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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...