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Issue 17, 2018 ISSUE 17, 2018 CREDITS EDITORIAL EDITOR Andrew Winstanley DESIGN 5 NEWS 6 Nick Withers DESIGN TEMPLATE Daphne Zheng COMMUNITY ARTS AND LIFESTYLE EDITORS Rushika Bhatnagar and Chris Wong COMMUNITY EDITOR 10 HOW Emelia Masari FEATURES EDITOR Daniel Gambitsis THE PILL SCIENCE EDITOR Nandita Bhatnagar VISUAL ARTS EDITOR CHANGED Daphne Zheng WRITERS Cameron Leakey, Lachlan Mitchell, EVERYTHING Saia Halatanu, Astrid Crosland, Caitlin Jardim, Mary Gwendolyn, Joseph Faitisi, Emily Holland, Emma Morris, Jin Yun, Chris 14 MY LEFT- Wong, Claudia Russell, Olivia Max- well, Sarah Tribble ILLUSTRATORS WING BUBBLE Eda Tang, Daphne Zheng, Georgia Wu COVER ARTIST 18 ARTS & Daphne Zheng SOCIAL MEDIA TEAM Uvini Panditharatne REVIEWS 22 CALL FOR WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS! Flick us an email at editor@crac- cum.co.nz if you’re interested in contributing. COLUMNS 29 FIND US ONLINE www.craccum.co.nz SCIENCE 32 CraccumMagazine @craccum EDITORIAL OFFICE AUSA 34 4 Alfred Street, Private Bag 92019, Auckland ADVERTISING Aaron Haugh [email protected] THE ARTICLES AND OPINIONS CONTAINED WITHIN THIS MAGAZINE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE STAFF, AUSA OR PRINTERS. New name. Same DNA. ubiq.co.nz 100% Student owned - your store on campus 3 & . / EDITORIAL CAN WE PLEASE, COLLECTIVELY, TRY NOT TO FUCK THIS QUITE NICE THING UP I’m going to apologise in ad- The argument that is probably It might be that our relative vance for this - I promised most appealing to a lot of people isolation has basically cut us off myself that I wasn’t going to is that there’s just something from a lot of these issues - a lot write two boring-as-hell poli- about New Zealand that protects of the most contentious debate, tics-are-important essays in a us from this kind of behaviour, globally speaking, seems to be row. Sometimes things just don’t that we have some kind of rooted in a fear of a massive happen the way you want them cultural vaccine against bastard- influx of migrants. to. Next week I promise you’ll ness. It’s certainly true sense of get something different. progressiveness and tolerance is You can also argue that our rela- more or less a core part of our tive prosperity - and, in particu- Anyway: national identity at this point - lar, the fact that we, as a country, although it’s arguable the extent managed to collectively avoid The last couple of weeks have to which that’s actually reflected the worst of the Global Finan- been like a really weird series in the reality. cial Crisis - has worked as a form of stress tests in regards to New of social insulation. Zealand’s wider political fabric. In many ways, our collective reaction to Stefan Molyneux and And it’s probably actually a I think it’s not unreasonable to Lauren Southern’s visit last week combination of culture and all say that one of the distinguishing indicates that it is something those other factors, right? Which features of New Zealand’s politi- inherent about us. means that we really need to be cal climate at the moment is how on the lookout for forces that relatively not-toxic it is. That’s Molyneux and Southern’s shtick might overcome those defences not to say that engaging with our ultimately relies on the general and transform our culture into political sphere isn’t inherently public being more willing to be- something much uglier. exhausting (it absolutely is). Just lieve that they’re the victim than that when compared they are to listen to groups who In the meantime, we really are hurt by the things that they should spend more time being But rather, it feels like we’re do and say. proud of what our country has & really one of a very short list of been able to achieve. We’re the countries in the world right now But it isn’t good enough to just only country to successfully shut that isn’t struggling with growing assume that it’s a character-base down a Molyneux and Southern extremism and political division. thing. it might just be that we’re event - which I think says pretty small, and that the stakes aren’t good things about who we col- Now, one might reasonably high enough for people to really lectively are. wonder exactly why that is. want to rip this country apart . / And there are lots of different over their hatred for their politi- - Andrew answers that one might give. cal opponents. 