Diatribe

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Posted 6:29am Thursday 5th May 2011 by Adrian Green

It wouldn’t be a New Zealand public holiday without the obligatory reports on the dead, maimed and general carnage on our roads. Death, destruction, cars, explosions and sometimes alcohol; it’s everything we love in our media all wrapped up into one nice little news nugget, ready for nationwide Read more...

The Lads

Posted 4:10am Tuesday 26th April 2011 by Luke MacLean-McMahon

How is it that sockless boat shoes, ankle-skuxing and flat peaks have become a fashion statement? The current trends on display in and around uni are shameful, if not completely fucked. At least in the days of Canterbury NZ track pants and Kathmandu puffer jackets, comfort and practicality were at Read more...

Diatribe - 7

Posted 5:45am Thursday 14th April 2011 by Richard Kennedy

If you are a student in New Zealand there exists a magic number. Or, rather, two magic numbers. If you live at home this number is $82,953.82, or if you are away from home the number is $89,936.68. Congratulations if your combined parental income is less than this! It means that you have just gained Read more...

Diatribe #2

Posted 5:01am Monday 4th April 2011 by Niki Lomax

On the 25th of March some 500,000 people took to the streets in London to protest the proposed cuts to public spending by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government led by David Cameron. Half a million people (the figure reported by the Guardian) is an awful lot of people and, one would Read more...

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Posted 4:54am Monday 4th April 2011 by Sharon Lequeux (on behalf of SEA Otago)

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.” -- Dr Seuss, The Lorax Submissions on the Dunedin City Council’s Draft Annual Plan 2011/12 are due next Tuesday, April 12. This draft plan contains info on what the council plans to do in 2011/12 and Read more...

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Posted 4:26am Monday 28th March 2011 by Dan Stride

Being an elected student representative is pretty hard yakka. Especially so in a year where the National government appears hell-bent on destroying Students’ Associations with the Voluntary Student Membership bill (VSM), in collaboration with ACT. So when I encounter claims like those made by Read more...

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Posted 3:15am Monday 21st March 2011 by Danielle Duffield

If you think Pamela Anderson, the Dalai Lama and John Banks have nothing in common, think again. Although the Dalai Lama and Banks aren’t likely to take their kits off for PETA anytime soon, all three are vocal opponents of factory farming. Now, with our government’s call for submissions on their Read more...

Smoke Nazis

Posted 4:33am Monday 14th March 2011 by Ed Rodgers

It's 1964. The US Surgeon General's report into smoking came out and shockingly announced that smoking was now officially bad for you. Somehow in the preceding millennia of tobacco smoking, human beings failed to realise that sucking a byproduct of fire into your lungs would not have pleasant Read more...

Diatribe

Posted 1:54am Tuesday 8th March 2011 by Kari Schmidt

Aside from the generic “pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps” shtick, people generally characterise New Zealanders by their penchant for whining. Yet, according to the Human Development Index 2010, we are the country with the third best living standards in the world. We’re lucky enough to have Read more...

1-2-3 Transfer

Posted 2:30am Monday 24th May 2010 by Taylor Harrington

I studied at Otago for four years: met cool people, went skiing every year, achieved first-name-basis status at Blue Sky. But after four years, it got old. So, I decided that instead of returning to the deep south, I'd finish off my Commerce degree at home in Auckland. I’d heard it was hard to Read more...