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In 'da House | Issue 22
Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012 by Holly Walker
I recently survived a live interview on Morning Report, head-to-head with Winston Peters. I figure that has to be some kind of political rite of passage. The topic was MMP and how to improve it. When 58% of New Zealanders voted to keep MMP, we triggered a review of the system. Over 4,500 Read more...
Sex at The Dinner Table | Issue 22
Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012 by Checker-out St Flat
The flat was empty last Friday, as my other flatmates both decided to go away for the weekend. My vagina and I were left alone for some quality time. However, after some serious sexual pondering, I started to think less about the practical and more about the theory of what it takes to pleasure a Read more...
Diatribe | Issue 22
Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012 by Rape Crisis Dunedin
SlutWalk originated in 2011 in Toronto when a police officer told a group of women that if they didn’t want to get raped they should avoid dressing like “sluts”. SlutWalk was a response to the attitudes expressed by this officer and the culture which blames survivors and excuse perpetrators. Read more...
Microbiographia | Issue 22
Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012 by Toby Newberry
Today we focus less on the “historical” side of the column and more on the “lesser-known/interesting” side. Christophe Rocancourt, still alive today, is a real-life gentleman thief. He spent most of the last 40 years swindling rich Americans out of their riches. Rocancourt was born in Read more...
Notes on a Scandal | Issue 22
Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012 by Brittany Mann
This week’s column is about what you might call a Frankenconflict (a word I made up just now). The details read like Auschwitz, Nanking, and Srebrenica rolled into one. Without further ado, I’ll let you in on this dirty secret going down in our own backyard. West Papua is in the western half Read more...
Yes We Might! | Issue 22
Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012 by Creepy Uncle Sam
The wires have been abuzz over the last two weeks, with a series of headlines in the vein of “Old White Republican Man in Misogyny Shocker!” Rep. Paul Akin and his groundbreaking gynaecological theory (which, in case you missed it, was that in cases of “legitimate rape” a woman’s ovaries shut down, Read more...
For The Record | Issue 22
Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012 by Lukas Clark-Memler
Music and movies are a great pair — some might even say they go together like cocaine and waffles. While film scores and musicals are the most obvious spawn of this relationship, I’d like to turn your attention towards the technique referred to in industry-speak as “needle dropping”: when a score is Read more...
Straight Up | Issue 22
Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012 by La Dida
This week I was pleased to see Jonah Lomu on my TV screen raising awareness about the Live Below the Line campaign, which seeks to raise awareness about the experiences of the approximately 1.4 billion people worldwide who live in extreme poverty. The New Zealand equivalent of the extreme poverty Read more...
Me Love You Long Time | Issue 22
Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012 by Lovebirds
None of you read this anyway. It’s just that little weird standfirst bit above the action below. But anyway ... The Blind Date has been at Metro bar for the last few weeks, and it sounds like they’ve been putting on quite a show. Great feed, good drinks, excellent service etc etc. If you want in on Read more...
Editorial | Issue 22
Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012 by Joe Stockman
“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” – George Orwell A country in central Asia is wracked with violence. The police and army are attacked in the streets, and the rebels, funded with profits from narcotics, Read more...
Te Roopu Māori | Issue 21
Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Lisa Pohatu
With the mid-semester break fast approaching, most of us will use the time off to make a dent in that pile of assignments or get ahead on those exams. However, this mid-semester break we have approximately 50 Te Roopū Māori students hosting 200+ Māori students for the national Read more...
Poetry | Issue 21
Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Staff Reporter
ACTION DEVOTION ADDICTION EXPECTATION REJECTION REFLECTION INTROSPECTION INACTION APPARITION ATTRACTION INFATUATION INTENTION DETERMINATION INTRODUCTION DECEPTION NOTION OPTION PROPOSITION NEGOTIATION INVITATION SEDUCTION POSITION FUNCTION MOTION JUNCTION Read more...
ODT Watch | Issue 21
Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Staff Reporter
If you really need the “dangers” of euthanasia explained to you before you try it out, you’re probably failing to understand the general concept: The ODT put this right next to an image of Ostapchuk wearing her gold medal. I think that might be the motivation right there, Read more...
In 'da House | Issue 21
Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Holly Walker
Students and Members of Parliament have one thing in common: everyone knows they have a drinking problem. It’s not uncommon to hear rumours of “legendary” escapades float along the corridors of power, involving past and present national figures, excessive alcohol consumption, extra-marital Read more...
Sex at The Dinner Table | Issue 21
Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Checker-out St Flat
Again, we found ourselves around the dinner table. This time, Nina was treating us to spaghetti carbonara and hearty servings of wine and gossip. I noticed Shane seemed a bit preoccupied with his crotch. Every few minutes his hand would venture down there, then he’d make a quick visit to the Read more...
Diatribe | Issue 21
Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Caleb Wicks
In case you missed the memo, zombies are the new big thing. They have appeared in fiction, movies, games, poetry, and a few of my sexual fantasies. Screw werewolves, vampires, and fairies who claim they are vampires (that means you Eddy Cullen you sparkly bastard!). Zombies are the new wet dream of Read more...
Microbiographia | Issue 21
Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Toby Newberry
Today we pay a visit to medieval Germany*: a land of kings, nuns, and rampant mysticism. Resident there for most of the Twelfth Century was Hildegard of Bingen. She was, among other things, a musician, healer, writer, and mystic. The tenth child of a minor noble, Hildegard was given over to Read more...
For The Record | Issue 21
Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Lukas Clark-Memler
I will begin with a confession, perhaps even a blooming one. I came up with the title of this column long before I sat down, tired and aching after a particularly gruelling and ultimately pointless economics tutorial, and wrote the piece. I often do that — dream up a title first, that is, not waste Read more...
Straight Up | Issue 21
Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by La Dida
From the moment Louisa Wall’s Marriage Equality Bill popped up on Facebook, I began preparing myself for the worst. The first thought that elbowed its way into my consciousness was not a celebratory “Oh yay, marriage – finally!”, it was a defensive “Shit, how ugly is Read more...
Notes on a Scandal | Issue 21
Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Brittany Mann
Three weeks ago I attended my first-ever protest, organised by the Organisation for Global Nonviolent Action (OGNA) on campus. I figured it’d be rude not to go, given that my academic raison d’ętre is ostensibly nonviolence. Also, as I’m in the twilight years of my university career, it was about Read more...
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