Chaff, 69(24), 2003-09-29 (2025)

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	[...]EDITORIAL chaff. ed@musa.org.nz I think one of the problems we have in today’s world is that our leaders and teachers are useless. Don’t get me wrong, we all have lecturers who are brilliant and inspire us to learn, but how many of you have had a lecturer who was merely th[...]bout you at all? I remember back at college, sure the teachers were all nice people, and some of them w[...]ey weren’t there for us — they were there for the cash. Where is our inspiration these days? Telev[...]ap thrill, no—brainer garbage. Our politicians? The government blatantly lied to students to win your vote. The leaders of the free world? This is getting ridiculous... Tertiary students these days are getting vocational training so that we may go on[...]ou a job so that you may live a good life and pay the bills, but what sort of people are we becoming? The answer is commodities. No longer do the youth of this world go to university to become better people, to learn the wisdom of the ages, to learn how to think. The fact that a lot of you will scoff at the idea that the arts, for example, should be an important part of our university environment helps to prove the point. The concept of abstract learning, of questioning life and the way it is lived, expressed, and experienced, is fast becoming an old joke. Gone are the days when students broadened their minds by going to see their fellows at the theatre, or indeed by taking part themselves. Philosophy majors are widely seen as a joke. Poets are wankers. Shakespeare is one of the best screenwriters in Hollywood... Nowadays, the majority of us see such things as stupid. That’[...]tupid. To admit that we shouldn’t be living off the backs of Third World labour and resources is moro[...]stop and reﬂect is a waste of time and money. The previous generation really let us down. They pass[...]h a need to earn so that we may spend. They broke the vicious cycle of thinking. And now, to top it all off, what are we doing for the next generation? We’re passing it on! We don’[...]s fee setting time! This Friday October 3 at 10am in Refectory 1 the University Council will be deciding on your fees[...]u want to make a difference, believe me, you can. The more students who simply turn up put greater pressure on the Council to consider the people their decisions will be affecting. This university is in a very healthy position and there is no justiﬁcation for any fee increases. Postgraduate students are in a vulnerable position, as the government has not included them in the ceiling it’s put on potential university fee rises. Here are some of the facts and arguments from MUSA regarding fee setti[...]es place at a University Council meeting. This is the highest governing body of the University and is made up of three student repres[...]th academic and general), and people appointed by the Minister of Education. 0 The first part of the meeting is public and students are welcome to attend. Students NEED to come and support the student representatives who are fighting for fee reductions! o This month on the agenda of the Council meeting is domestic student fee setting for 2004. The meeting will be held in Refectory 1 starting at 10am, this Friday October 3. Student reps won’t know what recommendations the University will be making until the agenda comes out about four days before the meeting. It’s vital that students take this opportunity to back the Students’ Association reps when they ﬁght for[...]fabulous successes lately, including fee maxima. The government announced that they would set some limits to how high student fees could go, presumably because th[...]nd lower debt through lower fees is a way to keep the skilled in New Zealand. Research has proven that there is a[...]en to stay. As a direct result of student protest the potential for fees to rise by up to 40 percent was smashed and the government was pressured by student action to lower the ceiling to ﬁve percent. Scrutiny and justiﬁcation of expenditure in areas such as marketing, on which they spent $23 million last year, and infrastructure are key. What makes a university is its staff and Yo[...]al, not marble, and we need to be able to justify the investment. But Massey University is in an extremely healthy ﬁnancial position, having[...]n—dollar surplus for 2002 and at July this year the surplus was nine million dollars. This university has a huge opportunity to market Massey as the university that values teaching research and lear[...]tudents. Students after three years of fee freeze are quite aware of prices of courses now, as we see m[...]institutions. Massey has a solid reputation, and the free advertising alone — to be the ﬁrst university to actively reduce fees — wou[...]Either way, this is an extremely low risk move. The government has increased funding to cover inﬂation and some additional funding; ﬁnancially[...]their voices heard as they we’re excluded from the guidelines set out by government (fee maxima) and there arethe government to change the decision that if the University wants to increase postgraduate fees they need to run it by the Tertiary Education Commission if the amount was over $1,000, down to needing to check[...]with universities being bastions of research and the Performance Based Research Fund adding a new dimension to university funding, and highlighting the need to encourage students to enter into postgraduate study. Students have the right for the University to justify the decisions made at the Council meeting. Make them look you in the eye when they set your fees and determine how much debt you’ll have to repay. Things don’t[...]ake them. Victoria students were so unhappy with the proposed fee increase of three percent that they attended the meeting and protested so loudly that the meeting couldn’t take place. The Council needs to see that there are huge numbers of students that this will affect and they front up to support their student reps; the arguments will be backed up by a loud student voi[...]Editorial, Difference. President, Letters, Spot the 6 News 10 Sport 11 Feature CHAFF takes a look at GE 12 Feature Selling the drama - The Festival of New Arts 14 Feature Middle Road - A short story by Paul Parsons 15 Feature The Manawatu Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre fill us in on drug rape 16 Arts Clubscene and poetry 18 Feature Karma to burn - Leeroy Gribbon examines the injustice of Bhopal 20 Film Society and TV ,4 Wedding in Rama/iah and M/ke King Tonight 21 Books The Other Boleyn Girl and The House of God 22 Video and game Dark Blue World,[...]ed White and B/onde a nd Lara Croft T omh Raider: The Cradle of Life 24 Music Reviews of A Perfect Ci[...]30 Deviant 31 MUSA and election candidates Meet the candidates 32 Columns 35 Classifieds and[...]
	etters Letter of the Week Women’s Week - stupid or trying to fool us[...]pe they had fun. All is well, except for some of the lies they told us. Either they are stupid, or they think we are stupid. On concourse they were selling sausages, fundraising for their (?) well... womanhood I guess. The sausages were almost as tasty as the gay Pride Week’s sausages (where was the mustard, women?). Not only did you get a sausage,[...]anky $8.40 note. This was fine except for some of the lies they told on the back of this note. This note on the back has a list of ‘facts’ under the title, ‘In the year 2003’, but these facts could not be further from the truth, with all the facts created from data two to four years old. “NZ women’s average hourly pay rate is only 84 percent of the average hourly pay rate of NZ men” — This comes from the Average Hourly Earnings Income Supplement from 2001. This is over two years old, yet the women claim that this happened in the year 2003? “The pay gap between men and women with tertiary qualifications is bigger than the gap between men and women with no qualifications” — This ‘in the year 2003 fact’ comes from a briefing to incoming Minister of Women’s Affairs, done in 1999! I’m sorry, but this happened four, almost five, years ago. If women think that these facts are still valid then maybe they should be getting paid less. “The average female bachelor’s graduate takes nearly[...]nt” — This is “According to calculations by the NZ university students”. How is this possible? I am a NZ university student, I have been for the last 2.5 years, and I wasn’t even involved, let[...]ions! This can’t be held as a fact, as firstly, the source can’t be verified correct, and unlimited amount of bias can exist. Also, how do NZ university students know how long it takes to pay a loan back? We haven’t even got our degree yet. “Apart from the gender pay gap there is also an ethnicity pay gap.” — This was taken from “association using the Iverson model — association with what? The life span of blue cars? Once again, another fact[...]8.40 note is a joke, and made me angry that women are parading around with outdated and ﬂawed facts about how they are treated. Maybe they should put some effort into getting up to date information and finding the sources of their data so we know they are telling the truth. I fully support equal rights for women, d[...]g. But I think women should be offended that they are being misrepresented by their fellow brethren. They either think we are dumb enough to believe these useless, outdated facts, or they are stupid enough to think these facts are still up to date. This makes me wonder if they de[...]ss White Male Congratulations Whitey! Come up to the CHAFF oﬁ‘ice to collect your music voucher! Dear Editor, It might suit some people in society to believe that claims about the gender pay gap are lies, but the evidence is that women are still discriminated against in many aspects of our lives. The fact that women take on average twice as long as[...]loan is a ﬁgure based on average borrowing from the student loan scheme matched with census income data. The model used for determining the repayment time is based on the Iverson Model. Most of the statistics we use are based on census data, which is not undertaken eve[...]to undertake widespread and accurate research on the gender pay gap as of the day before suﬁrage day the gender pay gap would still exist as it has since the ﬁrst woman was paid for any work. Even the Government has recognised the existence of the gender pay gap, and in 2003 they established a Pay Equity Taskforce to deal to the gender pay gap and with a mandate to establish a we ear lan in order to do this! If the taskforce succeeds at this, I will be very surpri[...]ime. Does ‘white middle class male’ know that the suﬁragettes campaigned for pay equity 110 years ago and we still don’t have it (according to the government, if he won’t listen to anyone else)? If he did, this would give him a more realistic timeframe in which to view the gender pay gap. Women not only deserve equal pay; we are entitled to it. The campaign for equal pay for work of equal value wi[...]ve been informed that a spirited debate regarding the causes and consequences of the events of September 1 1 has recently graced CHAFF’s pages. From the apartment where I live, I can walk approximately 300 metres to Pier 1A Park and overlook the borough of Manhattan. A week and a half ago I walked out into the park on September 11 and looked out over downtown New York City and saw two great beams of light in the sky and nothing more. I then walked through the park and looked at all the miniature shrines containing personal information about the people of Hoboken whom died on that day two years prior. The pictures and accompanying text regarding the souls was relatively standard fare. The people who died on September 1 1 were mothers, fa[...]espected and had an ambition to live a good life. In short: the victims of 9/1 1 were like you and me. The only significant difference between the people that were described in the still photographs and affectionate descriptions written by their survivors and you and I was a difference in latitudinal and longitudinal orientation on 9/11/[...]e been to New Zealand and I enjoyed my experience in your beautiful country full of amiable people immensely. Today I write particularly in regard to the rather provincial notion that the United States of America is composed of a homogen[...]responsibility for 9/ 1 1 that has been expressed in your publication. If possible, I would like to dispel the notion that the people of the United States are a group of George W. Bush clones bent on world domination. This country contains the people of Patterson, New Jersey, that danced in the streets on 9/ 11 in celebration and the equally deplorable persons that shot up convenien[...]od US citizens that shared a common ancestry with the 9/ 1 1 attackers. We have people more liberal tha[...]) and people more conservative than Pat Buchanan. In short, the US is the epitome of diversity and the notion that our melting pot could somehow collect[...]e a burden of responsibility for somehow inviting the 9/ 11 attacks is absurd. For those who dismiss m[...]al heritage (and please forgive me if a few lines are incorrect as I write solely from memory which ten[...]island, entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod bee is washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were, as well as[...]an’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.” Peace, Love, and Empathy, — Daniel White How much money? Dear Protestors, When I walked around campus on Monday morning and saw all of the graffiti relating to the “Protest at the Fitz” on Saturday, Iwondered how much money this protest was really about. I mean, if the students are asking for a little bit of money, then the government would be silly not to try and buy thei[...]en there were 188,569 full time tertiary students in 2001 , according the Ministry of Education statistics. That obviously doesn’t include the 204,640 who were part timers. We of course must subtract the 26,750 international students who no one really c[...]819 Kiwi, full time students, since I assume that the Universal Allowance would ONLY apply to them. Part timers might be considered, but the ﬁgures are too hard to work out from government published statistics. That means that in 38 university weeks in a year, using a round weekly ﬁgure of $150 per student, that these protests are essentially asking for $922,368,300. Oh... subtract the 387 million the government already spends on student allowances,[...]535,368,300. On top of that, NZUSA has called for the EUB. That’s pay for those of the 161,819 who can’t ﬁnd work over the summer. Since I love rough estimates... let’s say half can’t find work over the summer... or even less... let’s say one quarter[...]5 students = $84,954,975. Do I really need to add the demand that they abolish fees and forgive all stu[...]proximately 48 percent of overall student numbers are full time. Let’s apply this to ONLY the number of university students, even though the percentage of university students who study full[...]by 48 percent, which equals 70,764 students. And the average cost per student per year in fees is $4,000, so the amount NZUSA is asking for there is $283,056,000, on top of the $1,754 million that the government already spends on tuition subsidies. The sum total that the protestors are asking for? $858,379,275, above and beyond the $2,141 million the government already spends, and that is without fo[...]s and a bit far—fetched? You can understand why the government doesn’t listen to the radicals anymore. And while I am on the subject of ridiculous claims, let’s examine the claim that women should have DIFFERENT rights than men under the UN Declaration on Human Rights. I thought the Declaration was about equality, not preferential treatment? In case I am mistaken, I think the Declaration says something about not being allowe[...]government loan scheme for men and women violate the Human Rights Declaration? Women are completely legitimate in saying that it is unfair that men make more money than women for the same job, but does creating another skewed system contribute in any way to solving the problem? Work harder on equal pay legislation and[...]ell, you have, and more than once. Including you, the Bull Ring has received, over the two semesters, a rather cumbersome amount of feed[...]one well to belittle what I have to say. However, the difference is, I can still have a laugh, ha ha. By the way you are wrong again. Putting two and two together does not equal three. Ben Carmicheal, as far as I know, was in the running for MUSA President — isn’t he studyin[...]itically Correct”. You stated along these lines in your last reply to me. Why should we be politically correct? We have opinions and they should be heard. The majority of the columns in the Bull Ring this year have challenged political cor[...]ould be willing to voice opinion rather than hide in the closet. — Agboy Feminists condoning violence[...]ndies still haven’t given up rabbiting on about the Prostitution Law Reform Act. I think I’ll provi[...]land and New South Wales have done. Secondly, oh, how predictable, the Christian Right is using exactly the same tactics that it did in New South Wales just after the passage of liberalised brothel regulation laws th[...]r Ms Garry mind confirming that his or her events are actually transpiring in this city, or any other, because it sounds like t[...]al sheet from a certain pressure group. Thirdly, the ‘critics’ are the Christian Right and right—wing ‘feminists’ like Sheila Jeffreys, who are opposed by mainstream feminist advocates of occup[...]prostitution law reform never refer to Queensland in the early nineties, where solo escort work was the only permissible form of legal sex work, and wome[...]rovoke some debate but I feel it must be said. We are hearing in the news and around campus that the government is to review student loans and allowances. People are saying that life is real bad and that everybody is up to their eyeballs in debt and feel like they’re shitting razorblades; well I’d like to say that this need not be the case if people got off their arses and did a bit[...]very chance. I haven’t missed out on getting on the piss or socialising by any means, but the fact of the matter is that no degree requires everybody to do[...]r time. Students have six weeks of holiday during the year, let alone what they get between years, which equates to around 21 weeks of time students are able to partake in full time work. 21 weeks at $350 a week is over $7,300 a year, which if everybody did would reduce the need for student loans and subsequently the whinging associated with debt ridden students, let alone what you could make in a part time job while you’re studying. Think ab[...]altitude requires attitude... — Don’t Blame the Government From the Left - harden up you pussy Hey Andrew Campbell from the Left, Have you had your head stuck in a cream can for some time now mate? If so, let me bang the can with a hammer. Your article in last week’s CHAFF regarding police inconsistency on the grounds of Parliament was far from correct. The police were so consistent in their actions it was almost laughable. Firstly, there were no baton—wielding police confronting the protestors because the police have respect for farmers and what they do[...]ights protestors like you assume. Why? Farmer’s are looking after their and this country’s liveliho[...]ting friends offer? Fuck all! Therefore, back to the police consistency. The police were consistent in the fact they left the farmers alone, as they have done previousl[...]
	[...]failings, not our ‘feelings’, as was printed in CHAFF. Maybe it was my handwriting, but I forgive[...]— Scott Mackay Potential for abuse of power Are we really ready for this I wonder? Parliament’s Select Committee has recommended the Supreme Court Bill proceed, despite most submissions opposed to abolishing appeal to the Privy Council. The main argument they gave in favour is that we need our own ‘identity’, to[...]what’s wrong with our identity I ask. Here’s the thing: what we’re seeing is not just a new court but a foundational shift in the basis of our constitutional framework and where i[...]t on earth for? Our system of law, inherited from the British (Westminster) tradition, is based on centuries of hard—fought battles between the powers of the monarch and those of ordinary people expressed through parliament. The English Civil Wars (1642—48), for example, ended the old belief among monarchs that they had a ‘divine r[...]ule — that they could do as they wished without the consent of parliament. As British democracy evolved, the monarch came to be more of a figurehead, overseei[...]h and state became clearly separated, even though the highest official of the Anglican Church (the Archbishop of Canterbury) crowned the monarch. That was retained because he represented an authority above the state to which all mortals were reminded they wer[...]lic, but it’s an important symbolism concerning the nature of authority: the Deity — the Church — the Monarch — the Government (the people’s representatives). Remove that structure and the potential exists for an abuse of power. Why would[...]Cassey Enough peace talk Why is it so hard for the world to understand you can’t negotiate with terrorists? How much innocent blood needs to be spilled before we acknowledge the Palestinian ‘peace process’ has failed? How many more little children and old people have to be blown up by evil suicidal maniacs before we say, ‘enough is enough!’ How much longer are we going to be told this is just a ‘cycle of violence’? Can’t the UN, USA and even our own government see the unfairness of it all? I feel it is time to speak up. What I read and see in the media concerning the so—called Middle East crisis is so biased. And[...]fully holding hands with murderer Yasser Arafat. The murderer was the only one who benefited. Since the beginning of the Oslo Accords in 1993, Israel has fulfilled all of its commitments to peace: — Given the Palestinian Authority control over the West Bank and Gaza Strip. — Dismantled Jewish[...]en convicted of committing terrorist acts against the Jewish state. — Used its schools and its media to promote peace and harmony with the Arabs. — Provided arms and ammunition to the Palestinian police force. — Continued to negotiate in good faith despite nearly 19,000 terrorist attacks in the last three years and over 800 Israeli civilians dead. — It has placed itself in a position where its own military is no longer certain it can defend it. — For the sake of peace Israel has offered part of its own sacred capital city to the Arabs. — Long before that, Israel even gave administrative authority to its enemies over the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple Mount. What has Israel received in return? Bloodshed. Nothing else. The more Israel gives, the more violence it experiences at the hands of its enemies. This is what we in the West are being told is a ‘cycle of violence ’. Israel[...]e online Dear CHAFF, I And kia ora everyone. The United States of America (USA) tends to have a bad reputation in left wing circles these days. However, there are many examples of how the USA still leads in the world. One of these comes from one of the USA’s top universities; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT. MIT has put nearly its entire programme online in the form of OpenCourseWare. This runs counter to the market drive ethos of most other universities and training institutions around the world. MIT hopes that educators and students will be able to utilise these course materials. The OCW (OpenCourseWare) site now consists of about 2[...]schedule, releasing batches of new courses on to the MITOCW site on a weekly basis. To check out MIT’s OCW web programme, just type in a search engine MIT and go to OCW homepage, httpz[...]s, — Matthew Hodgetts Team Massey, winners of the 2003 NZ University Games. Spot the FIVE deliberate differences between the pictures below, add your details and get them to CHAFF (upstairs in the student centre (Turitea) or MUSA Fishbowl (Hokowhitu) by 5pm Weds and go in the draw to win a case of sugar-free V! Multiple entries are not accepted Dear Student Counselling, I’m involved in a drama performance that I have written. The problem is that the cast seem to be taking over and turning my play into something that I hadn’t intended. Their ideas are cool and everything, but I wish I could be more assertive in some way. I don’t want to offend anybody though[...]not help. Perhaps you can try a third way? There are always three ways! On one hand you can tell the cast that your ideas are right and that this is how things will be — disregarding their opinions (basically you are right and they are wrong). But you say that they have some pretty good ideas and perhaps they could improve on the production (like your brother always would do?) so you can let them have their needs met at the expense of your own (once again — basically that they are right and you are not; that their opinions count and that yours do not). The first way is what we would call ‘aggressive behaviour’, the second way is ‘passive behaviour’, but the third way is assertive behaviour — your opinions are important and theirs are also important. Sounds easy in theory, but is a lot more difficult in practise for all sorts of reasons (it reminds you of how your brother treated you? It makes you angry? You[...]nd it is your project anyway?). Assertive people are honest about what they think and feel, they choos[...]eally works. Start by describing (not evaluating) the action (when you suggest changes to the play) and then saying how you feel (I feel anxious, OR perhaps confused) be[...]s to be my project, OR name (multiple entries are not accepted) student id# campus[...]er Make some sense? Obviously it is harder to do in real life than it may seem, so perhaps you’d like to come and discuss it with one of the counsellors? We can help you identify the feelings and look for ways of dealing with these strong feelings. We can even help you role— play how to respond (after all, you are an actor, so we can use the skills you already have). Good luck — and send us tickets to the opening night — Student Counselling Serv[...]
	email 2903 “Are you violating my ththouse?” The official newspaper of the Massey University Students’ Association Privat[...]chaff.ed@musa.org.nz NEWS EDITOR I’ve got ants in my pants Anne-Marie Emerson Ph: 350 4504 chaff.n[...]74 811 492 DESIGN EDITOR It’s doing my head in. Graeme Beal Ph: 350 4516 chaff.design.ed@musa.or[...]ilson Jevon Wright Steven Youngblood DISCLAIMER: The views and ideas expressed within CHAFF are not necessarily those of CHAFF staff, the Massey University Students Association, Massey University, or associated advertisers. I WORD OF THE WEEK: Rahina - Monday news 2’ 3.3.9.5252; Changes are being planned to undergraduate laboratory space in the College of Science. An interim report on the planned changes suggest that many of the existing labs are too large for the class sizes using them, and the hours of use during semester are too low. The report said there is a need for fewer, shared lab[...]and sub—dividable space within those labs that are retained. The interim report suggests the development of two multi—purpose undergraduate[...]g lab space. These two complexes would be located in Ag Hort C, and Science Tower D. Lab space is exp[...]environmental science, animal physiology, animal anatomy, soil and earth sciences. MUSA has been liaising with the project team on the proposed changes. However, MUSA was only given a week to Wanna be the big boss (well, one of them)? Applications are now open for the position of New Zealand Universities Students’ Association (NZUSA) Co—President for 2004. The positions of National Women’s Rights Ofﬁcer and the ﬁrst Co—President, were ﬁlled at the NZUSA Conference in Palmerston North earlier this month. A decision was unable to be reached on the second Co—President position. Any students’ association member can apply for the position. Applications for the position must be received at the ofﬁce of Kensington Swan Barristers and Solicitors in Wellington no later than 5pm on October 8. The election, which will include all of NZUSA’s mem[...]efore that date. For further information contact the returning ofﬁcer, Hayden Wilson, at Kensington[...]hayden.wilson@kensingtonswan.com I'm just off to the loo: should be out in 5 mins And did you see the worms on Fear- Factor ? Lab changes could aff[...]. Sport ? I can't believe it: he sat next to me in Chem I consult with students, which made it difﬁcult to adequately inform students of the situation. Two forums were held on September 17 and 19 —the ﬁrst was just for students, the second for students and members of the project team. MUSA’s VP Education, Simon Carryer, then made’a submission to the project team with students’ concerns. The final report on the project was released last Thursday, with several[...]e available. Mr Carryer said he was pleased with the changes in the final report, but noted that it is important students are consulted during the entire planning process. From here, design of the new laboratory complexes will begin, with work due to start next year. The project is expected to take several years to complete. If you like more information on the planned changes please contact Simon Carryer, on Massey ext 4506 or vp.education@musa.org.nz. Let the campaigns begin Campaigning for next week’s by[...]tarts today, with two positions being contested. In the MUSA general elections in August no—one stood for the positions of Recreation and Leisure Ofﬁcer, Int[...]ves. Siosaia Makahununiu and Mafa Tini Tuisau won the Paciﬁc Islands Students’ Ofﬁcer, and Kelly MacDougall the Maori Students’ Ofﬁcer. The by—election next week will elect the Recreation and Leisure Ofﬁcer and International Ofﬁcer. Standing for the Rec and Leisure position are: Mieke Wieneke and Rachel Dominick, Scott Dunning, and Andrew Wylie. Standing for the International position are: Yosia Pratama and Rose Henindra, and Ko Shun Lee and Santiago Bermeo. More information on some of the candidates (the ones that submitted blurbs) can be found o[...]
	Auckland students vote to remain voluntary In results announced on September 19, Auckland University students voted to retain voluntary membership of the Auckland University Students’ Association (AUSA[...]ile 2224 voted for compulsory. At Auckland Unitec the result was somewhat closer — 1955 for voluntary and 1316 for compulsory. This is the third time Auckland students have voted to remain voluntary. Auckland University is the only university in New Zealand to currently have a voluntary student[...]g voluntary students association membership, said the vote was great news. “A lot of students spent[...]t Kelly said, “Obviously I am disappointed with the result. “This is not just disappointing for me[...]lsory membership.” Mr Kelly went on to say: “The recent decision by the University to increase fees signiﬁcantly, and in some cases past the fees maxima, shows thethe rights of students as it has since its formation in 1891.” Massey students’ last vote on association membership was in 1999. 8807 voted to retain compulsory membership, and 5003 to move to voluntary. The spring-fresh MUSA Executive report! The last MUSA Executive meeting was held at 3.30pm on Friday, September 19, 2003, in the Student Centre Boardroom. 0 Andrea Grant, the MUSA President, chaired the meeting. 0 Executive members present: Jason Blai[...]esent: Anne—Marie Emerson and Iain Galloway. o The minutes of the meeting ofAugust 29 were accepted as a true and accurate record. 0 The inwards mail was accepted and the outwards mail ratiﬁed. 0 There were no matters arising from the minutes. 0 President’s weekly report: Andrea reported on what she had been doing for the past week. 0 Executive round: there wasn’t one[...]report and answered questions. Her highlights for the quarter were the Tertiary Women’s Focus Group (TWFG) and the NZUSA September conference. The report was accepted with one abstention. 0 Repor[...](Sasa Lisovac and Ninya Maubach). Ninya presented the report and answered questions. Similarly, she listed her highlights and TWFG and NZUSA conference. The report was accepted with one abstention. 0 Repor[...]rt (Hannah Brown and Erin Wilson). Erin presented the report and answered questions. She listed TWFG and Women’s Fest as her highlights. The report was accepted with one abstention. 0 Repor[...](Alex Shipkov and Ross Williams). Alex presented the report and answered questions. He said the primary vs secondary rugby series was a highlight (secondary won), also the Hokowhitu Ball. The report was accepted with one abstention. 0 Repor[...]ort (Joel Lim and Karai Taukarai). Joel presented the report and answered questions. The report was accepted with one abstention. o The Executive passed a motion extending its deepest sympathy to Joel for sacriﬁcing his foot for the MUSA team during indoor soccer. 0 Financial business: Adam Maynard presented the ﬁnancial report for July, which was noted. The next Executive meeting will be held at 3.30pm on Friday, October 3, in the Student Centre Boardroom. All welcome. CHAFF wil[...]l Executive meetings to help keep you informed of the latest happenings at MUSA. CHAFF: Breaking news while the others break wind ALWAYS OPEN TILL LATE! SOME OF THE BEST BAR PRICES IN TOWN! WE HAVE A CASINO! FITZHERBERT AVE. PALMER[...]04 Massey courses will take place at a meeting of the University Council. The University Council is the highest governing body of the university. It is made up of three student repres[...]al staff representatives, and people appointed by the Minister of Education. The Council meets once a month. The ﬁrst part of the meeting is open to the public, and students are welcome to attend. MUSA would like to see as many students at the meeting as possible. At the time of writing it was unclear what the Council was intending to do in regard to fees. MUSA President Andrea Grant says the university is in a good position to keep fees stable, or even reduce them. “Massey is in an extremely healthy ﬁnancial position, having made a $16 million surplus for 2002. In July this year the surplus was at $9 million. Massey has a solid reputation, and the free advertising that would come from being the ﬁrst university to actively reduce fees would b[...]ould like students to attend this meeting so that the Council can see the people who are affected by their decisions.” The Council meeting will be held in Refectory 1 at 10am this Friday. For more[...]
	Performers at the Papua New Guinea Independence Day celebration: About 100 people from all over New Zealand attended the celebration, which was held in the Massey Events Centre on September 20. The actual date of PNG Independence is September 16.[...]ents ‘Decision Time’ was held last Wednesday in SSLB. This was a chance for ﬁrst—year student[...]ilable for students to talk to. CHAFF understands the forum was well—attended. The Massey Young Farmers Club took advantage of the ﬁne weather and put on a barbeque for students[...]eate links between Massey students and industry. The general idea of the club is to make Massey graduates more employable, and to do this we need to better understand the needs of ﬁrms in industry. We need to meet their expectations by providing students with the necessary resources, skills, experience and oppor[...]ject element, students volunteering to do project in order to get experience, running seminars or sessions of interest to both students and industry. While in the process of providing these things to students it is hoped industry will beneﬁt as well, in both the short term and long term. The inaugural event of Massey Connexions is a dinner at Diablo’s next Monday, October 6, at 6pm. The guest speaker is John Heng, Click Clack group chi[...]th industry people. “Many business people from the local business community are expected to attend the dinner, so it should be a great opportunity for students,” Mr Lai said. He added that if the event was successful, other similar events will be organised in the future. Tickets for the dinner can be purchased from Diablo’s, and cost[...]o be launched A new literary arts journal, based in the Bay of Plenty, is to be launched in November this year. Bravado will be published bi—annually and act as a show case for the wealth of writing talent that exists in New Zealand. A team of three, the Bravado Editorial Collective, will produce Bravado between them. The Co—ordinating Editor is Jenny Argante, who has had books, articles, short stories and poems published in New Zealand, the UK, and America. She is poetry editor of Freelanc[...]mber will also take over as newsletter editor for the NZ Poetry Society. Sue Emms will be Fiction Edit[...]iter Owen Bullock will be Poetry Editor. Owen was the featured poet in the most recent issue of Poetry New Zealand, one of New Zealand’s most prestigious literary journal. The editors would like to hear from contributors, sub[...]late - Sunday StudyLink making changes Over the next few months StudyLink is introducing some cha[...]assistance and make it easier for student to get the help they need. Some changes will affect every student, while others will affect small groups of students. The changes apply from different dates starting from[...]after January 1, 2004. Here is a brief outline of the changes to be made: More 16 and 17 year olds wil[...], 2004, students studying part—time for part of the year may be eligible for a student loan. - The Student Work Start Grant will be abolished from O[...]03. Full—time students will now be eligible for the standard Work Start Grant. - Around 500 students could be eligible for the new Step Up tertiary scholarships, for students from low—income backgrounds. Applications for the scholarships will be available from October 1 and[...]govt.nz. Kiwi women fake orgasms! Results from the 2003 Durex Global Sex Survey released last week r[...]they have faked an orgasm. This is well ahead of the global female average of 48 percent. Only 12 percent of men globally admitted to having faked an orgasm. The survey also reveals that frequency of sex is on the decline, with the global average falling from 139 to 127 times per year. Despite this global decline, Kiwis are still ahead of the global average and, most importantly, we’re beating the Aussies. Kiwis are having sex on average 130 times per year, compared to the Aussies at 125 times. Almost a quarter of Kiwis h[...]e than 150,000 people from 34 countries took part in this year’s biggest ever Durex Global Sex Survey, which provides an insight into the sexual attitudes and behaviour of people around the world. “We’re really happy with this year’[...]w be classiﬁed as another sport we’re beating the Aussies at!” The more serious ﬁndings from this year’s Durex Global Sex Survey will be released in late November to coincide with World Aids[...]
	[...]l meeting. A contingent of eight students forced the cancellation of the September 17 council meeting, which was likely to[...]percent. Chair Rosemary Barrington tried to call the meeting to order half an hour after the meeting was scheduled to start, but could not mak[...]hford to enquire whether she had any control over the crowd. Ms Rochford indicated they would listen to[...]. Ms Rochford said, “Do we want to be quiet so the meeting can be conducted in an orderly way?” The crowd responded by shouting, “No!” “This means they’re going to disband the meeting because they’re not willing to have a debate while the protesters are here. Is that okay?” a The students responded with a shouted “Yes!” followed by”“Leave, leave, leave!” as the councillors filed out. Following the meeting, Mr McCutcheon said he did not think the meeting had gone well. “I was disappointed by the conduct of members of the public, most of whom were students. I don’t think it is appropriate to shout down people who are exercising their statutory responsibility.” After the meeting was disbanded the councillors, minus the two students representatives, retired to an adjac[...]room. It is understood councillors were debating the possibility of conducting a future meeting without student participation. After the meeting 15 students occupied a university building, but the occupation ended peacefully after four hours. Ma[...]ew Zealand’s endangered Maui’s dolphins if we are to have any chance of protecting them from extinc[...]pert Dr Padraig Duignan. Dr Duignan, Director of the New Zealand Wildlife Health Centre at Massey’s[...]mpus, says we currently don’t know enough about the Maui’s ecology to properly protect them. He says that while the Government has introduced bans on set net fishing in what are believed to be their habitat, we don’t know exa[...]tain areas for breeding, or whether certain areas are critical for foraging and whether that changes seasonally. “How can they be properly protected when we don’t know the answers to these basic questions?” Dr Duignan s[...]’s not as if we can catch them all and put them in some fenced—off lagoon and have them reproduce in a fully protected situation. We need to know what[...]at. And we’re not getting that information from the type of research we’re doing now.” Dr Duigna[...]s of animals from boats or planes won’t provide the answers. Screening: Bill/(MI 0 Awards night: IOI[...]lphins, and if that happens New Zealand will have the dubious distinction of being the first country in the world to have allowed, or caused, a subspecies of cetacean to become extinct. Wouldn’t that give the Japanese something to sling back at us at some fu[...]s particularly qualified to raise his concerns as the pathologist who has undertaken post—mortem on t[...]nce November 1997. His team holds a contract with the Department of Conservation to find the cause of death of dolphins that are found by—caught or beach— cast from both the North and South Islands. “Seven of the ten Maui’s dolphins submitted were beach—cast[...]t of nets, and one was found ﬂoating at sea. Of the beach—cast animals one had definite entanglement pathology — that was the presumed cause of death — and a second had lesions suggestive ofa similar fate. We think three or four of the ten died through fisheries interactions.” Dr D[...]is marine mammal from extinction we must all work in a more concerted manner to determine what habitat[...]of an enhanced extramural programme. About 60 of the school’s Year 13 accelerated students will sit up to three university papers in a pilot programme that is hoped to be extended to other schools. The students will be those who have sat bursary in Year 12, achieving a 65 percent or more pass rate. While many secondary school students around the country study at Massey extramurally, this group will receive special treatment. The papers will be incorporated into their curriculum and lecturers from the Palmerston North campus will go to the school to deliver some of the programme. Thein their last year at secondary school, as well as g[...]Trevor Weir says it is a win—win situation for the school and the university. The school will be able to retain top students for their final year, and the university will have an opportunity to introduce them to what Massey has to offer. “We both have the same aim — to encourage excellence in these young people and keep them here in Palmerston North.” The subjects will be limited at first to English, maths and science papers, which will be studied in addition to the New Zealand Qualifications Authority scholarship programme. It won’t cost the boys anything to do the papers because the school and the university will absorb the costs, Mr O’Connor says. The university has many arrangements with secondary schools in its wider catchment, including mentoring programm[...]t must go further, says NZUSA NZUSA has welcomed the government announcement that $240 million in interest charges on student loans has been written off and are calling on the government to take further steps to make the loan scheme fairer. “The no interest on student loans policy was a good start, but students and graduates are waiting for further changes to make the loans scheme fairer and address the one of the key drivers of high student debt — lack of acce[...]nces,” said Fleur Fitzsimons, Co—President of the New Zealand University Students’ Association.[...]rent students do not pay market interest rates to the government,” said Ms Fitzsimons. “But if mor[...]government to write off. “Labour has now been in government for four years and student debt has doubled in that time. A living allowance for all students is[...]d ensure that students do not have to borrow from the loan scheme to pay for basics like food and accom[...]ng interest off was a good ﬁrst move for Labour in 1999 but the Government has had four years to back this policy up with further improvements,” said Ms Fitzsimons. “How long do students and their families have t[...]
	SPEIGHT’S" Pride ofﬂw South? The inside oil The penultimate round of the Indy Racing League took place last Monday in Fontana, California. It was a race that was of incredible importance to all the drivers at the top of the ladder. A split—second of loss of concentration[...]could all but end a driver’s chance of winning the championship. To use the classic cliché, there was no room for error. For Scott Dixon this was also very much the case. However, he did not let this get to him, setting the third— fastest time in qualifying, behind Helio Castroneves and a resurgent Kenny Brack. The 200 lap Toyota Indy 400 looked like it was going to be another nail biter. It was not just the racing that was hot, but also the Californian weather, with the temperature getting up to around 35°C. IRL races have one key principal to success; it’s not about how many passes you make at the start, but how close to the leader you are at the finish that matters. This was very much the case in this race. During the ﬁrst 150 laps there were a number of lead changes and a lot of shufﬂing amongst the positions. Dixon’s team mate Tomas Scheckter was strong for the first half of the race, leading for a large proportion of the ﬁrst 100 laps. Lap 75 saw the ﬁrst and only yellow ﬂag of the afternoon; debris on the track gave the drivers a ﬁve—lap ‘rest’. The last round of pit stops really saw the action get into full swing. A great pit stop by Scott Dixon’s pit crew saw him get in and out of the pits two seconds quicker than most of his rivals. This slick work saw him slip into the lead, just ahead of Hornish and Kanaan. But Hornish was not to be outdone; a battle for the lead went on for quite a number of laps. It looke[...]plit—second finishes. Nevertheless, Hornish got the better of Dixon and despite Dixon’s best efforts during the ﬁnal laps, Hornish managed to hold on to the lead and win by 0.35 of a second. What another great finish. Tony Kanaan also kept himself in the running with a third placing. This is Hornish’s second win in a row. But this great result from Dixon puts him in equal ﬁrst in the race for the championship with Helio Castroneves. Tony Kanaan is seven points behind and still well in contention, while Hornish may have a chance if a bit of luck goes his way. The ﬁnal round sees the IRL return to the Texas Motor Speedway, for what is certainly going to be a thriller. To win the championship Dixon must ﬁnish well in the points and make sure that both Kanaan and Castroneves are behind him. A DNF will almost certainly put him out of contention. Dixon summed things up very well after thein the IRL at this stage. There have been rumours about[...]ct, even one which may allow him to still compete in the IRL. Dixon still has one more year left on his contract with Target Chip Ganassi Racing. The Aussie V8 schedule has been set for next year. The New Zealand round will move to ANZAC weekend, while the Phillip Island round will make way for a race at the new F1 circuit in Shanghai, China. This race is subject to the new track being completed on time though. Until next week... — Alister Lang getting horny As the year comes to an end and everyone starts to make[...]ms to be an abundance of sporting distractions on the radar. Feck. The Warriors Grand Final dream will, ﬁngers crossed[...]ive with a 28— 16 (my prediction) drubbing over the Panthers. And that’s forgetting the Rugby World cup and Premiere League in all their glory. Right now I’m praying or conti[...]applications. For those of you who don’t know, the Blues are a celebration of elite athletes who manage to perform both on the ﬁeld and off it in their studies. The Massey Blues will be ﬁring up this Thursday Oct[...]applied but didn’t receive one, let me say that the Blues committee pains over our decisions, and wou[...]s just not possible. This ran especially true for the Outstanding Contribution awards. All I can say is continue pushing your clubs along, putting in the hard yards, and apply next year. A huge th[...]e who played, refereed, cooked, and helped out at the Papua New Guinea Independence Day celebrations. I[...]volleyball were played, soccer was without doubt the most competitive of the lot. Dodgy tackles, dodgy calls by some (cough) refs, and a few Hollywoods didn’t take away from the good sportsmanship of the day. All the teams had a great time, and it’s just a shame we didn’t play more games. Well, that might be me for the year so good luck to everyone with their exams, a[...]three R’s you’re allowed come shining through in those borderline papers you’re taking. Make sure you vote in the bi—election to have your say in who takes over thethe heads of the green machine, and over the bar. 17—16 — Warriors win, and once again Stacey Jones is the hero. So this leaves them with two games to go in order to go one better than last year and secure an amazing victory over the best Australia has to offer. In other sports action over the weekend, the NPC is hotting up, the table is as close as ever, and holy smokes Batman, Wellington are on top. But anything could happen, and with the All Blacks out, this is the most open and intriguing competition that has been seen for years. Normally easy beat teams are winning over more fancied opposition, and the normal benchwarmers are getting their chances to strut their stuff. This style and unpredictably of the First Division has not be seen since the advent of professionalism, and hopefully can only raise the bar in terms of talent and skill in New Zealand rugby. But back to the Warriors and their uncharacteristic performance over the weekend. Normally they throw the ball around with the greatest of ease, but in the ﬁrst twenty minutes they did not have a chance.[...]rattled up ten easy points, with Simon Woolford, the Canberra captain, who had been under death threats throughout the week, hopefully answering his critics as he bolte[...]Clinton Toopi tries, and rock—hard defence from the man—mountain forward pack of Gorilla—Santi and Faumuina. At the half it was lO—together, but then the ﬂying Fa’aﬁli plucked a ball out of the air and dotted down — 16—10 to the Warriors. However, the Raiders came storming back faster than a hot curr[...]ey stopped time, missed two defenders and slotted the winning point. The crowd of largely free ticket holders cheered as the Warriors booked themselves a preliminary ﬁnal date with the Panthers. In the other semi, the Bulldogs cruised past the Storm 30—0, the Storm playing utterly terribly, making more mistakes than a learner driver on speed. In this week’s NPC action, the shock of the round occurred when North Harbour clicked Otago 4[...]ranaki. Messers Cullen and Howell helping inspire the yellow and blacks to be top of the table. In fact Northland seems to be the only team performing poorly; they lost to the Bay of Plenty, who piled on plenty of points in their 42—27 win over the Taniwha’s. Auckland — inspired by Daniel Braid and Orene Ai’i — romped over Southland in a clinical display of attacking football. Braid appeared everywhere on the ﬁeld, justifying more his selection in the 30—man squad. And, oh yes, Canterbury deﬁed the odds and kept the Shield again, shrugging off the Waikato challenge. Blair, whose kicking was superb, and Mehrtens, played with skill as they retained the Log in a 35—24 win. Go the Warriors! — Geoff Williams WIN A TRAY 0F Answer the question on the left, attach your details and send it in to CHAFF by 5pm Weds. Entries limited to ONE per[...]u must be 18 years or over, and present age ID at the CHAFF office when collecting your prize.[...]
	With the lifting of the GM moratorium coming up next month, we will be he[...]ation. Be informed! Read CHAFF’s overview of GM in New Zealand and decide for yourself with the pros and cons. A Beginner’s guide to Genetic[...]ed to improve crops or livestock by breeding from the plants and animals with the most desirable qualities. GM is a more efﬁcient[...]roved varieties of plants and animals that allows the introduction of qualities that can be passed on to its offspring in ways not possible through traditional breeding.[...]hem directly into cells. Genes can be transferred in ways that cannot occur naturally, between different species and even between plants and animals. In New Zealand, research is the main use of genetic modiﬁcation, and is contained within a laboratory environment. GM has been used in laboratory work for about 30 years. Research is s[...]minating pests to improving crops to ﬁnding out how genes work. No fruit, vegetables, or meat available in New Zealand is genetically modiﬁed, although there is some use of GM in dairy products. Processed foods, such as margarin[...]contain some GMO’s, may have been sold here for the past decade. In order for a food containing GMO’s to be sold in New Zealand it must ﬁrst have been evaluated by[...](Australian New Zealand Food Standards Council). The food is evaluated carefully on a case by case bas[...]ounterpart. Royal Commission of Inquiry into GM In May 2000 the Labour Government commissioned an inquiry into genetic modiﬁcation. The Commission was given one year to do research and hear submissions from the public on GM. The Commission reported back in July 2001, and noted that the submissions they received indicated many people were comfortable with the idea of GM for medical purposes, but not for other purposes. Many of the submissions focused on the use of GM in food and crops. They noted that globally consumers are against foods containing GMO (genetically modiﬁed organisms) — for now at least. The conclusion of the Royal Commission was that New Zealand should keep its options open. While we should not turn our backs on the potential advantages of GM, we do need to proceed with caution. The Commission stressed that the safety of the science behind GM is far from certain at this stage. It rejected the idea ofa total GM ban at one extreme and unrestricted genetic modiﬁcation at the other extreme. The GM Moratorium Following the Royal Commission’s report, the Government decided in November 2001 to implement a two—year constraint on the release of GMO’s. This constraint has become commonly known as the GM moratorium. Its purpose was to give New Zealand time to investigate the potential beneﬁts of genetic modiﬁcation and ways to minimise the risks. The moratorium will be lifted next month. The moratorium means that no applications for the release of GMO’s can be considered — with one or two exceptions, such as GMO’s which are directly beneﬁcial to human or animal health. A[...]do research using GMO’s must have approval from the Environmental Risk Management Authority, and this will apply even after the moratorium has been lifted. The lifting of the moratorium does not mean that any one will have u[...]ability to release whatever GMO they wish. There are still guidelines that must be met; and ERMA will[...]applications to use GMO’s. Let’s get rid of the moratorium These are some of the arguments used by people who want to see the moratorium lifted: * GM food is already being eaten in New Zealand. While “live” food, such as vegetables, can be guaranteed GM, it is impossible to give the same guarantee for processed foods. This is especially true when ingredients have been imported. the GM moratorlum * ERMA has reiterated that it does[...]be a ﬂood of applications to use GMO’s once the moratorium is no longer in place. ERMA’s chief executive, Dr Basil Walker, has publicly said indications are that it will be “business as usual” for ERMA.[...]on’t care too much about genetic modiﬁcation. The Life Sciences website last week reported a UMR Research survey, which showed that of the “important problems” facing New Zealand today, GM came in at number 20 — well behind race relations at nu[...]or instance, if you eat a tomato with a frog gene in it your children could be born with a frog gene in them. This is simply untrue. If you ate a tomato with tomatoes genes in it, your children won’t be born with tomato genes! * In fact, GM foods are more likely to be safe than conventional and organic foods. Why? Because they are subject to such rigorous testing, and any problems are more likely to be picked up in GM food than in conventional and organic foods. * There’s no c[...]nce that GM crops can contaminate non—GM crops. The Life Sciences website cites the United States and Argentina as two countries wher[...]micably. * GM crops can reduce or even eliminate the need to use chemical sprays, as resistance to pests can be “built in” — thus making GM more environmentally friend[...]ages — some scientists even suggest it could be the answer to feeding the world’s population. Let’s keep the moratorium These are some of the arguments used by people who would like to see the moratorium kept in place: * There have been some suggestions that the moratorium should be extended to ﬁve years. Aft[...]nes and GMO’s can be unpredictable, usually not in ﬁrst generation but in future generations. No—one really knows for certain how GM crops might act ten generations down the track. Once GM has been released there’s no tur[...], that’s a mistake, let’s take it back” — the damage will have already been done. Some potentia[...]mphasising our organic industry instead. * There are no ﬁnancial beneﬁts for producers by growing[...]ntries have not beneﬁted from growing GM crops. The researchers suggest the same would be true of New Zealand. There is also little demand at present for GM crops, so what is the point of growing them? * The GM—free movement disputes the claim that co—existence is possible. Particularly they dispute the claim in relation to Argentina, where GM crops have caused[...]ops and ecosystems. For more information If you are interested in ﬁnding out more about GM here are a few websites you might want to look at. Some ha[...]her websites. - www.mfe.govt.nz/publications — the Ministry for thethe Life Sciences Network is a pro—GM organisation. www.gefree.org.nz — the “ofﬁcial” GE—free website. www.gmcommission.govt.nz — the Royal Commission of Inquiry into GM website. www.gm.govt.nz — government info on GM. www.hsno.govt.nz — the website with information on the Hazardous Substances and New Organism Act[...]
	Selling the drama Has the old scarfie culture disappeared forever? Do students still want to go to the theatre to watch their peers in action? This week provides a double—header of p[...]g theatre works at their respective campuses, and the people behind the events will be hoping to see a strong turnout in support of students and campus culture. But will the people come in their droves, like they did with this year’s Summer Shakespeare? Or will the performers end up on stage belting out their lines to a multitude of empty seats, like they did at the Capping Show? Do we as students really want such an event? Turitea campus is the launching pad for this year’s Festival of New A[...]esentation of performances brought together under the title ‘Metamorphosis’, and featuring four original pieces that have been given life through the collaboration of students and staff. Two of the plays have been penned by popular lecturer Doctor[...]one was written by Cate Stewart (first performed in an extramural paper); and Homes Fires, a historical drama, is the work of postgraduate student Kelly Harris. Farro[...]t piece for music, percussion and voice” called The Last Tree, and After Kafka, a play in which seven characters search for the meaning of life — says that it takes a lot of e[...]almerston North. “We get funding from MUSA and the School of English and Media Studies, as well as f[...]of effort to raise funds from outside bodies. “The Principal is looking at the idea of creating a University fund for arts activities for the Turitea and Hokowhitu campuses — this would be managed by the Committee of Performing and Visual Arts. If it ha[...]velopment Officer Kimberley Robertson, another of the driving forces behind the Festival, feels however that while there is a lot[...]uarters, there isn’t enough support coming from the University itself. “There are some amazing people working bloody hard behind the scenes to make it happen, like Rebecca McMillan, Michael Harford and Carole Jo Phillips. They really drove The Tempest (Summer Shakespeare) as well, and Kaye Co[...]really. There isn’t enough importance placed on the arts from the upper echelons at Massey, which obviously has a n[...]rs down. There doesn’t seem to be much interest in the arts amongst the students on campus either, which is a crying sham[...]seen an undercurrent among some students involved in the arts at Massey Palmerston North that the University may in fact be rolling back support for the arts on campus, and that the focus for such events will be shifted to the Massey Wellington campus, where a more vocational[...]w maintains that all educational communities need the arts: “They provide an important exchange of i[...]ach campus needs an element of creative discourse in order to ﬂourish.” Whether or not students at Massey want to go to watch performances such as the Festival of New Arts will be found out throughout this week, but the fact that the Festival is being put together is evidence that t[...]driven group of talented students coming through the University’s ranks who are keen to provide the arts scene with something new and exciting. Kelly Harris began working on Home Fires at the beginning of 2002 after coming across the story in her postgraduate paper Community Theatre. She decided to incorporate the writing of the play into her Honours research (under the guidance of Doctor Farrow), and as a result her thesis revolved around the mythical elements in the play. Home Fires is based on a true life events[...]d that his neighbours stock hadn’t been brought in for milking. On investigation, he found that the house was nothing but a pile of ashes and all the occupants had been burnt beyond recognitio[...]
	“You have no idea how difﬁcult it was for me to get this project off the ground last year,” says Harris. “Ifis wasn’[...]written this play, it’s as simple as that. “The academic side was a battle, but the dramatic element was much easier (although I do say that lightly). After ﬁnding the right actors — who I must say are absolutely brilliant, hard working and I can’t[...]ame together without too much pain. “Obviously the forum for this play was the Festival — I think that without Angie’s leadership the play probably wouldn’t have been produced, and I hope that in the future the Festival continues so that others like me can sho[...]to bring these performances to their peers and to the public, have to struggle so hard to ﬁnd support? “Students are terribly busy these days,” says Farrow, “and I understand the pressures they are under. However, I feel sure that if we could buil[...]e could generate more interest from students. “The Festival provides more than just theatre — ther[...]g. Theatre can seem like a dead art to people who are more used to audio—visual media, but our theatr[...]AFF also asked Robertson if she thinks that, with the success of Summer Shakespeare, for which there were large audiences from all walks oflife, are we doing enough to foster a stronger relationship with the non—student community? “We make a real effort to perform the shows we produce in town as well as out at Massey. This obviously makes staging the production difficult and a lot more work for everyone involved, but because we want to foster the arts at Massey and present Massey on an artistic level to the wider community, we perform in multiple venues to make our work as accessible as[...]entations will be taking place both on campus and in town. The performances begin on September 30 at 7pm in the Old Main Building Auditorium, and from there will be moved into town to be performed at the Globe Theatre on October 3—4. For more information about the Festival of New Arts, see Clubscene on page 15.[...]is to provide College of Education students with the opportunity to be involved in a production, and to reﬂect on their involvement and the relationship with this experience and future clas[...]lsory. CHAFF: Tell us a little about yourself and the personnel behind ‘Absurd Words’. CHAFF: How much support have you received from the University/staff for the HENDERSON: I am a staff member at the College of Education, in the Arts and Languages performance? Department. My role has largely been in the technical management of the production, including publicity, staging, music, and co—ordinating with Alan Cox (the director). There are four directors for the performance — Nicky Banks, a science lecturer;[...]Ian Knowles, language / drama. Just about all of the cast are ﬁrst—time actors, which is great! HENDERSON: Support from the staff is always excellent, in terms of designing posters, organising bookings,[...]team! CHAFF: Have you had enough funding to make the show possible? HENDERSON: Funding is not really[...]minimalist set, which cuts costs signiﬁcantly. The focus for us is on the acting, not fancy sets or costumes, because in reality, when these people graduate and want to d[...]with their school, there won’t be CHAF F: What are the plays about? HENDERSON: Well, what is life about? I guess the plays are all rather absurd, because life is absurd, and the biggest absurdities of human kind are when we use language not to communicate, but to ﬁll in achingly empty holes in our absurd lives; or to disguise what we really mean when we are engaged in so—called communication with others at home or at work. Sounds bleak? No, we humans are ajoke a minute. Come to ‘Absurd Words’ and ha[...]mpson, Eugene Ionesco and several others. CHAFF: Are students doing this as part of a course assessmen[...]ng rights will be expensive, but production costs are low because an elaborate set is not required. We live in hope that we will be granted some money from Massey University administration, as in the past. We have purposefully kept ticket prices ver[...]es to come. ‘Absurd Words’ will be performed in the Drama Workshop at the Hokowhitu campus from September 30 to October 3, at 7.30. For more information, contact Kate Henderson in the Department of Arts and Language Education,[...]
