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Meet Mr and Miss Auckland
We don’t elect them so how do you become the face that represents our city?
In Unison finds out how to become Mr or Miss Auckland, and discover it’s not all false… Continue reading »
Best of Auckland.
In Unison’s Best Of Auckland is based on the needs of students. We’ve judged by proximity to Unitec, value for money, atmosphere and fun rating.
Best Live Music
The Kings Arms Tavern
59 France St… Continue reading »
Campus Safari
With its wide open spaces and simulated “natural” environment Unitec is the perfect roaming ground for a variety of student species. At the end of every summer new species from around the country migrate… Continue reading »
You will not be dipped in purple dye or made to wear hideous overalls, but you will encounter the typical kiwi orientation, here’s what you need to bring to survive orientation in the sun… Continue reading »
Around the world orientation takes different forms, whether it’s known as Rush Week, Freshers Week, Frosh, Nolling, O-Week, or OSPEK. Depending on the country, orientation can last anywhere between one day and one month… Continue reading »
You know you’re a tertiary student when:
1. You live in a flat that requires you to wear jandals in the shower.
2. You rank your weekend fun by its Facebook photo worthiness.
3. You have at least… Continue reading »
Parties. We all hear about them. We hear about the punch, the wine, the goons of Kristoff and Orange, the goons of merlot, the flagons of Tui/Speights/DB. The flats on St Lukes Road which you… Continue reading »
Getting high has taken on a whole new meaning since the 1960s when it meant smoking pot or taking acid, now the market is flooded with all sorts of drugs to alter your mind, and… Continue reading »
In Unison editor Stacey Knott and designer Erin Gaffney forged early nights with cups of tea and slippers to get amongst the glitz and glamour of Air New Zealand Fashion Week. Here is the… Continue reading »
Strike action at Unitec began today because negotiations over employment conditions have failed and lecturers say they will keep taking action until they get what they want.
Members of the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) in… Continue reading »
Fashion: it’s a word that elicits fear, ridicule, scorn, passion, love, and obsession. Whether you love, hate or are indifferent to it you can rarely ignore it. Stacey Knott catches up with some Auckland designers… Continue reading »
According to Statistics New Zealand nearly 1 out of 6 Kiwis are engaged in some type of sporting activity. Whether it is league, netball, or rugby union it seems we Kiwis are passionate about our… Continue reading »
The results of the annual Lecture of the Year voting are in! You have chosen your top lecturers, recognised them as the fantastic lecturers they are, and given them the praise they deserve. Over… Continue reading »
Shelford. Meads. Fitzpatrick. Cairns. Mehrtens. Lomu. Hadlee. They're the males that sit keenly atop the canon of New Zealand's historical masculine elite. It should come of no surprise that when considering what it is to… Continue reading »
TWO MODELS WITH THREE STAPLE ITEMS OF CLOTHING EQUALS EIGHT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LOOKS.
With the help of accessories, In Unison teams up with two Unitec student stylists to show you how fashion can be done on… Continue reading »
When National swept into power last year, pundits described it as a backlash against Labour’s ‘nanny state’. But a little-known project to combat child pornography with a government-run internet filtering scheme may yet pose a… Continue reading »
In the early 1990s computers began to find their ways into New Zealand homes and the internet soon followed, then cellphones became wedded to people’s hands, setting technology as a prominent medium to communicate… Continue reading »
Let's face it folks; given the current state of digital social networking in our lives, we're about two steps away from a skynet-esque global meltdown. With this in mind Joseph Harper sets out to show… Continue reading »
Ngahau i te po or Groove the Night was held to mark the end of the Annual AUT Maori Expo. The expo which had an estimated 20,000 attendants is a one of a kind event… Continue reading »
Sam Hunt says it very well in the touching and arresting introduction to this very attractive collection of one of New Zealand's most loved and greatest poets, James K. Baxter. “The poems here were the… Continue reading »
The last work I saw by the Hackman group was an excellently executed nostalgia trip, presented in the various church halls of our nation called Arohaotearoa; complete with lamingtons, sweater vests, and humorous tales of… Continue reading »
Sons Of Zion
Roots band Sons of Zion will be touring the country in 2010 promoting their new album, they’ll also be releasing another album towards the end of the year. In Unison caught up… Continue reading »
Crowds of ravers, glow sticks, and countless bottles of water were all well and good on New Years Eve. But come late January and the time was ripe for a picnic and something a little… Continue reading »
Tahuna Breaks
With eight current members Tahuna Breaks are a group whose strengths lie in live performances that get the crowd moving. Straight from performances at The Big Day Out and… Continue reading »
Fantastic Mr Fox.
Fantastic Mr Fox sounded like a film I wanted to see, but I hadn’t factored in friends who refused to accompany me to what they deemed “a kids’ movie”. I had to resort… Continue reading »
Photos by Erin Gaffney
last week In Unison checked out the latest talent to come from Auckland University of Technology’s fashion department. The Rookie Show, an annual event is about profiling final year fashion student’s hard… Continue reading »
Chick flicks are not considered as the highest quality movies you can watch, regardless, I still find myself liking them and enjoying the fact that you often know already by the posters how it will… Continue reading »
