holding SGMs online could also increase the number of students who take part, which would increase the likelihood that quorum is met.

In 2009 motions of no confidence against President Jasmine Freemantle and exec member Robert Latimer were unable to be tabled when the required quorum of 100 students could not be met. Trouble with meeting quorum was also one of OUSA’s principle arguments in favour of online SGMs.

VUWSA is still in the preliminary stages of investigating the idea. Students will have the final say in any changes to the SGM process.

VUWSA Clubs Officer resigns

Clubs Officer Fraser Pearce resigned from the VUWSA exec early last week, just one week after nominations opened for the upcoming by-election, where VUWSA’s other vacant positions will be contested.

As the vacant Clubs Officer role is unable to be contested at the by-election, the VUWSA exec is now required to co-opt someone into the position.

President Max Hardy told Salient that VUWSA would decide on this process at the next exec meeting.

“We are now focused on finding a good replacement who can do the role well for the rest of the year. There are a lot of exciting things still to do in the role.”

According to Hardy, Pearce resigned to focus on his studies in trimester two.

Pearce won the position in the 2010 General Election with 955 votes against 463 votes of no confidence. He also unsuccessfully ran for University Council Representative.

Highlights of Pearce’s career include the upcoming VUWSA Dress Up Day and Faith Week. It remains unclear as to whether the latter will go ahead.

As reported in Salient’s Eye on Exec, Pearce recently took three weeks to correctly format his work report, even though exec members are provided with a template.

In May his salary was reduced for a fortnight when he failed to complete enough work.

Submissions on Sir Roger Douglas’ Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill are continuing to be heard in the Education and Science select committee.

Last week, former Labour Finance Minister, and former colleague of Sir Roger, David Caygill, along with his son James, presented a submission opposed to the bill.

David Caygill said that if people want to disassociate themselves from students’ associations when undertaking tertiary study, they should not be able to do so simply for financial advantage, NZPA reported.

Sir Roger was absent from the select committee hearings, which took place last Wednesday.

David Caygill said the so-called VSM bill would reduce the ability of students’ associations to serve and represent their members—the two things they were set up to do.

The select committee was questioned as to whether there is “some larger harm that needs to be addressed that justifies the disadvantages that this bill will clearly confer on students’ associations in the future”.

“We say no, that is in fact not the case,” Caygill said.

James Caygill said that nothing in the bill appeared to enhance the ability for people to freely associate or disassociate themselves from students’ associations.

He told the committee that if it was decided that legislation needed to be strengthened to enhance the ability to conscientiously object, it needed to be clear that would not confer financial advantage.

“If conscientious objection is something parliament feels it needs to enhance, by all means enhance it. But make sure it’s a neutral enhancement.”

Labour MP Trevor Mallard said that he suspected the government had realised there were “some dangers” in the bill, and that a compromise needed to be sought.

Tari: Kei te papa tuarua o te Student Union Building.
Pae tukutuku: www.ngaitauira.org.nz

Ingoa: Victor Manawatu
Mahi: Tumuaki
Iwi: Kai Tahu, Ngāti Kuri
Tohu: BA (History & Māori); Graduate Diploma in Commerce
Īmera: victor.manawatu@vuw.ac.nz

Ingoa: Maria Williams
Mahi: Tumuaki Tuarua-Mātauranga
Iwi: Tūhoe, Taranaki, Ngāti Hauiti, Te Arawa
Tohu: BA (English Literature)
Īmera: maria.williams@vuw.ac.nz

Ingoa: Jamie Winiata
Mahi: Tumuaki Tuarua-Hauora
Iwi: Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāruahinerangi
Tohu: BSc
Īmera: jamie.winiata@vuw.ac.nz

Ingoa: Jenna-Faith Allan
Mahi: Kaituhi
Iwi: Taranaki, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Kahungunu
Tohu: BA (Psychology & Māori Studies)
Īmera: jenna-faith.allan@vuw.ac.nz

Ingoa: Mandy Leckie
Mahi: Kaitiaki Pūtea
Iwi: Ngā Puhi
Tohu: BCA (Accounting & Commercial Law)
Īmera: mandy.leckie@vuw.ac.nz

Ingoa: Joanna Morgan
Mahi: āpiha Tikanga
Iwi: Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Tainui, Ngāti Raukawa ki te kaokaoroa o Pātetere
Tohu: Graduates Diploma in Teaching (Secondary)
Īmera: joanna.morgan@vuw.ac.nz

Ingoa: Mariana Whareaitu
Mahi: āpiha Pāpāho
Iwi: Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāruahinerangi,
Tohu: BA (Anthropology & Māori Studies)
Īmera: mariana.whareaitu@vuw.ac.nz

Ingoa: Lashania Fraser-Johnson
Mahi: āpiha Whakangāhau
Iwi: Ngāi Tahu
Tohu: BA (Psychology & Māori Studies)
Īmera: lashania.fraserjohnson@vuw.ac.nz

Ingoa: Dayna Eggeling
Mahi: āpiha Pūtea
Iwi: Kai Tahu, Ngāti Toa Rangatira
Tohu: BA, Hons (Māori Studies)
Īmera: dayna.eggeling@vuw.ac.nz

Ingoa: Natalie Goldsmith
Mahi: āpiha Hākinakina
Iwi: Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu
Tohu: BA (Māori Resource Management & Psychology)
Īmera: natalie.goldsmith@vuw.ac.nz

Ingoa: Racheal Anipatene McGarvey
Mahi: āpiha ākonga
Iwi: Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Ngā Puhi, Ngaiterangi
Tohu: BA (Māori Studies, Te Reo Māori, Political Studies)
Īmera: racheal.mcgarvey@vuw.ac.nz

LADY GAGA STARTS BAD ROMANCE WITH EARL GREY

Lady Gaga will soon put her poker face to Twinings tea, after the company offered her a multi-million-pound deal and a tea named in her honour.

Gaga, who often drinks tea during interviews and has a pet cup and saucer, was reportedly approached by a number of tea companies with offers to face their campaigns.

According to one source, her choice of Twinings was largely associated with the offer of a namesake tea.

“Names like The Taste Of Gaga are being batted about.

“The tasters are coming up with a tea with an oriental flavour. They want to market tea to a new, younger generation—particularly in America, and Gaga is making drinking tea cool again.”

Fans can look forward to enjoying tea and scones with Lady Gaga and Princess Diana-hair jam.

Yummy.

FUGITIVE FOOLISHLY FUCKS UP ON FACEBOOK

Escaped Australian prisoner Justin Grant alerted police to his whereabouts via Facebook recently.

Grant, who escaped while being taken to a Queensland hospital, contacted a friend in Western Australia on Facebook shortly after his escape. She has since contacted Queensland police.

Before his most recent arrest, Grant had also included his location in a status update.

“On tha run again, gonna go to WA,” he wrote.

As well as documenting his plans on the social networking site, Grant is also wearing a dark green v-neck shirt with “Corrective Services” emblazoned on the back, making him a fairly easy target for police.

TWILIGHT STAR BITES BACK

Actor Robert Pattinson called Courtney Love a dick after she critiscised him on the basis of a rumour about his casting in a film about her late husband Kurt Cobain.

Pattinson took offense to Love’s claim that the casting was “stupid” and “wrong”, because Pattinson had never accepted the role.

“You see all these comments, like from Courtney Love, saying ‘What the f**k! He’s totally wrong for it,’ and I’m like, ‘I f**king said no, you dick!’ I didn’t get offered it.”

Good comeback, RPattz.

Environmental SRC meeting fails to meet quorum

The Environmental Student Representative Council (SRC) meeting last Thursday was abandoned after only six students attended, instead of the required 50 to meet quorum.

Five of these students were from the VUWSA exec. They “joked” about pretending quorum had been met and the meeting held until they realised Salient was actually present.

The meeting was planned as part of Environmental Week organised by VUWSA, which also included stalls in the quad, herb potting and an open mic night at Ramsey House.

Advertising for the meeting was minimal, with the only notice of the event included in the Salient Environment Week schedule and on a poster on the VUWSA noticeboard in the Student Union Building.

Topics for the meeting included preventing a BP disaster and the proposed motion from Environmental Officer Zachary Dorner for VUWSA to oppose all new offshore oil drilling in New Zealand.

After the meeting was cancelled, Dorner discussed student involvement in Environmental issues.

“There’s a good number of core people who do a lot of stuff, but in saying that, they do a lot. Others have good ideas but don’t do as much.”

Dorner did manage to see a positive side to the failed meeting.

“A good thing about these meetings, even if they don’t meet quorum, is that they’re a good opportunity just to talk about other issues.”

While waiting for the meeting to reach quorum, Bridie Hood (Acting Vice-President Education) also stated that despite the fact there is more contact with student representatives now, there is still minimal student interest in VUWSA meetings as a whole.

Nō ngā tau e whā kua pahure ake nei, kua tū a Peter Karena hei kaitito, kaihautū hoki o te pakipūmeka ‘This Way of Life’, e hāngai pū ki tōna oranga me te oranga o tōna whānau hoki. Me he tangata e mau ana i te mata e pupū nei i te mura o Hollywood, ā, he matatau, koi hoki ki te eke hoiho, ko Peter tēnā. Kāti rā, ka ora ai te toki nei mā te whai i nga uara o te ora me te tika, e ngaro nuitia nei i ēnei ra. Ahakoa no Ūropi te tangata nei, i whāngaitia ia ki tētahi whānau Māori, ā, kua Māori katoatia, i tua atu i tōna kiri. He toki ki te whakawhiti-kōrero ki ngā hoiho, he toki mō te rapu kai, mō te mahi hanga whare, ā, he hoa rangatira, he matua hoki.

Ahakoa ngā piki me ngā heke, e kore rawa a Peter e mate ā-moa, ā, ko tētahi tino tūāhuatanga kua pokea nei i ōna pokohiwi, ko tōna hononga kua roa nei e noho whati ana, ki te hoa rangatira o tōna whaea, e kore rawa e waihotia nei i a ia.

Ko te hoa rangatira o Peter, ko Colleen Karena (nō Ngati Maniapoto), te kaipupuri i ngā taonga tuku iho o tōna whānau. Me he hanga e rite nei ki ngā tūpuna whaea rangatira, ko Colleen tērā e whakarite nei i tōna whānau ki te mea nui o tēnei ao, anō hoki, ko tōna tūranga hei Māma tōna mahi tūturu i roto i tēnei ao. Hei ngā wāhanga whakaotinga o te pakipūmeka, ka kite tātou ko tōna tūāhuatanga noho ngū e taupokitia nei tōna manaakitanga ki ōna tamariki, ā, ka kitea ki roto i te oranga ā-tinana, ā-wairua hoki o ōna tamariki. Tokoono ngā tamariki, anō hoki, e rima tekau ngā hōiho kei te whānau nei. Kei ngā pae maunga o Ruahine, kei tētahi ākau huna e mura ai te ahikā o te whānau Karena. Ki kōnei kite ai ngā whēkau o te whānau, tā rātou hononga ki te Wao-Nui-a-Tane hei kaitiaki, me te aroha nui rawa atu i waenga i a rātou.

Ka pupū ake ngā kare ā-roto i te nui o ngā mahi a te whānau nei, pērā i tō rātou whakapau kaha kia tau te rangimarie i waenga i a Peter rāua ko tōna pāpā; te pāhuatanga o ngā hōiho; me te toronga o tōna hau kāinga te hua noa. Ka whai atu te hunga kaimātakitaki i a rātou nekehanga i tēnei ao hurihuri, i te taiao, i te ngāhere.

Claims He’s Still All About the “Good Times”

First-Year Law and Commerce student Phil Heedie shocked friends this week when he claimed to prefer drinking for the taste, rather than drinking to get drunk.

“I used to think we just drank for the good times, eh.”

Heedie’s realisation came last Wednesday, when he accidentally ordered a Tuatara Hefe, instead of his old favourite Tui, at a bar in town.

“I was like, real smashed, and couldn’t remember what animal it was, eh.”

When his beer cost twice the price and tasted “real good, eh”, Heedie knew something was up.

Heedie has since taken to purchasing boutique beers and drinking in moderation, an experience which he says has totally changed his perspective.

“I thought I, like, knew the good times, eh. But these are the real good times.”

Salient understands that Heedie has now replaced his old haunts, the Big Kumara and Temperance, with Courtenay Place’s The Malthouse.

But although Heedie still claims to be about the good times, his reformed opinions have not been received well by others.

Friends of the student are alarmed at Heedie’s rapid change in behaviour and attitude.

“Phil used to be our boy, eh. Yesterday he told me Tui was actually a bit shit. That’s not boys, eh.”

Negative comments made by Heedie on the Facebook page “Tui, Shit Yeah” have also caused problems in his circle of friends.

Heedie says that he hopes these conflicts can be resolved over a cold pint of Epic Pale Ale.

I ēnei rā, te āhua nei ko te mea nui e raru ana i a tātou ngā tamariki a Tāne ko tēnei mea e kī ana ko te “Whakamahana o te Ao”. Inaiānei ka tautoko te nuinga o ngā kaipūtaiao te whakaaro nā ngā mahi o te tangata e whakatere ana tēnei wā whakamahana, arā, te climate change. Inā noa nei, kei te āhua pukuriri a Tāwhirimātea – te atua o ngā mea huarere – me te maha, te kaha kino hoki o ngā āwhā e tau nei ki ngā pito o te ao.

E ai ki ngā kaiwhakarite, a Mike Smith rāua ko Hinekaa Mako, ko te hua o tēnei kiriata, He Ao Wera, hei whai mōhio ngā iwi me ngā hapū huri noa i a Aotearoa mō tēnei take tino nui. Hei arahi hoki i ngā rōpū me pēhea kia whakarite i o rātou hapū/whānau/iwi mō ngā hua o te ‘climate change’. Ko Hinekaa te kaikawe kōrero mō tēnei kiriata. Nāna i tuku atu ngā kōrero katoa i roto i te reo Māori, hāunga i ētahi o ngā kōrero patapātai o ētahi o ngā kaipūtaiao.

I roto i te kiriata, ka haere ia ki ngā pitopito o Aotearoa hei whakaatu i ngā mahi o ētahi hapū hei whakarite i tā rātou haukāinga mō tēnei Whakamahana. He take nui mō Ngāi Māori mēnā ka whakamahana te moana, arā, ka tere whakarewa ngā awa kōpaka, i te mea ko te nuinga o ngā haukāinga e tau tata nei ki te tai, ki ngā awa hoki. E kī ana te whakataukī: “Ko te wai te oranga o te tangata”.

