RAM01_Feb by RAM Magazine

February/Pepuere 2019

Issue No. 01

Your Student Magazine

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Your President & 2019 Executive Rate Your Mate Party Like A Rock Star Interview with The Chats Clubs Noticeboard Will to Live Interview Your Yarn Just Another Turmeric Trend? Mind Games Snapchat Royalty lusa.nz

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Well bugger me, it's been a bit toasty lately, but I'm not complaining because it's meant long Summer nights, aozzling BBQ's and a couple of quiets on school night! Talk about 'kick-a-leg-out' in the bed at night though! I hope you've either had a wicked Summer break and are pumped to be back on campus, or a massive welcome to you beautiful, fresh faced newbies.

This year is going to be bigger and better than ever! With LUSA's biggest O'Week to date. Can you imagine what we've got installed for you for Garden Party?! But more than that, this is your year, your magazine, your clubs, your events, your likes, dislikes, questions, ideas, rants, yarns, tips, tricks...it's all you, and we want to know about it! So hit LUSA up. We are fun, friendly and of course fabulous!

NOTICES IT CREW - HERE TO HELP!

RAM IS YOUR MAGAZINE! So get involved and you'll be rewarded with awesome gifts, like tickets to Garden Party.

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Please visit us at the IT Service Desk on the ground floor in the Library or find us online at ithelp.lincoln. ac.nz Please remember we have a variety of FREE stuff for you e.g. Office 365. ITS also has loan devices for your use if you forget your laptop, new iZone computers in the Library and conveniently placed charging stations (power and USB points). New way to log your IT requests tile on MyDay or go to http://lu.ac. nz/ithelp More from ITS: iZone refresh. To go with the new carpet there’s new mini PCs and 24 inch display on the ground floor in the Library

Articles Done some cool stuff? We wanna hear about it!

PESTER THE PREZ Share you opinion. The more controversial the better.

RATE YOUR MATE Not how hot they are, but your mates story about their awesome achievements.

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BYOD pods. Two pods with USB-C docks and one pod with connector cables for students with their own laptops USB Multi-plug power stations. At the BYOD pods and at the IT Service Desk – if you could do with them elsewhere please let us know Microsoft SurfaceGo tablets. 10 available for student use in the Library, book through the IT Service Desk – they work with the BYOD pods WiFi - SecureCampus is more stable after upgrade. Note OpenCampus was intended for guests & campus visitors so has lower bandwidth than SecureCampus. LUHallsNet has GONE gone gone!  OpenCampus has replaced LUHALLSNET in the halls Lecture theatre upgrades over the break for D6, Young Farmers Club (YFC) and Field Research Centre (FRC). Shiny and new laser data projectors, audio systems, wireless microphones and PCs IT Service Portal. To get help, IT Help and More control over your requests, better visibility, updates and knowledgebase articles. Try it out now!

CREATIVE WRITING

As the clock strikes Midnight… You shall become a strong independent individual!

Culture forces girls to carry an imaginary backpack on their shoulders when they turn 18. This backpack is a constant reminder to the girls in particular that her biological clock is ticking away. Our society adds a heavy notebook that further elaborates that if she is still single by age 25 (in the eastern culture) or 35 (Western culture); she will become undesirable and will become a “leftover”. Therefore, our search begins; desperately looking for a partner who will accept us before the clock strikes midnight and our youth and eggs will begin to deteriorate with each year that passes by. Instead of finding our soulmate we can “be happy” with for the rest of our life, our focus and self-esteem takes a dive to “just being accepted”. I have been a victim of the same custom. I am a PhD student. I have been studying for pretty much my whole life to get to this symbolic degree. Raised in a South Asian household I was taught from a young age how to cook, clean and manage a family. I was a princess intraining to live happily ever after with prince charming. While I assume my Asian prince charming was enjoying his royal bachelor life (Prince Harry style). Despite all of my training, after 25 my self-worth plunged as it was the first question by aunts and uncles “when will she get married?” By 29 I decided to opt for an arranged marriage as my biological clock was ticking away. I married a man who I knew for just short of a year, was now my husband. And my life changed… My life was dictated by my “prince charming husband” who was probably inspired by President Kim-Jong-Un methods. He needed to belittle me and told me my education and career should only be taken up as a hobby. What I would eat, drink or even watch on TV was dictated by prince charming. I was looked as if I was

