Salient Issue 03 - Volume 88

KELBURN POWER TRIP

Salient is, almost undeniably, a Kelburn magazine. It’s not just that our office is here and that VUWSA is headquartered here - it’s also down to the makeup of our writing team. We’re usually a stale mix of English, Film, Politics, and Theatre students - and at times, that can be rewarding. It means everyone’s on the same page, at least, and we generally don’t have many communication gaps between the staff. We share similar senses of humour, a similar understanding of organizational structure, and we most likely had similar high school experiences (something along the lines of school choirs and D&D theatre troupes).

The problem this poses, though, is a real cultural disconnect between the average Salient writer and the average VUW student. We don’t really know much about the stress of architecture, nor the completely alien competitive mindset of the Commerce school. This issue is an attempt to rectify that. We’ve placed extra copies on Pipitea and Aro campuses this week, and a good amount of our content is about bridging connections between the vastly divided cultures of the institution we inhabit. I’d particularly recommend Jia Sharma’s piece “Post-Code Switching”, which is a portrait of the unique situation that conjoint degree students find themselves inadrift without a place to call home.

When almost half of the student population is completely disconnected from the rest, it’s hard to really profess any kind of student culture, and this leaves our university in a pretty dire spot. If you’re a Pip or Aro student, please consider writing for us and broadening our perspective. We’d love to hear from you.

Eyegum - Menzies + Buffcat + Mother Weasel

Eyegum is back! The weekly free gig is Welly’s best way to experience up-andcoming artists up-close. This week’s punk line up is unmissable!

Moon Jam Nite

Get your 15 minutes of fame at Newtown’s Moon Jam Nite. Starting off as a regular open mic, the gig transforms into a full on jam.

Night One: The Weather Machine Single Release Show + Toby Sussex

Come along to Wellington’s ‘smallest festival’ on Friday for some Pōneke based Indie at this cozy gig.

8PM San Fran

Midland [uk] + Nice Girl And Ultraviolet

Craving some House?

Don’t miss out on Midland, a DJ with “a perfect record for every moment”.

Midland’s debut album embraces his queerness, blending personal and political themes.

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Party People

DJ Bill E will be breaking out his vinyl for another night of Britpop, Indie, and Manchester at San Fran. Come hear the classics!

No protests? Start one of your own! A good protest only requires one person, and can be easily enhanced with red paint, eggs, toilet paper, or a loudspeaker. Suggested targets: the Israeli Embassy, the Vice-Chancellor’s office, Global Kitchen Restaurant, or even just your ex’s house.

Vic draws 1-1 with Massey tryhards in bubble football

During the halftime of the Nix’s 1-0 loss to City, Vic and Massey played out a 1-1 draw in bubble football, proving you can’t beat a Wellington university on a good day.

Bubble football is where the top half of your body is encased in a massive bouncy ball. This led to a lot of on-pitch chaos, as Vic and Massey players alike routinely crashed into each other and went flying.

Massey drew first blood, while Vic equalized with a tap-in after their shot hit the post.

Vic was led by VUWSA president and defender Liban Ali, who said the match was tough.

“It gets really hot in the bubbles, so trying to chase someone in one is freaking hard, but also hilarious.”

“I would tell others to try bubble football. It’s a good way to release negative energy because you get to run into people in the best, safest, and most chaotic manner.”

Massey’s team had been training in preparation for the match, while Ali met his squad on the day. Despite this, the final score was 1-1, which Ali described as “hilarious.”

Salient can confirm the cheers for Vic were louder than the cheers for Massey.

Saigon Sex Abuse Restaurant Gone

Saigon, the Willis Street restaurant where two employees were sexually abused by government officials from a travelling Vietnamese delegation, has closed its doors for good. On February 21st, within a day of receiving a personal grievance claim from survivor Ali Cook, Saigon shut up shop.

In its place is an extension of controversial chef Grant Kitchen’s business, Global Kitchen, which bears a stunning resemblance to the original restaurant in both form and operation. However, former employees say the connections may be more than skin-deep.

So, who is Grant Kitchen? The new proprietor is no stranger to controversy, with his previous enterprise 1487 Eatery going bankrupt after facing extensive fines and restitution for abusing and underpaying employees. Kitchen reportedly attempted to

pay the fines back with money he borrowed from 6 women he met on Tinder, each of which believed they were his exclusive partner. Despite insisting on financial hardship that left him unable to pay up, Stuff reported that Kitchen posted extensively on social media about extravagant overseas travel. Global Kitchen’s new website uses the exact same format as Saigon’s now-deleted website. The interior of the restaurant seems to have changed very little, and the change of branding happened virtually overnight. To figure out whether the two businesses had any association, Salient contacted Giang Do, the owner of Saigon, who was present during the assaults and later accused the two survivors of lying about their experience. In a brief and frantic conversation, he denied any connection with Global Kitchen

and insisted that he did not know its proprietor, Grant Kitchen. Do then hung up, and subsequent attempts to contact him by Stuff and Salient have proven futile.

Despite obtaining his contact information from an associate, Salient was unable to contact Grant Kitchen. However, he later gave a statement to Stuff distancing himself from Do, and assuring that he does not want to have “anything to do with the previous occupant”.

Despite Do and Kitchen’s insistences, an anonymous former employee of Saigon told Salient that Kitchen was “close friends” with Do, and was occasionally involved in the operation of the original restaurant. “They said they were long-term business partners and friends… [Grant] spent two weeks at the restaurant teaching us how to be bartenders”. According to the employee, Kitchen used to “pick up

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Gone - Or Is It?

women” at the bar. “He was always very sexual… lots of ‘that’s what she said’ jokes”. Salient was unable to corroborate these allegations.

The allegations of sexual abuse aren’t the first time Do has been in the news for a serious scandal. Much like Kitchen, he operated a Manawatu business that underwent hefty fines for underpaying its employees. Do’s only remaining business, a citizenship program for Vietnamese immigrants that employs several primary school teachers, has since deleted its website. It is unclear whether the business is still in operation.

Nobody knows where Giang Do is right now, nor whether he will ever face consequences for what survivors allege was a significant abuse of his power. In the meantime, though, it seems like his infamous restaurant has simply passed from one close friend to another.

Government Plays the Blame Game

The “parent/child” relationship between local government and central government being outdated was the key message of newly appointed Local Government Minister Simon Watts’ speech at the All of Local Government meeting last week.

His emphasis on central and local government merrily working together hand in hand seemed to strike a very different note to Christopher Luxon’s “rein in the fantasies […] the days of handouts are over” speech at last year’s LGNZ conference.

With councils due to deliver their Water Services Delivery Plan by September, Watts encouraged working closely with the government, saying “if you do need help, your hand should be going up […] We have to work together in order to achieve this.”

However, by Tuesday, the government seemed eager to throw their local-government peers under the bus. After a damning report into Wellington Water revealed Wellingtonians pay three times as much for water repairs than kiwis in other parts of the country, the government says councils are to blame. “The responsibility for these issues lies with the councils who have done a really poor job of maintaining and delivering on water infrastructure in Wellington,” said Minister Chris Bishop.

But Labour Local Government spokesperson Kieran McAnulty says that ministers passing off blame to councils is no surprise. “[…] they're trying to avoid responsibility. The government is the one that scrapped the affordable water reforms, they are the ones that are forcing through a thing their own advice says isn't going to work,” he told RNZ.

Chris Hipkins wants us to trust our democracy again

When democratic precedent is eroded by one government, it provides the next government with a problem. Do they try to rebuild said precedent, and risk the following government ignoring it again? Or consider it lost and press on, destabilizing democracy in the process?

Should Labour win in 2026, with the number of repeals the coalition government has issued, it's a problem they’ll have to grapple with.

In essence, a repeal is striking a previously passed law in its entirety. During Labour’s six years in government, they passed just two. The coalition so far has passed twelve. And that’s not including directives to ministries reversing Labour policies - the ending of halfprice fares being one such example.

Former VUWSA president, prime minister, and current leader of the opposition Chris Hipkins doesn’t mince words when asked for his thoughts on the number of repeals.

“I think the current government has this mentality that if we just go back to 2017, New Zealand would be a utopia. So they came in and decided anything the previous government had done was hopeless and should just be cancelled,”

“It was petty, spiteful, immature, and not at all focused on the future.”

But has National taken the cat out of the bag? Should Labour issue a similar number of repeals if they return to government? Hipkins isn’t so sure.

“There's no point in repealing for the sake of repealing. If what the government is doing is pointing the country in a forward direction then we'll continue with it. If they're pointing us backwards, then we'll look to change. But I'm not going to devote my first year in government to undoing everything my predecessors have done.