	Middle Road By Paul Parsons Travelling down the long winding Middle road gave me time to reﬂect[...]gh many a time I would have not thought so. With the window wide open, a bug ﬂew in and planted itself right on my windscreen, causing me a momentarily loss of concentration as the car swerved all over the road while I tried to squash this hapless creatur[...]nding its own business. There were three of us on the journey now, and dare I say it, back home to Palm[...]s now, never longer. God, I can’t even remember the last time I spent a whole week there. But every n[...]turn like a ﬂood and everybody knows when I’m in town because ifI haven’t rung them, I go around[...], just to let them know I’m still alive. I sit in the rooms at the bro’s. It’s that old house on the corner of McCarthy Terrace; the one where with each gust of wind a storm of dried paint appears on the horizon. We rant away just as if nothing’s changed, talking the same old shit and I listen to the same old stuff that I left behind (huh, the gossip’s still there). I feel those insecure ye[...]antics is getting fewer these days and talking of the new is getting harder to describe. Times have cha[...]ctly is it that draws me back here, to people who the only thing I have in common with is the past. Hence, it’s not long before I get bored and cruise off to the next house. I come from this great town, set half way between the ranges and theold movies), and of course my friends and family. Bar a few shops and the biggest event of the year for us country lads — the local A 81, P show; she was my heaven with a slice of hell. Born and bred on the farm, my life had pretty much been deﬁned for me right from a baby: Grow up and follow thethe back of the hay truck watching the moon ﬂoating quietly by, had spelt the end of my days in this paradise, and I wanted to know where exactly[...], after having been everywhere I can, I return to the security of my mum’s, a place where as a youngster mischief was reﬁned. I sit down in the peace and quiet and read my newspaper. The sun streams through the clear glass windows, I am engrossed in warmth. I am free here from all the troubles of the world. Always a bed to sleep in; a heart to hug. A mum, a family who struggles to[...]than often that door should have been locked with the key thrown away, yet it never has and never will[...]nly dream of; well, being a student it sure beats the peanut butter on toast for tea with budget coffee for desert, which I normally have. Just for good measure the older brother and sister and husband turn up. Wow, isn’t this an awesome surprise. Just the ﬁve of us, plus Mum’s new husband. I sit by my brother and look around me. All old and grown up now we are. Each travelling our own paths, yet united in the one factor that draws us together — yes, we are family. The bickering we’ve had; the screaming and yelling, the ﬁghting, with me always being on the losing end. Well, being the youngest has its downfalls, all of which seems to[...]w, maybe we’ve matured, or maybe it’s that we are all as stubborn as each other and realise there’s no point in arguing any more. Yep, age is deﬁnitely like a good cheese, the older you get the better you get, but by the time you’re great, your all crusty and stale, a[...]reciation for each other? Yeah right. I’m back in the present now, back travelling Middle road. I’ve[...]head always telling me to get away and experience the world, see the sights and explore like most other ambitious Kiwi[...]y just now laying my eyes upon her serene sights. The fences that stretch up the hillsides, across crevices and down narrow gullie[...]ehead, planted a post and banged a few wires onto the batons. Man, it must have been hard work back the[...]ouple of 4X2 and a few rolls of wire hanging over the shoulder. And yet having the tenacity to do that day after day. Men / People[...]rd back then, men like my grandfather. Breaking—in ponies; clearing scrub. Back in his day he would have thought nothing of it. My grandparents are still on the farm they bought over 50 years ago, fresh from ﬁghting in World War Two. And now at 80—plus, my grandfather still helps out on the farm and in the yards, tossing sheep over gates while whistling f[...]gh this time is not as frequent these days, since the rewards of a retirement well—earned have become[...]Ask them STUDENT FEE SETTING This Friday October are more Refractory t when they’ll move into town and the belt gets brought out faster than the sound ofa possum hitting the ground, having been shot with the 22—gauge riﬂe from the bedroom window. “Who’d want to live in that dirty ﬁlthy place!” I can hear my Nan exclaiming, “too noisy, and what about my fowls and the pig!” One thing about my Nan, she always cooks[...]repared. And there is always choc chip bikkies on the bench, which I always steal. And upon this visit she’s given me a banana cake. It sits there on the front seat; I look lovingly at it and am transﬁ[...]e what that ﬁrst slice would taste like. Taking the knife and piercing the outer layers, with the smell steaming out where my nose eagerly awaits i[...]me to hit that... that spot, and I am overwhelmed in excitement, it’s like I’m having an orgasm. My hands start to tremble; the car slows down. Desire is right in my face and my strength is weakening. I want to e[...]ssing my right hand mirror awakes me. Where am I? How far have I travelled? I look back at my baby; he’s lying there quietly shaking in fear. “Come here my boy”, I say. He crawls u[...]a rub and he gives me a big wet affectionate lick in the face. Whoa, that must have been a close call. “Okay now son, stay focused”, I say to myself. I pick up the banana cake and place it in my glove box — outta sight, outta mind, until I get home at least. The farm, home, provides far too much ofa distraction for me, and contrary to the saying, you can have too much of a good thing. I’m out of the gully, now and can almost smell the city approaching, the thousands of cars, bumper—to—bumper trafﬁc. Smog pollutes the air we breathe, people as far as the eye can see. I look around in shame; is this what we have become, rows upon hou[...]nd Kauri stood and Kiwis roamed free of fear with the earth still fertile and untouched by any additive[...]precious dunes, that no longer does she resemble the pristine beauty she once inscribed. Now I am in my new home, where fresh air simply does not exis[...]f studying to be a professional ‘Bugger All’. The joys of sitting outside thethe 3am closing, instead of the 12 or 1am closing back home, have become my new reality. Yet, I long for the days back on the farm riding free on the horse’s back. The wind in my face and not a human nor human sound for miles around. Hearing only the sheep baaa—ing away, and the cows mooing. I sit down and weep. I wish I were free. To be at one with the world again, working in the pouring down rain, then returning after a hard day’s work to lie back in the warmth of my lazy boy, having earned a nice cold[...]ad of today, and I hate to admit it, where I rush in and out of the shelter with my umbrella in tow. Damn it, I’ve become a Jaffa. And the beer, huh, don’t even go there. I am in the city, back at large with the rat race, computers, these strange things called trafﬁc lights, and the neighbours, they live over the back fence, not a couple of minutes down the road! It’s a place where the only certain future is that no matter how long I live I will always be me. And I know that no matter where I go, the farm and family will always be right beside me, on the inside. I pull in the drive at my ﬂat, climb out of the car and stretch my legs. Instantly my boy leaps f[...]for its 2004 one-year, full-time Graduate Diploma in Journalism. Hundreds of former students work in print, radio, television, and on the Internet. 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	Drug assisted sexual assault Drug rapes are happening at Massey. International research shows that 70 percent of drug rapists are family or friends and that the highest risk age group for this type of crime is[...]doesn’t happen to younger or older people. With the increase in these crimes you need to be informed to be as saf[...]life, and it can kill. 0 Women, men and children are all vulnerable to drug assisted sexual assaults. 0 There are increasing numbers of drug assisted sexual assaults reported to police. 0 Convictions have occurred in Christchurch and Auckland, and more trials are pending. 0 Drugs can be added to any drink, whet[...]rs: With more chemical drugs now available, there are a variety of behaviours, including: o Decreased inhibitions. o Dizziness, disorientation, stoned. o The complainant appears drunk to onlookers. 0 Loss o[...]uch as; total or partial loss of memory recall of the drug assisted assault; full memory recall with body paralysis; different combinations of both of the above. Signs of drugs in drinks: It has been found that some of the drugs used leave an oily residue in your drink. If the drink is usually ﬁzzy it will not appear as ﬁzzy and the drink will taste a little oily. Other than that, if the drink tastes different in any way — do not drink it. The safest bet is to buy your own drinks and keep the[...]offers to buy you a drink, you can offer to go to the bar and get it, or if this is not appropriate, keep a close eye on the drink to try and make sure nothing is added. If possible, you can always decline the drink. New information taken from police results[...]ts of drug rape survivors have found that some of the drinks are being spiked with extra alcohol. The police have found that a number of survivors claiming they were drugged have no evidence in their blood sample. One explanation for this is that new drugs now stay in the system for only four hours. Remember: Some drugs can be detected in urine and blood up to 72 hours after ingestion. The drugs stay in urine longer than blood. If possible, save a urin[...]izzy or disorientated with little or no memory of the last 6—12 hours. Waking up feeling fine but with little or no memory of the last 6—12 hours. Feeling bruised and sore around the genitals but not remembering having sex. Waking u[...]aking up with someone you don’t know. Waking up in a strange place. Waking up with a family member o[...]ou don’t inject drugs. Remember that nobody has the right to have any sexual activity with you without your permission. It becomes more dangerous if drugs are used to help overpower you for sexual means. They could react to other substances in your body or react more strongly with your body,[...]from a sexual abuse centre. Sexual abuse centres are in most regions of New Zealand and their numbers can normally be found on the Community Services Organisations page at the end of the Yellow Pages in the phone book. The Manawatu Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre has a suppo[...]nselling, a library, and face—to—face support in peoples homes, with the police and medical examination and through the court process. Our phone number is 356 5868, and our office is at 53 Waldegrave Street in the Women’s Centre. It is also important to rememb[...]sexual abuse do blame themselves. Survivors react in different ways. Some feel really angry, others scared, and some feel hurt. The abuse can go on to affect survivors in many ways until the feelings are dealt with. It can take a lot of courage to face[...]ard work and it can take a long time to heal from the scars of abuse, but it can be done, and there are people to help and support you on your healingjou[...]to pursue. New Zealand survivors of sexual abuse are eligible for ACC assistance. ACC will provide a s[...]reasons to see your counsellor, ACC can help with the cost. To access this extra financial assistance y[...]play safe, and if something happens, remember you are not alone. — Manawatu Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre 15 1. What’s the best thing about thethe Sun Shine In. 4. I won’t be. 5. No. Steven, Btech. 1. I can go to the beach. 2. Body boarding. 3. Alive (POD). 4. A p[...]triangle. 5. Well... [looks down]. Ram, BSC. 1. The birds twinkling. 2. Drinking in the sun at the races. 3. Boys of Summer. 4. Crotchless string bikini (while drinking in the sun at the races). 5. No. Tom, Postgrad. 1. Sittin[...]
	[...]adness, As I knew this sunset would be my last. The sun arose behind a cloud of mist and never—ending misery. This detailed how my life as I knew it would conclude. Furthermore[...]to be a success at whatever I chose,. Had I made the right decision ...... Howare as important as the rain forests are to mother earth. Now it is too late, Sunset is about me. It looks like the devils come up from hell, To grab me by the throat, And drag me to the depths below. Perhaps I deserved this, Maybe I didn’t make the right decision, If only my heart had given me a[...]ad I should have followed. My life has now ended inthe door and hold you, my cesspool eyes drawing you in. Why do you avoid me? Am I of no consequence in your life, a ﬂick of your hand? It isn’t the ball is it? It’s you. I walk your dreams, thoughts and you! The ball you throw, is me, you leave I’ll stay for[...]sual art k l 1 « vl' . 5 . . Clubscene The Festival of New Arts Massey University presents The Festival of New Arts — “Metamorphosis”, a j[...]ormation, through music, poetry, drama and ﬁlm. The story is told through the eyes and minds of young, vibrant artists, all of whom have been inﬂuenced by the world we live in today. Metamorphosis is a study of the way things change into one another, creating new[...]by students of Creative Processes and members of the Massey University Drama Society. The Last Tree, by Angie Farrow. A short piece for music, percussion and voice. It is based around the idea of a future world in which everyone lives underground due to the effects of acid rain. One brave soul dares to venture into the outside. After Kaﬂca, by Angie Farrow. A physical theatre piece about seven characters in search of the meaning of life. It is about Kafka meeting the 2 1St century and the elusiveness of meaning in a technological age. Deﬁnitely Dead, by Cate S[...]a group of extramural students studying Speaking in Theory and Practice. It is about the hazards of lying to your mother. Home Fires, by Kelly Harris. Set in 1930’s rural New Zealand, Kelly completed this piece for her Honours research in 2002. The Metamorphosis programme also includes performance[...]dance and monologue pieces created by members of the Massey University arts community. Original music has been commissioned to reﬂect the concept of “metamorphosis”, telling of changing emotions and belonging to the personal journey of the listener. Massey staff, family and friends are warmly invited to view the world premiere of this new, exciting body of work. September 30 — Opening Night. Auditorium, Old Main Building, Massey University. 7pm. Door Sales: $5 unwaged, $7 waged. October 1 — “The Best of the Fest” (Drama, Poetry, Music, Dance). Auditorium, Old Main Building, Massey University. Noon —[...]
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	l by Lee Gribbon Please Read This Article. The following article is dedicated to the victims of Bhopal and their families, and to those involved in grass—roots movements fighting for justice for the people of Bhopal. In psychology there exists a term known as ﬂashbulb memory. These are vivid memories of thoughts and activities that a[...]ber 1 1, 2001: What you were doing when you heard the news, who you were with, and so forth. Now cast y[...]ber 3, 1984. More than likely, you cannot. If you are of similar age to myself, you were probably a contented young child fast asleep in your safe, warm bed. If ﬂashbulb memories were[...]ld be safe to assume that none of ours punctuated the darkness of that night. In Bhopal, a city in mainland India, no contented young children were asleep in their safe, warm beds. Upon this fateful date, the blanketed night would be lit up by thousands of ﬂashbulb memories, firing off in staccato rhythm across the cityscape. For you see, at approximately 12:05am on December 3, 1984, a toxic cloud spewed forth throughout the streets and shantytowns of Bhopal. Silently findi[...]it invaded their lungs and their eyes. Collapsing in coughing and muscular spasms they spewed forth bl[...]though to this day, no one knows for sure exactly how many perished from inhaling the cloud’s deadly fumes on that horrific night, es[...]0 people. This is anywhere from two to five times the number of people who perished in the World Trade Centre attacks, yet there were no photographic obituaries in the New York Times for these victims. There were no a[...]f. Make no mistake; this was no terrorist attack. In fact, the perpetrators were immediately known in both identity and location, but to this day in 2003 they still have not been brought to justice. Meanwhile, to this same day in 2003, 150,000 people in Bhopal are still chronically affected by this tragedy, and 1[...]h month. I would like to tell you a story. It is the story of the people of Bhopal, and it is the story of an American multinational named Union Carbide. Union Carbide began its life in the USA as the amalgamation of four smaller companies. The company saw much activity during the First World War where they produced things such as tank armour plating and gas masks for the war effort. Some twenty years later, the company was again in the midst of war, this time collaborating on the sinister Manhattan Project, through which the first atomic bomb was unleashed upon the world. Carbide became a major and diverse provide[...]ven silicone breast implants. Such growth allowed the company to branch out into 40 countries around the world, and establish itself as one of the big boys in the American economy. In the mid 1950’s, as the health and environmental hazards of pesticides su[...]ctive pesticide to control crop insects, while at the same time minimising potential harm to humans and the environment. With vast research resources to draw upon, Union Carbide naturally entered the fray in an attempt to produce the ‘magic bullet’ the horticultural world was crying out for. In 1957, they announced that they had finally succeeded in creating such a bullet, which they named ‘Sevin[...]that an early publicity photograph showed one of the inventors of Sevin licking granules of it off his[...]s keen to produce Sevin, and produce a lot of it. The firm built a gargantuan ﬂagship factory in the Kanawha Valley, West Virginia, to synthesise 30,000 tonnes of Sevin annually. In order to significantly reduce production costs, the process of manufacturing Sevin was modified from that originally proposed by the team in 1957. Instead of the previous safer, yet more costly procedure, phosge[...]cted with other chemicals to finally form Sevin. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that[...]Inhalation can cause fatal respiratory damage.” The EPA also states that “Methyl isocyanate is extremely toxic to humans... Pulmonary edema is the probable cause of death in most cases, with many deaths resulting from secon[...]fections. Survivors continue to exhibit damage to the lungs and eyes. Reproductive effects and increased number of stillbirths and spontaneous abortions are also observed.” In fact, Carbide’s own toxicologists performed MIC exposure tests on laboratory rats; the results found were so alarming that the company banned publication of the work. Dealing with such potentially lethal compounds, the company was firm on its safety training of person[...]s. Despite this, during its time producing Sevin, the plant had 67 relatively minor leakages of MIC at the factory. Kanawha Valley residents discovered a pamphlet in their mailboxes entitled ‘Plan for General Evacuation’ and found that periodically they could smell the faint scent of boiled cabbage blowing through the windows into their homes — the distinctive smell of MIC. In 1966, facing pressure from its peasantry for a cheap, reliable pesticide, the Indian government called upon Union Carbide to su[...]adily agreed, with plans to build a Sevin factory in the city of Bhopal. The city of Bhopal is the capital of Madhya Pradesh, a state roughly the size of France. It is home to many, mostly poor p[...]g low paid but honest work. None came poorer than the people of the Kali Grounds; the city’s slum composed of three shantytowns or ‘bustees’ where families lived in spaces often smaller than three square metres. Whether it was the huge, available, and ridiculously cheap land at the Kali Grounds, or the large potential bustee workforce nearby that inﬂuenced the Carbide directors is unclear, but they decided that the plant would be built upon the Grounds. The plan was to build a much smaller plant than that in West Virginia, as estimates placed a sales figure[...]onable amount that could be sold annually. Unlike the US plant that ran 24 hours a day, the Indian plant would only produce Sevin as needed.[...]thyl isocyanate would therefore need to be stored in three large refrigerated metal tanks and used as[...]d with such a large volume of MIC being stored at the site, relayed the idea to various experts at chemical plants throug[...]e litre for more than ten minutes. Your engineers are out of their minds.” Alas, this was India, not Europe, and plans for the three voluminous tanks went ahead without anyone paying attention to the forewarning of the European experts. The Bhopal plant was completed and production began in 1980. Although the plant was fashioned as a scaled-down version of the high- tech West Virginia site, due to budget conc[...]ent and security systems were not carried over to the daughter plant. Much of the production workforce was recruited from the bustee slums, but the workers were never told what exactly the plant produced. Technical manuals were never translated into Hindi; training in how to handle MIC safely was reduced from in the US where it was six months, down to fifteen days at the Bhopal plant. The training was for effect, for completeness sake anyway, as the company regularly stressed to workers that the chemical was harmless. An assessment in 1982 of the Bhopal site by three engineers sent from the West Virginian plant listed over one hundred brea[...]ions; warping of equipment; absence of sprinklers in the MIC area; and in a macabre manner, that the needle on the pressure gauge of a phosgene tank full of gas rea[...]staff. Carbide management were made well aware of the report but little — if anything — was done to remedy the situation. Needless to say, if this gross negligence on the part of the company had been uncovered at the US plant, it would have been promptly and thoroug[...]t do a bunch of little brown people know anyway? The original estimate of 2,000 tons of Sevin was never reached by Union Carbide, in part due to a series of unproductive dry seasons. The plant became a dragging anchor on Carbide’s profit ship. In an effort to tighten the monetary leaks, the company recruited a new Managing Director named J[...]varty was a talented accountant, but na'ive about how a plant dealing with extremely dangerous chemicals worked. Under pressure from above to bring the plant into profit, Chakravarty’s first port of call was to make the labour force more"streamlined’ by 18
	laying off half of the plant’s staff. The MIC unit crew was halved from twelve men to six, and only one person manned the control room. Maintenance teams ran out of replac[...]s. Such drastic measures were not enough to save the sinking ship, and corporate management decided pr[...]vin would be stopped with eventual plans to close the factory down. In 1983, although the plant remained open, official production of Sevin[...]ven though there were still 67 tons of MIC stored in the three storage tanks. In order to save money, the primary safety systems were shut down, along with the refrigeration unit for the MIC tanks. The safety ﬂare that was installed to safely burn off any escaped gas was turned off, along with the scrubbing cylinder that was used to chemically ne[...]h these steps led to some pocket money savings by the company, they would also unfortunately lead to one of the worst industrial disasters in human history. December 2' 1984, was a special day for everyone in Bhopal. Muslims were celebrating Isthtema, a great annual prayer gathering. In addition, this particular December day was also told by the planet and the stars to be a lucky day for marriage, so conseque[...]age ceremonies and celebrations also taking place in the bustee slums and all across the city. At the plant, a skeleton crew was carrying out routine procedures, one of which was to ﬂush some of the MIC pipe work with water. This was periodically done to prevent corrosion of the metal pipes by the chemical. No one noticed that as a result of the labour and cost cutting, the seals used to prevent ﬂow of water into the MIC tanks had not been replaced in a long time. Water leaked into one of the MIC tanks, causing the beginnings of a catastrophic chemical reaction. In the control room, the temperature gauge for the tank had been broken for some time, and so did not alert the staff on duty. Some time later, a number of staff members noted a faint smell of boiled cabbage in the air. Feeling something was wrong, the staff went to check on the MIC tanks. Upon sighting the tanks, they saw the huge internal pressure generated by the water reaction pop off bolts, allowing a brownish gas to hiss out like a great angry spirit. The tank then broke free of its restraints, toppled and fell. Both the safety ﬂare and scrubbing cylinder were not only off, but were broken and in the status of being repaired. The crew set off the general alarm siren The siren was quickly turned off on advice by managerial staff. It would make no difference, the Kali Ground community had never received general evacuation pamphlets in their mailboxes — they hadn’t even been told what the alarms meant. With the wind blowing in the direction of the bustees, the laughing, dancing and celebratory citizens were c[...]e their lives forever or indeed, take them away. The people of the Kali Grounds knew something was incredibly wrong when they saw the huge geyser of MIC and phosgene erupt out of the factory and head towards them. Upon reaching the atmosphere, much of the MIC had been converted to hydrocyanic acid — the same gas used by Hitler to murder the Jews, Saddam Hussein to murder the Kurds, and now Union Carbide to murder the Indians. The wedding ceremonies never finished. Instead, pandemonium began. People young and old ﬂed screaming and yelling. Many fell, collapsing in ragged breaths into their own vomit, as asphyxiation set in. A young boy and his family of eight ﬂed against the wind; it momentarily changed direction, and he was the only one left standing alive. Children were separated from parents in the ﬂeeing masses; families were lost in the brownish haze of death. One woman threw first her baby, and then herself off a bridge rather than face the horrific, suffocating death. For Sadja Bano, whose husband had died some years previously in a phosgene accident at the Bhopal plant, it was almost too much: the cloud claimed one of her young children too, clotted blood forming around the young one’s breathless lips. Victims began pouring into the Bhopal hospital. The doctors were overwhelmed and unfamiliar with the effects and treatment of MIC poisoning. In their desperation, they phoned Dr LS Loya, the Chief Medical Officer of the Bhopal plant. He explicitly stated that “MIC is[...]was “just like tear gas”. His only advice to the doctors was to wash the victims’ bodies and eyes with water. This was little comfort to the doctors, some of who began to perform autopsies on the corpses to determine cause of death. The blood levels of cyanide were so high that doctors began suffering poisoning from gases given off by the corpses. Dr Loya’s mother later died from gas inhalation. Corpses littered the hospital and the streets within radius of the factory. The following morning, teams of volunteers piled trucks up with bodies. The cemetery became so full that digging stopped in fear of disturbing earlier burials. Large number of corpses were covered in shrouds, piled up and cremated in mass fires. One woman who had passed out from gas inhalation woke up in the pyre as she was being set on fire. News of the tragedy reached corporate headquarters in the US, and Warren Anderson, CEO of Union Carbide, immediately took the corporate jet to Bhopal to evaluate the damage. He was arrested upon arriving in Bhopal for numerous charges including ‘culpable[...]nment). Curiously though, after been ‘jailed’ in the Union Carbide guesthouse for six hours, Anderson was released on bail of US$2,100. In reply to a question posed by a journalist asking[...]on replied, “I will come back to India whenever the law requires it.” He then promptly ﬂed the country. Anderson never did return to India, even though the law did require it. Had he done so, perhaps he would have seen the monumental damage his company had wrought on the poor people of Bhopal. Perhaps he would have seen the scores of dead children, their eyes bulging and b[...]their fifth birthday. Perhaps he would have seen the thousands of survivors chanting “Death to Ander[...]A young boy and his family of eight fled against the wind; it momentarily changed direction, and he was the only one left standing alive. Children were separated from parents in the fleeing masses; families were lost in the brownish haze of death. Some four months following the massacre, Warren Anderson had changed his stance from “I will come back to India whenever the law requires it” to the statement that “the company did nothing that either caused or contributed to the accident.” The company continually denied the claim that cyanide was present in the gas cloud for fear of allusion to the horrors of the Second World War: To this day Union Carbide has still not released details on the exact chemical composition of the cloud. During the first few months after the tragedy, Carbide spent approximately three cents per victim per day in relief aid. No court in India or America ever tried Union Carbide for the crimes in Bhopal. Victims of the tragedy, with assistance from American lawyers and activists initially filed for US$15 billion in damages — the net worth of all of Carbide’s assets. Later, the Indian government nominated itself the sole power to represent the victims and sued for US$3 billion. In 1989, the Indian Government (long known for its corruption)[...]a final settlement of US$470 million dollars. For the 592,000 claims put forward, this comes out to approximately US$793 per claim. $793 for all the grief, the mental anguish, the loss of entire families and the irreparable health effects suffered by those who survived. The 1984 Annual Report for Union Carbide coldly stated that “victims of the Bhopal tragedy could be fairly and adequately com[...]rse effect on Carbide’s financial condition”. In fact, on the day that Carbide announced its generous $793 compensation to victims, the company’s stock actually rose two dollars on the New York Stock Exchange. For comparison, Union Ca[...]imants. This amount was nine times more than what the Bhopal victims were given. And what of Warren An[...]appily tell you that Warren Anderson retired from the company in 1986, with full pension and benefits and settled in Vero Beach, Florida. I’m not sure how much he got in retirement funds, but rest assured it was more th[...]ant for his address and has not been seen since. In 200 1 , the colossal chemical multinational Dow Chemical acqu[...], and has stated that it has no responsibility to the victims of Bhopal as the incident occurred when Carbide was not under Dow control. In 2003, thousands of tons of toxic wastes, abandoned by Carbide at its factory site in Bhopal, have leached their poisons into the groundwater feeding nearly 5,000 families. Union Carbide refused to clean up the contaminated site. Dow Chemicals also has refused to accept the liabilities. Think about this for yourself. Imagine if this tragedy had occurred at the US plant in West Virginia, in England, in Australia, or in New Zealand. Do you think Warren Anderson would have been released on $2,100 bail? Do you think the company would have been able to get away with pay[...]rate again? Does this make you angry? I remember the first time I read of the Bhopal tragedy; I set down the book I was reading and wept into my hands until I[...]. Even writing this now, I can feel tears forming in my eyes. Perhaps after reading this article, you are wondering what relevance this has to your own life. It has relevance because exploitation and murder in the name of business is carried out every day in our names. IfI had the time or print space, I could write to you about Coca—Cola poisoning ground water in Kerala, India; inhumane treatment of those in Thailand, China and Mexico who make the fancy shoes and clothes you wear; children with their arms blown off from working in fireworks factories; El Salvador, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iraq. We in the developed West have become nothing more than a Third World consumer plantation, thriving off the deprivation and misery of others who we deem less[...]I think, with statements (that I have amended for the 2 1St century) by two other people who thrived upon exploitation and murder: “The death of a Western person is a tragedy. The death of a million Third World people is a statis[...]rget to keep your eyes open. To see truth and not the bullshit lies. To not buy their branded products we don’t need that are built on blood. Boycott, protest and educate. In this day, you can be a conscious and conscientious human, or an anaesthetised consumer subdued by the latest episode of The Bachelorette. It’s your choice. To find out how you can help the people of Bhopal today, visit www.bhopal.net To learn more about the Bhopal tragedy, read the excellent books The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen, and Five Past Midnight in Bhopal by Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro. To learn more about how you can protest the actions of immoral, industrialist, capitalist cor[...]rpwatch.org. If you would like to discuss any of the ideas raised in this article, please feel free to come up to me and have a chat. I am the disillusioned youth with ‘Consume/Die’[...]
	[...]VER 10% STUDENT DISCOUNT I'REE TRAILER TO MOVE IN Lead the Next Generation of Senior Management in Industry In the global marketplace, managers ofthe future will require a sound foundation in engineering and technology, coupled with exceptional human and business skills. This is what the Canterbury MEM provides. Consider the Master of Engineering Management The MEM capitalises on a graduate's technical expertise and provides the tools to propel them into senior management posit[...]suitable for students with undergraduate degrees in engineering, science, computer science, forestry, architecture, technology, etc. The MEM emphasises a practical approach with a business management perspective: Students are taught by experts from industry (CEOs, GMs, Compa[...]ith high—tech business throughout their time at the MEM. Students complete a practical industry project with a sponsor company. Students are able to apply for FRST scholarships which, if successful, might be able to cover their costs for the year. (Please note this is NOT a guarantee and MEM do not wish it to be percieved as such) The Canterbury MEM prepares individuals for the real world. From the direct learning it teaches the fundamentals of management in a technology environment, to the indirect; everything can change. For more inform[...].mem.ac.nz or contact: Raiyo Nariman, Director of the Engineering Management Programme at The University of Canterbury. E—mail: raiyo.nariman[...]magenta yellow black SUMMER A Wedding in Ramallah Directed by Sherine Salama. Australia 2[...]w of Palestinian society that we saw something of in Promises two weeks ago. In the comparatively peaceful summer of 2000, Bassam, a telephone repairman in Cleveland, USA, returns to Palestine for an arran[...]g, Bassam and Mariam, a traditional Village girl, are married. Ramallah is peaceful and the ‘wedding season’ is in full swing. At night, the streets are full of men dancing with each other in large circles of celebration as their sisters, mo[...]sam is beaming as his sister and niece joke about how they found him a wife. This turns out to be Mari[...]e—over says she knows practically nothing about the world, but that’s not strictly true. She knows[...]go to America, to live with her husband—to—be in a big house with lots of appliances. For this sh[...]ot be able to father children. (He blames this on the 45—minute beating he says he received from Israeli soldiers some years earlier. After three years in jail for alleged involvement with Fatah, Bassam w[...]after his departure a new intifada breaks out and the Palestinian Territories are engulfed in Violence. While Mariam awaits a Visa to immigrate to the United States, she and Bassam’s family continue to live their lives in the midst of war. Everyday domestic duties and squabbles are carried out against a backdrop of shelling and Vi[...]re a Visa for Mariam, but she discovers that life in exile is not an easy alternative. As to how a female director could gain the trust of both families — Sherine Salama’s her[...]er father is Egyptian, her mother Palestinian. At the age of three, she went to Australia with her parents, but she returned to the Middle East as a journalist in 1989. This compelling observational film reveals the human face of the conﬂict in Palestine. This film is available to non—members for $10. There are still ﬁve screenings left in the season. Please Note: From now until the end of the year screenings will only be at 6pm. Half-year membership or “4 for $30” available at the door before the screening. Palmerston North Film Society ._.[...]ing Tonight Yep, Mike’s TV2 talk show rips off The Late Show with David Letterman. That’s not in itself the worst thing. The fact that it COMPLETELY rips off The Late Show with David Letterman IS! Go ahead. Adopt the formula. It works, providing you can pull it off— which once again, TVNZ fails to do. The large set and audience is great. It sure beats Strassman by about 30 rows (at least!) But the fact that little or no imagination has gone into the set is disappointing, and the audience may as well be asleep. In fact, there’s barely a shred of originality or innovation in the whole show. Mike’s intro last week lacked pace[...]st didn’t seem enthused about his material, and the Jeremy Corbett segment fell utterly and completely ﬂat. Why TV2 have cast the man they have as Mike’s own Paul Schaffer, I’[...]w. I don’t know his name and have no confidence in the bloke. Paul Schaffer is funny. He’s sharp, witt[...]nna cut it. Frankie Foo (more Kiwi than you) was the highlight of what I saw (I switched off), yet I couldn’t help but think that the Asian man is the 21St Century minstrel. Let’s face it, they’re[...]o laugh at them rather than with them (Chang from the Edge springs to mind), and Frankie Foo’s segmen[...]. yeah right. Well, I despair, I really do. Pie (The Big Night In) and Mike King are both hosting potentially good shows that are both entertaining and Vibrant showcases of New Ze[...]d, leaving what could only be likened to an essay in draft form. Neither of these shows will wo[...]
	Those people who fell in love with the clever sitcom Scrubs will be interested to read the book that probably spawned its idea. Written by D[...]so an Oxford Ph.D. graduate, this book is written in a surprisingly understandable manner for someone[...]would call ‘house surgeons’) and starting in the hospital called ‘The House of God’. He then delves into the subsequent culture shock of what he calls ‘real[...]merican television fails to show. Most members of the public will actually be shocked at what apparentl[...]written 30 years ago and many medical procedures are outmoded, its underlying emotional themes still remain. The author has a delightful fetish with CAPITALISING frequently used words. Some examples include the verb to TURF, which is what a good doctor does to a patient — TURF them into a different department of the hospital. An old person is called a GOMER (Get Out of My Emergency Room) and the author really goes to town at letting his dislike of the geriatric be known. To BUFF a patient’s chart is to make it look as though you are doing something to help that patient. Supervising this fresh set of interns is a resident who is simply known as ‘The Fat Man’, and his shockingly cynical yet unbeli[...]make him an interesting character. He has formed the TEN COMMANDMENTS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD. These include rules such as THE DELIVERY OF MEDICAL CARE IS TO DO AS MUCH OF NOTH[...]motions inside me. At first it was disbelief with the derogatory attitude the doctors were taking against the patients, but after the trials and tribulations faced by the interns (and after one of them committed suicide) you can see where the author is coming from trying to prove the emotional and psychological roller coaster that h[...]o take to actually survive — with concepts like the prize going to the intern who gets the most post mortems in a year. A thoroughly good laugh and read, if you found Scrubs funny, you will love the original. This book did for the medical world what Catch 22 did to the military world. — Sam Stevens THE OTHER OLEY A Mud _ GRL _ “ The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory I have to adm[...]ious. It reeked of being a ‘chick book’, from the picture on the front, the title, the author and the blurb on the back. So all in all, you could say I was judging a book by its co[...]dding your self. I was proved very wrong indeed. The Other Boleyn Girl is historical fiction about, three guesses: The other Boleyn girl — namely Mary Boleyn. Starting in 1521, it spans over fifteen years of the rule of King Henry VIII. The thing I love about historical fiction is that as[...]py. It is an awesome way to learn about history. The story is written from the perspective of Mary, sister to Anne Boleyn. We follow Mary through the family rivalry, scandal, the power games and the inevitable pompous facade of the courts of King Henry VIII. She rises to power as one of Henry’s mistresses. The King was determined to have a male heir (even if[...]therine from Spain — was no good at putting out the males. Mary is then usurped by her snarky and bit[...]e Queen Katherine and manage to secure herself as the Queen of England. The characterisation is the most worthy point of notice in this novel. Gregory builds up the characters so well and believably, contrasting the naive and innocent Mary to the overconfident and scheming Anne. King Henry VIII[...]ar self, with a penchant for girls under 14 years old, and an irritating man—stereotype plastered all[...]covers some important historical events, such as the Act of Succession and King Henry VIII, tired of the continual yapping and ill—support from the Catholic Church for his divorce, turning round and making his own religion. The ending of the book is bittersweet; Anne gets her head lopped of[...]nry VIII gets tired of her. Don’t say I spoiled the story for you, because ifyou didn’t know that w[...]urvived.’ Nonetheless, a fascinating read, and in retrospect from my initial comments, I don’t BRUCE LIMITED l9’9 The Last Season ANNE DE LOURCY luv niendship, \ coc[...]LLERS P3199 with BI'UC Booksellers The Last Season By Anne De Courcy - $29.95 A wonderful portrait of British upper class life in the season of 1939 — the last before the Second World War. As that hot summer drew on, the newspapers filled with ever more ominous reports of the relentless progress towards war. There was nothing to do but wait — and dance. The last season of peace was nearly over. Love and Death in Kathmandu — A Strange Tale of Royal Murder By[...]and Amy set out for Kathmandu to try and unravel the mystery surrounding the murderous rampage by Nepal’s Crown Prince that all but wiped out the kingdoms royal family — a bizarre act of mass murder that enthralled the world. A stunningly evocative travel book and a r[...]a Bolivian prison, he was so intrigued he bribed the guards to let him stay. Rusty then recorded one of the strangest and most compelling prison stories of all time. Amid the corruption, brutality and daily struggle for survival, there is also the tale of an unlikely friendship, forged in the oddest of circumstances. A Time To Die — The Kursk Disaster By Robert Moore - $26.95 The acclaimed and harrowing true story of Russia’s[...]arine — now revised and updated. Fighting with the Enemy — New Zealand’s POW’s and the Italian Resistance By Susan Jacobs - $34.95 Over 450 New Zealanders escaped from prisoner of war camps in Italy and the Italian partisans and civilians, former enemies,[...]ramping Smarter — A Practical Guide to Tramping in New Zealand By Hans Williams - $39.95 What to w[...]here to go. 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	Cnr Fitzherbert Ave & Ferguson St Phone 356 1924 Xbox: The ﬁnal frontier... Alien vs Predator: Extinction The three ﬁercest species in the universe have been locked in a bloody, galaxy—spanning battle for years. With each new encounter it seems the on—going conﬂict will never end. After a smal[...]al Marines, dispatched to planet LV—742, reveal the presence of both Predators and Aliens, it is decided that thethe survival of your species... or face extinction. A[...]Extinction is a real—time strategy game chasing the rush of previous titles’ successes, such as Command and Conquer; the Dune series; and Starcraft. The point of this Xbox game is pretty much exactly that of Dune / C&C / Starcraft: Destroy the other species to ensure your own supremacy. Each species has their own currency, relative to the species (Predators use honour points, which are gained through the collection of enemies’ skulls) and uses this cu[...]rades. Each species offers unique attributes. As the Colonial Marines, you will count on your military training and the latest hi—tech weaponry from the Weyland—Yutani Corporation to save the human population of LV—742 (great name for a planet). The Predators must use their stealth and highly evolved hunting techniques to gain the respect of the Council of Ancients. Aliens will attack in hordes to incapacitate their enemies, impregnating them, and using them to evolve into the ultimate biological weapons. In terms of game play, I was entirely bored in the ﬁrst ﬁve minutes of this game. Even the incredibly buff Jon White, who played this game w[...]uck it out and failed to be impressed. Patrolling the terrain for 30 minutes, ﬁnding it only most sat[...]Some might say I’m morbid, expressing delight in observing the misery of such a helpless species,’and I would reply to them to watch the AlienTM series and then tell me they’re helpless. I’m doing humanity a favour, trying to even the odds by inserting myself as a spy amongst the enemy ranks. Pathetic, I know, but it was the only way I could get any mileage off this game. The game comes with a variety of sub—species for each species, including the precious little face—hugger made famous in the AlienTM movies. These little nasties are what make the game worth while... lying in wait until a squad of marines strolls haplessly a[...]ingly baiting themselves for a close encounter of the infestation kind. Didn’t entirely enjoy this game, as it was entirely unoriginal in trying to drag an already successful game formula[...]Johnny Depp is fast becoming my favourite actor. In the past month I’ve seen Donnie Brasco, Chocolat, Pirates of the Caribbean and recently, Blow. Blow is based on the true—life story of George Jung (pronounced youn[...]— class family, his father, (Ray Liotta) worked in construction and was a caring man, never putting George down, even when he was being chased by the federal police. George’s mother however, was ma[...], but shuns him whenever he is down on his luck. The movie begins with George’s family life, perhaps[...]ght and his girlfriend gets sick and dies. While in prison, George meets Diego Delgado. Diego has links to South American drug lords, and while they are incarcerated they make plans to smuggle cocaine from South America to the USA. Their plans work perfectly and soon they are making obscene amounts money. There is this amusi[...]. With all his successes, George meets and falls in love with Mirtha, played by Penelope Cruz. They q[...]edy and betrays George, and so he decides to quit the business, living a clean life for ﬁve years. But the cops are still after him, and on his 38th birthday party they mount a sting operation on him. All the time thinking of his wife and daughter, George agrees to sign a confession on the proviso that his family is released. Three years[...]ks to regain his daughter’s trust and love. But in order to do so, he needs more money, and so he ar[...]time he gets double—crossed by his partners and in the end he is convicted and sentenced to 60 years in prison. This is a really poignant story, which I[...]ply wants to love his daughter, and nothing else. The drugs, the money, everything else, were all secondary. I think two scenes really I; E S I stood out for me — the one where George is talking into a tape—recorder to send a message to his ailing father; and the ﬁnal scene, which shows an old George, perhaps suffering slightly from dementia,[...]r, critics say that this ﬁlm over—simpliﬁed the fact that Jung was the largest importer of cocaine in the 70’s, and that he really was just an over—gloriﬁed criminal. I’ve read some interviews with the real George Jung, and I must say that this film did romanticise the character. However, it really is an excellent mov[...]point of note, Blow’s director, Ted Demme, died in January 2002, with small amounts of cocaine found in his body. — Edrei Valath Thoughtful ﬁlm base[...]Vetchy, Tara Fitzgerald and Charles Dance. With the spate of crap war ﬁlms released recently, it is[...]ﬁlm based on conﬂict. Dark Blue World traces the adventures and relationships of a group of Czech ﬁghter pilots who ﬂy with the Royal Air Force in the Second World War. It is told retrospectively by the pilots themselves, who after the Second World War are imprisoned by the Soviets in a labour camp. The dank and dark prison cells, with all the misery they entail, clash vividly with the scenes of World War Two England. This is essentially a romantic tale where best friends fall in love with the same woman. This is offset by the pilot’s adventures in the air. I found that this provided a good balance and kept things interesting. The atmosphere of the ﬁlm is on the whole dark. This stems from the betrayal of a friend, the misery of a prison, the death of comrades, the upheavals caused by war and the ultimate sacriﬁce for comrades. The director builds up nicely a sense of frustration as the Czech pilots go through training and mock combat,[...]cludes some lighter moments, mainly deriving from the ﬁsh out of water experience of Czechs in England. The ﬁlm really shines in its depiction of World War Two air combat. The aircraft are modelled superbly, as are tracers, explosions and even the cramped feeling ofa spitﬁre. The ﬁlm portraits the terror of pilots ﬁghting in what often amounted to a steel and wood cofﬁn.[...]what I thought it would be. I don’t usually do the romantic thing, but was pleasantly surprised in this case. It is also a refreshing change[...]
	[...]gonna be bad, but please I prayed, let it be bad in an entertaining way. Unfortunately for this Angelina Jolie fan, it’s bad in a boring way. Jan De Bont (Speed) directs this me[...]strobe light action scenes. Angelina returns as the buxom Croft, and does seem more comfortable in the role a second time round. The vehicle provides her with a conﬁned spectrum to[...]pect, surely, for a movie based on a Video game. The expectation then comes in the action. It is in these scenes that we are let down by the directing. If De Bont can have me entertained wit[...]Instead, while Lara and her male pal Terry fought the Chai Ling, an Asian gang, in a cave somewhere, my mind wandered to pending assignments and cursing the fact I didn’t buy popcorn beforehand. The action scenes lacked serious continuity and at points you felt like you were looking in the wrong direction, blatantly being fed crap other editors wouldn’t bother with. What about the body shots of Lara you ask? The opening scenes are probably the highlight. Lara dons a silver wetsuit to probe the depths of the ocean for Alexander the Great’s Luna Temple (00 ah, a lovely piece of set I must point out). The wetsuit clearly isn’t thermal as we see from the blatant nipple shots. Her male counterpart Terry[...]er) is an improvement on that silly Alex guy from the first instalment, though the character is poorly substantiated, giving audienc[...]ally believe that Lara could have ever loved him. In fact, he resorts to Violence in the end, hitting Lara and then expecting her to resta[...]ympathise. "u, ., 4" “1" P era." new“ The only super bit in the whole film comes towards the end as we near the Cradle of Life. Creepy tree monsters start plucking off the bad guys in the dark forest. Aided by somewhat impressive CGI, I[...]e. Could we be reaching an awesome finale...? No. In fact, I was so bored by the finishing sequence I was actually hoping someone would just open the damn Pandora’s Box — maybe the havoc it could unleash would be interesting. I give this baby two stars because it is an improvement on the first one. I wouldn’t own it on DVD. Oh Angelin[...]out to be promoted, while simultaneously planning the wedding of the century to her fiance Emmet (Luke Wilson). As you would imagine, planning the wedding of the century requires everything to be perfect and thethe missing canine, and as luck would have it he uncovers her. Elle goes to give the dog an invite to her wedding, but when she gets t[...]l testing organisation, and Bruiser’s mother is in line for a make—over. When the organisation refuses to hand over the dog, Elle decides to take the matter up with her law firm. Not a good move —[...]gton for Ms Woods. On arrival she faces basically the same problems she encountered when first attending Harvard — no one will take her seriously. So the battle is thus two— fold, a campaign against an[...]ndividual; nice, smart, and blonde. So basically the plot is based on a wish to get a dog’s mother t[...]ld for movies where Reese Witherspoon stars, even the crappy ones — yes, I will admit it, I actually[...]Legally Blonde, as her role is basically exactly the same (yes, I know it is the same character, but a bit of depth and growth wou[...]ng these crappy movies after stellar performances in movies like Bottle Rocket; I can only assume he has been lured by the dollar signs and crossed to the dark side, where you make movies for the money — not the artistic merit. \| The rest of the supporting cast are entirely nondescript, and that is as polite as I can put it. Don’t let the fact that Charles Herman—Wurmfeld (Kissing Jess[...]s o‘.‘ For more information, please phone the 24hr information hotline: 355 5656 or visit: ww[...]NEMO RUGRATS GO WILD AGENT CODY BANKS PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN BAD BOYS 2 LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE LEGALLY BLONDE 2 THE ITALIAN JOB IDENTITY I CAPTURE THE CASTLE Coming Soon MATCHSTICK MEN CALENDAR GIRL[...]ILL PART 1 SWAT INTOLERABLE CRUELTY FREAKY FRIDAY THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS HOLES INTOLERABLE CRUELTY LOVE ACTUALLY GO TO THE MOVIES! CHAFF has five double passes to the flicks to give away. To be in to win, identify the film below and complete your details. Then get yo[...]us - pronto! (see page 8 for our details) Entries are limited to ONE per person and close WEDS at 5pm.[...]site: Last issue’s answer was American Pie: The Wedding Christopher Maiyaven Yi Chou Kahurangi T[...]tridge Liz Hodge You can collect your prize from the CHAFF office at Turitea. (Hokowhitu students collect from the MUSA Fishbowl)
	[...]e Club Take Them On, On Your Own Presented with the opportunity to review this album, the first question that comes to everybody’s (uninitiated) mind is; who the hell is Black Rebel Motorcycle Club? What kind of[...]mselves as a rock ‘n’ roll group, emphasising in music suitable for protests; they suggest they are independent, experimental, and their music touches new boundaries. The group consists of three young men; Robert Turner[...]s), and Nick Jago (drums), with them all residing in LA. Robert and Peter both grew up in America, whereas Nick spent his childhood in Britain. Take Them On, On Your Own is the second album released by the group. The album as a whole stays pretty true to their description of a free and independent group. The album is overwhelmingly rock ‘n’ roll, a pleasant change from the pop—rock polluting the world. To those who mainly listen to popular music, the album might seem a little slow and a lot less exciting initially, but it is in all ways interesting. The album starts with their first single, ‘Stop’. From the beginning you realise that the album is focused more on the music than the lyrics, as the vocals are quite mufﬂed and have the nasal quality similar to that of Placebo. As the album rolls to the second track, ‘Six Barrel Shotgun’, the songs all seem to follow the same sort of layout: short intro; interesting three to five minute song; and then at the conclusion, usually a brief break, almost an intermission, where the band experiments with their instruments to make an interesting end to each song. As the album bounces through the first half dozen tracks, you realise that there is a lot of energy in some of the songs. ‘Six Barrel Shotgun’, ‘We’re All In Love’ (my favourite track on the album), and possibly ‘In Like The Rose’, all have an undeniable, high—paced energy driving the track ahead. The album then proceeds to become a bit more mellow,[...]e of Blue’ progressively getting slower; but at the same time, more musically thrilling. The group then show that they can still do a beautifu[...]rite) and ‘Rise or Fall’ once again revealing the groups’ inner energies. They repeat this again for ‘Going Under’ and, just to top off the excellent album, ‘Heart + Soul’ is another st[...]ent (sometimes obviously, but mostly subtly), and the musical interludes at the end of each track just add onto the excellence. For those with a short attention span, the similarity of each song may become uninteresting after a while; and for some, the nasal voice might just be too much to bear. But o[...]p Virgin 2003 looks as if it is shaping up to be the year of the super— group. First Audioslave, then Zwan, and[...]) to their already star—filled ranks, including the likes of Maynard James Keenan (Tool) and Josh Freese (the Vandals). Call me cynical, but it would appear that the Class of ’94 has had a reunion, and decided to[...]e, of course, appeared a couple of years ago with the hard—rocking yet melodic Mer de Noms. Thanks to[...]y, strip Tool of their prog—rock excess and you are pretty much left with A Perfect Circle. The rest of the band includes Billy Howerdel (guitars/production)[...]and Iha (live guitar). Keenan and company resist the Tool comparisons even further on their new effort Thirteenth Step; the band have emphasised the melodic and atmospheric end of their music, not necessarily to the detriment of anything else, but certainly fans of[...]han on Mer de Noms. Which leads to another point: In many ways of the beauty of that last record was its accessibility and immediacy. The seven minutes—plus of opening track ‘The Package’ doesn’t exactly leap out of the speakers and grab you, until nearly the very end. ‘Weak and Powerless’ is the obvious hit single, and almost admirably, the band decides not to rock out in the obvious way. ‘The Noose’ follows up; the guitar tone and phrasing is almost exactly Disintegration—era Cure, and is pretty indicative of thethe lilting, pretty ballad. ‘The Outsider’ returns to a more harder—rock sound, with some nice guitar work. The leaden cover of Failure’s ‘The Nurse Who Loved Me’ marks the nadir of the album, especially contrasted with the opening riff of ‘Pet’, snarling from out of nowhere it seems. Closing number ‘Gravity’ returns to the more atmospheric rock of earlier tracks on the album. “3%?wa control 99.fm SAT 10pm—12 From the Nightfall Sacks of Goodness: Almighty hails from[...]tion. Much new music has been coming our way, and in amongst the time we spend persecuting the cultists who come knocking at the door, we have been able to listen to a few new records. Thethe most anticipated releases of the year. Goat horns up for these scurrilous lads. A[...]h— death metal, call themselves As I Lay Dying. Thethe bowels of Hell — it would make anyone proud to be a Christian. I have heard the new Callenish Circle My Passion/ Your Pain. While[...]er Overall, Thirteenth Step is a fine record; the stale modern rock scene certainly could use some bands that approach the tried and true format from a different angle, and A Perfect Circle is one of these groups. However, there are places on this record where things don’t gel and do not go anywhere interesting musically. The production is very nice and the stand out tracks are ‘The Noose’, ‘The Outsider’ and ‘Pet’. Try and avoid ‘The Nurse Who Loved Me’, though. Mer de Noms, in this reviewer’s opinion at least, is still the definitive A Perfect Circle statement. — Michael Harvey Check it out: the Rage Against the Machine guys and Soundgarden front man Chris Corn[...]er Billy Corgan and make Smashing Pumpkins—lite in the form of Zwan (now defunct, due to previous Perfect Circle bassist Paz Lenchantin leaving). The word is that Zach de la Rocha is now recording wi[...]of whom have worked with A Perfect Circle. Funny how these things work. absolutely shockingly brut[...]Music have pointed out another extreme band named The Red Chord. The album Fused Together in Revolving Doors for once actually lives up to its name and simulates the feeling it describes. These ladies play a fucked up blend of thrash metal in jarring chromaticism and seventy—three disconcerting time—changes in a song — very similar (but not as technically efﬁcient) to The Dillinger Escape Plan. Excellent. The seriously grim death metal boys called Vital Rema[...]gree entirely with that statement, it is still up in the realms of top ten. Screaming and blasting full of[...]t week when we unload Nightfall’s heavy sacks. In Hellfire and Brimstone, with a sprinkling[...]
	[...]ote a column answering people’s questions about the delicate subject of sex. Lately it has become apparent that there are many people out there who still have no idea what it’s all about. For example, the many women that I’ve tried to put some moves on who’d turn to me and say, “what the hell do you think you’re trying to do?” I fee[...]ouls. Which is why I bring you: DR J’S SEX FOR THE VERY STUPID. WHAT IS SEX? Well, inside every mu[...]d inside every daddy is a very special seed. When the daddy loves the mummy very much — or even when he has just had[...]k — he will want to put his special seed inside the mummy to fertilise the egg. However, the mummy will tell the daddy that she wouldn’t touch his seed with a t[...]he can just go fertilise himself. This will make the daddy very sad and he will start drinking heavily[...]will resort to paying other mummies to touch him in intimate ways, or he will be forced to take matte[...]llow shell of a man. Alone, depressed and bitter, the daddy will then while away what remains of his li[...]ine under a false name and fake doctoral degree. HOW LONG SHOULD SEX TAKE? This varies greatly for ea[...]ut, surprisingly, a lot of women can be satisfied in no time at all. For instance, they’ll often say[...]ulate: — Before you get your pants off. — On the drive over to your girlfriend’s house. — Every time you see Judy Bailey on the news. WHAT IS FOREPLAY? There are two schools of thought on this. Women believe th[...]al. Men believe that foreplay consists of getting the women drunk enough to agree to sleep with them. WHAT IS THE G—SPOT? This is a magical area of mythical proportions. It is firmly believed in by most women but men tend to hold it in the same regard as the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot. That is, they’ve[...]type of hat worn by certain African tribes during the harvest rituals (I think). IS MASTURBATION WRONG[...]on actually causes philosophy students. WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH CONDOMS? Having sex with a condom on i[...]a condom is rather like beating a policeman over the head with a large plank. Oh sure, it’s enjoyable at the time, but it almost always ends up causing you a lot of trouble later on. In an emergency, glad—wrap makes an excellent condom substitute — tinfoil, on the other hand, does not. HOW CAN YOU TELL WHEN A WOMEN IS FAKING AN ORGASM? There are many definite indicators that a women may not be[...]s out to be, if she laughs continually throughout the proceedings for example. Other tip—offs are if, during sex, she likes to read a good book, catch up on her sewing, or prepare the evening meal. Ifyou do discover that she is fakin[...]it’s perfectly normal. It simply means that you are completely inadequate sexually and perhaps you would be better offjoining a monastery. WHAT ARE SEXUAL PERVERSIONS? A sexual perversion is anyth[...]ake to talk once you’re done. Most perversions are harmless, so long as both partners enjoy them, but ifyou ever find yourself dressed in a gorilla suit and having sex with your grandmoth[...]ly start considering therapy. Well, that’s all the advice for this week. If you do have any further questions then the Vice—chancellor has generously offered her assi[...]her any time, day or night, with your questions. The stranger the better. "232m“ m 21:sz All BlAﬂKS Slll'l’ﬂﬂ'l'EBS $20 = clun # THE cannot TO wm SEAT IN THE # A mmu GER All m 010' 37"”“23335 0006'” SU[...]MATCHES! ‘ # PLUS lOADS 0F SPO mm II? AT THE BAII! mm m as m’ THE GREAT T-SHIRT SWAP! STAY TUNED FOR CORU BA GIN[...]GIN-M 6 WIN HEAPS OF SPOT PRIZES! PLUS PRIZES FOR THE BEST GIN-M WIG AND OUTFIT! THIS THURSDAY[...]
	JL/Qbhéal latshopltd "LET US DO THE HARD YARDS" Two Bedrooms 35a Ada Street $130 15[...]is a versatile religious and political symbol. To the ancient Greeks, it represented fertility in honour of the Greek God Eostre. Centuries later it was adopted by the Christian faith to represent new life and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In recent decades it has morphed into the icon of a great annual chocolate marketing scheme. But when tossed by a heckler and splattered on the left shoulder of ex—actor, ex—bodybuilder and[...]t. “This guy owes me some bacon,” he said to the assailant during a public appearance at Californi[...]cars, twenty anti—abortion activists and a guy in a chicken—suit converge on West Century Bouleva[...]ervative zealots. “Don’t let Arnold terminate the unborn,” screams a Christian protestor wearing[...], you have just been erased,” screams another. The guy in a chicken suit is wearing a banner advertising the slogan “Arnold is a debate chicken.” With ove[...]presses his disapproval at Arnold’s elusiveness in public debates and the actor’s inability to say anything in a public forum that hasn’t been scripted and rehearsed in advance. In this sense, the “Join Arnold” campaign forms a seemingless pr[...]rom Schwarzenegger’s previous motion pictures. The scene is from the aftermath of the Schwarzenegger for Governor rally held an hour earlier in the Marriott Hotel Parking Lot. Initially, my goal had been to cover the actual rally itself, except having missed it, I had to settle for the aftermath. For this, I blame cars. Los Angeles ma[...]’t famous for its public transportation system. The trip from Westwood to LAX takes about 12 minutes by car. The same trip by bus takes 180 minutes, which is a simple consequence of the fact that everybody here drives, public transport is considered superﬂuous, and the resulting smog is an acceptable compromise. But luck was on my side this day, and as I entered the Marriott Hotel just to check it out, I chanced upon the biggest Republican political event of the year that was just about to start — the California Republican Party Convention Luncheon C[...]’s Leadership. You would be correct to question the size of such a meeting, given that the only Republican candidates for Governor are male, but it would seem that the organisers of the event only considered this a technicality. Walking through the doors of the Marriott Hotel was like walking into a parallel u[...]pensioner was peddling his lunch ticket for $200. The atmosphere was building as Arnold was about to deliver a speech to the Republican delegates. I asked the old man whether there was any way to hear Arnold without spending $200. “Not really,” he said. “There are cracks in the doors, but you couldn’t hear through them witho[...]d a “Join Arnold” stall nearby and asked them the same question. They concurred with the old man on the difficulty of eavesdropping, and so I enquired about the speech that Ijust missed. “Well, like, basically he talked about what’s wrong with California now and how he’s gonna fix things and stuff,” said the stallholder. And how does Arnold hope to achieve this? “Well, car tax has been tripled in the last year and he’s gonna to repeal it.” Cars and money — two things very dear the Republican philosophy. I argued for the merits of car tax on the basis that it punishes people for driving, thus decreasing the number of drivers, decongesting roads, making public transport more feasible, and reducing the environmental burden of carbon monoxide emissions being spewed out into the atmosphere and leading to environmental catastrophe? But this political blasphemy was not welcomed by the stallholder. “Please leave,” he said with a c[...]le. If there is one thing that we can learn from the Dalai Lama, it’s that a smile can get you a long way in the political arena. My smile was not one of happiness, but rather the remnant of a brave attempt not to burst out in laughter at the pure ridiculousness of the Republican event. Luckily an exaggerated smirk can appear like a ﬂirtatious smile in a politically charged environment where power is[...]hrodisiac, and I negotiate a re—entry ticket to the room where Arnold was about to speak without saying a word. Dreadlocks, by comparison, are not an asset at a Conservative convention. Within[...]ed by a swarm of suits and promptly escorted from the room. Apparently I needed a press identiﬁcation[...]editation is a relatively smaller hurdle when you are a foreigner. At the pre—registration desk they told me that accreditation had to be organised in advance, and so I was unable to see Arnold speak.[...]ﬁlejournalist from a political student magazine in New Zealand and had come all the way over here to cover this event, but sorry, no, I must’ve left my business card in the hotel suite... I have my New Zealand passport on[...]and a chance to see Arnold... on TV. Film stars are more popular than politicians, and so the Imperial Room where the main proceedings were taking place was full. I settled for the overﬂow room, where latecomers were watching the proceedings on a life—size TV screen. Ironic to go to all this effort just to see the proceedings on television, but given the likelihood that they would never be broadcast it unedited to the public, I felt privileged. Mary Bono introduced Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Gubernational Republican candidate for Governor of California, her inclusion a celebration ofwomen in politics in the Republican Party. She was the only female speaker I saw. Mary approaches the podium. Close up on Mary, her expression genuine and passionate. MARY This is the most exciting convention I have attended in my political career. The problems we are in are complicated and are due to a lack of common sense, largely due to the Davis administration, but Arnold Schwarzenegger i[...]g common sense back to Sacramento. Please welcome the next Governor of the State of California. Deafening applause. Arnold approaches the podium. Close up on Arnold, smug grin, nod. ARNO[...]or three minutes. Arnold gives ‘thumbs up’ to the crowd and nods twice ARNOLD Thank you to Mary Bono. This convention is a celebration of Republican women in leadership, and I think Mary Bono is a terriﬁc[...]OLD You know, a lot of people have asked me over the past few weeks, “Arnold, why are you a Republican?” So I will tell you why I am a Republican. I am a Republican because I didn’t like the impact of Communism in Austria. I wanted hope and freedom, and when I wa[...]America. When I came to America, and I remember in 1968 they had the presidential elections, and it was Humphrey against Nixon. I listened to the news coverage and what they stood for and what th[...]rnational trade, lowering taxes and strengthening the military’— it sounded like to music to[...]