less of a woman for not being able to become pregnant. Well the good news struck one day and I was pregnant. Only to be told we are not ready for a baby and I need to get “it” aborted. I decided to keep my child and he wanted nothing to do with it. Every time I would discuss my pregnancy symptoms, I would be blamed for not aborting earlier. I was alone in this new city doing a PhD, pregnant and living with an abusive prince charming. I began to realize that hearing him insult me every other day was draining my existence. I still remember that horrible feeling when I began to feel worthless and started to believe I do not deserve to live. Thankfully giving birth also gave me a strength of a superpower, even though life was far from what I imagined it to be. My daughter has become my reason for hustling to achieve my dream career. I want to let my Asian sisters (and my bros) in on a little secret. Having a relationship (and a child) with the right person is more important than just trying to follow the cultural norms. Don’t sacrifice your self-worth because the society says you will be less of a person. Take off your heavy backpack and open that nasty cultural norms notebook; re-write your goals and timelines that match your life. Most of us have travelled and come from far away countries and are studying in this prestigious university. We have taken this bold step, which most people might never be able to take for their education. We all are equally allowed to find royalty that is trained to live with an educated strong, selfworthy individual such as yourself. We have royal proof Megan Markle; Duchess of Sussex is having a baby at the age of 37 after creating her own identity!

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YOUR PRESIDENT Well heck, here we are! Kristy Havill’s the name, your LUSA President for 2019, and it is bloody good to see you all back livening up the place – been quiet without you all! Now I’ve got a two page double spread to fill so just bear with me while I produce some terrible chat and spin some yarns. If you can’t be bothered reading it just skip to the end where I tell a dirty joke. (Tricked ya, there isn’t one there – I know you looked) Bit of background quickly, I’ve just finished my Bachelor of Sport and Recreation Management at the end of last year, so get to do the big throwing-the-cap-up-in-the-air at Graduation in May. I know I know, you’re not supposed to do that but minor details. I turned 22 in December, and am from the West Coast of the South Island – the better side of the island on the better island, West Coast Best Coast I like to call it. At first I wasn’t too keen on running for President. I thought it had nothing to do with what I had studied, and I was itching to get out into trying to work on sporting events around the world. But once I slowed down a bit and thought things through, I realised that the learnings and enjoyment I could get from this role, doing a wide variety of things and meeting many different people, would set me up to be a better graduate going into the workforce than what I would have been. I then acknowledged that I was passionate about our students, and wanted to continue on the great work that LUSA is doing and fight the good fight to get the best

for you lot. So here I am, and I’m having a ball! Some of the such fun things I’ve done so far (Miranda fan, anyone?) included going to Wellington for the NZUSA (New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations) Conference, getting to go to the University staff Christmas party (free food, how goooood), doing the voiceover for the new Student Rep video, going to the marae associated to Lincoln University, Ngati Moki (Taumutu) for the first Academic Board meeting of the year, and speaking at The Great Lincoln Meet Up event at Fiddlesticks in the city, where we got to interact with new students who are starting Lincoln this week (free food again, what’s not to love about this job?!).

My big focus for the year is to support my Executive in their ambitious portfolio ventures, which will be epic just by the way, and help them get the most out of their roles so that they can have an enjoyable experience. My other focus is to continue to find out from you guys what makes a good student experience, and tackle any hurdles on your behalf that are preventing you from enjoying yourselves. This could range from who you want performing at Garden Party, to getting lecture slides and recordings uploaded to LEARN. You name it, I’ll do what I can, I promise.

All I ask is that you get involved. Without you, the university wouldn’t exist. The spirit and essence of this campus is provided by you guys, so let’s all support each other and make it the best university in the country. Clubs, LUSA events, advocacy – everything we do is for you, and if you don’t get involved then it indicates that you don’t like it, and we’ll try something else to make you happy. So don’t come crying if you didn’t support something, without telling us why, and then find it gone! So don’t ignore that email we send you with any updates, or send any surveys straight to the bin. We need your input, we need your feedback – because essentially, you are my boss! I do what you ask me to.

So let’s have a cracker of a year, and a truck tonne of fun along the way! Looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible throughout the course of this ridiculously good O Week and beyond! Kristy (KH, KHav, Havill, Aunty Kristy, whatever takes your fancy – although Kristine, Kirsty or Kirsten will not cut the mustard. At. All.) Keep up-to-date with all the goss on Instagram #prezcam

YOUR 2019 EXECUTIVE KRISTY HAVILL

Ollie Rutland-Sims

President

Vice President

james lee International Rep

jennifer tregurtha General Rep 8

Jemma Ramsey

Max Lichtenstein Secretary

Sam Blackmore

Post Grad Rep

General Rep

Jacob Wright

Ellen Pryor

General Rep

Tumuaki of Te Awhioraki

Ollie Rutland-sims

Max Lichtenstein

Vice President

Secretary

Kia ora koutou. Ollie Rutland-Sims here, your new Vice President for 2019!. For those of you who are interested I am undertaking my third year of a Bachelor of Environment and Society, with majors in Parks and Outdoor Recreation and Water Management. Exciting as my degree may sound, you’re probably more keen to hear about the utterly awesome work LUSA is planning for this year!.

