Issue 9, 2025

News

A Marathon Effort for Mental Health
Opinion: The Mid-semester Conspiracy That The Clocktower Doesn’t Want You To Know About
Opinion: The OUSA Referendum Has Been Very Poorly Advertised
OSJP Rally For Palestine (Again)
Return Of The Weka
Voyagers Roll Red Carpet for Critic Alumni

Features

Terrain Generation: The Biomes of Ōtepoti

Columns

Booze Review: Victoria Bitter
Debatable: Do rats make good pets?
Editorial: Daddy David Made it Look Easy
Horoscopes: Issue 9 2025
In The Cage: All Caught Up
Local Produce: Ammonita
Mi Goreng Graduate: Scroggin Slice
OUSA Exec: Send Us Your Questions

Culture

ANIMALS?!?!?!? How to have pets as a student. Kind of.
Backyard Ecology: A Semi-Scientific Journey into the World of Moss
Life Lessons from my Dead Pet Snail
Locally Produced David Attenboroughs: A Guide
The True Cost of Ethical Consumption: A Trial R

28th April 2025

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