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“You are what you eat,” says 2015 Garden Club president Richard Donovan.

The second year engineering student says that this year he aims to focus on “the nutrition side of community gardens…it’s not just learning how to grow plants but also what’s in the plant.”

“With New Zealand, we’re quite deficient in quite a few nutrients in our soil, so like selenium, cobalt, things like that, and I just kind of want to have a huge emphasis on nutrition and get the word out there that these are big problems.”      

The Movie Club kicked off this semester with its second outdoor movie. After the success of Pitch Perfect last year, we thought we’d try to make this a tradition. 

The viewing of Lion King during O-Week was a roaring success. Adding beanbags, popcorn, candyfloss and Hopt soda to the mix, it was a fun night for everyone!

As usual, we aim to watch more movies at Events throughout the year. With such a huge number of members, hopefully we can do more events, and meet more people in the process. Aside from ordinary movie events, we’re hoping to organise a similar event for Winter O-Week – with beanbags (again!), hot chocolate, onesies, and a winter-themed movie.

We're currently taking bookings for Avengers on 30th April - get your ticket from ASA Reception. 

Massey University Albany Rugby Club has had a successful start to the year with many sign ups at Orientation Week. The team finished the summer touch competition at Victoria Park in 4th place with new players getting a chance to train and play. The addition of new students at Massey, with strong rugby backgrounds ensures a strong future for the club. We have kept in close communication with the local Marist club and have been training on their all-weather fields. We are looking to get into a winter competition to keep the members active and also will participate in the Northern Tertiary Challenge.

Massey Albany Football Club competes in the Northern Football Federation (NFF) Men’s 5 aside Futsal Tournament. Games were played at Massey University Sports Hall on Wednesday nights over 8 weeks. The team enjoyed the high level of competition displayed at this tournament and are looking forwards to the next tournament round in May. The club is actively seeking additional Men and Women players. Please contact us at masseyunifootball@gmail.com if this is you.

The Garden Club will soon be hosting a Traditional Umu Cooking Workshop.

According to 2015 Garden Club president Richard Donovan, the workshop would be run with Senior Advisor Pasifika, Ben Taufau, and would use the taro grown in the garden.

“I just felt that it would kind of be a good opportunity for others to learn how to do it, especially since a lot of the members of the Community Garden are actually international students and I’m sure they’d definitely be interested in learning about the Island culture and traditional cooking, especially because it’s very similar to hangi and it’s a good way to bridge the cultures.”

The annual clubs prize giving was held on the evening of Monday October 20th...

(MAFF President, Naser, pictured with finalists Unitec and Auckland University teams)

This was the first Futsal Inter-University Tournament that Massey University has run after the discontinuation of the Inter-University League in 2009. 

Unitec managed to win first place after beating YMCA 6 1 in the Semi-Final and Auckland University by 4 to 1 in the Final. 

The Massey University team did well in the group stages by beating both YMCA teams but lost the semi-final game to Auckland by 3 to 1 and to YMCA B by 6 to 4 in the 3rd/4th placement game. Overall, it was a very successful day and we hope to have MIT and AUT on board in the future. 

Final placements were as follows:

1. Unitec
2. Auckland University
3. Massey University
4. YMCA B
5. YMCA A

Picture: Chris Broadbent (left) has an informal discussion with students about Fairfax media

The Massey Association of Communication Students was thrilled to have speaker Chris Broadbent from Fairfax media for a student talk at Ferguson bar on Wednesday2nd August. This Speaker Event concluded MACS’ Speaker Series for 2014, which hosted four industry professionals at Massey, educating students on the ‘real world of Communications’. Chris Broadbent holds a position in Fairfax Media as an Employment Relation Manager, giving the students insight about how to fit into a big organisation such as Fairfax media. Students enjoyed finger food, non-alcoholic beverages, and employment tips and tricks. Chris spoke casually to the group, answering questions and discussing how to apply for jobs and internships, how to stand out, and what NOT to do when applying for jobs. 

Are these guys getting any work done???? They seem to be at the mountain at every opportunity.  

If you haven't skied before, watch out for their up and coming Snow Planet trip aimed at getting you newbies on the slopes.  

In the meanwhile, click the photo, to read all about this trip. 

 Click the photo to read their full report. 

Another successful snow club trip.  Read all about it and wish you'd been there.

The Business Student Group (BSG) runs the GO, Innovate competition every year. GO Innovate is a competition which aims to find the best entrepreneurial students with innovative ideas. These innovative ideas or products fill a genuine gap or opportunity and allows students to unleash the entrepreneur from within. Contestants submitted their innovative ideas in a report and then defended their ideas in an in-depth presentation. From this three finalists idea were chosen; Juergen Kolb, Ryan Stillwill and the team of Sam Kerse and Aden Cooper.

Rotorua Brass Monkey 2014 was a two day Ultimate Frisbee tournament comprising of a 1 day indoor tournament and on the second day an outdoor Hat tournament.The indoor tournament was a great social event, where the Massey Albany team really out performed themselves, although we were left without a victory. There were many comments throughout the day about how we were coming together as a team and beginning to show some real talent. With particular standout Andrew Drain being awarded player of the tournament.