Ka rongo tātou mai i ngā tangata whenua o ētahi o ngā haukāinga huri noa i te motu, me pēhea o rātou raruraru, me ngā mahi kua whakarite ētahi rohe hei whakarite mō ngā raruraru ka tae mai nā Te Whakamahana o te Ao. Ko ētahi mahi i roto i tēnei kiriata, he hīkoi atu ki Bridge Pā i te Matau a Māui, ki Parihaka, ki Te Hokianga, ki Te Taitokerau hoki. Ka whakaako hoki mai rātou i ngā raru ka pā i o tātou whanaunga i ngā motu o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa.

E kī ana ngā kaipūtaiao huarere, ka whakamahana te ao, ā, nā tēnei ka waikawā ngā moana. Nā te kawanga i tino raru mō ngā mātaitai pērā ki te kūtai. Arā, ko te hua o tēnei kiriata hei whakaatu ki ngā whānau, hapū, iwi Māori katoa kia whakarite ai o rātou hau kāinga mō tēnei take. He māmā te rere o ngā kōrero hei whakamārama i ngā take o te climate change mō tātou i Aotearoa. Ki ahau nei, he tino pai ki te mātakitaki, he rawe hoki te waiata pātōtō (rap song) i te mutunga.

He Ao Wera
Kaiwhakarite: Mike Smith rāua ko Hinekaa Mako

VUWASS broke from tradition last week when they successfully carried out a by-election with no constitutional mishaps whatsoever.

In the past VUWASS’s attempts to fill vacancies mid-year have been marred with constitutional illegalities associated with no confidence and the setting of dates. In 2009 parts of the by-election were ruled invalid by an independent arbitration panel.

However, following the release of results last week, Salient can confirm that all procedures followed were in accordance with the VUWASS constitution.
When spoken to by Salient, President Max Harding seemed pleased with the result.

“We really do try our best to keep everything above board and legal. Obviously we would prefer that the constitutional rules were always adhered to, but that’s a lot easier said than done.”

Salient understands that a number of clauses in the constitution have caused problems for VUWASS in the past. Terms such as ‘week’, ‘voting’ and even ‘VUWASS Executive’ have been a cause for confusion. A proposal to revise these more perplexing terms is currently being investigated.

VUWASS will celebrate the lawful results of their by-election at Mount Street Bar next week.

A referendum last week looks set to result in a significant change to the governing structure of the Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA). Student General Meetings (SGMs) will also now be held online.

When Critic went to print last week the results were still provisional, due to then-unresolved complaints regarding possible breaches of constitutional procedure, however, there was a clear signal for change from those who voted.

1399 people voted on the motion to reduce the size of the exec, with 72 per cent voting for the change, 22 per cent against and five percent abstaining. 1391 people voted on the motion to “supersize your say” and move SGMs online, with 87 per cent for online SGMs, ten per cent against, and only two per cent abstaining.

Tension was rife in the OUSA office as the exec gathered late Thursday afternoon to hear the results. As the results were read, OUSA President Harriet Geoghegan looked ecstatic. “I’m happy all the work we have put in won’t go to waste.”

Not everyone is enthusiastic about the outcome. There have been formal complaints lodged regarding how the election was conducted, including the wording of the referendum question, the overall advertisement of the referendum, and the impartiality of OUSA during the referendum period. One formal complaint that was leaked to Critic stated that President Harriet Geoghegan did not remain impartial, and pushed her stance on her personal Facebook page.

The complaint also alleges that exec members on polling booths encouraged students to vote “yes” on the referendum. Another major complaint concerns the period of time students were warned of the referendum, which arguably did not comply with the requisite ten working days.

Some people have claimed that the whole process was incredibly rushed.

Despite the uproar, Geoghegan contends that the election was unbiased. “We talked to lawyers, and the claims about bias were unfounded,” she says.

Tērā anō te mui o te mahi ki ngā pakihiwi o ngā māngai tauira Māori o te motu, rātou e whai i te ara pokepoke hei whai oranga ngā tauira ki ngā whare wānanga. Arā anō ngā tini take o te wā nei. Heoi, ehara i te mea he āhuatanga hou tēnei mō ēnei rōpū. Ko te ara takahi ai e rātou nō nā noa nei, he ara kōputaputa, he ara poutama ka ekea hei whakapāoho te reo o ngā tauira Māori ki te taumata o te hāpori whānui. Mā tēnei e taea ai ngā tauira te whakaputa whakaaro mō ngā āhuatanga maha ka pā ki a rātou. Ko ēnei rōpū māngai tauira he hokinga mahara ki taua whakaaro e mea ana he tikanga tō te whai mātauranga, ā, ko te ao hurihuri tētahi o aua tikanga. Atu i te pakanga mō ngā nawe pēnei i ngā pūtea taurewa me ngā tahua tauira (student allowance) kei te mura o te ahi rātou, tautohe ai mō ngā nawe e hāngai ana ki ngā take pāpori.

Ko te mahi a ētahi he whakahahani i ngā rōpū māngai, te kī kei te aro kē mātou ki te taha ‘mauī’, ki te taha ‘matau’ rānei o te kāwanatanga, otirā, ko mātou kē e noho kūpapa ana, te reo o te nui, o te rahi e hāpai ana i ngā nawe o te tokoiti.

Ko tā mātou nei mahi, he kawe reo o ngā tauira ki ngā rangatira o te Whare Mīere e mau nei te mana whakahaere o te motu. I te nuinga o te wā, ka tuku whakaaro hei hāpai i te mana taurite me te ikeiketanga mō ngā tauira katoa e whai ana ite mātauranga. Ae rā, he pai ngā rōpū mō te whakatipu tautohe, whakangungu wheako, whakanui whakaaro engari ko ngā rōpū o nāianei he ratonga matua ki te tokomaha o ngā tauira.

Ko te taupatupatu o tēnei wā e pā ana ki te pire e kīa nei ko te VSM (Voluntary Student Membership). I ahu mai tēnei i tētahi tikanga paremata, ka mutu, ko tōna tikanga he mea angitū, ehara i te mea he āhuatanga nā ngā tauira anō i whakarite. Nā tērā, ka whakapau werawera ki te whakamārama i ngā tini āhuatanga o ō mātou mahi, kaua ko te mahi i te mahi kē. Arā, kua mate mātou ki te whawhai i tēnei pire, ā, ka mate te tauira ki te whai huarahi kē hei tautoko i a ia anō.

He mea matua tēnei kohinga reo o ngā tauira e whakapāoho i ngā nawe o ngā tauira huri noa i te motu. I tēnei wā whakapaipai, whakatikatika o te wāhanga mātauranga, kua tino
whai tikanga te tauira reo tahi. Inā te pukumahi a ngā tauira ki te mau i tēnei tikanga o te reo kotahi, ko te reo e kōrerohia nei he mea e whakaputa i ōna māharahara mō ngā whakarerekētanga o te ao mātauranga. Ko tēnei te reo ka ngaro mēna ka whai hua te pire VSM.

Hei tirohanga whānui, ka taea te kī nā tēnei pire, kua whai wā tātou ki te tiro whakamuri ki ngā rā o nehe o te kāhui tauira. Ahakoa ngā whakapātaritaritanga o ngā tau kua pahure, ngā kaupapa maha e kōkirihia e te kāwanatanga, e kore te whawhai e mimiti mō ngā rōpū māngai tauira, ka ū tonu ki ngā whāinga a ngā tauira. Arā te whakatauki, ‘ko te pae tawhiti whaia kia tata, ko te pae tata whakamaua kia tina’ hei kupu tohutohu mā tātou. Kua tū māia te kāhui tauira kia whai hua te katoa o ngā tauira, ahakoa te aha, ā, me ū tonu ki te kaupapa matua.
I tēnei wā, kua āhei ngā tauira me te hāpori whānui hoki te kite i te pāinga o ngā rōpū māngai tauira. Mai i te pōwhiri tuatahi tae noa ki te whakapōtaetanga o te tauira i ngā whare wānanga, ka taea te kite he hua kei ngā rōpū nei. Mai i te whakatika kaupapa, ki te manaaki tangata, kua rongo ngā kōrero. Kua piki ngā taumata ki runga i te mahi whakatōhia e NZUSA. Ka takahi mātou i ngā huarahi o te Kāwanatanga, tuku ai i ngā whakaaro ā-waha me ngā whakaaro ā-tuhi nei, ka mutu, kua whakaputa ki te hāpori, kia toitū ngā rōpū tauira hei taura e honohono nei i ngā whare wānanga.

E pupū ake ana, e pupū ake ana ngā kare ā-roto inā kitea ai te kōraha o Papatūānuku ki te hau kāinga. Kei te pūtake o te maunga tītōhea o Taranaki tērā. Ko Ngāti Tamaahuroa, ko Titahi ērā, kei te rohe o Ngāruahine, Ko Oeo te manga, me te pā i waihotia ai e ngā mātua tūpuna.

E hia kē ngā rau tau, ngā ngahuru tau kua moremore te whenua, kua takahia rawatia e te kōpae tāngata me āna nekenekehanga, e te kāhui kau, me āna nukunukuhanga? He painga kua puta? Mō ētehi – he whenua, he kai, he pūtea, he oranga.

Kua pēhea koe e te ūkaipō, Papatuputupuwhenua? Kua pēhea koe Ranginui – ōu roimata aroha anahe e uhina ana tō whaiāīpō, i te hurahanga o tōna kākahu. Kua marara ngā uri whakatipu, ngā mokopuna ki te ao. E kawea ana rātou e nga hau pihi, e nga hau marangai anō nei he kākano…he kākano, he purapura, he tupu i whakarerea atu ai i te kāinga…

Tōtara, i tanumia koe i hea?
Kua whakatakotohia koe ki hea, Mānuka? Kua pau rawa koe i a Mahuika?
Tō ai koe i hea, ngāuteute? Me koe, Moemoe?
Nō wai te tatua i haria atu ai koe, kūmara?

Nei rā te mihi ki a koe Ahumairangi, ki a koutou ko ngā maunga whakahī, ko ngā toka tū tapu rā, ko ngā pae tū mātotorutanga tangata mai, huri noa, huri noa. Tū tonu rā koutou hei maru, hei tauranga mō ngā kākano, mō ngā uri o ngā mātā waka.

Areare te taringa, wherawhera te ngākau ki te waimanawa ā te kāhui kahika o ngā rā ki tua. Ka kapohia ngā nui e iri ana ki te pātaka o te kupu, kei ngā whare kōrero o te motu. Ko Tāne Whakapiripiri tērā. ko Te Tumu Herenga Waka tērā. Ko Tipuahororangi, ko Tipuahoronuku ērā. Ko te whare o Rongo hoki tērā. Kua rongo i te kōingo kia hoki whakateuru, ki te whenua tupuna, ki te whenua tupu.

Kua kotahi me te haurua tau i te whakatōtanga o Ngā Purapura, arā, o te Kaupapa Taiao ki te marae o Oeo. He akoranga, he māramatanga, he hua kua puta.

Ka mihia ngā pahake, ngā Tarati me ngā whānau o Oeo e tautoko ana i te kaupapa. Ka riro ma ngā pou tūturu o Ngā Purapura, mā ngā ringaringa me ngā waewae, te mahi mutunga kore e mahi! Kia pua, kia hua he oranga mō te iti, te rahi.

Nā Hugh Cargill rāua ko Sally Hīkaka ngā whakaahua nei i hopu.

Mehemea e mōhiotia ana koe ki te whanga o Ōwhiro kei reira te rori matua o 72 Happy Valley ngā whare o Mokai Kainga me ngā māra hapori o Ōwhiro.

Ko Mokai Kainga tētahi Ratonga Hauora Māori e kaha ana ki te whakatō i ngā tikanga o te whakawhanaungatanga, te hauora, te mātauranga, te rapu mahi mā te ‘Māori, mō te Māori’ i te hapori o Ōwhiro me Te Whanganui-ā-Tara.

I te pikinga o ngā utu o te kai mā ngā whānau, me te kaha pēhitanga i runga i ngā whānau ki te utu i o rātou pire hei oranga mō rātou, i tīmatahia tēnei kaupapa o ngā māra kai mō te hāpori o Ōwhiro e Mokai Kainga. Otirā, i pau katoa ngā ngakinga māra i Brooklyn, ka whakaarohia e Robert Te Whare, te kaiwhakahaere o Mokai Kainga, ki te whakamahi i ngā whenua i muri i ōna whare hei wāhi āhuru, hei whakatō kai mā te hapori.

Ono marama ki muri i tīmata te whakapai o ngā whenua i muri i ngā whare o Mokai Kainga hei whakarite i ētahi māra. I ngā wā o mua ko ēnei whenua katoa he kōawa.

Ki te haere koe ki reira ināianei he rahi ngā māra, he hōpua kei reira kī ana i te tuna me te wātakirihi, he rakiraki kei reira mō ngā tamariki hei whāngai hoki.

Nō reira ki te pīrangi koe, tō whānau me ōu hoa ki te whakatō kai, mahi māra rānei, haramai ki te tono i tētahi māra māu.

Ka haramai ngā whānau mai Strathmore rānō ki te whakatipu kai, arā noa atu ngā momo tāngata ka haramai ki te whakatipu kai mō a rātou whānau.

Ko te nuinga o ngā kai e whakatipu ana ki ngā māra nei, he mea koha mai i ngā whānau, arā, he ‘heirloom’ katoa ngā kākano. Tekau mā rua ngā momo rīwai e whakatipu ana ki reira. E rima o ērā he rīwai Māori. He puna kei reira mō ngā whānau, he rongoā Māori anō hoki o reira.

I tēnei tau i tohatoha katoa ngā kai mai i ngā māra ki ngā whānau katoa o te hāpori o Ōwhiro, puta noa atu ki Porirua, ki Te Awakairangi. Otirā, e mahi tahi ana a Mokai Kainga me te Ara Poutama o Aotearoa ki te āwhina i ngā tāngata e raru ana i te ture ki te mahi i roto i ngā māra. Arā, ka taea hoki rātou ki te whakahoki ki ngā kāinga i whakatōhia e rātou i ngā māra nei.

He rahi ngā painga kua puta i ēnei māra, ahakoa kotahi tau noa iho ēnei māra e tipu ana. Ko te tūmanako ka muia ēnei māra e ngā ringa raupā, ngā ringa whānau hei ngā tau e heke mai nei.

