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Matters Of Debate | Issue 23

Posted 1:14pm Saturday 17th 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 Cleopatra Everyone makes mistakes. For people with a criminal record, those mistakes follow them Read more...

Editorial | Issue 23

Posted 10:17am Saturday 17th September 2016 by Joe Higham

At their monthly council meeting last Tuesday, the University decided to divest from fossil fuels, as well as preventing any direct investment in the alcohol, tobacco, or munitions industries in the future.  Although it was the only ethical choice they could have possibly made, it was a win Read more...

Love Is Blind | Issue 22

Posted 1:24pm Saturday 10th 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...

Economics of Art | Issue 22

Posted 12:28pm Saturday 10th September 2016 by Danielle Pintacasi

Think about Mark Rothko’s White Center. Painted in the 1950s, it's part of the abstract expressionist movement. For those who can’t get your head around abstract art, brace yourselves. White Center sold at auction for $72.84 million US in 2007 to the Qatari Royal Family, at the time Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 22

Posted 12:25pm Saturday 10th September 2016 by Charlie O’Mannin

Also about money, cocaine and prostitutes.    In ‘thing that hasn’t done anything for 15 years continuing to do nothing’ news   Some Hamiltonian is misinformed about the way in which universities are ranked against each other. Apparently Read more...

Vitalogy | Issue 22

Posted 12:16pm Saturday 10th September 2016 by Prof's Wood & Ruddock

Young men and women living in shared accommodation at Otago University must exercise constant vigilance for signs of the most terrible vice of self pollution. Alerting authorities to the evil indulgences of a friend may save his future and his life.  The following article on self-abuse Read more...

Sexcellent | Issue 22

Posted 12:12pm Saturday 10th September 2016 by Sexcellent

Dear Sexcellent,  I’m a straight dude, but I think I’m into being submissive when it comes to sex, not that I’ve ever tried in real life. What should I do? How can I talk to my girlfriend about this without her thinking I’m weird?  -From Submissive Read more...

Dear Ethel | Issue 22

Posted 12:10pm Saturday 10th September 2016 by Student Support

Dear Ethel, My car just failed its warrant of fitness and I can’t afford the $220 it’s going to cost to get it repaired. I need my car because I’m living in Brockville and the buses are terrible and super expensive. Any ideas? -Wheelin’, not Read more...

Drink of the Week | Issue 22

Posted 12:05pm Saturday 10th September 2016 by Fred Flintstoned

Some are calling it the Pumpy revolution of 2k16 as Scrumpy and Syncs are flying off the shelves simultaneously. Boasting a combination of great taste, easy drinkability and next level froth factor it’s no wonder Pumpy is taking over the vomit stained streets of Dunedin.  The origins Read more...

David Clark | Issue 22

Posted 12:01pm Saturday 10th September 2016 by David Clark

As the local MP—and three times over a proud Otago humanities graduate, I am grateful for the opportunity to add my voice to the growing chorus of voices frustrated at the increasingly marginal place of humanities in our universities.  A threatened cut of up to 20 humanities roles at Read more...

Matters Of Debate | Issue 22

Posted 11:59am Saturday 10th 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 Blue Steel What time is more appropriate to talk about drugs and sport than the Read more...

Something Came Up | Issue 22

Posted 11:53am Saturday 10th September 2016 by Isa Alchemist

I'm not good with glasses. I keep taking them off and putting them on, covering them in sticky finger marks, and shoving them onto my head where they drop onto the floor. One of my friends pointed out, politely, that they were very dirty. I was surprised. When I'm wearing them, it feels like Read more...

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...