ODT Watch | Issue 19

Posted 9:16pm Sunday 10th August 2014 by Kristen Stewart

Woo! it’s about time they provided some choice on Andersons Bay road in South D. A new Wendy’s is opening for times when you don’t feel like McDonalds. Or Burger King. Or Subway. Or KFC. Or Hell Pizza. Fatty Lane, you have a serious rival. See, ODT, you can come up with Read more...

Editorial | Issue 19

Posted 9:16pm Sunday 10th August 2014 by Zane Pocock

As reported by the ODT on Friday 1 August, Dunedin city councillor Lee Vandervis has called for video surveillance of Scarfie-ville to “prevent vandalism.” There is a huge problem with this, and it’s because of how much students have improved their behaviour recently. Largely driven by a Read more...

Love is Blind | Issue 18

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Lovebirds

Critic’s infamous blind date column brings you weekly shutdowns, hilariously mismatched pairs, and the occasional hookup. Each week, we lure two singletons to Di Lusso, ply them with food and alcohol, then wait for their reports to arrive in our inbox. If this sounds like you, email Read more...

Too Much Screens | Issue 18

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Sam Fleury

Before Mystery Incorporated, the Scooby-Doo franchise had the dubious honour of being much loved, but without any real examples of greatness. The previous series had a lot to love about them, but they firmly existed in an episodic world, designed to keep kids entertained on a parent’s bleary Read more...

Queer Eye | Issue 18

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Sir Lloyd Queerington

The other week there was a piece in The Press about the homophobia faced by a young man called Jay Claydon when he was playing semi-professional rugby. Jay’s story, and others’ like his, highlights the entrenched issues we have in our society in relation to masculinity, sexuality and gender Read more...

Science, Bitches | Issue 18

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Hannah Twigg

OK, so how many of you have joked about sleeping with your textbook under your pillow? How many have actually tried? In moments of desperation before tests and exams, we’ve all hoped for some kind of overnight understanding. Well, it turns out that this kind of wishful thinking isn’t worth ruling Read more...

Defending the Kingdom | Issue 18

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Oska Rego

Last month the University of Otago’s Veganism and Animal Rights Society hosted a screening of Earthlings, a 2005 film exploring shocking displays of speciesism in industries built on pets, food, clothing, entertainment and science. Standard practise exploits animals without regard for their Read more...

That one time I got a Tinder date to rescue me from another Tinder date.

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Sophie Edmonds

People always ask, “aren’t you afraid you’ll meet creeps or douche-bags on Tinder?” To which I always say, “I haven’t so far and I’ve been on more Tinder dates than I care to remember.” My time had clearly come. Remember when your parents told you to forget about people’s feelings and Read more...

Cyber-chondria

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Lydia Adams

Imagine yourself sitting on a cold, metallic, fold-up chair. One of the chair legs is off-balance and the air in the room you’re sitting in is crisp. There are other people in this room, eight of them, to be precise. All eight are perched uncomfortably on chairs that are equally as cold and metallic Read more...

A case for animal rights

Posted 9:43pm Sunday 3rd August 2014 by Lucy Hunter

It is easy to assume that “clean, green New Zealand” is a better place to be a farmed animal than in other countries. But the hidden camera footage recently released by Farmwatch from three New Zealand pig farms is as bad as a nightmare or a horror movie. In one farm, a sow lies on her side, alive Read more...