“Ultimately, that just results in the country spiralling backwards all of the time, and I just don't think that's healthy.

According to Hipkins, Labour was trying to change the way governments govern. One of the common complaints about Labour in 2023 was how little they had delivered. But Hipkins says it was more about getting decisions right even if making them took a long time. He cites the example of Resource Management Act reform, something which took Labour years to do - but he says they did it properly.

The Wellington Phoenix Men lost 1-0 to Melbourne City last Friday, but there’s more to football than the results. There’s the vibes.

The Yellow Fever are the Phoenix’s active support base, meaning they’re standing up singing, chanting, and making their support known for the full game. Some of their classic hits include “Italiano’s (Nix head coach) Yellow Army,” “We’ve Got the Ball/ We’ve Lost the Ball,” and upon sighting a seagull, “Seagull.” Should the Nix be winning at the 80th minute, they’ll take their shirts off in celebration.

Frank Strauss, a culinary student from Virginia, experienced Nix fever for the first time against City and was full of praise.

Yet National was able to repeal Labour’s reforms in a matter of weeks. Which Hipkins finds typical of the Luxon government.

“If you look at the speed with which National have done things, all they've done at pace is repeal stuff we did. They haven't replaced it with anything positive,” says Hipkins.

What Hipkins really wants is to restore trust in democracy, something which is declining worldwide. While reticent on the details of how and promising more later in the year, Hipkins wants to set the precedent of governments governing for the long run.

“Probably the number one challenge facing democracies around the world is restoring public trust in the institutions of government. If we don't do that, you only need to look at the US to see what kind of backlash you can get,” says Hipkins.

It’s clear a Hipkins-led government intends to go all in on restoring democratic precedent. But ultimately, it won’t be up to them to ensure democratic precedent is restored. It will be up to the National government after them.

“It was very enjoyable. It was great to be in the middle of everything and chant with everybody. I had a blast.”

“It’s a lot more tame in America. Unless it's cheerleading, and I don’t think too many spectators join in on chants. So actually having the crowd be an event during a match was such a new and enjoyable experience.”

The Nix Men - and the feverwill be back at Sky Stadium on 29 March, 5pm against the Western Sydney Wanderers.

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Instagram Woke up and Chose Violence

On Wednesday February 26th, Instagram reels switched to demon time. Millions of users started encountering continuous reels featuring violent, malicious, and unsavoury content. Said reels included the likes of a man being crushed to death by an elephant, beheadings, and brutal police bodycam footage.

These videos appeared in people’s feeds with no sensitive content warning. Instagram is already infamous for its ‘gore’ content, a feature its doomscrolling peers such as TikTok and YT Shorts don’t seem to have, but this content was constant and consistent.

‘We have fixed an error that caused some users to see content in their

Instagram Reels feed that should not have been recommended. We apologize for the mistake,’ a Meta spokesperson said in a statement, providing no further information on the root cause of the issue.

Even stranger was that after the algorithms calmed down and normalcy returned, thousands of users began begging for the return of the gruesome content. Comments of ‘we want more’ and ‘I was enjoying that’ racked up tensof-thousands of likes.

The bizarre event, which saw a complete lack of content moderation on the platform, raises questions about the true cause of the error. Since Trump was reelected President in November,

tech billionaires have dropped to their knees, endlessly glucking on the Don’s wiener in an effort to catch up with Musk and become a member of the oligarch club, or risk being ostracised.

Mark Zuckerberg is one of these people. Zucc ordered the extermination of fact-checking and moderation across all Meta platforms in January as a part of his efforts to appease the White House, and acknowledged that harmful content would begin appearing more frequently.

Though Meta hasn’t confirmed this as the reason, it’s a timely coincidence, and an example of what the internet can divulge into when safeguards are removed.

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Q: FUCK MARRY KILL: KELBURN, PIP,

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Francis, 21 Fuck te aro, kill marrypipitea kel- burn

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BEN AND OTIS, 20/23

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This week, VUWSA execs have been chilling. The past two weeks have been a flurry of activity with O-Week and the start of the academic year. Liban, our President, is relieved. ‘O-Week was good, chaotic, but good chaotic’. He says the level of alcohol harm he encountered over orientation week was substantially lower than previous years, representing a change in Gen-Z attitudes towards drinking.

This week Liban is focusing on the establishment of student committees and connecting with the country’s new student national body, the Aotearoa Tertiary Students Association. Through this, student issues can be brought directly to central government. I asked Liban what issues he wanted to bring to parliament.

‘Paid placements is something we’re prioritising, thousands of students go into placement roles after graduating, and they don’t get paid for months.’ Liban said the issue had piqued the government’s interest last year, but with the latest spending cuts and rumours swirling around a possible slash to university funding, he’s not too confident it’ll get across the line.

This week Liban also met with Mayor Tory Whanau. Liban said with the local-body elections coming up,

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A Return to Normalcy

it was important Tory recognised Wellington’s student body. ‘We make up over 10 percent of Wellington’s population, we’re a sizeable chunk’.

‘We’ll be getting Tory and any other Mayoral candidates up here on campus for a Q+A and debate later in the year’ says Liban.

All other execs were missing in action when I popped into the office, save Aiden Donoghue. This week Aiden’s setting up the Exec Gala, to be held at the Hunter Lounge on Wednesday. The gala offers heads-of-clubs a chance to get to know each other and break the ice. Very exclusive stuff.

Important Questions to the President:

What did you want to be when you were little?

I wanted to be a detective when I was younger, then before I started my degree, I wanted to be a public servant, then this government cut all the jobs.

What do you want to be when you’re older?

I might go into local government after this, I’d love to represent my community in Ngaio where I still live.

That’s it for Eyes on Exec this week, nothing too juicy, but the mahi goes on.

He toanui, he toaroa! Ko Ngāti Whakaue te toa whakaihuwaka o Te Matatini

Pōua ko te aroha, pōua ko te Kāhui Maunga, pōua ko te Ao Haka e! Kua toa te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Whakaue i te whatarangi nui o te ao haka. Ko te ia matua o tā rātou tū ko te whakamānawa atu i a Koro Bom Gillies me tāna ōhākī kia mau ki te aroha. Ko ngā toa tuarua me te tuatoru ko Ngāti Rangiwewehi, ā, ko ngā toa whakaihuwaka o 2019, arā, ko Ngā Tumanako.

MPI song of the week: Beautiful Samoa by Mr. Tee

A BANGER cover of an RHCP classic, with a Samoan twist!

Kua hua he taonga hou i tēnei tau, koia ko te “People's Choice Award.” Ko te taonga e whakamaumahara ana i a Kōhine Ponika. I pōti ngā kaimātakitaki o Te Matatini mā tā rātou tino waiata, haka raini mā te taupānga o Te Matatini. I te tau nei, ko te waiata tira a te kapa haka o Te Kuru Marutea, nō Whakatū, i kukume ngā ngākau o te marea.

Kua whakaririka anō ngā kaiwhakawā i te rohe o te Tai Tokerau. Haunga tērā, waiwai ana ngā karu i te tirohanga atu ki te iwi Māori e whakakotahi ana i raro i te maru o Taranaki, me te motuhaketanga o tēnei kaupapa i te wā nei e kikī ana i te raruraru, i te pāiriiri, i te āwangawanga nā ngā mahi a te kāwanatanga.

He karere pai ki Taranaki, he karere pai nōki ki Te Arawa ki Rotokākahi. Kua kāti ngā mahi whakaū paipa ki reira mo te 3 wiki i a rātou e whakarite ana kia hui ai ki te Kōti Taiao o Aotearoa.

Te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Whakaue have emerged victorious at the Te Matatini, our national kapa haka competition. Their bracket was dedicated to the Ngāti Whakaue elder Sir Robert “Bom” Gillies, the last surviving member of the Māori battalion, and his passing wish which was for them to hold on to aroha.

This year has also brought about a new award for Te Matatini. The People Choice Award is awarded to the item with the most votes by viewers in the Matatini app. The award was presented to the choral song from Te Kuru Marutea, a kapa from Whakatū, where the next Matatini is supposed to be set.

Waka Discovery

Loto Aho Study Sessions Kick off

The Pasifika Student Success Team will start their study sessions from 4pm to 6pm in AM102/104 every Monday in Trimester 1! There will be course specific support for 100 level courses, lecturers and mentors available to chat to, quiet individual study options, and a light dinner. Moe Nanai, Pasifika Learning Advisor from Student Learning will also be there for support. Follow @pasifikavuw on Instagram and head to their bio for the link to register.