Anei ētahi tohutohu mai i ētahi o ngā kaingaki māra o ngā māra nei:
• Kaua e haere ki te māra, ki te mate wahine koe
• Kaua e patero (ka aroha hoki ki ngā huanga kai!)
• Kaua e whakatō kai mēnā kei te riri koe
• Kuhu ana koe ki te māra i tō wā tuatahi, karakia ki a koe anō.

Mēnā kei te hiahia koe i tētahi ngakinga māra, waea atu ki a Mokai Kainga: (04) 383 4922.

Finding consistent information about the continuation of Student Job Search (SJS) on campus seems to be as difficult as finding a decent part-time job in Wellington.

As reported in Salient’s Eye on Exec column two weeks ago, VUWSA President Max Hardy said at the 9 June exec meeting that SJS is planning to relocate its call centre to the Wairarapa. Hardy also said Victoria students could be left without an SJS office on campus.

At the exec meeting, Hardy said VUWSA would consider providing some space for SJS to continue operating a couple of computers and a staff member.

However, when Salient contacted SJS Marketing and Communications Manager Lorna McConnon, she contradicted Hardy’s statement at the June exec meeting.

“There has been no mention nor is there any truth to SJS offices moving to Wairarapa,” McConnon said on behalf of SJS CEO Paul Kennedy.

The SJS office, located at the bottom of Mount Street, provides a drop-in service for students to set up accounts and receive job information. It also houses the National Call Centre for the organisation.

McConnon says that if SJS does move from campus it will only be the call centre which does so—the face-to-face service will remain.

She admits that due to a decrease in government funding, SJS is looking at new ways to remain efficient.

“Operating from regional areas can be cheaper.”

McConnon is also unable to fully explain where the rumour of a Wairarapa office came from.

“Nothing has been decided… especially not on locations.”

McConnon says that any decision to move SJS from campus “will be discussed with the students’ association.”

SJS has recently discontinued some face-to-face services. Their office based at Massey University’s Albany campus has been closed in favour of a virtual office. This change was only made after research was conducted showing that very few students actually used the drop-in service.

A survey conducted by Salient showed that some Victoria students feel the same about the drop-in service.

“Doing everything online is so much easier,” says Laura, 19. “I don’t think I’ve ever been into the office.”

Hardy was unavailable for comment before Salient went to print.

Kua roa nei tātou ngā iwi Māori e whawhai ana mō te rangatiratanga o te whenua. E hia kē mai nei ngā whawhai kua tau ki mua i te aroaro o ngā Kooti. E hia kē ngā hīkoi mautohe i tīmata mai i ngā moka o te motu. Kua rangona ngā hāmama, ngā tangi mō tēnei mea te whenua. Ka titi mai te urupounamu he aha ngā hua i puta? Hei tā ētahi e whai take ana te whakaaro, kāore ngā hua i puta nō te mea kua tangohia te nuinga o ngā whenua e te ringa Kāwana. Mō te takutai moana ka toko ake te pātai i hanga mai ēnei ture hei haukoti i te ao Māori, hei karo kē rānei i te ao Pākehā? He ture tēnei kia whawhai tonu ngā Māori mō ngā kongakonga noa iho? Tuatahi mai me whakamahuki i ngā ture kia mōhio tātou ki ngā aronga o ēnei pātai. Mā tērā ka kitea he aha ngā take, he aha hoki ngā hiahia, ngā wawata o tēnā, o tēnā.

Rangatiratanga

Mai rānō ka noho ngā iwi Māori ki runga i te whenua. Nō runga i ngā tikanga Māori i whakapau ai ngā rauemi. Koinei te whakamāramatanga o tēnei mea te ‘rangatiratanga’: kia noho ko ngā iwi Māori hei ‘rangatira’ ki runga i te whenua. He tikanga whakahaere rauemi e puritia e te iwi, he mana whakahaere tāngata e puritia e te iwi. Kāore i tua atu i te mana kua tukuna ki taua rangatira e tōnā iwi. Nō te iwi e rangatira ai te rangatira. Pērā i te whakataukī ‘e kore te ure e tū ki te kore ngā raho’. I te taenga mai o te Pākehā kua mahia tēnei kupu ki roto i te Tiriti o Waitangi. I whakamahia tēnei kupu ‘rangatiratanga’ hei kawenga whakaaro ki roto i te horopaki o te Tiriti. Engari he aha te whakamāramatanga o ngā kupu ‘tino rangatiratanga’ i Waitangi i te tau 1840?

“Ko te Kuini o Ingarani ka wakarite ka wakaae ki nga Rangatira ki nga hapu—ki nga tangata katoa o Nu Tirani te tino rangatiratanga o ratou wenua o ratou kainga me o ratou taonga katoa. Otiia ko nga Rangatira o te Wakaminenga me nga Rangatira katoa atu ka tuku ki te Kuini…”

Ko te whakamāramatanga o te taha Pākehā kei raro nei:

“Her Majesty the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand, and to the respective families and individuals thereof, the full, exclusive and undisturbed possession of their Lands and Estates, Forests, Fisheries, and other properties which they may collectively or individually possess, so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession.”

He aha ētahi atu horopaki e rangona ana tēnei kupu ‘rangatiratanga’? E tika ana kua mahia tēnei kupu kia tukuna he mana o te whenua ki te tangata. I tētahi tiriti hokohoko o Te Rarawa kua tuku atu te ‘mana’ me te ‘rangatiratanga’ o te whenua ki tētahi atu.

“kua oti te tuku e matou e Nopera Pana Kareao ma kia Reiha Teira tetahi wahi wenua oti tonu atu me nga rakau katoa me nga aha aha noa me nga aha noa katoa e tupu ana i taua wenua me nga mea katoa o raro o taua wenua me te rangatiratanga me te mana i runga i taua wenua (Te Mātāhauariki, 2007).”

Ka kitea i runga nei ka taea te tuku i te mana me te rangatiratanga ki tētahi atu. Engari he rerekē te tauira ki runga i te Tiriti. Ki roto i te tauira ki runga kua tukuna te ‘mana’ me te ‘rangatiratanga’ ki raro i ngā tikanga Māori. Heoi, kia riro mā te tikanga Māori e whakamārama i te ‘mana’ me te ‘rangatiratanga’ kua tukuna atu, hāunga atu tērā o te ture Pākehā.

Te Ture Takutai Moana

I te tau 2004, i kōkiri te Pāti Reipa kia whakawhiwhi i te ture Takutai Moana. I runga i te mataku tēnei ture i kawea. Ka whakanohoia te takutai moana katoa ki raro i te mana o te Karauna. Ka riro mā ngā iwi e tonotono ki te Kōti kia whakamātauria nō rātou tētahi wāhanga o te takutai moana. Taumaha hārukiruki ngā pīkaunga ki te hiahia te iwi ki te haere ki te Kōti. Me whakaatu ki te Kōti nō 1840 i pupuri ki te iwi te ahi kā o taua takutai moana. Mēnā kāore e taea ka hinga te kēhi. Ahakoa te rarahi o ngā moni i pau i ngā roia, i ngā kairangahau, e kore te rangatiratanga o tērā whenua e hokia ki te iwi. Ko te whakatau kē o te Kōti he ‘customary rights order’ he ‘territorial rights order’ rānei. He timotimo noa iho tēnei i tērā i mau i ngā mātua tīpuna i mua. I te whakawhiwhinga o tēnei ture ka puta te Pāti Māori.

Te whakakorehanga o te ture 2004

I ngā tau ka tohe te Pāti Māori ki te Pāti Natinara kia tīnihia tēnei ture. Tekau mā waru ngā marama i tautohetohe rāua kia puta he whakatau whakamutunga. E rima ngā peka e kawe ana i te matū o tēnei whakakorehanga:

1. Ka whakakorengia te ture o 2004;
2. E kore te takutai moana e pupuri ki tētahi tangata ake, ka noho mō te tini ngerongero;
3. Mēnā e pupuri tonu ana te iwi i te mana whenua o tētahi wāhanga o te takutai moana, mā ngā Kōti te tono e whakatau;
4. I ētahi wā ka taea e te iwi te whakakore i ngā mahi o ngā pūtahi hokohoko ki runga i te takutai moana;
5. Ka noho tūmatawhānui te takutai moana. Ka noho te whenua hei ekeeke mā te tini ngiangia ahakoa waewae tapu, ahakoa waewae pokanoa.

I te karenga o te wai, he hua ka puta i tēnei ture. Engari ki te ruku tātou ki raro i te kahu o te wai, ka kitea he raru kei te haere. Pērā i te whakataukī he kokonga whare ka kitea, he kokonga ngākau e kore e kitea. Tuatahi atu, e mate ana tātou i te whakaaro nō te Karauna te mana whakatau he aha te aha. Nō rātou kē te mana nekeneke i a tātou. I noho ngā iwi Māori me tō rātou mana whenua ki Aotearoa. Koirā i tuhia ki te ‘Declaration of Independence’ i te tau 1835. Tuarua nei, mēnā kei a tātou te ‘rangatiratanga’ o ngā whenua ki mua i te taenga mai o tauiwi i konei, he aha te take o te tononga ki te Kōti? Pērā nei tātou i te keretao. Kua mau ngā aho i te ringa o te Kāwana, tarapekepeke ana, whawhai ana. E noho tautauāmoa tātou ki ngā maramara o te whenua.

Ngā kōrero hei arahī i a tātou

I te tau 1992 i puta mai he kōrero o te Taraipiunara o Waitangi hei whakaaro ake mā tātou:

“It is said to be based on tikanga Māori, or Māori law, in that traditionally the tribes had authority over the seas adjoining their land, an opinion encapsulated in the recent expression, ‘mana-whenua, mana-moana’. We would hesitate to use ‘tikanga Maori’ or ‘mana moana’ to describe the scheme however, for it is arguable that traditionally the mana, or authority, did not extend far from the shoreline, and the central feature of this scheme is the value given to the distant fisheries of modern times. The authority went only as far as it could in practice be enforced, it could be said, and customarily, the open seas were open. The equation does underline however, that there are differences in the extent of traditional resource ownership amongst the various iwi” The Fisheries Settlement Report Wai 307, Waitangi Tribunal, Wellington, 1992, cited in Te Mātāpunenga, 2007.

Kei roto i tēnei pūrongo te titiro o te Māori ki tōna whenua. Mai i te oneone tae atu ki te moana, nō te mana o te iwi te whenua. Nō te whenua e ora ai te iwi. Nō te iwi e mana ai te rangatira. Koirā te rangatiratanga i mau nei i ngā Māori o mua. Te āhua nei kua ngaro tērā wawata ki te pō kia noho ngerengere.

He hua ka puta?

Ko tētahi aronga o tēnei pātai kāore he paku hua. Kua riro i te Karauna te mana whakahaere i ēnei momo take. Engari e ai ki te titiro o te Māori ko ngā mokopuna te puanani o ngā whakatewhatewha a ngā mātua tīpuna. Ka whakatōkia he kākano ki te whenua, ka pārekereke, ka tipu, ka rea. Ki te whakaako tātou i ngā tamariki kia mahara i ēnei tirohanga, ka mau tonu. Ehara i te mea e noho pūmau ngā ture a te Pākehā mō ake tonu atu. Pēnei i te moana e ākina ā tai. I tōna wā ka eke, i tōna wā ka hinga. Kawe kau tātou kia mau ki ngā tirohanga, i ngā wawata o mua, ka whawhai tonu atu mō te rangatiratanga o nāianei.

I te wāhanga tuarua o te Tiriti o Waitangi, i te mea Pākehā me te mea Māori, kei ngā tāngata Māori te tino rangatiratanga o ngā whenua, o ngā kāinga me ngā taonga katoa o Aotearoa, nō reira ko tēnei te mana, me kī te tūranga rangatira o te kerēme. Ahakoa he iti te kupu nei, he nunui te tikanga.

Ki ngā kaitono, e whā ngā take o tēnei kerēme e takotohia nei ki raro:
• Kua hinga te Karauna i tō rātou mahi ki te whakamana i te tino rangatiratanga me te kaitiakitanga o ngā kararehe, ngā rākau, ēnei momo mea taketake ki Aotearoa me te mātauranga Māori.
• Kua hinga te Karauna ki te tiaki i ngā taonga Māori
• Kua takahi te Karauna i te tino rangatiratanga me te kaitiakitanga o te Māori ki tō rātou mahi whakarite kaupapa, whakahaere ture
• Kua whati te Karauna i te Tiriti o Waitangi ki tō rātou herenga ki ngā kaupapa o te ao e pā ana ki ngā taonga taketake o Aotearoa.

Tokoono ngā iwi o te komiti whakarite engari kua kitea he take tēnei e hono ana ki te iwi Māori whānui. Kāore e kore, he nunui tēnei kaupapa. Hei whakangāwari i te kerēme, kua whakarōpū te kaiwhakawā i ngā take kia whā.

1 – Ngā Take Mātauranga Māori: E pā ana ki te pupuritanga me te tiakitanga o te mātauranga mō ngā toi, ngā whakairo, te hītori, ngā kōrero-ā-waha, ngā waiata, te reo me ngā rongoā Māori.

2 – Ngā Take Whakatinana Mātauranga Māori: Kua pāngia e ngā ture kāore e tiaki ana i ngā taonga nō te Māori, kāore hoki e parepare i ngā takatakahi a ngā taonga Māori pērā i ngā whakairo me ngā mokomokai

3 – Ngā Take Mātauranga Māori me te Whakatinana Mātauranga Māori: E takahia ana e ngā ture e pā ana ki te mātauranga me ngā herenga ki ngā ture o te ao. Kei konei ngā take o te mana ki te whakahaere i ngā mea hou, te rēhitatanga o ngā tohutohu mahi ai i ngā kupu me ngā tohu māori pērā i ngā tā moko whakapapa

4 – Ngā Take o te Taiao me ngā Rauemi – Ko ngā raru e pā ana ki ngā kaupapa e mahi ai i te taiao me ngā rauemi, me kī ngā rākau, ngā kararehe te mea te mea. Me whai whakaaro ngā iwi mō tēnei mea, te hanganga ora o ngā mea taketake o te motu.

