Features

Winter Wonderland

Posted 5:16am Monday 11th July 2011 by Rueben Black

Winter presents the most practically challenging and aesthetically captivating season for both men’s and women’s fashion. But if you’re not a law student or a rich Auckland hipster with mountains of Country Road and ASOS winter gear, it can be a living hell. Waiting weeks on end for your only Read more...

Voluntary Apocalypse

Posted 5:06am Monday 11th July 2011 by Joe Stockman

You probably don’t realise, walking around campus all rugged up in your puffer jacket, that the world is going to end. It’s not the Mayan calendar, Global Warming, or thermo-nuclear war that’s going to take us all out. There is a tiny little bill in front of parliament right now that has the power Read more...

Private Parts

Posted 5:01am Monday 11th July 2011 by Sam McChesney

With the recent furore around Darren Hughes’s sex scandal allegations, and now our very own Dan Stride, Sam McChesney decides to delve into the wild world of privacy law. Privacy is an issue which has received increasing attention in recent years. In years gone by, individuals were largely Read more...

I wanna have sex baby

Posted 4:49am Monday 11th July 2011 by Phoebe Harrop

Phoebe Harrop talks to renowned sex therapist and author of Sex Life Dr. Pamela Stephenson-Connolly about, well, sex. Dr. Pamela Stephenson-Connolly is a serious MILF. There’s the long and lustrous platinum blonde hair, the come hither gaze, that hard-to-place accent… Oh and Read more...

Back in the golden days

Posted 4:36am Wednesday 6th July 2011 by Phoebe Harrop

It’s fair to say that Otago students don’t always receive the most favourable media coverage. While some of it is well-deserved, some of it is clearly a little hyperbolic. Phoebe Harrop considers the New Zealand media’s particular pleasure in outing the latest controversial exploits of students, and Read more...

Their Land, Our Land

Posted 4:33am Wednesday 6th July 2011 by Charlotte Greenfield

After Israel attacked an aid flotilla headed for the Gaza Strip in May 2010, investigative journalist John Pilger accused members of the Western media, including the trusty BBC, of “deception” in their coverage of the event. The promulgating of propaganda is a charge commonly leveled at the Israeli Read more...

Powerful People

Posted 4:29am Wednesday 6th July 2011 by Josh Hercus

Crazy, stupid or downright hopeless; politicians often don’t garner much respect. But they’re not all so terrible. Political fiend Josh Hercus considers the most badass leaders of them all. Theodore Roosevelt Teddy Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth President of the United States and quite Read more...

No More Burying Our Heads in the Sand

Posted 1:16am Friday 1st July 2011 by Josh Hercus

What do climate change and tobacco have in common? Josh Hercus investigates how scientific research is often supressed for corporate gain. We’ve known the end result of both for a long time Contrary to what many of you might think, scientists were well aware of the connection between Read more...

Gonna Take Pollution Down to Zero

Posted 1:11am Friday 1st July 2011 by Students for Environmental Action Otago (SEA)

You don’t have to buy a hybrid or deck your flat out with solar panels in order to save the world. There are many inexpensive ways that students can minimise their impact on the environment. Students for Environmental Action Otago present twenty tips that will both make the planet a better place to Read more...

Clean’n’Green Costa Rica – a True Tropical Paradise?

Posted 1:07am Friday 1st July 2011 by Phoebe Harrop

Lucky Phoebe Harrop spent her summer in Costa Rica, and looked Costa Rica’s own environmentally friendly image. Bill is the man. He can only be described as a real-life Costa Rican Rafiki, down to his Jamaican-esque lilt, missing-a-few-teeth grin, Dairy Milk chocolate skin and the wisdom that Read more...