	[...]ght and Karl Marx is wrong. And when I hear about the Davis illegal immigrant driver’s license bill, I am a Republican because I believe in the rules of the law and not political pandering. Applause. ARNO[...]l immigrant driver’s license bill. I will go to the legislators, and if they do not repeal it, I will go to the people and we will overturn it ourselves. I will repeal the Democrats 300 percent increase in car tax. I will decentralise education. I will return money to the schoolyards. And I will make sure that our environmental regulations will serve the environment and make common sense. Like Presiden[...]NOLD Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If you want the Davis administration out, then please join me. I love the Republican Party. Pan out. Capture the tireless applause of the rest of the delegates in the room. Exit Arnold. Next, in nothing short ofa reverse of the Last Action Hero plot synopsis, Arnold walked out of the TV screen and (through the doorway) into the overﬂow room where Iwas taking notes and watchi[...]person. We have to start with deregulation, bring the revenues back, and pay off the debt. Don’t spend more than you’ve got.” Pe[...]er’s inspiration (Nixon) and role model (Dubya) are serious reasons for concern, but despite his capi[...]lican who, if elected, will do more to liberalise the Republican Party than anyone else in the last ten years. The delegates refer to him as a RINO (Republican In Name Only) because of his liberal stance on social issues. Arnold is in favour of stricter gun control, gay marriages and[...]se whether or not she has an abortion. He is also in support of a proposition that would make it illeg[...]more difficult to demonstrate affirmative action in schools and the workplace. Along with cars and money, guns are very dear to the Republican philosophy so it was diplomatic of Arnold not to mention his views on gun control to the two rooms of delegates at the Republican conference. But when interviewed by Californian Family magazine, Arnold was much more open with the stark contradiction between his acting and political careers. “I don’t run around every day with a gun in my hand. I want kids to understand the difference; one is make— believe, like we do in the movies. But in reality I’m for gun control. I’m a peace lovi[...]eesy, pandering and maybe just a little na'ive of the relationship between fiction and reality in a media—obsessed society such as California, but at least it’s a step forwards to the political agenda espoused by Bowlingfor Columbine. And the editors of Californian Family magazine love Arnie, drawing parallels to his previous sponsorship of the After School Education and Safety Initiative and to his affectionate role in Kindergarten Cop. Going back to 1989, they mention that he was appointed by President Bush to head the Council on Physical Fitness and “stumped in all 50 states at his own expense.” But as the chicken and the egg pointed out earlier, not everybody loves Arnie. After the delegates departed, Iwalked back through the portal into the parallel universe outside the Marriott Hotel. This time I bumped into the Code Pink activist group who were protesting agai[...]ld within Arnold’s view during his speech until the solo covert activist had been ushered out by the suits. There were six of them in total and one of them male — I couldn’t be co[...]brochure of sexist quotes mouthed by Arnold over the last three decades. Recently, they caught Arnold[...]id or have nothing else to offer’, which may be the case many times, but...” They had fished something up from the 70’s referring to a gang bang with a female bod[...]gym full of poseurs at Venice Beach. Arnold told the LA Times this week that this had only been a joke[...]etract attention away from their policies. Two of the three main left—wing candidates for Governor we[...]f Republican legislators having affairs, going to the Supreme Court to defend his right to sell pornography, and then marrying a sixteen year old stripper.” Cruz Bustamante comes out unscathed[...]actly a babe—magnet. Larry Flynt pulled out of the race a few weeks ago and Arianna Huffington is polling like she did too, leaving the left united behind Democrat Cruz Bustamante if the Recall is to be successful in ousting Gray Davis. However, the Republican vote is divided between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom McClintock, leaving Arnold in a close second place to Gray Davis’ lieutenant. This is the reason behind the “Let us unite for victory” statement repeated at the end of Arnold’s speech — a subtle request for[...]om McClintock, a traditional Christian family man in his 40’s and slightly goober—like in appearance, is the absolute antithesis of a RINO. He is a Conservati[...]injection death penalty law. He takes great pride in being the first Californian senator to suggest completely doing away with car tax, the same car tax that was increased threefold by the Californian Democrats in the 12 months. So enthused by car tax is he that it has formed the basis of his campaign slogan: “Tom McClintock: Stop the Car Tax. www.helptom.com.” Tom’s views on social issues are well captured in a brochure put out by the California Republican Party Platform entitled “[...]h is worth quoting at length. “Arnold supports the woman’s right to choose, the state’s current family planning programs and do[...]nd has consistently voted this way... Recognising the traditional model of monogamous heterosexual marriage as the only stable relationship upon which to build a so[...]nted as an acceptable ‘alternative’ lifestyle in public education and policy. We oppose granting t[...]doption.” While Arnold has gone out of his way in the campaign so far not to say anything, good or bad,[...]en made by none other than Sylvester Stallone and the Dixie Chicks, but as assemblyman Ray Hanes, a Conservative stalwart, said in an NBC interview last week, “Government’s no[...]ut what is going on.” I watched Tom’s speech in the Imperial Ballroom and the dinner function was true to its conservative root[...]ayer to God and George Dubya Bush. And following the Lord’s Prayer it came to pass that Tony Strickland, Senator of Bush, came to speak in praise of Tom. And he approached the altar so that the Republican people might hear. And he informed the sinful masses, “I think this recall is a wonderful thing.” “Tom was the first person to talk about repealing the car tax. I believe that Tom is our best candidate[...]from car tax to pretty much everything we believe in.” And Tony’s praises were well received and the people rejoiced. “Go Tom Go, Go Tom Go” they cheered. Now there was a certain man of the Republican Party of California and his name was Tom McClintock, the son of Mr and Mrs McClintock, and married heteros[...]be that he accepted this invitation to preach to the sinful masses. And Tom said, “Five years ago I[...]politician would do this?’ And do you know what the response was? ‘A democrat of course, because abolishing car tax helps the working family to get to work in the morning.’ Gray Davis has reconnected these vote[...]who has been mugged.’ Well, I can tell you now, the conservatives have been mugged, and they have been mugged by their state government.” And the people cheered, “That’s right.Yes Tom,” they cried. And Tom said, “I will rescind the car tax, void electricity contracts, bring workers’ costs down, and all this before lunch on the first day. “I will decongest highways by removing the diamond lanes, make sure the highway tax is actually spent on the highways, and remove the driver’s license bill for illegal aliens.” And the people cried, “Yes. Thank you Tom. Yes!” And[...]Oaks suburban house to find my mother sitting at the dinner table in tears. ‘Why are you crying?’I asked her. She told me that she w[...]so high that she was losing all of her savings to the government, and she couldn’t live the life that she wanted to. Her hopes and dreams had been stolen by the taxing system. Ever since that day, I have been c[...]families, to help them reach their goals.” And the people cried, “Yeah!” And Tom continued, “Now is the time to roll back the taxes that are choking the working class. I recall a brighter past — a Cal[...]Oaks. Now it takes two hours. That California was the place where I grew up, and I want it back.” And the people chanted, “Yeah. Go Tom Go. Go Tom Go.”[...]Tom concluded his sermon by extending an offer to the sinful masses to spend $2 of their fortune and take out their frustration at the Davis administration by stoning an Audi car with a sledgehammer. In jest, Tom claimed to have sought a French car, bu[...]Audi hatchback with a sledgehammer, slipping over in the process, smashed glass lodging firmly into his di[...]ically, last week a dozen SUV’s were vandalised in Downtown LA by ELF (Earth Liberation Front) in an act that any Republican would consider terrorism, yet now the Republicans themselves are destroying the very cars they are trying to protect from the dreaded car tax. It is madness in its very essence. Removing car taxes will not sol[...]or car—pooling and public transport will reduce the incentives for using public transport and lead to[...]d further pollution. Now these crazy Republicans are smashing a car that could’ve delivered a workin[...]destructive character (earlier they were praising the Iraq war), and making anti—French claims whilst[...]d globalisation. And now for a commercial break. The following is an actual flyer distributed by Tom M[...]gure.] Send at least $100 and become a member of the 10 million dollar club [Go figure again.] Send at least $20 to become a member of the 20 million dollar club [Seems like the best value for money. Maybe it’s some witty com[...]lintock for Governor. Send your Investment now. Thethe Golden Era of California” with him, blatantly confirming he is living firmly in the past. On the flyer he bribed the first 300 people with a free mug. Next door, the California Grass Roots Leadership Committee offer[...]ree battered mushrooms to all that attended. But the biggest party consisted of about forty uncoordina[...]on of action ﬂicks. Arnold had to cancel acting in a sequel to Collateral Damage in order to fulfil his strenuous campaign schedule.[...]e entertainment this way. As a foreigner, one of the most disturbing aspects of the convention was the Californians Republicans’ nightmarish obsession[...]es said, “with Arnold driving a Hummer, Arianna in a hybrid and McClintock smashing an Audi, California are defining their campaigns by vehicular styles.” From car tax to driver’s licensing, the Republican campaign trail shows no promise that L[...]er be anything other than a dirty fish tank. But the Democrats have fumbled. The Californian budget has dived from a $15 billion s[...]t during their term, taxes and unemployment rates are at an all—time high and education funding is dwindling. As with most elections, voters are faced with a decision to make the best of a bad ballot list. While Schwarzenegger faces criticism on the basis of womanising, abortion support, comparativ[...]ical naiveté, his name recognition has given him the power to force many Republicans to abandon[...]
	By Mike Ushaw When the moratorium gets lifted you will probably hear no[...](actions speak louder than words). Until then you are going to be bombarded with propaganda. Get used t[...]et (at night while no worker bees or wage slaves are there). Heh heh, McBooml Sorry, Ishouldn’tjoke about suicide bombing. GE FOR RETARDS Because money is the language of greed and humans are greedy c*nts, I will say this in $ terms. 0 Our farmers will make more $ marketi[...]wing shortage of GE free food. This means that as the rest of the world is poisoned, our GE free food gets more and[...]but changing nothing to get a reasonable increase in proﬁt seems like a good thing, right? 0 Rich c[...]$ on GE free food coz they have 55 to burn. Also, the rich bastards will not want to eat common food like the rest of the pions in their smelly, dirty, polluted, GE infested stink hole. If they are really rich then they will spend 55 on GE free or[...]$, and you know you can’t go anywhere else, coz the world is fucked”. They will. If we jack up the price coz we have to ship it a long way, this will mean only the stinkiest of the richest will be able to afford it, and so they wi[...]great deal of our most wealthy consumers, Japan, the EU and of course the Yanks, who don’t want their own shit food and c[...]r GE needs to be stirred up. As it gets closer to the time, more people need to be informed of the blatant blunder that is uncontrolled GE (ie not in a lab). Obviously, the general Joe Dumb Fuck doesn’t have any idea tha[...]g up their agri—chemicals and shit. Look at all the cock ups that come about when you hastily rush in[...]actor do a third—gear line lock (skidding up on the spot for all you non—car—ﬁends), so there i[...]if you didn’t already know) Have you heard of the term ‘niche market’? Do they teach you that in Ag? Or do they just teach you to fuck up the environment as fast as you can in order to gain a proﬁt before it becomes too fucked to grow anything? The cunt that invented DDT got a Nobel Prize or some shit, I bet the poor bastards in Vietnam got no prize (unless birth defects are considered lucky). What about resistance that builds up in the pest population? Oh yeah, just up the dosage. GE is not the same as herbicides you say? GE will mean no herbicides? Both are damaging to the intricate structure that is ‘natural life’. W[...]? Put all that useless farmland into cities. Poor old Agboy, just like the rest of us silly humans concerned with making pro[...]at overseas examples of GE causing havoc. Look at the US, look at Mexico. We can see it going wrong! We[...]red to produce ethanol was found to kill all life in the soil. Luckily, it wasn’t released (or they said it wasn’t). Imagine all life in the soil being killed off? What are your cows gonna eat then? Rocks? How much will it cost to mitigate that? You fucken’[...]then it’s probably coz they aren’t meant to. Are you just too 55 hungry, impatient and ignorant? Why are there so many antibiotics used on farmed animals, especially pigs and poultry? Is it coz the animals areare bound to happen inare healthier. Compare organic chickens with barn raised conventional ones. Have you ever seen chickens raised in a barn? They look like shit. Have you ever seen d[...]corn crops. Even Aunty Helen would know that — the Mexicans sure do. CAN HILLBILLY’S HANDLE MORE[...]I see your point. Auckland is full of dorks, and the rest of NZ is full of hillbillies (except Wellington, with it’s weird drug culture). Sorry if you are none of the above, but generalisations are hip these days. MADGE: We got stung 24—grand to pay for court costs. We messed with Ag—research and the judicial review of ERMA’s shit cow thingie. M: When will people learn, protesting doesn’t work. The courts don’t work, especially when against big[...], burn and destroy stuff. Actually, I might leave the fun stuff till after the moratorium gets lifted. For now, we may as well o[...]m is some silly organic hippy type. Both sides of the argument will be met. So all you Agboys come along and support your side of the story. All you hippie’s, druggies, fairies, and[...]Steve. I’m not sure what time or where exactly in the building it is, so more details will be probably[...]Square to Parliament. A bus will be going down at the very cheap cost of fuck all (gas). So ifI can ste[...]Mike Joy: M.K.Joy@massey.ac.nz. There is a notice in the Ecology Building about it too. If you’re not a[...]want to get involved with protests, activism and the like, then get in touch with other like—minded individuals at: ht[...]deface, ‘jam’ or destroy anything, please get in touch with me. I’m keen to help and I know others who may’be too. Go up to the CHAFF ofﬁce and they’ll hook you up. 1 AND N[...]ny depressed people believe that being ‘sick’ in some way can be healed by prescription drugs. I b[...]lls down your throat isn’t very helpful at all. In fact, it will ultimately make the situation worse. Treat the symptom not the cause, eh? That’s what farmer—suit—to—kill companies do best. In 1999 a study called The Changing Rate of Major Depression, Cross—Cultural Comparisons’ found that the higher the level of economic development, the higher the incidence of depression. The study involved 39,000 participants and was carried out by the American Medical blah blah blah. TIMES ARE GETTING TOUGH NOW M: When I’m feeling blue, I crack open a cold one, spark up a fattie and crank the sounds. Ahhh depression, good times. Randolph Ne[...]iction, but a spiritual one. It’s an alarm that the organism is in spiritual distress. Carducci & Zimbardo: As we approach the limits of our abilities to deal with the complexities of our lives, we begin to experience[...]iety. We either approach or avoid. And indeed, we are seeing both — a polarisation of behaviour in which we see increases in both aggression, marked by a general loss of manners, and in withdrawal. Prozac (+generics): The world’s most top selling drug. M: Drug use also indicates a fundamental ﬂaw in reality. Our society needs help. Harvard Researc[...]ciability and general loutishness. D. Korten: We are all caught to some degree in a downward spiral of deepening alienation. Our quest for $ widens the gulf between our selves and our family/community.[...]their root causes. Or worse, having to entertain the idea that some problems simply have no solutions.[...]is not a viable solution for most of us. AB #30: In post—modern life, more environmental variables than ever are mucking with our heads. Perhaps much of our ‘cr[...]EP ON PUSHING (no drug pun intended) Think about the journey, not the destination. We are born; we will die. What lies in—between is up to you and fate. We will ultimate[...]ure what I want to do for a degree, let alone out in the big wide world of modern consumerism. Ijust wanna[...]and not do anything job—like. Think about all the old people who used to do certain jobs that are now obsolete. Thanks to our modern healthcare they are still around today when naturally they should have been dead long ago. But what do all the old folks do? The world is so different now. All their skills and experience are going to die with them. How many of you even talk to old people? They have a wealth of experience that we will never have. I feel sorry for all the elderly people rotting away in rest homes who could share a million years worth[...]ly probably doesn’t even visit them that often. How sad. It would have been much slower back in the day without as much stressful shit squeezed into[...]k. Most people work more than play. Fuck that. We are all slaves to the all mighty dollar. There is only one way to truly free yourself from the capitalist bullshit and ﬁnancial conformity, it’s not pretty, in fact, it’s not even legal. I guess it’s only[...]McBoom! Note: I’ve had a few good mates choose the easy option, or the cowardly way out, depending on how you see it. It’s not pretty, and I know others who have had mates go the same way. It was their choice. IfI could change t[...]what you’ve got to remember is that even though the going gets tough sometimes, you have to ne[...]
	I w. «(osmorgmz The Massey University Students’ Association support[...]fee setting time! This Friday October 3 at 10am in Refectory 1 the University Council will be deciding on your fees[...]u want to make a difference, believe me, you can. The more students who simply turn up put greater pressure on the Council to consider the people their decisions will be affecting.[...]
	eviant Edited by Eric Steinmark Get in contact with us if you have any questions or conc[...]/ uniq/ Notice Board: MUSA corridor - look for the bright colours. UniQ box:25 in the MUSA corridor. Meetings: Meeting are held every Tuesday at MALGRA (turn left and up the stairs at the end of Jersey Lane).Please note that sometimes meetings are held at other locations so keep an eye on the web-site/Deviant page for details. Can’t make the Tuesday night UniQ meetings? Too far,too dark,to[...]nz Deviant: We want your stories,so please send in anything to our e-mail address,poems,views,stories, events,etc. First-timers: If you are new to UniQ then please e-mail us.We can arrange[...]ut UniQ.This is helpful so when you come along to the meetings you know someone there already.You could[...]g with you to your first UniQ meeting. rugby all the time. Polari “Ooh, vada well the omee—palone ajax who just trolled in — she’s got nanti taste, dear, cod lally—drags and the naff riah but what a bona eek. Fantabulosal” Back in the 1950’s, being gay wasn’t much fun. In the UK — and indeed, in most of the Western world — you could be blackmailed, expos[...]ectroshock and hormones. People didn’tjust stay in the closet, they nailed the door shut and burrowed into the back wall. One of humanity’s greatest and dearest pleasures was in danger of being taken away from tens of thousands of people, but in the end the desire to fulﬁl such a basic urge was much too[...], and people just need their gossip. What to do? How can sit with a friend and talk about last night’s fun or eye the passers—by when being overheard could put you a[...]w language, of course, and thus Polari was born. The origins of Polari probably lie in the 19th—century slang Parlyaree used by fairground[...]prostitutes and beggars, and it also has links to the older vocabularies of other stigmatised groups or[...]ieves’ cant, cockney rhyming slang, Yiddish and the lingua franca of sailors. If you liked the look of someone at the theatre, you might say to them, “That was a bon[...]s very useful. It was also a way of poking fun at the repressive society. Being ironic, blasé, making[...]ly: no money. Nanti worster: no worse. Nanti pots in the cupboard: no teeth. Omee: man. Palone: woman. O[...]Vogue: a cigarette. Hanky Code So we’re back in the murky past, and queer sex is a taboo subject. Even in the shadier parts of town you’d barely be able to h[...]riends start wearing colour—coded handkerchiefs in your back pockets, and spreading the code to others, so you can advertise to those in the know. Once that system is in place...well, might as well keep expanding it, right? Today the Hanky Code is dead, except for perhaps a few places where it’s done mostly for fun, but in its day you could communicate more than 150 types[...]p of cloth. Here’s a few examples. Colour Worn in Left Pocket Worn in Right Pocket Navy Blue Top Bottom Mustard Hung L[...]ack S&M top S&M bottom 3O A Deviant guide to the highly recent past Being gay these days is[...]donate blood, but I’m not going to be burnt at the stake. I can’t hold my partner’s hand in public, but I’m not going to jail. I could be a[...]or torture, and we all know who’s going to win in the end. In our country, homophobia is joining the ranks of sexism, racism and xenophobia as just So[...]u can’t talk about So society’s changed over the last few decades, which you should have noticed. For the majority of the population who are heterosexual, this change consisted of moving fro[...]riven by a blind madman into a hurricane. Uh, and the hurricane’s on fire, and there are vampires, and also the sun is going nova. You know...big. The queer cultures that grew and, in a way, thrived in an environment of hatred and paranoia have withered away with the advent of acceptance and tolerance. Broadway musi[...]ist communes? Hankie codes and private languages? The actions and beliefs that were common yesterday are puzzling and bizarre to the youth of today. Which is a bit of a shame, becaus[...]imperialism, racism, sexism, youth oppression...) are eliminated.” — Revolutionary Lesbians 1971, How to Stop Choking to Death or: Separatism Lesbians[...]rmanent communities completely separate from men. The movement increasingly came under fire for being a[...]ental, for perpetuating male/female essentialism. The movement eventually became a bit ofajoke, and whe[...]nist,” this is what they mean by feminism. Yet the movement attracted many people and accomplished much. For the first time, people who had been largely disenfranchised felt empowered to fight the various evils that had infected government, religion, society, family, and culture. The movement did indeed end up creating new religions and new academic fields, and raised the consciousness of their contemporaries and thereby[...]to an extent we cannot imagine today. There is an old play, written before this movement, where one cha[...]jovial song about his plans to rape someone. When the play was written, audiences chuckled at it for be[...]ow its callousness horriﬁes people so much that the play’s practically never performed. Women’s[...]academic field concerning a minority was inspired in part by the efforts of radical lesbianism. Women—centred re[...]cca have brought solace to hundreds of thousands. The spousal abuse centres, rape crisis hotlines, and[...]lesbianism inspired have saved millions of lives. The movement may have been ﬂawed, and it may have e[...]radictions and blind spots, but it never deserved the reputation it’s earned. Considering what we owe it, continuing the laughing disrespect seems a betrayal. Queers of the future unite! So where are we going? What will the 2040 edition of Deviant look back upon? The Queer Pets Movement? The National Party When It Was Straight? How GE Saved Heterosexuality? Anything’s possible. Some days, I hope that in the future all the queer newspapers and web sites and publications will fade away as unnecessary. Having a friend who prefers the same sex will be just as significant has having a friend who prefers blondes. The antagonism between heteros and homos will be just as dead as the antagonism between Catholics and Protestants. So[...]ng through a phase? So what? Having an end to all the stupid squabbles would be nice. Other times, I hope that doesn’t happen. The queer community, as a community, is such a recent development, yet in the short time it’s existed it has gone through astonishing changes. Having it fade away, existing only in the memories and notes of historical scholars seems a bit sad. Variety is the spice of life, and it would get boring if we were[...]hing away queers, I think we’ll drift back into the norm, blending in even more than we already do. It’ll be nice, to[...]any differences that anyone cares about. But then the weekends will come around, and we’ll just have to roll out the queer culture and take over the towns. I mean, come on — who else do you want in control of the parties? Visit the Deviant web site For more info on all these topics
	[...]’s been a lot of talk about student apathy over the last couple of weeks, about how hard MUSA works and how little we achieve, about students who don’t care, and about the constant work MUSA faces, not just to get anythin[...]I haven’t had time to get cynical, but I reject the notion that students are apathetic. You are an educated minority, and it is you who keep this[...]is more qualiﬁed or informed to care than you. The fact that so often the voice of student opinion is ignored in favour of financial advantage, and that your rights are sold for profit, comes not from apathy, but from[...]you should feel disempowered. Student’s rights are constantly ignored by this university, and your a[...]t’s our dozen staff against their hundreds, and the truth is, most of the time, they win. But sometimes they don’t. Some[...], but we represent thousands. Every now and then, in small ways, and sometimes in big ways, we succeed, and this success means we creep a little further towards our goal, the empowerment of students. My point? This week is fee setting week. At the time of writing, the University still hasn’t told us what they plan to do with fees, but by the time you read this we’ll know. At Vic, student protests stopped a meeting to raise fees. The same thing could happen here. We can win this fig[...]hing but a shameless money grubbing ploy. You and the government give this university money to provide an education. Every dollar that the University doesn’t spend is one taken away from your education. When you consider the surplus the University has been running, this can seem like nothing so much as theft. Protest works. Don’t let the University get away with raising fees. Don’t ab[...]is a busy time of year for everyone. Assignments are piling up and exams are not far away. I hope in amongst the work and stress you noticed that it was Women’s Fest last week, well actually, by the time you read this two weeks ago. Overall H[...]Men’s Fest would be held. Good question? But we are the Women’s Officers and it’s not part of our por[...]an interesting event on concourse. Thanks to all the women that participated in this — you were all great! And another huge thank you for breaking down the stereotypes about what women should look like. Our winners Laura and Alicia dressed as rugged women in overalls and gumboots. Mahu dressed in her PJ’s, showing there is no need for any women to be ashamed of the way she looks even if she has just got out of bed. Then there was Mel and Mere who dressed in their rugby uniforms — proving that women are just as tough as men. And there were lots of othe[...]elieve we achieved this. Also a big thank you to the guys that volunteered and helped out during the week. The awesome guys that cooked our BBQ on Wednesday and who took part in the drag section of our beauty pageant with MUSA Exec, the CHAFF editor, the MUSA accountant and Rohan. You all looked so beau[...]rating that 1 10 years ago New Zealand women were the first in the world to get to vote. But at the same time we were acknowledging that things are still not fair. On average women on earn 84 perce[...]d this although a few did throw their toys out of the cot! Thank you for your support. and try to enjo[...]eek Fee setting is about to happen On October 3 in Refectory One, University Council will be gatheri[...]fees setting for next year for domestic students. The Fees Freeze implemented by the Labour—led government of 1999 protected domesti[...]and this has allowed us to become complacent. But the time for action is upon us again, and we must collectively band together again to forcefully tell the University that they cannot exploit students — fees do not need to be increased. The University is sitting on a massive budget surplus[...]nd about $9 million mid way through this year, so are by no means struggling to provide education with their current level of income! ACTION. If you believe in keeping education affordable, SHOW IT. MUSA will lead the charge into Refectory — if hundreds of students pile into the building and surround it making a whole lot of noise, then there is NO WAY THE UNIVERSITY CAN IGNORE US. Massey states it has a[...]te of research and innovation, of which postgrads are vital part. We deserve a fees decrease! This is the first time in three years that this will be happening, as the fees freeze is being replaced by the fee maxima/ five percent increase. Unfortunately, postgraduate fees are outside the maxima, and can rise by up to $500 per course per year, or by more with permission from the Tertiary Education Commission. It is especially important the postgraduate students make their voice heard to d[...]. Although Fee Maxima was officially launched at the last budget speech, the University has not had any set guidelines to begin fees setting until recently because the government was pressured by students to change the policy on university fees. YAY STUDENT ACTION! The downside to this is that no documents have been released that indicate what the University is planning to do on October 3 — this information will only become available four days before the meeting when the agenda is disseminated. Therefore, we don’t know exactly what the University’s arguments are that they will use to try and defend any proposed fees increase. It is possible that the University proposes an increase in line with the Consumer Price Index, or inﬂation. However, some very good arguments agains[...]been put forward at University Council, including the tremendous marketing spin—offs that would come[...]es was to keep international postgraduate fees at the current level — no increase! EVEN IF THIS IS Y[...]ything you want to get off your chest, please use the postgrad email loop (mu—postgrads@massev.ac.nz)[...]nal students, dComo estan? Nihao. Apa Khabar? We are Shun from Malaysia and Santiago from Ecuador. We have been in New Zealand for one and a half years; lived in the hostels last year; and are currently Residential Advisors. We have met a wid[...]students, both postgraduates and undergraduates, are faced with many issues that need to be addressed and dealt with. Among these, the annual increases in international students’ fees, which affects most of us. With regards to this, we worked with MUSA in building arguments against the increment of international fees, whereby the final outcome was favourable. We, as internation[...]that we can contribute and make a change. We have the experience, capability and desire to work as effective representatives of you guys. The only thing we need is your support and your willi[...]e with us. If we have your vote of confidence and are appointed as International Students’ Officers,[...]m Rachel Dominick and along with Mieke Wieneke we are running for the position of Rec and Leisure Officer. This is my s[...]r of Science. Hi. I’m Mieke Wieneke and I also in my second year at university. I’m currently studying MedLab Science. We are running for Rec and Leisure Officer because we wa[...]uce Massey arse). Our main aim will be to support the diverse range of clubs within Massey and to ensure they receive adequate funding and use of the facilities available. We also want to make sure that Massey will retain the shield at the University Games 2004 in Otago. We are both actively involved in sport and feel we could do a lot to help students[...]nvolved with sport at Massey, which also includes the social side of things, and we want to make sure i[...]Heya! I’m Scott, a second year BA majoring in Classics and Philosophy (good fun!). I’m runnin[...]ak my fingers if I didn’t. I’ve been working in the recreational industry for the last five years as a programmes facilitator and events manager, so I’ve had a bit of experience in this field of work. Currently I’m taking four p[...]ents, have two part—time jobs, am Treasurer for the Massey Filmmakers, and still have time for a dece[...]so this position would be perfect to keep me busy in my spare time. I’ve been told to suggest reasons for you to vote for me, so I’ve come up with the following: 1. Iain will break my fingers if you d[...]omeone represent you, it logically follows to get the best person. Anyways, all the best. — Scott
	[...]ria University students recently when they forced the cancellation of a Council meeting that looked poi[...]r current students, but also those who will enrol in the future. Students at Vic were ﬁghting against mo[...]and longer repayment times. We were ﬁghting for the Council to act responsibly and not increase stude[...]fees, they have had a funding increase well above the rate of inﬂation for next year and they have had increases in the previous three years as well. All institutions sh[...]ce their fees, not grab more money from those who are least able to pay. At Vic, the Vice Chancellor was trying to raise fees on the most ridiculous logic — he said that because the government increased funding by three percent that the institution should do the same to student fees! One has to wonder what woul[...]increased by ten percent! There is no doubt that the quality of tertiary education would beneﬁt from further funding increases. The New Zealand University Students’ Association al[...]t to fund our degrees properly and ensure that we are getting a genuinely world class education. However, those with the least ability to pay — students — should not[...]case to put fees up for next year. While modest, the three percent government funding increase for nex[...]ile funding has increased. We already know about the disastrous affects of high student fees and high[...]avoc with our economy and society. Many graduates are going overseas, putting off having children and n[...]duate study because of their student loan burden. The Massey University Council needs to show that they understand the destructive affect that student loan debt is havi[...]ehave responsibility and ensure that student fees are reduced. Massey is planning to set its fees inare listened to is directly affected by how many students are backing up what they are saying. You can make a real difference in this process by becoming involved. Go into MUSA a[...]n email. — Fleur Fitzsimons T-COSY Hey all, The end of the year is quickly approaching, and to celebrate the hard working peeps at T—COSY have teamed up with MDK to present the year’s largest LAN event this side of the North Island. On the weekend of October 4/5, we will be running T— COSY 187, a 24—hour (or longer) LAN event, where we are planning to have up to 187 machines on the day! We are going to end T—COSY this year on a blast; by ch[...]massive Desert Combat competition, a clan battle in Counter— Strike (possibly the last time it will make an appearance at a T—COSY under the HL1 engine), C&C: Generals, Raven Shield, and eve[...]can organise seating, security, and food. If you are interested in attending the greatest LAN that the Manawatu will ever see this year, go to http: [ [[...]tar tcos .ins ire.net.nz and you can be placed on the mailing list; you can use this address too to ﬁnd out more information about the event. This is the LAST T—COSY of the year, so let’s make these 24 hours an event to[...]et’s go longer and make a marathon of it! Enjoy the rest of semester, and hope to see you all at the best LAN this year! — Jevon Wright akaj.dub, T[...]ry 2003, http: [ [ tcosy.inspire.net.nz FROM THE LEFT The murder of Coral Burrows has touched everyone regardless of their political persuasion. The mistreatment of anyone is appalling, but the mistreatment of the young and the elderly — society’s most vulnerable — ﬁlls us all with an extreme sense of sadness and anger. On the day it was announced that Coral’s body had been found we also learnt the shocking truth that New Zealand has been ranked as one of the worst countries in the Western world by UNICEF (the United Nations children’s agency). After New Zealand, only the United States and Mexico were worse. While the details of Coral’s death have not yet been clea[...]dent. It is also no accident that it all happened in the Wairarapa — an area known for its poverty and, in recent years, its abuse of children in particular. These helpless young victims are, in part, the victims of our country’s economic restructuring. Child abuse is not conﬁned to the poor, but it is without a doubt correlated to poverty. The UNICEF report also notes the fact that New Zealand was only one of four countries in which the death rate had actually increased from the 1970’s. It is impossible to blame a single fact[...]t rates ballooned and extreme poverty worsened as the poor became even poorer. People are responsible for their actions — but an increase in social stress and trouble makes it far BENN 'S ADVENTURES The skinny Broaching the topic of China is a difficult task. It is such a[...]enormous place. I’m still coming to terms with the language and unfortunately the town we live in isn’t particularly inspiring, but at least reas[...]ur apartment is actually two adjacent dorm rooms. The building we live in houses both students and teachers. We have been assigned to the fifth ﬂoor. The view is pleasant but without an elevator extremely hard earned. There are four bathrooms that each has their own peculiar characteristics, as well as squatters. One houses the washing machine, which is missing the tap adapter and must be ﬁlled manually by baili[...]emporary situation (we have been assured). One is the laundry, another the toilet with mirror and the last is our shower. It is somewhat schizophrenic in nature but I am slowly growing accustomed to my routine morning room shufﬂe. The squatter is an unfortunate side effect of Chinese[...]sting when one is either pissed or very tired and the ominous possibility of falling in crosses the mind. Our shower is the kind that runs through a gas heater on the way to the faucet, falling somewhat short in the water pressure domain. It’s very nerve racking living with the possibility of leaving the gas on and being unable to more likely that some[...]to vent their frustrations. Economic hard times are always hardest felt by those at the bottom of the socio—economic ladder — Maori. Maori are disproportionately represented among the child abuse ﬁgures. In order for effective change to occur we need to look at the links and start there; poverty is a major problem, addressing it is essential. While times are for many signiﬁcantly better now — there is s[...]time. Many lives were permanently blighted during the economic and difﬁcult times of the 1980’s and 1990’s. Families lost jobs, income, hope, and the skills to cope. This combination resulted in producing individuals who were troubled, angry, as well as unskilled children. The abuse of children needs to stop — but it can on[...]en). Addressing poverty within our communities is the ﬁrst step in addressing child abuse. No more children should[...]with violence and abuse may be able to make some in—roads, but it has to be a collective decision — because we all have a role to play of looking out for the little ones, the ones that can’t look out for themselves. — Huia Welton close the shower room door. We have managed to jack up a makeshift shower curtain, however. The other freaky thing is that the water is very irregular and at that oh so crucial[...]eigner like us high and dry so to speak. With all the talk about showers and toilets you may be left thinking — what about the sink? And indeed, you would be right — what about the sink? We use a bucket to wash our hands in the toilet and as for tooth brushing, well, we have t[...]ntains two ‘sinks’. I use commas because they are loosely what I suppose can only be described as sinks. The kind found at campsites where hordes of people do[...]we must use to brush our teeth every morning and the odd night. This, although a little on the bizarre side, can be quite pleasant since the morning breeze is a very refreshing change to our[...]al since our TV only shows two channels, entirely in Chinese), refrigerator, water purifier (that infu[...]n be a positive thing 5 Recently while surﬁng the internet I spotted this quote from a man named Bill Micklitz that explains things brilliantly in only a few words. “Having a disability is natur[...]metimes think, it’s true. When viewed this way, the tradition known as disability doesn’t seem as s[...]ilities don’t have everyday concerns and issues in their lives, because we do. It is the created institution of disability (generally by p[...]nto something else. This ‘something else’ is in actuality a culture of acceptance. Traditionally, this has been related to the perceived insight by professionals that there was[...]ions and various societal groups. Before long, WE are brought up accepting the situation for what it is in our world. Now in the 21St century, this acceptance is in the form of implicit vulnerability. Although not as all pervasive as the conventional form of acceptance, this also affects the make—up of individual world—views. We are accepting that we need help or assistance either all or some of the time. Our lives are virtually determined by the next major issue, often clouding our individual hopes of success in whatever ﬁeld we desire. This culture of needin[...]all be solved by independent thought and action. The folly of this culture and its grip on the opinions and ideals of many people is borne out in the above quote by Micklitz. For the individual, it is a tough battle to break free 32 from accepting the ‘normal way of things’. Although there are many challengers and doubts, it can be done. Just take a look at the achievements that people with disabilities have made recently in this small country alone to understand. After that previous comment, here are some positive aspects ofliving with a disability[...]o all students with disabilities and for some we are still learning, but this is a different (better!) way of looking at life. The comments in brackets are mine. 0 You develop good organisational skills a[...]ore resistant to pain and painful situations). 0 In the sense of moving in two worlds — disabled and non— disabled — you are bicultural. 0 You learn the value of time and ofletting things take time. 0[...]r you (this seems to apply regardless of whether the disability is hidden is not; also, people[...]
	Quality vs warehouse prices FROM THE RIGHT Carl Bates This week brings the darkest week in the University calendar in terms of student politics. Fee setting occurs this Friday and a small group of students are going to get on their high horses and argue and protest in an immature fashion for another year of fee freez[...]this is what history suggests will occur anyway. The week before last Victoria University’s council[...]g council meeting because students began chanting in an attempt to disrupt the meeting and not allow it to take place. A mature[...]ay of dealing with an issue? I don’t think so. In the past, Massey Council members that have supported fee increases have been slagged off by students during the actual meeting, and called everything from a ‘b[...]e that there is a silent majority of students who are happy to accept a small increase in fees to ensure the quality of their education is maintained. In discussions with a wide variety and large number of students over the last week this has proven to be the case. In reality, an institution cannot maintain standards, resource expansion and competitiveness in the employment market to any great extent without some fee increase. The facts are Massey’s council is considering a fee increase,[...]nt and a maximum of$106 per student, depending on the study programme a student is completing. This is a maximum increase for the institution, across all students, of $2.75 million. Not much at all; it doesn’t even keep up with inﬂation! Fees have been frozen for four years! So in real terms, fees have actually decreased! Massey needs to be given the opportunity to make up some of this lost ground,[...]have much room to move at all anyway. I ask you; are you more concerned about saving another $100 or about ensuring Massey has the funds available to pay staff, maintain facilities[...]hat your education is a quality one? I know I’m in the latter group. The infamous debate — Ag vs Vet Greetings, and yes, we have arrived at that time of year. The battle of wit, English humour, filth, and soft po[...]l rednecks and confused left wing pieces of shit, the Ag vs Vet Debate raises its ugly “head” at the Teachers College Auditorium Friday October 3, 7.30pm. The topic — chosen by and argued for by the Vets — ‘THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER’. The Veterinary team will be captained by the “debatany beautiful”, ex—Miss Manawatu, Abb[...]ainly have their work cut out for them this year. The Ag team is out for revenge after the Slightly Controversial, Irish Catholic Veterinary lecturer awarded the Vets a win in 2002. This was much to the antipathy of the Ag team, and all present that evening knew that the agricultural students had annihilated their oppon[...]on. Dr Kevin Stafford has again been appointed as the evenings adjudicator, as even the agricultural students realise a good laugh on the piss far outweighs the bias they will have to face. The Ag boys and girls have a stronger team than ever before (and that’s saying a lot). And as they have the negative on this topic, Agboy has full faith in them being successful come the evening of October 3. The prep sessions have been well under way for over a week in the security of “pasture and crop lecturer” James Millner. And like the 2003 All Blacks, success is the only thing on Team Agriculture’s mind. Agboy has only one gripe. The Vets need refrain from being snobs and invite one of their diploma students to get on side. Agboy challenges the Vets to gain some integrity out of the whole affair and play by the rules which clearly state: Section 13.2.23 “A d[...]. Note that any digression from this rule results in a penalty of “$100 (1980) real value” on the bar for the team abiding by this rule. The challenge has been set. So see you all there. Whether a Scientist, Socialist or Nationalist, you are all invited to what promises to be a night to rem[...]ang loose mother goose. — Agboy Some have used the argument that Massey has been reporting strong surpluses in recent times, so it doesn’t need to increase fe[...]accounting information tells us. You cannot take the institutions reported surpluses in isolation, you need to consider along with this,[...]iously question whether they should be sitting at the Council table! Students are not going to come to Massey simply because it is[...]r that it is doing heaps of advertising. Students are going to come here because they perceive it as an institution that offers a quality academic programme in the area they wish to pursue, or like potential Vets, they will come here because of the uniqueness of a particular course. Obviously some[...]actors like family connections, closer to home or the life style, but this does not by default mean they are not interested in receiving a quality education. I recognise that[...]reeze fees for another year, but I suggest to you the facts show that Massey needs to increase fees by a small amount for the 2004 year to maintain the quality of education we, the silent majority, pay for. I hope those few studen[...]opinions grow—up a little this year and attack the issue, not the people, in a mature and appropriate fashion. To Massey Council as a whole I say, increase fees, the facts tell us it needs to occur, so show some str[...]d students for supporting fee increases, remember the silent majority of students respect the fact that you are prepared to stand up for what is right [or at the very least, what you believe) and are concerned about the quality of the education we receive. This week I’d like some feedback, so email me on carlbate§@xtra.co.nz. If you are going to disagree with me though, at least do it in a respectful fashion. Best regards, — Carl Bates Violence, power and evil In recent weeks, New Zealand has been in mourning for the killing of six year old Coral Burrows. The Wairapapa has dealt with chilling instances of violence against children in recent years. The senseless killing of yet another pretty little girl has deeply disturbed us all. What are some of the troubling issues? Obviously, the first is the total vulnerability of children. The impish grin, bright eyes and tousled hair that vi[...]appy child. But that was not her reality at all. The killing of Coral Burrows has occurred at a time in New Zealand when the Church and broader society has been reﬂecting on the welfare of children in our care. “Born to Us: Children in New Zealand” has been the theme of national Social Justice week; Our Children: The Priority for Policy was published by the Child Poverty Action Group. Both stress the relationship between poverty, unemployment and violence against children. But wait... what about the case of Mark Lundy? He was far from poor; he was[...]other examples as well. What is happening to us? Are we glimpsing madness here? Touching the mystery of evil, perhaps? The killing of an innocent little girl has the ability to raise awareness about personal and social dysfunction in its many aspects: social, political, cosmic. We all want people in positions of power to act responsibly toward the most vulnerable in our midst. But we also want to empower people in desperate situations to take charge of their live[...]ntually discover their own power within. To take the first step requires that someone is on the other side, with arms outstretched, eager to embrace you, willing to accompany you on the journey to wholeness and healing. This type of social action is not simply the responsibility of Christians, but all people of good will. Everyone in government, education, housing and health care must make their own “preferential option for the poor and vulnerable”. If not, there will be more Corals dying of abuse in New Zealand and, little by little, the heart and soul of our culture will wither and die[...]t women too LIBERTY BELLE Deborah Coddington “The student loan scheme is grossly discriminatory against women,” according to Camilla Belich, who has the grand title of the National Women’s Rights Officer for the New Zealand University Students’ Association. This statement sent me scurrying to the statutes. Do more women get turned down for loans[...]dents apply for loans, do they have to prove they are male in order to qualify for borrowing? Not at all. According to the logic (or illogic) of Ms Belich, student loans are discriminatory “because of our lower lifetime e[...]r bladders. If you add all that time together, we are missing out on xx amount of dollars in our working life. Or it’s a bit like saying ma[...]cause they lose interest and ability much earlier in their lives, whereas women are up for it well into their eighties, so women get a disproportionately greater share of pleasure in their life span. My arguments are, of course, silly. So is Ms Belich’s. But that didn’t stop her taking her case to the Human Rights Commission in Wellington. “We are taking the claim on behalf of all women who are disadvantaged by the loans scheme,” she said. This quango should be called the Human Wrongs Commissariat. For a start, student loans are not a right, they are a claim on someone else’s right — the taxpayers’ right to keep their money so they can pay for the education of their own children. Access to terti[...]a right either. Tertiary students like Ms Belich are the privileged elite. Their claims on the state do nothing to advance the situation of those who will never reach the gates of a university because they’ve never learned to read, write or add up. Many of these youngsters are women. Ms Belich doesn’t speak for them, despite claiming she speaks for “all women disadvantaged by the loans scheme.” One of the reasons why these young people are illiterate is because today our education system[...]Ms Belich’s so—called discrimination case, at the expense of teaching basic literacy skills. There[...]to Ms Belich’s grizzling, and that’s to dump the loans scheme altogether. When my four children were little, and squabbling about who got the most ice cream and it wasn’t fair “cos Rupert got more than me”, I put all the ice cream back in the freezer and no—one got any. “That’s it,”[...]ld be treated accordingly. Women such as her let the side down. We might be desirable, smart and emine[...]weak, pathetic creatures who must go bleating to the Government for help when things ain’t fair. If you don’t like the loan scheme, go and get a job and leave your space in tertiary education available for someone who real[...]omen will never have equality with men because we are infinitely superior. — Deborah Coddington N Thursday; in Black www.musa.org.nz
	[...]g warmer. Stadler: It’s hard these days, being old, the heat really gets to me, just walking up the stairs gets sweat dripping down my brow, and my arse crack ﬁlls up like a swimming pool. Waldorf: The amount ofliquid you left on the chair at lunch, I suggest your crack was more like the Tasman Sea than a swimming pool. Although based on the smell it could easily have been the Vet Pond. Stadler: My sweaty pits made my shirt[...]s, what’s with that pit they call a car park by the Rec Centre? Stadler: The gravel pit, looks more like the surface of the moon to me, craters the size of the acne scars on your old prune face Waldorf: I end up with more dust on my car than is on the table in an elephant’s crack house. I wouldn’t mind, only I have to remember to look for a black station wagon at the end of lectures. Stadler: You cantankerous old prick, you own a white Civic! Waldorf: My point exactly! Stadler: What really riles me is the parking. You would think that if you can manage t[...]istics might not show it but everyone knows women are bad drivers, they cut each other off while parking and it leads to a fight. In summer it looks like two hens in a dust bath, but in winter it has real appeal as the gravel pit turns into a mud—wrestling arena. S[...]summer though. Stadler: Why is that? Waldorf: As the heat goes on the clothes come off, lots off lovely young girls wit[...]Stadler: I guess I will be spending a lot of time in the gravel pit then. Waldorf: Why is that, you random old fart? Stadler: Well, you reckon I am a dirty old man, I figure ifI spend enough time in the gravel pit after a while I will get so dirty one[...]r came with conditions. You can only fill up from the company you bought it off — at ten times the normal price. The bonnet is padlocked and only the company has the key. The car has a black box that could record your entire car use history, including conversations you have in it, and could transmit this information to the company. In addition, you pay an annual administration fee to the company, you’re not allowed to use parts from any other company, you’re not allowed in certain suburbs at the risk of your car shutting down, the locks are relatively easy to break and representatives from the company can pull you over at any point and search[...]e a bargain? If you’re a Microsoft user, these are similar to the kinds of conditions you sign up to when you purchase one of their operating systems. There are alternatives. There is a growing interest in non—proprietary, open source (OS) systems — the most well known being Linux. What’s the difference? Well, according to the open source society (www.0pensource.org), one you[...]u pay little or nothing for. It all comes down to the source code or the programming recipe used for creating the operating systems. With proprietary software such as Microsoft, you don’t buy the code, just the right to use it. With non—proprietary software you get both. The reason they do is largely the same reason that people used to do science. Galil[...]n intellectual property right, but were driven by the pursuit of knowledge and a desire to add to the sum of human knowledge. The commercialisation of science has distorted its di[...]cilitate corporate control and profit rather than the well being of humanity as a whole (GE, armaments, botox). In the same way the domination of the desktop (and mainframe) by closed source operatin[...]o informed users. Like public good science, OS is the original. The internet, for example, is still run on OS. So why doesn’t the Government support OS, which can save money, faci[...]ffer greater security control? That is a question the Green Party is asking. There is a global shift to[...]seem to be too clued up. When I ask them about it the answer is usually, “um, we think it’s good bu[...]consider it when we upgrade”. Once concern at the moment is the Microsoft Government Security Programme (GSP). In order to alleviate unease about system security,[...]greement with our Government to allow analysis of the Microsoft source code. However, there is little information about what we have given Microsoft in exchange or how much this is going to cost us. A new development in this area is that one of the OS distribution groups has reached international security standard certification equal to Microsoft’s. The US Federal Government has approved the use of this system for Pentagon and American bank[...]so any concerns about security can be reassured. In any case, most virus writers design viruses to attack Microsoft and not Linux! I believe that it is in our best interests to move towards OS software, for financial, ethical and practical reasons. Because the programs are usually more streamlined, they can be run on smal[...]suffering from a hangover. 3. They constantly use the word ‘awesome’. 4. And phrases like ‘gosh darn it’, ‘ﬂippen’ heck’, ‘gee’. 5 They are still wearing their nametags (“Hello, my name is ”) from Church or a social activity. 6. They are semi—formally dressed and buying lunch at Pak— n—Save at 12:30 on a Sunday afternoon. 7. They are the ones outside the pubs serving hot drinks and food. 8. They don’t[...]en someone drops something on their foot. 9. They are the ones driving the van on the piss trip. 10. They know where the Chaplaincy Centre is. 1 1. They don’t say the words ‘twenty—first’ and ‘yardy’ in the same sentence. Okay, now that I have given us sti[...]s this list? Is it you or your mate? According to the Jesus Week Survey results published in CHAFF Issue 2 1 , over half of us associate ourselves with the Christian faith! What did the results say — 58 percent! So what is a Christia[...]nce when there is a hint of a relationship around the corner. Your PMS B My life is a bona fide mess.[...]I am sure this is due to that little chemical by the name of hormones. Yes, we need them, but in short they are capable of ruining your life in the short term. PMS is something that should come as a warning label on all women. Most of the fairer sex is afﬂicted by this combustion of ho[...]t of prevention for this type of thing. Sure, all the Cosmos in the world can tell you how to minimise it. Exercise. Don’t eat sugar. Add to that: avoid all the men in your life; don’t look in the mirror or you will think you are fat; always keep a king—size block of chocolate[...]ne to pick with men when it comes to this time of the month. Me especially. I seem to cry a lot and get[...]a bitch!” Men seem pretty incapable oflearning how to survive the PMS stricken woman. All the things they think are right to say are not. In fact I can’t think of anything good off the top of my head, but never ever call me sweetie. Then when the tide turns red, that same man you bitched at suddenly becomes the hottest, sexiest man on Earth. God sure enjoyed making this ajoke. You are at your 34 finances are unimportant when an intimate relationship hangs in the balance. Your life gains more purpose and meaning[...]dn’t then, be odd to think that Jesus also sees the importance of relationships and he too desires an[...]ristian — a Christ follower — defines who you are. Being a Christian is about being in a relationship. It is not primarily about conform[...]a relationship with God? — John McIvor If you are keen to talk further email or meet me up in Kiwitea Lounge at 2pm on Wednesday or if you have any questions about spirituality or of the Church or Christians that could be addressed in this column please send them to mcivor.omf@clear.net.nz horniest; yet your chances of getting anything are zilch. I personally would not like having sex wit[...]s bad though. A little further on again, you feel the sudden urge to rip clothes off and demand bedroom[...]ow. I know all too well what it is like — I fit in the box with women who seem to be born horny. This le[...]Pure bliss when you can create home—style porno in your head starring who ever you like. You know I wish life was a lot simpler and we all had the same temperament all month round. But it isn’t like that. I swear men go through periods too. They are just as capable of being demanding as we are. Especially if they are sexually frustrated. — Soap
	[...]5 2637 wanted FLATMATE FOUR fun—loving girls are looking for a ﬂatmate of any sex to share a modern two—storey house in a quiet residential area. We are not far from the Hokowhitu bus. Rent = $63/week plus expenses. Pho[...]eral Meeting (AGM). Thursday October 16. 5.30pm in Business Studies Central 3.05. All players, coaches, managers, and supporters are encouraged to come along. Especially if you want to be on the committee in 2004. VARSITY RUGBY OFFSEASON FITNESS TESTING On Sunday October 12. 3.45pm at the Athletics Track. All players aiming to play for Varsity A in 2004 should attend this testing session. 3km / s[...]orris expects all Varsity A players from 2003 who are returning in 2004 to be there! Call Bourkey on 350 4312 if you are unavailable. STUDENT LEARNING CENTRE Wednesday Workshop Programme. These workshops are held in room Annexe B at the Student Learning Centre between Refectory and Business Studies Central. There is no charge for the workshops. Exam preparation workshops: October 1: 12—1pm. How to organise an answer to scenario and case study questions in exams. 1—2pm. Dealing with exam anxiety and go[...]ALLING ALL STUDENTS On Friday October 3 students are needed to help collect money for Age Concern’s[...]programme, which matches suitable volunteers with the elderly through a visiting scheme; an Elder Abuse[...]an Information Service for and about older people in the region; and many more indispensable services not[...]nch is responsible for its own fundraising, hence the localised appeal day. Collectors will be required to stand in prominent locations around Palmerston North, such[...]—to—door collection concerns anyone may have. The hours for collection will be from 11am to 2pm. A[...]rslake. Phone: 355 2832. FREE LEGAL ADVICE From the Manawatu Community Law Centre. MUSA Boardroom, We[...]n on 35404500, or email vp.welfare@musa.org.nz. ARE YOU A PASIFIKA STUDENT ENROLLED IN THE COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES? If so, my name is Jason Auva’a and my role as the Pasiﬁka Learning Support Co—ordinator for the HEPATITIS C RESOURCE GROUP College of Humanitie[...]ccessfully adjust to university culture, and know how to manage your time effectively, then you are more than welcome to come and see me. I’m located in SST 5.32 in which my phone number is 350 5799 ext 2179, or yo[...]Friday October 10 — keep it free for breasts! The NZ Breast Cancer Foundation will be holding Pink[...]an make a huge difference by collecting funds for the Foundation’s community educational programmes and the vital area of breast cancer research. We have 450[...]is very worthwhile cause! Please contact Diana at the Pink Ribbon Ofﬁce for more information, on toll[...]ON GROUP Every Sunday at noon a protest picnic on the Railway Land — spread the word. scholarships SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS Furt[...]Tertiary Education Scholarship for Young Women:—The scholarship is open to any young women, 30 years[...]2004 who is studying at ant tertiary institution in the Auckland area. The value is $2,000. Applications close 30 September[...]z Bank of New Zealand Tertiary Scholarships: BNZ are proud to offer a series of scholarships to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. The value of each scholarship is $3,000 (undergraduat[...]ions and application forms for these scholarships are available from: http:“ www.nzvcc.ac.nz( schols.html BRANZ Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme: The Board of Building Research Association of New Zea[...]ch year to attract able students to ﬁelds which are deemed by BRANZ to be of importance to the building and construction sector. Scholarship val[...]f preferred topics and assessment criteria visit the web site: http:( (wwwbranz.org.nz[ main.php?page=Postgrad%20Scholarships Canadian Studies Grants 2003/04: The 2003/04 Competition for Canadian Studies research and teaching grants is now open. The program is open to academics and postgraduates in Australia and New Zealand and offers a range of competitive grants. Downloadable forms are available from the ACSANZ web site http: / /homepage.powerup.com.au/[...]f Crop 86 Food Research sites around New Zealand. The scholarships will be offered to students majoring in one of the following areas: Food Science 86 Technologf Nutri[...]784225 Liz - 06 3268146 Meetings will be held at the Hospital education centre Day: Wed 5th March (Fo[...]/fellowships/ maori.htm Freemasons Scholarships: The Freemasons University and Postgraduate Scholarships are provided annually from the benevolence funds of the Freemasons of New Zealand. The postgraduate scholarship has a value of $5,500 an[...]r 2003. Application forms and eligibility details are available online at www.freemasons.co.nz( benevolence German Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarships: The University of Freiburg and Duisburg—Essen offer[...]even weeks from 5 January until 20 February 2004. The scholarship covers tuition fee and a stipend of E[...]ncil Summer Studentships: Two summer studentships are offered to students to enable them to undertake a project in the field of health research for approximately 10 weeks over the summer vacation. For the purpose of this award health research is broadly[...]tober. ICANZ PhD Scholarships and Travel Grants: The Institute encourages academic excellence by supporting top students and research that beneﬁts the New Zealand accounting profession. For more information about these scholarships and travel grants visit the Institute’s web site: http:(( www.icanz.co .nZ/[...]rsary: This bursary is offered to students living in the Manawatu—Wanganui Region, studying at postgradu[...]aduate level, enrolled internally or extramurally in the following ﬁelds: Resource management, river and[...]mental planning, land management or Maori studies in relation to resource management. The value of the bursary is $3,000 per annum for a maximum of thre[...]8 446 749. Lovell and Berys Clark Scholarships: The Lovell and Berys Clark Scholarships Fund is to en[...]hips to be granted to graduates of any university in New Zealand who are enrolled at Massey University in postgraduate studies (including Master’s level). Preference will be given to students in the following broad categories: Science/ Biotechnology/Agriculture/Humanities/Arts/ Business (with the exemption of some disciplines). Up to three scholarships shall be awarded annually. The value of each scholarship will be determined by the Committee at its sole discretion. Applications close 1 October. Further information and application forms are available from <http:H scholarshipsv.massey.ac.nZ[...]ural Scholarship: Open to students whose home is in Central Otago studying or intending to study in areas relating to horticulture. The award will not exceed $1,000. Further information and application forms are available by writing to: The Glad McArthur Book Committee Inc, C/— “Stone[...]s & Doctoral Scholarships:’Open to students who are eligible to register as candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Massey Universi[...]to be eligible to register within four months of the closing date of the application. Vice Chancellor’s is worth $25000 and the Doctoral $20000 pa tenable for three years plus t[...]holarship for Maori Students: These scholarships are open to persons who are enrolled or eligible to enrol full—time for a r[...]towards a Masters degree at Massey University or in two consecutive 50 point research papers that constitute a single project overall. Part—time candidates are not eligible. The current value of the scholarship is NZ$13,000 pa, and payment of the research tuition fee for up to 100 points or up t[...]National Post-Graduate Scholarships and Awards The National Centre for Research on Europe invites ap[...]niversity undertaking a European/EU Thesis topic. The award will be in the form of twelve months domestic tuition fee/ or re[...]lose 3 October. For more information please visit the centre’s web site http:“ www.eurer.canterbug[...]ts who identify as Maori studying relevant fields in Horticultural research. Scholarships are worth $3,500. Applications close 31 October. Further details are available from http:“ www.hortresearch.co.nz ([...]y ofother organisations that support scholarships in this country and overseas. For more information on scholarships which close 1 October please visit the following web site: http:! (www.nzvcc.ac.nz( schols .html NZ Biosecurity Institute Study Award: The Study Award is open to staff and students working in the field of biosecurity, or those studying in a discipline related to biosecurity. The closing date is 30 September. Prospective applicants can obtain application forms and further copies of the criteria from: http:“ www.biosecurity.org.nz ( awards.html Smuts Visiting Fellowship in Commonwealth Studies 2004-2005: Fellowships are available for research in the field of Commonwealth Studies, including the Commonwealth related aspects of archaeology, anth[...]another university or similar institution outside the UK. Further information and application packages are available from kfw20@admin.cam .ac.uk Sustainable Management Scholarships: The Northland Regional Council is offering $5,000 sch[...]two university students at Masters thesis level. The scholarships will be used to help fund ayear’s postgraduate research work related to the sustainable managemet of Northland’s land, wate[...]09) 438 4639 email:’susanb@nrc.govt.nz or visit the web site: www.nrc.govt.nz Woolf Fisher Scholarships: The Woolf Fisher Trust is offering three scholarships worth up to $100,000 per annum to students interested in studying towards a PhD or a DPhil at either Cambridge or Oxford Universities in the United Kingdom. Applications for the 2004 Woolf Fisher Scholarships close 1 October 2004. Details and application forms can be found at the NZVCC web site: www.nzvcc.ac.nz(schols.html or the Woolf Fisher Trust web site: www.woolffishertrust.co.nz NOTICEBOARDS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: SOCIAL SCIENCES LECTURE BLOCK FOYER, TURITEA SITE AND IN EACH ACADEMIC UNIT 106m Refractory I
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	[...]ote taking, or you Freemasons Scholarships: The Freemasons These scholarships are open to persons who are enrolled[...]ys of University and Postgraduate Scholarships are or eligible to enrol full-time for a r[...]essfully adjust to provided annually from the benevolence funds of points towards a Masters degree at Massey University or in[...]university culture, and know how to manage your time the Freemasons of New Zealand. The postgraduate two consecutive 50 point res[...]effectively, then you are more than welcome to come scholarship has a[...]single project overall. Part-time candidates are not eligible.[...]rship of $2,750. Applications close 1 October The current value of the scholarship is NZ$13,000 pa, and[...]I’m located in SST 5.32 in which my phone number 2003. Application forms and eligibility details are payment of the research tuition fee for up to 100 points or[...]FOUR fun-loving girls are looking for a flatmate Wednesday 10am-2pm,[...]of any sex to share a modern two-storey house in[...]ward to seeing you! The University of Freiburg and Duisburg-Essen offer[...]a quiet residential area. We are not far from the[...]weeks from 5 January until 20 February 2004. The The National Centre for Research on Europe invites[...]The NZ Breast Cancer Foundation will be holding Pink[...]topic. The award will be in the form of twelve months[...]difference by collecting funds for the Foundation’s daad@auckland.ac.nz[...]community educational programmes and the vital[...]Council Summer Studentships: visit the centr e’s web site http://[...]5.30pm in Business Studies Central 3.05. vol[...]d would love to have Two summer studentships are offered to students www.europe.canterbury[...]All players, coaches, managers, and supporters are 2,500! 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	[...]scoff at the idea that the arts, for example, should be an[...]Editorial, President, Letters, Spot the[...]science, OS is the original. The EDITORIAL[...]the point. The concept of abstract learning, of questioning[...]I think one of the problems we have in today’s world is that life and the way it is lived, expressed, and experienced, is[...]u can only fill So why doesn’t the our leaders and teachers are useless. Don’t get me wrong, fast becoming an old joke. Gone are the days when students up from the company you bought it off - at ten times the Government support OS, which we all have lecturers who are brilliant and inspire us to learn, broadened their minds by going to see their fellows at the normal price. The bonnet is padlocked and only the company can save money, facilitate local but how many of you have had a lecturer who was merely[...]has the key. The car has a black box that could record your[...]A lecturer who honestly couldn’t majors are widely seen as a joke. Poets are wankers.[...]car use history, including conversations you have in expertise and of fer greater[...]k at college, Shakespeare is one of the best screenwriters in Hollywood… 11 Feature[...]it, and could transmit this information to the company. In security control? That is a sure the teachers were all nice people, and some of them Nowadays, the majority of us see such things as[...]addition, you pay an annual administration fee to the[...]question the Green Party is asking. There is a global shift[...]company, you’re not allowed in certain suburbs at the risk of our Government doesn’t seem to be too clued up. When I ask for the cash.[...]your car shutting down, the locks are relatively easy to break them about it the answer is usually, “um, we think it’s good[...]id. To admit that we shouldn’t Selling the drama - The Festival of New Arts[...]and representatives from the company can pull you over at but we keep[...]r garbage. Our be living off the backs of Third World labour and resources[...]Once concern at the moment is the Microsoft politicians? The government blatantly lied to students to win[...]Government Security Programme (GSP). In order to alleviate[...]your vote. The leaders of the free world? This is getting ludicro[...]If you’re a Microsoft user, these are similar to the unease about system security, Microsoft has a[...]The previous generation really let us down. They[...]f with our Government to allow analysis of the Microsoft source Tertiary students these days are getting vocational passed on a world wh[...]There are alternatives. There is a growing interest given Microsoft in exchange or how much this is going to for someone else.[...]round profit and spend. They broke the vicious cycle of thinking. The Manawatu Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre Stadler and Waldorf in non-proprietary, open source (OS) systems - the most well known being Linux. What’s the difference? Well, according to the open source society (www.opensource.org), one you[...]A new development in this area is that one of the[...]And now, to top it all off, what are we doing for the[...]fill us in on drug rape[...]a job so that you may live a good life and pay the bills, but their education. We don’t[...]standard certification equal to Microsoft’s. The US Federal what sort of people are we becoming? The answer is can get a job, we[...]comes down to the source code or the programming recipe Government has approved the use of this system for Pentagon commodities. No longer do the youth of this world go to about t[...]used for creating the operating systems. With proprietary[...]university to become better people, to learn the wisdom of - Corey Taylor, chaff.ed@m[...]software such as Microsoft, you don’t buy the code, just the security can be reassured. In any case, most virus writers the ages, to learn how to think. The fact that a lot of you will Stadler: It’s hard these days, being old, the heat really gets to me, just walking up the stairs gets sweat dripping down[...]The reason they do is largely the same reason that[...]I believe that it is in our best interests to move[...]Karma to burn - Leeroy Gribbon examines the[...]al property right, but were reasons. Because the programs are usually more streamlined, PRESIDENT Waldorf: The amount of liquid you left on the chair at lunch, driven by the pursuit of knowledge and a desire to add to the they can be run on smaller hard drives, maki[...]nt@musa.org.nz I suggest your crack was more like the Tasman Sea than a swimming pool. Although based on the smell it could easily[...]sum of human knowledge. The commercialisation of science affordable[...]ed to be functional, not marble, and we have been the Vet Pond.[...]s fee setting time! This Friday October 3 at 10am in Refectory need to be able to justify the investment. But Massey University[...]A Wedding in Ramallah and Mike King Tonight[...]corporate control and profit rather than the well being of 1 the University Council will be deciding on your fees for 2004! is in an extremely healthy financial position, having m[...]u want to make a difference, believe me, you can. The more Stadler: My sweaty pits made my shirt look l[...]ion-dollar surplus for 2002 and at July this year the surplus 21 Books In the same way the domination of the desktop (and[...]udents who simply turn up put greater pressure on the Council tie-died shirts those hippies used to wea[...]to consider the people their decisions will be affecting.[...]The Other Boleyn Girl and The House of God[...]This university is in a very healthy position and there Massey as the university that values teaching research and Wald[...]e years of fee freeze 22 Video and game park by the Rec Centre? Stadler: The gravel pit, looks more like the surface of the[...]are in a vulnerable position, as the government has not included[...]them in the ceiling it’s put on potential university fee ri[...]are quite aware of prices of courses now, as we see m[...]Here are some of the facts and arguments from MUSA institutions. Massey has a solid reputation, and the free Extinction moon to me, craters the size of the acne scars on your old[...]advertising alone - to be the first university to actively reduce prune face[...]finances are unimportant when an intimate relationship[...]nd orange juice to excess at parties. hangs in the balance. Your life gains more purpose and meeting. This is the highest governing body of the University risk move. Waldorf: I end up with more dust on my car than is on the[...]epresentatives, upper - The government has increased funding to cover[...]gally Blonde: Red White and Blonde and Lara table in an elephant’s crack house. I wouldn’t mind, o[...]nancially it’s a low risk Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life have to remember to look for a black station wagon at the[...]and people appointed by the Minister of Education. to re[...]3. They constantly use the word ‘awesome’. sees the importance of relationships and he too desires an[...]• The first part of the meeting is public and students their voices heard as they we’re excluded from the guidelines[...]5. They are still wearing their nametags (“Hello, my name[...]are welcome to attend. Students NEED to come and support the set out by government (fee maxima) and there are no assurances Stadler: You cantankerous old prick, you own a white Civic![...]student representatives who are fighting for fee reductions! that post[...]now • This month on the agenda of the Council meeting student protest and submission can lead the government to Motorcycle Club, and Ni[...]6. They are semi-formally dressed and buying lunch at Pak-[...]is domestic student fee setting for 2004. The meeting will be change the decision that if the University wants to increase[...]fe. It defines who I am.” Being a held in Refectory 1 starting at 10am, this Friday October 3. postgraduate fees they need to run it by the Tertiary Education Stadler: What really riles me is the parking. You would think 7. They are the ones outside the pubs serving hot drinks Christian – a Christ follower - defines who you are. Being a Student reps won’t know what recommendations Commission if the amount was over $1,000, down to needing to[...]Christian is about being in a relationship. It is not primarily the University will be making until the agenda comes out about[...]s or regulations. It is a four days before the meeting. research and the Performance Based Research Fund adding a park pro[...]dimension to university funding, and highlighting the need 9. They are the ones driving the van on the piss trip. who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love the Students’ Association reps when they fight for[...]10. They know where the Chaplaincy Centre is. him an[...]justification for Students have the right for the University to justify Dr John asks: What wou[...]11. They don’t say the words ‘twenty-first’ and ‘yardy’ in the relationship that God wants as much as we nee[...]s have had some fabulous successes lately, the decisions made at the Council meeting. Make them look knows women are bad drivers, they cut each other off[...]you in the eye when they set your fees and determine how much while parking and it leads to a fight. In summer it looks[...]The government announced that they would set some[...]28 Feature like two hens in a dust bath, but in winter it has real[...]Is it you or your mate? According to the Jesus Week Survey relationship with God? limits to how high student fees could go, presumably because[...]Mike Ushaw - Not fucken GE again appeal as the gravel pit turns into a mud-wrestling arena.[...]results published in CHAFF Issue 21, over half of us associate - J[...]Victoria students were so unhappy with the proposed ourselves with the Christian faith! What did the results say[...]nd lower debt through lower fees is a way to keep the skilled in fee increase of three percent that they attended the meeting Stadler: Maybe that’s why they cut down[...]a Christian? Just one short comment If you are keen to talk further email or meet me up in New Zealand. Research has proven that t[...]rong and protested so loudly that the meeting couldn’t take place. planning to put up[...]gh debt and leaving New Zealand; those The Council needs to see that there are huge numbers of[...]nd any questions about spirituality or of the Church or[...]to stay. As a direct result student reps; the arguments will be backed up by a loud student Meet the candidates[...]when Christians that could be addressed in this column of student protest the potential for fees to rise by up to 40 percent[...]there is a hint of a relationship around the corner. Your please send them to m[...]was smashed and the government was pressured by student[...]dents.org.nz action to lower the ceiling to five percent.[...]ns for their expenditure 32 Columns Waldorf: As the heat goes on the clothes come off, lots off lovely young girls wit[...]Scrutiny and justification of expenditure in areas such[...]infrastructure are key. What makes a university is its staff and[...]Stadler: I guess I will be spending a lot of time in the gravel pit then.[...]k every thing is Waldorf: Why is that, you random old fart? okay, it isn’t. I[...]the name of hormones. Yes, we need them, but in short they Stadler: Well, you reckon I am a dirty old man, I figure if I are capable of ruining your life in the short term. spend enough time in the gravel pit after a while I will get so[...]eel sorry for me, label on all women. Most of the fairer sex is afflicted by this take me home and[...]e baths all the Cosmos in the world can tell you how to minimise it.[...]horniest; yet your chances of getting anything are zilch. I[...]ercise. Don’t eat sugar. Add to that: avoid all the men in Stadler and Waldorf: Oh nurse![...]your life; don’t look in the mirror or you will think you are[...]feel the sudden urge to rip clothes off and demand bedroom[...]ne to pick with men when it comes to this time of the month.[...]well what it is like - I fit in the box with women who seem to[...]bitch!” Men seem pretty incapable of learning how to survive[...]Pure bliss when you can create home-style porno in your the PMS stricken woman. All the things they think are right[...]to say are not. In fact I can’t think of anything good off the[...]had the same temperament all month round. But it isn’t[...]Then when the tide turns red, that same man you[...]that. I swear men go through periods too. They are just as bitched at suddenly becomes the hottest, sexiest man on[...]capable of being demanding as we are. Especially if they are[...]Earth. God sure enjoyed making this a joke. You are at your[...]