Kia Ora! My name is Max and I’m the Secretary of LUSA for 2019. I’m a third year student studying Environmental Planning, with a major in Parks and Outdoor Rec. I’m a big fan of the outdoors and am often outside fishing, skiing, running or climbing. The role of the Secretary is to do most of the admin for the Exec, by keeping an accurate record of our meetings and general business.

Last year went off with a bang with the 2018 Exec pulling some seriously cool stuff out of the hat. Although they have left some big shoes to fill, our team this year is itching to hit the ground running and keep the hype rolling. This year will see LUSA’s 100th year in office! A huge mile stone! In fitting fashion we have lined up Lincoln’s biggest O’Week ever to celebrate! So if you haven’t already get out there and get your tickets!

The other big side to the job is also refreshing and formulating the various policies that LUSA maintain, in order to provide the greatest possible experience for the entire Lincoln whanau, but especially you as a student.

Throughout the year we will be bringing you some cool changes both through events we plan to have running throughout the academic year and in the nitty gritty realm of university policy!. I will be aiming to improve engagement, mental health and had some flavour to our beloved Forbes lawn along the way too! (Watch this space).

So my number one aim for the year is to work closely with our team and you guys to create meaningful and supportive strategies without the traditional bureaucratic bullshit that is usually associated with policy! We’ll be open and honest about how policies will affect and influence the student body. Any questions? Come and have a chat! Looking forward to catching up with you guys over a free snag on the lawn!

So don’t be shy! Pop on in to Forbes and say G’day, grab a snag and tell us what you would like to see happen this year!

James Lee International Rep Kia Ora Lincoln! My name’s James and I’m a 4th year Agribusiness and Food Marketing Student. This year I have the privilege of being the International Rep for LUSA. This means I will be doing everything I can to ensure a quality experience for international students at Lincoln. This involves making sure they have a voice which is heard, a sense of belonging here, and opportunities to get amongst our awesome Kiwi culture. I dream of a campus filled with groups of domestic and international students sharing in each other’s culture; learning and laughing together, which sounds cheesy but would legit be awesome! This year I will be launching the International Buddy Programme which connects incoming international students with local students. This will create a space to build relationships between students through larger outings as well as regular meetups. Alongside this, I will also be aiming to launch an International Student Voice Committee which: 1. needs a better name and 2. Will open a line of communication between international students and LUSA. To you domestic students, don’t worry! I’ll be showing you some love too by doing my part on the LUSA board to make sure we provide the best student experience we can!

19 EXEC CONT... Jemma Ramsey Post Grad Rep Studying a Masters of Tourism Management. 2019 is looking to be like a very exciting year for LUSA, I’m so stoked to be a part of it! My goals are to ensure that all student voices are heard and represented with a specific focus on the unique concerns of post graduate students. To represent the interests of students as part of the governing body of LUSA. Grow the Postgrad Voice Committee and provide events specifically catered to postgrads.

SAM BLACKMORE General Rep Kia ora! My name is Sam Blackmore. I am in my third year of a Bachelor of Sport and Recreation Management degree. My role on the LUSA Executive is General Rep, with the portfolio of student mental health and wellbeing. I am also the New Zealand Union of Student Associations (NZUSA) project lead for mental health for 2019. My goal for the year is to improve the ability for students to access support of professional mental health services. This is also the goal of the NZUSA mental health project. This will be achieved through working closer with other Student Associations in joint projects, lobbying government for greater funding, social media campaigns and developing connections with key people in the mental health sector.

Jennifer Tregurtha General Rep Hey everyone! I’m Jennifer Tregurtha, one of your General Reps on LUSA for 2019. This year I’m starting my third year of a B.Sc. in Environmental Science and Water Management. As a general rep, I have a portfolio, which I have chosen to be campus engagement – basically, helping everyone studying at Lincoln to feel like they belong here. My focus will be particularly on first year day students, mature age students, and students studying degrees that not many people study. By the time that you’re reading this, Welcome Week will have already happened, so if you’re a day student, hopefully I got the chance to meet you already! Remember to join the FB page (Lincoln University Day Students 2019), and follow us on Instagram (lu.day.students). During the year I hope to run some events specifically for day students, as well as helping you to get involved with some of the halls events. I also plan to set up some groups for some of the smaller degrees or majors, to help students to meet others studying the same thing as them, across different year levels – watch this space! Looking forward to getting to know lots of students from across the uni this year, and representing you guys on the LUSA Exec!

