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Matters Of Debate | Issue 6

Posted 11:45am Sunday 10th April 2016 by Otago University Debating Society

This column is written by the Otago University Debating Society, which meets for social debating every Tuesday at 6pm in the Commerce Building Affirmative, by By Old Major The current Labour party sucks. They don’t know who they are or who they’re meant to be representing. To Read more...

Something Came Up | Issue 6

Posted 11:39am Sunday 10th April 2016 by Isa Alchemist

I've always been phobic about spiders.  Especially little ones. I usually let out a high decibel scream and continue to pant hysterically until it’s removed. I tried to rationalise to a friend that I’m scared it will crawl into my ear or another orifice. But then I realised Read more...

Conversational Intercourse With Intellectuals | Issue 6

Posted 11:35am Sunday 10th April 2016 by Hugh Baird

For a while now we’ve been taking requests on which lecturers students wanted to read about. Without fail a large majority of those I talked to unanimously agreed that the Dean of Law, Professor Mark Henaghan was top of the list.  A proud Timaru man, Professor Mark Henaghan cut his Read more...

Editorial | Issue 6

Posted 10:11am Sunday 10th April 2016 by Hugh Baird

Here in New Zealand, our younger generations are privileged beyond belief. We’ve never had to experience any wars or terror, found ourselves without a home or lived under any tyrannical rulers. Thankfully we live in a free and democratic nation. In just under a couple of weeks Dunedin will Read more...

Love Is Blind | Issue 5

Posted 2:04pm Sunday 3rd April 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 like you, Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 5

Posted 12:54pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Sarah Rosemary

Raging parties, copious amounts of booze, benders and no mum and dad there to tell you what to do… Now you are in an 8am lecture, head throbbing as you join the dawn chorus that is hundreds of your classmates coughing every 10 seconds… welcome to the fresher flu. Every year, 90 Read more...

The Weekly Doubt | Issue 5

Posted 12:50pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Wee Doubt

If you want to poison the entire population of a city, what could be a better method than to spray everyone from a plane? Quite a few things, actually, but I’ll get to that in a minute.  A “contrail” is a condensation trail left when a plane flies through the air. According Read more...

Matters Of Debate | Issue 5

Posted 12:46pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Otago University Debating Society

This column is written by the Otago University Debating Society, which meets for social debating every Tuesday at 6pm in the Commerce Building Affirmative, by Old Major Let’s face it; US politics is screwed. The entire system of Government in the US is an ill-functioning bureaucratic Read more...

Dear Ethel | Issue 5

Posted 12:40pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Student Support

Dear Ethel I want to do a shout out to the Are You OK’er who looked after me at Hyde Street. He was amazing! I was pretty out of it but he was so cheerful and nothing seemed to bother him. Maybe I’ll volunteer to do that one day, but not next year cos I want to do Hyde again! Thanks Read more...

Sexcellent | Issue 5

Posted 12:38pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Sexcellent

Hi S, I want to make my dick bigger to impress my girlfriend and make sex better for both of us. Can it really be done? And if so, how? I'll give anything a go at this point. –Chris Hey Chris, Like many men before you, you are probably about to be somewhat disappointed. There Read more...