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Probing the punters

Rebecca Collyns

Opinion

3/05/2010





This week our intrepid reporter Rebecca Collyns hits the streets armed with pieces of paper and some coloured pens. Here is what resulted.


Have you ever visited the Te Aro campus?
How did you spend your power cut?
In your opinion, what fruit would splatter the most when dropped from a tall building?
Have you ever been to Otaki?
Where is your favourite place to eat on campus?


Annie, Ashleigh, Alice
19, 20, 20
Education

No, once, no.
Sleeping, at work, same.
Watermelon, watermelon, watermelon.
Yes, driven through, yes.
Krishna place, byo, me too.

 
Kurt
17
English Literature

No.
Going to a lecture.
Watermelon, but you wouldn’t want to hit anyone.
Yes.
Here, Mount Street Café.

 
Alex
20
Politics

Yes.
In a café, drinking coffee.
Watermelon.
Yes, to go to the awesome beach and estuary.
Hari Krishna.

 
Kathleen
21
Religious Studies

Yup, I use it for computing.
In here (Mount Street Café) with all my friends and it was fun till we realised there was no eftpos.
Bananas (squishy).
Yup. I don’t remember much about it.
Here I suppose.

 
Gina
18
Psyc and Spanish

No cause I don’t do whatever it is they do there.
I was doing a test in Hispanic Studies.
Tomato if that’s a fruit.
I have. For filming and to go to the Bendon outlet.
Eating is for the weak.

 
Laurel (and Jessie the cat, Yellowi and Goldi the fish)
64
Biomedical Science and Psychology

No. Why would I?
Getting kicked out of the library and then waiting for a test that didn’t happen.
Watermelon.
Yeah, don’t know why but I regretted it.
Library computers.

 
Andrew
18
English and History

Nope.
In an English lecture.
Watermelon.
Yes because I was made to.
Nowhere, because I don’t like the food here.

 
Isabella
18
BA in Media Studies and Psychology

No, never had any reason.
I was working at parliament (advising John Key).
I would say a significant amount of very ripe golden kiwifruit.
Yeah, to go to the Bendon outlet store.
Level 5, city side.

 
Alex
18
Law and Biomed

No, nothing I study is there.
I was about to check my Law results and then I had to wait.
Tomatoes cause they’re a fruit.
Yes I have many times to visit my great-aunty because she wanted to give my mum cookies.
Level 5, city side.

 
Alex
10
Psyc and Ling

* snorts * No.
In the middle of a psyc test. We had to finish in the dark.
Strawberries.
Yes, we went camping there when I was like little. ALSO, we have relatives there.
I don’t sit down, I tend to walk and eat.

 
Emma
18
Classics and English

No.
I was in the middle of English. The lecturer had just said something really profound about Baxter and then the lights went out. It was great timing.
Tomato.
I’ve driven through but never stopped.
I steal other people’s food.