Koirā ngā kupu taumaha o tēnei take, kua kitea i te iwi Māori te hōhonutanga me te whakaharatanga. Ko te matū o te kōrero, me kī taurangi te Kāwanatanga i te tino rangatiratanga o ngā iwi Māori ki ngā kararehe, ngā manu, ngā otaota taketake o Aotearoa, te honongo ki aua mea, me te mātauranga. He raru tēnei o te ao whānui me ngā iwi taketake.

Te haerenga a te kerēme

I te tau 1998 me ngā tau e toru i whai ake, ka tukuna ngā kōrero a ngā kaitono hei whakatīmata i te mahi. I te tau 2006 i kawea te tono ki te Te Kotahitanga o te Ao (United Nations) kia whai tautoko mō te haerenga o te kerēme. Ko te manako, ka whakamana te Kāwanatanga i te tukanga kia tere mai te whakamutunga o te mahi. I te tau 2007, i aukati ngā tukunga ki te Taraipiunara katahi ka rumaki te Taraipiunara ki te tuhi rīpoata engari kāore anō kia puta. Ā tōna wā, ka hoatu te rīpoata ki te Kāwanatanga, mā te Kāwanatanga e whakatinana. Ehara i te mea ko tēnei te mutunga o te mahi, he whakatō kākano kē.

Kua roa te wā rātou ngā kaitono e ngana ana. Kua tinakuhia te haerenga e te Karauna me ētahi kamupene e kore e pīrangi kia tutuki te kerēme. Waihoki, kua mate te nuinga o ngā kaitono, mā te whānau e hari.

Nō reira, kia mataara, kia hiwa rā. Ki tā te whakataukī “Te umanga nui a neherā ko te whawhai”, kia pēnei tō tātou āhua i te whaitanga o ngā taonga Māori, o tō tātou tino rangatiratanga.

E ai ki te māramataka tūturu a ētahi iwi Māori, ka tīmata te mātahi o te tau i te marama hou me te eanga o Matariki i te ata hāpara. He kāhui whetū a Matariki. E mōhiotia whānuitia ana e ngā iwi maha o te ao. Ahakoa ngā ingoa rerekē ki tā ia iwi, he ōrite te āhua o ngā whetū e whitu. Mai i Aotearoa ka kitea tēnei whānau whetū i te mutunga o te marama o Haratua, i te tīmatanga o te marama o Pipiri rānei. He kōrero ake tā ia iwi e pā ana ki a Matariki. Ki ētahi ka whakanuia a Matariki i tōna putanga, ki ētahi atu ka tatari kia hua te marama, atu anō ka tatari kia kōwhiti te marama hou.

I ngā wā o ukiuki, ka tohutohu a Matariki i te wā pai o te whakatō kai. Inā, ka mārama te āhua o ngā whetū, ka mōhio he mōmona ngā kai, nā ka whakatō kai ngā tūpuna i te marama o Mahuru. Engari, ki te rehurehu, nohopiri ngā whetū he tohu tērā o te mātao o te wā nā ka whakatō kai i te marama o Whiringa-ā-nuku. Kua kitea, he tino hirahira tēnei kāhui whetū ki ngā tūpuna. Ehara i te mea ka hoko kai i ngā toa, e hika e, ko tēnei te matatau o rātou ki tō rātou ao. He oranga te kai, he oranga te mōhiotanga. He whakatūpato anō ki te tangata, hei whakataukī ake te whakaaro, “Whatungarongaro te tangata, toitū te whenua”, ka tika me hoki anō ō tātou whakaaro ki a Papatūānuku, ki a Tangaroa, ki a Tāne me ō rātou tamariki ngā hua o te whenua, o te moana, o te ngahere hoki, me kī te oranga o te tangata.

He wā hoki o te hauhake, arā, he maha te kai. He nui ngā whakataukī hoki mō tēnei wā, “Matariki ahunga nui”, ko tēnei te kōrero o taua mea te rahi o te kai. “Ka kitea a Matariki, kua maoka te hinu”, ko te whakamāramatanga o tēnei he pānga anō ki te kaupapa kai. Ki tā Grove rāua ko Mead, he wā pai te wā o Matariki ki te mahi manu, mahi kiore hoki arā he maha ngā huahua. Nā whai anō, ka whakanuia a Matariki.

I muri i te taenga mai o te ao ki Aotearoa, kua tata mate te wā o Matariki. I te ngahuru tau kua pahure, e rongonui haere ana a Matariki. Kua rongohia te wā i ngā kāinga maha o te motu, ahakoa Pākehā, ahakoa Māori. Atu i ngā kaimahi ahuone, kāore tātou e whakaaro ki te rerekētanga motukanga o te wā engari ka mōhiotia whānuitia te kupu Matariki me tōna tūranga hei tīmatanga o te tau hou Māori. Ko tētahi atu āhua o te wā Matariki, ko ngā pākau. Ko te whakaaro o tēnei, ka rere atu te pākau ki te rangi, noho ai ki ngā whetū e pīata mai hei ārahi i a mātou o te whenua.

Nō reira whānau he whakaaro tēnei ki a rātou kua ngaro. Me ngā pātai, ka pēhea koe e whakanui i tēnei mahi rawe a ngā tūpuna? Ināhea koe i titiro whakarunga ai ki ngā whetū o te rangi? Ko te whakaaro ka mōhio te katoa i tēnei whakamārama ‘te tau hou o te Māori’ engari he aha te ngako o te kōrero. Kei ngā kupu whakataukī te whakaaro whakamutunga, ‘Hoki ki tōu maunga kia horoia e ngā hau a Tāwhirimātea’, e hoki ki tōu whānau, ki tōu hapū, ki tōu whare wānanga ki te whakatō i te kākano o te mātauranga ki tōu hinengaro kia maumahara, he purapura koe i ruia mai i Rangiātea.

Extending the 90-day trial period to all employers was one of many proposed changes to the Employment Relations Act announced by Prime Minister John Key at the recent National Party Conference.

The proposed changes, which have received both criticism and support since their introduction just over a week ago, also include limiting union access to workplaces and allowing the Employment Relations Authority to throw out “frivolous or vexatious” cases early in the process.

Critics of the proposals include a number of trade unions and the Labour Party, who say they will repeal any changes to the act if returned to power. The 90-day trial period previously only applied to businesses with under 20 employees. The National Government argue that by extending this to all workplaces, employers will be more likely to take on new employees.

However, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (CTU) claims that young people have already, and will continue to suffer under the scheme.

In a recent press release, CTU pointed to Department of Labour statistics that reportedly confirmed that large numbers of young people were being fired without cause within the 90-day trial period.

“…The report appears to confirm the scheme is having severe impacts on working people.”

Others argue that young people are among those who will benefit most from the proposed changes.

In a statement to Salient, Student Job Search (SJS) said that the changes would increase the opportunities available for students.

“It reduces the perceived risk by employers of hiring staff that may not have a proven work experience track record (which is often the case for students who are relatively new to the world of work).

“It also provides an opportunity for students to get their foot in the door with large organisations who may offer internships or graduate positions,” says Lorna McConnon, SJS Marketing and Communications Manager.

In the past week, a Wellington-based group have held a protest and meeting opposing the proposed changes.

A bill amending the Employment Relations Act is being drafted for introduction later this year.

Momo kai

Kūmara—600 kerēme, kua waruhia,tapahia, ngakungakutia
Rīwai—4 rahi tauwai (medium), waruhia, tapahia, ngakungakutia
Paukena—250 kerēme, waruhia, tapahia, ngakungakutia
Pēkene—4 poroangi, tapahia, ngakungakutia
Aniani—1 rahi tauwai, tapahia, ngakungakutia
Tōmato—2 rahi tauwai, taphia, ngakungakutia
Titiwai—1 peka, horoia, tapahia, ngakungakutia
Hua manu—3, kōhua mārōtia, whakangakungakutia
Hinu Oriwa (Pata rānei)—1 koko rahi
Pepa kaene—1 koko rahi
Tumeriki ngakungaku—1 koko rahi
Tote—1 koko rahi
Pepa—ki tōna rekanga
Waiū mōmona—600 miririta
Waiū—250 miririta
Tīhi—pārekareka, ngakungakutia
Paraoa ngakungaku—hei pūehuehu uhi kapipai te tīiti

Ngā Tohutohu

1. Whamahanatia te umu ki te 180 orau. Pania te kumete umu ki te pata
2. Wai-koropupūtia ngā kūmara, rīwai me te paukena kia weherua te maoa.
3. Ringitia atu te nuinga o te wai me te āpiti poro pata ki roto, ka raua atu ki te kumetū umu ka waiho ki tahakī.
4. Whakaweratia he hinu, pata rānei ki roto kōhua, ka āpiti ngā aniani kia tata māoa, ka apiti hoki i ngā kīnaki (seasong) me te pēkene ka whakaoti te tunu.
5. Huia atu te waiū, te huamanu me te tōmato ki roto i te huinga pēkene kua tata maoa ka raua atu nga kāputi tata māoa me te kōrori ngāwari katoatia.
6. Māturuturu atu te tīhi ngakungaku me te rū kōangiangi atui te paraoa ngākungaku ki runga atu o te tīhi kua ngakungaku.
7. Tunua i roto umu mo te 35–50 meneti, ā kia ngāwari pai ngā hua whenua.
8. Māu anō e mea ki raro i te rinowera kia tunua parauritia te tīhi o runga.
www.icook.co.nz/pages/maori/Kumara_Bake_Maori.htm

He Kūmara Roroi
(Kūmara Pudding)

Ngā Whakaritenga:

Whakaritenga ngā mea katoa
Horoia ngā ringaringa
Ngā tautapu:
• he naihi koi
• he paepae tunu papaku
• he taputapu kuoro
• he omu
Ngā Kai
6 ngā kumara āhua rahi
1/2 kapu huka (kei a koe te tukunga)
he pata, he inu ranei (kai iti nei) he pani i te paepae tunu

Ngā Tohutohu

Whakamahanatia te omu kia 180ºC te pāmahana.
kuhuna komohia te pae omu ki roto o te omu i te tuatahi
Pania te paepae tunu ki te pata, kite hinu rānei
Āta horoia ngā kumara ki te wai
Kuorotia he “roroi”
Whakatakotoria te roroi nei ki te paepae tunu.
Uwhiuwia te huka ki runga ake
Tapahia te kūmara kotahi e toe ana
Horaina ngā tapahanga kūmara ki runga ake, te roroi mā e tunua ana.
Tunua i toto i te umu mō te 1 haora.
Kua rite ki te kai. Whakamātauria te waipupura, te kirimi rānei hei kinaki. Kia mātao te roroi, ka taea anō te tapahi, ka pani kite pata me te tiamu.
www.icook.co.nz/pages/maori/He%20Kumara%20roroi_maori.htm

Kānga Piro
(Fermented Corn)

Ngā Kīnaki

Kānga mā (waruhia)

Ngā Tohutohu

Purua te kanga mā ki roto i tetahi pēke parāoa puehu, ā, purua ki roto i te wai mā e rere ana, ki roto i tētahi taramu rānei (ki te mahi mā roto taramu, me huri te wai ia rā).

Waiho mō ngā marama e rua ki roto i te wai. Ki te ngāwari te kānga, tēnā, kua rite. Tango kia rua ngā kapu kānga, horoia, ā, tūpenupenutia.

Purua kia ono ngā kapu wai e koropupū ana ki roto i tētahi hōpane, ā, tāpiri atu te kānga tūpenupenu, kōrarihia ētahi wā.

Waiho kia koropupū iti noa i runga i te wera ngāwari mō te kotahi hāora.

Whakaratongia ki te kirīmi me te huka. Kia maha te huka.

He Hupa Pipi
(Pipi Soup)

Ngā Kīnaki

Kotahi te kapu pipi
Hāwhe tīpune natimeke
Kotahi te aniani kua tapatapahia
E rua ngā kapu wai
E rua ngā pune rahi o te pāhiri
Kotahi te pune rahi o te pata
Tote me te pepa, kia reka
E rua ngā pune rahi o te puehu kānga

Ngā Tohutohu

Mōtetehia ngā pipi, raua atu ki roto i tētahi hōpane me te wai, aniani me te pāhiri. Waiho mō te 30 miniti kia koropupū iti noa.

Tātarihia, raua atu ki rō, whakahanumi [mix] rānei, kātahi whakahokia ki te hōpane.

Kōrarihia kia rua ngā pune rahi miraka me te puehu kānga, kātahi tāpiri ki ngā pipi natimeke hoki, ā, kōrarihia ētahi wā kia koropupū.

Tāpiri te tote me te pepa kia reka.

Tango, whakarato me te rewana, parāoa parai ranei.

Kirīmi Pāua
(Creamed Paua)

Ngā Kīnaki

E rua ngā pune rahi o te parāoa puehu
E rua ngā pune rahi o te pata
Kotahi te kapu miraka
Te tote me te pepa
Kotahi te aniani
500 karamu o te pāua
Hāwhe kapu o te kirīmi

Ngā Tohutohu

Hei mahi i te kīnaki, rewahia te pata, kātahi ka tāpiri atu te parāoa puehu. Tāpiri atu te miraka, ā, ka kōrarihia i runga i te wera ngāwari kia kukū. Tāpirihia te tote me te pepa.

Kia rahirahi te tapahi o tētahi aniani, ā, tāpiri atu ki te kīnaki. Hipa atu te 10 miniti, tāpiri kia 500 karamu o te pāua, kōrarihia.

Tāpiri atu he hāwhe kapu o te kirīmi, waiho kia koropupū, kātahi tangohia mai te werawera. Taupokia, waiho kia tunu te pāua.

Ki te hiahia koe, tāpiri atu kotahi te tīpune o te puehu kare ki te parāoa puehu i roto i te kīnaki mō te pūkara.

Ka whāngai tēnei kai kia whā nga tangata (kia rua ngā Māori e mate kai ana rānei).

Kai Kōhua
(Boil Up)

Iwi Poaka Kōhuatia
Momo Kai

1. Iwi Poaka—3-4 kiro kereme (kk) (tiehutia ki te wai mātao)
2. 8-12—Rīwai, rahi haurua, waruhia, horoia, tapahia hauruatia, whakaritea kia 2-4 poro rīwai mō ia tangara.
3. Kūmara—4 kūmara rahi haurua. Waruhia, horoia, tapahia hauwhātia.
4. Wairikiriki, Pūhā rānei—kōurutia ki te wai.

