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The Great Summer Festival Guide

Posted 1:03pm Saturday 10th October 2026 by Harriet Gowing

Festival season is nearly upon us. As the semester draws to a close, and you’re stuck inside studying while the days get longer, we figured you needed a light at the end of the tunnel.  There’s something special about Christmas and New Years in the Southern Hemisphere. While we Read more...

Everything I Know About Love (Island)

Posted 11:57am Sunday 4th October 2026 by Stella Weston

Last year, my lecturer referred to Love Island as a “lower pleasure”. I went home from that class and watched the latest episode with my flatmates huddled on the couch, waiting for the free hour of power to kick in. I don’t consider that a lower pleasure. However, putting that Read more...

Cheating or Chatting? Exploring AI Chatbot Infidelity In Relationships

Posted 11:53am Sunday 4th October 2026 by Hanna Varrs

I love the Internet. I was practically born and raised on it, and as someone who moved around a fair amount as a kid, I often relied on it to maintain my relationships with friends who lived in different cities. My social life was Instagram group chats with people that I would never meet in person, Read more...

A Degree in Disobedience

Posted 3:42pm Saturday 26th September 2026 by Daniel Gray

It’s been almost one hundred years since students first got fucked off at the University of Otago and decided to protest. Over the decades, Otago students have occupied the Registry building, marched down George Street, and transformed lecture buildings into bases for fiery protests. Students Read more...

Does Football Unite the World?

Posted 11:55am Sunday 20th September 2026 by Jesse Valpy

Widely considered one of the greatest shows on earth, the FIFA World Cup captivates the hearts of billions, promoting a sense of belonging, purpose, and, for many, an escape from daily life. This year, the crazed and colourful month of celebration culminated in a Argentina-Spain final enveloped by Read more...

Not Sold Separately

Posted 12:49pm Sunday 13th September 2026 by Te Āwhina Brundell

When you’re a kid, someone inevitably asks what three things you’d take if you were stranded on a remote island. I never expected to find out, so the question stayed purely hypothetical. Until it wasn’t. Now, the remote island had a name: Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island. But Read more...

Hot on Their Heels

Posted 12:43pm Sunday 13th September 2026 by Jessie-Jade Witeri (Ngāti Whakāue, Te Whakatōhea, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Whanaunga)

Like a pair of hand-me-down shoes, te reo Māori is an inheritance. Well-worn, repaired when it needed mending and kept with its next wearer in mind. The leather may be scuffed and softened by another person’s feet, but when you put them on, they fit. Each generation leaves its mark on Read more...

AI: Amazing Innovation or Annihilation Incoming?

Posted 12:02pm Sunday 6th September 2026 by Stella Weston

I know that students have pretty strong feelings about artificial intelligence.  “FUCK AI”. “Just admit you can’t think for yourself, you smooth-brained twat”. “Never, AI should be destroyed [...] AI should be banned, all information about how it can be Read more...

Drawing Out The Inspiration

Posted 12:31pm Sunday 23rd August 2026 by Stella Weston

Art Week is back and better than ever. Walking through the Link-turned-art-gallery, Ōtepoti students’ talent was on clear display. The OUSA-run Art Week competition had five sections: photography, illustration, sculpture, painting, and other, as well as a separate photography and poetry Read more...

WWIII For Dummies

Posted 10:13am Sunday 16th August 2026 by Imogen Perry

Every other day it seems like World War III is about to kick off. Your average morning living in Ōtepoti consists of waking up, sleeping through 8ams, the temperature being cold as fuck, eating month old yogurt and scrolling through the news to see Donald Trump has bombed someone. Again. You Read more...