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Debatable: Is it socially acceptable to drink glasses of milk?

Posted 11:35am Monday 14th July 2025 by Hunter Jolly

For It was a bit of a shock to learn that drinking the occasional glass of milk was a controversial act. I’m an adamant milk slurper, so you’d better believe that after a hard day of mahi, I like to come home and guzzle down a pint or two of it. What’s not to love? It’s Read more...

Recession Indicators: Otago Edition

Posted 11:26am Monday 14th July 2025 by Molly Smith-Soppet

Aotearoa technically isn’t in a recession anymore, but this is what I have seen and things I expect to see in the near future as signs of economic backsliding. Full buses  Home hair cuts and choppy bangs U-Bar pintflation (alongside the death) The rise of platonic Read more...

Booze Review: Speight’s Hazy Pale Ale

Posted 11:14am Monday 14th July 2025 by Joan of Rark

This article does not start with a sip, but with a journey. Of course, by journey I mean driving from my boozeless flat in the North East Valley to Rattray Street to pick up a rarer drop than most conjured up by those mad bastards under the Triple Star: Speight’s Hazy Pale Read more...

Booze Review: Kristov Orange Label

Posted 5:49pm Sunday 25th May 2025 by Joan of Rark

We’ve gone DI-why the fuck would you do that this week: Kristov Red Label and Raro. Born from a post in the ‘Throwback 4s & Rotary of NZ’ facebook group, surrounded by mentions of monster-ports, premix, and Purple Goannas, this shit should have made like dreads and tribal Read more...

Debatable: Is the gaydar real?

Posted 5:45pm Sunday 25th May 2025 by Stella Weston

For:  We naturally put other people in boxes immediately upon meeting them based on preconceptions and perceived signals, real or imagined. We are brought up to understand that subtle indicators are reflective of deeper identities. The subliminal messages that we send with our choices in Read more...

Critical Tribune: OUSA Dyes Leith River Green In Celebration Of 135th Birthday

Posted 5:41pm Sunday 25th May 2025 by Anna Marrs

Students may have noticed that the Leith is running more green than usual this week. The Otago University’s Student Association has poured gallons of green commercial dye into our very own Leith River in celebration of their 135th birthday, a move that some ecology experts are calling Read more...

OUSA Exec: The Referendum (Again)

Posted 5:31pm Sunday 25th May 2025 by Liam White

We know what you’re thinking—“surely the Exec aren’t still going on about the referendum?”  Yes. Yes, we are. Because now the message is louder and clearer: voting opens today! If you’re reading this on a study break, why not procrastinate just a little Read more...

Local Produce: ‘Bussy Galore’ by Dirty Talk

Posted 5:18pm Sunday 25th May 2025 by Molly Smith-Soppet

If you've found yourself chain smoking outside Woof! or neck deep in an americano at Yours, you may have spotted a slim, lipstick-red booklet amongst the anarchist clutter. No, it's not Mao’s Little Red Book, but it has just as much revolutionary energy. It’s Bussy Galore: Read more...

Horoscopes: Issue 13 2025

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 25th May 2025 by Critic

Pisces Assignment grind has been getting you down, but now is the time to treat yourself to a big present. Who cares if it will put you into financial ruin in the very near future, put that purchase on Afterpay and never look back. Your Queer awakening: Glee Libra PLEASE GO TO THE TOILET AFTER Read more...

Mi Goreng Graduate: Noodle Wrap

Posted 5:12pm Sunday 25th May 2025 by Gordon Ramthisdownyourgullet

Strap yourselves in folks, cause we are about to get freaky. Have you ever been hungry/hungover as fuck only to discover you have close to no real food? Well then this recipe is for you financially struggling legends. This feed has been built solely on the random scraps you have in the cupboard or Read more...