Ngā Tohutohu

Whakaritea te Wairikiriki, te Pūhā rānei, (ā, tētehi atu rau kākāriki rānei) 30 meneti pea i mua tata o te maoatanga o ngā iwi poaka, kia mou tonu ai te matamatanga o ngā rau. Me whai ipu rahi tonu he whāngai i te whānau toko ono. Kā maoa te wairikiriki me te pūhā, e hekenui tonu ana tōna nui.

• Wairikiriki—Tapahia atu ngā peka raro me te ata horoi i te toenga o ngā rau, ka uhi, ka waiho ki tahaki
• Pūhā—Tapahia atu ngā ūpoko o ngā pūhā, ngā putiputi me ngā peka raro. Āta kōurutia ki te wai me te whakahou i te wai, ka kōuru ano. Ka pērātia ano mo te 2-3 wā. Uhia ki te tauira mākū ka waiho ki tahaki

1. Raua atu ngā iwi poaka kua kōurutia ki te wai ki tētehi kōhua nui, ka whakakī ki te wai ki runga ake o ngā kōiwi. Tunua kia koropupū ka waiho kia mirumiru mai i te weranga ngāwari mo te 2 ki te 2-1/2 hāora, me te whakakī tonu ki te waiwera ki runga ake i ngā kōiwi i te wā e tunu ana.
2. Raua atu ngā rīwai me ngā kūmara ki te kōhua kua tata maoa ngā iwi poaka me te whakapiki ngāwari i te wera. Kia tūpato, kia noho tonu te wai i runga ake o ngā hua whenua. Tunua mo te 20 ki te 30 meneti, ā, ka tango ake i te wā e āhua matamata tonu ana ngā hua whenua.
3. Raua atu te wairikiriki ki ngā iwi me ngā huawhenua. Mētia atu ki runga i ngā kūmara me ngā rīwai me te whakatūpato e kōuru tonu ana i te wai. Kia ngāwari te tunu mo te 15 meneti, ka raua atu ngā poro parāoa, a, tametame rānei, kā waiho noa iho kia tunu. Kaua e kōroria, ā he tikanga ano tēnei (arā te rū tote atu ki tōna rekanga, ā he apiti kīnakinaki i te wā e tohatia ana āra ki runga i te wairikiriki) kā tunu kia ngāwari.
4. Tātaritia ake te wai ka toha me te parāoa Māori i te maoatanga o te wairikirirki, te poro parāoa, te tametame rānei, kua āta maoa ā roto mai.
www.icook.co.nz/pages/maori/Rarangi_Tuna_Kai-boil-up.htm

I te tīmatanga o tēnei marama ka huraina e Te Whare Wānanga o te Upoko o te Ika wētahi pukapuka e aro ana ki ngā kaupapa o te ao Māori me ngā āhuatanga o Te Moana-nui-ā-Kiwa hoki. Koinei te ‘Māori and Pasifika Collection’. Kei ‘Te Pātaka Kōrero’, arā, ko te Whare Pukapuka Matua ki te maunga Ahumairangi, wēnei pukapuka. E noho ana wēnei taonga, wēnei rauemi i roto i te wāhi hou mō ngā tauira Māori tauira Pasifika hoki.

Kua tapaina tēnei wāhi ‘Te Taratara-ā-Kae’, i ahu mai tēnei ingoa mai i ngā kōrero o Tinirau rāua ko Tutunui, he pakiwaitara e hono ana ki te Māori tātou ko ngā whānaunga o te Moana-nui-ā-Kiwa. Waihoki, ko te ingoa he kupu mō te whakairo tawhito kei ngā pātaka o nehe.

He wāhi tēnei e rāhiri, e raupi ake nei i ngā tauira. Anō nei he whare e hāpai ana ki te aki i ngā tauira e nanaiore ana i te ara tukutuku o Poutama. Ka tiro māhoi e koe ki waho rā ka kitea te tino ātaahua o Te Whanganui-ā-Tara. Ka whakairia ētahi whakaahua e whakaatu i ngā whainga o ngā tauira ki te taupaepae matua. Ka tū tētahi pou whakairo i te tomokanga o Te Taratara-ā-Kae. Kei te pito o tēnei wāhi he whāriki, rite tonu te āhua o tēnei ki te putiputi ātaahua, arā, ko te frangipani, i tukua mai e Avis Higgs tēnei whāriki. Waihoki, ka āhei ngā tauira Pasifika ki te whakamahi i tēnei whāriki mō ō rātou ‘fono’, he tino taonga tēnei.

Ki te whakanui i tēnei kaupapa kua tū tētahi whakataetae i waenga i ngā tauira ki te whakahoahoa tētahi tohu mō te tarakina o ngā pukapuka. Kei a Emma Gardiner tēnei hōnore, ka tāpirihia tōna mahi ki ngā pukapuka katoa.

Neke atu i te waru rau o ngā pukapuka i roto i tēnei whakaputunga mō ngā tauira me ngā kaiako e ako ana ki runga i ngā mahinga Māori, mahinga Pasifika hoki. He rauemi tino whakahirahira mō ēnei tāngata e whai ana ki te piki ake ki runga i te ara kairangi. Me te mea nei, he wāhi mō te kotahi, te ako-ā-rōpū, ngā akomanga iti me ngā wānanga.

Kua wehe ngā pukapuka ki roto i ngā kaupapa matua, hei tauira ko Hītori, ko Mātātuhi (Literature), ko Hoahoanga (Architecture) me ērā atu kaupapa. Ko te tino whainga i tēnei wā ki te rapu ētahi atu pukapuka rauemi rānei kia eke ki te 1500 pukapuka. Atu i tērā, ko te tikanga kua huri rauna wēnei pukapuka i waenga i ngā whare pukapuka o Te Whare Wānanga o Wikitōria.

Nō reira, kia mahia ai tēnei rauemi hei taputapu mō tōu hanga whakaaro, me kī, “He mata toki pounamu, e tū te tātai o te whakairo”.

Hei te ata pongipongi o te ra 28th o Hōngongoi ka tū te rā whakatuwhera o Te Taratara-ā-Kae. Kei te taumata tuarua, te tomokanga o te whare, ka kitea tēnei wāhi.

Inā he pātai ōu, tēnā pātai atu ki a David Kukutai Jones.
Pou Whakaapa – Māori and Pasifika Librarian:
Phone: 04 463 9608
Email: David.Jones@vuw.ac.nz

Ko tēnei whakatauki he whakatauki e hāngai tonu ki te rōpū Ngā Rangahautira, me ngā mahi kei te whakahaerehia e mātou. Ko te tikanga o taua kōrero, he kōrero mō te noho ngātahi me te mahi ngātahi o tērā, o tērā, kia puta kaha roa ngā hua. Mō mātou o Ngā Rangahautira he whakarite wāhi, whakarite kaupapa hoki kia tuitui i ngā tauira ki ngā kaupapa ā whānau, kaupapa Māori kei te Kura ā Ture, tuatahi. Tuarua, he āta honohono i ngā tauira pakeke ki ngā tauira hou kia mate ururoa ki ēnei mahi, kia whai hua, kia kaha roa hoki i roto i ngā tikanga o te ture. Tuatoru, he whakarite kaupapa toi, kaupapa whakangahau kia piki ake te mauri tū, te mauri ora ki roto i ngā tauira Māori. Anō nei, he māngai hoki te rōpū mō ngā tauira Māori e ako ana i te ture.

I ngā paepae ture o te motu, kua whai hua ngā tauira o Ngā Rangahautira. Ko ngā whakataetae kōti ā-motu, te whakataetae māro, ki waenga i ngā whare wānanga o te motu. He whakataetae āta wetewete i te hiranga o te tikanga Māori me te ture Pākehā i roto i te kēhi kotahi. Ka tū te tangata i mua i ngā kaiwhakawā o te Kōti Whenua Māori ki te tuku i ngā tono pēnei ki te rōia. Ā, mā ngā kaiwhakawā anō e whakatau ko wai te tauira toa ki te wetewete i ngā kaupapa me te whakatakoto i aua kōrero i mua i te kōti. I ngā tau whā kua pahure, tokotoru ngā wā kua eke panuku, kua eke hohoro ngā tauira o Ngā Rangahautira ki te kōmata o tēnei whakataetae. I tēnei tau ka tū anō a Ngā Rangahautira ki ngā whakataetae nei. Ko te tumanako kia kake anō ki te angitū o ēnei mahi.

Te Kōmiti Whakahaere o Ngā Rangahautira:

Tūmuaki Wahine: Phoebe Monk
Tumuaki Tane: David Jones
Hēkeretari: Erin Carr
Kaitiaki Pūtea: Piri Norris
Māngai mō ngā tau tuatahi: Stony Tata & Kimiora Tamatea
Māngai mō ngā tau tuarua: Quinn Rosa & Lily Beechen
Māngai mō ngā tau tuatoru: Echo Haronga & Kat Wickliffe

Nā, ko te āhuatanga tonu o tā rātau haere, he haere ā whānau, ā hapū rānei. Kei hoki mai te kōrero ki te tangata e mea ana, “E hoa, i hia kē koe i te tangihanga o te Pīpīwharauroa”, ki te pā mai taua kōrero ki a koe, ko te whakamā tonu te mea ka tino patu i taua tangata. Ka mutu, ahakoa tēnei āhuatanga o te tangata i ētahi wā, he kaha tonu te Māori ki te tohatoha i ā rātau kai, ki tēnā whānau, ki tēnā whānau. Ka tae mai ngā uri ka hoatu ki a rātau hei whakahoki atu ki ō rātau ake kāinga.

He mea ako tonu mā ngā tamariki te kohi kai, ahakoa he kohi wahie te mahi, ka mātaki atu ngā tamariki i ngā pakeke e mahi ana i ā rātau nā mahi, ka haere te wā ka mōhio ngā tamariki nei me pēhea te hī tuna, te hao inanga, hei āhea rānei mau ai i ngā manu, kohi ai i te pikopiko, ki hea hoki kohi ai i ngā kai. I ētahi wā ko te kai tonu ka tohu ki a koe i ahu mai aua kai rā i hea.

Ko ētahi o ngā tino kai ki tō mātau kāinga ko ngā momo moa o te ngahere, arā, ko te Kererū, ko te Pihipihi, ko te Kōkō, arā noa atu ngā momo manu ka kitea ki roto i te ngahere. Ko tētahi anō hoki ko te Weka. Heoi, he wā anō ka mau Weka, ka mau Kererū. Ko te mākiri moa tētahi āhuatanga kāore nei pea i te kaha kitea i ēnei rā. Torutoru noa iho ngā mea mōhio me pēhea te mākiri moa kia kaua e korara ngā wāhanga o te moa. He pīki roa mahi tēnei momo mahi, kāore nei pea e taea e te kotahi engari mā te takitini ka tutuki pai te mahi nei.

Ko te tuna anō hoki tētahi kai pai ki te Māori. Āna, ahakoa nō te awa kotahi ngā tuna nei, he ingoa mō ngā momo tuna ka kitea ki roto i te awa. Ko ētahi o aua tuna he Matamoe, he Piharau, he Horewai. Koinei pea tētahi āhuatanga hei whakaroaro anō mā tātau, ara, kia kaha ake te whakaora anō i ngā ingoa ake o ngā momo tuna.

Ko tētahi mate nui kei te pā mai ki ā tātau katoa, Māori mai, Pākehā mai ko te rerekē haere o ngā wāhanga o te tau, ara, i te raumati kei te makariri, i te hōtoke kei te mahana tonu. Nā reira, kāore nei pea e taea e tātau te whai atu i ngā wā i haere ai ō tātau tīpuna ki te kohi kai.

Ko ngā waiata hari kai anō tētahi āhutanga kāore e tino kitea ake i ēnei rā, ā, ki ētahi ka kiia he waiata heriheri kai, i ētahi wā anō he waiata heriheri huahua kē. Anei tētahi waiata, e kī ana, “He aha rā te mea i tumu mai nei”. E ai ki a Kino Hughes i te tau 1964 i kitea ai ia i ētahi e takina ana i tēnei waiata ki Rūātoki. He mea tīni e ia ētahi o ngā kupu nei:

He aha rā te mea i tumu mai nei kai runga kai te toromiro, kererū pea?
Ka mate te puke tū iho nei,
Ka horehore, ka horehore!
Mate te puke tū iho nei,
Ka horehore, ka horehore!
He kotahi te mea i kimihia ki te kore,
Kore rawa aku iwi ki te mahi kai, ehā!
Hī nekenekehia, hī!

Pakoko ei, pakoko ei,
Pakoko ngā raho o Te Mākarini, pakoko!
He aha rā i pakoko ai?
Nā te kore kai pea!
Pakoko ai ngā raho, pakoko!
Nekenekehia hī, nekenekehia hī!
Pakoko ei,
Pakoko ngā raho o Te Mākarini, pakoko
Nā te aha ai?
Pakoko ai, nā te kore kai pea!
Pakoko ai, pakoko!
Nekenekehia, nekenekehia,
Tēnā, i tukua iho!

moa = he kupu anō mo te manu

Growing tired of the culinary delights of Mount Street Cafe? Too cold to wait for Hare Krishna? Flat broke? Wagamama, in the Meridian Building on Customhouse Quay, has a healthy solution for your dining difficulties… and it’s FREE!

On Tuesday the 27 July, Wellington noodle house Wagamama is offering customers free lunch for ‘National Noodle Day’.

The deal, limited to one lunch meal per person, lasts from 12 noon until 2pm and bookings won’t be accepted, so getting in early to claim your seats is highly recommended.

Wagamama has attracted a vast following in Wellington and throughout New Zealand. Wellington Manager Kim Workman markets ‘National Noodle Day’ as a reward for those who have contributed to Wagamama’s success.

“Last year’s National Noodle Day was a massive success with 450 Wellingtonians eating free and 2500 people paying nothing for lunch nationwide.

“We’ve decided that National Noodle Day is a time to return the love to our loyal fans in the capital city.”

So round up some mates and beat the rush: it’s noodle time!

Given the many complaints Salient receives following Māori Language Week, we have prepared for you a collection of Māori language learning options that are available to everyone.

Option ā: Te Ātaarangi

Te Ātaarangi is a nationwide programme designed for adults to learn and speak Te Reo Māori. It is largely oral-based, and since starting in the 1970s it has gained recognition as one of the most efficient methods for learning te reo. They run year-long programmes with classes held in the evenings. They follow the same terms as the public school system, allowing for parents and those who are busy during the day. The levels vary depending on your familiarity with te reo Māori, so is helpful to those who have a basic grasp of the language but want to further their learning.

