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A Race To The Council: Damian Light
Editor’s note: All five candidates’ answers and the rest of our local election coverage, here. It’s local election time and although most Macleans students can’t vote just yet, the decisions being made at the Auckland Council’s Governing Body will ultimately affect each and every one of us. The governing body is made up of 20 councillors and…
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Auckland mayoral candidates to face off at youth-organised debate
A job interview to recruit a mayor; for the youth and by the youth. That’s the promise of “Recruit Your Mayor”; an ambitious planned interactive debate where mayoral candidates can face young Aucklanders directly. Five youth councils from around Auckland have spearheaded the effort and have been supported by the University of Auckland’s Debating Society. …
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What College Can Teach You (other than maths)
College – the exhilarating era of change in everybody’s lives. But college is already a big step and there’s something very specific about college that makes it so. We think of the word ‘college’, and all the meanings and implications behind it – and a shiver runs down our spines. Well, some of us, at…
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Unsung Heroes of Macleans College: The Librarian
Everyone notices the quad-commandeering groundsmen; or the science lab technicians which prompt sudden tab-switching. We see these people virtually every day, but for the five years we’re around them, we as students have no idea who they are. That’s why we‘re starting a new series at The Collegian which focuses solely on them. Our aim…
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The Trap We All Fall Into
In this world of flux, we seem to be led by a belief that no matter how hard we try, we are never enough. Someone is — and always will be — prettier, richer, smarter or more successful than us. We allow these materialistic traits to define us as people, and make us feel like…
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In the laboratory
blue flame danced under a beaker unknown it sends us mere molecules on a journey which lasts a lifetime. in this chemical adventure we are all impure substances energised by idealised passion we break out of social bonds free like vapour to chase dreams. we rise condense again back down to reality repeat i stare…
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So we striked. What now?
In early March, a strike was held by students from all around New Zealand as an attempt to raise awareness against the lack of action to resolve the issue of climate change. Approximately 40 organised protests throughout New Zealand saw tens of thousands of students from primary to tertiary schooling come together as a call…
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24 Hour Tyre Flipping for Mental Health
Through the last weekend of the holidays, Mr Moore and his friend Gareth set a new world record for tyre flipping. See the full gallery of images below. To open the gallery in a new tab: Google Photos Donate here: https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/24-hour-tyre-flipping-for-mental-health Read more: NZ Herald: Kiwis set new world record tyre flipping Seven Sharp…