JACOB WRIGHT General Rep Year of Study: Third Year What I am studying: A bachelor of Environmental Management with an additional major in Parks and Outdoor Recreation. Kia ora, I’m Jake and I’m currently in my third year here at Lincoln studying a Bachelor of Environmental Management with an additional major in Parks and Outdoor Recreation. I am someone who loves the outdoors and hanging out with good people so am always up for a chat. This year, I have been lucky enough to be selected as part of the 2019 Lincoln University Student’s Association (LUSA) as a General Rep. Through this role, I aim to act as a student voice for you guys, with a focus on the environment and recreational activities in and around campus. I hope to help provide a variety of social and cultural recreation opportunities for you to get involved with throughout the year – ranging from sporting activities right through to board games and drink with your mates, along with this I want to work towards making the campus a more environmentally friendly and sustainable place, so any helping hands would be much appreciated. I’m looking forward to the year ahead and getting to know you all.

Ellen Pryor Tumuaki of Te Awhioraki Tena koutou Ko Putauaki te maunga Ko Rangitaiki te awa Ko Tuteao te marae Ngati Awa te iwi Ko Matatua te waka Ko Ellen Pryor toku ingoa I am about to begin my third, and final year as a BAFM student at this fine establishment.

The Exec is elected by the student body and each member represents a group of students. Each year, nine students are elected to form the LUSA Executive. This group of students sit on every single committee possible within the University. They also know all the big-wigs, so they know who to talk to to get things happening. Get in touch with them for any issue, big or small, and work with them to make change happen.

My main goal as Tumuaki of Te Awhioraki is to increase student involvement, get TA on the map here at Lincoln, and share our culture with students, staff and the wider community. I look forward to engaging with you all over the next year.

PESTER THE PREZ Here we go ladies and gents, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s get our hands dirty talking about the big or small issues that make the world, and this University go round. Send me through your thoughts, feelings, opinions, queries, objections, questions, comments and lets fill these pages up with debate and discussion. I truly value what each and every one of you have to say, so this is an awesome chance to have your voice heard or ask the tough questions, and for me to respond, in an honest and transparent forum. So it's a free-for-all after this issue, so send your good stuff to comms@lusa.org.nz!

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FOUNDED A CHARITY LATELY? WELL...MAX HAS! Kia ora, my name’s Max. I’m from the middle of the big smoke in mighty Jafa land. I’m a third year student studying Environmental planning. I came down to Lincoln for the mountains and the rivers and haven’t looked back - I spend most of my time outside in the backcountry; fishing, skiing, hunting and climbing.

WHAT IS IT THAT HAS LAUNCHED YOU INTO 'RATE A MATE' FAME? Back in my school days my mate and I founded a charity that collects second hand fishing equipment here in Aotearoa and ships it up to small, subsistence coastal communities in the Pacific Islands. We gained some early momentum and established collection points around the North Island, collected a fair few rods and organised deliveries to Fiji and Tonga.

WHAT IS IT THAT INSPIRED YOU TO SET UP 'LET THEM FISH'? Basically we realised fishing is a huge pastime of many New Zealanders and plenty of dads love to hoard old tackle when they upgrade to the latest and greatest equipment every season and fishing equipment is a very expensive commodity up in the islands with little availability. By combining two very different worlds of recreational fishing here in NZ with subsistence harvesting in the Pacific we wanted to be able to increase the opportunities available to the Pacific people. 12

DO YOU HAVE ANY FIGURES ON HOW MUCH FISHING GEAR YOU’VE SENT INTO THE PACIFIC? We have sent five shipments to both Savusavu in Western Fiji and Vava’u in Northern Tonga. In total, over 500 rods and reels along with supporting tackle, diving equipment such as wetsuits, knifes and spearguns and other items like lifejackets and wet weather gear.

WHAT WERE SOME CHALLENGES YOU FACED IN SETTING UP LET THEM FISH? The biggest challenge was getting the right clearances to ship large quantities of donated goods with a high economic value into remote islands. But we were lucky to have great contacts based on the ground in the islands, to receive the equipment and handle the distribution for us. They knew exactly who deserved and needed the gear the most, so that a good reassurance to know it would be well utilised. Another aspect of the charity is focused on education. It is mostly the woman and children in the village that do the fishing and they predominately use handlines and have never seen a conventional rod and reel before. However with the sea level rising scarily fast in the pacific, rods provide people with a more accessible way to catch a feed for their families. So educating the people on how to fish with a rod was a tough but rewarding element of getting the gear out there.

