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Booze Review: White Claw

Posted 3:25pm Saturday 11th May 2024 by Chunny Bill Swilliams

The world’s most patriotic drink is now in Ōtepoti Dunedin, meaning the common breatha will be turning their hats backwards, putting on the loudest tech house, and getting absolutely frat-boy wasted.  For booze reviews, this is like your first child being born, marrying the love Read more...

Local Produce: The Clean

Posted 8:21pm Sunday 5th May 2024 by Jordan Irvine

For New Zealand Music Month and for the 40th anniversary of Radio 1, Local Produce will cover four iconic Dunedin bands by way of interviewing a member of each selected band and asking them about their legacy.  In a 1981 interview, David Kilgour, co-founder of The Clean, was asked if there Read more...

Debatable: Should you date someone with opposing political views?

Posted 8:13pm Sunday 5th May 2024 by Otago University Debating Society

Debatable is a column written by the Otago University Debating Society. The Debating Society welcomes new members and meets at the Business School every Tuesday at 6pm. For When you’re in a relationship with someone, you don’t want to be the same person. Being the same person looks Read more...

Horoscopes: Week 10

Posted 7:49pm Sunday 5th May 2024 by Critic

Aquarius This week you’ll feel a sense of calm washing over you, like lapping waves. It may be you, or it could be the bag of ket you stumbled upon. Keep your head in the gutter and you never know what you might find.  Patronus: Hector's Dolphin Pisces Pisces, just because Read more...

Introducing Your Political Rep

Posted 7:47pm Sunday 5th May 2024 by Liam White

Kia ora, everyone! I’m Liam and I’m your OUSA Political Rep for 2024. For those of you who were here last year, I was the guy with the shit campaign posters in the bathrooms (don’t forget to follow @ousaexec and @liam_ousa _pols on Instagram for updates). I get asked a lot what I Read more...

Editorial: The new logo DOESN’T look like bananas

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 5th May 2024 by Nina Brown

The Uni launched its new brand last week. Predictably, with the news came a parade of trolls snarling and gnashing their teeth at the “woke” and “tokenistic” new tohu (symbol) and ikoa Māori (name). The usual protocol would be to sit back and let them tire themselves out Read more...

ChatGOTH: The Flatmate

Posted 6:57pm Sunday 5th May 2024 by ChatGOTH

Hey ChatGoth,  Long time listener, first time caller here. I have a bit of a problem with a flatmate who brings things home from adventures, whilst some of these things are rather amusing, others are more outright strange. One of these things is logs, just cut up bits of tree. He hasn't Read more...

Booze Review: Bavaria 8.6 Original Holland Beer

Posted 6:55pm Sunday 5th May 2024 by Chunny Bill Swilliams

Bavaria 8.6 Original Holland Beer didn’t come to fuck around. Straight off the plane from the Netherlands, this wolf-clad bevvy is your new one-minute ticket to getting fucked.  Referred to simply as ‘8.6’, this devil-in-a-can is bound to get you silly with its outrageous Read more...

Moaningful Confessions: Halloween Rendezvous

Posted 6:43pm Sunday 5th May 2024 by Critic

It was Halloween. I got all dressed and ready into my costume, and boy did I feel sexy. Pairing that with many drinks later at a Halloween party, I thought I was hot shit. You know when you are feeling yourself so much that you just want someone else's hands all over you? Just me? Okay fine. Read more...

Local Produce: Vagina Dry

Posted 10:32pm Friday 26th April 2024 by Jordan Irvine

Vagina Dry are the new leaders of Ōtepoti Riot Grrrl music. Fronted by El (she/they) on vocals and guitar, she spits forth a political and intersectional feminist message in their lyrics. Backed by Caleb (he/him) on drums and Reef (he/him) on bass, in a short amount of time they have become one Read more...

Debatable: Should students prioritise saving?

Posted 10:12pm Friday 26th April 2024 by Annabel Rhodes

Debatable is a column written by the Otago University Debating Society. The Debating Society welcomes new members and meets at the Business School every Tuesday at 6pm. For: Annabel Rhodes When students think of frugality, we often think of two minute noodles and timing our flatmates in the Read more...

Booze Reviews: Coruba Raspberry, Grapefruit & Soda

Posted 10:02pm Friday 26th April 2024 by Chunny Bill Swilliams

Coruba is meant to be tall, dark and handsome; a drink to remind you of the tropics, or of anywhere you can reliably hang your washing outside to dry. Coruba Raspberry, Grapefruit & Soda is anything but that. The drink is, in fact, short, white and strange. It’s like that one mate that Read more...

Takeaways: Week 9

Posted 9:57pm Friday 26th April 2024 by Critic

SOMETHING TO WATCH Scarfies film Arguably the film that took the cult from Dunedin student culture and put it next to classic, Scarfies encompasses the student experience: a shithouse flat, copious alcohol consumption, drugs, kidnappings (maybe not this one but shit happens yk), and rounds it Read more...

Moaningful Confessions: The Rubber Raxxer

Posted 9:19pm Friday 26th April 2024 by Critic

I had been talking to Latin (easiest decoded code name ever) for maybe a month before my return to the glorious city of Auckland, but nothing had come of it – at least not yet. Upon landing, I promptly received a text from a high school friend inviting me to go with her to town. Lo and behold, Read more...

Horoscopes: Week 9

Posted 9:17pm Friday 26th April 2024 by Critic

Aquarius The tension in your life is building and you feel like you're going to explode. Try going for a run around the harbour, sinking 12 cones, or having a good wank. Take a load off, I’m begging you.  Brand Deal: Smirnoff Pisces Stop pretending you know everything and start Read more...

ChatGOTH: Goth Nights

Posted 9:15pm Friday 26th April 2024 by ChatGOTH

Oh ChatGoth, How can it be that Dunners has Black Friday (Goth queen of NZ) in residence AND Australasia's best synth pop band Robots in Love and still we have no goth nights to dance til dawn in our stompy boots! Whatever shall we do?  穴   Hi 穴, I Read more...

Editorial: 2-in-1 Shampoo and Conditioner Isn’t An Ick

Posted 9:13pm Friday 26th April 2024 by Nina Brown

This could end up being a shit yarn, but you’re lucky – all five of you who read the editorial – that there’s one at all given it was written through post-Hyde fog. Anyway, here’s why 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner isn’t an ick. Last year, for Anna’s Read more...

Booze Reviews: White Russian

Posted 8:37am Tuesday 23rd April 2024 by Chunny Bill Swilliams

There’s something to be said about milk-based cocktails. They’re sweet, creamy, and have you teetering on the edge of shitting your pants. Having recently watched The Big Lebowski, naturally White Russians were the only way to approach this inconsistent but virtuous thrill of Read more...

Moaningful Confessions: Bathroom Olympics

Posted 8:08pm Sunday 21st April 2024 by Critic

This is how I won a $3 plastic trophy for winning a sex competition. Last year a mate and I wanted to attend an event: party buses, bar crawl and silly dress up – ideal. It was a five hour drive away, but we figured that if we found men at the event to shack up with the accommodation was free Read more...

Debatable: Should climate change be an individual responsibility?

Posted 7:56pm Sunday 21st April 2024 by Julia Randerson

Debatable is a column written by the Otago University Debating Society. The Debating Society welcomes new members and meets at the Business School every Tuesday at 6pm. For Let’s face it: the UN’s climate conferences are infamously ineffective, corporations tend to dislike any Read more...