	[...]columns Letter of the Week Women not only deserve equal pay; we university weeks in a year, using a round weekly reading off a[...]s Week - stupid or trying to fool us? are entitled to it. The campaign for equal pay for[...]are essentially asking for $922,368,300. Oh...[...]Thirdly, the ‘critics’ are the Christian Quality vs warehouse prices[...]hieved. subtract the 387 million thethe lies[...]Jeffreys, who are opposed by mainstream[...]FROM THE RIGHT[...]Some have used the argument that Massey has[...]been reporting strong surpluses in recent times, so it doesn’t[...]against women too they told us. Either they are stupid, or they think for the EUB. That’s pay for those of the 161,819 safety for female sex workers. This week brings the darkest week in the University calendar need to increase fees. Anyone using this argument actually we are stupid.[...]who can’t find work over the summer. Since I Fourthly, without prostitution law in terms of student politics. Fee setting occurs thi[...]men would and a small group of students are going to get on their high[...]accounting information tells us. You cannot take the sausages, fundraising for their (?) well...[...]work over the summer... or even less... let’s say have c[...]ollective horses and argue and protest in an immature fashion for institutions reported surpluses in isolation, you need to “The student loan scheme womanhood I guess. The sausages were almost To Whom It May C[...]is grossly discriminatory as tasty as the gay Pride Week’s sausages (where I am a[...]unregulated suggests will occur anyway. The week before last Victoria plans and its[...]against women,” according was the mustard, women?). Not only did you a[...]n informed that a spirited need to add the demand that they abolish fees of prostit[...]meeting because students began chanting in an attempt to should be sitting at the Council table! the grand title of the This was fine except for some of the lies they debate regarding the causes and consequences and forgive all student debt to this ridiculous Queensland in the early nineties, where solo told on the back of this note. of the events of September 11 has recently d[...]escort work was the only permissible form of[...]disrupt the meeting and not allow it to take place. A mature Students are not going to come to Massey simply[...]National Women’s Rights This note on the back has a list of graced CHAFF’s page[...]Officer for the New Zealand ‘facts’ under the title, ‘In the year 2003’, but From the apartment where I live, I can overall student numbers are full time. Let’s psychotic punters, o[...]it is doing heaps of advertising. Students are going to come[...]Students’ these facts could not be further from the truth, walk approximately 300 metres to Pier 1A Park apply this to ONLY the number of university its involvement, etc? In the past, Massey Council members that have[...]Association. with all the facts created from data two to four and overlook the borough of Manhattan. A week students, even though the percentage of Since whe[...]by students quality academic programme in the area they wish to pursue, This statement years old. and a half ago I walked out into the park on university students who study f[...]blic policy that leads to violence during the actual meeting, and called everything from a[...]ke potential Vets, they will come here because of the sent me scurrying to the “NZ women’s average hourly pay rat[...]statutes. Do more women is only 84 percent of the average hourly pay rate New York City and s[...]ned down for loans of NZ men” - This comes from the Average Hourly in the sky and nothing more. I then walked w[...]Mainstream New Zealanders need to who are happy to accept a small increase in fees to ensure connections, closer to home or the life style, but this does[...]e Supplement from 2001. This through the park and looked at all the miniature percent, which equals 70,764 stud[...]up and prevent democratic participation the quality of their education is maintained. In discussions not by default mean they are not interested in receiving a apply for loans, do they is over two years old, yet the women claim that shrines containing personal information about the average cost per student per year in fees is from being hijacked by unrepresenta[...]a wide variety and large number of students over the quality education.[...]have to prove they are male this happened in the year 2003? the people of Hoboken whom died on that day $4,000, so the amount NZUSA is asking for there sectarian[...]junk last week this has proven to be the case. In reality, an I recognise that there is an argument to freeze fees in order to qualify for borrowing? “The pay gap between men and women two years prior. The pictures and accompanying is $283,056,000, on top of the $1,754 million science and imported rhet[...]for another year, but I suggest to you the facts show that Not at all. According to the logic (or illogic) of Ms with tertiary qualifications is bigger than the gap text regarding the souls was relatively standard that the government already spends on tuition[...]and competitiveness in the employment market to any great Massey needs to increase fees by a small amount for the Belich, student loans are discriminatory “because of our lower between men and women with no qualifications” fare. The people who died on September 11 were subsidies. The sum total that the protestors are - Craig Young[...]2004 year to maintain the quality of education we, the silent lifetime earnings, we take twice as long as men on average to - This ‘in the year 2003 fact’ comes from a mother[...]ds. They had quirky traits and were the $2,141 million the government already[...]The facts are Massey’s council is considering a fee majo[...]ent loans and pay nearly 20 percent more for done in 1999! I’m sorry, but this happened four,[...]opinions grow-up a little this year and attack the issue, not a bachelor’s degree becaus[...]student and a maximum of $106 per the people, in a mature and appropriate fashion.[...]it like saying toilets discriminate against facts are still valid then maybe they should be life. In short: the victims of 9/11 were like you else see this[...]ws and provoke some student, depending on the study programme a student is[...]ess. and me. The only significant difference between You can understand why the government doesn’t debate but I feel it must be said. We are hearing completing. This is a maximum increase for the institution, fees, the facts tell us it needs to occur, so show some[...]rage - five minutes longer than men “The average female bachelor’s the people that were described in the still listen to the radicals anymore. in the news and around campus that the across all students, of $2.75 mil[...]iptions And while I am on the subject of government is to review stu[...]do get slagged by immature and are missing out on xx amount of dollars in our working life. her student loan than her male[...]was a ridiculous claims, let’s examine the claim that allowances. People are saying that life is real Fees have been frozen for four years! So in real uninformed students for supporting f[...]iminatory This is “According to calculations by the NZ difference in latitudinal and longitudinal women sh[...]ecreased! Massey needs to be remember the silent majority of students respect the against men because they lose interest and ability much university students”. How is this possible? I orientation on 9/11/01 and nothing more. men under the UN Declaration on Human in debt and feel like they’re shitting razorblades; given the opportunity to make up some of this lost ground, fact that you are prepared to stand up for what is right earlier in their lives, whereas women are up for it well into am a NZ university student, I have been for the I have been to New Zealand and I Rights. I thought the Declaration was about well I’d like to say that this need not be the case and given current government policy it is not like they have (or at the very least, what you believe) and are concerned their eighties, so women g[...]even involved, let enjoyed my experience in your beautiful country equality, not preferential treatment? In case I if people got off their arses and d[...]anyway. about the quality of the education we receive. of pleasure in their life span. alone awar e that we were doing[...]ensely. Today I write am mistaken, I think the Declaration says time work. I ask you; are you more concerned about saving[...]email me on My arguments are, of course, silly. So is Ms Belich’s. calculati[...]n’t be held as a fact, as particularly in regard to the rather provincial something about not bein[...]another $100 or about ensuring Massey has the funds carlbates@xtra.co.nz. If you are going to disagree with me But that didn’t stop her taking her case to the Human Rights firstly, the source can’t be verified correct, and notion that the United States of America is discrimina[...]es, support research though, at least do it in a respectful fashion. Commission in Wellington. “We are taking the claim on behalf unlimited amount of bias can exist. Also, how composed of a homogenous group of peopl[...]myself for working do NZ university students know how long it takes collectively bear responsibi[...]of all women who are disadvantaged by the loans scheme,” to pay a loan back? We haven’t even got our been expressed in your publication. If possible, violate the Human Rights Declaration? Women on the piss or socialising by any means, but the one? I know I’m in the latter group. - Ca[...]I would like to dispel the notion that the people are completely legitimate in saying that it is fact of the matter is that no degree requires[...]This quango should be called the Human Wrongs “Apart from the gender pay gap there of the United States are a group of George W. unfair that men mak[...]Commissariat. For a start, student loans are not a right, they is also an ethnicity pay gap.” - This was taken from “association using the Iverson model - association with what? The life span of blue[...]country contains the people of Patterson, New Jersey, that danced in the streets on 9/11 in[...]for the same job, but does creating another[...]skewed system contribute in any way to solving[...]the problem? Work harder on equal pay[...]during the year, let alone what they get between[...]The infamous debate[...]are a claim on someone else’s right – the taxpayers’ right to[...]keep their money so they can pay for the education of their[...]celebration and the equally deplorable persons[...]students are able to partake in full time work.[...]Tertiary students like Ms Belich are the privileged elite. Their[...]claims on the state do nothing to advance the situation of me angry that women are parading around with the 9/11 attackers. We have people more liberal[...]which if everybody did would reduce the need[...]s, and yes, we have arrived at that time of year. The In recent weeks, New Zealand has been in mourning for the those who will never reach the gates of a university because outdated and flawed facts about how they are than Ralph Nader (a gentleman who disl[...]for student loans and subsequently the whinging treated. Maybe they should put some effo[...]nd soft porn. Yes, my killing of six year old Coral Burrows. The Wairapapa has they’ve never lear[...]these getting up to date information and finding the probably fathom) and people more conserv[...]what you could make in a part time job while loyal rednecks and confused left wing pieces of shit, the Ag dealt with chilling instances of violence against children in youngsters are women. Ms Belich doesn’t speak for them, sources of their data so we know they are telling than Pat Buchanan. In short, the US is the Frida,[...]e vs Vet Debate raises its ugly “head” at the Teachers College recent years. The senseless killing of yet another pretty[...]laiming she speaks for “all women disadvantaged the truth. epitome of diversity and the notion that our Nobody responds to my d[...]Auditorium Friday October 3, 7.30pm. The topic - chosen by little girl has deeply disturbed us all. by the loans scheme.” I fully support equal[...]d more than once. - Don’t Blame the Government and argued for by the Vets - ‘THE GRASS IS ALWAYS What are some of the troubling issues? Obviously, One of the reasons why these young people are don’t get me wrong. But I think women should[...]ction that requires that we Including you, the Bull Ring has received, over[...]the first is the total vulnerability of children. The impish illiterate is because today our education system is obsessed be offended that they are being misrepresented all - innocent victims and soldiers of war - share the two semesters, a rather cumbersome amount[...]The Veterinary team will be captained by the grin, bright eyes and tousled hair[...]From the Left - harden up you pussy “debat[...]Belich’s so-called discrimination case, at the expense of are dumb enough to believe these useless, the 9/11 attacks is absurd.[...]ng basic literacy skills. outdated facts, or they are stupid enough to For those[...]Frida; you have Hey Andrew Campbell from the Left, them this year. The Ag team is out for revenge after the The killing of Coral Burrows has occurred at a time[...]to Ms Belich’s grizzling, and think these facts are still up to date. This makes as American rhe[...]have to say. Have you had your head stuck in a cream can[...]that’s to dump the loans scheme altogether. When my four[...]ial, Irish Catholic Veterinary lecturer in New Zealand when the Church and broader society has me wonder if they[...]desserts,” I would like to quote However, the difference is, I can still have a for some time now mate? If so, let me bang the[...]hildren were little, and squabbling about who got the most[...]awarded the Vets a win in 2002. This was much to the been reflecting on the welfare of children in our care. “Born - Middle Class White Male[...]can with a hammer. Your article in last week’s[...]antipathy of the Ag team, and all present that evening knew to Us: Children in New Zealand” has been the theme of please forgive me if a few lines are incorrect as I By the way you are wrong again. CHAFF regarding police inconsistency on the[...]that the agricultural students had annihilated their opponents national Social Justice week; Our Children: The Priority for put all the ice cream back in the freezer and no-one got any. Congratulations Whitey! Come up to the CHAFF write solely from memory which t[...]grounds of Parliament was far from correct. The[...]been appointed as Policy was published by the Child Poverty Action Group. Both “Th[...]three. Ben Carmicheal, as far as I know, was in police were so consistent in their actions it was[...]d, entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the running for MUSA President – isn’t he almost laughable. the evenings adjudicator, as even the agricultural students stress the relationship between poverty, unemployment and[...]the continent, a part of the main. If a clod bee studying BBS? I sign of[...]e no baton-wielding realise a good laugh on the piss far outweighs the bias they violence against children.[...]is washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. A problem with society today is that police confronting the protestors because the will have to face.[...]But wait... what about the case of Mark Lundy? He like children, t[...]be treated accordingly. It might suit some people in society to believe that As well as if a promon[...]spect for farmers and what they The Ag boys and girls have a stronger team than[...]he Women such as her let the side down. We might be claims about the gender pay gap are lies, but the manner of thy friends or one of thine own were. along these lines in your last reply to me. Why do for this cou[...]ore (and that’s saying a lot). And as they have the too was convicted of murdering his wife[...]e, but we’re not stupid, evidence is that women are still discriminated Any man’s death di[...]negative on this topic, Agboy has full faith in them being course we can all cite other[...]weak, pathetic creatures who must go bleating to the against in many aspects of our lives. involved in mankind. And therefore never send opinions and they should be heard. The majority anti-war, GE, student, or even animal rights successful come the evening of October 3. The prep sessions happening to us? Are we glimpsing madness here? Touching[...]ngs ain’t fair. If you don’t like The fact that women take on average to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.” of the columns in the Bull Ring this year have protestors like[...]have been well under way for over a week in the security of the mystery of evil, perhaps? the loan scheme, go and get a job and leave your space in twice as long as men to repay their student loan[...]enged political correctness, and that I am are looking after their and this country’s “pasture and crop lecturer” James Millner. And like the 2003 The killing of an innocent little girl has the ability to tertiary education available for som[...]s it. is a figure based on average borrowing from the - Daniel White[...]is country with All Blacks, success is the only thing on Team Agriculture’s raise awareness about personal and social dysfunction in its Anyway, women will neve[...]because we are infinitely superior.[...]aspects: social, political, cosmic. income data. The model used for determining[...]Agboy has only one gripe. The Vets need refrain We all want people in positions of power to act the repayment time is based on the Iverson Model. How much money? like you wou[...]ir diploma students to responsibly toward the most vulnerable in our midst. But Most of the statistics we use are based on census than hide in the closet. What do you[...]ffer? Fuck get on side. Agboy challenges the Vets to gain some integrity we also want to empower people in desperate situations to government policy, tradit[...]out of the whole affair and play by the rules which clearly take charge of their[...]en if NZUSA had morning and saw all of the graffiti relating to[...]Ther efore, back to the police state: Section 13.2.23 “A d[...]d to undertake widespread and accurate the “Protest at the Fitz” on Saturday, I wondered Feminists condoning violence against consistency. The police were consistent in the post graduate student and lecturer sourced from each To take the first step requires that someone is on research on the gender pay gap as of the day how much money this protest was really about.[...]men? fact they left the farmers alone, as they have programme will represent both sides respectively. Note that the other side, with arms outstretched, eager to embrace you, before suffrage day the gender pay gap would I mean, if the students are asking for a little bit[...]ose any digression from this rule results in a penalty of “$100 willing to accompany you on the journey to wholeness and still exist as it has since the first woman was paid for any work. Even the Government has recognised the existence of the gender pay gap, of money, then the government would be silly[...]rabbiting on about the Prostitution Law Reform[...](1980) real value” on the bar for the team abiding by this[...]healing. This type of social action is not simply the[...]The challenge has been set. So see you all there. Everyone in government, education, housing and health care and in 2003 they established a Pay Equity Taskforce to deal to the gender pay gap and with tertiary students in 2001, according the Ministry[...]hether a Scientist, Socialist or Nationalist, you are all invited[...]must make their own “preferential option for the poor and[...]in Black a mandate to establish a five year plan in order include the 204,640 who were part timers. We did no[...]If not, there will be more Corals dying of abuse in to do this! If the taskforce succeeds at this, I will of course must subtract the 26,750 international Zealand and New South[...]New Zealand and, little by little, the heart and soul of our be very surprised, as I am[...]really cares about and Secondly, oh, how predictable, the Christian with a baton.[...]despite a fictional Right is using exactly the same tactics that it - Agboy[...]Tertiary Chaplain middle class male’ know that the suffragettes fee freeze. That leaves us with 161,819 Kiwi, did in New South Wales just after the passage Typology ca[...]full time students, since I assume that the of liberalised brothel regulation laws[...]7.00pm. we still don’t have it (according to the government, Universal Allowance would ONLY app[...]id, this Part timers might be considered, but the figures or her events are actually transpiring in this city,[...]oubles. would give him a more realistic timeframe in are too hard to work out from government[...]Loads of sounds after debate. which to view the gender pay gap. published statistics. That means that in 38[...]
	[...]as published its enemies. This is what we in the West are being Fighting fee increases[...]failings, not our ‘feelings’, as was printed in[...]FROM THE LEFT[...]I was lucky enough to be with a The murder of Coral Burrows has touched everyone Economic hard times are always hardest felt by Poten[...]ria regardless of their political persuasion. The mistreatment those at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder - Maori.[...]s recently when of anyone is appalling, but the mistreatment of the young Maori are disproportionately represented among the child Are we r eally ready for this I wonder?[...]ryone. they forced the cancellation of a and the elderly - society’s most vulnerable - fills us[...]Select Committee has The United States of America (USA)[...]abuse figures. In order for effective change to occur we need[...]recommended the Supreme Court Bill proceed, tends to have a bad reputation in left wing circles[...]to look at the links and start there; poverty is a major[...]sed to put their fees up. On the day it was announced that Coral’s body[...]d to abolishing these days. However, there are many examples[...]problem, addressing it is essential. While times are for many[...]ood reminder had been found we also learnt the shocking truth that New[...]appeal to the Privy Council. The main argument of how the USA still leads in the world.[...]ogether Zealand has been ranked as one of the worst countries in they gave in favour is that we need our own One of these comes from one of the[...]and stand up for ourselves, we the Western world by UNICEF (the United Nations children’s[...]d be rid of any USA’s top universities; the Massachusetts[...]permanently blighted during the economic and difficult times[...]chieve agency). After New Zealand, only the United States and[...]of the 1980’s and 1990’s. Families lost jobs, income[...]Team Massey, winners of the 2003 NZ University Games.[...]at’s nearly its entire programme online in the form students, but[...]and the skills to cope. This combination resulted in While the details of Coral’s death have not yet been[...]. of OpenCourseWare. enrol in the future. Students at Vic were fighting against mor[...]angry, as well as Here’s the thing: what we’re seeing is This runs counter to the market drive[...]Spot the FIVE deliberate differences between the pictures below, student poverty, bigger student l[...]not just a new court but a foundational shift in ethos of most other universities and trainin[...]dent. It is also no accident that it all happened in the The abuse of children needs to stop – but it can[...]add your details and get them to CHAFF (upstairs in the student times. We were fighting for the Council to act responsibly and[...]the basis of our constitutional framework and institutions around the world. MIT hopes that[...]Wairarapa – an area known for its poverty and, in recent only change if we as a society l[...]years, its abuse of children in particular. These helpless[...]young victims are, in part, the victims of our country’s abuse (of co[...]go in the draw to win a case of sugar-free V! Multiple entries are to raise their fees, they have had a funding incr[...]inherited from the British (Westminster) The OCW (OpenCourseWare) site now the rate of inflation for next year and they have had[...]mic restructuring. Child abuse is not confined to the families and certainly not all poor famil[...]en). Addressing poverty within our communities is the battles between the powers of the monarch and for curriculum development and self-study. in the previous three years as well. All institutions sh[...]The UNICEF report also notes the fact that New first step in addressing child abuse.[...]as a rolling publication schedule, from those who are least able to pay. Zealand was only one of four countries in which the death No more children should die unnecessarily; we have parliament. The English Civil Wars (1642-48), releasing batches of new courses on to the rate had actually increased from the 1970’s. It is impossible a responsibility[...]f our young and for example, ended the old belief among MITOCW site on a weekly basis. At Vic, the Vice Chancellor was trying to raise fees[...]- T o check out MIT’s OCW web on the most ridiculous logic – he said that because the[...]violence and abuse may be able to make some in-roads, but that they could do as they wished without the programme, just type in a search engine MIT government increased funding by three percent that the[...]mepage, http://ocw.mit.edu/ institution should do the same to student fees! One has to[...]ballooned and extreme poverty worsened as the poor evolved, the monarch came to be more of a index.ht[...]to play of looking out for the little ones, the ones that can’t[...]became even poorer. People are responsible for their actions[...]parliament. There is no doubt that the quality of tertiary education – but an increase in social stress and trouble makes it far - H[...]ng, would benefit from further funding increases. The New Zealand[...]clearly separated, even though the highest University Students’ Association always[...]official of the Anglican Church (the Archbishop I’m involved in a drama performance that I have to fund our degrees properly and ensure that we are getting a genuinely world class education.[...]The skinny BENN’S ADVENT[...]in China[...]of Canterbury) crowned the monarch. That was[...]written. The problem is that the cast seem to be[...]lay into something However, those with the least ability to pay – students[...]above the state to which all mortals were that I hadn’t intended. Their ideas are cool and - should not fund such improvements to quality. When a Broaching the topic of China is a difficult task. It is such a close the shower room door. We have managed to jack up a[...]with makeshift shower curtain, however. The other freaky thing symbolic, but it’s an important symbolism in some way. I don’t want to offend anybody case to put fees up for next year. While modest, the three the language and unfortunately the town we live in isn’t is that the water is very irregular and at that oh so crucial concerning the nature of authority: the Deity - though. What should I do? percent g[...]the Church - the Monarch - the Government (the - Bertolt Pinter[...]g our current dry so to speak. With all the talk about showers and toilets people’s[...]and the potential exists for an abuse of power. Dea[...]you may be left thinking - what about the sink? And indeed, We already know about the disastrous affects of high[...]you would be right - what about the sink? We use a bucket[...]to wash our hands in the toilet and as for tooth brushing,[...]round and our economy and society. Many graduates are going overseas,[...]ur apartment is actually two adjacent dorm rooms. The well, we have two balconies that eac[...]oing on to postgraduate building we live in houses both students and teachers. We use commas because they are loosely what I suppose can - M[...]one! study because of their student loan burden. The Massey have been assigned to the fifth floor. The view is pleasant only be described as sinks. The kind found at campsites[...]ersity Council needs to show that they understand the but without an elevator extremely hard earned. There are where hordes of people do their washin[...]ehave responsibility and ensure that student fees are characteristics, as well as squatters. One houses the washing and the odd night. This, although a little on the bizarre side,[...]machine, which is missing the tap adapter and must be filled[...]Why is it so hard for the world to understand be right, but that al[...]can be quite pleasant since the morning breeze is a very Massey is planning to set its fees in early October. manually by bailing water; a[...]you can’t negotiate with terrorists? How much can try a third way? There are always three ways![...]er, Matthew Evetts been assured). One is the laundry, another the toilet with[...]e we On one hand you can tell the cast that[...]acknowledge the Palestinian ‘peace process’ has your ideas are right and that this is how things mirror and the last is our shower. It is somewhat[...]failed? How many more little children and old will be - disregarding their opinions (ba[...]schizophrenic in nature but I am slowly growing accustomed essential since our TV only shows two channels, entirely in decreases.[...]ave to be blown up by evil suicidal you are right and they are wrong). But you say[...]However, their power to ensure student concerns are[...]maniacs before we say, ‘enough is enough!’ How that they have some pretty good ideas and[...]The squatter is an unfortunate side effect of Chinese[...]o double as a listened to is directly affected by how many students are[...]much longer are we going to be told this is just perhaps they could improve on the production[...]ables, iron and a yet-to-be- backing up what they are saying. You can make a real difference[...]a ‘cycle of violence’? Can’t the UN, USA and even (like your brother always wo[...]when one is either pissed or very tired and the ominous purchased coffee table (finge[...]let them have their needs met at the expense of in this process by becoming involved. Go into MUSA a[...]our own government see the unfairness of it all?[...]possibility of falling in crosses the mind. enough, and while n[...]see your own (once again - basically that they are to volunteer. It doesn’t matter if you’ve onl[...]Our shower is the kind that runs through a gas keep clean. in the media concerning the so-called Middle right and you are not; that their opinions count - Fleur Fitzsimons[...]heater on the way to the faucet, falling somewhat short in - Benn[...]the water pressure domain. It’s very nerve racking[...]effects decisions made by our The first way is what we would call with the possibility of leaving the gas on and being unable to[...]or example, ‘aggressive behaviour’, the second way is ‘passive T-COSY[...]s with murderer Yasser behaviour’, but the third way is assertive Hey all,[...]Arafat. The murderer was the only one who[...]Since the beginning of the Oslo[...]behaviour - your opinions are important and[...]theirs are also important. Sounds easy in theory,[...]but is a lot more difficult in practise for all sorts The end of the year is quickly approaching, and to celebrate[...]of reasons (it reminds you of how your brother[...]Accords in 1993, Israel has fulfilled all of its the hard working peeps at T -COSY have teamed up with[...]commitments to peace: to present the year’s largest LAN event this side of the North from accepting the ‘normal way of things’. Although there - Given the Palestinian Authority control over that this play you put so much effort and time Island. On the weekend of October 4/5, we will be running T - Recently while surfing the internet I spotted this quote from are many challengers and doubts, it can be done. Just take a the West Bank and Gaza Strip. into[...]SY 187, a 24-hour (or longer) LAN event, where we are a man named Bill Micklitz that explains things brilliantly in[...]look at the achievements that people with disabilities have planning to have up to 187 machines on the day! only a few words. “H[...]nds. anyway?). We are going to end T -COSY this year on a blast; by[...]made recently in this small country alone to understand.[...]name (multiple entries are not accepted)[...]After that previous comment, here are some positive - Released prisoners who have been Assertive people are honest about charging T -COSY and MDK members $5[...]g free pizza for all that turn up; as way, the tradition known as disability doesn’t seem as[...]against the Jewish state. want to do an[...]ilities don’t have everyday concerns and issues in their we are still learning, but this is a different (better!)[...]peace and harmony with the Arabs. Try this - struct[...]massive Desert Combat competition, a clan battle in Counter-[...]- Provided arms and ammunition to the be what we call ‘I messages’. It[...]lives, because we do. It is the created institution of disability looking at life. The comments in brackets are mine. Strike (possibly the last time it will make an appearance at a[...]evaluating) the action (when you suggest[...]campus T-COSY under the HL1 engine), C&C: Generals, Raven Shield,[...]- Continued to negotiate in good faith despite[...]nearly 19,000 terrorist attacks in the last changes to the play) and then saying how you hearing of people planning to come from Welli[...]This ‘something else’ is in actuality a culture of • You learn to pri[...]ceptance. Traditionally, this has been related to the • You develop enhanced self-awarene[...]reate - It has placed itself in a position where its but I really want this to[...]can organise seating, security, and food. If you are[...]3: Coisage appears on interested in attending the greatest LAN that the Manawatu WE are brought up accepting the situation for what it is in (anybody with a disability will tell you that overall we’ve - For the sake of peace Israel has offered part play anym[...]our world. Now in the 21st century, this acceptance is in the become more resistant to pain and painful s[...]of its own sacred capital city to the Arabs. Make some sense? Obviously i[...]rability. Although not as all pervasive • In the sense of moving in two worlds – disabled and non- -[...]that, Israel even gave harder to do in real life than it may seem, so[...]as the conventional form of acceptance, this also affects the disabled – you are bicultural.[...]ary@tcosy.inspire.net.nz and you can be placed on the[...]one of the counsellors? We can help you identify[...]make-up of individual world-views. We are accepting that • You learn the value of time and of letting things take time. the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple mailing list; you can use this address too[...]Mount. the feelings and look for ways of dealing with[...]we need help or assistance either all or some of the time. • People remember you (this seems to apply regardless of information about the event.[...]What has Israel received in retur n? these strong feelings. We can[...]Kate Sommerville This is the LAST T -COSY of the year, so let’s make Our lives are virtually determined by the next major issue, whether the disability is hidden is not; also, people don’t[...]Bloodshed. Nothing else. The more Israel gives, play how to respond (after all, you are an actor,[...]often clouding our individual hopes of success in whatever your name as quickly either). the more violence it experiences at the hands of so we can use the skills you already have).[...]Good luck - and send us tickets to the nothing booked on Sunday - let’s go longer and[...]opening night marathon of it! Enjoy the rest of semester, and hope to see you be so[...]- Student Counselling Service, 350 5935 all at the best LAN this year! The folly of this culture and its grip on the opinions • Finally, you develop a sense of hu[...]and ideals of many people is borne out in the above quote by matter of opinion. tcosy.in[...]Micklitz. For the individual, it is a tough battle to break[...]
	[...]aid $1! And I think we proved our point; “Are you violating my lighthouse?”[...]toys out of the cot![...]STUDENTS’ OFFICER: The official newspaper of the Massey[...]the last couple of weeks,[...]about how hard MUSA works[...]and how little we achieve,[...]Khabar? We are Shun from[...]care, and about the constant[...]Ecuador. We have been in New[...]years; lived in the hostels last[...]year; and are currently[...]On October 3 in Refectory Corey Taylor[...]and undergraduates, are faced with many issues that need[...]domestic students. The Fees[...]reject the notion that[...]to be addressed and dealt with. Among these, the annual[...]Freeze implemented by the NEWS EDITOR[...]students are apathetic. You increases in international students’ fees, which affects mos[...]Labour -led government of I’ve got ants in my pants[...]are an educated minority,[...]of us. With regards to this, we worked with MUSA in building[...]arguments against the increment of international fees,[...]qualified or informed to care than you. The fact that so often whereby the final outcome was favourable.[...]the voice of student opinion is ignored in favour of financial[...]advantage, and that your rights are sold for profit, comes not[...]complacent. But the time for[...]Fuck mate! Only two more to go! Changes are being planned to undergraduate laboratory space[...]MUSA, in the College of Science.[...]inform students of the situation. are constantly ignored by this university, and your a[...]An interim report on the planned changes suggest[...]tell the University that they chaff.adv@musa.org.nz[...]Two forums were held on September 17 and 19 ––the can only do so much. It’s our doze[...]have the experience, capability and desire to work as effe[...]that many of the existing labs are too large for the class sizes[...]first was just for students, the second for students and members hundreds, and the truth is, most of the time, they win.[...]representatives of you guys. The only thing we need is your using them, and the hours of use during semester are too[...]of the project team. MUSA’s VP Education, Simon Carrye[...]low. The report said there is a need for fewer, shared[...]The University is sitting on a massive budget surplus[...]made’a submission to the project team with students’ concerns.[...]have your vote of confidence and are appointed as[...]The final report on the project was released last Our staff[...]within those labs that are retained.[...]this year, so are by no means struggling to provide education It’s doing my head in.[...]ding making more lab now and then, in small ways, and sometimes in big ways, we[...]The interim report suggests the development of two[...]ACTION. If you believe in keeping education Ph: 350 4516[...]Mr Carryer said he was pleased with the changes in towards our goal, the empowerment of students.[...]affordable, SHOW IT. MUSA will lead the charge into chaff.design.ed@musa.org.nz[...]the final report, but noted that it is important students are My point? This week is fee setting week. At the[...]located in Ag Hort C, and Science Tower D.[...]Refectory - if hundreds of students pile into the building[...]consulted during the entire planning process. time of writing, the University still hasn’t told us what they[...]From here, design of the new laboratory complexes will plan to do with fees, but by the time you read this we’ll know.[...]NO WAY THE UNIVERSITY CAN IGNORE US. Massey states[...]begin, with work due to start next year. The project is expected At Vic, student protests stopped a meeting to raise fees. The[...]of which postgrads are vital part. We deserve a fees decrease![...]If you like more information on the planned changes don’t know what’s[...]environmental science, animal physiology, animal anatomy,[...]This is the first time in three years that this will be Contri[...]happening, as the fees freeze is being replaced by the fee Benn Addington[...]z. the government give this university money to provide[...]MUSA has been liaising with the project team on the[...]education. Every dollar that the University doesn’t spend is[...]fees are outside the maxima, and can rise by up to $500 per[...]course per year, or by more with permission from the Tertiary Santiago Bermeo[...]the surplus the University has been running, this can seem[...]Education Commission. It is especially important the Hannah Brown[...]are running for the position of[...]Protest works. Don’t let the University get away[...]Dr J Wanna be the big boss Let the campaigns begin[...]Although Fee Maxima was officially launched at the[...]last budget speech, the University has not had any set[...]ines to begin fees setting until recently because the[...]government was pressured by students to change the policy[...]Fleur Fitzsimons Applications are now open for the position of New Zealand[...]In the MUSA general elections in August no-one stood[...]for the positions of Recreation and Leisure Officer, Inte[...]on university fees. YAY STUDENT ACTION! The downside[...]and I also in my second year[...]sity. I’m currently studying MedLab Science. We are[...]what the University is planning to do on October 3 - this[...]The positions of National Women’s Rights Officer an[...]ation will only become available four days before the[...]meeting when the agenda is disseminated.[...]Massey arse). Our main aim will be to support the diverse[...]Therefore, we don’t know exactly what the Michael Harvey the first Co-President, were filled at the NZUSA Conference in[...]adequate funding and use of the facilities available. We also[...]Tini Tuisau won the Pacific Islands Students’ Officer, and Kelly[...]year for everyone. University’s arguments are that they will use to try and defend[...]want to make sure that Massey will retain the shield at the[...]MacDougall the Maori Students’ Officer. Assignments are piling up any proposed fees increase. It is possible that the University Ko Shun Lee be reached on the second Co-President position.[...]University Games 2004 in Otago.[...]The by-election next week will elect the Recreation and and exams are not far away. proposes an increase in line with the Consumer Price Index, Sasa Lisovac[...]Any students’ association member can apply for the[...]We are both actively involved in sport and feel we[...]I hope in amongst the work or inflation. However, some very good[...]Standing for the Rec and Leisure position are: Mieke[...]xual Abuse Centre Applications for the position must be received at the[...]nvolved with sport at Massey, which also includes the[...]it was Women’s Fest last the tremendous marketing spin-offs that would come fr[...]fice of Kensington Swan Barristers and Solicitors in Wellington[...]Standing for the International position are: Yosia Pratama week, well actually, by the not increasing domestic fees. Rebe[...]John McIvor The election, which will include all of NZUSA’s mem[...]More information on some of the candidates (the ones[...]For further information contact the returning officer,[...]question? But we are the Women’s Officers and it’s not part MUS[...]concourse. Thanks to all the women that participated in international postgraduate fees at the current level - no Ross Stevens[...]breaking down the stereotypes about what women should[...]women in overalls and gumboots. Mahu dressed in her PJ’s, If you have any s[...]BA majoring in Classics and[...]d of to get off your chest, please use the postgrad email loop Edrei Valath[...]the way she looks even if she has just got out of bed[...]there was Mel and Mere who dressed in their rugby uniforms graduate@musa.org.nz[...]– proving that women are just as tough as men. And there - Ninya[...]I’ve been working in the Jevon Wright Steven Youngb[...]recreational industry for the[...]so I’ve had a bit of experience in this field of work. Currently[...]Also a big thank you to the guys that volunteered[...]and helped out during the week. The awesome guys that DISCLAIMER: The views and ideas expressed within[...]cooked our BBQ on Wednesday and who took part in the Candidates for Recreation &[...]udents, have two part-time jobs, am Treasurer for the[...]rag section of our beauty pageant with MUSA Exec, the[...]CHAFF editor, the MUSA accountant and Rohan. You all[...]ng to cut back next year so this position would are not necessarily those of CHAFF[...]be perfect to keep me busy in my spare time. staff, the Massey University Students’[...]me, so I’ve come up with the following: associated advertisers.[...]really hurt!). WORD OF THE WEEK:[...]were the first in the world to get to vote. But at the same[...]
	[...]Back in the gay:[...]A Deviant guide to the highly recent past In results announced on September 19, Auckland Unive[...]students voted to retain voluntary membership of the[...]I’m not going to be burnt at the stake. I can’t hold my partner’s hand in public, but I’m not going to jail. I re[...]d for compulsory. At disappointed with the result.[...]nnoying stuff, but it’s Auckland Unitec the result was somewhat closer - 1955 for[...]or torture, and we all know who’s going to win in the end. In our country, homophobia is volunta[...]joining the ranks of sexism, racism and xenophobia as just So[...]an’t talk about This is the third time Auckland students have voted gradua[...]rugby all the time.[...]to remain voluntary. Auckland University is the only Mr Kelly went on to say: “The recent decision by the So society’s changed over the last few decades, which you should have noticed. For the majority of the university in New Zealand to currently have a voluntary University to increase fees significantly, and in some cases population who are heterosexual, this change consisted of moving fro[...]n. past the fees maxima, shows the need for a strong,[...]students association membership, said the vote was great AUSA President-el[...]the hurricane’s on fire, and there are vampires, and also the sun is going nova. You know...big.[...]The queer cultures that grew and, in a way, thrived in an environment of hatred and paranoia have[...]me and their own body will continue to champion the rights of students as it[...]withered away with the advent of acceptance and tolerance. Broadway musi[...]said Glenn has since its formation in 1891.”[...]Hankie codes and private languages? The actions and beliefs that were common yesterday are puzzling Peoples, Student Choi[...]and bizarre to the youth of today. Which is a bit of a shame, becaus[...]rs’ right to freedom of membership was in 1999. 8807 voted to retain compulsory[...]join an incorporated society. Get in contact with us if you have “Ooh, vada well the omee-palone ajax who just trolled in - she’s “Revolutionary lesbians see[...]got nanti taste, dear, cod lally-drags and the naff riah but what a[...]The spring-fresh MUSA Executive report! Back in the 1950’s, being gay wasn’t much fun. In the relationships (capitalism, imperialism[...]UK - and indeed, in most of the Western world - you could be oppression...) are eliminated.”[...]- Revolutionary Lesbians 1971, How to Stop Choking to Death or:[...]The last MUSA Executive meeting was held at 3.30pm on[...]Friday, September 19, 2003, in the Student Centre NZUSA conference. The report was accepted with one Email:uniq@musa.org.[...]ctroshock and hormones. People didn’t just stay in the closet, Separatism[...]they nailed the door shut and burrowed into the back wall. One of humanity’s greatest and dearest pleasures was in danger of Lesbians as wild-eyed[...]ters, as far-leftist • Andrea Grant, the MUSA President, chaired the[...]Are you concerned Notice Board:[...]taken away from tens of thousands of people, but in the end the desire to fulfil such a basic urge was much too s[...]presented the report and answered questions. She[...]listed TWFG and Women’s Fest as her highlights. The about rising fees?[...]Ninya Maubach, • MUSA corridor - look for the bright[...]completely separate from men. The movement increasingly came[...]What to do? How can sit with a friend and talk about[...](Alex Shipkov and Ross Williams). Alex presented the colours. last night’s fun or eye the passers-by when being overheard could un[...]will take place at a meeting of the University Council.[...]report and answered questions. He said the primary The University Council is the highest governing body UniQ box:25 in the MUSA corridor. put you at great risk? Why[...]y series was a highlight (secondary of the university. It is made up of three student[...]essentialism. The movement eventually became a bit of a joke, and • The minutes of the meeting of August 29 were accepted won), also the Hokowhitu Ball. The report was[...]The origins of Polari probably lie in the 19th-century[...]• The inwards mail was accepted and the outwards mail •[...]al staff representatives, and people appointed by the[...]Yet the movement attracted many people and accomplished[...]Minister of Education. The Council meets once a month. Meeting are held every Tuesday at prostitutes and beggars, and it also has links to the older[...]im and Karai Taukarai). Joel The first part of the meeting is open to the public, MALGRA (turn left and up the stairs vocabularies of other stigmatised groups or outsiders such as much. For the first time, people who had been largely • There were no matters arising from the minutes. presented the report and answered questions. The and students are welcome to attend. MUSA would like to see[...]ieves’ cant, cockney rhyming slang, Yiddish and the lingua franca disenfranchised felt empowered to fight thethe end of Jersey Lane).Please[...]vernment, religion, society, family, and culture. The had been doing for the past week.[...]as many students at the meeting as possible.[...]• The Executive passed a motion extending its deepest At the time of writing it was unclear what the Council note that sometimes meetings are If you liked the look of someone at the theatre, you might movement did indeed end[...]sympathy to Joel for sacrificing his foot for the MUSA was intending to do in regard to fees. held at other locations so keep a[...]hey were academic fields, and raised the consciousness of their •[...]MUSA President Andrea Grant says the university eye on the web-site/Deviant page straight they woul[...]• Financial business: Adam Maynard presented the[...]is in a good position to keep fees stable, or even redu[...]questions. Her highlights for the quarter were the financial report for July, which was[...]to an extent we cannot imagine today. There is an old play, written Tertiary Women’s Focus Group (TWFG) and the NZUSA[...]“Massey is in an extremely healthy financial position, Can’t make the Tuesday night[...]having made a $16 million surplus for 2002. In July this[...]s very useful. It was also a way of poking fun at the[...]September conference. The report was accepted with The next Executive meeting will be held at 3.30pm on[...]about his plans to rape someone. When the play was written,[...]year the surplus was at $9 million. Massey has a solid Uni[...]Friday, October 3, in the Student Centre Boardroom. All reputation, and the free advertising that would come from Too far,too[...]callousness horrifies people so much that the play’s practically never[...]being the first university to actively reduce fees would be[...]presented the report and answered questions.[...]you informed of the latest happenings at MUSA.[...]academic field concerning a minority was inspired in[...]that the Council can see the people who are affected by their Wednesdays.[...]part by the efforts of radical lesbianism. Women-centred reli[...]cca have brought solace to hundreds of thousands. The[...]The Council meeting will be held in Refectory 1 at[...]CHAFF: Breaking news while the others break wind[...]lives. The movement may have been flawed, and it may have[...]but it never deserved the reputation it’s earned. Considering what[...]n acronym for Not we owe it, continuing the laughing disrespect seems a betrayal.[...]worster: no worse. Nanti pots in the cupboard: no teeth.[...]Queers of the future unite! TO DEVIANT:[...]So where are we going? What will the 2040 edition of Deviant look[...]back upon? The Queer Pets Movement? The National Party When[...]It Was Straight? How GE Saved Heterosexuality? Anything’s deviant@mu[...]Some days, I hope that in the future all the queer newspapers[...]Having a friend who prefers the same sex will be just as significant We want your[...]has having a friend who prefers blondes. The antagonism between send in anything to our e-mail Hanky Code[...]heteros and homos will be just as dead as the antagonism between[...]tc. So we’re back in the murky past, and queer sex is a taboo subject. what? Having an end to all the stupid squabbles would be nice. Even in the shadier parts of town you’d barely be able to h[...]Other times, I hope that doesn’t happen. The queer community,[...]as a community, is such a recent development, yet in the short First-timers: handkerchiefs in your back pockets, and spreading the code to time it’s existed it has gone through astonishing changes. Having If you are new to UniQ then please others, so you can advertise to those in the know. Once that it fade away, existing only in the memories and notes of historical e-mail us.We can arrange for system is in place...well, might as well keep expanding it, right? scholars seems a bit sad. Variety is the spice of life, and it would Today the Hanky Code is dead, except for perhaps a few plac[...]where it’s done mostly for fun, but in its day you could dedicated to pushing away queers, I think we’ll drift back into the you over coffee so you can ask communi[...]es and fetishes, all norm, blending in even more than we already do. It’ll be nice, to[...]any differences that anyone cares about. But then the is helpful so when you come along[...]ll come around, and we’ll just have to roll out the queer Colour Worn in Left Pocket Worn in Right Pocket culture and take over the towns. I mean, come on - who else do to the meetings you know[...]you want in control of the parties?[...]Single seeking couple Visit the Deviant web site[...]
	[...]Over the next few months StudyLink is introducing some[...]and make it easier for student to get the help they need. The general idea of the club is to make Massey[...]will affect small groups of students. The changes apply from understand the needs of firms in industry. We need to meet[...]their expectations by providing students with the necessary[...]Here is a brief outline of the changes to be made:[...]to do project in order to get experience, running seminars or[...]of interest to both students and industry. While in[...]the process of providing these things to students it[...]industry will benefit as well, in both the short term and long[...]part of the year may be eligible for a student loan.[...]The inaugural event of Massey Connexions is a[...]- The Student Work Start Grant will be abolished from[...]ner at Diablo’s next Monday, October 6, at 6pm. The[...]for the standard Work Start Grant.[...]- Around 500 students could be eligible for the new Step[...]backgrounds. Applications for the scholarships will be[...]“Many business people from the local business[...]community are expected to attend the dinner, so it should be[...]He added that if the event was successful, other[...]similar events will be organised in the future.[...]Tickets for the dinner can be purchased from[...]Results from the 2003 Durex Global Sex Survey released last[...]o-thirds (63 percent) of Kiwi women Performers at the Papua New Guinea to[...]This is well ahead of the global female average of 48 Independence Day cele[...]A new literary arts journal, based in the Bay of Plenty, is to faked an orgasm.[...]be launched in November this year. Bravado will be published The survey also reveals that frequency of sex is on the celebration, which was held in the Massey[...]bi-annually and act as a show case for the wealth of writing the decline, with the global average falling from 139 to 127 Events Centre on September 20. The actual talent that exists in New Zealand. times per year. Despite this global decline, Kiwis are still date of PNG Independence is September 16. A team of three, the Bravado Editorial Collective, ahead of the global average and, most importantly, we’re[...]will produce Bravado between them. The Co-ordinating Editor beating the Aussies.[...]ooks, articles, short stories Kiwis are having sex on average 130 times per year, Help fo[...]and poems published in New Zealand, the UK, and America.[...]compared to the Aussies at 125 times. Almost a quarter of[...]mber will also take over as newsletter editor for the NZ students[...]e than 150,000 people from 34 countries took part in[...]which ‘Decision Time’ was held last Wednesday in SSLB. This and her first nove[...]ait was published this provides an insight into the sexual attitudes and behaviour was a chance for f[...]reviews. of people around the world. staff and senior students to discuss their[...]rom all four colleges Poetry Editor. Owen was the featured poet in the most recent fantastic to see Kiwis obviously[...]“Perhaps sex could now be classified as another the forum was well-attended.[...]sport we’re beating the Aussies at!” The Massey Young Farmers Club took advantage The editors would like to hear from contributors, The more serious findings from this year’s Durex of the fine weather and put on a barbeque for students[...]fax (07 Global Sex Survey will be released in late November to coincide outside SSLB.[...]The Massey University Students’ Association support[...]This Friday October 3 at 10am in Refectory 1 the University[...]make a difference, believe me, you can. The more students[...]who simply turn up put greater pressure on the Council to[...]consider the people their decisions will be affecting.[...]