Kua hua mai he waka tahito ki te moutere o Rēkohu. I a Vincent rāua ko Nikau Dix e kimi rākau ana i te taha moana, kua hua mai ētāhi rākau rerekē. Haere ka roa, ka kitea pai i tā rāua i tūwhiria. I tae atu a Hikurangi Jackson nō Te Ao Māori News kia kōrero atu ki a rātou ko te mātai whaipara tangata matua. E ai ki a rātou, ko tēnei waka nei he waka rerekē, he waka ahurei kāore anō kua kitea tōna momo. Tōna 400 mea kua hukea mai i te papa, nā, he nui kē ngā hua tonu kia hukea ai e rātou.

When looking for wood on the misty coastline of Rēkohu - the Chatham Islands, a father and son, Vincent and Nikau Dix, made an exciting discovery. They brought the wood they stumbled upon to their home and began piecing them together. Soon enough, they realised they had stumbled across something big. Te Ao with Moana reporter Hikurangi Jackson travelled down to Rēkohu to interview them about what has already been considered one of the most significant discoveries in the history of Aotearoa. So far, they have excavated 400 pieces, and lead Archaeologist Justin Maxwell said that this waka is unique and something that has not been seen before.

Māori and Pasifika News is written By Taipari Taua (Te Tai Tokerau)

Tūhototia! Connecting tauira between campuses

By Manaia Barns (Ngāti Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau, Te Arawa Whānui)

Being a tauira Māori at Te Herenga Waka can be challenging; new systems and old preconceptions make the transition to university difficult for some rangatahi Māori. Despite this, whānaungatanga prospers. Across the university, in the marae, at study wā and through its many kaupapa, the Māori student body has formed a community, a whānau. These connections provide strength, comfort and support (both academic and material) for these students, and make the university experience a much more positive one. Organisations like Ngāi Tauira, Ngā Rangahautira, and Ngā Tāura Umanga provide vehicles for these communities and ensure all Māori students have the peer support they need, sometimes even specific to them, but one campus feels lacking in these communities.

Te Aro campus, situated past Cuba Street, is home to the Faculties of Architecture and Design Innovation, and here it can be harder for tauira Māori to connect with the broader Māori student body, because of its distance from the other campuses. That’s not to say community is non-existent, plenty of Māori have Māori friends, but to even just exist as Māori at Te Aro can be different to Kelburn or Pipitea Campus. This is reflected in the previously mentioned Māori student organisations, NT, NR & NTU. The existence of these associations could be said to stem from the prestige placed on Commerce and Law in the Māori world. For Māori, becoming a successful lawyer or businessperson was a direct way to effect positive change, and was a direct response to the material and legal suppression of Māori throughout colonisation. As a result, today, rangatahi commonly aim to become lawyers and entrepreneurs to affect change for their whānau, hapū and iwi. So much so that the importance of design, architecture and engineering in Te Ao Māori can be left out of focus.

Undoubtedly, Te Ao Māori has a long, rich history full of architecture, engineering and design. It was these very things that allowed us to not only survive but thrive in these lands and were handed down to us by our ancestors in the Pacific. Pātaka, wharenui, waka, whakairo, toki; all of these were integral to our culture and have a keen importance in our world. Today, organisations like Ngā Aho, and the many individual brillant Māori architects and designers throughout time, have had a huge impact on the country. Nevertheless, our cities and towns, our schools and hospitals, our tools and belongings - all of these shape the way we interact with the world. It's for this reason that having a Māori perspective in their design is so important.

The concepts we carry with us, manaakitanga, whānaungatanga, kaitiakitanga, all the things our aunties pounded into our brains, are the key to the future of the country. Because of the effect of Māori lawyers and businesspeople, we see efforts to incorporate tikanga into their respective world, and, as our world changes; our cities, towns, and belongings should change with them. Sustainability, equity, accessibility, justice; these pursuits are just as important to instill into our buildings as they are into our laws.

With this kaupapa in mind, the idea sprouted to found an organisation to do its part in encouraging our rangatahi to take part in this work. Te Paepaeroa, the Māori Architecture and Design Student Association, with the support of Ngāi Tauira, is beginning this year. Our aim is supporting our Tauira Māori on Te Aro campus, to engage with our built environment and our design ecosystem to ensure that whakaaro Māori are heard in every hall, lecture theatre and studio within our university, and the world beyond.

Nā tō rourou, nā taku rourou

ka ora ai te iwi

With your food basket and mine, the people will thrive

Whakataukī of the week: Hoea tō waka (Paddle your boat) - You do you, boo!

Navigating My Mixed Feelings About OGB

By Emma Barnes-Wetere (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui)

The Old Government Buildings (OGB) stand as an imposing relic of colonial rule - one that not only shaped the Aotearoa legal landscape but also inflicted significant harm on Māori. Technically, any Victoria University of Wellington student can study there. However, it’s predominantly used by second-year students and above who have survived the competitive first-year culling and officially gotten into Law School. Furthermore, the structure itself with its grandiose façade, the birdcage-style lifts and the Kauri ‘hanging stairs,’ creates an elitist impression. For these reasons, it can feel like the students there have a bit of a god complex (and we probably do). While OGB now serves as a hub for future legal minds, it was once the very place where some of the most harmful decisions against Māori were made. The building is more than an institution of learning; it stands as a reminder of a painful past that I, as a tauira Māori, am navigating while forging my own path in the legal world.

OGB is one of Aotearoa’s most significant historic buildings. Since its opening in 1876 when provincial governments were abolished and a central government was established, the building has housed Premiers, Cabinet Meetings, and most of Aotearoa’s public service. But less attention is paid to the fact that OGB is also a place where some of the most harmful decisions against Māori were made in our history.

To illustrate this point, the decision to invade Parihaka in 1881 – now regarded as one of the most severe violations of civil and human rights ever committed in Aotearoa – was made at OGB. During the 1870s Parihaka was the largest Māori settlement in Aotearoa. It was a place that had come to symbolise peaceful resistance to the confiscation of Māori land. The government responded by sending 1600 armed troops to sack the settlement. Women and girls were molested and raped. Māori men were wrongfully arrested and forced into manual labour as slaves. The original infrastructure of many Aotearoa cities, including Dunedin, was built by these slaves.

On top of that, the Treaty of Waitangi documents were discovered in the basement of OGB in 1908, water-damaged and partially eaten by rats. It's a strange contrast to march in the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti while studying in the building where that foundational document was once considered so insignificant it was left to the rodents. What was once abandoned and forgotten - left to decay in the dark - now upheld as a living document at the heart of ongoing calls for Māori rights. The contrast is stark, a reminder of both how far we’ve come and how much further we have to go.

The decisions made in OGB serve as some of the most direct and obvious examples of the harms of colonisation on Māori, which can make studying there feel quite heavy. OGB is a symbol of a colonial past; it tells a deeper story of Pākehā power. This is why it's so important that our Law School is a safe space for its tauira. It’s also why our Māori and Pasifika (MPI) spaces at OGB, which are inviting and deeply valued, play such a crucial role in fostering belonging.

The name of our MPI room at OGB is Te Kauwae Parāoa, a reference to the jawbone of a whale. In that room four panels display the artwork of a whale, using kōwhaiwhai and Pacific patterns, to liken Māori and Pasifika students' pursuit of knowledge at Law School to the vast migration of a whale. Each week, this room is filled with the sound of beautiful waiata and powerful haka. Attending kapa haka at OGB brings me joy. It’s a rare opportunity where we can be completely and unashamedly Māori. It’s a reclamation of that space. We are not just occupying a room, we are making it ours, transforming it from a site of colonisation into one of empowerment and mana motuhake.

Another amazing kaupapa we run is the annual Ngā Rangahautira Māori Moot competition. This event is not just a legal debate; it is an opportunity to witness tauira moving fluidly between the Pākehā legal system and tikanga Māori. In a largely monocultural institution which can embed the view that Pākehā law and Western knowledge is superior to tikanga Māori, this Moot stands as an inspirational representation of indigenising the law. The Moot is another example of positive change at OGB - shifting from a place that has historically harmed Māori to one that actively incorporates and values tikanga Māori and mātauranga Māori.

On balance, even if we have symbols of Māori ownership at OGB like whakairo, I don’t think it can ever truly be as much a Māori space as a Pākehā institution. Tikanga Māori is made on the marae, after all. There is a misconception that the MPI programme is solely based on disadvantage. However, the MPI programme is also important because it affirms Māori and Pasifika tauira should be proud of who they are and where they come from. Ultimately, I do believe, despite what’s happening across the road, we’re now in a time where Māori and Pasifika can walk through the doors of OGB with their culture intact, to a place they belong.

