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Yes We Might! | Issue 21

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Creepy Uncle Sam

Last Saturday, Romney confirmed Paul Ryan, a 42-year-old Wisconsin congressman, as his Vice-Presidential running mate. Various US hacks immediately churned out a series of useless factoids: naming Ryan the “most conservative” VP candidate ever, obsessing over his ideological debt to libertarian Read more...

Me Love You Long Time | Issue 21

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 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 puttin on quite a show. Great feed, good drinks, excellent service etc etc. If you want in on Read more...

Editorial | Issue 21

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012 by Callum Fredric

Howdy people, Callum the News Editor here with a guest editorial. You may remember me from such educational articles as “The Cumberland Ghost” and “Margaret Mahy: She Dead”. Through a combination of Joe’s sloth and my desire for a propaganda vehicle, I’m writing the editorial this week. Let’s Read more...

Turangawaewae | Issue 20

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Mike Wright

Where is your turangawaewae, your place to stand? The place where you feel a sense of community and belonging and identity; where you feel most loved, valued and supported; where you feel “at home”? Where is it? For some it’s a physical place: a mountain, river, beach, or lake. Perhaps it’s Read more...

Poetry | Issue 20

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Staff Reporter

I will never compare you To some bright flower Stranded in mud. And I do not care for The songs birds sing, Or the smell of rain. I’ve never found bliss In a summer sunset. I’m colour blind And I find the sun Far too predictable. I would never hold you up As some Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 20

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by

ODT’s resident journalist extraordinaire Dave C had a couple of days off last week, which meant less shit chat to tear apart. He was back on Wednesday however with some existential musings Why indeed Dave; why indeed? Meanwhile in Lawrence, there Read more...

In 'da House | Issue 20

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Holly Walker

It is a little-known fact that new MPs get a formal induction from Parliamentary Services. Last December, I lined up with the rest of the “class of 2011” (including such luminaries as Maggie Barry and Richard Prosser) for my introduction to Parliament. It’s fair to say that much of what we Read more...

Sex at The Dinner Table | Issue 20

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Checker-out St Flat

At last we were all able to sit around the table again, and boy was Tim on fire tonight. His conversational topic of choice? Different undergrad majors. L: I’d imagine law students are pretty frisky thanks to encountering morbid cases all the time. T: They probably get partners to sign Read more...

Diatribe | Issue 20

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Emile Donovan

Enjoying as I do a frothy caramel latte as much as the next/other heterosexual male English student at Otago University, I decided last week to bite the proverbial bullet and splurge, in the least pleasurable way possible, on a 10-pack of your Moccona Frothy Caramel Latte sachets, on special for Read more...

Microbiographia | Issue 20

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Toby Newberry

Ok, here’s how I’ma lay it down this week. We’ll kick off with a little historical context, just to keep it real. Then I’ll dive into a couple of choice anecdotes: brace yourselves for a guy falling off a donkey. Finally, I’ll give some time to Saint Thomas’ work itself – work that certainly merits Read more...

For The Record | Issue 20

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Lukas Clark-Memler

Most of us can pinpoint the exact moment our love of a certain artist began. It was my father’s rendition of Bob Dylan’s humorous bootleg “Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues” that set in motion my own grand musical love-affair. My Dad was a passionate Dylan fan, and from an early age I was Read more...

Straight Up | Issue 20

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by La Dida

Mama - how do you stay so fabulous? What’s your secret? – Grrrrl Thursday Oh Grrrrrrrl! There is no secret, Mama is an open book. Staying fabulous is more of an art than a science. For me it involves a lot of perfume. Seriously. Perfume lifts a grrrl up. And with perfume, more is Read more...

Notes on a Scandal | Issue 20

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Brittany Mann

I had almost finished my column for this week when I read that two New Zealand soldiers very recently died in Afghanistan. The “Breaking News” snippet on Stuff was a nigh-perfect example of how media framing influences how we understand a conflict. The words “personnel”, “team”, and “help” were used Read more...

Yes We Might! | Issue 20

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Creepy Uncle Sam

{data entry: 07/25/12} I left for my world tour today. Feeling a little bit //emotion:[nervous]. If I spend too much time away from my programmers in the US my mainframe begins to disintegrate and I am prone to malfunction. My tour begins in //:[UnitedKingdom]. Today one of my advisors claimed that Read more...

Me Love You Long Time | Issue 20

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Lovebirds

Critic’s blind date column has been running for a while now. We’ve all got some good laughs out of it, and at least a few people have scored themselves a night of romance. But here at Critic we feel that it’s time that we stepped it up a notch. The date is now at Metro to add a little more spice. If Read more...

Editorial | Issue 20

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012 by Joe Stockman

While admittedly I have not spent much time researching it, I have always thought, based on the most circumstantial of evidence, that there was no institutional gender imbalance at Otago. That, amongst students at least, there was gender equality. However, take a slightly closer look and Read more...

Te Roopu Māori | Issue 19

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 5th August 2012 by Lisa Pohatu

Time has flown by so fast. It appears it’s that time of the year when a lot of the freshers are out being annoying and knocking on doors. As an older student, I feel it is my duty to share some of my experiences when looking for a flat. Some key considerations include rent, location, gender Read more...

Poetry | Issue 19

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 5th August 2012 by Staff Reporter

BOI my boy wears my heart on black thread around his neck and its just a symbol - if it breaks, he still has me MATH LOV kicking buckets under the table, and falling in love and falling over into daisies. U+ME don’t set the hounds on me i’m just Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 19

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 5th August 2012 by

Peter Dunne is working on drug legislation, which the ODT has reported on with its usual hilarity: Conversely, it missed a prime pun opportunity with its coverage of the woman who was hit by a car on Moray Place: They failed to report that she was “bowled over” with Read more...

In 'da House | Issue 19

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 5th August 2012 by Holly Walker

The system for debating members’ bills in Parliament has been in the spotlight lately. Last week, three opposition members’ bills passed their first readings in Parliament – a rare occurrence – and a couple of exciting new ones were drawn from the ballot, including Louisa Wall’s Marriage Equality Read more...