	[...]that - the Mexicans sure do.[...]I see your point. Auckland is full of dorks, and the rest of NZ is full of hillbillies[...]on, with it’s weird drug culture). Sorry if you are none of the above, but[...]generalisations are hip these days.[...]y for court costs. We messed with Ag-research and the[...]About 60 of the school’s Year 13 accelerated students[...]will sit up to three university papers in a pilot programme[...]hen will people learn, protesting doesn’t work. The courts don’t work, especially when[...]The students will be those who have sat bursary in[...]many secondary school students around the country study[...]burn and destroy stuff. Actually, I might leave the fun stuff till after the moratorium gets GE[...]treatment. The papers will be incorporated into their[...]curriculum and lecturers from the Palmerston North campus[...]will go to the school to deliver some of the programme.[...]m is some silly organic hippy type. Both sides of the argument[...]Thethe story. All you hippie’s,[...]way to keep top students interested in their last year at[...]time or where exactly in the building it is, so more details will be probably[...]it is a win-win situation for the school and the university.[...]down at the very cheap cost of fuck all (gas). So if I can st[...]The school will be able to retain top students for th[...]year, and the university will have an opportunity to introduce[...]There is a notice in the Ecology Building about it too.[...]“We both have the same aim – to encourage By Mike Ushaw[...]want to get involved with protests, activism and the[...]like, then get in touch with other like-minded individuals at: http[...]excellence in these young people and keep them here in[...]The subjects will be limited at first to English, maths When the moratorium gets lifted you will probably hear no[...]and science papers, which will be studied in addition to the louder than words). Until then you are going to be bombarded with propaganda. Get used to please get in touch with me. I’m keen to help and I know others who may’be too. Go up to the[...]programme. It won’t cost the boys anything to do the papers or strap a bomb to your chest and take[...]because the school and the university will absorb the costs, worker bees or wage slaves are there). Heh heh, McBoom! Sorry, I shouldn’t jok[...]s thwarted university attempts to The students responded with a shouted “Yes!”[...]followed by”“Leave, leave, leave!” as the councillors filed out. The university has many arrangements with[...]ny depressed people believe that being ‘sick’ in some way can A contingent of eight students forced the cancellation Following the meeting, Mr McCutcheon said he did secondary schools in its wider catchment, including GE FOR RETARDS[...]drugs. I believe that throwing little of the September 17 council meeting, which was likely to not think the meeting had gone well.[...]imed at encouraging top students Because money is the language of greed and humans are greedy c*nts, I will say this in $ gre[...]eon’s “I was disappointed by the conduct of members of to continue on to t[...]In fact, it will ultimately make the situation worse. Treat the recommendation to raise fees by three percent. the public, most of whom were students. I don’t thi[...]symptom not the cause, eh? That’s what farmer-suit-to-kill Chair Rosemary Barrington tried to call the meeting appropriate to shout down people who are exercising their measly scientific grant from[...]companies do best. In 1999 a study called ’The Changing Rate of[...]ression, Cross-Cultural Comparisons’ found that the[...]to order half an hour after the meeting was scheduled to[...]After the meeting was disbanded the councillors,[...]wing shortage of GE free food. This means that as the rest of the world is poisoned, our GE free food gets more[...]higher the level of economic development, the higher the incidence[...]of depression. The study involved 39,000 participants and was[...]carried out by the American Medical blah blah blah.[...]minus the two students representatives, retired to an adjac[...]the possibility of conducting a future meeting withou[...]participation. get a reasonable increase in profit seems like a good thing, right?[...]the crowd. Ms Rochford indicated they would listen to any After the meeting 15 students occupied a university NZUSA has welcomed the government announcement that[...]TIMES ARE GETTING TOUGH NOW[...]$240 million in interest charges on student loans has been •[...]o make. building, but the occupation ended peacefully after four[...]rack open a cold one, spark up a fattie and crank the sounds.[...]written off and are calling on the government to take further they have $ to burn. Also, the rich bastards will not want to eat common food like the[...]Ms Rochford said, “Do we want to be quiet so the hours.[...]steps to make the loan scheme fairer. rest of the pions in their smelly, dirty, polluted, GE infested stink hole. If they are really[...]meeting can be conducted in an orderly way?”[...]“The no interest on student loans policy was a good[...]The crowd responded by shouting, “No!”[...]start, but students and graduates arethe meeting - Salient and CHAFF[...]changes to make the loans scheme fairer and address the and you know you can’t go anywhere else, coz the world is fucked”. They will. If we jack[...]ause they’re not willing to have a debate while the[...]iction, but a spiritual one. It’s an alarm that the organism is in[...]one of the key drivers of high student debt – lack of access to up the price coz we have to ship it a long way, this will mean only the stinkiest of the[...]protesters are here. Is that okay?”[...]wances,” said Fleur Fitzsimons, Co-President of the richest will be able to afford it, and so the[...]Carducci & Zimbardo: As we approach the limits of our abilities to deal with the complexities •[...]great deal of our most wealthy consumers, Japan, the EU and of course the Yanks, who don’t want their own shit food and c[...]indeed, we are seeing both - a polarisation of behaviour in which we see increases in both Research needed to save Maui’s[...]market interest rates to the government,” said Ms Fitzsimons.[...]ression, marked by a general loss of manners, and in withdrawal.[...]Prozac (+generics): The world’s most top selling drug.[...]endangered Maui’s dolphins if we are to have any chance of dolphins, and if that happens New Zealand will have the allowances, there would not have been[...]M: Drug use also indicates a fundamental flaw in reality. Our society needs help.[...]r GE needs to be stirred up. As it gets closer to the time, more people need to be Harvard Res[...]ammal expert dubious distinction of being the first country in the world to[...]o become “Labour has now been in government for four years informed of the blatant blunder that is uncontrolled GE (ie not in a lab). Obviously, the sociability and general loutishness.[...]and student debt has doubled in that time. A living allowance general Joe Dumb Fu[...]it; or worse doesn’t D. Korten: We are all caught to some degree in a downward spiral of deepening alienation. Dr Duignan, Director of the New Zealand Wildlife extinct. Wouldn’t that give the Japanese something to sling[...]rs lapping up Our quest for $ widens the gulf between our selves and our family/community.[...]students do not have to borrow from the loan scheme to pay their agri-chemicals and shit. Look at all the cock ups that come about when you hastily[...]we currently don’t know enough about the Maui’s ecology to meeting?”[...]properly protect them. He says that while the Government Dr Duignan is part[...]ng has introduced bans on set net fishing in what are believed concerns as the pathologist who has undertaken post-mortem[...]phins since November 1997. His team holds in 1999 but the Government has had four years to back this[...]their root causes. Or worse, having to entertain the idea that some problems simply have no[...]tractor do a third-gear line lock (skidding up on the solutions…[...]l to and from on a daily a contract with the Department of Conservation to find the[...]in areas cause of death of dolphins that are found by-caught or beach- “How long do students and their families have to spot[...]of GE? Will they cover damages AB #30: In post-modern life, more environmental variables than ever are mucking with our for breeding, or whether certain areas are critical for foraging cast from both the North and South Islands. by eco-terrorists? Certa[...]“Seven of the ten Maui’s dolphins submitted were[...]“How can they be properly protected when we don’t[...]know the answers to these basic questions?” Dr Duignan floating at sea. Of the beach-cast animals one had definite AGBOY IS A FO[...]entanglement pathology – that was the presumed cause of Have you heard of the term ‘niche market’? Do they teach you that in Ag? Or do they just Think about the journey, not the destination. We are born; we will die. What lies in-between[...]’s not as if we can catch them all and put them in death – and a second had lesions suggestive of a similar fate. teach you to fuck up the environment as fast as you can in order to gain a profit before it is up[...]some fenced-off lagoon and have them reproduce in a fully We think three or four of the ten died through fisheries becomes too fucked to grow anything? The cunt that invented DDT got a Nobel Prize or some[...]ure what I want to do for a degree, let alone out in the big wide world of modern[...]tat they need interactions.” shit, I bet the poor bastards in Vietnam got no prize (unless birth defects are considered consumerism. I just wanna[...]information from the type of research we’re doing now.”[...]rk What about resistance that builds up in the pest population? Oh yeah, just up the anything job-like.[...]nan says this work has not yet been done in a more concerted manner to determine what habitat[...]go on - tell us your story dosage. GE is not the same as herbicides you say? GE will mean no herbicides? Both are Think about all the old people who used to do certain jobs that are now obsolete. damaging to the intricate structure that is ‘natural life’. W[...]Thanks to our modern healthcare they are still around today when naturally they should[...]provide the answers.[...]? Put all that useless farmland into cities. Poor old Agboy, just like the rest have been dead long ago. But what do all the old folks do? The world is so different now. All[...]their skills and experience are going to die with them. How many of you even talk to old Look at overseas examples of GE causing havoc. Look at the US, look at Mexico. We people? They ha[...]nce that we will never have. I feel sorry for all the can see it going wrong! We don’t need to guess,[...]sake! A elderly people rotting away in rest homes who could share a million years worth[...]red to produce ethanol was found to kill all life in the soil. Luckily, with us but never will. Their family probably doesn’t even visit them that often. How sad. it wasn’t released (or they said it wasn’t). Imagine all life in the soil being killed off? What are It would have been much slower back in the day without as much stressful shit your cows gonna eat then? Rocks? How much will it cost to mitigate that? You fucken’[...]k. Most people work more than play. Fuck that. We are Conventional breeding is more natural t[...]als or plants can’t all slaves to the all mighty dollar. There is only one way to truly free yourself from the evolve fast enough for you then it’s probably coz they aren’t meant to. Are you just too $ capitalist bullshit and financial conformity, it’s not pretty, in fact, it’s not even legal. I guess hungry, impatient and ignorant? Why are there so many antibiotics used on farmed animals,[...]…McBoom! especially pigs and poultry? Is it coz the animals areare bound to Note: I’ve had a few good mates choose the easy option, or the cowardly way out, depending happen in their very unnatural environment. Many organic farmers don’t even need to use on how you see it. It’s not pretty, and I know others who have had mates go the same way. It antibiotics coz their animals are healthier. Compare organic chickens with barn rai[...]entional ones. Have you ever seen chickens raised in a barn? They look like shit. Have even though the going gets tough sometimes, you have to ne[...]
	[...]“Arnold supports the woman’s right to choose, the state’s current family planning[...]nd has consistently voted this way… Recognising the traditional model of[...]monogamous heterosexual marriage as the only stable relationship upon which to build a so[...]nted as an acceptable ‘alternative’ lifestyle in[...]ght and Karl Marx is wrong. And when I hear about the Davis marriage, domestic partner[...]license bill, I am a Republican because I believe in the rules of While Arnold has gone out of his way in the campaign so far not to say anything, good[...]the law and not political pandering.[...]Sylvester Stallone and the Dixie Chicks, but as assemblyman Ray Hanes, a Con[...]said in an NBC interview last week, “Government’s no[...]ill. I will I watched Tom’s speech in the Imperial Ballroom and the dinner function was true to its[...]go to the legislators, and if they do not repeal it, I will go to the people and we will conservative roots. I[...]And following the Lord’s Prayer it came to pass that Tony Strickl[...]came to speak in praise of Tom. And he approached the altar so that the Republican people might The inside oil[...]I will repeal the Democrats 300 percent increase in car tax. I will decentralise education.[...]I will return money to the schoolyards. And I will make sure that our enviro[...]regulations will serve the environment and make common sense.[...]hear. And he informed the sinful masses, “I think this recall is a wonder[...]“Tom was the first person to talk about repealing the car tax. I believe that Tom is our[...]from car tax to pretty much everything we believe in.” The penultimate round of the Indy Racing League took place[...]And Tony’s praises were well received and the people rejoiced. “Go Tom Go, Go Tom Go” last Monday in Fontana, California. It was a race that was[...]they cheered. of incredible importance to all the drivers at the top of the[...]Now there was a certain man of the Republican Party of California and his name was l[...]Tom McClintock, the son of Mr and Mrs McClintock, and married heteros[...]could all but end a driver’s chance of winning the[...]be that he accepted this invitation to preach to the sinful masses. championship. To use the classic cliché, there was no room[...]politician would do this?’ And do you know what the response was? ‘A For Scott Dixon this was also very much the case.[...]ocrat of course, because abolishing car tax helps the working family to get to work in the However, he did not let this get to him, setting the third- As the year comes to an end and everyone starts to make[...]reconnected these voters to reality. fastest time in qualifying, behind Helio Castroneves and a[...]an refereed, cooked, and helped out at the Papua New Guinea[...]een mugged.’ Well, I can resurgent Kenny Brack. The 200 lap Toyota Indy 400 abundance of sporting distractions on the radar. Feck. The Independence Day celebrations. It was gre[...]tell you now, the conservatives have been mugged, and they have bee[...]government.” just the racing that was hot, but also the Californian with a 28-16 (my prediction) drubbing over the Panthers. And like touch, netball, and voll[...]And the people cheered, “That’s right.Yes Tom,” they cried. weather, with the temperature getting up to around 35°C. that’s forgetting the Rugby World cup and Premiere League without doubt the most competitive of the lot. Dodgy tackles, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If you want the Davis administration out, then And Tom said, “I will rescind the car tax, void electricity contracts, bring worker[...]ces have one key principal to success; it’s in all their glory. Right now I’m praying or conti[...]llywoods please join me. I love the Republican Party. down, and all this before lunch on the first day.[...]and I have to do didn’t take away from the good sportsmanship of the day.[...]“I will decongest highways by removing the diamond lanes, make sure the highway tax not about how many passes you make at the start, but[...]All the teams had a great time, and it’s just a shame we Pan out. Capture the tireless applause of the rest of the delegates in the room. is actually spent on the highways, and remove the driver’s license bill for illegal aliens.” how close to the leader you are at the finish that matters.[...]And the people cried, “Yes. Thank you Tom. Yes!” This was very much the case in this race. During the first[...]’t Well, that might be me for the year so good luck to know, the Blues are a celebration of elite athletes who manage[...]Next, in nothing short of a reverse of the Last Action Hero plot synopsis, Arnold walked out of the parents’ Thousand Oaks suburban house to find my mother sitting at the dinner table in tears. shuffling amongst the positions. Dixon’s team mate Tomas[...]to perform both on the field and off it in their studies. The TV screen and (through the doorway) into the overflow room where I was taking notes and watching ‘Why are you crying?’ I asked her. She told me that she[...]e her taxes were so high Scheckter was strong for the first half of the race, leading[...]allowed come shining through in those borderline papers[...]that she was losing all of her savings to the government, and she couldn’t live the life that she for a large proportion of the first 100 laps. Lap 75 saw the you’re taking. Make sure you vote in the bi-election to have[...]anted to. Her hopes and dreams had been stolen by the taxing system. Ever since that day, I first and only yellow flag of the afternoon; debris on the make sure you’re there if you’ve received word you’re getting your say in who takes over the reigns as Rec and Leisure an activistic person. We have to start with deregulation, bring the revenues back, and pay off the have been committed to reducing taxes fo[...]ing families, to help them reach their track gave the drivers a five-lap ‘rest’.[...]out his aptitude goals.” The last round of pit stops really saw the action let me say that the Blues committee pains over our decisions, -[...]And the people cried, “Yeah!” get into full swing. A[...]er’s inspiration (Nixon) and role model (Dubya) are serious reasons for And Tom continued, “Now is the time to roll back the taxes that are choking the working crew saw him get in and out of the pits two seconds quicker it’s just not possible. This ran especially true for the[...]lican who, if elected, will do more to liberalise the took 40 minutes to get to Downtown LA from Thousand Oaks. Now it takes two hours. That the lead, just ahead of Hornish and Kanaan. But Hornish pushing your clubs along, putting in the hard yards, and[...]Republican Party than anyone else in the last ten years. California was the place where I grew up, and I want it back.” was not to be outdone; a battle for the lead went on for apply next year.[...]The delegates refer to him as a RINO (Republican In Name Only) because of his liberal And the people chanted, “Yeah. Go Tom Go. Go Tom Go.”[...]stance on social issues. Arnold is in favour of stricter gun control, gay marriages and[...]Tom concluded his sermon by extending an offer to the sinful one of those wheel-to-wheel split-second finishes. Nevertheless, Hornish got the better of Dixon and despite[...]se whether or not she has an abortion. He is also in support of a proposition that[...]f their fortune and take out their frustration at the Davis administration by[...]stoning an Audi car with a sledgehammer. In jest, Tom claimed to have sought a French car, bu[...]ver and ever. Amen. Dixon’s best efforts during the final laps, Hornish managed[...]sailed sweetly; it flew with ease and grace over the heads of to the Warriors. However, the Raiders came storming back action in schools and the workplace.[...]hback with a sledgehammer, slipping to hold on to the lead and win by 0.35 of a second. What the green machine, and over the bar. 17-16 - Warriors win, faster than a[...]- Along with cars and money, guns are very dear to the Republican philosophy so it was over in the process, smashed glass lodging firmly into his di[...]other great finish. Tony Kanaan also kept himself in and once again Stacey Jones is the hero. So this leaves them all, and it was l[...]Arnold not to mention his views on gun control to the two rooms of delegates at the named after Democrats and political rivals. Ironically, last week a dozen SUV’s were vandalised the running with a third placing.[...]Family magazine, Arnold was much in Downtown LA by ELF (Earth Liberation Front) in an act that any Republican would consider[...]with two games to go in order to go one better than last year stopped time, missed two defenders and slotted the winning This is Hornish’s second win in a row. But this[...]more open with the stark contradiction between his acting and politi[...]“I don’t run terrorism, yet now the Republicans themselves are destroying the very cars they are trying to[...]and secure an amazing victory over the best Australia has to point. The crowd of largely free ticket holders cheered as the great result from Dixon puts him in equal first in the race[...]around every day with a gun in my hand. I want kids to understand the difference; one is make- protect from the dreaded car tax.[...]oked themselves a preliminary final date with for the championship with Helio Castroneves. Tony Kanaan[...]believe, like we do in the movies. But in reality I’m for gun control. I’m a peace loving guy.” It is madness in its very essence. Removing car taxes will not sol[...]In other sports action over the weekend, the NPC is the Panthers. In the other semi, the Bulldogs cruised past is seven points behind and still well in contention, while[...]eesy, pandering and maybe just a little naïve of the relationship between fiction and reality in If more people can afford to buy cars, t[...]hotting up, the table is as close as ever, and holy smokes the Storm 30-0, the Storm playing utterly terribly, making Hornish ma[...]alifornia, but at least it’s a step forwards to the political pollution and more smog. Si[...]Batman, Wellington are on top. But anything could happen, more mistakes than a learner driver on speed. The final round sees the IRL return to the Texas Motor[...]and public transport will reduce the incentives for using public transport and lead to[...]and with the All Blacks out, this is the most open and In this week’s NPC action, the shock of the round Speedway, for what is certainly going to be[...]And the editors of Californian Family magazine love Arnie[...]when North Harbour dicked Otago 49-18. North win the championship Dixon must finish well in the points[...]previous sponsorship of the After School Education and Safety Initiative and[...]Now these crazy Republicans are smashing a car that could’ve delivered a workin[...]easy beat teams are winning over more fancied opposition, Ha[...]f, and make sure that both Kanaan and Castroneves are[...]role in Kindergarten Cop. Going back to 1989, they mentio[...]and the normal benchwarmers are getting their chances to had too much z[...]Bush to head the Council on Physical Fitness and “stumped in all 50 states at his own expense.” praising the Iraq war), and making anti-French claims whilst s[...]trut their stuff. This style and unpredictably of the First still hung over from their tremendous win against But as the chicken and the egg pointed out earlier, not everybody loves Arnie. After the international business and globalisation. contention. Dixon summed things up very well after the Division has not be seen since the advent of professionalism, Canterbury.[...]delegates departed, I walked back through the portal into the parallel universe outside the Marriott And now for a commercial break. The following is an actual flyer distributed by Tom r[...]and hopefully can only raise the bar in terms of talent and Wellington[...]eld challenge by Hotel. This time I bumped into the Code Pink activist group who were protesting agai[...]skill in New Zealand rugby.[...]But back to the Warriors and their uncharacteristic Howell helping inspire the yellow and blacks to be top of the had apparently been held within Arnold’s view during his speech until the solo covert activist had www.m[...]performance over the weekend. Normally they throw the ball table. In fact Northland seems to be the only team performing been ushered out by the suits.[...]b member [Go figure.] as if he is certain to stay in the IRL at this stage. There around with the greatest of ease, but in the first twenty poorly; they lost to the Bay of Plenty, who piled on plenty of There were six of them in total and one of them male - I couldn’t be comp[...]Send at least $100 and become a member of the 10 million dollar club [Go figure again.] have be[...]e a chance. Canberra held possession points in their 42-27 win over the Taniwha’s. whether or not th[...]Send at least $20 to become a member of the 20 million dollar club [Seems like the best which may allow him to still compete in the IRL. Dixon[...]quotes mouthed by Arnold over the last three decades. Recently, they caught Arnold[...]rattled up ten easy points, with Simon Woolford, the Auckland - inspired by Danie[...]h threats - romped over Southland in a clinical display of attacking Chip Ganassi Raci[...]id or have nothing else to offer’, which may be the case many Make checks pay[...]throughout the week, hopefully answering his critics as he football. Braid appeared everywhere on the field, justifying The Aussie V8 schedule has been set for next year.[...]is Warriors team has more his selection in the 30-man squad. The New Zealand round will move to ANZAC weekend, whi[...]They had fished something up from the 70’s referring to a gang bang with a female[...]And, oh yes, Canterbury defied the odds and kept the Phillip Island round will make way for a race at the[...]oseurs at Venice Beach. Arnold told The convention ended with a series of parties, which[...]Toopi tries, and rock-hard defence from the Shield again, shrugging off the Waikato challenge. Blair, new F1 circuit in Shanghai, China. This race is subject to[...]the LA Times this week that this had only been a joke[...]invited delegates to “swing back to the Golden Era of California” with him, blatantly c[...]the man-mountain forward pack of Gorilla-Santi and[...]cking was superb, and Mehrtens, played with skill the new track being completed on time though.[...]he is living firmly in the past. On the flyer he bribed the first 300 people with a free mug. Next[...]Faumuina. At the half it was 10-together, but then the flying as they retained the Log in a 35-24 win. Go the Warriors! Until next week…[...]e politicians and detract attention door, the California Grass Roots Leadership Committee offer[...]Fa’afili plucked a ball out of the air and dotted down - 16-10 - Geoff Williams[...]away from their policies. Two of the three main left-wing candidates for Governor were[...]lican congressman, But the biggest party consisted of about forty uncoordina[...]f Republican legislators having affairs, going to the Supreme Court to defend his[...]ell pornography, and then marrying a sixteen year old stripper.” Cruz Bustamante comes had to cancel acting in a sequel to Collateral Damage in order to fulfil his strenuous campaign[...]Answer the question on the left, attach your details and Larry Flynt pulled out of the race a few weeks ago and Arianna Huffington is polling like As a foreigner, one of the most disturbing aspects of the convention was the Californians[...]unning send it in to CHAFF by 5pm Weds. Entries limited to ONE[...]she did too, leaving the left united behind Democrat Cruz Bustamante if the Recall is to be Republicans’ ni[...]t successful in ousting Gray Davis. However, the Republican vote is divided between Arnold said, “with Arnold driving a Hummer, Arianna in a hybrid and McClintock smashing an Audi,[...]A Rec age ID at the CHAFF office when collecting your prize.[...]Schwarzenegger and Tom McClintock, leaving Arnold in a close second place to Gray Davis’ California are defining their campaigns by vehicular styles.”[...]lieutenant. This is the reason behind the “Let us unite for victory” statement repeated at the end the Republican campaign trail shows no promise that L[...]om McClintock, a traditional Christian family man in his 40’s and slightly goober-like But the Democrats have fumbled. The Californian budget has dived from a $15 billion[...]in appearance, is the absolute antithesis of a RINO. He is a Conservati[...]t during their term, taxes and unemployment rates are at an[...]ding is dwindling. As with most elections, voters are faced with a[...]pride in being the first Californian senator to suggest completely doing away with car tax, the decision to make the best of a bad ballot list.[...]same car tax that was increased threefold by the Californian Democrats in the 12 months. So While Schwarzenegger faces criticism on the basis of womanising, abortion support,[...]enthused by car tax is he that it has formed the basis of his campaign slogan: “Tom McClintock:[...]udent id#: Stop the Car Tax. www.helptom.com.” him the power to force many Republicans to abandon their[...]Tom’s views on social issues are well captured in a brochure put out by the California lines. But like his u[...]
	[...]With the lifting of the GM moratorium coming up next month, we will 28 Da[...]CHAFF’s overview of GM in New Zealand and decide for yourself with Four Bed[...]the pros and cons. 44a South Street $280 34a Lombard[...]is a versatile religious and political symbol. To the ancient aphrodisiac, and I negotiate a re-entry ticket to the room where Arnold 72 Savage Street $280 Greeks, it represented fertility in honour of the Greek God Eostre. was about to speak w[...]Centuries later it was adopted by the Christian faith to represent new Dreadlocks, by comparison, are not an asset at a Conservative 270 Grey Street $260 life and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In recent decades it has convention. With[...]rgusson Street $240 morphed into the icon of a great annual chocolate marketing scheme. of suits and promptly escorted from the room. Apparently I needed a 9 Moore Street $240[...]But when tossed by a heckler and splattered on the left press identification pass to sta[...]the GM moratorium 27 Hardie Street $280[...]editation is a relatively smaller hurdle when you are 525 Ferguson Street $240 for Gov[...]different meaning - a visual a foreigner. At the pre-registration desk they told me that accredita[...]itical issues or an had to be organised in advance, and so I was unable to see Arnold speak.[...]file journalist from a political student magazine in New Zealand[...]and had come all the way over here to cover this event, but sorry, no,[...]“This guy owes me some bacon,” he said to the assailant during must’ve left my business card in the hotel suite... I have my New Zealand Four Bedroom[...]reet $325 activists and a guy in a chicken-suit converge on West Century Boulevard Film stars are more popular than politicians, and so the Imperial[...]use GMO’s once the moratorium is no longer in place. ERMA’s chief executive, Dr Basil 37 Pitt[...]tional Airport. Arnold’s Room where the main proceedings were taking place was full. I se[...]Walker, has publicly said indications are that it will be “business as usual” for ERMA.[...]essed that their witty one-liners would for the overflow room, where latecomers were watching the proceedings[...]don’t care too much about genetic modification. The Life[...]ed to improve crops or livestock by breeding from the plants and animals with the most on[...]reen. Ironic to go to all this effort just to see the desirable qualities. GM is a more efficient m[...]orted a UMR Research survey, which showed that of the Five Bedrooms Conservative zealots. “Don’t let Arnold terminate the unborn,” screams proceedings on television, but given the likelihood that they would never[...]ant problems” facing New Zealand today, GM came in at number 20 – well behind[...]and animals that allows the introduction of qualities that can be passed on to its offspring in a Chris[...]“Hasta la be broadcast it unedited to the public, I felt privileged. way[...]Mary Bono introduced Ar nold Schwarzenegger as the[...]Fergusson Street $300 The guy in a chicken suit is wearing a banner advertising the Gubernational Republican candidate for Gove[...]or instance, if you eat a tomato with a frog gene in it your children could be[...]hem directly into cells. Genes can be transferred in 29 Andrew Young Street $280 slogan[...]xpresses inclusion a celebration of women in politics in the Republican Party. She[...]born with a frog gene in them. This is simply untrue. If you ate a tomato[...]his disapproval at Arnold’s elusiveness in public debates and the actor’s was the only female speaker I saw.[...]genes in it, your children won’t be born with tomato gen[...]inability to say anything in a public forum that hasn’t been scripted[...]* In fact, GM foods are more likely to be safe than conventional and orga[...]and rehearsed in advance. In this sense, the “Join Arnold” campaign Mary approaches the podium. In New Zealand, research is the main use of genetic modification, and is containe[...]Why? Because they are subject to such rigorous testing, and any problems are more likely[...]within a laboratory environment. GM has been used in laboratory work for about 30 years. 19 Colombo St[...]to be picked up in GM food than in conventional and organic foods.[...]The scene is from the aftermath of the Schwarzenegger for MARY[...]crops to finding out how genes work. 21 Ada Street $310[...]The Life Sciences website cites the United States and Argentina as two countries wher[...]Governor rally held an hour earlier in the Marriott Hotel Parking Lot. This is the most exciting convention I have attended in my No fruit, vegetables, or meat available in New Zealand is genetically modified, 6 Pirie Stre[...]Initially, my goal had been to cover the actual rally itself, except having political career. The problems we are in are complicated and although there is some use of GM in dairy products. Processed foods, such as margarin[...]* GM crops can reduce or even eliminate the need to use chemical sprays, as missed it, I had to settle for the aftermath. For this, I blame cars. Los are due to a lack of common sense, largely due to the Davis and soy sauce, which contain some GMO’s, may have been sold here for the past decade. 8 Pirie Street $300[...]resistance to pests can be “built in” – thus making GM more environmentally friend[...]hwarzenegger is going to bring In order for a food containing GMO’s to be sold in New Zealand it must first have[...]common sense back to Sacramento. Please welcome the next been evaluated by ANZFA (Austral[...]cation. Five Bedrooms plus sleep out The trip from Westwood to LAX takes about 12 minutes by car. The Governor of the State of California.[...]ages – some scientists even suggest it could be the[...](Australian New Zealand Food Standards Council). The food is evaluated carefully on a case[...]ional counterpart. answer to feeding the world’s population. 33 Marne Street $350 the fact that everybody here drives, public transport[...]superfluous, and the resulting smog is an acceptable compromise. Arnold approaches the podium.[...]Let’s keep the moratorium Six Bedrooms[...]ut luck was on my side this day, and as I entered the Marriott Close up on Arnold, smug grin, nod.[...]Hotel just to check it out, I chanced upon the biggest Republican political[...]These are some of the arguments used by people who would like to see the moratorium kept[...]In May 2000 the Labour Government commissioned an inquiry into ge[...]4 Lombard Street $300 event of the year that was just about to start – the California Republican ARNOLD[...]in place:[...]The Commission was given one year to do research and hear submissions from the public on 60 Joseph Street $300[...]* There have been some suggestions that the moratorium should be extended to[...]GM. The Commission reported back in July 2001, and noted that the submissions they 27 Andrew Young Street $280 Leadership. You would be correct to question the size of such a meeting,[...]given that the only Republican candidates for Governor are male, but it Deafening applause continues[...]eived indicated many people were comfortable with the idea of GM for medical purposes, 79 Savage Cres[...]would seem that the organisers of the event only considered this a Arnold gives ‘thumbs up’ to the crowd and nods twice but not for other purposes. Many of the submissions focused on the use of GM in food and 12 Joseph Street $345[...]nes and GMO’s can be unpredictable, usually not in first generation but in technic[...]crops. They noted that globally consumers are against foods containing GMO (genetically 19 Kn[...]ture generations. No-one really knows for certain how GM crops might act ten generations Walking through the doors of the Marriott Hotel was like ARNOL[...]convention is a celebration of The conclusion of the Royal Commission was that New Zealand should keep its down the track. Once GM has been released there’s no tur[...]that’s a mistake, let’s take it back” – the damage will have already been done. Some potentia[...]Bush for US$450, Republican women in leadership, and I think Mary Bono is a options open. While we should not turn our backs on the potential advantages of GM, we do[...]soon we will need to proceed with caution. The Commission stressed that the safety of the science behind risks include: 2/23 Joseph[...]his lunch ticket for $200. The atmosphere was building as Arnold was[...]GM is far from certain at this stage. It rejected the idea of a total GM ban at one extreme and 2/25 Jo[...]about to deliver a speech to the Republican delegates. I asked the old Republican.[...]unrestricted genetic modification at the other extreme.[...]“Not really,” he said. “There are cracks in the doors, but you couldn’t Applause.[...]The GM Moratorium[...]Following the Royal Commission’s report, the Government decided in November 2001 to * There are no financial benefits for producers by growing GM[...]d a “Join Arnold” stall nearby and asked them the You know, a lot of people have asked me over the past few implement a two-year constraint on the release of GMO’s. This constraint has become[...]same question. They concurred with the old man on the difficulty of weeks, “Arnold, why are you a Republican?” So I will tell you commonly known as the GM moratorium. Its purpose was to give New Zealan[...]not benefited from growing GM crops. The researchers suggest the same would be true of eavesdropping, and so I enquired about the speech that I just missed. why[...]ublican because I didn’t like investigate the potential benefits of genetic modification and ways to minimise the risks. New Zealand. There is also little demand at present for GM crops, so what is the point of[...]hat’s wrong with California now the impact of Communism in Austria. I wanted hope and[...]The moratorium will be lifted next month. and how he’s gonna fix things and stuff,” said the stallholder. And how freedom, and when I was 22 my dre[...]* The GM-free movement disputes the claim that co-existence is possible. Particularly[...]The moratorium means that no applications for the release of GMO’s can be[...]o achieve this? “Well, car tax has been tripled in the to America.[...]with one or two exceptions, such as GMO’s which are directly beneficial to they dispute the claim in relation to Argentina, where GM crops have caused[...]Cars and money - two things very dear the Republican When I came to America, and I remember in 1968 they had the philosophy. I argued for the merits of car tax on the basis that it punishes presidential elections, and it was Humphrey against Nixon. I from the Environmental Risk Management Authority, and this will apply even after the Jandal Application form.[...]weeks rent people for driving, thus decreasing the number of drivers, decongesting listened to the news coverage and what they stood for and what[...]king public transport more feasible, and reducing the their policies were, and every time I listened to Nixon and he The lifting of the moratorium does not mean that any one will have unrestricted If you are interested in finding out more about GM here are a few websites you might want to[...]ability to release whatever GMO they wish. There are still guidelines that must be met; and loo[...]s. into the atmosphere and leading to environmental catastrophe? But and strengthening the military’– it sounded like to music to my[...]- www.mfe.govt.nz/publications – the Ministry for the Environment website. this political blasphemy was not welcomed by the stallholder. “Please ears.[...]Let’s get rid of the moratorium[...]If there is one thing that we can learn from thethe Life Sciences Network is a pro-GM organisation.[...]it’s that a smile can get you a long way in the political arena. My smile he respon[...]am a republican,” I said. These are some of the arguments used by people who want to see the moratorium lifted: - www.gefree.org.nz – the “official” GE-free website.[...]was not one of happiness, but rather the remnant of a brave attempt[...]* GM food is already being eaten in New Zealand. While “live” food, such as - www.gmcommission.govt.nz – the Royal Commission of Inquiry into GM website. not to burst out in laughter at the pure ridiculousness of the Republican Applause.[...]s, can be guaranteed GM, it is impossible to give the same guarantee for processed - www.gm.g[...]- www.hsno.govt.nz – the website with information on the Hazardous Substances and in a politically charged environment where po[...]
	[...]ote a column answering people’s questions about the delicate subject of If you’r[...]sex. Lately it has become apparent that there are many people out there who still have no[...]idea what it’s all about. For example, the many women that I’ve tried to put some moves on[...]who’d turn to me and say, “what the hell do you think you’re trying to do?” I fee[...]type of hat worn by certain African tribes during the harvest rituals (I think).[...]DR J’S SEX FOR THE VERY STUPID.[...]special seed. When the daddy loves the mummy very much - or even when he has just had[...]ink - he will want to put his special seed inside the mummy to fertilise the egg.[...]However, the mummy will tell the daddy that she wouldn’t touch his seed with a ten-foot pole WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH CONDOMS?[...]he can just go fertilise himself. This will make the daddy very sad and he will start[...]will resort to paying other mummies to touch him in intimate oven mitt. However, today’s wor[...]a condom is rather like beating a policeman over the head with a large[...]llow shell of a man. Alone, depressed and bitter, the daddy will then plank. Oh sure, it’s enjoyable at the time, but it almost always ends up causing you a[...]dent magazine under a trouble later on. In an emergency, glad-wrap makes an excellent condom[...]on the other hand, does not.[...]HOW LONG SHOULD SEX TAKE? HOW CAN YOU TELL WHEN A WOMEN IS FAKING AN ORGASM?[...]it to last all night but, There are many definite indicators that a women may not be[...]surprisingly, a lot of women can be satisfied in no time at all. For instance, they’ll often say[...]s out to be, if she laughs continually throughout the proceedings for[...]Other tip-offs are if, during sex, she likes to read a good book, ca[...]ulation. As a rough sewing, or prepare the evening meal. If you do discover that she is faki[...]perfectly normal. It simply means that you are completely inadequate sexually and perhaps[...]- On the drive over to your girlfriend’s house.[...]- Every time you see Judy Bailey on the news. WHAT ARE SEXUAL PERVERSIONS?[...]There are two schools[...]during which Most perversions are harmless, so long as both partners enjoy them, bu[...]al arousal. Men find yourself dressed in a gorilla suit and having sex with your grandmoth[...]believe that foreplay consists of getting the women drunk enough to agree to sleep with[...]Well, that’s all the advice for this week. If you do have any further[...]WHAT IS THE G-SPOT? the Vice-chancellor has generously offered her assist[...]ea of mythical proportions. It is firmly believed in by most time, day or night, with your questions. The stranger the better.[...]women but men tend to hold it in the same regard as the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot. That[...]t isn’t all a giant hoax. Selling the drama Has the old scarfie culture disappeared forever? Do students still want to go to the theatre to watch their peers in action? This week provides a double-header of[...]works at their respective campuses, and the people behind the events will be hoping to see a strong turnout in support of students and campus culture. But will the people come in their droves, like they did with this year’s Summer Shakespeare? Or will the performers end up on stage belting out their lines to a multitude of empty seats, like they did at the Capping Show? Do we as students really want such an event? Turitea campus is the launching pad for this year’s Festival of New A[...]of performances brought together under the title ‘Metamorphosis’, and featuring four original pieces that have been given life through the collaboration of students and staff. Two of the plays have been penned by popular lecturer Doctor[...]written by Cate Stewart (first performed in an extramural paper); and Homes Fires, a historical drama, is the work of postgraduate student Kelly Harr[...]t piece for music, percussion and voice” called The Last Tree, and After Kafka, a play in which seven characters search for the meaning of life - says that it takes a lot of eff[...]“We get funding from MUSA and the School of English and Media Studies, as well as f[...]funds from outside bodies. “The Principal is looking at the idea of creating a University fund for arts activities for the Turitea and Hokowhitu campuses - this would be managed by the Committee of Performing and Visual Arts. If it ha[...]velopment Officer Kimberley Robertson, another of the driving forces behind the Festival, feels however that while ther[...]here isn’t enough support coming from the University itself. “There are some amazing people working bloody hard behind the scenes to make it happen, like Rebecca McMillan,[...]Harford and Carole Jo Phillips. They really drove The Tempest (Summer Shakespeare) as well, and Kaye Co[...]ere isn’t enough importance placed on the arts from the upper echelons at Massey, which obviously has a n[...]There doesn’t seem to be much interest in the arts amongst the students on campus either, which is a crying sham[...]seen an undercurrent among some students involved in the arts at Massey Palmerston North that the University may in fact be rolling back support for the arts on campus, and that the focus for such events will be shifted to the Massey Wellington campus, where a more vocational[...]w maintains that all educational communities need the arts: “They provide an impo[...]campus needs an element of creative discourse in order to flourish.” Whether[...]t Massey want to go to watch performances such as the Festival of New Arts will be found out throughout this week, but the fact that the Festival is being put together is evidence that t[...]group of talented students coming through the University’s ranks who are keen to provide the arts scene with something new and excit[...]Kelly Harris began working on Home Fires at the beginning of 2002 after coming across the story in her postgraduate paper Community Theatre. She decided to incorporate the writing of the play into her Honours research (under the guidance of Doctor Farrow), and as a result her thesis revolved around the mythical elements in the play. Home Fires is based on[...]neighbours stock hadn’t been brought in for milking. On investigation, he found that the house was nothing but a pile of ashes and all the occupants had been burnt beyond recognitio[...]
	[...]“You have no idea how difficult it was for me to get this project off theThe academic side was a battle, but the dramatic element was much easier (although I do s[...]finding the right actors - who I must say are absolutely brilliant, hard working and I can’t[...]2003 looks as if it is shaping up to be the year of the super-[...]“Obviously the forum for this play was the Festival - I think that without Angie’s leadership the play probably[...]wouldn’t have been produced, and I hope that in the future the Festival continues so that others like me can sho[...]to bring these performances to their peers and to the public,[...]to their already star -filled ranks, including the likes of[...]Maynard James Keenan (Tool) and Josh Freese (the Vandals).[...]“Students are terribly busy these days,” says Farrow, “and I understand the pressures they are under. However, I[...]Call me cynical, but it would appear that the Class of ’94 has[...]“The Festival provides more than just theatre - there[...]g. Theatre can seem like a dead art to people who are more used to audio-visual media, but our theatre[...]AFF also asked Robertson if she thinks that, with the success of Summer Shakespeare, for which there we[...]ago with the hard-rocking yet melodic Mer de Noms. Thanks[...]large audiences from all walks of life, are we doing enough to foster a stronger relationship with the non-student community?[...]“We make a real effort to perform the shows we produce in town as well as out at Massey. This obviously mak[...]staging the production difficult and a lot more work for everyone involved, but because we want to foster the arts at Massey and you are pretty much left with A Perfect Circle. The rest[...]and present Massey on an artistic level to the wider community, we perform in multiple venues to make our work as[...]of the band includes Billy Howerdel (guitars/production)[...]Keenan and company resist the Tool comparisons[...]even further on their new effort Thirteenth Step; the band Overall, Thirteenth Step is a fine record; the stale As a result, ‘Metamorphosis’ presentations will be taking place both on campus and in town. The performances have emphasised the melodic and atmospheric end of their[...]s that begin on September 30 at 7pm in the Old Main Building Auditorium, and from there will be[...]music, not necessarily to the detriment of anything else, but approach the tried and true format from a different angle, at the Globe Theatre on October 3-4.[...]han on Mer de Noms. Which leads to another point: In many are places on this record where things don’t gel and do not For more information about the Festival of New Arts, see Clubscene on page 15.[...]ways of the beauty of that last record was its accessibility go anywhere interesting musically. The production is very and immediacy. The seven minutes-plus of opening track ‘The nice and the stand out tracks are ‘The Noose’, ‘The Outsider’[...]Package’ doesn’t exactly leap out of the speakers and grab and ‘Pet’. Try and avoid ‘The Nurse Who Loved Me’, though.[...]you, until nearly the very end. ‘Weak and Powerless’ is the Mer de Noms, in this reviewer’s opinion at least, is still the Black Rebel[...]obvious hit single, and almost admirably, the band decides not to rock out in the obvious way.[...]‘The Noose’ follows up; the guitar tone and phrasing Motorcycle Club[...]indicative of the album as a whole. Another couple of tracks[...]Check it out: the Rage Against thethe lilting, inner Led Zeppelin and form Audioslave[...]pretty ballad. ‘The Outsider’ returns to a more harder-rock[...]sound, with some nice guitar work. The leaden cover of Pumpkins-lite in the form of Zwan (now defunct, due to Presented with the opportunity to review this album, the first Failure’s ‘The Nurse Who Loved Me’ marks the nadir of the previous Perfect Circle bassist Paz Lenchantin leaving). The question that comes to everybody’s (uninitiated) mind is; who album, especially contrasted with the opening riff of ‘Pet’, word is that Zach de la Rocha is now recording with Nine the hell is Black Rebel Motorcycle Club? What kind of[...]al group; a ‘Gravity’ returns to the more atmospheric rock of earlier tracks with A Perfect Circle. Funny how these things work. friend suggested it could even be one of those happy Japanese on the album. pop/rock bands! Luckily for all of us, it[...]mselves as a rock ‘n’ roll group, emphasising in music suitable for protests; they suggest they are independent, experimental, and their music touches new boundaries. The group consists of three young men; Robert Turner[...]s), and Nick Jago (drums), with them all residing in LA. Robert and Peter both grew up in America, whereas Nick spent his childhood in Britain. Take Them On, On Your Own is the second album released by the group. The album as a whole stays pretty con[...]Metal never sounded so excellent. The album is overwhelmingly rock ‘n’ roll, a pleasant change From the Nightfall Sacks of Goodness:[...]Mango Music have pointed out another extreme from the pop-rock polluting the world. To those who mainly[...]band named The Red Chord. The album Fused Together listen to popular music, the album might seem a little slow Almigh[...]Hell, and many thanks once again for in Revolving Doors for once actually lives up to its name and a lot less exciting initially, but it is in all ways interesting. reading this pollution. Much new music has been coming and simulates the feeling it describes. These ladies play a The album starts with their first single, ‘Stop’. From our way, and in amongst the time we spend persecuting the fucked up blend of thrash metal in jarring chromaticism and the beginning you realise that the album is focused more on cultists who come knocking at the door, we have been able to seventy-three disconcerting time-changes in a song – very the music than the lyrics, as the vocals are quite muffled listen to a few new re[...]similar (but not as technically efficient) to The Dillinger and have the nasal quality similar to that of Placebo. As the The new Morbid Angel Heretic is ab-so-lute-ly[...]nd his delinquent crew have The seriously grim death metal boys called Vital[...]bsurd Words - College of Education album rolls to the second track, ‘Six Barrel Shotgun’, the songs all seem to follow the same sort of layout: short intro; spewed[...]nteresting three to five minute song; and then at the people pointed out, “it’s li[...]Excellently produced, Heretic comes as one of the most death metal album of all time, and although I might not agree where the band experiments with their instruments to make anticipated releases of the year. Goat horns up for these entirely with that statement, it is still up in the realms of top an interesting end to each song. As the album bounces through the first half dozen tracks, you realise that there is a lot of energy in some of the songs. ‘Six Barrel Shotgun’, ‘We’re All In Love’ (my favourite[...]death metal, call themselves As I Lay Dying. The album[...]drama performance track on the album), and possibly ‘In Like The Rose’, all have calls itself Frail Wor[...]is to provide College of Education students with the an undeniable, high-paced energy driving the track ahead. drums grinding and blasting, singing from the bowels of Hell from its visual assault.[...]opportunity to be involved in a production, and to reflect on their involvement and the The album then proceeds to become a bit more mellow,[...]‘Shade of I have heard the new Callenish Circle My Passion/ In Hellfire and Brimstone, with a sprinkling of CHAFF: Tell us a little about yourself and the personnel behind ‘Absurd Words’. Blue’ progressively getting slower; but at the same time, more Your Pain. While soundin[...]CHAFF: How much support have you received from the University/staff for the musically thrilling.[...]HENDERSON: I am a staff member at the College of Education, in the Arts and Languages performance? The group then show that they can still do a[...]Department. My role has largely been in the technical management of the production, beautiful song with only acoustic gui[...]staging, music, and co-ordinating with Alan Cox (the director). HENDERSON: Support from the staff is always excellent, in terms of designing posters, a slow, well played b[...]There are four directors for the performance - Nicky Banks, a science lecturer;[...]nowles, language/ or Fall’ once again revealing the groups’ inner energies. They[...]CHAFF: Have you had enough funding to make the show possible? repeat this again for ‘Going Under’ and, just to top off the[...]Just about all of the cast are first-time actors, which is great! excellent albu[...]CHAFF: What are the plays about?[...]The focus for us is on the acting, not fancy sets or costumes, because in reality, not vary a lot between styles of songs;[...]HENDERSON: Well, what is life about? I guess the plays are all rather absurd, because when these[...]life is absurd, and the biggest absurdities of human kind are when we use language not grand facilities or resources for them to use. subtly), and the musical interludes at the end of each track[...]to communicate, but to fill in achingly empty holes in our absurd lives; or to disguise Performing rights will be expensive, but production costs are low because an elaborate just add onto the excellence.[...]what we really mean when we are engaged in so-called communication with others at set is not required. We live in hope that we will be granted some money from Massey For those with a short attention span, the similarity[...]University administration, as in the past. We have purposefully kept ticket prices ver[...]Sounds bleak? No, we humans are a joke a minute. Come to ‘Absurd Words’ and[...]ill be ‘locked out’ who wishes to come. some, the nasal voice might just be too much to bear. But[...]‘Absurd Words’ will be performed in the Drama Workshop at the Hokowhitu excellent listen, and will be unlikely[...]CHAFF: Are students doing this as part of a course assessment, or purely for fun? Kate Henderson in the Department of Arts and Language Education,[...]
	[...]the 24hr information hotline:[...]Hinds. Travelling down the long winding Middle road gave me time to reflect;[...]time I would have not thought so. With the window wide open, a bug flew in and planted itself right on my windscreen,[...]causing me a momentarily loss of concentration as the car swerved all over the road while I[...]gonna be bad, but please I prayed, let it be bad in an tried to squash this hapless creature. Eventua[...]DING NEMO own business. There were three of us on the journey now, and dare I say it, back home to[...]it’s bad in a boring way. Jan De Bont (Speed) directs this[...]s now, never longer. God, I can’t even remember the last time I spent[...]Angelina returns as the buxom Croft, and does seem[...]PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN a whole week there. But every now and t[...]more comfortable in the role a second time round. The vehicle[...]eturn like a flood and everybody knows when I’m in town because if I haven’t rung them, I go aroun[...]LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE I sit in the rooms at the bro’s. It’s that old house on the corner of McCarthy Terrace;[...]OF LIFE the one where with each gust of wind a storm of dried paint appears on the horizon. We rant[...]The expectation then comes in the action. It is in away just as if nothing’s changed, talking the same old shit and I listen to the same old stuff[...]these scenes that we are let down by the directing. If De[...]LEGALLY BLONDE 2 that I left behind (huh, the gossip’s still there). I feel those insecure ye[...]THE ITALIAN JOB feelings that remind me of my origins[...]IDENTITY and talking of the new is getting harder to describe. Times have cha[...]ctly is it that draws me back here, to people who the only when they’ll move into town and the belt gets brought out faster than the sound of a possum on mankind, would have b[...]I CAPTURE THE CASTLE thing I have in common with is the past. Hence, it’s not long before I get bored and cruise off hitting the ground, having been shot with the 22-gauge rifle from the bedroom window. and her male pal Terry fought the Chai Ling, an Asian gang, to the next house.[...]“Who’d want to live in that dirty filthy place!” I can hear my Nan exclaiming, “too in a cave somewhere, my mind wandered to pending I come from this great town, set half way between the ranges and the sea, with everything I ever wanted right at my fi[...]noisy, and what about my fowls and the pig!”[...]assignments and cursing the fact I didn’t buy popcorn[...]beforehand. The action scenes lacked serious continuity and[...]Coming Soon showed year-old movies), and of course my friends and family. Bar a few shops and the lunch everything is immaculately prepared. And there is always choc chip bikkies on the at points you felt like you were looking in the wrong direction, biggest event of the year for us country lads - the local A & P show; she was my heaven with[...]MATCHSTICK MEN a slice of hell. Born and bred on the farm, my life had pretty much been defined for me[...]she’s given me a banana cake. It sits there on the front seat; I What about the body shots of Lara you ask? The[...]CALENDAR GIRLS from a baby: Grow up and follow the family tradition. Be a farmer, retire, then die -[...]va drips onto my pants and opening scenes are probably the highlight. Lara dons a silver sounded so simple. Yet I never even got half that far. Those days of lying on the back of the before long a puddle has formed. I begin t[...]t slice would taste like. wetsuit to probe the depths of the ocean for Alexander the The only super bit in the whole film comes towards AMERICAN PIE WEDDING hay truck watching the moon floating quietly by, had spelt the end of my days in this paradise, Taking the knife and piercing the outer layers, with thethe end as we near the Cradle of Life. Creepy tree monsters[...]side of me to hit that… that spot, out). The wetsuit clearly isn’t thermal as we see from the start plucking off the bad guys in the dark forest. Aided by[...]and I am overwhelmed in excitement, it’s like I’m having an orgasm. M[...], after having been everywhere I can, I return to the security of my mum’s, a place where as a youngster mischief was refined. I sit down in the peace and tremble; the car slows down. Desire is right in my face and my strength is weakening. I want[...]Could we be reaching an awesome finale…? No. In fact, I INTOLERABLE CRUELTY quiet and read my newspaper. The sun streams through the clear glass windows, I am to ea[...]the first instalment, though the character is poorly was so bored by the finishing sequence I was actually hoping FREAKY FRIDAY engrossed in warmth. I am free here from all the troubles of the world. Always a bed to sleep BEE[...]to really believe someone would just open the damn Pandora’s Box – maybe in; a heart to hug. A mum, a family who struggles to[...]no matter what I say nor me. Where am I? HowIn fact, he resorts to the havoc it could unleash would be interesting. THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS do always leaves a door open t[...]often that door should have been shaking in fear. violence in the end, hitting Lara and then expecting her to[...]HOLES locked with the key thrown away, yet it never has and never will[...]is undercurrent love story improvement on the first one. I wouldn’t own it on DVD. Oh[...]big wet affectionate lick in the face. Whoa, that must have been a close call.[...]son, stay focused”, I say to myself. I pick up the banana cake and place that I am suppose to[...]nly dream of; well, being a student it sure beats the peanut butter on toast for it in my glove box - outta sight, outta mind, until I g[...]ert, which I normally have. Just for good measure the older brother and sister and husband turn up. Wow, isn’t this an awesome surprise. Just the five[...]The farm, home, provides far too much of a distraction for me, and contrary to the[...]band. I sit by my brother and look around me. All old and grown up now we are. Each travelling our own paths, yet united in the one factor that draws us[...]I’m out of the gully, now and can almost smell the city approaching, the thousands[...]of cars, bumper-to-bumper traffic. Smog pollutes the air we breathe, people as far as the eye Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde[...]GO TO THE MOVIES! together - yes, we are family. The bickering we’ve had; the screaming and yelling, the fighting, can see. I look around in shame; is this what we have become, rows upon hou[...]CHAFF has five double passes to the flicks to give away. with me always being on the losing end. Well, being the youngest has its downfalls, all of once[...]nd Kauri stood and Kiwis roamed free of fear with the earth still fertile Contains low level offe[...]To be in to win, identify the film below and complete which seems to fade away now, maybe we’ve matured, or maybe it’s that we are all as stubborn and untouched by any addi[...]your as each other and realise there’s no point in arguing any more. Yep, age is definitely like a[...](see page 8 for our details) Entries good cheese, the older you get the better you get, but by the time you’re great, your all crusty resemble the pristine beauty she once inscribed.[...]are limited to ONE per person and close WEDS at 5pm.[...]t’s that we have a Now I am in my new home, where fresh air simply does not exis[...]studying to be a professional ‘Bugger All’. The joys of sitting outside the café at varsity, I’m back in the present now, back travelling Middle road. I’ve[...]get away and path, not to mention the 3am closing, instead of the 12 or 1am closing back home, have[...]vard Law, she is working for a top law experience the world, see the sights and explore like most other ambitious Kiwi[...]become my new reality. Yet, I long for the days back on the farm riding free on the horse’s[...]issed. This road, this Middle Road, back. The wind in my face and not a human nor human sound for miles[...]planning the wedding of the century to her fiancé Emmet only five minutes aw[...]d me only just now laying my eyes only the sheep baaa-ing away, and the cows mooing. I sit down and weep. I wish I were f[...](Luke Wilson). As you would imagine, planning the wedding upon her serene sights. The fences that stretch up the hillsides, across crevices and down To be at one with the world again, working in the pouring down rain, then returning after a[...]of the century requires everything to be perfect and the narrow gullies that seem near impossible to reach[...]ow I bet, hard day’s work to lie back in the warmth of my lazy boy, having earned a nice cold[...]ad of today, and I hate to admit it, where I rush in and out of the shelter with[...]would make this so. onto the batons. Man, it must have been hard work back then, having to climb hills with a my umbrella in tow. Damn it, I’ve become a Jaffa. And the beer, huh, don’t even go there. I[...]ouple of 4X2 and a few rolls of wire hanging over the shoulder. And yet having the tenacity am in the city, back at large with the rat race, computers, these strange things called[...]investigators to find the missing canine, and as luck would to do that day[...]lights, and the neighbours, they live over the back fence, not a couple of minutes down the[...]have it he uncovers her. Elle goes to give the dog an invite to Men/People were born hard back then, men like my grandfather. Breaking-in ponies; road! It’s a place where the only certain future is that no matter how long I live I will always[...]he gets there she uncovers a clearing scrub. Back in his day he would have thought nothing of it. My grandparents are be me. And I know that no matter where I go, the farm and family will always be right beside[...]al testing organisation, and Bruiser’s still on the farm they bought over 50 years ago, fresh from fighting in World War Two. And me, on the inside.[...]mother is in line for a make-over. When the organisation now at 80-plus, my grandfather still helps out on the farm and in the yards, tossing sheep I pull in the drive at my flat, climb out of the car and stretch my legs. Instantly my[...]refuses to hand over the dog, Elle decides to take the matter over gates while whistling furiously at hi[...]up with her law firm. days, since the rewards of a retirement well-earned have become h[...]gton for Ms Woods. On arrival she faces basically the[...]– no one will take her seriously. So the battle is thus two-[...]s calling for So basically the plot is based on a wish to get a[...]for its 2004 one-year, full-time Graduate Diploma in Journalism. dog’s mother to att[...]Hundreds of former students work in print, radio, television, and on the Internet. more?[...]Others have careers in magazines and public relations.[...]where Reese Witherspoon stars, even the crappy ones - yes,[...]American Pie: The Wedding[...]Legally Blonde, as her role is basically exactly the same (yes,[...]a De Cleene I know it is the same character, but a bit of depth and growth[...]The rest of the supporting cast are entirely[...]Elle’s other half Don’t let the fact that Charles Herman-Wurmfeld You can collect your prize from the[...]after stellar performances in movies like Bottle Rocket; I can much of a re[...]only assume he has been lured by the dollar signs and crossed[...]students collect from the MUSA[...]Journalism@massey.ac.nz to the dark side, where you make movies for the money – not - Bernadette Murphy[...]the artistic merit.[...]