Ahh, the Old Government Building. Home of a bizarre exhibition about the history of the public service, an occasional meandering Sir Geoffrey Palmer, and dozens of confused second-years navigating maze-like corridors in search of LAWS 213. While certainly one of the grandest buildings in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, OGB is not exactly what one imagines when asked to conjure up a good building for a community of learning. Neither is Von Zedlitz, but I digress.

A Storied Space

Situated on the corner of Bowen St and Lambton Quay, it’s hard for any tourist in this city to miss OGB: the second largest wooden building in the Southern Hemisphere. The building first opened in 1876, and was designed under the instruction of this country’s only ever Colonial Architect, William Clayton. According to NZHistory, as a direct result of “penny-pinching”, Clayton was forced to forego his initial intent of permanent, grander materials in favour of more cost-effective mimic stone. How poetic. Originally, the building was designed as a home for the civil service, directly opposite the site of this country’s legislative power at Parliament. But, as the nation grew, its need for more bureaucrats and administrators followed, quickly outpacing the size constraints of the Old Government Building. By 1990, the last public servants from the Education Department had left the building for good.

Something New in Something Old

In 1996, new life was breathed into the building Te Kauhanganui Tātai Ture - the Faculty of Law - moving into OGB from its old home in Rankine Brown, now the Kelburn campus library. However, as one might imagine, moving a student body into a stalwart of Pōneke’s cityscape comes with its own unique challenges.

For one: space. To make up for a lack of rooms big enough to fit 150 students, just dying to learn about Fitzgerald v Muldoon [1976] 2 NZLR 615 (HC), the campus reopened 1996 with a new awkward, hexagonal building in the rear courtyard. This would come to house two of OGB’s four lecture theatres. The other two were, just like most other rooms in the building, set up in converted office space in the main building. From tutorial rooms to the law common room, you get a sense that this place used to be something much, much grander.

But the second and more pressing issue, as it was then and as it remains now is this: how do you make students feel at home in a building which was never designed with them in mind? Ever since its move down the hill, law students have taken it on themselves to make the experience of law school a better one for all that roam its halls.

Carving Out Spaces

If you visit OGB and walk about the ground floor, you’ll inevitably come across the rep group corridor. Directly next to each other, you’ll find clubrooms for groups representing nearly every demographic at the Faculty - as Dean of Law Prof. Geoff McLay told me, “you can’t help but find a room where you’re welcome in.”

While the largest law rep group, the Victoria University Law Students’ Society (VUWLSS), serves the student body in the faculty at large, other rep groups representing marginalised identities in OGB have begun to develop and strengthen. in recent decades. From groups like Ngā Rangahautira, the Pasifika Law Students’ Society and the Asian Law Students’ Association to the Feminist Law Society and Rainbow Law, you do certainly get the feeling that Prof. McLay is right. Increasingly, thanks primarily to the work of student groups, the Faculty has become a place which encompasses the breadth of student experiences.

This, by no means, happened overnight however - and didn’t happen without some goodold student activism. Rooms in the rep group hallway were only handed over to students in 2024 - it is now just over a year since, for the first time since its opening, the building had rooms dedicated to serving the minority groups which it houses. This came after years of pressure from Law School rep groups, and is a physical reminder of the ongoing struggle and need to carve out spaces for everyone in this historically imposing building. Original image by Ballofstring,

Helena Palmer, President of VUWLSS, said that “The value of having VUWLSS and all the volunteer-run representative groups on campus lies in the community we contribute to and the representation we offer.”

Palmer added that another key function of VUWLSS and other rep groups is their history of advocacy for the needs of tauira at the law school. “We also manage a productive and close relationship with the faculty, which is useful for when students raise any concerns.” Further, she noted that, “Perhaps the most important things that rep groups aim to contribute to life at the law school is opportunity and community.”

My Rep Group Story

For this writer, though, the group at the Faculty that I have the strongest connection to is ALSA: the Asian Law Students’ Society.

I moved to Te Whanganui-a-Tara in 2023 to study law and philosophy - tides away from the (deeply annoying) stereotype of Filipinos going into the medical industry. As someone who moved to Pōneke from a high school where over 50% of the roll were people of Asian whakapapa, I came with the expectation that this move would sever me from my Asianness, undoing years of my love for my language and my people.

In my first few weeks at Te Herenga Waka, by more-or-less happenstance, I stumbled into the open arms of ALSA. I was lucky enough to find a space which embraced Asian cultures, and Asian kai, and Asian manaakitanga. I heard from experienced Asian lawyers and legal professionals about the importance of embracing your heritage at work. Through ALSA, I have had the opportunity to put this into practice in a moot before Aotearoa’s first Asian woman judge. And also one of my lecturers. Deeply chill indeed. I am most certainly not alone in this regard. JB Acuña - ALSA’s Events Coordinatortold me that, “Socially, I feel like I can be more myself at Law School [thanks to ALSA], because I see more people of similar upbringing and similar cultures.” There is something deeply empowering about going from lecture theatres - which are predominantly filled with Pākeha - to ALSA events, filled with energetic, vibrant and diverse tauiwi.

Outside of moots, barbecues and Mr. Whippy visits, however, I think that the biggest utility of the law rep groups is that they embed in the Law School the thing which its grand visage could otherwise destroy: community. In a building which has foundations firmly planted in colonial bureaucracy, it strikes me as beautiful and fitting to see the diversity of this nation’s future lawyers carving out space for ourselves.

ALSA Media Coordinator Sarah Ko told Salient that she thinks rep groups like hers are, “really important because [they] give you a sense of community.” Indeed, it is hard to understate how significant a feat it is to make non-Pākeha students, from non-law families, feel at home and at ease in OGB. As Ko said, community-building is especially important in spaces like OGB, “where it can be really scary, and it could seem cutthroat and is cutthroat. Having that family group and friends to fall back onto when you’re stressed out … is really important.”

Towards the Future

Looking ahead, the rep groups at OGB look to be entrenching themselves - and the whanaungatanga which they foster - not only into the law school, but into the wider legal profession.

A member of VUWFLS, the Faculty’s Feminist Law Society, told me that having a space to promote feminism in the law school is important given the state of the legal industry as a whole. “Law is built on systems which seek to oppress all sorts of people including women and people of marginalised genders,” she said.

Eleesha Silva, President of ALSA, told Salient that it’s more important now than ever to have groups which reflect the diversity of Pōneke, and of Te Herenga Waka. “Having rep groups in the law school is vital for diversifying the law school and making it reflect the modern New Zealand. New Zealand is a mixing pot, so we need law school to reflect that.”

Ethan Rogacion (he/him)

Mansions and Slums

If you ever needed a visual metaphor for the prosperity gap in Aotearoa, or even globally, you can just look at the buildings at the Kelburn Campus of Te Herenga Waka. While some rooms have four televisions, others have chairs with the fabric worn off, leaving the yellow foam as seat and upholstery. Some buildings have a nice, wide staircase, with a decent sized lift. Von Zedlitz has an elevator that barely works (it’s more of a joyride than a functioning transport device) and stairs that are reminiscent of a slip n’ slide.

When we asked Salient readers if they had noticed any stark differences between lecture theatres, the results were fairly expected: yes, the differences are huge, and students are fed up. One student points out that the rooms in Te Toki a Rata were ‘crazy souped up with a TV screen for every desk and microphones [...] but lectures/tutorials in Fairlie Terrace, which is RANK and COLD and barely has any WiFi connection.’

HM205 caught some flack for its ‘super loud air-conditioning system which made it really hard to concentrate,’ and the fact that the university was contacted by a lecturer about the issue, and no changes were made. A student also noted the lower level rooms of Von Zedlitz having ‘holes in the ceiling and water dripping.’

Students at the International Institute of Modern Letters will be familiar with Room 102 of 16 Waiteata Road. Despite being the main room used for VUW’s creative writing workshops, it’s basically a sunroom with one fan. As someone who spends three hours a week in that room, it would be lovely even just to have a second fan, especially in these warmer mornings. Maybe my tune will change as it gets colder. Or maybe the university could assist with climate control that doesn't solely rely on the weather.

The theatre school was also the centre of attention for shitty uni buildings. People came in with general sentiments of it being ‘a mess.’ FT77 is fairly inaccessible, with a set of ‘really narrow stairs,’ that ‘the disabled students are just kind of expected to get over, as far as I’m aware?’ Students have been asking for an elevator for at least six years, according to another student, but nothing has been done to accommodate the school’s disabled students.

In fairness to our institution, the building is old, so a new elevator would be difficult to construct. But, that doesn’t change the fact that it is inaccessible, and that there isn’t an alternative, accessible route.