HAVE YOU BEEN UP INTO THE PACIFIC TO VISIT PEOPLE WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE GEAR, AND IF YES WHAT WAS IT LIKE? Yes! At the end of 2016, my mate Finn and I spent a week with the village people of Vavilli in Savusavu, where we were fortunate enough to experience how they live their lives by way of subsistence – living off of the land and the ocean. To see the difference simple equipment made to their everyday lives and how grateful they were for it all was a truly special experience. It’s amazing how high their quality of life is even though materialistically they don’t have much.

HOW CAN STUDENTS AT LINCOLN GET AMONGST THIS AWESOMENESS? Giving us a like on our facebook page @letthemfish would be awesome to follow along on the journey and come and have a yarn with me if you’d like to hear more about it all!

FINAL WORDS...

@letthemfish

Overall, I’ve loved every step of the journey and it’s taught me a lot about the world. Had some epic fishing adventures as well thanks to all the different people we’ve met along the way, which have been nice bonuses for the work that’s gone into keeping it all going. 13

LOVE FOOD HATE WASTE

LOVE FOOD/HATE WASTE

FOOD WASTE IS A MAJOR ISSUE IN NZ Although we may not realise it...

Kiwi Households throw away

79kg of edible food each year! NZ’s yearly food waste produces

325,975 tonnes

of carbon emissions!

Every time we throw away food – bread crusts or last night’s leftovers – it adds up! Love Food Hate Waste wants to change this. There are many simple things that you can do to reduce how much food ends up in the bin and each RAM issue will give you some awesome tips on how!

FRIDGE & FREEZER

Your fridge and freezer are your greatest weapons in the fight against food waste, but are you making the most of them? Keeping things cold is the best way to extend the life of food. Fridges help keep food fresh and safe while freezers can significantly extend the life of food. Did you know that you can freeze almost anything? Avocados? Yes! Chocolate? For sure. Wine? Wine not!

Nationally we waste

$872 million a year on food!

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INTERVIEW WITH THE

This Aussie punk-rock, surf band went viral with their cult-hit 'SMOKO' in 2017, when a Facebook page for an online surfwear store posted the video. “Haha, check these Sunny Coast bois. The Chats channelling a fair whack of Cosmic Psychos #shedrock #thechats”

QUESTIONS

The video has since racked up over 5.6 million YouTube views and only took around 20 hours before Smoko went nuts in everyone’s feed. The sudden spike surprised nobody more than Sandwith. “It just started going off overnight. It was pretty weird thinking that heaps of people were watching us.” LUSA had an interview via RDU leading up to O'Week with no other than the band members from The Chats, Josh Price on guitar and backing vocals, Matt Boggis on drums, and Eamon Sandwith on bass and lead vocals

1: HOW DID THE BAND FORM?

5: Best & worst drops of beer you’ve ever tasted from NZ or Australia?

We started the band in Year 12 at High School.

Can’t say we’ve tasted any NZ beers, but in Australia there’s a few. Most craft beer tastes like total shit.

2: What is the craziest thing a fan has ever done?

6: Any bands/acts that we should keep an eye out for in the future?

A few people have gotten 'Chats' tattoos which is mental! Somebody actually got my face on their body.

COFFIN, Civic, Aborted Tortoise, Boing Boing, Pist Idiots, The Cavemen, GEE TEE, Private Function, Peter Bibby, I could go on for yonks.

3: Plans/goals for 2019? We’re going overseas a few times. Plenty of touring. Hopefully we’ll release an album too, that’s the plan anyway.

4: Which moment stands out in your career as the most epic (to date)? When we played at the Electric Ballroom in London. It was the most people we’d ever played to, and the show was sold out. It felt insane to see all these people from another country getting behind our tunes.

7: How do you feel about New Zealand? We love plenty of New Zealand bands, like Hello Sailor, The Cavemen, Dragon etc. We also love Flight of the Conchords. That’s all I know personally (sorry). Matt’s been to New Zealand back in 2017 and he said he loved it.

8: Thoughts on how the Wallabies will go against the All Blacks in 2019? Hopefully they smash 'em.

9: Tips and tricks on how our students can fully enjoy your gig during O Week? Make sure you start drinking hard liquor at 7am and take at least seven pingas. * LUSA thinks you're missing a few nuts & bolts if you take this advice seriously.

10: Any advice on how we can grow our hair to replicate the Smoko video? Just brush it all down, get a bowl, and cut your fringe in a straight line. It’s easy as that. 20

CLUB NOTICEBOARD

TRAMPING & CLIMBING CLUB I have a feeling that it is going to be a ripper of a year for the Lincoln University Tramping and Climbing Club with many awesome events and trips on the horizon! Though we can’t tell you too much about what we have planned yet, we can tell you where you can find out plus a few spoilers about what is to come….

gear as well, so if you haven’t got any climbing gear, we have got you covered!

