Issue 23, 2025

News

Alumni Fly From Afar to Settle 20-Year-Old Boozy Bet
Castle Packs out for Pizza Eating Comp
Fiery Exec Campaigns “Healthy Democracy”
Law’s (Objectively) Hardest 200-Level Paper Goes Open Book
Rail Jam: Bringing the Ski Slope and the Stoke onto Campus
Thursdays in Black Hosts ‘What I Was Wearing’ Exhibit

Features

Everything That’s Happened Since 2019
OUSA & Te Rōpū Māori Candidate Blurbs

Columns

Booze Review: Great Northerns
Debatable: Can short-form media do major news stories justice?
Editorial: I’d Say We’re Pretty Lucky
Horoscopes: Issue 23 2025
Local Produce: Stapled Noise
Mi Goreng Graduate: Sundried Tomato Orzo
Moaningful Confessions: Climax Interrupted: Greenpeace Edition
OUSA Exec: Vote.

Culture

New Zealand Young Writers Fest: A Review
The 24th Annual Critic Fish & Chip Review
The Road to Te Huinga Tauira

21st September 2025

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