After all of these classrooms with seemingly endless problems, you venture into Te Toki a Rata, or level 3 in Murphy, or you peer into those mysterious science labs, and then you realise that that’s where the money goes. Of course, I’m not saying that those faculties and rooms don’t deserve money, but it’s hard to feel bad for STEM students when they have air conditioning, and I’m sweating on wooden seats.

There are also areas on Kelburn campus that could be used as classrooms, but are storing chairs, paper towels, and piles upon piles of broken furniture. Some are simply abandoned, with the vulgar scrawls of former students burned into the dry whiteboards. Similar to these rooms, are the houses along Fairlie Terrace that are owned yet also rarely used, stretching the campus thin and spreading the uni’s spending out.

But what have the university higher-ups done to resolve these issues? Are they even aware of them? Obviously they’re aware of them, as they’ve locked the rooms storing paper towels and unused furniture, lest a student tries to take them. Instead, the University has bought out space used by polytechnics to become a larger tertiary conglomerate while it bleeds money with all its unused space.

All of these rooms, with all of their problems (or overcompensating solutions) are coming from a university that campaigns for students to return to inperson lectures. Of course, this asks the question: how can the university ask its students for higher rates of in-person attendance, when its classrooms work against the students trying to access them?

at the Heart of Kelburn Campus

By Maya Field and Georgia Wearing

hits; excellent pizza from the Hunter Lounge, a Biodiversity Deck that could do with a little more biodiversity, or from being the home of VUWSA – your students’ association, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

It’s a black and glass monolith that hangs over the city in one corner of the Kelburn campus, and it is also the source of one of the most forlorn management disputes in the entire university.

Opened in 1961 via funding from the university, VUWSA, and other various community contributions; the Student Union Building has gone through a lot over the years. Well before the time of anyone reading this, it used to house Vic Books (rest in peace), a cafe, a student lounge, and various other occupants.

The Union Hall (now renamed The Hunter Lounge) was one of the few places in Wellington in the 60s-80s where young people could go and listen to live music. Alongside Wellington bands, they often featured classic Kiwi acts like Split Enz and Dragon – and yeah, the place looked basically the same back then too.

Since the Student Union Building’s opening, poor record keeping, and a lack of formal agreements have led to disputes over its ownership and management. The 1990s brought on further tensions with the university, which threatened student association funding; VUWSA had been the least funded student association in New Zealand for quite some time now, and as such, any threat to funding became quite serious.

In 2006, a Deed of Strategic Partnership was signed, creating shared governance between the university and VUWSA, which aimed to resolve disputes and ensure student representation, with the hope of cooling tensions to support student success.

Now that you’ve got some context for the existence of this building –here’s why you should care about who manages it.

The building houses vital student services, social spaces, and clubs. Mauri Ora, the rainbow support team, the Bubble, the music school, Salient, and more are important groups that need a home, and whoever manages the Student Union Building affects how these spaces operate and whether or not student needs are prioritised.

It’s 2025. The rising cost of living, student engagement challenges, and space being at a premium means that control over university spaces matters more than ever.

This year, VUWSA will be reactivating conversations with the university around the Student Union Building, as well as reawakening JSUB – the governance board for the building –with the aim of resolving a contentious historical disagreement.

These conversations come alongside one of VUWSA’s current goals: returning control of clubs and societies to VUWSA from the university, to ensure a more centralised and streamlined process for the creation, existence, and further running of these groups.

Current VUWSA president, Liban Ali, says of the Student Union Building governance struggles – “at the end of the day VUWSA wants the spaces given back to the students –as a students’ association, we are run for students by students, and the ownership and management of the Student Union Building in which we reside should reflect its occupancy.”

VUWSA hopes to find a resolution for this long-held occupancy struggle within the coming months.

“From Te Pō cane Te Ao Mārama and from slumber awoke the marae Te Tumu Herenga Waka. Here I re-hitch my waka. Grateful I am to have hee alive again, in the world of light again, breathing again. I use a multitude of mediums, a multitude of thoughts, and a multitude of kōrero tuku iho to highlight what I find most touching about the world, recentering Te Ao Māori in both my practice and my life. This piece is a mixed media of collage and acrylic paint.”

- Basil Tuhiwai Penwarden (they/he/ia; Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti; Ngāti Porou)

Leo

It’s great that you have all these things going on, just don’t lose yourself in the chaos of a busy schedule. Get a planner, set alarms, make a to-do list – just manage your time.

Libra

The advice may be a tad cliché, but going outside can really work wonders. Enjoy the late summer weather, marvel at the beauty of nature, and breathe in the fresh air.

Gemini

Do some creative activities with your loved ones this week. Whether with friends, spouses, or family, maybe do an arts and crafts night, or perhaps a cooking class. Just have some fun with them.

Cancer

Now’s the time to act. All those plans, ideas, hopes, and ambitions? It’s time to start doing things, not just planning. Get busy!

Capricorn

I know that your work may seem repetitive right now but rest assured, it’s for the greater good. Practice makes perfect, and all of this practice is going to benefit you in the future.

Taurus

Have you got a rich inner world? Maybe you have some bright ideas? Now’s the time to really embrace your curious, studious side, and start putting some of your ideas into practice.

Scorpio

Spiritually speaking, it’s hard to know whether to follow tradition, or to form your own path. Looking to the past and those with authority is a good way to understand the basis for your beliefs, but remember your own

Virgo

Things are beginning to take shape. Finally, that essay is underway, and you’re on top of your readings. Just keep that flame of motivation growing, and you’ll be in a good place.

Aquarius

Your sense of justice, of right and wrong, may be particularly heightened this week. This is a time where if you see something, say something, even if it’s to a friend, or even to yourself.

Sagittarius

There may be a friendship or relationship that’s coming to an end. This could be particularly painful, and you may be feeling all sorts of betrayal or loss, but don’t immediately shit-talk to other people about that person.

Aries

Think about closing the chapter on things that have passed. Leaving things behind can allow for changes and transformations to take place, leaving you more at peace and ready for a new chapter.

Pisces

Focus on that work-life balance this week. Don’t overwhelm yourself with too much of one thing, and make sure you give attention to all the things in your life.

Have you ever wanted to glitch through reality and explore the backrooms? What about taking a trip through liminality, stepping out of your head for a moment and into dumbfounded spatial confusion? I’m sure some of you have already gotten lost on campus in the past couple of weeks – maybe you took a left turn that wasn’t right – but this is your trusty brochure for when you intentionally want to get lost and find the spaces that Vic probably doesn’t expect you to know about.

The Cybercommons Room

Purple feature wall, tiny maroon seats, a sad little kitchen – an 80s nightmare? Welcome to the Cybercommons room which hasn’t seen action since last millenia. Featuring enough floor space to complete an aerobics routine or lie down and rethink your choice of major, this room will evoke feelings of sadness and hopelessness, free of charge. After all, your future might be as dead as ‘Trinity Newmans’ was. Find it in level 2 of the Kirk Wing.

A Hidden Stairwell

Want to gaze down at the University while you study, contemplate, and/or have a cheeky makeout sesh? This treacherous stairwell in Kirk is unstable and comes with a pair of free headphones. Ignore the orange cone and scutter up in style. You’ll be met with a locked door but a good view nonetheless.

Total Liminality

No identifiable information, intersecting quiet hallways, indiscriminate green couches…waiting, patiently to be visited, to be sat on, or, judging by the fire extinguisher close by, to be set alight. This is the perfect spot to have “the talk”, to have a midday nap or to get lost like I did and wander into the same room three separate times. To the campus couples hooking up in the library or random classrooms, I beg you, find a spot like this for your PDA.

The

Fish Hallway & Butterfly Bathroom

Circa 2020 kidcore, head deep into level five of Kirk, take a left at the paper mache masks and enter a world of kindergarten whimsy. Unfortunately, the fish which used to be suspended from the ceiling mid-swim have been taken down and stuck to the walls like fishing trophies. Fondly think about your childhood dreams of becoming a ballerina or astronaut as you bask in the beautiful array of colours and piss in peace before you return to seemingly pointless readings.

Trying To Find Food on Campus

It’s become a truism at this point that developing an in-person study routine is crucial to ensuring academic success. The ideal student is the one sitting in the corner of Kelburn library with an iced matcha, a notebook bursting with sticky notes, and a shining MacBook covered in protest stickers. Yet studying on campus can be cost-prohibitive. If you’re a big fella like me, the need for food will impede your ability to focus. If you’re choosing between being too hungry to study and depleting your bank account for expensive sushi, you’re not going to be able to be as productive as you need to be. Over the last week, I’ve set out on a quest to find the most affordable ways to survive on campus.

