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The Media and Me - 01

Posted 11:58pm Sunday 23rd May 2010 by Paul McMillan

First point of the year, and hopefully a fairly obvious one: media can be pretty dangerous when abused. Read Orwell’s 1984? That’s the worst of it. Will copious helpings of Project Runway, Desperate Housewives, and According to Jim get us there? I hope not, but maybe we do need to think about what Read more...

Te Roopu Maori 01

Posted 10:59pm Sunday 23rd May 2010 by Fallyn Flavell

Ng? mihi mahana kia koutou, Nau mai haere mai, hoki mai r?nei ki Otepoti, ki to m?tou Whare W?nanga papai raw?tu, ?, Te Whare W?naga o Ot?kou. Kia koutou ng? tauira hou, nau mai haere mai ki t? t?ranga hou, t? kainga. Nei te timatanga o t?tahi w?hanga hou o t? huarahi koiora, ko te hiahia he Read more...

The Green Finger

Posted 10:28pm Sunday 23rd May 2010 by Dominic Szeker

It’s a truth that has stood the test of time: our lives are structured by a bunch of people who love to jerk themselves off with the invisible hand. Hence the appropriateness of the phrase ‘trickle down.’ We now know that trickle down is myth, as is trickle sideways. Those with capital like Read more...

Fine by me

Posted 10:27pm Sunday 23rd May 2010 by Owen Jones

Fine dining isn’t really something students get to experience all that often. However, due to generous dinner offers from other parties – parents, in-laws and the Japanese Government (really) – I’ve recently found myself eating some pretty flashy meals. It turns out that the south of the South Read more...

Is pornography an affront to feminism?

Posted 10:15pm Sunday 23rd May 2010 by Will Cheyne & Louis Chambers

The debate as to whether or not pornography conflicts with feminist ideals is hotly contested. Will Cheyne takes the view that it does, as pornography alters the way women are perceived by society and the expectations placed upon them. Louis Chambers disagrees, arguing that feminism is about choice, Read more...

Boy and Girl

Posted 10:01pm Sunday 23rd May 2010 by Boy and Girl

Girl: A kind friend recently told me “you make being single look enviable.” I was suitably flattered, but while I do enjoy the self-indulgence that single life affords, there are always those balmy afternoons when I get the classic tune ‘Afternoon Delight’ stuck in my Read more...

Scott Stapp - The Great Divide (2005, Wind-up records)

Posted 9:59pm Sunday 23rd May 2010 by Stuart Dangerfield

History, they say, is written by the winners, and this is no less true in the world of popular music. Albums by million-selling artists like Michael Jackson and U2 stick in the popular consciousness like thorns, while those that aren't so lucky are tossed away like yesterday's newspaper. But Read more...