“I would not be going anywhere near there.” That’s what a Victoria Law student who works in parliament advises Wellington students. With Red Light restrictions limiting orientation, students are already struggling to enjoy their first week and protestors taking over the city aren’t making it any easier to explore.

Prison abolition is a subject that is generally considered utopian or idealistic – something out of reach and unachievable. For this reason, it is usually overlooked and dismissed with a sweep of the hand that implies without prisons, our society would be reduced to anarchy. This is actually far from the truth, and it is becoming ever more essential that Aotearoa divorces itself from its reliance on the prison system.

Most of us are familiar with sitting down to watch a couple of TikToks and blinking forward a couple of hours; or putting off an assignment we were excited to write until the thought of touching a laptop makes you want to drop out and pursue a career in stripping. These experiences are all to do with dopamine, a chemical most of us haven’t heard of, but have spent our lives chasing.

With open arms and numb fingers from the broken AC in our office, I welcome you all back to the sanctuary of student news, the haven of hot gossip, Massive Magazine. Over the summer break, you may have seen some controversy surrounding our magazine’s editorial independence. Today, after not being asked to share the first magazine with any old people, I can confidently announce we are as editorially independent as ever!

I’m sure everyone is familiar with the discourse about what schools should really be teaching us. There was probably a smart-ass in math who interrogated the teacher about when they’d actually need algebra in real life. It’s a good point, a great point even. Unless you’re actually studying something mathematics-related as a career, I doubt you need to understand calculus or algebra to be successful in the working world.

Solicited advice is a weekly column where an underqualified anonymous guru answers the questions you want answered. This won’t include the stock-standard, sugar-coated advice you’re used to hearing – we’re talking about the truths that are REALLY on your mind.

The historic Refectory building was closed in 2011 following the Christchurch earthquakes, when the risks of occupying older buildings were brought to light. Now, 11 years later, student’s can finally get around to making the most of this iconic space and admiring its interior beauty again.

After almost four years since the original petition to ban conversion therapy, the bill has been passed. But the Green Party isn’t done yet. It has called to create a Ministry for Rainbow Communities which some hope will make change move faster.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” says student

Proposal for a full organisational merge between the students’ associations recently went to consultation with students, which has led to Pasifika students’ associations gaining another two seats in the voting structure of MUSAF

Hello, friends. What a year it’s been. The last issue of Massive! Can you believe it?

6: Listen to your lecture recordings as you go to sleep. If nothing else, maybe you’ll finally get a good night's sleep! There’s nothing like the sound of your lecturer's voice to make you sleepy as fuck.

My complete apathy towards religion started transitioning into, quite honestly, an open dislike for it when I realised I was gay.

Sagittarius: Your study planner is so pretty Sag! So was the one you made last week! How about actually following it now??

With one door closing, another fucking door opens, it's that time of the year where a full-time job starts becoming the sad reality.

From stationery floating in jelly to classic gladwrap gags, pranks sustain us through the misery years of university. But, where have they all gone?

It’s the beginning of October, so a global pandemic and growing inequity is a fitting and kinda scary way to start off the spooky season.

We've all been browsing where we shouldn’t be late at night and come across something that piques our curiosity, right?

I too, mostly tolerate the idea of classes at all