FIND US

Pop in and see LUSA at any point and they will sort you out with a membership. Membership costs $10 for the whole year and you get the following:

If you missed us at Clubs and Markets Day, then simply sign up to our Facebook page to get all the latest information about discounts, events, club night and more. Our Facebook page name is Lincoln Uni - Tramping and Climbing Club.

EVENTS Saturday 16th of March we will be hosting yet another bouldering competition at Castle Hill! A day filled with awesome bouldering, prizes and just general good vibes. There will be more information to come on our Facebook page. If you want to start training for the bouldering competition, then you can come along to Club Night on Mondays at the YMCA climbing gym. Entry is only $8. There are usually a few cars driving in from Lincoln, so if you need a ride simply post on the Facebook page and someone will be able to bring you in. On club nights we bring in the club climbing

We will also have trips planned for most weekends throughout the year, including the famous Crow Hut trip!

MEMBERSHIP

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Access to club events such as trips and training opportunities.

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Access to club gear. It's free to hire for club trips and costs a very small fee the rest of the time.

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Discounted entry into the YMCA climbing gym on a Monday night ($8 entry)

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Discounts on Wednesdays & Fridays at Uprising (Bouldering gym)

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20% off at Bivouac

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Discounted Hut tickets for club trips

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Discounted fuel for club trips

QUESTIONS Any questions regarding joining the Tramping and Climbing club then please don’t hesitate to email me at jodanne.aitken@lincolnuni.ac.nz or even come say hello around campus!

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If you're linving in the Halls or a large flat this year then donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ( be a dick and) let Meningitis fly under your radar this year! There have already been serious outbreaks and recent deaths in Northland.

DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T ASSUME YOU'RE IMMUNE Spreads like a cold through sharing drinks, smoking, kissing, & living in close quarters, but can be fatal!

Ministry Of Health recommends (but does not fund) Meningitis vaccination for both Men ACWY135 and Men B. Both Meningitis B $96.50 and Meningitis ACWY $125 is available from Student Health.

THE INTERVIEW

WILL TO LIVE STRESS, FATIGUE & ANXIETY THAT FARMERS FACE IS NOT SUSTAINABLE WAY TO LIVE. Working on farms both in Australia and New Zealand, I have witnessed and felt the stress, fatigue and anxiety from farmers, and it’s not a sustainable way to live. If we want to continue to work in these environments we need to recognise that our mental health is just as important as our physical. We need to prioritise it and allow it time and that it can be something to heal. My name is Elle Perriam. I originate from the wet West Coast in a small town called Haast. I’ve always been super passionate and a strong advocate for the agricultural industry. This year I am studying Agribusiness and Food Marketing. I’ve had a year off working on extensive cattle stations and intensive cattle studs throughout AUS. and NZ and now I’m getting back into the swing of things at Lincoln and finishing off my degree this year. I’ve witnessed my own and others struggle with mental health whilst working in this industry for the past 10 years. I am passionate about helping farmers, whether you're a farmhand, shepherd, or owner/manager. I work to enhance both their physical and mental health, as living in isolation can make it hard to find someone to talk to, whilst continuing to sustainably work with full energy.

suicide. With no 'clinical signs' of depression, and what we thought - had an 'amazing life' - shook hundreds of us. Months later, along with the grief, I was finally diagnosed by a doctor with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) My symptoms included, depression, severe anxiety, nightmares and flashbacks. At the time not knowing it was an actual disorder, living with PTSD was an overwhelming, frightening, isolating and debilitating experience that I wish upon no one. A few months following his death, I saw that the statistics in rural suicides were rising, and a majority were within the 18-25 age group. I was angry that there was no sufficient support system to help our young farmers living in isolated areas across New Zealand. Ringing a hotline doesn’t always work when you don’t have service, and some of the waiting lists to see a counsellor in smaller rural communities can be up to eight weeks or longer. So I started a foundation called 'Will to Live' in October 2018. 'Will To Live' is a travelling Mental Health support and education service, with in which we aim to host 14 Mental Health/Speak Ups nationwide this winter.

In 2017 I went through a traumatic experience, which lead me down a path of battling with my own long-term mental health. My partner had passed away due to

I want both males and females to ‘speak up’ about surviving their own battles with depression and in turn, create a culture where we are more confident to share that surviving is a strength not a weakness and that it is ‘normal’. 27

and share. I wanted everyone to be able to access free support and more importantly, know how to support themselves to get through their challenges. I couldn’t focus on anything else! I started skipping lectures to write down everything, then with the help of my sister, we put it all onto paper! The biggest challenge has been setting up this organisation whilst still not being 100% with my own mental health. It's been a big learning curve, but I wasn’t going to wait any longer. Even though I could see the worry on my friends and families faces, as they did not want to witness another loss again, I had to do it.

