The Great Ōtepoti Flag Referendum
Posted 11:03pm Sunday 17th August 2025

Flags are a way for communities to display their collective pride and patriotism. Currently, Dunedin does not have a cohesive identity. As the story goes with university towns, every three years there is a whole new batch of students, and therefore a whole new identity. A flag would give students Read more...
The Goon Show has Landed in Dunedin
Posted 9:24pm Sunday 10th August 2025

A cult-classic British radio comedy from the 1950s is getting a revival at the most unlikely of places, Allen Hall Lunchtime Theatre. If you're feeling emotionally burnt out by unfair grades or the political drama flooding your TikTok feed, then this might just be your reprieve. The Goon Show is Read more...
Debatable: Bush or no bush?
Posted 7:59pm Sunday 3rd August 2025

Bush I am sick and tired of razors, of ingrown hairs, of the unspoken expectation that our genitals should resemble a Christmas ham. I, for one, don’t give a fuck if you have pubes. Frankly, we have them for a reason and they deserve a comeback. Not as a quirky thing or as a feminist Read more...
Uni SCRAMBLES to Find POPH192 Tutors
Posted 5:43pm Saturday 26th July 2025

Health Sciences First Year (HSFY) students are panicking – and it's not about if they will get into Med for a change. This time, it’s because there are no tutors to help them get the grades. St Marg’s, Arana, Hayward and 192 Castle College were all without POPH192 tutors at the Read more...
Choose Your Own Adventure: OUSA President Edition
Posted 5:20pm Saturday 26th July 2025

1. You wake up, wrapped up in a duck-down comforter with that gorgeous OUSA green burned into your eyelids. It's time to take on your busy day. You leap out of bed and go down to your kitchen to pour yourself a big bowl of Weet-Bix. What do you do while you eat your meal? Open your Read more...
Breaking News: You Might Be on Meth and Not Even Know It
Posted 4:47pm Saturday 19th July 2025

If you felt like O-Week hit harder this year, it wasn't just the hangxiety talking. We felt the same, so we’ve done it again; we hit up the Police to analyse everyone’s piss, and fuck you had a good O-Week! There was a dramatic surge in MDMA consumption across Dunedin during February Read more...
Local Produce: Jess Lord
Posted 4:43pm Saturday 19th July 2025

‘Breaking your face’ would probably deter anyone from a sport they love, but not Jess Lord. Jess did exactly that – nose and cheekbone broken after going face first into a ledge. Now a second-year physio student, she's basically doing her own post-injury rehab in the form of a Read more...
Recession Indicators: Otago Edition
Posted 11:26am Monday 14th July 2025

Aotearoa technically isn’t in a recession anymore, but this is what I have seen and things I expect to see in the near future as signs of economic backsliding. Full buses Home hair cuts and choppy bangs U-Bar pintflation (alongside the death) The rise of platonic Read more...
Breaking In, Throwing Up
Posted 5:21pm Sunday 25th May 2025

A Roslyn flat got more than they bargained for on a quiet Friday night when a drunk student broke into their home, took off his shoes, and vomited into a flatmate's hamper – all while apologising profusely. Daniel, a recent PhD grad (yes, Doctor Daniel) had been asleep in bed when he Read more...
Local Produce: ‘Bussy Galore’ by Dirty Talk
Posted 5:18pm Sunday 25th May 2025

If you've found yourself chain smoking outside Woof! or neck deep in an americano at Yours, you may have spotted a slim, lipstick-red booklet amongst the anarchist clutter. No, it's not Mao’s Little Red Book, but it has just as much revolutionary energy. It’s Bussy Galore: Read more...


Molly Smith-Soppet
Staff Writer