Essay
My Camelot Era
A poetic essay on Jackie Kennedy, Taiwanese girlhood, and the longing to reclaim history with grace. Camelot, to her, was not a fairytale, but a resistance imagined in silence and lace.
Opinion
Opinion
Your Degree is Just the Beginning: Why Taking Ownership of Your Learning is Your Ultimate Career Hack
Your degree is just the beginning. For students in higher education, the ultimate career hack is taking responsibility for your own learning. Master how to learn in the age of GenAI, build future-proof skills, and study smarter for lifelong success. Take control of your education and your future.
Opinion
'Papa Americano'
The announcement of a world first - an American pope, would shock all. In a time in which America’s crown seems to be slipping, could this move be a necessary saviour?
Opinion
The Crippling Loneliness
Within the depths of my heart lie unresolved emotions built over the years. It's crippling breaking through barriers leaving behind a broken self unable to heal and carry on from the pain drowning in the loneliness of unexpressed feelings.
Opinion
Unfortunately, your therapist was right.
How do we find joy in a world that is struggling to simply survive and why is it that we sometimes feel guilty for finding it?
Opinion
Maybe you’re a snob? A Look Into Elitism in Music
Music forges connections and shapes identities, but what about when it is used to divide us? This article looks into the roots of elitism in music, analysing the connection between commonplace gatekeeping and widespread classism, sexism, and racism.
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.
News
Taumata Awards 2025: Hope for a generation
Review of the 2025 Taumata Awards. The University of Auckland celebrates five inspirational and world changing alumni.
Opinion
Opinion: Nintendo Switch 2 gives with one hand and takes with the other
If the Switch is so good then why isn't there a Switch 2 huh? Oh wait...
Opinion
“Kindness Is Free.” No, It Isn’t.
I’m not talking about the good manners type of kindness, like holding the auditorium door open for the student filing in behind you, or giving up your seat on public transport for someone who needs it more.
Opinion
To Those Who Do Not Understand Fangirls
To those who do not understand fangirls, You do not have to understand us. We will continue to be as we are. Fandom is a family, a mutual understanding. A community of like minded yet diverse people, all with their own opinions, their own experiences, their own interpretations of these
Opinion
The Web as a Tool for Both Liberation and Oppression – a Conversation Around International Women’s Day
Being online and having an online presence is something that has become an innate part of all our lives, and as a result, the perfect space for us to interact and learn within. Proving to be both a tool for freedom fighting, solidarity, and liberation, as well as hatred, bullying,