	[...]1. What’s the best thing about the sun coming out?[...]Johnny Depp is fast becoming my favourite actor. In the past month I’ve seen Donnie Brasco, Chocolat, P[...]the Caribbean and recently, Blow. Xbox[...]Blow is based on the true-life story of George Jung[...]class family, his father, (Ray Liotta) worked in construction[...]he was being chased by the federal police. George’s mother[...]3. Let the Sun Shine In.[...]The movie begins with George’s family life, perhaps[...]While in prison, George meets Diego Delgado. Diego Xbox: The final frontier…[...]inks to South American drug lords, and while they are[...]Drug rapes are happening at Massey. International research shows[...]America to the USA. Their plans work perfectly and soon[...]they are making obscene amounts money. There is this[...]are family or friends and that the highest risk age group for this type of crime is[...]doesn’t happen to younger or older people. With the 1. I can go to the beach.[...]increase in these crimes you need to be informed to be as saf[...]With all his successes, George meets and falls in[...]• Women, men and children are all vulnerable to drug assisted sexual assaults.[...]• There are increasing numbers of drug assisted sexual assaults reported to police. The three fiercest species in the universe have been locked[...]betrays George, and so he decides to quit the business, living[...]• Convictions have occurred in Christchurch and Auckland, and more trials are pending. 5. No. in a bloody, galaxy-spanning battle for years. With each new encounter it seems the on-going conflict will never a clean life for five years. But the cops are still after him, and[...]sting operation on stood out for me – the one where George is talking into a end. After a s[...]him. All the time thinking of his wife and daughter, George[...]order to send a message to his ailing father; and the Drug induced behaviours: With more chemical drugs now available, there are a variety planet LV-742, reveal the presence of both Predators and[...]agrees to sign a confession on the proviso that his family is final scene, which shows an old George, perhaps suffering of behaviours, including: Aliens, it is decided that the conflict must end once and for all. After years o[...]EnviroPlanning. now defeat your enemies to ensure the survival of your his wife is about to leave him, and worse, has a daughter the fact that Jung was the largest importer of cocaine in the • The complainant appears drunk to onlookers. species..[...]regain his daughter’s trust and love. But in order to do so, he I’ve read some interviews with the real George Jung, and I • Memory alt[...]uch as; total or partial loss of memory recall of the drug assisted 2. Surfing.[...]must say that this film did romanticise the character. assault; full memory[...]body paralysis; different combinations of both of the above. for me.[...]s time he gets double-crossed by his partners and in the However, it really is an excellent movie[...]: Extinction is a real-time strategy game chasing the rush of previous titles’ end he is convicted and sentenced to 60 years in prison. especially from Depp and Liot[...]t story line. Signs of drugs in drinks:[...]ed Demme, died It has been found that some of the drugs used leave an oily residue in your drink. If the drink is successes, such as Command and Conquer; the Dune[...]Jung as a simple man who simply wants to in January 2002, with small amounts of cocaine found in usually fizzy it will not appear as fizzy and the drink will taste a little oily. Other than that, if the series; and Starcraft. The point of this Xbox game is pretty[...]love his daughter, and nothing else. The drugs, the money, his body. drink tastes different in any way - do not drink it. The safest bet is to buy your own drinks and much exactly that of Dune/C&C/Starcraft: Destroy the[...]offers to buy you a drink, you can offer to go to the bar other species to ensure your own supremacy. Each species has their own currency, relative to the species (Predators[...]r if this is not appropriate, keep a close eye on the drink to try and make sure nothing use honour points, which are gained through the collection[...]is added. If possible, you can always decline the drink. of enemies’ skulls) and uses this curren[...]found that some of the drinks are being spiked with extra alcohol. The police have found that a[...]ivors claiming they were drugged have no evidence in their blood sample. One[...]Each species offers unique attributes. As the Colonial Marines, you will count on your military[...]explanation for this is that new drugs now stay in the system for only four hours.[...]1. The birds twinkling. and the latest hi-tech weaponry from the Weyland-Yutani Directed by Jan Sverák[...]Remember: Some drugs can be detected in urine and blood up to 72 hours after ingestion. Corporation to save the human population of LV-742[...]The drugs stay in urine longer than blood. If possible, save a urin[...]2. Drinking in the sun at the[...]y, Tara Fitzgerald and (great name for a planet). The Predators must use their[...]lth and highly evolved hunting techniques to gain the respect of the Council of Ancients. Aliens will attack in[...]With the spate of crap war films released recently, it is[...]izzy or disorientated with little or no memory of the last 6-12 hours. hordes to incapacitate their ene[...]g up feeling fine but with little or no memory of the last 6-12 hours.[...]hless string bikini and using them to evolve into the ultimate biological weapons.[...]• Feeling bruised and sore around the genitals but not remembering having sex. (while drinking in the sun at the adventures and relationships of a group of Czech[...]no recollection of who undressed you. In terms of game play, I was entirely bored in pilots who fly with the Royal Air Force in the Second World[...]the races). the first five minutes of this game. Even the incredibly buff Jon White, who played this game w[...]’t War. It is told retrospectively by the pilots themselves, who[...]• Waking up in a strange place.[...]ore than 20 minutes. However, I after the Second World War are imprisoned by the Soviets in[...]uck it out and failed to be impressed. Patrolling the a labour camp. The dank and dark prison cells, with all the[...]g to misery they entail, clash vividly with the scenes of World War[...]Remember that nobody has the right to have any sexual activity with you withou[...]permission. It becomes more dangerous if drugs are used to help overpower you for sexual means. vega[...]They could react to other substances in your body or react more strongly with your body,[...]f lava only to watch them squirm. fall in love with the same woman. This is offset by thein the air. I found that this provided a good balance[...]trust, Tom, Postgrad. in observing the misery of such a helpless species,’and I[...]outside enjoying it. would reply to them to watch the Alien™ series and then The atmosphere of the film is on the whole dark.[...]a sexual abuse centre. Sexual abuse centres are in most regions of New Zealand and their numbers tel[...]oing humanity a favour, This stems from the betrayal of a friend, the misery of a prison,[...]can normally be found on the Community Services Organisations page at the end of the Yellow 2. Water rafting. trying to even the odds by inserting myself as a spy the death of comrades, the upheavals caused by war and the Pages in the phone book.[...]3. Sex Bomb. amongst the enemy ranks. Pathetic, I know, but it was[...]The Manawatu Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre has a support line, ACC referrals, free the only way I could get any mileage off this game. The director builds up nicely a sense of frustration[...]counselling, a library, and face-to-face support in peoples homes, with the police and medical 4. I haven’t tried Victoria’s The game comes with a variety of sub-species as the Czech pilots go through training and mock combat,[...]examination and through the court process. Our phone number is 356 5868, and[...]Secret bikinis yet. for each species, including the precious little face-hugger while a real air[...]53 Waldegrave Street in the Women’s Centre. made famous in the Alien™ movies. These little nasties includes some lighter moments, mainly deriving from the fish[...]5. Sometimes. It feels better. are what make the game worth while… lying in wait until out of water experience of Czechs in England.[...]haplessly along, unknowingly The film really shines in its depiction of World War react in different ways. Some feel really angry, others scared, and some feel hurt. The abuse can go baiting themselves for a close encounter of the infestation Two air combat. The aircraft are modelled superbly, as are on to affect survivors in many ways until the feelings are dealt with. It can take a lot of courage to kind.[...]tracers, explosions and even theThe film portraits the terror of pilots fighting in what often[...]can take a long time to heal from the scars of abuse, but it can be done, and there are people to unoriginal in trying to drag an already successful game[...]m thought it would be. I don’t usually do the romantic thing, are eligible for ACC assistance. ACC will provide a s[...](you may but was pleasantly surprised in this case. It is also a[...]ACC can help with the cost. To access this extra financial assistance y[...]play safe, and if something happens, remember you are not alone.[...]
	[...]The House of God I woke up one day, Full of feelings[...]Those people who fell in love with the clever sitcom Scrubs[...]will be interested to read the book that probably spawned The sun arose behind a cloud of mist and never-ending[...]also an Oxford Ph.D. graduate, this This detailed how my life as I knew it would conclude.[...]book is written in a surprisingly understandable manner Furthermore[...]The Last Season[...]surgeons’) and starting in the hospital called ‘The House of[...]God’. He then delves into the subsequent culture shock of what he calls ‘real[...]class life in the season of 1939 – the last[...]before the Second World War. As that hot[...]summer drew on, the newspapers filled[...]five pages, and maybe a sob every ten Had I made the right decision……[...]with ever more ominous reports of the[...]acters (bearing a disturbingly strong resemblance How many times over my forthcoming life would I regre[...]merican television fails to show. Most members of the public will actually be And why didn’t I accept[...]The last season of peace was nearly over.[...]written 30 years ago and many medical procedures are outmoded, its underlying I thought I was happy th[...]The author has a delightful fetish with CAPITALISING[...]Love and Death in Kathmandu – A[...]examples include the verb to TURF, which is what a good doctor does to a patient – TURF But now I know they are as important as the rain forests[...]them into a different department of the hospital. An old person is called a GOMER (Get Out are to mother earth.[...]of My Emergency Room) and the author really goes to town at letting his dislike of the[...]atient’s chart is to make it look as though you are doing $34.95 Now it is too late,[...]try and unravel the mystery surrounding[...]Supervising this fresh set of interns is a resident who is simply known as ‘The Fat It looks like the devils come up from hell,[...]the murderous rampage by Nepal’s[...]ring nature make him an interesting To grab me by the throat,[...]Crown Prince that all but wiped out the[...]character. He has formed the TEN COMMANDMENTS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD. These And drag me to the depths below.[...]include rules such as THE DELIVERY OF MEDICAL CARE IS TO DO AS MUCH OF NOTH[...]mass murder that enthralled the world. A Perhaps I deserved this,[...]motions inside me. At first it was disbelief with the Maybe I didn’t make the right decision,[...]derogatory attitude the doctors were taking against the patients, but after the trials and If only my heart had given me a clear[...]tribulations faced by the interns (and after one of them committed suicide) you can[...]where the author is coming from trying to prove thethe prize going to the My life has now ended in Devil’s Fury,[...]intern who gets the most post mortems in a year. A life of ….. Eternal Misery.[...]nd read, if you found Scrubs funny, you will love the - Paul Parsons[...]original. This book did for the medical world what Catch 22 did to the military world.[...]Speaking in Theory and Practice. It is about the hazards of[...]bribed the guards to let him stay. Rusty Throw this ball[...]Home Fires, by Kelly Harris. Set in 1930’s rural[...]then recorded one of the strangest and Throw this ball, The Festival of New Arts[...]research in 2002.[...]Amid the corruption, brutality and daily I will chase it[...]The Metamorphosis programme also includes[...]struggle for survival, there is also the tale forever. Massey University presents The Festival of New Arts - performance and[...]of an unlikely friendship, forged in the[...]music, poetry, drama and film. The story is told through the pieces created by members of the Massey University arts I stand at the door eye[...]eflect and hold you, my cesspool eyes drawing you in. been influenced by the world we live in today. Metamorphosis is a study of the way things change[...]the concept of “metamorphosis”, telling of changi[...]and belonging to the personal journey of the listener.[...]The Other Boleyn A Time To Die – The Kursk Disaster[...]Massey staff, family and friends are warmly invited to Why do you avoid me? Am I of no[...]view the world premiere of this new, exciting body of work[...]The acclaimed and harrowing true story[...]of Russia’s most powerful submarine – in your life, a flick of your hand? It isn’t the ball is it? Processes and members of the Massey University Drama[...]Auditorium, Old Main Building, Massey University.[...]Thethe idea of October 1 - “The Best of the Fest”[...]a future world in which everyone lives underground due to[...]It reeked of being a ‘chick book’, from the picture on the Fighting with the Enemy – New I walk your dreams, thoughts the effects of acid rain. One brave soul dares to venture into Auditorium, Old Main Building, Massey University.[...]Zealand’s POW’s and the Italian[...]front, the title, the author and the blurb on the back. So and you! the outside.[...]all in all, you could say I was judging a book by its cover. The ball you throw, is me,[...]piece about seven characters in search of the meaning of life.[...]I was proved very wrong indeed. The Other Boleyn I’ll stay forever. It is about Kafka meeting the 21st century and the elusiveness[...]prisoner of war camps in Italy and the[...]Girl is historical fiction about, three guesses: The other Boleyn girl – namely Mary Boleyn. - Paul[...]of meaning in a technological age.[...]Starting in 1521, it spans over fifteen years of the rule of King Henry VIII. The thing I love[...]The story is written from the perspective of Mary, sister to Anne Boleyn. We fo[...]Mary through the family rivalry, scandal, the power games and the inevitable pompous façade[...]of the courts of King Henry VIII. She rises to power as one of Henry’s mistresses. The King[...]Katherine from Spain - was no good at putting out the males. Mary is then usurped by her[...]r rise to power, trample to Tramping in New Zealand[...]Queen Katherine and manage to secure herself as the Queen of England.[...]The characterisation is the most worthy point of notice in this novel. Gregory builds What to wear, w[...]up the characters so well and believably, contrasting the naïve and innocent Mary to the and first-aid, and where to go. Wi[...]jocular and handy hints for each of the eight[...]self, with a penchant for girls under 14 years old, and an irritating man-stereotype plastered[...]covers some important historical events, such as the Act of Succession[...]and King Henry VIII, tired of the continual yapping and ill-support from the Catholic Church[...]The ending of the book is bittersweet; Anne gets her head lopped of[...]nry VIII gets tired of her. Don’t say I spoiled the story for you, because if you didn’t know[...]Nonetheless, a fascinating read, and in retrospect from my initial comments, I don’t[...]feel this book could have captured the bitchiness of women and the arrogance of men without[...]
	[...]A Wedding in Ramallah[...]we saw something of in Promises two weeks ago. In the comparatively peaceful summer of 2000, Bassam, a[...]telephone repairman in Cleveland, USA, returns to Palestine for an[...]g, Bassam and Mariam, a traditional village girl, are married. Ramallah is peaceful and the ‘wedding season’ is in full swing. At night, the streets are full of men dancing with each other in large circles of celebration as[...]sister and niece joke about how they found him a wife.[...]ice-over says she knows practically nothing about the world, but that’s not strictly[...]to go to America, to live with her husband-to-be in a big house with lots[...]children. (He blames this on the 45-minute beating he says he received from Israel[...]some years earlier. After three years in jail for alleged involvement with Fatah, Bassam w[...]after his departure a new intifada breaks out and the Palestinian Territories are engulfed in violence. While Mariam awaits a visa to immigrate to the United States, she and Bassam’s family continue to live their lives in the midst of war. Everyday domestic duties and squabbles are carried out against a backdrop of shelling and vi[...]re a visa for Mariam, but she discovers that life in exile is not an easy alternative. As to how a female director could gain the trust of both families - Sherine Salama’s[...]er father is Egyptian, her mother Palestinian. At the age of three, she went to Australia with her parents, but she returned to the Middle East as a journalist in 1989. This compelling observational film reveals the human face of the conflict in Palestine.[...]$10. There are still five screenings left in the season. Please Note: From now until the end of the year screenings will only be at[...]$30” available at the door before the[...]Yep, Mike’s TV2 talk show rips off The Late Show with David Letterman. That’s not in itself the worst thing. The fact that it COMPLETELY rips off The Late Show with David Letterman[...]Go ahead. Adopt the formula. It works, providing you can pull it off[...]again, TVNZ fails to do. The large set and audience is great. It sure beats St[...]about 30 rows (at least!) But the fact that little or no imagination has gone into the set is disappointing, and the audience may as well be asleep. In fact, there’s barely a shred of originality or innovation in the whole show.[...]st didn’t seem enthused about his material, and the Jeremy Corbett segmen[...]Why TV2 have cast the man they have as Mike’s own Paul Schaffer, I’[...]I don’t know his name and have no confidence in the bloke. Paul Schaffer is funny. He’s[...]Frankie Foo (more Kiwi than you) was the highlight of what I saw (I switched off), yet I couldn’t help but think that the Asian man is the 21st Century minstrel. Let’s face it,[...]with them (Chang from the Edge springs to mind), and Frankie Foo’s segmen[...]Well, I despair, I really do. Pio (The Big Night In) and Mike King are both hosting potentially good shows that are both entertaining and vibrant showcases of New Ze[...]could only be likened to an essay in draft form. Neither of these shows will wo[...]
	[...]laying off half of the plant’s staff. The MIC unit crew was halved from twelve men to six,[...]only one person manned the control room. Maintenance teams ran out of replac[...]Such drastic measures were not enough to save the sinking ship, and corporate[...]vin would be stopped with eventual plans to close the[...]factory down. In 1983, although the plant remained open, official production of Sevin[...]ven though there were still 67 tons of MIC stored in the three storage tanks. In[...]order to save money, the primary safety systems were shut down, along with the refrigeration[...]unit for the MIC tanks. The safety flare that was installed to safely burn of[...]was turned off, along with the scrubbing cylinder that was used to chemically ne[...]h these steps led to some pocket money savings by the company, they would[...]also unfortunately lead to one of the worst industrial disasters in human history.[...]December 2, 1984, was a special day for everyone in Bhopal. Muslims were[...]rating Isthtema, a great annual prayer gathering. In addition, this particular December[...]day was also told by the planet and the stars to be a lucky day for marriage, so conseque[...]age ceremonies and celebrations also taking place in the bustee[...]slums and all across the city.[...]At the plant, a skeleton crew was carrying out routine p[...]was to flush some of the MIC pipe work with water. This was periodically d[...]corrosion of the metal pipes by the chemical. No one noticed that as a result of the labour[...]and cost cutting, the seals used to prevent flow of water into the MIC tanks had not been[...]replaced in a long time. Water leaked into one of the MIC tanks, causing the beginnings of a[...]catastrophic chemical reaction. In the control room, the temperature gauge for the tank had[...]been broken for some time, and so did not alert the staff on duty. Some time later, a number[...]aff members noted a faint smell of boiled cabbage in the air.[...]Feeling something was wrong, the staff went to check on the MIC tanks. Upon A young boy and his family of eight fled against the wind; it by Lee Gribbon[...]sighting the tanks, they saw the huge internal pressure generated by the water reaction pop[...]ownish gas to hiss out like a great angry spirit. The tank then broke[...]momentarily changed direction, and he was the only one left standing[...]alive. Children were separated from parents in the fleeing masses;[...]free of its restraints, toppled and fell. Both the safety flare and scrubbing cylinder were not[...]The city of Bhopal is the capital of Madhya Pradesh, a state roughly the size of[...]families were lost in the brownish haze of death.[...]only off, but were broken and in the status of being repaired. The crew set off the general[...]ople; hard working labourers doing low paid but The following article is dedicated to the victims of Bhopal and their families, and to thos[...]honest work. None came poorer than the people of the Kali Grounds; the city’s slum composed involved in grass-roots movements fighting for justice for the people of Bhopal.[...]Some four months following the massacre, Warren Anderson had changed his stance[...]shantytowns or ‘bustees’ where families lived in spaces often smaller than three[...]from “I will come back to India whenever the law requires it” to the statement that “the[...]square metres. Whether it was the huge, available, and ridiculously cheap land at the Kali In psychology there exists a term known as flashbulb memory. These are vivid memories of[...]did nothing that either caused or contributed to the accident.” The company[...]Grounds, or the large potential bustee workforce nearby that influenced the Carbide directors thoughts and activities that a[...]continually denied the claim that cyanide was present in the gas cloud for fear of allusion to[...]is unclear, but they decided that the plant would be built upon the Grounds. horrific experience. For instance, I’m[...]the horrors of the Second World War: To this day Union Carbide has s[...]The plan was to build a much smaller plant than that in West Virginia, as estimates of September 11, 2001: What you were doing when you heard the news, who you were with,[...]on the exact chemical composition of the cloud. During the first few months after the tragedy,[...]pent approximately three cents per victim per day in relief aid. No court in India or[...]annually. Unlike the US plant that ran 24 hours a day, the Indian plant would only produce More than likely, you cannot. If you are of similar age to myself, you were probably a con[...]America ever tried Union Carbide for the crimes in Bhopal. Victims of the tragedy, with[...]thyl isocyanate would therefore need to be stored in young child fast asleep in your safe, warm bed. If flashbulb memories were s[...]s and activists initially filed for US$15 billion in damages –[...]ld be safe to assume that none of ours punctuated the darkness[...]the net worth of all of Carbide’s assets.[...]a large volume of MIC being stored at the site, relayed the idea to various experts at chemical of that night[...]Later, the Indian government nominated itself the sole power to represent the victims[...]t they “only produced MIC as needed. In Bhopal, a city in mainland India, no contented young children were asleep in[...]and sued for US$3 billion. In 1989, the Indian Government (long known for its corruption)[...]e litre for more than ten minutes. Your engineers are out of their safe, warm beds. Upon this fateful date, the blanketed night would be lit up by thousands[...]a final settlement of US$470 million dollars. For thethe three voluminous tanks of flashbulb memories, firing off in staccato rhythm across the cityscape. For you see, at[...]t to approximately US$793 per claim. $793 for all the[...]went ahead without anyone paying attention to the forewarning of the European experts. approximately 12:05am on December 3, 1984, a toxic cloud spewed forth throughout the[...]grief, the mental anguish, the loss of entire families and the irreparable health effects suffered streets and s[...]by those who survived. The 1984 Annual Report for Union Carbide coldly stated that “victims their eyes. Collapsing in coughing and muscular spasms they spewed forth bl[...]of the Bhopal tragedy could be fairly and adequately com[...]effect on Carbide’s financial condition”. In fact, on the day that Carbide announced its Although to this day, no one knows for sure exactly how many perished from inhaling[...]generous $793 compensation to victims, the company’s stock actually rose two dollars on the cloud’s deadly fumes on that horrific night, es[...]the New York Stock Exchange. For comparison, Union Ca[...]companies This is anywhere from two to five times the number of people who perished in the World[...]ttacks, yet there were no photographic obituaries in the New York Times for[...]This amount was nine times more than what the Bhopal victims were given. these victims. There w[...]od-fearing mistake; this was no terrorist attack. In fact, the perpetrators were immediately known in[...]arren both identity and location, but to this day in 2003 they still have not been brought to justice.[...]Anderson retired from the company in 1986, with full pension and benefits and settled in Meanwhile, to this same day in 2003, 150,000 people in Bhopal are still chronically affected[...]Vero Beach, Florida. I’m not sure how much he got in retirement funds, but rest assured it by this tra[...]I would like to tell you a story. It is the story of the people of Bhopal, and it is the[...]The siren was quickly turned off on advice by manager[...]difference, the Kali Ground community had never received general evacuation pamphlets in In 2001, the colossal chemical multinational Dow Chemical acquired Union Carbide, Union Carbide began its life in the USA as the amalgamation of four smaller[...]r mailboxes – they hadn’t even been told what the alarms meant. With the wind blowing and has stated that it has no responsibility to the victims of Bhopal as the incident occurred companies. The company saw much activity during the First World War where they produced[...]in the direction of the bustees, the laughing, dancing and celebratory citizens were completely when Carbide was not under Dow control. In 2003, thousands of tons of toxic wastes, things such as tank armour plating and gas masks for the war effort. Some twenty years[...]r abandoned by Carbide at its factory site in Bhopal, have leached their poisons into the later, the company was again in the midst of war, this time collaborating on the sinister[...]5,000 families. Union Carbide refused to clean up the Manhattan Project, through which the first atomic bomb was unleashed upon the world.[...]The people of the Kali Grounds knew something was incredibly wrong[...]ed site. Dow Chemicals also has refused to accept the liabilities. Carbide became a major and diverse p[...]saw the huge geyser of MIC and phosgene erupt out of the factory and head towards them.[...]yourself. Imagine if this tragedy had occurred at the US plant methane, metal alloys, plastic bags, ant[...]Upon reaching the atmosphere, much of the MIC had been converted to hydrocyanic acid - in West Virginia, in England, in Australia, or in New Zealand. Do you think Warren Anderson growth allowed the company to branch out into 40 countries around the world, and establish[...]the same gas used by Hitler to murder the Jews, Saddam Hussein to murder the Kurds, and would have been released on $2,100 bail? Do you think the company would have been able itself as one of the big boys in the American economy.[...]now Union Carbide to murder the Indians.[...]you think anyone would ever let Union In the mid 1950’s, as the health and environmental hazards of pesticides su[...]The wedding ceremonies never finished. Instead, pande[...]young and old fled screaming and yelling. Many fell, collapsing in ragged breaths into their Does this make you angry? I remember the first time I read of the Bhopal tragedy; companies to develop a more effective pesticide to control crop insects, while at the same[...]own vomit, as asphyxiation set in. A young boy and his family of eight fled against the wind; I set down the book I was reading and wept into my hands until I[...]Even time minimising potential harm to humans and the environment. With vast research[...]it momentarily changed direction, and he was the only one left standing alive. Children were writing this now, I can feel tears forming in my eyes. Perhaps after reading this article, you resources to draw upon, Union Carbide naturally entered the fray in an attempt to produce The Bhopal plant was completed and production began in 1980. separated from parents in the fleeing masses; families were lost in the brownish haze of are wondering what relevance this has to your own life. It has relevance because exploitation the ‘magic bullet’ the horticultural world was crying out for. In 1957, they announced that[...]y, and then herself off a bridge rather than face the and murder in the name of business is carried out every day in our names. If I had the time[...]Although the plant was fashioned as a scaled-down version of the high- horrific, suffo[...]some years previously they had finally succeeded in creating such a bullet, which they named ‘Sevin[...]ite to you about Coca-Cola poisoning ground water in Kerala, India; was Sevin that an early publicity photograph showed one of the inventors of Sevin licking[...]ome safety equipment in a phosgene accident at the Bhopal plant, it was almost too much: the cloud claimed one of inhumane treatment of those in Thailand, China and Mexico who make the fancy shoes and granules of it off his hand, yet[...]and security systems were not carried over to the daughter plant. her young children too, clotted blood forming around the young one’s breathless lips. clothes you wear; children with their arms blown off from working in fireworks factories; El plant, to control almost[...]Victims began pouring into the Bhopal hospital. The doctors were overwhelmed Salvador, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iraq. We in the developed West have become nothing Nat[...]s keen to produce Sevin, and produce a lot of it. The firm[...]and unfamiliar with the effects and treatment of MIC poisoning. In their desperation, they more than a Third World consumer plantation, thriving off the deprivation and misery of built a gargantuan flagship factory in the Kanawha Valley, West Virginia, to synthesise 30,000 Much of the production workforce was recruited from the bustee slums, but the phoned Dr LS Loya, the Chief Medical Officer of the Bhopal plant. He explicitly stated that oth[...]rtunate than ourselves. tonnes of Sevin annually. In order to significantly reduce production costs, the process of workers were never told what exactly the plant produced. Technical manuals were never[...]was “just like tear gas”. His only advice to the doctors was I conclude, appropriately I think, with statements (that I have amended for the 21st manufacturing Sevin was modified from that originally proposed by the team in 1957. Instead translated into Hindi; training in how to handle MIC safely was reduced from in the US to wash the victims’ bodies and eyes with water. This was little comfort to the doctors, some century) by two other people who thrived upon exploitation and murder: of the previous safer, yet more costly procedure, phosge[...]where it was six months, down to fifteen days at the Bhopal plant. The training was for of who began to perform autopsies on the corpses to determine cause of death. The blood “The death of a Western person is a tragedy. The death of a million Third World monomethylamine ga[...]effect, for completeness sake anyway, as the company regularly stressed to workers that the levels of cyanide were so high that doctor[...]the corpses. Dr Loya’s mother later died from gas i[...]that people do not think.” – Adolf The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that[...]a highly toxic, An assessment in 1982 of the Bhopal site by three engineers sent from the West Corpses littered the hospital and the streets within radius of the factory. The Hitler. irritating and corrosive gas. Inhalation can cause fatal respiratory damage.” The EPA also Virginian plant listed over o[...]teams of volunteers piled trucks up with bodies. The cemetery became so Never forget to keep your eyes open. To see truth and not the bullshit lies. To not states that “Methyl isocyanate is extremely toxic to humans... Pulmonary edema is the probable including but not limited to: sub[...]ons; warping full that digging stopped in fear of disturbing earlier burials. Large number[...]buy their branded products we don’t need that are built on blood. Boycott, protest and cause of death in most cases, with many deaths resulting from secon[...]of equipment; absence of sprinklers in the MIC area; and in a macabre manner, that the covered in shrouds, piled up and cremated in mass fires. One woman who had passed out educate. In this day, you can be a conscious and conscientiou[...]fections. Survivors continue to exhibit damage to the lungs and eyes. Reproductive effects needle on the pressure gauge of a phosgene tank full of gas rea[...]o stated that from gas inhalation woke up in the pyre as she was being set on fire. consumer subdued by the latest episode of The Bachelorette. and increased number of stillbirths and spontaneous abortions are also observed.” there was a[...]nagement were made News of the tragedy reached corporate headquarters in the US, and Warren Anderson, It’s your choice. In fact, Carbide’s own toxicologists performed MIC exposure tests on laboratory well aware of the report but little - if anything - was done to remedy the situation. Needless CEO of Union Carbide, immediately took the corporate jet to Bhopal to evaluate the damage. To find out how you can help the people of Bhopal today, visit www.bhopal.net rats; the results found were so alarming that the company banned publication of the work. to say, if this gross negligence on the part of the company had been uncovered at the US He was arrested upon arriving in Bhopal for numerous charges including ‘culpable homicide To learn more about the Bhopal tragedy, read the excellent books The Culture of Dealing with such potentially lethal compounds, the company was firm on its safety training[...]Believe by Derrick Jensen, and Five Past Midnight in Bhopal by Dominique Lapierre of personnel and pla[...]been ‘jailed’ in the Union Carbide guesthouse for six hours, Anderson was released on bail of and Javier Moro. Sevin, the plant had 67 relatively minor leakages of MIC at the factory. Kanawha Valley The original estimate of 2,000 tons of Sevin was never reached by Union Carbide, in US$2,100. In reply to a question posed by a journalist asking[...]return to To learn more about how you can protest the actions of immoral, industrialist, residents discovered a pamphlet in their mailboxes entitled ‘Plan for General Evac[...]part due to a series of unproductive dry seasons. The plant became a dragging anchor on face[...]on replied, “I will come back to India whenever the law capitalist corporations, go to www.corpwatch.org. found that periodically they could smell the faint scent of boiled cabbage blowing through Carbide’s profit ship. In an effort to tighten the monetary leaks, the company recruited a new requires it.” He then promptly fled the country. If you would like to discuss any of the ideas raised in this article, please feel free to the windows into their homes - the distinctive smell of MIC.[...]Anderson never did return to India, even though the law did require it. Had he come up to me and have a chat. I am the disillusioned youth with ‘Consume/Die’ sewn on In 1966, facing pressure from its peasantry for a cheap, reliable pesticide, the Indian Chakravarty. Chakravarty was a talented accountant, but naïve about how a plant dealing done so, perhaps he would have seen the monumental damage his company had wrought on[...]micals worked. Under pressure from above to bring the plant the poor people of Bhopal. Perhaps he would have seen the scores of dead children, their readily agreed, with plans to build a Sevin factory in the city of Bhopal. into profit, Chakravarty’s first port of call was to make the labour force more’‘streamlined’ by eyes b[...]would have seen the thousands of survivors chanting “Death t[...]
	[...]laying off half of the plant’s staff. The MIC unit crew was halved from twelve men to six,[...]only one person manned the control room. Maintenance teams ran out of replac[...]Such drastic measures were not enough to save the sinking ship, and corporate[...]vin would be stopped with eventual plans to close the[...]factory down. In 1983, although the plant remained open, official production of Sevin[...]ven though there were still 67 tons of MIC stored in the three storage tanks. In[...]order to save money, the primary safety systems were shut down, along with the refrigeration[...]unit for the MIC tanks. The safety flare that was installed to safely burn of[...]was turned off, along with the scrubbing cylinder that was used to chemically ne[...]h these steps led to some pocket money savings by the company, they would[...]also unfortunately lead to one of the worst industrial disasters in human history.[...]December 2, 1984, was a special day for everyone in Bhopal. Muslims were[...]rating Isthtema, a great annual prayer gathering. In addition, this particular December[...]day was also told by the planet and the stars to be a lucky day for marriage, so conseque[...]age ceremonies and celebrations also taking place in the bustee[...]slums and all across the city.[...]At the plant, a skeleton crew was carrying out routine p[...]was to flush some of the MIC pipe work with water. This was periodically d[...]corrosion of the metal pipes by the chemical. No one noticed that as a result of the labour[...]and cost cutting, the seals used to prevent flow of water into the MIC tanks had not been[...]replaced in a long time. Water leaked into one of the MIC tanks, causing the beginnings of a[...]catastrophic chemical reaction. In the control room, the temperature gauge for the tank had[...]been broken for some time, and so did not alert the staff on duty. Some time later, a number[...]aff members noted a faint smell of boiled cabbage in the air.[...]Feeling something was wrong, the staff went to check on the MIC tanks. Upon A young boy and his family of eight fled against the wind; it by Lee Gribbon[...]sighting the tanks, they saw the huge internal pressure generated by the water reaction pop[...]ownish gas to hiss out like a great angry spirit. The tank then broke[...]momentarily changed direction, and he was the only one left standing[...]alive. Children were separated from parents in the fleeing masses;[...]free of its restraints, toppled and fell. Both the safety flare and scrubbing cylinder were not[...]The city of Bhopal is the capital of Madhya Pradesh, a state roughly the size of[...]families were lost in the brownish haze of death.[...]only off, but were broken and in the status of being repaired. The crew set off the general[...]ople; hard working labourers doing low paid but The following article is dedicated to the victims of Bhopal and their families, and to thos[...]honest work. None came poorer than the people of the Kali Grounds; the city’s slum composed involved in grass-roots movements fighting for justice for the people of Bhopal.[...]Some four months following the massacre, Warren Anderson had changed his stance[...]shantytowns or ‘bustees’ where families lived in spaces often smaller than three[...]from “I will come back to India whenever the law requires it” to the statement that “the[...]square metres. Whether it was the huge, available, and ridiculously cheap land at the Kali In psychology there exists a term known as flashbulb memory. These are vivid memories of[...]did nothing that either caused or contributed to the accident.” The company[...]Grounds, or the large potential bustee workforce nearby that influenced the Carbide directors thoughts and activities that a[...]continually denied the claim that cyanide was present in the gas cloud for fear of allusion to[...]is unclear, but they decided that the plant would be built upon the Grounds. horrific experience. For instance, I’m[...]the horrors of the Second World War: To this day Union Carbide has s[...]The plan was to build a much smaller plant than that in West Virginia, as estimates of September 11, 2001: What you were doing when you heard the news, who you were with,[...]on the exact chemical composition of the cloud. During the first few months after the tragedy,[...]pent approximately three cents per victim per day in relief aid. No court in India or[...]annually. Unlike the US plant that ran 24 hours a day, the Indian plant would only produce More than likely, you cannot. If you are of similar age to myself, you were probably a con[...]America ever tried Union Carbide for the crimes in Bhopal. Victims of the tragedy, with[...]thyl isocyanate would therefore need to be stored in young child fast asleep in your safe, warm bed. If flashbulb memories were s[...]s and activists initially filed for US$15 billion in damages –[...]ld be safe to assume that none of ours punctuated the darkness[...]the net worth of all of Carbide’s assets.[...]a large volume of MIC being stored at the site, relayed the idea to various experts at chemical of that night[...]Later, the Indian government nominated itself the sole power to represent the victims[...]t they “only produced MIC as needed. In Bhopal, a city in mainland India, no contented young children were asleep in[...]and sued for US$3 billion. In 1989, the Indian Government (long known for its corruption)[...]e litre for more than ten minutes. Your engineers are out of their safe, warm beds. Upon this fateful date, the blanketed night would be lit up by thousands[...]a final settlement of US$470 million dollars. For thethe three voluminous tanks of flashbulb memories, firing off in staccato rhythm across the cityscape. For you see, at[...]t to approximately US$793 per claim. $793 for all the[...]went ahead without anyone paying attention to the forewarning of the European experts. approximately 12:05am on December 3, 1984, a toxic cloud spewed forth throughout the[...]grief, the mental anguish, the loss of entire families and the irreparable health effects suffered streets and s[...]by those who survived. The 1984 Annual Report for Union Carbide coldly stated that “victims their eyes. Collapsing in coughing and muscular spasms they spewed forth bl[...]of the Bhopal tragedy could be fairly and adequately com[...]effect on Carbide’s financial condition”. In fact, on the day that Carbide announced its Although to this day, no one knows for sure exactly how many perished from inhaling[...]generous $793 compensation to victims, the company’s stock actually rose two dollars on the cloud’s deadly fumes on that horrific night, es[...]the New York Stock Exchange. For comparison, Union Ca[...]companies This is anywhere from two to five times the number of people who perished in the World[...]ttacks, yet there were no photographic obituaries in the New York Times for[...]This amount was nine times more than what the Bhopal victims were given. these victims. There w[...]od-fearing mistake; this was no terrorist attack. In fact, the perpetrators were immediately known in[...]arren both identity and location, but to this day in 2003 they still have not been brought to justice.[...]Anderson retired from the company in 1986, with full pension and benefits and settled in Meanwhile, to this same day in 2003, 150,000 people in Bhopal are still chronically affected[...]Vero Beach, Florida. I’m not sure how much he got in retirement funds, but rest assured it by this tra[...]I would like to tell you a story. It is the story of the people of Bhopal, and it is the[...]The siren was quickly turned off on advice by manager[...]difference, the Kali Ground community had never received general evacuation pamphlets in In 2001, the colossal chemical multinational Dow Chemical acquired Union Carbide, Union Carbide began its life in the USA as the amalgamation of four smaller[...]r mailboxes – they hadn’t even been told what the alarms meant. With the wind blowing and has stated that it has no responsibility to the victims of Bhopal as the incident occurred companies. The company saw much activity during the First World War where they produced[...]in the direction of the bustees, the laughing, dancing and celebratory citizens were completely when Carbide was not under Dow control. In 2003, thousands of tons of toxic wastes, things such as tank armour plating and gas masks for the war effort. Some twenty years[...]r abandoned by Carbide at its factory site in Bhopal, have leached their poisons into the later, the company was again in the midst of war, this time collaborating on the sinister[...]5,000 families. Union Carbide refused to clean up the Manhattan Project, through which the first atomic bomb was unleashed upon the world.[...]The people of the Kali Grounds knew something was incredibly wrong[...]ed site. Dow Chemicals also has refused to accept the liabilities. Carbide became a major and diverse p[...]saw the huge geyser of MIC and phosgene erupt out of the factory and head towards them.[...]yourself. Imagine if this tragedy had occurred at the US plant methane, metal alloys, plastic bags, ant[...]Upon reaching the atmosphere, much of the MIC had been converted to hydrocyanic acid - in West Virginia, in England, in Australia, or in New Zealand. Do you think Warren Anderson growth allowed the company to branch out into 40 countries around the world, and establish[...]the same gas used by Hitler to murder the Jews, Saddam Hussein to murder the Kurds, and would have been released on $2,100 bail? Do you think the company would have been able itself as one of the big boys in the American economy.[...]now Union Carbide to murder the Indians.[...]you think anyone would ever let Union In the mid 1950’s, as the health and environmental hazards of pesticides su[...]The wedding ceremonies never finished. Instead, pande[...]young and old fled screaming and yelling. Many fell, collapsing in ragged breaths into their Does this make you angry? I remember the first time I read of the Bhopal tragedy; companies to develop a more effective pesticide to control crop insects, while at the same[...]own vomit, as asphyxiation set in. A young boy and his family of eight fled against the wind; I set down the book I was reading and wept into my hands until I[...]Even time minimising potential harm to humans and the environment. With vast research[...]it momentarily changed direction, and he was the only one left standing alive. Children were writing this now, I can feel tears forming in my eyes. Perhaps after reading this article, you resources to draw upon, Union Carbide naturally entered the fray in an attempt to produce The Bhopal plant was completed and production began in 1980. separated from parents in the fleeing masses; families were lost in the brownish haze of are wondering what relevance this has to your own life. It has relevance because exploitation the ‘magic bullet’ the horticultural world was crying out for. In 1957, they announced that[...]y, and then herself off a bridge rather than face the and murder in the name of business is carried out every day in our names. If I had the time[...]Although the plant was fashioned as a scaled-down version of the high- horrific, suffo[...]some years previously they had finally succeeded in creating such a bullet, which they named ‘Sevin[...]ite to you about Coca-Cola poisoning ground water in Kerala, India; was Sevin that an early publicity photograph showed one of the inventors of Sevin licking[...]ome safety equipment in a phosgene accident at the Bhopal plant, it was almost too much: the cloud claimed one of inhumane treatment of those in Thailand, China and Mexico who make the fancy shoes and granules of it off his hand, yet[...]and security systems were not carried over to the daughter plant. her young children too, clotted blood forming around the young one’s breathless lips. clothes you wear; children with their arms blown off from working in fireworks factories; El plant, to control almost[...]Victims began pouring into the Bhopal hospital. The doctors were overwhelmed Salvador, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iraq. We in the developed West have become nothing Nat[...]s keen to produce Sevin, and produce a lot of it. The firm[...]and unfamiliar with the effects and treatment of MIC poisoning. In their desperation, they more than a Third World consumer plantation, thriving off the deprivation and misery of built a gargantuan flagship factory in the Kanawha Valley, West Virginia, to synthesise 30,000 Much of the production workforce was recruited from the bustee slums, but the phoned Dr LS Loya, the Chief Medical Officer of the Bhopal plant. He explicitly stated that oth[...]rtunate than ourselves. tonnes of Sevin annually. In order to significantly reduce production costs, the process of workers were never told what exactly the plant produced. Technical manuals were never[...]was “just like tear gas”. His only advice to the doctors was I conclude, appropriately I think, with statements (that I have amended for the 21st manufacturing Sevin was modified from that originally proposed by the team in 1957. Instead translated into Hindi; training in how to handle MIC safely was reduced from in the US to wash the victims’ bodies and eyes with water. This was little comfort to the doctors, some century) by two other people who thrived upon exploitation and murder: of the previous safer, yet more costly procedure, phosge[...]where it was six months, down to fifteen days at the Bhopal plant. The training was for of who began to perform autopsies on the corpses to determine cause of death. The blood “The death of a Western person is a tragedy. The death of a million Third World monomethylamine ga[...]effect, for completeness sake anyway, as the company regularly stressed to workers that the levels of cyanide were so high that doctor[...]the corpses. Dr Loya’s mother later died from gas i[...]that people do not think.” – Adolf The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that[...]a highly toxic, An assessment in 1982 of the Bhopal site by three engineers sent from the West Corpses littered the hospital and the streets within radius of the factory. The Hitler. irritating and corrosive gas. Inhalation can cause fatal respiratory damage.” The EPA also Virginian plant listed over o[...]teams of volunteers piled trucks up with bodies. The cemetery became so Never forget to keep your eyes open. To see truth and not the bullshit lies. To not states that “Methyl isocyanate is extremely toxic to humans... Pulmonary edema is the probable including but not limited to: sub[...]ons; warping full that digging stopped in fear of disturbing earlier burials. Large number[...]buy their branded products we don’t need that are built on blood. Boycott, protest and cause of death in most cases, with many deaths resulting from secon[...]of equipment; absence of sprinklers in the MIC area; and in a macabre manner, that the covered in shrouds, piled up and cremated in mass fires. One woman who had passed out educate. In this day, you can be a conscious and conscientiou[...]fections. Survivors continue to exhibit damage to the lungs and eyes. Reproductive effects needle on the pressure gauge of a phosgene tank full of gas rea[...]o stated that from gas inhalation woke up in the pyre as she was being set on fire. consumer subdued by the latest episode of The Bachelorette. and increased number of stillbirths and spontaneous abortions are also observed.” there was a[...]nagement were made News of the tragedy reached corporate headquarters in the US, and Warren Anderson, It’s your choice. In fact, Carbide’s own toxicologists performed MIC exposure tests on laboratory well aware of the report but little - if anything - was done to remedy the situation. Needless CEO of Union Carbide, immediately took the corporate jet to Bhopal to evaluate the damage. To find out how you can help the people of Bhopal today, visit www.bhopal.net rats; the results found were so alarming that the company banned publication of the work. to say, if this gross negligence on the part of the company had been uncovered at the US He was arrested upon arriving in Bhopal for numerous charges including ‘culpable homicide To learn more about the Bhopal tragedy, read the excellent books The Culture of Dealing with such potentially lethal compounds, the company was firm on its safety training[...]Believe by Derrick Jensen, and Five Past Midnight in Bhopal by Dominique Lapierre of personnel and pla[...]been ‘jailed’ in the Union Carbide guesthouse for six hours, Anderson was released on bail of and Javier Moro. Sevin, the plant had 67 relatively minor leakages of MIC at the factory. Kanawha Valley The original estimate of 2,000 tons of Sevin was never reached by Union Carbide, in US$2,100. In reply to a question posed by a journalist asking[...]return to To learn more about how you can protest the actions of immoral, industrialist, residents discovered a pamphlet in their mailboxes entitled ‘Plan for General Evac[...]part due to a series of unproductive dry seasons. The plant became a dragging anchor on face[...]on replied, “I will come back to India whenever the law capitalist corporations, go to www.corpwatch.org. found that periodically they could smell the faint scent of boiled cabbage blowing through Carbide’s profit ship. In an effort to tighten the monetary leaks, the company recruited a new requires it.” He then promptly fled the country. If you would like to discuss any of the ideas raised in this article, please feel free to the windows into their homes - the distinctive smell of MIC.[...]Anderson never did return to India, even though the law did require it. Had he come up to me and have a chat. I am the disillusioned youth with ‘Consume/Die’ sewn on In 1966, facing pressure from its peasantry for a cheap, reliable pesticide, the Indian Chakravarty. Chakravarty was a talented accountant, but naïve about how a plant dealing done so, perhaps he would have seen the monumental damage his company had wrought on[...]micals worked. Under pressure from above to bring the plant the poor people of Bhopal. Perhaps he would have seen the scores of dead children, their readily agreed, with plans to build a Sevin factory in the city of Bhopal. into profit, Chakravarty’s first port of call was to make the labour force more’‘streamlined’ by eyes b[...]would have seen the thousands of survivors chanting “Death t[...]
	[...]A Wedding in Ramallah[...]we saw something of in Promises two weeks ago. In the comparatively peaceful summer of 2000, Bassam, a[...]telephone repairman in Cleveland, USA, returns to Palestine for an[...]g, Bassam and Mariam, a traditional village girl, are married. Ramallah is peaceful and the ‘wedding season’ is in full swing. At night, the streets are full of men dancing with each other in large circles of celebration as[...]sister and niece joke about how they found him a wife.[...]ice-over says she knows practically nothing about the world, but that’s not strictly[...]to go to America, to live with her husband-to-be in a big house with lots[...]children. (He blames this on the 45-minute beating he says he received from Israel[...]some years earlier. After three years in jail for alleged involvement with Fatah, Bassam w[...]after his departure a new intifada breaks out and the Palestinian Territories are engulfed in violence. While Mariam awaits a visa to immigrate to the United States, she and Bassam’s family continue to live their lives in the midst of war. Everyday domestic duties and squabbles are carried out against a backdrop of shelling and vi[...]re a visa for Mariam, but she discovers that life in exile is not an easy alternative. As to how a female director could gain the trust of both families - Sherine Salama’s[...]er father is Egyptian, her mother Palestinian. At the age of three, she went to Australia with her parents, but she returned to the Middle East as a journalist in 1989. This compelling observational film reveals the human face of the conflict in Palestine.[...]$10. There are still five screenings left in the season. Please Note: From now until the end of the year screenings will only be at[...]$30” available at the door before the[...]Yep, Mike’s TV2 talk show rips off The Late Show with David Letterman. That’s not in itself the worst thing. The fact that it COMPLETELY rips off The Late Show with David Letterman[...]Go ahead. Adopt the formula. It works, providing you can pull it off[...]again, TVNZ fails to do. The large set and audience is great. It sure beats St[...]about 30 rows (at least!) But the fact that little or no imagination has gone into the set is disappointing, and the audience may as well be asleep. In fact, there’s barely a shred of originality or innovation in the whole show.[...]st didn’t seem enthused about his material, and the Jeremy Corbett segmen[...]Why TV2 have cast the man they have as Mike’s own Paul Schaffer, I’[...]I don’t know his name and have no confidence in the bloke. Paul Schaffer is funny. He’s[...]Frankie Foo (more Kiwi than you) was the highlight of what I saw (I switched off), yet I couldn’t help but think that the Asian man is the 21st Century minstrel. Let’s face it,[...]with them (Chang from the Edge springs to mind), and Frankie Foo’s segmen[...]Well, I despair, I really do. Pio (The Big Night In) and Mike King are both hosting potentially good shows that are both entertaining and vibrant showcases of New Ze[...]could only be likened to an essay in draft form. Neither of these shows will wo[...]
	[...]The House of God I woke up one day, Full of feelings[...]Those people who fell in love with the clever sitcom Scrubs[...]will be interested to read the book that probably spawned The sun arose behind a cloud of mist and never-ending[...]also an Oxford Ph.D. graduate, this This detailed how my life as I knew it would conclude.[...]book is written in a surprisingly understandable manner Furthermore[...]The Last Season[...]surgeons’) and starting in the hospital called ‘The House of[...]God’. He then delves into the subsequent culture shock of what he calls ‘real[...]class life in the season of 1939 – the last[...]before the Second World War. As that hot[...]summer drew on, the newspapers filled[...]five pages, and maybe a sob every ten Had I made the right decision……[...]with ever more ominous reports of the[...]acters (bearing a disturbingly strong resemblance How many times over my forthcoming life would I regre[...]merican television fails to show. Most members of the public will actually be And why didn’t I accept[...]The last season of peace was nearly over.[...]written 30 years ago and many medical procedures are outmoded, its underlying I thought I was happy th[...]The author has a delightful fetish with CAPITALISING[...]Love and Death in Kathmandu – A[...]examples include the verb to TURF, which is what a good doctor does to a patient – TURF But now I know they are as important as the rain forests[...]them into a different department of the hospital. An old person is called a GOMER (Get Out are to mother earth.[...]of My Emergency Room) and the author really goes to town at letting his dislike of the[...]atient’s chart is to make it look as though you are doing $34.95 Now it is too late,[...]try and unravel the mystery surrounding[...]Supervising this fresh set of interns is a resident who is simply known as ‘The Fat It looks like the devils come up from hell,[...]the murderous rampage by Nepal’s[...]ring nature make him an interesting To grab me by the throat,[...]Crown Prince that all but wiped out the[...]character. He has formed the TEN COMMANDMENTS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD. These And drag me to the depths below.[...]include rules such as THE DELIVERY OF MEDICAL CARE IS TO DO AS MUCH OF NOTH[...]mass murder that enthralled the world. A Perhaps I deserved this,[...]motions inside me. At first it was disbelief with the Maybe I didn’t make the right decision,[...]derogatory attitude the doctors were taking against the patients, but after the trials and If only my heart had given me a clear[...]tribulations faced by the interns (and after one of them committed suicide) you can[...]where the author is coming from trying to prove thethe prize going to the My life has now ended in Devil’s Fury,[...]intern who gets the most post mortems in a year. A life of ….. Eternal Misery.[...]nd read, if you found Scrubs funny, you will love the - Paul Parsons[...]original. This book did for the medical world what Catch 22 did to the military world.[...]Speaking in Theory and Practice. It is about the hazards of[...]bribed the guards to let him stay. Rusty Throw this ball[...]Home Fires, by Kelly Harris. Set in 1930’s rural[...]then recorded one of the strangest and Throw this ball, The Festival of New Arts[...]research in 2002.[...]Amid the corruption, brutality and daily I will chase it[...]The Metamorphosis programme also includes[...]struggle for survival, there is also the tale forever. Massey University presents The Festival of New Arts - performance and[...]of an unlikely friendship, forged in the[...]music, poetry, drama and film. The story is told through the pieces created by members of the Massey University arts I stand at the door eye[...]eflect and hold you, my cesspool eyes drawing you in. been influenced by the world we live in today. Metamorphosis is a study of the way things change[...]the concept of “metamorphosis”, telling of changi[...]and belonging to the personal journey of the listener.[...]The Other Boleyn A Time To Die – The Kursk Disaster[...]Massey staff, family and friends are warmly invited to Why do you avoid me? Am I of no[...]view the world premiere of this new, exciting body of work[...]The acclaimed and harrowing true story[...]of Russia’s most powerful submarine – in your life, a flick of your hand? It isn’t the ball is it? Processes and members of the Massey University Drama[...]Auditorium, Old Main Building, Massey University.[...]Thethe idea of October 1 - “The Best of the Fest”[...]a future world in which everyone lives underground due to[...]It reeked of being a ‘chick book’, from the picture on the Fighting with the Enemy – New I walk your dreams, thoughts the effects of acid rain. One brave soul dares to venture into Auditorium, Old Main Building, Massey University.[...]Zealand’s POW’s and the Italian[...]front, the title, the author and the blurb on the back. So and you! the outside.[...]all in all, you could say I was judging a book by its cover. The ball you throw, is me,[...]piece about seven characters in search of the meaning of life.[...]I was proved very wrong indeed. The Other Boleyn I’ll stay forever. It is about Kafka meeting the 21st century and the elusiveness[...]prisoner of war camps in Italy and the[...]Girl is historical fiction about, three guesses: The other Boleyn girl – namely Mary Boleyn. - Paul[...]of meaning in a technological age.[...]Starting in 1521, it spans over fifteen years of the rule of King Henry VIII. The thing I love[...]The story is written from the perspective of Mary, sister to Anne Boleyn. We fo[...]Mary through the family rivalry, scandal, the power games and the inevitable pompous façade[...]of the courts of King Henry VIII. She rises to power as one of Henry’s mistresses. The King[...]Katherine from Spain - was no good at putting out the males. Mary is then usurped by her[...]r rise to power, trample to Tramping in New Zealand[...]Queen Katherine and manage to secure herself as the Queen of England.[...]The characterisation is the most worthy point of notice in this novel. Gregory builds What to wear, w[...]up the characters so well and believably, contrasting the naïve and innocent Mary to the and first-aid, and where to go. Wi[...]jocular and handy hints for each of the eight[...]self, with a penchant for girls under 14 years old, and an irritating man-stereotype plastered[...]covers some important historical events, such as the Act of Succession[...]and King Henry VIII, tired of the continual yapping and ill-support from the Catholic Church[...]The ending of the book is bittersweet; Anne gets her head lopped of[...]nry VIII gets tired of her. Don’t say I spoiled the story for you, because if you didn’t know[...]Nonetheless, a fascinating read, and in retrospect from my initial comments, I don’t[...]feel this book could have captured the bitchiness of women and the arrogance of men without[...]
	[...]1. What’s the best thing about the sun coming out?[...]Johnny Depp is fast becoming my favourite actor. In the past month I’ve seen Donnie Brasco, Chocolat, P[...]the Caribbean and recently, Blow. Xbox[...]Blow is based on the true-life story of George Jung[...]class family, his father, (Ray Liotta) worked in construction[...]he was being chased by the federal police. George’s mother[...]3. Let the Sun Shine In.[...]The movie begins with George’s family life, perhaps[...]While in prison, George meets Diego Delgado. Diego Xbox: The final frontier…[...]inks to South American drug lords, and while they are[...]Drug rapes are happening at Massey. International research shows[...]America to the USA. Their plans work perfectly and soon[...]they are making obscene amounts money. There is this[...]are family or friends and that the highest risk age group for this type of crime is[...]doesn’t happen to younger or older people. With the 1. I can go to the beach.[...]increase in these crimes you need to be informed to be as saf[...]With all his successes, George meets and falls in[...]• Women, men and children are all vulnerable to drug assisted sexual assaults.[...]• There are increasing numbers of drug assisted sexual assaults reported to police. The three fiercest species in the universe have been locked[...]betrays George, and so he decides to quit the business, living[...]• Convictions have occurred in Christchurch and Auckland, and more trials are pending. 5. No. in a bloody, galaxy-spanning battle for years. With each new encounter it seems the on-going conflict will never a clean life for five years. But the cops are still after him, and[...]sting operation on stood out for me – the one where George is talking into a end. After a s[...]him. All the time thinking of his wife and daughter, George[...]order to send a message to his ailing father; and the Drug induced behaviours: With more chemical drugs now available, there are a variety planet LV-742, reveal the presence of both Predators and[...]agrees to sign a confession on the proviso that his family is final scene, which shows an old George, perhaps suffering of behaviours, including: Aliens, it is decided that the conflict must end once and for all. After years o[...]EnviroPlanning. now defeat your enemies to ensure the survival of your his wife is about to leave him, and worse, has a daughter the fact that Jung was the largest importer of cocaine in the • The complainant appears drunk to onlookers. species..[...]regain his daughter’s trust and love. But in order to do so, he I’ve read some interviews with the real George Jung, and I • Memory alt[...]uch as; total or partial loss of memory recall of the drug assisted 2. Surfing.[...]must say that this film did romanticise the character. assault; full memory[...]body paralysis; different combinations of both of the above. for me.[...]s time he gets double-crossed by his partners and in the However, it really is an excellent movie[...]: Extinction is a real-time strategy game chasing the rush of previous titles’ end he is convicted and sentenced to 60 years in prison. especially from Depp and Liot[...]t story line. Signs of drugs in drinks:[...]ed Demme, died It has been found that some of the drugs used leave an oily residue in your drink. If the drink is successes, such as Command and Conquer; the Dune[...]Jung as a simple man who simply wants to in January 2002, with small amounts of cocaine found in usually fizzy it will not appear as fizzy and the drink will taste a little oily. Other than that, if the series; and Starcraft. The point of this Xbox game is pretty[...]love his daughter, and nothing else. The drugs, the money, his body. drink tastes different in any way - do not drink it. The safest bet is to buy your own drinks and much exactly that of Dune/C&C/Starcraft: Destroy the[...]offers to buy you a drink, you can offer to go to the bar other species to ensure your own supremacy. Each species has their own currency, relative to the species (Predators[...]r if this is not appropriate, keep a close eye on the drink to try and make sure nothing use honour points, which are gained through the collection[...]is added. If possible, you can always decline the drink. of enemies’ skulls) and uses this curren[...]found that some of the drinks are being spiked with extra alcohol. The police have found that a[...]ivors claiming they were drugged have no evidence in their blood sample. One[...]Each species offers unique attributes. As the Colonial Marines, you will count on your military[...]explanation for this is that new drugs now stay in the system for only four hours.[...]1. The birds twinkling. and the latest hi-tech weaponry from the Weyland-Yutani Directed by Jan Sverák[...]Remember: Some drugs can be detected in urine and blood up to 72 hours after ingestion. Corporation to save the human population of LV-742[...]The drugs stay in urine longer than blood. If possible, save a urin[...]2. Drinking in the sun at the[...]y, Tara Fitzgerald and (great name for a planet). The Predators must use their[...]lth and highly evolved hunting techniques to gain the respect of the Council of Ancients. Aliens will attack in[...]With the spate of crap war films released recently, it is[...]izzy or disorientated with little or no memory of the last 6-12 hours. hordes to incapacitate their ene[...]g up feeling fine but with little or no memory of the last 6-12 hours.[...]hless string bikini and using them to evolve into the ultimate biological weapons.[...]• Feeling bruised and sore around the genitals but not remembering having sex. (while drinking in the sun at the adventures and relationships of a group of Czech[...]no recollection of who undressed you. In terms of game play, I was entirely bored in pilots who fly with the Royal Air Force in the Second World[...]the races). the first five minutes of this game. Even the incredibly buff Jon White, who played this game w[...]’t War. It is told retrospectively by the pilots themselves, who[...]• Waking up in a strange place.[...]ore than 20 minutes. However, I after the Second World War are imprisoned by the Soviets in[...]uck it out and failed to be impressed. Patrolling the a labour camp. The dank and dark prison cells, with all the[...]g to misery they entail, clash vividly with the scenes of World War[...]Remember that nobody has the right to have any sexual activity with you withou[...]permission. It becomes more dangerous if drugs are used to help overpower you for sexual means. vega[...]They could react to other substances in your body or react more strongly with your body,[...]f lava only to watch them squirm. fall in love with the same woman. This is offset by thein the air. I found that this provided a good balance[...]trust, Tom, Postgrad. in observing the misery of such a helpless species,’and I[...]outside enjoying it. would reply to them to watch the Alien™ series and then The atmosphere of the film is on the whole dark.[...]a sexual abuse centre. Sexual abuse centres are in most regions of New Zealand and their numbers tel[...]oing humanity a favour, This stems from the betrayal of a friend, the misery of a prison,[...]can normally be found on the Community Services Organisations page at the end of the Yellow 2. Water rafting. trying to even the odds by inserting myself as a spy the death of comrades, the upheavals caused by war and the Pages in the phone book.[...]3. Sex Bomb. amongst the enemy ranks. Pathetic, I know, but it was[...]The Manawatu Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre has a support line, ACC referrals, free the only way I could get any mileage off this game. The director builds up nicely a sense of frustration[...]counselling, a library, and face-to-face support in peoples homes, with the police and medical 4. I haven’t tried Victoria’s The game comes with a variety of sub-species as the Czech pilots go through training and mock combat,[...]examination and through the court process. Our phone number is 356 5868, and[...]Secret bikinis yet. for each species, including the precious little face-hugger while a real air[...]53 Waldegrave Street in the Women’s Centre. made famous in the Alien™ movies. These little nasties includes some lighter moments, mainly deriving from the fish[...]5. Sometimes. It feels better. are what make the game worth while… lying in wait until out of water experience of Czechs in England.[...]haplessly along, unknowingly The film really shines in its depiction of World War react in different ways. Some feel really angry, others scared, and some feel hurt. The abuse can go baiting themselves for a close encounter of the infestation Two air combat. The aircraft are modelled superbly, as are on to affect survivors in many ways until the feelings are dealt with. It can take a lot of courage to kind.[...]tracers, explosions and even theThe film portraits the terror of pilots fighting in what often[...]can take a long time to heal from the scars of abuse, but it can be done, and there are people to unoriginal in trying to drag an already successful game[...]m thought it would be. I don’t usually do the romantic thing, are eligible for ACC assistance. ACC will provide a s[...](you may but was pleasantly surprised in this case. It is also a[...]ACC can help with the cost. To access this extra financial assistance y[...]play safe, and if something happens, remember you are not alone.[...]
