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Editorial | Issue 22

Posted 10:02am Saturday 10th September 2016 by Lucy Hunter

Emeritus Professor Alan Musgrave told our History of Science class that our most radical innovation as humans is not the scientific method, nor our ability to farm and grow crops, but language.  Our greatest treasure as a species is our ability to communicate complex ideas with one another. Read more...

Love Is Blind | Issue 21

Posted 1:27pm Sunday 4th September 2016 by Lovebirds

Critic’s infamous blind-date column brings you weekly shutdowns, hilariously mis-matched pairs, and the occasional hookup. Each week, we lure two singletons to Dog With Two Tails, ply them with food and alcohol, then wait for their reports to arrive in our inbox. If this svounds Read more...

First World Problems | Issue 21

Posted 12:26pm Sunday 4th September 2016 by Danielle Pintacasi

New Zealand has one of the highest youth suicide rates among the OECD countries. This is a startling statistic when you compare it with other figures that paint New Zealand in nothing but a favourable light. High life expectancy, literacy rates, physicians per 1000. By all accounts, New Zealanders Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 21

Posted 12:12pm Sunday 4th September 2016 by Charlie O’Mannin

But can’t think of anything to ask for that he doesn’t already have.   This week Gregor Macaulay does ODT Watch’s job for us. I don’t think the ODT quite realised that he was ripping into them.   The Olympic gold medal eating event kicked off Read more...

Vitalogy | Issue 21

Posted 12:10pm Sunday 4th September 2016 by Prof's Wood & Ruddock

There are various names given to the unnatural and degrading vice of producing venereal excitement by the hand, or other means, generally resulting in a discharge of semen in the male and a corresponding emission in the female. Unfortunately, it is a vice by no means uncommon among the youth of both Read more...

Sexcellent | Issue 21

Posted 12:06pm Sunday 4th September 2016 by Sexcellent

Dear Sexcellent, My boyfriend watches pornography, and I feel uncomfortable about that. Am I not enough? Is this like cheating on me?  From Feeling Blue   Dear Feeling Blue, If you are in a relationship with someone whose behaviour makes you uncomfortable, you need to have a Read more...

Dear Ethel | Issue 21

Posted 12:04pm Sunday 4th September 2016 by Student Support

Dear Ethel, I’m living in a studio room and it’s really miserable. I never see any of my other housemates and when I do, it’s just in passing. The kitchen’s always gross but I don’t feel I can saying anything about it. I’m so uncomfortable using the communal Read more...

Matters Of Debate | Issue 21

Posted 12:01pm Sunday 4th September 2016 by Otago University Debating Society

The Otago University Debating Society meets every Tuesday at 6pm for social debating—new members are always welcome! Join our Facebook group for more information Affirmative, by The Dread Pirate Roberts The University of Otago recently announced it would be building a new animal Read more...

Clark V. Woodhouse | Issue 21

Posted 11:56am Sunday 4th September 2016 by David Clark

David Clark Inequalities have grown faster in New Zealand since the 1980s than elsewhere. Growth in inequality happens because the choices made by successive Governments hold our country back. Rich-country think-tank the OECD released a report showing that growing inequalities have held back New Read more...

Editorial | Issue 21

Posted 9:47am Sunday 4th September 2016 by Hugh Baird

Welcome back all students to the second half of the semester! Hope everyone had an enjoyable wee break. This week, given the fact that we are a magazine representative of Scarfie living, we’ve decided to assemble a Scarfie themed issue surrounding campus living and the best of what Dunedin has Read more...