Petition
Symonds Street Safety Petition Update: Welcome AUTSA!
Update: AUTSA joins the Symonds Street Campaign. We will be presenting the petition together to Auckland Transport on 24 June!
Lewis Creed
Craccum Managing Editor | managingeditor@craccum.co.nz
Film Review
Review: The Weeknd's Hurry Up Tomorrow (The Movie)
The Weeknd's attempt to make the 2020s equivalent to Purple Rain feels more like Purple Pain.
Interview
Drax Project Interview at AUSA's 2025 Alfred's Street Festival
Interview with Drax Project, one of New Zealand's most successful musical exports. They performed on our campus live at AUSA's sold-out Alfred's Street festival in O-Week.
Petition
Symonds Street Safety Petition Update: Promising Progress
Nearly 1000 signatures! Let’s keep the petition’s momentum going to make a Symonds street running through our campus.
Te Ao Māori
The Māori Battalion Vet who wrote Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi
On this ANZAC Day, I thought I'd put together a short article spotlighting one of our WW2 veterans, Wiremu Te Tau Huata CBE QSO MC, who made a remarkable impact on our culture ahead of NZ Music Month.
Events
Stray Theatre Company presents: She Kills Monsters
A student-run production showing from the 14th to the 17th of May. She Kills Monsters is a play about Agnes, a totally average teenage girl, embarking on a Dungeons and Dragons module to reconnect with her nerdy, weird, potentially queer sister Tilly, aka Tillius the Paladin. Cringe!
Interview
Craccum Throwback | Sonic's Least Biggest Fan: AngrySonic
An Interview with Kiwi YouTuber Joel Sheffield (AngrySonic). From uni side hustle to full-time career with 995k Subscribers. [Craccum #2, 2024]
Petition
Symonds Street Speeding Petition Update: Overwhelming Support from UOA Community
Update on petition campaign progress. We are asking Auckland Transport to do more to enforce the 30 km/hr speed limit on Symonds Street and around the UOA and AUT City Campuses.
Interview
Craccum Throwback | ICEHOUSE's Iva Davies Interview
An interview with Aussie synth-pop legend Iva Davies on legacy, memories of collbaorations and a forgotten 80s supergroup based in Japan. [Craccum #20, 2024]
Clubs
Clubs Column | Week 6
Check out these 5 cool University of Auckland clubs!
UOA
Our Archive is Live: Read 2024's Craccums Online Now
We are excited to announce that our new archive page is now live, featuring every Craccum from 2024. These can be viewed here or at www.craccum.co.nz/archive. We plan to keep expanding our archive page to go back to at least 2017 and will post regular updates as progress is made.
News
Sign our petition to enforce the 30 km speed limit around the UOA City campus
Sign our petition here. We are asking the Waitematā Local Board to do more to enforce the 30 km/hr speed limit on Symonds Street and around the UOA and AUT City Campuses