Shepherd’s love their team of working dogs. They often spend a lot of time with them alone out in the hills and when they are isolated on the farm. Their dogs are always loyal and never force them to speak. But... shepherds often command their dogs to ‘speak up’ to bark to muster sheep and cattle. So the question was, "Why won’t you?" Those we want to encourage to ‘Speak Up’ on our 14-date regional New Zealand tour, are locals in their smalltown area that, have survived depression and found their ‘Will to Live’, helping those who'd normally not talk. At least, remember their will to live, in their darkest times.

Although we are targeting the young farming demographic, it's important to us that whether you’re in your early 20s or late 50s, urban or rural, there's always something to be learnt from taking better care of your mental health. We encourage all to attend our events in a rural town nearest to you. Setting up this organisation was prompted because I wasn’t sleeping at night, and it got to the point that my head was racing with a million ideas of how a foundation like this could benefit our age group. I had a lot to say 28

Another challenge is making sure I have people around me to help with this campaign, as I didn’t realise the success it would have in the first month of launching it! It has been so overwhelming and I still need to get better at delegating jobs so I don’t overload myself. Some great highlights that have made is all worthwhile so far have been when we hosted New Zealand’s largest 'Bark Up' at the Hunterville Shemozzle in October last year. We got to talk to hundreds of farmers about the mental health challenges we face on a daily basis, and then we had a moment of silence to remember those who lost their lives to depression. The silence was broken with a bark from Jess our 'Will to Live' black Huntaway. Once Jess started to bark, the whole crowd of 200 started up!

It put shivers down our spines. Jess was my boyfriend's black huntaway, which I fortunately got to inherit and now she is our mascot for the foundation. She even got to go on The Project! Our plans for this year is a nationwide 'Speak Up' tour, which will run over 3 months during winter this year. It includes 7 North Island and 7 South Island events. There will be an evening with mental health professionals, advocates and of course entertainment. We want to make it causal and have people take a break from the farm and look forward to something during the week.

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Dates and locations still being confirmed, but you can stay tuned via our Facebook Page @willtolivenz We will have a couple Canterbury events, and encourage anyone from Lincoln plus friends and family to come along! A lot of you will continue after Uni to work in this awesome proactive industry, and will face challenges within both yourself and others. Nothing is ever smooth sailing 100% of the time. We hope there is a lot you can take home from attending one of our events and continue to use the techniques taught throughout your career and life! Instagram @Will.to.livenz Facebook @willtolivenz A final piece of quick advice is tom keep up your daily gratitudes, check on your buddies often and remember if you need them, they are always there to listen. One person that opens up will create confidence in another. Always share your feelings and experiences. You deserve to make self care a priority. Whether that means lying in bed all day, eating comfort food, putting off homework, crying, sleeping, driving somewhere to escape, watching your favourite Netflix show, rescheduling plans or just doing nothing at all! Give yourself permission to put your healing first. Quiet the voice telling you to do more and be more, and today, whatever you do, let it be enough. Feel your feelings, breathe diaphragmatically, and be gentle with yourself. Acknowledge that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing the best you can to cope and survive. And trust that this time of struggle, it's enough. Elle Perriam 29

YOUR YARN From baggage fires and marginal plane landings, to extravagant pool parties and high altitude wineries. I guess you could say that our trip to Brazil was muito louco! (translation: it was cray) The adventure started off with a bang, as every connecting flight we took heading over was delayed. Once for a collapsed lung, once for a straight up broken plane, and another time for just standard lateness (which was a relief at that point tbh). And who could forget the buzz of getting electrocuted by our first hostel’s showers! But we probably should’ve expected that when we saw (and smelt) that the hostel was right by a sewage outlet. But a wise man once said, 'It’s about the journey, not the destination!' At the end of the day, we couldn’t complain…we were in BRAZIL! The beaches are beautiful and the people are even more so, however, it wasn’t all fun and games... We were in Brazil to learn and learn we did. For example, we learnt that attempting a business pitch with next to no preparation, was not a good idea. But I think one of the most important lessons we learnt was how to party like a Brazilian, and trust me, it was not easy!

