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Eyes and Ears

Posted 5:22am Monday 19th September 2011 by Siobhan Downes

Let’s be honest. Most of us probably feel more at home in the mosh pit of a rock concert than in a posh, please-do-not-touch art gallery. In the ‘art vs music’ debate, it seems we’re way more in tune with pop stars than painters. But take a moment out of your headbanging to open your eyes – because Read more...

Which Religion should you sign up to?

Posted 2:34am Monday 12th September 2011 by Basti Menkes

  1) Do you believe in God/an all-powerful equivalent? Yes (go to Question 2) / No (go to Atheist)   2) Do you identify with modern society? Yes (go to Question 3) / No (go to Question 4)   3) Are you chilled as fuck? Yes (go to Buddhist) / Nah I’m Read more...

Jesus Loves You

Posted 2:31am Monday 12th September 2011 by Charlotte Greenfield

Or at least, the Evangelicals New Zealand is not a country known for its religious piety, even within the increasingly secular Western world. Confirmed atheists and agnostics can happily occupy the role of prime minister, there has never been a ‘church of New Zealand’ and 1.5% of Read more...

Don't be a Chicken Burger

Posted 2:26am Monday 12th September 2011 by Kari Schmidt

Most of us aren’t dicks. We don’t want animals to be harmed, and we don’t like hearing about it when they are. And yet, many of us never stop to think about the impact of consuming animals, both on the environment and the animals’ standard of living, and we continue to eat factory-farmed products, Read more...

WARNING: The Following Contains Rugby

Posted 5:31am Monday 5th September 2011 by Critic

Some of you will be giddy as a school girl over the arrival of the Rugby World Cup. The rest of you will be burying your head in your textbooks waiting for the whole bloody thing to be over so New Zealand can stop being a one dimensional man cave. The ever-considerate Joe Stockman has put together a Read more...

A to Z of weird sports & sports Events

Posted 5:27am Monday 5th September 2011 by Critic

Maybe you were always the last picked for teams at school. Maybe you (shh, not too loudly) hate rugby. Maybe you’ve never quite found your athletic niche. Never fear! Phoebe Harrop has compiled an alphabet of unusual sports and sports events is here to match-make even the most unusual individual Read more...

Workin' Up A Sweat

Posted 5:23am Monday 5th September 2011 by Charlotte Greenfield

When I was told that my next article was reviewing various forms of exercise, visions of sweat, short shorts and Powerade flashed before my eyes, quickly followed by the burning question: why? Or more specifically, why me? “It’s like Bridget Jones,” said the editor, “Bridget Jones does sport.” Read more...

Not All Papers Created Equal

Posted 11:03pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Charlotte Greenfield

We all know it. There are some papers that are easy and some that are hard. You may have been warned to steer clear of the legendary POLS101 if you value your grade point average, or that Biochem will endanger the mental health and social life of every first year Health Sci. As one professor Read more...

New Zealand’s Sporting Soul: thirty years after the Tour

Posted 10:59pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Joe Stockman

It has been thirty years since NZ was rocked by the 1981 Springboks tour. Society was divided between rugby fans, who wanted politics kept out of sport, and protesters who believed the rights of black South Africans outweighed Kiwis’ right to watch the rugby. One hundred and fifty thousand Read more...

Pilling: The Diary of a Lab Rat

Posted 10:56pm Monday 22nd August 2011 by Annie Inamouse

I'm no prostitute, but I did sell my body. In light of recent tales in the Sex Issue, I think I could have done worse, but I'll leave that up to you. Dunedin has a good little industry going for it, one not of the chocolate or dishwasher varieties. Pharmaceuticals is where it’s at. Read more...