Vet students bring the Kenergy at annual Mr Vet event

Students dressed up as cowboy Ken dolls, performing lap dances, catwalks, stripping, poetry and more in front of judges (aka vet school lecturers) at the Mr Vet event last month.  

With around 310 attendees, Massey University Vet Student Association (MUVSA) hosted the event on August 23rd.  

Mr Vet is an annual tradition to celebrate the boys in Vet school as they are a minority. 

Competiton winner Nicholas Morrison, fourth year Vet student, was awarded with a crown and sash.  

“I wrote a poem about the staff and the lecturers of the Massey Vet School, I really tried to push the limits of what I can get away with saying.” 

“This is something you just get stuck into, and the more you commit the more you get out of it. Go hard, go embarrass yourself.”  

A MUVSA spokesperson said any profit goes towards the ‘Halfway Day’, a trip to Taupō after third year to celebrate being halfway through their long and tiring degrees. 

The third-year class of around 150 students go skydiving, white water rafting and take a boat cruise on Lake Taupō at sunset. 

To save up funding for ‘Halfway Day’, MUVSA is currently working on the annual Barely There naked calendar. 

The spokesperson said Mr Vet isn’t usually themed, but last year they had a wild west theme, “So, we wanted a theme this year and decided to go with the inspiration of Kenergy or the mojo dojo casa house and to have each boy a different type of ken.”  

Vet lecturers Jimena Yapura, Stuart Bruere, Laryssa Howe and Alvaro Martinez were the judges. 

It is a tradition to have two boys from each class cohort participate as contestants. 

But this year, they switched it up with one boy from fifth year, three from fourth year, and two from the other classes.  

Micah Geiringer, first year Vet student went along. He said, “VetMed is a female dominated industry. My class has 20 men and 150 women so being able to spend an evening having a laugh about it seemed enticing!”  

“Who doesn’t like making farm boys do a beauty pageant?”  

He watched his classmates strip and give lap dances, and was shocked at a contestant losing $400 at blackjack. 

Geiringer enjoyed himself and would recommend that all Vet students go at least once.