	[...]the 24hr information hotline:[...]Hinds. Travelling down the long winding Middle road gave me time to reflect;[...]time I would have not thought so. With the window wide open, a bug flew in and planted itself right on my windscreen,[...]causing me a momentarily loss of concentration as the car swerved all over the road while I[...]gonna be bad, but please I prayed, let it be bad in an tried to squash this hapless creature. Eventua[...]DING NEMO own business. There were three of us on the journey now, and dare I say it, back home to[...]it’s bad in a boring way. Jan De Bont (Speed) directs this[...]s now, never longer. God, I can’t even remember the last time I spent[...]Angelina returns as the buxom Croft, and does seem[...]PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN a whole week there. But every now and t[...]more comfortable in the role a second time round. The vehicle[...]eturn like a flood and everybody knows when I’m in town because if I haven’t rung them, I go aroun[...]LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE I sit in the rooms at the bro’s. It’s that old house on the corner of McCarthy Terrace;[...]OF LIFE the one where with each gust of wind a storm of dried paint appears on the horizon. We rant[...]The expectation then comes in the action. It is in away just as if nothing’s changed, talking the same old shit and I listen to the same old stuff[...]these scenes that we are let down by the directing. If De[...]LEGALLY BLONDE 2 that I left behind (huh, the gossip’s still there). I feel those insecure ye[...]THE ITALIAN JOB feelings that remind me of my origins[...]IDENTITY and talking of the new is getting harder to describe. Times have cha[...]ctly is it that draws me back here, to people who the only when they’ll move into town and the belt gets brought out faster than the sound of a possum on mankind, would have b[...]I CAPTURE THE CASTLE thing I have in common with is the past. Hence, it’s not long before I get bored and cruise off hitting the ground, having been shot with the 22-gauge rifle from the bedroom window. and her male pal Terry fought the Chai Ling, an Asian gang, to the next house.[...]“Who’d want to live in that dirty filthy place!” I can hear my Nan exclaiming, “too in a cave somewhere, my mind wandered to pending I come from this great town, set half way between the ranges and the sea, with everything I ever wanted right at my fi[...]noisy, and what about my fowls and the pig!”[...]assignments and cursing the fact I didn’t buy popcorn[...]beforehand. The action scenes lacked serious continuity and[...]Coming Soon showed year-old movies), and of course my friends and family. Bar a few shops and the lunch everything is immaculately prepared. And there is always choc chip bikkies on the at points you felt like you were looking in the wrong direction, biggest event of the year for us country lads - the local A & P show; she was my heaven with[...]MATCHSTICK MEN a slice of hell. Born and bred on the farm, my life had pretty much been defined for me[...]she’s given me a banana cake. It sits there on the front seat; I What about the body shots of Lara you ask? The[...]CALENDAR GIRLS from a baby: Grow up and follow the family tradition. Be a farmer, retire, then die -[...]va drips onto my pants and opening scenes are probably the highlight. Lara dons a silver sounded so simple. Yet I never even got half that far. Those days of lying on the back of the before long a puddle has formed. I begin t[...]t slice would taste like. wetsuit to probe the depths of the ocean for Alexander the The only super bit in the whole film comes towards AMERICAN PIE WEDDING hay truck watching the moon floating quietly by, had spelt the end of my days in this paradise, Taking the knife and piercing the outer layers, with thethe end as we near the Cradle of Life. Creepy tree monsters[...]side of me to hit that… that spot, out). The wetsuit clearly isn’t thermal as we see from the start plucking off the bad guys in the dark forest. Aided by[...]and I am overwhelmed in excitement, it’s like I’m having an orgasm. M[...], after having been everywhere I can, I return to the security of my mum’s, a place where as a youngster mischief was refined. I sit down in the peace and tremble; the car slows down. Desire is right in my face and my strength is weakening. I want[...]Could we be reaching an awesome finale…? No. In fact, I INTOLERABLE CRUELTY quiet and read my newspaper. The sun streams through the clear glass windows, I am to ea[...]the first instalment, though the character is poorly was so bored by the finishing sequence I was actually hoping FREAKY FRIDAY engrossed in warmth. I am free here from all the troubles of the world. Always a bed to sleep BEE[...]to really believe someone would just open the damn Pandora’s Box – maybe in; a heart to hug. A mum, a family who struggles to[...]no matter what I say nor me. Where am I? HowIn fact, he resorts to the havoc it could unleash would be interesting. THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS do always leaves a door open t[...]often that door should have been shaking in fear. violence in the end, hitting Lara and then expecting her to[...]HOLES locked with the key thrown away, yet it never has and never will[...]is undercurrent love story improvement on the first one. I wouldn’t own it on DVD. Oh[...]big wet affectionate lick in the face. Whoa, that must have been a close call.[...]son, stay focused”, I say to myself. I pick up the banana cake and place that I am suppose to[...]nly dream of; well, being a student it sure beats the peanut butter on toast for it in my glove box - outta sight, outta mind, until I g[...]ert, which I normally have. Just for good measure the older brother and sister and husband turn up. Wow, isn’t this an awesome surprise. Just the five[...]The farm, home, provides far too much of a distraction for me, and contrary to the[...]band. I sit by my brother and look around me. All old and grown up now we are. Each travelling our own paths, yet united in the one factor that draws us[...]I’m out of the gully, now and can almost smell the city approaching, the thousands[...]of cars, bumper-to-bumper traffic. Smog pollutes the air we breathe, people as far as the eye Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde[...]GO TO THE MOVIES! together - yes, we are family. The bickering we’ve had; the screaming and yelling, the fighting, can see. I look around in shame; is this what we have become, rows upon hou[...]CHAFF has five double passes to the flicks to give away. with me always being on the losing end. Well, being the youngest has its downfalls, all of once[...]nd Kauri stood and Kiwis roamed free of fear with the earth still fertile Contains low level offe[...]To be in to win, identify the film below and complete which seems to fade away now, maybe we’ve matured, or maybe it’s that we are all as stubborn and untouched by any addi[...]your as each other and realise there’s no point in arguing any more. Yep, age is definitely like a[...](see page 8 for our details) Entries good cheese, the older you get the better you get, but by the time you’re great, your all crusty resemble the pristine beauty she once inscribed.[...]are limited to ONE per person and close WEDS at 5pm.[...]t’s that we have a Now I am in my new home, where fresh air simply does not exis[...]studying to be a professional ‘Bugger All’. The joys of sitting outside the café at varsity, I’m back in the present now, back travelling Middle road. I’ve[...]get away and path, not to mention the 3am closing, instead of the 12 or 1am closing back home, have[...]vard Law, she is working for a top law experience the world, see the sights and explore like most other ambitious Kiwi[...]become my new reality. Yet, I long for the days back on the farm riding free on the horse’s[...]issed. This road, this Middle Road, back. The wind in my face and not a human nor human sound for miles[...]planning the wedding of the century to her fiancé Emmet only five minutes aw[...]d me only just now laying my eyes only the sheep baaa-ing away, and the cows mooing. I sit down and weep. I wish I were f[...](Luke Wilson). As you would imagine, planning the wedding upon her serene sights. The fences that stretch up the hillsides, across crevices and down To be at one with the world again, working in the pouring down rain, then returning after a[...]of the century requires everything to be perfect and the narrow gullies that seem near impossible to reach[...]ow I bet, hard day’s work to lie back in the warmth of my lazy boy, having earned a nice cold[...]ad of today, and I hate to admit it, where I rush in and out of the shelter with[...]would make this so. onto the batons. Man, it must have been hard work back then, having to climb hills with a my umbrella in tow. Damn it, I’ve become a Jaffa. And the beer, huh, don’t even go there. I[...]ouple of 4X2 and a few rolls of wire hanging over the shoulder. And yet having the tenacity am in the city, back at large with the rat race, computers, these strange things called[...]investigators to find the missing canine, and as luck would to do that day[...]lights, and the neighbours, they live over the back fence, not a couple of minutes down the[...]have it he uncovers her. Elle goes to give the dog an invite to Men/People were born hard back then, men like my grandfather. Breaking-in ponies; road! It’s a place where the only certain future is that no matter how long I live I will always[...]he gets there she uncovers a clearing scrub. Back in his day he would have thought nothing of it. My grandparents are be me. And I know that no matter where I go, the farm and family will always be right beside[...]al testing organisation, and Bruiser’s still on the farm they bought over 50 years ago, fresh from fighting in World War Two. And me, on the inside.[...]mother is in line for a make-over. When the organisation now at 80-plus, my grandfather still helps out on the farm and in the yards, tossing sheep I pull in the drive at my flat, climb out of the car and stretch my legs. Instantly my[...]refuses to hand over the dog, Elle decides to take the matter over gates while whistling furiously at hi[...]up with her law firm. days, since the rewards of a retirement well-earned have become h[...]gton for Ms Woods. On arrival she faces basically the[...]– no one will take her seriously. So the battle is thus two-[...]s calling for So basically the plot is based on a wish to get a[...]for its 2004 one-year, full-time Graduate Diploma in Journalism. dog’s mother to att[...]Hundreds of former students work in print, radio, television, and on the Internet. more?[...]Others have careers in magazines and public relations.[...]where Reese Witherspoon stars, even the crappy ones - yes,[...]American Pie: The Wedding[...]Legally Blonde, as her role is basically exactly the same (yes,[...]a De Cleene I know it is the same character, but a bit of depth and growth[...]The rest of the supporting cast are entirely[...]Elle’s other half Don’t let the fact that Charles Herman-Wurmfeld You can collect your prize from the[...]after stellar performances in movies like Bottle Rocket; I can much of a re[...]only assume he has been lured by the dollar signs and crossed[...]students collect from the MUSA[...]Journalism@massey.ac.nz to the dark side, where you make movies for the money – not - Bernadette Murphy[...]the artistic merit.[...]
	[...]“You have no idea how difficult it was for me to get this project off theThe academic side was a battle, but the dramatic element was much easier (although I do s[...]finding the right actors - who I must say are absolutely brilliant, hard working and I can’t[...]2003 looks as if it is shaping up to be the year of the super-[...]“Obviously the forum for this play was the Festival - I think that without Angie’s leadership the play probably[...]wouldn’t have been produced, and I hope that in the future the Festival continues so that others like me can sho[...]to bring these performances to their peers and to the public,[...]to their already star -filled ranks, including the likes of[...]Maynard James Keenan (Tool) and Josh Freese (the Vandals).[...]“Students are terribly busy these days,” says Farrow, “and I understand the pressures they are under. However, I[...]Call me cynical, but it would appear that the Class of ’94 has[...]“The Festival provides more than just theatre - there[...]g. Theatre can seem like a dead art to people who are more used to audio-visual media, but our theatre[...]AFF also asked Robertson if she thinks that, with the success of Summer Shakespeare, for which there we[...]ago with the hard-rocking yet melodic Mer de Noms. Thanks[...]large audiences from all walks of life, are we doing enough to foster a stronger relationship with the non-student community?[...]“We make a real effort to perform the shows we produce in town as well as out at Massey. This obviously mak[...]staging the production difficult and a lot more work for everyone involved, but because we want to foster the arts at Massey and you are pretty much left with A Perfect Circle. The rest[...]and present Massey on an artistic level to the wider community, we perform in multiple venues to make our work as[...]of the band includes Billy Howerdel (guitars/production)[...]Keenan and company resist the Tool comparisons[...]even further on their new effort Thirteenth Step; the band Overall, Thirteenth Step is a fine record; the stale As a result, ‘Metamorphosis’ presentations will be taking place both on campus and in town. The performances have emphasised the melodic and atmospheric end of their[...]s that begin on September 30 at 7pm in the Old Main Building Auditorium, and from there will be[...]music, not necessarily to the detriment of anything else, but approach the tried and true format from a different angle, at the Globe Theatre on October 3-4.[...]han on Mer de Noms. Which leads to another point: In many are places on this record where things don’t gel and do not For more information about the Festival of New Arts, see Clubscene on page 15.[...]ways of the beauty of that last record was its accessibility go anywhere interesting musically. The production is very and immediacy. The seven minutes-plus of opening track ‘The nice and the stand out tracks are ‘The Noose’, ‘The Outsider’[...]Package’ doesn’t exactly leap out of the speakers and grab and ‘Pet’. Try and avoid ‘The Nurse Who Loved Me’, though.[...]you, until nearly the very end. ‘Weak and Powerless’ is the Mer de Noms, in this reviewer’s opinion at least, is still the Black Rebel[...]obvious hit single, and almost admirably, the band decides not to rock out in the obvious way.[...]‘The Noose’ follows up; the guitar tone and phrasing Motorcycle Club[...]indicative of the album as a whole. Another couple of tracks[...]Check it out: the Rage Against thethe lilting, inner Led Zeppelin and form Audioslave[...]pretty ballad. ‘The Outsider’ returns to a more harder-rock[...]sound, with some nice guitar work. The leaden cover of Pumpkins-lite in the form of Zwan (now defunct, due to Presented with the opportunity to review this album, the first Failure’s ‘The Nurse Who Loved Me’ marks the nadir of the previous Perfect Circle bassist Paz Lenchantin leaving). The question that comes to everybody’s (uninitiated) mind is; who album, especially contrasted with the opening riff of ‘Pet’, word is that Zach de la Rocha is now recording with Nine the hell is Black Rebel Motorcycle Club? What kind of[...]al group; a ‘Gravity’ returns to the more atmospheric rock of earlier tracks with A Perfect Circle. Funny how these things work. friend suggested it could even be one of those happy Japanese on the album. pop/rock bands! Luckily for all of us, it[...]mselves as a rock ‘n’ roll group, emphasising in music suitable for protests; they suggest they are independent, experimental, and their music touches new boundaries. The group consists of three young men; Robert Turner[...]s), and Nick Jago (drums), with them all residing in LA. Robert and Peter both grew up in America, whereas Nick spent his childhood in Britain. Take Them On, On Your Own is the second album released by the group. The album as a whole stays pretty con[...]Metal never sounded so excellent. The album is overwhelmingly rock ‘n’ roll, a pleasant change From the Nightfall Sacks of Goodness:[...]Mango Music have pointed out another extreme from the pop-rock polluting the world. To those who mainly[...]band named The Red Chord. The album Fused Together listen to popular music, the album might seem a little slow Almigh[...]Hell, and many thanks once again for in Revolving Doors for once actually lives up to its name and a lot less exciting initially, but it is in all ways interesting. reading this pollution. Much new music has been coming and simulates the feeling it describes. These ladies play a The album starts with their first single, ‘Stop’. From our way, and in amongst the time we spend persecuting the fucked up blend of thrash metal in jarring chromaticism and the beginning you realise that the album is focused more on cultists who come knocking at the door, we have been able to seventy-three disconcerting time-changes in a song – very the music than the lyrics, as the vocals are quite muffled listen to a few new re[...]similar (but not as technically efficient) to The Dillinger and have the nasal quality similar to that of Placebo. As the The new Morbid Angel Heretic is ab-so-lute-ly[...]nd his delinquent crew have The seriously grim death metal boys called Vital[...]bsurd Words - College of Education album rolls to the second track, ‘Six Barrel Shotgun’, the songs all seem to follow the same sort of layout: short intro; spewed[...]nteresting three to five minute song; and then at the people pointed out, “it’s li[...]Excellently produced, Heretic comes as one of the most death metal album of all time, and although I might not agree where the band experiments with their instruments to make anticipated releases of the year. Goat horns up for these entirely with that statement, it is still up in the realms of top an interesting end to each song. As the album bounces through the first half dozen tracks, you realise that there is a lot of energy in some of the songs. ‘Six Barrel Shotgun’, ‘We’re All In Love’ (my favourite[...]death metal, call themselves As I Lay Dying. The album[...]drama performance track on the album), and possibly ‘In Like The Rose’, all have calls itself Frail Wor[...]is to provide College of Education students with the an undeniable, high-paced energy driving the track ahead. drums grinding and blasting, singing from the bowels of Hell from its visual assault.[...]opportunity to be involved in a production, and to reflect on their involvement and the The album then proceeds to become a bit more mellow,[...]‘Shade of I have heard the new Callenish Circle My Passion/ In Hellfire and Brimstone, with a sprinkling of CHAFF: Tell us a little about yourself and the personnel behind ‘Absurd Words’. Blue’ progressively getting slower; but at the same time, more Your Pain. While soundin[...]CHAFF: How much support have you received from the University/staff for the musically thrilling.[...]HENDERSON: I am a staff member at the College of Education, in the Arts and Languages performance? The group then show that they can still do a[...]Department. My role has largely been in the technical management of the production, beautiful song with only acoustic gui[...]staging, music, and co-ordinating with Alan Cox (the director). HENDERSON: Support from the staff is always excellent, in terms of designing posters, a slow, well played b[...]There are four directors for the performance - Nicky Banks, a science lecturer;[...]nowles, language/ or Fall’ once again revealing the groups’ inner energies. They[...]CHAFF: Have you had enough funding to make the show possible? repeat this again for ‘Going Under’ and, just to top off the[...]Just about all of the cast are first-time actors, which is great! excellent albu[...]CHAFF: What are the plays about?[...]The focus for us is on the acting, not fancy sets or costumes, because in reality, not vary a lot between styles of songs;[...]HENDERSON: Well, what is life about? I guess the plays are all rather absurd, because when these[...]life is absurd, and the biggest absurdities of human kind are when we use language not grand facilities or resources for them to use. subtly), and the musical interludes at the end of each track[...]to communicate, but to fill in achingly empty holes in our absurd lives; or to disguise Performing rights will be expensive, but production costs are low because an elaborate just add onto the excellence.[...]what we really mean when we are engaged in so-called communication with others at set is not required. We live in hope that we will be granted some money from Massey For those with a short attention span, the similarity[...]University administration, as in the past. We have purposefully kept ticket prices ver[...]Sounds bleak? No, we humans are a joke a minute. Come to ‘Absurd Words’ and[...]ill be ‘locked out’ who wishes to come. some, the nasal voice might just be too much to bear. But[...]‘Absurd Words’ will be performed in the Drama Workshop at the Hokowhitu excellent listen, and will be unlikely[...]CHAFF: Are students doing this as part of a course assessment, or purely for fun? Kate Henderson in the Department of Arts and Language Education,[...]
	[...]ote a column answering people’s questions about the delicate subject of If you’r[...]sex. Lately it has become apparent that there are many people out there who still have no[...]idea what it’s all about. For example, the many women that I’ve tried to put some moves on[...]who’d turn to me and say, “what the hell do you think you’re trying to do?” I fee[...]type of hat worn by certain African tribes during the harvest rituals (I think).[...]DR J’S SEX FOR THE VERY STUPID.[...]special seed. When the daddy loves the mummy very much - or even when he has just had[...]ink - he will want to put his special seed inside the mummy to fertilise the egg.[...]However, the mummy will tell the daddy that she wouldn’t touch his seed with a ten-foot pole WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH CONDOMS?[...]he can just go fertilise himself. This will make the daddy very sad and he will start[...]will resort to paying other mummies to touch him in intimate oven mitt. However, today’s wor[...]a condom is rather like beating a policeman over the head with a large[...]llow shell of a man. Alone, depressed and bitter, the daddy will then plank. Oh sure, it’s enjoyable at the time, but it almost always ends up causing you a[...]dent magazine under a trouble later on. In an emergency, glad-wrap makes an excellent condom[...]on the other hand, does not.[...]HOW LONG SHOULD SEX TAKE? HOW CAN YOU TELL WHEN A WOMEN IS FAKING AN ORGASM?[...]it to last all night but, There are many definite indicators that a women may not be[...]surprisingly, a lot of women can be satisfied in no time at all. For instance, they’ll often say[...]s out to be, if she laughs continually throughout the proceedings for[...]Other tip-offs are if, during sex, she likes to read a good book, ca[...]ulation. As a rough sewing, or prepare the evening meal. If you do discover that she is faki[...]perfectly normal. It simply means that you are completely inadequate sexually and perhaps[...]- On the drive over to your girlfriend’s house.[...]- Every time you see Judy Bailey on the news. WHAT ARE SEXUAL PERVERSIONS?[...]There are two schools[...]during which Most perversions are harmless, so long as both partners enjoy them, bu[...]al arousal. Men find yourself dressed in a gorilla suit and having sex with your grandmoth[...]believe that foreplay consists of getting the women drunk enough to agree to sleep with[...]Well, that’s all the advice for this week. If you do have any further[...]WHAT IS THE G-SPOT? the Vice-chancellor has generously offered her assist[...]ea of mythical proportions. It is firmly believed in by most time, day or night, with your questions. The stranger the better.[...]women but men tend to hold it in the same regard as the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot. That[...]t isn’t all a giant hoax. Selling the drama Has the old scarfie culture disappeared forever? Do students still want to go to the theatre to watch their peers in action? This week provides a double-header of[...]works at their respective campuses, and the people behind the events will be hoping to see a strong turnout in support of students and campus culture. But will the people come in their droves, like they did with this year’s Summer Shakespeare? Or will the performers end up on stage belting out their lines to a multitude of empty seats, like they did at the Capping Show? Do we as students really want such an event? Turitea campus is the launching pad for this year’s Festival of New A[...]of performances brought together under the title ‘Metamorphosis’, and featuring four original pieces that have been given life through the collaboration of students and staff. Two of the plays have been penned by popular lecturer Doctor[...]written by Cate Stewart (first performed in an extramural paper); and Homes Fires, a historical drama, is the work of postgraduate student Kelly Harr[...]t piece for music, percussion and voice” called The Last Tree, and After Kafka, a play in which seven characters search for the meaning of life - says that it takes a lot of eff[...]“We get funding from MUSA and the School of English and Media Studies, as well as f[...]funds from outside bodies. “The Principal is looking at the idea of creating a University fund for arts activities for the Turitea and Hokowhitu campuses - this would be managed by the Committee of Performing and Visual Arts. If it ha[...]velopment Officer Kimberley Robertson, another of the driving forces behind the Festival, feels however that while ther[...]here isn’t enough support coming from the University itself. “There are some amazing people working bloody hard behind the scenes to make it happen, like Rebecca McMillan,[...]Harford and Carole Jo Phillips. They really drove The Tempest (Summer Shakespeare) as well, and Kaye Co[...]ere isn’t enough importance placed on the arts from the upper echelons at Massey, which obviously has a n[...]There doesn’t seem to be much interest in the arts amongst the students on campus either, which is a crying sham[...]seen an undercurrent among some students involved in the arts at Massey Palmerston North that the University may in fact be rolling back support for the arts on campus, and that the focus for such events will be shifted to the Massey Wellington campus, where a more vocational[...]w maintains that all educational communities need the arts: “They provide an impo[...]campus needs an element of creative discourse in order to flourish.” Whether[...]t Massey want to go to watch performances such as the Festival of New Arts will be found out throughout this week, but the fact that the Festival is being put together is evidence that t[...]group of talented students coming through the University’s ranks who are keen to provide the arts scene with something new and excit[...]Kelly Harris began working on Home Fires at the beginning of 2002 after coming across the story in her postgraduate paper Community Theatre. She decided to incorporate the writing of the play into her Honours research (under the guidance of Doctor Farrow), and as a result her thesis revolved around the mythical elements in the play. Home Fires is based on[...]neighbours stock hadn’t been brought in for milking. On investigation, he found that the house was nothing but a pile of ashes and all the occupants had been burnt beyond recognitio[...]
	[...]With the lifting of the GM moratorium coming up next month, we will 28 Da[...]CHAFF’s overview of GM in New Zealand and decide for yourself with Four Bed[...]the pros and cons. 44a South Street $280 34a Lombard[...]is a versatile religious and political symbol. To the ancient aphrodisiac, and I negotiate a re-entry ticket to the room where Arnold 72 Savage Street $280 Greeks, it represented fertility in honour of the Greek God Eostre. was about to speak w[...]Centuries later it was adopted by the Christian faith to represent new Dreadlocks, by comparison, are not an asset at a Conservative 270 Grey Street $260 life and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In recent decades it has convention. With[...]rgusson Street $240 morphed into the icon of a great annual chocolate marketing scheme. of suits and promptly escorted from the room. Apparently I needed a 9 Moore Street $240[...]But when tossed by a heckler and splattered on the left press identification pass to sta[...]the GM moratorium 27 Hardie Street $280[...]editation is a relatively smaller hurdle when you are 525 Ferguson Street $240 for Gov[...]different meaning - a visual a foreigner. At the pre-registration desk they told me that accredita[...]itical issues or an had to be organised in advance, and so I was unable to see Arnold speak.[...]file journalist from a political student magazine in New Zealand[...]and had come all the way over here to cover this event, but sorry, no,[...]“This guy owes me some bacon,” he said to the assailant during must’ve left my business card in the hotel suite... I have my New Zealand Four Bedroom[...]reet $325 activists and a guy in a chicken-suit converge on West Century Boulevard Film stars are more popular than politicians, and so the Imperial[...]use GMO’s once the moratorium is no longer in place. ERMA’s chief executive, Dr Basil 37 Pitt[...]tional Airport. Arnold’s Room where the main proceedings were taking place was full. I se[...]Walker, has publicly said indications are that it will be “business as usual” for ERMA.[...]essed that their witty one-liners would for the overflow room, where latecomers were watching the proceedings[...]don’t care too much about genetic modification. The Life[...]ed to improve crops or livestock by breeding from the plants and animals with the most on[...]reen. Ironic to go to all this effort just to see the desirable qualities. GM is a more efficient m[...]orted a UMR Research survey, which showed that of the Five Bedrooms Conservative zealots. “Don’t let Arnold terminate the unborn,” screams proceedings on television, but given the likelihood that they would never[...]ant problems” facing New Zealand today, GM came in at number 20 – well behind[...]and animals that allows the introduction of qualities that can be passed on to its offspring in a Chris[...]“Hasta la be broadcast it unedited to the public, I felt privileged. way[...]Mary Bono introduced Ar nold Schwarzenegger as the[...]Fergusson Street $300 The guy in a chicken suit is wearing a banner advertising the Gubernational Republican candidate for Gove[...]or instance, if you eat a tomato with a frog gene in it your children could be[...]hem directly into cells. Genes can be transferred in 29 Andrew Young Street $280 slogan[...]xpresses inclusion a celebration of women in politics in the Republican Party. She[...]born with a frog gene in them. This is simply untrue. If you ate a tomato[...]his disapproval at Arnold’s elusiveness in public debates and the actor’s was the only female speaker I saw.[...]genes in it, your children won’t be born with tomato gen[...]inability to say anything in a public forum that hasn’t been scripted[...]* In fact, GM foods are more likely to be safe than conventional and orga[...]and rehearsed in advance. In this sense, the “Join Arnold” campaign Mary approaches the podium. In New Zealand, research is the main use of genetic modification, and is containe[...]Why? Because they are subject to such rigorous testing, and any problems are more likely[...]within a laboratory environment. GM has been used in laboratory work for about 30 years. 19 Colombo St[...]to be picked up in GM food than in conventional and organic foods.[...]The scene is from the aftermath of the Schwarzenegger for MARY[...]crops to finding out how genes work. 21 Ada Street $310[...]The Life Sciences website cites the United States and Argentina as two countries wher[...]Governor rally held an hour earlier in the Marriott Hotel Parking Lot. This is the most exciting convention I have attended in my No fruit, vegetables, or meat available in New Zealand is genetically modified, 6 Pirie Stre[...]Initially, my goal had been to cover the actual rally itself, except having political career. The problems we are in are complicated and although there is some use of GM in dairy products. Processed foods, such as margarin[...]* GM crops can reduce or even eliminate the need to use chemical sprays, as missed it, I had to settle for the aftermath. For this, I blame cars. Los are due to a lack of common sense, largely due to the Davis and soy sauce, which contain some GMO’s, may have been sold here for the past decade. 8 Pirie Street $300[...]resistance to pests can be “built in” – thus making GM more environmentally friend[...]hwarzenegger is going to bring In order for a food containing GMO’s to be sold in New Zealand it must first have[...]common sense back to Sacramento. Please welcome the next been evaluated by ANZFA (Austral[...]cation. Five Bedrooms plus sleep out The trip from Westwood to LAX takes about 12 minutes by car. The Governor of the State of California.[...]ages – some scientists even suggest it could be the[...](Australian New Zealand Food Standards Council). The food is evaluated carefully on a case[...]ional counterpart. answer to feeding the world’s population. 33 Marne Street $350 the fact that everybody here drives, public transport[...]superfluous, and the resulting smog is an acceptable compromise. Arnold approaches the podium.[...]Let’s keep the moratorium Six Bedrooms[...]ut luck was on my side this day, and as I entered the Marriott Close up on Arnold, smug grin, nod.[...]Hotel just to check it out, I chanced upon the biggest Republican political[...]These are some of the arguments used by people who would like to see the moratorium kept[...]In May 2000 the Labour Government commissioned an inquiry into ge[...]4 Lombard Street $300 event of the year that was just about to start – the California Republican ARNOLD[...]in place:[...]The Commission was given one year to do research and hear submissions from the public on 60 Joseph Street $300[...]* There have been some suggestions that the moratorium should be extended to[...]GM. The Commission reported back in July 2001, and noted that the submissions they 27 Andrew Young Street $280 Leadership. You would be correct to question the size of such a meeting,[...]given that the only Republican candidates for Governor are male, but it Deafening applause continues[...]eived indicated many people were comfortable with the idea of GM for medical purposes, 79 Savage Cres[...]would seem that the organisers of the event only considered this a Arnold gives ‘thumbs up’ to the crowd and nods twice but not for other purposes. Many of the submissions focused on the use of GM in food and 12 Joseph Street $345[...]nes and GMO’s can be unpredictable, usually not in first generation but in technic[...]crops. They noted that globally consumers are against foods containing GMO (genetically 19 Kn[...]ture generations. No-one really knows for certain how GM crops might act ten generations Walking through the doors of the Marriott Hotel was like ARNOL[...]convention is a celebration of The conclusion of the Royal Commission was that New Zealand should keep its down the track. Once GM has been released there’s no tur[...]that’s a mistake, let’s take it back” – the damage will have already been done. Some potentia[...]Bush for US$450, Republican women in leadership, and I think Mary Bono is a options open. While we should not turn our backs on the potential advantages of GM, we do[...]soon we will need to proceed with caution. The Commission stressed that the safety of the science behind risks include: 2/23 Joseph[...]his lunch ticket for $200. The atmosphere was building as Arnold was[...]GM is far from certain at this stage. It rejected the idea of a total GM ban at one extreme and 2/25 Jo[...]about to deliver a speech to the Republican delegates. I asked the old Republican.[...]unrestricted genetic modification at the other extreme.[...]“Not really,” he said. “There are cracks in the doors, but you couldn’t Applause.[...]The GM Moratorium[...]Following the Royal Commission’s report, the Government decided in November 2001 to * There are no financial benefits for producers by growing GM[...]d a “Join Arnold” stall nearby and asked them the You know, a lot of people have asked me over the past few implement a two-year constraint on the release of GMO’s. This constraint has become[...]same question. They concurred with the old man on the difficulty of weeks, “Arnold, why are you a Republican?” So I will tell you commonly known as the GM moratorium. Its purpose was to give New Zealan[...]not benefited from growing GM crops. The researchers suggest the same would be true of eavesdropping, and so I enquired about the speech that I just missed. why[...]ublican because I didn’t like investigate the potential benefits of genetic modification and ways to minimise the risks. New Zealand. There is also little demand at present for GM crops, so what is the point of[...]hat’s wrong with California now the impact of Communism in Austria. I wanted hope and[...]The moratorium will be lifted next month. and how he’s gonna fix things and stuff,” said the stallholder. And how freedom, and when I was 22 my dre[...]* The GM-free movement disputes the claim that co-existence is possible. Particularly[...]The moratorium means that no applications for the release of GMO’s can be[...]o achieve this? “Well, car tax has been tripled in the to America.[...]with one or two exceptions, such as GMO’s which are directly beneficial to they dispute the claim in relation to Argentina, where GM crops have caused[...]Cars and money - two things very dear the Republican When I came to America, and I remember in 1968 they had the philosophy. I argued for the merits of car tax on the basis that it punishes presidential elections, and it was Humphrey against Nixon. I from the Environmental Risk Management Authority, and this will apply even after the Jandal Application form.[...]weeks rent people for driving, thus decreasing the number of drivers, decongesting listened to the news coverage and what they stood for and what[...]king public transport more feasible, and reducing the their policies were, and every time I listened to Nixon and he The lifting of the moratorium does not mean that any one will have unrestricted If you are interested in finding out more about GM here are a few websites you might want to[...]ability to release whatever GMO they wish. There are still guidelines that must be met; and loo[...]s. into the atmosphere and leading to environmental catastrophe? But and strengthening the military’– it sounded like to music to my[...]- www.mfe.govt.nz/publications – the Ministry for the Environment website. this political blasphemy was not welcomed by the stallholder. “Please ears.[...]Let’s get rid of the moratorium[...]If there is one thing that we can learn from thethe Life Sciences Network is a pro-GM organisation.[...]it’s that a smile can get you a long way in the political arena. My smile he respon[...]am a republican,” I said. These are some of the arguments used by people who want to see the moratorium lifted: - www.gefree.org.nz – the “official” GE-free website.[...]was not one of happiness, but rather the remnant of a brave attempt[...]* GM food is already being eaten in New Zealand. While “live” food, such as - www.gmcommission.govt.nz – the Royal Commission of Inquiry into GM website. not to burst out in laughter at the pure ridiculousness of the Republican Applause.[...]s, can be guaranteed GM, it is impossible to give the same guarantee for processed - www.gm.g[...]- www.hsno.govt.nz – the website with information on the Hazardous Substances and in a politically charged environment where po[...]
	[...]“Arnold supports the woman’s right to choose, the state’s current family planning[...]nd has consistently voted this way… Recognising the traditional model of[...]monogamous heterosexual marriage as the only stable relationship upon which to build a so[...]nted as an acceptable ‘alternative’ lifestyle in[...]ght and Karl Marx is wrong. And when I hear about the Davis marriage, domestic partner[...]license bill, I am a Republican because I believe in the rules of While Arnold has gone out of his way in the campaign so far not to say anything, good[...]the law and not political pandering.[...]Sylvester Stallone and the Dixie Chicks, but as assemblyman Ray Hanes, a Con[...]said in an NBC interview last week, “Government’s no[...]ill. I will I watched Tom’s speech in the Imperial Ballroom and the dinner function was true to its[...]go to the legislators, and if they do not repeal it, I will go to the people and we will conservative roots. I[...]And following the Lord’s Prayer it came to pass that Tony Strickl[...]came to speak in praise of Tom. And he approached the altar so that the Republican people might The inside oil[...]I will repeal the Democrats 300 percent increase in car tax. I will decentralise education.[...]I will return money to the schoolyards. And I will make sure that our enviro[...]regulations will serve the environment and make common sense.[...]hear. And he informed the sinful masses, “I think this recall is a wonder[...]“Tom was the first person to talk about repealing the car tax. I believe that Tom is our[...]from car tax to pretty much everything we believe in.” The penultimate round of the Indy Racing League took place[...]And Tony’s praises were well received and the people rejoiced. “Go Tom Go, Go Tom Go” last Monday in Fontana, California. It was a race that was[...]they cheered. of incredible importance to all the drivers at the top of the[...]Now there was a certain man of the Republican Party of California and his name was l[...]Tom McClintock, the son of Mr and Mrs McClintock, and married heteros[...]could all but end a driver’s chance of winning the[...]be that he accepted this invitation to preach to the sinful masses. championship. To use the classic cliché, there was no room[...]politician would do this?’ And do you know what the response was? ‘A For Scott Dixon this was also very much the case.[...]ocrat of course, because abolishing car tax helps the working family to get to work in the However, he did not let this get to him, setting the third- As the year comes to an end and everyone starts to make[...]reconnected these voters to reality. fastest time in qualifying, behind Helio Castroneves and a[...]an refereed, cooked, and helped out at the Papua New Guinea[...]een mugged.’ Well, I can resurgent Kenny Brack. The 200 lap Toyota Indy 400 abundance of sporting distractions on the radar. Feck. The Independence Day celebrations. It was gre[...]tell you now, the conservatives have been mugged, and they have bee[...]government.” just the racing that was hot, but also the Californian with a 28-16 (my prediction) drubbing over the Panthers. And like touch, netball, and voll[...]And the people cheered, “That’s right.Yes Tom,” they cried. weather, with the temperature getting up to around 35°C. that’s forgetting the Rugby World cup and Premiere League without doubt the most competitive of the lot. Dodgy tackles, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If you want the Davis administration out, then And Tom said, “I will rescind the car tax, void electricity contracts, bring worker[...]ces have one key principal to success; it’s in all their glory. Right now I’m praying or conti[...]llywoods please join me. I love the Republican Party. down, and all this before lunch on the first day.[...]and I have to do didn’t take away from the good sportsmanship of the day.[...]“I will decongest highways by removing the diamond lanes, make sure the highway tax not about how many passes you make at the start, but[...]All the teams had a great time, and it’s just a shame we Pan out. Capture the tireless applause of the rest of the delegates in the room. is actually spent on the highways, and remove the driver’s license bill for illegal aliens.” how close to the leader you are at the finish that matters.[...]And the people cried, “Yes. Thank you Tom. Yes!” This was very much the case in this race. During the first[...]’t Well, that might be me for the year so good luck to know, the Blues are a celebration of elite athletes who manage[...]Next, in nothing short of a reverse of the Last Action Hero plot synopsis, Arnold walked out of the parents’ Thousand Oaks suburban house to find my mother sitting at the dinner table in tears. shuffling amongst the positions. Dixon’s team mate Tomas[...]to perform both on the field and off it in their studies. The TV screen and (through the doorway) into the overflow room where I was taking notes and watching ‘Why are you crying?’ I asked her. She told me that she[...]e her taxes were so high Scheckter was strong for the first half of the race, leading[...]allowed come shining through in those borderline papers[...]that she was losing all of her savings to the government, and she couldn’t live the life that she for a large proportion of the first 100 laps. Lap 75 saw the you’re taking. Make sure you vote in the bi-election to have[...]anted to. Her hopes and dreams had been stolen by the taxing system. Ever since that day, I first and only yellow flag of the afternoon; debris on the make sure you’re there if you’ve received word you’re getting your say in who takes over the reigns as Rec and Leisure an activistic person. We have to start with deregulation, bring the revenues back, and pay off the have been committed to reducing taxes fo[...]ing families, to help them reach their track gave the drivers a five-lap ‘rest’.[...]out his aptitude goals.” The last round of pit stops really saw the action let me say that the Blues committee pains over our decisions, -[...]And the people cried, “Yeah!” get into full swing. A[...]er’s inspiration (Nixon) and role model (Dubya) are serious reasons for And Tom continued, “Now is the time to roll back the taxes that are choking the working crew saw him get in and out of the pits two seconds quicker it’s just not possible. This ran especially true for the[...]lican who, if elected, will do more to liberalise the took 40 minutes to get to Downtown LA from Thousand Oaks. Now it takes two hours. That the lead, just ahead of Hornish and Kanaan. But Hornish pushing your clubs along, putting in the hard yards, and[...]Republican Party than anyone else in the last ten years. California was the place where I grew up, and I want it back.” was not to be outdone; a battle for the lead went on for apply next year.[...]The delegates refer to him as a RINO (Republican In Name Only) because of his liberal And the people chanted, “Yeah. Go Tom Go. Go Tom Go.”[...]stance on social issues. Arnold is in favour of stricter gun control, gay marriages and[...]Tom concluded his sermon by extending an offer to the sinful one of those wheel-to-wheel split-second finishes. Nevertheless, Hornish got the better of Dixon and despite[...]se whether or not she has an abortion. He is also in support of a proposition that[...]f their fortune and take out their frustration at the Davis administration by[...]stoning an Audi car with a sledgehammer. In jest, Tom claimed to have sought a French car, bu[...]ver and ever. Amen. Dixon’s best efforts during the final laps, Hornish managed[...]sailed sweetly; it flew with ease and grace over the heads of to the Warriors. However, the Raiders came storming back action in schools and the workplace.[...]hback with a sledgehammer, slipping to hold on to the lead and win by 0.35 of a second. What the green machine, and over the bar. 17-16 - Warriors win, faster than a[...]- Along with cars and money, guns are very dear to the Republican philosophy so it was over in the process, smashed glass lodging firmly into his di[...]other great finish. Tony Kanaan also kept himself in and once again Stacey Jones is the hero. So this leaves them all, and it was l[...]Arnold not to mention his views on gun control to the two rooms of delegates at the named after Democrats and political rivals. Ironically, last week a dozen SUV’s were vandalised the running with a third placing.[...]Family magazine, Arnold was much in Downtown LA by ELF (Earth Liberation Front) in an act that any Republican would consider[...]with two games to go in order to go one better than last year stopped time, missed two defenders and slotted the winning This is Hornish’s second win in a row. But this[...]more open with the stark contradiction between his acting and politi[...]“I don’t run terrorism, yet now the Republicans themselves are destroying the very cars they are trying to[...]and secure an amazing victory over the best Australia has to point. The crowd of largely free ticket holders cheered as the great result from Dixon puts him in equal first in the race[...]around every day with a gun in my hand. I want kids to understand the difference; one is make- protect from the dreaded car tax.[...]oked themselves a preliminary final date with for the championship with Helio Castroneves. Tony Kanaan[...]believe, like we do in the movies. But in reality I’m for gun control. I’m a peace loving guy.” It is madness in its very essence. Removing car taxes will not sol[...]In other sports action over the weekend, the NPC is the Panthers. In the other semi, the Bulldogs cruised past is seven points behind and still well in contention, while[...]eesy, pandering and maybe just a little naïve of the relationship between fiction and reality in If more people can afford to buy cars, t[...]hotting up, the table is as close as ever, and holy smokes the Storm 30-0, the Storm playing utterly terribly, making Hornish ma[...]alifornia, but at least it’s a step forwards to the political pollution and more smog. Si[...]Batman, Wellington are on top. But anything could happen, more mistakes than a learner driver on speed. The final round sees the IRL return to the Texas Motor[...]and public transport will reduce the incentives for using public transport and lead to[...]and with the All Blacks out, this is the most open and In this week’s NPC action, the shock of the round Speedway, for what is certainly going to be[...]And the editors of Californian Family magazine love Arnie[...]when North Harbour dicked Otago 49-18. North win the championship Dixon must finish well in the points[...]previous sponsorship of the After School Education and Safety Initiative and[...]Now these crazy Republicans are smashing a car that could’ve delivered a workin[...]easy beat teams are winning over more fancied opposition, Ha[...]f, and make sure that both Kanaan and Castroneves are[...]role in Kindergarten Cop. Going back to 1989, they mentio[...]and the normal benchwarmers are getting their chances to had too much z[...]Bush to head the Council on Physical Fitness and “stumped in all 50 states at his own expense.” praising the Iraq war), and making anti-French claims whilst s[...]trut their stuff. This style and unpredictably of the First still hung over from their tremendous win against But as the chicken and the egg pointed out earlier, not everybody loves Arnie. After the international business and globalisation. contention. Dixon summed things up very well after the Division has not be seen since the advent of professionalism, Canterbury.[...]delegates departed, I walked back through the portal into the parallel universe outside the Marriott And now for a commercial break. The following is an actual flyer distributed by Tom r[...]and hopefully can only raise the bar in terms of talent and Wellington[...]eld challenge by Hotel. This time I bumped into the Code Pink activist group who were protesting agai[...]skill in New Zealand rugby.[...]But back to the Warriors and their uncharacteristic Howell helping inspire the yellow and blacks to be top of the had apparently been held within Arnold’s view during his speech until the solo covert activist had www.m[...]performance over the weekend. Normally they throw the ball table. In fact Northland seems to be the only team performing been ushered out by the suits.[...]b member [Go figure.] as if he is certain to stay in the IRL at this stage. There around with the greatest of ease, but in the first twenty poorly; they lost to the Bay of Plenty, who piled on plenty of There were six of them in total and one of them male - I couldn’t be comp[...]Send at least $100 and become a member of the 10 million dollar club [Go figure again.] have be[...]e a chance. Canberra held possession points in their 42-27 win over the Taniwha’s. whether or not th[...]Send at least $20 to become a member of the 20 million dollar club [Seems like the best which may allow him to still compete in the IRL. Dixon[...]quotes mouthed by Arnold over the last three decades. Recently, they caught Arnold[...]rattled up ten easy points, with Simon Woolford, the Auckland - inspired by Danie[...]h threats - romped over Southland in a clinical display of attacking Chip Ganassi Raci[...]id or have nothing else to offer’, which may be the case many Make checks pay[...]throughout the week, hopefully answering his critics as he football. Braid appeared everywhere on the field, justifying The Aussie V8 schedule has been set for next year.[...]is Warriors team has more his selection in the 30-man squad. The New Zealand round will move to ANZAC weekend, whi[...]They had fished something up from the 70’s referring to a gang bang with a female[...]And, oh yes, Canterbury defied the odds and kept the Phillip Island round will make way for a race at the[...]oseurs at Venice Beach. Arnold told The convention ended with a series of parties, which[...]Toopi tries, and rock-hard defence from the Shield again, shrugging off the Waikato challenge. Blair, new F1 circuit in Shanghai, China. This race is subject to[...]the LA Times this week that this had only been a joke[...]invited delegates to “swing back to the Golden Era of California” with him, blatantly c[...]the man-mountain forward pack of Gorilla-Santi and[...]cking was superb, and Mehrtens, played with skill the new track being completed on time though.[...]he is living firmly in the past. On the flyer he bribed the first 300 people with a free mug. Next[...]Faumuina. At the half it was 10-together, but then the flying as they retained the Log in a 35-24 win. Go the Warriors! Until next week…[...]e politicians and detract attention door, the California Grass Roots Leadership Committee offer[...]Fa’afili plucked a ball out of the air and dotted down - 16-10 - Geoff Williams[...]away from their policies. Two of the three main left-wing candidates for Governor were[...]lican congressman, But the biggest party consisted of about forty uncoordina[...]f Republican legislators having affairs, going to the Supreme Court to defend his[...]ell pornography, and then marrying a sixteen year old stripper.” Cruz Bustamante comes had to cancel acting in a sequel to Collateral Damage in order to fulfil his strenuous campaign[...]Answer the question on the left, attach your details and Larry Flynt pulled out of the race a few weeks ago and Arianna Huffington is polling like As a foreigner, one of the most disturbing aspects of the convention was the Californians[...]unning send it in to CHAFF by 5pm Weds. Entries limited to ONE[...]she did too, leaving the left united behind Democrat Cruz Bustamante if the Recall is to be Republicans’ ni[...]t successful in ousting Gray Davis. However, the Republican vote is divided between Arnold said, “with Arnold driving a Hummer, Arianna in a hybrid and McClintock smashing an Audi,[...]A Rec age ID at the CHAFF office when collecting your prize.[...]Schwarzenegger and Tom McClintock, leaving Arnold in a close second place to Gray Davis’ California are defining their campaigns by vehicular styles.”[...]lieutenant. This is the reason behind the “Let us unite for victory” statement repeated at the end the Republican campaign trail shows no promise that L[...]om McClintock, a traditional Christian family man in his 40’s and slightly goober-like But the Democrats have fumbled. The Californian budget has dived from a $15 billion[...]in appearance, is the absolute antithesis of a RINO. He is a Conservati[...]t during their term, taxes and unemployment rates are at an[...]ding is dwindling. As with most elections, voters are faced with a[...]pride in being the first Californian senator to suggest completely doing away with car tax, the decision to make the best of a bad ballot list.[...]same car tax that was increased threefold by the Californian Democrats in the 12 months. So While Schwarzenegger faces criticism on the basis of womanising, abortion support,[...]enthused by car tax is he that it has formed the basis of his campaign slogan: “Tom McClintock:[...]udent id#: Stop the Car Tax. www.helptom.com.” him the power to force many Republicans to abandon their[...]Tom’s views on social issues are well captured in a brochure put out by the California lines. But like his u[...]
	[...]that - the Mexicans sure do.[...]I see your point. Auckland is full of dorks, and the rest of NZ is full of hillbillies[...]on, with it’s weird drug culture). Sorry if you are none of the above, but[...]generalisations are hip these days.[...]y for court costs. We messed with Ag-research and the[...]About 60 of the school’s Year 13 accelerated students[...]will sit up to three university papers in a pilot programme[...]hen will people learn, protesting doesn’t work. The courts don’t work, especially when[...]The students will be those who have sat bursary in[...]many secondary school students around the country study[...]burn and destroy stuff. Actually, I might leave the fun stuff till after the moratorium gets GE[...]treatment. The papers will be incorporated into their[...]curriculum and lecturers from the Palmerston North campus[...]will go to the school to deliver some of the programme.[...]m is some silly organic hippy type. Both sides of the argument[...]Thethe story. All you hippie’s,[...]way to keep top students interested in their last year at[...]time or where exactly in the building it is, so more details will be probably[...]it is a win-win situation for the school and the university.[...]down at the very cheap cost of fuck all (gas). So if I can st[...]The school will be able to retain top students for th[...]year, and the university will have an opportunity to introduce[...]There is a notice in the Ecology Building about it too.[...]“We both have the same aim – to encourage By Mike Ushaw[...]want to get involved with protests, activism and the[...]like, then get in touch with other like-minded individuals at: http[...]excellence in these young people and keep them here in[...]The subjects will be limited at first to English, maths When the moratorium gets lifted you will probably hear no[...]and science papers, which will be studied in addition to the louder than words). Until then you are going to be bombarded with propaganda. Get used to please get in touch with me. I’m keen to help and I know others who may’be too. Go up to the[...]programme. It won’t cost the boys anything to do the papers or strap a bomb to your chest and take[...]because the school and the university will absorb the costs, worker bees or wage slaves are there). Heh heh, McBoom! Sorry, I shouldn’t jok[...]s thwarted university attempts to The students responded with a shouted “Yes!”[...]followed by”“Leave, leave, leave!” as the councillors filed out. The university has many arrangements with[...]ny depressed people believe that being ‘sick’ in some way can A contingent of eight students forced the cancellation Following the meeting, Mr McCutcheon said he did secondary schools in its wider catchment, including GE FOR RETARDS[...]drugs. I believe that throwing little of the September 17 council meeting, which was likely to not think the meeting had gone well.[...]imed at encouraging top students Because money is the language of greed and humans are greedy c*nts, I will say this in $ gre[...]eon’s “I was disappointed by the conduct of members of to continue on to t[...]In fact, it will ultimately make the situation worse. Treat the recommendation to raise fees by three percent. the public, most of whom were students. I don’t thi[...]symptom not the cause, eh? That’s what farmer-suit-to-kill Chair Rosemary Barrington tried to call the meeting appropriate to shout down people who are exercising their measly scientific grant from[...]companies do best. In 1999 a study called ’The Changing Rate of[...]ression, Cross-Cultural Comparisons’ found that the[...]to order half an hour after the meeting was scheduled to[...]After the meeting was disbanded the councillors,[...]wing shortage of GE free food. This means that as the rest of the world is poisoned, our GE free food gets more[...]higher the level of economic development, the higher the incidence[...]of depression. The study involved 39,000 participants and was[...]carried out by the American Medical blah blah blah.[...]minus the two students representatives, retired to an adjac[...]the possibility of conducting a future meeting withou[...]participation. get a reasonable increase in profit seems like a good thing, right?[...]the crowd. Ms Rochford indicated they would listen to any After the meeting 15 students occupied a university NZUSA has welcomed the government announcement that[...]TIMES ARE GETTING TOUGH NOW[...]$240 million in interest charges on student loans has been •[...]o make. building, but the occupation ended peacefully after four[...]rack open a cold one, spark up a fattie and crank the sounds.[...]written off and are calling on the government to take further they have $ to burn. Also, the rich bastards will not want to eat common food like the[...]Ms Rochford said, “Do we want to be quiet so the hours.[...]steps to make the loan scheme fairer. rest of the pions in their smelly, dirty, polluted, GE infested stink hole. If they are really[...]meeting can be conducted in an orderly way?”[...]“The no interest on student loans policy was a good[...]The crowd responded by shouting, “No!”[...]start, but students and graduates arethe meeting - Salient and CHAFF[...]changes to make the loans scheme fairer and address the and you know you can’t go anywhere else, coz the world is fucked”. They will. If we jack[...]ause they’re not willing to have a debate while the[...]iction, but a spiritual one. It’s an alarm that the organism is in[...]one of the key drivers of high student debt – lack of access to up the price coz we have to ship it a long way, this will mean only the stinkiest of the[...]protesters are here. Is that okay?”[...]wances,” said Fleur Fitzsimons, Co-President of the richest will be able to afford it, and so the[...]Carducci & Zimbardo: As we approach the limits of our abilities to deal with the complexities •[...]great deal of our most wealthy consumers, Japan, the EU and of course the Yanks, who don’t want their own shit food and c[...]indeed, we are seeing both - a polarisation of behaviour in which we see increases in both Research needed to save Maui’s[...]market interest rates to the government,” said Ms Fitzsimons.[...]ression, marked by a general loss of manners, and in withdrawal.[...]Prozac (+generics): The world’s most top selling drug.[...]endangered Maui’s dolphins if we are to have any chance of dolphins, and if that happens New Zealand will have the allowances, there would not have been[...]M: Drug use also indicates a fundamental flaw in reality. Our society needs help.[...]r GE needs to be stirred up. As it gets closer to the time, more people need to be Harvard Res[...]ammal expert dubious distinction of being the first country in the world to[...]o become “Labour has now been in government for four years informed of the blatant blunder that is uncontrolled GE (ie not in a lab). Obviously, the sociability and general loutishness.[...]and student debt has doubled in that time. A living allowance general Joe Dumb Fu[...]it; or worse doesn’t D. Korten: We are all caught to some degree in a downward spiral of deepening alienation. Dr Duignan, Director of the New Zealand Wildlife extinct. Wouldn’t that give the Japanese something to sling[...]rs lapping up Our quest for $ widens the gulf between our selves and our family/community.[...]students do not have to borrow from the loan scheme to pay their agri-chemicals and shit. Look at all the cock ups that come about when you hastily[...]we currently don’t know enough about the Maui’s ecology to meeting?”[...]properly protect them. He says that while the Government Dr Duignan is part[...]ng has introduced bans on set net fishing in what are believed concerns as the pathologist who has undertaken post-mortem[...]phins since November 1997. His team holds in 1999 but the Government has had four years to back this[...]their root causes. Or worse, having to entertain the idea that some problems simply have no[...]tractor do a third-gear line lock (skidding up on the solutions…[...]l to and from on a daily a contract with the Department of Conservation to find the[...]in areas cause of death of dolphins that are found by-caught or beach- “How long do students and their families have to spot[...]of GE? Will they cover damages AB #30: In post-modern life, more environmental variables than ever are mucking with our for breeding, or whether certain areas are critical for foraging cast from both the North and South Islands. by eco-terrorists? Certa[...]“Seven of the ten Maui’s dolphins submitted were[...]“How can they be properly protected when we don’t[...]know the answers to these basic questions?” Dr Duignan floating at sea. Of the beach-cast animals one had definite AGBOY IS A FO[...]entanglement pathology – that was the presumed cause of Have you heard of the term ‘niche market’? Do they teach you that in Ag? Or do they just Think about the journey, not the destination. We are born; we will die. What lies in-between[...]’s not as if we can catch them all and put them in death – and a second had lesions suggestive of a similar fate. teach you to fuck up the environment as fast as you can in order to gain a profit before it is up[...]some fenced-off lagoon and have them reproduce in a fully We think three or four of the ten died through fisheries becomes too fucked to grow anything? The cunt that invented DDT got a Nobel Prize or some[...]ure what I want to do for a degree, let alone out in the big wide world of modern[...]tat they need interactions.” shit, I bet the poor bastards in Vietnam got no prize (unless birth defects are considered consumerism. I just wanna[...]information from the type of research we’re doing now.”[...]rk What about resistance that builds up in the pest population? Oh yeah, just up the anything job-like.[...]nan says this work has not yet been done in a more concerted manner to determine what habitat[...]go on - tell us your story dosage. GE is not the same as herbicides you say? GE will mean no herbicides? Both are Think about all the old people who used to do certain jobs that are now obsolete. damaging to the intricate structure that is ‘natural life’. W[...]Thanks to our modern healthcare they are still around today when naturally they should[...]provide the answers.[...]? Put all that useless farmland into cities. Poor old Agboy, just like the rest have been dead long ago. But what do all the old folks do? The world is so different now. All[...]their skills and experience are going to die with them. How many of you even talk to old Look at overseas examples of GE causing havoc. Look at the US, look at Mexico. We people? They ha[...]nce that we will never have. I feel sorry for all the can see it going wrong! We don’t need to guess,[...]sake! A elderly people rotting away in rest homes who could share a million years worth[...]red to produce ethanol was found to kill all life in the soil. Luckily, with us but never will. Their family probably doesn’t even visit them that often. How sad. it wasn’t released (or they said it wasn’t). Imagine all life in the soil being killed off? What are It would have been much slower back in the day without as much stressful shit your cows gonna eat then? Rocks? How much will it cost to mitigate that? You fucken’[...]k. Most people work more than play. Fuck that. We are Conventional breeding is more natural t[...]als or plants can’t all slaves to the all mighty dollar. There is only one way to truly free yourself from the evolve fast enough for you then it’s probably coz they aren’t meant to. Are you just too $ capitalist bullshit and financial conformity, it’s not pretty, in fact, it’s not even legal. I guess hungry, impatient and ignorant? Why are there so many antibiotics used on farmed animals,[...]…McBoom! especially pigs and poultry? Is it coz the animals areare bound to Note: I’ve had a few good mates choose the easy option, or the cowardly way out, depending happen in their very unnatural environment. Many organic farmers don’t even need to use on how you see it. It’s not pretty, and I know others who have had mates go the same way. It antibiotics coz their animals are healthier. Compare organic chickens with barn rai[...]entional ones. Have you ever seen chickens raised in a barn? They look like shit. Have even though the going gets tough sometimes, you have to ne[...]
