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Wasted Time

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Anonymous

A couple of years ago, Tommy was at a birthday party in an Auckland hotel room. It was someone’s 18th, and by all accounts it was rowdier than an average Saturday night in the Botans. Lots of people texted their friends, who texted their dodgy friends, who texted their even dodgier friends. The Read more...

Dare to be Wise?

Posted 7:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012 by Katie Kenny

CONTROVERSY AT CANTERBURYIn 1993 Canterbury Master of Arts student Joel Hayward completed his thesis, entitled The Fate of Jews in German Hands: An Historical Enquiry into the Development and Significance of Holocaust Revisionism. Although the content is as controversial as its title suggests, his Read more...

Altered States

Posted 7:58pm Sunday 20th May 2012 by Zane Pocock

Lets face it, listening to mainstream radio feels more and more like getting Rick-Rolled. An alternative is vital, both for your sanity, and to maintain any sense of culture in society. Threatened with sale last year, Otago Uni's other student voice - Radio One - has come under a lot of fire. Read more...

Breaking and Entering

Posted 7:58pm Sunday 20th May 2012 by Lauren Wootton

It’s not easy being a musician. An artist. There’s constant pressure – to write new songs, record, release an album, tour (and tour well) and just be an all-round GC. And there’s even more pressure if you’re a musician in New Zealand; the music industry just isn’t that big. New Zealand Music Read more...

Justice Kate O'Regan

Posted 7:58pm Sunday 20th May 2012 by Bella Macdonald

Justice Kate O’Regan was invited to speak at the annual New Zealand Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin Address on April 23. The address is held in memory of Ethel Benjamin, who in 1987, was the first female Otago University graduate admitted to the bar. Justice O’Regan’s experiences as a woman working in Read more...

ARE DRUGS COOL?

Posted 7:08pm Sunday 13th May 2012 by Staff Reporter

THERE ARE FOUR TYPES OF PEOPLE AT OTAGO UNIVERSITYThe first type, often a Castle Street resident, is septum-deep in their “drug phase” – that sacred, rarefied time in most people’s lives in which drugs are the pinnacle of cool, and the user believes themselves to be equally cool by association. They Read more...

Up in Smoke

Posted 7:08pm Sunday 13th May 2012 by Sasha Borissenko

The Ministry of Health recently issued a paper calling for $100 packets of cigarettes, in an effort to make NZ smoke free by 2025. Combined with moves to plain packaging, and a massive and continuing advertising campaign to get smokers to quit, it appears smokers are under siege in the land Read more...

TRANS

Posted 12:51am Monday 7th May 2012 by Zane Pocock

Imagine you are five again. Sitting on Santa’s lap, you ask in a whisper for the one thing in the world you truly desire: A Barbie. Christmas morning rolls around; you run to the tree, sliding around the corner like a scampering dog in your excitement. And under that tree you find, with baited Read more...

The Birth of Student Loans

Posted 12:51am Monday 7th May 2012 by Katie Kenny

Happy birthday to you Born in 1992 Happy birthday Student Lo-OANS. Happy birthday to you. Alright, that’s my attempt at turning this topic into an “engaging” feature. When delegated a brief on the 20th anniversary of New Zealand’s student loan system, I was less than excited. I Read more...

Jack Rivers

Posted 12:51am Monday 7th May 2012 by Rebecca Rutherford

When you hear the phrase “giving marijuana to disabled babies” something along the lines of “child abuse” probably springs to mind. Not for Jack Rivers though. For three years Rivers has been working on his PhD here at the University of Otago, researching how marijuana-like substances could be used Read more...