The Bands That Shall Battle
This issue is a personal favourite of mine, as its creation saw nine writers rolling with the nine bands that performed at last Friday's Battle of the Bands.
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This issue is a personal favourite of mine, as its creation saw nine writers rolling with the nine bands that performed at last Friday's Battle of the Bands.
0Wonder where that $699 charge for your ‘student levy’ goes to? Have a read – here are the totals distributed for 2013, as well as the approximate cost per full-time student for the year for these services. So use the Health Centre – you paid $86 upfront to utilise...
Read in fullIt was a regular autumn night near the Christchurch CBD. A little bit quiet and a large bit cold. I met with the three young men of Mirum outside C1 cafe. They had just finished a band practice at Clevetown studio and their musical minds were at their freshest for the...
Read in fullOne Six is a reggae band with nine members. I sat down with two of them, Johnni (vocals, lead guitar) and Cameron (rhythm guitar) during their rehearsal on Thursday, the day before the semi-finals of the Battle of the Bands.
Read in fullFirst year law student Lily Cain is a student in the weekdays, and on the weekends she trades her university books for a sword? No joke. It's part of her Crusaders Maidens cheerleading outfit.
What do you study?I am just studying an LLB and seeing how my results go. I might consider doing a double degree next year but I am just focusing on law this year.
Is it hard balancing university and cheerleading?At times it can be quite a lot, as when we have two or three home games in a row, we have to learn new dances. So we will have two or three two-hour rehearsals a week on top of having to study and get essays done. It can be quite a lot. It is just knowing what is a priority and what is not.
When did you get into cheerleading?You have to be 18 to be get into [the Maidens] and I only just turned 18 this year, but the choreographer was my dance teacher for a while so that also...
We have to make sure we don’t hurt each other by swinging them around the whole time.
While Kusaka Tadaaki is a name you may not know, his passport photography business is hard to miss when walking down Waimairi Road. Come and meet this local whose bright banners on the footpath outside his house are almost as awesome as his photographs.
Kusaka is a familiar face to any uni student who approaches University from the West. He works out of his garage-turned-photo booth on Waimairi Road, just past the Ilam stores and just before Westburn School. He offers cheap passport and ID photographs, and a friend of his offers haircuts as well; hence the somewhat curious combo on their sign.
Tadaaki has been a photographer for over 30 years; he left Japan and moved to America to learn English when he was 21. He first lived in downtown Los Angeles, where the landscape and city life stimulated him. "Every view was very interesting for me, because it was so different," he reflects. He...
The earthquake brought Kusaka’s thriving business in Cathedral Square to a standstill.
As a first year, I’ve learnt quite a few things this past semester. Lots of big words, a surprising amount about Karl Marx, and a plethora of emails telling me where to come for cheap drinks (I still can’t decide if students like alcohol or coffee more). But for the most part, I’ve just made pointless observations about student life.
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Dear John Crow,
In response to your comment on canta.co.nz about Josh Morgan (http://canta.co.nz/letters/280/#c11300), I wish to declare my undying love for him. If you actually knew him at all you would know every silly comment you mentioned in your angry little letter was a joke, said for comedic value only. I love how he is actually 1/8 Maori but has skin white as snow. I love how he is a...
Read moreTo the people working on the timetable next semester:
If you try to give engineering students 8AM lectures four days a week next semester, you are not wrong, no, not at all. YOU ARE JUST BEING A DICK!! The cold weather would certainly make waking up early so much easier~ Oh and the lectures would not be recorded so it is fine to skip one or two~
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Read moreIn regards to Soifua's letter in Canta v8 about the size of the Gym (particularly the weights portion) I have to agree. When I heard that UC was making gym memberships free/a part of student enrolment I thought 'awesome they must be upgrading the facilities!' then common sense kicked in and I thought of course not, they'd rather spend 2 million on another overpriced cafe called Le Shit selling...
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