PRIME MINISTER’S SCHOLARSHIP LATIN AMERICA - JAME LEE

The one night we actually attempted it, we started on a rooftop bar and ended at McDonalds (of course) at 5am with only 6 out of the 16 of us! I only just made it because I was sober. Another important lesson I learnt while I was there, was that dancing like a Brazilian is even harder than partying like one. In fact, watching Southland blokes genuinely trying to move like the locals was probably one of the highlights of my trip! But the proudest moment of my life also came that night. After dancing with some local students for a while, I was asked whether I was from actually from Lincoln because they were so impressed by how I danced! Now, I don’t normally brag…but I was pretty chuffed with myself, I’m not gonna lie. I mean, I had people coming up to me asking to dance with me! Guess all that swing dancing in America was worth it. But for the sake of any staff reading this, I should mention that we also had plenty of educational experiences while we were there. This included learning about Brazilian dairy production which gave us a chance to make our own mozzarella cheese and Doce de Leite. We were also given the chance to visit the Brazilian stock exchange which came along with an opportunity to yell at our fellow group members, and that’s always fun! So, for the students considering the Brazil trip, I’ll say to you: fazê-lo! * The Prime Minister’s Scholarship for Latin America (PMSLA) is a programme funded by the New Zealand government and administered by Education New Zealand.

YOUR YARN Six weeks in a crazy country, plus twenty Lincoln students, equals one heck of a great time! My first thoughts about China before I left, were that it would be crowded everywhere we went, rice would be a staple in every meal and that the Chinese food that we have in New Zealand would be the same in China...oh how I was wrong! Exploring and being witness to the function of an entirely different society was an experience all on its own. Coming from a farming community, the hustle and bustle of people, lack of personal space and on-going activity in the city, was a huge culture shock. This forced us to stick together and get our elbows out occasionally. This trip was a great eye-opening experience, with a few out of the ordinary situations that occurred during my trip.

PRIME MINISTERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SCHOLARSHIP CHINA - JEMMA RAMSEY

photo. The beautiful temples, diverse landscapes and tasty street food were just some of the highlights of my trip. I got to see the all so popular panda bears and ride on multiple high speed trains. Most of us gained a new skill whilst over there, which was the art of bartering. Knowing how to barter in China is essential, so we of course tried our luck with a few rules. We never accepted the marked price or first price offered and majority of the time we purchased items for much cheaper. China was well beyond our expectations and it would not have been possible without the help of the Prime Ministerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Scholarship, Chris and Zhenni. My advice when Aunty Jacinda offers a free scholarship to a foreign country, I say take it!

As much as we loved taking pictures in China, it seemed that the Chinese loved taking pictures of us! Wherever we went, people would be attempting to snap a sneaky

JUST ANOTHER TUMERIC TREND?

UNICORN FOODS What's at the end of the Rainbow? Unicorn Food! For those of you who aren't up-to-date with photofocused pointless food trends, like Turmeric or the cronut. (croissant-doughnut hybrid that debuted 2013) Well five years in, we have $1,000 cupcakes topped with edible gold, hamburger cakes, rainbow bagels and now and unicorn Frappuccino’s!

It’s finished with whipped creamsprinkled pink and blue fairy powders.” Unicorn toast, cupcakes and milkshakes continue to play by these weird rules. Do they all taste like something? Of course. Can the flavour profile be broken down beyond pink, purple, and occasionally aqua blue? Not really. In my opinion food should not be rainbow coloured. Drinks should not be rainbow coloured, bagels should not be rainbow coloured, a boring cheese toasties that’s blue, green, red, and purple is still a boring cheese toasties. I get that we need to come together over eating better food, better resented food, more nutrient-dense food, but I don't see how we have to use attractive food as an opportunity.

The highly visual form of food combines bright colours, creative mashups and playful themes. There's even been a book written about the Instagram-friendly food trend, “Unicorn Food.”

But what does this food Grinch know? The unicorn culinary experience is better measured by iPhone megapixels and Instagram likes than by any one person’s taste buds!

What even is unicorn food anyway? At first glance, the seamless thematic characteristics seem to just be a fluorescent pinkish-purple hue, with a flavour that just tastes over-the-top sugary sweet! Probably best known among this craze is the Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino Blended Crème. Here’s how they describe their trendy beverage: “The flavour-changing, colour-changing, totally notmade-up Unicorn Frappuccino. Magical flavours start off sweet and fruity transforming to pleasantly sour. Swirl it to reveal a colour-changing spectacle of purple and pink. 32

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How many words of three of more letters, including plurals, can you make from the five letters, using each letter only once? No foreign words or words beginning with a capital are allowed. There’s at least one five letter word.

Today’s Goals: Good – 6

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I have forests but no trees. I have lakes but no water. I have roads but no cars. What Am I? Answer: A Map

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