Further information can be found at their website or freephone 0800 282 272.

Option Ē: Te Ara Reo

Te Ara Reo is a programme run through Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Like Te Ātaarangi it starts at basic conversational language skills for use in traditional and modern contexts. They also have evening classes to cater for those with commitments during the day. The environment of the classroom moves away from the traditional setting to one that is more comfortable and relaxed for students.

Details about the course can be found online via the Te Wānanga o Aotearoa website.

Option Ī: Te Timatanga

Te Timatanga is an introductory language class offered by Te Kawa-a-Māui, the Māori School here at Victoria University. There is a strong emphasis on oral competency in this paper, but also includes learning of reading, writing and translation skills. It is a 100-level paper with no prerequisites or restrictions worth 20 points. MAOR101 starts in trimester one of every year and is often offered during the beginning of the summer period with the follow-up MAOR102 also available.

Information can be found in the University Course Catalogue as well as the office of Te Kawa-a-Māui at 50KP.

Option Ō: Tōku Reo

Tōku Reo is a show that airs on Māori television, Monday–Friday at 3pm and 7pm. The show follows the language resources provided by John Moorfield’s Te Whanake series. It is grammar- and vocabulary-focused, with activities that draw information from speeches provided by fluent Māori speakers. The advantage of watching the show as opposed to reading the books is the listening component provided by the hosts of the show. The added advantage to this show is the ability to take the lessons in your own time and at your own pace, as the shows are also available online from the Māori Television website. Te Whanake can be found at www.tewhanake.maori.nz.

Option Ū: Look it up!

If all you want to do is understand the rest of the magazine and the brilliant content it contains, there are a multitude of dictionaries available online and at the Victoria library. A reference section dedicated to Māori- and Pacific Island-related books officially opened on Tuesday 6 July. They are also very helpful if you do choose to undertake one of the earlier options. A popular favourite for Te Reo majors is the website www.maoridictionary.com.

A new scholarship has been introduced to Victoria University, with the aim of helping students to better understand China.

The James Bertram scholarships have been funded by businessman Rodney Jones and his wife Sanjini Jesudason, who hope to improve the relationship between New Zealand and Chinese students.

“We want young New Zealanders to engage with China, to understand the culture and connect with the Chinese leaders of tomorrow.”

Jones, an investment banker who was previously a partner in the Soros Fund (Asia), understands first-hand the importance of having a knowledge of the country.

“A greater awareness of China is essential for New Zealand in the 21st century.”

There will be two James Bertram scholarships offered every year, with each worth up to $50,00.

These will provide two students with funding for a year’s study at Victoria, followed by six months’ language tuition in Beijing and then a year studying at Beijing’s Peking University.

After completing their studies, students will graduate with a double Masters in International Relations (Victoria University) and Public Policy (Peking University).

The scholarships are named after James Bertram, the late academic from Victoria University, who was fascinated with China after visiting the country.

As a journalist for The Times, Bertram also had the chance to interview Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong.

Victoria’s Vic-Chancellor Pat Walsh described the scholarships to Peking University as an exciting opportunity for students.

“I’m delighted students will be able to experience firsthand one of the most significant nations that New Zealand will interact with now and in the years ahead.”

International Relations students at Victoria are interested in the chance to apply for the scholarships.

“It is a fantastic opportunity for all Pols and International Relations students… I look forward to finding out more about it,” said one student.

Mā te tirotiro noa ki ētahi kōrero ō-paki whānui rawa te rangona, kitea ai ētahi whakaaturanga o te kai. Kia whakatauira ake tāku e mea ana:

“Anā tō kai!”
“Ka kai koe i ō hamuti!”
“Kai a te kurī!”
“He tamaiti wāwāhi tahā.”

He ōrite te tikanga o te kōrero tuatahi ki te ‘kaitoa!’ Arā, he kupu e whakaatu atu ana ki te tangata te korehua, te utu hoki o tāna i mahi ai. Ko te tuarua, he kupu whakatūpato kia kore e mahia tētahi mahi kei uru ki te raru. Ko te tuatoru, he momo kangakanga e whakataurite ana i tētahi āhuatanga ki tā te kurī e kai ai. Ko te mea whakamutunga ake, he kōrero mō te tamaiti haututū e whakahōhā ana i ōna mātua, e whakararu ana hoki i ngā mahi o te rā. Nā tana mahi haututū, kua pakaru katoa i a ia ngā hoe, ngā tahā e kawe ana i te kai hei oranga mā tōna whānau. Arā atu anō ngā kīwaha pēnei te hanga. Āe rā, e hia kē ngā kōrero ā-kīwaha e whakahua ana i te kai!

Kāore tēnei āhuatanga e ngaro i te reo whakaari, i te reo whakaniko rānei. Kei reira hoki ōna ake whakaahuatanga mō te kai. Kāore i ārikarika te huhua, te maha hoki o ngā whakataukī, pepeha, kupu whakaari rānei ko te kai te hanganga mō te kīanga rā. Kia whakatauira ake tāku e mea ana:

“Nā tāu rourou, nā taku rourou ka ora ai te manuhiri.”
“Te manu kai miro, nōna te ngahere. Te manu kai mātauranga, nōna te ao.”
“E moe hī aua, e ara hī tuna.”
“Mā te wera o tō mata e kai ai koe i te haunga ahi o te kai.”

Ko te tuatahi nei e hāpai ana i te mahi manaaki tāngata. Ko te tuarua he kupu akiaki i te tangata kia eke ki te tiketiketanga o tana maunga ako. Ko te tuatoru me te tuawhā nei e mea ana ka tutuki pai te mahi i te tangata pukumahi, kore rawa i te tangata māngere. Arā atu anō ngā kōrero whakaari e pā ana ki te kai, engari i ēnei tauira torutoru kei runga rā e kitea ai te whakaaro tāruarua a ō tātou tūpuna mō te kai.

Kei te mōhio kē koutou tē taea te ao Māori nei te huri-ā-porowhita inā kore he kai. Kei te mōhio hoki koutou ki te mahi o te kai i te wā kua riro tapu koutou hei whakanoa anō i a koe. Tē ai he hua o te kauhau ki te tira waiata! Engari he hua tonu i te whakatō purapura me te pātai, nā te aha tātou i tere huri ai ki te kai i a tātou e kōrero ana? Hei aha te kai ki a tātou kia pēnei tō tātou whakakīnaki kōrero e pā ana ki te kai? Kāore e kore he tēpu huatau kē, he kete whakaaro kē, arā he tirohanga kē ki tēnā ki tēnā o tātou. Me te aha anō, me huri te ihu ki hea hongihongi kakara ai? Kia tīkina anō taku pātai i horahia ai ki runga rā: he aha te kai a te reo Māori? Ahakoa tā te Māori e whai ana, huri ai ia ki ōna matea, mei kore aua matea hei oranga ā-wairua, ā-tinana māna, kua mate noa atu ia. Ko Papatūānuku tērā kei te whenua e noho ana āna tamariki, āna mokopuna hoki. Ko ngā rētōtanga o Tangaroa tērā e kauhoe ana ngā tūmomo ika katoa! Ka huri ana te Māori ki te kai, kāore ia e tiro noa ki te kai kua horahia i tana pereti, he tirotiro kē nōna ki te taiao e tāwhio ai i a ia hei poipoi ake i tōna hauora. Mā te kai e ora ai te tangata, mā te tangata e ora ai te kupu.

E hika, kua pau ngā kai! Kua noa noa iho tōku māra whakaaro! Kua maoa ngā tāmaoatanga! Ko te tūmanako nei kua mākona te hiakai, kua kikī te puku kōrero. Nei rā te mihi mahana e rere atu ana ki a koutou e pānui mai nei i tēnei wiki o te reo Māori. Kia reka te kai!

Dear Victoria Students,

I hope you all enjoyed Re-Orientation and caught up with your friends. Thanks to all those who attended VUWSA Speed Dating, Poker Night Round 1, gigs, and the movie night.

Speed Dating take 2? I have got some people telling me to host another so if I get enough interested participants to email me in my contact email below I will endeavour to host another event.

Don’t forget that if you are feeling the winter pinch for whatever reason come see us at the VUWSA office. If you need a little help in the food supply Come visit VUWSA for a food bank parcel and free bread every Wednesday and Friday.

If you are looking for something new to do this trimester, why not join one of Rep Groups that are on campus? They put on regular events and meetings and there are groups for queer students, law, commerce, architecture and design, Pasifika, international, media, women and disabled. There are contact details and information on the VUWSA website.

Things to look out for:

VUWSA By-Election: Voting opens this Thursday and closes on the 5th August. Check out the manifestos of all the candidates in Salient.

Morning Glory with Alan: Friday’s at 11AM on VBC 88.3 FM. Tune in for more information about all the clubs on campus, and the latest in activities happening around town and campus.

VUWSA Poker Series: Thursday 6PM 29 July, Four Kings Bar. $10 buy-in. You can win your trimester worth of books (to the value of $500). Plus Prize packs and spot prizes. Email clubs@vuwsa.org.nz for more.

Dress Up Day: August 17 Mount Street Bar – Dress up as your favourite cartoon/person/school uniforms/anything you like. Ideas include Harry Potter (wizards), Twilight (Team Edward), Heroes (Iron Man), PIRATES or the guy from the tampon ad. At least 500 people need to attend to make it viable, as it’s always nice to know you’re not the only one who decided to dress up! Check out Facebook for more.

Check out the VUWSA website for more activities and events as they come up.

Alan Young
activities.officer@vuwsa.org.nz

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.

The Legal Māori Corpus and the Legal Māori Lexicon form an unprecedented collection of Māori texts and legal terms which will be available for researchers to use.

Project co-leader and Faculty lecturer Māmari Stephens was delighted with the finished product.

“When we started the project two years ago we had no idea the final size of our corpus would be so great, and to our knowledge, it is the largest structured corpus of Māori language texts ever compiled.”

The Lexicon will be further developed into a final dictionary, due for completion in 2012.

Stephens hopes that the end result of the Legal Māori Project will be used by a wide variety of people.

“It is our hope, as we celebrate another Māori Language Week, that within a few short years any person or group will be able to use te reo Māori to engage fully in the New Zealand legal system. The Corpus and the Lexicon are important tools to help us move in that direction.”

Both works can currently be accessed through the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, and from the projects page of the Law website.

Prime Minister John Key visited Victoria University last Wednesday for the opening of the new Alan MacDiarmid Building. Salient was not among those invited to the event.

Hopes of attending the ceremony anyway were thwarted by Campus Care Security officers, who were stationed at every entrance to the area.

Salient News Editor Molly McCarthy pretended to read The Dominion Post while monitoring the situation inconspicuously from a nearby couch.

By around 5.30pm the hallway space in front of Wishbone was filled with a crowd of around 60 important-looking people, who mixed, mingled and ate delicious-smelling nibbles.

“I think I saw the back of John Key’s head, and also Kerry Prendergast, maybe,” said a student spoken to by Salient.

Members of Key’s security squad were also spotted amongst the well-dressed crowd.

Victoria University masters student Thomas Vink left for Japan last week to attend a regional invitation programme as an ambassador for New Zealand.

Selected as one of twenty graduate students from East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Vink will spend the next seven weeks participating in academic coursework, cultural activities and individual fieldwork. Vink will study at the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies in Kyoto and Sophia University.

At Victoria, Vink’s master’s thesis examines monuments and memorials and the role these sites play in representing various groups’ understanding of East Asian history.

“Ultimately, the significance of my research is to promote an increased understanding of the many different varieties of individuals and groups, in East Asia, that acquire meaning from the past.”

Much of Vink’s fieldwork will involve visiting these ‘sites of memory’, which will in turn form part of his thesis. Vink will also present these findings at a conference in Tokyo with the other scholars.

The programme is funded by the Japanese Government as part of the Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange of Students and Youth Programme, which will see 6000 young people travel to Japan over the next five years.

This is the very first of what will be fortnightly Education Action Group columns. The Education Action Group is the student group, initiated and supported by VUWSA, to engage students around education based issues and to run forums, campaigns and protests.

This trimester, the Education Action Group will be focusing on issues concerning tertiary education investment.

The recent Budget has seen cuts to tertiary education funding, and many adjustments made to the student loan system. Once again, it is another Government Budget that has sparked the philosophical debate: Is higher education a right or a privilege?

The Education Action Group is your student group to have this debate; it’s your student group to run campaigns around these issues, hold forums and protests.

The 1990s is a perfect example of a period which saw Education Action Groups, in conjunction with student associations, mobilising thousands of students up and down the country to protest against big changes made to the tertiary education system in New Zealand, such as the introduction of the student loan scheme.

Should the Government be charging interest on student loans? Should student allowances be universal? Is it reasonable for the Government to cut tertiary education to the level that the university is putting caps on course entrance, cutting tutorials and lectures?

“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.” (Kofi Annan, 2001)”

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”
(Aristotle)

After considering the words of these well known figures, should we be sitting by watching thousands of New Zealanders struggle to access tertiary education?

Should we be sitting by watching thousands of students struggle to get the best out of the education they have been fortunate to access because of the decline in the quality of education, as a result of the under investment of education in New Zealand?

Ultimately, is education a privilege or a right?

You decide.
 
James Sleep
VUWSA Education Officer
Education.Officer@vuwsa.org.nz

EAG Meeting details:

 
5pm on Wednesday 28th July in meeting room three, level two, Student Union Building.

A group of protesters gathered outside the National Party headquarters on Willis Street last Monday to oppose the government’s proposal to extend the 90-day trial period to all employers.

Organised via Facebook, by 5.30pm the picket protest was well underway, with protesters carrying signs baring slogans such as ‘Screwed if we don’t work, Screwed if we do!’

Former VUWSA President and protest organiser Joel Cosgrove described the policy as “anti-workers law”.

“It is a bill that could, in some way, affect everyone that is starting a new job.”

A ‘Toot for Support’ banner received a lot of attention from bus drivers.

However, not everyone present agreed with the protesters. Hundreds of people walked straight through the middle of the demonstration, with one passer-by yelling “Go home wankers!” into a protester’s microphone.

