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The Price of Free

If there’s one thing a Ngāpuhi likes, it’s arguing a case. Unfortunately for everyone else, I’ve always got one. Artificial intelligence is having a phenomenal year. Apparently, it can write your assignment, draft a CV, answer difficult emails, and plan your holiday all before breakfast. At this rate, the only thing it can’t seem to do is explain why everyone is pretending this isn’t the biggest...

Booze Review: Little Fat Lamb Shot Bucket

For Critic Te Ārohi’s inaugural Party Issue, Swig60 has outsourced their liver to a guest reviewer. Whether this was a strategic editorial decision or simply because the boys finally realised they had to pace themselves is unclear. Either way, someone had to answer the important question: is a bucket of sixteen shots the life of the party, or just sixteen tiny liquefied mistakes waiting to happen? The Review Forget tasting notes....

Editorial: What’s Up, Party People?

I went to high school in rural-ish Canterbury – Lincoln, to be exact. We didn’t really have a whole lot of parties, and the ones that were thrown were either crammed into cookie-cutter suburban houses, held in someone’s shed or, if things were really fancy, hosted by a local community hall. I actually became the delegated host for my friend group, and had some pretty successful get-togethers. The stories from those days are...

OUSA Exec: Kamesha Jones

For a long time, OUSA has been relatively apolitical in practice, on campus and in our strategic direction. However, over the last year, we have seen this idea begin to overturn. Seeds of political discourse internally, as well as better engagement with student politics, have grown into a more solid internal agreement that OUSA is failing to deliver politically for students of campus. There are many reading this who will already agree,...

Aries You’ve been running on less than empty lately. Sleeping on your laptop in lectures just isn't the same as hitting your pillow at home, even if the lecture theatre is warmer and your lecturer’s voice is basically free ASMR. Go home and...

Crossword Answers - Issue 17 2026

ANSWERS: ACROSS: 1 - Johnny Knoxville 10 - Party rocking 12 - Vomit 13 - Imminent 14 - Usurp 17 - Falsehoods 19 - Phantom 21 - Poker Face 23 - Plankton 27 - Sideburns 28 - Boloney 31...

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