If you’re an early riser, Kaibosh is an excellent option. Every Friday morning, the VUWSA building is stocked up with bread, eggs, vegetables, fruit, and more. You can even score a block of chocolate or free biscuits, if you’re lucky. Everything offered at Kaibosh is 100% free, so it runs out quickly. Get in.

Krishna is the time-honoured favourite of hungry students across the world. Hare Krishna food is warm, delicious, and fully vegan. While it might not be the best option for protein lovers, at $8 for a full and satiating plate, Krishna is hard to beat. If you’ve got a little extra cash to spare, Krishna also offers drinks and other hot food refreshments, like $5 samosas and even cheaper hot chips.

The chaplaincy at Ramsey House offers a great deal on $2 toasties and hot filter coffee. The building is just beautiful to relax in and study, and it’s a nice tranquil alternative to the hustle and bustle of a cafe. You don’t need to be a Christian to drop by - the space is open to everyone, and the volunteers are lovely people.

While buying campus sushi is normally a death sentence for your piggy bank, it’s still possible to get a good deal if you know when to go. Maki Mono does half price sushi after 4:30PM, and if you can beat the line, you can get a full plate of sushi for relatively cheap. The post-4:30PM quality may be a little blah, but it’s a cheaper option if you can’t quit the sushi cravings.

This is the option your mum is going to tell you to pursue when you call home and complain about campus food prices. It’s not glamorous, and the reheated rice in your backpack is definitely going to get chunky and gross, but it is cheap. Kelburn Campus, especially in the smaller buildings, is dotted with microwaves, so in a pinch, bringing a tupperware full of tuna and rice is definitely a solid option.

On Pipitea campus, your nearby options are Maccas, which is nutritionally and morally questionable, or Subway, which is slightly better but suffers from similar problems. If you venture into the train station, there’s Trax Bar and Cafe, which is decent, but without the New World Metro, is the train station even worth the visit? The Lab doesn’t appear here for the same reason it doesn’t appear on our Kelburn list - it’s cost-prohibitive (aside from getting your tenth coffee free). If you have 15 minutes, though, take a stroll down Lambton Quay, you can check out Fujiyama Cafe, a hole-in-the-wall sushi cafe that does a killer katsu sandwich for a very affordable price. Whilst I’d love to recommend Belen Vegan Bakery, the price ranges are simply exorbitant for anyone who isn’t a full-time Salient editor.

Te Aro is possibly the ideal study campus. On a sunny day, settled in the middle of the lawn or under the wide-open central study area, it’s hard not to relax into a comfortable study rhythm. Te Aro also benefits from its proximity to Cuba Street, which gives it an easy lead by sheer number of available food options nearby. Even though Cuba Street food isn’t always cheap, you can still usually find a bargain nearby. Faves include Raglan Roast, Ekim, or Fred’s (if you’re feeling fancy). My personal pick is the iced coffee at Cosmic vape shop, which is surprisingly good.

----- CAL MA 马晓丹(

they/any)

Kia ora, my name is Cal and I’m the designer of this magazine. I graduated from Vic last year with a degree in Communication Design and Film. A life after design school is possible, you guys — and it's beautiful.

Nowhere (dir. Gregg Araki)

The lives and angst of gay teenagers living in a bizarre, hyper-sexual, violent world where things suck all the time and terrible things happen for no reason. Funny, cynical, maximalist... cinema! Heed the trigger warnings (I MEAN IT).

Wasteland (dir. Jonni Peppers)

Sedmikrásky / Daisies (dir. Věra Chytilová)

Two beautiful and blackpilled young women run around Czechoslovakia toying with men, gorging on food, and destroying property — not much else. Very playful and very dada, and a welcome reminder that movies are fun and awesome! You can find the whole film on YouTube and it’s only 70 minutes long. Shhh... watch it with your hall friends, ok?

Do you guys like indie animation? Go watch Jonni Peppers’ feature-length masterpiece Wasteland. It’s handdrawn and animated on thousands of pieces of paper. It’s about shitty jobs, break-ups, alien cults, and moving somewhere new. Watch it in a transitional period; it will change your brain chemistry.

Stumpwork (Dry Cleaning)

This band is fucking awesome, singing is out and talking is in.

A Reading

Maya Field (she/her) SHORT FICTION

“You’re, like, a grandma.”

To be fair, Briar did resemble a grandma. Clad in soft slippers and a dressing gown, holding a mug of tea, ready to go to bed in the next half hour, you wouldn’t think she was about to turn twenty-one.

“I’m an old soul,” she replied. Rolling her eyes, she joined her flatmate on the carpet. “We really need to get a new couch. The cushions keep sinking into the hole.”

“Yeah, the couch sucks.”

“How much did you pay for it?”

“I think, like, ten dollars.”

“Makes sense.”

“Wait, I didn’t even see your pyjamas. They’re so cute.”

“Stop, they’re comfy, they’re from Kmart.”

“Aww, there’s unicorns on them.”

“Shut up.”

“I didn’t realise this was your first sleepover, do you want to call your mum before bed?”“Fuck you.”

Stella laughed, “I’m kidding, they look really comfy.”

“Yep, nice and warm.” Briar was slightly proud of her pyjamas. Even though she was basically an adult, she still had room for whimsy. Really, it’s her right as an adult to wear bunny slippers and unicorn pyjamas. Plus, it’s winter; they’re literally a necessity.

“Okay, tarot time.” Stella had done readings for the flatmates before. Briar found her one slightly unnerving; the three of swords, then dumped the next day. She chalked it up to coincidence.

This time, instead of a general reading, Stella had been researching past-life readings.

“I was probably a flapper or something and lived so decadently that now I’m being punished by being a hermit,” Briar said. It would make sense — if she actually believed in the readings, like Stella.

“Maybe, but I think that’s more karma related. I can’t tell you why you have these lives, but we can get a good picture of them.”

The two sat opposite each other, cross legged on the living room carpet. It was dark outside; they should’ve drawn the curtains to keep the heat in, but they’ll do that after the reading. Besides, there’s cups of tea for warmth, instead.

“Okay, pick a card. This card represents you now. Then place it face up on the floor.”“Oh, for fuck’s sake.”

Stella laughed. Briar scoffed. The old man with the lamp, The Hermit, lay on the floor.

“Well, you’re alone a lot. Clearly. You introspect and reflect, but you’re withdrawn. You’re a soul-searcher. This life is one of thinking and searching.”

“Awesome,” Briar deadpanned.

“That’s not a bad thing. You’re like, a thinker, a philosopher.”

“I’m a hermit.”

“That’s just the archetype; you’re not literally a hermit. Okay. Spirit, what came before this, help us find the past archetype for Briar.”

“Yeah, Spirit, come on.”

“Pick a card, lay it on the floor.”

A horned beast held a man and woman in chains.

“The Devil?”

“Yeah, so, this life was very materialistic. No thinking, no feeling, just stuff. Decadence and stuff that kept this life restricted and tied down. Spiritually speaking.”

“So, I could’ve been a decadent flapper being punished now?”

“Maybe? Spirit, explain this card for Briar’s past life, please.”

Stella shuffled a separate deck, pulling out a young man holding a coin with a pentagram. “This had financial opportunity — probably became obsessed with it, and it led to their downfall.”“Finance?”

“I’m getting Wall Street, maybe the Great Depression?” She pulled out another card, the Wheel of Fortune. “Yeah, definitely some sort of crash of bad luck. I’m putting my money on a man in the Great Depression. Okay, next life?”

Briar nodded and picked out another card from the original deck. The backs of the cards showed a blue and white pattern, a sort of Victorian paisley. She couldn’t think how else to describe it, even though it wasn’t technically paisley. The card had a baby on a white horse, with the sun and a blue sky.

“Okay, getting a more positive vibe. The Sun is exuberant, vibrant. This life had a real energy to it, probably very rich and fulfilling. Good time kind of life. What else is there, Spirit, about this life of the Sun?”

“You get so formal when you talk to spirit.”

“Shut up.”

Two cards fell out of the deck Stella was shuffling. One was a woman in a crown, sitting on a throne. The other had a group of men fighting with sticks.

“The Empress is kind of a mother, feminine energy, but the Five of Wands is conflict, so I’m getting maybe mother issues? I think this life had a conflicting relationship with their parents, especially their mum, but was able to create a rich life.”

“Stella, I love you, but this is really vague.”

“How are mother issues and the Great Depression vague?”

“It’s bullshit, Stella. Everyone has mother issues. You could say that this person had a rich life because they were a mum, despite all the conflict in their lives, or maybe they were conflicted about being a mum and then found a good life because they became a mum, or because they didn’t. It could be anything.”

“I’m just going off what I’m feeling.”