Nō ngā tau 1970, i tīmata te taki o tēnei mea te waka whakaora i te reo Māori i runga anō i te waimehatanga o ngā puna reo huri noa i te motu. Ko te pōkaikaha tērā o te minenga, ka mate te reo, ka parea tēnei taonga ki rahaki, ngaro noa. Ka putaputa mai ngā kaupapa whakaora reo mai i ngā whāruarua o te motu pēnei i te kākano o te Kōhanga Reo, te pihinga o te Kura Kaupapa Māori, te mahuri o te Wharekura, te kōhuretanga o te Whare Wānanga hoki. Āra anō ko Te Ātaarangi e whakatō ana i te kākano o te reo ki ērā o ngā mātua, ngā pahake kāore i tipu ake i te reo. Whai muri ake ko ngā kaupapa whakaora i te mita o te reo, arā, ko te Kāpunipuni Reo tērā mo ngā uri o Taranaki, ko te kaupapa Kotahi Mano Kāika tērā mō ngā uri o Ngāi Tahu, anō hoki, ko tētahi pekanga o te tino karamatamata o te reo tērā e poipoia nei e te Panekiretanga o te Reo. He mea whakaora katoa ēnei kaupapa i te reo Māori i waenganui i a tātou mā, kōhungahunga mai, pakeke mai, kaumātua mai. Otiia, he aha te pānga o te reo ki te oranga o te iwi?

Kia para i te huarahi o taku kōrero nei, tuatahi ko te whakamārama poto mō tēnei mea te ‘reo-ā-iwi’ me tōna ‘mita’.

“Tōku reo ka tuku, tōku mouri ka ora.”

He reo e mōhio whānuitia ā-motu nei te reo Māori nā te mea he reo taketake o Aotearoa, heoi, he wāhanga anō tō te reo Māori, arā, ko ngā pekanga o ngā reo-ā-iwi. Ko te rerekētanga o te ia, o te piki me te heke o te reo, o ngā kīwaha, whakataukī, whakatauāki o ia iwi hei whakaputa i ōna ake kōrero. Hei tauira, ki tā te tuhinga Ngā Reo ā-Iwi a Te Wharehuia Milroy ki te pukapuka Te Kōhure, ka mea mai ia:

Ki te haere koe ki roto o te rohe o Taranaki me ōna hapū katoa, hei konā anō koe rongo ai i ngā rerekētanga, arā, i ētahi atu rohe kua rongo koe i te kupu ‘kei’ e whakamahia ana. Ki roto o Mātaatua, o Te Arawa, o Te Tai Rāwhiti ka rongo koe e whakamahia ana ‘kai’. Kei roto i ētahi o ngā hapū o Taranaki me Whanga-nui e pērā ana anō tā rātau whakamahi i tērā kupu, i te ‘kei’. He ‘kai’ kē, he ‘hai’ rānei mō te ‘hei’ (1996:53).

He mita ake anō kei ētahi reo-ā-iwi. Hei tauira ake, ki tā te mita o te Tai Tokerau, ka makere mai te ‘w’ i te pū ‘wh’ kia noho hei ‘hakarongo’ te kupu e mōhio whānuitia e te nuinga ko te ‘whakarongo’. Anō nei, ko Ngāi Tūhoe mā, kua kore mai te ‘g’ mai i te pū ‘ng’ kia noho mai ko te ‘whakarono’. Tau atu ki Te Waipounamu, ko tā rātou he ‘k’ kē mō te pū ‘ng’ kia ‘whakaroko’ te kupu ‘whakarongo’ nei. Ā, ki tā te Tai Hauāuru ka warea ake te pū ‘h’ kia ‘wakarongo’ kē te kupu.

He tauira noa iho ēnei hei whakaatu i te rerekētanga matua o ia mita, ā, kia noho ko ēnei tauira e whakaatu ana i te rerekētanga o ia reo-ā-iwi, o ia mita, kia mārama pai ai te tangata he kokinga anō tō te reo Māori.

I runga i aua whakaaro, ka tahuri ake anō ki te reo me te mita o te Tai Hauāuru hei whakatauira te tino ngako o te kaupapa nei.

Te Kāpunipuni Reo o Taranaki

E ai ki te paetukutuku o Te Reo o Taranaki, ko te aronga matua o te Kāpunipuni Reo o Taranaki he whakaako, he wānanga i ngā āhuatanga katoa o te reo me te mita o Taranaki. Arā, ko te ōrokohanga o te kaupapa whakaora i te reo o Taranaki i puta tuatahi mai te taki o ngā kaupapa whakaora i te reo Māori o ngā rau tau 1980. Ko ngā nawe i rangona ai e te iwi te take i tū mai te rōpū kaporeihana o Te Reo o Taranaki, nā tēnei i puta te ihu o te waka whakaora reo i te tau 1986 hei kawe ake i ngā wawata o rātou mā ngā mata reherehe mo ngā uri whakaheke.

E ai ki te pūataata rorohiko mō te rautaki o Te Reo o Taranaki, nō te tau 1991 ka huakina ngā tatau o Te Kōhanga Reo o Te Kōpae Tamariki ki Ngāmotu. Ka kotahi tau, ko ngā kuaha o Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Pihipihinga Kākano Mai Rangiātea i tūwhera mai. Makere mai te whitu tau, ko te Wharekura i āpiti atu ki te kura. Anō hoki, ko Te Ātaarangi tonu e whakaako ana i te reo i Taranaki ki te marea, ēngari, ko te Kāpunipuni Reo i puta hei whakakīkī i te whārua mō ērā tokoiti matatau kē ana ki te reo.

Ko ngā tūmomo āhuatanga e whakaakona, e whakamahia ki ngā wānanga o te Kāpunipuni ko ngā karakia ōmua, ngā karakia hou, te whaikōrero, te karanga hoki, ngā waiata ōmua, ngā waiata hou, te kōrero paki, te pao maioha, me te taukumekume. Ko ēnei āhuatanga katoa he whai i ngā tikanga o Taranaki, o Ngā Rauru hoki. Ka tū ngā wānanga nei ki ngā marae huri noa i te rohe, ā, mā te hunga kua tangata whenua mai i aua marae e taki i ngā kōrero o ia wānanga.

Ko te mea nui o te Kāpunipuni, ko ngā kōrero katoa e hāngai tōtika ana ki ngā uri o ngā waka o Aotea, Tokomaru me Kurahaupō; ki ngā kōrero me ngā hītori o ngā iwi whānui o Taranaki. I a te tauira o te Kāpunipuni e wānanga ana i tōna mita ake, ko ia hoki e mau pūmau ana ki tōna ake tuakiri, arā, ko te reo tērā e mau kaha ana ki te tuakiri o te tangata. Ki tā te tohunga wetereo, Joshua Fishman, ko te takakino o te reo, he takakino o te tuakiri, arā, mā te oranga o tētahi te oranga o tērā atu hoki, ka mate te reo, ka whakamomori nei tātou i a tātou anō. Ki te ora te tuakiri o ia iwi, me ora anō tōna ake reo, mita hoki.

Nō reira, kei te ora tonu te reo?

Ka whānui taku titiro ki te oranga o te reo Māori. I taku tirohanga tuatahi ki tēnei urupounamu ka tere taku whakapae, āe, kei te ora tonu. I runga anō i te maha o ngā kaupapa whakaora reo e karapotia nei e te motu ināianei, i runga anō hoki i te mea e āhei ana ahau me te nui o ōku whānau ki te kōrero i te reo, te nui o ōku hoa hoki me ērā atu tāngata kei te hāpori, kei ngā pouaka whakaata, kei ngā reo irirangi, kei te ipurangi, kei hea kē mai e taea ai te kōrero, te rongo, te kite hoki i te reo e whakamahi ana – i runga anō i ērā whakatau āku, ka tika, kei te ora pai te reo. Ēngari anō, ki te tahuri ake ki ngā tatauranga ō mua, e whakaatu ana ēnei nama i tētahi āhuatanga kē.

E ai ki ngā kōrero o te pae tukutuku o Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, i te tau 1913, āhua 92% te nui o ngā tamariki Māori e taea te kōrero i te reo Māori. Tau atu ki te 1973-78 o ngā tau, āhua 18-20% noa iho te maha o te tangata, ko te nuinga hoki he kaumātua. I te 1985 ka heke anō ki te 12%, otiia, e kore e mutu ki reira te hekenga o te tatauranga. Nō te tau 2006, ka puta mai anō ngā tatauranga mō te reo, i tēnei wā e kī ana e 4% noa iho te maha o te tangata ki Aotearoa e taea te kōrero i te reo Māori. Hei tāpiri ki tērā, mai ngā Māori katoa o Aotearoa – arā he 14% noa iho o te huinga tāngata katoa ki Aotearoa nei – 24% noa iho o aua Māori ka taea te kōrero Māori. Ki te whakataurite tērā ki te paihēneti o te maha o ngā tangata e taea te kōrero i te reo Pākehā, arā, e 95% e taea, tēnā, pehea tērā atu 5% paihēneti? Kāore e kore ko te nuinga – inā kāore i te katoa – he tangata nō whenua kē me tō rātou ake reo rerekē! Kāore kau he tangata e taea te kī e tūturu ana ko te reo Māori tōna reo noa iho. Kia whakaritea anō tātou i te rahi o te 24% o ngā tangata Māori; ko te nui o te tangata Māori e taea te kōrero i te reo Māori he pēnei te rite o te nui o te tangata noho ana ki tētahi rohe o Tamaki-makaurau i te tau 2006.

Ko ēnei momo tatauranga e whakaatu ana i te tino oranga o te reo. He reo rehurehu noa iho i te tirohanga mārō nei. Ka tata hemo te reo i te ngoikore o te nuinga me te tokoiti o te hunga matatau ki te kōrero, ngākaunui ana hoki ki te reo. Nō reira ka tika te ui atu, ‘kei te ora tonu te reo Māori?’

“He reo e kōrerotia ana, he reo ka ora.”

Otiia, ahakoa ngā tatauranga nei, kia mōhio mai koutou, ka mau tonu au ki te whakaaro, āe, kei te ora tonu te reo Māori. E kore rawa au e whakapae kua mate katoa te reo Māori tae noa ki te wā kua hemo katoa tātou e kawe i te hā, i te mura, i te ahi o te reo. Ēngari anō, he tika te whakatau, e kore te reo e ora pēnei nā i ngā rā ō mua, arā, te kaha rangona ki ngā wāhi katoa, te maringi noa mai ngā korokoro, waha, ngutu maha, te tika hoki o te reo. E kao. He ora pēnei i tētahi tangata e mau tonu ana ki tētahi tūpari, ā, ki te taka ia, ka hemo. Kei te kapokapo haere tātou i ngā kōhatu, i ngā paruparu, i te pātītī kia ora tātou i te pari rā. Kei te pēnā te ora o te reo ināianei, ko te whiu noa iho o ngā kupu hangahanga, ko te kaha mikirapu o ngā rerenga kōrero, o ngā kupu, te whakatū kaupapa whakaora reo maha, aha atu, aha atu mo te tūpono ka ora mai te reo i te muia o te reo, i te pārara o te hora ki te whenua. Ko te whakaaro nei kei te kōrerohia te reo, kei te kite atu, ko te tūpono kei te ora. Heoi, ko te reo Māori tērā e rere ana? Anei te tino ngako o ēnei kōrero. Ka mate tātou i te hurihanga o tēnei ao me ōna pānga maha ki a tātou, ki ngā iwi Māori o te motu, ki te reo hoki.

Maringanui he kaupapa whakaora reo pēnei i Te Kāpunipuni Reo. I runga i te whakaaro ko te ako, ko te whakaako hoki o te reo Māori he mahi paratī i te puna reo, he mea tīmatatanga noa iho hei eke ki te taumata kōrero. Ki te kōkirihia tonutia te kaupapa whakaora reo, hei māunu ake te oranga o te iwi hoki, me ruku hōhonu nei i ngā hōpuapua o te mita o te reo hei wānanga, hei wetewete i ngā kōrero a rātou mā. Kei reira kē te pūmautanga o te reo me ōna tikanga. Kia muramura mai te ahi kā ki roto ki tēnā, ki tēnā, pērā ki ngā pou o te reo Māori, te hunga kua roa nei e ‘tutungia te hātete’ o te reo, arā, kia Tīmoti Karetu mā, kia Te Wharehuia Milroy, kia Huirangi Waikerepuru, kia Tipene O’Reagan hoki. Kua riro mā rātou e mau i te ahi kā roa mo tātou kua mauheretia ki te reo paraoa o tēnei ao hurihuri, ā, ko te mura o te hā kei tēnā, kei tēnā o tātou e kawe tonu i te kaupapa. Ka tika kia para tonu tātou i tēnei ara o te reo kia tutungia tēnei mura hei ahi-kā-roa mo ērā e takahi ana i tēnei ara tāpokopoko.

Photo credit: Remon Rijper

Unfortunately, the fools at PUNZ believed EAR’s lies and have taken the deeply misguided decision to take away my membership. They tore my cards from my hands like electric frogs taser-tonguing a nice little acorn baby from betwixt its mama’s hands. Which leaves us in a little pickle. Without my PUNZ certification I cannot publicly perform divination in any form.

Never fear, I am, as I write these words beginning the lengthy arbitration-slash-reapplication process to get myself re-carded and thusly be once again able to share with you, my wee army of tomorrow-hungry readers, the future. However, this week it looks like we’ll have to try something a little different. I would simply have foregone this week’s column, but the two-headed Salient control beast Rarahundwu is braying for words with a thirst that can only be described as dementedly alarming, beating its leathery wings against the bile-stained walls of the Salient cove. So, to appease this voracious succubus of student media, I am going to use this space to address some things. I want to talk to you about the massive lies of Emma Rust. I know she’s been talking to you and I just want to set the record straight. I am going to align the crooked LP of your delusions onto a stylus of sanity.

FACT: I have never been to Mexico. This makes it impossible for me to have ever run a small bar in Mexico City which was much more of a front for white slavery and drug smuggling than it was an actual bar. It’s simply illogical! I couldn’t have run Little Diabolo’s Drinksarooni. I just couldn’t. There is no way I would have been able to deal with all the crazed regulars. Like Snowy Joe who was always trying to shiv the Dusky Maiden (a sumo wrestling transvestite). Do you really think that I, Rutherford Dean, would have the fortitude to club two Interpol agents to death with my long gel-hardened hair as they screamed and begged for mercy through ragged, broken hands, telling me of their children and how if I let them go they wouldn’t tell anyone?

FACT: I never licked poison crabs then spat their venom into the wide, vulnerable eyes of endangered owls as they heartbreakingly hooted in distress and fear.