	[...]Over the next few months StudyLink is introducing some[...]and make it easier for student to get the help they need. The general idea of the club is to make Massey[...]will affect small groups of students. The changes apply from understand the needs of firms in industry. We need to meet[...]their expectations by providing students with the necessary[...]Here is a brief outline of the changes to be made:[...]to do project in order to get experience, running seminars or[...]of interest to both students and industry. While in[...]the process of providing these things to students it[...]industry will benefit as well, in both the short term and long[...]part of the year may be eligible for a student loan.[...]The inaugural event of Massey Connexions is a[...]- The Student Work Start Grant will be abolished from[...]ner at Diablo’s next Monday, October 6, at 6pm. The[...]for the standard Work Start Grant.[...]- Around 500 students could be eligible for the new Step[...]backgrounds. Applications for the scholarships will be[...]“Many business people from the local business[...]community are expected to attend the dinner, so it should be[...]He added that if the event was successful, other[...]similar events will be organised in the future.[...]Tickets for the dinner can be purchased from[...]Results from the 2003 Durex Global Sex Survey released last[...]o-thirds (63 percent) of Kiwi women Performers at the Papua New Guinea to[...]This is well ahead of the global female average of 48 Independence Day cele[...]A new literary arts journal, based in the Bay of Plenty, is to faked an orgasm.[...]be launched in November this year. Bravado will be published The survey also reveals that frequency of sex is on the celebration, which was held in the Massey[...]bi-annually and act as a show case for the wealth of writing the decline, with the global average falling from 139 to 127 Events Centre on September 20. The actual talent that exists in New Zealand. times per year. Despite this global decline, Kiwis are still date of PNG Independence is September 16. A team of three, the Bravado Editorial Collective, ahead of the global average and, most importantly, we’re[...]will produce Bravado between them. The Co-ordinating Editor beating the Aussies.[...]ooks, articles, short stories Kiwis are having sex on average 130 times per year, Help fo[...]and poems published in New Zealand, the UK, and America.[...]compared to the Aussies at 125 times. Almost a quarter of[...]mber will also take over as newsletter editor for the NZ students[...]e than 150,000 people from 34 countries took part in[...]which ‘Decision Time’ was held last Wednesday in SSLB. This and her first nove[...]ait was published this provides an insight into the sexual attitudes and behaviour was a chance for f[...]reviews. of people around the world. staff and senior students to discuss their[...]rom all four colleges Poetry Editor. Owen was the featured poet in the most recent fantastic to see Kiwis obviously[...]“Perhaps sex could now be classified as another the forum was well-attended.[...]sport we’re beating the Aussies at!” The Massey Young Farmers Club took advantage The editors would like to hear from contributors, The more serious findings from this year’s Durex of the fine weather and put on a barbeque for students[...]fax (07 Global Sex Survey will be released in late November to coincide outside SSLB.[...]The Massey University Students’ Association support[...]This Friday October 3 at 10am in Refectory 1 the University[...]make a difference, believe me, you can. The more students[...]who simply turn up put greater pressure on the Council to[...]consider the people their decisions will be affecting.[...]
	[...]Back in the gay:[...]A Deviant guide to the highly recent past In results announced on September 19, Auckland Unive[...]students voted to retain voluntary membership of the[...]I’m not going to be burnt at the stake. I can’t hold my partner’s hand in public, but I’m not going to jail. I re[...]d for compulsory. At disappointed with the result.[...]nnoying stuff, but it’s Auckland Unitec the result was somewhat closer - 1955 for[...]or torture, and we all know who’s going to win in the end. In our country, homophobia is volunta[...]joining the ranks of sexism, racism and xenophobia as just So[...]an’t talk about This is the third time Auckland students have voted gradua[...]rugby all the time.[...]to remain voluntary. Auckland University is the only Mr Kelly went on to say: “The recent decision by the So society’s changed over the last few decades, which you should have noticed. For the majority of the university in New Zealand to currently have a voluntary University to increase fees significantly, and in some cases population who are heterosexual, this change consisted of moving fro[...]n. past the fees maxima, shows the need for a strong,[...]students association membership, said the vote was great AUSA President-el[...]the hurricane’s on fire, and there are vampires, and also the sun is going nova. You know...big.[...]The queer cultures that grew and, in a way, thrived in an environment of hatred and paranoia have[...]me and their own body will continue to champion the rights of students as it[...]withered away with the advent of acceptance and tolerance. Broadway musi[...]said Glenn has since its formation in 1891.”[...]Hankie codes and private languages? The actions and beliefs that were common yesterday are puzzling Peoples, Student Choi[...]and bizarre to the youth of today. Which is a bit of a shame, becaus[...]rs’ right to freedom of membership was in 1999. 8807 voted to retain compulsory[...]join an incorporated society. Get in contact with us if you have “Ooh, vada well the omee-palone ajax who just trolled in - she’s “Revolutionary lesbians see[...]got nanti taste, dear, cod lally-drags and the naff riah but what a[...]The spring-fresh MUSA Executive report! Back in the 1950’s, being gay wasn’t much fun. In the relationships (capitalism, imperialism[...]UK - and indeed, in most of the Western world - you could be oppression...) are eliminated.”[...]- Revolutionary Lesbians 1971, How to Stop Choking to Death or:[...]The last MUSA Executive meeting was held at 3.30pm on[...]Friday, September 19, 2003, in the Student Centre NZUSA conference. The report was accepted with one Email:uniq@musa.org.[...]ctroshock and hormones. People didn’t just stay in the closet, Separatism[...]they nailed the door shut and burrowed into the back wall. One of humanity’s greatest and dearest pleasures was in danger of Lesbians as wild-eyed[...]ters, as far-leftist • Andrea Grant, the MUSA President, chaired the[...]Are you concerned Notice Board:[...]taken away from tens of thousands of people, but in the end the desire to fulfil such a basic urge was much too s[...]presented the report and answered questions. She[...]listed TWFG and Women’s Fest as her highlights. The about rising fees?[...]Ninya Maubach, • MUSA corridor - look for the bright[...]completely separate from men. The movement increasingly came[...]What to do? How can sit with a friend and talk about[...](Alex Shipkov and Ross Williams). Alex presented the colours. last night’s fun or eye the passers-by when being overheard could un[...]will take place at a meeting of the University Council.[...]report and answered questions. He said the primary The University Council is the highest governing body UniQ box:25 in the MUSA corridor. put you at great risk? Why[...]y series was a highlight (secondary of the university. It is made up of three student[...]essentialism. The movement eventually became a bit of a joke, and • The minutes of the meeting of August 29 were accepted won), also the Hokowhitu Ball. The report was[...]The origins of Polari probably lie in the 19th-century[...]• The inwards mail was accepted and the outwards mail •[...]al staff representatives, and people appointed by the[...]Yet the movement attracted many people and accomplished[...]Minister of Education. The Council meets once a month. Meeting are held every Tuesday at prostitutes and beggars, and it also has links to the older[...]im and Karai Taukarai). Joel The first part of the meeting is open to the public, MALGRA (turn left and up the stairs vocabularies of other stigmatised groups or outsiders such as much. For the first time, people who had been largely • There were no matters arising from the minutes. presented the report and answered questions. The and students are welcome to attend. MUSA would like to see[...]ieves’ cant, cockney rhyming slang, Yiddish and the lingua franca disenfranchised felt empowered to fight thethe end of Jersey Lane).Please[...]vernment, religion, society, family, and culture. The had been doing for the past week.[...]as many students at the meeting as possible.[...]• The Executive passed a motion extending its deepest At the time of writing it was unclear what the Council note that sometimes meetings are If you liked the look of someone at the theatre, you might movement did indeed end[...]sympathy to Joel for sacrificing his foot for the MUSA was intending to do in regard to fees. held at other locations so keep a[...]hey were academic fields, and raised the consciousness of their •[...]MUSA President Andrea Grant says the university eye on the web-site/Deviant page straight they woul[...]• Financial business: Adam Maynard presented the[...]is in a good position to keep fees stable, or even redu[...]questions. Her highlights for the quarter were the financial report for July, which was[...]to an extent we cannot imagine today. There is an old play, written Tertiary Women’s Focus Group (TWFG) and the NZUSA[...]“Massey is in an extremely healthy financial position, Can’t make the Tuesday night[...]having made a $16 million surplus for 2002. In July this[...]s very useful. It was also a way of poking fun at the[...]September conference. The report was accepted with The next Executive meeting will be held at 3.30pm on[...]about his plans to rape someone. When the play was written,[...]year the surplus was at $9 million. Massey has a solid Uni[...]Friday, October 3, in the Student Centre Boardroom. All reputation, and the free advertising that would come from Too far,too[...]callousness horrifies people so much that the play’s practically never[...]being the first university to actively reduce fees would be[...]presented the report and answered questions.[...]you informed of the latest happenings at MUSA.[...]academic field concerning a minority was inspired in[...]that the Council can see the people who are affected by their Wednesdays.[...]part by the efforts of radical lesbianism. Women-centred reli[...]cca have brought solace to hundreds of thousands. The[...]The Council meeting will be held in Refectory 1 at[...]CHAFF: Breaking news while the others break wind[...]lives. The movement may have been flawed, and it may have[...]but it never deserved the reputation it’s earned. Considering what[...]n acronym for Not we owe it, continuing the laughing disrespect seems a betrayal.[...]worster: no worse. Nanti pots in the cupboard: no teeth.[...]Queers of the future unite! TO DEVIANT:[...]So where are we going? What will the 2040 edition of Deviant look[...]back upon? The Queer Pets Movement? The National Party When[...]It Was Straight? How GE Saved Heterosexuality? Anything’s deviant@mu[...]Some days, I hope that in the future all the queer newspapers[...]Having a friend who prefers the same sex will be just as significant We want your[...]has having a friend who prefers blondes. The antagonism between send in anything to our e-mail Hanky Code[...]heteros and homos will be just as dead as the antagonism between[...]tc. So we’re back in the murky past, and queer sex is a taboo subject. what? Having an end to all the stupid squabbles would be nice. Even in the shadier parts of town you’d barely be able to h[...]Other times, I hope that doesn’t happen. The queer community,[...]as a community, is such a recent development, yet in the short First-timers: handkerchiefs in your back pockets, and spreading the code to time it’s existed it has gone through astonishing changes. Having If you are new to UniQ then please others, so you can advertise to those in the know. Once that it fade away, existing only in the memories and notes of historical e-mail us.We can arrange for system is in place...well, might as well keep expanding it, right? scholars seems a bit sad. Variety is the spice of life, and it would Today the Hanky Code is dead, except for perhaps a few plac[...]where it’s done mostly for fun, but in its day you could dedicated to pushing away queers, I think we’ll drift back into the you over coffee so you can ask communi[...]es and fetishes, all norm, blending in even more than we already do. It’ll be nice, to[...]any differences that anyone cares about. But then the is helpful so when you come along[...]ll come around, and we’ll just have to roll out the queer Colour Worn in Left Pocket Worn in Right Pocket culture and take over the towns. I mean, come on - who else do to the meetings you know[...]you want in control of the parties?[...]Single seeking couple Visit the Deviant web site[...]
	[...]aid $1! And I think we proved our point; “Are you violating my lighthouse?”[...]toys out of the cot![...]STUDENTS’ OFFICER: The official newspaper of the Massey[...]the last couple of weeks,[...]about how hard MUSA works[...]and how little we achieve,[...]Khabar? We are Shun from[...]care, and about the constant[...]Ecuador. We have been in New[...]years; lived in the hostels last[...]year; and are currently[...]On October 3 in Refectory Corey Taylor[...]and undergraduates, are faced with many issues that need[...]domestic students. The Fees[...]reject the notion that[...]to be addressed and dealt with. Among these, the annual[...]Freeze implemented by the NEWS EDITOR[...]students are apathetic. You increases in international students’ fees, which affects mos[...]Labour -led government of I’ve got ants in my pants[...]are an educated minority,[...]of us. With regards to this, we worked with MUSA in building[...]arguments against the increment of international fees,[...]qualified or informed to care than you. The fact that so often whereby the final outcome was favourable.[...]the voice of student opinion is ignored in favour of financial[...]advantage, and that your rights are sold for profit, comes not[...]complacent. But the time for[...]Fuck mate! Only two more to go! Changes are being planned to undergraduate laboratory space[...]MUSA, in the College of Science.[...]inform students of the situation. are constantly ignored by this university, and your a[...]An interim report on the planned changes suggest[...]tell the University that they chaff.adv@musa.org.nz[...]Two forums were held on September 17 and 19 ––the can only do so much. It’s our doze[...]have the experience, capability and desire to work as effe[...]that many of the existing labs are too large for the class sizes[...]first was just for students, the second for students and members hundreds, and the truth is, most of the time, they win.[...]representatives of you guys. The only thing we need is your using them, and the hours of use during semester are too[...]of the project team. MUSA’s VP Education, Simon Carrye[...]low. The report said there is a need for fewer, shared[...]The University is sitting on a massive budget surplus[...]made’a submission to the project team with students’ concerns.[...]have your vote of confidence and are appointed as[...]The final report on the project was released last Our staff[...]within those labs that are retained.[...]this year, so are by no means struggling to provide education It’s doing my head in.[...]ding making more lab now and then, in small ways, and sometimes in big ways, we[...]The interim report suggests the development of two[...]ACTION. If you believe in keeping education Ph: 350 4516[...]Mr Carryer said he was pleased with the changes in towards our goal, the empowerment of students.[...]affordable, SHOW IT. MUSA will lead the charge into chaff.design.ed@musa.org.nz[...]the final report, but noted that it is important students are My point? This week is fee setting week. At the[...]located in Ag Hort C, and Science Tower D.[...]Refectory - if hundreds of students pile into the building[...]consulted during the entire planning process. time of writing, the University still hasn’t told us what they[...]From here, design of the new laboratory complexes will plan to do with fees, but by the time you read this we’ll know.[...]NO WAY THE UNIVERSITY CAN IGNORE US. Massey states[...]begin, with work due to start next year. The project is expected At Vic, student protests stopped a meeting to raise fees. The[...]of which postgrads are vital part. We deserve a fees decrease![...]If you like more information on the planned changes don’t know what’s[...]environmental science, animal physiology, animal anatomy,[...]This is the first time in three years that this will be Contri[...]happening, as the fees freeze is being replaced by the fee Benn Addington[...]z. the government give this university money to provide[...]MUSA has been liaising with the project team on the[...]education. Every dollar that the University doesn’t spend is[...]fees are outside the maxima, and can rise by up to $500 per[...]course per year, or by more with permission from the Tertiary Santiago Bermeo[...]the surplus the University has been running, this can seem[...]Education Commission. It is especially important the Hannah Brown[...]are running for the position of[...]Protest works. Don’t let the University get away[...]Dr J Wanna be the big boss Let the campaigns begin[...]Although Fee Maxima was officially launched at the[...]last budget speech, the University has not had any set[...]ines to begin fees setting until recently because the[...]government was pressured by students to change the policy[...]Fleur Fitzsimons Applications are now open for the position of New Zealand[...]In the MUSA general elections in August no-one stood[...]for the positions of Recreation and Leisure Officer, Inte[...]on university fees. YAY STUDENT ACTION! The downside[...]and I also in my second year[...]sity. I’m currently studying MedLab Science. We are[...]what the University is planning to do on October 3 - this[...]The positions of National Women’s Rights Officer an[...]ation will only become available four days before the[...]meeting when the agenda is disseminated.[...]Massey arse). Our main aim will be to support the diverse[...]Therefore, we don’t know exactly what the Michael Harvey the first Co-President, were filled at the NZUSA Conference in[...]adequate funding and use of the facilities available. We also[...]Tini Tuisau won the Pacific Islands Students’ Officer, and Kelly[...]year for everyone. University’s arguments are that they will use to try and defend[...]want to make sure that Massey will retain the shield at the[...]MacDougall the Maori Students’ Officer. Assignments are piling up any proposed fees increase. It is possible that the University Ko Shun Lee be reached on the second Co-President position.[...]University Games 2004 in Otago.[...]The by-election next week will elect the Recreation and and exams are not far away. proposes an increase in line with the Consumer Price Index, Sasa Lisovac[...]Any students’ association member can apply for the[...]We are both actively involved in sport and feel we[...]I hope in amongst the work or inflation. However, some very good[...]Standing for the Rec and Leisure position are: Mieke[...]xual Abuse Centre Applications for the position must be received at the[...]nvolved with sport at Massey, which also includes the[...]it was Women’s Fest last the tremendous marketing spin-offs that would come fr[...]fice of Kensington Swan Barristers and Solicitors in Wellington[...]Standing for the International position are: Yosia Pratama week, well actually, by the not increasing domestic fees. Rebe[...]John McIvor The election, which will include all of NZUSA’s mem[...]More information on some of the candidates (the ones[...]For further information contact the returning officer,[...]question? But we are the Women’s Officers and it’s not part MUS[...]concourse. Thanks to all the women that participated in international postgraduate fees at the current level - no Ross Stevens[...]breaking down the stereotypes about what women should[...]women in overalls and gumboots. Mahu dressed in her PJ’s, If you have any s[...]BA majoring in Classics and[...]d of to get off your chest, please use the postgrad email loop Edrei Valath[...]the way she looks even if she has just got out of bed[...]there was Mel and Mere who dressed in their rugby uniforms graduate@musa.org.nz[...]– proving that women are just as tough as men. And there - Ninya[...]I’ve been working in the Jevon Wright Steven Youngb[...]recreational industry for the[...]so I’ve had a bit of experience in this field of work. Currently[...]Also a big thank you to the guys that volunteered[...]and helped out during the week. The awesome guys that DISCLAIMER: The views and ideas expressed within[...]cooked our BBQ on Wednesday and who took part in the Candidates for Recreation &[...]udents, have two part-time jobs, am Treasurer for the[...]rag section of our beauty pageant with MUSA Exec, the[...]CHAFF editor, the MUSA accountant and Rohan. You all[...]ng to cut back next year so this position would are not necessarily those of CHAFF[...]be perfect to keep me busy in my spare time. staff, the Massey University Students’[...]me, so I’ve come up with the following: associated advertisers.[...]really hurt!). WORD OF THE WEEK:[...]were the first in the world to get to vote. But at the same[...]
	[...]as published its enemies. This is what we in the West are being Fighting fee increases[...]failings, not our ‘feelings’, as was printed in[...]FROM THE LEFT[...]I was lucky enough to be with a The murder of Coral Burrows has touched everyone Economic hard times are always hardest felt by Poten[...]ria regardless of their political persuasion. The mistreatment those at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder - Maori.[...]s recently when of anyone is appalling, but the mistreatment of the young Maori are disproportionately represented among the child Are we r eally ready for this I wonder?[...]ryone. they forced the cancellation of a and the elderly - society’s most vulnerable - fills us[...]Select Committee has The United States of America (USA)[...]abuse figures. In order for effective change to occur we need[...]recommended the Supreme Court Bill proceed, tends to have a bad reputation in left wing circles[...]to look at the links and start there; poverty is a major[...]sed to put their fees up. On the day it was announced that Coral’s body[...]d to abolishing these days. However, there are many examples[...]problem, addressing it is essential. While times are for many[...]ood reminder had been found we also learnt the shocking truth that New[...]appeal to the Privy Council. The main argument of how the USA still leads in the world.[...]ogether Zealand has been ranked as one of the worst countries in they gave in favour is that we need our own One of these comes from one of the[...]and stand up for ourselves, we the Western world by UNICEF (the United Nations children’s[...]d be rid of any USA’s top universities; the Massachusetts[...]permanently blighted during the economic and difficult times[...]chieve agency). After New Zealand, only the United States and[...]of the 1980’s and 1990’s. Families lost jobs, income[...]Team Massey, winners of the 2003 NZ University Games.[...]at’s nearly its entire programme online in the form students, but[...]and the skills to cope. This combination resulted in While the details of Coral’s death have not yet been[...]. of OpenCourseWare. enrol in the future. Students at Vic were fighting against mor[...]angry, as well as Here’s the thing: what we’re seeing is This runs counter to the market drive[...]Spot the FIVE deliberate differences between the pictures below, student poverty, bigger student l[...]not just a new court but a foundational shift in ethos of most other universities and trainin[...]dent. It is also no accident that it all happened in the The abuse of children needs to stop – but it can[...]add your details and get them to CHAFF (upstairs in the student times. We were fighting for the Council to act responsibly and[...]the basis of our constitutional framework and institutions around the world. MIT hopes that[...]Wairarapa – an area known for its poverty and, in recent only change if we as a society l[...]years, its abuse of children in particular. These helpless[...]young victims are, in part, the victims of our country’s abuse (of co[...]go in the draw to win a case of sugar-free V! Multiple entries are to raise their fees, they have had a funding incr[...]inherited from the British (Westminster) The OCW (OpenCourseWare) site now the rate of inflation for next year and they have had[...]mic restructuring. Child abuse is not confined to the families and certainly not all poor famil[...]en). Addressing poverty within our communities is the battles between the powers of the monarch and for curriculum development and self-study. in the previous three years as well. All institutions sh[...]The UNICEF report also notes the fact that New first step in addressing child abuse.[...]as a rolling publication schedule, from those who are least able to pay. Zealand was only one of four countries in which the death No more children should die unnecessarily; we have parliament. The English Civil Wars (1642-48), releasing batches of new courses on to the rate had actually increased from the 1970’s. It is impossible a responsibility[...]f our young and for example, ended the old belief among MITOCW site on a weekly basis. At Vic, the Vice Chancellor was trying to raise fees[...]- T o check out MIT’s OCW web on the most ridiculous logic – he said that because the[...]violence and abuse may be able to make some in-roads, but that they could do as they wished without the programme, just type in a search engine MIT government increased funding by three percent that the[...]mepage, http://ocw.mit.edu/ institution should do the same to student fees! One has to[...]ballooned and extreme poverty worsened as the poor evolved, the monarch came to be more of a index.ht[...]to play of looking out for the little ones, the ones that can’t[...]became even poorer. People are responsible for their actions[...]parliament. There is no doubt that the quality of tertiary education – but an increase in social stress and trouble makes it far - H[...]ng, would benefit from further funding increases. The New Zealand[...]clearly separated, even though the highest University Students’ Association always[...]official of the Anglican Church (the Archbishop I’m involved in a drama performance that I have to fund our degrees properly and ensure that we are getting a genuinely world class education.[...]The skinny BENN’S ADVENT[...]in China[...]of Canterbury) crowned the monarch. That was[...]written. The problem is that the cast seem to be[...]lay into something However, those with the least ability to pay – students[...]above the state to which all mortals were that I hadn’t intended. Their ideas are cool and - should not fund such improvements to quality. When a Broaching the topic of China is a difficult task. It is such a close the shower room door. We have managed to jack up a[...]with makeshift shower curtain, however. The other freaky thing symbolic, but it’s an important symbolism in some way. I don’t want to offend anybody case to put fees up for next year. While modest, the three the language and unfortunately the town we live in isn’t is that the water is very irregular and at that oh so crucial concerning the nature of authority: the Deity - though. What should I do? percent g[...]the Church - the Monarch - the Government (the - Bertolt Pinter[...]g our current dry so to speak. With all the talk about showers and toilets people’s[...]and the potential exists for an abuse of power. Dea[...]you may be left thinking - what about the sink? And indeed, We already know about the disastrous affects of high[...]you would be right - what about the sink? We use a bucket[...]to wash our hands in the toilet and as for tooth brushing,[...]round and our economy and society. Many graduates are going overseas,[...]ur apartment is actually two adjacent dorm rooms. The well, we have two balconies that eac[...]oing on to postgraduate building we live in houses both students and teachers. We use commas because they are loosely what I suppose can - M[...]one! study because of their student loan burden. The Massey have been assigned to the fifth floor. The view is pleasant only be described as sinks. The kind found at campsites[...]ersity Council needs to show that they understand the but without an elevator extremely hard earned. There are where hordes of people do their washin[...]ehave responsibility and ensure that student fees are characteristics, as well as squatters. One houses the washing and the odd night. This, although a little on the bizarre side,[...]machine, which is missing the tap adapter and must be filled[...]Why is it so hard for the world to understand be right, but that al[...]can be quite pleasant since the morning breeze is a very Massey is planning to set its fees in early October. manually by bailing water; a[...]you can’t negotiate with terrorists? How much can try a third way? There are always three ways![...]er, Matthew Evetts been assured). One is the laundry, another the toilet with[...]e we On one hand you can tell the cast that[...]acknowledge the Palestinian ‘peace process’ has your ideas are right and that this is how things mirror and the last is our shower. It is somewhat[...]failed? How many more little children and old will be - disregarding their opinions (ba[...]schizophrenic in nature but I am slowly growing accustomed essential since our TV only shows two channels, entirely in decreases.[...]ave to be blown up by evil suicidal you are right and they are wrong). But you say[...]However, their power to ensure student concerns are[...]maniacs before we say, ‘enough is enough!’ How that they have some pretty good ideas and[...]The squatter is an unfortunate side effect of Chinese[...]o double as a listened to is directly affected by how many students are[...]much longer are we going to be told this is just perhaps they could improve on the production[...]ables, iron and a yet-to-be- backing up what they are saying. You can make a real difference[...]a ‘cycle of violence’? Can’t the UN, USA and even (like your brother always wo[...]when one is either pissed or very tired and the ominous purchased coffee table (finge[...]let them have their needs met at the expense of in this process by becoming involved. Go into MUSA a[...]our own government see the unfairness of it all?[...]possibility of falling in crosses the mind. enough, and while n[...]see your own (once again - basically that they are to volunteer. It doesn’t matter if you’ve onl[...]Our shower is the kind that runs through a gas keep clean. in the media concerning the so-called Middle right and you are not; that their opinions count - Fleur Fitzsimons[...]heater on the way to the faucet, falling somewhat short in - Benn[...]the water pressure domain. It’s very nerve racking[...]effects decisions made by our The first way is what we would call with the possibility of leaving the gas on and being unable to[...]or example, ‘aggressive behaviour’, the second way is ‘passive T-COSY[...]s with murderer Yasser behaviour’, but the third way is assertive Hey all,[...]Arafat. The murderer was the only one who[...]Since the beginning of the Oslo[...]behaviour - your opinions are important and[...]theirs are also important. Sounds easy in theory,[...]but is a lot more difficult in practise for all sorts The end of the year is quickly approaching, and to celebrate[...]of reasons (it reminds you of how your brother[...]Accords in 1993, Israel has fulfilled all of its the hard working peeps at T -COSY have teamed up with[...]commitments to peace: to present the year’s largest LAN event this side of the North from accepting the ‘normal way of things’. Although there - Given the Palestinian Authority control over that this play you put so much effort and time Island. On the weekend of October 4/5, we will be running T - Recently while surfing the internet I spotted this quote from are many challengers and doubts, it can be done. Just take a the West Bank and Gaza Strip. into[...]SY 187, a 24-hour (or longer) LAN event, where we are a man named Bill Micklitz that explains things brilliantly in[...]look at the achievements that people with disabilities have planning to have up to 187 machines on the day! only a few words. “H[...]nds. anyway?). We are going to end T -COSY this year on a blast; by[...]made recently in this small country alone to understand.[...]name (multiple entries are not accepted)[...]After that previous comment, here are some positive - Released prisoners who have been Assertive people are honest about charging T -COSY and MDK members $5[...]g free pizza for all that turn up; as way, the tradition known as disability doesn’t seem as[...]against the Jewish state. want to do an[...]ilities don’t have everyday concerns and issues in their we are still learning, but this is a different (better!)[...]peace and harmony with the Arabs. Try this - struct[...]massive Desert Combat competition, a clan battle in Counter-[...]- Provided arms and ammunition to the be what we call ‘I messages’. It[...]lives, because we do. It is the created institution of disability looking at life. The comments in brackets are mine. Strike (possibly the last time it will make an appearance at a[...]evaluating) the action (when you suggest[...]campus T-COSY under the HL1 engine), C&C: Generals, Raven Shield,[...]- Continued to negotiate in good faith despite[...]nearly 19,000 terrorist attacks in the last changes to the play) and then saying how you hearing of people planning to come from Welli[...]This ‘something else’ is in actuality a culture of • You learn to pri[...]ceptance. Traditionally, this has been related to the • You develop enhanced self-awarene[...]reate - It has placed itself in a position where its but I really want this to[...]can organise seating, security, and food. If you are[...]3: Coisage appears on interested in attending the greatest LAN that the Manawatu WE are brought up accepting the situation for what it is in (anybody with a disability will tell you that overall we’ve - For the sake of peace Israel has offered part play anym[...]our world. Now in the 21st century, this acceptance is in the become more resistant to pain and painful s[...]of its own sacred capital city to the Arabs. Make some sense? Obviously i[...]rability. Although not as all pervasive • In the sense of moving in two worlds – disabled and non- -[...]that, Israel even gave harder to do in real life than it may seem, so[...]as the conventional form of acceptance, this also affects the disabled – you are bicultural.[...]ary@tcosy.inspire.net.nz and you can be placed on the[...]one of the counsellors? We can help you identify[...]make-up of individual world-views. We are accepting that • You learn the value of time and of letting things take time. the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple mailing list; you can use this address too[...]Mount. the feelings and look for ways of dealing with[...]we need help or assistance either all or some of the time. • People remember you (this seems to apply regardless of information about the event.[...]What has Israel received in retur n? these strong feelings. We can[...]Kate Sommerville This is the LAST T -COSY of the year, so let’s make Our lives are virtually determined by the next major issue, whether the disability is hidden is not; also, people don’t[...]Bloodshed. Nothing else. The more Israel gives, play how to respond (after all, you are an actor,[...]often clouding our individual hopes of success in whatever your name as quickly either). the more violence it experiences at the hands of so we can use the skills you already have).[...]Good luck - and send us tickets to the nothing booked on Sunday - let’s go longer and[...]opening night marathon of it! Enjoy the rest of semester, and hope to see you be so[...]- Student Counselling Service, 350 5935 all at the best LAN this year! The folly of this culture and its grip on the opinions • Finally, you develop a sense of hu[...]and ideals of many people is borne out in the above quote by matter of opinion. tcosy.in[...]Micklitz. For the individual, it is a tough battle to break[...]
	[...]columns Letter of the Week Women not only deserve equal pay; we university weeks in a year, using a round weekly reading off a[...]s Week - stupid or trying to fool us? are entitled to it. The campaign for equal pay for[...]are essentially asking for $922,368,300. Oh...[...]Thirdly, the ‘critics’ are the Christian Quality vs warehouse prices[...]hieved. subtract the 387 million thethe lies[...]Jeffreys, who are opposed by mainstream[...]FROM THE RIGHT[...]Some have used the argument that Massey has[...]been reporting strong surpluses in recent times, so it doesn’t[...]against women too they told us. Either they are stupid, or they think for the EUB. That’s pay for those of the 161,819 safety for female sex workers. This week brings the darkest week in the University calendar need to increase fees. Anyone using this argument actually we are stupid.[...]who can’t find work over the summer. Since I Fourthly, without prostitution law in terms of student politics. Fee setting occurs thi[...]men would and a small group of students are going to get on their high[...]accounting information tells us. You cannot take the sausages, fundraising for their (?) well...[...]work over the summer... or even less... let’s say have c[...]ollective horses and argue and protest in an immature fashion for institutions reported surpluses in isolation, you need to “The student loan scheme womanhood I guess. The sausages were almost To Whom It May C[...]is grossly discriminatory as tasty as the gay Pride Week’s sausages (where I am a[...]unregulated suggests will occur anyway. The week before last Victoria plans and its[...]against women,” according was the mustard, women?). Not only did you a[...]n informed that a spirited need to add the demand that they abolish fees of prostit[...]meeting because students began chanting in an attempt to should be sitting at the Council table! the grand title of the This was fine except for some of the lies they debate regarding the causes and consequences and forgive all student debt to this ridiculous Queensland in the early nineties, where solo told on the back of this note. of the events of September 11 has recently d[...]escort work was the only permissible form of[...]disrupt the meeting and not allow it to take place. A mature Students are not going to come to Massey simply[...]National Women’s Rights This note on the back has a list of graced CHAFF’s page[...]Officer for the New Zealand ‘facts’ under the title, ‘In the year 2003’, but From the apartment where I live, I can overall student numbers are full time. Let’s psychotic punters, o[...]it is doing heaps of advertising. Students are going to come[...]Students’ these facts could not be further from the truth, walk approximately 300 metres to Pier 1A Park apply this to ONLY the number of university its involvement, etc? In the past, Massey Council members that have[...]Association. with all the facts created from data two to four and overlook the borough of Manhattan. A week students, even though the percentage of Since whe[...]by students quality academic programme in the area they wish to pursue, This statement years old. and a half ago I walked out into the park on university students who study f[...]blic policy that leads to violence during the actual meeting, and called everything from a[...]ke potential Vets, they will come here because of the sent me scurrying to the “NZ women’s average hourly pay rat[...]statutes. Do more women is only 84 percent of the average hourly pay rate New York City and s[...]ned down for loans of NZ men” - This comes from the Average Hourly in the sky and nothing more. I then walked w[...]Mainstream New Zealanders need to who are happy to accept a small increase in fees to ensure connections, closer to home or the life style, but this does[...]e Supplement from 2001. This through the park and looked at all the miniature percent, which equals 70,764 stud[...]up and prevent democratic participation the quality of their education is maintained. In discussions not by default mean they are not interested in receiving a apply for loans, do they is over two years old, yet the women claim that shrines containing personal information about the average cost per student per year in fees is from being hijacked by unrepresenta[...]a wide variety and large number of students over the quality education.[...]have to prove they are male this happened in the year 2003? the people of Hoboken whom died on that day $4,000, so the amount NZUSA is asking for there sectarian[...]junk last week this has proven to be the case. In reality, an I recognise that there is an argument to freeze fees in order to qualify for borrowing? “The pay gap between men and women two years prior. The pictures and accompanying is $283,056,000, on top of the $1,754 million science and imported rhet[...]for another year, but I suggest to you the facts show that Not at all. According to the logic (or illogic) of Ms with tertiary qualifications is bigger than the gap text regarding the souls was relatively standard that the government already spends on tuition[...]and competitiveness in the employment market to any great Massey needs to increase fees by a small amount for the Belich, student loans are discriminatory “because of our lower between men and women with no qualifications” fare. The people who died on September 11 were subsidies. The sum total that the protestors are - Craig Young[...]2004 year to maintain the quality of education we, the silent lifetime earnings, we take twice as long as men on average to - This ‘in the year 2003 fact’ comes from a mother[...]ds. They had quirky traits and were the $2,141 million the government already[...]The facts are Massey’s council is considering a fee majo[...]ent loans and pay nearly 20 percent more for done in 1999! I’m sorry, but this happened four,[...]opinions grow-up a little this year and attack the issue, not a bachelor’s degree becaus[...]student and a maximum of $106 per the people, in a mature and appropriate fashion.[...]it like saying toilets discriminate against facts are still valid then maybe they should be life. In short: the victims of 9/11 were like you else see this[...]ws and provoke some student, depending on the study programme a student is[...]ess. and me. The only significant difference between You can understand why the government doesn’t debate but I feel it must be said. We are hearing completing. This is a maximum increase for the institution, fees, the facts tell us it needs to occur, so show some[...]rage - five minutes longer than men “The average female bachelor’s the people that were described in the still listen to the radicals anymore. in the news and around campus that the across all students, of $2.75 mil[...]iptions And while I am on the subject of government is to review stu[...]do get slagged by immature and are missing out on xx amount of dollars in our working life. her student loan than her male[...]was a ridiculous claims, let’s examine the claim that allowances. People are saying that life is real Fees have been frozen for four years! So in real uninformed students for supporting f[...]iminatory This is “According to calculations by the NZ difference in latitudinal and longitudinal women sh[...]ecreased! Massey needs to be remember the silent majority of students respect the against men because they lose interest and ability much university students”. How is this possible? I orientation on 9/11/01 and nothing more. men under the UN Declaration on Human in debt and feel like they’re shitting razorblades; given the opportunity to make up some of this lost ground, fact that you are prepared to stand up for what is right earlier in their lives, whereas women are up for it well into am a NZ university student, I have been for the I have been to New Zealand and I Rights. I thought the Declaration was about well I’d like to say that this need not be the case and given current government policy it is not like they have (or at the very least, what you believe) and are concerned their eighties, so women g[...]even involved, let enjoyed my experience in your beautiful country equality, not preferential treatment? In case I if people got off their arses and d[...]anyway. about the quality of the education we receive. of pleasure in their life span. alone awar e that we were doing[...]ensely. Today I write am mistaken, I think the Declaration says time work. I ask you; are you more concerned about saving[...]email me on My arguments are, of course, silly. So is Ms Belich’s. calculati[...]n’t be held as a fact, as particularly in regard to the rather provincial something about not bein[...]another $100 or about ensuring Massey has the funds carlbates@xtra.co.nz. If you are going to disagree with me But that didn’t stop her taking her case to the Human Rights firstly, the source can’t be verified correct, and notion that the United States of America is discrimina[...]es, support research though, at least do it in a respectful fashion. Commission in Wellington. “We are taking the claim on behalf unlimited amount of bias can exist. Also, how composed of a homogenous group of peopl[...]myself for working do NZ university students know how long it takes collectively bear responsibi[...]of all women who are disadvantaged by the loans scheme,” to pay a loan back? We haven’t even got our been expressed in your publication. If possible, violate the Human Rights Declaration? Women on the piss or socialising by any means, but the one? I know I’m in the latter group. - Ca[...]I would like to dispel the notion that the people are completely legitimate in saying that it is fact of the matter is that no degree requires[...]This quango should be called the Human Wrongs “Apart from the gender pay gap there of the United States are a group of George W. unfair that men mak[...]Commissariat. For a start, student loans are not a right, they is also an ethnicity pay gap.” - This was taken from “association using the Iverson model - association with what? The life span of blue[...]country contains the people of Patterson, New Jersey, that danced in the streets on 9/11 in[...]for the same job, but does creating another[...]skewed system contribute in any way to solving[...]the problem? Work harder on equal pay[...]during the year, let alone what they get between[...]The infamous debate[...]are a claim on someone else’s right – the taxpayers’ right to[...]keep their money so they can pay for the education of their[...]celebration and the equally deplorable persons[...]students are able to partake in full time work.[...]Tertiary students like Ms Belich are the privileged elite. Their[...]claims on the state do nothing to advance the situation of me angry that women are parading around with the 9/11 attackers. We have people more liberal[...]which if everybody did would reduce the need[...]s, and yes, we have arrived at that time of year. The In recent weeks, New Zealand has been in mourning for the those who will never reach the gates of a university because outdated and flawed facts about how they are than Ralph Nader (a gentleman who disl[...]for student loans and subsequently the whinging treated. Maybe they should put some effo[...]nd soft porn. Yes, my killing of six year old Coral Burrows. The Wairapapa has they’ve never lear[...]these getting up to date information and finding the probably fathom) and people more conserv[...]what you could make in a part time job while loyal rednecks and confused left wing pieces of shit, the Ag dealt with chilling instances of violence against children in youngsters are women. Ms Belich doesn’t speak for them, sources of their data so we know they are telling than Pat Buchanan. In short, the US is the Frida,[...]e vs Vet Debate raises its ugly “head” at the Teachers College recent years. The senseless killing of yet another pretty[...]laiming she speaks for “all women disadvantaged the truth. epitome of diversity and the notion that our Nobody responds to my d[...]Auditorium Friday October 3, 7.30pm. The topic - chosen by little girl has deeply disturbed us all. by the loans scheme.” I fully support equal[...]d more than once. - Don’t Blame the Government and argued for by the Vets - ‘THE GRASS IS ALWAYS What are some of the troubling issues? Obviously, One of the reasons why these young people are don’t get me wrong. But I think women should[...]ction that requires that we Including you, the Bull Ring has received, over[...]the first is the total vulnerability of children. The impish illiterate is because today our education system is obsessed be offended that they are being misrepresented all - innocent victims and soldiers of war - share the two semesters, a rather cumbersome amount[...]The Veterinary team will be captained by the grin, bright eyes and tousled hair[...]From the Left - harden up you pussy “debat[...]Belich’s so-called discrimination case, at the expense of are dumb enough to believe these useless, the 9/11 attacks is absurd.[...]ng basic literacy skills. outdated facts, or they are stupid enough to For those[...]Frida; you have Hey Andrew Campbell from the Left, them this year. The Ag team is out for revenge after the The killing of Coral Burrows has occurred at a time[...]to Ms Belich’s grizzling, and think these facts are still up to date. This makes as American rhe[...]have to say. Have you had your head stuck in a cream can[...]that’s to dump the loans scheme altogether. When my four[...]ial, Irish Catholic Veterinary lecturer in New Zealand when the Church and broader society has me wonder if they[...]desserts,” I would like to quote However, the difference is, I can still have a for some time now mate? If so, let me bang the[...]hildren were little, and squabbling about who got the most[...]awarded the Vets a win in 2002. This was much to the been reflecting on the welfare of children in our care. “Born - Middle Class White Male[...]can with a hammer. Your article in last week’s[...]antipathy of the Ag team, and all present that evening knew to Us: Children in New Zealand” has been the theme of please forgive me if a few lines are incorrect as I By the way you are wrong again. CHAFF regarding police inconsistency on the[...]that the agricultural students had annihilated their opponents national Social Justice week; Our Children: The Priority for put all the ice cream back in the freezer and no-one got any. Congratulations Whitey! Come up to the CHAFF write solely from memory which t[...]grounds of Parliament was far from correct. The[...]been appointed as Policy was published by the Child Poverty Action Group. Both “Th[...]three. Ben Carmicheal, as far as I know, was in police were so consistent in their actions it was[...]d, entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the running for MUSA President – isn’t he almost laughable. the evenings adjudicator, as even the agricultural students stress the relationship between poverty, unemployment and[...]the continent, a part of the main. If a clod bee studying BBS? I sign of[...]e no baton-wielding realise a good laugh on the piss far outweighs the bias they violence against children.[...]is washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. A problem with society today is that police confronting the protestors because the will have to face.[...]But wait... what about the case of Mark Lundy? He like children, t[...]be treated accordingly. It might suit some people in society to believe that As well as if a promon[...]spect for farmers and what they The Ag boys and girls have a stronger team than[...]he Women such as her let the side down. We might be claims about the gender pay gap are lies, but the manner of thy friends or one of thine own were. along these lines in your last reply to me. Why do for this cou[...]ore (and that’s saying a lot). And as they have the too was convicted of murdering his wife[...]e, but we’re not stupid, evidence is that women are still discriminated Any man’s death di[...]negative on this topic, Agboy has full faith in them being course we can all cite other[...]weak, pathetic creatures who must go bleating to the against in many aspects of our lives. involved in mankind. And therefore never send opinions and they should be heard. The majority anti-war, GE, student, or even animal rights successful come the evening of October 3. The prep sessions happening to us? Are we glimpsing madness here? Touching[...]ngs ain’t fair. If you don’t like The fact that women take on average to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.” of the columns in the Bull Ring this year have protestors like[...]have been well under way for over a week in the security of the mystery of evil, perhaps? the loan scheme, go and get a job and leave your space in twice as long as men to repay their student loan[...]enged political correctness, and that I am are looking after their and this country’s “pasture and crop lecturer” James Millner. And like the 2003 The killing of an innocent little girl has the ability to tertiary education available for som[...]s it. is a figure based on average borrowing from the - Daniel White[...]is country with All Blacks, success is the only thing on Team Agriculture’s raise awareness about personal and social dysfunction in its Anyway, women will neve[...]because we are infinitely superior.[...]aspects: social, political, cosmic. income data. The model used for determining[...]Agboy has only one gripe. The Vets need refrain We all want people in positions of power to act the repayment time is based on the Iverson Model. How much money? like you wou[...]ir diploma students to responsibly toward the most vulnerable in our midst. But Most of the statistics we use are based on census than hide in the closet. What do you[...]ffer? Fuck get on side. Agboy challenges the Vets to gain some integrity we also want to empower people in desperate situations to government policy, tradit[...]out of the whole affair and play by the rules which clearly take charge of their[...]en if NZUSA had morning and saw all of the graffiti relating to[...]Ther efore, back to the police state: Section 13.2.23 “A d[...]d to undertake widespread and accurate the “Protest at the Fitz” on Saturday, I wondered Feminists condoning violence against consistency. The police were consistent in the post graduate student and lecturer sourced from each To take the first step requires that someone is on research on the gender pay gap as of the day how much money this protest was really about.[...]men? fact they left the farmers alone, as they have programme will represent both sides respectively. Note that the other side, with arms outstretched, eager to embrace you, before suffrage day the gender pay gap would I mean, if the students are asking for a little bit[...]ose any digression from this rule results in a penalty of “$100 willing to accompany you on the journey to wholeness and still exist as it has since the first woman was paid for any work. Even the Government has recognised the existence of the gender pay gap, of money, then the government would be silly[...]rabbiting on about the Prostitution Law Reform[...](1980) real value” on the bar for the team abiding by this[...]healing. This type of social action is not simply the[...]The challenge has been set. So see you all there. Everyone in government, education, housing and health care and in 2003 they established a Pay Equity Taskforce to deal to the gender pay gap and with tertiary students in 2001, according the Ministry[...]hether a Scientist, Socialist or Nationalist, you are all invited[...]must make their own “preferential option for the poor and[...]in Black a mandate to establish a five year plan in order include the 204,640 who were part timers. We did no[...]If not, there will be more Corals dying of abuse in to do this! If the taskforce succeeds at this, I will of course must subtract the 26,750 international Zealand and New South[...]New Zealand and, little by little, the heart and soul of our be very surprised, as I am[...]really cares about and Secondly, oh, how predictable, the Christian with a baton.[...]despite a fictional Right is using exactly the same tactics that it - Agboy[...]Tertiary Chaplain middle class male’ know that the suffragettes fee freeze. That leaves us with 161,819 Kiwi, did in New South Wales just after the passage Typology ca[...]full time students, since I assume that the of liberalised brothel regulation laws[...]7.00pm. we still don’t have it (according to the government, Universal Allowance would ONLY app[...]id, this Part timers might be considered, but the figures or her events are actually transpiring in this city,[...]oubles. would give him a more realistic timeframe in are too hard to work out from government[...]Loads of sounds after debate. which to view the gender pay gap. published statistics. That means that in 38[...]
	[...]scoff at the idea that the arts, for example, should be an[...]Editorial, President, Letters, Spot the[...]science, OS is the original. The EDITORIAL[...]the point. The concept of abstract learning, of questioning[...]I think one of the problems we have in today’s world is that life and the way it is lived, expressed, and experienced, is[...]u can only fill So why doesn’t the our leaders and teachers are useless. Don’t get me wrong, fast becoming an old joke. Gone are the days when students up from the company you bought it off - at ten times the Government support OS, which we all have lecturers who are brilliant and inspire us to learn, broadened their minds by going to see their fellows at the normal price. The bonnet is padlocked and only the company can save money, facilitate local but how many of you have had a lecturer who was merely[...]has the key. The car has a black box that could record your[...]A lecturer who honestly couldn’t majors are widely seen as a joke. Poets are wankers.[...]car use history, including conversations you have in expertise and of fer greater[...]k at college, Shakespeare is one of the best screenwriters in Hollywood… 11 Feature[...]it, and could transmit this information to the company. In security control? That is a sure the teachers were all nice people, and some of them Nowadays, the majority of us see such things as[...]addition, you pay an annual administration fee to the[...]question the Green Party is asking. There is a global shift[...]company, you’re not allowed in certain suburbs at the risk of our Government doesn’t seem to be too clued up. When I ask for the cash.[...]your car shutting down, the locks are relatively easy to break them about it the answer is usually, “um, we think it’s good[...]id. To admit that we shouldn’t Selling the drama - The Festival of New Arts[...]and representatives from the company can pull you over at but we keep[...]r garbage. Our be living off the backs of Third World labour and resources[...]Once concern at the moment is the Microsoft politicians? The government blatantly lied to students to win[...]Government Security Programme (GSP). In order to alleviate[...]your vote. The leaders of the free world? This is getting ludicro[...]If you’re a Microsoft user, these are similar to the unease about system security, Microsoft has a[...]The previous generation really let us down. They[...]f with our Government to allow analysis of the Microsoft source Tertiary students these days are getting vocational passed on a world wh[...]There are alternatives. There is a growing interest given Microsoft in exchange or how much this is going to for someone else.[...]round profit and spend. They broke the vicious cycle of thinking. The Manawatu Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre Stadler and Waldorf in non-proprietary, open source (OS) systems - the most well known being Linux. What’s the difference? Well, according to the open source society (www.opensource.org), one you[...]A new development in this area is that one of the[...]And now, to top it all off, what are we doing for the[...]fill us in on drug rape[...]a job so that you may live a good life and pay the bills, but their education. We don’t[...]standard certification equal to Microsoft’s. The US Federal what sort of people are we becoming? The answer is can get a job, we[...]comes down to the source code or the programming recipe Government has approved the use of this system for Pentagon commodities. No longer do the youth of this world go to about t[...]used for creating the operating systems. With proprietary[...]university to become better people, to learn the wisdom of - Corey Taylor, chaff.ed@m[...]software such as Microsoft, you don’t buy the code, just the security can be reassured. In any case, most virus writers the ages, to learn how to think. The fact that a lot of you will Stadler: It’s hard these days, being old, the heat really gets to me, just walking up the stairs gets sweat dripping down[...]The reason they do is largely the same reason that[...]I believe that it is in our best interests to move[...]Karma to burn - Leeroy Gribbon examines the[...]al property right, but were reasons. Because the programs are usually more streamlined, PRESIDENT Waldorf: The amount of liquid you left on the chair at lunch, driven by the pursuit of knowledge and a desire to add to the they can be run on smaller hard drives, maki[...]nt@musa.org.nz I suggest your crack was more like the Tasman Sea than a swimming pool. Although based on the smell it could easily[...]sum of human knowledge. The commercialisation of science affordable[...]ed to be functional, not marble, and we have been the Vet Pond.[...]s fee setting time! This Friday October 3 at 10am in Refectory need to be able to justify the investment. But Massey University[...]A Wedding in Ramallah and Mike King Tonight[...]corporate control and profit rather than the well being of 1 the University Council will be deciding on your fees for 2004! is in an extremely healthy financial position, having m[...]u want to make a difference, believe me, you can. The more Stadler: My sweaty pits made my shirt look l[...]ion-dollar surplus for 2002 and at July this year the surplus 21 Books In the same way the domination of the desktop (and[...]udents who simply turn up put greater pressure on the Council tie-died shirts those hippies used to wea[...]to consider the people their decisions will be affecting.[...]The Other Boleyn Girl and The House of God[...]This university is in a very healthy position and there Massey as the university that values teaching research and Wald[...]e years of fee freeze 22 Video and game park by the Rec Centre? Stadler: The gravel pit, looks more like the surface of the[...]are in a vulnerable position, as the government has not included[...]them in the ceiling it’s put on potential university fee ri[...]are quite aware of prices of courses now, as we see m[...]Here are some of the facts and arguments from MUSA institutions. Massey has a solid reputation, and the free Extinction moon to me, craters the size of the acne scars on your old[...]advertising alone - to be the first university to actively reduce prune face[...]finances are unimportant when an intimate relationship[...]nd orange juice to excess at parties. hangs in the balance. Your life gains more purpose and meeting. This is the highest governing body of the University risk move. Waldorf: I end up with more dust on my car than is on the[...]epresentatives, upper - The government has increased funding to cover[...]gally Blonde: Red White and Blonde and Lara table in an elephant’s crack house. I wouldn’t mind, o[...]nancially it’s a low risk Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life have to remember to look for a black station wagon at the[...]and people appointed by the Minister of Education. to re[...]3. They constantly use the word ‘awesome’. sees the importance of relationships and he too desires an[...]• The first part of the meeting is public and students their voices heard as they we’re excluded from the guidelines[...]5. They are still wearing their nametags (“Hello, my name[...]are welcome to attend. Students NEED to come and support the set out by government (fee maxima) and there are no assurances Stadler: You cantankerous old prick, you own a white Civic![...]student representatives who are fighting for fee reductions! that post[...]now • This month on the agenda of the Council meeting student protest and submission can lead the government to Motorcycle Club, and Ni[...]6. They are semi-formally dressed and buying lunch at Pak-[...]is domestic student fee setting for 2004. The meeting will be change the decision that if the University wants to increase[...]fe. It defines who I am.” Being a held in Refectory 1 starting at 10am, this Friday October 3. postgraduate fees they need to run it by the Tertiary Education Stadler: What really riles me is the parking. You would think 7. They are the ones outside the pubs serving hot drinks Christian – a Christ follower - defines who you are. Being a Student reps won’t know what recommendations Commission if the amount was over $1,000, down to needing to[...]Christian is about being in a relationship. It is not primarily the University will be making until the agenda comes out about[...]s or regulations. It is a four days before the meeting. research and the Performance Based Research Fund adding a park pro[...]dimension to university funding, and highlighting the need 9. They are the ones driving the van on the piss trip. who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love the Students’ Association reps when they fight for[...]10. They know where the Chaplaincy Centre is. him an[...]justification for Students have the right for the University to justify Dr John asks: What wou[...]11. They don’t say the words ‘twenty-first’ and ‘yardy’ in the relationship that God wants as much as we nee[...]s have had some fabulous successes lately, the decisions made at the Council meeting. Make them look knows women are bad drivers, they cut each other off[...]you in the eye when they set your fees and determine how much while parking and it leads to a fight. In summer it looks[...]The government announced that they would set some[...]28 Feature like two hens in a dust bath, but in winter it has real[...]Is it you or your mate? According to the Jesus Week Survey relationship with God? limits to how high student fees could go, presumably because[...]Mike Ushaw - Not fucken GE again appeal as the gravel pit turns into a mud-wrestling arena.[...]results published in CHAFF Issue 21, over half of us associate - J[...]Victoria students were so unhappy with the proposed ourselves with the Christian faith! What did the results say[...]nd lower debt through lower fees is a way to keep the skilled in fee increase of three percent that they attended the meeting Stadler: Maybe that’s why they cut down[...]a Christian? Just one short comment If you are keen to talk further email or meet me up in New Zealand. Research has proven that t[...]rong and protested so loudly that the meeting couldn’t take place. planning to put up[...]gh debt and leaving New Zealand; those The Council needs to see that there are huge numbers of[...]nd any questions about spirituality or of the Church or[...]to stay. As a direct result student reps; the arguments will be backed up by a loud student Meet the candidates[...]when Christians that could be addressed in this column of student protest the potential for fees to rise by up to 40 percent[...]there is a hint of a relationship around the corner. Your please send them to m[...]was smashed and the government was pressured by student[...]dents.org.nz action to lower the ceiling to five percent.[...]ns for their expenditure 32 Columns Waldorf: As the heat goes on the clothes come off, lots off lovely young girls wit[...]Scrutiny and justification of expenditure in areas such[...]infrastructure are key. What makes a university is its staff and[...]Stadler: I guess I will be spending a lot of time in the gravel pit then.[...]k every thing is Waldorf: Why is that, you random old fart? okay, it isn’t. I[...]the name of hormones. Yes, we need them, but in short they Stadler: Well, you reckon I am a dirty old man, I figure if I are capable of ruining your life in the short term. spend enough time in the gravel pit after a while I will get so[...]eel sorry for me, label on all women. Most of the fairer sex is afflicted by this take me home and[...]e baths all the Cosmos in the world can tell you how to minimise it.[...]horniest; yet your chances of getting anything are zilch. I[...]ercise. Don’t eat sugar. Add to that: avoid all the men in Stadler and Waldorf: Oh nurse![...]your life; don’t look in the mirror or you will think you are[...]feel the sudden urge to rip clothes off and demand bedroom[...]ne to pick with men when it comes to this time of the month.[...]well what it is like - I fit in the box with women who seem to[...]bitch!” Men seem pretty incapable of learning how to survive[...]Pure bliss when you can create home-style porno in your the PMS stricken woman. All the things they think are right[...]to say are not. In fact I can’t think of anything good off the[...]had the same temperament all month round. But it isn’t[...]Then when the tide turns red, that same man you[...]that. I swear men go through periods too. They are just as bitched at suddenly becomes the hottest, sexiest man on[...]capable of being demanding as we are. Especially if they are[...]Earth. God sure enjoyed making this a joke. You are at your[...]
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<p><em>Chaff</em> existed from 1934 to 2012 and was the student newspaper of the Massey Agricultural College Students' Association and, after university status was attained in 1964, that of the Massey University Students' Association on the Manawatū campus. It was replaced in 2012 by <em>Massive</em>, a universit[...]

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