“But you have no way of knowing; there’s nothing here. I don’t want to hear about some relationship with mothers or being a mother or Wall Street.”

“Briar, I’m sorry, but you don’t have to shit on this just because you don’t believe it.”“I’m not trying to shit on it, I’m just sick of hearing about these things.”

“We’ve barely talked about them.”

“No, we haven’t.”

“Briar, if you don’t want a reading, just say it and leave me alone.”

“I don’t want a reading, I don’t want to hear about my relationship or my mother from fucking cards.”

“It’s not about your mother.”

“Fuck off, it is. They said shit about my relationship, then they’re saying shit about being alone and having things and struggling with money and shit that I’m going through. Now it’s about mothers and vibrancy and I don’t know what the fuck to do with that.”

“There’s nothing to do; it’s a past life. And I’m sorry about you and Aaron, but that wasn’t my fault.”

“I know it’s not; just stop talking to me about my life based on some cards.”“It’s not your actual life.”

“Yes, it is,” Briar yelled, “it is, okay? I’m shit with money and everything that I thought was going well is now terrible, and I didn’t get my period and there’s a fucking baby on that card.”

Stella blinked. This wasn’t part of the reading. This wasn’t how it was meant to go. “Shit, Briar. I’m sorry. I didn’t know. Really. I’m so sorry. Please don’t cry, I’m really bad when people cry.”

“I’m not crying,” Briar said.

“Yes, you are.”

The two girls stood in the living room. Briar tried to stifle her tears; Stella looked at the cards; she decided she should probably put them away. “I’m really sorry, Briar, I’m really sorry.”

She went to her room, leaving the cards on her desk. She sat on her bed and looked at the ceiling. She could hear Briar in the living room. She heard Briar’s footsteps, and a bedroom door close.

I Wrote

‘A.B.’ on the Bus Window

‘Platonic love’. I always think, ‘Agape’. Is that what we have?

‘Soulmates’ is what I wrote a few months ago: ‘I think I believe in soulmates; otherwise how could God break us like this if not to fit back together?’ Puzzle pieces born by the chasm and cracking and back breaking of the shore to the cliff face. First time we were out together we drank a whole bottle of vodka in my shit wee neighbourhood, lost my keys, and were so sick I thought I had gotten rid of anything that was ever there. I’m patient with you. Or, I’m not patient, but you sleep in on our morning class and I chastise you lovingly, teasingly, a cat with a toy. I don’t know what love is.

We’re both so angry. Sometimes I feel like the angriest person in a word. I look at you and I’m calm again, not because you make me calm but because one of us needs to be. We’re diametrically opposed to each other’s disposition. You inspire me. You would vomit if I called you a muse, or just laugh and blow smoke in my face. Twelve-pack-Asahi discourses on trauma and language and learning; never love. Love hurts too much. We’re both so fucked up. But you look at me and I can live with all my flaws. I’m scared of scaring you. This is new. You call me to take you to the hospital. You buy me cigarettes.

We take insane amounts of drugs on Wednesday afternoons, this understanding that we’re both standing in the rain without a coat on. Off our heads on acid: me rolling my hands through the dirt, trying to explain Ash Wednesday; you look at me like I’m a lunatic but with no menace at all. I don’t see you for a week and my stomach is growling, my eyes sunken like you’re something vital. The girl with whom I walk down the street while we get all the crazy looks, making them back like a house of mirrors. Sometimes I think we are our own little society; heads bent together, speaking in strange tongues and staring; all the while people stare back with perplexed faces. I sang you songs I’ve sung crying on nights where there was no-one in the sky and you said, ‘Christ, make it an LP’.

So, is this agape? Is this that unnameable beast, writhing in the dark corners which were never in no bible? There’s a countdown clock in my head for the next tab, the next trip, next time I can hate myself with the vigour of self-awareness of the irony of self-awareness and the knowledge that you’ll still look at me all the same while I rub my head into a wall. This is the cult of the teenage, the Diamond as Big as the Ritz. You walk me down quiet alleys, lead me to strange waters; took my hand and we took a train we can’t un-take.

Marc Mathews (he/him)

Hummus

Ok habibi, when my dear friend (and boss) Will Irvine asked me to type up this recipe, I realised that when I cook I use no specific measurements. Anybody from a big family of great cooks will tell you something similar. A dash of this, a pinch of that... Julia Child herself once recommended you learn to measure a teaspoon by feel alone, by cupping the palm just so...

I got this recipe from my aunty, whose hummus (by comparison to mine) now seems rather ‘loaded’. She included cumin, paprika, white pepper, chilli powder, and (of course) garlic, which remains conspicuously absent from my recipe. I made it her way a few times. Then I heard from my cuzzie that my other cuzzie likes to soak his chickpeas with a bit of baking soda so as to release the chickpea flesh from the skins: creamy hummus was promised as a result. This, for me, was a real game-changer. So I guess it feels a little weird to call this recipe “mine”, when really it's the product of other people’s knowledge. But I do think that when you cook, especially when you cook with your hands, the food you produce is yours; an expression of who you are and how you think, even as your individuality emerges from a whakapapa of cooking that taught you, that came before you, and that will outlast you. In all seriousness, it’s like life itself. And while I can’t speak for you, I can say that when I make hummus it comes out zingy, clever, skinny — just like me. Boys can’t get enough of it.

On another note, my decision to cut the garlic has been extremely controversial; Salient’s resident ‘hummus expert’, Dan Moskovitz, was outraged. But listen, habibi, I have nothing to prove to the likes of you. My hummus is dreamy, creamy, and light. When you hold it to your ear you hear sounds of the sea. Eat it and weep.

Ingredients

Tin of chickpeas (some people recommend buying the chickpeas dry and soaking them overnight; but honestly, I find the tins way easier!)

Baking soda

Salt

Two lemons

Tahini

Olive oil

Paprika (for topping)

Method

Simmer a tin of chickpeas in fresh water and a few pinches of baking soda in a small pan over medium-low heat for about five minutes. Don’t let it boil.

Strain the hot water and dump the chickpeas straight into a bowl of cold water; most of the skins should float to the top. Skim off and discard the skins, stirring a few times to release any that might be trapped beneath. Strain chickpeas from the cold water.

In a blender combine the (now mostly skinless) chickpeas, enough salt, a few glugs of olive oil, the juice of two lemons, and about a tablespoon or two of tahini. (Note: if you don’t have a particularly strong blender, I’d recommend whisking the tahini with a splash of water first, to loosen it and ensure it blends smoothly).

Blend until smooth (I like to think of ‘stiff peaks’, as when beating egg whites), scraping down sides of the blender as necessary. You may need to add a bit of water. - Taste, and trust your own taste. Season accordingly.

Garnish with a dust of paprika (it’s mainly for colour).

Jackson McCarthy (he/him)

Across

1 The street where you can find Te Aro Campus (6)

6 Magazine of the University of Canterbury (5)

7 Popular street with thrift stores and restaurants (4, 6)

9 An assignment that needs an edit (5)

10 Where a lecturer could speak from (7)

12 Across the road from Pipitea Campus (8)

15 Massey's magazine (7)

17 A vital study spot at all three campuses (7)

18 Tūturiwhatu, endangered coastal bird (8)

20 The folly to productivity (you're probably doing this now) (15)

22 ________________Buildings in Pipitea (3, 10)

CONNIPTIONS

Create groups of four!

Down

1 An Art History or English tutorial will probably be in this building (3, 7)

2 You could study at Te Aro and become this (9)

3 First year architecture project. Can also be seen with a table (5)

4 Te Herenga Waka Campus (7)

5 A building at Pipitea Campus (10)

8 The coolest way to get from Lambton Quay to Kelburn Campus (5, 3)

11 They studied at Pipitea, probably. Often considered the worst kind of man (6)

13 Te Herenga Waka Campus (7)

14 Te Herenga Waka Campus (2, 3)

16 Bar near Pipitea Campus, on Lambton Quay (3, 6)

19 Gradually develop (6)

21 One of the five senses (5)

SIGN OF THE WEEK

By Ossian Lynch (he/him)

By Maya Field (She/Her)

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Kelburn Quiet Spots

By Hope Cotton (she/her)

Kelburn campus is cool, but if you have sensory issues, the Hub can be A LOT. Whether you’re neurodivergent, have anxiety, or just need some space, it's handy to have places you can go chill out. Here are my five top recommendations for low sensory spaces on campus.

One - The Access Suite

If you’ve signed up with Disability Services, you can use your Student ID to access the Access Suite. This series of rooms on the ground floor of the library contains a main study room and three smaller spaces for when you need to be by yourself or take a nap.

