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Soapbox - 15

Posted 12:13am Monday 12th July 2010 by Urich Hunt

Take your ghetto, and fuck off! Would you like to know what I realised recently? I fucking hate Scarfies. I really do. It’s weird to say that because I am a uni student myself, but you guys are a serious blight on society. It’s got to the point where I’m actually embarrassed Read more...

The Conservatory - 15

Posted 12:12am Monday 12th July 2010 by Edward Greig

Not every job that is necessary for society to function is desirable to everyone, nor is every job equally easy. Since most people differ from one another, their skills and interests vary. To ensure that the less desirable, or more complicated and difficult but vitally important jobs are Read more...

La Presidenta - 15

Posted 12:10am Monday 12th July 2010 by Harriet Geoghegan

This week's column comes to you from the middle of the holidays (not because I have a time machine, but because that's when my deadline is) and while you have all been away there's been heaps going on at OUSA. Planning and preparation have been in full swing for ReO-Week. Art has been working Read more...

Te Roopu Maori - 15

Posted 11:35pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Ari Te Wake (OUSA Maori Rep)

Due to lack of access of technology, the original TRM column for this week is stuck with Fallyn in the whops, so this is a last minute (literally) attempt to get some needed information out to you fullas, so apologies in advance for lack of content whanau. Welcome back to the start of semester Read more...

The Green Finger - 15

Posted 11:31pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Dominic Szeker

Welcome back team. I hope you had a marvelous holiday. Like a few of you I was stuck in the library, trying desperately to pull together one of these dissertation thingies. My obligatory blurb you give, when you catch up with or meet someone who was also silly enough to commit to a thesis, Read more...

Num Nums - 15

Posted 11:23pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Tien-Yi Toh

When I happened upon Simon and Alison Holst’s 100 Favourite 20 Minute Dishes cookbook at a friend’s family home some months ago, I decided that it would be a good way to gain some insight on Kiwi home cooking as well as test the recipes of these New Zealand icons. Based solely on the appeal of Read more...

Debatable - 15

Posted 10:41pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Matt Chapman and Beau Murrah

Does the University need to change its drinking culture? Matt Chapman argues it does; Beau Murrah disagrees.   Matt: The drinking culture at the University of Otago is a problem that is getting exponentially worse as time goes on, and something needs to be done about it. The Read more...

Apocalypse How? - 15

Posted 10:34pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Iain Dangerfield

Scenario #1: Nuclear Warfare All good things must come to an end, and sadly this applies not only to, say, a delicious sandwich, but also to the very fabric of existence itself. Yeah, it’s kind of a bummer, but let’s face it: we’ve all known it’s been coming for a Read more...

Top 5 - 14

Posted 10:32pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Richard Cheese

Top 5 Kiwi Sayings That We Don’t Actually Say My mates went overseas for a bit last year and started sharing New Zealand culture with foreigners. By sharing our culture, I mean they got pissed and went around fabricating Kiwi sayings. They even managed to convince a whole lot of foreigners Read more...

Soapbox - 14

Posted 10:31pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by James Gluck

Student organisations are and should be political. Yet we have people like Harriet Geoghegan constantly claiming that the few groups that still admit this, like the International Socialists, are irrelevant to students. Her ‘working party’ on the governance of OUSA has just brought out its Read more...

The Sheet Shuffle - 14

Posted 10:30pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Raeven Geist-Deschamps

This is it. After this column, I will no longer be shuffling your sheets, but shipping my Canadian booty back to the land of beavers and moose. As such, an elegy to travel and sex is in order. Clit rubbing, dick dipping, toe sucking, inner knee licking and back scratching have a completely Read more...

The Conservatory - 14

Posted 10:28pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Edward Greig

Of all the reasons not to mine, one of the most flimsy is the claim opening up a small percentage (0.001 percent) of DOC land to mining will destroy New Zealand tourism. This comes on the back of the notion that we are ‘clean and green’ and this, and only this, promotes us to the rest of the world Read more...

La Presidenta - 14

Posted 10:26pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Harriet Geoghegan

Alcohol – that’s pretty topical.   There’s been a lot in the media about the Government potentially raising the drinking age and shaking up licensing laws. The University has banned alcohol sponsorship in an effort to reduce binge drinking focused event,s and Gardies is all but Read more...

The Media and Me - 14

Posted 10:14pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Paul McMillan

A small part of me kicked the bucket, expired, crossed the great divide, croaked, passed away, breathed it’s last, went the way of all flesh, perished, and checked out the other day. Monty Python allusion aside, I saw a tragic ad that shocked me to the very core. Benicio Del Toro was selling Read more...

Te Roopu Maori - 14

Posted 10:12pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Heramaahina Eketone

Mauri ora whanau, The time for heads-down bums-up has jumped up and slapped us in the face. Where did the semester go?! Second- and third-years will be experts by now in the exam department. You kinda have study habits and exam prep down to a T, and if you don’t? No comment. But for those Read more...

The Green Finger - 14

Posted 10:11pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by J.R Holmes

Three Strikes.New Zealand took a new direction on May 25. I have to admit that I have less than no respect for the ACT Party and its policies. But, along with MPs from all parties, I do not dispute the intentions of David Garrett; I just want to respectfully disagree with his legislation. I Read more...

Num Nums - 14

Posted 10:05pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Tien-Yi Toh

Everyone has a favourite takeaway shop, and mine is Mei Wah Takeaways (660 Great King Street). Since fish and chips and the like have been covered in the Review Issue (Issue 9), I am going to focus on ‘the other stuff’. The two things that I order the most at Mei Wah are the BBQ pork and tofu Read more...

Editorial - 14

Posted 9:40pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Ben Thomson

This week we bring you the Travel Issue. What better way to procrastinate from exams than by day-dreaming about all the places you would rather be? We’ve run with the travel theme this week because there is no better time to book a summer holiday than during the depths of despair that is studying Read more...

Debatable - 14

Posted 9:35pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Hana Nyhof and Joelle Nyhof

Should We Halt the Creation of Artificial Life? Hana Nyhof argues we should; Joelle Nyhof disagrees. Hana: In light of the recent announcement that scientists have successfully created synthetic life in the form of a new species of bacteria that operates under the control of a Read more...

Boy and Girl - 14

Posted 9:26pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Boy and Girl

Boy and Girl: signed, sealed, delivered. Girl: Well, this column started out as a dumb excuse to do lame stuff I wouldn’t usually do, like go on a blind date. It seemed like a frivolous, harmless thing. To you, maybe. As for me, I was talking with a good friend of mine, who outlined Read more...