5 NEWS PUBLIC ART - LIGHT WEIGHT O I’ve always had a soft spot for O’Connell Street. Sitting one up from High Street towards the top of Shortland Street, it’s not too long nor is it that busy. But there’s something about the heritage buildings, the quiet hum along with the shared space design that has always made me feel as though Auckland has some sort of hope for urban street design. And so when I ventured down O’Connell St the other night, on my way back to my $3 car park at Chancery - book online and it’s super cheap - following a quick spot of desert at Miann, it was hard to miss the new public art installed high above me. Light Weight O by Catherine Grif- fiths [pictured] is a piece com- missioned by Auckland Council to sit high above the streetscape. Light Weight O is a large 2.4m heritage of O’Connell St whilst Impressive facades, street pav- diameter O that is faced on one considering the special nature ings and businesses are all built side by a mirror and another by of this built place in the natural on natural ground and this is brass. environment. what Griffiths is asking us to consider, the place of O’Connell Griffiths has explained that the The piece sits between 5 and 10 Street to be such a special place O is designed to “encourage those O’Connell St, between two 1925 while still acknowledging the who work through O’Connell St to heritage buildings that both natural environment it occupies, observe the above and the below and have such amazing facades yet the sky, land and air. consider the space between”. The in essence are shaped as they are Piece serves as a reminder of the because of us. - Cameron Leakey 6 NEWS BULLETINS Judith Collins Retweets Chaos in the Capital Sexual Harassment at Conspiracy Fodder The Greater Wellington Re- Vic CW: Discussion of Sexual Assault gional Council voted last week A chemistry tutor at Victoria Uni- laws, Statutory Rape to make emergency changes to versity of Wellington who stalked the Wellington bus system, after and groped female students was Judith Collins got herself in hot reforms to the service triggered allowed to continue to teach - and water last week after she publicly city-wide chaos. was even allowed to supervise called on the Prime Minister to classes of high school students - respond to claims made in an The initial changes were imple- despite the fact that a formal com- article published on a notorious mented a few weeks ago, and plaint against him was upheld. fake news website. were the results of a number of years of planning on the part of The complaint, made in February The article in question, from the council. The hope was that this year, alleged that the tutor “yournewswire.com”, claimed the changes would help. “rubbed his hands up and down that France had passed a law [the student’s] legs”, “made jokes that legalised sexual assault However, in practise they’ve had about stripping [the students] off against children. the opposite effect. Commuters to treat chemical burns”, gave the have complained about being students unwanted massages, and, YourNewswire is the original stranded across the city - with on multiple occassions, followed source of the quietly iconic core bus services either being cut the students to their home after headline “Katy Perry: ‘Human down or entirely removed. tutorials. Flesh Is The Best Meat; Cannibalism Got A Bad Rap’”. Many have ultimately moved to The University offered to mediate alternate forms of transport - Restorative Justice sessions be- When challenged on the claim, the price of an average Uber in tween the students and the tutor. Collins was unrepentant. Re- and around the Wellington CBD The students declined that offer, sponding to reporters asking during peak hours has reported- and no further action was taken. her about the providence of the ly almost doubled compared to The tutor was allowed to continue article, Collins only said that before the change. to teach, including during a three- Arden “won’t have any trouble day outreach course with local denouncing it—will she?” secondary schools. 7 NEWS A SHORT HISTORY OF THE DONALD BRASH DEBATE Last week, the executive board of the University of Auckland Debating Society decided to take no action on an equity complaint lodged against their executive over their collective decision to invite Don Brash to speak at an on campus club event. It became an increasingly polit- ically symbolic decision as the week went on - for a variety of complex reasons. This article will attempt to lay them all straight. WHAT WAS THE aligning himself with broad a member of Hobson’s Pledge. EVENT “Freedom of speech” related causes. The Free Speech Coalition were a The event was the first in what loosely organised group that was DebSoc hopes will be an on- As leader of the National Party, established to organise the defence going series of public debates Brash generated significant of Canadian alt-right activists about “topical issues in New controversy by engaging directly Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Zealand society”, that they call with racially contentious topics.
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