This spot is guaranteed to be quiet, and being surrounded by other disabled people makes me less self conscious.

Two - Hunter Lounge

By far my favourite place to eat on campus, the Hunter Lounge is a quieter, large and open space with great pizza. Although it’s not open until midday, it’s naturally lit without harsh fluorescent lighting, usually not too crowded, and there are a series of booths near the back which are a comfy place to disappear into the shadows, complete with conveniently placed powerpoints for easy laptop charging. It’s also wheelchair accessible!

Three - The Graveyard

A bit goth, I know, but if it’s sunny out, the graveyard out by the Student Union Building is a lovely place to sit in the shade with a book and take a breather.

Four - The Library’s Bookable Study Rooms

This is a little less convenient if you need a quiet place fast, but if you can plan a break in advance, or want to book a place to study with a small group of mates, the library’s bookable study rooms are super handy.

Five - The seats by the level three Murphy Elevators

Absolutely avoid this during the lunch rush, and the ten minutes every hour where classes change over, but in between peak times, this spot is reasonably quiet. With a textbook or laptop, and the sun on your back, this is a nice space for some independent study or a

The Rainbow Room - Your queer home on campus

The queerest room on campus lies in the depths of the Student Union building. A place so out of the way that the university created an entire video to show how to find it. This is SU209, the Rainbow Room.

Past the somewhat intimidating red double doors it is bright and inviting, filled with an array of furniture. Its walls are home to a variety of artworks, from a mural of the progress pride flag, to a shrine of Queerlients past.

The Rainbow Room is a space that is open for queer students to play boardgames, have a hot drink, or just hang out. Since it’s out of the way it also makes for a good study space when the library is busy. The Rainbow Room is also where Manawa Ora hosts several peer groups and UniQ holds our weekly Friday social space. Friday space is an unstructured meet-up time where you can just drop-in to chat with other people. And we also have snacks!

The Rainbow Room holds a special place in my heart because the events held inside it have allowed me to get to know so many other students in my community. It is such an important part of the university’s queer community because the majority of accessible queer spaces exist online.

So if you’re a queer student on campus, it might be worth giving the rainbow room a visit.

Ash Buick

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State of the Union

By Ti Lamusse (he/they)

Citizens arrest and workers rights

The government recently announced planned changes to citizen’s arrest laws that are a disaster for workers.

Under the proposed laws, if someone tries to steal from your workplace, you will be ‘empowered’ to restrain them and place them under citizen’s arrest, until the cops arrive.

Everyone, who has given this more than thirty seconds of thought, realises this is a stupid and dangerous plan.

It could lead to situations where your boss puts pressure on you to physically intervene, when someone is robbing your workplace.

There’s a reason why everyone from police abolitionists to the New Zealand Police think this is a bad idea.

People without proper training in de-escalation, let alone safe means of restraint, can end up making things much worse.

This is what happened in 2022, when a dairy was robbed. The worker at the dairy, Janak Patel, chased the person down the street with a hockey stick, escalating the situation. He was then stabbed and died.

This worker clearly felt pressure to protect his boss’ profit. There was no need for him to die that day, just to save his boss a couple of hundred bucks.

While this kind of thing happens rarely at the moment, giving more citizen’s arrest powers to retail workers will lead to more workers being injured and killed.

Working retail can be rough enough as it is. Retail workers have to put up with sales pressures from management, under-staffing, rude customers, and a pay rate that doesn’t match the skill needed for this mahi.

Now the government wants you to put your life on the line to protect your boss’ profits.

The best way to push back against this anti-worker government is to join your union. For most retail and hospo workers, that’s either E Tū, Unite or FIRST.

Find out more here: https://union.org.nz/find-your-union/

Dr Ti Lamusse is a lecturer in Criminology at Te Herenga Waka and the Vice-President of the Tertiary Education Union’s VUW branch.

SOC 101

Byline:

VUW International Socialists / ISO

Usually when we talk about student protest at Vic, we’re talking about history. Did you know Vic students once raised $2000 in (1960’s money) to donate to the Vietnamese resistance? Did you know that a campaign against military conscription was founded at Vic in 1972? Did you know the VUW branch of the anti-apartheid group Halt all Racist Tours (HART) had nearly 400 members in 1976, and that they once stormed a Pacific Basin Economic Cooperation Conference in the Student Union building? Did you know students were arrested in the late 80’s protesting against user-pay tertiary education? We lost that one, unfortunately, and are still paying for it (literally) today. The others were wins; Vic students protesting against war and apartheid were part of victorious global movements. The anti-conscription protests won too, even though most of them were only 19 (in a very 19-year-old-dude move, one of their most successful tactics was disrupting registration by filling in gag names like “Prime Minister Keith Holyoake”). In the glorious past, our campus has seen campaigns for the Prostitution Reform Bill (win) for Marriage Equality (win), and against the Iraq War (fail, but it wasn’t our fault).

We don’t need to look to the past anymore. Did you know that last year pro-Palestinian students held a sit-in in the Hunter Building? Did you hear about the two metre high graffiti — “DIVEST FROM GENOCIDE” — that appeared overnight? Did you hear that the university did divest - nearly $50,000 in Israeli Government bonds? What about the time that we protested US security ambassador Bonnie Jenkins? At the start of her guest lecture someone called for “a moment of silence,” which Jenkins obliged — only to learn that it was for “all the Palestinians killed by the US.” Chanting ensued. Jenkins wrapped up her lecture early.

At the mere suggestion of student protest, the army pulled out of recruitment opportunities at Vic last year, and so did environmentally destructive mining corporation Rio Tinto. Word is certain politicians didn’t feel very welcome either. It wasn’t just Palestine, last year Vic students mobilised for the environment, for Te Tiriti, against AUKUS. But you’d know that if you were here. If you were here in 2023, maybe you were at the Funeral for Tertiary Education, a protest against staff and course cuts. If you’re taking theatre this year, you have the Students Against Cuts and #SaveVUWTheatre campaigns to thank for saving it as a stand-alone subject.

Listen, we’re afraid the Right were lying (or fantasizing) when they said the university campuses are crawling with Marxists. Very few of your lecturers will be Reds. Hardly anyone will assign Marx unless they’re critiquing him. Some of your course material will be downright conservative. Some of your lecturers won’t like it if you protest. But thanks to students, the vision of the campus as a hotbed of radicalism is more true now than it has been for a long time. And you are here just in time to be part of it.

Greenwashing

We all know that climate change is tied up in capitalism and that we cannot merely consume our way out of it. But corporations want you to believe that you can. Instead of actually stopping harmful and exploitative practices, good ol’ free-market unregulated capitalism is co-opting “sustainability” to give the illusion of doing something, while all the while keeping their profit margins intact. So you can keep shopping, thinking that it’s all good because your milk powder has an eco-label on it. And it works. 40 to 60% of consumers will opt for something that has an ‘eco-friendly’ label on it like ‘made with recycled materials’ ‘100% compostable’ ‘plastic made from plants’you get the idea.

Greenwashing is defined by Toitū Envirocare as ‘disingenuous or misleading environmental claims- usually regarding a consumer product’. Not only are these claims a cheap effort to reach a wider audience, but they create distrust and complacency. Take Fonterra, New Zealand’s largest company: in August last year they claimed to be undertaking ‘regenerative agriculture practices’ while rotationally grazing livestock pumping nitrogen fertiliser into the soil and waterways. Freshwater ecologist Mike Joy and James Cook University academic Adam Canning slammed Fonterra’s claim for what it is: ‘utter greenwashing’. That’s not to say that farmers across the motu are not making strong efforts to farm more sustainably and practicing regenerative agriculture, but their genuine efforts are being undermined by Fonterra’s falsehoods.

You might be wondering why corporations spend more time trying to convince us how green they are than actually committing to sustainable practices – the answer is simple: money. Profit–hungry corporations don’t willingly do anything that might compromise their profits unless they’re actually forced to. While the EU has started to crack down on climate neutral claims, and misleading labels, unfortunately, in Aotearoa, we don’t have much in the way of government regulation. In theory, the Fair-trading Act prohibits misleading consumers. But this hasn’t stopped Fonterra and other companies throwing a green label on anything they like.

Luckily, there are tools at our disposal. Anyone can make a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority or the Commerce Commission. There are also potential litigation routes; Greenpeace is suing Fonterra for misleading consumers with a label stating that Anchor butter is ‘100% New Zealand grass-fed’ when up to 20% of a Fonterra dairy cow’s diet could be imported palm kernel linked to deforestation of rainforests in Southeast Asia.

If you want to help us investigate potential cases of greenwashing, follow us on insta @climateclinic and come along to our meetings down at OGB.

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