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By-Election bonanza coming to an end
Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 2:03 pm | Salient
The fate of five members of the VUWSA Executive whose election is the subject of an investigation will know whether they’ll keep their jobs this Friday. The VUWSA Election Arbitration Panel is expected to deliver its judgement to the Election Committee ... More >>
Vic Uni invites students to discuss fees at forum
Monday, 7 September 2009, 10:11 am | Salient
Students and penny pinchers alike are being invited to attend a joint fees forum hosted by VUWSA and Victoria University on Wednesday. The forum will give students an opportunity to be addressed by the university regarding the setting of domestic ... More >>
VUWSA’s Wang may whip out trouble
Monday, 7 September 2009, 10:09 am | Salient
The resignation of VUWSA Education Officer Tim Wang last month may leave the association’s exec walking a tight rope for the remainder of the year should an investigation rule July’s by election invalid. Wang’s resignation, the seventh this year, means ... More >>
Vic student wins Young Scientist of the Year
Monday, 7 September 2009, 10:08 am | Salient
Victoria PhD student Jack Watt has taken top honours at this year’s MacDiarmid Young Scientists of the Year awards in Auckland. The 27-year-old was named Young Scientist of the Year for his research into the removal of toxic pollutants from ... More >>
A Transgender Inquiry
Monday, 7 September 2009, 10:07 am | Salient
“A lot of people who are trans experience body dysmorphia,” says Max, from across a table in one of Wellington’s finest bagel establishments. “I don’t personally feel that. Perhaps that has a lot to do with both my politics and the fact that I ... More >>
Sex trials in the spotlight
Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:07 pm | Salient
Why inquisitorial justice is so hot right now. Justice Minister Simon Power has asked the Law Commission to consider the introduction of a European-style inquisitorial justice system for sexual offending and child abuse cases. The Law Foundation, one ... More >>
One trip or two?
Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:06 pm | Salient
On New Years Eve 1997, Ben Smart (21) and Olivia Hope (17) disappeared from a Marlborough Sounds party. Scott Watson (26) was later convicted of their murders, and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years. During the complex ... More >>
The media’s influence on justice
Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:05 pm | Salient
We hear the term ‘trial by media’ thrown around. But just how robust is the interplay between New Zealand’s justice system and the media? Editor Jackson James Wood investigates. It’s 4:45pm on 5 June this year and I am watching Wendy Petrie’s live cross from ... More >>
Innocence
Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:03 pm | Salient
In 1991, a four-year-old boy attending Christchurch’s Civic Creche told his mother he “didn’t like Peter’s black penis”. That statement was the catalyst for a months-long investigation by the police and the Department of Social Welfare into ... More >>
Forensic Science
Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:01 pm | Salient
CSI is awesome. It makes scientists seem totally bad ass. Using high tech gadgets to build a water tight case of incontrovertible forensic evidence, and presenting said incontrovertible evidence to baddies who crumble and confess in the face of ... More >>
For Great Justice!
Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:00 pm | Salient
The Supreme Court building currently sits in bits on Lambton Quay’s legal and legislative branches. Once finished, the $41.8M nest will stand two storeys tall and link with the halls of the newly restored High Court building situated next door. Its symbolic ... More >>
Blameless wisdom
Monday, 17 August 2009, 11:59 am | Salient
Tania Sawicki Mead looks at last month’s stouch between Justice Minister Simon Power and Chief Justice Sian Elias. There’s nothing quite like an intelligent public servant stepping out of place to give a newly instated government the heebie-jeebies. ... More >>
Hooligans, Gentlemen and the Footy
Monday, 10 August 2009, 11:33 am | Salient
On 26 July 2009, a fight broke out between fans at an association football match in Honduras. According to fire department chief Carlos Cordero, the Olimpia and Motagua fans fought each other “with everything they had in their hands.” Gunshots were ... More >>
Sheppard’s Classic PhD Columbia fun time
Monday, 10 August 2009, 11:32 am | Salient
Victoria University Classics graduate Joe Sheppard is whipping his way to the United States after being awarded this year’s Fullbright Scholarship. Sheppard will spend the next five to six years at Columbia University studying for his PhD in self-education ... More >>
Sober recommendations won’t change culture
Monday, 10 August 2009, 11:31 am | Salient
The Law Commission Report into Alcohol Law reform has been shot down in the student community for not challenging New Zealand’s binge drinking culture enough. Law Commissioner President Sir Geoffrey Palmer released a comprehensive report last week ... More >>
Disability and reproductive rights in NZ
Monday, 10 August 2009, 11:27 am | Salient
Advances in science have borne us technologies which would have once been almost unimaginable. With technological development comes the capacity to increase our control over our lives and destinies, and those of others: the invention of the printing ... More >>
Hundreds protest adult class funding cuts
Monday, 10 August 2009, 11:25 am | Salient
A turnout of 200 people in a march against night-class funding cuts last Tuesday was described as “pleasing” by members of the adult education community. Braving rain and cold, protestors chanted “They say cut backs, we say fight back” on ... More >>
Bobby confirms bye bye
Monday, 10 August 2009, 11:23 am | Salient
Newly elected President of Can-Do, Robert Latimer, has officially resigned his post as Education Officer on VUWSA’s Exec. Latimer’s resignation had been announced at Can-Do’s AGM two weeks ago, but had not been made official until last Wednesday ... More >>
Piecing together the Puzzle: An A League preview
Monday, 10 August 2009, 11:20 am | Salient
Building a squad to compete in the A-League is a bit like assembling a jigsaw. It’s a tricky operation that involves finding the right number and type of players, making sure their wage demands don’t exceed the salary cap, restricting the number of ... More >>
Victoria managing swine flu cases
Monday, 27 July 2009, 2:47 pm | Salient
Recent reports suggesting swine flu was spreading through student hostels were swiftly rebutted by Victoria University, who stressed the situation was being carefully managed. As of 16 July there have only been seven confirmed cases of H1N1 Influenza in Victoria’s ... More >>
