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Old-Timey Food Tips - From a 1920's health book

Posted 11:34am Sunday 22nd May 2016 by Lucy Hunter

In the age of the internet, food can be scary. On one side, we have the cheeseburger lasagnes and all-bacon burgers of Epic Meal Time, on the other side we have the macrobiotic diet of Gwyneth Paltrow and the “chemical” fearmongering of the Food Babe. Don’t you yearn for a simpler Read more...

Starving For Good

Posted 11:25am Sunday 22nd May 2016 by Sam Fraser-Baxter

Last week I didn’t eat for 48 hours. It was my first fast.For those two days I didn’t consume a single calorie. They were two of the most peculiar days of my life. By the end of my fast I wasn’t quite the empty skulled, staggering zombie I dreaded becoming when I began, but Read more...

Shout It From the Rooftops: I Am A Vegan

Posted 11:12am Sunday 22nd May 2016 by Joe Higham

In February this year, I was sat at a restaurant on the banks of the Chao Phraya River, which winds itself through the sprawling metropolis of Bangkok. It was a typically hot and humid day, and the sun was just setting behind and between the concrete skyline. The menu before me was filled with Read more...

Consent On Campus

Posted 11:41am Sunday 15th May 2016 by Amber Allott

Rape and sexual assault on campus is not a nice topic, but one that everybody at the university needs to think about. Amber Allott discusses consent, the myth of the “grey area”, and resources available for sexual assault survivors.  A little over a fortnight ago, I was scrolling Read more...

I Never Remember A Face

Posted 11:34am Sunday 15th May 2016 by Lucy Hunter

Human beings rely on being able to recognise other people by their faces for normal social interaction. Lucy Hunter talked to three prosopagnosics, people who have difficulty recognising faces, about some of the problems their condition causes in their Read more...

Re-capping The Capping Show

Posted 11:24am Sunday 15th May 2016 by Mikayla Cahill

This week you’ll have the chance to see the 122nd annual Capping Show. “Making Grad” is the latest installment in a long tradition of irreverence and hilarity where nothing and nobody is immune to ridicule. Is it all just good fun? Mikayla Cahill investigates the history of the Read more...

Volunteer’s Experience

Posted 12:06pm Sunday 8th May 2016 by Natasha Cox

What made you volunteer in the first place? Growing up I was privileged to have the opportunity to travel with my parents, and various other school groups. This taste of the world, and all of the amazing cultures, peoples, and natural beauties it holds, instilled in me a passion for travelling Read more...

Sayonara, Dignity!

Posted 11:59am Sunday 8th May 2016 by Critic

A rash in Australia I was in Sydney with my new boyfriend and we ended up having sex in a park and falling asleep because it was so warm. I was itchy all over all night and I thought it was because I was hot and sweaty under my clothes. We woke up and there were a pack of Ibis looking at us Read more...

Dating a Backpacker

Posted 11:53am Sunday 8th May 2016 by Vicky Ransom

"Hi mum and dad, meet my boyfriend. He lives in hostels and there's a chance he may have to leave the country one day, but I love him so let's try look past that." No, this isn't the tagline to a cheesy rom-com, this is my reality. I'm dating a backpacker, and let me tell Read more...

Voluntouring the World

Posted 11:45am Sunday 8th May 2016 by Amber Allott

In a recent article, UK newspaper 'The Daily Express,' claimed that the most common regret of people over sixty was not travelling and seeing more of the world.  As such, it is really no wonder that travel has become an essential life experience for those in their twenties, especially Read more...

Exchanging Yarns

Posted 11:33am Sunday 8th May 2016 by Lana Young

In my second and third year I took the opportunity to study at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Think of it as a balmy version of Dunedin but on the beach with your own campus surf-break and the occasional pug riding a skate-board.  Every other weekend was a camping trip to Read more...

Sir Ray Avery

Posted 11:38am Sunday 1st May 2016 by Hugh Baird

Sir Ray Avery is a scientist, inventor and a social entrepreneur of the highest order. He developed affordable intraocular lenses that by the year 2020 will have brought sight to 30 million people. He also revolutionised baby incubators to save countless lives in third world countries . He was Read more...

Interview With A Ghost

Posted 11:34am Sunday 1st May 2016 by Lucy Hunter

In the office, Ceri, Laura, Tash, Joe, Jean, Bij and I sat around waiting. Red light from the candles flickered on our faces and over the board. My workmates and I had had a couple of wines each and were trying to get scared. We held hands, breathed deeply and closed our eyes. “We are here in Read more...

Escaping the Cult of Accelerated Christian Education

Posted 11:22am Sunday 1st May 2016 by Jean Balchin

Picture this: gray walls rising up on three sides of you as you sit, hunched over your schoolwork - a science worksheet repudiating the theory of evolution, using the Loch Ness Monster as an example for why Darwin was horrifically, inexcusably wrong.  As you fill in the blanks, copying Read more...

The Big Banana Blow Out

Posted 11:11am Sunday 1st May 2016 by Mikayla Cahill

You may want to sit down for what I’m about to smack you in the face with: bananas are dying, and it isn’t the most a-peel-ing situation. Bananas all around the world are starting to die from a deadly and uncontrollable new strain of Fusarium Oxysporum f.sp. Cubense (Panama Disease) Read more...

In Defence of Self-Defence

Posted 11:33am Sunday 24th April 2016 by Lucy Hunter

A piece of advice for all you female-identified people – get good at yelling. You don’t have to be ‘ladylike’ if someone is disrespecting your boundaries. You have a right to get mad! Unleash the beast and yell from your belly like a frickin’ dragon. In the debate Read more...

What Becomes of the Unwanted

Posted 11:23am Sunday 24th April 2016 by Louise Lin

Louise Lin went to the Green Island Landfill to talk to the people who deal with the waste products most people prefer to ignore If you want to be attacked by irate pukeko, the Green Island landfill is the place to go. Jennie Upton, Education and promotion officer at the DCC, is showing me Read more...

Nudity & Rudity

Posted 11:15am Sunday 24th April 2016 by Kirsty Gordge

After spending some time in a nude sauna in Finland, Kirsty Gordge explores public nudity in New Zealand, asking the big question: Why don’t Kiwis get naked more often?  Boobs: perky, droopy, and wrinkled. Nipples: dark, pink and small. Bums: tight, big, and saggy. Hair: thick, black Read more...

Guidance for Jobseekers

Posted 11:34am Sunday 17th April 2016 by Anonymous Bird

It's getting to the time when, while students are stressing about assignments and exams, they have run out of course related costs and are frantically applying for part time work and graduate employment. Job hunting can be a dreary and disheartening process, but you’ve got to stick at it Read more...

Pride in Prison?

Posted 11:06am Sunday 17th April 2016 by Nath B

Content warning – accounts of rape and physical violence The acronym LGBT is used through-out the article in an all-encompassing manner to refer to the queer community.  LGBT is used in lieu of writing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, pansexual, genderqueer, asexual, Read more...