FACT: I have never ever lied about my own personal wealth. Is it really so big of a stretch to believe that I often have so much cash secreted about my person that it becomes physically impossible for me to move under the weight of it, necessitating the purchase of two bionic legs to replace my own? Why can’t there be so many zeros in my bank balance that I had to switch to online banking simply because there aren’t enough trees in the world to produce enough paper to contain my monthly statements?

FACT: I do not need to feast on the flesh of the living to continue this harsh unforgiving half-life of an existence as I trudge this blasted earth, roaming between the hollow husks of buildings, searching for some glimmer of proof that life on this darkened orb of a hell spire has anything worth saving or remembering, as herds of ravenous jackals bite limply at my callow stringy flesh with their rubbery, toothless jaws because no calcium could ever have survived the event.

Now, let me tell you, my venerated readers, about our shared former friend, Ms Rust. She hasn’t seen The Wire. She never responds to texts. She friends people who aren’t her real friends on Bebo. She mispronounces Björk. She degrades metal. She thinks that shorts skirts empower her. Her parents bought her a pony and she was bored of it within days. She thinks that knowing things is the same as understanding things. She presses too hard with pencils. She sold weaponised plutonium to North Korea. I only broke her heart because she broke mine first.

Next week a return to future telling.

In 2006 Academic Idol was touted as “reality journalism at its best”. Yes. Reality journalism. It exists. It is real. here it is, in Salient. If history really does repeat, Academic Idol will be a resounding success, a law lecturer will win and Salient will come second in the student media awards. To Critic. Fuck.

Due to unforseen circumstances (like being overseas), some of your faves have had to decline the invitation to participate. Perhaps they just weren’t cut out for the cut throat competition anyway.

The concept is simple. And a lot like American Idol. Each week, each lecturer will be asked a question and they’ll have to answer it within the 100 word limit. And by deadline. Votes will be deducted for lateness, and exceeding the word limit. All you have to do is vote for your favourite—email editor@salient.org.nz or text 027 CUSTARD. The person with the least number of votes is eliminated. Fired. Goneskies. It’s as easy as that. We’ll keep the tally of votes in the Salient office on a large whiteboard. Yeah, technological sophistication is where it’s at.

Without further ado, here is your top ten. We’ve thrown in a couple of wildcards for good measure. And there’s a few Survivor-esque twists thrown in the mix as well. The future is in your hands, or something cheesy like that. Get behind your favourites. Support your school or campus. Vote. Go on.

This week’s question:
Who would play you in the movie of your life and why?

Peter Andreae (aka Pondy), Computer Science

The Honda ASIMO. Since my research goal is to develop an artificial intelligence system that can learn how to act and interact in the complex human world, it seems like a good idea to have an artificial intelligence agent play me in a movie. ASIMO isn’t intelligent enough yet—it has excellent motion control but is no good at reasoning and talking yet (which is what my life is about). But by the time anyone thinks a movie of my life is a good idea, I’m sure I will have made an intelligent learning system that could be installed in one of the robots.

Hilary Pearse, Political Science

Jessica Simpson. People comment on the uncanny physical resemblance all the time, and not just when I’m washing my car. I’ve also felt a deep sense of connection with Jess for some years now due to the spooky parallels in our lives. I too had a disastrous early marriage to a member of a boy band and have been publicly humiliated by a fashion experiment involving high-waisted jeans. And I hear that Jess is also interested in democratic reform within Westminster-derived parliamentary systems. It makes me wonder if we could be related. My mum’s side of the family is from Marton and I think there are some Simpsons living there too.

Justin Bachoff, Modern Mythology

Well I guess I’m surprised as anyone to be here. The person to play me? I would hope that Crispin Glover would be available. He seems of all people in Hollywood to have an innate grasp of the structure of modern myths: the smoke-and-mirrors game played out by hidden actors, the possibilities created by infinity and the uncertainty of personality. Aside from that, he’s George McFly! How cool would that be? Also, I would allow Rachel Weisz to play the romantic interest for obvious reasons.

Geoff Stahl, Media Studies

A few weeks ago, some French tourists passed me on Cuba Mall, declaring “Regardez! C’est Bruce Willis.”  While finding the comparison somewhat untenable at the time, I thought this a viable response to the question. Bruce’s aging physique seems now to have dovetailed nicely with my own prolonged lack of fitness. The thought of a soft-edged, in-decline action star bringing to the role of lecturer the existential malaise, waning charisma and the hint of sarcasm born of a life once lived large but now reined in by the strictures of institutional imperatives, for this Bruce seems entirely appropriate. Either him or DJ Tiësto.

Marc Wilson, Psychology

I’m so honoured! Now I’ve been nominated I’m going to stop writing funding applications altogether. There’s no point denying that I’m not the most manly of men, so I’d have to pick someone who is everything I’m not and that person is… Bruce Campbell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Campbell), star of ‘The Evil Dead’ series directed by childhood friend Sam Raimi. Not only does he have the chin I always wanted (see his autobiography If Chins Could Kill), but university isn’t too different from fighting off zombies. Let’s face it, if I could deliver lines like “I’m here to kick ass and chew gum… and I’m all out of gum,” I wouldn’t be the B-grade academic I am today—Hail to the king baby!

Matthew Trundle, Classics

Patrick Stewart (aka Captain Jean-Luc Picard) because he is English, bald and a great classical actor.

David O’Donnell, Theatre

I’m getting on a bit so I’d like to see several actors playing me, in the style of the Bob Dylan film I’m Not There. Jemaine Clement could play my younger self because he’s got the mop of hair for it and captures the essence of the young Kiwi male. Cate Blanchett would be the slightly older version, perhaps adapting her portrayal of the über-cool young Dylan, and like me she seems to be an expert multi-tasker, being a new mum, Hollywood actress and co-director of the Sydney Theatre Company all at once. Sir Ian McKellen could play the older me—as a veteran Shakespearean actor I think he would have the range to master the role, and I’d hope that some of that Gandalf-style wisdom might rub off on my lectures.

Lee Gibson, Design

Without a doubt, Wesley Snipes*. 
But don’t get a movie made, just take some highlights out of his films over the years and you would have a great summary of events, almost a biographical documentary. Key moments: New Jack City—growing up in the King Country; White Men Can’t Jump—some nice hightops and a fade; Blade—looking tough as; Money Train—hanging with Woody Harrelson (we are actually close friends); Blade II—still looking tough; Blade Trinity—going through a weird stage, but still looking tough, then just fading out with no one noticing.
*minus jail time

Chris Eichbaum, School of Government

What are we looking for here—physical likeness or attitude? I guess for me it’s more about the latter. That said, when I consulted my guru, the venerable ‘Dara’, the advice was that, on the physical similarity stakes Jesse Ventura was a good likeness (from the neck up). That may well be the case, but on matters political, Jesse and I are not exactly of similar mind. So I’m going to opt for attitude—and on that basis I am going for an actor in my favourite two films of all time. At the top of my list is The Fisher King, directed by a member of the Monty Python Crew, Terry Gilliam. And at number two is The Big Lebowski, directed by the Cohen brothers. And the actor? Jeff Bridges. Why? Because The Dude abides…The Dude abides.

Dean Knight, Law

Hmmm. Tricky.  A quick plea to friends, via Facebook, generated these suggestions:
• Neil Patrick Harris (“Doogie” once was my nickname, as a 19-year-old summer law clerk);
• Sir Ian McKellen (militant gay, and he once crashed a party at our house);
• Alan Tudyk (my doppelgänger, apparently);
• Fyvush Finkely (grrr – just too mean!);
• David Wenham (hot ginga!);
• Leonardo DiCaprio (some foolish attempt once to replicate his circa-1996 floppy blonde hairstyle);
• Philip Seymour Hoffman (creepy…);
• Allison Janney (omigod – CJ is *my* idol!);
• Matt Damon (some rugby talent seen in Invictus, but needs more work…).
But maybe GLEE’s Matthew Morrison, as he has a much better voice and more rhythm than me?

Her:

Tall, dark and my second cousin. Like Meatloaf said, “Two out of three ain’t bad.” This delightful tidbit wasn’t gleaned from my date until halfway through our date. As with most things extended family, the details are foggy and boring, and some parts quite shameful. I’m not even sure how second cousins work. My aunt’s cousin’s son? Nope, no idea. But I’m still sure it’s probably illegal. Or should be. But this is not an expose of my genealogical shortcomings. This is a blind date (which you could also say, was foggy, boring and quite shameful). Desperation aside, I had a good time, thanks to the lovely Salienteers and the staff at Garden Bar.

I had never been to the club in its current incarnation. We were seated in the Terrace Bar, which is this funny thing where you’re inside but outside but not. We were told to meet at 8pm so there was no trouble finding each other because we were the only ones in the bar that early. Awkward chit-chat and eight cocktails down, we played battleships on his Sony phone, which was like an iPhone, but not. He went into all the details but I was too drunk to follow. He then went into the failings of Apple products until I felt like I was at some sort of Sony Style Cult meeting. He said he was a commerce student and only worked part time at IRD, but I have my reservations. If I hadn’t met Salient’s lovely editor myself, I would’ve thought that they had bought into some shady deal sending out poor unwitting students on these ‘blind dates’ which are actually just a front for stealthy advertising/market research/recruitment campaigns for big corporations. But maybe that was just the drunk paranoia kicking in. And why bother when you can just set up a fake account on Facebook to spy on people? (Maybe this is my unrealised calling? Corporate spy?)

Anyway, I don’t remember a whole lot. Sony, something something, your aunt’s my aunt or whatever. I don’t know. Who dates? Don’t we all just get drunk in a corner somewhere and fondle someone? My first blind date, probably my last blind date. It was interesting. Thanks Salient!

XOXO

Blind Date Girl (sorry, I just had to)

Him:

So I walk into the bar at like 8.10 and there’s this fit-as chick just chilling at the counter. It was the second level of the Garden Bar which I’d never been to before, but I liked ‘cause it was sort of outdoors but not really. I play ultimate disk (NOT frisbee) in summer so I’m used to the outdoors, but drinking outside buzzed me out a bit.

Anyway, I started talking to her and tried some serious Mystery shit out, dropping a few negs her way, asking her if her nails are real and shit like that. She just didn’t seem to get it so I let her screw around on my phone for a while. She thought it was an iPhone—rookie mistake. I pointed out the “X1 Xperia” on the back of it and totally schooled her on the difference between a real phone and an overpriced touchscreen hunk of junk. By the sixth cocktail I think she was starting to get it and was giving me mad glad-eye. I told her about my job and she asked if I could do her tax return for her. I stopped short of dropping a sweet pickup line in there cause the last time I tried to get someone to do a tax return for me at the office I just got a written warning.

After 9 her eyes sort of drifted towards each other like the time Jareth fell over mid kegger at my 21st, so we talked about where we came from and it turns out we’re related! She was my second cousin so it wasn’t really close enough to be a dealbreaker or anything. Not that we did anything, but if we did it wouldn’t have been weird, right? And it’s probably not illegal, and if it is it’s like pretty much a victimless crime because it’s not like I wasn’t going to use protection so there’s not gonna be like an octopus baby or a wolf child or something.

Taco,

Blind Date Dude

The second option, response b), is one of mild horror. ‘Activist’ is often considered synonymous with ‘terrorist’. Mix-ups aside, there are quite a few issues with the terrorist label anyway. There’s currently no internationally agreed-upon definition of terrorism under criminal law, and the term is often used by authorities to delegitimise opponents while approving of state actions. Whatever the problems with the general concept, activism and terrorism are definitely not interchangeable nouns.

Personally, almost every activist I’ve met has been super nice: they would help you plant your veggie patch, give you a bed when you’re sleepy, a bowl of stew when you’re broke. Terrifying if you’re scared of Scottish Fold kittens, perhaps.

Let’s zoom in and look at activism in its most stereotypical ‘macho’ form: direct action. Direct action is action undertaken by individuals or collectives outside of the usual political field with the aim of realising political, social or economic changes. It’s not necessarily illegal. This is how ‘activism’ is frequently portrayed in conventional media: the newsworthy, train-stopping, ship-jumping side.

There are many environmentalists out there who dislike direct action wholeheartedly. However, many of the groundbreaking events in our history books were scandalous, socially unacceptable and illegal, in their day. Instead of us seeing them in a negative light, time has cast them in a rosy glow. Rosa Parks, women’s liberation, Ghandi’s salt march, peaceful resistance at Parihaka… I think we can all agree that direct action has helped humans get to places we needed to go. When my indignant enviro-pals chorus “but you’re polarising people!”, they are forgetting the freedoms and human rights that radical activism has won. When we need big societal changes, such as for climate change, baby steps like changing light bulbs aren’t going to cut it alone. A problem like climate change is of epic Jurassic Park-like proportions, and calls for many forms of attack; action in Veloraciptor, Diplodoci and T-Rex forms.

Direct action isn’t to everyone’s taste, but that doesn’t guarantee status as a political wallflower. We don’t all have to be Pete Bethunes to make some sort of difference. A whole artillery (unfortunate metaphor) of action on social and environmental crises are needed: grandpas in the rear, writing letters to the editors; mums voraciously picketing on the frontline; students sweeping in from the side to ferociously lobby politicians; young professionals taking out fossil-fuelled power stations left right and centre. Change can come in many forms, regardless of an individual’s personal preferences.

Not only are healthy communities and societies dependent on the participation of us all, being actively involved in deciding how we affect our world is our right.

Plants new vege garden, mucks more shit up

After pledging to support a more sustainable community at Victoria University, VUWSA has recently re-planted their vegetable garden.

A recent addition to the VUWSA Constitution, the notion of a sustainability goal at Vic was generally welcomed by the student body at a recent IGM. While the VUWSA vege garden was developed many years ago by a former environmental officer, its recent changes were aimed at making students think about growing their own produce.

With winter weather hampering gardening efforts across Wellington, VUWSA Environmental Officer Zachary Dorner remained positive about their initiative despite concerns for the amount of produce the garden could deliver.

“Ideally the VUWSA vege garden will get people thinking about gardening. It’s a cheap, healthy and very local way for students to feed themselves.
Students are of course welcome to pick the rosemary and a few lettuce leaves. We may give it away with food bank packages or for free in the quad.”

The VUWSA garden is located outside their former offices in the Student Union Building. Suggestions for developments and ideas on distributing the food are welcomed.