Tertiary Education Debate

With the election coming up, the RSS has arranged a debate on tertiary education, featuring representatives from most of the major political parties. Come along and listen to them set out their visions for the future of tertiary education in New Zealand.

The debate will be held in the Fisher & Paykel Auditorium, in the Owen Glenn Building at Auckland University.

People can submit questions for the candidates via:
Email: NZUniDebate@gmail.com Subject: DEBATE2014
Twitter: @AucklandRSS #NZUniDebate

Speakers include:
National: Simon O’Conner
Labour: Maryan Street
Greens: Julie Anne Genter
New Zealand First: Tracey Martin
Mana Party: John Minto
ACT: Jamie Whyte
Conservatives: Colin Craig
Internet Party: Pani Farvid

2014 Discussion Dinner

Well, O-week is behind us and we’ve had our first event of the year. The discussion dinner was a great success, with around 30 people, both old members and new, turning up for an evening of lively discussion and of course some food. Hats off to the organisers, whose preparation made the evening run so smoothly.

 

Three topics were put forward for discussion, and provided a springboard for related (or unrelated) topics. As it turned out, we only really heard back from the groups on the first topic on the night, so if anybody would like to chime in with feedback or interesting tangents in the comments, or even continue with discussions cut short, they’re more than welcome to do so.

1)      Is it ethical for a socialised healthcare system to have compulsory organ donation?

2)      Should there be a right to secede?

3)      What, if anything, should the government censor?

 

Next week’s event will be “Cryptography and Information theory: things that are impossible and things that are not,” with Steven Galbraith, at 5:30 in Case Room 2 of the OGGB. Details of upcoming events are available on the Facebook page, or the calendar above.

RSS t-shirt design Competition

Hey Everyone, 

We’re keen to make some RSS t-shirts. We’re calling on all members to create an original t-shirt design and the most popular design will win. We will need to pre-order the t-shirts, but we will let you know about that after we have a design. We expect the shirts to cost around NZ$20.

We would like the t-shirts to be position/view neutral, as we are primarily a skeptics club and do not endorse any one position or view point.

Submit your designs via this post on our facebook page, or send us an email on: reasonandscience@gmail.com

Here are some ideas to get you started: 

       

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Submissions will be posted here:

 Use the Banner. Suggestion by some Exec.