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By Ryan Cleland   In 1976, Salient ran an advertisement for a small radio-station club on campus. The following year, the student radio...

Words by Will Irvine I’m the only person left on the bus when the driver drops me off at Mt. Crawford Prison. The area’s been abandoned...

By Jia Sharma In the vast spaces of Wellington’s music scene, few club nights have stood the test of time like Atomic  and 24 Hour Party...

By Grace Bridle Coolness at my primary school in 2011 was defined by one thing – watching The X Factor . If you were one of those unlucky...

By Josh Smith I first saw Park Flyers at the Jam Factory in Tauranga around a year ago. Before this I never really got the appeal of...

Fergus Goodall Smith Journalistic titan Guyon Espiner has been in the media industry for over thirty years. He’s worked in print, radio,...

Fergus Goodall Smith Succession, one of the greatest shows to ever grace the pixels of our screens, is about a family. A very fucked up,...

Ethan Rogacion (he/him) Ahh, the Old Government Building. Home of a bizarre exhibition about the history of the public service, an...

Will Irvine (he/him) It’s become a truism at this point that developing an in-person study routine is crucial to ensuring academic...

By Emma Maguire  (they/them)   You might know the Student Union Building from its greatest hits; excellent pizza from the Hunter Lounge,...

By Maya Field and Georgia Wearing  If you ever needed a visual metaphor for the prosperity gap in Aotearoa, or even globally, you can...

Jia Sharma (she/her) I once had to rush from a Tort Law lecture about false imprisonment at Pipitea to a film screening of The Princess...

By the Pōneke Anti-Fascist Coalition. The battle for workers’ rights is a fundamentally anti-fascist kaupapa. In their struggle for...

Kennedy Dailey (She/Her) At the pub quiz, on a particularly intoxicated Tuesday, I met a guy wearing a t-shirt of Che  Guevara’s portrait...

Words by Maya Field (she/her) When I told people that I worked in a retirement village, specifically a bartender in a retirement village,...

Improving workers’ lives under a hostile government William Bell-Purchas (he/him) Over the last year, the National–Act–New Zealand First...

SAAD AAMIR (He/Him) The myth of Atlas has fascinated people since antiquity— a man condemned to bear the crushing weight of the world for...

Jia Sharma (she/her) O-Week is often described as one of the cornerstones of the first-year experience. But while the money management...

By Hope Cotton (she/her)   Starting university can be intimidating for us all. When you add the extra challenges of navigating an...