Well yet another shocking display of student drunkenness at the Ferguson bar in Massey’s Albany campus after the Tiki Taane concert (which was awesome, no complaints there) last week.

Now I am not your average student, I am the one that will happily put my hand up to be the designated driver, but of course that comes with the price of having to deal with incoherently drunk students who think they are making sense when all I can really understand of them is “HEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYY I *burp* YOU FR *burp* OMPU CLA…” Yes this actually happened and I did not know the person or understand them, but good on them for trying to make a friend.

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Roller Derby ahe? Brings to mind… what exactly? For some people have no idea… horses on roller skates? Lesbians on wheels? Roller hockey? Well people, let me debunk the myth and explain to you exactly what roller derby is, and how it attracts huge numbers of provocatively dressed ladies, donning alter egos and smashing up other chicks all in the name of sport.

Modern roller derby’s roots are in Austin, Texas, when in 2001 a group of ladies formed the Texas Roller Derby, and began redefining the sport, attracting women who face thrills and spills head on, wear (and need!) mouth guards, kneepads, elbowpads, and for a small amount of time each week take on an alter ego usually quite unlike that of their normal everyday personality.

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The edited version of what happened in the student forum, taken from the Massey news page online:

Vice-Chancellor answers student questions (Kinda. But not really.)

By Tabitha Dewe

Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey hosted an on-line student forum last week to answer questions that made him look good and weren’t too curly about all aspects of the University, including fees, enrolment policies and the impact of changes to Government funding, but not about how the university is rolling over and taking it like a bitch from a government more concerned with short term financial gain, rather than the future education of our nation.

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The word “Vintage” is most heavily associated these days with clothes and cars. I don’t know anything about cars, but I do know about clothes, so I when I found out that Fliss who I was interviewing for the roller derby article had a wardroom (that’s right a wardroom, not just a wardrobe) full of vintage clothes, I had to learn more.

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