Poetry | Issue 25

Posted 4:25pm Sunday 23rd September 2012

Her name was Elizabeth She wore glasses and cashmere We held hands by fireside and teased about childish things It was raining, and quick. Her name was Ashlee She sat next to me in white dresses We walked without speaking around mountaintop monasteries in flaming summer Read more...

Who wants to be an OUSA PRESIDENT?

Posted 8:49pm Thursday 20th September 2012

Thank god for term limits ay. Logan Edgar can’t run again, leaving the position of OUSA President wide open. And the scarfies are lining up to replace him. Unfortunately they’re all ugly as sin, and to make it worse, all dudes. Seriously where the ladies at? But you can’t win them all right? So it’s Read more...

Here Are Your Candidates

Posted 8:49pm Thursday 20th September 2012

It is OUSA election time. This is your chance to decide who’s going to run your students’ assocation throughout 2013. These guys are going to be controlling how over $3million dollars of your levies are spent, as well as setting the long term direction for the assocation. So get out and learn about Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 24

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012

You may have missed it, what with the snow and all, but the NZ Herald moved from a broadsheet to a tabloid format last week. To celebrate this first step on the road to obsolescence for NZ’s largest newspaper, we’ve let the pun-seeking powers of ODT Watch loose on the Herald’s hallowed pages. The Read more...

Poetry | Issue 24

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012

Round and round it turns, Taking its time as it rolls uphill; Turning so slowly that You’d need to etch A groove upon its circumference To track its progress. You visit the site, Where the wheel is, Once—or maybe twice—a week And record the position of the groove, Read more...

PLEDGEIT

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012

God, if there is a God, can be a bit or a dick. He blesses creative people with all the talent in the world, but no sales skills; no sense of self-promotion. And so they create, and suffer, and die sad lonely deaths in cold houses without ever being recognised in their lifetimes. As all creative Read more...

Poetry | Issue 23

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012

The pieces, they project into the hearts of those surrounding me. Slicing through their thin delicate chest cavities. And when my heart-pieces collide with their whole hearts, they explode, and so do the hearts. And then their pieces fly Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 23

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012

The ODT sometimes struggles with the difference between the literal and the figurative. See, when someone says something like “I could literally eat a horse”, they actually mean “I could figuratively eat a horse”. You can see how things get confusing. But when ol’ Justin Stonelake got figurative, Read more...

Asset Sales Delayed by Water and Wind Claims

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012

In a move that is bound to have special resonance for students, the government has decided to delay the controversial partial sale of Mighty River Power (MRP). Following a Waitangi Tribunal report that was delivered to the government on August 23, but is yet to be made public, the sale is now Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 22

Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012

You probably don’t realise just how good the ODT is. In fact, it’s so good that it’s been nominated (again) for Newspaper of the Year at the upcoming New Zealand Media Awards. But there’s more — it’s been nominated for the “Young readers” category. That’s right — the ODT, the oldest, whitest, most Read more...