Dumpster Diving: A Beginner’s Guide
Poverty for students is often so fundamentally ingrained that it can be hard to recognise — we make jokes about the lads who live off two-minute noodles and inhabit flats with holes in the walls. It’s scarfie culture down to the bone; golden and beloved. It’s easy to forget that Mi Goreng, no matter how delicious, is often not a choice. It’s a lifestyle of bare necessities, lived by the people that struggle to get by from...
How To Take Mushrooms and Not Die
So, the weather’s getting cold, you’ve already failed two of your semester one papers and life’s looking pretty dusty. What’s a student to do?
Well, if you’ve attended any parties lately, you’d know that at this time of year the breathers like to turn some party banter to the wealth of magic mushrooms growing here in Dunedin. Everyone knows someone who knows someone who hunts for the little fun guys at the...
We Crashed The Beatles
Well, we did it. We sent two of our intrepid, expendable reporters to the City Hotel – not to join the rest in the boozer – and told them to “see the Beatles.”
What actually rocked us on our heels was that they did. Our newspaperman and news hen walked in between the barricaded fans, crept surreptitiously upstairs and wilted in front of the biggest line-up of plainclothes detectives they’d seen since the...
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