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The Transfiguration

Posted 4:44pm Sunday 2nd March 2014 by Hadleigh Tiddy

Now you’re dead. Lying facedown on the gravel somewhere along the Desert Road at four o’clock in the afternoon, skies overcast, your car wrapped around a power pole, your neck twisted too far backwards, your eyes still open. No one has come yet. You were driving alone. It happened so quickly– Read more...

Ross

Posted 4:44pm Sunday 2nd March 2014 by Hadleigh Tiddy

Up through the swerving Brooklyn hill and over the crest past the dozy corner shops and winding all the way down through Happy Valley road; down past the gorse and toitoi, speckled sedge, chickweed, kawakawa, nasturtium, wild fennel, wild mint, borage, and flax; all the way down to the sea, behind Read more...

Happy Avatar; Dead Human?

Posted 4:44pm Sunday 2nd March 2014 by Loulou Callister-Baker

Frequently jolted awake by the various early morning sounds of her brother, Loulou Callister-Baker takes a deeper look at the misunderstood phenomenon of gaming addiction. It is 3pm. My parents are still at work; the house is silent. A tired groan suddenly reverberates throughout the house. Read more...

Why I Hate Psychics

Posted 4:44pm Sunday 2nd March 2014 by Lucy Hunter

I used to believe this psychic shit. When I was 17 I worked as an usher at the St James Theatre in Wellington. I ushered for a show by psychic medium Tony Stockwell. There were about six hundred people in the crowd. Predictably, I was convinced that the spirit of my beloved aunt had come through. Read more...

Student Jobs Uncovered

Posted 6:57pm Sunday 23rd February 2014 by Josie Adams

I might just become a stripper,” sighs every 19-year-old girl with a student loan and a half-empty bottle of Corbans. She then continues with her life: she dances at 10 Bar, and saves hard for a new MacBook. Her friends tell her she’s hot, and this year she’ll pash at least five people; her ego Read more...

Yu-Gi-(Makes Me)-Oh

Posted 6:57pm Sunday 23rd February 2014 by Loulou Callister-Baker

He had straight, shoulder-length blonde hair and iridescent blue eyes. He was tall and slender. His feminine facial features were offset, but also strangely complimented, by his voice (later I learned it was the voice of Christian Bale). His name was Howl and when I saw him for the first time I was Read more...

Farang Inbox

Posted 6:57pm Sunday 23rd February 2014 by Max Callister-Baker

Every New Year, thousands of youths from around the world flock to Thailand to attend the notorious Full Moon Party. Joining the migration, Max Callister-Baker experienced two weeks of massages, exceptional dart blowing and pissing out the side of tuk-tuks. “Why are there blue stains across Read more...

From Urine Cake to Modern Jury: Trials Through The Ages

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 6th October 2013 by Ines Shennan

Ines Shennan looks at the various ways humans have established guilt over the ages, be it feeding supposed witches cake or encouraging dastardly defendants to pluck stones from hot oil. It makes our well known modern day jury trial seem beyond reproach – but is it really all it’s cracked up to be? Read more...

New Zealander of the Year

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 6th October 2013 by Zane Pocock

There is a medium to strong chance that if you’re currently residing in New Zealand, you know some New Zealanders. Hell, you may even be a New Zealander yourself! If either is true – congratulations! There aren’t many New Zealanders in this world, but the New Zealanders that do exist are odd, Read more...

Prole Life

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 6th October 2013 by Jack Montgomerie

Short of cash and facing a dreary job market, Jack Montgomerie put his BA(Hons) to good use and took on a series on menial factory jobs. From shaft-mastering, to sorting the crackers from the shitties, Jack faced a crash course in how the other half lives. “It’ll only be a few months,” I Read more...

Restorative Justice in Dunedin

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 6th October 2013 by Brittany Mann

Restorative justice is a victim-centric process in which victims meet with their offenders to discuss the crime and its effects. Brittany Mann interviewed three facilitators, as well as an offender and a victim, about their experiences of the process. What she heard were stories of communities being Read more...

From Innocence to Sexual Commodification

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 29th September 2013 by Ines Shennan

Ines Shennan untangles Miley Cyrus’ Video Music Awards performance and considers the awkward transition from child star to adult. Why do some survive it, whereas others are considered impure “bad girls” when they shed their childlike image? We have a sick relationship with celebrities. We Read more...

The Genital Composer

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 29th September 2013 by Loulou Callister-Baker

The music scene, particularly its more alternative elements, often claims to be a progressive force that tramples sex and gender underfoot. Despite this, female musicians still struggle with discrimination on a daily basis. Loulou Callister-Baker asked Dunedin musicians about their experiences with Read more...

Hey Babe, Let’s Make Art

Posted 2:29pm Sunday 29th September 2013 by Alex Lovell-Smith

At his flatmate’s behest, Dunedin photographer Alex Lovell-Smith signed up to hook-up app Tinder. After one pleasant but uneventful date, Alex got bored, and decided to use Tinder for an art project-cum-social experiment. Could he convince any of his Tinder “matches” to meet him, not for casual sex, Read more...

Was Marx Right?

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Socialist Simon

Socialist Simon used to be a Marxist. Then he got a life. Here, he picks through the detritus of his wasted youth to uncover the fleeting scraps of wisdom that Marx left him. Campus Marxism is an odd beast. Anachronistic, repetitive, and often demonstrating a startling lack of basic logical Read more...

New Zealand’s Refugees

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Brittany Mann

So much for a fair goFor as long as Australia has been a go-to destination for “boatpeople” from places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Sri Lanka, the issue has been used as a political football to score points with the growing xenophobic constituency in that country. Indeed, Australia recently Read more...

DCC Elections: Who Are the Most Student-Friendly Candidates?

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Staff Reporter

Student voting turnout in local body politics is traditionally abysmal. The elections are seen as small-fry compared to their national equivalents, candidates are unfamiliar to the average student voter, and there are a variety of demographic impediments to students enrolling and voting. Read more...

OUSA Electoral System Referendum

Posted 1:47pm Sunday 22nd September 2013 by Staff Reporter

An upcoming OUSA referendum, tabled by our illustrious leader Francisco Hernandez, is seeking the change the voting system for OUSA’s future elections. The question is “Should the Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) adopt a Single Transferable Voting (STV) system for its elections?” Read more...

Hungry For Change

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013 by Brittany Mann

In the wake of Live Below the Line (last seen taking over Facebook), Brittany Mann takes a look at the impact that Western aid is having on impoverished societies. Are campaigns like Live Below the Line helpful, or do they stand in the way of development? What Is LBL?Beginning in Australia in Read more...

Disumbrationism: A Beautifully Executed Hoax

Posted 2:39pm Sunday 15th September 2013 by Ines Shennan

What follows is a tale by someone who loves art galleries but has an elementary understanding of art. Someone who can say “I like that” but has no clue why. Ines Shennan unravels the disumbrationist movement, and is almost fooled by the beauty of banana skins and bears drooling rainbow saliva. Read more...