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The Albums the world forgot - 14

Posted 8:43pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Stuart Dangerfield

Unknown Artist, The Album That Will Change Your Life (year unknown) Over the past fourteen weeks we have seen many albums that, for one reason or another, have been forgotten by the world. We have seen artists who tried something new and daring only to be rejected by their own fans, great Read more...

Top 5 - 13

Posted 8:40pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Richard Cheese

Top 5 Most Annoying Types of People on Facebook The weirdest part is that most of these people aren’t your ‘friends’, they’re just people you added out of obligation. Now you have to deal with their annoying habits.   5. The Group Joiner: I hate it when Read more...

Soapbox - 13

Posted 8:39pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Critic

For some reason, I'm not out with my flatmates. Even after four and a half months of living with them, I haven't told them that I'm gay. I'm out with nearly everyone else I know, but I haven't told the people I live with. Why?   To almost everyone I know, I identify as gay. Proudly. Read more...

The Sheet Shuffle - 13

Posted 8:35pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Raeven Geist-Deschamps

A Symphony of Queefs. In my younger years, I had this distinct illusion that sex was a clean, soft, velvety affair of veils, heavy panting, and moans. Little did I expect squishes and other noises. Let’s talk a little about queefs. Queefs are merely the fodder of farcical sex. Queefs are Read more...

The Conservatory - 13

Posted 8:33pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Edward Greig

The rise in tobacco excise tax will help to offset other tax cuts recently announced in the Budget. Simple enough, but is that really fair? Taxing one group of people, based on their personal choice to give themselves cancer, to enable the Government to take less from others?   It seems a Read more...

La Presidenta - 13

Posted 8:31pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Harriet Geoghegan

The first half of the year certainly has been a huge learning curve for me. As well as the big political things that have been going on, behind the scenes I have been rewriting OUSA’s strategic plan and working on some big internal changes.   Unfortunately it is only a one-year plan, Read more...

The Media and Me - 13

Posted 8:06pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Paul McMillan

Most don’t care to admit that the so-called ‘Top 40 songs’ or ‘New Zealand Top 40’ are not necessarily liked by anyone with a fully developed brain. For the most part they’re decided on by people who have yet to develop chest hair, let alone any intellectual acuity: the 13-and-unders. Those Read more...

Te Roopu Maori - 13

Posted 8:05pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Critic

There is a considerable amount of evidence that Maori do not have the same level of oral health as non-Maori across all age groups. Oral health disparities such as access to care exist, and one way to address ethnic inequalities in NZ is through Maori oral health workforce development. The Read more...

The Green Finger - 13

Posted 8:04pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by J.R Holmes

The idea that you can fly around the world and offset your carbon emissions by buying trees is really quite lazy, short-sighted, narcissistic, and retarded. For starters, the trees are already there. Since you’re emitting more carbon, you will need more trees to act as a carbon sink. If Read more...

Num Nums - 13

Posted 8:01pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Tien-Yi Toh

Indian Summer (Carnegie Centre, 110 Moray Place) is my new favourite Indian restaurant. The cool floor-to-ceiling glass-windowed restaurant front gives the place a comfortable casual-chic feel, making it the kind of place that you could just pop in for quick, casual meal on a whim, but also where Read more...

Editorial - 13

Posted 7:50pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Ben Thomson

AN EDITORIAL ABOUT FACEBOOK.     Facebook rolled out yet another round of changes to its privacy settings last week, creating another blitz of reporting in the media. If it were a country, Facebook would be the third largest in the world behind China and India. The Read more...

Debatable - 13

Posted 7:49pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Nick Gavey and Oliver Dickie

Should We Force-feed Anorexics? Nick Gavey argues that we should; Oliver Dickie disagrees.     Nick: Anorexia nervosa is a serious mental illness, like depression or bipolar disorder. In most cases it can be treated with a combination of therapy and medication. But Read more...

Boy and Girl - 13

Posted 7:48pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Boy and Girl

Girl: My silly friend once tried to convince me that one-way (unrequited) love was the height of romance and the only true love because you get nothing from it. Now, I don’t know whether to class my crush as ‘unrequited’; I have no idea how he might feel if he Read more...

The Albums the world forgot - 13

Posted 7:45pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Stuart Dangerfield

Various Artists, Yodelling From the Mountains (Carinia Records, year unknown) When done well, a compilation is more than a mere collection of songs. A skilled compiler can arrange a series of tunes in such a way that the whole becomes much greater than the sum of its parts, whether they are Read more...

Top 5 - 12

Posted 4:32pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Richard Cheese

Top 5 Reasons Why I Should Get Paid To Write This Column Writing these columns is hard work, you know. First I have to get drunk. Then I have write some poorly constructed sentences with immature statements, which some call ‘humour’. Then I have to research shit sometimes. Life is Read more...

Soapbox - 12

Posted 4:31pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Tom Taylor

Our Western fixation with monetary value has skyrocketed over the past few decades. By no means am I saying money is entirely a bad thing –it’s a tool, of course. What I am getting at is that this very obsession is screwing us over. Let’s take the University as an example. It’s no Read more...

The Sheet Shuffle - 12

Posted 4:30pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Raeven Geist-Deschamps

They Tell Me You Like Sex.     There’s this guy. He sent it like three orgies on the fourth of July: sparkles, banners, and whole lot of pheromones. Alfred Kinsey collected thousands of interviews for both Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in Read more...

The Conservatory - 12

Posted 4:28pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Edward Greig

Phil Goff is not doing his rather sorry image any favours in his recent proclamations on GST and tax. Ahead of the Budget, Goff was aiming to grasp a section of public opinion and set out what should be a viable and sensible alternative to the Government budget. Unfortunately, he did nothing Read more...

La Presidenta - 12

Posted 4:25pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Harriet Geoghegan

The week before last, OUSA ran its first Student General Meeting. SGMs are a constitutional requirement that are currently necessary to allow OUSA to continue operating. However, if you were re-creating OUSA from scratch, you would have to be a complete muppet to come up with a process this stupid Read more...

The Media and Me - 12

Posted 4:06pm Sunday 11th July 2010 by Paul McMillan

Let’s talk about Facebook, everybody. Please have a seat. People are here because they care about you and they want you to know that they’re concerned for your well-being. This is what a Facebook intervention may look like; and, judging by the profusion of glowing blue screens that Read more...