Sep 5, 2017 | Canvas, Features
The number of students who report poor levels of emotional wellbeing at Victoria University has remained at 45% for the past three years. Gerard Hoffman, Manager of Student Counselling Services, wrote in Salient on 10 April, 2017 that factors include: Increasing...
Apr 5, 2017 | Canvas, Features, Views
How to recover reality in an age of attractive illusions So, here we are, occupying our little place in space, our short moment in time. What do we know? More to the point, how do we know what we know is true? If we are gods, we can decide what is true and what isn’t....
Dec 8, 2016 | Canvas, Features
More on the church: A brief disclaimer Breaking down church walls Mucking in: A student perspective Building to plan “I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: ‘Go down again – I dwell among the people.’” – John Henry Newman...
Oct 6, 2016 | Canvas, Features
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts. Shakespeare’s cynical poem from As You Like It suggests that in this world we are but actors for a time,...
Jul 28, 2016 | Canvas, Features
There is a scene near the end of The Blindside movie where Sandra Bullock’s character says to her son as he is about to start university, “Michael – if you get a girl pregnant out of wedlock, I will cut off part of your body.” (The actual quote is more explicit...
Aug 26, 2015 | Canvas, Features
“I have a small gaming problem I need to address.” That wasn’t the point of our meeting, but it was bound to come up. Paul Dunn’s confession came in a central Auckland café just down the road from Scarlet City Studios, where he works as a game developer. Gaming is a...
